skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's your point in your false equivalency?

Are you implying that the 20 million people that now have medical coverage because of Democrats pushing for Obamacare isn't worth it? Was that all "talk"?

I'm seriously trying to understand your "equivalency" position.

Let me know what the Republicans would have done for health care? Right now it seems that the only thing they've done is to actually limit universal health care, so we have less than 100% coverage.

Are the two parties the same on health care?

Right now I don't trust anybody that says the two parties are the same, since they are clearly very, very different. In fact, it seems the only people that say that are Republicans that don't have a better argument?

Are you a Republican? Or maybe you fall under the auspices of a white-male demographic that bias towards conservatism?
They need to deregulate the entire medical industry, so anyone can start a medical practice. Right now, doctors control the supply of new medical licenses, and they're incentivized to restrict the supply so their own wages go up. The official line is that they can ensure high-quality medical treatments this way, but that's just something they tell themselves to feel good about it.

One of the consequences is that doctors are beholden to large corporations who have teams of lawyers to handle legal issues and malpractice lawsuits. Since there are limited slots, some of them even work in foreign countries until they get experience to land a job in the US, which is a waste of talent.

If anyone could start a medical practice, a new syringe company could sell to smaller practices that haven't yet been mired in enterprise contracts.

Right now, in order to even build a hospital you have to submit "evidence of need" to the government to get approval. Imagine if every startup had to convince a bureaucrat that they were needed: fewer people would be interested in starting one.

It's probably worth considering moving medical negotiations from insurance companies and employers to the consumer. I don't know that it's very common to call up multiple doctors and find the one with the lowest price, because you're paying your insurance company to do the negotiation for you. Taxing employer-provided health insurance as income might remove the incentive for them to provide it at all. Together with deregulating the entire medical industry, it would make it possible to buy cheap treatment without insurance, which might be enough to make insurance less important.
The older method is docstrings (reST and similar) like here: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/request...

IDEs like PyCharm can use those and other methods to find most typing issues. In practice this is very effective for most "boring" Python code, but if you get really clever it falls over completely.
Seems like interop with Go could be its selling point. I wouldn't call it gruby though, since it isn't Ruby-on-Go.
The buried lede here is that Apple did nothing to protect users from a company that openly and willfully strip-mined their privacy in violation of App Store rules.
I'm not sure what your point is. This isn't a free market because of monopolies or because of regulations?

To me, it seems like we have a completely free market here... and that is the problem. Companies are free to create and exploit monopolies. It's the final state of a completely free market.
Android has a higher market share than iOS. How does that make Apple a monopoly?
Are there tax reasons as in the UK that make umbrella companies more common?
When they say independent they mean or outside influence and political parties, they absolutely intend to always follow their British liberal tradition. They don't hide this.
If you take out a loan from a loan shark, you should probably know what to expect. That doesn't mean that the loan shark isn't breaking the law when you get roughed up for non-payment.
I assume because such quotes are really hard to read as they don't wrap the text. So on a small screen you end up swiping left and right to read the quote.
Your hypothetical scenario is suggesting that there are no alternative for 99% of the monopoly provider's products and only a better alternative from the 1%? No alternatives for the 99% even with a 50% markup (50 discounted vs 100 full price)? In that case, the buyer is much better off with a 50% discount on 99% of the products since no alternative exists, even at the 100 full price.
> You and your friends are not psychiatrists ...

Neither are psychiatrists, as the term is commonly understood:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-rats-of-n-i-m-h

Quote: "America’s psychiatrist-in-chief seemed to be reiterating what many had been saying all along: that psychiatry was a pseudoscience, unworthy of inclusion in the medical kingdom."

Surely you weren't planning to invoke the nonexistent authority of a field that even its primary spokesman disavows?

If I say "literally" when I actually mean "figuratively," some may object, but they won't try to invoke a nonexistent authority, since language is not science, and in any case "literally" and "figuratively" are now accepted as synonyms. But if I try to express an opinion using a term like "malignant narcissist," which has the same scientific standing as "literally," someone is likely to object. Why? Because people take psychology seriously.

How could people presume to use "narcissism" and its variants from the time of classical Greece to the present, and before the term was co-opted by psychology? One more question -- in a scientific sense, what has psychology contributed to our understanding of the term?
Do you have data to back up this definite claim? HN is all about the science.
For free or for compensation? For compensation, maybe AirPair.com?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397
It's based on being cynical due to working in marketing for 15 years. Obviously I'm only speculating. I mentioned native ad sales because sites that engage in native marketing typically sell a package that includes posting the native content to their Facebook page, which has X number of followers. The higher that number, obviously the more attractive it is.
The Guardian published a terribly misleading series of stories about WhatsApp that it refuses to correct, despite being called out by most of the security industry. Keep your wallet in your pocket!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nqlE6UQjbUmgoMeJCePVcY5f...
well yes, they removed the network overhead and disk overhead by running it on localhost and writing to /dev/null, and once you remove two bottlenecks you'll find that something else becomes the new bottleneck

libc is not the OS, it's the standard library for C, in the same way the java class library isn't the OS, it's the standard library for java
I was hoping for some epic Lord of the Rings story, disappointed...but SSH makes up for it :)
I just read a good chunk of your article.

Could you give an idea of what the graph and interface would look like if the language we want to write in is Lisp?

It is indeed very string that we've settled on character based editors for making programs.
> OmniTI will be suspending active development of OmniOS

...

> We still run quite a bit of infrastructure on OmniOS and expect to continue contributing

I'm not sure how to interpret this. They will simultaneously suspend development and continue contributions? That seems contradictory.
There are several strings in your gist that have the f misplaced, e.g.

'f{out}/libexec/docker/docker-proxy'

instead of

f'{out}/libexec/docker/docker-proxy'

Not sure it is materially important to the argument, but I thought it was interesting
Doesn't pass the smell test to me.

So a big company had 80% of the market? What about the other 20%?
> A market in which buyers are not free to choose better products is not a free market.

Most businesses can choose better products (not sure about hospital industry). They can also choose to sign an agreement that makes a supplier relationship exclusive. For instance, a restaurant can sign an agreement to accept only Mastercard. Is this not a free market?
Why would a banking app need to use device fingerprinting?
But our savior Peter Theil said monopolies are good and the thing every company wants to become!
Uber's app could identify iPhones even after they'd been wiped
Depends on the corpus. If your problem fits a conLL task, you can read lots of papers about it. If you can build on an existing wikipedia entity/relation graph, dictionary, gazzette that's a big boost. For academic research papers, look at citations for your input stream then SVM tf-idf bigrams. If sentiment/quality analysis, that's another tack
They don't wrap on desktop either
so what, to return from a freelist you alter the head pointer to point to the next item and return it

that's what, 2 or 3 instructions? even if you push that upto a few hundred it's still effectively free compared to anything else curl is going to do (e.g. writing to the disk)
That's the argument being made. The buyer is better off staying with the single supplier. The argument is that this is a breakdown in markets and should be regulated (for instance by breaking the supplier apart).
80% of the market is not an unassailable monopoly. Such things rarely if ever exist unless they are created by regulation.
(author here). You're right that it takes more than a month to get a handle on tricks tools & quirks in a new language / buildsystem.

That said, if you drop me in a dumpster I can tell immediately that it's a hot day. The forum content around the android problems that I had show that the same problems have been cropping up for years with no improvement.

I don't doubt there are real reasons for the rigidity of android interfaces. Could be that the underlying system is written in C and doesn't interface easily with java. Could be limited staff and high legacy support requirements.
You've never worked in a blue-collar industry, then. It's a death by 1000 cuts. When your workers are frustrated by the amount of red tape and regulation surrounding their day to day work tasks, something is wrong.
Makes sense, my default is not to ask about it. I've seen very few people with eye patches in my life and I never asked.

It kind of relates to what one of my friends recently observed and experienced, someone asked them what race they are. She's light skinned but black. The person asking went through a few different combinations latino, white-black mix, etc and finally asked black and she got really angry. From my 3rd person perspective, I don't think the intent was to cause an issue but to relate to my friend. It's unfortunate because I don't see a maleficent intent, an unintended negative experience. This event is a small example of what I see on a overall change in society. Now everyone is walking around on pins and needles, afraid to make a social interaction for fear of making someone angry. Further isolation. Less tolerant to mistakes. I don't see this as a good thing. Boring. Uncreative. Polished. Unable to express an idea or question for fear of offending someone.
How would you know? Just because it's never been truly tested in reality doesn't mean we can't stop and think about the situation. We know what corporations do when they are given a choice (they choose profits over anything else) and we know that consumers will choose low prices over everything else as well. So, it's not hard to draw the conclusion that this will result in consolidation, economies of scale, and eventually monopolies. Exactly what is already happening.

In a "free market", what is going to prevent this? Every actor here is acting in their best interest. What could possibly change their behavior other than the government telling them to?
This jumped out at me too. He's using some terms incorrectly in this article. In the very next paragraph he says

>Back in the mid-'90s when Sergey Brin and Larry Page started the company, there were many other search tools jostling for position.

... which puts a lie to the sentence you quoted.

And then the next point:

>Second, what makes Google's search dominance profitable is network effects. Without a large internet to index, and a huge number of people looking for things online, even the best imaginable search would be worthless.

That's not what people mean when they talk about network effects. The fact that huge numbers of people use Google doesn't make searching with Google more useful, and Microsoft can also index that "large internet" for Bing.
The current enemy is always the source of the leaks. A few months back it was china. The political move is just the finger pointing.
Free market != deregulation
There absolutely is a filter bubble, you just aren't the one doing the filtering. Not that I am philosophically opposed to the filtering, but rather the denial of its existence.
Separate but equal always turns out well...
It's quite balanced choice of programming language to learn (when you already do programming). It's different enough from very mainstream languages (not so boring as learning C# after Java), but not completely alien (not Hoon, Red or Coq). It's not enough popular to be used by copy-paste coders in bodyshops however not obscure and often considered "mainstream". It's created by academy (and not by website designers) but practical enough. It's old enough to not treat it as hype but not obsolete (and looks quite modern).
These companies should be driven out of business, by whatever means necessary. They are terrible.
name some laws that have been implemented in the last 40 years that have drastically changed manufacturing companies to be profitable.

There are a slew of reasons why its more expensive to manufacture things here in the US - globalization, cheap labor overseas. Taxes on corporations have no increased though in that period of time.
It is faster practically everywhere from 2x and on...
I'm curious if any allocators with size classes/buckets actually do much pointer chasing. One can theoretically have a free-list for each class, so at most one pointer needs to be dereferenced: work out the size class, load the front of the appropriate list, read its tail pointer and store that as the new front of the list.
StackOverflow for sure. Not sure why you disagree.
There's so much maths to learn.  Or is that so little?
Sure. I was using the term colloquially, as I think the author was.
20M on Obamacare != 20M who have health insurance because of Obamacare. Stop parroting CNN talking points and do your own research.
Ask HN: What are some reliable sources on nutrition?
I removed the block quote and just used quotations. I wish HN would provide proper quotation formatting and a preview of what you're about to post...
I don't disagree with you. I too also want the web to continue to be interesting. I also find myself clicking on "Instance Articles" and "AMP" pages a lot, because the experience sometimes is just so much better.

You and I can probably live without Facebook, but for many, that's literally the only way they connect with friends online. And that's important, because the average user will become what defines the web. Just like trump is the president now, both are things I don't personally like, but that's just the people speaking.

In a way, we (hn users) are also uninteresting -- and the Facebook content are kind of interesting to other people as well. People are different, and we just have different objective functions. In that sense, HN itself is also a "silo". We don't want to be living in silos.
Especially if eg Facebook notification emails count as transactional. Group memberships alone massively narrow things down. Throw in a few business notifications and it's game over.

Even without that angle, I find it absolutely scandalous that a company is able to do this, even with the T&Cs permission of their users. Surely at some point this is going to bite them in the behind? The possibilities of it going massively wrong seem endless. Then again - common sense and the law rarely seem to intersect.
Google: My interview experience
Am I right in thinking that the first three were achieved through litigation rather than legislation?
IIRC that would have entailed striking the word "marriage" from the legal books entirely. Conservatives are not down with that; the logistics with support would be insane, without support impossible.

Given the outcome, I find this an odd talking point of failure to compromise. We dodged a separate but equal bullet..
But how do you judge uber if you can't trust journalistic integrity? The very people you trust to think for you are unqualified - which leads me to believe so is your opinion. This seems to be the problem with Fake News.
The deal is that if we're talking of TPC apps on a single network interface, you can't.

No, but you can fake it with sslh: http://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh.shtml
> Writing trivial bug-free programs is easy in any language.

Not really. Writing programs which don't crash the first few times I run them in a dynamic language is surprisingly hard. Just having a compiler prevents having to get to that point - and then Rust ensures that I handle potential errors correctly and avoid segfaults.

> This is something you should only need to do if you have a wretched debugger of if you're working on a bug where the presence of the debugger alters its behavior.

Or if I can't be arsed configuring gdb with breakpoints for everything from the command line. I can add a println!(), save my file, and watchman will recompile and run my program in a much more reasonable (to me) workflow. I assume that I can somehow integrate gdb into my editor, but that involves a pile of learning new things.

For a so-called "trivial" app I'm most of the way through writing right now, is an OpenID Connect and SCIM server that has had to implement a decent chunk of functionality (JWTs, key fetching and caching, juggling between postgres and redis, etc) from scratch. But for most of the particularly fiddly parts, I've managed to have the type system ensure that I either outright can't have logic errors or they're detected and the program panics, which is rather nice.
Drive through many American small towns and it looks the exact same.

A strip mall with a Subway, a couple national fast food joints, and if you're big enough, Wal-Mart.

There are literally 1000s of towns with this copy and paste setup-- how could this not be detrimental when money is going to a huge corporation every time?
That kind of arrangement already clearly illegal if the hospital takes government healthcare funds.
Does anybody follow the "Liam" Apple robots referred to in the article? Interesting tech, I wonder what an open source take-things-apart bot would look like. Download recipes and documents and end up with a pile of parts?

More on Liam: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/instead-of-a-recy...
I'm guessing the answer to this is: because the problem is ridiculously bad.
Cell calls sounded like crap 20 years ago and they still sound like crap. What other sort of evidence do you want?
I'm not a fan of the Trump administration, but I'm glad they're trying to reform the H1B program.
I think the bigger reason was Ansible needed to support Python 2.4 and 2.5 for old CentOS versions, making simultaneous Python 3 support very hard. They've now dropped 2.4 and 2.5, thus allowing Python 3 compatibility.

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/22721/files

(Though, it's worth noting that CentOS still does not have Python 3 support out of the box.)
Yes I remember that, and also http was on port 82 before it was assigned 80, if memory serves me right.

I reserved port 63 for whois++, that by the way rests fine where it is, in very few people's memories, during the same era. The motivation went something like 43 for whois protocol, 53 for ns, so 63 looks like evolution, though there were no aspirations to replace the name service protocol.
csh is still the default root shell on FreeBSD, which is in heavy use in millions of places around the world.

There are also a relatively large number of tcsh users in the world. This is why, even now on latest fedora, /etc/profile.d contains csh scripts.

As for sh, standards exist for a reason. Try to empathize with people who are not in your bubble.
...you can. Just the other day was an article on HN about SVG, in that world there are only a few people that are making it work and holding the working groups together. I have a feeling that if you were really good at SVG and doing stuff where you had no man pages then you could be welcomed into the SVG inner circle and start putting your ideas and efforts into shaping vector graphics for the web going forward.

You can also do something similar, at your own level and with your own pace - my near octogenarian father has had his commits accepted by the Drupal people, which I was impressed by as he had to learn things like PHP for that. Sounds like you want more than to just work on someone else's app, so upstream 'defining' the web, look at what is happening in worlds like SVG, or if that does not seem like 'as fun as Lego was' to you then find some other area that you can learn/master/push on from.
Depends on what you mean by "works". Yes, all three shells recognize [[ ]]
construct, as it was specifically added to SUS (or POSIX?) for
implementation-specific things, but how they interpret it is up to the
specific shell.

Let's take people's favourite =~ operator. In bash, according to
documentation, it uses ERE syntax. In zsh, it is ERE or PCRE, depending on an
option being set. This is a subtle but important difference in how [[ ]]
works. And then again, your environment can change the behaviour of a script
you're running, which is (a) unexpected and (b) undesirable, and the change in
the behaviour can range from "doesn't find thing it should" to "crashes" to
"goes awry in an unexpected way".
> they're also run and managed by real assholes. complete entitlement complex - definitely a sign of corruption / abuse.

Examples? Not saying you are wrong, just want to understand.

> They are terrible.

Reasons? Again, just trying to understand perspectives.
What sites need is a happy medium. For Google to index the site, but to not use that same data to eliminate the need for a visit to the site. Content has value. If Google is grabbing that content and using it on their own site, that's a problem.
What, in your view, is meaningfully different between an intrusive container and std::list allocating memory right next to the prev/next pointers for your data?
People continue to write in English as well, and except the errors within it :)
Health care is squarely an economic/business issue that affects nearly everybody, and there are clear, meaningful differences between the two parties here.
The article never establishes what is wrong with rural America in the first place. Why does it need rescuing? Why are businesses with large market share a problem for rural America? The premise that monopolies are bad is never explained.

The author never establishes any of this. How did this make it to the front page?
The three combined employ close to 7,00,000 people. Many of them Americans. They should be disciplined not destroyed.
Group exercising is a hallmark of militaries across time and space. It doesn't make a gymnasium into a military post.
The POSIX standard is under active development.
Mr. Kalanick, with salt-and-pepper hair, a fast-paced walk and an iPhone practically embedded in his hand, is described by friends as more at ease with data and numbers (some consider him a math savant) than with people.

I chuckled a little bit reading this.
I had a question about the following statement from the post:

>"Prometheus's storage layer has historically shown outstanding performance, where a single server is able to ingest up to one million samples per second as several million time series"

How are there one million samples per second equating to several million time series? Is a single sample not equivalent to a single data point in a time series db for a particular metric in Prometheus?
No experience on andriod, but I really enjoyed your analogies. Fun to read.