skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not intended to be a port, but I occasionally search for an editor that is customizable in Python to the extent Emacs is.

Leo Editor (http://leoeditor.com) fits that bill. It's been around since the 90's (and the web page looks like it's from the 90's). Even though it has many users, the documentation is quite poor. If I had another life to live, I would learn it well and improve the docs - and then port over everything I like in Emacs to it.

It is sorely in need of more tutorials. You'll find some in various people's blog posts, but not enough. I know enough of it to know that it is very powerful, but not enough to use it well day-to-day.
Part of the reason for the hyper-partisan environment is that the districts are safely held by their respective parties, so the only real competition is in the primaries.
> This animation visualizes the increasing partisan nature of Congress over the last 60 years

I've worked in government, and when we were asked to generate reports, there was a conclusion that they wanted to draw and they were looking for data to back it. If you ever hear something like "during the Carter era" it's likely because that's the only time the data showed what we wanted to make a point.

In this case, I would need to see why they chose 60 years rather than say 100 years. 60 seems like an arbitrary number that needs to be investigated. They may be right, but having read their pitch, there are a bunch of red flags that scream that this is ideologically driven rather than actually being "fair".

I'd be interested if someone did a deeper analysis.
Do you really believe that it costs upwards of 4000 dollars to track a little box with medication in it? For that money I hope each box comes with a solar rechargeable smartphone that sends a gps beacon every half hour.
I use Omnifocus and a physical notebook.

Omnifocus: I throw everything that comes to mind to the inbox, whenever it occurs to me. Usually on weekends or whenever I panic about feeling things are spinning out of control, I'll go through and organize it, grouping things and adding dates. In the morning while waking up, I browse a bit, deciding what needs to happen.

Two things that work well for me about it:

- the geolocation context stuff is a godsend for remembering random things I need to pick up.

- The fact that uncompleted tasks don't automatically roll forward means I don't constantly have 647 overdue items, and makes me think about what I'm actually, really going to get done.

Notebook: Paper still works best for me for a lot of things. I still make lists there, sketch box diagrams when thinking through things, sketch ideas for stuff to make, collect random info, things that amuse me, etc. Also, it serves as a binder for loose paper/receipts/etc that are still in-flight. I trained myself to write the date and location on every page, and to write out sufficient context for even throwaway notes to actually remember what a given thing is later. This makes them very useful after they're full - I have years of full notebooks on my shelf and reference them more than you might think.

Some not-strictly-related things that reduce the cognitive load of existence for me:

- Once I got to a financial place where I could, I forced myself to start paying every bill the minute it came in. Not having to mentally keep track of due dates and all of that leaves room for worrying about a bunch of other stuff. Nobody gets auto-withdrawl permission, but doing things this way offers the same effect and is trivially easy now that everything is online.

- I scan any paper artifact that doesn't need to be paper. Organizing it is still tedious, but the payoff of actually being able to find something when I need it seems magic. Things tend to build up until I spend a couple hours on it, and then in to the shredder they go. Make sure your backup regimen is solid.

- A little, slightly hokey thing that nonetheless is useful for me: I started writing my (nonwork) goals on a whiteboard in my home office. Just whatever is important right now. Having it physically on the wall seems to provide a little bit of focus, something I frequently need.
True. There is a broader point that holds though, average tech salaries are above or equal to some careers that assume daily suits, even if NYC investment banking isn't one of them.

I think it's mostly tribal signalling, " I am not a suit" kind of thing. Although never having to deal with dry cleaning is an incentive, too.
I believe this is a incremental rewrite of GNU Emacs's C portions, so is probably useable with full functionality (modulo bugs) right now.
The costs of constant cleaning, fixing etc. would make prices enormous.
Giving advice signals he's genuinely engaged. When I take a friend shopping for clothes, you just want someone to give you a second opinion, gender-regardless.
This looks like a lot of work for what amounts to very little end-user benefit.

Honestly, I'd rather see more progress on the Emacs Lisp/Guile migration than on a putative C/Rust migration. At least with the Guile switch, it's something that will have an obvious (and probably positive) impact on the people that use the editor.
What contract related to employment can't you say that about?
As someone pointed out in a sibling to my comment, the prices aren't high for generics.

So if they are spending for the branded version something else is going on.
> is this antipattern actually codified In regulations, or more of a de-facto/status quo thing?

A lot of drug purchasing things are codified. For example, Medicare is banned from negotiating drug pricing with manufactures. So even though they're buying billions of dollars worth of drugs in bulk, they're literally paying the retail price, which is just whatever the Pharma companies ask for.

In terms of why they're buying the branded version in the first place, not entirely sure what the exact situation is right now. I'm sure someone will write a great article on it in a few years though after all the money has already been siphoned off.
Pragprog has a good selection. https://pragprog.com/titles/category/elixir?f[include_mine]=...
Section 4 of the US constitution, the federal congress is allowed to make regulations on how elections are handled that supersede the states - the only exception is the places which elections are held, that power rests fully with the state itself.
Has "ranked choice voting" been extensively studied in game theory? Is it the consensus that RCV is the voting system with the least number of drawbacks?
> It was always prove this or solve that

Sounds like almost all of my ee, cs, and math classes. If your are implying that having students, whom are learning the basics of the "trade", learn how and why the models work the way they work is bad then biological sciences must be operating on a different paradigm that relies on just accepting what you're told.

> opposite of science and very much like theology

What?? Math and logic proofs are part of theology now? You can't mean that so can you please explain more.
But everyone I know just switched over to Google Allo! We all have to switch again? /s
I guess this is mainly about Ranked Choice voting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

"The Fair Representation Act (HR 3057) gives voters of all backgrounds and all political stripes the power to elect House Members who reflect their views and will work constructively with others in Congress."

What incentive is there to "work constructively with others" in this system?
Hey there yourself! Great article. I posted it to https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/6nmu43/...
Actually that's an interesting point. Patents must be obtained in every country where you want to enforce them. So if you have a product that will never be sold or used in a country where React is patented, you might be ok. However, the license may still apply and you would need to determine whether you are agreeing to respect the patent regardless of it's validity in your country.

So many of these questions would be easier to answer if anyone knew the patents FB actually has obtained on this technology.
> I don't think the problem is districts.

Districts, and more specifically FPTP single-member constituencies are a huge part of the issue, they're a large reason for the bipolarisation endemic to the US (for both voters and candidates) since they promote, nay, can only result a 2-party system in which voters and representatives have to align or be ignored entirely.
I've heard hype around rust. Any seasoned c and/or c++ programmers use Rust now?
Generally curious what the efficacy rates of opioid rehabilitation are. How many times does it take for someone to kick heroin? For how long? What's the cost breakdown for a turn in rehab?
I don't want to bring the classical Turkish political debates to HN. I will briefly say that Turkey actually had really good progressive years under AKP right until they teamed with the Gulenist and begin arresting people for the Ergenekon&Balyoz. Turkey before Erdogan was also not short of imprisoned journalists and intellectuals, that's why liberals were eager to give Erdogan a chance.
Interesting point about the north/south split -- I hadn't considered that. It very likely is just the parties stabilizing over time.

Here is an article on this divide during the Civil Rights era which, proportionally, was supported more by "Republicans" than "Democrats" but the true story is a little more complex (and largely geographical).

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republ...
Of course they wouldn't like it, they loose the boogeyman of "if you vote third party you're just helping the party you really don't like!"

Ranked choice gives smaller parties a chance while preventing them from being a spoiler, I think it's great because it would actually force the two incumbent parties to actually work for their vote instead of assuming you have no real choice (hey, you're pro-choice/pro-life so you HAVE to vote for us or the other guys will have their way, ha ha).
> It is my guess that Economics in the future in many ways will be seen the same way many of us sees astrology. As something which is really good at finding correlation but very bad at exposing any causation.

On the contrary, econometrics is mostly about telling spurious relations from cause-and-effect, while making predictions is of relatively little interest. This is in contrast with other fields such as AI where making accurate predictions seems to be the main aim and understanding is secondary.
I thought that went without saying. It should be pretty obvious that this doesn't include communist states and governments that don't pretend to allow Western ideas of freedom.
There is already one! See Malfunction [0,1]. There is an Idris and Agda backend for malfunction.

[0]: https://github.com/stedolan/malfunction

[1]: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/malfunction.pdf
If this made the entire state one giant district, then it would give real power to third parties. But a district with just 5 representatives is not enough to pose a huge threat. They would get some more power, but surely not much. Or perhaps I'm missing something. (When it comes to politics, I'm usually missing something, often something big.)
It seems a bit rude to complain about volunteers for doing something they want to do rather than what you want them to do.

I imagine that this, for the most part, isn't even opportunity cost: the people working on it probably wouldn't be contributing to full Emacs (or the Guile effort) anyway. And this sort of effort seems like it could be an on-boarding experience to improving the original code base, e.g. in the process of porting, someone notices a bug and so submits a patch upstream, or maybe the repeated exposure to a variety of the internal components gives someone enough familiarity with them to contribute if this project peters out.
It's not the tracking, it's the super long and expensive regulatory process, and the cost of researching the drugs. Remember that for every successful drug, there are probably many that the company spent lots of money working on, and didn't end up working out. Someone has to pay for those failed ones as well.
Gerrymanding also gets used to deny the majority representation, it doesn't just get used to make safe seats.

(Take an outcome matching the rightmost example at the top of this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/01/this-... )

edit: Actually, no need to say "majority" above, the 2 rightmost examples end up with people being denied representation.
It's a bit more than just ranked choice. Since you have multiple congresspeople per district you can in theory have one extreme liberal, a centrist liberal, and a moderate conservative (I'm taking an example of a left leaning state, but the opposite could happen in a right leaning state). This eliminates the winner take all district which encourages partisanship and removes accountability.
I agree about the costs of war (though I think Iraq was a war of choice, to the detriment of the campaign in Afghanistan) but "nearly all of the heroin available in the United States comes from Mexico and South America." [0]

This problem was also started with prescription meds, due to deception by pharma companies and lack of attention and mismanagement by the medical professions and government.

This sheriff is an asshole. He says he doesn't want his deputies carrying Narcan playing paramedic, does he also not want them trained in administering CPR or basic first aid?

[0] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/...
a collegue is doing JIRA exports to Excel / MS Project.
True. There indeed could be a selection bias in this range. The one reason why I was initially okay with that date range is because it is from after WWII (which was an exceptional event).
>We were told in my econ class how difficult the math was and I always struggle with core math classes like calculus and differential equations, so I was worried. I spoke to the professor and he asked my major. When I replied with "engineering", he asked my GPA, to which I replied 3.6. He then laughed and said I'd be fine

Was this in the US? Undergrad econ is very watered down compared to Europe. A common lament here is that people who get their undergrad in econ in the US are woefully unprepared for the math they'll need in grad school.

Econometrics uses as much calculus as engineering does (PDE's, etc). In other countries, they do this at the undergrad level.
Even if you discount the civil war period as an extreme there are many examples.
Two experts from MIT analyze the business implications of our digital future
Come to see the new platform for banking products
Amazon should stick to what they are good at and stop releasing these also-ran products.
There is a big controversy about this in the area of Ohio I am from (overdose capital of
the U.S., Coincidentally). A sheriff who presides over a country near my home is loudly deriding the use of Narcan, saying it will not be used by his deputies, due to moral and financial concerns.

Needless to say, I have lost 8 high school classmates to the epidemic at last count, and of those, 5 had been revived multiple times. So I can see both sides. There is no easy answer, and this problem will not go away on it's own.
In order to facilitate customers feeling more confident in their daily banking, we propose to create a Financial Planning Tool (FPT) for mass consumers. It is aimed to educate and advise customers on common and sophisticated bank products (like loans, deposits, credit cards, mutual funds, other) and at the same time to offer real data on banks terms and conditions with real calculations on an interest rate, loan instalments, etc. The tool will be free of charge for users. The revenues are planned to be gained through advertisements and other commercial positionings.
Now you can search for comments within any YouTube video
It annoys me that everyone wants you to play inside their walled garden. It's especially annoying with all of these smart speakers that function perfectly fine as Bluetooth speakerphones.

I would much rather they augment my existing phone service.
It takes a lot more work to get your point across while being kind. Sometimes I'm not sure it's worth it. Especially when it seems like no manager qualifies as "kind." So if you want to advance, what do you do?

It's still annoying that becoming a manager is correlated with advancement, but that's life.
Range voting seems to have the least drawbacks from an actual political science view, but its complexity makes a hand counted audit rather challenging when you don't want to trust anything electronic with counting votes.
In case anyone wonders, why still Mageia (the old Mandrake/Mandriva)?

There are still things in this distro, that others haven't picked up that well on.

The Mageia Control Center can do basically anything you would want. It can detect printers and find the right driver and setup for you.

There is Draknet, that just works for me. I despise Network Manager and WICD, they have horrible UX in my opinion. I hear good things about the netctl in Arch Linux, bet that is specific to that distro aa far as I am aware.

In my experience it is an RPM-based distro that is well executed. I tried Fedora around version 14 till 16, but just gave up for a lot of reasons. They say it is really good now, but they said it back then too. I haven't tried SuSe in years, but I never liked Yast.

Well, in the end it all comes down to personal preference I suppose. I always loved Mandrake/Mandriva. I tried Fedora for 2 years. Tried Debian for 3 years even. But I am happy to be using Mageia again on my desktop/server and laptop.
VM images are common. vmdk, qcow, etc. Check out Bitnami and the variety of different appliances/images they offer for most of the apps/services that they offer. That should help in figuring out how to package it up...
As someone who tried to be kind for years while trying to get my work done, it's not. Would not recommend.
> The parties lined up more closely with longstanding ideological and cultural divides.

They don't though, for instance the dixiecrats ultimately had to choose between (to use the political compass's axis) left or authoritarianism with no party providing both. I'm sure there are left-authoritarian or right-libertarian voters in either main party which have to choose which they value most, unable to vote for any party which actually represents them as US politics puts them not just on a linear axis but on a completely bipolar one.
The 2G GSM modem seems like a non-starter for those in the U.S. since AT&T (and apparently T-Mobile too, at least locally) has disabled such technology on their towers. I'm a bit surprised a 3G modem wasn't made standard, with an option to upgrade to LTE (even if it were to cost a tad more).
Yes, they were already profitable and growing like crazy (30% month on month).
Anyone wanna take the bet that this will follow the same path their phone did?
One indication of a problem is that in a country split roughly 50-50 most Congress races are not competitive: the 50-50 area is jerrymandered into two 75-25% districts (with weird boundaries), so during election each party is guaranteed one seat.

This makes election not driven by general population, but party faithful during primaries and closed door maneuvering.

I agree that we should be careful trying to change things and use minimal actions -- the current system is not horrible
Seriouseats / Kenji Lopez has some of the best info on the web when it comes to making tasty food.

Here is the video for the mac and cheese you're talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaYdGQqxQU
I usually end up talking about supply chains and counterfeiting and such with staff when I go to shops with people, or their inventory management systems, turn rates, numbers of SKUs, etc., assuming I don't care about the product. The other fun game is "why is arbitrary product A worth more than arbitrary product B". This only really works in higher end stores; wouldn't work in a Walmart, but there I'm busy scouring the ammo shelves for deals.
Customizing My Postgres Shell
How does that explain that the autoinjector was $690 in 2014 but $4500 today?
Ah, I see, so it's a defined term. Makes sense now, thank you.
It's really not an innovative idea. Trade secrets? We can all see a bunch of the code, and while I found it to be edifying in some respects, it's nothing special. Features provided to users cannot be trade secret unless you're somehow planning to hide them from your users.

While I don't want to sound condescending or like a promoter of fad philosophies, I've found that meditation and reading Stoic philosophy and really helps to build a thicker skin.

You sound as if resentment / envy is deeply poisoning you, and yet in the scope of business schemes it is really nothing.

Also, based upon your attitude here, it's not surprising that collaboration ended. Most people are insecure and envious, but you can't found companies with people like that as they will kill the company.
What they are good at is trying a shit ton of ideas and then optimizing and doubling down on the winners. If they just "stuck to what they are good at" they would still be a small online bookstore.
The license was our top reason to go with Angular.
Elon Musk says 2 or 3 more Tesla Gigafactories are coming to the US
I take enormous pleasure in automating every part of my research pipelines (comp sci).

As in, I like to get my experiment setup (usually distributed and many different components interacting with each other) to a point where one command resets all components, starts them in screen processes on all of the machines with the appropriate timing and setup commands, runs the experiment(s), moves the results between machines, generates intermediate results and exports publication ready plots to the right folder.

Upside: once it's ready, iterating on the research part of the experiment is great. No need to focus on anything else any more, just the actual research problem, not a single unnecessary click to start something (even 2 clicks become irritating when you do them hundreds of times).
Need another ablation study/explore another parameter/idea? Just change a flag/line/function, kick off once, and have the plots the next day. No fiddling around.

Downside: full orchestration takes very long initially, but a bit into my research career I now have tons of utilities for all of this. It also has made me much better at command line and general setup nonsense.
why in the world is everyone so keen on entering the messaging app space? what the hell is the value for all of these companies? is conversation data that useful for training deep nets or something?
Programmer's Time part 1
when a forest grows, it consumes c02, when it dies, it returns it. its zero net.
Amazon echo is their attempt at a smart phone without a screen.
Removing winner takes all is more powerful than ranked choice. In Utah, Republicans would still likely take all seats, but this new system would practically ensure that at least one Democrat was elected.
Amazon should stick to what they are good

Which is what? Cloud services? Logistics and Freight Routing? Physical inventory management?
Buying crypto weekly using Kraken's API.
The Ford Fusion Hybrid: More of the same is a very good thing
It’s the holy grail really. Moisture sensors are either flakey or super expensive. The best compromise I’ve found is to time the flow. Sensing adequate hydration is tricky particularly at the home garden level.
Depending on your hardware (of course), many AAA games run fantastically well on Linux. I'm playing Mad Max for example, and it runs beautifully on a GTX960M, great framerate and no glitches that I can see.
If economic theory was so bad as it is often implied any idiot could come up with a better theory and replace the one that we have now. The fact that this doesn't happen would suggest that it isn't that bad.
CVE-2017-9788: Uninitialized memory reflection in mod_auth_digest