skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Boo on Obama for not even bothering to try for Universal Healthcare...

President Obama didn't create the ACA. Congress did. It was modeled after a system that works very well in Massachusetts and was developed by Republican, free-market think tanks.

And every Congress since has tried to sabotage it rather than fix it. Last I heard, the current Congress still doesn't have a great solution to solve the core issues. And that is after 40+ votes to dismantle it.

I think you mischaracterize the Democrats of 2009. There was a significant desire to push for "a single payer option" (a partial "universal healthcare"), but there was also severe resistance, even within the party. And Republicans largely didn't want to deal with any option the Democrats came up with.

I'm glad something was done, even if it was an imperfect law. It forced the issue to eventually be dealt with. I would have preferred that Republican Congress critters would have chosen to try and fix the law rather than sabotage it (they were largely waiting for Republican president that could get credit for fixing the flaws).
Several Internet-only sites are already members of the White House Press Corps, including hyper-conservative sites like Newsmax and the Daily Caller. Breitbart could have a seat in the briefing room if it wanted, and can certainly afford to do so.
Though, again, it clearly says in the article it's not and they pulled out of states where they were profitable.
>When it comes to constitutionality, SCOTUS precedent is not good or bad, it's simply is reality.

It depends, there are SCOTUS rulings that (most) people consider "bad". These create precedent.

>Him being quoted by Breitbart means nothing. I mean Obama has been quoted by them. Clinton has been. Pretty much every single prominent Democrat politician has been. The only thing that is exposed by saying "breitbart" is that you disagree with the right.

No, I was pointing out that I had already addressed this specific example when I stated that "The only people I can find who believe it might be constitutional are non-constitutional laywers quoted by Breitbart." Banzhaf is the non-constitutional lawyer who was quoted by Breitbart. Now, you're quite correct that I don't find Breitbart to be a reliable source of news (although construing that to 'I disagree with the right' is a bit of gymnastics), but its also orthogonal to my point.

> I'm saying that anyone who says that it's unconstitutional on it's face is full of it.

That also very much depends. If we're talking " a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States", that is on its face unconstitutional, since it includes American Citizens. If we're talking a registry, it probably isn't. If we're talking about refugees who are Muslim, then there's the grey area. But if you take him at the words he used, it is unconstitutional, and most of the blogs have caveats that say something along the lines of "a ban on American Citizen Muslim's returning from abroad is unconstitutional on its face, so we'll ignore that and talk about refugees and immigrants"
That does help, thank you.

Your template is much more complex than I was thinking. I can see though if reflection is the goal, then a format that encourages that makes a great deal of sense.
No one stood up to defend it because no one really knew what was in it. They tried to rush it through before anyone could actually read it.
CREW Files Suit Against Trump, Alleging Violations of the Emoluments Clause [pdf]
"... and how long to drive."

Hopefully there won't be many fatigue related accidents. But no worries for Uber, the drivers aren't employees!
In defense of the native app
oh well when you put it that way...

a platform with virtually limitless potential. WOW WOW WOW WOW! limitless. potential.

why didn't you just say that in the first place? all my potentials have been limited so far. finally something with limitless potential.
About a year ago I switched our dev environments from Vagrant to docker-compose environments with a "helper" shell script to run the most common docker-compose operations you'd do in a day. It starts up so much faster than Vagrant, it's easy to add new services, and it's easy to add and remove test data. Here's an example of the kind of setup I have:

https://github.com/bschwind/api-starter-kit/blob/master/help...

What's funny is I don't currently use docker in production, but I love it for dev environments.
Actors with good negotiating position get big up front payments and a percentage of gross.

So I suppose one answer is to have good negotiating position.
You negotiate a percentage of the gross.
First self-driving bus line opens to the public in Paris
Honest question. What chance do you think, or how would you propose we start this discussion with people who genuinely believe the market as it is now, with 'choice' is the best option for consumers?

I live in flyover country, and people legit believe that letting the market make choices is best, and single payer is a quick step to full on communism. I'm looking for positive arguments to counter that nonsense.
Thanks for trying out these test pages! When I created them, I tried loading them in different locations on my phone. Surprisingly, even in busy city-centre locations (using 3G), the pages weren't always loading instantly - but they were fairly fast, enough to feel usable.
Key takeaway IMO:

"the Colorado-based company knew of fraudulent transactions but failed to take steps that would have resulted in disciplining of 2,000 agents"

Western Union was already aware of fraud they were facilitating, but did not take steps to either report or prevent it.

It's one thing to not investigate suspicious behavior, it's another thing entirely to be aware of actual fraud, and ignore it.
You're right. Looks like it's been fixed at some point since I stopped clicking on AMP links.
The recipient name was always in "ALL-CAPS". I think they couldn't handle even ascii, maybe they use some telegraph era codepage.

Also, for what I remember, you can't send a wire to a company via WU. The recipient must always be a person.
It seems to me that if Uber is unable to pay its drivers a living wage, they don't actually have a sustainable business model. They have a business model that relies on regulatory arbitrage (avoiding minimum wage or other employee-protection laws by skirting the Independent Contractor line as much as feasible), externalized costs (letting the government pay for things like food stamps and housing assistance), and good old fashioned exploitation of the working class.

I mean, I understand that uber started because the taxi market was protectionist. But on the other hand, do taxi drivers have better pay and a better union? Often, yes. There may be a middle ground here.

(* note that this argument applies to a lot of the gig-economy jobs out there, including lyft, doordash, and so on, not just Uber)
Maybe you would prefer this, it explains new measures they will be taking for QA instead of just the battery-centric infographic
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-announces-new-and-en...
This is at the intersection of several of my interests.

The idea that nicotine improves cognition in schizophrenia is not new and, indeed, several drugs inspired by this idea (nicotinic agonists) are currently in the pipeline for the treatment of ADHD, schizophrenia, and depression. [1]

In this paper, the researchers are focused on a polymorphism in the CHRNA5 gene. Pulling up my 23andme data, this mutation (rs16969968) looks common, listed at 45% of the population. I have one of the "bad" alleles and, personally, use nicotine as a stimulant every once in a while and find it more effective than coffee but less effective than adderall.

If you are interested in this sort of research, I recommend getting part of your genome sequenced with 23andme [2] and then running your data through Promethease [3]. But, remember, don't take anything too seriously -- most of this isn't settled science.

There is also some evidence that nicotine may function as a "nootropic," i.e. a drug that enhances cognition even in the healthy. Nick Bostrom mentions using nicotine and caffeine to aid writing his book Superintelligence.

Contrary to what you might believe, nicotine is probably not all that bad for you, or even that addictive when not used in combination with an MAOI. The best review of this is, as usual, by Gwern. [4]

Finally, I want to mention a few other interesting properties of nicotine:

- The drug seems to more strongly reinforce behaviors done while under the influence of it than it reinforces "taking nicotine" (addiction). This may make it useful for implementing positive habits. e.g. I often chew half a piece of nicotine gum while running in an attempt to solidify my exercise routine.

- One study suggests that, at least in mice, nicotine administration results in long-term upregulation of reward sensitivity. [5]

Huge disclaimer here at the bottom: if this post convinces you to experiment with nicotine, please do not start with vaping. The near-instant reinforcement of inhaling a stimulant makes it much more addictive. Stick with gum, or a tincture. [6]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinic_agonist#Current_stat...
[2] https://www.23andme.com/
[3] https://promethease.com/
[4] https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
[5] http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v31/n6/full/1300905a.html
[6] https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/3lvkmc/nicotine...
If I were you I'd push hard for an office to work in at your job. Like, go out and get some job offers and tell them you'll take one of these jobs if you don't get your way.

Work environment is everything and once I started taking it seriously, my life enjoyment improved immensely.
A turboprop is also much better as a platform for surveillance radar. No engines hanging below the wing obscuring the radar field. Turboprop flies slower and thus stays longer over the target scene.
Take-away from that is to look up the literature /before/ carrying out the self-experimentation. It could have saved the nasty experience with the retina cyst which sounds very nasty.

I guess we normally only get to hear of the self-experiments with great results and advances for science and medicine. The not-so-good results can tend to get buried both figuratively and literally.

Hope you're fully recovered.
Interesting. What's the conference/merge feature? I've never seen that. I've used the service since GC.
As an Indian I understand why India is undesirable perfectly. India is not a cohesive economy or textbook nation-state, it is a multi-national nation and that makes New Delhi weak and states moving in what ever direction they want to go. As usual there is broadly speaking coastal vs hinterland divide in India. This makes India hard to govern and bring a uniform economic or governing policy, added to that a million mutinies big and small across the country make it not desirable country in certain ways.

Maoism and militant trade unionism in the structured economic sector living in parallel with bonded labor and child exploitation in unstructured economy makes it a world of contradictions.
People who are blind (congenital or otherwise) still use their visual cortex.
> Supporters of an international rules-based, law-based order, and of a democratic and rights-based order want broad multilateral agreements. Then the weak nations can band together and resist the powerful; it gives them self-determination, the foundation of democracy; it creates rule of law rather than rule of the powerful.

Ironically, most of those small, weaker countries are not democratic.
I would say any project that is non-trivial and is of some use. Does not have to be large. In fact it could even be of no practical use, if it shows some of your programming skills and knowledge (preferably on aspects that also happen to be useful in jobs). But the projects with no practical use will likely have less chance of getting you what you want - though some chance still. As with many things, it depends - on the company / job / etc.
I, for one, welcome our new time traveling overlords
Dry? Maybe compared to Houston. Very humid compared to Las Vegas or Arizona.
Am I misreading this, or are they forgoing profit purely out of spite?

I love how all the responses here are all "No no no, it's not spite, it's perfectly valid extortion. Well what else could they do?"
> BC/BS of NM lost $100m on the ACA in 2015

And they would have broken even on Risk Corridors if it wasn't for Marco Rubio.
Paying drivers more than they are making from customers.
> This Podesta email isn't one of the DKIM-signed ones, but it shows that Clinton was ultimately going to support TPP regardless of what she was saying:

No, it doesn't show that at all. It shows that staff had done some preparatory work on the explicitly-uncertain assumption that an ongoing discussion would end up a particular way. Which clearly shows that, at least as far as the author of the email was concerned, what Clinton would end up doing was unknown.
Let's not ignore the providers themselves. Excluding the middlemen, my wife had a bill for a lithrotripsy procedure (she was there for approximately 4 hours) of nearly $10,000, and most of that went to the hospital. That was before insurance negotiated their rate.
> Sounds very scientific. Except when change happens.

But that's the point, isn't it? The "best predictor" bit means that the "Except" clause usually doesn't happen.
There are a couple of tools to automatically manage virtualenv activation/deactivation, like autoenv[0] & detect_virtualenv[1];

[0]: https://github.com/kennethreitz/autoenv
[1]: https://github.com/dgholz/detect_virtualenv
Trump’s FCC Chairman Pick Ajit Pai Heralds a Weaker, Meeker Commission
“This defines a completely novel strategy for medication development,” says lead author

As someone with schizoaffective problems and raging ADHD, I find quotes like this acutely annoying. I've told every psychiatrist I'eve ever dealt with about the experiential costs/benefits of smoking (and consuming various other recreational drugs). They all nod sagely and say things like 'but smoking is bad' (no shit Sherlock!) while making absolutely zero effort to measure or help me track any of this. Every mentally ill person I've known has said much the same thing. Of all the medical professionals I've ever dealt with, psychiatrists are the laziest and least imaginative.

Edited to add that I quit tobacco ~7 years ago using chantix, which I totally recommend. Unfortunately my mental ilnesses have become harder to deal with over the same period. The last time I reached out to my psychiatrist he said he hadn't seen me in so long that he didn't have room in his practice for me any more. What an asshole.
Why use the "Skype" branding? Why not call them simply "video feed seats"?
I read the TPP; so did a lot of people. It wasn't hard to read or understand.
How about CTCI?
Thoughts are more than just letters and punctuations. I can't write down the majority of things in my head with just letters and punctuation.

Seems like language is getting in the way of writing down thoughts when you are relying on a screen and a qwerty keyboard as your only choice of input.
You probably want to use PyCharm. It's a great IDE, and pretty much just works.

Personally I find the various CLI tools typically found on a BSD or Linux rather enticing for development, but many people do without that.

Apart from that I'm not sure what you could mean / what your issues are. Specify?
You can be confident but humble.

I agree with you in principle, but again, I don't think that's a winning strategy.

A humble, competent woodworker creates a piece that's beautiful, visually rich, has a solid, study feel to it, and can be appreciated by most. The software engineer, who checks in a fix on the back-end service that pre-empts several bugs that had yet to be discovered, goes relatively unappreciated.

So can one be humble and confident? Yes. Will it be understood and appreciated from the outside? Probably not. Is it a good strategy? Probably not.

I'd say a person has three options:

1) work for people who are technically competent enough to understand the true value of your work. In my experience, this is pretty rare out in the real world.

2) become a salesman and sell yourself at all times. This seems fundamentally opposed to dominant personality types in software.

3) stop being so humble and be proud of your work. This seems like the most logical choice to me.

Our industry is rife with imposter syndrome, legends of the 10x engineer, impressions that everyone else is succeeding flawlessly thanks to polished blog posts and GitHub portfolios [1], and endless pontificating on things that often boil down to fashion and code style. I don't think we need anything telling us to be more humble.

You may be a completely average engineer writing CRUD software for some local bank. Yeah, maybe that guy blogging about his work at Google would do a better job than you. But he's not here, and your the best you company has found. You're valuable and capable. Be proud of what you've accomplished!

[1] - people have written recently about how Facebook causes negative feelings since you seem to see others only at their best. I think this is normal folks finding out what tech types have experienced for decades, but nobody has ever talked about it.
Isn't nicotine rather weakly addictive alone, and only significantly addictive when combined with other stuff in tobacco?

https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine#addictiveness
As the article points out, Western Union actually knew that some specific transactions were fraudulent, but did nothing to report or prevent them.
I downvoted you because you're a new poster who trades in cookie-cutter self-victimizing political arguments heard a million times before. The bar needs to be higher for new posters, or HN will drown in this.
Exactly - we do not live in a world nearly as isolated as we did in the 1800's; leverage is now far more important.
Agree 100%. It is what worked for me. Get up early every day, brew and enjoy fresh coffee and HackerNews + Dilbert as the first things I read. And do the dishes immediately after every meal. Each thing is small but needs focus to be done properly, and I get great satisfaction from seeing clean dishes, clean kitchen.

I extended this by doing yoga. Apart from the well known health benefits, the total concentration, even in the painful parts, gives the mind diversion and that is as good as if not better than rest. The cumulative affect is one is refreshed.

So for me the yoga and the discipline from a few small things as helped me work through mild depression, shitty (although mostly self-created) relationship crashes, and lack of motivation.

To put it all simply: learn to enjoy the small things done well every day.
The White House Press Briefing, brought to you by Skype and McDonalds!
Citation for those wondering:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140...
It seems like we need a state or two to become an experiment (in the same nature as pot).

However I fear that any attempt to will result in companies suing the state for unfair competition or the like.
Emulators on mainframes are much more sophisticated and performant than is typical on x86 and ARM platforms. The hardware and even software is often designed with emulation in mind, not just for backwards compatibility but for forwards compatibility, too.
Everyone taking opiates would be depressed but nobody would be sure if it was pre-existing depression or Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome.

In general, it can sometimes be difficult to differentiate drug withdrawal from re-emergence of a pre-existing condition.
I didn't mean to evaluate any particular claim, only to use my modest powers of reading comprehension to helpfully summarize the article :)
No, the US never joined the TPP because that would have taken Congressional action that never occurred.

Trump made it clear that he wasn't going to change the status quo, but painting it as a change to the status quo is false.
A good programmer is a good problem solver. But it also requires technical knowledge or ability to acquire it, as well as a good ability to communicate ideas.

Now, you can solve problems in many ways. They can be solved in the best interest of the programmer, or in the best interest of the company.

If I have a sales team, and give them a goal to sell $100, and they make a loan for $100 on behalf of the company and give me $100, that's probably not a good sales team. Let alone a 10x sales team.

But in software, technical debt (equivalent to buying with a loan) is something done frequently and some people mistakenly perceive it as being a good programmer. Usually because they cannot perceive the build-up of accrued work.
And auto insurance companies currently profit by discriminating against males, the young, etc., all based on statistical realities. Health insurance companies charge a 20-year-old less than a 70-year-old. Nobody seems to take real ethical issue with that.

If someone owns their company and doesn't want to ship to Romania, is there an ethical way for me to force the owner to do so? There isn't one that I've heard. Many just won't sell internationally, partly because of the hassle, partly because of the lack of reasonable recourse systems. Does this kind of discrimination which bothers you become OK provided it's mass discrimination? Because that, to me, breaks down really quickly in the face of scrutiny.

Regardless, I take issue with your characterization of it. Deliberately trying to defraud someone is ethically the same as a good-faith effort to defend one's self against fraud? That's a moral equivalence that I think one would have a very difficult time building a system of ethics to justify.
Name 10 influential thinkers from the last 100 years.

How many of them are remembered for the books and how many for their voice and body language?

Talk and "body language" is cheap. Summarizing your thoughts into a meaningful article/wiki/book/email is hard and very valuable.
Every day brings us closer to the Corporate Congress from the Continuum series. ;).
Which competition? The only one I use is great courses plus which has a much better UI, but that isn't really competition.

My biggest pet peeve is that everything has to be graphical though. I'd much prefer a list of filterable shows like the steam games list.
Then go work in a Swedish workplace part time. :)
plus the removal of another dns resolution.
2a) I want to get to the site, not another Google property.

Penalize my search listing all you like, but none of my stuff will be hosted elsewhere.

I thought publishers learned their lessons here - use someone else's printing press, and ultimately, they control what's printed.
Yeah, and in C++ one also avoids vtables when possible.
> A pregnant woman would fear it much more

But here's the thing, in his example (Singapore) women are not caned at all, pregnant or not.
I couldn't find that evidence anywhere in your link. A report by Public Health England estimated e-cigarettes to be at least 95% less harmful than combustible tobacco.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
This is another opportunity to hide the physicality of the room. The Skype members probably won't have the same viewpoint that reporters in the room will have. Easier to spin noises in the background.
like the once a year retreats with parties and trust falls and what-not

Nice strawman!

We got the team together, shared meals and drinks in the evening, and basically did engineering work during the day.

The team took the opportunity to do some broader architectural work that needed doing, and to do some knowledge sharing across silos that had developed. Basically stuff that's more amenable to a room and a whiteboard.

ie, they got some sh*t done while getting to know each other better.

But hey, if you can't be bothered to spend face time with your team mates on occasion, I'm sure you can find organizations that will cater to your particular whims. Ours would not be one of them, that's all.
I generally agree - I think the net result is just no trade deals, not bilateral trade deals.