skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know one guy who left the factory floor to become a pharmacist and another who left for IT.

I spent the better part of my post-dropout early 20s doing work as "lowly" as shoveling literal horseshit as a general contractor's assistant while I spent my evenings learning the software business. Fast forward to 30 and I'm sitting here in my swanky coworking space in one of the most desirable parts of one of the most desirable cities in America, while working toward a director role at a very successful company in arguably the hottest industry in America. And what, I was some kind of stoner shit shoveler?

Ambitious hardworking people are still what drive innovation, so my advise to anyone looking to network is to keep those types close and not to get hung up so much on pedigree or what not.
I guess I don't really see your point.

Suppose we take two situations:

#1 As described in the article, between the premium and the actual claims pool there's 50% lost to all the entities involved -- from brokers up through reinsurance companies and back down to the entity that actually cuts the claim check. But further suppose that all these companies happen to be co-ops and so no dollars are lost to passive investors.

#2 There's a vertically integrated insurance company that is highly efficient. It only sells directly and doesn't use commissioned salespeople. It has overhead of only 25% and pays a 10% of revenue dividend to its shareholders, leaving 65% of premiums to pay claims. This enables the company to offer lower premiums for the same coverage.

Is #1 somehow morally superior to #2? Do you think it is impossible for #2 to exist?
Actually, it was about courts deciding the liability scope was too wide and could harm innovation, as per your linked source.

"Although the D.C. Circuit found that it was possible to examine high-tech industries with traditional antitrust analysis, the court announced a new and permissive liability rule that repudiated the Supreme Court’s dominant rule of per se illegality for tie-ins, due to the court’s concern for the dynamic effects that a per se rule would have on innovation."

Ergo, the tie-ins were found to have happened by point of fact but not found to be illegal by re-interpretation by the courts of the illegality of tie-ins. The Justice Department then reached a settlement (the win on their side being that they wouldn't have wasted the years of prosecution).

This goes a way towards explaining why there hasn't been a similar Microsoft-scale antitrust case since the Microsoft case in the US.
Debian stable with the backports repo and/or vendor repos as required for more recent releases e.g. php, nodejs, varnish, mysql/percona/mariadb, postgres etc.
Still better than 0118 999 881 999 119 7253

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ
Really?! Do you do them throughout the day or before/after work?
Nobody discovered anything new.

They seem to have discovered a conference that will give them a platform to promote themselves by banging on about known security problems while providing zero actionable advice towards finding more weaknesses or preventing future weaknesses.

Nah, I guess you're right. Those aren't a novel discovery either.
While not directly linked, this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OipJYWhMi3k) about Quake got my attention last night and I found it riveting regarding its technical aspects, development history, and cultural impact.
Disclaimer, from mainland China, knows people live in US from Hong Kong.

> There's 1.3 billion brain-washed citizens
Brain-wash is a strong word. Chines people are not like some another-dimensional like minions. They think and behave reasonably and just like any other one on this planet. Please refrain from using strong word without actual evidence.

> taiwan is a part of china

History shows that Taiwan was forcefully severed from the national Chinese government. Taiwan government also say they belong to the national Chinese government, and thought the mainline CCP is illegal.

> tiannamen square didn't happen

You probably meet some people who happen to believe that. I highly doubt anyone in China now believe that did not happen, let alone those who live in Bay area.

> the CCP is ok

CCP is fine. They managed China in good shape. What's the problems one would have if you have such a government.

> how can they study here for grad school, want to stay for h1-b and get the green card, have extreme nationalism for their officially communist government yet happily participate in the fruits of capitalism and western liberalism.
It's quite shocking.

1. China does not have a socialism or communism economy. You can label it as such, but the truth is they practice a national capitalism. Such belief is not in odds with western values. People do value freedom and all such ubiquitous values, so they move to western countries.
2. "Extreme nationalism for their officially communist government" Just 3 bullet points, then this label got applied onto these people?! Bias aside, the 'extreme' part is rather exaggerating.
Why nationalism is tied with the government? 3 bullet point can translate to pro-communist government? And an extension to tie 'extreme nationalism' to communist? I just cannot see the connection.

3. "happily participate in the fruits of capitalism and western liberalism."
No, people do not have hidden agenda to do anything out of reach. They believe in the value of western nations. The premise of what you said is unfounded, and this contrast does not bear much meaning, IMHO.
Sanctions under what law? I'm interested in the construction of the law here.

Does Canadian law prevent Nestle from operating because they employ child (and slave) labour in West Africa for example. If not then why does Canada care more about a foreign SERP listing for re-branded products than for exploited children in the chocolate industry, why push their jurisdictional area of action to the globe in one case but not the other?
He starts off describing himself as short, bald, and fat. I'm guessing that picture is old or he has a distorted view of body image.
Whoops, will fix that. Thanks!
School should teach students to read, write, do basic math and think and discuss both logically and rhetorically. Once a student is educated in that sense, (s)he is prepared to learn coding.

Otheriwise, coding becomes like all those other courses that the student took but never used. The basics will always be useful.
Anyone ever read "The inmates are running the asylum" by Cooper? If this trend of making everyone into a programmer continues, I wonder what user interfaces will evolve into.

As a side note, recently I've been having more and more unexpected but amusing conversations with my non-programmer friends about things like 'APIs and SDKs'. The business worker has taken over the technical vernacular, and it's leading to some strange contortions of reality.
I think a lot of the times what is missing in this conversation is the need to first get teachers in the classroom that know how to code and want to teach it. Unfortunately a teachers salary is much, much lower than what someone who does know how to code can make elsewhere.

I understand that there are a lot of online tools that make learning/teaching coding easier but I do believe the person teaching it still needs to have a decent understanding. Kids ask tons of questions on how to accomplish certain things and if the teacher doesn't really know how to code, they won't be able to help those students who will then lose interest.
> this idea that TDD is a panacea where no bugs ever survive didn't ever make sense to me in the first place.

I've literally never encountered this idea, in person or otherwise, from anyone advocating TDD, only as a an argument TDD opponents like this attack. I'm not sure if it's a rare argument they've latched onto, a common misunderstanding of the purpose of TDD, or an outright strawman, but it's certainly not the main argument (or one of them) I've seen for TDD.

TDD:

1. Validates that you have a reasonably clear operational understanding of the intended behavior (but not completeness), forcing more questions out early and preventing some portion of the waste of code aimed at something that isn't the intended functionality that would otherwise occur, and

2. Assures that automated tests (which are often most valuable for regression testing later changes) actually get written, which is a significant issue in practice with test-last processes.
THE C STANDARD VERSUS C AND THE MOTHER OF ALL HACKS
That's a good point. Transmission losses in the US are estimated to be roughly 5%: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=105&t=3

So to beat that, you have to use less than one fuel cell to transport 19 other fuel cells. I honestly have no idea whether that's easy or not.
You probably the typical american who think he understand china better than Chinese.

In comparison, I born in China and live in US for 6 years now.
[PDF] decorator would be appreciated.
Pandas & Numpy are extremely useful DSLs in Python. Being able to add vectorization to the language and use structures like DataFrames in an R-like way is very powerful. There are some good use case scenarios.

Language features like operator overloading do exist for a reason, and that's because the language designer was aware of situations where you do want to use those features.
Good to know - thank you, the link was just a quick grab!
Maybe coding will help students do those tasks better. I'd say coding would certainly help with basic math and logical thinking.
As someone lived in Hong Kong for quite a while (during the tail of its heydays) but now in the US, Hong Kong is indeed in big trouble. But not for the reasons mentioned/implied in this article.

It's very easy to buy into narratives such as authoritarianism vs democracy, communism vs capitalism, China vs Britain/West, tight control vs freedom as the reasons for Hong Kong's decline, but that's just short-circuited thinking for the lazy.

The real reason for Hong Kong's decline, is the failure/irresponsibility of Hong Kong's elite ruling class. Maybe to many people's surprise, since its handover to China, Hong Kong has effectively been ruled by the local elites, NOT by Beijing. Sure, Beijing appoints the governor, but the governors are locals, and there was never any direct "order" from Beijing, well, sorta until recently, when Beijing began to see the failure of the local Hong Kong government.

Those elites are composed of mega real estate/business tycoons. Being the elites in the most capitalist city-state in the world gives them tremendous wealth and power, but to the disappointment of Spider-man, with that great power there's no great responsibilities. The ruling class mega riches don't see income inequality as a problem, but a badge of honor for themselves, to show how "they've made it", while all the poors are just not smart/hardworking enough. Any efforts to "appease the poor" are hindered by the ruling business-politician symbiotics, because those efforts get in their way of accumulating more wealth.

The frustration of the youth and the poor stems from the sense of inequality, unfairness and despair as they see no chances of upward mobility. Yet, even the poorest in Hong Kong is a capitalist at heart, so they are poor not because of the rich, and they certainly do work hard, then who's to blame? China, Beijing, the mainlanders, because they are evil, communist, denying tian'anmen square, yada yada...

On the contrary, when the ruling rich saw the rebellion of lower class, without knowing/admitting themselves are to be blamed, they seek help from Beijing. What does Beijing know about governing a country? More control! That's the only thing Beijing knows, and it's been working (kinda) with them. So that's how we get where we are now.
I'd take a pallet of bricks any day over the aftermath of a signing key and OTA package update compromise. I'm not worried about one car getting hacked, that's thinking too small.
>state that is nearly run by its police public service union.

don't forget the prison guard union. That one is probably most powerful in the state, and naturally plays the same side with the police union.
I've certainly met people who wear rings specifically to suggest they're unavailable, or at least cut down on the number of propositions.
I'm sure that Nazis have arrested errant Nazis from time to time. Being arrested by a cop doesn't mean that you cannot be a cop yourself. And it seems like the Nazis paranoia levels were high: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Arrest_and_r...
Bingo. Use wireshark to identify the protocol and if it is http then use mitmproxy.
the price is $47/mo if you rent for a year
Although most trains are not autonomous, there are currently many more people being transported by autonomous trains than by autonomous cars, and it has been so for several years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...).

I see what your point is regarding the convenience of using a car. What could be more convenient than leaving your house, getting in your car, then being dropped at your destination? But this doesn't take into account the cost of the entire infrastructure needed to make it work flawlessly. On the other hand, the train goes faster, and benefits from economies of scale. A tightly knit network of trains would beat a transport system made of autonomous cars.
Well, probably. Unless you are stupid enough to plug your car to the internet.
for the 400th time.
No I am not familiar with any advantages from using cryptocurrency as a business. I only know that you can avoid PayPal fees by using Bitcoin, but this also means that the customer has no protection of you don't deliver the product.
I'd say that the biggest difference in terms of the political situation is that the people in Hong Kong are Chinese, and Hong Kong is part of China. Palestinians aren't Israeli (and Israel even talks about population transfers to remove Arab citizens), and Palestine isn't considered part of Israel (Israel's stance seems to be "we control this land and maybe some of it is part of Israel but maybe part of it isn't"). When you add to that things like the military conflict, blockades, settlements, etc., you can see that the situation is vastly different.
New Report on Ransomware: Goldeneye Attack Traces Back to Spear Phishing
Sorry, I must have missed this part. FWIW, they don't seems to do it anymore.
Team5150 the old Tribes clan?
> Sanctions under what law?

Canadian law regarding contempt of court.
If "no private ownership" = communism, then correct, China is communism country.

But as defined in the textbook, communism also requires highly-developed society, where citizens not work for their living, but for their aspiration, and the society provides the consumables for people's living. And many other necessary conditions to be called communism.

Even for private ownership. If I bought a house in US, do I have an ownership? Then why I have to pay property tax and have a risk of been evicted if not do so.
Vets are like this too. Vets and Dental are very simple.

My root canal is $325? Cool. I can shop it around or go with it. Same with a pet procedure.

Medical is the crazy town.
Something this article did not cover and which is often overlooked is that insurance companies invest the premiums they receive in order to help defray the cost of claims. Companies that are both talented and ethical will get a good rate of return on the investments, thus serving as good stewards for the money.

I am not a fan of general health insurance. I think the government should provide universal basic health care and there should be health insurance for emergencies and the like.

I don't think it matters so much whether it is a for profit business or a not-for-profit or a co-op. It will basically come down to: Are they actually ethical? Are they actually talented at what they do? Is the model of policy any good?

Those will be problems regardless of the form of the organization.

(Background: I worked for a big insurance company for over 5 years. As an employee there, I was sent by my employer to a local technical college to get training to do my entry level job. At least while there, this training entitled me to the spiffy title of "Certified Life and Health Insurance Specialist.")
Good point, but this is true only if your definition of convenience doesn't include the speed and cost of the transport infrastructure as a whole.
No-one defended cgroups. What you said about a single global management process was just plain wrong. I do find it amusing that you erroneously think that other people are lecturing you, by the way. (-:

A control group on the machine in front of me tells me that you are wrong about two more things.

jdebp %ll -a /sys/fs/cgroup/service-manager.slice/user-services@.service/user-services@jdebp.service
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 6 jdebp root 0 Jun 29 18:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jun 29 18:17 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 18:18 cgroup.controllers
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 18:18 cgroup.events
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdebp root 0 Jun 29 18:17 cgroup.procs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 18:18 cgroup.subtree_control
drwxr-xr-x 2 jdebp jdebp 0 Jun 29 18:17 me.slice
drwxr-xr-x 2 jdebp jdebp 0 Jun 29 18:17 per-user-manager-log.slice
drwxr-xr-x 3 jdebp jdebp 0 Jun 29 18:17 service-manager.slice
drwxr-xr-x 2 jdebp jdebp 0 Jun 29 18:17 system-control.slice
jdebp %

Unprivileged subtree delegation exists, that being a control group delegated to my account which has a whole subtree of further control groups in it, managed by multiple unprivileged processes. Your problem with "rootless" containers is not because of the non-existence, because Tejun Heo "isn't interested", of something that visibly exists. That's clearly not a correct description of the situation at all. Furthermore, https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/25/4 and https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/25/6 tell me that far from "isn't interested", Tejun Heo is interested in subtree delegation to unprivileged users. After all, xe is fidding with it right now.

systemd is not the sole user of version 2 control groups.
No:

- Britain's own level of freedom doesn't reflect how they've treated colonies in the past. See: all of history.

- The UK isn't as free as many other Western nations. See: their track record on surveillance (although everyone is catching up there), or even Theresa May literally saying "I’ll rip up human rights laws that impede new terror legislation" quite recently.

- Founding documents rarely mean anything when it comes to actual law. See: The US Constitution vs NSA and pretty much everything else the government does.

- Non-Western countries have plenty of freedoms? I'd argue freedom has more to do with economic prosperity, which is typically dominated by colonial powers. See: Japan, Iran before US overthrew government (Iran is now lowest in Economic Freedom Index).

Between this unhinged post and your previous comment "China doesn't represent Anglo Saxon culture or ideals. Canada, NZ, Australia, the UK and the US are the reason we have freedom of everything." I'm getting some really weird vibes, man. You sound delusional and racist.
You don't need to solve every problem to solve some problems. Blockchains don't address enforcement for real property. They do address everything else. And everything else is a big deal.
I think your reply relies too heavily on our context as humans on earth.

If humans are actually a very clever form of AI crafted by some thing unknown to us, whatever it may be, are we in-fact "artificial?" What if it goes further back: All living things on earth have an origin in an organic artificial intelligence experiment and humans are simply an interesting result?

It may sound far out and perhaps even stupid, but as long as we're talking about AI killing its originator ... it's a legitimate question: Is discerning between Artificial/Natural intelligence even valid outside of planet earth?

Edit: Maybe the word 'program' is what I'm not liking, and your answer is actually legit
I absolutely agree. It's also nice to know:

* What's my confidence that the code will work correctly under different situations.

* How maintainable the code is and related how easy is it to make changes.

* How much time/effort does it take to create.

It's funny (or sad) how the XP guys like Kent are always talking about doing the right thing and not being religious. This stops working when the people using it don't know what the right thing is any more. They write terrible tests, they make bad changes to their code to support those tests, it ends up a big un-refactor-able ball of mud that takes longer to create and is more difficult to maintain.

If you're writing a shortest path algorithm or a JPEG decoder then you absolutely should code up some tests to check your code. The tests are relatively simple. They don't need to know anything about the internals of your code. They help you check quickly whether your code is correct and don't interfere with any refactoring. You can rewrite your JPEG decoder from scratch without needing to touch the tests at all.
How do you think he'll be selling the coins? He'll be charging them ETH and/or BTC. Anyone will be able to see the wallets the coins end up in and he won't be able to cash it out without everyone making a big fuss about it.
What does private health insurance in France give you over what the state provides?
The bit rrggrr is complaining about is underneath «even if we assume that petitioners have adequately demonstrated standing».
This makes me feel really out of touch. I can't imagine scrapping my furniture just because I'm moving. I've moved every year for the past 4 years. I just pay some movers and they get everything in and out just fine. Some services will even handle packing and unpacking everything for you.

If someone's going to be living somewhere for only 2 or 3 months, I can understand renting. But I don't think renting makes economic sense for most people. You can probably just buy the equivalent or very similar furniture and break even. If you don't wanna assemble it, pay someone on through TaskRabbit or equivalent.
I think Ahmed Chalabi played a key role there as well, and there are suggestions that he was an Iranian agent.
Dude.... We (the West) wrote the Japanese and Korean constitution. Read a book. Without US soldiers in those countries, they wouldn't be where they are today.

US = Japan
Germany's Weimer constitution formed the basis for Korea's
> Wait a minute, you want me to rent furniture?

> We get it. This is kind of new, right? We’re excited about that.

But it's... not remotely new, right?

[EDIT] seriously, "tiny houses" = mobile homes for well-off millennials, Feather = Rent-a-Center for well-off millennials, Soylent = Ensure for well-off millennials. I guess I should start a payday loans company marketed in such a way that using it doesn't offend the class sensibilities and self-image of well-off millennials and say I'm doing something "new".
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