skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The money didn’t influence his work, Mr. Heald said, and Google issued no conditions: “They said, ‘If you take this $20,000 and open up a doughnut shop with it—we’ll never give you any more money—but that’s fine.’”

At a glance, this seems like the funds are no-strings-attached. But when you think for a minute, you realize it's the exact opposite.

Google is saying that if they don't like what you do with the money, they won't give you any more — but if they do like what you do with it then you might get more. This incentivizes the professor to use the money to do things that Google would like, which is the opposite of no-strings-attached.

There technically are no strings attached to this money, but the possibility of future payments (which ranged from $5k to $400k) is a pretty big enticement.
if this were reddit..I'd say "Username checks out...".. but this isn't reddit.

One thing I'm curious about...Trump says Let's make America Great again--was he talking before white people came and before the genocide? Or after? Was he talking about Slavery? Or the lynch mobs of the KKK? What about criminal enterprises and suffering during Prohibition and the Great Depression?

Damn, I long for the an FDR style leader to come along, well at this point we need quite a few to fill congress and start making America about the people again, not corporate interests.
It's not that simple by a long shot. Minus any information or critical thinking, no one ever thinks of themselves as the bad guy. I'm an American and I can tell you no end of past and present instances in our history in which we were the bad guys in a particular situation. I don't defend America if I think the US government is taking a morally, ethically, or intellectually wrong position, or if the US government does something really shitty. I vote against politicians who support such things and am not at all shy about criticizing America when it's appropriate. I hold Russians to the same standard as I hold myself and my fellow Americans, and expect them to be just as critical towards their own government when it's appropriate.

When people deflect criticism of their country by saying some other country is just as bad, they're totally missing the point. Saying that everyone does shitty things still doesn't make it OK for anyone to do shitty things. The German government was literally run by Nazis for over a decade and caused tens of millions of deaths, apparently for no reason other than idealism and narcissism. But that doesn't mean that I treat the German government of today as if they were secret Nazis all along, and that sure as hell doesn't mean it's OK for other countries to do what Germany did during WW2.

If all you've got is whataboutism, you are literally trying to defend indefensible behavior by pointing out instances of other countries engaging in indefensible behavior. This makes zero sense. I don't get it. It doesn't matter how many countries do horrible things, it doesn't make any of those horrible things OK. You are you, you are not your country. Think for yourself. OTOH, if you really think all those indefensible things that Russia (and America, at times) have done are OK, and you just want everyone to shut up about it so everyone can maintain the status quo, I honestly don't know what to say. I have zero common ground with such a person, they may as well come from another universe that I would give anything to not live in.
What happened at about the same time as the Thai floods is that areal density hit a brick wall. The timing is just a coincidence. The reason that 4TB remains the cheapest capacity is that it turns out 4TB is the most you can store using a conventional four platter drive, which is the most efficient configuration to manufacture. AFAIK all 6TB drives have five platters which of course costs more to make. 8TB drives are either six platters in a helium filled case or five platters with shingled recording, the former being expensive and the latter having significant performance implications. Fortunately for Backblaze, their use case is relatively well suited for singled drives which is what makes 8TB drives economical for them.
Let's get something distinct: Linus is like Gordon Ramsey.. If you should know better and you do junk work then you will be shit on.

I've seen Linus handle people numerous times who are learning or do not claim to be experts and he is always respectful, civil and a lot less blunt.

Not to mention the fact that when Linus is shitting on people it's often because they broke something for the "user"[0].

Lennart is not this way, he breaks userspace, he breaks norms and has a _huge_ ego. He conducts himself as if him and his crew are the only good programmers in the universe.

That is quintessentially _not_ the same as Linus.

[0]: User is a broad definition here, but it covers userspace programmers.
Should just setup a sting where we create multiple fiverr accounts and see who contacts us about what posts to try and promote
Framework 1.4 > 4.7 > 4.6.1?
>Why do you imagine it wouldn't!? The portions of health care universally not covered by insurance are not subject to the same cost disease of the industry as a whole. Lo and behold, the real cost of eg. breast augmentation is declining (total cost of about 4K)! The cost of lasik has decreased ~50% over the last 15 years, current results are better, and the surgery has the highest rating of patient satisfaction in the entire industry! A similar result anywhere else in medicine in the US is completely unimaginable.

In addition to not being covered by insurance those procedures are all elective. For elective procedures a free market is more likely to produce better results.

There is no way to make money insuring or treating poor, sick patients. The free market just can't do it.

The inherent problem here is that the math behind traditional free market economics breaks down when it comes to life saving goods and services. There is no equilibrium to be had, because of a combination of issues.

First the answer to how much will you pay to access this live saving drug is "anything" for 99% of the population. Second, life saving services are time sensitive--customers often can't choose a different supplier except the closest one. Third patent law ensures that there often isn't an alternative supplier.
One wonders what the point of working so hard for backwards compatibility is if they're just going to introduce breaking changes anyways.
Glad to see Tasks promoted to editor chrome, but I think I'd really love to see it promoted further from a menu to a full Explorer pane or maybe even a co-tab with Debugger.

(Especially because I have the menu off by default and have to accelerator key for it.)

(Aside to the aside: why in every Electron auto-hidden menu does Alt+Key work, but not Alt,Key? Is that a Chromium bug/oddity?)
In the US, doctors will not tell you if they made a mistake and caused your condition to worsen, or if the mistake caused the death of your loved one.

In the UK, doctors are allowed (and by the looks of this memo, expressly encouraged) to inform the patient of their mistakes and to apologize.
I have recently started learning React and I am following the lessons in www.hotwographql.com. I am trying to decide which GraphQL library to use for the practical exercise. Should I go for Relay or Apollo?

Also, I have been working as an Android developer for the last couple of years, and I was wondering how similar are the React and Android implementations of Apollo.
> Ah this is infuriating. The link compares USA to other countries. Why not given evidence of Medicare compared to private insurers?

If Medicare covered the same set of people as private insurers it might be a good comparison. However in the U.S. Medicare currently covers certain groups (elderly, disabled) that have very different profiles from most private insurance customers.
My first year chemistry courses were entirely taught (self paced) on cassette tape

No lectures.

Office hours if needed. Had to listen to tapes in chem building

(jimmy Carter president)
I have this weird memory of Tom Hudson, former Atari developer who I think ended up at Autocad, listening to the Rambo II soundtrack while developing. Not sure why this memory stuck.
http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n3/programunderpres.htm...
I think that this is absolutely brilliant. I've been against the patent of generalistic ideas, and basic processes for a very long time. Anything in software should not really be patentable, unless there is a concrete implementation of an invention, it's not an invention, it's a set of instructions.

Let software work under trade secrets, but not patents. Anyone can implement something they think through. It's usually a clear example of a need. That said, I think the types of patent trolling law firms such as this deserve every bit of backlash against them that they get.
LinkedIn Is Testing a New Feature That Matches You with a Mentor
We can't really burn them to the ground either.

Also to that point... I've heard that Linus will grind you into the sidewalk for breaking userspace. I'm not sure that is the same thing that we are talking about.

I'm also not sure how accurate what I've heard is on the matter, but I think we absolutely can pick and choose which assholes are OK – the assholes that contribute to progress are favored over the assholes that impede it (for example, you may choose a different metric)

If you have a strong opinion and you back it up with facts, that's not just your opinion, it's an argument. If you have a strong opinion and you don't argue with facts, and you're not interested in opinions to the contrary, even when they are presented with strong facts, then you're just an asshole with an opinion, right? You can be inflammatory (I've heard that this is not just Linus, it's a national characteristic of Finnish people, and probably other nationalities too... again take with a grain of salt)... you can be an inflammatory asshole, but if you still present a coherent argument with solid facts and a sound rational basis, you may still advance the state of the art in spite of alienating some people.
> But something has to be done about the overly long sidebar.

Can you explain why and what you would do?
I'd really like to see a comparison of written notes on a laptop vs paper. Many schools are moving towards tablet PC devices to enable handwritten notes on the computer.
Why not talk to OEM's? Many have been running benchmarks for some time and surely have an idea about performance -- though one important question is whether that "idea" is biased or not.
Having seen the experiment in it's beginning (hola E and team), I wonder: out of things you didn't use, have you found the changes to be 'for better good' as well?
Because my reading of the article is that Google doesn't restrict the policy to Google ads.

> publishers have to also be responsible for any ad networks or affiliates they have on their site which could use these methods

That may or may not be turn out to be legally anti competitive, but it certainly merits an investigation.

My personal opinion is that it is a clear abuse of G's market dominant position.
Also curious to see how it works out, but this model isn't novel. Shopify has done similar things in the past for its ecosystem. I ended up getting funded to build a Shopify app, and they were pretty easy to work with. As far as I can tell, this offering is no longer available.
I would like to understand better what is meant by "single payer". I think I know what it should mean, but then I see France as an example of single-payer system. France has a complex system of insurance bodies (public entities, privates companies, some weird stuff in between)...

If I understand correctly the biggest savings come from the mandatory nature of the coverage - everybody is covered at least partially by the State, + employees by their employers, + private offers for the others + universal coverage for immigrants and the most destitute. Risk is shared between the healthy and sick people, and prevention can be maximized.
Don't forget security. When there's a problem with systemd shit hits the fan. When there's a problem with a widely used piece of software that only does one job the mess is smaller and easier to clean up.
One potential solution for this is to use LVM, which lets you resize the partitions later. Even if you do just want to use /, /boot, and swap, it can be useful if you later want to change your swap size or reduce the root partition size to add new partitions if you decide you want to dual boot.
I advocate single payer, vs single provider. What Canada has, more or less, vs Britain's NHS.

http://www.pnhp.org/single_payer_resources/health_care_syste...

Plus a good dash of capitation, to incentivise wellness thru prevention, vs fee-for-service.
I always wondered what about SFO makes it so much more dangerous than the other airports in the area? It seems like they have a potential disaster every couple years.
Why is it so hard to retrain laid off workers?
I've purposefully avoided following the holy war, but somehow recently failed and noticed a new to me argument: systemd replaced lots of functionality wtih a memory safe implementation (shell scripts) with a memory unsafe implementation (C).
>All these sites use the same script that evades the popup blocker built into chrome yet none of google's 1000's of engineers can do anything about it apparently.

Because it's really hard to differentiate between legit popups (that the user wants) and popups that are unwanted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-up_ad#Pop-under_ads
Living in what is essentially a single-payer health care system (Norway), I assure you we don't see many MDs sleeping in cardboard boxes under freeway overpasses.

On a more serious note - education and skills tend to pay off.

Around here, doctors with their own practice are reimbursed by the state via several mechanisms, the two most significant ones are probably a fixed sum for each patient they are responsible for (they get this regardless of whether the patient sees them or not) and a fixed sum for each treatment, prescription filled &c.

Anecdotally, an MD with his own practice earns approx. $100k-$150k annually before taxes; this is 2-2,5 times the national average. (Very roughly speaking, but in the right ballpark)
It's too bad the US is a giant cesspool that I wouldn't recommend anybody travel to, let alone live in.
My attempt at parediting original example into poetry:

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What Will You Do If You Knew You Were Going to Die (JAPAN INTERVIEW)
Not exactly revolutionary, as I had an HR generalist tell me twenty years ago: "yeah, we all need a mental health day from time to time." when I made some mention that my sick day involved neither sickness nor a doctor visit.

That said, kudos to the parties involved for bringing it out into the open-source and an "approved" rubber stamp from the CEO.
I think extending the analogy to spoken languages can reveal some biases we have. If Dostoyevsky lived in Africa and wrote Crime and Punishment in Swahili, would it ever have gained the notoriety it has?
A somewhat similar, much simpler process is in wide use in the manufacturing industry for form measurement:

https://www.google.de/search?q=air+gaging
Unfortunately I'm a sysadmin, I deal with systemd/sysvinit every single day often dozens of times a day, but I do not have the means/skills to help remove integrations.

So, SystemD affects me daily and yet I can do nothing, I'm helpless. Which is why I'm rather vocal.
There are valid reasons to not like a language, PHP being the easiest to pick on:
https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

As for the people using the language, I have inherited a few PHP projects, and without exception, they are a mess. The code quality and readability is usually garbage, simple stuff like tabbing and consistent variable names. SQL Injection vulnerabilities, and XSS issues abound.
Also, healthcare isn't truly a free market since there are no free agent buyers. So, you'd have to define that phrase 'truly free market health care'.
From the Wiki,

> The Tesseract 4.00 neural network subsystem is integrated into Tesseract as a line recognizer.

The LSTM is used in layout analysis, not in character recognition.
> I'm not convinced this is insurmountable. How do countries with single payer handle this?

I'm confused by your question. Countries with single-payer have the same policy everywhere in the country, so there is no freeloading involved.

Unless you're talking about people coming from other countries, in which case it's handled by their immigration policy.
You can't have a truly free market health care system: https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/why-markets-can...
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/82/2/PHCBP.pdf

The federal government already pays for 64.3% of healthcare costs http://www.pnhp.org/news/2016/january/government-funds-nearl.... In a centralized managed system this would likely cover the cost of all healthcare. It's roughly what other industrialized nations pay, per person, for single-payer.
Why Won’t China Help with North Korea? Remember 1956
Winning the Electoral College is winning the election.

Just because you didn't get the outcome you wanted doesn't change that fact.
This problem is exactly why a single payer system would fail entirely, imagine if you could easily be a freeloader without having to move at all?

I don't think the US has the same demographics as the other countries where this currently appears to succeed. There are way more people who can't pay in the US, we're far too big for this.
It isn't insurmountable, it basically comes down to having to choose to deny care to someone.

However, it is really hard to do it in a fair and humane way; to deny care to people trying to freeload but not deny care to people who aren't.

The whole point of universal, single payer, healthcare is to avoid having to make this determination.

This isn't an issue for a country because the number of new residents (immigrants) is not a large percentage of the total number of citizens. If it was a state, though, that ratio might not work out; there is a VERY large pool of possible 'freeloaders' who are legally allowed to move to the state whenever they want.
Do we matter in the cosmos?
Theoretically - if the plane had landed, how many planes would it have taken out? It obviously wouldn't have been pretty, but I doubt the AirCanada would have reached the fourth plane, or maybe even the third.
There's a number of steps you'll need to figure out. for the 70k forms, where do the fields come from. Then for every scan, finding the bounding box for every field in a somewhat automated manner. You can use histograms and blob detection to help out with a number of these.

Once you have thresholded text boxes that are quite legible, you can train your CNN's and LSTMS to read text from images.
The problem I see with any complaints about Lennart's behavior is that his behavior is explicitly rewarded. No one is really "routing around the damage", unless they're taking the dysfunctional route of ignoring problems with the software. Lennart has been "crowned" with the position of being the de-facto leader of Linux init systems, since just about every distro that matters at all has adopted systemd. So unless the Linux community is going to adopt something different, or fork it and have some different leadership, I don't think they have much right to complain about Lennart's communication and leadership style. Don't put someone in a position of leadership and power and then whine that they're not doing things the way you want them to, unless you're prepared to back up your criticism with real action. The Linux community has apparently decided they're going to use Lennart's creation (and not fork it away from him), no matter what, so what's the use in complaining? People have been complaining about him for many, many years now, and he's obviously not going to change.

This reminds me a lot of everyone complaining so much about Windows 10. If you're not prepared to vote with your feet, your complaints are just wasted breath (or keystrokes) when the vendor obviously doesn't care one iota about your grievances.
After 18 years of programming in a wide range of languages (almost 10 spent on Ruby/Rails) I surely agree that Ruby is a joy to use for many tasks. A different opinion goes to Rails: it's speed of development is inversely proportionate to the time taken to reach a messy codebase if you follow the infamous rails way. You need some decent design pattern to get something that is still usable after 6-12months of active development.
Performances and speed can be important for many aspects, especially when there are alternatives that offer same speed of development consuming 10% of the resources needed by a ruby/rails app. Can you put a non trivial web app written in rails on a 512mb ram/1 core VPS for production (serving responses in microseconds, and consuming only a total of 50-60mb of ram)? That's what I did with 2 apps written in Elixir/Phoenix. The speed of development was the same (if not better!) than Ruby/Rails, the apps are running on cheap instances and can be scaled if needed.
The hate toward rails: it's getting more crappy on each release. Several new additions (especially in the v5.x) are pretty wrong (eg: global shared variables). Yes, it's still a choice, but it has lost the real game-changing that was few years ago.
This is some interesting speculation, and I applaud the researchers who think of things like this to look for.

I still estimate that by the time a civilization has planetary-scale engineering capability, that they won't need to make things like starshades.

If you have molecular nanotechnology, you can either adapt yourselves to whatever location you find, or just skip the biological body business, and directly upload your consciousness to a computer network.

The 2nd option is far more mass and energy efficient to support large numbers of sophonts, and I expect that any civilization to endure long enough will have the majority of its population living online instead of offline. If that even ends up being a thing, and they all don't just merge into a single entity (going in the direction of Star Trek's borg).
Try again. Socialism is where the government controls ALL means of production. They set how much toilet paper is produced daily, and they do it based on arbitrary means not supply and demand.

Social Democracy -- is capitalism with some programs added in, heck Police, Fire, and Roads maintained by the state are SOCIAL DEMOCRACY programs -- maybe you should have to pay if you want the fire truck to come put out your fire, call 911 what's your emergency? And can I have your credit card?

Dictionary definition: a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole

Under social democracy you can still start companies, still own businesses, nobody's taking that away, we just want to make sure that those who earn the most off the backs of the people's work contribute to lift up those who are burdened the most at the bottom.
Last I heard for the grown diamonds it was only because the grown ones have perfect clarity and color which is never the case for natural ones. So the price goes up for clarity and color until it hits perfect then it falls back to synthetic diamond prices.

If a synthetic version is better then the natural version can you still call it synthetic?
Refactoring without a clear and stated purpose is bad. Refactoring WITH a clear and stated purpose may also be bad, if the purpose is bad; "Support some use cases we don't care about," etc.

There's a checklist in the "Value" section of the article than can help sort out what value (if any) the refactor has.