skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, what I wish would have happened here would have been to gather up all the federally funded healthcare initiatives and create a government owned, non-profit healthcare corp to cover the same people (va, medicare, medicaid, federal employees, etc). To provide for downward pressure and a baseline for private insurers to compete against... allowing anyone to get a private policy from said corp.

Would likely have cost less, reduced redundant agencies and staff, and had a chance at making things better.
To clarify, I'm talking about CRT TVs, not computer monitors. The latter aren't (usually†) interlaced.

†There's some interesting exceptions!
BuzzFeed makes its money from native advertising, and it pays for content. In many ways, BuzzFeed is quite a traditional media organization.

Medium doesn't pay for content (at the moment) and doesn't do advertising. While people will happily click on garbage content if it's free, I don't see anyone paying for a "Membership" so they can get a stream of cat design stories and low-effort listicles.
Suggestion: Add automated machine info collection to the Developer Survey

A suggestion to improve the amount of data available in future surveys without adding to the manual collection effort, provide a facility to automatically collect workstation/environment info in a parsable format for consumption by the survey: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/345859/361842
"Or just gifs"...

This was posted a week ago in nice little subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/comments/5zirfy/my_fir...

Quote obvious product placement, right?

Now, this is today's top cinemagraph: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/comments/60wpk6/woman_...

Less obvious, right? Or am I too skeptical?
but a chinese made DVD player can play a US dvd. The fact that a browser sucks doesn't prevent good browsers from being made.

But with this EME, you now is forced to use the US made dvd player, for no good reason other than profit for the encumbent.
> On the flight back to Helsinki I was desperate for caffeine and ordered a coffee which was horrendous.

This is what I hate about caffeine, the dependency and withdrawals you get when you're not taking your dose. I love coffee and black tea, but the dependency and habituation to the effect of it is what makes me wean off from time to time.
Ah yeah but they're essentially the same colours, whereas the C64 had 16 unique ones. If it had only used 4 bits for colour then I don't think it would've maintained its earthy palate because it wouldn't have been useful enough.
No point in an ID card when a passport is only slightly dearer, but more useful.
Yes, but how much vacation do you get, how much do you work and how much do you pay for your health in order to have the standard "two adults + two children" normal lifestyle? I'm just thinking that maybe these numbers are brought down by people working very little for scraps.
What kind of workloads are you using it for?
If you're happy with `screen` then there's little point changing. The tech industry can often have an air of elitism with regards to tools we're told we "should" use. While sometimes there will be reasonable arguments for or against specific tools, usually the overriding deciding factor is just personal preference.

That all said, I do completely relate to your "[screen] happens to be installed on most hosts" point. That's also the main reason I've never switched to zsh over bash and why I don't run fancy vim plugins.
What I think is funny is that so many people complain about how bad science has become and how the papers and funding institutions enforce a very ineffective way of doing it. Why is nobody attempting or proposing new ways to make money with science? E.g. have people tried to do science in a subscription based model (like artists)? Or using free pappers+consulting on how to replicate the experiments or apply them in real projects (like open source)?
Google has a tracking record of not giving support and relying on the community for Q&A. Which means there is no real answers to different concerns. Some solutions exist but Tom from Minnesota or John from New York give bad responses and someone else trust them because these answers are in the Google support site.
I see many posts about the hours worked in USA. Whats slightly funny to me is having grown up around people who lived through great depression and fought in ww2 I often see USA as lazy these days.
Why use a stack-oriented language?
"While our emergency system is often at the point of creaking it at least isn't anywhere close to American levels of having to deal with what should be primary care problems."

How much of this "creaking" is intentional underfunding or political meddling by politicians looking for a payday from American medical insurance companies when they ruin another nations healthcare is debatable.

It's very similar to recent Trump moves of putting people who hate what a government department does in charge of that same government department. Jeremy Hunt the former Health Secretary previously called for the NHS to be replaced with an insurance system. So how can you trust that he's not trying to achieve that goal by crippling the existing system?
FTC is more a tax from manufacturers than anything else really.

Like, I've seen many monitors from various brand all stamped FTC emitting enough interference to generate audible noise on FTC stamped speakers. Isn't that the only thing they have a strong mandate and certification process for?
A description of a system doesn't make it real. Without (open) implementation I will keep saying it's SF. Concept search is SF too.

Have a look at https://www.general-ai-challenge.org/
OTOH maybe less BS than what they otherwise would?

I know that myself, I have an implicit categorization in my head about which of my FB friends knows about what, and which friends are just prone to share random clickbait. I approach the news I see accordingly.
The Debugging Mindset
Niceee. I wonder if it has a real Z80 or it's implemented on an FPGA as mentioned.
Adobe and Microsoft expand cloud partnership and launch joint solutions
Most commenters here appear to think that Google is holding all the cards over these poor schmucks like ATT, but I think you're onto something. Google might be a force of nature, but their income stream is and has always been vulnerable. I wouldn't be surprised if they have to bend on this much more than HN thinks.
Dying from starvation shouldn't happen on an Earth as abundant with resources as this one. Okay, at some point you can't hunt and gather food for yourself any more, but is that dying from starvation or dying from old age?
The age of the law, and of the building, and of the content, makes this example a bit different.

i) I build a building and then someone passes a law and I have to modify my building to make it accessible.

ii) A law is passed. A decade later I build a building, and I see the law and think it's a good thing and tell my architects and builders to make sure they comply with the law and I offer them support to understand the law, and they sign a document to say "Yep, we complied with that law", and it turns out that they lied and my new building is not compliant with the law and I have to add a ramp anyway.

The Berkeley situation is more like ii than i.
I used to buy into PG’s “inequality is not a problem” argument.

More recently I’ve come around to embracing the notion that peoples’ emotional state regarding their relative place in society and their future prospects is as important as their absolute standard of living.

Sure, as it's been argued by PG and many others, in material terms even the poorest in modern western societies are far better off than wealthy people of hundreds of years ago.

But everyone still has some degree of need to better themselves, improve their circumstances, and aspire to live more comfortably and prosperously. And crucially, the ability of young people to find a partner and have a family is strongly influenced by their prospects for upward mobility.

So if societal inequality is such that a young person trying to make their way in the world sees no opportunity for meaningful improvement of their circumstances, and therefore no real prospects for finding a good partner, raising a healthy family and achieving a good level of status in society, then the motivation to remain part of mainstream, productive society can easily be lost. This is what leads to people "dropping out" and ending up in a life of unemployment, depression, substance abuse, crime, violence, etc.

So, sure, some level of inequality is inevitable and healthy, to the extent that it rewards people for effort and ingenuity and gives people something to aspire to. But too much inequality becomes more of a de-motivator and a source of resentment, and can cause societal breakdown, and I think this is what is happening to some degree across the western world.
Engineers like names to be unambiguous as possible. Teleport tells us absolutely nothing about the software.
This suggests engines are 50% more efficient today than in 1960, with 80% reductions in fuel per passenger seat. [1]

If advanced physical simulations could produce a wing 20% more efficient than the concorde, with engines 20% more efficient, and the weight of control, actuation systems, and cabin interiors were all reduced by 20% the gains in operating cost and range would be substantially more than 20%. Gains in aircraft are typically non-linear because they all affect each other.

It's exciting to think about what might be possible with 50 years of materials science, _computers_, simulation, electronics, and propulsion technology.

[1] http://www.atag.org/component/downloads/downloads/59.html [pdf]
I was part of this programme as the cyclist riding around Bath http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h4m30

The findings were that the intensity of the exposure was less of a problem. It was the length of time you were exposed. So sitting in a car, even with car filters, pretty much put you at greatest risk. Someone on a bicycle just moved through the congestion quicker. Sadly the walker dropped out of filming. I would suspect walking along busy routes should be avoided due to the speed at which you are traveling, but is still better than sitting in a car.
I have not read the research, but I read the article and your comment. Your fifth word is absurd. There is really no need to use such hyperbole. The article is patently not absurd, though one might reasonably disagree with parts of it. I imagine you just reacted to the headline.

As far as I can tell, from reading the article: the researchers have determined - by identifying lower entropy in the distribution of trees useful-to-people - a higher probability than pure chance would allow, evidence of ancient cultivation. Especially around known architectural sites going back up to 8,000 years.

Is that a reasonable summary of the article / of the research?
It also reduced the effects of mains interference. If you had a 60Hz vertical scan, but there was interference from 50Hz mains (as there often was) then this would cause rapid rolling vertical distortion.

At 50Hz, even if the vertical sync wasn't actually locked to the mains frequency, any mains distortion would roll much, much more slowly, and be less offputting.
> 129000$ for the DGX-1, for anyone interested.

If you are allowed to buy one. Nvidia doesn't have nearly enough chips to meet demand, the bulk of their production has been earmarked for quite a while ahead, what little is left over and makes it into the DGX-1 is sold to very few hand picked customers.
Surprised that the author didn't check into Torque, the engine that powered the excellent Tribes 2 and a handful of others. MIT license and can be compiled for all major platforms.
I'm sure it's just a total coincidence.

Either that or they must have been real bad hombres.

/s, of course...
It's certainly a problem that American suburbs lack the local services that typically exist in European cities, which is currently exacerbating the issue of suburban poverty:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/suburbs...
We can't have a debate from the position of exceptions.

The point he and Mr Graham are trying to make is simple. People are not same, and by that definition are not equal.

The fact is that this inequality manifests itself in far more different ways before it appears as income/wealth inequality.

Far before some one is rich and poor, they are good and bad at playing the piano, writing a book, programming or anything for that matter. Wealth inequality comes far later.
NY -> SFO is 6 hours+ commercial. Cutting that in half makes it possible to do a return flight in a day.
The SQL:2016 Standard Introduced MATCH_RECOGNIZE: Regular Expressions Over Rows
Ask HN: Which CS Graduate Program? CMU or UCB or UMass
I have been admitted to 3 graduate programs:

1. Carnegie Mellon University - Master's in Computational Data Science (MCDS)

2. University of California, Berkeley - Master's of Information Management and Systems (MIMS)

3. University of Massachusetts, Amherst - MS in CS

I'm an international applicant and in my final year of undergrad now. I have a few internships at tech startups with machine learning and development roles. I've also done some research work pertaining to NLP. I think I have an entrepreneurial bent too.

To be honest, I don't know what I want to do with my life (yes, I want to make money to pay back the loan for my education and continue to live a comfortable life later) but I'm not really sure if I want to pursue research (whether academia or industrial) or just get done with a software engineering role.

I wish to work on something that deals with solving a large problem. I don't know which of the programs will help me get there and I do believe that Silicon Valley does have a lot of such opportunities.

If anybody here familiar with this matter could chip in their two cents, that would help me a lot. Thanks!
I'm wondering why they went with a dragon boss that flipped from one solid color to the other - wouldn't switching between a checkerboard pattern of the two colours have worked better?
Why?

AFAICT, there are three ways to double the output of a solar cell: Double the area, double the efficiency, and move the cell to somewhere with twice as bright sunlight and install a cable. That one option presents intractable problems doesn't seem to matter very much when either of the two others are available.
And the security overhead just keeps getting higher. Many of the people with the money for supersonic flight would like to go to or via the Middle East, but won't be allowed to bring laptops now?
For the first year I lived in London I got a chest infection roughly every two months.

It hasn't happened since that first year... which is actually more worrying in some ways.
Say Hello to Zeqr’s Globally Recognised Launch Xperts
What to Test? Using callgraph to prioritize test writing for Go code
To be fair, that's also how a lot of news gets reported in the actual media too. One forum or social media user says something interesting which then gets picked up by a bunch of smaller blogs which then in turn attract attention from well known news outlets.

It's how literal 'fake news' has gotten into the mass media. Because a bunch of smaller sites fell for a fake news site quoting a (non existent) interview from anther site, and then the likes of the Metro and Daily Mail assumed they knew what they were talking about.

And that's not even getting into industries where copy and pasting stories is seen as a 'default'. The gaming press is very easy to 'compromise' with photoshopped pictures and fake information, since everyone basically just takes their news from everyone else.

So yeah, not a social media or average Joe exclusive issue here. But one which affects the media itself.
EC2 Run Command Is Now a CloudWatch Events Target
A glib-like multi-platform c library
I agree with most of that, but I think based on current trends we should anticipate that human-like ("human level") artificial general intelligence will be created within less than 10 years. And not too long after that happens, we must assume that there will be AIs that are tuned or turbo-charged so that they can perform better than humans in specific areas like programming. And not too long after that, there will be competition between multiple such AIs being sold to replace humans. And then prices will be reduced and you will be able to buy 10 of these 50X AI programmers for the cost of one human programmer. Then no one will have human programmer employees except for the novelty of it.
There are pros and cons to both models, e.g. I think recent french experiment with mandated 35hrs (I think) work week backfired pretty badly.

I live in the US and know more than one person working a 6/6 cycle (6 month of work, 6 month of rest and travel) which they would never be able to do with old, rigid work arrangement.

I think for skilled workers with skills in demand flexible work options can offer huge benefits. For cashiers and conveyor workers it's the other way.
Guy Kawasaki Joins Zeqr to Offer a Limited Number of One-On-One Classes for Free
wherever you go, don't pay full price.
(I went to CMU)
The project focuses on making C development easier and provides many modules (.e.g stream, asio, regex, container, algorithm ...), so that any developer can quickly pick it up and enjoy the productivity boost when developing in C language.
BigData and ML Example and Toolset Weekly Roundup – Mar. 23, 2017
> In Holland, everyone takes off 4 - 6 weeks in the summer to travel the world. This is so different than Americans

No we don't.

I have 5 weeks of holiday a year, total. I take 2 weeks around christmas. Maybe a week somewhere in Spring, that leaves 2 weeks summer holidays. Plus, you want to keep a few spare days in case you need an incidental day off for whatever reason.
> I don't think it's not so much hypocrisy as much as they want to protect their reputation.

Wanting to protect a reputation that they refuse to back up by actually providing the guarantees that this reputation represents is exactly the hypocrisy that is being pointed out here.

Claiming a reputation without actually providing what the reputation is for, is ... well it's basically a lie, isn't it?

As someone said elsewhere in this thread, it would be so much more honest if they'd just lease these things. All these controls on repairs, custom software, they make perfect sense for something that is leased, not sold.
US way:

You make $8k a month:

You pay $2k in taxes (Employer pays an additional $1k in tax), so your income is 9k.

You pay $500 in health and other benefits (employer pays another $500)

If you spend remaining $5.5k, you'll usually pay $250-$500 In sales taxes.

In other words, you have $5k remaining to spend on shit that you probably don't need.
I know your username literally spells it out, but my god are you a dickhead.
The form factor. My national ID is the size of a credit card, so I always keep it in my wallet. For something that lets me visit a good thirty countries, that's good enough value for me.
This is an agile development process.

Although in principle it should be possible to have a machine that performs each iteration near-instantaneously, rather than wait three hours between each change.
Yes, I'm Norwegian and moved to the UK, and it was a shock to see "US conditions" in Europe, and took a lot to get used to, even though the UK still have a lot of protections and welfare systems the US doesn't.

(to the Americans: In many European countries "US conditions" is commonly used in political discourse as a way of scaring voters with the image of chaos and suffering)
Time passed since Trump's latest freakout
What sort of payload throughput (in bit/s) can you get out of this, in a pinch?
> e.g. blocking the blind person's path

To be fair, the braille paths in China aren't exactly blind-friendly in the first place:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1299761/beiji...
Few Mobile Commerce Ideas That Never Get Stuck
In three years only emissions-free vehicles will be allowed in central London.
It's useful to remember that it's a bunch of people that don't know the industry. They're just googling and reading Wikipedia. That doesn't mean the project will be successful. It's just that there's zero information content to most comments that are on non-software topics.

There are some things I know a little about that I haven't commented on here about, and I've seen where people are quite clearly googling and getting not the right answer but the answer that is most likely to show up on Google.

Just something useful to keep in mind.
> I presume you are saying that since in Linux processes and threads are "the same" there is no need to distinguish whether the process being switched in shares the same address space.

That's right. Threads share everything but their stack.

> Does this mean that there is a missed optimization on Linux to preserve some virtually-addressed caches and tables when switching to thread/process that shares the same address space?

I'm not entirely sure I understand your question. What scenario do you have in mind?
Researcher has to have some amount of authority in his field to receive grants. Publishing in high-tier venue is a good way to get that authority because it is how people-with-money judge researchers :-)

Well I really enjoy reading articles from top-tier venues (PL theory). It means that committee does a good work filtering and improving articles, definitely not without mistakes.
There's not market for this.

Passenger don't care about saving time transatlantic because the people who can afford it can now sleep in a bed in business or first.

Airlines don't want it because super sonic capable engines take way more fuel than current day engines and therefore the costs would be high.

If there was a demand for supersonic planes Boeing or Airbus would be building them already.
Programming seems like a thing that would be ripe for automation...
Compiled JavaScript with NectarJS can be faster than Node.js and C
well you learn something every day (and it also shows my complete lack of apple knowledge) i always thought apples operating systems were unix based.
>In Europe the ups and downs of life are more smoothed out.

When a substantial portion of "success" (especially monetary) can be attributed to luck, isn't this the sort of environment you want?
I suppose it's a matter of cost, which will likely depend on location. Cheap lenses might be more feasible in densely populated areas. A big, fat, copper cable attached to very large and very cheap panels will likely be more cost effective in sparsely populated areas.
So assuming one would want to work in the US, how do you bargain for the standard 6 weeks vacation? Or are there just a few positions where you can get that?
> I think based on current trends we should anticipate that human-like ("human level") artificial general intelligence will be created within less than 10 years

Why? People have been saying this since the 1960s, so much so it's become a running joke. And some of them were very smart people too, like Marvin Minsky.

What is it about AI that creates this illusion of progress (or at least, wild overestimation of progress)?
Sounds like a great way to instigate a US-based antitrust suit