skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the fact that Republicans don't want it, it's a surefire political loser. It'd piss off the health industry whose profits would be impacted. It'd piss off anyone who was already happy with their healthcare. It'd piss off their wealthy donors, who would have to pay more in taxes for it. It'd give a whole bunch of fuel to the activists and journalists who're already going after the Republicans, because single-payer is only workable elsewhere by refusing to pay for expensive stuff that doesn't help patients, and that stuff comes in vital-sounding guises like "essential healthcare benefits" and cancer screening and treatment. Setting it up would also be a massive, unprecedented task.

Also, I think a fundamental problem with any Republican healthcare plan is that the opposition to it doesn't have a politically coherent set of principles that they could bargain with. For example, one of the features of the ACA is that it subsidises all elderly people regardless of wealth through the 3:1 cap on age-based premium differences. This is indirectly taxpayer-funded through subsidies to buy the insurance plans that subsidise it (for people who often can't afford to use their insurance), but the trick used to hide who's being subsidised also makes insurance unaffordable for young people. So Republicans want to replace the whole mess with a straightforward taxpayer-funded, age-based subsidy. Cue press attacks about how the evil moustache-twirling Republicans want to send seniors' insurance rates skyrocketing and hand out subsidies to people regardless of wealth.
Google kills Talk so Hangouts may live
> My guess is that the site uses Leq because highway noise data is generally calculated using peak hour Leq and it was easier to get airport Leq data than to calculate highway Ldn data.

Agreed. They should still know better than publishing something with contours out to 35 though! There is already a push by communities to mitigate aviation noise beyond the current level - 55 DNL is a number often thrown around and that often causes debate over ambient noise levels in an urban area etc. This map is going to cause headaches and confusion with the public.
Oh my goodness. My old lisp tutorials are on HN again.

Before anyone takes potshots, please understand that these tutorials have a very specific purpose: to get our AI students up and coding AI projects as quickly as possible given what they know (C++/Java). So instead of talking up front about the things that make Lisp special, I'm basically talking about how to write C in Lisp. Hence, the tutorials don't ever discuss CLOS, macros, advanced packages, conditions, streams, the type lattice, SLIME, ASDF, Quicklisp, indeed any installable packages at all. Because we get to many of those things, and the wonders of Lisp, later in the class.
Except it doesn't look more professional because you could only get smithfamilyemails.com or something equally unmemorable.
Let's give a few examples of information they could find about you:

Visits nytimes.com, huffingtonpost.com and cnn.com: user is interested in current events and is probably liberal

Visits webmd.com and kaiserpermanente.org: user is probably sick

I'm sure you can extrapolate further. Now let's say I'm a gay person growing up in a conservative house and ads start popping up for all the family members on our shared IP for gay dating sites. That might be problematic for certain people.
Yep, it's old. I've updated it here or there but it needs a serious revision.
It would have been nicer to contact the authors of the algorithm before making these (apparently incorrect) claims via blog post. It's just sensationalistic.
I miss Google Hello.
For cross platform GUIs I use CAPI[1] from Lispworks, and was one of the main reasons I purchased it after using free Common Lisp implementations for many years. It's a well designed and stable system for building native guis on macOS, Windows, Linux, Solaris and others with a single code base and well worth the price of admission for creating desktop software.

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/products/capi.html
Remember that the Caesars saved Rome from collapse; Octavian (Augustus Caesar) was one of the most influential and successful people in history. For the fall of the Western Empire, see The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, but even then remember that the Roman Empire continued in the east until 1453.

I don't know why you condemn the Great Man theory while talking about Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan -- two of the clearest-cut examples of how the Great Man theory isn't entirely wrong.
Have you heard how orgasms boost your mood?
> According to the complaint, Windows 10 installed itself onto plaintiff Stephanie Watson's computer without her consent

If the claim is true, then the previous version's terms would govern the situation. I haven't looked, but it's possible that auto-OS upgrades are somehow covered in the windows version she was using before windows 10
If you're frustrated, don't take that out on people who are misinformed. They aren't in your news bubble, and for years everything they've seen has said that climate science is bunk.

If you don't want to be a reasonable, level headed and compassionate fellow human who wishes to gently lead in the direction of truth, rather be silent so that someone else can.
Hey, that's exactly what I thought!
Scientists successfully implant 3D-printed human cartilage cells in baby mice
Everything is a Remix
It's so disorganized you wouldn't believe it if someone told you this is how a company actually approached IM, and not just any company, but the biggest internet company in the world. I literally have no idea what I'm supposed to be using now. Can I get google hangouts messages (is that even a thing?) and sms in the same app now somehow?

I'd love to be a fly on the wall where these decisions are being made, the powerless non-autistic people in the room must be simply incredulous.
SEC and DOJ Dropped Inquiries into Hampton Creek
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13950002
took me a second to realize how important this is; my brain dismissed the final solution as 'so what, that's just like HTML'.

then I got it -- the ability to use code generation to be declarative is incredible.

having the ability to mix declarative (HTML / data structures) and imperative (javascript) is what makes react so powerful. The ability to do that almost-natively inside the language is amazing.
Why does the fact that GTK "looks non-native on Windows" disqualify it? If it's pretty enough for Linux, isn't also good enough for Windows? (Also my personal opinion is that it doesn't look too bad.)
That's the case with most of interoperability / standardization efforts. But without it, the whole situation ends up being the current mess.
Yes, the blood thinner that needs tight monitoring and dietary restrictions to safely take, and causes >30,000 life threatening or fatal incidents every year in the US.
"having a silicon valley development job requires you to conform to silicon valley political opinions"

Seeing this, and all the boycotts based on political opinions happen at the same time as the bitcoin split makes me wonder if we are going to end up in separate economies. Crazy, I know...

But if you have to agree on politics to get a job, won't the other side just form a different union? With republican owned companies hiring republicans, and vice versa. Seems like diversity of thought is going to decline. And why? Diversity!

"if you can't possibly imagine anyone disagreeing with your "resistance", can you imagine disagreeing with chosen tactics, or perhaps someday, having some other political issue come up that you disagree with?"

Fractal economies!?! Now which ones will have the best jobs : employees ratio? I need to place my bets/form my political opinions appropriately.
Markets Update: Bitcoin’s Price and Market Share Dominance Declines
Creating a Django model instance in the past
With GUIs, consistency is the primary concern followed by 'pretty'.

Non-native breaks consistency, rendering 'pretty' fairly meaningless.
My understanding is that they're all some combination of more dangerous to humans, less effective, and more expensive. You actually end up spraying more pesticide, or denying the chemical to poor people who want to dust it inside their houses.

Is that incorrect?
As they say, Works For Me. Admittedly, I don't know how many important emails I've lost over the years, but I don't remember ever being contacted elsewhere about an email that turned out to be in spam. I have a bad memory so I might be forgetting some instance, but if so it must not have been terribly important, or I'd remember it… On the flipside, there have almost never been any false negatives. I remember being quite annoyed a while back when there was a brief period where a trickle of spam got through. Other than that, I've been spam-free.

(I also remember being IMed by spambots using XMPP federation a few times.)

This does come at the cost of letting Google see all my email. I'm not happy about that, but I'm skeptical that a fully encrypted solution could provide filtering as effective. Certainly a self-hosted solution cannot.
But mining does produce nasty long term effects from time to time.

Particularly acidic runoffs leaching through metals and into the water supply.

Certainly not all mining operations though.
What Recruiters and Hiring Managers Can Learn from Google Hiring Process?
> That decision basically killed instant messaging for me.

I feel the same way.
Debug Facebook bot on local host using VS code and ngrok
Juju was originally written in Python. They ported it to Go 4 years ago.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-n...
Here's the real problem:

> When the thesis came to be read by our committee, we could not pass it. Brilliancy and originality by themselves won't save a thesis for the doctorate; it must also exhibit a heavy technical apparatus of learning; and this our candidate had neglected to bring to bear. So, telling him that he was temporarily rejected, we advised him to pad out the thesis properly, and return with it next year

This is not much of an exaggeration. Getting a Ph.D. is as much (maybe more) about demonstrating your ability to shmooze, defer to authority and put up with bullshit for an extended period of time as it is about learning or doing good research.
I don't know the answer but I'll say good luck, and the "lemonade from the lemons" might be to just start your own business / startup / freelance from the beginning and enjoy never having a boss or a scrum meeting.
Well, anything is people poison if you take enough. Forced consumption of sufficient water can kill someone.

Toxicity isn't really yes/no, it's always a matter of dosage.
Either Ryan is incompetent when it comes to writing legislation and is only good at pretending he's good at it (wouldn't surprise me), or he just wanted to kill the issue and move on the other things.
He absolutely had to be seen as pushing for it, even if he realized that many millions losing coverage would hurt him deeply in 2020.

Right now healthcare is shelved and the far right reps lose steam, having failed to work with their own party and a President far more popular with their constituents than they are.

Honestly I don't think he care whether it passed or not. He's not playing the game we see.
No, you can argue that a PHD has zero correlations with teaching.

Picture a ven diagram where A overlaps with B, B overlaps with C, but AC does not overlap with A. Remove B and you have two circles that don't overlap at all.
It's political in Canada too.
Why should anybody have to put up with non-standard UI and behaviour?

(Case in point: the very website's scrolling. Works great on desktop Firefox, not obviously distinguishable from any other website. On iOS... a sad joke, made at the user's expense.)
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Has nothing to do with what?

Again, power consumption/connection lifecycle isn't directly a competitive advantage because your user doesn't care so long as it works. (Slack and FB Messenger seem to have terrible power consumption and connection lifecycles for mobile but also seem to be doing just fine.)

(Not to mention those are also things that could be fixed in an open standard, if people cared to contribute that effort. The unfortunate reality is that isn't a competitive advantage either.)

The competitive advantage is to find excuses to dismiss open standards, whether the arguments are technically or factually correct is another matter, and build walled gardens.

But more crucially to my previous point, being technically superior isn't really a competitive advantage if a user doesn't notice it and in fact, can slow one from getting first mover advantage by shipping something/anything faster and sooner. I really don't think that on a power consumption or connection lifecycle standpoint any of the closed source protocols are really all that much better, and we have mostly nothing but anecdotes to trade on that question because the companies want to maintain their secret sauces.
Competition does not imply zero-sum. But for competition, how would society continually reorganize itself for the better? If everybody got to do whatever they most wanted to do, we'd all be princesses and basketball players. Competition is precisely how society achieves non-zero-sum outcomes.

Unfortunately, the popular notion of competition overloads it with alot of cultural baggage and imbues it with meaning where there is no intrinsic meaning.
Theranos founder to give up shares to investors who pledge not to sue
>"I've said before on hackernews, but people never seem to grasp the scope of Amazon. They aren't an e-commerce website anymore; that's just the tip of the iceberg"

I don't think this is some kind of special perspective that you have from working there. I think people seem to grasp their ambitions pretty well. Their fleet of planes, the delivery drones for last mile, Alexa, Prime Pantry, AWS etc, all of these developments have received good coverage in mainstream media.
I have an old abandoned project inspired by ex widgets.... in assembly. Sometimes I think it might be worth getting back into it just for the GUI part as a lightweight framework, but assembly is so intimidating sometimes.

Honestly because of its package executable nature, I would probably try to do something in go instead.
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This is great, thanks. It seems that it is incomplete, though. What can the community do to support further development?
My favorite cross-platform GUI toolkit ever was/is Cocotron:

http://cocotron.org

Let's face it, macOS is the only desktop platform where users give a shit about whether apps look native and use system-provided controls. Mac is also the platform that has the nicest standard UI framework (Linux doesn't have one and Windows is forever haunted by Win32 despite Microsoft's 15 years of trying to push XAML).

Hence it makes sense to build desktop GUIs for Mac first, on the Mac, and cross-compile to other targets. Cocotron delivered just that: a minimalist BSD implementation of Foundation + AppKit, with a footprint light enough that you won't be ashamed to ship it as a DLL with your Windows app.

I've used Cocotron a couple of years ago for some custom graphics apps that needed to be deployed on Windows (one was a title creation app for a TV game show, just to design the graphics they needed for each weekly episode). It worked great. Even accounting for Cocotron's missing pieces and bugs, the UX of Cocoa-on-Windows was lightyears better than what people were used to when it comes to custom Windows apps.

Unfortunately Apple hasn't really made life easy for Cocotron because the platform has moved ahead so fast and Objective-C has accumulated tons of slightly warty features for Swift bridging.

The original OpenStep/Cocoa was clean, small and designed to be portable with light compiler support. Today, Apple APIs are a sprawling foundation for the iOS ecosystem, and it's in Apple's interest to keep making the API surface bigger and harder to port so that nobody can pull off what Microsoft tried with their iOS bridge [1]. (Obviously I don't blame Apple in any way, just feeling slightly nostalgic.)

[1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/ios
> The paradox of the heap[1] shows that vagueness is an inherent, inescapable part of reality.

Or it's an inescapable part of how we interface with reality, i.e. it's an artifact of the structure of the human brain.
"Discrimination" just means differentiating on some factor to make a decision; every hiring decision involves discrimination on some set of factors.

There are, obviously, inappropriate and illegal bases for discrimination, but without any discrimination, the only way to make decisions is randomly (and even that is, really, discrimination based on alignment with the results of your source of randomness.)
Ah never had issues with my retina mbp or 12". Unless I connected it to an external display. Which is where people seem to complain.
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Sure. But since neither XK nor ZK is known to have been used by CIA, and XK is known to be used in the novella, and the snark/boojum contrast exists and would fit well with the story, that was what I referenced.
It takes some elite window management skills I'd think. How many windows do you expect to have on a screen that big? If more than 4, doesn't moving them around get cumbersome?

Side note: sizeUp for osx is very good, I wish there were something as good for Ubuntu.
> Any ideas of it's authentic?

It is. And it's nothing new and well-known[1]. OP is Fermats library's high resolution picture of the 17th century reproduction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhoubi_Suanjing
Kontena: The Developer Friendly Container and Microservices Platform
What's an example of a TypeScript program where erasing the type information won't produce valid ES6? I had thought Flow and TypeScript were the same in this regard, but I am not an expert.
This could be useful to reverse-engineers who may want to do security verification (are there a hidden backdoors in this chip outside its specifications?) or to simply clone a chip outright.
Google Cache:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gzApjA...
>They agreed to

If someone does not understand or read the entirety of a (double-digit-pagecount-with-single-point-font) document that has been intentionally written as obtuse as possible, is that document actually legally binding? Especially when a single click is all it takes to keep using the (generally expensive) software locked behind such a document?

No "normal" people read or care about these kinds of documents, nor should they have to. Judges are starting to realize this, and react accordingly. "Forced" EULAs and License Agreements have failed to stand up in court numerous times before, and I expect this will happen more frequently as cases keep popping up.

I, for one, am looking forward to seeing how big of a slap on the wrist Microsoft will get from cases like this.
I don't know how well this translates to the software space. Of course, it's great that there are some standards, like HTTP, that are in common. When it comes to communication, standards like email and XMPP aren't proving that useful. Email is incredibly insecure and XMPP doesn't have much usage, and new features are lacking in both. Meanwhile, communications services that have implemented open standards in a non-federated way like WhatsApp, Signal, and Slack are soaring.
I remembered it exactly the other way round and also wasn't sure. It's curious/disturbing that events barely over a decade past are difficult to google. 'What was the first gtalk client'. 'When was gtalk integrated into gmail'. 'When did gtalk get an OS X client'.
So if I'm understanding correctly, this is evidence that about 300 years after the death of Pythagoras, his proof "travelled" over the silk road to China?
Finally read last week, really enjoyed it, so that was the first thing I thought of when I saw this story. logs into OASIS to search for the egg
Yes! Mail-tester is the best checker I've seen in a very long time. I'm amazed it's still free. Shush.
Bak of the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld model called his model the sandpile, basically explicitly to remind one of the Sorites paradox. Interesting thing to talk about. You can definitely take it as a sort of different descendent of the Ising model: it has had much less influence on the world compared to backpropagation neural net.

The dynamical nature of the definition stays, which has bedraggled Sorites people for millenia, but McClelland has been talking about the dynamical nature of representation for decades too. I think some of the anti-neural net cognitive science people (Pinker, Fodor maybe? I forget) brought up some Sorites arguments when fighting the 80's connectionists.
There might be higher up the corporate ladder. For a coding peon there is no point. You can get it for free by first applying for jobs you are less excited about for the practice.
Afaik the Displayport Alternate mode of USB-C is limited to Displayport 1.2, which means 4k@60Hz max. For that reason the external Apple/LG 5k displays use the Thunderbolt3 mode of USB-C instead of Displayport.

It could also be possible that faster displayport alternate modes could be possible, but are just not available on current-gen transceivers.
There are only 12 Democrats who represent districts Trump carried. There's not much room for the GOP to pick up votes on the left.
The same can be said for Adverts. They work, but they become less effective as time goes by. In order to get the same income, they have to be more intrusive, using more bandwidth, etc. That's why ad blockers are becoming steadily more popular.

I hope that soon enough a popup blocker will become available that solves the irritation of popups too.
Here are the ACA essential healthcare benefits:

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/what-marketplace-plans-c...

Which ones do you see as the least helpful for patients?

edit: There are several that aren't particularly insurable, but they are generally useful services.
Yeah I think one of the main things that React offers is a DSL for trees (JSX) that can lexically close over and also splice in JavaScript. Languages that allow creating your own DSLs offer this for other realms such as shader coding, logic programming etc. within the metalanguage.
This already exists (not affiliated in any way): interviewing.io
The T470 and the new X1 Carbon both look pretty good this year too.
You have to remember that these big moneied interests are 100% self interested and are often not accountable to anyone, even corporate boards.

Dead birds don't need sanctuaries!

The left wing people do it too. There are plenty of phoney environmental marches to stop <X> that are really funded by real estate people or others who stand to lose something.
count yourself lucky, you could be using lotus notes
This passage seems to be deliberately looking the other way:

> Our evolution has been profoundly influenced by our selection-buffering behaviors. For instance, the appearance of some modern human features appears to be correlated with a rise in energy consumption, linked to the introduction of meat in our diet.

Does buffering ourselves from selection by hunting and eating animals not subject them to more selection?