skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is simply no way they can export anything at a competitive rate

Statehood itself might not directly solve this, but it would get them representation. Two senators and a handful of congressmen can solve a great deal of problems.

I agree the export situation is not ideal. I disagree that this is the a game-ending proposition for the Puerto Rican economy. Without corruption, or at least some corruption mitigation the state of Puerto Rico could at least move in one direction... One direction, speaking of famous people Did you Ricky Martin, Benicio Del Toro and Joaquin Phoenix are all Puerto Rican. Did you know that there are software companies there, mostly boring B2B and financial stuff because of the friendly tax situation there. It seems a real place with real people can produce Stars and Software even when there is corruption.

Imagine if they could use some federal funds to clean up the broken glass and old plastic from their beaches while they clean out their oligopoly. An actual tourism industry with actual competition.

Exports can be important or can be minor. Clearly it is not the only thing in $103 billion per year economy of Puerto Rico. Consider that Nebraska (I keep using NE because the other half of my family is there) is only generating $80 billion per year and is landlocked so the Nebraskan export situation is even worse and few are attesting to the dire state here.
Well, the 2% Medicare tax is, from their perspective, something that should never have passed in the first place. So repealing it is going back to a previous form of status quo.

Beyond that, I think it's the basic philosophy that government should not be involved in funding health care for citizens (I think those high-risk pools are basically being set up to fail/abandon). I don't really understand it, because I don't see how the normal arguments of self-reliance and accountability translate to sickness, which is by definition out of our control no matter how self-reliant and accountable we are.
It would be the second and even though they may not be necessary, they would still be beneficial.

See this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_guarantee

http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_732.pdf

The rest of the world is finally catching up the advantage we made for ourselves post-WWII and combining that with technological change we're going to be facing a labor market with a lot of (at least frictionally) unemployed people. In that case you do what FDR did and hand them a shovel and tell them to improve their community.
I agree that this is an excellent way to write release notes; The only project that does better in my opinion is Dolphin: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/
It's not unaffordable in a meaningful sense: the USA could certainly afford it, by raising taxes to levels that highly taxed countries do.

Another way to think of it: the UBI is about guaranteeing everyone can maintain some basic level of consumption to survive. Right now, the vast majority of Americans consume enough to survive and more. It's an accounting question: who's actually paying for the people to survive? Indirectly it's the government. This is just manifesting those costs transparently, and also doing some shifting of a substantial number of costs from charity, hospitals, and family to the government. As a society, though, it won't increase consumption by enough to exceed our ability to produce the goods and services consumed ("unaffordable").
I work on VS Code. You are correct; the core VS Code editor does not share code with regular Visual Studio. However many tools and libraries are shared between the two. TypeScript and JavaScript language support for example is powered by the same TypeScript library in both VS and VS Code, and this library also is used by Atom, Sublime, and many other tools.
This will depend on local regulations if you want to do it totally legit. WA state, for example, still does not allow farms to grow outdoors. It has to be indoors in a controlled-access facility and uses a huge amount of electricity.
I don't think a 0.1g probe would make it through an atmosphere at any speed. The targets I had in mind, were moons, rings, asteroids, much like Deep Impact; I used the term "planet" as a catch-all.

Nevertheless, your point stands, if we consider technologically advanced life a possibility. It would be real shame to clobber someone's moon colony. Perhaps, these impactor missions should not be considered on the first expedition.
No they would not. Even if you introduce a 10 sec delay, there will still be someone which will be first after the 10 sec pass, and you can still create models which will be tuned to predict what the price will do 10 sec into the future.

And what do you think about a law which forces all news agencies to wait 1 hour before reporting major news, so that everybody gets a chance to report it, and not only the huge agencies/papers like AFP of NYT.
"just defeated" but should have a 2016 tag.

Paper link for those interested : https://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/genetic-fuzzy-based-arti...

(from a June 2016 press article : http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/alpha.h... )
Just wait, when javascript has taken over you'll miss the Fortran days.
As someone who suffers from severe motion sickness when I take my eyes off the road, public transit is already awful, and if people start expecting me to do work during my commute I'm going to have to file for disability or something.
So, Kim Jong-un has a memory leak problem, but that's probably good for the rest of us..
MacGap offered this before Electron/NW came to exist: https://github.com/MacGapProject/MacGap1 (and there was a way to bundle node too)

Unfortunately neither v1 nor 2 have been actively developed in the past few years.
Note that the key assumption for why losses are unlikely is that they make many independent trades that are each likely to be profitable.

But in real markets, outside events can suddenly make many trades all fail at the same time. This is the same reason AAA tranches of CDOs got those high ratings -- you only lose money if many obligations fail at once, but that is extremely unlikely if you think they have low correlation with each another, which was historically the case.

But in a market crash, all correlations will tend towards 1.
Is choice more like a process, or more like a surprise inscrutable bolt out of the blue? We aren't talking about what it feels like from the inside. We're talking about what it is.
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Now, I'm in favor of single-payer healthcare. I can also understand the point of view of the "free market" health care solution. But calling a repeal of Obamacare "evil" is hyperbolic at best.
Android has turned out to be such a fraud.
I worded my comment incorrectly (and edited it accordingly). What I should have said is that when you run a stats test against a dataset, there's a known probability that you'll get a significant correlation simply due to chance. The more variables you examine, the higher that chance becomes.

I just found this on Google but the first page of this paper explains it a little better: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~mgoldman/Section0402.pdf
I struggled with this for a while too, but I quickly realized spending time with the family is a lot more fun than side projects.

Also, I'm surprised no one has suggested daylighting [1] yet, it can be a reasonable option if your employer pays you to deliver instead of keeping a chair warm for 8 hours.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14217849
I think it's not xenophobia, the biggest problem is actually wage inequality. It s quite suprising that the US, with all its prosperity (gdp per capita) doesn't have a huge safety net, on the contrary. Meanwhile US corporations and individuals, same ones that outsourced the jobs, have more cash at hand than you can pronounce.

I sometimes believe it lacks a bit of socialism.
I work remote at an early-stage startup. My wife recently regained custody of her 12-year-old daughter. Our daughter is on the Autism spectrum, and when combined with emotional issues and an entitlement attitude, this has not only consumed my time, but my wife's as well. It's a full-time job for two parents.

My "side projects" encompasses more than than software programming -- martial arts, meditation, biking, etc. I used to be able to do a lot of things, but I can't anymore. My step-daughter comes home around 15:30 and it tends to go on until around 21:30. More if there was a meltdown or some sort of family drama (which, in the past few months have happened frequently, but thankfully, is trending less now). I've had to take over getting her up in the morning -- both my wife and my wife's mother have had significant trouble getting her out of bed, showered, dressed and ready for school. Likewise for getting ready for bed.

I've had to accept that my life and lifestyle has changed. (I thought I was prepared for it; I wasn't). I've had to work through a lot of things myself, including periodic, arising feelings of resentment that is toxic to a child growing up. The meditation helps, but ultimately, I had to accept change and the fact that I am not as in control of my life as I used to be.

I had also been working with her a lot on homework -- to stop doing her math and reading like she is mashing buttons while playing a video game. I quickly found that there are even more basic wisdom and skills that my daughter never learned: what it means to be a part of a community; what responsibility means; what respect and speaking respectfully means. We've also been trying to wean her off of the meds and learn how to process her emotions.

Over time, I've been coaching her through different things. Our current theme is "organization" -- how to organize her time, how to organize her things, how to check things off a list by herself instead of "mashing buttons" (she has a tendency to try something to quickly satisfy what she perceives as what my wife or I wants instead of thinking things through, or methodically checking through things). The idea is to transfer more and more responsibility for herself to her rather than helicopter parenting and enabling this attitude of "parents are service providers". It takes time, it's bearing fruit, and this process goes at its own pace.

And yeah, at the end of the night, I'm exhausted too.

Some five years back, I got into an internet flame-war with someone about this. He was working 60-hour weeks with kids, trapped in his job, and I was talking about side-projects. I was single with a lot of mobility. Joke's on me.
Just close up shop .
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There isn't much evidence to show that supplements do either.
I get about 2 per week. This was true in Canada & the US -- Canada used to be much worse but has gotten better.

However, in both cases, it was nearly 100% spam. I talk to family via video chats, and friends via facebook, hangouts, whatsapp, etc.
They added many disclaimers saying that LOC alone is a bad metric and it's more interesting to look at characteristics of the code for anecdotes. The article is full of of advice to take the findings with a grain of salt.

They don't even mention haskell in the conclusion, they just say that functional programming is well-suited to rapid prototyping.
i like the term pda better that also happens to be a phone.
To make things even more interesting, the "original" PDF seems to have been generated by Ghostscript 8.15 and PScript5.dll 5.2, that is, it was also "printed to PDF" (from Microsoft Word, I presume).
> How would you feel if Common Lisps suddenly started sporting infix operator notation?

You mean like this? (I linked it the other day.) https://github.com/rigetticomputing/cmu-infix But one might argue that the prefix notation + macros being able to support such a library is just further testament to their use as default...
Expressiveness is a objective term, although it's multidimensional. It's the number of different concepts you can express in a language without writing an interpreter¹. Anyway, the dimensionality isn't much of a problem on that comparison since Haskell has the upper hand in an overwhelming number of dimensions.

Keep in mind that Javascript required a multi-year process in what a committee reached an agreement and all interpreters had to be changed so that JS programmers could use continuation monads. And they are still restricted to continuation, and a way too verbose syntax.

> Another meaningless subjective word (sheer).

That "The easy is hard, the hard is easy" assessment is inherently subjective, but "subjective" is not the same as "meaningless", even less when nearly everybody that experienced it has the same assessment. (Are you also going to complain about my "overwhelming" above?)

1 - I'd give you a point on subjectivity if you were talking about the difference between a library and an interpreter. But those languages (that is, JS and Basic) are just not expressive enough for this to become a problem.
When pushed, Joel Klein portrays the fraternal drama as a non-issue. “We will follow all of the rules,” he says. He admits that this unique situation might be so hazy as to preclude bright boundaries, but is nonetheless certain that the Kushner distraction is non-material to Oscar’s fate—rather, he characterizes it as an “amusing media story.”

The (glaring) conflicts of interest exemplified by Kushner's role in the company -- just a small subset of the conflicts exhibited by the Trump-Kushner administration as a whole -- can hardly be dismissed as merely an "amusing media story".

Attempting to do so is a sign of, at the very least, rampant cognitive dissonance - if not pure and simple intellectual honesty.
Mobile is short for mobile phone. I think most people are most likely to say "bring your phone", rather than "bring your mobile".
Taking away health insurance from 24M people isn't evil?

Might need to recalibrate the evilometer.
Hmm, I haven't this on 10.11 or 10.12. Can you please file a bug with some screenshots/captures so that we can investigate: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new
The healthcare bill was a lipstic on a bulldog to begin with and now it is more like a crayon on bulldog. Everyone is a loser here.
don't worry, they made up for it in Starcraft 2
Bell Lab's legacy lives on in a lot more than just linux...

the transistor and information theory are both the foundation for these phones we're talking about
Just a small reminder to privacy conscious people: VSCode comes with telemetry on by default[0], and you might like to turn it off. Also, the fact that you turn it off gets reported to microsoft[1] (or at least did).

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40451596/visual-studio-co...
They don't outsource their formula development or testing, which is the difficult part. You could say they outsource the manufacturing, but that's common in every industry these days.
> Since I don’t have a credit card, I asked my beloved mother to use hers.

You should never ever let other people use your credit card or ask to use other people's credit card. Credit card is called personal card for a reason. There is so much fraud, credit card theft going on that it is surprising that your transaction succeeded at all.
No, there was testing earlier than that. In particular, a Japanese test in Venus transfer orbit starting in 2010:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail

The one 2 years ago was the Planetary Society's Lightsail, which had a big crowdfunding campaign. The next iteration of Lightsail is launching on the 2nd Falcon Heavy flight.
Basic mechanization makes it hard to put a lot of people to work physically, but there's all sorts of things that can be done that improve the world in small ways.

Here's a dumb one: end "Adopt a highway" and pay people to clean up along roads.
A UBI guarantees the bare minimum level of consumption to live.

Year to year, the vast majority of Americans already consume enough ot live.

Our existing productive capacity is plenty enough to provide the bare sustenance for everyone (unless you believe a UBI would destroy vasts amounts of productive capacity).

It's a matter of shifting incentives and accounting to more effectively deliver those consumed goods and services.
Plenty of naturally-occurring compounds found in various plants and animals are toxic for humans to consume. To say that naturally-occurring foods are inherently better for us to eat requires an awful lot of cherry-picking (no pun intended).
I agree that it's likely not particularly useful for the market to care about things in millisecond resolution.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14266093 and marked it off-topic.
Same here.

There is an OpenVim Plugin to CtrlP into gvim.

:! code %

When I spawned vim first.
I find your confidence in the stupid American voting population strange.

In other words, I don't believe that they'll do anything like what you're implying they will.
Incorrect, Airbnb is for when you want to have an apartment to stay in.
Air heads.. bringing back memories.:)
The medium isn't entangled, particles in it are (with each other), creating a larger non-localized object out of the smaller, (more) localized particles.

Entanglement is a mechanism by which a single, non-localized value can be carried by pieces (none of which themselves carry that value).

And hence the materialist proposal here is precisely what you propose: that the universe is fundamentally experiential (or at least parts of it that brains interact with), and the single, non-localized experience is created and carried via entanglement of the constituent "particles", which are themselves impacted by the regional computation of the brain (eg, by knotting with the "main" knot carrying the experience, in analogy to a TQC), thus allowing the disparate regions to contribute to a single experience with characteristics picked up by regional contributions.

Proposing that it's not entanglement means proposing a new phyical process by which that information can contribute to a single, non-local value, which people researching the brain haven't even taken a stab at.

Which is why I find their proposal that it's not entanglement to be strange -- they seem to blithely ignore the physics/informatiom theory implications of that.
Yes, the US has the home business deduction.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p587/index.html
All they have to do is allow Insurance Companies to not cover one and only one preexisting condition: Obesity.

This would be fair because this is the single biggest drain on our health care system and it can be cured for free, without medical care. Just eat less.
If these people demanding taxpayer-funded healthcare were responsible enough to get real jobs before getting cancer, then we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Why J. Crew’s Vision of Preppy America Failed
This is an ignorant and aggressive comment.
(I posted it, but I'm not affiliated with the project in any way, not even as a user - I just thought others would be interested. You may wish to report this on their tracker)
Its a computer with a photon transceiver.
They use AirPnP, of course.
I can assure you a lot of people who don't need to worry about paying health insurance will make some very handsome bonuses out of this.
+1 for bourbon; been using it for a little over a year now, and love it over Bootstrap
I've started with and am used to the "old-school" CMake. Is there a good article that showcases some of the more modern features?
Value isn't always pricable. This was priceless.
Power Plant
Selecting your customers is always tricky.

On one hand your right to run your business as you see fit and respecting your principles.

On the other hand you have discrimination of all kinds.

Think about the recent cases of a small baker with strong religious views refusing to create cakes for gay couples.

Think about CloudFlare protecting ISIS sites.
Correct: not everyone would care whether they're creating a suffering, conscious being, or think about the topic enough to consider it a possibility. I still think the issue merits being called "relevant" in the context where I mentioned it.
That happens sometimes, but the solution is the same as in a strict language. Break out the profiler and see what's taking all the time. There's a learning curve while you figure out what the usual suspects are, but usually you can find things pretty quickly afterwards.

Profiling is a bit of a black art in any case. I've seen horrible performance problems in python when we added enough code to cause cache thrashing to a loop. No new code was slow, but the size of it crossed a threshold and things got suddenly bad.

Some performance problems in Haskell are hard to track down, but most are pretty easy to find and fix. It's basically the same as every other language in that way.
Is this the same like following?:

Future<Long> f = executor.execute(() -> myFunc());
> and serfdom had been abolished in Russia generations before the Revolution.) Russian peasants at the time of the Revolution generally were individual landholders because of the recent breakup of collective ownership

While true it was too little and too late, the conditions of russian peasants at that time were still very serf-like. That and WWI defeat sparked the russian revolution, along with certain interest in the West to destabilize Russia.
>But calling a repeal of Obamacare "evil" is hyperbolic at best.

How about "profoundly amoral and uncaring"?
Well deserved. I remember when on first got an Xbox w/ Halo: CE--and I was immediately hooked. I have fond memories of the first time I used XBConnect to play CE online over LAN... good times. I also remember getting into Major League Gaming after Halo 2 came out, and was involved with that up until I stopped playing the series after Reach (due to getting married, and then my 360 getting stolen), but man did my childhood include a whole lot of Halo.

Edit: I'm getting all the feels--first time playing on XBC was a 2v2 CTF match on Blood Gulch that ran for hours (srs). I remember the connection got so bad at times that you had to lead 40 feet in-front of a player with the sniper rifle. I also remember sniping somebody out of a moving Warthog while leading in those conditions. Like I said, well freaking deserved.
I think what GP was getting at is that ability to suffer is an emergent property of the ability to feel pain. Sure, this emergent property may have evolved beyond this original source, but if that original source had not existed, neither would suffering.

What's not entirely clear to me is how we can create useful consciousnesses without emotions in general. As humans, we are driven by our emotional states to perform different behaviors as well as think about different things.

Maybe it's possible that we can hard-code some emotional drivers into our artificial intelligences. Perhaps we could program a consciousness to be driven by the opportunity for human advancement, and allow that consciousness to take over from their in how it wishes to pursue that goal.
Your experience may be biased. If I had a shop that depended on external consultants for development, I'd avoid any language that I'm not certain to be mainstream. It's just too risky.
This bill is going to end up killing people (through the removal of health insurance for the poor and those with "pre existing conditions"); even your most uninformed voter will come around once this starts being put into place.

I'm hoping for riots, but will accept replacing representatives through the voting process.