skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that, unless you're very careful, tying incentives to answers doesn't filter for "what are the facts" as much as "what do you think I think are the facts." These can be similar but are not the same thing.
So it stands to reason that if you create a special class of debt you should have a special class of debt collection. If your income and/or assets are greater than $X then collect. That would keep people from playing the system and keep someone who depends on social security to survive from having their checks garnished.

We're so obsessed with stopping cheats in this country we'll cut off our nose to spite our face.
>3. I dislike activism without clear objectives. I see no list of guidelines here or good behavior that companies could adopt to immediately place them on the side of the good guys.

The goal highly specific. It is to make Internet advertising artificially expensive, and it is to make harvested data about users inaccurate.

There are no "good guys" on the other side. People shouldn't track me, that one's obvious, but they also shouldn't advertise at me, ever.

Human attention is extremely valuable, by far the most expensive commodity on the planet. If advertising companies want my attention so damn bad, they can pay me ~$65000 a year for it, same as my employer does. Otherwise, they can piss off.
> Personally, I absolutely love that developer tools are included in all browsers. I think its absolutely fantastic, just surprising to me it ended up that way.

Only one of the browsers I regularly use contains dev tools (Firefox); there are no dev tools built in to w3m, dillo, conkeror or lynx.

There were also no dev tools in eww, w3, konqueror, arora, midori, links, elinks or netsurf last time I used them.

In fact, I've only ever seen dev tools in two browsers, Firefox and Chromium, although my observations are biased since I only use Free Software ;)
The model of Reddit as a multistory building with a basement is flawed from the outset. It's more like a building in n-dimensional hyperspace. No matter what room you're in, the doors that lead to every other room, as well as to the street outside, are never more than a footstep away.

The same is true of the Web as a whole, at least until we allow governments and other special interests to start nailing various doors shut.
Even at $.10 a comment, trolling would still be incredibly inexpensive compared to many other hobbies.
Yeah, Pixar totally "bought" Disney Animation and, to a lesser extent, the theme parks. I'm told John Lasseter has been deeply involved in them. That would be going home for him, he worked at Disneyland as a youth.
That's great to hear. Have you read Jobs' biography and do you think everything said about Pixtar around those times are accurately portrait?
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That's correct. It was shortly after Steve took over as CEO. At the time a lot of options were underwater and Microsoft offered a buy-back plan where one could get a lump-sum payment in place of those options. In retrospect taking the buyback was the right decision as the Microsoft options had a 10 year expiry and most of the underwater options didn't climb back within their 10 year window.
Oh, they have acknowledged drawbacks from the very beginning, they just never deemed them nearly as important as the author of this blog post.
No more Stock options in large companies, they offer RSU's... meaning you have to work for a startup In order to get Stock options. If you join a startup without knowing about stocks then you should start a landscaping business instead...
Thank you for the details!

It also speaks very highly of you to acknowledge how lucky you are to be in your situation, in addition to the effort you put in.
That doesn't mean it's not vandalism, too. The fact that no property is actually destroyed does mean that, but I think there is a qualitative difference between blocking ads and attempting to swamp ad-pricing signals with injected noise.
I said the government has liquidity/solvency issues, and it does; the SSTF is supposed to peak in 2021, but its largest holding is US Treasury bills, so the government will either have to 'run a surplus' by then (to pay off the treasuries) or default on debt, in order to continue paying out Social Security. Do you believe that the federal budget will be running a surplus by 2021?

None of this is directly due to student debt payments, I was trying to explain why the government resists deferring Social Security taxes.
Yep. To add on to my earlier answer, if I had gone to any of my public in-state universities, the lottery would have paid for all of my tuition and even some of my books. Georgia is a great place to live if you are a graduating high school senior. Lots of my friends have kept the HOPE scholarship their entire college careers.

Depending on what school you attend, it may be worth taking on lots of debt. Certainly Harvard is worth the extra money.
Of course there's degrees of endorsement, there always is. I'm just responding to the notion of yours that "in a republic, the state is the citizenry." Well, no, it's not, and it doesn't need to be - and indeed, there's no real way for it, in fact, to be so. Certainly, it can represent certain preferences of the citizenry, through various mechanisms and political tools, but the state isn't the citizenry, it's an institution with particular powers and structures. That's not objecting to the concept of endorsement, it's just pointing out the distinction.
Sadly, I haven't gotten to it yet. That's embarrassing to admit, but my time for pleasure reading has gotten frustratingly short.
I've long enjoyed making impossible looking things out of Jenga blocks. For example https://i.stack.imgur.com/xvEpe.jpg?s=328&g=1 has no glue, no nails, and is entirely balanced on a single Jenga block!

It looks impossible, doesn't it? But it is really quite easy.

Step 1: Find 5 blocks with 4 short and one long. You can test by putting several upright on a table with one laid across with pressure. The ones that slide are short, the ones that don't are long.

Step 2: Put the tall upright in the middle, the 4 short around it in a base. Place 2 blocks whose middle crosses the tall one, standing on the others as a base.

Step 3: Pile up your structure. Try to keep it from being off balance as you go, but you have a surprising amount of leeway.

Step 4: Test the base, find which are loose and which are tight. Manipulate the pile until all 4 at the base are loose.

Step 5: (Expect a 50% success rate.) Slide the base out. Everything is now balanced on one!

Step 6: (For fun.) Put the remaining 4 on the very top.

Step 7: Take pictures, show people, etc. Your structure is unstable and can collapse very easily. Which gives you opportunity to build another. :-)

A fun variation is to have 2 starting points, and build piles that extend both ways. You can make a surprisingly long bridge!
Where do I start on centralized logging? I'm primarily an application developer, deployment isn't my strong suit. My hair is on fire at my current startup. There's a ton to do, we're trying to launch several new major efforts in January. What's a good plug and play solution that I don't have to think about?

Are there hosted installs of Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana? Is ELK even what I want?

Every time I start looking at centralized logging stuff it seems like a rabbit hole of problems we're too small to be worrying about, stuff that's not shipping features on my app.
One story, all credibility, huh? You must live in a world where nobody is credible.

The New York Times has suffered hits to its credibility, fake photographers, plagiarism and such, but that doesn't necessarily negate all the work done by their talented staff. There's still good work being done there despite those setbacks. It's a fallacy to instantly discount everything as without merit, putting it on the same level as Breitbart.

Like always you need to regard things with a critical eye.
Apart from what the sibling posters said about great indie software:

Linux just doesn't seem to be very trackpad-friendly. There is a messy diaspora of tools that translate fixed gestures into hotkeys, and it doesn't help that Linux distros are transitioning from synaptics to libinput. libinput doesn't even have kinetic scrolling, for example.

It's not just muscle memory - every kind of mouse (traditional, 'gamer', vertical) has given me back pain. I wouldn't have expected that, but this is my #1 reason for staying in the Apple ecosystem.
She's sub-specializing in intensive care, unfortunately. We've discussed having children toward the end of fellowship for the reasons you state. It's a tough decision for us because I'll likely carry the brunt of the parental workload, but we also depend on my income for living expenses and loan repayment.
You need internet connection to adjust volume or switch tracks using the AirPods
It's not like the ads just appear while you're sitting around doing nothing. You see the ads when you are receiving something with them. The ad companies are paying for your attention with the content you consume.
I'd add that they had a questionable choice of the Mac and MacBook models they released macOS Sierra for.

They left out hardware perfectly capable of running it as if they're trying to force upgrades on people who don't use their computer for computational intensive tasks.

I know that these computers are still going to work with El Capitan, but what happens when its security updates will stop?
Also, some applications already require Sierra and that's not going to get better.
> My wife is getting ready to start an OB/GYN residency next year (lasts 4 years for those who don't know). She just wrapped up interview season and each program had just about the same scheduling for their residents: 5 12-hour shifts at a minimum if you're lucky with one 24-hour shift per week on top of that. Often times I heard "one weekend off every six weeks". Then there's call.

How does this work out in the long term?

In the places I've seen that (not medical). It stops after a while because either the rhythm got back to normal or people burned out.
> GNU thing at NeXT.
Can you elaborate on this?
I disagree. If you can't fund your content without ads then you have a bad business model. We should kill ads and any content that dies in the collateral is an acceptable loss.

Micropayments also don't work because no one has done it well, not because it's inherently not going to work.
Supply Chain Sustainability: The New Green Lean Money Machine
What happened with Pebble and what will happen to its developer community?
maybe its generational. I'm a 90s kid. Cloud Strife was an icon in my childhood.
I read that the NeXT, let's call it, "adventure", is the reason Apple went with a Linux distribution as basis for their new OS and thus, we're all using OSX now?
so brave
While I agree with you, I have two words: Doctor shortage.
Can a handful of nuts cut heart disease and cancer risk?
Especially in the US with the Affordable Care Act.
> Rather than finding a technical solution or one that involves moderation

There are no technical solutions.

(There is, at best, tooling which helps to some extent but which can easily backfire.)

Moderation is necessary and difficult. Skilled human hours must be spent. Humans with the temperament and skills are rare and likely to suffer burnout. Organizations rarely value community management skills in proportion to their necessity and the difficulty of acquiring them.

Even where community management is valued, moderators are often forced to walk a narrow line between exercising power to shut down bad actors and having their authority undermined by their own organizations when bad actors complain, especially if those bad actors can be conceived of as customers.

To put it another way: Before you latch onto the view that removing comment sections is about suppressing dissent, consider life from the perspective of someone whose job it is to moderate comments.
Linux distribution? I think you mean *BSD distribution.
We should focus on multiple small heaps instead - like erlang does it. Low latency, high capacity, no stop the world, simple implementation.
FWIW, Go 1.8's GC uses essentially the same techniques as Metronome.
a) I wasn't replying to the article, but to a particular comment about it.

b) I disagree with that summary of the article. I believe it's first paragraph should be an adequate indication of what it's point is, that's how you usually write articles, and it's distinctively not making that point.

And lastly, c) I also don't believe that this statement, if it were the point, is at all true. At best it's hyperbole, but even on the surface, of the list of 15 design criteria for a GC mentioned in the article, at least 7 are explicitly taken into account and considered an optimization goal for the go GC (not all on equal footing and some in a different way than the author might prefer, but claiming they were ignored is just false). I can definitely say that for pause times, pause distribution, compaction, concurrency, scaling, tuning and portability.
Yes, and preventing health problems by preventing medical errors would go a long way towards easing up the demand for medical care.
Screen scrolling is for those cases where you do not need to type. Which is actually a lot of online content consumption these days.

If you never do prolonged reading on your devices, then yes, it's not a scenario for you specifically. But many people find it quite useful.
I have been on paxil(paroxetine) three separate times. Each was between six months and one year in duration. The first time, I was on a 10mg daily dose. I had quite a few issues when starting the medication the first time; however after a few weeks, I felt great. When I initially discontinued, I had the worst side effects I have ever experienced. Electric shocks in my neck and back of head, depression, mood swings, and terrible panic attacks lasting almost two weeks. The doctor told me it wasn't 'addictive' and there is no issue stopping the medication, afterwards I changed my physician. The new doctor also insisted there were no known withdrawal symptoms. If you google the issue there are thousands of reports and dozens of websites about this exactly. I have no idea why doctors tell people there is nothing to worry about but there are certainly many negative side effects experienced while starting and discontinuing SSRI's. For subsequent treatments of paxil and other SSRI's, I have made sure to slowly titrate my dose when starting and discontinuing treatment. 1/4 doses for a week, half for a week, 3/4 for a week, and then full dosage. I have done the same for discontinuing, sometimes even more gradual then that, and have avoided the terrible experience since.
In general, secret stores "manage secrets so that you don't have to". That can mean a few things, depending on who's using the term.

Sometimes, it's as simple as a shared password store (I've used one powered by GPG, for example). This is better than YOLO password policy, but not by much: humans still see individual keys.

If you want to be really fancy, you authenticate the human and then decide what they get to do, in a centralized fashion. This is often tricky to do, because you either don't have the funds to do that if you're small, or you have too many services to interact with if you're big. (Many organizations get pretty close -- I'm told that the DoD pretty much authenticates everything with smart cards, for example.)

Sometimes, it means a more automated system where software authenticates instead of a human, and it gets e.g. a certificate. Usually this is still always the same certificate, though; so the main difference is that it's a human versus a machine authenticating.

Sometimes, it means an HSM (hardware security module). These are secure physical devices that perform cryptographic operations for you, so that the key stays on the device.
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You don't have permission to access "http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-15-9560-la... on this server.
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Why (I'm in Germany).
Any reason why you chose Lumina over many of the other ones? Just curious.
> Once you have POSIX, porting existing software isn't that bad.

Yeah, but the really exciting stuff won't be POSIX. I definitely don't think it'll run C (well, of course someone will eventually port a C compiler to it, but the performance might not be great).

I think a really exciting new OS would try to do something radically different, not just reimplement what's been done before (which, to be fair, is what Linux does and why Linux is successful: if Linus had implemented Plan 9 instead we'd never have heard of him).

FWIW, NetSurf definitely sounds interesting, but a) it's still written in C and b) it doesn't appear to support JavaScript in production yet. I personally don't care, but all the hip kids these days keep on telling me that the only way for someone to read an article online is to download & execute hundreds of megabytes of obfuscated executable code of dubious origin.
I still don't understand your point. Do you mean to imply that there is something inherent to liberal arts majors that makes them inclined to be binge drinkers?

honestly, what are you actually trying to say? it sounds like you're making a blanket accusation, without evidence, against a group of millions of people.
I have bought a third party warranty once but it was never put to the test.

The only laptop I ever had that needed warranty service was my Macbook Pro. Good thing I got it, the logic board replacement cost more than the AppleCare did. Not that it helped though, my model of MBP had a design defect related to the GPU overheating and my laptop died after the AppleCare lapsed. Apple "recalled" it and fixed it, but not until after I bought a new laptop.

I've never had any issues with my non Mac laptops... None that required a major repair under warranty, at least.

The thing with third party warranties is the "put to the test" part. You never know how it's going to turn out until you need it. The thing with AppleCare and warranties from Dell/HP/Lenovo is that they are lower risk in my opinion.

That's not to say that third party warranties are bad, I just don't have much interest in trying them.
I'm in the same boat. Looking for recommendations on strong, sturdy, buckets, for bailing water.
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The EU's argument is that they can do this but only if they apply the same tax rate to all companies in the country. Apple and O'Donald's Vintage Bicycle Repairs should be subject to the same tax, in other words.
There you have it: she was working agency at a secondary hospital. That is due to a decision of her agency or herself; it has nothing to do with hospital administration or nursing in general.
If the speed limit is 65 but in practice driving 70 is still safe enough, we should raise the speed limit to 70.

Going further, there is some evidence that getting rid of the speed limit actually reduces accident rates (eg. German autobahns, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#Safety:_international...). You can look at these sort of stats in the context of the broader idea of removing explicit rules in order to increase personal responsibility and encourage safer behavior (eg. replacing stop signs and traffic lights with roundabouts, https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Safety/roundabouts/benefits.htm).
I think it had. It was later spun put as Composer or something.
In response to (2) pretend that we weren't talking about wealthy people exclusively. If we were arguing about putting money in the hands of individuals to grow demand would you still disagree?
Although the parent was very angsty in his response, I feel the same way. Never had a good experience with a doctor and believe that they don't have good intentions.

When you have to spend a whole day searching for a terrible doctor in your network, then take a day off only to have said by terrible doctor, "How can I help you." I rage so hard. You aren't helping me, I am your client, now lets get his terrible experience over with.

Also, when you are told you whole life to get your wisdom teeth out only to have part of your jaw suffer from paresthesia for the rest of your life, it makes me wonder why bother.

Death honestly feels like a better option sometimes than dealing with anything in the medical industry
I think all middle class jobs have lost pace salary wise.

Non technical white collar gigs don't pay what they used to either.
You obviously havent been reading the articles the eff has been putting out.

Ive reiterated some of their core axioms.
Their view and mine of censorship and implications of fake news seem very different then yours.
Exactly this.

A friend of mine is a reckless driver, who think of himself as a rally pilot. He often drives at twice the speed limit, passes other cars when there’s a continuous line, etc. After a wedding dinner, (where he drunk more than enough) he announced he was driving home. I had to ask:

- Are you sure you should be doing this?

- Yeah, even with a glass or two (I counted a good half-dozen) I’m a better driver than 90% on the road anyway…

- I mean, that might get points off your license. [He had mentioned losing some during the dinner.]

- Nah, it’s OK: I don’t have a license anymore, so I have no points to lose. I’m smart like that, you see?

I agree with TechCrunch: Uber is smart like that too.
I'll mention the same thing here that I just did elsewhere in the thread to someone else:

While I agree with you, I have to words: Doctor shortage.

At least in the US, we need more doctors. Many of the doctors with whom my wife works all see dozens of patients every day, leaving them with mere minutes for each of them as it is. A 2-minute turnaround is very common, especially in the internal medicine / family medicine fields. Too many patients, not enough doctors.
>So at the end of the day there is still no viable alternative to advertising supported content.

Yes there is. Many creators successfully support themselves entirely based on Patreon.
It's hard to comprehend how many hours a doctor can keep going unless you see them everyday. My mother is an OBGYN. I remember growing up surrounded by MCAT and medical school books and the residency nights when she wasn't home when I went to sleep and when I woke up. I don't really remember when the doctor lifestyle wasn't a dominant part of how my immediately family functioned. (She had both of my siblings during her residency.)

And now, after she's been in practice for almost two decades, it really isn't much different. She's the head OB at a hospital/clinic that is the only one for several counties. She gets multiple cases a year when women show up in labor that she's never seen before. She's had to report multiple births to child services because the mother is an addict. On a personal level, it means that she never makes it to both Thanksgiving and Christmas, sometimes neither, and she's on call pretty much all the time.

All of this to say that she's inspiring really. I've never known someone who works harder or more tirelessly. I worry though that she'll work herself to death. Even then, I know she won't regret any of it.
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Twitter seems to be having a big shakeup this year, what with the layoffs and shutting down Vine [0]. I wonder if this is part of it. I hope it shows that Twitter is becoming more serious. They've done very little meaningful innovation in the consumer facing product in years, but the product remains incredibly addictive. I spend 1-2 hours a day on it (unfortunately).

Twitter's an incredible service, I hope the execs can turn it into a great company.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/27/technology/twitter-layoffs-e...
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I've wondered why partisanship doesn't exist to nearly the same extent in business and consumer behavior. This explains a lot.