skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is related to the budget, but not directly related since it is promises to fund pensions rather than something directly related to government services.

It could be funded by increasing contributions gradually until it reaches the correct funding level (either from cuts in other areas or taxes), by cutting the future amounts they distribute from the pensions, by raising the retirement rate of current workers which would give them time to make up the deficit, or a combination of these.

The problem is, these options all kind of stink politically, but they won't bankrupt the state by themselves.
This is a really cool concept. Thanks.
Not likely to matter very much. Some local benefits but compared to income tax it's a rounding error.
Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland are 3 counter examples.
The performance intensive parts of GitLab are written in Go, for example https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-workhorse/

We're working on moving the git commands to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/ this will help to improve cloning speeds.

BTW The people at Booking have a lot of expertise in scaling Git. I'm sure there will be a lot Gitly there we can learn from.
It's all good. I just replicated all the work (setting up the account, my forked repo, the change, my pull request) the next day.
> OK, I'm completely baffled by this. Am I the only one who thinks taking your young children on a conference call is somewhere between totally unprofessional and, well, very annoying?

Probably not, but I usually don't mind. For that matter, the gloss of "professionalism" is highly overrated (I'll take empathy plus moral, ethical, and responsible conduct over "it's just business" type "professionalism" any day of the week).

Of course, it does depend on the behavior of the kid in question. I would expect a parent whose kid is disrupting the meeting to excuse themselves, or at least mute the mike on their end. That goes double for pets.
I've heard many compilers started with yacc/bison, but later went hand-written for better error messages.

Currently, jq (pretty much, awk for json https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) uses bison, but sometimes has unhelpful syntax error messages. I'm not the maintainer or anything, but trying to trigger error messages more precisely (i.e. diagnosis) was a nightmare.

While a generator can't match a custom parser for control, is it plausible to have arbitrarily precise hooks in ANTLR for diagnostic messages?

BTW unfortunately deadlink http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16503217/antlr-for-commer...
>dump n-1 disks from the left to the right, move disk n to the center, then un-invert those n-1 disks on top of disk n

In the case where you can place larger disks on top of smaller disks, the sub-problems don't have the same solutions, i.e. In order to move N disks from A to B you first move N-1 disks from A to C, then one disk from A to B, then the N-1 disks back from C to B. But in order to solve the N-1 disks, you don't need to ensure that the largest disk ends up on the bottom -- you just move them all straight to the target.

I guess the rule is implicitly tied up in the fact that the sub-problems are solved in the same way as the larger problem.
Given how much this country honours its armed forces, I guess we can reasonably expect the standard of care and efficiency to be, at most, equal to that of the Veterans Administration (VA)
> Jesus dude - he was murdered attempting to reveal truth... youre attempting to obfuscate it

His brother John said he wasn't murdered, his other brother also said he wasn't murdered. They would know because they had both flown to Los Angeles to convince him to go to rehab and were there when he died. They would also know because Michael had already crashed a car into a tree while drunk earlier and had become addicted to Ritalin in the past -- which necessitated a stint in inpatient rehab.

His coworkers don't think he was murdered -- they recognized that he was having a manic episode, which is why they called his brothers to come get him help.

His wife doesn't think he was murdered because she knew that he had starting using drugs again.

So literally nobody that personally knew him thinks he was murdered. He had weed and meth in his system when he died, he told his brother that he had been taking DMT, he had a history of manic-depressive episodes and PTSD.

It's possible that he was a brilliant journalist that uncovered serious crimes from connected people and that he was mentally unwell. You should really reconsider your insistence on some grand conspiracy theory. There are times to be skeptical but these lunatics who ignore all evidence to the contrary and call up his family to share their insane speculation are extremely disrespectful.
Medicare reimbursement rates aren't necessarily too low if healthcare providers are currently overcharging. They could be perfectly be fair.

But as long as healthcare providers can find someone else to overcharge then they'll do that rather than accepting Medicare patients.
These situations are common in the U.S., unless you are well-connected and can pull strings.

> waiting over a year for joint replacement surgery

1) Remember that many Americans have no access to healthcare outside of emergency rooms; they wait forever. I know plenty, including connected people, who wait months for simple appointments. A year before surgery wouldn't surprise me at all.

> if they have cancer, they aren't going to get to go to the best cancer center in Canada, you go to your local hospital.

2) Again, many Americans wait forever. Few others go to the best treatment centers in the nation - how much capacity do those places have, and who is filling up the local facilities?

> if you want the latest and greatest cancer treatment? Well, you'll need to pay for that yourself since the gov't hasn't yet approved it for reimbursement.

3) Again, some Americans get no funding. Most others are limited to what their insurance companies cover and often have the same problems.
Using force to collect money from citizens and then spending it on their behalf is what governments do. The word for a big organization that works for the common good and gets its money voluntarily is "charity."
I've had very good experiences with Mont-Bell as well.
I have a scale in my kitchen and I weigh everything. For most restaurant food you can look up the calorie information really easily.

So for me it is a very small minority of food that I can't get an exact number on and I've been weighing and entering things enough that for those edge cases I can usually do a decent job at eyeballing serving sizes.
Coming from a country with single-payer healthcare:

If you have have 5 beds, and 10 people that need to use a bed every day, there is no pure finance management solution to solve it.

If you have insurance-based system like in US, only people who can afford insurance will be able to use the beds. Rest will be priced-out.

If you have single-payer system like in my country of origin (and what a lot of people in America would want), people will be queued and/or to some extent squeezed to fit on what's available. It often leads to corruption, when people pay extra to cut the line. Or there are some officially approved way to pay your way to get your bed fast and without overcrowding.

The reality is of course a bit more complicated, but the point is: the real solution is to either have more beds, or to have less people who need to use them. Why can't more beds be built and operated cheaply? Why there is so many people needing them?
The individual mandate is moot in this system, as everyone will have money they can only spend on insurance.

Benefit caps are a really tricky issue. As a society, are we willing to spend a million dollars to extend life for a week? Probably not. On the other hand, do you cut off a cancer patient after a million? Probably not. But there has to be a rational way to balance this without people freaking out over 'death-panels'.

I agree, universal coverage means vastly more money spent. Therefore, coverage for major issues is the baseline amount, not the Obamacare standards where people generally have way more insurance than they would choose.

The closest proposal I've seen is tax credits for this.
Would you need a refund?

Would you be OK with a requirement that you do, in fact, spend the refund on health insurance?

Otherwise I see a problem where struggling people opt out of the care, to get cash to pay for other emergencies, and then the state ends up footing emergency room bills anyway, and premiums are out of whack due to decreased enrollment by healthy people.

Also, what happens if your private care falls short and you show up one day at the State emergency room? Do we refuse you care because you opted out? Emergency rooms need to give care to everyone, that's the point it's an emergency and you don't want to have your care waiting on your paperwork being out of order in an emergency.

If we can reserve part of your refund to cover such situations, I'm ok with it!
Donald Trump would love to claim some sort of credit, I'm sure.

Fortunately the world moves on independent of his desires.
That analysis ignores the income brackets.

If I have the choice of living where the state income tax hit 8% at $50K vs. %9 at $200K, I'd gladly live in the state with the "higher" state income tax rate.
That's GDP per capita. CA is the largest state in terms of overall GDP.

Overall population/economy size matters, not just per-capita.
And, it's more humane to pay taxes for social welfare, than it is to pay taxes to soldiers to protect you by shooting the needy who would hang you for not giving social welfare to them.
Awesome. Count me in!
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California is roughly the size of Italy, its economy slightly larger but essentially comparable. Italy has single payer and one of the best healthcare outcomes in the world with one of the lowest expenditure per patient in developed countries. Quality of service is uneven geographically (but it's no different anywhere else) and in generally getting care in Italy is a no hassle experience.

California, learn from Italy.
Anything that moves us beyond the gross waste and incompetence of insurance and medical billing is a good thing.

My wife and I had a few recent medical issues crop up and, despite having decent coverage, have had to deal with chasing down providers and third parties who consistently fail to bill even the most basic procedures properly.

I'd much rather pay more in taxes to have the knowledge we'd be safely covered without dealing with the headache of endless middlemen who add no value to the system.
Exactly. It's not about knowledge. It's about being able to figure out a relatively straightforward problem. It's a test of ability.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding your example, are you trying to emulate `.nth-child(x)` with classes like `.list-1`, `.list-2`?

If that's the case, using CSS Modules, you can do in CSS:

.list-1 { ... }
.list-2 { ... }

requiring it will yield a map like this:

{ 'list-1': 'JSNF4S12', 'list-2': 'IE945JSN' }

which you can use this way:

const styles = require('file.css');
$('.' + styles[`list-${i}`])
// effectively $('.JSNF4S12')
Rules don't matter. Ethics do.

The former exist in the service of the latter. One problem we have with contemporary US culture is condoning a sort of twisted narcissistic, psychopathic assertion that because competently breaking the rules is sometimes ethical, breaking the rules is a sign of competence.
While I am not aware of any open source framework doing this, as long as the programmer holds itself to a few basic rules, this should be possible.
If all html/js/css is generated by a template language, you keep the css classes easily parsable and you avoid using dynamic classnames in js (data properties are better for that anyway),
you can just replace all classes with random ids.

In fact this is how gettext() works.
As if those are the only two options... what happens when the unions plans their strikes for the week before a major event, like transit workers before the DNC here in Philly?

Also, when tax-free pension contributions go up and taxable payments to future retirees go down... then taxes collected also goes down...
That's fine, you can join the exodus of Californians in Austin or Boulder or Portland who didn't own real estate but couldn't afford to live here either.
If you use Cloudflare as your CDN, is Cloudflare "siphoning your traffic"?
Even daily Uber use is cheaper than owning a car where I live (Toronto). Car insurance alone is $400 a month for a young single male.
All the best systems are single payer. Italy, France, Spain, the UK. The countries with private insurance like Germany are middle of the pack. Clearly single payer is the superior option.
No, it's because suddenly their parent is ignoring them for no reason they can understand.
This is "guilty until proven innocent". That isn't how law is supposed to work. We are supposed to assume that the force was appropriate. Of course, this doesn't mean we don't bother investigating, but the proper assumption is that a person is innocent.

In states that endorse "innocent until proven guilty", the police won't even lock you up or take your gun if you can make a plausible claim to have properly used force.

When the force is appropriate, we owe nothing to the deceased and their family. The deceased was a hazard, and the family set that hazard loose upon society. They owe us:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_fee

I see that your article does not distinguish legal gun ownership from illegal gun ownership. I suspect that "murder" might not be the obvious. (suicide? shot by cop? vehicular homocide?) Medical care varies greatly by state, changing survival odds. You may also be making a backwards assumption about cause and effect: people in places with lots of murder might feel a greater need to have a gun.
>Because the amount of loan debt physicians have to take on is already massive, and very few would want to increase that by an additional $112,000 (which is the amount Medicare provides).

Sure, you think it's expensive, but the demand is still there, people are willing to work for (net of costs) less than they currently are. That supports the claim that the service is priced above the market clearing level. (Edit: and they wouldn't be increasing debt by that full $112k; they could simply provide 80% of the existing subsidy per slot instead of the current 100%.)

>Broadway ticket prices are a really bad analogy, because prices are intentionally sold below market-clearing rate for a whole slew of reasons that aren't directly comparable to the medical profession.

No, that makes it a better analogy, because it's a case of good sold below it's market clearing price but which has excess demand capable of paying a (much) higher MCP, and where it's more obvious that the bottleneck isn't (and can't be) insufficient subsidies.
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Anything that threatens the Office cash cow will be destroyed one way or another...
Looking at modern websites: very few use the Accept-Encoding: gzip of the HTTP 1/1

This could even «minify the served CSS» a lot :)

(ok client side it will always be as big, but the server side is often paying its traffic and the client side may too so it reduces traffic anyway and means great savings).

For public static websites, the savings induced by gzip compression totally justify to not use http2 when traffic matters.
Canadians are also used to a very different level of healthcare. If you can convince a vast chunk of Americans to wait 12+ months for a joint replacement, then yes it could work.
They use Kelvin.

Source: KSR's Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy ;-)
If you have have 5 beds, and 10 people that need to use it every day, there is no financial solution to solve it.

One financial solution would be to fund construction of the infrastructure to house the beds and fund the operational expenditure to run them.

I would guess the reasons this doesn't happen are primarily political.
Private insurance is a big once since the Dr bills $xx with the expectation that insurance will only agree to pay a % of that amount(but different amounts from different insurers and clients). In BC doctors know up front what they'll get back so they don't have to play pricing games.
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> Medicare reimbursement rates aren't necessarily too low if healthcare providers are currently overcharging. They could be perfectly be fair.

No, Medicare reimbursement rates are about 7% lower (in the aggregate, not individually) than COGS - the marginal costs of providing care. That is, if a test costs a provider $100 to purchase wholesale, Medicare reimburses $93, which doesn't cover the cost of the supplies, let alone covering overhead (wages for staff, office rent, etc.)
Is it even possible to have a society that doesn't suppress dissent to some degree? And would such a state even be desirable?
My primary contention is that Every other first world country? is a little too lacking in nuance, I wasn't trying to express an opinion about what works best.
I mean that without the ?quorum flag the stale reads are possible. I tested the etcd v3 (http api) and the reads were incredibly fast but when I set the flag, the read's latency became the same as write.
It seems to be working pretty well in Canada.
> The real solution is to either have more beds, or to have less people who need to use them.

This is exactly the incentives we've wanted all along. Is healthcare too expensive to cover everyone's current level of need? Now it finally makes sense for government to get serious about investing in prevention.

Our current incentives of "the more sick-care you provide, the more you get paid" has exactly the opposite incentive. No solution is perfect, but this feels like a significant step in the right direction.
Can you provide any arguments (or, even better, empirical evidence) as to why the government has more waste, incompetence and corruption than the private sector?
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Here is the source code for a lightweight Webserver in Qt C++. It works very similarly to J2EE and Java Servlets. I've personally used this starting block for building my own web services since I am most familiar with C++.

http://stefanfrings.de/qtwebapp/index-en.html
> realtime analytics

This doesn't mean anything.

The only thing that matters is what (and how much) data you have and what queries you want to run. If a relational database can do that for you then cassandra/scylla isn't a good choice.
> As for homework, that's a giant can of worms. There is plenty of research on homework. It shows that homework is net neutral on actual learning, but a strong negative on creating stress. Digging in, it turns out that it can help or hurt, but whether it helps or hurts depends on whether there is someone at home who makes sure that the child does correct practice rather than incorrect practice. Therefore assigning homework's main impact (after home stress) is to widen the educational gap between children of different socioeconomic statuses.

That sounds very interesting, and really matches what I've seen so far. Do you have a link to some of this research? I'd like to share this with some friends but would like to share more than a link to a single hn comment!
Are you talking about 1) or 2) in http://imgur.com/gallery/J3KPm

If it's 2, that's because other items can be added to that menu, such as LastPass and Bitdefender just to use the examples conveniently at hand.

And as a quick tip if you need to take a lot of screenshots on Windows - Greenshot is a great screenshotting program for Windows (and OSX, though I don't know how it is there), free, GPL, etc. Binds the PrtSc button and lets you select the area you want to capture as well as destination, format, etc.
I'm not arguing that many people would be better off. I'm arguing that many people would have to lower their expectations around healthcare.

There is a very big chunk of the US that has very expensive (that they can afford) and very good healthcare.
> Tap a Top Stories card, and bam, you’re in the article. Takes maybe 100 milliseconds, just at the edge of perception. You can’t do that with a full page load: not on a 3G network, not on a mobile CPU.

Yes you can, quite comfortably. Pre rendering is just patching the bloated web, not fixing it. If you want to make the web better focus on less javascript, with noscript on I get AMP like speeds almost everywhere.
If you go to the corner store and get a sandwich, just put a rough estimate of a sandwich based on the sandwich options in your app and what you think seems right. You learn to make smart estimates when you start counting the calories on everything. Even then, washy estimates are just fine, just put them on the conservative side (ie, overestimate when you have to estimate).

Calories are never an exact numerical science anyways, even if you did weigh everything precisely. You really don't care if you have a margin of error of 50-200 calories if you are lower than your goal most days. You still loose weight.

I've been using MyFitnessPal on and off throughout the years and have always been able to consistently gain or loose weight (depending what I am aiming for) even when relying highly on estimates. This is just my experience though.
I like to remind myself of the complexity of the situation by remembering:

Sometimes Americans go to Canada for medical treatment, and sometimes Canadians come to America for treatment. It's not a simple better/worse situation.
>How thry expect schools to work without paper, pencils, toilet paper, light bulbs, or books is beyond me.

They don't. Somewhere along the line, they noticed that if they don't provide these things, teachers and parents would do it out of their own pockets because they care about the children.

They realized that they could consume the latent altruism of the moral stakeholders for their own enrichment.
No, this is demonstrably wrong. Cutting $87,000 in markups from the price of $1,700 off-patent drugs does not mean "less is offered". To the contrary, far more people get access to the drug in question. It may mean that the system as a whole offers far less opportunity to predatory rent-seekers, but that's a feature, not a bug.

And yes, you can very easily argue that many other costs don't add value. That's why pointing to the superior overall life-expectancy in other countries is such an important part of the argument. On balance, every other system in the developed world does more, for more, with less. Our system offers bottom-of-the-pile rankings by every major measure.

Finally, "struggling with costs" is a non-starter as far as arguments against single-payer go since what things cost and how you come up with the money are clearly two different things. Saying "country X is having a hard time funding their health care system at 10% of GDP" in no way undermines the case for dumping a system here in the US that costs us closer to 18% of ours.

Seriously, we could make massive improvements to ours simply by picking the name of any other OECD country from a hat, and just implementing their system. Literally anything is better than what we've got here, and it's not even close.
I'm not arguing one is better than the other. Just that both system are run by humans so I wouldn't say you'd have less corruption or waste in one or the other.
I use to work pretty well for me. Note I haven't been there in 4 years.

When I left if you earnt over (iirc) 40k per year, you had to purchase private health insurance. Im happy with that.

I did have to goto hospital a few times, I shattered my elbow joint and required 3 surgeries to repair it in total.

The cost was under 5k in total if I remember correctly. I went to public hospital first, but for something like this they recommended private(which I had at the time) - that way there was less waiting, 2 days later I was having my first surgery.