skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a way: it's called the free market.

The free market cares nothing about externalities unless it's forced to.

> When someone develops cheap, plentiful, clean energy at scale, oil will be made redundant.

Case in point. And you're ignoring oil companies fighting tooth and nail to avoid that situation.

> The free market is all about innovation and achieving a competitive advantage.

The free market is about making money. An excellent to do that is to suppress innovation so that your product remains relevant.
Once you look at enough of it, your brain starts to see lisps differently. The parens fade away, and you mostly just see the indentation. It looks a little like Python once you adjust.
H-1B applicants build their own dashboard
If you want to endorse firing people for their online views, next time don't use a throwaway.
Which to some of us is another reason to resist taxpayer-funded healthcare. Government really doesn't need more incentive to overstep its bounds and interfere in our personal lives.
You know what also runs a deficit? Your gym membership. Going to the movies. Eating at restaurants.

Sometimes things cost money. I imagine that keeping the country healthy is a plus.

Not to say that making improvements isn't a bad idea, but a cost-centric view on things almost always ends in bad decision-making. Decisions based on revenue generation, instead of the "real" objective (keeping people healthy).
That seems like an incredibly overconfident attitude. I actually can't name a single person who uses social media in a highly productive way. Like what is even considered productive on social media? I don't mean just workplace productivity, but even conducive to personal growth or producing more empathy or more understanding of the world or deeper friendships etc.

That shit doesn't happen in Facebook.
Brian Cantrill also enthusiastically recommended Soul of a New Machine.
I'm pointing out that you are comparing apples to oranges.

France is closer in composition to New Hampshire than the US as a whole.

So comparing health outcomes of the US as a whole to France is wrong.

Compare health outcomes of say New Hampshire or Vermont to France....

This is the same mistake the news and popular politicians use to exploit the groupthink. "Look how bad the US is at X compared to this homogenous European country". Be it prison rate or poverty level or what have you.
> For us Europeans, we don't even think that free healthcare, free education ( university included ) , and free state support when things go wrong is a right.

Many people in the UK fear for the life expectancy of the NHS. It's featured in the media very often. Ditto welfare benefits.

We pay for dental care and prescriptions. Hospitals and health centre are closing left, right and centre. Benefits are being slashed in cruel ways. Many have private health care through their employers. Kids are leaving University with £40,000+ loans now.

:(
If MS' ad division is admitting this publicly and saying advertisers should prepare for it [0], you can be sure it's something.

0 - https://advertising.microsoft.com/en/WWDocs/User/display/cl/...
What's your setup for doing native iOS builds, code signing, and debugging (including shaders, opengl context setup, etc.) from Linux? I'd love to have a viable alternative to XCode.
I don't want to look for it right now, but somebody dug up a "do you have the gonads for monads" speech and was offended by the mention of gonads. I think the conference that uninvited him ended up reinviting him.
From what I understand, your google account wouldn't be suspended. It would be the individual services that could be suspended. Like you would still be able to access gmail if your YouTube account was suspended.
What about Twitter?
Do you have a link with more information to the specific concept that you're talking about? It looks like I was led astray by the Wikipedia article. I'm super interested.
"... and these views, have no place at Grubhub. ... If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because you have no place here."

Obviously only excerpts from the full email[0], but seems to contradict what you just said pretty heavily. If I was someone who voted for Trump that worked at Grubhub, I know that I would have been afraid for my job after that email. Possibly even still would be, and might even consider moving jobs in order to not be afraid of that.

[0] The full original text of his email is at the bottom of this page: http://media.grubhub.com/media/press-releases/press-release-...
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And that hits the point that the US is very different in a lot of ways, and changing one of those things without changing the others is difficult.

Its harder to make health care cheaper because of the salaries, drug cost, hospital costs, etc.

A lot of those things are expensive because of education costs, housing cost, etc. And don't forget the lawyer happy culture that raises costs too.

Then once you fix that, you have to take into account the added cost of the current poor demographic, illegal immigration, etc.

Then when you fix that...etc etc etc.

Its a very complicated net of problems. Its not as simple as "LOL wave a wand and make it free".

It's made worse in that you have to kick down some people a few notches to have similar taxes (upper middle class would get taxed way more) combined with how a lot of people moved to the US because they did better $$ money with low taxes, and you'll have a lot of pissed off people.

Yes, all that needs to happen eventually, but it's very painful to actually do.
It's just convenient to use the system. I even had multiple MRIs and dozens of XRays after minor sport injuries just to be sure.

I'm not sure where to draw the line, though. How do you determine when "just in case" costs too much?

Remember, all Austrians paid for your mris and X-rays. I don't doubt it was worth it this specific case, but aren't the incentives wrong?
Not usually, if you do that then:

Analysis of the mid-Victorian period in the U.K. reveals that life expectancy at age 5 was as good or better than exists today https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672390/ Digging into it you find women have a shorter life expectancy and men had a longer one.

PS: Using birth or at age 70 modern England has longer lifespans.
Actually I've found that by setting up a blocker on my devices that I can toggle on and off at will is enough.

When I start the workday, I toggle it on, and every time I try to load my social stuff (HN included) it puts up a big red warning.

I found that the majority of my wasted time was because I impulsively opened a tab to somewhere during like 10 seconds of downtime while waiting for something. And having this little block in place stopped it in its tracks.
>or a Japanese Ryoba

I remember reading about Japanese saws in the Whole Earth Catalog years ago - and it mentioned how they were different in design and features from traditional Western saws, with some advantages. (Used to do amateur carpentry as a hobby when a teenager.) Do you know about the Japanese saws and their benefits? I remember some had very different appearances from Western ones. I looked in Wikipedia, but interested to know your opinion anyway, if you know about them.
- Instant Pot ($120)

- slow cooker

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- sautée pan

- rice cooker

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- steamer

- warmer

- sous-vide cooker (smart version only)

- deep fryer (smart version only)

- Instant Pot inner pot + lid ($50)

- cook different things in succession

- leftover container

- salad/mixing bowl

- Cutting board ($15)

- cutting board

- serving plate

- Knife ($50)

- Chopsticks ($5)

- eating utensil

- tongs

- whisk

- spatula (with practice)

- Mason jars ($50)

- glass

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- measuring cup

- spices and herbs

- dry ingredients (rice, oatmeal, flour, nuts, sugar)

- liquids (oil, vinegar, butter, mayonnaise)

- vinaigrettes

- pickles

- Blender* or immersion blender ($20-$30)

*compatible with Mason jar threading
> That impression probably comes from the fact that you're not on the payer side of the bills

Everyone's on the payer side of the bills.
We're happy being on this side.
At the end the author mentions a number theory (analytic geometry) correlation that not only suggests an optimization, but a correction. The current theory used to compute the more complex scenarios is not only computationally intensive, it also includes simulations that never occur in a lab.
Sounds like a false equivalency. People are fired for the things they say all the time, I'm not sure where lynching comes in.

Freedom of speech means the government cannot throw you in jail for the things you say. That is it. Short of violence, everyone else has the freedom of speech to tell you how reprehensible you are without limitations.

This idea that people have the right to say whatever they want without repercussions due to "freedom of speech" is a meme that needs to go away.
I was under the impression that we were well past the point of no return regarding climate change.
Why throw the baby out with the bathwater?

What I did was I've unsubscribed from all people and pages on Facebook, unsubscribed from all Reddit subs, and unsubscribed from all YouTube channels. In the end, I've learned to stop visiting facebook.com, since all I was seeing was an empty page, but at the same time I avoided giving up my network, and I can still check up on people when I remember about them, I can keep using Messenger and I can keep using Facebook as an identity provider on other websites. Not to mention that this way I don't have to throw out years of stuff generated by me (which can be painful with photos, especially for a data hoarder like me). Same goes for Reddit and YouTube (I keep my comment and post history, the ability to participate in discussions, my uploaded videos, and more).

For Hacker News, which is too valuable to me as a knowledge expanding tool, I did something else: I've started using the "top 10" section on hckrnews.com. I can keep checking it however many times I want, but I'll get stuck in at most 10 comment threads per day, which I consider to be a reasonable compromise (this thread being one of them </meta>).

Never used Twitter, but I suppose something similar can be accomplished by muting all the accounts you're following.

YMMV.
There is an interesting documentary about the health care system in Europe:

http://www.burning-out-film.com/
Thanks. I'd add that Sanctuary Cities are expressly disobedient. They're saying we won't enforce these Federal laws here and they're not relying on a mis-reading of the 10th to do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city

States Rights and, worse, Sovereign Sheriffs are wrapping their malarkey in constitutional nonsense.
Dean Radin has published a lot on this topic. He has an interesting list of selected publications 1. A number of meta analysis are listed there. His book "The Conscious Universe" discusses many of the meta analysis in detail. Facinating stuff. He addresses the file drawer effect in depth.

[1] http://deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm
[2] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319012.The_Conscious_Univ...
It may also be a question of how you use sites like HN. I've found that this site is useful for learning when I simply click on the headlines and ignore the comments. Yes, the comments are informative. On the other hand, I have found that reading comments is a behaviour that I have adopted to procratinate (rather than to gain deeper insight).
That is actually perfectly well formatted Lisp/Scheme code, indented exactly the way Emacs does it for you. Presumably you would want to close of one paren per line (C-style), but speaking as a Lisp programmer I would say that that just wastes vertical space while not improving legibility.

Compare these two links:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CodingStyle

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2207255/lisp-parentheses
After reading ~10 different authors on self-help, you realize they're all saying the same thing.
So no, your assumption is not true.

Yes, I did read a lot of light self-help books in the beginning, but their number in total is less than ~40.

It's totally not important how many books you read, but their quality, we agree about that :)
That's why I mentioned it's better to read more times the same book, than more books on the same topic once.
What were the conclusions of your research?
The MacBook Pro touchbar has been hacked
> to my /etc/hosts (0.0.0.0). Was the only way to fix it.

I like that fix! I tried to limit myself awhile ago by getting a chrome plugin to limit my access to only lunchtime... but I would simply get around it by opening firefox instead :(
Pentagon, intelligence community chiefs have urged Obama to remove head of NSA
It's a free country insofar as the government will not put him in jail or otherwise silence him for having those views.

I don't need to put up with those views. He has freedom of speech, but he does not have freedom of venue.
"the ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly complicated economy. Social media weakens this skill because it’s engineered to be addictive."

Interesting viewpoint. Does the author really follow this? Has a webpage, blog and an archive that stretches for 91 pages ~ http://calnewport.com/blog/archive/ Not a good sign if the author thinks you should quit or limit your social media contact. I don't care if the authour justifies this as necessary. It's a sign that ignoring the real problem doesn't seem to work.

The Internet is addictive. In fact I've spent a bit of time writing my own tasking system to tackle this problem. In writing up an accompanying blog post on distraction and focus I found the GTD, work hard, achieve more in less time frenzy isn't new. It pre-dates the Internet by decades. Take Charles R. Schwab, owner of Bethlehem steel, someone who Thomas Edison described as a hustler. Schwa hired the best productivity guru he could. Ivy Ledbetter Lee. Lee proposed a very simple technique to focus and work on. Then charged Schwab USD$20,000 for the effort. You can read more in this article, "Ivy Ledbetter Lee" ~ http://jamesclear.com/ivy-lee

Quitting social media is a temporary fix as you'll probably find other ways to distract yourself and avoid work. The deeper problem is realising the Internet is very addictive and find coping mechanisms to counter the side effects.

While reading up on the problem of Internet addiction and digital works, I re-read the article pg wrote on this topic, "Distracting Distractions" I found an update on his suggestions: "The strategy described at the end of this essay didn't work. It would work for a while, and then I'd gradually find myself using the Internet on my work computer."

It is a problem that could yield some interesting work.
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Again, nothing in here is referring to a Trump vote or people who voted for Trump.

It's referring to things like ridiculing or mocking minorities, immigrants, and disabled people. Which I think we can all agree are things that Trump did and have no place in a workplace like Grubhub, no?
Ask HN: Why do most of my questions go un answered on HN?
This is happening a lot lately. Can someone help ?
The actual inventor of Hacker News, Paul Graham, hasn't commented for over a year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

Considering that he was very very active on HN in the past (karma 155077), I wonder what his reasoning is to cut back?
"If you’re serious about making an impact in the world, power down your smartphone, close your browser tabs, roll up your sleeves and get to work." -- without the tabs open I hardly can work anything these days, sigh. But yes I agree that social media attention decreases my long-time-focus-capability gradually and it is terrible.
If you're willing to accuse the authors of SICP (and every Lisp developer since) of bad taste, then so be it...
I expect you know the obvious answer, because it's the best available compromise.

For example, the mandatory volunteer time may not have offended any principles and come with higher pay.
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Messed up a freelancing project, client is threatening legal action
Hello.

I'm a junior who has recently took up a freelancing project. We agreed on a milestone based scheme $6000 for the whole project. For the first two months everything went smoothly and I delivered on time, and have been paid on time as well.

However the project was increasing in scope, and unfortunately we did not draft a contract/explicit milestones and I found the project was beginning to get more complicated than I thought. All of the code I wrote was already pushed to git. Due to I guess the pressure at school (finals week), some issue with my SO, financial problems, I just got burned out and stopped replying to my client. At this point I was paid half ($3000) of the amount, and I feel like I've completed half of the milestones as well.

A few months later I received a letter threatening legal action such as fraud from my client. I knew it was a shitty thing to do to simply stop replying to him, but I was at a precarious time in my life where I even contemplated suicide. Thankfully I don't contemplate those thoughts anymore, but I feel myself going through that spiral of depression again seeing this threat of legal action.

What are my options?
>Consider the anxiety you feel if you need to go to the bathroom and cannot find your phone.

Is this a real thing?
The eye doctor thing always confused me. I would have to call 2 months in advance to get a routine eye check! What??

It feels like it's purely because of government limiting the number of optomitrists. It reeks of some doctor's association lobbying the education ministry to keep the incoming number low (there's a hard limit set by the gov't on the amount of people who can study medicine).

For comparison, in Tokyo I can walk into any optometrist office without an appointment and just wait 15 minutes or so
Wow, that's awesome. I hadn't realized. Unfortunately those systems were fraught with problems (that persist to this day in their orbital debris), but they flew and they worked. Looking at the power generation capacity of those reactors vs their mass, however, they weren't even that much better than plutonium RTGs! The TOPAZ generated 5 kW using a 320 kg reactor, and was only good for five years. That's 15.6 W/kg. Meanwhile, the standard RTG design we've been using in recent space probes, including New Horizons, generates 300 W at 57 kg, or 5.3 W/kg, but the half-life is a long 87.7 years and the system doesn't suffer the kind of wear problems that a nuclear reactor does, so the total lifetime energy output is substantially greater. This would matter for interstellar probes with near-present levels of technology, assuming a working emdrive but nothing else.
Thanks for the recommendation, but why is it a subscription service? Does it work like a vpn or something where they host servers to support this kind of traffic blocking?
I built the webapp using Java, SQLite, Tomcat and AngularJS. This dashboard was necessary, as we do not have enough visibility on processing.
It has to start somewhere. You can't expect the entire meat industry to convert at once.
This reminds me of a quote by Renier Knizia, the boardgame designer, about playing boardgames: "When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning".
I supervise "hard" scientists for a living... or did, up until a couple of years ago. You'd be surprised what a few try to pull, without the aid of a vast conspiracy.

But there is one to silence climate moderates.

The evidence is abundant. You have to actually look for it though. It won't fall in your lap. And providing you with it will probably only get me more nonsequiturs and naysaying, as all you have to do is start with the parent link, which you have already summarily dismissed without qualifications.

When you stop guessing at your opposition's motivations and listen to them, I can resume this conversation with you. No more nonsequiturs and guesswork.
Some cities in Europe do this late at night: http://www.citymetric.com/horizons/toilets-are-popping-city-...
Please explain what guideline this comment violates. I was serious. Quitting the NY Times is the only way they will realize that they made some huge mistakes in the elections coverage.

NY Times was made to look like a fool by this election. Their arrogance will be their downfall. And keep in mind I'm a hardcore liberal, and always valued sources like NY Times. Now I think they are a joke with how they didn't take Trump seriously.
>trump would start doing the same

He's going to anyway, why not flex your muscles before Trump undoes essentially Obama's entire "legacy?" To quote Trump, "what does [he] have to lose?"
"Bathroom" and "restroom" are only used in American English. In other English-speaking countries, a bathroom contains a bath, and a restroom sounds like somewhere to go if you're tired.

"Toilet" is also a euphemism, it's Middle French for a type of cloth.

So is "lavatory", it means wash room.

I can't think of a word that isn't vulgar or a euphemism.
This is a great point.

Why not?
> But I would expect more interest from "poor refugees who barely escaped the war".

Oh ok, you're definitely just repeating extreme right-wing propaganda now. Thanks for clarifying that.
Except for the 20% VAT, which affects poorer people much more as percent of their income.

If you're living paycheck to paycheck, that's 20% tax on your income. If you're a multi-millionaire, I doubt you're spending too much on groceries for the VAT to matter.
Appropriate to say that hateful comments are not welcome in the workplace. Not appropriate to bring politics into it with Trump. Employees should not be made to feel unwelcome because of their political affiliation.

Quick example, as awful as sexual harrassment is - the code of conduct at your workplace - it doesn't say - Sexual harassment (like the kind Trump does) will not be tolerated. They manage to get a point across regardless.
It's an ozone-depletant, so you want a natural source. And algae naturally soak it up from sea water, so you don't have to extract it from minerals or anything like that.

Plus I assume that it being part of the plant matters slows its release.
having some kind of health problem is a great way to suddenly not be wealthy in the US, too.

I think this is the real benefit of socialised health care. Your wealth will survive a health problem. You will not lose your house because you got cancer.

Health insurance works when it works (I have some), but when they decide they're not going to pay your bills, for whatever reason, and you have to pay the bills to keep the doctors working until you can take the insurer to court, then it's a nightmare. Socialised health care avoids this.
Yes. And in my quote it is mentioned "Social Security" not "Healthcare branch of the Social Security". I took the Social Security as a whole because it's the total deficit of the Social Security that is often pointed at by the media.
The "Healthcare branch" is not the one performing the best but the order of magnitudes are the same
As someone not well versed in compilers, this approach seems bizarre.

1. Given some chunk of a program, we should know ahead of time which I/O preserving transformations are available to us, because math.

2. Random search isn't going to find you some kind of Godel-esque situation where the optimized instructions are equivalent to the un-optimized ones in an unprovable way, especially when one of your steps is "prove equivalence."

So my question would be: why don't they just randomly apply I/O preserving transformations to the problem, skip the "output similarity" step, skip the theorem proving step, and just optimize against whatever actual performance benchmark they used?