skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Refusing life saving assistance except in return for payment is part of the pattern of Capitalism.

Comments like this must come from a background of absolute ignorance of utility theory or quantitative economics. I can't think that anyone would make this complaint if they thought critically for a moment about what they were suggesting.

Whether you like it or not, we live in a universe with scarce resources. Humans have finite time, matter, and energy that we need to allocate.

As of today (or at least the very near future), it's probably possible to keep any individual human alive for arbitrarily long. We just might burn trillions of dollars doing it. Obviously, even to someone who can't multiply, this doesn't make sense. If we did our absolute best to keep everyone in the world alive, we would run out of resources immediately.

Now, let's say instead of trillions of dollars, it's millions. This is a plausible multi-year treatment cost. Now instead of running out of resources at 10 people, it's 10,000,000 people. This is still less than the number of people in the world who would plausibly rack up these kind of costs if we didn't "refuse life-saving assistance except in return for payment".

The unfortunate harsh reality is that everyone's life has a finite value. It doesn't make sense to spend more resources keeping someone alive than they're worth; as I said, you'd run out of resources very quickly, even if we pretend it makes sense to dedicate 100% of humanity's output to medicine. Additionally, some people's lives are worth more to everyone else than others. People revile this fact for many reasons, but that's how it is. The market, and most individuals, place a higher value on the life of, say, a surgeon than on that of a busker. The market is a way to (surprisingly accurately) stochastically approximate the value people place on things, including the time of other people. A surgeon gets paid more because (assuming the market is allowed to operate unimpeded) they are valued more, and it therefore makes sense that (through the indirection of money) they are able to pay for that expensive multi-million dollar treatment if they get some complicated disease. Common objections to this include "what about rich retired people who aren't productive anymore", and the answer is that if people knew they couldn't spend the money they were saving right now later on, this would induce even more drastic inefficiencies than that of rich retirees being able to afford medical care more than people still in the workforce.
Your experiences are directly contradicted by Alabama. In 2011, the state passed HB56, a law that criminalized everything from hiring or renting to an illegal immigrant to accepting them into a state school. Before it was neutered by the courts, tens of thousands of illegal immigrants fled the state and the agricultural industry nearly collapsed when farmers couldn't find labor willing to work in crap conditions for low pay. There was a barrage of news stories for almost two years about how farmers had to watch as their crops died in the fields with no one to harvest them.

Meanwhile, unemployment fell from 9.2% to 8.7% due almost entirely to the automotive industry (which doesn't really hire illegal immigrants) with no change in construction, agriculture, etc. Afaik the agricultural industry in Alabama still hasn't recovered from the shock, even though the majority of those who left returned by 2015.
You can build a CEK machine (https://cs.umd.edu/class/summer2015/cmsc330/material/cek/), switching from big-step operational semantics to small-step operational semantics. Then you dump the CEK machine in a while loop that runs until the continuation is empty and the code is a value. (On a side note, this is how most C-targeting Scheme implementations work.)
time to test the market for gravy flavored e-cigarettes!
This is what happens when you reply to spam email by James Veitch https://youtu.be/_QdPW8JrYzQ
Design refugee-camps. Many of them gonna be needed in 25 years.
That would be cool. I've run into a problem myself of not knowing what technology to use when building a web-shop, but complicated by the fact that users uploaded images to be printed onto their item. Sometimes I just need someone with e-commerce coding experience to talk to me for half an hour or so to let me know what my best options are.
Foobar is mentioned everywhere. While it's not my player of choice, it has been considered one of the best, most lightweight and customizable players for a long time in pretty much any discussion about audio players for Windows.
I was enlightend once to finish reading an article in a business magazine, and realize that everything discussed benefitted me. The executives in the article had made decisions in order to improve the state of their company, and in doing so were trying to more efficiently deliver products and services to society at large. They get well compensated for what they do, of course. But they also take formidable risk, and must make decisions with only a guess of the consequences. All in order to stay competitive and continue to provide products at a low price.
Conversation on Blockchain with Lars Thomsen, Chief Futurist at Future Matters
This is annoying security-wise. Looks like a single click/touch/keydown event will allow javascript to start scanning for devices. Remember what happened the last time Chrome added support for odd hardware APIs? https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.no/2016/02/racing-midi-me...
The Trump administration should consider voiding all existing H1-B visas, without exception, and enforcing that all holders return to their home countries, before being eligible to re-obtain a H1-B under new, fairer rules. I know more than a handful of very qualified 40+ folk who were laid off over the last couple of years, and told quite frankly, and with no words being minced, that they were too expensive for the company, so their jobs were being "out-sourced" to cheaper/younger workers.

Most H1-B holders are from pretty desperate circumstances and put up with just about anything, at least until they obtain their GCs.
>Bitcoin community is split

Yet not even the advent of quantum computing with todays algorithms could undo a few hours of the Bitcoin blockchain.

A bit too much credence is given to people arguing on the internet rather than the raw state of things. The sheer computing power of bitcoin is a marvel of the modern world.

For all its problems I would say it has a long way to go yet unless the world solves the reality of a borderless economy.
And yet control of the food supply is dominated by a tiny number of slow-moving, conservative companies who appear to spend most of their efforts engineering crops to behave like biological instantiations of intellectual property. Yield is the primary objective, not nutritional quality. Farmers integrated in this system have given up a huge amount of their autonomy and also influence over the breeds of crops and animals that they raise. Crop and livestock genetic diversity has plummeted, and we have removed the local experts from the breeding process.

I am shocked by the amount of effort going into fixing health problems post-hoc relative to efforts aimed at improving the foods we eat. In fact, we seem to be going backwards. The intellectual vanguard is pushing organic + non-GMO produce, heirloom foodstuffs, artisan food practices, and other regressive (if high-quality) patterns that won't encourage nutritional improvement for the majority of people.

We should be applying ourselves to improving food. It's completely overlooked because it's seen as a solved problem. I can completely understand why, but I think it's pretty clear, given the health problems in the west, that there is more to be done.
For 3) Solve democracy, a friend showed me pol.is (neat demo of it: https://pol.is/demo/2demo).

Anyway, it's description is..."pol.is brings AI & machine learning to participatory democracy. Scale up outreach in online consultation & get powerful insights that can shape and legitimize policy." It would be amazing if U.S. politics could be grounded in legitimate understanding of each other.
I couldn't tell from the article: is the 6% excess attained while running plants at _less_ than optimal output?

So would California be even more above the threshold with the turn of a dial?
1. AdRoll, Inc.

2. Aeris Communications, Inc.

3. Airbnb, Inc.

4. AltSchool, PBC

5. Ancestry.com, LLC

6. Appboy, Inc.

7. Apple Inc.

8. AppNexus Inc.

9. Asana, Inc.

10. Atlassian Corp Plc

11. Autodesk, Inc.

12. Automattic Inc.

13. Box, Inc.

14. Brightcove Inc.

15. Brit + Co

16. CareZone Inc.

17. Castlight Health

18. Checkr, Inc.

19. Chobani, LLC

20. Citrix Systems, Inc.

21. Cloudera, Inc.

22. Cloudflare, Inc.

23. Copia Institute

24. DocuSign, Inc.

25. DoorDash, Inc.

26. Dropbox, Inc.

27. Dynatrace LLC

28. eBay Inc.

29. Engine Advocacy

30. Etsy Inc.

31. Facebook, Inc.

32. Fastly, Inc.

33. Flipboard, Inc.

34. Foursquare Labs, Inc.

35. Fuze, Inc.

36. General Assembly

37. GitHub

38. Glassdoor, Inc.

39. Google Inc.

40. GoPro, Inc.

41. Harmonic Inc.

42. Hipmunk, Inc.

43. Indiegogo, Inc.

44. Intel Corporation

45. JAND, Inc. d/b/a Warby Parker

46. Kargo Global, Inc.

47. Kickstarter, PBC

48. KIND, LLC

49. Knotel

50. Levi Strauss & Co.

51. LinkedIn Corporation

52. Lithium Technologies, Inc.

53. Lyft, Inc.

54. Mapbox, Inc.

55. Maplebear Inc. d/b/a Instacart

56. Marin Software Incorporated

57. Medallia, Inc.

58. A Medium Corporation

59. Meetup, Inc.

60. Microsoft Corporation

61. Motivate International Inc.

62. Mozilla Corporation

63. Netflix, Inc.

64. NETGEAR, Inc.

65. NewsCred, Inc.

66. Patreon, Inc.

67. PayPal Holdings, Inc.

68. Pinterest, Inc.

69. Quora, Inc.

70. Reddit, Inc.

71. Rocket Fuel Inc.

72. SaaStr Inc.

73. Salesforce.com, Inc.

74. Scopely, Inc.

75. Shutterstock, Inc.

76. Snap Inc.

77. Spokeo, Inc.

78. Spotify USA Inc.

79. Square, Inc.

80. Squarespace, Inc.

81. Strava, Inc.

82. Stripe, Inc.

83. SurveyMonkey Inc.

84. TaskRabbit, Inc

85. Tech:NYC

86. Thumbtack, Inc.

87. Turn Inc.

88. Twilio Inc.

89. Twitter Inc.

90. Turn Inc.

91. Uber Technologies, Inc.

92. Via

93. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

94. Workday

95. Y Combinator

96. Yelp Inc.

97. Zynga Inc.
WHAT IF they did it on purpose? Knowing they were running out of time and didn't have a convincing ad they went for airing a completely meaningless one so that later one they could write this post-mortem gaining traction on communities that are far more relevant for their audience such as HN?

I know it sounds a bit pretentious but that would be a pretty smart move to reduce the damage while preserving the brand overall identity.
> When was the last time you downloaded an mp3?

FLAC, but every time I get something from Bandcamp.
See also: clean water, warm food, cold food, air conditioning, heating, books (cost of duplication now lower than ~$100k per volume), music (especially when measured per second of other-than-ambient sound supplied), ability to move heavy things short distances, ability to move anything long distances, ability to transfer one's person any distance, cost of moving one letter worth of information one kilometer (for bonus points add SLAs on days required), etc etc.
Just wanted to add that, when taking on big-pharma, you should prepare being sued out of principle. There are so many patents in their hands.
When I went to the university we had UNIX everywhere, not GNU/Linux, that started to be common around my 2nd - 3rd year.

We were using DG/UX and Aix before the department started adopting GNU/Linux on their recently build new department building.

Windows systems were only used for graphics programming classes and for the first year students introductory courses.

Back then our degrees were 5 years long, of daily using UNIX for project assignments, everyone had some form of fvwm, afterstep, windowmaker, enlightment, blackbox, GNOME, KDE, CDE configured as their environment of choice.

The majority of us, a few decades later, are mostly coding on Windows and Mac OS X systems.
You need to change the hero image, IMO, it looks very templatey.
Is Spotify Going Bankrupt in 2017? Wall Street Delivers Another Red Flag
Make mine deep-fried potato products, and I'm in. Although something nausiating to kill any appetite might be more productive.
The problem is not making the tools, it's getting everybody to learn and use them.
The call to learn by Clifford Stoll https://youtu.be/Gj8IA6xOpSk
Betteridge probably applies, but the riders on those loans look really bad for anyone hoping for a payout from their Spotify employee share options.
Best Practices on Mapping a Journey of an Airlines Customer
It's important to remember in these kinds of debates that there are two kinds of communism: The practical communism, the one actually tried dozens and dozens of times, despite implementing a pretty fair range of possible combinations of parameters, yet returning a the same pretty narrow range of failures pretty invariably -- and then the theoretical communism, as read and understood by contemporary western intellectuals for whom practical communism (or, as it's often known, "not real communism") is mostly irrelevant.

With that, your observation is entirely correct, but it pertains to theoretical communism. The GP was likely referring to practical communism, and in that context, yes, practical communism most definitely inherently restricts market-driven creative destruction.

(Cool side-anecdote: Karl Popper invented the scientific method partly in response to Marxist "science".)
Calories in, calories out is not the golden rule, and this has been scientifically proven false.

Also, hilarious adventure I went on once: I ate 4000 calories of bacon a day and nothing else for a month... ended up cutting it off a little early because I was losing weight too quickly.

Your second and third points however are scientifically supported, but do not confuse this with "obesity is complicated." It is not how many calories you eat, it is where they come from.

I used to weigh 340 pounds, I went strictly Paleo, did not increase caloric burn, did not decrease caloric intake in any meaningful way, hit 214 in a year, and then continued dropping; roughly 2000 calories a day and not a lot of exercise (was afraid of joint damage due to weighing so much).
Password managers: attacks and defenses
> Immigrants or illegal immigrants?

Both. Illegal immigrants are generally keen to avoid any contact with a legal system that might deport them.

Either way, the USA has almost no illegal immigrants who are Muslims. Almost all Mexicans are Christians (88% Catholics). Most Cubans are Catholics as well (60%).

Indeed, the USA has very few legal immigrants who are Muslim either. "According to a new estimate in 2016, there are 3.3 million Muslims living in the United States, about 1% of the total U.S. population." At least a quarter of those are US-born Americans like Mohammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaq O'Neal, Mos Def, Busta Rhymes, Yusef Lateef etc.

"According to a 2004 telephone survey of a sample of 1,846 Muslims conducted by the polling organization Zogby, the respondents were more educated and affluent than the national average, with 59% of them holding at least an undergraduate college degree."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States
Singapore is sending fintech startups to infinity and beyond
This seems absurd. Are there any examples you can point to, or legal principle you are referencing here?
This pill won't because depression and inability to maintain an erection are side effects. But one in future may.
I support open borders and this is one of the points that I've grappled with for quite some time. I'm not convinced that the decision to move from developing country to a developed one is made purely on economic grounds. Permanently relocating your life is not an easy task. You pretty much have to give up all your social capital, all your community ties (which means that you could face ostracisation back in your birthplace), learn a new language, learn new cultural norms, spend significant funds on travel and relocation costs costs and whatever savings you have left will lose a decent chunk of their value due to exchange rate conversion. You also have no networks to exercise in finding employment in your new home and finding accommodation without any kind of reference is going to be difficult.

In that sense, the risk to oneself is so great that only a privileged few in developing countries who wanted to relocate would actually have the resources to overcome them. So for many people, relocating might legally be a choice, but it would be practically impossible.

Realistically, migration is only an option for you if you (1) have a job offer from a company based in the place you intend to migrate, (2) have sufficient funds + skills to cover yourself until you can find a job, (3) have family who can support you and lend you their networks until you can find employment, (4) have sufficient funds to start your own business. Incidentally, those criteria also form categories of US visas (H1-B/TN-1/E-3/L-1, O-1, Family Reunion, EB-5), though, they impose more stringent requirements than economics would.
> obligatory "IANAL" note

There's no equivalent to LLC's in Canada so you'll need to create a corporation up here. You can incorporate in the federal jurisdiction or a provincial one; you'll want to read the relevant acts that you'd be incorporating under to figure out the differences. BC corporations, for example, require at least one director to be a BC resident; federal for-profit corporations, on the other hand, require 25% of the board to be Canadian citizens.

I created a federal corporation in Canada last year, mainly relying on the info and "how-to" guides on Corporations Canada's website to educate myself: http://corporationscanada.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cd-dgc.nsf/eng/h...

I also went through the Canada Business Corporations Act and Not-for-profit Corporations Act a few times; they lay out the bureaucratic details you need to be aware of.

The most awkward part was opening a US-based bank account afterward; BMO Harris was one of very few US banks I came across that was willing to talk shop with a Canadian company (I'd love to hear if anyone knows of any other foreign company-friendly US banks).

If you name yourself as the only director and shareholder (or voting member, in the case of a nonprofit), you still have to hold board and shareholder/member meetings but they'll be very straightforward since you'll be their only attendee. _Definitely_ consult with a lawyer if you're contemplating a voting structure that extends beyond yourself or the directors.

For creating a nonprofit in particular, you may be able to get pro-bono legal advice through an organization like Access Probono (http://accessprobono.ca). Corporations Canada also offers a super-useful By-law Builder tool which gives you "sane defaults" for the corporation's structure: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cd-dgc.nsf/eng/h_cs04734.html
There's got to be more to it than that. Even with a really tight beam you'd run into all sorts of "Am I in the spotlight or not" problems, especially with the torch flailing around while someone dances (illuminance detected would be all over the place).

Looking at this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYDSguhC4FQ

It seems advanced patterns only turn up when people are in a roughly grid arrangement, and no one moves out of their spot except at predetermined times (obviously everyone is in on the choreography here). There are also dark periods after people finish moving around and "get in place". It looks like they are doing some degree of calibration. The torches my well have IR lights on them too that can be individually addressed to quickly calibrate every torches position, sorta like marco polo. Break it into quadrants and you could do it even quicker.

It could be simply overhead IR lights, but gah, they are doing something really special to get those well defined sharp edges.

Besides all that, everyone could just have assigned spots that they memorized. It's obvious they practiced, and arranging a bunch of people on a field quickly and fluidly is nothing new.
Lazy Loaded React Components with Webpack 2
A related market for some of this tech: remote interviews. I've seen lots of solutions for this: collaborative code editors, hangouts, Skype etc. There are frequently problems with bandwidth and friction with coordination (handoff to other interviewers).

Solution to "frictionless" remote work / collaboration among teams (not just engineers) seems similar to interview problem. The target market may also be distinct (teams don't remote work, but remote interviews are common).

moocs might benefit too?
Oh boy, welcome to employment in the United States.

At-will: either party may alter or terminate employment at any time for any reason, and the other has no legal recourse. There is no contractual specification of what you're paid for because the employer does not need to prove anything about the relationship between actual and expected behavior to fire you. You get paid the rate that was agreed upon for time already worked, and then you're done. In effect, you get paid for not having been fired yet.

Salary: your compensation is per unit of time elapsed on the calendar, not at your workstation.

These conditions describe the vast majority of professional, intellectual, and managerial work in the United States. Working 40 hours per week, working 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, etc. are merely cultural norms, not legal standards, and some industries (like tech and finance) have very little respect for them.

Working 40 hours per week is encoded as a legal standard for hourly workers (via overtime pay requirements), but only below a certain wage threshold. Many fields, including programming, are exempt from overtime requirements even when paid hourly.
We live in an interacting system of market systems, governments, democracies, culture, and technological evolution on a blue, green, brown, and white planet. It is a giant spaghetti ball full of externalities and extremes. Masses of humanity lifted from poverty, massive extinction, climate change, rapid technological development. However, it only a few centuries ago led to massive slavery, population loss, etc... It is hard to say where this will lead but I suspect that it will continue to lead to both extremes and it's a good idea to spread our seed as widely as possible. Mars, Moon, etc... Because it's pretty much a guarantee that someone will screw up mightily and we're not talking just politics.
iPhone was released 10 years ago. We have insanely more capable screens, cpu:s, gpu:s, sensors. Find what's next and you will make a dent in the universe.
I switched jobs while I was on H1B in 2004. I don't think legally a company can fire you just because you are looking for a job, that too without giving a notice. They have to put you on some sort of a Performance Improvement Plan or something like that right ?
Yeah, one of the cool things about go is it's ability to get reasonable compile times without byzantine management of include files, as in c++. I still don't know of any major c++ code base being targeted by go, whereas python is certainly in the crosshairs.
On the contrary: it's not naïve, it's far too advanced. This isn't a problem that needs to be solved with technology and by forcing people to wear a beeping device on their heads. You can just install a railing and make the environment safe for everyone.

I suppose your solution would work as a stopgap, but it seems like poor design to make people adapt to human-made environments rather than building the environments in a way that works for everyone.
Computer Architecture Essentials by James Reinders https://youtu.be/yOa0WpMwzWk