skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The slave economy is not prevalent today. That is because ultimately slavery is not terribly utilitarian, since slaves don't make for good employees and consumers.
I didn't make a misstatement. Both cases have the same problem. The government has stepped in and made it more difficult for you to enter the market. In one case, you have to pay an electrician to take a class because the government won't let you learn for free. In the other case the government has made it even worse because you now have to perform labor at sub-market wages for 4 years before you're allowed to do work that you likely could've performed on your own after just a few weeks.
It is licensed under Apache 2.0, so if Google has any patents on it they could not use them against users of this code or derivative code because of the terms of the license. This doesn't protect you from the several other irresolvable issues in software patents however.
Ah. That explains it - I clicked through the link and was disappointed to see it seems entirely dedicated to courses on law.
Can you stop with this "in layman terms"?

Let's just take a look at radio spectrum in US [1].

Right now you are trying to say, that everything there is completely saturated 100% of the time? That is simply false.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/United_S...
Ah, nostalgia. I remember attending a big OpenMoko announcement as FOSDEM. Naturally, it being FOSDEM, it was allocated a tiny room which was completely and utterly packed. g
There is nothing good about the way f doing business that you describe. Like the GP, I have neither the time nor the desire to negotiate with people like that; I'll just ignore them and do something else, and they'll never get anything.

I'm not altogether against domain squatting - it is a scummy practice but I don't blame people for taking advantage of the opportunity. But this business model of huge asking prices and 'make me an offer' ? Fuck that. I'm in favor of a Georgist approach to domain names, use it or lose it, either by fiat or a tax on speculative investments. This way of doing business is shitty and has to go.
I take it you have never experienced a true urgent health crisis?

Once you have you'll quickly realise that the 'long wait times' narrative is complete propaganda FUD.

Anecdote time: My sister is anaphylactic, when she goes to the ER she is admitted, hooked up, and given epi almost immediately. When my aunt couldn't move her arm one day, she got an MRI, diagnosed brain cancer, and had brain surgery in the same week.

I'm glad to have a system that when you are waiting it's because there are people with more urgent needs, rather than because there are people who paid more.
athenahealth did something similar. New hires all came in waves and every two weeks there was a new class at Point Lookout on the coast of Maine. Whether you were the new CTO or a call center rep working out of Atlanta, they would fly you up there for a week to get properly indoctrinated. It was a wholly positive experience and it really set the tone for the rest of my time working there.
I agree, the sentiment is absolutely nihilistic.

"I don't think fact checking websites should present themselves as the only source of truth" is separate and reasonable argument to make.

"I don't think fact-checking websites should get involved with controversies because it gets ugly" is a rationalization of ignorance.

Yes, fact-checkers who lack credibility are terrible. We shouldn't listen to organizations that repeatedly mishandle or mishandle delicate subject matters.

But the fact checkers who do do their research, who have a track record of being mostly correct in their appraisals, should we just condemn them to ignominy? Should we give up on knowing right from wrong, truth and untruth just because it's hard? Because it's difficult?

Of course not.

If we agree that the truth behind important subjects are worth knowing and worth spreading, then it follows that we need to support those who can spread it. Running away from critical thinking is no solution.
In one company we named projects after mountains in the alps. One was called "Wank" until a few months later an English intern told us that maybe we should change this.
Just to add another perspective also working in America for a good employer:

1. Schedule with GP, get appointment very quickly.

2. GP has no idea who is "in network" for you and doesn't seem to care very much. They also don't understand the different insurance plans so have no idea if you're covered for certain types of referral.

3. Schedule appointment with a specialist. Ask for up front cost estimate for consultation/procedure given your insurance plan. Unable to answer.

4. Go to appointment anyway as you don't have many other choices.

5. Receive astronomical bill for some obscure billing code that is not covered by your health plan.

6. Spend time calling doctors office and insurer to figure out the situation and try to avoid or reduce bill.

I've experienced the NHS too - for all its flaws, the peace of mind living in the UK from a health standpoint is worth every penny of the associated taxes IMO.
There's a flamewar detector that demotes threads with more comments than points. More discussion is not an unambiguous positive signal.

It's at #17, a couple hours later, as the number of points is now 700+ and comments is in the 300s.
It's well enough understood that the cost side is also a problem.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/20/obamacare-architect-high-dedu...

The previous administration was working to move to different payment models to try to address it (it's not clear that the different models will have much long term impact):

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-reform-idUS...
Sorting the filenames, yep. Well I hope; I don't speak C++ either...
A friend of mine was in a sports accident almost two years ago. He had a good medical insurance plan for exactly this possibility.

He fractures his pelvis into 14 pieces, and broke another dozen major bones including both femurs.

The surgeries are still ongoing although he is mostly himself again. But even two years later, he is facing a daily barrage of calls, being put on hold, no callbacks, paper shuffling, records from hospital to hospital, faxing permission sheets, fighting with the insurance company (who has threatened to drop his insurance multiple times) and on top of it all, his landlord is trying to evict him.

It's been horrible to watch. It's like the insurance company is trying to kill him with stress.
I tend to look at HN comments before following a link. As was pointed out by someone else, the web is suffering from an obesity crisis, and I check the comments to see if anyone said anything interesting before risking a visit to the link.

As for your submission, I have no idea what problem it's supposed to solve, and I'm not inclined to "sign up" to try to figure it out. I think screenshots or other graphics to 'show' what your site does would be helpful.
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Snopes seeks crowdfunding in ownership battle
I attempted to do this once and it turned out to be monumentally difficult. I got as far as setting up a bootable kali thumb drive before getting stopped in my tracks by hardware incompatibilities and unexpected behaviors and errors. These articles make it sounds a LOT easier than it is. I was very disappointed because I was really excited about it.
Single-payer in California is currently blocked by just one guy (CA speaker of the house) because the people haven't bribed him as well as the health insurance lobby has.
Airbnb theme: http://www.waysily.com/
The family of five have lived in this cramped space next
to Victor’s parents’ house for three years.

It sounds like the garage belongs to his parents. Which implies they don't own it (so no equity to free up in order to buy a place in Texas), and they may well pay a very low (or no) rent.
I sold my S7 Edge and Lumia 1520 just today.

I loved the Lumia 1520 device. It was beautiful, felt extremely good in the hand, was only slightly hefty, and the IPS display was phenomenal -- no AMOLED screen can compare to a Lumia IPS display when it comes to reading text. It was so good.

However, it was a death by a thousand paper cuts -- as many others have already pointed out. Even though I adored the device, I couldn't help but notice how useless it was. I was lucky enough to find several apps that I wanted to have on both my S7E and the L1520 but in the end, they were written by enthusiastic underpaid devs and were lagging behind in features, and some of their bugs I continuously observed throughout my full year with the device.

I was saddened to sell it but hoarding tech whose death clock has been running for a while is not sensible.
In addition to what other replies stated, you can read Google's documentation on how open source projects (official and unofficial are released) here: https://opensource.google.com/docs/
I don't get how 10mb/s is so much more complicated than 100mb/10s.
Not a failure either
In order to rigorously capture the notion of a "reasonable commute", I've suggested we stop thinking in terms of nominal wages and start thinking in terms of "DIPHLoW": [real] discretionary income per hour lost to work.

Discretionary income = subtract off taxes and housing.

Hours lost to work = time at work plus time commuting or anything you have to regularly do to be able to work.

That way, the measure is less susceptible to the dismissal of "just move farther out" -- that has a cost in terms of increasing hours lost to work and therefore decreasing DIPHLoW.

It also highlights the impact of housing costs -- anything that keeps them from going down is effectively keeping DIPHloW down too.
>Yeah, it was a bit of a mind-bender editing a screenshot of the screenshot editor with the screenshot editor...

Ha ha, I had the same thought just now, after trying out the (plain) PrintScreen command in DanBC's comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839229

Before that, I'd always used just Alt-PrintScreen to take a screenshot of only a specific window, not the whole screen.

So, to try it, I arranged a few app windows in cascaded style (including Paint itself), then did PrintScreen, then pasted the screenshot of Paint (plus other apps) into Paint ...

Who GNU that ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU
This is how a feedback page looks like:
https://visualtip.com/3c5090a169f6b9e955d3b57b9401497b
That's the dumbest goddamn thing I've ever heard, least of all because a TV on sale on Black Friday is pretty far from a nice sandwich.

This sort of selfish reasoning--"but but but what about the poors that might somehow abuse the system"--is cancerous, and you sir or madam are a shitty person for suggesting it.
The Case of the Forbidden Boots
Ok, in the UK workers rights, are well rights.

At no point was I suggesting that employers are forced to hire workers. I'm talking about the right to a safe, equal workplace.

You are assuming in a wonderfully cute and naive way, that the power balance between employer and employee is equal. It is not and has never been. In the UK literally thousands of people have died for workers rights.

I suggest you try quitting your current job, loosing all your money and becoming a taxi driver, living paycheck to paycheck.

then we can have a talk about negotiating.

Also, your hypothetical basically negotiates away a fundamental human right in the UK/EU, to suggest that its a tool for negotiating is pretty abhorrent.
The view numbers surely get used during contract negotiations, though. When a movie's contract runs out and Netflix needs to figure out how much they're willing to bid to renew it, they'll look at the view numbers as one factor in determining how much they're willing to bid.

So even if there isn't a per-view payout, I'm sure the view numbers do contribute to the studio getting more money.
(looks like the case for aircrack-ng, at least: https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng/blob/master/src/a...)
And a HTTP/2 web server. https://h2o.examp1e.net/
A persons private religious views is no reason for a professional witch hunt. That is well beyond the pale of acceptable, and so is your comment.

There's no reason to turn this into a less reasonable version of a McCarthy type inquisition. Once we start up with that nonsense it doesn't lead to a good place. No matter how strongly you feel you are right.
Scaling Agile in one single product
Can anyone explain if there is something particularly new or interesting about this image format? Or do I have to read the source code?
Not necessarily. They would have to be prevalent today. But you would also have to carefully examine the particular reasons to determine if is good in net. Lends credence doesn't necessarily mean that it is a good thing, but rather suggests that there might be positive aspects.
Here is a nice article about that practice: https://fairhealthconsumer.org/reimbursementseries.php?terms...

Most importantly, most states have laws mandating insurers use in network rates for certain instances of using out of network providers, including in factual instances like you described (i.e. in network hostitals and out of network providers). Seperately, most states have statutes awarding attorneys fees to the insured when claims have been denied in bad faith, like refusing to adjust bills to in network rates when mandated by law.
Yeah, I was expecting hundreds of thousands based on the title. This doesn't seem like news.
I've been meaning to publish the tips that we send to people who email us asking for Show HN advice. Anybody want to add anything? or see anything incorrect?

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Read https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. Point users to something they can try out for themselves. Don't require signups or permissions that aren't obviously needed. Avoid popups. Avoid overly slick website design and (especially) marketing language: HN users tune all that out and in fact it hurts you. Text and text-based layouts are good. Information density is good. Avoid super-large fonts and excessive pictures, they make you look lightweight. Put intellectually interesting details up front. If you're launching a company, corporate branding is fine; otherwise it's a negative, so tune it down.

Add a first comment to the thread with the backstory of how you came to work on this and explaining what's different about it. This tends to seed better discussion.

Make it easy to tell what the product/project is; otherwise the discussion will consist of "I can't tell what this is". Link to any relevant past threads.

Your primary mission is to engage intellectual curiosity. If you try to sell HN readers on your stuff, you'll evoke objections. Engage their curiosity and they will sell themselves.

Mention areas you'd like feedback about or open questions. Surprising or whimsical things that came up during the work are also good--they are unpredictable and that makes them interesting.

A little humor is ok; more than a little feels presumptuous. Don't be chummy, just answer straightforwardly. Don't address other users by their usernames (it's not the convention on HN and feels out of place). Don't introduce yourself more than once.

Don't say nice things about yourself or your work. It invites comeuppance. Instead, be humble or even mildly self-critical; then readers will look for nice things to say, and even when finding fault, won't make as big a deal about it.

Don't ask for upvotes. Our software ignores most promo-votes, plus HN users notice them and get mad. Especially make sure that your friends don't post booster comments or softball questions. HN users sniff that out a mile away and then we have to kill the thread.

Email us a link to your submission when it's up and we might be able to give you some help or make sure it doesn't get flagged.

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This originated as advice for YC startups but I always liked the pg/yc tradition of giving the same advice to everybody.
How could Google own something written and supported in the authors' free time?
A Ponzi scheme can provide necessary initial energy though. Many social networks for example gained initial energy by being something entirely different before pivoting.

With cryptocurrencies this is driven by excess trust for the leaders in the space and for each coin. Probably driven a lot by "technology eating the world" and "young genius" mythologies.

Anything that is grown organically rather than designed top down (like USD) needs some sort of bootstrapped energy source to amass energy/capital for maneuvers. The USD uses proof of military power to arbitrarily generate capital but many altcoins only stake the reputation of their creators which many people would willingly give up for millions.

So while ponzi schemes definitely have their downsides due to lack of sufficient proof of stake, the structure is very similar to many organic methods of amassing energy. Startup funding is similar though safer because there is supposed vetting by smart people (angels/VCs)

So I actually think that ponzi structures are rather important as an organic energy source. However they need to be vetted by asking questions look like "what are you going to do with this energy?" and "what is your proof if stake?"

What strikes be about altcoins is that it's unclear how the energy will be used. It reminds me of throwing money at the TSA for ridiculous theater because too many people think throwing money at problems solves them. (an extension of military minded brute force IMO)

Once the technical fundamentals start becoming solid I'd place a bet on the coin that has the strongest marketing as the increased mind share would directly increase the stability and trust in the coin. Btc/eth may be sacrificial lanbs like pets.com as this new space is explored. (or may be Amazon/Google, who knows. )
Canadian here. Had a pain in my right side for about 3 weeks (thinking muscle pull). Called Doctor's office at 10am had appointment at 11am, had exam and referred electronically to local hospital for X-Ray, had X-Ray at 11:45am, out the door at 12pm. Doctor called me personally the next day to say it's probably a muscle pull and call back in a couple of weeks if still sore.

$0 out of pocket, just showed my government issued card everywhere.

Couple of years ago my father was in an ICU for two weeks with Parkinson's related complications. That one had a $0 out of pocket bill as well. The ICU was in a world class university teaching hospital.

System works here. Sure people can cite edge cases, but they are relatively rare. The single payer, $0 out of pocket system also encourages pro-active care as opposed to waiting until the problem is severe, which in turn keeps costs down.

Wouldn't trade our single payer, socialized medicine for anything. There's reason why Tommy Douglas, the father of Canadian socialized medicare, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time by the public in a recent CBC poll.

(Shameless plug: software industry is booming in Toronto and there's lots of jobs. Just sayin'...)
Most FB employees are expected to work in a specific local facility most of the time, and have no particular travel requirement. I flipped that on its head; I save on my daily commute by WFH most of the time, and pay it back with the monthly trip. In the end I think it works out roughly equal. It's partly tied to my role, partly to leverage applied when I was being hired, and it seems to be unusual enough that my colleagues often look at me funny when I mention it.
A look into some of the potential feature in JavaScript
Oppressive employment agreements
It wasn't stated explicitly. The assumption that I made was it related to the discussion about validity of the topic. Assumptions can be misleading but human language operates in a context. Formally, should the context be taken out, to operate only on the words of the post - you're right - it is not "tu quoque".
Completely agree.

There's no free market in healthcare. They are selling services without providing prices... it completely breaks any market that might exist.
It sounds like you've never been married. It's not a matter of getting the government to approve, it's a matter of getting other people to recognize it. If you have a common-law marriage but it's not documented then if your spouse falls ill and taken to hospital you might be denied visitation rights, for example.

I suggest you read some court filings/legal articles on the gay marriage cases from a few years ago to get an understanding of why people sued to have the right to get legally married, over and above just having an emotional commitment.
My job title is “Quality Assurance Tester”
yawn.. let us know when a major browser implements support for it...
Google releases the final Android O developer preview
I guess this makes me sad. Apparently REST has come to mean such a small and specific thing that a REST vs. GraphQL comparison makes sense.

There actually shouldn't be anything contradictory about choosing the GraphQL interface for a REST API.

Also, before anyone jumps in head first on this, keep in mind the downside to things like GraphQL. Your data API is a promise to your clients and GraphQL presents a flexible, unbounded API. This puts a heavy burden on the data service: it's going to have to handle all the valid queries and perform well doing it.

Further, there are a lot of things that will have an impact on this, such as how/where the data is persisted and what the data model is, how the service needs to scale, etc. These will all be impacted by using GraphQL as your data interface. It's a lot to commit to, especially if you aren't sure how these things will change over time.
It's not for the faint of heart or faint of technical skill - different drivers have different behaviors and ways to enter the various capture and raw packet modes needed to do this.

Personally, as long as I stick to supported chipsets, I've almost never had an issue.
That doesn't touch upon the N + 1 query problem at all.
> (two separate Google accounts is basically unmanageable without separate browsers)

You can use Firefox's container tabs for this.
I worked at the Free Software Foundation at the time. We were lucky to know someone at MIT with access to the tools to fix the tiny hardware bug by soldering something near the SD card slot IIRC.

We also had multiple batteries and multiple beefy micro USB chargers (used later on our G1s) as well as external Nokia battery chargers around the place.

I think I managed to take a call once. I could never send SMS, but I would play a lot of numptyphysics on the MBTA with the combination ballpoint pen/mechanical pencil/stylus I bought.

Sean visited us in the office a couple of times beforehand. I remember showing him some of the HTML tricks Apple were doing for Mobile Safari with viewports and fullscreen things, I don't think anyone ever implemented them. This was pre-App Store too, I think.

I remember being so wary that someone would steal my awesome new phone at first, but that quickly wore off and I went back to my Nokia flip phone until Google had developer G1s (ADP1) with a fancy backplate on them.
See also senior and older FB engineers being discouraged from participating in perks and events intended for younger and junior employees because FB can multitask at sucking.