skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no perfect rules nor there is perfect law. The hard fork was simply an abandonment of an obviously unjust law, a revolution really. The people voted with their feet, and the current market cap is an indicator of where those votes went.

People don't like to get screwed over.
Been in a situation as that, it was ugly. At another job it was also like that, just I pulled in 70-100 hours a week.

They did not care. I spent time thinking about it all these years about it, and also talked to various managers.

If the job is being handled, almost 100% , you won't get any help.
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>I am not yet convinced it is not amenable. For example who gets to serve a city with emergency services? I guess there could be bidders to the city council, offering services for a certain price. That would lead to competition.

This sort of thing is usually fertile breeding ground for corruption and backhanders. The NHS has been dogged by scandals caused by this sort of pseudo-privatization.

It works for smaller and short term contracts, especially for things which the private sector also needs, but the larger the size of the contract the more likely it is that the price will be determined by backhanders and which ministers play golf with which chief execs.

For something the size of "supply a city with emergency services", you could practically guarantee that the city council leader's cushy post-political job would be determined by which company they picked.

tl;dr read up on the principal/agent problem.
HN is widely know for being full of self absorbed white tech guys.

Yes it got more civilized in the last years, but while not being offensive it's still filled with one sided views of the world by <1% of its population.
Regarding your last question: because the government gets to say how much its willing to pay for any procedure. It's the government that has leverage on what the price will be in a single payer system.
As a Canadian who grew up watching American cartoons, I can say with complete certainty Soviet Union wasn't alone in using media to indoctrinate their children.
Really interesting article. Nice read indeed. I always draw circles clockwise. Actually I can write in several different alphabets. Regardless of which hand I use. Just tested that. Latin/Cyril based ones on right hand. Clockwise. Arabic or Kanas on left hand and again clockwise. But I don't think starting point really matters. It's just muscle memory most of the time. Once you learn, you keep it. If it was different, It should be counter clockwise on left hand.
I have the same opinion. It's a good chance indeed. Establishment of a common second language would greatly enhance the online market in the future, too.
Laravel Starter incl. Membership plans and Access control management
Not nearly enough and, besides, who knows how long it's going to be around?
Wow, finding (http://zty.pe) was serendipitous. Please don't include that world in the early levels, I'm not a good typist.
> Why wouldn't hospitals try to fleece the government

In the UK most hospitals are owned and run by the state.
Those out-of-pocket caps may be going away (in some states, at least) if AHCA becomes law.
A simple VPN tunnel with FreeBSD (2014)
That's not what says https://www.ethereum.org/

> Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.
Lazare,

You've selectively skipped over critical parts of my argu
ment. But never mind... ;)

From your perspective, even in-game virtual limited-edition collectors items that might appreciate in value could be considered "securities". As would limited edition digital art work or, let's say, protected hashes of such works.

Or a limited gift voucher to purchase the first edition of a product funded by Kickstarter....

Basically you can try to draw conclusions of what a typical token crowd sale is or isn't at this stage, but -- at least in my view -- you would probably be jumping to a superficial conclusion.

> This isn't about new legislation. The Howey Test dates from 1946.

Which may or may not be suitable for technology developed and used in 2017, let alone 2018, 2019 or further down the road. So you're completely missing the point.

But if your only argument is that government authorities "could" interpret the law in the most aggressive way, few would argue.
It's always been like this. Be smug and aggressive when it goes right and cry for help when something goes wrong. The housing crisis was the same. Claim you got the thing that makes everybody rich and when everything went inevitably downhill, ask the "enemy" aka the regulator/government/police to bail you out.
Uruguay here in South America has free healthcare and a fairly generous immigration policy - probably among the most generous in the world, ridiculously easy compared to any first world country, and no background health checks that I know of.

Cost of living is VERY HIGH though compared to income and even in absolute terms (about the only cheap thing is healthcare :) though if you earn 70k / year you're set unless you want to live in an U.S.-sized house and drive an U.S. sized car) and bureaucracy is very bad.

Immigration systems are currently collapsed because of the flood of Venezuelan refugees, and thousands of Cubans and Dominicans are coming too, so you might have to wait 18 months for the government ID that gives you access to healthcare.
Is there a valid reason to move to git from any other VCS a person happy with, regarding time and resources one have to spend on it instead of productive work?
react-app-rewired looks cool, I'll have to try it the next time I hit a wall (and just need a little tweak)!

One rant while I'm here: I don't really like create-react-app's approach of forcing me to "eject" to make certain changes. I am just a react beginner, but in one of my first experiments I already reached the limits (I think it was because I wanted to use Sass, not sure). I'd much rather have it expose the webpack config etc., so I can "fork" and edit it, and merge changes back when they make an update. Even if that would mean breakage every now and then. I think that model would be strictly superior to the current situation:

- If you don't modify your config, then merging will work fine, just like now.

- If you do make changes, then it might merge, or it might require manual updating. But in the current model it will require manual updating, because you ejected. So you only gain.

Last but not least, in a real project you will at some point diverge from tracking the boilerplate, and use `npm outdated` anyway.

Does anybody know if there is a create-react-app alternative along those lines? Preferably a bit more lightweight?
So tell me, what is the goal of an ICO? And by extension, how do you ensure an ICO is successful?
It is kinda unfair to blame twitter for accusatory comment on hacker news.
> what would your suggestion to read / follow?
Here's my Quora answer - https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-make-real-time-app-in-Django-...
There is a Go plugin for Sublime too which is great.
HEADLINE: Reconcile and refresh the Debian Wiki

DESCRIPTION: The wiki is frequently stale or incomplete. A lot of people get information much more readily out of a wiki than mailing lists. Like me, for example :) Mailing lists have a very high latency (often infinite) and can be difficult to search.

For example, say you want to host your own apt repo to hold a custom package; this page is not very clear https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Setup - how do you choose which of all the software types to use? It's a reasonable software overview, but not great to help people get a repo set up.

Arch has a fantastic wiki that's clear and concise. It's also more readable (mediawiki) than Debian format, though I understand Debian aims to work as bare html for greater device compatibility.

DISTRIBUTION: Primarily Stable, with later sections for non-stable if needed.

ROLE: sysadmin
Let's not encourage people to harass someone.
I don't know if that sense of satisfaction you get from helping someone in trouble can be called pride, but I know that that one joke answer that got me a gold badge gave me a mixed feeling of irony, and a bit of guilt.
Yep, but most of the small news outlets are dying because of a lot of one-person side projects, blogs, fanpages or communities getting each a small chunk of it ;)
To suggest that humanity needs a global state seems to beg the question of all of politics: how do you get people to get along and transition peacefully to new states?

The threat of Napoleon got the Holy Roman Empire to globulate into its modern nation-states. But I don't see how Saudi Arabia is ever going to relinquish power, let alone share a government with the Israelis.
In other words, in places where the nation-state is weak
potentially very useful; I've been committing the sin of manipulating the CRA scripts in node-modules and writing down diffs in my build docs up until now. anyone have experience with this?
jesus christ, who the fuck would make two identical symbols differentiated by only capitalisation? (Other than these guys obviously)
Most compilers interprets variables name as opaque identifiers without semantic meaning. Does that mean I should not have rules to name variables?

The way I interpreted the quote is: Don't parse the URI in your program to try to gain information about a resource other than it's ID. It doesn't mean you can't put information in there to make it easier for human developers to understand.

In other words, pretty names are for humans, not machines.
Setting up a VPN between AWS EMR and your local Druid cluster
If your website is small enough, not getting many visits, does it need to scale?

CDNs are becoming a cheap commodity.
YouTube launches Heatmaps for 360° videos
There is gunna be sooooooo much fraud. It's a huge problem with traditional display ads no reason this would be different.
The term "smart contracts" is highly misleading. It is feeding the hype and deeply confusing people. "Smart contracts" are neither smart nor contracts. They are instead very limited scripts triggered by blockchain events.

All the use cases I've seen depend on external input to be even moderately useful. But once you depend on unverifiable and potentially fraudulent external input, the supposed unique value of these scripts is lost. The notion of "oracles" just moves the problem elsewhere so it can be dismissed.

When and if we see profitable uses of these block-chain scripts then I would be glad to revisit this assessment. Until then it looks to me like a classic case of a technology looking for a problem.
Not OP, but mostly in the same boat, except I still use Debian for my servers.

My biggest gripe with debian is apt. Compared to pacman, it is just so much worse in just about everything. I realize that it has a slightly more difficult job, but still.

I have found myself too often in situations, where I simply couldn't fix whatever apt was complaining about. With pacman you just specify -d and you're fine (or --force if there's a file conflict).

Also, I've never managed to successfully create my own debian package. With Arch PKGBUILD system, it's a breeze.

Just my 2 cents.
The last Mac to ship with an NVidia GPU was the 2014 MBP. That was three years ago, and is starting to exit most companies' hardware refresh cycle. You can buy an external thunderbolt box and try putting an nvidia GPU in it, but the driver support isn't always functional. For an example of some of the hoops you have to go through, see: https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/11/hands-on-powering-the-macbook...

And I'm sure you can imagine the reasons a large company wouldn't set up a Hackintosh. :) The writing is on the wall for being able to maintain a reliable test cluster, at least, for now, and broken tests are very very bad for being able to develop rapidly.
A "bidding war" is an extremely good thing. I want governments to compete to offer me the lowest possible tax rates. What you're describing is a monopoly, which would be very bad for the "customers" (everyone except governments).
The site got hit by one of Google's black box algorithm adjustments. I spoke with folks on the Adsense team and followed their advice but it's never rebounded. It was mostly organic traffic, which means it depends on the whims of search engines. (It's not a reassuring position to be in).
>"you are instigating exactly the opposite"

Not really.

In order to 'reunite the community' you need to understand what that will take. Every init system that is supported adds an additional support burden onto the developers and maintainers that work on Debian. In order to minimise that work, it's important to understand the issues with the status quo.

At one end of the spectrum, perhaps a few tweaks to systemd would be enough to satisfy most who had issues with it in the past. On the opposite end of the spectrum you have the distro needing to support 5+ init systems if there's little consensus about what a strong alternative to systemd would look like.

The questions I asked previously are useful in understanding how much work would be required to 'reunite the community'. Feel free to answer them if you think this is a worthwhile line of inquiry.
> It is now possible to run subhurds as unprivileged user, thus providing easy lightweight virtualization.

That would be amazing to achieve on Linux. Unfortunately UML is not quite the same. I wonder if they'll ever get to the place where Hurd could be a coreos-like system with better isolation.
I think that this issue is nicely solved by https://github.com/arunoda/react-komposer
Fascinating article!

I wonder how much of this specific data was shaped by the fact that this is on a computer? E.g. I "drew" with my trackpad. I ended up drawing the circle clockwise, which is interesting, since I'm a native-English speaker, mostly read/write in English (not much handwriting), but actually live in Israel.

I'm pretty sure I'd have drawn it counterclockwise if I was doing it on paper, though.
In a 200 car train, what percent of the weight is the engines? My rando guess is 10% max. Building all this for 10% ecceciency seems rough.
also not op, but share same thoughts largely.

for me makepkg/PKGBUILD and abs keep me coming back to arch.
welcome to show business. (your comment was fine, really)
The Elephant Soup Solution:

1) First, buy an under utilized country (or a piece of country eg Newfoundland, Sakhalin Island, Princes Royal Island or similar)

2) install the British Institutions OS (run by retired Commonwealth employees). just like Hong Kong or Singapore.

3) allow visa free travel and residence for any non-criminal person on earth

4) To prime the pump, buy stuff from this new country and sell it through any handy distribution channel you might have

N.B. Don't forget to recirculate income from the top of the economy to the bottom or the heart will stop.
Stop Buying Things and Start Borrowing Them
It's actually the law's job to do that.
What, you mean apart from every Unix ever?

(All right, all right, excluding Mac OS X. But it's weird.)
If you think of a circle as a big O, then most Westerners will start at the top and go anticlockwise.

Myself, I start on the left and go clockwise. That's because my Os tend to be egg-shaped, and I find it slightly easier to draw a consistent circle as two semicircles, like a rainbow and its mirror. And of course from natural handwriting, shapes like a, n, m etc. will incline me to go clockwise.

So to my mind it's the letter in your alphabet that's closest to a circle given where you started, rather than direction, that matters.
Oligodynamic effect
The symptoms sound like burnout. Don't ignore it, because not only is it worsening the quality of your life, but also those around you.

What worked for me was to take a long break, a sabbatical. Think deeply about whether you want to stay or move on when you return.
A little related to redux data fetching - have any of you tried https://github.com/amplitude/redux-query ?
Xdebug in production you say?
>In my view, insurance is completely compatible with capitalism. It is simply a business, based on statistics.

Insurance that is based upon a normal distribution is compatible. Insurance based upon a non-normal distribution is not compatible because you basically can't price it. You therefore usually get a few scenarios:

* The insurer prints money during the good years and goes bankrupt in the bad years.

* The insurer prints money during the good years and somehow caps their liability in the bad years (this is why homeowners' insurance typically doesn't cover flood damage).

Sometimes the government covers the difference (e.g. the government coughing up the money AIG owed to Goldman Sachs, the nuclear liability cap or NFIP), sometimes it doesn't.

You get non-normal distributions in a lot of situations - nuclear insurance, flood, earthquake, healthcare and insuring against default risk.

tl;dr capitalism is compatible only with high school statistics.
Authored by HN's own Thomas Ptacek[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
That's how you end up in hosts files.

Besides, filter lists move pretty fast and are usually self-update.
Whatever the goal, unless they guarantee you a payment and fund that payment with membership fees paid by later entrants, it's not a ponzi scheme.
Maybe I'm confused, but that sounds precisely like the current condition of countries today, except on a scale smaller than America and more similar to small European or Asian nations. Having a global government would either do nothing to them in the best case scenario, or more likely, end up crushing them for the needs of the many and/or ultra rich.

Taking your example of Virginians wanting a holiday for Robert E Lee, small countries and big countries could easily do this. You say limit it to a city so that those who don't want it aren't affected. But even passing it at the city level leaves people who don't want it. I see no difference between 60% of a country the size of Malta supporting something and 60% of a city the size of Anchorage.
>I'm really sad to see so many people on HN arguing against the need for enforceable (and not onerous if you look into it) accessibility standards on the web.

Someone decided that developers must comply with disability technologies, and not have disability technologies built around the existing technologies. And most developers had no argument in that battle. Now we have aria attributes sitting inside of our HTML.

And most likely because businesses are going to push this down on their existing developers, meaning they will need to devote time and energy learning what ADA and the WCAG standards are and figure out accessibility testing while maintaining all of their previous responsibilities.

But really, we shouldn't need to do any of that.

We should have tools that allow us to comply to these standards with little effort. We should have tools for the disabled that are as brilliant as Google search. We should have testing frameworks that test our websites for this.

Why the hell are we spending money on suing companies instead of spending it on research for curing disabilities? Where's my damn artificial eyes and ears I was promised decades ago? All I got was this stupid lawsuit.

Is any of that being built for the next generations of developers who probably get no accessibility training in college or dev bootcamps or internet tutorials? Do businesses even send their devs to accessibility coding conferences or workshops?

So I think many devs are justified at arguing against having to learn yet-another-spec because someone else simply told them to. We already have enough to learn with companies cramming laundry lists of technologies and ideologies into their job postings. Accessibility will become another bullet point on that list and we'll have Full Stack Javascript Accessibility Ninjas.
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FR, DE, CH, NL, ES have very good health systems. Google "Euro Health Consumer Index" for more info. In general in Europe you can't be denied health coverage due to preexisting condition, at least if you're EU citizen.
They are surprizingly chill here :-) If you don't file taxes (as a regular employee), you will get increasingly sternly worded requests to do so... and after a few months they say "ok whatever", and just estimate your taxes conservatively. Of course that would be stupid for you, because you'd leave money (deductions) on the table. It is actually hard to accidentially evade taxes. If you make an honest mistake, and come clean, you are not likely to be fined. Maybe it helps that we pay everything (tax, insurance) in advance, and largely automatically (as salaried employees).
In that case, why not just use current contract law with centuries of jurisprudence? Without, "code is the contract", Ethereum is a pointless, buggy, leaky abstraction of current contract law.
> every household got a Minitel for free

People got minitels (available for free) because phone books were eliminated, so even people not interested by the online world (shopping, train/flight reservations, dating "sites", high school diploma results, weather forecast, etc...), would get one in order to be able to look up phone numbers.
What's the community site?
You lost, OK? If we just stipulate that it's because 99.9% of Americans are idiots compared to you, can we have a year or two of breathing room before you attempt to backdoor us with this sort of evil shit again?
So the firmware for a certain WiFi card is the same, no matter if you use Linux or Windows of MacOS? And it is provided by the manufacturer of the Hardware?

And some WiFi cards works out of the box with Debian? Is that because the manufacturers of those cards provided the source of their firmware or because open source alternatives have been written by somebody else?
No, those do contain the firmware. https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/firmware-nonfree.git
Amazon patents method to prevent comparison shopping
Two points that I don't understand.

1. Using dash instead of underscore as a space replacement. Underscore is a much more natural as a space replacement and dash is actually a punctuation character. An article gives the following reason: "Text viewer applications (browsers, editors, etc.) often underline URIs to provide a visual cue that they are clickable. Depending on the application’s font, the underscore (_) character can either get partially obscured or completely hidden by this underlining.". It's not convincing at all. I've never encountered this glitch.

2. The keep-it-simple rule applies here. Although your inner-grammatician will tell you it's wrong to describe a single instance of a resource using a plural, the pragmatic answer is to keep the URI format consistent and always use a plural.

But why plural and not single? English is a weird language and it has numerous exceptions for plural form. Isn't it simpler to use single form? I'm always using single form everywhere, works fine for me.
WinFS
Most web apps (outside of websites themselves, which are a kind of very simple application) aren't HATEOAS, so Roy's thesis has less purchase on their design.
I can't contrast git with all the different VCS tools that are available, but different tools have different capabilities with respect to working offline and reconciling branches.

At any rate, it was an honest question. I'm not familiar with any salient reasons to not use git. If the only reason is that some developers still haven't learned git yet, I guess that's an answer. Not a very satisfying one to me, but it's worth knowing that's the reason.
There's a big difference between being and actually making use of such anti-patterns. Especially on such a scale.
The UK had Prestel [1], it wasn't nearly as widely used as Minitel though.

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