skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I understand where you're coming from: feels a bit ironic that a site devoted to equality is marginalizing a group of people.

At the same time, I think you've hit on the crux of the point the site is making. You might find it interesting to explore the idea at one level deeper.

I don't know if you identify as a straight, white male, but if you do, you can see how frustrating it feels to be categorized in this way.

Now imagine the majority of panel discussions you attend, board members you see, politicians, etc. all in minor ways, perpetuate that same level of marginalization.

A panelist always seems to be making jokes about how brogrammers are unconsciously racist, the boards of companies are all wearing Muslim garb (with a token white guy thrown in every once in a while), and the number of "people in power" who are supposed to represent you never seem to have the same skin color you do.

If we (I'm a straight, white male) are able to tap into the frustrating that FAQ generates in us, it may help us understand the perspectives of others better; which I personally believe, is the key to doing something about it.

Trying to pretend we're all equal hasn't worked, because we're not all equal - the ecosystems we live in are never a level playing field. Trying to pretend they are exacerbates the problem.

If instead we try to empathize, and understand the experiences of others though, maybe we can be open to making the changes in ourselves necessary to making the playing field a bit more level.

Which is why I appreciate your comment - it represents your true perspective, which makes intuitive sense. I think if you're willing to take the author's argument the next logical step, you might find her/his perspective some makes sense as well.
"Nothing current government does affect cost of medical care"

This is a shockingly ignorant statement, the kind of cheap criticism that comes from someone very far away.

Did you know that CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) is the largest American healthcare payer?

In 2015, private insurance total healthcare expenditure was $1,072.1 billion ($1.072T).

But Medicare and Medicaid spent $1,191.3 billion ($1.191T).

The federal government's ability to act a single healthcare purchaser larger than the entire private market has a dramatically large effect on the cost of medical care -- it suppresses as the rock-bottom CMS rates are significantly below private reimbursement.

Of course, this only examines the impact of the federal government directly on the market as its largest participant -- it does not BEGIN to examine the massive statutory/regulatory influence the government has on the price of health care.

>If anything, they suppress flow of cheap money to medical providers which only inflates its costs even more.

It's the exact opposite.

CMS/federal healthcare spending is the ultra-low cost one, flowing an enormous sum of cheap-per-person money to any service provider that will take them.

It's the massively-inflated private reimbursements which service providers love.

>The largest shares of total health spending were sponsored by the federal government (28.7 percent) and the households (27.7 percent). The private business share of health spending accounted for 19.9 percent of total health care spending, state and local governments accounted for 17.1 percent, and other private revenues accounted for 6.7 percent.

https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...

The more you know.
I dunno. I learned more about light from [1] than anything else i'd ever read or saw. Am i an expert? hell no. I do have a far, far better handle on how lenses and mirrors work though. I think you'd be hard pressed to claim that either qed isn't that complicated, or, this lecture does a bad job of describing it.

Although, i would agree that some experts do a bad job of explaining things. They're still experts. I think you'd agree that non-experts don't really have a chance at explaining things.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQ2atfqk2c
> Curious what you would consider an example of such a field?

The frontiers of physics always strike me this way. The names and explanations are incredibly strained and bizarre. This is probably the canonical example and is perhaps why The Elegant Universe doesn't quite achieve what it sets out to achieve.

Another one from my own academic past is "complexity theory" where hand-wavey concepts like "emergency" or "higher order causation" get thrown around with a lot of confusion. We can clearly see there's some "there" here, but I don't think we really understand what it all means yet. Put stuff together, interesting higher-order stuff happens, and so now let's create a combinatorial explosion of jargon around it. Publish or perish.

Finally "consciousness studies" or anything else semi-fringe probably counts. Again there's certainly some "there" there, but we don't even know the right questions to ask. Something is happening to matter that makes it wonder what's happening to it.
Attention Course Instructors: Please Stop Reading Your Code
"In the catfish world, code speaks, money changes hands, and friendships are evanescent"

:( friendships are important to everyone, this sounds like a really unhappy way to live.
A math formula is one of the objectively simplest ways of expressing something. But it's not easily understood unless you know the math well, thus violating Gruber's rule. Feynman was honest about this, because magnetism can be explained very simply, but not in any familiar way to things most people already know about.

At least as good as math (and capturing the objective complexity better I think) is a working program. "What I can't program, I don't understand."

When people ask for a simple explanation, they usually expect it to be easy for them too, because we all want simple and easy at the same time, even though only one of those is objective. If your reply to "how do magnets work?" is to start by writing down Maxwell's equations, you're gonna get crap for it, but someone who uses the fake rubber band analogy will be well received. But who really understands magnetism better?
U.S. Invests $258M in Supercomputing Race with China
The extreme volatility is why BTC was never intended to be used as an investment tool. @aantonop has stressed this over and over again.
I'm not sure how the Y2K rules are the primary focus of this article when the much more consequential impacts will be rescinding Obama's CIO memo that gave department CIOs full responsibility for implementing projects:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/08/08/changin...

Or eliminating the Core Federal Services Council which was setup to identify and improve the Federal services with the highest volumes:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/omb...
"that makes it harder to change code".

Hm,... that could actually be a feature! Adding inertia.
Not that I would use that, but it makes me think..^^
I strongly concur.

I suspect a so-called expert's ability to solve problems within a domain (i.e., how "expert" they are at that domain) would be a function of their ability to manipulate terms in that domain which to me is akin to their ability to those terms clearly.

I can't imagine someone easily solving problems within a domain wherein the terms they use are giant spaghetti balls of complexity. Anything can always be broken down into further levels of abstractions (or prove me wrong on that).
True. It does dampen it.

But the whole "our CEO is a genius, the gift of the gods", is a standard trick in branding luxury products. Actually, one of the more interesting stories behind the iPhone would be of the marketing behind it. But i'll guess we'll never hear it, because there's always new stuff to sell.
Why mention individuals? This wasn't something dudeface did for his own entertainment. It was done specifically because the rapist was an uber driver. This was a company mishandling HIPAA data in that they never should have had access to it in the first place, let alone been sharing it around the exec staff like a pulp comic.

I will say this clearly and I mean it: If you use uber, or you work for uber, you are morally wrong. You are choosing to enrich people and a company who have shown you multiple times that they are terrible human beings who lack even the concept of a moral compass.
You can log memory usage in some browsers but the memory usage is bucketed so you will not get a fine grained number. At Asana, we look at the 99th percentile and then use Chrome to take heap dumps.
Yes, you may be contractually forbidden from doing such work.

You need to have a lawyer review the IP assignment clauses in whatever you signed. It may be that there is no such thing as "outside of my job." They may own everything you do regardless of when or how you do it, which means their policies apply for everything, all the time.

Even a reasonable IP assignment, that only assigns ownership to the company of work that is directly related to your responsibilities, might conflict, since you'd be making an open source project to help with your responsibilities.

Talk with a lawyer.
I have found that a Sony RX100 is a rather nice compromise between picture quality and portability.

I have been close to upgrade my old DSLR since I want a better sensor and some really good glass for indoor photos, but I'd use it twice a year. I might buy one when I retire.
I think you can't explain something in simple terms if you don't understand it, is true, but the other way around isn't entirely true, or at least it's a bit more fuzzy.

Often, it takes a lot of awareness of what are the common mental models / mental blocks other people have when learning the concept you are trying to communicate. You have to structure things as a series of strategic progressions before tackling the most complicated form of something, all of that is more the art of teaching ( which of course requires good understanding )

Of course, if someone can do that, it's a brilliant proof they do understand something.

If they can't do it, then it can leave you with doubt what someone else understands. Which in Apples case may be considered entirely unacceptable.
Is that not being positive? With every step, I'm sure the will to quit may come, but you will never reach the summit if you quit. Therefore, if you focus on NEGATIVITY like "I'm not going to make it!" YOU NEVER WILL. If you forge on, at least you're progressing, and that is something to help motivate you to finish your mission.
Wait, so wouldn't Country Club prison work then, since that's where all the existing imprisoned white collar criminals already are (and, per your description, they are “really bad people”.)
Interesting. Yet we see basically zero portability. So what happened?
Bitcoin Now More Likely to Get SegWit Before August First to Avoid Chain Split
Ethereum has had some pretty wild fluctuations over the past 24 too. Lost about £100GBP/30%(approx) back to where it was a week ago.
https://processing.org/ is nice alternative. While still highly visual, this thing teaches real Java programming, not that visual programming BS.

Personally, I did visual programming more than once during my career, in biztalk, virtools and unity3d. I like regular programming much better. Could be the whole idea is somewhat flawed, at least once a program being developed is larger than three blocks in size.
I doubt they would admit anything of that nature. And yeah, I don't understand why the CEO of the company would think this would help their PR. Even if it was a secret.
Ten percent of the electricity generation in US now comes from wind and solar
The issues around "booth babes" are not about the individual women doing the work.
>Taking breaks to play games, chat around coffee, or taking a few minutes to walk around the office is a non-existent element of life. An 8 hour work day is exactly that: 8 hours of pure work.

I don't understand how some programmers can supposedly work for 8 hours straight. I often have to take breaks to think about how I want to best implement the next thing, or what exactly I should be working on.
Nothing I do is intrinsically complex. It's just data processing. Copy a string from here, paste it over there.

Maybe, maybe, some times I'll do something clever.

Some times someone will have an insight, intuition. Like a market analysis. Or frame some useful questions for our recommenders.

Otherwise, all of the complexity that I encounter day-to-day is because of people's cognitive limitations. We make it hard. Misunderstanding, miscommunication, separation anxiety, dogma, arrogance, cya, whatever.
UPWORK CLIENT OWES ME APROX. $4.000 SINCE 11 MONTHS AGO
Hello everyone!

Yes once again problems with Upwork.

If anyone can give me some advice I would much appreciate it.

A quite known client who owns several companies in the ''translation'' field owes me $4.000 and he keeps avoiding me in order to not pay me. I have done an excellent job and he promised the payment and it's been 11 months now.

Please let me know if anyone has any idea of what I can do or if at least I can put him under pressure putting his name or website or something like that in a community where people can spread the word and to escalate this further for investigation of I do not know maybe fraud or theft. He is using my work without the right of using it because Upwork has some strict TOS about this and he has not paid me in full for the job delivered in December last year. He keeps answering me but he avoid paying or he makes payments as low as $100 each 2 months that is a shame.

I want people to know that he is doing this to PLENTY OF PEOPLE IN UPWORK as well and Upwork itself is not doing anything.

This client is from America.

Best regards

Thank you
May I propose, in contrast, that explaining is the art of simplifying the complex for others?
I think the worst part is looking like a catfish.
It's sometimes amazing to hear the albums which didn't have all that processing work done at the end. I love the sound of the DMB Lillywhite sessions which was leaked after recoding but not turned into an official album. I much prefer those versions to the later official ones.
ChromeOS is not open source. We need to stop spreading the misleading claims that Chrome or ChromeOS, as distributed widely is open source, because it is not. They are not particularly secure given how poorly policed the Web Store is (malware which can exfiltrate your browsing data is rampant).

And of course, as my source demonstrated, there is definitely a license cost to use Chromebooks in a managed environment, and it is not free for educators.

As the situation is _right now_, the law is probably fine, but I'd be against the parent's suggestion of allowing a loophole for them to get to repatriate cash tax-free for this sort of usage, because it's likely just going to work out in their favor, and not in ours or the public interest.
Simply put, most IPOs are 'priced' such that the stock will go up after the IPO. So traders during the roadshow agree to buy shares at the IPO price and then they turn around and sell those shares for a profit when the stock goes up and people (nominally retail investors) are trying to buy the stock. They do this carefully so as not to put the stock in a huge tail spin.

So lets say you're Fidelity, and you've got a billion dollar fund, you take 10 million out of that, commit it to the IPO and sell it when the stock goes up 20%. You now have 12 million to put back into your fund and you've added 2 basis points to the "return" for your fund (shares are now worth 1.002 B$.)

The trick though is that you are not really "investing in SNAP" so much as you're taking advantage of a pricing advantage of a highly anticipated offering.
> Bitcoin is, however, frequently used to launder stolen bitcoin.

Bikes are frequently used to launder stolen bikes.
"They already settled the lawsuit."

This is a separate lawsuit. This is about them illegally obtaining her medical records.

"At the very least, Doe should forfeit the money she already received before beginning this lawsuit regarding substantially the same matter. "

No. This is a separate action.

"Otherwise, what's the point of settling if you can't forget about the matter?"

Settling does not give you carte blanche to keep being shitty.

"The onus for keeping medical records private is usually on the medical provider, not on the people interested in obtaining them."

How does this excuse Uber's behavior in the slightest?
There should still be a reason at the end of that: don't trust closed-source crypto from [] because [].
Write it as a CYOA. Then, have it web hosted. Have your test readers go through it. Track their choices. Publish a book based on selecting only the highest trafficked choice for each node.
IIRC, Uber was being sued by the Indian government over the case. Information is power
"places with multiple roommates to defray the cost"

I had this perspective as well (in my 20s), until I had children. I supposed everything can theoretically be considered a want rather than a need. But how many people are really comfortable having roommates live with your family and children?

As for living in "the crappiest place", I lived in a pretty sketchy place during my childhood. We had metal detectors in our high school in Brooklyn. Reference: https://www.propublica.org/article/nyc-school-children-face-... You can consider wanting to go to a safe school a want (vs a need), but who doesn't aspire to that for their children?
I think we are at the early stages of another major "disruptive" event. In 20-30 years fossil fuels could be obsolescent. I'm sure everyone realizes how incredibly destabilizing this will be to the world economic order among other things.
Twitter on the web looks so much like myspace!
that's arguing for the reverse of the rule, you can't explain something simply if you don't understand it. But that doesn't imply the reverse case.
> But I haven't seen a good argument for 80-character line limit other than "that's the way it's always been done."

Having shorter lines makes reading diffs easier (whether it's unified, context, or split diffs).

> The "official/accepted" git commit message format limits the commit message title to 50 characters, and the message body to ~80 characters.

It's actually 72 characters for the commit message body for a similar reason that you mentioned for emails. Specifically, it's because the git log output indents the commit message relative to the diff (when using the -p option).
Experiment: unsupervised pre-training, dropout and representation learning
> The website seems to implicitly say that white men equals bad

vs

> Lately, I have even witnessed people complaining that most donations come from white men charities and that this is bad

So... you complain that the website is generalising, then go on to imply that a clear outlier is also the general case?
Herpes Zoster: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
The funny thing is, I actually can mine ore, smelt it into iron and forge it. That doesn't mean I can explain how that works (monoxides in a fuel binding to oxides in iron ore to separate iron from slag, aligning grain and changing durability by heat treating, etc). Maybe that doesn't matter if all you want to do is produce pig iron, but if your specific engine design requires a specific grade of alloy, now you need to fully understand metallurgy.

Take it a step further and the engine is built, but you need to make a modification (forced induction, race fuel, etc). If you don't want your engine to blow up, now you need to understand air/fuel mixture. Sure, I can do something with a simplified understanding. But the lack of a complete understanding will leave me with a blown-up engine.

Does it follow that if I understand metallurgy and internal combustion engines, but can't simplify it, that I don't understand it? Of course not; the entire premise was that I already understood it. Simplification does not show you understand something. It can only provide a shallow, incomplete understanding.

So you don't need to be able to simplify to understand. You need to understand to understand. You need to simplify to provide a simplistic, shallow view.
The evolution of scalable microservices
package.json

...
"format": "prettier-eslint --write --trailing-comma es5 --single-quote true \"_src/**/*.js\"",
"lint": "eslint \"_src/**/*.js\"",
"precommit": "npm run format && npm run lint"
...

problem solved...
It's the same everywhere. Do you think the IRS is any better than the FISC? Tax administrations are out to get you, regardless of your country.
It costs the UK £123.7b to run the NHS for a year: http://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nhs

America spends more than 7 times that for private health insurance.

Something's wrong.
Ronin for businesses and freelancers just got a whole new look
I think you're taking it out of context. It's about work friends, not friends in general.
I hope this guy gets the job he's after! But imo the biggest thing missing from the ableton ui these days is touch support, and this design doesn't address it.
The difference with FB was that it rapidly shifted out of its "exclusive" user group by expanding outside of university email address holders to allowing everyone and their grandma from joining. Once Snap inevitably cleans up its UI to stoop to trying to attract older audiences, what appeal will it have?
Oddly enough, they did implement encrypted calls in telegram desktop, and relatively quickly after the release of the feature in mobile.
? There's a difference between explaining something complex to a layman and explaining something complex in simple terms. You can always do the latter, and if you can't you don't understand the topic; this is a different exercise than trying to fit a topic into someone else's horizon of understanding, which may be thousands of simple building blocks behind.
I see it as an analogy with how, in maths, to fully understand a complicated concept you must be able to explain it using more and more basic definitions, but that does not mean you have to express everything in basis to fundamental axioms, just that you could.

Maybe explaining a complex concept in simple terms would take you 2 hours, 12 hours or 3 days, but you can do it if you really understand it.
> Well, actually HIPAA stands for "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" - it's specifically about making health records portable.

No, it's about making health insurance portable. [0] (The Security and Privacy pieces—as well as the IT standards bits—are part of the one “accountability” piece of the title, and largely irrelevant to the “portability” piece.)

Health records, in terms of interoperability, weren't a big focus in the legislation (they became a bigger focus with meaningful use and related rules in the ACA.)

EDIT: to be fair, though, access to your own records is also part of the accountability part, which isn't exactly portability of records, but it's related.

[0] See, e.g
, http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/portability.asp
Not if they're all only around each other. I'm talking they need to be locked up with genpop at a medium or high security prison. With gang members and such.
You could also use some form of pre-compiled-non-platform specific system, which you then compile/optimize to the current platform.

Ideally we should also be able to decompile and recompile code. But this might be hard for x86 die the complexity.