skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are not 3/4 of the way down the slope. If we were the US wouldn't have such high rates of gun ownership, because lots of people wouldn't have the right to own guns. Very few people in the states aren't able to own a gun. Very very few.

Congress is undoing Obama's restriction on people who have someone taking care of their finances due to mental disability buying guns. The restriction wasn't that they couldn't own guns it was that they needed a bg check because idk maybe they are unfit to own one?

Your view of gun control advocacy as a drum to get people into office? Seems highly cynical and mostly untrue to me. Look at the democratic primaries. Bernie Sanders basically changed the subject whenever he was asked about gun control. The two top candidated were not of the same mind when it comes to gun control. That says to me that it is not simply a rallying cry for the left, but an issue americans are deeply conflicted about in both repub and dem camps.

As for addressing the root causes of violence: my view is that gun ownership actually is one of the root causes of violence. Not the only one, not the biggest one (thats poverty), but one.
You are not going to get usable intraday data for free. Best bet is to pony up for NYSE TAQ.

http://www.nyxdata.com/Data-Products/Daily-TAQ
That's a vast over simplification of the issue and ignores issues around implementation.

First off, Medicare Part D plans are run by private insurers and they certainly do negotiate on price. In fact, they tend to get better prices than commercial plans. Those savings are used to compete for Medicare dollars to cover those patients (i.e. savings are passed on to Medicare).

Second, physician administered drugs are paid for at a rate that is the average of what private payers pay. So no negotiation, rather a piggybacking on discounts to private insurers.

Finally, if you roll in the 340B discount (23% minimum), Medicare is getting a pretty good deal on drugs.

I would argue that unless Medicare threatens to NOT cover some drugs, it won't reduce costs one bit. Currently there are a number of protected classes where Medicare HAS to cover those drugs. That needs to be fixed first.

If you don't believe me, look at the CBO estimate of savings if Medicare is allowed to negotiate. Their findings were "minimal savings".[1]

CBO estimates that enacting S. 3 would have a negligible effect on direct spending and would result in spending from appropriated funds of $2 million in 2008 and less than $500,000 annually in subsequent years. Enacting S. 3 would have no effect on revenues.

[1]https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/110th-congress-2007-...
the client is paying for it, as a user, if you really want to bet your company on XYZ tech, you can pay to have Aphyr to perform a jepsen test on it.
Wonder how much of that is because the MBA beancounters use LOC as they productivity measure, as if programming is the same as a widget factory.
I really doubt it. Older people in Romania (not all but many) are nostalgic about communism. They'll say things like "sure you couldn't say what you thought, but everybody had jobs, houses, etc".

They miss having things decided for them, they miss having a life long job (which only works because the government plans the economy), they miss news about how everything in Romania is well and getting better and how horrible things outside of Romania are.

But some things are the same. The ruling party (successors of the communist party) won on a message of "foreigners are trying to control Romania" and look at how many foreign sounding names in have in politics (including the current president who is an ethnic German).
Protocol v1 should be largely transparent to clients (at least for standard kv operations). It's a change you make on the server, at the replica set level.
Makes me wish for a "news service" that would display each story as a timeline with well-marked important points, so that one could see what things are still happening even though they fell off the regular news cycle...
iOS App Life Cycle
"Minimum information" is much more accurate than "zero information". A necessary condition for a good cryptographic hash function F is that F(X) is a uniform distribution if X is a uniform distribution. This is a property of F, not of X, which is where the article is a bit muddy.

The article seems to want to say that "zero information" ought to be a probability distribution such that for all functions f, f(X) is the same zero-information distribution, i.e. from nothing we get nothing. The point is that no such X exists, because every probability distribution encodes some amount of information. What we want is some function F such that for every X in a large class of probability distributions, F(X) is uniform. Which is exactly why x^2 is a terrible hash function.
This is the reason. Anyone who has been around long enough remembers "online hours" and "batch hours" on the mainframe.
My understanding of it is the latter. FedEx provides warehouse space for retailers, and ship directly from their warehouse when an order is placed.
"Assumption that the market will do the right thing"

I find it difficult to consider healthcare a true market, since you get to find out the price/cost many weeks later. You generally have transparency over primary care visit prices, etc, but anything complicated is a total crap-shoot w/r/t what you'll be charged, by whom, and whether everyone involved is in/out of network. Ever have surgery? You get bills from parties you've never heard of all of them coming independently and its rocket science to even figure out deductibles at that point since there is no centralized ledger or central party to deal with.
Comparable offering from IBM Watson: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/
One of the things that always stops me pushing too far into clojure is memory footprint.

Does anyone have any suggestions or resources for how to keep the upfront memory cost of the jvm to a minimum (and monitor that its still within bounds over time).

128m is not acceptable, for my uses clojure would need to compete with go and rust which I can deliver 10-20m running in memory (and lightning fast).

I don't expect 10-20m but 10x doesn't work for me.

Think of deploying to Sandstorm.io as my goal ie small personal servers.
OK, here's a few rules of thumb to get you started.

First, be selective about whose information you consume. Nobody is right 100% of the time but you can identify news and information providers who are consistently more reliable than others. The best way to do this is by measuring their predictive power over time. You don't have to do this in a spreadsheet unless you enjoy that sort of thing, but if you notice that a source of information on some topic consistently informs you about issues earlier and more accurately than the general news media, then you should give extra weight to hat source.

Second, don't make the mistake of assuming that all claims are true from the claimant's perspective, and that if you just seek to understand all the competing claims you'll be able to synthesize some great overall understanding. There are quite a lot of people who will lie and deceive either to promote their own ideology or for money. Default to assuming good faith, but never exclude the possibility of bad faith, and if you encounter it burn the source down (not literally, but by calling out the deception to raise awareness among others and undermine the deceiver's credibility).

Third, never stop maintaining your own intellectual foundations. The study of economics is especially rewarding because economic insights can be applied to any area of life. I don't mean that you should sit around doing basic calculus problems all day - indeed when there are too many numbers flying about you should be cautious, because most economic mistakes derive from choosing incorrect starting assumptions rather than a failure of logic, so I'm a little suspicious of economic claims that look too like a math paper (Nobel Prize winner Ronald Coase used to refer contemptuously to 'blackboard economics,' and warned against falling too in love with one's models to the detriment of empirical observation).

Rather, treat economics as a set of techniques with which to assess a complex problem. An excellent introduction to the field that has the merit of being intellectually neutral and exploring ideas from both left and right perspectives is Todd Buckholz's New Ideas From Dead Economists. IIRC it has a pretty good bibliography too, if not it'll still give you a decent overview of the field.
> vim must be better as its workflow is more efficient for that (thanks to the 2 modes and speed that object motion combinations give)

Emacs provides object motion commands, too, based on b/f/p/n. It can have two modes (in the vi sense), if you wish, using evil-mode.

It's also far, far better than vi at editing and navigating the text of a news post, or a newsgroup, or an email, or a web page, or a process listing, or a kubernetes definition, or or or.

Emacs can completely emulate vim; vim cannot emulate emacs. Seems to me emacs is more powerful.
> How is it possible to generate seven years of convincing sample data from historical trading data without overfitting your models?

Simple -- create a large set of models, each using different selected parameters, run them against the market, and pick the outcomes that make the scheme look good. It's called "data mining."

A famous "psychic," who shall go nameless, made a career of appearing with a sealed, dated, registered letter, opening it, and proving that she had correctly predicted the outcome of an election / horse race / other event in advance. She was always right, and the registered letters were real and were mailed before the event to be predicted. How did she do it? She mailed herself more than one registered letter for each event. People are sooo ... credulous.
If you're talking about a statically typed language built for refactoring and static analysis like C# and Java (hopefully one day rust), you're absolutely correct, that's a game changer and you should take advantage of that.

However, the functionality quickly falls off. I do tend to keep around intellij, but mostly for the various debugger integrations, but you can quickly replace any integrations with project-wide search and replace + a decent auto suggest + compile/linting integration. That's not terribly hard to find these days in emacs, vi, vscode, sublime, etc etc, and it's only going to get easier when we start seeing language servers pop up so you can refactor from any editor!
I love this idea, and this seems like the right way to do it. Operational inefficiencies are a huge burden and it would be great to find a solution for it. I really like the idea of starting this in a small community and scaling up.
Man, I'm glad I didn't pull the trigger on a new one, been planning on it for a while, was going to be my tax return gift to myself this year.
I have been an emacs user for 16 years now, and I have come to this conclusion as well. I don't - like 99% of emacs users - use advance scripting capabilities. But even if I did, it would still be less efficient at the core task of text editing. I'm stuck on emacs, because old habits die hard. But I'll teach my son to use vi.
https://www.conj.io/store/v1/org.clojure/clojure/1.8.0/clj/c...

clojuredocs.org is just one community-powered docs site; there are several.
Because scarcity raises doctor salaries, and healthcare professionals are very good at organizing and negotiating. HN always gets riled about how H1B visas may lower wages, but doctors actively prevent foreigners from being allowed to practice medicine in their jurisdiction.
Frustrating that so many great minds are swooped into the online advertising industry.

The lure of money is too strong.
I worked as employee and as freelancer and prefer the last.

I just can't do this office 9-5 stuff.

But it's not the end game for me.

I don't like how most companies are structured and I don't like the attitude most CEOs have. So working with one, or a few, customers is only a bit better than working as an employee.

I think the optimal case is to create some products and have >100 customers, so if one tries dumb shit with you, it doesn't threaten your existence. Also, I think it's easier to motivate yourself to work on something that is your own and you believe in, than to implement "the visions" of other people on a constant basis.
It's a way for a seller to allow Fedex to manage their inventory. Similar to how you can buy from a third party seller on Amazon and it will be fulfilled by Amazon.
Exactly! Hospitals don't care about inefficiencies because insurance pays for it. Patients don't care either again because insurance pays for it. Insurance can't negotiate with hospitals as patients don't ever want to lose their doctors and revolt if insurance even brings up dropping a hospital for charging exorbitant rates. Add to it an insane 4 years in college + 4 years med school curriculum that does not incentivize more people to even attempt getting into med school.

It is however possible to consider at least some technology solutions - build a more transparent system. Let patients do some cost comparison and incentivize them to find cheaper (but good options). People do care about their health and they can and should be trusted to make these decisions.

Start more clinics like the One medical group (just an example) to make preventative care easier and accessible.
Please don't do this on Hacker News. It doesn't pass muster for civility and substantiveness and it tends to raise the level of antagonism, which isn't what we want.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590238 and marked it off-topic.
The GP implies that the only reason a company would go with React Native is to make life easier for it's dev's at the expense of performance. That's clearly not true and I believe the GP knows it.

If performance was the only thing that mattered to consumers then performance and optimization would be the only thing Instagram's developers would focus on. Facebook is a public company, it publishes Instagram's engagement, growth and advertisement numbers every quarter. Choosing a technology that hurts those numbers would be a poor decision.

Performance doesn't come for free it often comes at the cost of stability and slower time to market. In the case of React Native versus having separate Native teams it also comes at the cost of synchronizing different product teams and dealing with the bugs that come out of that.

To sum up, if React Native was a poor choice it would reflect in the user engagement/growth numbers and wouldn't last long within a metrics driven public company like Facebook.
Wow, I still have this tab open for weeks with an article about him that i wanted to read:
http://www.nature.com/news/three-minutes-with-hans-rosling-w...

Now hearing that he passed in the meantime is very sad indeed. What a great man.
At last, someone else who correctly understands the phenomena even though it's contrary to the popular saying.
There is also all too often a tendency as treating all "users" as drooling idiots.
Is there anything that she has accomplished or done in her life that indicates that she will improve things? She had a lot of trouble answering absurdly basic questions during her confirmation hearing.
Sorry if this wasn't clear, what we mean is that client-side blocking won't help you to stay anonymous because even a server-side tracker can collect enough information about you to deanonymize you if enough of your "fundamental data" does not change (such as your IP). So in addition to using client-side blocking you should also use a VPN service to masquerade and (frequently) change your IP address.
I'll be sure to demo both when I get to the point where I can afford a switch.
sqlite. It's truly magnificent

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
I'll jump on my current soap box, which is that we need a standard to allow MITM blocking, without interception, and a nicer user experience.

This won't solve all use-cases, but selfishly, It will solve mine at DNSFilter: If a browser could recognize our SSL cert, or a special field in our cert, and present the user with a block message, and a static link to learn more, it would eliminate the need for us to have our customers install a CA of ours, and MITM traffic. We have not yet done so, and I'd prefer not to, but it seems to be the industry standard way of avoiding users being confused by errors when we block/MITM an SSL site.
That URL does not work. Here's the working link --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851987
I don't have a Facebook profile, but I hope this thing works. This is something the world needs.

However, even if I had a Facebook profile I would have zero hope of finding people near my area, at least in these early stages of the app, and hardly would bother to look for them.

This is the cruelty of the network effect. I hope you manage to overcome it.
Ha! MySQL having a long history of reliability... Son have you heard of MyISAM?
I think lately his illness, but I think he peaked in popularity just before he stated his belief that it is multiple times (100 times?) more efficient to help refugees from the Middle East and Africa in their home countries or local region rather than he to help them in Sweden.

This was a position held only by the nationalistic (and at least partially racist) political party Sverigedemokraterna, but I think he simply looked at the numbers and saw that the cost for refugees in Sweden is at least 5 (10?) times higher than UNHCR's total budget, while helping only 1-2% of the number of refugees compared to what UNHCR administers.

If I remember correctly, he might have mentioned that at a big fundraiser supporting immigration which was a truth no one wanted to hear, as the "story" as told by media at the time conveyed that the middle east and Africa is inhabitable in general, without exception.

He was remarkably absent in the news after that, almost like an embarrassed silence, but I guess he probably was diagnosed with his illness less than 6 months after that, so I might have been over-interpreting the coincidence.

I might add that Sweden is a very small country with a very strong group-mentality in regards to political ideas and opinions ( and other areas, like fashion).

Political triangulation would have arrived at almost unrestricted immigration at the time.
Further inequality between states in the union will only continue to benefit the current ruling bodies, unless the states can come up with some way to shelter their populations (shrink the federal government someway/how). Unfortunately, not all the states see it yet.

Eventually it will come to the point where some of them will question the union at all—as an outsider I look forward to the independent states movements gaining stronger footholds.
A few reasons:

1) They are based in france, near a source of cheap power.

2) They are not big fat Xeons, they are Xeon-Ds, which are a quarter as hot than a e5-26xx.

3) https://www.supermicro.nl/products/nfo/Xeon-D.cfm

you can fit 12 servers in 3u. Plus they are dirt cheap, I assume ~$400-600 a unit.
I don't see how Erik's chart obscures anything. Quite the contrary. And zero-based charts make percentage changes more obvious, not less.
Personally, I agree about CMake and its horrible scripting language, and I like Scons a lot more. It's Python-based so it's easy to work with and flexible, and not nearly as ugly as CMake.
I think we both realize that solving the two job problem is much harder. Hands off government and giving people the freedom to fuck up their life is great for middle class kids in super supportive families, but can be disastrous for less fortunate children.
Founder of healthcare startup here too:

This sounds like a great project. I love the idea of building technology for healthcare in a small, controlled, active care environment, and then scaling those tools to a larger audience.

The bigger issue in healthcare IMHO is that the American healthcare model, while hugely inefficient, seems to be the system that best incentivizes innovation. We pay 10x what Sweden pays for medical devices, but the US market is the only reason those device companies can be profitable. If we move to a single-payer system in the US, the economic incentives for innovation go way down.

If someone can figure out how to lower costs, while still providing a profitable market in which drug and device companies can innovate, we'll all benefit.
Rethink and Cassandra both fare far better in Jepsen.

Depending on the exact requirements Postgres (in the right configuration) and Redis are better options.

I'd argue that for 90% of MongoDB users - the group whose requirements were met by MySQL/MyISAM - would be better served by Postgres or MySQL with a proper storage engine.
Very interesting idea. Congrats on making it this far! I've been in banking for several years and there's lots of exciting new technology with no real use case. However, there's definitely many use cases that I can see for this one.
> is this a way of letting people list their products on fedex.com, or is this a way for sellers to hold their products in a fedex warehouse, sell the items on their own website, then tell fedex where to ship it?

This is the way I understood it. Sort of like a cross between Drop-shipping and FBA but the shipper already has it, eliminating the need for the "first mile" problem (getting the package from the warehouse to the shipper). This enables a seller to do very quick delivers at low cost because they're not running to a FedEx drop off point with a bunch of shipments incrementally.
If it doesn't have a tuner, doesn't that just make it a monitor with speakers?

If you're using a STB, that hardly matters, but I'd think a cord-cutter would like the option to plug an antenna in the back and watch OTA stations without needing extra hardware.
Since I'm doing API gateways.

I can tell banks plan or want to offer PSD2 services.

Either by a third party or offering them on there own.

What you might get though is a terible ugly interface to the inner part of the bank.

I also just read the newest version of the PSD2 proposal. There is (sadly or luckily) still no plan for further specification what a bank needs to offer or how.

But all in all PSD2 won't change the world of payment.it will be still easier to just use PayPal:)
In Central Europe triple bypass hearth surgery costs ~ $6000. Until you fix the cost, there is no help.
More like, there's too much sugar that people are using. It's doesn't matter if it's corn syrup or not.
Fun fact: the google engineers responsible for this decision were repeatedly accused of being NSA plants as a result: https://twitter.com/sleevi_/status/668911789841608706

Chris Palmer also wrote a really great blog post about this: https://noncombatant.org/2015/11/24/what-is-hpkp-for/
how is the python support? Is it better than PyCharm and VIM.
https://twitter.com/xdelmar59/status/829026587437780992

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trumps-educat...
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Exactly, came here to say that. The only problem is that Scaleway can't satisfy all of the demand, so you won't be able to order some things at some point in time.
There are some parallels with rules of brick and mortar banks for credit card acquiring; at least in certain markets stating that you'd give a discount for paying cash instead of card or discouraging card payments in other ways would put you on a track to get blacklisted from accepting any credit cards at all.