skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reminded of something Splosky wrote:

>The difference between a tolerable programmer and a great programmer is not how many programming languages they know, and it’s not whether they prefer Python or Java. It’s whether they can communicate their ideas. By persuading other people, they get leverage. By writing clear comments and technical specs, they let other programmers understand their code, which means other programmers can use and work with their code instead of rewriting it. Absent this, their code is worthless. By writing clear technical documentation for end users, they allow people to figure out what their code is supposed to do, which is the only way those users can see the value in their code. There’s a lot of wonderful, useful code buried on sourceforge somewhere that nobody uses because it was created by programmers who don’t write very well (or don’t write at all), and so nobody knows what they’ve done and their brilliant code languishes.
Future of health. We are thinkers, trying to fix an unsustainable health system
All of this nonsense is exactly because everyone expects insurance to pay for all medical care from hangnail to heart failure. Single payer would be even worse, because it's even more of a "not my money -- I don't care" situation for the individual.

Dentists, optometrists, physical therapists, etc. all have straightforward pricing for each procedure, and you can call and ask them what it is and it's not too hard to shop around. Only medicine has mystery prices hidden behind third party payers.
> That's the entire purpose of high prices: To alert others that supply is not keeping up with demand and that their help is needed.

Well doctors are happy to limit the supply.
I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a
king of infinite space--were it not that I have bad dreams.

It's the bad dreams that always get you.
Well no, vaping is more addictive because inhalation as an ROA is more addictive. This is a well studied effect.
On the other hand, I would say smoking crack is much more addictive than snorting cocaine but that's just my opinion. Maybe someone with more exerience could weigh in?
Sure. That's not relevant for illegal activity undertaken for profit though.

Scaling up fines based on wealth might help reduce minor crimes like speeding. I'm not sure how effective that really is, though, since low income people still speed.
I suspect it's meant to be a reference to a Futurama episode and meant to denigrate Apple somehow?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GklO9RIj0JA
no more than the same amount of other kinds of carbs
Can't say about NodeMCU or whatever, but Lua has had bytecode and all since Lua 1.1, back in 1994
Wouldn't change a thing. No sane interviewer would think you're claiming your fork of a repo is your own code. Not to mention it's mostly used as a talking point for me, so if I did make that mistake I'd be fine when you said it was a fork. That's pretty interesting to me as well, so it opens up an avenue to have a conversation about why you liked that project, why you want to emulate it etc
^^^And THAT RIGHT THERE is why I load the asynchronous Adsense script at the very bottom of my pages, after everything else, and why I load my core JavaScript synchronously, just before that, so it can schedule key tasks before getting swamped with third party guff.

I mean, sure, Adsense loads asynchronously and Google claims it won't slow your page loads, but once it starts loading advertising assets and scripts it's the Wild West. Some - not all, by any means, but some - of those third party scripts are extremely badly behaved and, yes, they do measurably slow your page load down.
I believe they would have trouble with their battery pack thermal controls which are designed to work at standard Earth temperatures and air pressure.
If you ask other programmers, you will get a bunch of answers. If you ask the guy who cuts your checks, a good programmer is someone who can solve their problems and make their business more efficient.
Then so be it. None of this is in any way a justification for giving the State the power to trample on our right to privacy. There will always be crime. Why pretend otherwise in some ill-conceived effort to engineer the "perfect society"?
PMs will sometimes come and complain that a team member has gone dark. I just tell them, have daily meetings if you're worried about keeping up productivity of the team.

Have worked remotely 18 out of the last 20 years. The interruptions +remote, but the structure of being in an office +onsite. I'm not sure people can make blanket statements which is more productive I feel it varies by person.
When in AWS either by using an encrypted s3 bucket with a versioned file and accessed by applications using roles on the instance they are on or if hardcore security is required through KMS.
If the code is "beyond" what I would expect to see at the candidate's level, yes.

It's merely a talking point, it becomes super clear if someone has copied/pasted code.
Seems mixed at worst, improving mildly at best, hardly the bleak picture painted above: https://data.oecd.org/united-states.htm
Git reflog
He's being ambiguous, I'm pretty sure there's not a correct interpretation. That said, I'd like to see where the conversation goes from here...
Trump appoints Ajit Pai, net-neutrality opponent to FCC
Don't answer.
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn Reddit AMA
Trump faces lawsuit for violating Constitution 2 days after taking oath
Would you give the same assessment for a harware based project designed for a specific customer base?
Surely it should be lower than physical media. You don't need to print it.
A bit of context for those who missed this latest kerfuffle.

The picture is relevant to the recent dispute between the Trump admin and the press, concerning the size of the crowd at the inauguration. Trump & co say that the crowd extended all the way back to the Washington Monument (halfway down the Mall) and beyond, like the crowd at Obama's inauguration. Various news reports disagree. The two sides are now calling each other liars and posting pictures in attempt to prove each other wrong.

Why we should care, I have no idea.
Out of curiosity, what was your experience with Yohimbine? Why was it so bad?
Did you even read the article?

Also last time I went to open a bank account, I did it online. No one wanted anything.
The initial bill did have one Republican congressman voting in favor, the guy from Louisiana.
Err... you may have a significant overlap in the Venn diagram between prison population and people with schizophrenia. It's long known that mentally ill people make up a large part of the prison population.
I think the long term answer is to copy the rules for aviation, where a Private Pilot Licence is different from a Commercial Pilot Licence, and the rules about what the holders can do are clear and widely publicised. "Uber for planes" would be highly illegal, and everyone involved would get arrested.

Even without regulation, there must be a huge legal risk that Uber's lack of a serious fatigue management system will be found to be negligent. The ways this goes wrong in the trucking industry are very well known.
Yes, exactly, don't come here! No public transit. No massive collection of rapid rides[0], no growing light rail system[1], and no bus usage just below San Fran and growing [2]. And certainly no huge and growing collection of bike trails [3]. Really there's just rain and coffee here. At least it's some good coffee.

[0] http://metro.kingcounty.gov/travel-options/bus/rapidride/
[1] http://soundtransit3.org/map#map
[2] http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-sees-b...
[3] http://stb-wp.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/09...
My Favorite Algorithm: Metropolis-Hastings
In this comment alone you've called the community an “uncritical liberal hive mind” and a “safe space” (which I read as mockery, but I could be wrong). These sorts of things are the sorts of things that prevent thoughtful, civil discussion.

You've also repeatedly complained about downvotes, which the guidelines ask us specifically not to do.

Controversial and opposing views abound on Hacker News. But it's the way that we express those views (clearly, thoughtfully, productively!) which furthers us along our goal of actually learning something, and we have to ask that all members participate this way so that we have a hope of continuing.
In regards to Yohimbine, I'll heed your experienced words should I ever come across, I won't partake. Wow, just googling it: "It is a veterinary drug used to reverse sedation in dogs and deer."

It's interesting that you can basically reap all the benefits of nicotine without any of the carcinogens. Do you feel at all like it's difficult to step away from?

I really like your list of "nothing worked better than ~" it makes sense and it's interesting how the more we pay attention to our bodies the better we feel and are.
I don't think anyone proposed that we attempt to make the penalty precisely offset the profit. Penalties can be scaled up by 50 or 100 percent to offset whatever ineptness you assume the government will possess.
Or maybe the doctors are rational, and patients are just generally less reliable than medical authorities are. Additionally, it's very hard to tell reliable patients from unreliable patients, and personal bias ends up playing a huge role.
So it's a game of "who can lose money the longest?"

I guess the customer's win for as long as the VCs want to pour money into it. It's hard for me to believe that's a winning strategy... even if you outlast the competition, eventually you have to start making money and as soon as you raise prices again, competition can start back up.

I'm probably underestimating network effects.
There's an honest question about how deep that support goes though. Is it just that group, which is a tiny tiny part of a megacorp? How much influence do they have on the huge number of shipped products? What percentage of shipped Cisco products get a security review?
Maybe on paper you're factually correct. My rates didn't go up this year ($1800/month) but my benefits went down costing me about $3,000 more than last year.
Ask HN: Asking for feedback on these local communities for travelers?
I like https://www.principles.com/ by Ray Dalio (of Bridgewater) for a 5 step goal-fulfilment strategy:

> Have clear goals.

> Identify and don’t tolerate the problems that stand in the way of achieving your goals.

> Accurately diagnose these problems.

> Design plans that explicitly lay out tasks that will get you around your problems and on to your goals.

> Implement these plans—i.e., do these tasks.
Yes Apple did explain what happened.

http://www.apple.com/pt/pr/library/2014/09/02Apple-Media-Adv...

Whilst there was a security issue in iCloud it wasn't the root cause behind the "fappening" scandal. It was purely social engineering.
Ride the carousel of folly with a Python migration
Where in gods name are these new apps anyway
> I am from Denmark originally where we have it and it's not without issues because suddenly you turn a profit center into a cost center which means you need to budget and you need to restrict who can get what, how much you can afford etc.

Are the same decisions not still made when health care is for-profit? Except it becomes the insurance companies that get to decide who gets treatment and who is too expensive to treat so we'll just drop their coverage instead?
Don't know about yours :) but mine is a beautiful mess...
Hangouts was a brilliant service and a great set of apps when it launched. Google simply abandoned it.
No it's not, but the point is, if the team is remote-first, you don't need to make that replacement. And you get all the benefits of not having to drag people to the office against their will (which are huge).

In your example, if your company were remote-first, the head of marketing would always be on slack and you wouldn't have to wait for the opportunity of inadvertently running into her just to have a conversation. And so would be your colleagues with whom you (apparently) can only interact when you happen to have lunch together. And so on.

You never "raise hackles" by asking something in Slack, because chat is unintrusive by definition (as opposed to walking up to a person uninvited).
"you need to budget and you need to restrict who can get what, how much you can afford etc."

The private insurers already do that.
I totally get that Google has done a lot of work on these issues. It is still the case that no website that wants good ranks should depend on Google executing their javascript. Implementing AMP, on the other hand, means that you know you're going to get a good mobile speed score.

In no way was I dissing Google's crawl or crawl team. I'm just handing out conservative advice for website owners.

(disclaimer: blekko Founder/CTO. Nice to meet you.)
Interesting to see the author make the case that Forstall's departure was a fundamental mistake. Haven't seen that in too many other "Apple gloom and doom" takes.
Not an expert but I'm pretty sure the AMA gates the number of residency seats and then the schools take the hint and gate admissions numbers independently.
Tbh it might be as easy as recompiling it, Debian makes it very easy to recompile stuff, dpkg-buildpackage is trivial to run. Do it once on a throwaway image, keep the resulting package(s) forever - until new official ones land. This sort of approach can be a risk in production environments but for development images is fine and dandy.
Okay, but let's be realistic—this absolutely ruins any online experience. AMP just ads another layer of suck over an already sucky experience.
I can't wait for the "remove the AMP cache concept" pull request.
This is really interesting to me, how different people view programming at a conceptual level.

My current view (it changes every couple of years) is that as a skillset, programming is primarily based on planning and management, most akin to logistical management and orchestration. (we're just lucky our workers are CPUs and resources are memory/bandwidth vs workers you have to individually train, and physical resources that are permanently consumed)

The focus of a programmer's work, and the skills required include:

- domain knowledge and understanding of the work being done
- developing use cases and modelling a solution, often built from well defined and understood 'components' and relationships between them (eg. factory/production, shipping/freight, warehouse/storage, storefront)
- defining processes and procedures to deal with the various states throughout the project's lifecycle
- logic and control flow through these processes including synchronization and validation

The more I've looked at examples in areas outside CompSci, the more parallels I've drawn to general project planning and management skills, vs those more artistic or scientific.

In case it's unclear, I _am_ talking about writing code, and not software development in general.

I often think of my data model as a physical system, and its behavior in terms of real world systems. As a simple example, I visualize the function processing a FIFO queue as someone working a specific station in an assembly line factory: their job is to take incoming pieces of a known, expected type and do _something_.

I find this helps me "zoom in and out" mentally, grouping things in context with some understanding of what's going on internally, while still treating it as a "black box".
(eg. you can still picture what's going on inside a "factory" when you're looking at it as a whole, with several inputs and the produced output)
Being ready to fire workers quickly leads to additional recruiting pressure, workforce churn, and ultimately lowers the quality of service.
The final bill would not have survived a filibuster because the Democrats no longer had 60 votes.

From wikipedia:

"House Democrats had expected to be able to negotiate changes in a House-Senate conference before passing a final bill. Since any bill that emerged from conference that differed from the Senate bill would have to pass the Senate over another Republican filibuster, most House Democrats agreed to pass the Senate bill on condition that it be amended by a subsequent bill.[165] They drafted the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which could be passed by the reconciliation process.[166][169][170]

As per the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, reconciliation cannot be subject to a filibuster. But reconciliation is limited to budget changes, which is why the procedure was not used to pass ACA in the first place; the bill had inherently non-budgetary regulations.[171][172] Although the already-passed Senate bill could not have been passed by reconciliation, most of House Democrats' demands were budgetary: "these changes—higher subsidy levels, different kinds of taxes to pay for them, nixing the Nebraska Medicaid deal—mainly involve taxes and spending. In other words, they're exactly the kinds of policies that are well-suited for reconciliation."[169]"

Despite the gloss the wiki authors put on it, this is highly irregular. It's within the letter of Senate rules, but if you're expecting to ever get cooperation from the opposition party this is not the sort of stunt you want to pull.

I saw a headline that said something along the lines that the Republicans plan to repeal the ACA using reconciliation, which would be poetic if true.
Not only are they tied to a single phone number, but my understanding is you can't run the same app on multiple devices. And that's my ENTIRE google voice use case! I want a number that works wherever I am, whatever carrier I use.
There's no reason for the physical sensor to be combined with the key/credential storage other than to intentionally interfere with third party replacement parts.
> Dentists, optometrists, physical therapists, etc. all have straightforward pricing for each procedure, and you can call and ask them what it is and it's not too hard to shop around.

Not IME. I've gotten different prices from what I was quoted, and some places have refused to quote me a price.
Traditional CV approaches are much easier to debug as well. I chose the ML approach with the assumption that it would be easier to build a robust autopilot that would work in many lighting conditions. Actually my short term goal is to get the car to drive around my block on the sidewalk (no lines). From my experience CV approaches have many parameters that need to be tuned specifically for each environment. While ML approaches also have parameters that need tuning they stay constant between environments.
https://cloud.google.com/speech/
Show HN: Mitt: The smallest event emitter in the world
Online media use shows strong genetic influence
Google needs to focus on the products and services their customers love.

Google Reader is the best example of this. People LOVED it. It was even a successful social network!
5GB is actually enough for most people backing up their phones. The OS, Apps, Music, Books etc don't count towards that 5GB number.

The issue is if you take a lot of photos that you will want to upgrade. But it is a small amount.
> First, make it like public school.

We can learn from our mistakes there and, if we really feel we need to make medicine socialized (as opposed to deregulated like the excellent private healthcare in Mexico or India), we can at least do it on a voucher-based system. Everyone gets $x tax money a year to spend on medicine, and you can choose where to spend it.
I think you've hit the nail on the head there.

I don't much like the idea of AMP because, to me, it does violate the idea of an open and free world wide web. But, equally, publishers have brought this on themselves. (And I suppose, equally, it isn't the halcyon days of the mid 1990s any more either.)

Sites are egregiously slow and heavyweight, and the experience on mobile is often nothing short of appalling with actual content when it eventually loads relegated below the fold, or near the bottom of the screen. You then have to find a way to scroll without accidentally triggering an ad and once you've done this you're likely to be confronted with one of those delayed interstitials that are so in vogue (and so completely unacceptable) at the moment.

From this perspective AMP is kind of a backdoor to holding large media outlets (in particular) to account for the inexcusably poor web experience they offer to users. Because this isn't a technology limitation: it's a choice they make in the name of monetization.

Rant over.
From the Department of Redundancy Department.
What to Expect at the Seedstars Summit 2017
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13466900
Tensorflow anounced last week that it will incorporate Keras as its default higher level abstraction. It's a pleasure to use.
> As an example, in 2008, a middle aged man could buy such a plan in Arizona for $70/month with a $10K deductible and $2 million lifetime coverage. This included free annual wellness visits, women's wellness checkups, etc. Keep $10K in the bank for emergencies, and you're good to go.

1. Only if you were already in good health and had no pre-existing conditions. Otherwise you would be rejected.

2. $2 million lifetime limit is not great for certain illnesses that can become very expensive to treat (e.g. cancer).

3. The practice of recission meant that you had no idea whether or not that $70/month plan would actually pay out in the event that you needed it.

Insurance plans were great for insurance companies pre-ACA, you could reject everyone except those least likely to need health care, and then drop their coverage if it turned out they actually needed it, or if they got too expensive to treat. It was a win-win-win situation for the insurance companies.
> Pharmaceutical companies can more or less dictate the prices

This is a problem with overreaching intellectual property law, not with having a choice in health providers.
Dunno about US but in most European countries, convictions under 2 years are almost invariably suspended (often automatically) for first offences. So you technically need two convictions, and at that point you could argue that career-crippling is warranted.
Restrictions on building probably makes SF more sprawling, not less. Imagine if you allowed people to buy up a block in Sunset District and build 40 story apartment buildings. People wouldn't have to live in Livermoore anymore.
Ask HN: What are some examples of great GUI tool docs?
I write the Chrome DevTools docs. If you can think of a GUI tool that has great docs, please comment with a link and your description of why the docs are great. Thanks.
I only use Hangouts for google voice, but I would prefer this as well-- I want one unified messaging platform that also handles SMS and POTS phonecalls. That was the promise of Hangouts.
Then you live in a bubble.

Most people I know don't have 10k a year sitting around, just those lucky enough to have relatively well-paying jobs - and having a chronic illness will only make finding such a job harder.
> Quantum mechanics can and does predict every element on the periodic table. Whether we can calculate what it predicts at the present time is a different matter entirely.

If we can't calculate what it predicts, then we don't know that what it predicts matches what we actually observe. We might believe, with high confidence, that QM, once we can calculate what it predicts, will in fact predict what we observe; but until we've actually done it, we don't know for sure.

[Edit: I see GFK_of_xmaspast already made this point.]
In what way is Apple desperate ?

Apple doesn't make money through advertising they make it by selling phones. How does opening iMessages up to Android help them to sell more phones ?
Why You Should Eliminate Resumes