skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has far more diversity than most of the Western European nations, though this is obviously changing.

Socialism really doesn't work here as well when 'other' people are getting more benefits than you. I'm sure part of it xenophobic, but part of it is actually legitimate.

For example, a bad accident left my credit ruined in my early 20s due to medical bills. I do remember, several times, waiting in agonizing pain in an emergency room full of people who could not even speak English. Essentially, the reason my bills were so high was because the hospital was allowed to recoup the nonpayers' bills by upping mine.

It would cost the average taxpaying couple tens of thousands of dollars to have a child in the US. So we have declining birthrates amongst educated people. In contrast, undocumented (illegal, whatever) purposefully come to the US to have an anchor baby. Those playing by the rules pick up the tab. This can rub even the most socially progressives the wrong way. Same with public education, unemployment benefits, and social security.

I think that you are going to see many social services cut, and move towards the US style, in places like Canada, Western Europe, and Australia as more and more immigration creates a less homogeneous population. The fact that many immigrants purposefully head to the nations like Sweden and Germany with the most generous social systems shows that the end results will not be good for the native population.
PostgreSQL: Using EXPLAIN
Use your bootable Linux usb/disk and:
(easy way) : install "boot-repair" and run it
(harder way) : chroot into the linux partition and run "sudo update-grub"
> Umm, I'm not sure you understood my point.

I understand your point. I'm asking if you apply the same logic to all innovation.

You are focusing solely on the displacement of taxi drivers and using that as justification to oppose innovation that makes taxi drivers more productive.

Do you oppose bulldozers? Certainly one person who operates a bulldozer can do the work of several who only have shovels. Do you really want to tax the bulldozer operator to pay for people to dig with shovels?
Slow-deps: Measure which dependencies are the slowest to npm install
"Usually not fatal" and "not dangerous" are not the same thing. Getting bitten by a rattlesnake is excruciatingly painful and can cause long-term health issues.

Slamming your hand in a car door is rarely fatal. That doesn't mean you want to do it.
It may be harder to write some things, but it definitely is easier to read Go code.

Besides, while the language itself may be more verbose than it could be, the standard library is extremely pragmatic and terse. It's like the opposite of the standard C++ library. E.g. to see if a string starts with another string in C++:

std::mismatch(prefix.begin(), prefix.end(), toCheck.begin()).first == prefix.end()

In Go:

strings.HasPrefix(toCheck, prefix)

The Go standard library is full of things that do exactly what you want them to, whereas in other languages you have to manually do it yourself.
TKM – Trusted Key Manager
The specific value of the subsidy is completely irrelevant to the analogy.
Ownership by the workers of the means of production and distribution! ;)
"Myth"? You have certainly not debunked ChuckMcM's detailed hypotheses about the reasons a placebo device exists. San Francisco, Los Angeles and (presumably all of) Japan are not indicative of much of the rest of the planet. There's still Chicago, Berlin, England (encompassing London), Brazil, Beijing...
Trailbot: Monitor Your Data and React Upon Unwanted Modification
The most famous writeup, discussed here when it emerged 7 years ago, was "Go vs Brand X".

http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
No, but originally there were a lot of Apple employees who participated in MacPorts in their spare time, and the project leaders included people from the open source world who were working at Apple. I think that's still the case but probably not to the same degree as it was 10-15 years ago.

The dawn of OS X coincided with the tail end of what was a rather insane open source hype bubble that existed in the industry in the late-'90s. This was the same era where lots of people were convinced that everyone was going to be running desktop Linux in just a couple more years (this is the origin of "this is the year of Linux on the desktop" jokes), and ESR hadn't squandered his credibility quite yet. It was a very different time.

Anyway, point being, MacOSForge is in part a historical artifact of a time when there was an open source bandwagon that a lot of SV companies had jumped on and were encouraging their employees to jump on as well. After a few years the industry restabilized and many companies weren't as publicly gung ho about open source, but for a while at least there were some surprising initiatives from unexpected companies.

I don't miss the messianic/apocalyptic/mystical/tribal/just-plain-silly overtones that surrounded open source hype in the media and in the community in those days, but I do deeply miss the surge of otherwise opaque corporations publicly committing to open source and actually following through on it for a while. It's amazing what can happen when the entire tech press is drunk on excitement about open source, leading to board meetings all over SV in which every CEO was getting pestered to have an articulated open source strategy for how they will remain relevant in this brave new world that was supposedly just around the corner.

So that's the era that MacOSForge was born into, and at the time it probably seemed bursting with potential. This was also the era of bootable Darwin ISO images (and OpenDarwin after that). There are many reasons a lot of that stuff faded away over the years. My theory is that many of these initiatives solved problems that people didn't have. Why put money into putting stuff out there that nobody cares about, and why would anybody care about it if the company wasn't pouring money into it? It's a chicken and egg problem unfortunately, I don't think there's anyone to blame for it. Some things just aren't going to be interesting to enough people to merit throwing money at them. I'm just glad that much of macOS continues to be open source, even if most of it is in the form of a bunch of tarballs that get put up on opensource.apple.com after every release.

TL;DR as others have pointed out, MacOSForge itself is (was?) Apple. MacPorts is an independent project and will live on, but benefitted from being born in an era of unusually high industry enthusiasm for open source.
I've never encountered that in any company I've worked for.
MS-DOS was written for only one processor.

UNIX kernels could run on a variety of processors, including ARM; UNIX was a relative latecomer to x86.

As for Windows kernels, both then and now, UNIX kernels are open source and do not deliberately obscure system calls.

It's not unreasonable for someone to argue the benefits in writing programs for UNIX.

"View this page as what it is..."

It's one of the few pages written about UNIX assembly. That's how I view it. Years later it was put into The FreeBSD Handbook.
There are so many deeply unhappy and unsatisfied men and women in the world it is truly astonishing.
Sorry to rant for the nth time about this, but why does Chrome offer you to make this wonderful, CSS-free, content-oriented document "mobile friendly"? That is, why ask for permission? Can't browsers render documents as they see fit when there are no CSS rules? As far as I can tell, the only difference once you accept is more generous margins as well as a gray background for <code> elements... I'd say it does look more readable, maybe even on the desktop. Chrome, Firfox, IE, Safari, et al: be bold (or otherwise styled) with CSS-free documents!
This is a great point. We spent so much time trying to see if technology actually followed Moore's Law that we forgot the implications of such growth causing the rapid outmoding of people's skill level several times within a typical lifetime.
We should also consider the mistakes of others and runtime errors.
lol you're trolling me, right?
Surely nobody can be tricked onto supporting positions contrary to his interests. That would be impossible, since people are rational, educated and perfectly informed.

There is a minority of people who are actually completely out of touch with reality, so-called demagogues and populists, and to a less extent all politians: they are completely deluded in thinking that by repeating a point a thousand times they can mislead those perfectly informed masses.
They will probably vote Clinton, so they think they are not racist.
A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem Through the Lens of the Netflix CDN
I think it depends on your reference. With reference to your home country, you are an expat. Referring to your new home, you are an immigrant.
When it comes to "useful", the important question is "useful to _whom_". To a mapper, even a single photo well geocoded is a valuable source of information and its presence on a system like OpenStreetView (or even Mapillary) is extremely useful as a record of the original source.

Seeing as, for now at least, you need to have an OpenStreetMap account to contribute to OpenStreetView, it's pretty clear that the initial target market for usefulness is mappers.
I'm not claiming staff are going abroad.

Some, although I don't know how many, definitely are, though, especially after the junior doctors contract change.
I do not have an ideological bent towards having a public health care system.

But what this article indirectly points out, is the sheer, utter incompetency of US health care providers.

The whole justification for a private system is supposed to be greater efficiency. In many markets, for whatever reason, this seems to work. Goods became cheaper and better due to competition, the invisible hand, etc. etc.

"My cousin was triaged immediately. Within two minutes a nurse checked her ankle, gave her codeine, and then sent her off to an urgent care clinic. She wasn’t even registered in the ER."

"The urgent care clinic had a few people ahead of us. It took about 10 minutes to check in and then no more than 15 minutes to be seen. A lovely nurse named Leslie triaged my cousin and agreed an x-ray was in order and made the arrangements. My cousin did not need to see a doctor or a nurse practitioner to get an x-ray. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that happen in the U.S."

"The nursing triage was wonderful and actually doing nursing (I hate seeing nurses relegated to charting)."

In our wonderful US free market system, we have very highly trained professionals spending staggering amounts of their time on bureaucratic paper work and busy work, while the NHS just skips straight to treating patients efficiently and professionally.

With a system this bad, people at every level of the health care industry should be getting fired every day for their gross incompetency. From the insurance companies to the health care executives to the health care professionals, they simply suck at their jobs and need to be held accountable.

If a public system can deliver the benefits in reality that a private system is supposed to deliver in theory, let's go with the public system.

Which is very near the top of my list with annoyances with the Republican party, by the way. They are so obsessed with the theory and ideal of private market capitalism, they don't care to observe whether their theory matches up with reality.
> Canada does it, so it demonstrably does work in North America, Europe does it, with varying degrees of efficiency, but it basically works.

Without going into the politics, size and population/density are two major differences:

- Canada has about 10% of the population of the US with much of it clustered around a handful of major cities so the vast majority of citizens can be covered by having good systems in a handful of places.

- Compared to Europe, the difference is even more striking. Just considering Texas: it is roughly the size of France but with half the population despite having 3 of the top 10 biggest US cities. And that's still not even 10% of the US population.

Whatever approach is tried in the US needs to take these differences into account.
Sean misses the irony that he would have given up on writing a lot of software if he tried to do it in Ada rather than C.

I think C is an excellent and useful language which doesn't attempt to change the way you program. While one can argue that one shouldn't be able to compile mistakes; the cost of avoiding mistakes often exceeds the cost of amending them. A sort of personal “It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission” situation.

I often ponder whether the time I spend debugging C programs is worth it. Each time I conclude that I wouldn't have bothered to write it without C.
It's not "hacking" around the law anymore than stopping at a red light instead of blowing right through it is "hacking" around traffic laws. If I literally do not know the password the onus is on the prosecution to prove that I do know it before they can put me in jail. And if you think the police get to hold you in contempt of court or convict you of not following the password reveal law you clearly have no idea how the justice system works.
> a super-villain or a super-idiot.

Both of which exist, and have enough effect that they have to be considered and guarded against. And sometimes they succeed. :)
Memory requirements make this unfeasible for the Pebble.
I don't think there are any jurisdictions that are free of property taxes. How would you pay those?
You clearly are far too young to have ever done this. :)
I could. It felt like a normal (albeit nicer) hotel that also had a vending machine in it that contained sex products. The bed was incredibly comfy and MASSIVE and the bathroom was incredible. It was one of those bathrooms where you shut the door and the shower is built into the entire room, and to the side there was a whirlpool tub that would do flashing light display if you pressed a button on the wall.

This was Japan, so it doesn't need to even be mentioned that everything was incredibly clean and in perfect working condition.
There are many places where it's not a private school. In the places I'm familiar with, it's an elective. I had both theory and road practice as one of my (standard, school-hours) classes sophomore year. The instructors were basically all sports coaches.
People aren't depressed because they want to be, CBT relies upon the false assumption that people are able to change their mood if they will it enough.

If we wish to treat depression, we should focus on life not being so depressing to begin with, not persuading people that actually it isn't once they have already spiraled into despair.
I suspected that it was only just another news aggregator + altcoin + buzzwords, were the creator underestimate how difficult is to moderate and prevent spam, specially if it is successful, specially if it's easy for cheaters to monetize because the karma is somehow directly related to an altcoin.

But after reading the article, it looks much worse.

PS: The thread of the post is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12331824 (no comments yet)
Yes, exactly. Driverless trains are not technically reaching for the sky, yet deployment doesn't happen anyway due to social factors.
Cool, I made an issue for the automatic import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21147

In GitLab you can already disable merge requests, wiki, and issues per project. See "Edit project".
Kind of. Nim offers a thread pool for CPU intensive tasks[1]
and async await for IO intensive tasks. Currently, the two don't really mix but work is ongoing to change that.

1 - http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#parallel-spawn
Of course, you cannot seriously associate "competence" with the current US free market healthcare system.
We have a bunch of different health advice, from NICE and Public Health England and etc. So if a pharmacist is getting close to that advice they're going to be protected.

Admittedly their advice would be "You probably don't need to see a GP for this, but if you're at all worried you should make an appointment".
Wonder whether you could use something like this:

https://theta360.com/en/about/theta/s.html

Or whether there are any affordable 360 degree cameras which exist.
If I tell then people will know about it and then they'll write my method into any law they create to force revealing of passwords. It's stupidly simple though.
We stayed in a wide variety of hotels during our trip including Hōshi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dshi_Ryokan) (sorry but I have to brag about that :-) but only saw the sliding door in this one scenario. It makes sense though, kind of felt like a dumbwaiter.
Static languages, in particular Haskell, PureScript, etc, are unparalleled when it comes to fast prototyping or design space exploration. The compiler can show you whether your idea even makes sense before writing big chunks of business code.

How? By building the structure/hard stuff first and letting the compiler verify it while leaving out the uninteresting parts.

A very simple example. Let's say you have some data model with people, addresses, whatever. You want to see what you need to do to get a list of addresses for some group of people.

You start by defining the structure of your data model (this can depend on DB schema, business requirements, whatever):

data Person = Person { name :: String, city :: String }

data Address = Address { city :: String, zipcode :: String, street :: String }

Now, go straight to the hard part. No need to fuck around with DB connections, mock data, whatever:

getAddresses :: [Person] -> [Address]
getAddresses = undefined

Leave out the implementation for now. So probably we are gonna need a way to get an Address for a Person. Ok:

addressForPerson :: Person -> Address
addressForPerson = undefined

Again, leave out the implementation. Now go back to `getAddresses` and see if we can implement it now:

getAddresses = map addressForPerson

Cool, the compiler doesn't complain. So far we've verified that if we have a function like `addressForPerson` we can safely assume that our design is going to work.

Now we can go back to `addressForPerson` and implement that. But turns out, we only have a city stored in Person, so the best we can do is get back a list of potential addresses for each person. So we need to adjust that type signature:

addressForPerson :: Person -> [Address]
addressForPerson = undefined

Leave out implementation, it's trivial so no need to spend time on it now. But now the compiler complains that `getAddresses` doesn't make sense anymore! We are saying that, having a list of people, we can get a list of addresses, but that's not true anymore. We found out that we can only get a list of potential addresses, so we have to adjust the type signature.

getAddresses :: [Person] -> [[Address]]

Now every use of `getAddresses` will have to be adjusted to the new requirements. Etc etc.

Granted, this is a very simple example, but I hope it illustrates how static languages facilitate extremely fast prototyping. Sure, a Lisp REPL is very very nice, but in my personal experience it's no match for a type system. We didn't even have to mock data to start experimenting!

(And yes, Haskell, OCaml, PureScript, Elm etc all have a REPL too).
What's the real size of Africa?
Lever: A GUI and general-purpose scripting language
> When you are granted options at $1 and the company IPOes with a valuation of $100 per share, all employees who have exercised their options are reputated having made a $99 gain. So they have to pay, say, $30 per share. But it's so virtual money, because they may not have $30x number of shares in cash.

You're describing AMT, and the reason it exists is to account for an obvious behavioral pattern, which is never to sell. The pattern gets more attractive with increase in wealth, as loans against the public securities pledged as collateral are widely available at sub-1% in current rate environment, e.g. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=interest

While risky (with margin calls and what not), a loan against small portion of the portfolio is pretty tax-efficient, as loan proceeds are not income and are not capital gains.

If what you're describing in Australia is correct, my guess is that it's a bug in Australian tax system, not a feature. Wait for a few multi-millionaires or billionaires to prop up, never sell a single share of their portfolio while making their living through portfolio loans, and see what the public and tax authorities have to say about that.
I actually submitted that a few minutes after I posted this "Ask HN." I was poking around, and I thought it was an interesting read.
Go has been around nearly a decade with the backing of none less than Google and yet it remains a fairly fringe language. Elixir is on a much steeper adoption curve. So is Swift, but Elixir doesn't even have a tech heavyweight behind it.
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What else is there in Python?
The bouncing sound: took a platic bat (used for working out 'disagreements') and hit an alumimum garage door while digitizing the interior sound of the garage with an apple II, and masaging the digital data to play on the Amiga.
Not sure why this offends you so much, but drive an hour outside the Triangle and it is pretty easy to find people at or near poverty level who want the government to cut social programs and taxes even though they are the ones who mostly benefit.
Yeah, see the lack of aliasing in fortran as an example of a restriction that allows the compiler to generate optimal code.
One more comment on the political side:

Note the Bernie phenomenon in the current election. He pulled the entire Democratic party to the left, including public provision of health care. Also note, if current polls are a good indicator, Trump and the Republicans could be headed towards an historic drubbing on election day.

And Bernie drew overwhelming support from young people.

So I think that politically, the US may very well be moving towards supporting public health care.
https://vimeo.com/179668344
> “If you think about toiletries, you’re diluting those products with copious amounts of water,” said Kersley, “and they’re only in contact with your skin topically.” Toothpaste, on the other hand, goes in your mouth, and maybe down your throat.

...then why is it that can I find mouthwash in about half the hotels I stay at? Mouthwash "goes in your mouth, and maybe down your throat".

> Or perhaps it’s a simple matter of portability and convenience. A bottle of shampoo might leak in your luggage; a bar of soap is often slimy; a tube of toothpaste, though, can be tossed into your Dopp kit without a second thought.

...yeah, but have you ever had a tube of toothpaste leak or explode in your kit? What an absolute mess. It's happened twice in my life. The first time took forever trying to clean everything else - even then my deodorant case and razor handle always left my hands smelling minty fresh a long while. The second time it happened I just threw it all out and bought new gear. That's why I rarely pack a new, whole tube of toothpaste anymore.
Dutch guy here. I wouldn't say the Dutch system is private either. It's a mix of private and public as well. Users of the system have a similar experience as described in the article. Also the Dutch system consistently ranks top of Europe [1].
When I moved to live in the US as an expat, my insurance company said they had to double my monthly payments because of the cost of health-care in the US. All other countries would be normally covered. My stomach medication and my daughter's birth control both cost us more than 10 times what we paid at home. (Anecdotal of course). My spotty experience with the health care is that the systems are of comparable quality.
BTW France's system is also held in high regard here.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherland...