skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there's definitely some things to consider here. Despite all the plusses of universal health care which others have already gone into - many people in Canada go to the US to get tests done faster because they can just pay for them, sometimes you're stuck waiting months.

The US is also pretty much the world capital for a number of drug development and medical research areas simply because it's much more profitable to do there - taking away that profitability may have a negative impact on Healthcare advancement - not just in the US but world wide.

Some kind of balance needs to be reached here. I thought Obamacare went a lot in the right direction, but it seems that's a big mess of its own.
That sucks. I wonder if someone crossed them.

If they can just hold out until March 15...

(ducks)
Dwarf fortress has a UI that is on par with learning regex. If you can master dwarf fortresses interface, then you can learn linux, regex, sed and awk.

That having been said, the game is amazing, and has a valuable lesson involved: "loosing is fun".
x,←y simply appends y to x; x,←y,nl just appens y to x, then adds a newline. '' is just a string containing C code. I think you're making this more complicated than it is.
Not just "might", but is. It is a standard case of the discrete uniform distribution.
Yes! Completely agreed. The fact that it's a negative sum game is really hard to explain to people who've had some moderate success trading (and there are plenty of those anecdotal examples out there).

But that's a great point that any kind of active trading strategy needs to be compared against the right index. I think this holds true for pension/sovereign funds which invest in multiple hedge funds as well - comparing to the overall market performance may be less relevant than comparing to sector-weighted market performance, for example.
WTF is wrong with that site. I enabled the scripts so that I could use the filters, waited while it refreshed several times, and it just covers the screen with a pop up that just re-opens when you close it. That was one of the worst I've visited.

It's probably because of the ad blockers but still a site should be a little functional without all the scripts and ads.
I meant that Matthew and Luke were independently written by separate authors at different times--potentially including information from earlier source material--not the results of various edits of the sources over time.

Also most scholars believe that they were all written during the first century, so the claim that there were "edits over the centuries" that I was initially refuting is incorrect.
It's effectively a reversible vasectomy, side effects have been proven to be minimal for decades.
His scripts were not broken, his LSB headers were, which would be obvious to anyone considering they're script comments which no tool had ever executed, which means they're 15 years of bitrot, I've seen examples in documentation bitrot in under 6 months.

The "garbage in" part is entirely systemd's fault, it was their decision to make the system's boot process rely unconditionally on LSB dependencies which were all but guaranteed to be broken.
By default, the JVM will use all the memory you give it. Have you tried simply setting a small maximum heap size? You can use VisualVM to visualize the heap and GC. Deep monitoring is one of the JVM's greatest strengths.
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My understanding is that this markup will trigger Google to add the page to their own cache and present a link to the page in their cache in the search results. (The search result pointing to "google.com/amp/...", the page showing the infamous header, etc.)

I don't see how you can use that to get other caches (or even just the original AMP page) into Google's search results.

(Sorry if I'm mistaken though)

> The cache acts as a CDN to improve page speeds, but isn't a requirement for indexing.

How, as a site author, would you control that?

Is there a way to use AMP but explicitly opt-out of caches? I'm not aware of one. (Short of deliberately violating the AMP spec, but then you can't really say you're using AMP anymore)
Sorry, by "finite" I also mean non-zero. You can't have a uniform distribution on a measure zero set.
Still fighting for the open internet: net neutrality in 2017
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sorry to be dense, could you be explicit about why you call them the "weekend meteorologist". (I read the article and their about page - http://news4sanantonio.com/station/contact and Googled for "weekend meteorologist" in case it's some idiom - apparently it's a normal job title? http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Weekend_Meteorologis... - anyway I'm more confused than before I Googled that phrase. Why are you calling them that, or what's the joke I missed?)
Either those are malicious, in which case you lost the game and cannot defend against that because they have the security high ground, or they legitimately act on the user's behalf.

The "quietly" adjective suggests they are malicious. Which means they should be reported to AV vendors (including microsoft) instead of being used as a boogeyman when arguing against user freedoms.
I always wonder if the subversive elements that make it through aren't "missed" necessarily by a censor. I like to think that it's an act of subversion, a protest-by-omission, by some of the few people of conscience deep in the belly of the beast.
> I really wish Congressmen didn't have federal healthcare, and they had to use the same insurance us plebeians use.

They do; through 2014, like other federal employees (and most employees of large businesses) they had a choice of the private plans contracted by their employer. Since 2015, they've been limited to ACA exchange plans.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/health-care-for-members-of-...
There's a huge difference in terms of input protection, actually. Fusing and a bunch of other protection circuits are the first line of protection... most cheap meters will have a glass fuse and little else (some not even that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glzLlPO6CjY), while a better meter will have MOVs, PTCs and many more lines of defense. Nicer meters (especially those rated for working on really high voltages that can cause a literal explosion) will have metal blast shielding around the inputs. There's also isolation- on cheap meters it's pretty common to see poorly laid out circuit boards that have input traces too close together. High voltages will arc right across and boom.

The nice meter I have would probably blow a fuse if you connected it to the wall on the current setting, but it's a fast fuse so the rest of the meter would be fine. The fuses in really crappy meters are often quite slow though, so they will blow and cut the circuit but not before the meter gets fried.

There are different levels of "crappy" though. A lot of the cheap meters you can get nowadays are safe enough to jam in the wall, I'm not saying "oh you've gotta spend $1000 on a multimeter or you're gonna die." But if you're gonna probe high voltage you'd better get something nice. I have a $5 meter that claims it'd be good at 1000 V, but that is obviously a lie and would be suicide.
Ok, you have 'baptism' as one ritual in 500 pages, which by the way, is originally a Jewish thing anyhow.

Now that's exactly what I am calling 'cherry picking'.

As (barely) a Protestant - I don't see any of those other things as 'rituals' of any relevance.

If you throw in 'wine and bread' - you have two. Wow. Two whole rituals.

I'd argue that it's you that are 'seeing what you want to see'.

Nobody would deny that many elements of Jesus story are borrowed for other narratives.

Just as nobody would imply that the New Testament is 'just an amalgamation of a bunch of other stuff'.

Ironically, both examples you gave: 'Baptism' and 'Wine and Bread' - are not based on some 'borrowed ideas' - they are effectively original in their own context.
Patching security flaws only works against adversaries who are out of the loop on zero-day vulnerabilities. Script kiddies, not organized crime or intelligence agencies.
True! I don't often think about it but growing up in a very rural area a car has meant freedom to go anywhere. Everyone I know with an electric car loves them!
> HFT or perhaps more accurately, Electronic Trading

Electronic trading as opposed to what?
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Agreed. I played a little DF, but I just didn't have the motivation to deal with the learning curve. Rimworld on the other hand at least makes a respectable effort to be approachable, even if it can rapidly spiral out of control.
"And not to put too fine of a point on it, but replacing a trader making $1,000,000 a year because he has a direct PnL with a 1/3 of an engineer making 1/2 of that, because the algo has the Pnl not the trader, is a big win for the bonus pool available to management:)"

Even better if you can outsource that engineer to India after a while :-)
You know my main point was, that it doesn't matter at all for me to go to usa to work there only because the figures are 'higher'.

You counter argued nearly every point but not about my 30 days holiday every year and the overhours. Why?
IMHO, the interface of dwarf fortress enhances the medieval fantasy experience. Each little detail has to be managed in it's own arcane way. It's the UI equivalent of the vice chancellor explaining to a cooper that buckets and barrels should be stored in separate locations. The cooper would of course go on a long tirade about how his father, and his father's father stored things this way, and that worked flawlessly for them.

Perhaps i just let my imagination run a little wild while i wait for those little 'g' s to come and try to kill my guys.

The UI is terrible. The UI is part of the charm. You get the experience Tarn wants, not the experience you want. Art is not required to be accessible. (it often is, and that's often good) but some experiences can't be handed to you in a gift wrapped package. There is no royal road.
Given the importance of Systemd, its better to follow idealistic principles. Pragmatism in central components leads to technical debt that is hard to remove because it would break all the lazy components that took the "pragmatic" (lazy) route.

On the one hand, we talk about bad software, too many bugs, bad architecture, messy init scripts. On the other hand, we are too lazy to follow idealistic principles that improve overall software quality.
>nothing matters but the content of my posts

But the permanence of those posts can bite you in the ass. Over time your post history will grow and if it's accessible to others (and they care enough to dig through it) they can potentially use what you said 6 months, a year, ten years ago against you. If you happen to let slip your real identity, all of that history is now linked to the "real life you" and if you said anything under the false expectation of anonymity you're screwed.

This is one of the reasons I don't think I could ever go into politics. A savvy opponent would only need to do a few google searches, research my online history, find some stupid shit I said when I was 17 years old on LiveJournal or whatever, and there goes my campaign.
You can get a good feel for how ridiculously complex the simulation of Dwarf Fortress is just by reading the bugs: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=9195

Cats were walking through spilled beer, licking it off their fur (as cats do), and dying of alcohol poisoning.
> ...we’re fast approaching the point where if someone were to offer me a day job, I’d have to take it. And that would be unfortunate for the long term; the infrastructure work I’m doing and expect to do in the future is tremendously important. Somebody’s going to need to design and field NTPv5 to fully cover the IPv6 transition, and it looks increasingly like that somebody needs to be me.

Eric, get a job. And let some air out of that ego.
I'm super skeptical of these type of automated trading outfits. There's no edge in them. All you've done is take a shoddy system done by hand into code. At the end of the day, they still crap out when the market conditions it was designed for shifts or naive view of the markets as something as a math formula.

Exceptions are HFT, arbitrages where you don't need to speculate and take the corresponding risks.
You might be interested in a project I started recently that's a port of the Ring stack to Node.js https://github.com/macchiato-framework/macchiato-core

My team is moving in the opposite direction with some of our services. We currently run everything on the JVM with Clojure, but now we're experimenting running some services using Node.js due to its lower footprint.
beware, just signed up for a 2€ server, but the only option how you can do backups is to shutdown the server, do a snapshot and turn it back on again. That doesn't seem very sophisticated. Could be, that you can just mount an extra volume and use rsync, not sure.
Wonder why the smaller plans don't have the Xeon D as well. The single thread performance of those Atoms suck so much that it's not worth using it for any web app.
What's wrong with systemd taking that position exactly?

They are gathering "dependencies" from script comments which have never been executed in any other system.

Equivalent to:

//#include "myfile.h"
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Good? I have gripes about systemd, but this is not one of them. Indeed, cleaning up the multi-decade Gordian knot of distro-specific crappy Sysvinit scripts was the entire point, as they made clear right from the beginning. If systemd compromised a little on that in the early years, that was probably just to get a foot in the door.

> These dependencies are predictably wrong in any number of cases, because they've never been really used before.

Then fix them. Isn't that considered good software engineering in all other contexts? At least where I work, you're not allowed to merge until all the unit tests are green, and if someone writes a new unit test that reveals your component was broken all along, you fix it.

The comparison to security is not valid at all. I was on the side of pragmatism and the letter-writers, and against the Guardian and the purists, on the recent WhatsApp fracas, which you'd think would pit me against systemd here, but the analogy is flawed. We have to be pragmatic about security because it involves the choices of uninformed and uninterested users, and we have to maximize their security given that they frequently make bad choices and we have little hope of making that better. systemd is exposing problems that were created by developers and can be fixed by developers.
There is a reason someone might say "What is your opinion on Scott Adams?" instead of "What is your facts about Scott Adams?" (hint: opinion != facts)

The notion of censorship exists because it happens. Facebook admitted doing it. But I suppose this is another fact you will confuse with an opinion.

And I truly apologize if my "[citation needed]" offended your delicate sensibilities. I thought I was dealing with an adult but your emotional outbursts and insistence that opinions are facts prove you still have a ways to go. A long ways. Good luck!
Ask HN: Is UX screen recording useful?
Looking at options for user testing, and looking at recording solutions. Do you find them helpful? Any particular ones?
Yeah but there is a counterargument: We don't need more young people because the bip (Gross domestic product) per person is increasing as well. Lets see what will happen :)
I'm living in Kyiv right now and it this seems like the most reasoned response in this chain. Expats tend to have an overly optimistic view of Ukraine because they don't have to deal with the day to day bullshit native Ukrainians endure because of eastern violence, corruption and needless bureaucracy, but Ukrainians I've met also tend to see the US (and I would assume the "West" in general) as overly idealized because of Western media and misleadingly opportunistic headlines.
click on his profile in the twitter link
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Similar story, in Chicago near a few Amazon warehouses. The stuff I get is pretty evenly split between UPS, USPS & Amazon Logistics. I don't think I've ever had a FedEx prime delivery that I can remember.
One thing to keep in mind though is that Rockford, IL is equidistant from Madison & Chicago and a UPS Air hub.
Thanks, I fixed it
Interestingly enough, as a non American poster I find it amusing with the US posters having predominantly this type of selfish response.

Every time healthcare is discussed on reddit, slashdot, etc, most of the people commenting on us healthcare debate it in the form of : "not with my hard earned money, you lazy commies, why don't you start working".

What's interesting is that it isn't their fault.

From the outside, the system looks a bit rigged against the common person, and the dog eat dog mentality is propagandized heavily.

I sometimes wish that our fellow Americans experience better, see that it actually works, and engage more against the corrupt system that milks them, instead of the rest of the fellow human beings.

What amazes me though, is that HN seems a decent place today for a discussion like this one.
Weekend meteorologist reporting the news about a cloud provider. Seemed amusing to me. However, I won't pretend I have a particularly good sense of humor.
Appreciate your response, a better tactic would have been more effective. Thank you.
I first partook of vi on an Irix box under the tutelage of a crusty graybeard. There are some things I do appreciate about vim in contrast.

* Syntax highlighting

* Unicode

* Visual selection

* Multiple buffers

If I have a task for an editor that doesn't do those things and runs really fast, I usually reach for sed.
Instead of doing one thing well it does a bunch of things poorly.

If you need a message bus use a dedicated one. Like RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc..

If you need to handle event flows use Spring Integration, or Storm, or some other pipes and filters tool.

If you need actors (which you probably don't) use an actor framework like Akka.

If you want everything to be async use async libraries and futures. Vertx's callback style makes code basically unreadable. It's jdbc library is low level and super ugly so that it can be async style. But it's not actually async so you lose a lot and gain nothing by using it.

It's libraries for dealing with HTTP/Rest stuff are also ugly and low level.

Overall it's DI/IoC unfriendly. I am not convinced the creators even know what DI is.

It considers polyglot a blessing instead of a curse.

It was created to be a better Nodejs on the JVM. Which it no doubt is. But that is a low bar.
I gave up on DF, and get my crazy colony simulator needs met by Rimworld now....but I did get addicted to LCS for awhile, which is another horrible interface attached to a gem of a game, made by the DF devs.
Yeah it is.

Why the heck do i have to read such stupid comment @hn? Do you really mean this or did you just use it as a troll counter argument?
As someone who has played far too much Stone Soup (going back to when it was called Linley's Dungeon Crawl), and bounced, hard, off of Dwarf Fortress a number of times, I think that you're understating how much simpler, conceptually, Crawl is.

DF is many, many orders of magnitude more complex than Crawl. Many.
> Can you imagine an investment AI that did not have human biases. Here are some my favorite investor biases:

It's actually a trivial problem. Just need to ask a few questions to determine the investor risk profile and goals, then pick the appropriate Vanguard fund.
You may be able to get there with AOT compilation and slimming down the JAR and JRE.
That's the descriptor on his Twitter:

>Weekend Meteorologist/News Reporter for Fox29 and News 4 SA.

https://twitter.com/MikeHernandezTV
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> Thus, even with the Patreon, we’re fast approaching the point where if someone were to offer me a day job, I’d have to take it.

Yes, that's the method that most of us implement in order to acquire money.

> And that would be unfortunate for the long term; the infrastructure work I’m doing and expect to do in the future is tremendously important.

Wow, that comes off as extremely arrogant and egotistical (to me).

> Somebody’s going to need to design and field NTPv5 to fully cover the IPv6 transition, and it looks increasingly like that somebody needs to be me.

Are we taking a vote on this?

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Let me be blunt: get a fucking job.

To anyone who might be considering a donation in order to support NTP, allow me to recommend directing your donation at the NTP Foundation [0] instead.

[0]: http://www.networktimefoundation.org/
Anything based on Om.next is inspired by graphql, not based on it.
ahem: http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999121000105NWLF
Doubtful given it's built with C# which is pretty directly ported from the Java implementation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118986

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/491376/why-doesnt-net-c-o...
In the past I would have agreed strongly, but I have to say that in the last few weeks I've been diving back into Clojure, and the docs at clojure.org are much better than they once were. I like the structure of the "reference" sections, each of which dives into a single concept (e.g., multimethods). I agree, however, that the Getting Started guide is still very thin, and I dislike that the Clojure community seems to want very badly to make you learn emacs before you learn Clojure.
The emotion API is quite accurate and easy to interact with, but painfully slow.
> You probably don't consider baptism a ritual

Baptism is a ritual, but the only baptism in the Bible (that I can recall) is pre-Christian. It has a relation to the Christian ritual, but is not a Christian ritual.

> or the allegory of Yom Kippur a ritual.

Not a Christian ritual.

> Or drinking wine and eating bread.

The Last Supper may be the closest thing to a Christian ritual in the Bible, since that account is he really held to be the establishment of a key Christian ritual (though not generally as an instance of the ritual this established.)
PWC projects the world's largest economies in 2030
It's more than that. PayPal now requires that "you agree to treat PayPal’s payment mark at least at par with other payment methods offered".

That means the seller's PayPal button and logo must be at least as prominent as any other payment method offered.

For me (a reluctant PayPal user at best), that's asking too much.
Try out Factorio! I bet most of the HN audience would love that game. Great factory simulation, moddable in Lua, replays, super friendly and transparent indie team behind it.

Warning: Do not purchase Factorio if you have other plans.
Not just NIH; the condescension and strawmanning are well demonstrated as well. But yes, a wonderful example of the project's attitudes.
Ah, early 2000s and the table level lock during inserts but lightning fast reads. Postgres was still a fledgling back then.
Ask HN: A web app to help you maintain and share book notes?
I've been maintaining textual notes of the various books that I have read for future reference for quite some time now in notepad. I'm pretty sure some of you maintain such notes too which you could then refer to later on.
That got me thinking about the scope of a web application that would allow users to maintain, share and rate other user's book notes. This product won't be similar to Goodreads in the sense that users won't be sharing and rating reviews of their favorite books, but rather the notes that they maintain for them.
What do you guys think about such a product? Is this something people would want to use, or are traditional methods of maintaining book notes more convenient than using an actual product for the same?