skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring state specific insurance programs like medi-cal, medicare funded care for over 50 million Americans in 2015. To say the government doesn't affect cost of is care is a bold claim.
This is so untrue. If true, beings that can't speak or write can never understand anything.

I understood very early in life that if I cried I would be hit. I couldn't talk, write, or communicate my understanding in any way, but I understood clearly.
Meh, that's a cop-out. "You don't need complex sentences to express complex ideas." and "They don't use more complex sentences, just different words"? It's pretending that the complexity in the language lives only in the grammar, and not the jargon. Think of it this way: if spoken language gets more informal in terms of sentence structure the harder the topic, that means that the easier the topic, the more complex the sentences.

I think PG has confused the informality people have when they have a common understanding with something else. Do you really think that a pair of experienced mechanics in an auto shop discussing a basic repair are going to be using more formal language? Turn one of the mechanics into an apprentice and consider the same discussion.
So it was a small lie?
I find MongoDB easier to deploy and maintain because it's easier to build and monitor. CouchDB with Erlang not so much (for our environment, it's totally alien).

EDIT: I made a statement about our preference, for our environment. I did not make broad claims about these DBs for other people. How am I upsetting HN?
If I was your boss I would say two things:
1) Here are the reasons we have these protocols in place.
2) Tell me what you want to make and how it will help the company.
There's an appropriate amount of punishment. It's too much for a joint and too little for the people who broke the economy.

This is not a contradiction or indication of hypocrisy.
Penalties would only be levied after an inmate actually got out of prison, and there is ample time for the prison to use the inmate for slave labor to more than offset whatever penalties you set.

Also expect for the corrections officers unions and police and sheriffs groups to start lobbying for mandatory life sentences because if there's one way to prevent recidivism it's to never actually release the prisoner.
Well, sure, but I meant that in the context of:

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"It's not perfect, but if you make ten billion dollars from fraud,"

I don't see how this applies to this matter. From what I read in the article, Uber was being sued and investigating a crime that occurred through the application of their service. In other words, if they did something wrong, it wasn't in the pursuit of profit, it was in defense of another lawsuit or the ultimate private settlement thereof.
Plus, when most people are using an editor that doesn't have a per-project settings for the language/format to use, it's really hard. Getting everyone else on a VS solution to change their JS editor to 2 spaces, and disable the auto-format is an exercise in frustration.

That said, the convention for most languages seems to be towards spaces at this point, and I don't care enough to argue anymore as my choice of editor(s) allows me to set it per project at least.
This is very cool! Have you considered implementing group sections.

That way, students can pay less and tutors can earn more. If 10 students pay $10/hr, that's $100/hr for the tutor, and the students would still benefit immensely.
My favorite corollary (attribution unknown) -

"But if you can ONLY explain something in simple terms, you still don't understand it"
That works for physics, which seems to be parsimonious with its base concepts. The equations which define most of physics fit on one sheet of paper.

It doesn't work for biology, which is complicated at the bottom. Evolution doesn't have the parsimony of physics. Nor does it have to be understandable by humans.

Whether it works for software is a design issue. It's certainly possible to create software which cannot be explained simply.
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Because the code of Windows is the asset ;)
> (though California has recently passed single payer)

No, it hasn't. (One house of the legislature has sent a bill which aims to create a single payer system, but which is not complete or implementable to the other house, largely to avoid procedural rules that would have forces starting at square zero if it wasn't passed out of that house. If the other House does the hard work of actually amending that skeleton into an actual single-payer bill that it passes, it will still have to go back to the first house and be passed there again, and then be signed by the Governor, before California will have passed single-payer.)
I lived in Senior House 82-87 and it was a lot of fun. Definitely helped me graduate. The fact that the institute was a collection of subcultures was perfect.

Of course I spent more time in the lab than I did in the dorm, so the level of influence might not be the same as it might have been at a different school. In fact right now I'm doing a startup with a friend from that period, and I know him from the lab, not dorm (he lived in Bexley, another dorm MIT was happy to shut down).

I wonder if the institute simply wants the real estate, and to move all the undergrads to the west side of campus for simplicity.
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I've stated this multiple times on HN. As a minority, I've not witnessed any discrimination in my 12+ years in the US/SV. While my experience might be an anecdote, I still find claims of discrimination based on minority status a little hard to believe in silicon valley, taking the experience of my friends and family into consideration.

However, I do find women, regardless of race/religion, to be more subjected to discrimination and harassment.

Additionally, the response to [1] in the FAQ by the site author is the most unadulterated form of (reverse) racism that continues it's meteoric rise in acceptance in the media. Tragic!

[1]: "I AM A STRAIGHT WHITE MAN AND I FEEL EXCLUDED BY THIS. CAN YOU MAKE YOUR SITE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT ME, ME, ME?"
Definitely true. Both sides of the coin are bad.
I tried entering my personal server's hostname and port number but it timed out trying to connect. Then I remembered that I configured my server's firewall to only allows SSH connections from my home ISP or work IP address.

I too would prefer to use a standalone tool that I could use for testing my SSH configuration without having to temporarily disable those firewall rules.
Thanks for the info! (I haven't touched ChromeOS in a long time). Still kinda supports my point that ChromeOS does have a steep learning curve if you want to do anything outside of web browsing.
Vodafone allows 4G roaming and tether. Biggest reason I switched from three.
The comments here mention crypto currencies. However, currency is anathema to anarchist societies and isn't mentioned in the manifesto. Anarchists recognize that currencies and markets are products of the state and using this tool in a stateless society makes no sense. A currency and markets primary purpose is to provision the state. What would a crypto currency without a state provision? Who does it serve? Bitcoin makes it clear it is the FPGA and ASIC operators consuming vasts amount of energy.
The comment about practicality is well made. The Challenger was a good device for the time, but for the modern day I prefer my current setup: Master 128 with 16MHz copro, plus home-made mashup of http://zeridajh.org/software/65link/index.htm and Minimus AVR, letting me can use my Macbook Pro as a file server ;)
I have always hated HD Radio from the pedantic standpoint that "definition" describes images and "fidelity" should describes audio.
It's a straight answer to the question. If there's any snark in this chain, it's the quotes on "specialists" in the top-level comment.
So, this means a 2P system can pack 64C/128T, 256 PCIe lanes and 4 TB RAM?

What a monster. Pack this together with a couple Quadro GPU accelerators and you got some serious allround performance.
> The paradox is many people feel the US government should have done more about 9/11 or other such events.

Certainly. After all, they chose money instead of keeping the one tool[1] they already had that were able to tell them about 9/11 before it happened and save all those people who have died in 9/11 and other attacks. Negligence is complicity when it's a government choosing money over it's citizens, so in the case of 9/11, I'd say the US government is as guilty as the attackers.

A great documentary about NSA and ThinThread is A Good American[2], and a good follow-up is The Maze[3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread

[2]: http://agoodamerican.org

[3]: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/themaze
Not really, no. More like an unnecessary detail, especially if it was an introductory course on the subject. It's not like knowledge of the Z state will suddenly change how you would design systems.
Good. Maybe that will make them think twice about doing something illegal just because they can afford the fine.
For too long to meant companies and people in business have avoided the consequence of their actions, it's time we pulled them back into line.
They want you to reply with another photo.
No mention of Mongo "/dev/null as a service" DB's infamous issues with data loss?

Apparently their new replication protocol isn't as utterly broken as the old one, but my understanding is that data recovery after server crashes is still a problem.
This isn't possible. The act of wearing the uniform constitutes pretending to be an employee.
I think this is broadly true, but not in the way a lot of other commentators mean.

Explaining something in simple terms does not mean you _fully_ explain it. You explain the essence (or what you see as the essence) of the thing. Google search is: you type a question into a box and Google shows you the best answer. Google search is a lot more than that, of course, but if you can't "boil it down" you don't understand it.

This is the top line of a git commit v.s. the comments you leave in the source code. You can spend months working on thousands of lines of code, bur if you can't describe it in a single sentence (while leaving a lot out!) it's a bad sign.
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It is the law of the land that has successfully been used to base mutually contradictory laws on.
> All the cell phone companies had their own proprietary OS.

Symbian was used by dozens of manufacturers and came in different flavors. S60 for standard smartphones, S80/90 for communicators, UIQ for touchscreens.

Windows Mobile was also widely used and had an edition for phones using a touchscreen and one without them.

Hundreds of millions were sold before the iPhone even came out.
The best math professor I ever had, was in a 400-level Real Analysis class. His particular skill was that he basically had mastered the catalog of incorrect mental models students developed.

He would be proving something in class, someone would stop to ask a question, and from their question he would know not to try to answer it as asked, but rather he knew they were asking the wrong question, because the question was predicated on a misunderstanding of something three or four steps back.

Now these were proofs that a working mathematician could probably do in their sleep, but they were a level up in terms of abstraction for most of the students and to be able to drag us along with him was a rare talent.
Well, when it comes to Sennheiser, there's the HD line and then there's everything else.

Even then, I think they really, really care about the HD600 / HD650 / HD800 succession of flagships. They might care a little bit about classic workhorses such as HD280 and the like. The rest I feel they are treating a bit more like crowdpleasers and moneymakers. I could be wrong.
One huge benefit by adapting a CouchDB backend is you got replication free, with PouchDB on client side this opens so many opportunities.
It's not realistic to expect this. If everything could be simplified to this degree, you would never need experts.

It is also dangerous to assume this, because that is exactly how we reached the "my uninformed opinion is as valid as your years of experience" aspect of the current political climate. NO, things are NOT as simple as you think they are just because you saw it in the space of a tweet!

On the other hand, it is important to recognize expertise over bullshit. The easiest defense is having several experts, since at a certain point they would need to do an awful lot of collusion to just make things up between them (i.e. if enough of them agree then what they say is apparently correct).
Was going to say the same... nothing wrong with a commit including only format changes... for that matter, add it as a task to the project, commit, run it, commit, then proceed to edit. If you have commit hooks setup, add it as a precommit hook/task.

As long as it's relatively transparent for everyone to be able to use.
The website seems to implicitly say that white men equals bad and any attempt made by white men to improve the situation must be half-hearted and just a PR stunt. Thus all the sarcasm. This view is not unique to this website (if they are even trying to make this claim in some form) but runs through a lot of these initiatives.

Lately, I have even witnessed people complaining that most donations come from white men charities and that this is bad (with some people even suggesting they should refuse those donations to make a point), which seems completely nonsense.

How far does it have to go for these attempts to raise awareness of a problem to turn into racism themselves?
Really it should be something like 1.2*profits/(probability of discovery) so that the expected return on criminal activities is negative.
The article contains a nice little switch of context in that paragraph;

> Seven of the more than 50 paperwork requirements the White House eliminated on Thursday dealt with the Y2K bug, according to a memo OMB released. Officials at the agency estimate the changes could save tens of thousands of man-hours across the federal government.

They're not talking about the Y2k paperwork requirement when they give their estimate of hours saved, but the totality of the paperwork requirements.
I'm not sure how my comment is "snide". It's just a fact: I don't trust them.

And I don't see how Google is relevant to the conversation. They don't release source, so I'm not really interested in their products either. Just because one company is does things in a way I don't like doesn't mean I have to accept it when others do it that way.

"coming in the future" is nice, but I've heard that speech before, and I'm not holding my breath. If they are betting the company on this, then great! I'll put a lot of money into their products. But until they do, meh, I'm not interested.

And by smoke and mirrors I don't mean vapor-ware, I mean distracting from the real issues, and hiding their flaws instead of fixing them.
Chinese satellite beats distance record for quantum entanglement
Very nice :)

Unfortunately I lost almost everything I ever wrote for 8 bit platforms and a lot of my early PC and Atari stuff. It's a real pity, but then again, it also forced me to cut ties with the past and move on which in a way was a blessing.

But it would have been nice to open up a lifetime of code at some point.
I run into this all of the time when explaining what I'm doing at work as a programmer. It's not that I couldn't explain why my merging workload increased due to the increased code collisions from my coworkers working in the same files, and how dividing my current assignment in two so I could check in code would reduce this. It's doing that in a normal conversation under time and attention constraints which is the problem.
The Telegram client is a good example of how to do this right [0].

You can acheive this in python w/ pyQt/pySide as well... just include a QWebView and hook into the javascript [1].

Avoiding the whole server & network stack makes things run obviously lighter.

[0] https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6447011/pyqt-pyside-webk...
I like how you use more words to explaining (what you think) I think than I spent writing the original opinions. I don't have strong criticisms against either... Photoshop did take a while to learn -- I remember struggling to complete tasks when I first started with it because my frame of reference was Paint Shop Pro -- and GIMP also takes a while to learn.

Why do you feel so strongly against 'learning the interface'? That "tired and uninformed defense" is also... what you must do. Why is everyone so afraid of learning?? Fucking wimps. You have a problem, you google it, repeat til you know the product. SO HARD!
Here is one of the best examples of clear communication I know:

http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

Norvig is a genius, and his genius is reflected in how he can so succinctly and clearly explain how to write a spell checker, without falling into elaborate jargon or droning on without getting to the point.

And that goes equally for his code and his prose, by the way.

There are many people who use a lot more jargon and verbosity to make their points, who are not in the same league as Norvig in terms of intelligence.
I agree with what you say.

I went to a British Secondary School, and am just about to leave Sixth Form - I took computer science at both levels.

The trouble is - again, at both levels - there are few teachers who understand the topic. Scratch and the like are easy to learn for more or less anyone, and teachers can teach it easily. I know that in some cases CS teachers are IT teachers who took on the extra subject.

With like Python, unless the teacher has actually written a decent amount of it then they're going to struggle to teach it well. If they've never properly programmed, they will also struggle to point out that "Twitter has an API that you may want to use to analyse tweet contents", for instance.

I'd just like to reiterate that I am not disagreeing with you, I would very much love a curriculum change. I just think that the lack of qualified teachers needs to be addressed as well.
Exactly this. A big reason preventing me from quitting my day job and working on my side business full-time is cost of healthcare. When you have to pay the insurance premiums yourself and still end up with multi-thousand dollar deductibles, the prospect of losing employer-subsidized care is really hard to swallow. If Americans really want to support growth of small businesses, we need to seriously consider single payer.
It's not so much life experiences, but prior knowledge and familiarity.

Taking mathematics as the operative example. A lot of deep theorems are trivial when you fully understand all relevant definitions. These proves cannot be stated 'in simple terms' because it took a stack of non-simple definitions to even formulate such a theorem.

Explaining the entirety of the stack gets hard when the stack gets deep. For example, a lot of math gets really hard to explain when the concept of the real numbers being 'uncountably infinite' whilst the rationals are 'countably infinite' isn't obvious.
They never said it was "high definition".
Nobody was filing paperwork about Y2k, as is made clear by the next paragraph:

> The agency didn’t provide an estimate of how much time is currently spent on Y2K paperwork, but Linda Springer, an OMB senior adviser, acknowledged that it isn’t a lot since those requirements are already often ignored in practice.

So sure, it's good to get outdated rules off the book, but don't pretend like people were still writing reports about Y2k.
I first learned about The Big Triangle from Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics".

http://scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/triangle/index.html

http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~mfram/Media/0505-UC-triangle...

Filed under "I believe, but cannot prove": The three-way tension is a recurring pattern.

When trying to understand new things, I often try to reframe things as a triangle. When pondering intractable problems, I favor three-way solutions. Some quick examples from memory...

Project management: time, money, scope.

aka Quality: Fast, good, cheap.

US Govt balance of power: Executive, Congress, Judiciary

Language design: imparative, declarative, functional

Pop music: harmony, melody, lyrics
I strongly disagree.

Complexity is real, but understanding means being able to conceptualize a system at such a high level that it becomes possible to convey the most important key ideas simply. This may involve some amount of over-simplification (which should be indicated if present) and will undoubtedly leave out a tremendous amount of detail, but the conceptual essence should be there.

The inability to do this is IMHO a sign of either lack of true and deep understanding or communication ability.

There are fields where nobody can really do this. These are fields that nobody truly understands yet.

Edit:

Let me give you an example. I had a bad (but typical) math prof in my very first calculus class who covered the board with examples and took us through how to differentiate a function. I was completely confused and stuck. Then I called my father on the phone and asked him and he told me "a derivative is a rate of change." Then I got the rest of calculus.

The prof had talked about slope but that wasn't conceptual enough. I needed "rate of change." That is the essence of calculus. It's the most important concept. Calculus deals with rates of change and the inverse (integrals). Once this concept was communicated the rest of calculus became possible to understand.

If you can't do that for a given area, you don't understand it or (as was the case with this math prof) are a poor communicator.
>"All it "means" as far as I can tell is that the traders who got their 'bump' in the IPO wanted to dump their holdings and so have been continually selling."

Can you explain what is a 'bump' that traders get in the IPO?
> That's the attitude that keeps Year of the Linux [whatever] from happening.

I don't think it's the attitude stopping it. I think it's that ChromeOS has a 0.82% market share and other Linux distros have a 1.66% market share, while Windows and Mac make up 95%

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/
People still play the lottery.
An obvious place to start concentrating fire.
Really don't like the loss of the majority of the clip color into tiny little bars on the side of the clip. It may look prettier, but it is far less functional -especially for those who use Live "live" in addition to studio production.