skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There is no single US healthcare system that someone can experience first-hand. "

Sure there is. There aren't that many private insurance companies in the US and they all work similarly.

"I take you haven't experienced the system as someone, say, making less than $25k/yr, in every single state, at various times of year (say 2 months before your deductible rolls over) with various kinds of conditions (acute, chronic, extremely rare, etc?), at various points in their careers (if they can even claim to use that word)? And you've experienced this in a range of personal contexts?"

I feel like this is the 'no true scotsman' logical fallacy creeping into the conversation. You could say the same thing about every single healthcare system (or any large system) in the world: it's not the same for everyone.

..and by the way, my wife's sister makes $35K/year. Money has little to do with it.

"There are millions of Americans who can't afford $250/mo on top of food, rent, and transportation costs, working more than full-time hours spread across several jobs, all of which pay minimum wage in poor conditions that are bad for their bodies and with unpredictable scheduling."

You say that, but many people I know won't pay for healthcare, but pay more in booze, weed, and expensive electronics and services.

When I was single, I got bare-bones care for $75/month. This is as cheap as a cellphone plan. My premiums were high, but I wouldn't go bankrupt if I had major surgery. Many people can easily afford healthcare in this country. They choose to spend their money elsewhere.

I've traveled the world and the US has the richest poor people I've ever seen. Try living on less than $2/day with starving children.

Hospitals can't refuse anyone by law. We also have lots of systems, paid for by the taxpayers, to help people on low incomes get the care they need.

"In light of the reality of many, many people's experiences in the healthcare system that are contrary to your own, which are NOT hard to find, your comments comes across quite poorly."

Your comments come off as rather naive. No system is perfect and I can point to many instances of people getting terrible care in every other healthcare system as well.

You want to paint a hyperbolic picture that the US healthcare system will make you go bankrupt and you need to be rich to get care.

My point is that this just isn't true. It needs work, but it's not nearly as bad as you make it out to be.
I suggest reading Letters from a Stoic.

> "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

$130k is big money by the standards of many people in the United States...
Ask HN: Seeking relaxing, cheap vacation spots for personal coding
Sometimes I'd like to just get away and code for fun. Any tips for finding a spot w/ decent Internet, low expenses, and minimal distractions?

I'm based in San Francisco, CA, but am open to traveling anywhere.
My impression is that the Go team had two targets, both based on languages in common use at Google: C++ programmers, and programmers using languages like Python who wanted more type safety but didn't want to use a language with a massive ecosystem.
What 'real subscription journalism' big-name newspapers that don't do advertising can you name? I am honestly struggling to think of any.
Musk is a 'paid agitator' for environmentally responsible consumption, for the benefits of interplanetary civilization. For, generally, Silicon Valley's ethos of progress. It does not discredit him. Readers here know that intellectual & ideological workers labor as much as any farm or factory hand. To pay them does not impugn their sincerity (nor would their volunteerism imply idealism). Open source software may be malicious, closed source software commendable.

Musk is a thoughtful capitalist: the above notion has occurred to him. He speaks cynically. Though a paid agitator for shareholder value, I had thought him until now sincere. Disappointing!
That's definitely not the case in computer science and electrical engineering at least. LaTeX definitely isn't great, but I don't see a viable alternative.
It's sort of sad and wonderful that the best we can do is an iPad when it comes to secure computing. It's awesome that something you can buy most anywhere for < $500 USD is pretty secure. It's also sad that it's the best we can do, and there is only 1 manufacturer of such a device. We desperately need better privacy and security, both from a legal and a technical point of view.
I honestly miss LaTeX a lot, especially the quality of documents I could create with it (when I was in academia). Hopefully I'll get a chance to do a white paper later this year and bust out the skills.

But I am totally willing to accept my role as an outlier... I even wrote a small TeX package at one point, so I'm aware it's not a "fun" system. :P
Sort of off-topic but something that I've noticed that Facebook does that is really scummy is they make you receive an email notification before you can opt-out of that type. At one point I set my email notification preferences to "Only notifications about your account, security and privacy" but that had the consequence of not getting notifications if someone sent me a message. So I changed it back to all notifications but then I had to get all the different types of emails (recent statuses from your friends, recent photos from your friends, recent videos from your friends, etc.) in order to opt-out of each one individually. On the notification setting page, all I can do is opt back in to receiving the notifications, not opt out of other notifications that I am currently set to receive.

Does anyone know how to selectively turn off the email notifications without first receiving them?
>But you can't separate the facts from the quintessential paid love for Oracle and the paid hatred for Google of Mueller.

Sure, which is why I was asking you for someone arguing this who was more impeccably non-biased. I realize that some opinions in arguments do not deserve being argued for, such as mass genocide, but I don't think this case is as clear cut and it's a little disturbing to me that the internet was so universally aligned with Google and against Oracle on this one. I just like seeing a little diversity of opinion, that's all.

As for what tech Google rips off, I think that's well established. They clearly had no intention of paying for a license in this case, so they wrote the code first and decided they'd deal with the consequences later. They did this when they copied the iPhone interface for Android too, and they also did it when they created Gmail Inbox which again is substantially similar to Mailbox. It's just sort of their MO.

Google has done a lot of very inventive stuff but it seems obvious to me that they walk a tight line between creating new things and copying old ones from time to time.
Ill give you concrete advice:
1. you need to be smart

2. Practice interview questions online on career cup, hanker rank, and the like. Also buy cracking the coding interview. Do all the problems.

3. Since you are experienced, you will also have design questions in your interview loop. A list of these is harder to find online.

3.a you can read some articles on highscalability.com

3.b think how you'd design the popular products of today: Facebook messenger, Google search, Apache zookeeper, etc.

4. Get referrals for several top tier companies: Facebook, Google, Amazon. Also apply for companies you don't plan on joining: square, twitter
5. Sequence your interviews so that your first choice is your last interview.

6. Before interviews go on glass door and do all the interview questions for the companies.

7. If all goes right, enjoy your 300k+ job.

This is not theoretical. My friends and I have done this several times now.

As an aside, I don't know why HN always has a houlier-than-thou attitude when these questions are asked. The only reason I work - THE ONLY REASON - is to make money. I don't care about social media, or advertising. If money were no object I'd much rather study CS theory and code for my own enjoyment.
I've had my share of health troubles - and it turns out healthcare is surprisingly good and surprisingly affordable in parts of the world where you wouldn't expect it. I had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Thailand for $250.

In terms of the mysterious future - what's the point in preserving a half-life until the bitter end, an enfeebled and intubated shadow of a living thing?

I know plenty of diligent planners who had their plans shattered by fate - I was one.

If anything, dicing with my own mortality pushed me towards not worrying about a future that may never happen.

If I one day get a serious health nasty, I will likely die. If it's treatable, it's treatable. That will be invariate whether in a hospital in the US, or in a hut in the Andes. I'd rather go out with a nice view.

As a culture we seem to put an inordinate focus on our future selves, while neglecting our current selves. Then we wake up at 60 and realise that ahead of us is only arthritis and gout, and the good years are irrevocably gone.

Talking to octagenerians is an excellent pastime - we young'n's can learn a lot from their experiences and perspective.
Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing
It's easy to hate on big companies for one or 2 publicly criticized decisions, but never know the thousands of non public decisions that made that choice the best one, or the thousands of non public stories of the good stuff they do.

Not to say companies should get of easy, but you can't project a huge multidimensional entity into a single axis of ethical or not.
Charging extra for any payment method while offering other common ones is not a problem at all. You have to consider the trouble that a massive number of merchants have with paypal. The risk of dealing with something odd is financially relevant. The time spent on conflict resolution (between merchant and paypal that is) consumes time, which delays payments and has a cascading effect on other operations. This time costs money, which many add as a fee for people that want to use paypal.

I don't know a single commercial seller that once offered or still offers paypal payments and doesn't have a horror story that resulted in serious financial and operational trouble for them.

PP could introduce this if they had a good image. Right now it's considered by many to be the ... Oracle of payment processing.
I work in scientific instrumentation, on the product development side. I've never seen LaTeX output (unless it's been well concealed) in a report or paper.

What I'm seeing is that the use of typesetting and even its cousin, word processing, are generally going downhill. My employer has largely given up on print advertising. If we write papers, they're for the more commercial oriented journals or trade mags, that don't use TeX for their own typesetting.

More and more, I see stuff that's just written in the e-mail editor, with graphics copy-pasta'd from screen captures, or directly into web based services such as Office 365. Or, PowerPoint (with all of the pitfalls described by Edward Tufte).

Word processing has practically been relegated to documents that nobody reads, such as functional procedures and announcements from HR.

I realize this all sounds kind of cynical, but I hope is taken in good humor. However, the gist is that writing and correspondence are becoming increasingly informal.
> it'd kill their highest end Mac market

But that's the problem - as you say, they don't really have or even want that market anymore. Their real high-end is now the laptops, which were never cloned even when they could be (because it's a humongous can of worms). Nobody in his right mind today would buy a Mac Pro or an iMac for computation, their value proposition in that area is ridiculous - they get bought by hotels, boutiques and architects for their design aesthetic. These people will never buy ugly clones or even know what a hackintosh is. There is nothing left that can be cannibalised by clones.

If Apple "liberalised" their enthusiasts' market, they'd gain huge goodwill, sustain their own ecosystem, make a few quid on licenses (nobody said they have to be cheap), and possibly even get software for free (think OSS drivers for devices they'd otherwise not have the resources to write or support). With all the telemetry they have today, they'd know at a glance things like popular architectures, OS performance on devices they've not tested, etc etc. And of course, the minute they see a market shift they don't like, they could pull it again. They certainly have a bit of cash they can burn on this sort of thing, sitting in those Bermuda accounts.

Maybe they could tie it to their developer accounts. I don't have one at the moment, but if I knew that it could give me an easy way to hackintosh, I'd be over it like white on rice.
It wouldn't be unreasonable for equal treatment to be given if the service you provided was equal. It is not. That's why merchants dissuade its use.
I use it when I need to write some documents (user guides etc...). If the alternative is open office or some other "WYSIWYG" editor I'll take LaTeX any time.

I don't really love it though, I find myself using org-mode more and more for that purpose, then I let emacs generate the latex code for my doc. It's not nearly as flexible but it works well and your source is a lot more readable.

I also use LaTeX for my resume, if you find a good theme they end up looking pretty sharp and professional with little work.
> being super extra friendly to everyone would help.

This is a good idea no matter what your motive. As long as you don't take it to the point of appearing fake, or using your niceness to use or manipulate someone. Be genuine, and be nice.

And I agree about the women comment. Get out there and meet people, ask people out. If things don't go the way you'd like, you can always ask in an honest manner what the issue was, with the intent to use that feedback to improve yourself.
You probably think that making 300k per year will help you find happiness or woman of your dreams, unfortunately this will probably not happen unless you want her to love your money. You think that making 300k suddenly will make you happy? That making 300k = less work? After a while you will come here and write that you need 600k and:

"All I do is get up, go to the work, go to gym, work again and sleep. No wonder that I am lifelong single person and despite being in shape no woman has shown interest in me or agreed to date me."

You see where the problem is ?
TBF, GP was shifting goalposts in turn. Whenever you hear anything like, "Alice did X, but at least she's better than Bob who did unrelated thing Y" you know the goalposts are being moved (at best) or your attention is being misdirected nefariously. It doesn't add anything valuable to the discussion.
Google’s AI Is Greedy as Much as Humans
Huh? "The 9th [circuit]" is a Federal circuit court...
Sure, maybe the point about "PRODUCTION" may not have applied, I was mainly commenting on OPs post about how we've all been in a situation and the steps I take to avoid such situations. I'm curious about your arguments about the remaining 3/4 of the steps I take and how those wouldn't have applied to this situation?
Mine too ;-)
If with the second one you mean the non-ruling party, it actually got more votes in the presidential election than the ruling party.
If I make a menu with the same items that your restaurant offers, it shouldn't be an issue of copyright, even if I preserve the "semantic meaning" of the menu items (copying the recipes, for example.)
You don't get the effects unless the whole system shifts; you can't do it as an opt-in thing. There are schools that offer more spartan accommodations, but as long as the money and incentives are there, there's no reason to stop charging as much as the others.
Except that Oracle has become so successful because they've captured the largest customer(s) of all: the US federal government.
Unauthorized access to Facebook credit card details (limited) of any user
IANAL, but it's not exactly "out-of-contract." The term "payment method" appears 49 times in the User Agreement[1].

Having said that, a quick skim suggests the term is used inconsistently. Sometimes it refers to PayPal as a payment method, other times it refers to the information you enter into PayPal (ie credit card, bank account, etc) as payment methods. This is because PayPal is both a payment method itself and a wrapper service for many payment methods. For example:

Your PayPal balance, if you used your PayPal balance as the payment method or a bank account as the payment method, once the money clears the bank.

So while it is confusing, I don't think you'd get very far with the "PayPal is not a payment method" interpretation.

1: https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/ua/pdf/US/en_US/ua.p...
Maybe you could get some inspiration from http://nodered.org. It's pretty generic despite the IoT mention.
How about this being a union rep from another car company who is afraid for his job?
>> I want to make big bucks 300k or more.

Why? Seriously. Your problems (long hours, no free time, no success with women) are not going to get solved with more money. In fact they might get solved with a salary reduction. Find a job that lets you work fewer hours. You'll have more free time, be able to get out more, and meet some people. More money will not solve your problems. There are many people supporting entire families on less that what you earn and are very happy (i.e. the old cliche, "money doesn't buy happiness").
What I forgot to mention, was that the normal submission time is variable and may be up to weeks. You saw them at their ~fastest originally.
It links to a github...

https://github.com/frandallfarmer/neohabitat-doc/blob/master...

which mentions MongoDB, causing me to discount the project altogether as a pipe dream by people who don't know what they are doing, but will manage to make something simple, then a larger buggy and unstable version. Eventually it will be abandoned. This is the story of most "collaborative" open source projects.
He failed to make half the world use his
company's products, among other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth
my goodness, this is probably not a native English speaker, or perhaps never heard the expression before... why be so harsh?
Yes I have read the article, but I'm still confused as to the who and the how of his $50 million fortune vanishing. Could someone please put the salient details into a single paragraph.
NUMMI – The plant where Teslas are built
I like author Alan Klement's take on this:

Understanding people's problems is hard. Instead, come up with a way to make people better. Everyone wants to be better.
Those are pretty solidly Gnostic themes, if I'm not mistaken?
Yeah, as a user I actually like it. They have so much data that I can refresh and usually find something more interesting than the queue I'm standing in. It doesn't work somewhere like Twitter/Instagram where the order of posts can matter and people post multiple times per day but on Facebook it generally works.
Most other countries probably feel similarly, or they don't have anything like the 5th amendment. In places without something like the 5th amendment, you can choose to lie about your password, do it enough times, the device will reset and erase everything(assuming you set that up). One can not lie about their fingerprints.

Of course in places without something like the 5th, and you lie a few times, your death may find you quite quickly, there is at the very least an option... With a fingerprint, no options. Have a picture of your finger and game over.
Yes. I switched to remote-only in 2006 and never looked back. Like the submitter, I don't live in SV (small-town Canada) and I don't touch front-end work, but I do work for a SV BigCo. So while my salary isn't much more than his, it goes a lot further. I think that's one of the secrets to an effective, if not absolute, high salary.

Also, you get control of your time. Because I have no commute, I can start at say 7 am, take time during the day to work out in my home gym, then finish up around dinner. My evenings are always free.

In summary, Mr. Submitter:

1. Land remote work.

2. Live somewhere cheap.

Now you have more money and more time.

Your woman problem will fix itself when you stop caring. Keep lifting heavy, find humour where you can and buy some decent clothes.
Quantum Circuit Simulator: Quirk (interactive, JavaScript, http://algorithmicassertions.com/2016/05/22/quirk.html) is especially nice for playing with circuits (rather than academic work).

And for one-particle QM, I wrote http://quantumgame.io/, if anyone is interested (some context: http://p.migdal.pl/2016/08/15/quantum-mechanics-for-high-sch...).
I think it depends if you consider the part that was copied to be a standalone work. The fact that Google is able to create a separate implementation based only on the API design documents seems to suggest that it's a separate work that has meaning unto itself.

Would you make the same argument if you copied the entire forward from a novel?
One wonders where they stand now that they've reimplemented the Linux kernel APIs in Windows 10.
> That's definitely not the case in computer science and electrical engineering at least.

Same for astronomy/astrophysics. Most of the publications are typeset in LaTeX.
Just to think that only a decade ago, at the same exact plant in Fremont, California there was a different story about a car company. A story how Toyota's culture was the anti-culture for the toxic GM culture and their unions.

Well worth to listen a couple of minutes to a short history lesson regarding this place https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/...
so that's what I mean, that term-of-art definition is intertwined with dependent variables of the definition of Giffen goods, so it would be no wonder if the ideas get tied together even if the concepts are not facially.

Terms of art annoy me (the legal profession and philosophy are full of them, overloaded (OOP definition) on preexisting words) because IANALinguist but I could play one on TV without rehearsing, so my point is, if you want to have a narrow morphology for a word, don't recycle a word that has broad meanings, invent a new word that is precise, like econ-inferior. Then at least when a person doesn't understand what you say, they will think to themselves "maybe I should look up the definition" as opposed to actually believing you said something different than you did.

Nobody can live on potatoes alone, you'd die. Nor can anybody live on steak alone. Neither good can be said to be precisely econ-inferior to another, only econ-inferior over some delta range of prices and/or time (and assuming demand, etc). But the whole question of Giffen goods is also valid only over some delta, so as long as they are different deltas, the definitions would not be in conflict (and vice versa all the variations of that).
:) First time I saw the new dark menubar was on this repo
Ha, pretty ironic statement, considering the CIA was Oracle's first real customer: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cia-made-larry-ellison-a-...

EDIT: downvoted for pointing out facts...?
Quite so.

I wonder if what we're seeing now is simply the consequence of a large generation (i.e. gen Y) coming of age. Following this line of thinking, perhaps the replacement of social-democratic ideals with neoliberal ideology (and washington consensus macro) was similarly due to the baby-boomers coming of age in the late-60s and early 70s.