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Most city residents should support these kinds of secessionist ideas. State tax dollars around the entire US subsidize rural living by maintaining unsustainable roads and utilities infrastructure to reach people with way more capital on average than the people in the cities getting the short end of the stick.

It comes back to incentives. If you don't support high-volume infrastructure to enable city growth - in an economic climate and era where practically all work is optimized in cities, and where living outside a city is simply an extravagant luxury - but you do support broad low volume high upkeep infrastructure all over rural areas, you build an incentives structure to artificially drive more people out of efficient, high density cores and into twig mcmansions guzzling water to feed lawns that nobody uses for anything because they are inside all day anyway.

The better structure would obviously be to promote what costs less per capita while also promoting economic growth - promoting high density living, even if the upfront costs are high. Electoral incentives, however, are practically opposite such a notion, sadly.
Thanks, I did not know about that.

I am puzzled by some of the decisions. Whatever, up to the moderators how they moderate.
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There's no way high school kids can wake up at 8:12AM and go to school because they'd be late by two hours by the time they'd arrive. I'm a millenial and I was waking up at 6:20 to catch the 6:40 bus to arrive at school for a 7:05 start.
Oh, fucking please. Take a two week vacation to even out your sleep, while saddled with zero social obligations, and you'll see that these sleep numbers are still harassed.

7 hours my ass. Just because there's a common baseline among fitbit users, doesn't make them models of perfection to be emulated. Just a snapshot of opportunity, nothing more.
Why are you looking for a person when the future is intelligent agents acting as agents using a deep learning AI approach to disrupt the cosy middle-man economy to enhance our societal well-being on a functional level? Maybe you don't really believe?
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Metallurgical coal - mostly found in Appalachia - is <10% of the 800 million tons of coal mined annually in the USA, and commands higher premiums: about $161/ton versus $53/ton for "thermal" coal.
Not trying to correct anything you said, just trying to add to the discussion by providing additional facts.
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EFF's response: “Our client has no obligation to, and thus will not, comply with Zillow’s demands. Zillow’s legal threats are not supported and plainly seek to interfere with protected speech.”

The only way this kind of bullshit will stop is if legal demand letters (like Zillow's) that are used with little to no legal standing - purely to bully - need to come with quick and easy recourse where the instigator and their lawyers get nice big fines.
So ... I read a well presented, and pretty, argument about stuff I don't really understand but can appreciate. I also appreciate this is on your personal blog so can be as noddy as you like.

Why not, when presenting an argument, be a little more formal and descriptive? You took the trouble to strike out text to show working. There is no need to go the full passive voice bollocks but a little more context might be handy.

HN attracts people from many disciplines and not all of us are DevOps kool kids who dream in Rust. A little more context might help us to really get to grips with your post.
Because idempotentcy can be cheap at the application layer, so why try to solve something we know can never truly be solved?
Is your company paying?
You could also efficiently sieve down the list of candidates with a Bloom filter.

Toss all the numbers into a Bloom filter, then scan through them again and cull any number, i, for which neither i-k nor i+k are present in the filter.

Then run through the (now reduced) remainder with one of the deterministic methods described in the post to get the final answer.

Not sure if it'll actually be faster, but it could be worth a try.
I personally know a bunch of doctors and you are right, they are pretty arrogant. Each one of them is also brilliant. I'm actually pretty close to some of them so in one or two cases I'm biased.

They actually have a hard time being "efficient" in the sense that you use the word, because if they don't run every possible test when they miss something and get sued they will have to answer for it.

Why are there so many lawsuits? Because the first thing that insurance companies do is lawyer up.

I'm not saying that doctors aren't also bastards sometimes, but Americans also think that doctors should deliver healthcare like a retail service and that's just stupid.

Your whole "in a different room performing miracles" might actually be running late because they are double booked and behind schedule due to trying to be thorough with an old woman who has compounded issues related to multiple diseases. That woman is also a person, just like you and the doctor might be trying to spend some time trying to help them even though insurance and the shitty clinic they work in only want them to spend 10 minutes with any one patient. That may sound efficient until you need to spend 20 minutes to do something right. Then the schedule is effed the rest of the day and people will act like you are trying to do something to them by being late.

Its hard for me to say this, because generally I hate people, but not everything is intended as a slight against you.
Their brand name everywhere is Nokia, not Nokia Networks. Networks is a division (and subsidiary) of Nokia. They have networks, health, virtual reality and phones.
This seems like exactly the political environment to let the rich do whatever they want
Precisely why healthcare insurance is different.

Preventative health saves more resources than reactive health (i.e. catching cancer early as opposed to when it display symptoms). One of the big problems of healthcare insurance in the U.S. is treating it like car insurance - a numbers game of reactions to accidents.

Some insurance policies cover 100% of annual checkups but it still trains people to avoid going to the hospital.
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You can't blame individual citizens for structural (sometimes intentional) flaws of first past the post voting.

All discussions on politics really boil back down to this - representation sucks because first past the post sucks. Changing the voting system in most places is a constitutional amendment. Hence, it will never happen. Nothing can get better because the only people who can change it (and don't say third parties, remember, we are in a system structurally designed to kill opposition to the ruling duopoly) are the ones in power because of the system the way it is.

If people could vote for the person they want to rule, with (preferably) proportional instant runoff elections (and thus no fear of "the lesser of two evils"), almost none of the current politicians in any state would be in power.
Why all of this 'all or nothing' attitude to everything? Dare I suggest that this comes from an almost uniquely American attitude to winning things? There is good science, and bad science. Scientific study is produced by people, with all of their faults, and it is a refinement and rethink over time that turns "established fact!" into nuanced understanding.

If this isn't recognized, it is used by some to say "that fact turned out to be wrong! Therefore that science is wrong!". It isn't like that. Science comes from a question, or many questions. Scientists (i.e. people) use observation to turn those questions into what they think are answers. It is this process that is science, not the facts that they produce. If all you do is focus on facts, you can't critically analyze why something shouldn't be correct, and further science by thinking about how you can explain why this isn't the case. So you end up with arguments about facts instead of arguments about why observations and perceptions are different, which is what science is supposed to be about.

My 2.2c.
This strikes me as a viable usefor IoT-style appliances. Or maybe IoT outlets.

Also, I bet a swimming pool could be cooled down when power is cheap, and the chilled water pumped through a heat exchanger as air conditioning.
REST isn't exactly aligned with CRUD, though it's often used for CRUD APIs.

REST generally describes (roughly in order of most common in implementation to least):

- HTTP requests operate on resources
- HTTP verbs describe the specific operations to perform (most typically HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE; some systems also implement OPTIONS, PATCH, custom verbs; some less-RESTful systems use POST for everything besides GET)
- Resources have a single identifier (URL); some systems get this wrong
- Query string parameters provide filtering and conditional behavior on requests for resources
- HTTP status codes indicate the condition of the response
- HTTP headers provide mechanisms for authorization/authentication, content type negotiation, pagination, error condition mitigation (redirects, rate limiting, etc)
- Responses provide URLs to related resources where appropriate

I'm probably forgetting a ton. The fundamental idea behind REST is to use the semantics of HTTP, as they were designed, to implement and interact with an API.
"The only step" presumes that the automatic approach Just Works™ at a price you're willing to pay (including having someone else own your data).

A $20 scale in the bathroom with a 3x5 card and a pen nearby has worked out pretty well for me over the last 3 years. There's two whole steps, but they're entirely transparent and quick, the equipment involved is affordable, I haven't had to spend time on setup or troubleshooting beyond occasionally retrieving a new 3x5 card or pen from my office supply box. The privacy is pretty good too.

Once every week or two I look at the 3x5 cards and can see what the trend looks like.
You can concretely measure how much time it takes to scan X million rows of a table; how much slower it is for every join you add; how much slower an index is to scan for every column that's added to it; how much slower it gets for every column you add to the select clause; etc. And determining optimal join order in my case isn't particularly hard (it's a lot like a star schema; the key thing is not to bring in the whole of the big table in the middle).

I was a compiler engineer in my previous job; transforming and optimizing expression trees are my bread and butter. I'd give myself good odds of improving MySQL for my particular use case - I'd know where to look, what stats to collect and how to approach things differently. But likely my optimizations would be pretty specific to my situation, and not everybody would be happy with more predictable, sometimes slower performance.
Pre-existing conditions includes disorders that makes you more susceptible to diseases while not guaranteeing you'll get them. That's still insurance.
What do you want a smart scale to not do that Nokia does?
I remember how electrifying Taste for Makers was: http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html I was barely 18 at the time I stumbled across it, and it made me want to read everything else. That lead to How to Make Wealth http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html and What You Can't Say http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

I didn't really care who he was or what his past achievements are, so at least in my case that proposition is false. I just liked his writing. It's probably impossible to know whether the audience resembled myself or your archetype, but it seems unlikely that hundreds of thousands of people heard about the Viaweb acquisition or about some rich Harvard graduate.
I like this format. Now that the post slid off the main page, it's more quiet here and we can discuss at leisure :-) Sustainability of open source is a topic close to my interests and line of business.

First, I'd question that a "sacrifice" that leads to such spectacular success is really a sacrifice. Perhaps "investment" is a better word?

I'll concede there are risks involved, outcome uncertain, stressful days... but that's in line with calling it an investment. These go hand in hand. You simply cannot create anything of value without a struggle, and to think otherwise is to ignore the human nature and the history of pioneering new grounds.

In any case, my original point above was that success cannot come without some sort of personal investment. I believe removing risk from potentially high-reward activities is an oxymoron, economic nonsense. Risk and reward are two sides of the same coin.

And if the activity is low-reward, it's just a hobby.

Masking this risk-reward connection by forcing other people to cover the risk side for you just creates perverse incentives and social aberrations. Think bank bailouts, for an extreme but inevitable example of where this line of reasoning leads to.
>If regular, predictable events are covered, it is not insurance. Regular, predictable events are not insurable.

The problem in the U.S. is that we have this bizarre system where hospitals charge exorbitant prices and then insurers haggle them down to something halfway sane. So when you're paying for "insurance" you're (ideally) getting both catastrophic coverage (i.e. actual insurance) as well as access to a cartel that negotiates prices down from impossible heights on your behalf -- even for routine care.

Since most people who regularly access medical care do so through these cartels, care providers have no incentive to make care more affordable than what they can get away with -- and insurers have no incentive to allow the price to drop either, since people being able to afford care outside the cartels would ultimately undercut their profits.

This system is fundamentally unworkable. There's really no way to detangle the perverse incentives here in a way that will bring prices down to a level comparable with single payer healthcare.
I've spent a single day in NYC all my life so have no idea.

I'm wondering if ferries are easier to run as there is less infrastructure. There are the equivalent of stations and maintenance depots, but not rails. I don't know who owns the ferry infrastructure or if it is shared.

If you privatised the trains, would the different operators share tracks and stations? If so who would own and maintain them? My guess is the operators would baulk at the idea of maintaining ANY infrastructure and just want to run trains leased from the govt, over a system maintained by the govt, who now has less revenue from the fares.

In NSW our railway barely if never got to operational status under private ownership. The govt took it over immediately and it has been priceless for the state ever since. But of course bean counters have been complaining about it for decades now. I think there has been privatisation stuff going on for a while like the airport line. They were also trying to disentangle the various routes so they could sell them off, but that is hard because they didn't need to be planned that way when built.

It seems to me like a city's metro system is too important to leave in the hands of private operators whose only reason to exist is to make a profit and that will bail out the second things are not worth its time and money. If the metro chokes, so does the city.
Is just me or are some of these kind of worrying, a city in ruins burning, dead humans on a beach, blood and gore...
> Scientific theories and predictions should be presented to the public with a confidence attached.

Theoretically, that's what peer-review is all about. Is your theory published in Nature? High confidence. Is your theory a FoxNews piece on a 'recent study'? Low confidence.
I've been using Fira Code[0] which supports ligatures and (in addition to being a nice looking monospace font) it makes reading code with those symbols so much nicer. I mainly write Python and that generally uses a pretty limited set of special symbols, but it really does make a difference when you see ≤ rather than <= and 'long equals' instead of == etc. I definitely recommend it.

I'd love to see ligature/unicode support rolled out more widely, symbols allow for more easy differentiation and they're so nice to look at when you do have them.
I'm running for congress in the next election cycle as a democratic socialist, using my own funds. That's intent.

If you're in the Tampa area, I hope I can count on your vote! If not, no worries. I'm prepared for the long game.
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Its not with doctors directly in almost all situations. Not saying that they aren't also cocks sometimes but there's a lot of the iceberg that you can't see. I'm telling you, the more you look the more you will see its middle men like insurance companies that are screwing every party in a multiparty transaction.

Never trust anyone 100%. This is America.
The standard Python interpreter is crap. One should use IPython. I'd like to see a comparison with that one.
Doesn't seem to work well on iOS.
Insurance!
There are alternatives.. we are setting up an insurer with a new business model in the UK.

We earn a flat fee every time we settle a claim for members of our community - they provide the funds to cover for each other.

No conflict of interest, fair pricing, everything instant.

Have a look. insureathing.com
Also if you shoot me an email, we can chat more easily.
I think another difference at least for Common Lisp DSL's are embeded into the language (look at loop) and so people are comfortable with using them and somewhat how to write them.

This doesn't mean there isn't people who hate stuff like loop being in cl but it does go someway to showing why it's okay. I think the design of lisp encourages them as well (as the previous poster said) by the fact that the entirety of lisp is built up from a extremely limited amount of instructions so the entire language can be argued to be a DSL on top of a DSL on top of a DSL etc.
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It won't be faster, but it would save on memory if you're short on that.
I'd like to offer an alternate theory:

A unionized elite dominates the economy. This bloc constitutes millions of unionized public sector workers who are in the top 10% of income earners, and the writers of major establishment media organisations like the New York Times and the New Republic.

I just googled David Sessions and NewsGuild, and it turns out he is/was a high-ranking member:

http://www.nyguild.org/post/contract-approved

Like all elite groups with legally enshrined privileges, this group has created a set of myths to justify its existence, and a scapegoat to blame for society's ills.

This elite views the principle of a free market economy as the greatest threat to its privileges, and so it creates a conspiracy theory where any intellectual that promotes this principle is working for the interests of billionaires who are really calling the shots.

This elite is afraid of the freedom the internet provides. It is already looking to shut down free market interaction in digital media, by promoting digital media unionization:

https://newrepublic.com/article/122667/how-digital-media-uni...
I think I'm going to start using that one. Especially on ports of legacy software from one, crappy language to another crappy language. I'd especially guess that the COBOL to OOP COBOL translations involve a lot of refuctoring. I just gotta remember to give Joeri credit for coming up with it.
No. It was a basically stock Verizon edition of Android.

After that experience I switched to iPhone. However, since then, I've experienced the iPhone iCloud Phone.app crash, which also denied me 911 service (although fortunately I noticed the problem and resolved it before needing 911.)
Regulation is based on country instead of changing from state to state. The EU helped to streamline most of it for all European countries so you can float freely by passporting across regions.
Here's you some evidence to use when you bring that up:

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/872
Wouldn't insurance companies want people to get preventative care over reactive care, to lower their own operating costs? I know that Cigna is a big proponent of this, but I can't think of any others that do the same.
Politicians do not operate on the principal of what is good for customers. They operate on whether or not doing something increases their odds of reelection, or in the case of term limits whether an action will make themselves or their successor look good.

In the cases you described, putting a wifi mesh net topside is something that can be done in weeks. Revamping a hundred year old subway that woefully needs tens of billions of dollars of renovations that would probably take a decade to complete raise taxes while you are in office while your successor 2 terms later reaps the rewards.

If they even get that far - the tragedy of ignorant voters is how long term vision doesn't get anyone votes. If you raise taxes now, you probably won't be in office tomorrow, even if that tax raise would make every constituent you have a millionaire 5 years from now, and they would elect a replacement whose entire platform is to undo what you did, because the immediate pain is much more meaningful to them in the voting booth than the long term promise.
Thank you - I know it's possible to strip the DRM from Kindle/Audible titles but I like to support uncorrupted files where possible.
Sometimes when I'm in the mood for a little self-congratulation, I look back on a blog piece I wrote shortly after the Burning Platform memo and subsequent move towards Windows Phone:

http://weston.canncentral.org/writing/index.php?2011/02/18/0...

I was pretty ignorant of the rest of Nokia's business outside of mobile devices, and there are some particulars that differed a bit, but I think I called basic trajectory they traced in the mobile market from that point pretty well: premier hardware maker loses lead in market shift, turns to Microsoft for software partnership, finds itself still struggling in a competitive market, now working with another failing software platform whose destiny it can't control on top of its other problems, eventually is "married" by Microsoft.

Now divorced, and looking to make a new life, it would seem.
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Loop in Common Lisp is a good one.
Sometimes when working with legacy software you just start wrapping legacy crap in added layers of complication, hoping to to create a sane interface to the underlying insanity. I think the same thing might be happening with auxiliary healthcare companies. I say this because I've worked at a couple such companies, and I see some mentioned on Hacker News from time to time.

A new company will look at healthcare in America and say, "I'll start a company, and we'll fix part of this." And to some extend they succeed, they deal with some of the underlying insanity, and stick a nice API in front of it. But ultimately what they really do is bring in a bunch of people to sap more money out of the healthcare industry. I used to be one of them when I worked for such companies as a developer. Ultimately a small part of your high medical bill ended up in my pocket. One of the companies I worked for had hundreds of employees and could have been entirely replaced with a 50 line Python script and a cron job if only the government would pick a standard CSV format and require states to use it. (There was no patient data we were dealing with.)

It seems to me, that to make healthcare affordable in America a lot of these auxiliary workers are going to have to lose their jobs. They system must be made much smaller.
The fact that I'm seeing your comment at all suggests they've improved in the last few years. This is the first time I've bothered to comment on HN, as a woman interested in the topic of "Women in Tech" in ages, because it was such a barren hellscape here not long ago.

As always, comments on stories about feminism prove the need for feminism.