skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nowhere. I haven't claimed that.

yes you did with this comment...

> while in the same breath calling for the oppression of those you disagree with.

You accused me of calling for the oppression of those I disagree with, so please do show me where I did that.

> But that's exactly what the federal government does by making decisions that affect everyone.

No, when the thing they're doing is providing equal rights, that isn't forcing anyone's world view on anyone else. Those who don't want gays to have rights aren't being imposed upon, they're still free to think whatever they like and they're free not to be gay; they have not suffered at all even though the law is in conflict with their world view.

> Every decision they make is made from a specific worldview.

While that is true, that doesn't imply said decision is imposing that view on anyone. Stopping group A from oppressing group
B is not imposing a worldview on group A.

> It's impossible for them to make a decision that complies with every unique worldview out there.

Of course, but it's not impossible for those decisions not to impose that view on anyone else. Protecting minority rights imposes nothing on anyone. If someone doesn't believe in gay marriage, the federal protection of it might be against their worldview, but nothing has been imposed upon them; they are not losing anything by someone else being treated equally.

You're failing to draw the necessary line between having different points of view, and having those points of view imposed upon you. Just because the feds do something at the federal level that may be the result of a world view in no way implies that thing they're doing imposes that view on anyone else.

Now certainly, many things they do "do" impose a worldview, but I'm only defending the protection of minority rights to have equal protection under the law, and that doesn't impose anything upon anyone.
I think I might be a catfish programmer. Have been contracting for several years and on daily basis have to sift through legacy spaghetti codebases originally created by full time employees or outsourced to some digital agency, fix bugs / add features in very short time (on average I stay 6 months on a contract).
That is another alternative although I am not sure it is a great one in the context of code where the unsafe operations expose a safe interface. That is, there should be no memory unsafety no matter how the API is used and the safety checks are just there to double check the library's internal invariants that the scoped `unsafe` is relying upon to be correct.

The downsides are that it is much more complicated to maintain: either ~2 times as much code, some ugly macros encompassing a lot of code or something along the lines of passing around SafeOps/UnsafeOps types everywhere.

Your suggestion definitely makes sense if foo_unsafe API isn't trying to expose a safe interface (as in, some combinations of parameters may result in memory unsafety), but that's not the case for the specific cases in URL and regex that are under consideration here.
Competition is good. For research, The Cold War with Russia and the resulting "Space Race" was good. In Israel, they spend a much larger share of their national income on R&D, largely to develop technologies to defend themselves.
Thank you for the compliment and suggestion!

We will definitely consider group sections for a future iteration of the platform. As you said, this would be beneficial for all parties involved.

By the way, on uMOOC, tutors keep 80% of their hourly rate, from day one.
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Great work! Tough to tell if I would _really_ like it without spending some time in use, but the one thing that really jumped out at me was the various Clip types and states. Very nice.
The actual commercial value is what I stated: unprecedented global distribution driven by content (some of which is user-generated and some of which is partner-generated).

It's the model that has worked for TV, Radio, and Newspapers but in the new world the integration points are different from those old models making the chain of value much different.

Here's a short article that'll help explain it better than I can: https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/

By your friend's logic, AirBnB doesn't have any value either.
> It's basically a moonshot project.

That's good considering it costs several times more than a literal moonshot ($400b vs ~$110b for Apollo in today's dollars). I would describe it as less a moonshot and more a transfer of wealth to military contractors.
I found a super helpful skill to develop is the ability to context switch quickly. Don't be a slave to "the zone". Interruptions happen, and the person who has the discipline to require only 2-5 minutes to get back into the programming zone is more productive than the one who needs 30 minutes after his/her concentration gets broken. I've found the single biggest thing that helped me to work on context switching quickly is having a child--because kids don't give a shit if you're in the zone. They just barge in and interrupt you, and you have to deal with it because family.

I mean, so you're super-productive in continuous 5 hour batches?? Great, we all are! But no business on Earth is like that. Are you also super-productive when your day is punctuated by meetings, phone calls, and open-office distractions? That environment seems to be more common in this day and age.
Because medicine (and medical care) is considered truly inelastic. When you need it, you need it. There's no comparison shopping or waiting until you can afford it.

The free market rules that work for consumer goods start to really break down for inelastic goods.
Man, I've got some horrible news about your CPU.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
"What I cannot create, I do not understand."

This actually came up for me at the office. I was asking a bunch of questions about the Z transform and the Fast Fourier Transform. The person I was talking to said, "Hey, just call the function in MATLAB, it doesn't matter how it works, just that you understand what it is saying."

All of my life I have rebelled at this notion. My earliest recollection of running into it was when I was in grade school and took apart three wind up alarm clocks, each more carefully than the one previously. My Mom was curious what I was looking for and I told her, "How does a clock know how long one second is?" She didn't know, and I didn't know, and while I had mastered using a clock and accepting that it would go off when I set it to go off, I didn't really "know" how a clock worked until I had taken apart and identified, (and modified to validate the identification :), the escapement.
Didn't look at the name. Too much of a hurry. My bad.
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Given the difficulty of entering the mobile handset market, and the inertia of most players, I'm just not sure we would have broken out of the rut.

I think the player who might have made the leap was Google, who was experimenting with touchscreen devices, but they aren't the boldest company when it comes to hardware.
I just finished "An American Sickness" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594206759) that does a good job of targeting all the specific points of inefficiency, with a little bit of explanatory history and exemplary anecdote sprinkled in.
As an arrogant 20-something year old, I disagree :P.

An important distinction to make here is whether you're teaching someone to intuitively reason about something or to logically calculate it precisely.

I think as long as someone grasps the basics of high school math and has a decent working memory, they should be able to learn how to calculate anything precisely given that you break it down into simple steps. If you don't know how to do that, you have no clue what you're doing.

Then there's intuitive reasoning. I think for most things, if you're familiar with a topic, you should be able to teach it in a way that makes sense. Of course there's exceptions -- some people are incredibly brilliant, but lack social awareness. I think that's the exception rather than the average case.

But not all topics are so easily reduced. There's probably some exceptions. The strongest that comes to mind is quantum computing. As many times as you can explain things like superdense coding, there's still a sense of "magic". Where the results of the math seem unnatural. And you go back through each step and try to figure out where things went weird. But each step is a logical progression from the beginning.

On that note, Michael Nielson's "Quantum Computing for the Determined" is one of the most well-taught courses I've found, and does a very good job of stepping the viewer through a very complicated topic. Michael Nielson clearly knows what he's doing :)

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-the-det...
I think I've about gotten my fill of this piece of, uh, wisdom. It strikes me as one of those things that sounds good but is less relevant than we'd like to think.
I hope that this story is not flagged. I was surprised by the tone of comments and the support of conspiracy theories on "The Fake News Machine" story. Hopefully, this story will open the eyes of some members of HN community.
You're paying for others using very cutting edge and expensive drugs, procedures, equipment, EOL treatments, etc.

You're also paying for dramatically increased litigation risk faced by care providers, which is being passed onto you.

You're also paying for intermediaries at each step in the care chain who believe they are entitled to healthy margins.

If we want to make healthcare cheaper, we need to start by deciding who we want to take away from, whether it be EOL life extension (which tends to be way overdone), pharma profits, or taxpayer funds from whatever bracket you feel is right to take from.
The standard is I think the same as the standard for voting; if you're enfranchised, you would be eligible for selection by sortition.

If you're arguing that this may lead to the selection of unqualified representatives, yes, that's certainly a risk.

But the very same people are already voting in the current system. They may not become representatives themselves, but they're certainly choosing them.

If your society can't safely select their representatives at random from the voting population, you already have a civic problem, regardless of which approach you take.
I doubt many server workloads have SHA calculations as a significant bottleneck. Doing SHA256 5x faster (11 cycles/byte to 2 cycles/byte [1]) isn't that groundbreaking.

[1]: https://bench.cr.yp.to/results-hash.html
Reply: Use the Raspberry Pi!
White collar crime is currently more akin to investing in the stock market or mutual funds than it is to playing the lottery, and a lot more people invest a lot more money because you're likely to have a positive return. You can still loose, but it's probably a good investment.

A fine proportional to the resulting profits and the risk of discovery would change the profile from the former to the latter, and would hopefully result in fewer people playing the game.
If curious: This Feynman quote was more specifically about the spin-statistics theorem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%E2%80%93statistics_theore...

And to be fair, it's pretty rough sledding even when you understand the operators involved.
I did not get the bit about "invasive species"
Says the guy talking to a worldwide audience over a system built because of military research.
Discrimination isn't always blatant. Sometimes it's more ignorant. As a minority here's some ways I've encountered forms discrimination and racism.

* People ask "What are you" (As my ethnicity isn't super obvious).

* If they don't believe me I'll next get, "No really, where are you from" .

* Been asked if I speak Korean and Spanish (two separate occasions) because they needed a translator (not Korean or Hispanic at all) .

* Been on a few dates where they've said "Normally I'm not attracted to Hispanic men" (Not hispanic!) .

* Went to a bar (that served normal bar food). After sitting down, overheard from a group nearby "Does it smell like rice in here?"
Is that a fair comparison? The UK has a population of 65M, which is about 1/5 of the US @320M.

The UK still probably gets a better bang for the quid - at least until the Tories' mismanagement of NHS comes home to roost.
It's not just about legacy instructions which can be decoded down to some microcode. It's about architectural features like SGX, CET, MPX, TSX, VT --- plus the legacy stuff like segment registers and 286 call gates and virtual 8086 mode and so on and so on --- and how they all interact with each other, and how they increase the complexity of context switching, OS support, and so on.
OP was arguing that you can easily appreciate something and still kill it. The nature of the appreciation is secondary to the original argument.
> PS. ux-app looks interesting. I can give some feed back as a designer if you want.

Thanks :) and yes, I'd love to hear your feedback, me email is eli@ux-app.com
This is a perfect description of what I was expressing. I like the archaeologist angle (knowing nothing of archaeology, of course).

So much of the work is browsing files and reading, which is different than creating. It's a different challenge: enjoyable in its own way.
> To tell someone who has devoted their career to
> understanding a complex topic that they don't
> understand their subject because they can't express
> it in layman's terms without doing terrible
> violence to the underlying phenomenon is ludicrous.

The article doesn't say you should be able to explain it to a layperson, but to a beginning student. This is a distinction that matters. A beginning student in your field should have enough preparation that what you need to explain is only the parts that relate to your particular area of expertise.

No one should devote their career to simply understanding a topic. If all you do is load someone else's work into your head, what value you are adding? A career is a mixture of learning as well as exploring and discovering new things. Explaining just the parts that are known is a much smaller order than transmitting the effort of your entire career into words.

Note also that Feynman isn't claiming you should be doing this all the time, but that you should be able to. I've been programming for about two decades and I've learned a ton (and yet still have even more left to learn). I'd like to believe that, yes, I could explain almost all of it to a beginning CS student or even a lay person.

They might not have the patience for me to build up all of the necessary structure from one simple piece at a time, but I think I could. After, that's how it got into my head in the first place. The parts that I couldn't do a good job decomposing and walking through are exactly the parts that I probably don't have a good handle on. (For me, networking and operating systems come to mind. I know some of the jargon, but I don't really know how it all works.)
I'd only do an acquire. Slack is on the ropes.
Not exactly the same situation as Ubuntu - the MP3 decoding checkbox downloaded Fluendo's decoder, which was actually properly licensed. But otherwise you're correct (FYI, there are EU and JP patents too).
In San Francisco it seems that about half of the ones I take are.
I'd go do every medical test and examination I'd be entitled to since I no longer have a cost associated with it.

I.e. What CA Single payer is proposing.
It filters for even.

Increments each element to odd.

Multiplies each number by 3 (each number is still odd)

Filters for evens then sums them.

Always returns zero.
AFAIK they don't allow a feature like this. If they implemented one, I would gladly use it (even if it cost slightly higher or came with worse availability). That would be an easy way to allow consumers to vote with their actions and support electric vehicles.
Ah I don't think it is the same, I think the equivalent would be more like jQuery or even React. Wordpress is a "you don't have to be a programmer" platform while Raspberry Pi would be more like "you do have to know your way around".
A classical joke from the GDR (about scientific language, not about farmers):

"The production volume of agriculturists is the reciprocal of the intellectual capacity of the producers."

also known as:

"The less intelligent the farmer, the bigger his potatoes."
That's like 1/5 the cost of one F35 Flying Turkey?
It's considered politically insensitive these days.
If your ssh port is wide open and there's a remotely exploitable vulnerability, then using keys may not save you.

But there's no reason you couldn't use both keys and port knocking at the same time.
This is true, but it's not predictable which one you'll be. This line of reasoning is akin to claiming your car insurance should be cheaper because you'll never get into an accident. It's simply not logical. You cannot know if you're going to be someone who doesn't put a drain on the medical system or not, the future is not knowable.

You could be the healthiest person in the world and get punched by someone who gives you an expensive disease through blood contact; you could randomly get cancer at any age no matter how healthy you think you are. So this notion that you think you should pay less is based on a naive understanding of how health actually works; you cannot predict the future. You could be disabled tomorrow through no fault of your own. As such, the system must be designed to consider that everyone will be sick at some point and most people will be healthy most of the time, everyone pays and the sick are covered, problem solved for everyone. Social medicine works better than any other approach, this is a fact proven around the world. Those objecting to it are doing so on ideological grounds, not on rational ones.
Cities are states are free to work the the Federal Government to set up healthcare for their citizens.

For example, where I live in NYC (at least prior to Obamacare) 450,000 New Yorkers without health insurance could go to one of many Community Health Centers funded by Feds, State and other sources as well as go to one of 11 public hospitals.

Interestingly, ObamaCare cut the DSH funding to these and similar public hospitals throughout the country. [1]

Part of the funding in NY State / NY City comes from $4.35 state and an additional $1.50 city tax per pack on cigarettes. The tax revenues are then put into Medicaid funding which in the case of NY State is matched 1:1 by the Federal Govt.

Trumpcare should restore the DSH funding that ObamaCare unwisely cut and increase the funding for Community Health Centers. States should increase tobacco taxes and use those funds to help pay for healthcare for their residents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disproportionate_share_hospita...
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It only deserves respect if you believe the military deserves respect. The US spends more on it's military than every other militarily significant country combined -- what are we defending against? Besides a drop in stock price for Lockheed Martin.
I love this. The catfish moniker is weird but I have definitely learned these lessons. I write very simple code because I've seen the hotshot stuff go bad, not because I don't understand the hotshot stuff.

But, this way of working involves little glory or reward besides the money. You'll never be the genius that created the beautiful new thing, you'll always be the janitor who's stuck with fixing all the mistakes of the "genius". So just know that.

One time a coworker said to me, you know, your stuff always just works and I never run into problems with it. That's about the extent of praise you'll get when you work like this. So know that too.
Large catfish are actually very active predators. In most of the United States, blue and flathead catfish get up to around 100 pounds. Gotta hunt to do that.
Thanks, all! We've updated the link from https://osenetwork.com/2017/06/13/bombshell-report-200-roi-o... to the summary blog post.
>bitcoin is not decentralized because all transactions are on a single public ledger.

Immediately not following you here. The singular ledger you refer to is in fact stored (and modified) by many different actors and agreed to on a majority basis. There are absolutely different versions of the ledger in existence, but the majority chooses to move forward temporally on the basis of majority consensus. That version of the ledger becomes the basis for future records, and so on.

It is an agreement between parties, in the same way that having other people refer to you by your chosen name is 'a single truth' which is actually just majority agreement.

>the product is a single central source of truth.

I can't see this aspect of your argument panning out to anything other than complete absurdity, to be honest.

>There is nothing centralized about having a single objective "reality".

Was this a typo? It appears to contradict the rest of your post. If it wasn't, I agree with this point.
I agree and will also say the structure made more sense with Jobs versus without. Not changing the structure after Jobs did not make sense, imo.
This is chump change, we should have invested $2.58 billion or more. China isn't taking half measures in their state's science and technology investments. They realize we're in a second cold war, just one where the two combatants have more economic interdependence. They are making investments like the ones that helped us win the last war.
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> Except Downtown SF is not just techies. It's plenty of so-called 'cool' people too.

ehhhhhh

> If he were expecting to see them in Sunnyvale maybe you'd have a point.

yeah ok
One has to differentiate between Christian influence and general thinking. "Do good things" is common sense but Christian theology has opinion on what is good and bad and it matters at a subtle level.

For example as a Hindu when my kid went to a missionary school they would try to portray polytheism as bad and temporary tattoos as evil.
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We did that treatment with our daughter after not doing the Nuvo treatment quite right the first time (didn't get the Cetaphil down to the roots.)

I would do it again.

I do wonder if Nuvo partly works by the heat method as well since you have to blow dry the Cetaphil.
They kind of do it to themselves on top of a lack of investment. The people in denser areas are there for network effects that include cheaping hooking large numbers of people up to actual networks. Many rural people like to be "away from it all" in simpler, quieter area. Well, that makes it expensive to connect them. They also favor private sector and capitalism in their politics which is what they're getting in terms of Internet service. ;)
Directly funding research is far more efficient than letting a huge percentage of the money we spend go to lining the pockets of MIC billionaires.
> Did you know that CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) is the largest American healthcare payer?

True, but the numbers you post are misleading, in that CMS is not the payer for total Medicaid spending (state governments are, and CMS reimburses some portion of te State spending, which varies by state, beneficiary attributes, and other factors.)
I'm no expert on snapchat, but one thing I can say from personal experience being at an IPOing unicorn -- until about a year into our IPO, we were a "no buy", and all of these giant companies were ostensibly going to crush us with products that didn't even compete with us. Then, one year and a couple of earnings calls in, we're suddenly a "buy" and people consider us stable and successful. What did I learn from this? Never trust the stock market, and doubly so do not trust the stock market with a new stock.
if I read this correctly, the reduce statement here is reducing an always-empty collection.
Little One.