skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best I got was BFBC2, BF3 wasn't as good for me (too much griefing, overpowered, non-fun, skill-mismatch). I have hope for BF1 but haven't gotten in to it.

The crazy thing is that with T2 technology, they technically support(ed) 128 players in the same map! Epic, epic, epic, epic, on a scale that can't be imagined today for melee / team combat.

Or maybe that's just my nostalgia and lack of a Windows PC kicking in. 8v8 doesn't do it for me compared to Tribes. Eve looks awesome but it's not as punchy, crunchy, or visceral.

Any random game recommendations to recapture that feeling?
What's in this for Legalist?

From their home page:

> All legal bills covered.

> Litigation is expensive. Whether it’s attorney’s fees or that expert witness report you need to prove damages, litigation costs can add up. When you’re backed by Legalist, you don’t have to worry about unexpected legal expenses. Focus on growing your business, and we’ll take care of it.

I'm always skeptical of assurances like this.
Fyi: reactionary is the desire to return a society to how it once was or merely defend the status quo against change.
Donald Trump's SSN
"find out what works about the current system and who it works for"

For the most part, the issue is not the quality but the underlying costs and power that insurance companies and drug companies have. So you personally may be getting a treatment that only US provides and I am happy for you but the discussion still remains about the fact that if you don't have insurance, you could end up getting a ridiculous bill for the simplest of procedures. You have no control over that. That is the issue. I hope you can understand that.

And let me reaffirm that the system primarily works for the profit making insurance companies and drug companies. Yes, the drug companies do R&D but what do Insurance companies do really ? Nothing except squeezing every bit of profit they can. The point is that we don't need insurance companies to cover EVERY little procedure because then they get too much power.
Anyone willing to list the rest of the currently maintained alternative web UIs for HN?

http://hackernewsgrid.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15078605 (2017)

https://vue-hn.now.sh/ & https://hnews.xyz | https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hnews.xy (2017-ish; 3 discussions)

http://tophn.info/ | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13782574 (2017; 1 comment)

https://hn.algolia.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874801 (2015)

http://ihackernews.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1694049 -ish (2010)

https://hckrnews.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14962820 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1722914 (2010)

App recommendations would also be appreciated (if you created or regularly use the app yourself).
Only if you're old enough.
Why is that?

My code has whitespace that reasonably closely matches Python's rules regardless of the language. I only say "reasonably closely" because I don't spend enough time in Python to really be sure about any potential gotchas.

But like PEP 20 says:

> Explicit is better than implicit.

Brackets are explicit. Whitespace is implicit.
The AI chatbot will hire you now
Ignoring the risk and focus on the reward
Under ACA medical plans deductibles are capped at "For 2017, your out-of-pocket maximum can be no more than $7,150 for an individual plan and $14,300 for a family plan before marketplace subsidies."[1]

[1] https://obamacarefacts.com/health-insurance/out-of-pocket-ma...

Not sure if only plans in the ACA system must meet this requirement or that private companies cannot even offer say a $50,000 deductible plan with a $3 mil cap.
Very fair point. In fact, my wife actually knows my phones passcode for the exact same reason. „Open book“ was definitely the wrong phrasing here, I wasn‘t trying to say that you have to keep everything secret from your spouse. Just that the exact opposite of that also strikes me as very distrusting.
A lack of competition and accountability are crippling American government
Google 'segregates' women into lower-paying jobs, stifling careers, lawsuit says
> powerful network effect taking place
is this actually happening, or is this wishful thinking?

> bitcoin ATMs
cool concept, unclear when there will be enough of these outside of USA to make a dent in the remittance market

> savings accounts are terrible
agreed, losing 2% annually sucks. however, BTC literally dropped 14.88% today 0_0 unclear if it will continue to grow or drop, only volatility seems inevitable
Steve Jobs’ legacy and the iPhone X
Using Debian since Wheezy on my laptops and desktop. I had to learn which packages to install, that Ubuntu might typically have... Volume control for pulseaudio, firmware (plus enable non free repos).
I also had to ensure my network card is open source friendly (you can include firmware at install on a usb drive or just have an Linux friendly usb WiFi/ethernet adapter).

I've found Debian less buggy on my machines than Ubuntu.

I use xfce.

If you feel the need to experiment with something that isn't default in the distro, I just use a VM to validate it'll work first or snapshot/backup so I can recover easily.
I have to recommend Manjaro over Antergos. https://manjaro.org/

The Arch and Antergos communities can get somewhat toxic regarding Arch offshoots.
Those are some of the most functional, most loved programs in this country. Social security is our sovereign wealth fund, and only comes into crisis when it is tapped for purposes it wasn't intended for. Medicaid/care allows a profitable, private health insurance industry to exist. These programs basically saved capitalism in this country, be grateful.
I'd say that, over the last twenty years, Python's docs have gone from excellent to good to middling to excellent to good to middling (dropping as the language expanded and the generally expected standard went up, and improving when they did one major revamp).

So I agree that another revamp would be good now, but I historically the docs have been a plus as much as they've been a minus, relative to Python's alternatives.
The transaction of you working for me is still voluntary. No person forced you to work for me. I did not cause you to starve. If I disappeared off the face of the planet you would still starve. That I offer you a job improves your options relative to what you would otherwise have had. I can only "force" you to work 20 hours a day if all your other options are even worse, and I am the one who improves your options the most. If however I put a gun to your head and tell you to work 20 hours a day I actively make your options worse by force.

Capitalism is by no means a perfectly well defined system that you can deduce from a set of axioms. You can have a discussion about which property rights the government should enforce, such as whether it should enforce intellectual property. But certain systems are clearly fall outside of the bounds of what constitutes a free market, such as systems in which I am allowed to put a gun to your head to make you give me your wallet.
Any reasonable FTP server (e.g. vsftpd) will saturate ethernet. Maybe the ones you were using were rate limited?
I read this as meaning he should be set adrift on a lifeboat or somesuch. I do feel a proxy anger towards the murderer, but I'm not a fan of making legally annoying people just disappear because that quickly becomes the go-to solution in tough times.

Another reason that I don't want to just forget about that guy is because he's not a bizarre exception, but partly the product of xenophobic nationalism churned out by some political actors over decades for fun and profit. Immigrants can be conveniently scapegoated for issues as diverse as unemployment, national security, industrial policy, and abortion. The increasing fragmentation of media consumption eventually results in epistemological detachment.
The graph is written as "giving how happy I want my customer base to be, how much customization will I need?"

And IDK why the middle is lower than the left side.
No problem, I've just sent it again.
Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Explained: Boeing's New Video
I haven't overcome the virtual env thing. There are a few virtual environment libraries, not sure which one to use. Then it is awkward to have to change your entire environment over by activating it and for it to be global. What if I want to work on two different projects in two different terminals? Why can't I activate an environment by just CDing into a directory with my project?

Then there is the GIL. I still don't know if multithreaded python apps are really MT or just faking it. And yes, I know you can do event driven stuff and that does look very interesting.
I just downloaded AVP (the original), I think it was available on GoG / Steam? Works pretty well with Parallels on Mac, VM + Windows evaluation license!
It's possible to start agile projects without requirements but with loads of user research and prototyping instead.
Have you tried Gentoo?

I switched from Arch to Gentoo a few years ago (before systemd was on the radar). After installation, which is admittedly more involved, I found it felt much the same as Arch for day-to-day usage. And, for all the possible criticisms of Gentoo, you'll definitely feel in full control of your system.
People forget about these unintended consequences. We have to make these changes more slowly. Start by passing legislation to cap cost increases so the job losses and valuations fall more slowly.

We also need to revisit end of life care. I see so many commercials for drugs that offer 9 months of life vs 6 months of life for existing treatments and there is little to say the quality of life is maintained. We can't afford to spend $100Ks for elder people with some kind of aging related cancer to have 3 extra months in hospice care. People can buy with their own saving but we need to unburden the system.
I'm a software developer (mostly focused on operations and marketing) on a small, two-person team at a large, national plaintiff's firm.

Thanks for clarifying -- the headline was very clickbait and disingenuous -- so much so that I had a strong reaction to it.

I think your plan is a good one because you have a small group of clients with similar needs to focus on and they have certain expectations about the tech they interact with. Good luck!
The iPhone X reveals why Tim Cook was so mad about Palm
That's nothing like what the graph is depicting.
My big numbers talk at Festivaletteratura
Ubuntu is usually the go-to. However, Fedora is also a good bet.

I don't like to recommend Mint since they rip out a lot of the GNOME stuff for their own apps (Mint Store, Mint Updater, etc).
Which is why I, for one, feel they're a far better model for a tech union than an AFL style one.
Yes, it always happens -- which is why large corporations are successfully reducing fees where litigation is routine. Refusing to give any account of the time spent on the matter would probably get the lawyer disbarred.

There's a legal duty to give the client an accounting of your fee, and the basis of that fee, so as to show the fee was "reasonable." And a key metric for reasonableness is the time spent. In failing to account for the time, you would be unable to prove the fee is reasonable -- and the lawyer has no right to keep a fee unless it is reasonable.

You might try to get the client to agree in advance that $5m is reasonable, and to waive any right to you supplying an accounting of your time spent. But I suspect the courts would refuse to enforce that agreement, and the relevant Bar would sanction the lawyer and/or his firm.
Thanks. I tried JavaPoet, once apon a time.

I'm just a simple bear. I can't keep all the details straight.

One strategy I use to cope is round tripping, as a way to confirm I get the expected results.

My current approach to code generation: painstakingly hand craft the desired source code output. Then turn that into a template (progressive refinement). Then compare (diff) generated output to manual. Iterate. Many times that means adjusting target to make it easier to generate.

Using bytecodes (class file) as the target output adds complexity and more steps. I've been reversing bytecodes for a long time, manually using javap, the decompilers (which are now quite good), and using ASMs code generator plugin for Eclipse (super clever). But it's too fussy, compared to the Java source code strategy.
> Maybe it's just semantics, but I don't think "trouble finding labor" is a thing.

In a perfect market it isn't. In the real world, I know a big struggle in my area is simply getting enough people to come here in the first place. Not just farmers, but all businesses. It is a small population and there has been an recent economic turnaround, so all of a sudden there is a lot of work, but nobody nearby to do it. It will eventually correct as people start to move here, but that takes time. Possibly a lot of time. People tend to not uproot their entire lives to move to a new location on a whim, no matter how much money is on offer.

A shortage (the technical definition, not the one the newspapers like to use) is also possible under the right conditions. In my legal jurisdiction, the government has defined a price ceiling on doctor services. If there aren't enough doctors, we legally cannot offer them more money to attract them, or push other patients out of the market. Trouble finding doctors is very real, especially in rural communities where doctors are less apt to want to practice and no amount of money the patient is willing to offer is going to fix that.
Question: do you think German companies or American companies are better managed?

There're always issues of misaligned or perverse incentives. Although I have no illusions about union leaders having a particular interest in company success, it's not worse than company management having no particular interest in company success. And, since they have less power, they have less of a negative impact on the company and society in general.
You only pay if you win the case is what I gather from the site, they're confidant enough that you'll win in a small claims suit against Equifax while at the same time advertising their services.
Counterpoint:

Saying water isn't a human right is different than saying not everyone should have access to water.

I generally agree that water isn't a right. I think it's a misuse of the word "right" and a misapplication of the concept of a "right".

Rights define what you're free to do for yourself, and the various ways in which those freedoms can't be infringed upon by others. For example, you have a right to free speech and people can't infringe on that. You have a right to not be tortured and people can't infringe on that. In the US, if the government is going to take your property or jail you as punishment for a crime, you have a right to a fair trial first before they can do that to you.

There's a distinction between that and things like water and healthcare. One is a list of rights, and the other is a list of things people generally need to live a happy and healthy life. If we're going to dilute the definition of "right" down to that degree, why don't we just throw in housing and free trips for vacation and a loving partner while we're at it?

South Africa has housing as a right in their constitution. They also have 200,000 homeless people. So who's infringing on their rights? Every citizen of South Africa?

The UN General Assembly declared water a human right. The world also has close to a billion people who don't have access to clean drinking water. Who's infringing on their rights? Are you?

Rights aren't about what resources (time, money, commodities, services, etc) you're free to take from others. When you start defining rights that way, rights all start contradicting each other. What about a doctor's freedom to choose who they perform surgery on? What about your freedom to live a life not solely dedicated to plumbing in Gabon?
I don't quite understand the connection between single-payer and your implication that the drug you need wouldn't exist.
Steve Job's legacy and the iPhone LCXIV (2317).
From their FAQ[1] looks like they take a cut of winnings:

> Only if you win your case is repayment deducted from your recovery. Legalist funding varies from case to case, depending on your case details and our risk assessment outputs.

1. https://www.legalist.com/faqs/

Edit: formatting
Really? I thought video/post-production people were mostly on Macs these days. What are the standard software stacks for doing FX?
Litigation finance is like a contingency arrangement - if you file the case and the judge dismisses it, there's no risk to you. But if you do file the case and win $1000, we'll recover alongside you.
Phew -- it's an automatic filter.

Sadly, you can write code just like that in Python. I don't know what that perl snippet does, my caches have long since flushed ;) -- but here's a Python snippet that's relatively dense:

def foo(y): return lambda x: {str(i) : '_{}'.format(i**y) for i in range(x)}
Any plans to add this to storage buckets?
If the class law suit wins, they get their share.
And it already seems certain to win by now, I imagine.
It's beyond my comprehension... it's so .. ugly .. and dead .. and unexciting ... zzzzzzz
The social security number for Donald Trump in their sample was issued around 1963. Seems fishy.
> It's not just unsustainable, it's absurd! $25,000 USD is most of, if not the entirety, of the TOTAL income taxes many people pay in other OECD nations.

In most European countries (probably in all of them, but I do have motivation to check) the cost of the health care is paid based on the solidarity principle. This means that the amount that goes for the state level insurer is proportional to the income amount (private insurances for the extra coverage usually work on the fixed amount basis).

Around 500 per person in month is probably not on the very high side considering decent salary levels. The difference is that the health care of the minors is free. This splits the amount in half.
Here's a better euphemism:

> “Blocking cookies in this manner will drive a wedge between brands and their customers, . . ."

How about: . . . will drive a wedge between brands the those who they want to exploit.
Twisted is a massive codebase, and uses zope.interface. There are definitely options for stricter guarantees, but it's optional, and generally you'd rather be treating input as ducks.

Also, even without actual type checking (mypy), IDE support + type hinting (PEP 484 or reST et al) means you can find most issues before the interpreter/compiler is involved. PyCharm is fantastic at this.
Just for completeness, this is what the CEO of nestle believes regarding water being a human right: http://www.nestle.com/ask-nestle/human-rights/answers/nestle...
Saw this earlier this morning: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41257576

These guys should be, at the very least, fined by the government for how blatantly careless they were with consumers' PII. I can't believe the credit bureau oligopoly in the United States is this technologically incompetent, but I suppose it's not surprising given the lack of economic incentive to innovate. Hefty fines / settlement payouts should do the trick...
I miss Four Barrell since moving out of SF. I don't really understand why they don't seem to be doing as well as Blue Bottle or Stumptown or even Ritual.
> role it fills is a very important one
what role does it fill?

> criticizing torrents
p2p file sharing fills a real need: quickly download large files for free, even when no single entity wants to pony up enough free bandwidth to make this happen

> criticizing email when fb messenger exists
email is useful too. it is more formal and already part of the protocol of business communication. fb messenger is great for casual chats with friends, with a heavier focus on GIFs, games, etc. they fulfill different, but real, needs
You are right.

Only thing that needs to be changed is instead of taking population of a country as a metric, should consider race, language, and particular god the applicant believes in as a metric, if it is truly "optimizing for diversity".

The way it stands, all Caucasian, Jesus believing (or not believing) europeans or the Arabic, Allah believing (or not believing) middle-eastern populations have no line, but wide variety (language, god / religious belief, race) of people from India have a long line, because its been "optimized for diversity"

Its just an "Indians and Chinese Exclusion Act" similar to Chinese Exclusion Act under the garb of "Diversity".
If I understand correctly, the problem was that she herself minimized her actions when she applied for the programs. I believe the problem was not rehabilitation, the problem was they seem to have felt she was deceptive from the beginning.
There's no "professional degree" to become an actor/actress or a director. Yet, they're still covered by a union.
Just a clarification - while there are multiple class action lawsuits against Equifax, Legalist is funding individual consumers to take action in small claims court. It's faster and you're likely to recover more.
Build systems really help reduce the number of scripts (and stylesheets) loaded. I currently use Ember-CLI, and it's just a "vendor" script containing all your third-party scripts and another with your app-specific code.

The old-fashioned way of embedding scripts directly is really wasteful, I agree.
I paid for a Purism "Libre 13" laptop with a supposed shipping date that was roughly a month away from the order date. Every month I was told "another month!" until after six months I finally gave up and asked for a refund.

They look like a great company, and hopefully they will fix their supply issues soon but I'd not recommend them until they manage to get better at predicting shipping dates.
"Whether the Palm Pre was truly ahead of its time, or whether elements of the interface had been plucked out of a carefully planned Cupertino 10-year roadmap will be a story for Valley historians to unpick."

Anyone care to start attempting to unpick this?
Also, the border is 100 miles from the Mexico/Canada borders and 100 miles from the shore. So, if you're concerned it's not when you're entering or leaving the country. It's any time you're in LA, NY, DC, SF, Huston or Detroit. Or any of the other thousands of miles of border.
Django has a very deep package tree, there are tons of stuff in there — a lot of things you wouldn't expect.
The NYtimes has a remarkable page of images taken by Cassini (moons and saturn). Space being stark and empty is strangely movingly beautiful sometimes.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/14/science/cassi...
That hardly does the same thing. You get the directory listing files stored, which you don't want. You don't get file permissions transferred. There are issues with .dot files.

Worse, you have to secure your server to make sure .php files in someone's home directory don't accidentally get run.

By default a web server will run files - unless you specially configure it not to, FTP never does that. It's a LOT harder to secure it with HTTP. And if you have places where you want stuff run, and other places where you want files transferred? It's possible, but your likelihood of making a mistake in the configuration is very very high.

HTTP is really not suited for bulk file transfer. SFTP works though.
> He argues water should have a market value so that it is treated more like a resource that should be well managed.

Sounds like a good case for cap-and-trade. That is, don't allow people to withdraw groundwater faster than it's being replenished, and don't allow people to withdraw enough surface water to harm fish populations. And then let folks trade their allocations.
It's also harder to litigate on Equifax's part. Often times they just attempt to settle
Part of it is just that Python has an awesome, supportive community. Sounds like the C++ community is kinda critical and demanding, in your experience.
They are giving the cookies a lifespan, which is more aggressive if the user never interacts with the domain in question. This mainly affects tracking cookies as the user never interacts with anything on the tracking domain.