skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This didn't read to me like a proposal to simplify routing software by simply ripping out protocols, but to refactor the design of the control plane and use more modern engineering processes than the writer saw at previous workplaces. If I read between the lines correctly, he wants to build a microservices-based router for the high end network operator market.

The writer is a multiple RFC author, IETF protocol chair and former distinguished engineer at Juniper, i.e. they already do "work/program in this space" and "deal with the complexity", so criticism on that basis might fall a little flat.
Binary like "this file may be binary doyou still wish to view it" I guess
Practical user experience design:

CEO: "Yeah, yeah, just go with the flat one."
Lowly designer: "... yes."
House Washing in Auckland – Create a Mesmerizing Shine
"Comparison is the thief of joy"

Theodore Roosevelt
It's not only membership levels, it's cleverness. In France unions are often explicitly anticapitalist. There's little you can do to work with them. Most people believe their pay could be doubled without harming the company, because there's a stash somewhere [1].

Whereas in Germany, unions seem to have a clever dialogue with employers. Probably most people have been educated to economics, in a pro-capitalist way?

[1] Ironically they're not so wrong: Because of our mandatory contributions, our compound tax rate is 63%.
>We wouldn't want the programmer to spend too much money/time on fixing errors. After all, it's not like people would die if there's an error in the missile software

When exactly did pkg_config became missile software?

As they say in meme-land, "that escalated quickly".

Here's a novel idea: how about the appropriate level of effort/time/YAGNI-stuff based on the domain?

Or do you write one-time scripts with MISRA rules?
> You won't be able to refuse receiving it. Did you read the link? People had been forcefully sterilized in the US all the way till 1970s, even without public healthcare

I saw the link but didn't see the connection between "public universal healthcare" and "forced healthcare practiced on people". Can you elaborate on that connection?

publicly funded universal healthcare is about how healthcare is funded. How it's performed is a separate matter.
And i take it you side with John Deere...
Which countries are you talking about? Finland certainly doesn't implement mandatory govt pensions well.
Data Lineage
Mildly unrelated question.

Why is telemetry collected through Google? I suppose that’s because they have some particularly convenient APIs, however please consider that many user are concerned by the amount of information Google has about their lifes.

(I know, it’s possible to opt out, but good choices should be the default!)
or "... to itself"
Or you could waste a decade chasing fuck-you money, not get it, and be left in the same financial position but ten years older.

The default outcome for startup founders is not "filthy rich" but rather "older and poorer".
Valid points, assuming NK has ICBMs. Being able to theoretically hit Japan is one thing; being able to target SF, NYC, or DC is quite another.
Async IO libraries tend to make very simple things very complicated. I spent half a day trying to use Boost.Asio to receive a UDP frame before giving up and using QUdpSocket (which took less that 5 minutes).

Agreed with the author's sentiment of feeling stupid.
What are your thoughts on wait times? I was very ill in Barcelona and was told by relatives there wasn't a point in going to the hospital unless I wanted a 6 hour wait for ibuprofen.
It's rather ridiculous to argue that point. None of those could or should be ran on a 'voluntry' basis in today's society.

Consider more rural areas, where there are less people to make these donations, and more roads are needed. Is it ok to say "pay for your own roads" when it unfairly shoulders them with the largest burden? It will end up with lower income rural areas having crappy or no roads. Same for all the others you listed, bar military. Also, who pays for the highways?

Having a justice system depend on donations from the populace is kind of a huge issue with impartiality.

Fyi, England used to effectively do what you suggest pre ~1700. It didn't work out well from a justice, education or infrastructure angle until the state got involved.
How to Create a QR Code Reader for Your Mobile Website
US pretty much guarantee current world order and international treaties. I know there had been many scandalous allegations against overspending. And conspiracy theories for overreach. But with weak US, world will pretty much go on a war the next day
Yeah, sorry, it was not well done. I mean, anything is better than a house without a thermostat, even a house where the thermostat is the boss.
I think they were once threatening to enforce it, but they probably don't care about it anymore.
> You think people won't vote a representative who will want to establish mandatory rehab for drug users in the USA, for example?

I don't think people think of that as healthcare but as a sentence for doing something criminal. Just like we lock insane murderers up and force them to undergo psychologicalt treatment (instead of sending them to prison which is often legally dubious if someone is clinically insane) that kind of rehab is basically treatment forced on someone for committing a crime, not some part of a public/universal healthcare program. Separate topic.
> How often do you handle files large enough to observe a difference between grep, ack, ag and rg ?

> I'm willing to bet that most people, even in the subset who use grep "a lot" (defining "a lot"...), wouldn't see a significant improvement.

Daily, but not for the reasons that I think you're thinking. I work in Python a lot, which means there is typically a virtualenv in the tree somewhere, sometimes more than one. Typically, I want to search the code base itself — not a virtualenv, not the .git directory, etc. ripgrep, by default, will ignore entries in the .gitignore (and the virtualenvs are listed there, as they're not source, and cannot be committed), and repository directories like .git, and will thus not even consider those files. For my use case (searching my own code base), this is exactly what I want, and culling out those entire subtrees makes rg considerably faster than grep.

Yes — I could exclude those directories with grep by passing the appropriate flag. But it's time consuming to do so: ripgrep wins out by doing — by default — exactly what I need.

I also greatly prefer ripgrep's output format; the layout and colors make it much easier to scan than grep's.

Most of the people I've recommended ripgrep to are using grep, and passing flags to it to get it to do what essentially rg does quicker and/or by default. Ripgrep is an excellent tool.

(I used `git grep`, which is also considerably faster for similar reasons, prior to rg. But `git grep` requires a repository — for obvious reasons — and thus fails in cases where you're not in one. I often need to search several codebases when doing cross repository refactors, and ripgrep has been quite useful there.)
I'd suggest that the reality for most people is that they're not "free to move to any society that you agree with most".

Many countries have strict immigration and citizenship requirements, many of which revolved around wealth.

So whilst it may be true that very rich people have complete freedom to choose their favourite society, that's not the reality for the majority of people.
Depends on the size of the codebase you're grepping. I routinely deal with larger ones that I have to dissect and the difference is more than noticeable.
...or 10,000 people could donate a $1. Not sure why we’re always looking for rich people to solve problems. There’s a lot more the rest of us could do.
Homelessness is a problem related to poverty, but it's cause is not always poverty alone. Homelessness exists in Berlin, where most of the homeless are covered by basic social security and have a right that the state provides a home. It's still there. It's often related to a mental health problem, though the initial cause and effect are muddied. I'd advocate for treating homelessness as a (public) health issue (with associated funding, ...)

Absolute poverty should not exist in germany at all, but relative poverty is still a major issue: no access to a lot of the public life, less access to education, these are still problematic, even if the basic survival is ensured.
>In English, only the first letter of proper nouns is capitalized.

That's irrelevant, as NeXT is not an english noun, but a trademarked company name, capitalization et al.
PTSD is a medical condition, and is the result of capitalism's wars. Medical conditions and the results of capitalism aren't mutually exclusive.

For another example, consider cancers and other health problems brought on by unregulated pollution.
"Why did IE5’s HTML Components never quite catch on? Despite what you might think, it’s not because of a lack of open standards"

Actually thats precisely why it never caught on. Source: I was front end developer at one of the big dotcoms ca 2000.

Also, its remarkable how many people skimmed this article, and didn't understand that the first part was from 1999. That really says a lot about people's expectations when it comes to Microsoft and web technology.
meta: I really like these kind of blogs which are more or less a braindump with heart to it. I'm sure there are many nice nuggets of wisdom and experience if you go through the posts.

To take an example, http://vwlowen.co.uk/arduino/spectrum-analyser/spectrum-anal... about taking a simple 2.4 GHz module and building a spectrum analyzer, is a nice post. You can tell he enjoyed doing it.
More recent articles (2017)

Welcome to Flatland: Valve’s Unique Culture

https://medium.com/fluree/welcome-to-flatland-valves-unique-...

Half-life projects “ultimately just starve to death” in Valve’s company culture, says alleged insider

https://www.vg247.com/2017/01/12/half-life-projects-ultimate...
What makes you think it would be any better in a US hospital? Unless you're literally dying, emergency room treatment is not known for its short wait times.

Side note: does the concept of "urgent care" exist outside the US?
It seems like you're talking about wealth and GP is talking about income.
Nice Article,

Any other reference article for web designing.
I could not disagree more. I actually never met a german who joked about being cheap with food. Quite the opposite is true.

Also the per capita household expenditure on food[1] is above the average of European countries. Higher for example than in the UK or Austria, which have comparable incomes.

[1] https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/per-capita-hou...
10 Essential Bug Bounty Programs of 2017
What better choices would you suggest?
>> So in the end I decided to become freelancer. I can ask much higher rates and now I feel I get a fair compensation for my work (perhaps 2x or 3x my previous wage).

I'm pretty sure that wasn't edited in in response to your comment, since it's quoted in another comment much older than yours is.
meta-meta: reading my own comment above, I can see how it is actually quite similar to those auto-generated spambot-comments in format, I hope it doesn't say much about my inner self :S. Then again, that's just what a spambot would say.
I mistakenly assumed this was going to be about the React PATENTS file.
"Kodak was a far more progressive company that invested in their employees. Apple is now the world's biggest company, Kodak is dead."

Kodak have missed digital revolution and stayed on analog for too long, that's why it's dead. Treating its employees better had nothing to do with that (except maybe hasten downfall a little).
This seems intuitively to be the case but I wonder what others think. Neither HTML not CSS have your regular programming language constructs like loops and state and what have you. I sometimes teach very basic web tech to arts/humanities students and I tend to make a static versus dynamic distinction for them between HTML/CSS on the one hand and JS on the other because to them it's all "codey stuff" but to me there's an important distinction. I'm happy to take on board other perspectives here.
I live in Madrid and my experience hasn't been even near that bad.

I have only gone to emergency services once, luckily, and it was a very brief wait. For more routine procedures, waiting times are even shorter.

On the other hand. I have had some trouble when I've needed certain specialities which have less available staff. Some relatives of mine have had to wait months for surgeries (not too urgent ones, luckily).

It's an imperfect system. Some hospitals are in terrible shape or overwhelmed, and some services or specialties have long waiting times. Many doctors are overworked and underpaid. But still I think the experience for most people is very positive.
"Proper nouns have only their first letter capitalized"

Yes, it is a marketing trend starting almost a century ago (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie50226a029?journalCode=... shows a 1928 article starting "Thirty tons per day of solid carbon dioxide - that is one measure of the recently complete plan of the DryIce Corporation ..")

However, the MacDonalds, McGregors, and others will disagree on your final statement.

Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's restaurant in 1940.

FitzWilliam, FitzPatrick, FitzGerald, etc. are also proper nouns where more than the first letter is capitalized.

The IJsselmeer written in English preserves the Dutch capitalization rules.

Then there's hyphenated words like "There is no such thing as an ex-Marine ..." (http://www.military.com/marine-corps-birthday/marine-birthda... ), but that leads to the question "what is a word?"

Combined with whyenot's example: "The ex-Marine ate a McIntosh apple at the McDonald's on the IJsselmeer."
Collor: A MVVM data-oriented framework for UICollectionView with useful features
I am convinced that is where we are heading. It's just that the market moves slowly. Cars are already chipped up, all we need to do is put keys in there, call it a protection mechanism and it can be made illegal to both re-sell and service the equipment without the proper license. This process can then be repeated for dishwashers and other capital intensive equipment.
I moved from NGINX to Caddy on my raspberry pi 3 for my home needs and couldn't be happier.

The automatic LetsEncrypt stuff is great and has removed crufty cron jobs to make sure the certs are up to date, and support for HTTP/2 out the box (with 0 configuration) has seen a marked improvement in the performance of my site.
Drug use is not a crime in general (there could be some circumstances making it one, I am not a lawyer, but let's take some legal drugs, like alcohol). Rehab is a health institution, people go there voluntarily and on their own dime all the time. In the USSR people suffering from alcoholism (a health condition, addiction to alcohol) were sent to rehab involuntarily. Do you think this is possible only under a dictature and the people of the US won't ever support such a measure? Before you reply, I'd like you to consider that people of the US had banned alcohol in the Constitution at one point, not so far in the past.
640/month is probably more than a lot of working people have left over after they've paid rent/mortgage, childcare, commuting costs. Not that it's an exorbitant lifestyle, but it's "moderately" comfortable (assuming you own your own home and qwualofy for all the relevant support).
Can you put the useful stuff above the fold rather than a blob of color?
> We underfund government programs

Does Canada under-funds it's health program?
I saw that and wondered if these count unique installations, or simply number of times downloaded. awscli updates a lot, so if we're counting downloads, that would give it a significant boost, I think.
What's the salary range for the Senior PHP job?
Family ties? Caring obligations?

These are extremely powerful forces, despite the fact that they don't fit into the economics-101 thinking that libertarians are so fond of.
I never was huge on Python but always preferred it to Ruby. One web framework that always fascinated me was CherryPy[0]. On my first (and current) real programming job I was asked to work on a RESTful type of project, and was given free reign to research a language and stack. I initially was asked if I liked Python, once I spotted interest towards Python I suggested CherryPy. I stuck with CherryPy and 4 months later, my RESTful service had a front-end using the Mako[1] templating library alongside it's RESTful back-end. All the code is done in an Object Oriented fashion. I can't imagine doing the same work without any external libraries.

[0]: http://cherrypy.org/

[1]: http://www.makotemplates.org/

Note: Mako is used by Reddit for their template library.

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/setup.py#L62
These don't seem especially strong - an opinion piece and a presentation? The second actually states no effect.
Bye Mozilla, Hello Bouyant
I agree with the connection explained in this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15166296

Or, to give an example of this actually taking place, look at the education. It's funded by the government and also is mandatory and enforced by the government. It does not necessary have to follow, in other countries with free public education you won't get arrested for not sending your kids to school. But it could turn the way it's turned in the US just as well.
But I don't think this is based on any new evidence of what their culture is like. The only source they mention is the (old) employee handbook.

Edit: the parent comment added the second link in an edit.
Same feeling here. I like the personalize touch. I think this model could make a lot of good in the future.

I want to take this chance to encourage people here to give Watsi a try. For the price of two or three beers you can help somebody every month.
>Perhaps at one time.. now I think they are an 'ecosystem lock in' company, and use hardware and software to achieve that means..

I keep hearing this, and I find it as ridiculous as ever if not more.

Music for today's people means basically streaming -- you move to Windows or wherever and you get from Apple Music to Spotify (or even keep using Apple Music). No lock in. Music geeks who hoard mp3s/flacs are not locked-in either. And the minority who "carefully curates" their playlists and adds annotations to their music files (which might not port easily) is insignificant.

Ditto for movies. Besides, Neflix, Amazon video, etc dominate there too.

Ditto for apps. Most apps exists on both platforms. And those that do not and you can't live without (e.g. Sketch for some, or Things for others, etc), are a genuine advantage, not a "lock-in". Most are not even Apple's anyway.

And it's not like you suffer any great loss if you give up your iOS (or Android for that matter) app purchases to go to the other side. The majority of people have just 10-20 apps they've bought from some survey's I've seen. Besides, millions of people move from Android to iOS and vice versa all the time, and their old apps doesn't stop them.

Mail -- you have IMAP. You can use whatever client on whatever platform.

The same goes for other things. Heck, most apps a "normal" person uses are through the web these days, and play equally well.

If Apple locks-in anybody with something, it's convenience and end-to-end product line. Not some nefarious scheme.
VMworld 2017: VMware Feeds Off OpenStack Decay
Pliny the Elder was his uncle.
> I did, however, take the RPN approach

Hah! I feel dumb for not noticing this now :)

Regarding concatenative languages, for most words you how many elements of the stack it consumes and then drops back on the stack, so those should be easy. You're right that when that varies things get complicated. Not sure how to address that - perhaps manual annotations? But would it still be worth it then?

I suspect something like Joy[0] or Cat[1] would be easier to handle though, being a more predictable, functional language. Kitten[2], while a lot cooler and the only one still being actively developed, requires type annotations, so would probably a pain to write out.

BTW, sticking to the topic of programming language input (even though this interface is more general than that) if you add some kind of support for often and recently used keywords (kind of like the predictions in mobile soft-keyboards) that could save a lot of typing too! Maybe have a top three of both, one on the left, the other on the right.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120723021444/http://www.cat-la...

[2] http://kittenlang.org/
Should the punishment be on them, the company or both?
Exactly. Most gov healthcare result in rationing an long wait times and sucks up massive amounts of resources.

We need better private solutions. We need yelp for medical comparative price shopping, with consumer and expert reviews.

Really well executed gov care can be OK but is rare and usually does nor stay good long term.

The current "free market" in healthcare is completely hamstrung by regulation and unspoken anti-competitve practices and broken intermediation via medical aid funds and gov medicare and other programs.
Could you explain KL divergence and/or cross entropy to me?

from wikipedia: "In mathematical statistics, the Kullback–Leibler divergence is a measure of how one probability distribution diverges from a second expected probability distribution"

Kullback-Leibler divergence is used a lot in the reinforcement learning setting

"In information theory, the cross entropy between two probability distributions p and q over the same underlying set of events measures the average number of bits needed to identify an event drawn from the set"

Cross Entropy is used as a cost function in neural networks rather than least squares
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap3.html#the_cros...
Looks like they're working on moving away from bower: https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/issues/326#issuecomment-3...

A quick CDN get-started would be convenient I agree. There is Polymer-CDN for demos/code-pens: https://github.com/download/polymer-cdn

The 'native' stuff in your comment I don't agree with. You want browsers to start implementing native Android ListViews/Buttons etc? Browsers have a hard enough time implementing web standards.
China's Central Bank Bans ICOs
State sponsored health care is very inefficient, coercive, unfair and open to abuse no matter the good intentions. I salute Watsi and YCombinator for making this without direct state support.
I'm sorry but you're just plain wrong. According to the canonical BeOS Bible there is a POSIX layer and some rudimentary kernel support for multiuser permissions, these were never fully implemented nor exposed.

(Developed BeOS applications in the late 1990s.)

https://www.amazon.com/BeOS-Bible-Scot-Hacker/dp/0201353776
Curated digest on the last 7 days in the world of data #46
JSX isn't HTML, it's javascript functions, which are code. HTML, as the name suggest is a markup language, and CSS are style sheets. Neither of these are code.
Social Selling Training Skills Course – Online
I live in Catalonia, the same region as Barcelona.

If you only need ibuprofen you should not go to the hospital, you must go to a CAP (Centre d'Atenció Primària, Primary Assistance Center). My experience, in a small catalan city, is that sometimes you wait ten minutes, sometimes a couple of hours.

Hospitals can be croweded in Barcelona during flu epidemics or similar, but it is not often the case.