skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, which is why efforts were made to do away with it. However, as noted in the sibling, several political scientists have posited that the result was worse than the previous state of affairs.

In the previous system, if a legislator worked across the aisle on some big project, he might get a relatively small kick-back. A new bridge, funding for a pet project, whatever. At election time, he could point to that and say "hey, I worked across the aisle, and got this thing for you!"

Now, that pet project doesn't get funded. So, at election time, if the legislator goes across the aisle, he gets crucified by more extreme opponents. There is nothing to point to and say "I got you THIS!" The only incentive is to cater to the most extreme constituents to ensure a primary victory.
Would it be better for them to just not make the new treatment?

Stuff like this doesn't scale in the way we are used to. There are only 30,000 ALS patients in the US, and this drug only benefits a subset of those people. And it costs tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars to develop. How exactly should you price it?

Now you can say the government should pay for it. And I agree that as a general matter the government should pay for healthcare. But that's not really a workable solution here either. At that point you've got to ask the difficult but necessary question: should the government be investing that much money to help maybe a few thousand people? Imagine how many poor kids whose lives you could change with that money instead.
It has, huge chunks of the US have moved to the sun belt. Between 2010 and 2015, 500k people moved from New York State to Texas - more moved to Florida etc.
time to switch...
Who knows? Maybe it'll eventually get so close that the claims made actually match up with reality. Then maybe even some of those "denialists" will get on board.
Will our coding skills fade with time?
First my personal view for my future as a dev, please comment and give me yours.

I'm a 34 year-old software engineer. Started as a technician at 16, then developer while stuyding at uni (22). Studied in the US, worked in the UK (5 years). I consider myself intelligent enough to give some value in a daily basis but not a great developer (I've always found brighter people)

I consider people thinking abilities do fade out with time like a football player's body. I'm worried that I will not be able to cope with coding in 10 years time (my mind with get tired and my spirit too) My plan is to slowly switch to a more management area (founding my own company or working for someone else), but I dont think it will be possible to keep being a good dev. For this im saving money, investing, and trying to take the best of this time since I know it wont last forever.

I wonder if my view of the future as a developer is being realistic or pesimistic.

What is your plan? Is there a due date for our minds?
You're talking as if it was a good thing, whereas it's anything but.
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GraphQL uses a single endpoint for the entire API. It would be a POST to /graphql, there would be no /users/123 resource.

GraphQL is a form of RPC, it's not REST.
nVidia announced one of those.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/139949-nvidia-spot-preview...

(But works with Shield, not Home, it seems?)
3. Present (business) outcomes. It depends on who you are working with and all three approaches can be appropriate for a single deal, but varies based on the audience. Generally I see technical salespeople that refuse to think beyond specs, and sales that get trained on business outcomes and can't shutup about KPIs and NPVs to a technical buyer. It is painful on all sides these days.
> it turns out that quite a few countries have actually moved away from FPTP

Yeah, to bring alternative ranked voting to the US, it needs to happen at the local level first, as done in Maine.
Exactly. Rent-seekers love to appeal to 'free market' capitalism while actually doing the exact opposite—using government power to create competitive moats.
This is essentially Pascal's wager and comes with all the problems associated with it. Another way to put your statement would be 'Imagine if we pay tens of trillions of dollars for something which only costs 500 billion dollars'
Also <ctrl-p> instead of <up> for extra touchtype points.
>honest journalism

It's quite clearly an opinion piece.
I like how this article's title doesn't claim that it's about utils "that you don't know". Yet I was expecting utils that have something to do with the Linux kernel, not generic *nix command-line tools.
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I believe pacala was talking about regular mics in cars and baby systems that are not connected to internet (I have products like that).

Of course there are different products that are constantly connected to the Internet, we hear a lot about them on HN's front page.
What's not to be hyped about? It's pretty much the first step towards ubiquitous sci-fi style augmented reality. Even in it's current form it's already fairly useful (you can get info on pretty much anything just by snapping a photo of it), and it's only going to get better from here.
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This has happened previously as well that Google implemented a feature much before filing a patent for it. Google is not a company that waste their money on filing patents that they'll never implement.

I thought mentioning that it is a patent will have little or no effect on whether this feature comes to reality or not.

Edit: Original article title: "Google Assistant will use more than one device to decipher the exact voice commands"
English prescribing is open data. The answer might be here: https://openprescribing.net/

Is Humira the same as adalimumab?

https://openprescribing.net/chemical/1001030S0/

https://openprescribing.net/analyse/#org=CCG&numIds=1001030S...
While Lola's story is certainly tragic, it's a tangibly different class of slavery than that which existed in the western world 2 centuries ago. Chattel slavery is far, far crueler and not comparable
Interestingly enough, if you're wearing a pair of glasses without microphones and a camera but with a display, people still ask the question, "are you recording me?"
Like gitter ? But more similar to Discourse.
If I know what I'm doing? Hmm, I like to think that I can by paying close attention to the problem itself. Every organisation is unique, and though their problem sounds general and well-defined, it usually isn't. So as part of scoping, you need to dig further in order to gauge the actual problem - you may even realise that it's a symptom of a deeper problem in which case training isn't always the solution. This does mean that you have to immerse yourself in the organisation to understand the culture, biases, IT system, branding, language and so on - all this will also feed into your final design. And build relationships; rarely what people tell you at first actually match up with the real problem.

My rule is to start from first principles and work my way up as logically as I can. This helps to cut through the bullshit - yep, I agree with you that there is too much of it in L&D. However it's also useful to know core pedagogy theories and the latest fads, because it will help you speak in their language. Some of them are genuinely useful, but I find myself drawing mostly from design and behaviour science.

Digitalisation is a serious strategy though. You will be surprised at how dated some systems are in the biggest companies, and the amount of reluctance to adapt in the workforce. The mistake most companies do is to rush with digitalising their training, when there does need to be a proper transition sensitive to the workforce's needs and perceptions.

Although I've sung praises about eLearning here, personally I prefer blended learning - but the best ones require skill in creating the complementary digital component well.
Can you name a country you would like the US to be more like that doesn't have socialized medicine?

It seems to work for the whole, entirety of the rest of the developed (and most of the developing) world, because the truth is socialized medicine is cheaper and more efficient.

Further, even if it wasn't cheaper, the value gained from a more efficient allocation of labor (due to the reduced friction from healthcare concerns) more than repays the costs of the healthcare.

I'm getting sick of people advocating inefficient capitalism as a good economic policy -- and that's all you're doing with your weird, social darwinist approach.
Actually a better comparison for shader languages is doing DMA with the Blitters on the Amiga.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_Agnus
GraphQL is limiting as well, just in a different way. GraphQL uses POST by default, which means you don't get browser caching.

It's a tradeoff that makes sense for Facebook. It allows them to make changes to their API without needing to version it. And they can take the hit of more requests hitting their server. For most apps though, I think the tradeoff is probably not a great one to choose.
"Her employment contract might very well include a clause preventing her from leaving a few months later for a job with a rival pest-control firm, since she could be taking crucial in-house information with her. And that’s perfectly reasonable."

What.. How can that be completely reasonable? It might be reasonable if the company isn't allowed to fire her, but as far as I understand it is quite easy to get fired in the US to..
Thank you for the kind words - and the honest feedback! This are similar to thoughts we have heard for other users and we are working on better ways to give you more control over the UI in the near future
I think you have your local and global optima reversed. I might feel better in the short-term if I'm allowed to murder someone. Longer-term it's likely to be worse for me.
Bitbucket has more traction than you think. Especially in megacorps who use JIRA. As long as the services have a docker container you can run locally I see no lock-in.
1) "But MOND (or other modified gravity theories) predict that the "DM" should be found around the visible matter not elsewhere"; so they say. However, this last statement is incorrect. For example, in galaxies the baryons are concentrated at small radii but the putative DM according to MOND is far beyond that. "

It is important to stress the word "around". In Milgroms example the DM is still around the baryons, just far out at a different radius. This is the modification you can get, as long as gravity is still a central force in your theory. However in case of the bullet cluster the DM simply doesn't follow the center of the baryons. It is completely separated at a different place. I think he doesn't get this important point.

2) "As I said we do know that there is some (still) dark matter in clusters and that's what they found."

So Milgrom is admitting that even with MOND one needs some dark matter to explain the results. But with only dark matter we don't need to use MOND. So according to Occams razor the Dark Matter theory wins, because it explains more with less.
Because the benefits of giving up your privacy are certain and immediate, and the drawbacks are uncertain and in the future. Humans are really bad at evaluating tradeoffs of this kind; see global warming, poor rates of retirement savings, etc.
Ok.

So what will happen that drives the adoption to scale? In other words, what is the Mastodon's decentralized equivalent of investors throwing tons of money into marketing a centralized Facebook competitor? (I'm wrongly assuming that centralized means proprietary here, but I already made that wrong assumption above so I'll stick to it for the moment...)
Oh yes, that could be a case. Pretty impressive though.
That's it.

I find the examples on wiki a little sketchy and some are flat out anecdotal.

I do agree it will increase the total traffic as you improve the system but the concept it can ever make it worse or the same in the entire system doesn't make sense.

Peoples need to travel by car is not totally fluid. Jobs stay the same and many people catch public transport for reasons other than convenience.
I'm from The Netherlands and this is news for me. Do you have a source?
The patent tells about the new feature of Google assistant. And most of the time Google implement the technologies.
Miami has been investing heavily in water pumping systems because they experience 'sunny day' flooding as a result of sea level rise and high tides. It will buy them some time but eventually they're going to either have to abandon ship or go full Venice.
#goGreen at offices without much effort/cost
The most concerning possibility I find is the ability to surreptitiously create offspring of two unsuspecting people with nothing more than some left behind skin or hair (wouldn't the Bene Gesserit have liked this?). The rest of it doesn't seem particularly concerning to me.
> They also need a central place to meet.

Not anymore. I'm sure the last 20 years of technological advancement hasn't escaped your notice. I think eliminating colocation is an idea that deserves serious consideration.
This is a big realization I had recently. A lof of influences led up to it but the basic thought went like this: Why am I trying to make something if I don't have anything to say?

When I asked myself, "What is my message?" I came up empty, or with parroted nonsense that I don't actually believe in. So now, my mission is to just live and enjoy the things I truly enjoy and maybe eventually I'll have something interesting to say. It is no longer my goal to create media. I don't want to say "I want to make a y or write an x." Instead the goal is to say, "People need to know about x."
Windows 10 is sort of the elephant in the room here. M$ absolutely could use these methods to determine what copyrighted material you have stored locally. However it's not as easy to say for certain that you've done anything wrong. Cracking down on sharing through their platforms is the low-hanging fruit, scouring your hard drive for known pirated files comes later.
How did non-competes suddenly become big news? Has there been some recent change to laws surrounding the non-compete?

I'm seeing articles everywhere about it. Some of them are politically slanted against the current administration, but I can't recall any party doing anything about it for some time.

If I look at California and Texas (blue & red), in one it is legally unenforceable and the other it is practically unenforceable.

None of articles about non competes seem to have any details either. It all seems to be a hypothetical. They seem forced and driven by something else (or are they just copying each other).

Just me?
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My personal life experiences tell my that, nowadays in the US at least, most people couldn't care less about the idea of "freedom" and on a daily basis happily trade it for faux-security and financial gain.

In fact, most are scared by the idea of it and actively try to limit the meme. This explains why the US has basically become a prison state and has roughly 4% of the world's population and 33% of the incarcerated inmates, with no serious efforts at reform seeing the light of day.

I suppose given our evolutionary biology, these attitudes aren't surprising, and really represents just another form of tribalism where the ingroup works safe "corporate-drone" jobs and the outgroup don't.
> there's no way this would be available on the NHS at this price

Really? If it works it could get approval.

http://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/news...

£340,000 per year, but for a tiny number of people.
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What are they doing this for? Even honest people don't want to work with tattletales.
First: This is an editorial, not an article.

Assuming you sign a non-compete, whether or not you can work the field for another employer may require you to consult a lawyer which costs you $$$. Your previous employer may try to bully you, or your future employer into terminating your arrangement. While it's true several state have largely neutered non-competes for "Low-wage employees", higher paid professionals still have less freedom.

The ACA is missing a public option and is suffering from insurance markets being actively sabotaged by politicians who want to replace it with their own flavor.

The AHCA only protects you for your pre-existing conditions if you maintain continuous coverage (No gap greater than 63 days in the prior year), something that millions of people experience every year. This also means, during any significant recession, millions will lose insurance.
Good point that this isn't Elixir specific but any language that runs on the BEAM.
Kotlin does not have a "kotlin API", because it was designed ground up for 100% Java compatibility. In fact that's their single biggest invariant.

So this is good news for kotlin...And bad for scala ;)
> unlikely to be cheaper

I meant, of course, unlikely to be more expensive. Gah!
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So -- insurance-based healthcare with barriers of entry for newcomers, revolving doors, overcharging for everything and regulated to hell is now free market?

Noncompete agreements, preventing free competition of labour -- those are free market?

And the answer to these problems is somehow _more_ regulation, and more lock-in arrangements with fixed payments to benefit the usual suspects? Whoa.

Free market _does_ solve many problems. Healthy competition and low barriers of entry is the only way to make things more affordable. However, free market is not a natural state of affairs -- ironically, we need government help to promote it, to create competitive playing field. Unfortunately, this is also not natural, and corruption prevails.

Socialism equals inefficiency. Revolving door crony "capitalism" is indistinguishable from oligarchic socialism. Only competition brings efficiency to complex systems.
To quote Gabe Newell "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem", when pirating is more convenient than buying legally you are incentivizing it on multiple levels.
Did it "work" with mice? Ie. were the created eggs and sperm able to combine and start multiplying when put inside the appropriate part of a mouse?

That would be great, however the backlash from the more... conservative population will be equally huge, I guess :)
Intersex patients routinely had diagnoses withheld by doctors
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Here is your ribbon, sir. See you on the light side!

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/NotebookBar
judging from history, pretty hard =[
How easy or not it is to be fired varies by state. Right to Work states are the easiest to be dismissed in (fired or laid off, not all dismissals are firings). More union friendly states (NY, CA, WA), it's harder to be dismissed.

In almost all states, government jobs are hard to be dismissed from after your initial probationary period (typically 1-3 years). Though sometimes getting to an extreme in cities like NYC where it can be so hard to dismiss a teacher, they just box them up in a teacher version of in-school suspension.
For the server-side, definitely Tornado + SQLAlchemy + PostgreSQL. This is the core, with a likely addition of things like Celery depending on how large the system gets.

The client side would depend on the complexity of the user interaction, but the Web part would probably involve React.
They were not just a pentesting shop though.
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Just for a moment, combine this patent with Microsoft's announced willingness to look through your content.

> we will access, transfer, disclose, and preserve personal data, including your content [...] when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to:
>
> protect the rights or property of Microsoft, including enforcing the terms governing the use of the services

Sounds like a potential nightmare, especially if they can't tell the difference between legitimate backups and pirated software; of which the difference is only whether you've bought the original or not.
The MOnSter 6502 is using surface-mount parts, which are quite a bit smaller than the individual gate boards used in the Megaprocessor.

> How big would the MOnSter 6502 be if it were made with through-hole parts instead of surface mount parts?

> About 19 square feet (1.7 square meters).
Which is neat, but unless you are a library designer it's probably not that much of a selling point.
This is huge. I can't even count how many times I've argued about privacy with Googlers and run into "trust me, we take this very seriously, but I can't say anything about it". We're asked to share everything with them, but these tech companies are incredibly, incredibly secretive, all under the guise of protecting their interests from competition.

People in support of these companies running people's lives are all in favor of transparency and sharing on the Internet... until it gets turned around on them. For all it's other faults, The Circle movie captured this perfectly with one line from Tom Hanks: "We are so f###ed."

Maybe I wouldn't be so bothered by Google knowing where I am every five minutes if I could track Larry Page and Eric Schmidt in near realtime too.
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Obvious troll is obvious. Hackernews readers don't use IE 10.
Who is not following the rules of the law?

Which rules?