skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this isn't a car. The attempts at trying to simplify healthcare discussion only contribute to muddying it, because there's significantly more factors than that.

A healthcare decision doesn't have to be life or death for it to still be something you need. Diseases can hurt, or they can kill you slowly, and its not a simply 'yes or no' when it comes to what /could/ happen to you without treatment. So, yes, you have to have treatment. Everybody will be convincing you that you need treatment, and you most likely do. Meaning, you have a guaranteed market. In a guaranteed market, even if you have bad quality, even if you do the wrong things, it doesn't matter, you're still going to get customers, because they need it, and thats exactly what happens in healthcare today. Get a knee operation and the problem comes back a year later? Get another operation. Because you don't have the option of not doing so. No, you don't. Quitting work and not making money, or not being able to contribute to society around you, is not a realistic or beneficial option, and certainly not one that can be advocated for with any consciousness of socioeconomics.

"But the same thing applies to auto repair. You need a car to get around and it is extremely expensive to toll your car to other body shops. You need to take the price the person offers you a lot of the time. But in medicine some times it is not time critical and you can shop around. We don't do it know because we don't pay."

What kind of 'shopping around' are you advocating for? A car is replaceable if something goes wrong, you have insurance on that car even. On your body, if something doesn't go right, thats not on the hospital. Thats you, you are irreplacable, and because of that, whatever service is perceived to be better will be used. Typically, in the form of cost, as it is now.

Thats assuming competition would just 'rise up' if we could pay directly, which as I said before, was already happening and we still had the same issue. With universal care, the root costs of care, such as equipment and devices, are more standardized and leveraged in bulk. You need 10,000 hip replacements for your hospitals in the coming years? 5 companies get to compete with who can make and sell them the cheapest. But they better be safe, tested, and work. Atleast, in the U.K. thats how it works. But what this does is creates an entity that negotiates on your behalf, to predict the majority of costs and reduce them. Without that, you are at the mercy of whoever is setting the prices, because you're not going to get to 'shop around' when your medication is sold from one entity.
So I've been learning Pandas after mostly using either standard Python, R or VB to do our analysis, and I'm glad I read this because I thought I was going crazy.

I have a data set of about 4 million rows I routinely analyze. I have 32 gb of space on my desktop, and the only time I've really run out is when I write incredibly poor code. In the short while I've been trying to use Pandas run out of memory and get killed by the OOM killer or completely freeze my system for half an hour while processing what I thought were simple operations.

I was honestly beginning to believe I was way worse at programming than I thought due to all of the issues I was having. I wasn't even doing anything particularly complex, I was just loading a dataframe from a sql query and playing around with basic manipulation.
It's "abacaxi" in Brazil, although I guess it's "ananás" in Portugal.
If you don't know your co-worker's child's gender, or know it's neither "male" or "female", you don't want to be forced to choose.
/g/ has a bunch of lists floating around, some of which have decent suggestions.

Can't find the one I was thinking of right now, but this one has some (ignore the green/easy ones): http://e.top4top.net/p_2791nx93.png
People could also tamper with non-autonomous transit like disabling the breaks.
Plenty of them in Stockholm and Paris. I once shared a 20m^2 flat with my partner; it worked alright. Just can't accumulate a lot of stuff. To give you an idea, here are some for sale in Stockholm county right now:

https://www.hemnet.se/bostader?location_ids%5B%5D=17744&item...

Here's a 9.5m^2 (!) apartment for sale (including bed, work area, tiny kitchen, toilet, shower), although it's marketed as something in the middle between hotel room and apartment (that's one way to put it, I guess):

http://www.bjurfors.se/sv/tillsalu/stockholm/stockholm/bromm...
>With public projects there generally is no such accountability.

Public projects use construction contracts just like private ones, they are just as accountable to their clients in this sense.

The difference between property developers and politicians as clients is that developers can choose when, where and and what to build to optimise costs, whereas with public projects politicians are optimising for votes. Politicians very publicly decide to commit to a project based on an initial estimate and then order the civil service to procure it. Changes in specification that are big enough to significantly affect cost have to be approved by the political process which takes ages and is unpredictable. Different politicians get elected half way through the process and they will try to make last minute changes to designs and specifications. The later that changes are made to specifications the more they cost. If you make multiple late changes it causes massive confusion and it is extremely complicated and expensive to reconcile the redesign with all the existing information. Therefore this will cause cost overruns which can get out of control when the rushed integration of new features causes unanticipated consequences.

Unfolding events affect public projects more. The Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly buildings both had last minute design changes to incorporate airport style security after 9/11. The Welsh assembly introduced a TV studio and broadcast lighting into the specification very late on. The Scottish parliament added a whole office block with offices to accommodate 130 MSPs and their staff. Of course those projects cost a lot more than the initial estimates given when they were first announced to the public, and the opposition politicians made as much political capital out of this as they could by comparing the original estimates to the final cost without mentioning the fact that a different thing was built than was specified at the beginning. You can be sure that the politicians that opposed the cost overruns in Wales enjoy showboating on TV though, and you can be sure that the Scottish MSPs all enjoy their lovely closed plan offices.

Major privately financed projects can be just as bad though, believe me I have worked on a few. The key to a well run project is a quick and efficient decision making process. My theory is that because both the UK and the USA are effectively two party states they tend to suffer a lot more from a lack of a political consensus on whether it is a good idea to build something and how it is going to be done. This causes delays and inefficiencies because elections have much more potential to upset a project than in countries that govern by a coalition of consensus.

Lastly, politicians will spend whatever they can get hold of if will get them votes and it's not coming out of local taxation or they can hide the capital expenditure in a different budget by using PFI procurement.
Same paywall for me.
The qualities of the Saqqara boxes are entirely consistent with what we know about the mathematical and engineering sophistication of ancient Egyptians. There is nothing well-verified "not in the books" that upends the "conventional timeline". The only people claiming otherwise are Discovery Channel nutcase types who want you to believe, without real evidence, often with fake evidence, and always with fatuous reasoning, that angels and aliens intervened in ancient human history.

https://nathandickey.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/demythologizin...
My Dad used to say soil is overrated. Once nitrogen fertilizer was invented, soil largely quit mattering. He got the best yields on eroded clay hillsides. See, they were well-drained which matters more than all the 'soil structure' talk.

Could be that Iowa soil is so good already that our eroded clay hillsides are better than other states' best soil. I guess. But I'm thinking no.
http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
I like how Google did their storage. They started off with a something that was (at the time) insane amount of storage for email, like 1GB. Then they slowly increased that over time as storage costs decreased. It was never unlimited, but it seemed unlimited compared to their competitors, who were often at 1/10th or even 1/100th the space.

Granted that's more difficult to do today as more players have embraced the concept. Google Photos (formerly Picasa) came out with unlimited storage for photos, and Amazon Cloud Drive is a response to that. ACD still offers unlimited photos, but they should never have tried offering unlimited "other files" storage. They have been doing cloud storage to technically adept people for years. I don't know why they thought they could offer a rather similar service, mark it as unlimited, and not expect people to use the cheap unlimited option over their per-use pricing plan.
Genuine question, how do you police that?
If that is your main concern you could always put it on an external drive and put it a bank safe deposit box. I've thought about doing that for at least the very important things, perhaps even printing some important pictures too.
It's good to see useful libraries still being created for Rails. I plan to use this on one of my projects. Thank you.
Don't do this. You shouldn't be thinking about containers or distributed systems, you should be thinking about getting users and make a product they can use. You can worry about scaling later (and there's reasonable chance you'll never need to.)
Well you get to choose cheap backup vs expensive restore.
Better than impossible restore (that is if you don't do backups)
Why We Shouldn't Turn Cape Ann into an Innovation Hub
How much do headlines like this cause a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Not only that. Rising wealth inequality and cheap credit is pricing the middle class completely out of asset ownership. Disposable income is staying constant while asset prices (and related things like rent) continue to rise. This isn't just a US phenomenon.
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> How do you feel about a similar law for real estate agents?

Totally useless. Real estate agents only have the sellers interests in mind because the higher the selling price, the more they make.

Real estate is probably the poster child for pointlessness of these laws.

> Or a law that says lawyers must act in the interest of their clients?

This one seems to work fine. The interests of the lawyer are aligned with the clients anyway, so no law is necessary in the first place.
Would interconnected spaceships be part of IoT?
Eventually, the scale advantages when it comes to things like network upgrades will plow you under.

Let's compare Comcast (30 million subscribers) with a local cable operator (and let's say it's a co-op with 50,000 subscribers):

If Comcast wants to upgrade from DOCSIS3 to DOCSIS3.1, they have to come up with an upgrade / migration plan for probably 3 or 4 different configurations of their CMTS platform. Let's say this costs $10 million per platform, so $40 million overall. Spread across 30 million customers, that works out to about $1.25 per customer.

If the local co-op wants to upgrade from DOCSIS3 to DOCSIS3.1, they have to come up with one migration plan for their single CMTS platform (this includes things like lab equipment, etc because you absolutely have to test and tweak this stuff). But the local co-op probably doesn't have a bunch of on-staff CMTS integration experts, so they have to hire an integrator at probably 1.5x the cost Comcast would pay. $15 million across 50,000 subscribers is $300 per subscriber.

Tell a co-op board that they have a choice: a one-time $300 fee across all the customers to cover the upgrade, raise prices by $10/mo, or accept a buyout offer from Comcast who will perform the upgrade for free. And this is just for one component of the system. Costs are simply higher across the board, and that has to get passed along to customers.

Scale matters in telecom. A lot. A lot of the investment is in non-variable costs, or at least costs that scale logarithmically to number of customers rather than linearly. Comcast/AT&T/Verizon can afford to undercut any smaller competitors because their scale enables a cost structure with much lower overhead maintenance costs.
The whole world's middle class is on the brink of ruin thanks to modern era politicians whose gluttony for easy money is devastating the foundations of sound economic principles: produce more than you can consume.
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There is also a way to embed Jupyter inside emacs: https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook
I guess you like eating apples that taste like wood chips then. Organic is how farmers have been doing it for 10,000+ years of farming, the in-organic kind was invented in the last century by RoundUp and MiracleGro and friends. Pouring industrially produced chemicals into fields of neatly rowed (and erosion prone) staple monocrops is a recipe for failure and more dustbowls and global nutrient debt. Please don't sell organic farming down the river it's going to save us all.
There are a lot of great deep, reflective answers in here. My advice is more tactical so take that for what it's worth.

1) Make sure there's a buffer before you get home from work, or if you work from home, create a buffer. During that time (could be as short as a half hour), do something that's not super stressful and not related to work that gets you thinking about stuff you're interested in. For awhile this was listening to audio books on the train ride home or doing crossword puzzles - as long as it decompresses you a bit.

2) Make sure you're sleeping enough. Fuses get short when you don't sleep and this fixes a lot of things.

3) If you're not working out or moving around, find something that you can do. If it's competitive maybe that helps. Squash, tennis, soccer league? Something that makes you run like crazy and gets your heart rate up.

4) Start work on that thing that's screaming at you from the inside because you're not doing whatever "it" is. Maybe something there - an idea, a project, a thing. What's been keeping you from working on it? Maybe life or your job seems to be preventing you from doing it? Start small. Talk to a few people and keep the fire burning. Learn more about it so you can start to think more strategically about approaches (or rule it out)
To be fair farmers do use those techniques. We'd normally use the terms "harrowing" or "shallow depth tillage" instead of hoeing though.
Those are great steps to follow for yourself and to reach new members of your team :)

I still hold that sparing use is important.

The overhead for steps before your controller action method can often be a significant portion of the overall response time.
Think about it for more than half a second.

Moving a Democrat into a Democratic district makes that district's Democratic seat more secure.

At the same time, moving that Democrat out of your district makes your Republican seat more secure.

You can't do one without the other.
Police are getting a lot of use out of cell phone extraction tech
The guys at Lucasfilm games almost got it perfectly right when designing SCUMM. Even the spitting in Monkey Island 2.
*whole developed world's middle class.

Just a balancing out with developing nations right?
I'm not that commenter, but as a former Christian I must say that the most common Christian attitudes towards this sort of thing are highly irritating to non-Christians. Many Christians constantly bring up their religion and their terrible metaphysics* whether or not there was an invitation for them to do so, use their God to smack around people who don't behave the way they think they should, and generally lower the quality of any given discussion. Advice to pray to a God you don't believe in is useless advice. Imagine if I told you to sacrifice a lamb to Thor to cure your toothache.

* By terrible metaphysics, I mean to say that Christianity's incentive to act ethical, the judgment after death, also incentivizes people to disregard the world they actually live in, leading to unpleasant or even (counter-intuitively) unethical behavior. Some Christians also use these metaphysics as an excuse to treat non-believers like dirt. Not to mention taking the Bible as the infallible word of God that supposedly has all the answers, even though it's full of contradictions and blatant untruths.

FWIW, despite this comment probably coming across as quite hostile, I don't want to attack your faith. I'm just sick of the way some Christians choose to represent their faith in public.
My main criticism is the ipynb files. I don't like that it stores input and output in the same file. Ideally I'd like at least an option for it to put the output in a directory, with images stored as normal, separate files. It's commonly known that the current approach is terrible for version control, for one thing.
The 'Cloud storage' business model is simply
a) get all your data
b) make it hard to move it elsewhere
c) profit!

Operating a large storage infrastructure is not free of course so it almost cannot be any other way unless everyone decided all at once "hey I'm going to charge what I need to stay in business forever right from the start." Which no one ever does because who signs up for such an expensive cloud storage plan where there are so many cheaper ones to choose from?

I pitched a psuedo peer to peer storage plan to some investors once (feel free to pick up the torch and keep running :-) where the company would 'sell' a NAS box to customers that they put on their network and the Internet. 50% of the available storage would be theirs to use, 50% would be used by people off site. The NAS box would encrypt peer-to-peer erasure coded copies of the local storage. If you're allocation of storage was 10TB you "got" 10TB of which the most up to date copy was on your 'home' NAS but it kept the 'cloud view' consistent within a few seconds if you had a decent network.

There was a variant where you took less than 50% of the storage and the company would sell the extra to people on a subscription basis and offset the cost of the NAS appliance you had in your house/apt whatever. The 'key value' of the company was this virtual datacenter where all of its gear was distributed amongst all of these individual installations. That needed some interesting capabilities like ship on warn replacement drives to owners etc.

As the available bandwidth to individual houses increases it gets to be a better idea.
Hello! I'm Pamela, CTO@Woebot. I agree that the privacy policy is confusing, and I've started to make a list of standard questions that people ask Woebot about privacy. I'd like to make a TLDR at the top that covers the FAQs. Could you let me know what particular questions you want answered, so that it can cover that? Thank you!
The anecdote about one individual's credit problem the author uses to lead the article is particularly long and meandering. I can't fathom why anyone thinks this is an effective way to learn about anything.
New PowerPoint Mouseover Based Downloader
Most of the daily programming problems can be solved using FSM. It works especially great with message passing.
But then the students would realize how much in debt they will get by going to the university. No joke, see this unsustainable trend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_debt#/media/File:Stude...
Shippable’s new enterprise product can run in private data centers
Opus seems to be in: "Safari supports modern audio codecs such as Opus"

https://webkit.org/blog/7726/announcing-webrtc-and-media-cap...
Analyzing Django requirement files on GitHub
This is the type of thing I think a lot about. My hometown is plagued by an outrageous crime problem, widespread poverty, and crumbling infrastructure. They just spent $250 million to extend a park over a highway, another $51 million on a trolley for tourists, $24 million to redo a downtown park, and so on and so on.

Obviously, the funds for these projects weren't fungible, but taken as a whole, this spending in the face of real problems is profane.
Shippable releases a server version of its devops tool
The thing about evolutionary advantages is that things that helped us in pre-agricultural age aren't necessarily so helpful in the so vastly different environment of a technological civilization.
I agree, I never use virtualenv. I might if I was building a production system, but for my own laptop I feel perfectly capable of remember/tracking/checking what is in my ~/.local. (I always install with `--user`)

If I really need to containerize something, I use Docker.
Yes. It's silly to distinguish civilian from military deaths without also distinguishing volunteer soldiers from effectively slaves. Civilians too are often largely responsible for wars their countries fight. Especially if they work directly for the war effort manufacturing arms or less directly supporting those who do. I suppose the further removed, the less blame, but also the greater numbers of slightly complicit people.
It takes the total cost to a server to render a page and multiplies it.

Under low load, it could make it faster for one user.

Under higher load, each initial page request will be more expensive and therefore will result in exhausted resources sooner.
This should surprise absolutely nobody. Canada's middle class gets to bear the brunt of the costs of running the country, it would take a much larger population to be able to do so responsibly, on top of that your average Canadian spends far more on consumer goods than is probably wise given their income. In places where the future arrived a little early you can already see this, I've known people to burn up their furniture and inner walls of their house to stay warm in winter. Todays middle-class has a fair chance of ending up in the poor house or on the streets when the final bills arrive. Some parts of Canada make Northern Michigan look good by comparison. Just drive around Northern Ontario for a bit if you want to have an idea of what poverty in a first world country looks like.
What soil management techniques? Where I'm from organic farmers generally use tillage for weed control instead of herbicides, and tillage is what's destroying the soil and letting it erode.

Remember that anything an organic farmer can do a conventional farmer can do as well, and probably is.
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True, though note that the limit is on active requests on the browser end (obviously). If your subrequests are "heavy" and the user refreshes a bunch, you're now going to have 6x (or 8x or whatever the limit is on their browser) the number of "zombie" requests still being processed on your server.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
A good scenario is building a backup server/nas solution that you can put in a little cubby at your friends place. There's trust involved that you're not using their internet to hack the government, and you have to be mindful of their bandwidth/power costs. So not a rackmount server or even a tower, but something much smaller and very appliance looking. A nuc sitting atop a wd passport or their "my book".

If it provides them a benefit like an in-house plex server, even better.