skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fortunately, most public school policy is determined at the state and local levels as compared to the federal level.

Quite a lot of it is influenced by incentives and conditions attached to federal funds, both those explicit in law and those resulting from the Department of Education's particular choices in applying the law.

DeVos will control the latter and (presumably, via influence within the Administration and controlling the DoE's interactions with Congress) substantially influence the former.
My dawg, you just named several things that require physical contact for energy transfer (ie they plug into the wall) and one wireless system that will literally kill you if you stay out in it unprotected.

I don't know if you meant to prove my point, but really man, physics is cool.
That's just another variation of "stop that" though.
Person A: I saw aliens at area 51 you can read about it in my latest book.

Person B: Here are 25,000 documents from Area 51 that prove the existence of aliens.

Who gets the most credit\fame\whatever?
SQL Server and Oracle are hardly comparable. The issues you see there are more to do with backwards compatibility or performance impact of big new features than they are with the core stability.
Indeed, I've been essentially single-handedly running Oasis since it launched (there was a mechanism for others to help if I wasn't available, but in practice it was only ever used once or twice).

Oasis upkeep requires only a few minutes of my time each week, and that's mostly for the purpose of pushing an update.
The very first question people should be asking is if these are organic protests or part of something bigger.
Good summary, thanks!
Not a personal recommendation as I haven't used it, but you might find quantopian.com fun if you've got any python.
Here's what the chart would look like if the data analyst wasn't trying so hard to push their political agenda:

https://i.imgur.com/nlALPzj.gif
His problem were with the extensions vim made to vi and which ones were enabled by default with the packages he used. He never mentioned startup time.
I love this, its like Kiva but for third world healthcare procedures, just fantastic.

They need to make browsing for potential patients easier. After 22 pages of "View more patients" my browser starts to bog down.

A search would be good. As well as a map to select a country to view those in need.

IMO.

But really great startup!
I can't speak for others, but I do almost all of my text-editing via SSH on remote servers so I basically ignore all GUI options. Also I like to be able to load-up a familiar dev environment on any server that I SSH into, so I don't like a ton of customization.
I agree wholeheartedly.

One thing that bugs me is how limited my choices are. I believe that over-regulation drives that. Getting an x-ray for my dog is much, much cheaper than me getting one, which is just one example of an unregulated market (relatively, obviously there are licensing & safety standards)

Seems that this would be a shot. If it doesn't work, lets try something different. I'm not wedded to any solution, but I think we probably agree that healthcare is mostly broken in the US (and was even before Obamacare).

Final note - I don't distinguish between healthcare & insurance for sake of simplicity in this post.
Healthcare definitely seems like the land of process inefficiency, even in developed countries like here in Canada, so there's plenty of opportunity for major improvement. There's still plenty of paperwork done on... paper, information that constantly has to be repeated when you go from one provider to another, and plenty of mistakes made.

Some time ago Ontario spent a massive amount of money on computerizing healthcare and it yielded nothing. I figure all the regulations, privacy issues, and overall complexity of the system makes it a tough Goliath to handle. And whatever happened to Google Health?

I feel that the solution has to come from the grassroots: get a bunch of health care providers to sync up for certain simple services, and go from there. Keep adding features little by little, keep expanding the number of participants. Do it using published and open source APIs and software. Don't try to be everything to everyone. Break a few rules, ignore some complicated standards if it can help get you there quicker. Hmmm, maybe for the latter to be possible it makes sense to start in less sue-happy countries.
Give me examples. And I think I will be able to explain to you why I prefer emacs/vim over those. It's not like I didn't try them, it's that I haven't found anything better than vim/emacs!
Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions [pdf]
Beaker browser, built atop DAT
Apple Watch has its best quarter and takes ~80% of smartwatch revenue
Manufacturing -> programming (particularly superficial web programming as taught at a bootcamp) seems like an awfully impractical leap for those people currently affected by this labour transition.

Manufacturing -> augmented materials handling, robot/machine maintenance, manufacturing configuration & system setup, fulfillment & distribution, etc. all make great use of existing skillsets & environmental familiarity in new and growing areas.

If freecodecamp/general assembly/app academy/flatiron school/... were serious about serving the market of aging factory jobs, they'd diversify their training options into those areas (a category overweight in opportunistic "private education" which _sorely_ needs disruption.) There's even a massive amount of government grants available to fund this training ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Adjustment_Assistance ) and unions are eager to include it of companies as a requirement for major RIFFs (which lets companies write it off for departing workers).
Obama promised a new era of US government transparency and Wikileaks delivered it
Seems like a smart move for them, and a win for customers across the board.
Pornhub Traffic During Super Bowl 51
You keep lying about claims that were never made. Perhaps you should learn to read or think critically?
Only partially. Often at the time of consumption cost isn't something one can use to make decisions. But for those other times, sure it would help.

Speaking of lack of info about pricing you might find this interesting: https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/06/health-insurance-high-de...
Right, they get older, poorer (since our retirement plans are terrible) and in need of the socialist measures which our left party promises.
It's good to be rich. Donate to a whole bunch of Senators, win a job despite having no qualifications for that role.
Does this give an accurate calorie count just by visually scanning food
That specific point was in reply to the GP's statement that "competent teams" weren't using it in production.
Please note “A Thought for Today”
> patients, payers, physicians, pharma, facilities and insurers but competing interests

I think this is made harder to see by a certain stripe of market fundamentalism that almost blends into the background for many people at this point. At this level of analysis, it's assumed that every transaction is cooperative in nature and competing interests are correctly balanced if not aligned by the time a transaction takes place. Since that's the general assumption, of course it's the specific assumption that the market will do the right thing (regulated or unregulated -- the regulations are just clothing on the incentives).

I'm talking about the general level of lay discourse that defends the recent history (and even the ACA status quo), of course. Scholarship and policy research recognizes the problem.
> widely dispersed

I assumed it was obvious I was referring to quantity of guns in a society rather how far apart these guns were actually placed.
Customers at those sort of price points are often more trouble than they are worth.
Blinking leds is one thing, hiding encryption store is another.

Remember a story of GCHQ going over Guardians Macbook with a dremel and destroying every single chip capale of storing bits?
Does the pop up prevent you from reading the article? I had no problem with mobile Safari.

If there's a discussion you'd like to have regarding pop ups, please post something more substantive than POPUP.

You comment a lot on pop ups and paywalls. The HN position on paywalls is well-documented.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

If you think a post is inappropriate for HN, flag it and move on.
For vim, at least, those plugins are often highly incompatible with high-intermediate to expert usage; lacking everyday features. Interestingly enough, the only vim plugin I've ever felt comfortable with is evil-mode, which just goes to show that emacs truly is the best ide, even if it comes with a shockingly bad editor.
Why not rename Vec to Buf everywhere with a Vec = Buf type alias for backwards compatibility?
To follow up -- I understand why, for business purposes, you may have your own theories about how fast something is depreciating.

I was responding to the parent's implication that you can somehow, at a whim decide, "oh, that thing I just bought is worthless so I can deduct 100% of its cost immediately and report lower taxable profits". No, the tax laws stipulate in which cases you can do that, and you generally don't have discretion, except perhaps by taking on some other downside.
This, times 1,000 !!

Imagine you go in for an oil change. You ask how much it costs, and find out it's $20. Great. You get the oil change. One month later you get a bill for "environmental disposal" for $35. The next month you get another bill for "Safety specialist" for $15.

This is how healthcare works in the US. If retail worked like this, we'd be in a worldwide depression in about 6 months. Lunacy.
The weekend crew is too busy catching up on printing cover sheets and faxing the TPS reports.
It was bound to happen eventually. It's not exactly a secret that Amazon is trying to create their own shipping services.

One thing I'm confused about... I can't tell from the article - 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?
I am buffled by the relatively low prices. Much, much lower than DigitalOcean. Is this service stable? How can I be sure that they won't go out of business in a few months...?
I think the article mixes up two things, namely the hash function business and uninformative priors.

Hash functions. In case of a good hash function the information about the actual distribution of the inputs is erased. That the hashes are uniformly distributed does not imply that the inputs are uniformly distributed which in turn renders any conclusion about the distribution of the inputs after applying a transformation invalid.

Uninformative priors. This seems to be more of a philosophical problem I don't really know much about. But as far as I can tell if one tries to quantify a lack of information in a naive way using probability distributions, then one gains information, for example that the value is uniformly distributed over some range, and this information has consequences like specific distributions of derived values.

So the attempt to quantify a lack of information turns into a self-defeating endeavor, not necessarily because of any inherent information but because of the information injected during the modeling process.
I just realized that my last two posts are poo-pooing Silicon Valley's recent unwillingness to stay in its lane. I'm not trying to be negative here, it's just... man, it's a big old world and software isn't eating everything.

I like a nice website as much as anybody. I think YC has done real well with their websites. If they wanna move fast and break things, I'm gonna wish them godspeed. I still think they're crazy, but that's the point, right?
Why not rename String to StrBuf everywhere with a String = StrBuf type alias for backwards compatibility, if this would clarify new users' understanding of String/str?
What if you merely listed the fees next to the payment types? Surely, that doesn't count as disparaging.

Also, many vendors add a surcharge for Amex/Diners use. Wouldn't it be legitimate to do the same with PayPal?
It's also possible that the friends saw this ad first, thus planting the idea in the first place.
Teamsters will join Seattle in fight to unionize drivers
Here is a summary of the TensorFlow Fold paper.
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/01/deep-learning-with-...
I thought as much myself but shortly after finishing it I went looking through interviews and there was one from Neal Stephenson where he explicitly stated that he had no intention of doing a sequel when he was writing it, hence my initial statement. Due to the minimal information we have on the last few chapters it seemed like it was created intentionally but the author said otherwise.
Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat–And Casinos Have No Fix
To me, the initial architectural decisions are reflected in the tools today: just as the initial architectural decisions of the Pantheon versus the Pyramid of Cheops are reflected in the way each building is actually used by people today.

For example the Pantheon's architectural design more readily facilitates shelter from inclement weather. While the Pyramid of Cheops could be modified to do so, it seems to me that adding a portico or walk-in interior space is both non-trivial and at odds with the existing architecture.
How and why to stick up for your digital civil rights
As one of the firsts protestants, I can tell you that is an organic one. Everyone is sharing the same scope: fight against corruption in RO.
Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers
There's another way to do that: require client certificates. The MITM proxy cannot present the client certificate to the server, since it doesn't have the corresponding private key.

Unfortunately, the user interface for client certificates is a complete pain, so they are rarely used. But they're the only true way for a server to make sure it's talking directly to a client, in the same way server certificates can allow a client to make sure it's talking directly to a server.
Why not go even further and make the right axis go up to 100,000? Then you wouldn't really even be able to see any decline at all!

</sarcasm>

But seriously, no, the chart doesn't have to go down to $0 in order to be useful. All you're doing is compressing the data. The original chart makes it very obvious that the manufacturing employment has gone significantly lower than it was back in 1947. Your new chart obscures that, makes it so if I just glance at it, I might come away with the impression that it's close to where it was in 1947, when in fact it's something like 20% lower.

That said, I wouldn't complain if you simply wanted to extend the chart a little downwards, maybe down to $8k or $9k, rather than dropping it to $0.
I do understand that, however it seems unlikely at the moment that they will choose that option.
Based on a technique developed in India and now the IP is owned by a not for profit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm...
I think the docs have a lot to gain. If you take a look at https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/reify as an example, it's pretty much impossible to figure out what the heck reify does by reading that page.

That's not universally the case, but definitely a frustration. The examples are frequently the only way I can begin to figure out the usage of something at all (and they're typically the simplest-case example). I love examples in general, but it still speaks to the difficulty of parsing through some of those function documentations.
Baptism, wine and bread (aka communion), etc -- these are not religiously necessary rituals in Christianity, not in the way they are to Catholicism (which I think can be considered a completely different religion). And they don't compare to rituals of other religions which are necessary for salvation/enlightenment/whatever.

Going back to what edblarney said above, "Jesus had two commands; love God and love one another". Christianity, in its purest form, is unique in that it gives salvation away completely free. We are not required to do anything, only to believe that we require forgiveness and to have faith that God will give it freely. The act of Jesus' sacrifice being a demonstration that in fact God has already forgiven every one of us, and that all we need do is recognize it. If you believe that, you will, naturally want to live your life according to some notion of christian ethics, but striving to do "good" in whatever way you like is in no way a requirement for salvation.

All the rituals -- baptism, spiritual giftings, recognition of the sabbath, circumcision -- there are a ton of them -- are trappings of religious authoritarianism if they are incorporated as requirements for salvation. I know lots of churches and denomination do this (or come perilously close), and it is quite unbiblical.
I apologize, I should have said funding mechanisms{[1]. Policy is heavily influenced at the federal level.

[1]https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/edlite-chart....
> In the united states we can't successfully implement negotiation on drug prices for MediCare. They literally can't negotiate with their suppliers. By law.

On the flip side, Medicare sets reimbursement rates for services essentially by fiat[0], which can be below the marginal costs of providing service. Most providers cannot legally refuse to treat Medicare patients, so they are forced to accept the rates that Medicare sets (they have no ability to properly negotiate). Medicaid is a whole different system, but in this aspect, it also works the same way.

This turns into a system in which privately insured patients subsidize Medicare patients through their premiums[1] (separately from their tax money, which also goes towards Medicare)[2]. Medicare has no incentive to change this, because it allows them to increase their (effective) operating budget without requiring Congressional approval.

The reason Medicare drug price negotiation was blocked is that people (both pharmaceutical companies and policymakers) were afraid that it would turn out just like Medicare's "negotiated" rates for inpatient and outpatient services.

[0] And private insurers are legally prohibited from reimbursing less than Medicare does

[1] And uninsured patients receive the same (inflated) bills that private insurers receive. (Whether or not they actually pay their bills is a separate matter).

[2] If you've ever wondered why the sticker prices for inpatient services seem so high, this is the underlying reason. Privately insured patients and uninsured patients aren't just paying for their own care (and for the care of others in the same risk pool). They also have to cover the amount of money that providers lose on Medicare and Medicaid patients.
Do you find the temptation of the plugins to strong to resist? Plain vim doesn't seem much more bloated than in the past.

How is kakoune in practice? I've been eyeing it as well but was waiting for it to mature a bit.
A first look at WebAssembly performance
Scaleway is owned and operated by Online.net[0], part of Iliad[1].

It's probably a safe assumption that DigitalOcean is in more danger of "going out of business in a few months" than Scaleway is.

0. https://online.net
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad_SA
I'm assuming you mean nanoseconds?
not about pron, its about control and making sure everyone breaks some kind of law and can be broken/coerced
Great question, if I were to tackle it, I would take it like this:

1. Parse, to non-developers, was a wild success - not a failure. An $85M exit ( https://angel.co/parse ) on a $7M investment, that is a 10X+ return in 3 years. This doesn't seem to be talked about much, especially compared to the darling Firebase.

It represents exactly what an affluent ecosystem would want: A business savvy and technically proficient team that can be sold off to the highest bidder that investors vet. However, it is a "shut down" in the eyes of developers because the tool was overlooked.

2. Sandstorm is so advanced that it isn't quite understood yet, partly because nobody has invented the catchy phrase for it (even if they did, the timing is still too early). While most first-world users now have multiple devices, they only use 1 at a time, and they don't see these two problems: (A) They don't know their devices should sync more than what Apple tells them they should (B) They don't know that their devices, which they own physically, should be their private servers for all their services.

That is why I think Sandstorm shouldn't give up, because with the addition of 5B+ new people coming online, I don't care how scalable Google/Amazon/Apple/Microsoft are, things are going to be a lot more powerful/reliable/customer-satisfaction if people own and run their own services (fully automated by things like sandstorm). This isn't just a privacy/ownership thing, it is a customer expectation "thing" - using a service is like using a public bathroom, but owning that service is like using your apartment's bathroom. It doesn't matter how gross/nice any 1 experience is, ultimately the consistency of expectation wins out.

So yes, there is something systematic to VC-backed startups (like Parse, they're ultimately a hiring/resume gig - or randomly big industry creators, like Dropbox, Uber/Lyft, AirBnB), and there is something systematic to Open Source and developers (we often value different things). Developer Tools aren't particularly unique, other than the fact that they are either industry causing/creating architectures, or unfortunately on the tail end of a dying architecture. They are black and white in their success, high risk, with no middle ground - and since risks often fail, and humans are loss averse, the failures often seem to outweigh or overwhelm the successes. The important thing to remember though is that the winners cause and create prosperity for entirely new industries/sectors, for people and companies around the world, and for generations to come.
Romania's protests explained in 5 minutes
>I'd recommend coding the tests instead of using the IDE, much less frustrating.

The advantage of visual/screenshot-driven automation tools like Screenster.io or Kantu.io is twofold:

1. It allows non-developers to join the testing team and create automated web tests.

2. Even if you are a developer by training, tools like NW.js or PhantomJS still have a significant learning curve. I argue that developer time is typically better spend on the product than on coding complex test cases.
Not all passions can be monetized enough to live on, though.

For example, I may be passionate about making music, but I'm not passionate about living on a musician's income. I'm not passionate about managing a social media presence and constantly touring around the country in a van. I need some amount of comfort and stability in order to be happy.

So I work as a programmer and make music for myself in my spare time, while being able to have a family, take vacations, and save for a house and eventually retirement. You can think that's sad if you want, I don't care.
Thanks for this! That original chart was disappointingly misleading.