skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“It’s not CarPlay” absolutely helps. I don’t care if Toyota makes a decent infotainment system. I will not buy a Toyota or Lexus until they come with a CarPlay option. Period. It’s a waste of time to elaborate on that (for free). I would rather save my breath and vote with my money by supporting a car company that does understand my needs (e.g. Honda/Acura).
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"What killed Smalltalk? it was just too easy to make a mess" (Ward Cunningham)

The power of your tools is an orthogonal issue.

It isn't related to the discipline and cleanliness issue: for example, dynamic typing allows you to make design miracles, as well as stinking piles of obscure-broken-beyond-repair code. Actually, a lot of powerful tools have this double-edged sword quality: dynamic typing. C++ templates. shared_ptr/garbage collection. inheritancy. lambdas/closures. "eval". monkey patching. tests (!).

Sure, tools like Coq or even Rust's static type system will provide, at compile time, extra guarantees that your code will work as intended.

However, they won't provide guarantees that your program will be easy to maintain/modify. Actually, if misused, they could have the opposite effect (i.e as soon as you try modifying the smallest bit of code, compilation/checking fails with unhelpful error messages).

Don't get me wrong: good tools are important, and nobody's going to make me write a webserver in assembly language, or a NES emulator in PHP!

However, in my experience, their impact on code maintainability is negligible in front the impact of the developper herself. Ultimately, it all hinges on who's writing the code.
Isn't it enough to publish the patent text such that it can be used as prior art to prevent other companies from patenting the same thing, but in that form can't be used to actively go after other companies from using the same technology?
Because this comes from the SO survey, and 99% of SO users (made up number) are IT type web devs. Same boat for me in systems and imaging applications. Any issue I hit would never get a response on SO, so I tend not to answer the survey requests.
From an insurance perspective, contraception is muuuch cheaper than pregnancy. Every time I hear $religious_group complaining about paying for contraceptive coverage, I lol because it's actually a cost saving measure, like vaccination.

Of course, contraceptives can still be expensive to individuals in the US because insurance incentives aren't aligned with covering the whole society, but that's a long topic for another day.
Well it crashed hard when rumors got serious, like $4k to $3300, but came back within like a week
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Beautiful writing, ugly font.
WhatsApp rejected Government request to access encrypted messages
I'm assuming the parent isn't writing yet-another-REST-API-data-layer in his/her day-to-day. Sounds to me like they work services the services those back end devs use to make their services go.
With Kaiser Permanente Northern California, for a family of 4 $18k buys you a gold plan with $0 deductible, and $20k buys a platinum plan. This is on the open market. I just priced it on their website. Most plans are substantially cheaper.

HMOs are really the way to go, but unfortunately Americans stupidly prefer to pay a huge premium for more choice (or at least one very specific dimension of choice). A family member who is a long-time partner at a law firm forced her firm to purchase a plan that allowed her to keep her doctor of 20+ years. This happened during the nationwide market reconfiguration as the mandates rolled out and insurers aggressively re-architected their plans and provider networks. Now she rants and raves about how Obamacare raised the costs of healthcare, and her partners resent her for forcing the huge premiums on everybody. She's totally unwilling to consider that the problem was entirely of her own making; that her firm could be paying a fraction of their current costs for the same quality of care, just not including that one specific doctor.

HMOs aren't very common, and in many regions they seem to suck. Fortunately, Northern California Kaiser is one of the best hospital systems in the nation. If you live in the Bay Area I highly recommend it. Kaiser aggressively pursues cost-cutting measures and efficient service delivery procedures. Appointments go through a phone bank of nurses with a rotating staff doctor, so minor illnesses like a cold or flu don't require wasting your primary physician's time. For more serious but still common injuries like a broken wrist you're directed to, e.g., their sport injury unit clinic; again saving both the ER and the primary physician's time. Kaiser runs their own labs, and the volume of people their labs efficiently handle is incredible. All the doctors are employees (as opposed to independent, affiliated providers like in many for-profit hospitals), and Kaiser doctors very consistently apply uniform policies on best practices, prescriptions, etc. I think they're large enough that they run their own studies; at least that's the sense I get when I've inquired about why they choose X instead of Y.

All of this comes across to some people as impersonal, but personally I think it's amazing. I've never had an interaction (nor have any of my family members, AFAIK) that left me feeling cheated for attention, even though there's always the sense that everybody--doctors, nurses, staff--is working to keep things moving along at a brisk pace. The way they've balanced conflicting requirements is really laudable. After being with Kaiser for many years, other hospital systems seem downright chaotic.
Their data comes from their dev survey. Not scientific and biased toward to the typical SO crowd.
UCLA did, in its 35L class. You are required to do a series of text editing tasks and record keystrokes.

I should note that the professor, Paul Eggert, is the maintainer of many GNU projects.
Canada's often cited as some example to follow.... This puts a hole in that theory.

And your #1 on that list? UK's NHS? Both the availability and quality sucks - waitlists and infections galore across their hospitals.

The thing with single payer is it's just like communism.. it looks REALLY great on paper.
The same holds true for most securities. Markets are efficient, and news is quickly priced in -- often before it's published news.

How often have you read "Company XYZ beat estimates -- stock price falls?"
Banning the Tweets makes a big difference, so we do it.
You mean to tell me, if I go visit China they may _force_ me to do a drug test?
I don't know about that poster, but I'm mid 30's and definitely still lie awake while thinking about how tired I'm going to be in the morning.
> Would you agree, then, that Internet access is now a basic human right?

I would neither disagree nor agree. Different theories of what a right is exist, and I don't believe it's a settled question enough to even claim that a $newer_thing is a right.

> If I don't stand up for the freedom of expression for the lowliest of views, then I didn't stand for it at all.

I understand this viewpoint. This is the "free speech maximalist" position. I disagree with it. I think there are bounds "beyond the usual pale" where no private institution should be asked to or forced to host it.

It may be that the proper solution is for the US government, as the duly appointed host of the Public Space by long-standing tradition, to create a Public Forum for such things.
Why is it "crazy"? They are a sovereign nation.
Does Google follow PEP-8?
I just run a 'screen' session to open 10 bash sessions simultaneously when I want to do anything substantial. That has never felt restrictive to me.
Sex probably includes factors of better sexual education.

I knew a guy older than me who came of age in the hippie era. He had slept with a lot more people than me. He once said "TV channels stopped broadcasting at 9pm. There wasn't anything else to do after 9 o'clock at night besides sex and drugs."

You can now get TV and internet 24/7 and even in small towns you can sometimes find stores and eateries open at all hours. Also, I think historically people turned to sex to get certain emotional needs met that can now be met a variety of ways.

As one flippant example: These days, you can post selfies to get adoration from many internet strangers telling you how gorgeous you are. You don't necessarily need a sex life to get that kind of feedback. Back in the day, an ordinary person who was not a celebrity could not get something like that any way but from a sexual relationship.

In my marriage, we spent thousands of dollars on furniture because it was one of the few things we agreed on and, outside of sex, furniture shopping was about the only time I had his undivided attention. We could have saved scads of money if he had just been willing to have more of a goddamn relationship with his goddamn wife.

For that and other reasons, I have spent a lot of years thinking long and hard about the myriad different reasons people do things. And we just have a lot more options these days for getting some need met without sex that, at one time, we would have had sex to try to meet.

I don't think that's a bad thing.
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A common misconception. Even in northern Sweden, which is above the arctic circle, you can still generate ~80% of the energy that Southern Europe generates.
Quite surprised to see Perth, Western Australia. I was wondering if there were any developers left in my home town, the (now second) most isolated city in the world.

Kudos to the team on the release.

http://blog.id.com.au/2012/population/population-trends/is-p...
Kids these days, now we can't even store sex in a bool. And they want another float for gender! Back in my day we had one bit for each, and we liked it.
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Are you sure? Doesn't the need to mine block slow down transaction to a bare maximum per block?

And if miners in china close operations won't time between block increase?

Thus maybe BTC is actually responding slower than other market... what do you think?

I'm by far not a keychain expert so I will gladly be corrected if I'm wrong.
So, a 3d graphing program, competing with the TI-84+ from the project's README...

Is going to be notably tied to a custom eth token?

That idea does seem to contribute to the nonsense you mention.

Especially considering the README complaining about competitors being "unintuitive", but then just slapping `blockchain` on a visualization program

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Also pardon my pedanticness, but its "Source available", most people consider "Open Source" (as a branding) to be open to access, changes, and use. You have released the code, sure. But you are massively restricting how that code is used (including preventing the program being used with other versions of the same program??)

https://opensource.org/osd for the "common" definition of the term
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IIRC, we were due for quantum supremacy by the end of the year. Are we still on track for that?
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Congrats on the launch Luciano and Natalie! The product sounds incredibly helpful and I'm eager to try it out.

I was wondering- if customer support tickets are coming into an inbox (like in gmail), can this also be integrated?

Thanks!
Can you see two screens simultaneously with screen though?
I agree using this approach on someone just out of school wouldn't work very well, but I don't think that's the bulk of the problem space.

If someone has 3 years experience, there should be plenty of results to allow an in-depth look at what they've been working on. It wouldn't matter if someone 10 years senior had "more stuff", because it's not about quantity. I think it's important to take in the context of where that person is at in their career and what's realistic.

>>There are false negatives from rejecting great engineers who...can't communicate their experience well

Well, it's true this is a problem isn't it? Whatever you call it, it's part of a lot of us, part of who we are, and does sometimes result in unfair judgement. The problem is, I'm not sure TripleByte's process gets around this either. Part of their process is a dynamic interview that surely requires some communication skills. Pass that and no doubt even more communication skills will be needed at the employer interviews.
Ugh. There are so many fucking problems with this. Here's the survey for reference.
https://www.credible.com/blog/survey-millennials-student-loa...

Read that and tell me it's sensible to extrapolate that and validate the title. There's a reason it's not linked as a source. Because it's crap.

TL:DR Amongst other huge problems like only providing the final percentages of selected answers, 50% is exactly 250 people who have student loans with the company. It's not a "personal finance" company. It's a student loan provider who all of the respondents likely owe varying amounts of money to.

This is exactly an actual debt collector asking it's debtors what they would do to get their debt forgiven while dangling their life in front of them.

Intellectually, it might be an interesting hypothetical discussion. But this article and the survey aren't worth much.
May be off topic but it's funny to see complaints regarding infotainment systems when all I've done is driven 10 year old toyotas without infotainment systemsfor the past decade. "More money, more problems."
Yeah but that's what laundering is. Making money that would be designated dirty by the state look clean.

This is more of just hiding it outright, I think?
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I'm not sure which of us has misunderstood something, but I don't see why the speed of mining would affect the reaction time of the market.
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I've been running non-standard ports for a few years and while it certainly cuts down on the non-stop brutes on 22, my servers still get smacked pretty often in 400-500 attempt blocks.
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I think people tend to gloss over the fact that China has a population of more than 1.4 billion people in a land area that's slightly smaller than the US, multiple territories in outright revolt, ongoing territorial conflict, some cities that are approaching inhospitability due to environmental damage, and our increasingly aggressive nation is something less than friendly with them.

I think one thing causing the apparent increase in political discontent in the US is the increasing metaphorical distance between congress and the people. Now imagine if you increased our population by more than 400%, had Hawaii declaring independence, and various states trying to separate either to go completely independent or join Mexico or Canada. And now of imagine that a coalition of China, Russia, Iran and other unfriendly nations were constantly posturing towards an invasion of Mexico which would put them right at our doorstep while their motherland remains far out of reach.

I'm in no way defending China, but I think it's safe to say that the level of authoritarianism we would respond with if we hit even a fraction of the issues they're facing would be unlike anything the world has ever seen. Our current political systems and technologies, regardless of specific political ideology, do not scale well.

That said there is one macabre issue that benefits China. About 50 years ago Chinese were starving to death by the tens of millions. While perhaps controversial, I think contentedness paradoxically breeds discontent. Consider in the US that much of the political discontent is heavily centered at some of the most privileged areas in the nation. We can wax poetic about justice and the nuance of social interaction. People struggling to just get by have more immediate issues to deal with. China's successful industrialization of their nation is already producing an increasingly large contented class to whom the struggles China has had are as personally familiar to them as the lynchings or Cold War of US history are to us. That newfounded contented class is likely to spark discontent towards the very actions that provided their luxury - and China will have to manage that somehow.
Vr is for toys. The context switch between whatever you are working on and visualizing it in vr is too expensive. Or at least you'd need radical advantages from vr to make the trade-off worthwhile.
Agree. HN has a sizeable left-leaning and pro-state/pro-fiat population.
Taxes do work, though demand for tobacco is relatively inelastic: http://www.who.int/tobacco/economics/meetings/dublin_demand_...
How do you buy the bitcoins without the state tracking you?
FYI the US is doing that also, you cannot buy on coinbase without providing ID... they want to be able to track big buyers.
This is fascinating if true. Do you gave any sources, I'd be really interested in reading more on the matter.
Oh, interesting. Are your servers targets of interest somehow? Or are your ports possibly still low numbers?
Money laundering: I have loads of money from selling drugs. I can't use that money to buy a house because I can't explain to the government how I got it. So I have to launder the money through legitimate businesses.

Capital controls: I have loads of money made legally but I want to move it offshore. The government won't allow large amounts of money to leave the country so I need to find a way around that restriction. For example by buying a bar of gold locally and shipping it out.
I laughed at 'Rocket Man'.

It seems like he's not going to let go of the North Korea issue. My feeling is he's trying to pressure China into dealing with North Korea. I think the big bold aggressive UN speech is all just part of keeping the pressure on China. We'll see how this turns out though, the Chinese aren't dummies.
I think that when you have a type system that catches all bugs the type system itself is probably Turing complete. Writing the types in such a system may very well be programming.

The more advanced systems are already too hard to use too be helpful for common business people which means they don't help much in reducing bugs from misunderstanding the specs.
Just my $0.02.
They could have built a nice ui for that, like cough windows phone. Turn wifi off now, but turn it back on in 1/4/8 hours/when I ask for it/when I get to a 'favorite place'. This was great when wifi at work mostly worked, but had bad days (turn it off until I probably left, maybe it'll work tomorrow). It's much less convenient on Android, because there's a good chance I'll forget to turn it on when I get home.
Will it work with virt-manager, or it requires manual Qemu/KVM setup?
I was wrong. I thought you could add any app to the control center but it’s only certain predefined features like flashlight.
The situation is very similar in India. You can't just convert INR to USD freely. There's a limit of $250,000 per person per year. I don't know if anyone mines bitcoins in India (because of horrendously expensive power), but if they did, they'll be subject to similar scrutiny.
Do you realize that "legacy apps" are much more important to people who use them than the hardware that it runs on?

Apple is a hardware company, and its need reason to push it. But what I do with hardware is run applications, and the applications matter more to me than the shiny (or not) box they run on, insofar as the box has the hardware to provide the UX that makes the software usable.

I am not talking in abstract; when Everyday Looper goes, iOS will lose about half its value to me.

(See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzQLRPwZjIo for usage example).
Likely this is not targeted at left wing websites, and they are just a convenient victim. I also believe there are other factors.
Peoples news preferences are changing a lot lately, but also I believe this change by Googles algorithm is in partnership with establishment preferred media, to promote them, rather than to target either the left or the right. There’s nothing to indicate the left is specifically targeted here.
Establishment media is promoting itself. Anti establishment media is being “censored” whether left or right. When Huffpo and Salon start getting affected, I’ll reconsider my conclusion.
That assumption doesn't seem to be very well supported by the comment you are responding to - what makes you think they don't know what happened in Tiananmen?
> thereby circumventing capital controls

You can also invoice hundreds of millions in fake orders. This is how the bulk of exfiltration occurs.

Addressing the rounding error before the bulk means other concerns are at work. I am ignoring, in this argument, that recent policy—preceding these orders—calls for more capital export, to keep down the yuan.
> sudo tcpdump -i en0 -s 5000 -n port 53

It may be better to do it like this:

sudo tcpdump -i any -s 0 -n port 53

That way you'll get to see every single DNS query made, and capture everything about it.
The exchanges don't typically create a blockchain transaction when you trade, so block mining times do not factor in here. It's just an open market with buy/sell orders that anyone can place at any time.
Time to generate blocks isn't the same as what happens to price. They are loosely correlated, but not the same thing. Price is as much psychological as technical.

However to answer the question: If mining in China went offline, it would affect time to blocks. However, difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks (about 2 weeks), so if China has 75% of mining, at worst, it'd be 8 weeks before everything went back to normal in terms of block times. Bitcoin Cash actually has mechanism to adjust far more frequently, within a few hours if necessary. (but also subject to miner manipulation)
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Isn't a big part of it the huge wait times because VA hospitals are overburdened by the number of vets? If they were covered by any hospital in their area rather than specific VA hospitals, presumably the care would be a lot better.
When will prices drop below $20k for a full install? I get so frustrated when I hear that the price keeps dropping, but the price for a consumer install hasn't dropped below $20k in years.

If I do the installation myself, will that make it cheaper?
It's a combination of the 80% output and the cheap local hydro power which makes it not attractive.
I think you stopped reading before you reached this part:

>At some point I tried recompiling it for a newer iOS, and I get hundreds of message about depricated APIs that I had to change to get it accepted by Apple.
I don't so much disagree as am confused by what people (including myself) mean with the word "consciousness". It also doen't seem like this is a discussion of pure qualia on the level of "Is the red you see the same as the one I see?"

For one, I certainly judge you, Mr. Internet Person Monktastic1, as being conscious. And I can somewhat unpack that judgement into relatively empirical observations that can be cross-compared with someone else. This feels really similar to my judgement of you as possesing the trait "human".

On a meta-discussion level, the rhetoric I usually encounter reminds me a lot of the Plato-Diogenes debate on the essence of "human". Can we really reduce the intuitive notion of consciousness to "featherless biped thougts" or some such?

For those reasons, I suspect that the intuitive notion of "consciousness" is more a (fuzzy) collection expectations we have on lower level traits. Like, since you are able to engage in this conversation, I judge you as human and therefore this leads me to expect that you also have a functioning pancreas. On the surface though, language ability and pancreas possession don't have any obvious reason to be linked.

Taking a bird's-eye view, I do hope that this discussion continues until the questions become sharp and precise enough to be called science instead of philosophy.