skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I understand those points, and I tried to make that clear in my comment, but I guess I failed. More people are insured now, against more risks. I get it.

My question is, now that we as a society are paying for these extra services (expanded risk pool and reducing the ability of insurers to deny coverage), what is the economic benefit that we expect to get as a result, and have we seen evidence of it yet? I hypothesized three possible benefits, and was wondering which one you expect to see, or if you think we've seen it already.

To be clear, this is not an effort to prove that ACA was ineffective. And I didn't say anything about red tape. I'm just trying to understand the economics of the situation, to have a framework for thinking about it beyond "more people have (useful) insurance now."

Edit: thinking about it more, I feel like my comment may come off as demanding that you prove the value of the ACA in some objective sense, especially given the thread it is attached to. Sorry if that is the case. I am mostly just trying to understand the mechanisms by which broadening health insurance access improves society. If the answer for you is just "now my family and others like it don't have to live in fear of getting sick" then I don't mean to imply that that is an inadequate reason to be happy about the ACA.
First, I just want to say that I appreciate this conversation and debate. It's making me think hard about certain concepts, so thank you.

> If you ask this question, it means you've probably never configured SSH in bigger environments, because you don't imagine how easy is to accidentally cut off your access.

Many moons ago, I was mucking with sshd configuration, and locked myself out. It was the first and only time I ever had to truly hack - my own system. The system had a Wordpress installation which, at least back then, allowed you to modify the PHP code through the web console. I knew I had gcc on the box, so I found a NULL-dereference root escalation exploit for my kernel version, jammed a bunch of C code into a php system call, and step by step, escalated, and then overwrote my ssh config (all through escaped C code in PHP!). It was fun. So I totally hear ya, updating sshd configuration can be disastrous, and it's certainly required in certain situations. Posixcube is certainly not ready for massive enterprise usage, but I don't see why it couldn't be. For this particular point, it seems that no matter what technology you're using, SSH can always get mucked up, and I see no inherent reason why shell scripts are worse.

> You actually have provided me another important point: how to tell that the command reached its destination server, but failed there? This is vastly different case than when a command didn't get through to the server, so it can be safely re-sent. (And I was talking about the latter case.)

The way this is handled now is that all cube_* APIs check all return codes and if non-zero, they print the full stack and `exit $code` which is passed back through SSH into the client and reported and the script stops. In the latter case of safely re-sending a command that didn't even get to the server, I don't think that's much of an issue here, because posixcube doesn't execute one command at a time (since the overhead of re-establishing the SSH connection would be massive), but actually generates a shell script on the fly (cube_exec.sh) which has all the commands you want to execute, uploads that as well as all of the cubes, and then executes cube_exec.sh on the other side.

> But now you have a queue which needs to be managed and that also can break. This is not an improvement. Setup with a dedicated agent that works in "pull" mode (instead of one that was not designed for this task, but just happened to be already installed) doesn't have the problem that needs solving with queue in the first place.

Are you talking about a use case where an administrator is not monitoring a deployment (i.e. fire and forget)?
>> Apple uses exclusively ULV CPUs

Wait, what?

The 2016 15" Macbook Pro's HQ series CPUs are ULV?

I'm pretty sure laptops using 6##0HQ family are 32GB capable.

Apple may have a valid reason for not giving 32GB (battery life), but that's a separate issue from whether you can have 32GB with that processor family.

--edit: added reference to CPUs used in 2016 macs: http://www.everymac.com/systems/by_year/macs-released-in-201...
A job is a job, but a good job is better than a bad one.

A bad job with no prospects of turning into anything else, is pretty close to as bad as unemployment to my mind.
Ansible's idempotency is an illusion. Removing an item from a playbook will practically cause it to be "forgotten" by Ansible, but left on machines where it was deployed previously. While there are mechanisms to remove stale items (state=absent), in practice it takes Spock-level discipline to do this properly. Playbooks are also not tied to a particular Ansible version, meaning just upgrading Ansible can cause changes even though your definitions are still the same. In my experience Ansible promises consistent environments, but consistently fails to deliver.
"This is a result of the cold hard engineering fact that our current level of technology is insufficient to hit the numbers without raising costs significantly. But once one automaker starts to fudge the numbers at a given price point, all the others must do the same thing or they fall behind."

I'm going to have to remember to bring this up as an example whenever people claim private industry can police/regulate themselves. It's perfect.
What browser you're using is not always a choice, or your choice is limited. In the workplace many users do not have local admin or the ability to install arbitrary browsers.
If your loans are only at 3.5%, but you can earn 7% on the stock market, you're throwing money away by paying over your minimums.
He always looks so lonely. A real sadness behind those eyes. The curse of libertarianism.
I'm sorry you didn't like the on-campus experience at Georgia Tech -- but the online program sounds like a clear win. For less than $10,000 tuition, you could've gotten a top-10 degree and your $20,000-per-year salary increase... all while still working, so you would've also accumulated raises and experience while finishing the degree.
It isn't required for the online MSCS at GT
If you want to get pedantic I'll revise that too young children typically have a simplistic world view where things are either good or bad. I'm all too aware that many adults are like that as well, but it's a childish attitude that speaks very poorly of them. I also expect that kind of attitude is negatively correlated with IQ, but have no evidence to back that up.
That's true but there are counter examples:

For instance, I'm very thankful that my text editor and terminal allow me to split panes within their window rather than through multiple instances handled by the OS. I seem to prefer having panes/tabs vs window instances when alt-tabbing. Especially if I have two browsers splitting my viewport and a couple full sized browsers. This makes it very annoying to alt-tab only between the two half screened browser windows. On OS X anyway.

I actually tried using OS X's full split screen, but that creates a new virtual desktop. And even with reduced motion (which helps a lot avoiding headaches when working on multiple windows), it's still too slow/animated for me to switch between my virtual desktop with split screen browsers and other virtual desktops with editors/terminals etc.

Finally, what's nice about split panes vs window instances is resizing. Resizing one pane resizes the others. Whereas resizing one window does not resize the others (at least not on OS X's default floating windows. But even something like Spectacle. Someone knows of a tiled window manager that resizes all windows when resizing one btw ? Looking for something like dwm for os x)
Look, regardless of your political inclinations you can't blankly hate everything Trump does. I get it, it's cognitive dissonance, but give credit where it's do. One company committing to 100k U.S jobs is huge. Looking at the numbers, that alone will contribute to 2.5-5% of job growth in the US (assuming job growth is btween 100-200k/month.)

Is it a political move? How couldn't it be? Is it somthing to lambaste about? No, it's basic job creation in the US, something we really need to sustain the America us cosmopolitans have forgotten about.
I'm not sure that those lines of study were actually considered separate at the time. A century earlier than Newton's time, math and geometry were considered subfields of astronomy; and astronomy was considered the observation of the realm of the divine. Not only was there not a divide between physics and theology, people actually thought that math was a tool for studying theology (one of Copernicus' sources of income was computing astrology charts for royalty).

I say this to reinforce Paul's statement, "But that's because we know how things turned out." "How things turned out" includes reclassification of what he was working out as belonging to different fields. I suspect that at the time, he didn't consider himself to be moving from one field to another but rather to trying to build upon his previous work.
I think you're confused. That's a workstation for professionals. That's not the demographic apple is interested in any more.
I'd say that asserting Newton had no choice does him a greater disservice. Call them bets, choices or decisions; there were opportunity costs involved, paths to choose, and he chose some that worked out and some that didn't.
I knew the title itself was going to be both good and bad for my intentions, but as I responded in another thread down below, the point of the article is not to be a statistical report.

It's a reflection on history, decades-long, using Apple as the protagonist.

I am a very long time Apple fan, having used everything they released. And I am not 'frustrated' by recent releases. I am a technologist, I like technology, and I will use whatever is the best for now and the future. Which is why I chose Apple years ago. And which is why I am no longer enthusiastic by its future roadmap.
I've been considering picking up Blender for a few months and this just tipped me toward committing. As a long time vim lover, this is a great way to get people excited.
Probably this meeting

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/trump-meeting-tech-ceos-gonna-...
I think you are making the same point. There was just one course, with just one professor, on critical thinking at this college, and then there are 1000 where the professor assumes that you know, indeed that they know, what critical thinking is. In fact most don't. My alma mater didn't have a critical thinking course.
What's a better way to measure the impact of technological infrastructure on the economy than imputing TFP? Interested to hear how technology and productivity are discussed in state of the art economics, as I find TFP a very useful concept and measurement.
For a lot of people, this will be an amazing opportunity and dramatically improve their life.

Not saying it couldn't be better, or the timing isn't suspect in regards to maximizing PR, but don't forget the humans this will positively impact.
Also, once you start creating Swift code, the resulting bundle grows considerably (presumably due to lack of standard ABI so far); in my experience it was about 10 MB of additional libraries.
That is a $400 piece of equipment. I would buy it immediately if they sold like a $150 thing that only connected sonos to the amps I have.
One other issue bubbling behind the scenes is Bezos wants Amazon businesses to have a bigger footprint in China. He brought it up at the "Tech Summit" with Trump last month (1):

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was apparently very voluble, and aimed many of his points at how U.S. companies had a hard time succeeding in China, and what the government could do about it.

Considering Trump has threatened to upend Sino-U.S. relations over the Taiwan issue, the answer may be, not so much.

1. http://www.recode.net/2016/12/15/13976806/immigration-matern...
Actually I find that commoditization of computing power and dirt cheap storage combined with the rise of digital as an advertising and sales medium are primarily responsible for the rise in demand. Some of the demand comes from beyond the tech sector in companies like mine which are in the traditional consumer goods busines.

There's a lot of depth of analytics required when you're spending a billion dollar marketing budget that goes well beyond correlation causation basics.
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It is not required, per the linked FAQ admissions section:

https://pe.gatech.edu/online-masters-degrees/analytics/faqs#...

--EDIT-- On the admissions criteria page, it states the following:

"5. Optional - Applicants may choose to submit standardized test scores, most commonly GRE or GMAT (but if appropriate, LSAT, MCAT, etc. scores may also be considered)."

So that may help get you in.

https://pe.gatech.edu/online-masters-degrees/analytics/appli...
Computer Chips Evolve to Keep Up with Deep Learning
I'd love to hear when you open source this - it sounds perfect for me :D
They used to say it about their 17" laptop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvbuwfawqcc
>Nowadays Linux usually works well on most hardware you can throw at it, it doesn't choke on the most basic of tasks and while it still has an app problem, sadly, the web is making that less relevant.

There's always been some flux to the ease of Linux vs the ease of say..Windows.

There was a time during XP SP1 and SP2 where installing Windows took fucking forever because it had none of the drivers pre-installed, whereas Linux had a grand majority of them bundled.

Windows still had better overall hardware support with peripherals, so there was still the odd thing missing - but if you had a compatible machine, you could do a clean linux install in under an hour and be loaded with apps, codecs, drivers, the works. With XP you would've been left scouring one web page after another for endless download links, often from another computer b/c your NIC driver didn't work out of the box.
> Except it was three

Maybe he's referring to the bets Newton (somewhat implicitly) made by dedicating time to physics/science as well as alchemy and theology.
> the only reason to partner with Facebook is because they feel they have little choice.

What? Can you explain what you mean? Newspapers have more choices than ever before. The only choice they don't have is one very specific business model: paper routes supported by classified ads.

Other than that, the world is your oyster. The periodicals industry is alive and well.
I just graduated from the OMSCS (online master of science in computer science) program, and I found it a wholly worthwhile experience. It was challenging, informative, and for the most part well-run. Software Analysis and Test in particular was a real eye-opener. And while Computability, Complexity, and Algorithms was a hideous death march of terror, the material they covered was some of the most interesting I've ever experienced.

Yes, you can study the same material on your own, but you won't earn a degree from it. Now that I've got the degree, I'm in much better shape to pursue further learning on my own.

Note, however, that I didn't do this to improve my resume, go fishing for a new job, or try to get a raise. With tuition reimbursement from my company I only spent $3500 over 2 1/2 years to earn a full-fledged master's degree.

Based on the above, I can't agree that it's a losing proposition.
> The audience who would see this kind of course/site are likely people who pretty much already have their head screwed on the right way. It would be much better to train them in effective rhetoric so they can counter the bullshit in real arguments.

I'd like to see the principle of calling bullshit taught in high schools.
There has been a definite move.

People are buying things like Dell XPS laptops instead of macbooks - you get far faster hardware, and a better development environment.

I moved at the end of last year. I sometimes have to hop back on my macbook and it pains me when I do so - minutes of watching a rainbow spinner. Compiling things takes forever. The magsafe adapter is awful (Been through so many magsafe adapters, they all fail in exactly the same way).

The macbook was the ultimate developers laptop for a good few years there. Now it's just - I don't know - something for hipsters who think removing things makes it better? It's underpowered, overpriced, and the OS seems slower and more clunky than ever.
What do you mean exactly? WGU is accredited to grant Bachelor's degrees (and certificates).

http://www.wgu.edu/online_it_degrees/data_management_analyti...
How about: First Growth in U.S. Company-Town Living Since WWII
Weird, so i guess for OSX they have two desktop clients. Such ambiguous wording. Thanks
Epinephrine in these autoinjectors degrades relatively quickly (over the course of months). It's good to have more epi-pens laying around, but the expiration makes this a different situation from HDDs (though they, too, have an expiration but usually on a longer time horizon).
Thank you. I've always been a facts based argument type, and while I'm extremely proud of some of my best work, I never thrived in the places where I did it, and precisely for this reason. I wish I had studied rhetoric much earlier.

As an aside, I read a book on rhetoric (Thank You for Arguing) written by a guy who is extremely passionate about it, to the point where he persuaded me to teach it to my 4yo. It was extremely effective. He picked up negotiation quickly, and has been analyzing (if you ask him, he can tell you whether his argument is ethos, pathos, or logos) and tuning his arguments as he gets older. Now he uses negotiation and reasoning for everything. While I feel like sometimes it works against me (I have to negotiate everything with him), he now knows how to compromise in a negotiation so that arguments don't end in tantrums. And I honestly feel like he'll be better off with that one skill than he ever would with a trust fund or inheritance.
A layman's theory:

First: total_factor_productivity = price_of_output/(0.7labor_cost + 0.3capital_cost)

Let's say we're in a state of ideal competition - the minute some company improves productivity , which leads to reducing the input costs they put into the process by X% , other companies copy that process, which lead to the price going down by X%.

And on the other hand, companies insulated from competition usually don't grow their productivity.

So maybe the economy has many more of those 2 types of companies and that's mirrored in the economic statistics ?
I think it's easy for us (most likely anybody readying HN) to not understand how impactful this could be to someone's family/life.

WE get to be selective of "does this job help my career trajectory" but not everyone. This MAY be life changing for those 100,000 individuals.
Yes, many of our students come in with either tangentially-related backgrounds or even unrelated backgrounds -- we look for students with outstanding analytics potential, regardless of background.

And yes, online learning and/or self-taught learning is definitely fine as hole-fillers; we just want you to have the necessary background to succeed, and however you get that background is up to you.
Hm, X11 is not an operating system.
Stopped reading there - doesn't seem worth reading to me.
(Btw, I was never an Apple user)
Plex was the first thing I though of when looking at it, even though I haven't used it in years (haven't had a TV since 2012; just watch stuff on my desktop/laptop with mpv).

Still, we should love open source projects and alternatives. I was hoping for more "this could grow to be a Plex alternative" vs "Why don't you just use Plex."

I don't think it has to do with the submitter not being a "wonderboy" does it? Do people look at usernames (I'll admit I don't).
For those newbies like me wondering about AEADs:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/05/16/aeads.html
the single biggest, indeed killer failure
of the [GCM], the fact that if you for some
reason fail to increment the counter, you're
sending what's effectively plaintext (it's
recoverable with a simple XOR).

Is this property particularly unique to GCM? I'd have thought all encryption algorithms would fail if you didn't give them the right inputs?
Newton was betting that he would not go crazy or be seen as crazy. The existential risk for thinkers.
As an aside, I regularly run into people today -- nearly 400 years later -- who primarily know Pascal, a contemporary of Newton, as a theologian.
Interesting, thanks for the clarification! Seeing as OSX has secret chats, i may as well stick with it heh.
GT grad here (1999-2003). While I'm not Indian I do have a ton of Indian friends and yes GT does have a large Indian percentage (by observation from when I was there).

I can't speak if the CS degree has been diluted but I will say there is an enormous amount of extremely undeserved selective bias against Indian people for technology jobs. When US citizens even see Indian names there are less likely to hire (known as name bias).

Again I can't speak for the programs but my Indian friends that went to tech were at the top of their class both in MS and BS. Highly qualified. Extremely humble, ambitious and hungry.

Just my experience (and I run a recruiting software company so I see it at scale).

I compare this to the apathetic divas that I have met from Stanford and MIT (I live in Mass so I have met many MIT grads). I would hire a GT grad over them any day.
Google, Facebook, etc, are marketing platforms. They are giving you marketing in exchange for content. It's equivalent to what you would've had to do in the past, which is pay somebody to go door to door selling your newspaper, giving out free copies of the newspaper. The free newspapers aren't your product, they're an ad for your product.

If you can't convert attention on Google/Facebook into your own ad revenue then you should stop purchasing advertising with content and you should focus on conversion.
Judging that way each and every one of our actions (including me writing this comment) is a bet, because AFAIK we still live in a world where we do not have "complete information". From time to time I think about one of Mark Twain's short novels which I read as an adolescent, where a lady decides to take the left road instead of the one on the right (or vice-versa) when she reaches a road-junction, and because of that single decision her life changes dramatically.
Probably in the same way you should be if you're keeping your files on Dropbox.
Note: they mean exceeding in the bad direction, not the good direction. At first I thought this was some kind of spoof article, or Chrysler marketing effort. It should probably read "exceeding limits" not "exceeding standards".

EDIT: actually the press release doesn't even say that really. It says Fiat Chrysler installed software that could impact emissions testing but didn't tell the EPA about it, which is considered a violation of the Clean Air Act. It doesn't say the software cheats on tests.
How is calling it a bet missing the point? As a scientist investigating a phenomenon in the natural world, assuming you wish to make a new contribution to your field, you are betting your time that you will both arrive at a new understanding of your subject matter and also be the first to do so.