skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US obesity rate: 36%
Swedish obesity rate: 18%

US life expectancy: 79 years
Sweden life expectancy: 81 years

It is falsifiable. When I talk about culture I'm talking about things like smoking rates, obesity rates, etc. These things are totally unrelated to whether or not you pay a copay to go to a doctor. If you think our relative life expectancy has nothing to do with our obesity rates, then I'm sorry but you just don't need to be making statements about healthcare at all.
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fascinating article:

"Ellison was wrong about the success of massively parallel processing computers (though he invested his own money in the idea), wrong about the success of so-called video-on-demand (as Oracle found when it ran a pilot with British Telecom), wrong about network computers replacing PCs (or at least, there's no evidence yet), and wrong about several other things - though we might have to revise that view in 10 years and say he was right but too early."

looks like history has proven that he was right about all of these things!
> Actually I think I just gave the Big Crunch hypothesis. The universe can be expanding so long as it eventually collapses.

Even in this case it's not correct to say that the universe is a black hole. The spacetime geometry is very different. A black hole, as I've posted elsewhere in this thread, is a region from which light can't escape to infinity. But in a universe that will end up in a Big Crunch, there is no infinity: space has a finite volume (which increases up to maximum expansion and then decreases back to zero).
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Wasn't this basically answered by the Pinboard fiasco a while back? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633517) It wasn't really over left-wing/right-wing political differences but there was a clash.
"Other substances that expand on freezing are acetic acid, silicon, gallium,[35] germanium, bismuth, plutonium and also chemical compounds that form spacious crystal lattices with tetrahedral coordination."[0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Density_of...
>There were a couple of studies that showed that in developing countries where social support structures aren't strong you generally see a lot more women go into the less gender traditional fields such as engineering. See Eastern Europe, China, India etc.

I had to read that twice to follow you.

Be careful with your wording. What you meant was government funded social structures, as opposed to actual social structures (family structure, etc). Most Indians who move to the US will be quick to tell you how much worse the social support structures are in the US. In India, there is usually little need for daycare (relatives almost always look after the kids). Same goes for taking care of the chronically unhealthy people, etc.
I suppose it makes more sense, given the scope of most people's lives at the time, than the notion of a planned route from start to finish. As I understand it, the "Road" was less a journey for a single merchant, as it was the game of telephone played with products by dozens of merchants.

Basically, a human telegraph for tangible goods, with a mark-up at each step. With that in mind, the price of cloves in Medieval Europe starts to make a lot of sense, as do the crazy stories behind some of the spices. See: The alleged source of cinnamon!
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It wasn't our intention to come accross as self-congratulatory but I can see how it might come accross as such. We take this incident really serious and especially our production engineers are working very hard to improve our infrastructure.
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Or machine learning to mechanized the matching.
As I said in my post, I'm not comparing him in the sense that "Thiel is Stalin".

You added your parenthesis after I responded (or perhaps while I was responding). But nevertheless, I can't come close to relating the two. Nothing I am aware of with Thiel would make a reasonable person consider him to be a "monster".

This will be my last response to this, since I apparently forgot how many ultra-liberals that hate Thiel and everyone like him would be brought out by such a seemingly simple, non-controversial, genuine question that I posed to OP (not necessarily referring to you, but there seem to be alot of people backing up this opinion based upon nothing other than politics, which makes me sad both for HN and the state of political discourse in the US).
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Lower-end GPUs like Intel's integrated graphics and console hardware are doing this, but high-end desktop GPUs do not- they still have separate memory spaces (though they may share some memory).
Much of this is because we're nominally at peace with Syria. ISIS is the belligerent party.

We absolutely did bomb large numbers of civilians in WW2, Iraq, and Vietnam, and in the latter two cases we hadn't even formally declared war.
Indeed! Linguistics is doing pretty well in increasing open-access (e.g. with journals like http://www.glossa-journal.org and publishers like http://langsci-press.org/catalog), as well as open data (e.g. http://clld.org/datasets.html).
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>And by this I mean that it's an apples to oranges comparison.

Sadly, almost anyone responding to you is not understanding this. I had the exact same thought when I read the headline (even before I knew this was about India or women - I was expecting some private enterprise...).

Your comment doesn't take away from the achievement. Comparing it to the cost of a movie is just pointless.
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I've been a hobbyist developers for about 6 years now, however, lacking a degree, it seems impossible to get into software development. The only "experience" I have is about 2 years of doing freelance work where I did nothing but work on Wordpress sites and wrote a little Node.js. Not very helpful when all the jobs around me are .Net. What are some ways of making myself look better as a candidate?
Aaron Swartz was a weird one. Some zealous IT guy exaggerated it as if national security data were being scraped when in fact most were just shoddy research papers written at 1 AM before the due date.

All people that landed a hand in this man's death should be charged with manslaughter.

Truly a shame and how draconian laws end up killing the innocent in the United States.
Slavery normalizes subjugation and stratification. The slaveholder with 10 slaves is just another kind of nigger to the aristocrat with 10,000.
I've been following that through the UK news... what a hell of a thing. After Vietnam, and now with footage of these things, it seems clear that there is a truly strong desire to Not Know about some things. We'd just rather believe in certain myths, because the alternative would make it difficult or impossible to send young men and women into hell for less than dire reasons.
It might be statistically significant, but it's definitely not the primary cause. Our government fed us HORRIBLE high carb nutrition guidelines for decades and continues to subsidize the sugar (mainly high fructose corn syrup) industry. Those are much bigger factors than whether or not you got a useless MRI.
Beauty and the Beast is not a Google product (unless you stretch some definitions - I imagine Google probably owns some small stake in Disney right? would be a good investment).

Google knows I like Pokémon - just from my search results - would telling me the new Pokémon games are out be an advertisement?

Where do we draw the line?

I'm of the opinion, that based on Google's wording, they were not paid for this placement - which is why they'd be refusing to call it an advertisement.
Agreed. I also think we need to allow ourselves room to question our moral foundations and make attempts at reconciling them with the foundations of "the other side," whoever that is for each of us.
Of course, sometimes that nonzero value is negative.

I am thinking specifically about the case of Sayyid Qtub; though I am sure his is not unique.
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The parallelism exists in order to deal with the aside, not because it's necessary for every element in the list. But putting aside that debate, here's the thing. You can't fix "to my mother, Ayn Rand, and God" by removing the comma. It's still ambiguous, indeed nonsensical. You fix it by adding "to". That is, the serial comma is not what's creating ambiguity, it's the omission of a word.

But the ambiguity in "To my parents, Ayn Rand and God" is fixed by adding a comma. That is, it's the missing comma that's the problem.

This is typical of the examples I've seen.
This dock [1] plus 8 of these 4TB SSDs[2] is 32TB in a 5.25" drive.

If that's to pricy, you can still fit 16TB in a 5.25" drive bay with the same dock and 8 2TB rotating drives[3] and 20TB with this dock[4] and the 5TB version of the same drive[5]. Note that all 4 and 5TB rotating drives I can find are 15mm thick, so the 8x drive-bay is a no-go.

1: http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=192

2: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682014...

3: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682217...

4: http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=184

5: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E1682217...
Maybe I am biased, but I agree with the other user on here that Ansible is a good solution for keeping the environments the same.

However, if you're feeling brave, you should definitely check out OpenShift (community version at http://openshift.org). OpenShift is basically Kubernetes with a bunch of cool stuff added, one especially useful feature is source-to-image.

It pulls your code from a scm repo and finds a builder image (or you can choose one) and it will build the docker image for you. You can have it pull whenever there is new code and rebuild the image and deploy if you want.

On top of that you get lots of cool docker orchestration features.
Why not keep the rating system, and have an additional thumbs up/down rating? That way you get to vote on the 'objective' quality and the 'subjective' enjoyment factor of the content.
I hear you. It's one of the few things that actually elicits a physical response me from... a kind of shiver of anxiety. I put time and effort and maybe even a little bit of myself into my music lists... it's personal!
I think you misunderstood what I was asking, it wasn't to compare you with Google or anything. But I got my answer further down the thread, and it's amazing that you pay full salary to people who live outside of the Bay Area. Way to go!
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EDIT: this is the net downward displacement of air sufficient to equal the A380 850,984lb max landing weight assuming a ballpark air density of ~0.075 lb/ft^3. The aircraft displaces much more air via its engines, fuselage and secondary effects, but the above number seems most relevant to the Challenger 604 ~1,000 feet beneath the aircraft :).
It doesn't. It would be like stepping in to a store because people were welcoming you and realizing that by sitting down you've automatically agreed and consented to tiny ToS written behind every napkin.

It's unenforceable and has never stood up in court.
They're definitely not replenishing stocks of some DVD's, which I suppose makes sense given the trend. I would assume if they get a certain number of requests they probably do though?

Or is that my wishful thinking?
My girlfriend recently was forced to join a medical union for a new Medical Assistant job. Her "perks":

* $38k / year (In Seattle, which is about $3/hr above minimum wage)

* 2% salary goes to union dues

* She can't get insurance for the first 3 months

* She was not allowed to negotiate salary, even though she got a 4.0 and a perfect score on her MA test. That means she got the same package as a high-school drop-out who got a 2.3 GPA in MA school and a barely-passing test score.

I, as a non-unioned software engineer:

* Make more than $200k

* Always get health-insurance on day one

* Can easily negotiate not only starting salary, but also raise amounts

* Am compensated on background, instead of an arbitrary "this is your first day, so you make the same as everyone else" leveling system.

* Don't have to pay anyone for the privilege

* Don't have to work with shitty co-workers, because they can be fired without the employer fearing retribution from a big, faceless union.

So tell me-- why in the hell would I want to join a union?
"So basically increase the cost of goods for everyone so more people can be employed at a higher wage?"

Whenever the topic happens to be energy higher costs are offered as proper penance.
We won't do this because it would seem like we're not taking this incident serious and are trying to monetize an outage that affected our users. We're also not giving them away,
You're talking about the same Navy that ran Millenium Challenge 2002, where after the Blue team had their collective asses handed to them on a plate by the "Middle Eastern Rogue State (coughIrancough)" Red team using WW2 equipment and asymmetric tactics (literally tens of thousands of simulated US casualties), they refloated all the lost Blue team ships, and ordered the Red team to follow predescribed plans written to ensure Blue team success, including turning on their AA radars so they could be found and shot, and not shooting at Blue team landing craft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002#Exer...
First show initiative that you are able to learn the technology that companies are using. If you have time, start learning these technologies on the side and put them on your LinkedIn. Pluralsight (paid service) allows you to link your completed courses to your LinkedIn as certificates of completion. If you are a coachable person and understand the basics of technology, you are a "good" candidate for a job. Good luck!
DFW examines this phenomenon, obtusely, in Infinite Jest. None of his characters are Hikikomori (and honestly a book about someone sitting around and doing nothing sounds a tad boring and self-absorbed, but I'll have to read Leave Society to find out), but they are all forced to deal with a world over saturated with drugs, politics, sex, tennis, and the TV/video media.

Orin, the main character's older brother, becomes a semi-recluse/sociopath, which is the closest character to an explicit Hikikomori DFW paints in the book. The other major characters rely on other forms of relief to cope with their anxiety, depression, family issues, etc.

DFW wrote Infinite Jest in 1996 before the internet truly took over. I'd love to see another book tackle the issues and repercussions of internet-soaked culture the way DFW tackled the nature of addiction in Infinite Jest.
I own the game. Framerate drops are still very common
There's no realistic (as in adding up mathematically) way that UBI will be cheaper than the social programs of today.
So you don't have a problem with ICE agents lying to get into people's homes, so they can take people away at gunpoint, breaking families apart and turning children (frequently U.S. citizens) into orphans, and keeping people in detention centers indefinitely, where they are frequently mistreated, all for committing no other crime than crossing the border?

Because that's the issue here. This is what the actual process of mass deportation looks like. There are any number of more humane ways of dealing with this, among them what the Obama administration was doing for eight years, but Trump supporters voted for destroying people's lives en masse, at gunpoint, without consideration of any consequences.

This is inhumane. Full stop. This is not about romanticizing any one or any thing, this about asking people to look reality in the face and defend the thing that they're supporting.
I'm a little disappointed in the response, myself. I had hoped to diffuse the tension in the tone and simultaneously get insight into the perspective, though neither seemed to happened.

This, unfortunately, leads me to wonder if people with such hostile perspectives are too proud to ever concede an argument (and thus admit they are wrong) or if they consider their understanding too superior and complex to explain to others if they don't already "get it". Both of which are signs of serious arrogance.

How do we, as a society, move past these internal walls that keeps us from having meaningful dialogue?
I see, so there's not much value beyond startups and bootstrappers.

I feel like it's a hard sell to enterprises. Scraping is viewed inferior to an API so it makes sense for enterprises to just pay the target website for access to the data.
It seems really difficult to create personal agents that are actually useful to users considering startups have been trying to solve this problem for decades. I've only tried Google's Android default and it's painfully trivial and useless despite knowing absolutely everything about me.

"In the future you smart phone will know everything about you and will be able to predict the right action at the right time."

I'm not sure this is the best elevator pitch in this privacy anxious world. Sure, Google and Facebook knows everything about me but I'm not sure yet another party needs detailed access to my private data too.
If humanity does end up building a dangerous superintelligent AI, how long do you think our advances in cryptography are going to stand up to its advances in cryptanalysis?
I have seen multiple times in this thread references to terrible statements Thiel made in "The Diversity Myth" but know one has said what he actually said. Does anyone know specifically what he said that is so objectionable?
My bad, you are correct, 39.4% is the top marginal tax rate in the US, not 38%.

> Whether that's too high or too low is a separate discussion

Sounds fine: while exploring the numbers here (because frankly, I'm curious - tax rates are NOT a strength of mine) I'll not engage in that debate

> Add in 3.8% Medicare

Just to clarify that's the TOP rate, and that includes the employer share (which is arguably fair to include)

> top marginal rates at the state / city level approaching 15% for some locations

I'm less inclined to talk about the local taxes of extreme locations when discussing US taxes - Those would just induce people to move if too high (particularly since we're talking about people making over $400,000/year) and their new location could still be US.

So that would bring top marginal rates to 44.2%, and effective rates somewhere around 28-29% (assuming I didn't screw it up)

There is likely some minimum level of local taxes to apply there, (as well as a "reasonable minimum" to apply so we exclude rare extremely low results just like I rejected the extremely high ones) but I have no idea how to find that (1%? 3%?)
Surprised in all this that no one has mentioned www.cloudcannon.com - works with Jekyll and allows our marketing group to make live edits on the website while maintaining the whole thing on Github.
Hard problems can be very exciting to solve!

Never give up until you feel yourself that advancing is not going to work!

Looking forward to the beta and the full release of your lib! The C++ community needs this !
I can surely do that and even plan to, but I feel that the next guy can load his resume with a degree and cert's and beat me. Even if I'm better than him.
I did say what the framerate is, right at the very root of this thread from which this all started. I'm sorry I even brought it up at this point.
Maybe go back to 'demos' as in the days they were distributed on (collection) CDs. I remember playing the Diablo II demo over and over...
But this time demo (of a single level for instance) is offered in the browser, and when that is over one can "go to next level" (popping up a payment form) or "play demo again".
Get people hooked before even asking them to buy.
It's a solid question. Only one way to find out ;)
Deep Learning is basically doing lots of addition and multiplication; We have algorithms that allow these operations on encrypted data, without the need to decrypt the data nor to have the key to decrypt the data. So by combining the two things we can do deep learning on homomorphically encrypted data and learn meaningful things without ever looking at what the data actually is.
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Agreed. Really, really, not where I was going with my very simple question that I thought (hoped) would be answered with something interesting by you that I did not know. In fact the only reason that I threw the Trump support issue into my original question was because I wanted to avoid nonsensical and irrelevant political discussion if that was the basis for your opinion, since we have all heard it before.
I have it on the Wii U. Link looks pretty aliased, there's obvious slowdown at points, and the screen looks overly blurry with its post processing graphic effects at times (It's actually made my head hurt a few times).

I really like my Wii U, but I don't think this is the prettiest game it could be. Honestly I think Wind Waker HD has much cleaner graphics (albeit not as technically good). It is a very fun game, though.
Nice edit. Much less childish than the original "I can talk like a child because the topic is childish" one! You got one upvote for this improvement in style from me!
You're comparing completely different fields. What are the perks for Medical Assistants in non-union shops vs union shops?
This an older article...and I think it might have been on HN already
Well in this scenario you _are_ being paid less just in case you happen to choose a place you really want to live, if cost of living is higher. Most cool places have a higher cost of living - if you're one of those people who loves it in a rural place that costs 50k to buy a great house and has nothing to do than you're golden. Otherwise you're going to get penalized going to a remote-only company because as a whole they just won't pay on that scale (and realistically, why should they?).
I don't want to find out that way!
I suppose a water "carrier" could have a sieve to filter away unwanted particles, or could add chlorine to kill bacteria, etc. But it certainly couldn't do anything equivalent to keeping or selling​ logs...
So, it literally is "up for debate."

I don't think the GP intended to make a comment on just how big or small the return was.