skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> often dissimilar pay is a result of other factors.

Why do these "other factors" push down the pay rate of women by almost 30%? If these other factors were random noise you'd expect them to affect both genders approximately equally.

The fact that men work more hours or that women take on more childcare duties does not mean that the pay gap doesn't exist. All it means that it's caused by cultural factors.
None of that matters, it's like jitter on a clock line. The timespans we are talking (months), these differences vanish.

I'm sure there are tons of intricacies in how metabolism works, but glycogen storage in a human is about 2000 kJ. Once your deficit surpasses that (and we'll happily allow a multiple to account for any error here), your body will either consume fat or you'll experience actual low blood sugar and drop dead.
What are those candles made of? 700 years and still going. Unless of course that is an anachronism designed to make the cave look more mystical.
By giving them healthcare? There aren't actually a large number of illegal immigrants sitting around contributing nothing to the CA economy.
Cavitation at Glen Canyon Dam chewed through 3 feet of reinforced concrete and dug a 32' pit along with multiple cavitation gouges in a few minutes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v98omCq1kRA

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2003-03/water-vapor-al...
Show HN: Replicating Data from Hacker News (Firebase) to RethinkDB
Seems like an interesting idea. With California being the only state in the country doing this, I wonder what is there to stop people from other states using it. Someone from Washington or Texas driving up and getting a short term apartment/changing their ID just so they are covered for a really expensive surgery.

It seems like if they're the only state doing it, it'd be a target for the entire nation to go to when they really need care they cannot afford where they are currently.
We're talking complete hypotethicals. When x64 was introduced, not only weren't there any consumer Itanium chips, but they weren't even hypothetical.
I'd like to learn more about this, can you provide a source?
Repeal Prop 13 for non-residential properties, pay for it with property taxes. Side effect: commercial property is used in a vastly more efficient manner.
A single payer system is a step in the right direction, however, there are deeper issues with the American healthcare system.

The unit cost of healthcare is so much higher than in other developed countries.

In British Columbia, physicians bill at total of around $31 CAD ($23 USD) for a standard office visit. They pay all their overhead out of this fee. Typically doctors keep 65% of their billings and the offices take 35% for overhead. From what I can tell, a similar visit in Washington State will run between $60 and $200 USD when billed to insurance.

Why is this the case? What are the factors in the American system that prevent reasonable pricing?

http://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/health/practitioner-pro/med...
There's this nerd fiction favorite called "Snow Crash". I read it early on, and this line always stuck with me:

> It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.

It's really very true.
It's around $50 for 'off plan' visits (your not a canadian resident, or it's not covered by the healthcare plan).

The math should be $120/hr for the office. The assistant gets $20/hr and the doctor gets $100/hr. If you use the $50 rate, then it's $200/hr. If the doctors share an assistant, it becomes even more efficient. Because of the lower prices, there are less doctors, so they get higher utilization rates for the ones that are there.
It could have been, but I haven't read the book. I was doing race operations for the LT100 (FoxPro 2 and NetWare Lite), so I saw a lot of it personally. I used this RunnersWorld article to get my dates right:
http://rw.runnersworld.com/selects/tarahumara.html
As long as the non-x86 architecture is both 64 bit and little endian, I think this is true. However, in the absence of those two properties not at all. There are many mainstream linux code bases which are either inconsistently endian-clean (meaning they are for some operations but not all) or are straight up broken. This becomes really visible debugging bizarre, impossible bugs on BE architectures.
I managed to crash my bike in to a car in Italy; I remember the process of going to a doctor (which happened to be the closest door on the sidewalk where I hobbled over to) and having them send me to a hospital. I got looked at, xrayed, and given a diagnosis without having to even talk about money or anything beyond a 4-line form for my information.

Single-payer is wonderful, and I believe an absolute necessity as we march towards a future of automation and enormous economic inequality.
Benzene is super carcinogenic. Any amount is too much.
If this would replace my private health insurance premiums with State taxes, I'd have about $21,600 to contribute for a family of 4, generally healthy humans.

- Does it mean no such thing as 'in or out of network'? That alone cost me $10,000 in 2015, over an above the $21,600 premiums.

- Will it be PPO or HMO-style? Some of us like Kaiser, some don't.

- Will I be forced to change providers? A real sore spot from the ACA for me.

I guess I'm saying, do it, but for God's sake, get it right the first time.
He can afford it. Others can't. Why should he pay for them just because they have a lower value?
How does this stop illegal immigrants getting treated the same way they do now?
> I, honestly, have no idea how it'd work, especially for a state that has managed to have a budget crisis seemingly every year for decades

Those crises were artifacts of requiring a supermajority for passing a budget, which meant as long as parties voted as blocks, the minority party could prevent the majority party from passing any budget; crises were, then, deliberately engineered to extract concessions. Since going to a majority-rule for passing budgets (retaining the supermajority requirement for tax increases), the annual budget crises have disappeared.
> Then we structured our lunar exploration program as an unsustainable "race" for the sake of showmanship rather than science.

The entire Soviet space program was an unsustainable exercise in political showmanship, and 'Me first!' moments.

Consider the visiting cosmonaut program, the first woman in space (Who was also the... last woman in space, for the subsequent two decades.)

Consider the secrecy surrounding launches (To avoid getting egg on your face, if the mission fails/is aborted...)

Fortunately (Or unfortunately), if it weren't for political showmanship, neither country would have had a space program.
The Affordable Care Act has a provision in it that allows states to apply for "waivers for state innovation"[1] starting this year. That waiver program might allow for this to receive federal funding.

That said, the future of the Affordable Care Act is currently unclear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...
Calorie balance certainly matters but it is not that simple. Most leading health research institutions believe dietary quality plays a major part in health and weight management. Certain foods are associated with patterns of overeating.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/best-diet-quali...

The average American diet has changed dramatically in the last century with the growth of the restaurant and food processing industry. Exercise participation has actually increased substantially in the last 20 years (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2015/057.pdf) in the same time period obesity has soared.

Energy balance being responsible for weight gain is too readily used by the food processing industry in an effort to shift away blame for this epidemic.

A few instances:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/obesity-exercise...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/good-news-pepsicos-indra-nooyi-s...
http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2012/07/05/is-obesi...
https://therussells.crossfit.com/2015/09/23/transparency-coc...
At a guess because they have no experience or knowledge on dimensioning something made out of concrete.

You can land an A380 on a runway 17" thick...

This was definitely strong enough, just not ready to withstand cavitation and given that bronze ship screws suffer from it it is hard to see what kind of liner would have solved this problem entirely.

Solving it completely may ask for a totally different design, likely not a different material or thicker concrete.
Binary translation / JIT. Like Apple did with Rosetta or like DEC did on Alpha NT with FX!32.
Either way you're going to be reducing rent (ie, gaining market efficiency) until you're not doing that anymore. There are testable ways to evaluate the market's ability to handle cost reductions and operate effectively. Even better that California can rely on the US and Canadian market overall to compare itself.
There's alternative out there from a company called Valossa. More comprehensive than what Google is now offering. Https://val.ai
Easier than that, I got Python 3.6 64bits and headed to Christoph Gohlke's amazing Python Wheels repository, downloaded everything I needed (NumPy, SciPy, OpenCV 3.2, matplotlib, etc + TensorFlow) and then it was just a matter of:

pip3 install [filename]

...until everything was installed. I gotta buy that man more than a few beers for all the time he's saved me over the years. Bonus points: got the wheels with Intel MKL and OpenCV+contrib.

[0] http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
How much more would you be glad to pay?

How much more would you be glad for your employer to pay on your behalf?

How do you define "universal coverage"?
^ lol, too true
But carbs are delicious. That's a huge problem. Seriously. You can't just ignore how delicious carbs are if you want to actually change behavior.
Can't speak for the poster, but I live in the Bay Area, and also would happily pay more in taxes for this to happen.

That's because I think long-term, single-payer is the only sensible way to handle health care. We have (the US has) a truly screwed up healthcare system that (nearly) everyone acknowledges is inefficient, too expensive, wasteful and less effective than it could be. Looking at other countries, this is obvious.

Given the money involved, getting to single-payer will be a long-term project; now even longer, to clean up the mess currently being made. It'll involve more fighting, take longer, and be a more expensive transition than anyone likes.

Given all that, we have to start somewhere. I'm happy to start in my state, even though I have great (employer-provided) healthcare, and could easily pay for my own if I didn't.

There's also the aspect of doing the right thing, even at personal cost. I think single-payer is the right thing to do.

So that's why.
So... your response to finding an uncorrected variable in the study (which I don't see the value of, honestly, given that tech workers are near-uniformly salaried in this country) is to go out and cherry pick a "correction" from an entirely unrelated study that confirms your worldview? Who's quoting misleading statistics now?

Yeah, I've gone through and scanned that BLS report you linked to (actually you didn't, you linked to Forbes, but this is what they were talking about): https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf

It doesn't say what you think it does at all. This isn't a study of men vs. women working identical jobs and doing less work, this is a finding that across the entire workforce, a men's "work day" is somewhat longer than a woman's. Which is to say: Women are more likely to work part time jobs.
I think I might use that quote and print it on T-shirts.
Yeah, Im in the island. Email me (in profile) if youd like to connect.
Because for hundreds of years collectivism has been accelerating and it's become nearly, if not entirely, out of control at this point.
There are many reasons. On a personal level, I believe high income people (like us tech folk) SHOULD help take care of less financially fortunate groups of people.

Practically speaking, worrying about health care (and the lack thereof) is the number one reason that makes it hard to start your own company...unless you are already wealthy.
>Which, as above, is easy! But if there's one actual problem with the class keyword it's that it makes people who know Java think they understand JS inheritance.

Which is totally fine, as for all intends and purposes the behavior is the same. You create new instances, and you call methods on them.

The "movable" context (this) will be a little surprising, but for everything else one can write JS for decades with ES6 classes and "OOP", without having to know how the prototypes, objects and functions they de-sugar to work.
Assuming a posthumous grant to Aaron Swartz is not possible, I would think Alexandra Elbakyan from scihub would be a good choice for this award.
So we're different in a few ways,

1. our users don't need an account on our site to buy tickets, we've basically removed the barrier. You can share the link to your event with your meetup group, and the members can easily purchase the tickets, with no account, they fill in basic info name, email, etc... They're then emailed a digital voucher that they present upon arrival, with a unique reference number that can be tracked verified by the event organizer.

2. You can create re-occuring events, and select which days of the week the event happens, e.g. [X] Mon, Tues, Wed, [X] Thurs, Fri, between 5pm-8pm.

So it's a way for you to generate regular sales on a weekly basis, by hosting weekly work shops etc... as opposed to a one off event. You won't have to keep re-creating them if you are planning on hosting regular workshops, it's sort of a new model in that way. Or you can host a one time event, and create them as you go, you have that flexibility to choose.

3. We take a small transaction fee per booking, only 7% so we only get paid when you get paid.
It creates a very different mindset.

Danes aside, are you saying that single payer healthcare would convince Californians to be more conservative towards entrepreneurship?
It's reasonably easy to establish pricing differences relative to land value costs to account for increased rent in the area. It's almost the same way the GSA determines Per Diem rates. https://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/100120
Was being genuine - thank you for the detailed response.
The most famous "tool" used in this field is the drake equation.

If you cut the product to the fraction of those planets, fl, that actually can develop life, you have a much higher probability than the one you get with the full equation, or by accounting {fi} or {fi,fc} too.

So from a strictly statistical p.o.w. that's something more likely to happen.

What has to be considered in the evaluation of the possible threat is that the way our brain is used to think, the interspecific competition model, the r/k strategy are all based on two assumption: limited resources and competition.

Supposing travelling in space is something difficult/time-consuming and supposing each planet may tend towards the emergence of a dominant species, those two constraints would be relaxed: hence the coexistence of not directly interacting species may be circumstantially possibile.
Interesting tidbit from the 3rd article:

"Ultimately, Thornberg believes California would be better served with a Texas-style tax revenue system where there's less reliance on personal income taxes and capital gains tied to the stock market, and more of a focus on property taxes and sales taxes."

So long as high priced real-estate are exchanging hands, CA will reap the benefit.
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Everyone wants to blame gerrymandering, but how does that affect presidential votes?

I wouldn't think that it does. Your local district doesn't dictate who your presidential vote is for.

"President Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was among the narrowest in history,"

goes to show image showing that a huge amount of counties voted for Trump by more than 20 points

Hmm.
> I've read this a few times and I keep reading it the same way "We produce waste that can be used to feed animals as a bitproduct of producing feed for animals?

My point is that we don't need to produce feed for animals, they do fine just on pastureland.

The way we currently raise grains is problematic enough as it is, requiring huge fertilizer inputs[1] which require petrochemicals. Eating grains is not a sustainable alternative - if we raised grains for human food, might as well feed animals and get some steaks out of it.

>And tons more cleared grassland.

The great plains did not need to be cleared. They were perfect pastures for grazing animals, not the modern monoculture of grains.

[1] (we're running out of phosphorous http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/01/phosphorus-essential...)
Vermont is one of the poorest states in the nation as well, while California's economy is one of the biggest in the world.
In Canada it's like one very large HMO that covers the country or province.

Part of single payer is not being able to avoid participation. I don't know if your provider will be able to avoid participating unless they move out of CA.
Ask HN: Bing VS Google
Google is giving me bad results lately to the point that i have to set my chrome's default omnibox to Bing. Do you guys experience the same?
A doctors visit isn't a good example. Folks don't go bankrupt from doctors visits. The important stuff is drugs and hospitals.

For example an asthmatic in any other country in the world pays ~$10 for a Ventolin inhaler (including tax and a % of profit), Americans pay $55-$65 and that price is increasing.
Vestigial trigonometry functions: popular 30 years ago, but no longer used
Thanks. I'll do my best to keep it simple and fast.

I absolutely love git. It's definitely going to be the central piece of the software.
> is about CalPERS, which is separate from the budget of the State. There may be a current budget shortfall, but CalPERS is fine

It's 'separate' from the state budget, but doesn't California still ultimately pay for pensions? How is this fine when there's a huge difference between the projected costs and the actual costs? Doesn't 70% of CA tax revenue go towards paying pension obligations?

Current CA pension debt is $965 Billion.

http://news.stanford.edu/2015/10/15/cali-pension-tracker-101...

http://www.pensiontracker.org/index.php
> this just means there is a negotiation skills gap.

What is the cause of the negotiation skills gap? It seems unlikely to me that one gender is just innately better at it than another, and more likely that there's a cultural issue at play with regards to how we treat women.
Golden comment!
> It's not childish, it's how a nanny-state works.

FTFY.

Different people accept different levels of control over their lives, and feel they have different levels of control over their own lives. This can even change over one's life. And sometimes it's not a feeling but a much more objective fact. I know people whose interests would be better served if someone else made all their financial decisions because they have a long pattern of poor decision making regardless of the monetary amount. I don't feel I should force such a thing on those people when they don't want it, but often it's possible for an in-between solution they find agreeable enough of removing some autonomy but not all. This delicate balance is best done as locally as possible.

It's all very variable. I strongly disagree with a dichotomy I see often propped up of "we need the full force of the federal government in our daily lives" against "move to Somalia if you don't like it". A better approach is federalism. In the US at least there's been "enough" federalism to keep most larger groups of different people happy enough (even now I know I can move to a different state and be free of some of what I dislike about my current state) but the trend is less state decision and more federal control. Extending this to the city level for large cities works fine too. I don't care if Seattle wants to enact some nanny law, maybe the people of Seattle want that and indeed will have better lives because of it, but I don't care because I don't live there nor have to live there. Even if Washington State, where I do live, does something I hate, I can move. When it's the whole US that has a law that I really find unbearably intrusive, things suddenly become a lot more challenging because the cost of exit is much higher. When you can't really do anything about it you either become unhappy or rely on stoicism or whatever to get you through, it would be better though if the negative factor wasn't even there to begin with.
> as a Californian...I'd rather that people like me...

There is crux of the issue: not everyone shares the same opinion and belief, so should the government force those people to spend their earned income on healthcare for others? Personally I think it won't end up how you anticipate but that's just me. Right now the working people of America are already subsidizing healthcare for the masses and all I ever hear is people complaining about it.
I'm in the Seattle area and my commute is about 6 miles. The walk to the bus stop and subsequent bus ride takes about 30 to 40 minutes each way.
This would be great, but would probably significantly hurt performance.

Especially if media queries come into play and we'd have to try different resolutions and ensure they're all the same.
Eating less and more than needed on alternate days prolongs life (2006)
> Grass is more expensive, so it's not used.

Nit: grass is less profitable. The expense of grass is nothing, but it takes longer to raise the livestock to pasture weight and the meat is less marbled and gamier in texture, which drives the price down.
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You're not wrong but I wish you backed your evidence with numbers from the paper instead of hypotheticals.
A lot of them even pay taxes with stolen SSNs!
A bit early to speculate about the motive, no?
I posted the link to this (as in the original article everyone is referencing) hours ago, before the BBC post linked here. One of those times HN suffers if you post something that doesn't have a linkbait headline.
> Especially if media queries come into play

Or even more simply: if your CSS is supposed to work on all pages of a website.
Thanks for the details regarding the budget, I didn't realize the pension budget shortfall was separate from the state budget.

In that case stupid question: if CalPERS owes much more than it can afford to pay, where is the rest coming from? The LA Times article, in multiple places, talks about how much the shortage will cost the "taxpayers" (see quote below for example), how is this not related to the CA budget which is, well, funded by taxpayers?

> "This year, state employee pensions will cost taxpayers $5.4 billion, according to the Department of Finance. That’s more than the state will spend on environmental protection, fighting wildfires and the emergency response to the drought combined."

That makes it seem like it's related to the budget...
I walk about an hour and 15 minutes each way. This will turn into no commute when I stop being homeless and have internet at home.
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