skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^^^ No, the big coastal cities are outliers in America. Most Americans do not live near one of the big expensive cities.

Growing, thriving cities like Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Atlanta, Charlotte, Phoenix, Minneapolis, etc. are all relatively inexpensive. As are numerous smaller cities like Nashville, Orlando, Salt Lake City, Jacksonville, etc.

The median price to purchase a home in America is ~$240k IIRC, hardly expensive.
Do that thing I like...

"DO YOU WANNA GET A DRINK!?"
The only one i've used before is Bluebird's `promisifyAll` method.

So when you require libraries, you can do so like:

const fs = Promise.promisifyAll(require('fs'))
// ... later
const fileContents = await fs.readFileAsync('filename.txt')

Basically it just adds "Async" after all functions that use node style callbacks.
Real estate prices are one reason. The other is that your waiting time for a shared self-driving car will be almost nothing (around 5 min?), specially in suburban areas. Keep in mind that is very likely that your kids will go to school on a self driving bus, in any case.
How is it a ton of fun? To me it seems to be one of the most boring things I could ever conceive. I am sure it's fun to people who do it however, and I am trying to understand why. Who knows, maybe once I understand it I will want to do it myself. I don't think this is an unreasonable question.

I'm having a lot of fun grinding mirrors for hours of a time. I am sure most people would not consider that to be fun, but boring menial work, but I am having lots of fun. I won't try to sell this activity to anyone else "because it's fun" as I am sure they just won't get it since they aren't into it already. It requires more careful explanation.
In other words: Scalability is a good problem to have!
Don't worry, the Tories will make our healthcare as expensive as yours soon enough.
Just don't scale, until you are ready.

I highly recommend Eric's Schmidt take on this: https://youtu.be/hcRxFRgNpns?t=838
And my quote states "malpractice insurance".

> That puts litigation costs and malpractice insurance at 1 to 1.5 percent of total medical costs.
supertest-as-promised is pretty great for testing purposes.
Up at 6:30. 5 minute drive to the ocean. Code for 14-16 hours. Go home, unwind.
> - Sinatra has been copied/emulated in nearly every programming language, and its clones have also been widely successful.

This. I'm not a Rubyist and I've never used Sinatra, but nearly every time I find a nice web framework I like in a language I use - Python/Flask, node/Express, Elixir/Phoenix - it's "inspired by Sinatra".
How often do you make pizza?
Any social partner dance, really. "Ballroom dancing" may evoke mental images of old-fashioned dances in a formal setting, but there's a huge selection of different dances, some very modern and casual. West Coast Swing [1] is my passion. Its roots are in Lindy Hop, the grandfather of swing dances (and itself very fun to dance) but it's modern and smooth and sexy and mostly danced to contemporary popular music.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Swing
Arrogant about what?
Yes, it does seem like an awesome resource for intermediate Kubernetes users like myself. But beginners should be steered away from it because it's too much, too soon. And by talking about choosing a cheap cloud provider at the beginning it implied to me that you were targeting beginners.

Please add a disclaimer on the top pointing beginners at some of the better resources for them, and then tell them to come back once they've learned what stuff like "ingress" means.
Net neutrality is in jeopardy again
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley: Nikita (STITCH COVER)
> Compromise is born from an adversarial starting position.

I get what your saying but all compromise is from an 'adversarial' is over egging it. Sometimes yes, but iother times no. E.g. My wife likes curry mild and I prefer spicy. Sometimes we have mild, other times spicy. There is no conflict here. We know each prefers the other and will encourage or accept the others preference because we know it makes them happy. This is a small example that scales to larger issues. The larger the issue the more we discuss to nut out what really matters. Sometime we argue but we get back to the discussion later with cool heads. I feel your fooling yourself if you believe there there will be no adversarial events in a long term relationship.
Heh, when I was 29 I felt different, I felt like I was getting to old to program.. So I made it a goal to "retire" by 35, because I didn't want to be 40+ coding.

In a little over 2 weeks I turn 32. I don't see or feel like retiring in 3 years.
Do ballrooms still exist? All I see nearby are salsa classes.
I mean it's pretty much "does a shitty engineer look at this ticket or not", like most large companies.
> In their [Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen] thought experiment, two products of decay were projected in exactly opposite directions—or more scientifically speaking, their momenta were anti-correlated.

> In Einstein's thought experiment, it is possible to measure the momentum of one particle and immediately know the momentum of the other without measurement, as it is exactly opposite. Then, by measuring the position of the second particle, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is seemingly violated, an apparent paradox that seriously baffled the three physicists.

Isn't it rather obvious that symmetry between the two particles would be disturbed with increasing probabillity as time goes on, if not randomly then at least by either measurement, especially when the two decay products are still close together? Anyway, the uncertainty for the simultaneity of both measurements would fall under Heisenberg's principle, I guess.
So... relationships have dissolved because you weren't a prompt responder?

Nothing else to sustain them? Maybe you were thoughtful in conversation? Maybe you actually asked about their family/parents/career, and gave more than a superficial listen? Maybe you actually remember their birthday? Or you always tune the radio station to whatever music they prefer when riding in the car?

These "relationships" sound pretty fucking flimsy to begin with.
Whoa! Five hours of TV per day. At first I thought this was hyperbole, but a quick trip to Google confirmed it's an accurate metric. That's an absolutely staggering amount of TV.
No Excel? It's the most widely used visual, grid based functional programming environment. MS claim more than a billion Office users. Any time one of them edits a formula in Excel they're programming. Would also be nice to see AVS/Express in there. Jeff Vroom built the AVS VPE more than 20 years ago.
> Employer-paid premiums hide the true costs of the American healthcare system from most.

This. I'm actually shocked at the number of economists currently scratching their heads wondering where wage growth has gone, and when it will return. It seems obvious that the answer is that wage growth never left, it has simply been transferred wholesale to the health insurance side of the ledger so employees don't feel any richer.
I'm 40. I write code 10-16 hours per day, 7 days a week. I don't have or want anything to balance.
DO YOU KNow THAT?
I am not saying anything but this looks like good old "pork barrel politics" to me.
Oh right, I didn't see that on the homepage: http://kemalcr.com/

So 44x faster (100238 / 2274). Not quite 100x, but still very impressive.
I think the basic premise of the question is utterly flawed. Europe is NOT more expensive when it comes to just about anything except for certain categories of items (like cars and for good reason!). Take Germany for example. Childcare? Free or 200 EUR per month if you want extended hours. College tuition? Free. Rent? Fairly cheap. Food? Again, fairly reasonable. Almost any kind of -care or -service is cheaper in Germany as compared to the US.
Ask HN: File based note taking with spaced repetition?
Text files based note taking has been my prefered way to manage knowledge for several years. NVAlt and markdown files have been a great combination.

As I am also writing technical notes (for example when learning a new programming language or framework) I wish I could combine the file based notes with spaced repetition (similar to Anki).

Does anyone know a system where I can combine the two features (simple text note taking and spaced repetition)?
The technology, here, is the algorithm and hardware related to self driving. Not the car itself. Yes, we will use self- navigating software and LIDARS for a lot of things (car, buses, trucks, planes, boats, shipping containers...). And we will find new uses for it too. But the car as an object will be considered an annoyance to have.

And probably heavily taxed to pay for roads, etc...
Get Fit at Home
GCC's std::allocator also doesn't do that (not for at least a decade, IIRC). It's a non-default allocator, which nobody is forced to use. It's entirely optional. The default std::allocator just uses new/delete.
I would say some of the tips are still relevant in modern dance halls (Tango, Walz, Salsa, ....).
The reason is that somehow business has more political power than patients, doctors etc. That all comes back to the eternal problem of politicians having to have funds to be elected. So everyone in office owes favours to various people and organizations.
If campaigning politicians weren't allowed to accept any money from anyone at all (people or organizations) then a lot of the political problems in the US would just vanish I think. It's somehow so natural that americans tend to not even think that it's odd that personal political campaigns are paid for by donors.
The reason we pivoted is that we understood that people aren't usually ready to build their websites, due to their lack of design skills. Therefore, we decided that we can add co-pilots which are developing websites for clients in 5 days, using our product, Monte CMS.
There's cheaper places like Wichita, KS but they don't have many good paying jobs which keeps many of the nicer townhomes and larger apartments in good neighborhoods out of reach unless you work aircraft. It's a weird situation that basically we got plenty of housing here but none of it is accessible to the average citizen at a cost effective price.
There are a lot of bad reasons for this, and a lot of bad impacts, but there is at least one benefit for humanity: American healthcare dollars create intense competition to do to do aggressive and innovative biomedical research and product development.
> Donations processing expenses 3,604,682 2,484,765

Might be payment-processing fees like credit cards and paypal?

> Professional service expenses 6,033,172 7,645,105

Lawyers, Auditors, Consulting?
Including health insurance?

(It's extremely hard to lose 60% of your income as income taxes in much of Europe. UK tops out at slightly over 50%)
I down voted because of the "surely youre joking" comment. Its a petty passive aggressive insult to the parent, like the parent post was so obtuse that they must be joking. Ironic to me in an etiquette post.
Evolution doesn't work towards an end goal like that though. There are plenty of attributes we have which are sub-optimal. For example our eyes have a number of significant flaws many of which are not present in other, arguably inferior, species to ourselves.

You'd probably have a stronger case if you argued about natural selection instead but given the history of humans, it's hard to believe that many would reached the end of their natural lives before getting killed. Certainly not enough and over a long enough period for immortality to have come about.
for one thing, we Americans demand instant service even for the more expensive things. For example, I live in a small-ish town, and yet there are 3 clinics with an MRI machine within 15 minutes of where i live. If I needed one, I would be on the slab in the amount of time it took me to drive there and fill out the paperwork. Maybe an hour or two if someone was there ahead of me. I would never have to wait a day or more. I don't have the stats on other countries, but I bet most are not like that.

And that shit is expensive. The way medical competition works in the US is that prices go up when there is more competition because the competing clinics need to keep purchasing the latest technology to keep up. As long as insurance covers the alternatives, we go to the best and most expensive.

In the US we have WAY too much health care.
I think that from the single payer wording OP means that the offer side remain constant while the demand (or the pockets' depth) increases => higher prices.
I'm guessing the purpose is to get a feel for possibilities within the space of programming languages. A tool to get the mind thinking outside of the usual IDE-box.
In the age when humans were able to produce TV shows like Game of Thrones, you cannot kill TV. The TV has only overtaken the Cinema. It will now be a race to topple the expensive shows in the history.

No offense to technology but this is all about age old entertainment and story-telling enterprises in human history.
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Xanax?
I presume you have a certain mental image of "ballroom dancing" that might not be entirely accurate, or at least is needlessly narrow. Many social partner dances put a heavy emphasis on self-expression, musical intepretation, improvisation, and partner communication. It might not be for everyone but it certainly can't be said to be boring.
Indeed, a group that provides funding might be aligned with truth and progress, but that's just one of the many options and often there are many conflicting values and incentives at play.
>I am sorry but that's like the opposite of economic logic. Ceritus paribus, more competition means lower prices.

It doesn't hold under empirical study of firms of any industry. Competition can be offset by jacking up prices or otherwise hiding the price. Prices are never set by the market, so everyone pays a ransom for the good or service in question, especially in healthcare.
Weekends were never a universal thing. They were for very specific people, while a huge number of us were expected to work them regardless. Setting aside the historical male/female devides (no weekends for moms) we just expect certain jobs to be there. Priests and nuns work weekends, have done for centuries. Cops, food service, health care providers, prisons and the entertainment industry to name a few. The sat-sun weekend has always been a luxury. Those that lament its passing as some sort of societal shift show thier colours.

I write this as a i sit on a monday morning waiting for the work i did over the weekend to be read and evaluated by clients worth far more than i will ever be. They dont work weekends.
Maybe apply to the Recurse Center?
Its a level of degrees, though
> Camping

True, I didn't forget Camping, but in my mind last night as I wrote the comment I was thinking that camping inspired the micro-framework idea but not the REST ideas.

But I agree with you.
To verify the existence of a single account all you need to do is go to gmail.com and attempt logging into it. It's that simple. Sometimes you will even see the profile pic so you know who this user is or claims to be.

The OP found a way to discover 40000 new addresses of random people per day by brute forcing through a dictionary-generated list of plausible candidates.

Use it for Nigerian scams, Viagra ads, account hijacking, anything you please.
33. Front-end web developer. I haven't had full time work in 3 years. The market for my particular skills has been flooded for some time with cheap H1Bs and boot camp grads. Also, the fact that I take longer to complete the "same" work doesn't help me. In the front-end world, managers obsess over time to completion, no matter how many bugs it has. It's not like I'm extreme in this area, either. I don't spend 10x the time of my contemporaries for the ideal of "proper programming". It's closer to 1.5-2x and my code has considerably fewer bugs than most of my co-workers. But, the lack of bugs isn't valued by most companies, I've found.

I should really re-train in something that companies find useful (mobile, distributed backend computing, data learning, ???). I make ends meet by freelancing and contracting. A few weeks creating a POC here, a few weeks fixing somebody's wordpress install there. It's a living.
IBM says remote working is great after forcing employees to work from office
I agree. These rules are a product of their time, and were probably good advice for those seeking to fit in.

But I felt it's important to point out how they are actually-not-so-subtly producing the tiered society you mention, if only for the fact that this thread is already filling with comments of how uncanny it is that they are still so relevant.

And, yes, that is true in so far as you won't attract much negative attention if you behave as prescribed. But note that the reasons these may have been useful in the past have long since disappeared, so I'm expecting you all to follow that no-gossip rule even if I happen to "go home with" her , or him, or them.
Single-Page Apps and GitHub Pages
Thanks!

I haven't had time to use this: http://www.sickbeard.com/

But a lot recommend it on reddit.
Ha, come on.

They made a film, but they made trillions in making the problem so much worse.
How do they measure that? Is it done by some TVmeters, or just self-reporting?
There is a possibility that TV is on for five hours, but nobody really watches it that much.
Is this worth reading past page 1? After all that it's barely talked about Luther himself, and just about a bunch of authors and how great their books are and and minor opinions they have about Luther.
An answer can be had in 10 seconds or less, but you still need to pull teeth to get people to respond to an invitation. Email, evite, SMS, whatever. You will still get a certain % of people that won't reply until you nag them for the fourth time.

And then you'll still get a % of no-replies that show up at the event unannounced.
Isn't it? I mean corporations are people, right?

If we all dies out they do to.

If the world changes for the worse, that is also bad for corporations.
The path to dotdot starts with zigbee
> At a public ball, it is exceptional for a gentleman to offer to escort a lady home: she is pretty sure to refuse, unless ____ but we need not supply that blank!

Hasn't changed.
I found gluster-kubernetes quite simple to install. But the install instructions do assume that you're going to be giving it it's own partition, which you would be doing on any sort of real production deployment.
It's just odd because so often a tantalizing but highly descriptive title is reverted to whatever the author opaquely titled the article and I feel a tinge of annoyance...

Then this time I see the clickbaity title and double-check to see what the actual essay is titled and they match... then a few hours later the HN title is changed.
Firebird JDBC driver: Jaybird 3.0.0 is released
This is one of the key factors: access. We can cut costs but that generally means removing access for a lot of people. There is a cost for having an UrgentCare and a CVS on every corner. This also means driving larger distances to get care which Europe doesn't have at the same scale given their density.Removing all that cost also means removing 100Ks of jobs (some direct, some indirect because even grocery stores make a killing on prescriptions). No one is going to vote for that. Instead we'll keep doing what we do with everything else, raise taxes on the middle class to pay for everyone else.

We also need a better way to separate emergency healthcare insurance (which is what we have for cars) from regular routine things that should maybe be paid out of pocket or socialized. We also need to cut down on the abuse and that is what you are talking about. No ER for a cold and less unnecessary tests and cut back on cancer treatments for people over 80 (most everyone is at risk for cancer eventually, this is just a result of aging, not an unfortunate event for a 20 year old).
Great set of resources -- I just went through the process of defining a terraform cluster in AWS over the past few weeks, though I'm leveraging the k8s Saltbase installer for the master and nodes.

I'm curious, why no mention of AWS as a provider for roll-your-own? Is this a cost thing?

Also, I get the feeling that Ubuntu is _not_ a first class citizen of the k8s ecosystem, but perhaps my newness to the ecosystem is to blame here. The Saltbase installer, for example, only supports Debian and RHEL distros, `kops` prefers Debian, and the documentation for cluster deployments on kubernetes.io and elsewhere also seems to be somewhat suggestive of Debian and Core OS. Perhaps thats just a mistaken interpretation on my part. I'm curious what other peoples thoughts on this topic are!
Also a Catholic, also an adult convert, only married 3 years.

Not using contraception has been amazing in bringing us together so far. Obviously 3 years isn't long, but the impact seems profound.

Happy to take emails from anyone interested in the topic.
Oh, but it was just an allusion to him, the venerated (and venereal) God of violating etiquette, Richard Feynman.
Getting rid of fear of git
How do you prevent username enumeration when you want to have a username taken feature in the sign up process? I suppose a way to handle that would be to throttle the number of times such an IP can make those requests per month or something. This still will not prevent a motivated attacker, or the casual use to check if one or two usernames are registered.
Tokenize PHP, Js and CSS files and detects violations of coding standards
Spiral arms are density waves. They move at different velocity than stars that make up the arm.

http://i.imgur.com/dtb8WrD.gifv
I'm not sure I believe "more competition drives medical costs higher".
If I'm spending millions of dollars a year lobbying against electric cars, sure.
Is it me, or is there not really much in this post which is not obvious, i.e. common sense?
Hyderabad, a city that sends the worst Indian software engineers to the US
>Life is so totally freaking awesome, I want more of it.

Life is amazing because it's finite. The sense of urgency, the foreknowledge of limited time, trying to get the most out of each moment but at the same time striving to enjoy the simple things, these are all incredible motivators. Take away death and what do you get?
Des Moines is great. Cheap, good jobs, big enough to get decent concerts/theater tours, and small enough to feel a sense of community. Only downside is ~1-2 months of brutal weather in the winter.

In response to the parent comment, the reason it's largely escaped these effects is that the economy is anchored in insurance and financial services rather than manufacturing.

There's also a big ag-tech sector and growing bio-tech industry if you include Ames which is a university town about 30 miles North.