skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even small states like Iowa (total population ~3 million) are going to have 10s of thousands of people on the individual exchanges. That's bigger than all but very large corporations (who tend to self insure anyways).

I hear you about universal health coverage. I've come around to the idea that we should have it at the national level above some sort of cap. I think free markets can still work when it comes to your annual checkup or small expenses like a broken arm or a monthly prescription for non esoteric drugs.
I think the linchpin is actually our voting system. It strongly encourages the existence of only two parties that are always trying to split the difference, and that's the scenario which is very friendly to institutional bribery and regulatory capture.
Everybody was already Han and Han-dominated thousands of years ago? Really? Tibet was never invaded in the fifties? Cool! There never was an attempted invasion of Japan, foiled by disastrous weather? Wow. This is a whole alternative reality. Fact is, China's history is very similar to everyone else's history.
That's a pressure issue, though - low air pressure drops boiling temperature, so your water doesn't actually get as hot. Most commercial aircraft are pressurized to around 11psi, which is an elevation of ~3,500 feet.
I think that these issues are getting a lot of attention recently. A lot of people feel that their jobs are not meaningful anymore and that they cannot find any meaningful work that pays well.

Most of the jobs that pay well are zero-sum games. Finance, tech, law. Even medicine and pharmaceuticals are becoming zero-sum games (e.g companies boosting drug prices because it's easier than inventing new ones).

People have become cynical and distrustful towards each other and the system. We have lost touch with our old values.

I'm surprised that society can continue to function under these conditions.

In this zero-sum economy, we are all enemies of each other.
The $1M ARR is about the point that I'm at today with my startup. It's three founders which own 90% equity, and 3 small investors which own the other 10% split between them. We managed to build it up with relatively small capital investment from the founders, but in our industry there is no getting away with not hiring any employees for a long time, as it's not simply SaaS, but SaaS + "services" (services meaning doing a portion of the work for our clients within our software rather than them hiring people to do it themselves).

Our software is B2B, and the sales cycle is frustratingly drawn out and expensive with demos, in person meetings, etc. That was something I hoped we could get away from when we started, but seeing the sales cycle first hand, I can't see a way to make it much cheaper while still growing. The people at these large companies which make the decisions really like in-person meetings, and if your competitors are willing to and you aren't...not a good way to try and save money. The up side to that, is each customer brings in a lot of revenue. We've noticed that a sale can take anywhere from 6 months to 1 year to go through.

I wouldn't change anything about the slow growth we went for rather than trying to ramp up and get as many clients as possible as quickly as possible. It let us focus on the product a lot more, and make it efficient for our users (and thus our internal employees providing the "service" portion of our product). We'll continue slowly adding clients as we build out our product more, we want to keep customer satisfaction high so we don't want to spread ourselves too thin.
I agree - both problems can be improved independently of each other. I think "bloat" is less solvable centrally, though, and maybe just the natural consequence of making software more reusable and componentized.
Thanks for confirming that the original article was correct in its analysis and that you have no substantial rebuttal other than nitpicking. Aside from the awful usage of "fake news" (almost as though you think it makes you sound more credible), your first rebuttal is this:

> At time of raise its was $153M within 2:25, this has been covered widely including a formal statement on our blog.

I think you missed the point the article was making.

As someone who isn't very familiar with economics, the original article was clear and concise with very clear Gedankenerfahrung which encapsulated individual problems with the Bancor protocol. While writing technical pieces like that is difficult, this reads more like a bad teacher trying to save face when a clever student shows them up. You're just hurting your own credibility.
It doesn't constrain you to a specific set of website. For example you are interested in a video from the New york times website (the last one posted for example is : https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000004602800/i...). you can put this link into https://videocyborg.com and it will download it.
I think that the lesson to learn here is: nevertheless the system, government or not, capitalism or not, the powerful always take all they can. It's the duty of the less powerful to fight for more of the pie for the majority.
Machine Learning Trends and the Future of Artificial Intelligence (2016)
I disagree that it's clickbait
Might have some silly opinions toward the end, but I think the summary and analysis in the first half-2/3s is nice.
Takeaways from DinosaurJS 2017
Doesn't it also introduce noise into the dataset? It could modify rides at random, let's say that 10% of rides would have the start or end point swapped with some other ride or completely changed. That way the information in aggregate is still useful, but no one measurement is necessarily true and also you can not use the lack of a data point as a proof of anything.
> No one is trying to convince you to use C++

Weird considering that was my specific question.

> considering it's like 20% of the US economy

The disproportionate size and role of the parasitic financial sector is a tragedy for the modern US economy.
boiling water kills most of the organisms, but the toxins they excreted will still be present and can cause problems.
Googler here. I apologize if you had a bad experience with Google support. We've had various tiers of support, all the way up to dedicated engineers. Can you please share your viewpoint here, or your experiences?
"Smart Cars" (As they were once marketed before actual Smart Cars) and "Used Cars" are not the same to me.

Buying something 1 or 2 years old at 75% of the price with less than 20k miles just feels new to me. But maybe I've trained myself for that.
If it's as successful as proposed, it would not take very long to most states to offer something similar.

IMO this isn't clearly true. Lots of states (especially those that currently have the worst health care outcomes) seem far more driven by the ideology that has caused their problems than by this kind of pragmatism. Example 1: the ACA's Medicare expansion.

Hell, it might even work the opposite way: proof that something worked in California could end up as an argument against it. "Candidate x wants to implement the same sort of government health care system that's taken over California. This November, send him a message that we don't do things that way here."
Airplanes are not pressurized to sea level though, water boils at lower temperatures at altitude.
Mid thirties, unmarried, only "kid" is a dog ... this is amusing to me. It describes the average, self-important, liberal-voting person today.
It says "PS: I recommend viewing this guide from a desktop browser rather than mobile, since the desktop version supports interactive examples."

So, probably best to view on the laptop :)
Well in this case the assets will be chickens and barns. Certainly there's risk, but the likelihood that either chickens or barns rapidly become worthless is quite small.

Unlike the housing crisis, they don't need the prices to continually go up. They just need them to not fall through some floor.
I believe games in general don't make money. Hype and 'interactions' (streamers, youtubers, water-cooler talk) really make the cash, the game is just a conduit for them. Of course it takes a decent game to recruit those two concepts, but you can polish a turd enough to make it work ie: AAA games
"Before you call me a lunatic"

You're very close to being a lunatic and conspiracy theorist, sir.

"This is somewhat controversial to posit, but I believe the corruption in the financial industry is extraordinarily entrenched because of the Fed."

After TARP and bailouts it's not controversial at all.
> responding to unrelated, valid questions with, "yeah, but this one person made a lot of money and that makes me mad!" is ridiculous.
Yes there is: https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/blob/master/dev-lan...
This is pretty cool. I did something similar with adwords scripts a few years ago.
I was doing facebook advertising a few years ago and the ads featured products that would occasionally sell out, but there wasn't a way to monitor them so if something sold out, the ad would go to an empty product page. I rigged up a system that would take a list of URLs, look for "sold out" on the content of the page and then send me a text if it found a sold out product. I used Adwords scripts because it was able to run jobs hourly and all I really knew at the time was JS. It was a fun little project.
"What's yellow, normed, and complete?" "A Bananach space."
> You can browse the web, what else?

There's a decent office suite, Vim, IRC client, etc

> What other languages are supported, is there Haiku Ruby?

The usual complement of scripting languages (Ruby, Python, Perl, Lua), any JVM language, Go, partially working ports of Haskell and Mercury, Rust (no Cargo port yet), probably some others.
How many gateways for a LoRa infrastructure, what to consider
This actually has a bit of a point behind it, because the digits of Pi http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/digits.htm... feature "999999" much earlier than would be expected if the digits were uniformly distributed. So once that sequence was discovered, it took a lot more work for mathematicians to convince themselves that it is completely "random" (or "normal" in the jargon). It still hasn't been proven though! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Irrationality_and_normality
HR do the dirty work of Curating Culture.

They try to satisfy the business need with a low-risk hire with an excellent value proposition while satisfying the requisite legal and other important 'stuff' like healthcare, onboarding, exit interviews, snacks.

That aside, I've seen resumes printed in Comic Sans make it through HR to the technical pre-screen.
Which Robert Summers? Do you have contact information? A google search shows a few obituaries...
Yep. This is what I did. Also, I just used the email address for my phone's SMS. I'm not sure why you need Twilio for this, seems like over kill to me.
"as long as there are good competitors around"--that's the key, and not something I necessarily trust to be the case. Net neutrality, for example, would be a non-issue if there were good competition, but there's not.
To be fair, it does have Rust (but no Cargo port yet).

And Go, if that counts as a “modern” language.
I believe it is 1.41% house advantage for pass and 1.36% for don't pass -- 0.05% difference. On a $10 bet that's a half cent difference.

Anyway, I've bet don't for a few trips for most/all of the trip just to see what happened. These were on weekends when the tables were going to be full no matter what. I agree that it made for some fun banter, and we sometimes go back to it for fun, but we mostly bet pass now and get stupid silly with our cheering.
My understanding from the article is that, whereas in double-entry accounting, both sides of the transaction get a receipt, in triple-entry accounting, there's a third, public receipt (in the blockchain).

The benefit is that, whereas with double-entry accounting, when one of the receipts is tampered with in a professional way, you cannot tell anymore which receipt is the correct one. But in triple-entry accounting, the public receipt (the blockchain) serves as a tiebreaker and provides the truth that all can (or need to) agree on.
VR180
Yeah, but not "magically".
What?

BTW, being into your mid 30s unmarried and without children is a very liberal lifestyle.
> Improve your knowledge on Boost

I might be extremely biased about this, but I can't not recommend to follow Folly as well (https://github.com/facebook/folly). There is some very good C++ there (and some bad C++ too), and it is generally more readable than Boost. Some ex-Boost people work on it too.

The implementation of Function (https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/Function...), for example, is mindblowing. I learned lots of tricks from it that I ended up using in a bunch of places.

There's also a lot of interesting things happening in concurrent data structures under experimental/ (and the widely used MPMCQueue and LifoSem are also excellent).
On airplanes, pressure is equivalent to about 2000m ASL, at which water boils at 93.4 °C
cough Gill Sans.
That sounds like democracy working. Democracy means as many people as possible get the government they want. This get progressively easier as the government gets more local. Overall people are much happier with local, then state government than the federal government.[0] If the people Mississippi don't want single-payer health care, and the people in California do, I'm in favor of a system that gives both of them what they want.

[0] http://www.people-press.org/2012/04/26/growing-gap-in-favora...
Yeah, that's more what I'd expect to see with a standard student information system. I can only imagine the amount of work it took - the last time I encountered a site like that that I wanted to scrape I gave up (this was before I discovered PhantomJS).

It's really too bad that universities don't foster creativity like this.
TL;DR: Parasitic tendencies are growing. It requires some serious reform to fix this, but current level of legalized corruption makes it very hard.
I'm really hoping that in the next 5 or 10 years that "clean meat" or meat created from animal cells becomes a viable alternative. This is the future, and with it we will drive costs down and food safety up.
Scientists Are Putting Tens of Thousands of Sea Fossils Online
I don't see why people view the JVM as "heavy". It's no different from the JavaScript/C#/Python runtime.

The only popular languages that don't need a runtime installed are c/c++ and golang.
I've been searching for this myself for some time, but either I don't know the proper search terms, or the knowledge is scattered such that the terminology isn't fixed.
Speedtest.net claims an increase of average internet speeds by 40% in 2016: http://www.speedtest.net/reports/united-states/
Ask HN: Where do founders who's company failed usually end up?
Just curious where founder's who's companies just flat out fail go.
The more slow-moving government will get involved, the more industry will be pulled towards open source where there is no need to get government approval.

Sure - it won't be easy and will come with other pitfalls, but in some circumstances these may be easier hurdle than waiting months/years for some government to approve your product sale.
My first problem with Flutter is that it doesn't unify web and native development, so it fails to solve the big problem immediately. If you can deliver web and mobile from the same codebase, you can deal with the "long tail" of users (and web users too). React Native (not that I have any great love of React) and its clones are working towards supporting all platforms.

My second problem with Flutter is the writer's apparent biggest positive feature — Dart. (I love how he naively states that Dart was conceived as a language to transpile to Javascript; it was conceived as a replacement for Javascript with transpilation as a stopgap.) I think Javascript is a fine ("good enough") language that (a) works almost everywhere and (b) is evolving at a more-than-sufficient rate. I have no desire to drink Google's Kool-aid. (Go, OTOH, I am fine with.)

But then I get to "Building Layouts with Flutter":

https://flutter.io/tutorials/layout/#step-1

This makes the articles I've read on "thinking the React way" seem mild in comparison. In exchange for having to restrict your layout ideas to the stuff that will work in Flutter (which first entails somehow grokking what works in Flutter), you have to go from visual concept to hierarchical breakdown and then translate that into code in less than intuitive ways, and then when your graphic designer decides that such-and-such needs to be 2 pixels lower or the stars should get bigger in the middle, you're still going to be hosed or inserting fixed height shims all over the place (and how will that look on a tablet?)

This API seems too high level to produce polished products. Of course it's alpha so blah blah blah but being able to quickly produce generic stuff is not a proof of concept, especially if you can't then refine the generic stuff to the nth degree.
Does the concept of security need to be connected to morality?
I'm always surprised when companies use "you misunderstood us" as a defense. It's a reasonable point in personal communications, but when you're a business and virtually everyone misunderstands you the same way, that's your fault. Failing to explain better (even after you're misunderstood) is a hint that you're either bad at your job, or don't have an idea you'd be willing to explain more clearly.
Futures explained by building your own
I wouldn't be surprised if some future historians are able to look back at modern cities the same way that we look at granny pictures of a soot-streaked city of the industrial revolution.

"Yes, some of them thought that it was bad to have all that stuff around, but most thought it wasn't too serious compared to the immediate economic benefit it brought."
Norbert Wiener, the MIT professor, is generally the source of many of these (probably somewhat apocryphal) stories of 'absent minded professors'.
Ask HN: What are some interesting use cases for a 1060GTX?
Hello!

I'm just curious some interesting use cases for a 1060 GTX; outside video editing, graphic design, and gaming.
No, but there are plenty of people from Comcast, Rogers, et al and, significantly more importantly, U.S. regulators who are busy telling us that everything is "fast enough" that we don't need competition.
>> I just feel like this project has lost track of priorities

I've been following the development of Haiku (OpenBeOS) on and off since BeOS got discontinued -- for something like 16 years now.

While the effort and progress of the Haiku team is commendable, 16 years is a long time to produce an OS, so one might argue that they never had a good grasp of their priorities in the first place.

In the 16 years since OpenBeOS was announced, the world has changed drastically.

I remember running BeOS on a Pentium II, and it was amazing... at the time. It did some stuff that Windows and MacOS couldn't easily do performance-wise, because of its time slicing.

I remember simultaneously playing back four or five videos on BeOS at the same time without any hiccups, and you could barely do that with two videos on Windows on the same hardware. Because modern processors are so powerful, even on phones, most of the benefits I wanted out of OpenBeOS (Haiku) around 2000 no longer have value today.

I still follow Haiku's progress because of some BeOS sentimentality, but to me, it's now a novelty more than anything.
By “Smart Cars” do you mean something like certified pre-owned cars?
Many people have proposed variations of this as the reason civilizations collapse. They are destroyed by their success. They gain so much surplus that it completely isolates them from any kind of feedback mechanism, over time causing them to completely rot from within. Eventually the core becomes so rotten that the whole system falls apart. This can be sudden.

I think an intuitive grasp of this is why so many conservatives have a natural disdain for welfare. But I think their disdain for welfare at the individual level is misplaced. The isolation of the most powerful and largest scale systems from consequences at the macro level is a far larger problem than the isolation of individuals from consequences at the micro level. Welfare can indeed become addictive and lead to a "welfare class," but these are largely powerless and relatively poor people who may be somewhat of a burden on society but do little damage otherwise. The real danger is a rich powerful professional welfare class that makes big ugly mistakes and is isolated from the consequences of these by power and abundance.
This is great. And RUBY!! Thank you.
Absolutely true. I would take it one step further - don't even worry about making something people want to play. Make something YOU want to play.

The best experience of my life has been making an MMORPG per that motto. It's now at a point where I get completely absorbed playing it, to the extent where I forget that I'm playing my own game. It's a really awesome feeling.

I don't have any expectations on making money off it, or even have players at all. That other people seem to enjoy it as well is only a bonus.
Assetto Corsa Ready to Race
> because of US broken immigration system

Immigration is working just fine: It is a rate-limiting mechanism to prevent massive immigration of every "me too" person from other random countries. You're just like everyone else, and everyone else wants to get in, too. Just like a lifeboat, the US can't let everyone in at once or we'd sink.

Buy a parka and enjoy Canada!
You are correct, "kind" is the subject of the sentence and the right conjugation would be "flourishes". You are also correct that it's a very common error that has generally just become acceptable.
Crowdsourcing science! Good idea? Discuss.
The point about how many people are making games now rings true to me. The market must be utterly saturated. 25 years ago, I made a PC-only game with QuickBasic, and uploaded it to AOL. It made $20K.

Now, with a vastly bigger market, unprecedented reach via Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook, numerous crowdfunding options, numerous gigantic, low-friction game stores, tools whose power I never could have imagined in the 90's, and 25 years of experience, I literally can't make one single dollar.

But I never feel as actualized as when I'm totally immersed in game dev. It's immensely rewarding, just definitely not in money.
You've clearly made up your mind, considering you are just arguing random points -- your opinion on finance is not relevant to the point that there are lots of C++ jobs in finance. And it's not just for some legacy reason: even much of Blockchain infrastructure is build with C++ and many crypto jobs that are open today are for C++.
While I would mostly agree, I would humbly suggest a small nudge in perspective: Boost does not equal Boost. While I passionately hate most of Boost, I find boost::optional to be one of the most useful template classes. So you shouldn't treat Boost as one library, but as a collection of different libraries. Same goes for STL in my opinion.
>The mild sedative of alcohol to drown out the screaming void of my mind left idle without access to the internet.

Consider doing something with your mind...
Castle Game Engine 6.2 released with new features
> I get the need for access to clean syringes, but it seems to go beyond disease prevention and almost into the realm of enabling.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. Most harm reduction programs of this type are needle exchanges, they're not just giving them away. It seems obvious that it won't enable the person to use if they obtain a clean syringe, because otherwise they'd just use the dirty one they already have. Exchange programs also incentivize people not to leave old syringes lying around.
I love math but I find this whole article and the associated jokes pretty contentless and somewhat boring.