skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New metric: SPA = "Social Point Average" or NPA = "Network(ing) Point Average"?
" with worse outcomes."

No.

I completely disagree.

The stats on 'bad outcomes' relate to 'life expectancy' etc. - but those are only indirectly related to healthcare.

If you have cancer - and could be anywhere in the world - it would be under an American health-insurer.

America has the #1 healtchare system in the world for those who are covered. For those who are not - it's terrible, obviously. And, it's crazy expensive as you pointed out.

But 'direct outcomes' are not bad - they're good.

Due to all the 'inner city violence' + Medics coming back from the war - American emergency rooms have become goddam miracle centres.

The number of people dying from gun wounds has dropped dramatically due to the amazing ability of the American healthcare system (perverse reasoning, but hey).

It's a crazy situation, but it's not irrational that 'cutting edge healthcare' is 2x expensive as 'socialized healthcare' that we receive here in Canada. 10% improvement (for those covered) at 2x the cost seems about right actually.
My kid likes the show "Adam Ruins Everything," which is a myth debunking show. He went over the same things you just stated. The concept of "Alpha male" was all hype that just stuck.
Buying a jet creates high paying, skilled jobs which support families, their children's education, and so forth. The downstream effect from the purchase includes the pilot, the airport expenses, maintenance crew, and the taxes on the expenses and all of those salaries.

Not a cent of the money is in any way wasted.

I'm reminded of the Maryland luxury tax, which allegedly crippled their boat building industry and put a lot of middle class people out of their jobs. I say allegedly because I remember the story, not the source that confirmed that there weren't other coinciding factors.
Happy to talk through your options on a phone call if you'd like. You can email me: justin.kan@gmail.com

Relevant experience: sold a couple companies, raised a lot of money
There is nothing new under the sun: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Ope...
> Nobody is choosing to try cancer to self medicate depression, nobody is testing out heart disease to treat their pain or torment, and nobody is giving diabetes a whirl to address a sociological condition

Like addiction, all of those can be side effects of things people do for exactly those purposes. In fact, heart disease and cancer are, like addiction, specifically frequently consequences of substance use directed at those purposes (and not just illegal substances; tobacco and alcohol are major culprits.)
The biggest joke of this is we've all (their loyal users) been clamoring for months and months on end for Group level issue boards and now we get a slap in the face because they released it for EEP only meaning thousands of paying customers apparently are not paying enough to be able to link issues from two projects to one board like we've been able to do in Jira for months - it honestly makes me want to just switch to Github Enterprise and Waffle.io out of spite
CC0?
>So he pushed to have the software implement recording features like how long a person is on at which page and which page they went to next.

These days, we call this "telemetry".

>I'm surprised more people don't do that even today...

Because telemetry is seen as evil. Remember how WMS is praised for collecting this data in Windows 10 to make a better product? Yup, me neither.

The irony is, of course, that every web-based product has these stats built-in. Facebook is known to gather this exact data, for example.

As a side note, it always gets me when people whose PC usage is 99% on the web complain about "telemetry".
How much time does owning a jet actually save?
Myers-Briggs is total BS as well.
If it's licensed MIT, the Engineers just say "it's MIT license like half of the libraries we already use" and it's a legal non-issue.

If the license is not one of the standard ones already in use, and it mentions patents, suddenly legal gets involved and it's a disaster. They're very risk-adverse and no one's really sure what will happen when it gets to court. It doesn't have to make sense - after all, most software patents don't make sense, and most software patent lawsuits don't make sense.

Copyright makes some sense - some entity wrote the code and has (or has not) given explicit permission for others to use it, and under common open-source licenses those terms are reasonably well understood. But patents can come out of left-field and be unrelated to the user or the producer of the code. Being aware of patents (which should not cover what you're doing or should not exist) makes punitive damages worse. Again, best to just put your head in the sand and hope the patents don't notice you. Any language about patents adds complications which no one wants to figure out.
Unfortunately this workflow is pretty fragile and it will not protect you from any of pip locking shortcomings.

It will basically work only in favorable cases where you have no ambiguous choice, no conflict (A depends on B==1.2.3, C depends on B==2.3.4), no reinstall to consider (git VS non git deps for instance), ... Really pip-tools is not that bad for now, until pip itself moves toward industry standards by default (lock file, deps resolution, reliable version checks, ..)
> I bought a T-Mobile SIM card with cash and activated it at home and I could have put anything into the address information. I have never once shown my ID when dealing with my T-Mobile account. Try doing that in China.

That's not hard to do in China (well, your SIM card would be China Mobile or China Unicom, not T-Mobile), unless they've made some drastic changes in the last couple of years. But since I've seen the claim that you had to provide ID to buy a SIM card made at times where I knew it was currently false, I strongly suspect it's still false.
Adobe published its private PGP key on its blog
I wish Gitlab supports Mercurial
This is the real heart of the healthcare cost problem in the US. No party in the process knows how much anything costs, so it's unsurprising that costs go up so fast. This wouldn't be tenable in an individual pays environment, or in a government pays environment, but in the US environment where many people get coverage from employment we end up in this crazy system where there are so many parties involved in payment, that nobody knows what's going on.

In this case, the patient (A) may be getting the drug from a pharmacy (B), and the pharmacy bought the drug from the manufacturer (C), but the patient's insurance (D) is paying part of the cost of the drug, but so is the manufacturer, and insurance is paid for partially by the patient, and partially by the employer (E). There may also be direct government subsidies, and there are certainly indirect subsidies as well. Of course none of the 5 parties can really know how much anything costs, or how to reduce costs. Not to mention all the extra labor involved in administration of this complex system.
I suspect that the division between "movies" and "television" will start to dissapear. As television continues to shift from TV to online video on demand, it will face less and less pressure to divide itself into 22 or 44 minute episodes. Further, the notion of paying for add free shows online appears to be tenable. We are also seeing Netflix release entire seasons at once.
> This pretty much proves

I believe the wording you are looking for is "strongly implies", because that's all it is, an implication. There is no proof. (and not even a boat to be seen ;).
You must have missed a lot of news. A personal example: in my company we were comparing React vs Vue internally and the hint of licensing issues committed us to Vue.

This Facebook post gives us hope for GraphQL moving away from BSD+, as it is currently in our stack, but without doubt we are considering a move away due to uncertainty.
I call it a win for the greater community of F/OSS. Even Facebook cannot ignore us :-)
It's web UI used to be way slower than GitHub. Has this improved?
All the frat guys I ever knew had well off parents. They were going to make more than everyone else due to that alone. Of course, being surrounded by privilege, parties, and sorority girls eager to score a rich boy hurt their grades. That doesn't really matter though. They graduated. Some even took an extra year or two to do that. It didn't matter. They did fine. Being a prince has advantages.
Equifax has been sending customers to a fake phishing site for weeks
Sure it doesn't. Except you can use it to transfer value without first consulting your potentially totalitarian government without much effort for the first time in the entire history.
What life style choice did a baby born with a opiate addiction make.
He changed the name to the Indispensable.
i knew plenty of non-alpha types in frats. lots of fairly nerdy guys, in fact. it's more about coming from a wealthy family that recognizes the value in such things.

very few people played a college-level sport and were in frats, for example.
Today I learned: Adobe has a security team.
That isn't the same thing, and your anecdotes don't really mean anything; the parent's anecdotes act as a counterexample, which is all that is necessary to prove that ID isn't necessary, even if it's generally or often used.

AT&T is requiring you to show ID as a security measure, not because the US gov't requires it. You're talking about them using your ID for authentication, to protect you from someone impersonating you to make unwanted changes to your account. This does not preclude you from being able to walk into an AT&T (or T-Mobile) store and get an activated SIM card with cash and without showing ID.

Ditto for the hotel security guard check. If they had required your ID at check-in for any purpose other than authenticating you against their reservation record, then that would be a problem. If you could walk into the hotel without a reservation and pay for a room with cash without flashing ID, then the parent's point stands. (And even if you couldn't, this may just be a particular hotel's policy, which is fine. The point being made is that the government is not requiring this. There are plenty of hotels in the US that are perfectly happy with anonymous money.)

As for flights, there's definitely more government involved with ID'ing you, but you can absolutely fly without ID. You just need to go through extra security screening, which is a pain, but works just fine.

My experience in China is over a decade old, so I won't comment on that.
GPL 3 adds an anti-patent-treachery clause not unlike the Apache 2 clause.

React Patent Grant Version 2: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/b8ba8c83f318b84e42933...

The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice,
if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate
directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent
Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate
affiliates, (ii) against any party if such Patent Assertion arises in whole or
in part from any software, technology, product or service of Facebook or any of
its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates, or (iii) against any party relating
to the Software.

Apache 2 Section 3: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

GPL 3 Section 10 (See also Section 11): https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under this License, and you may not initiate litigation (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it.

Edited for spacing
> You can't just decide to stop having cancer unlike addiction

You can't just choose to stop having an addiction, either.

That's kind of the whole point of addiction.

> alcoholics and other addicts will often have a so called "moment of clarity".

A moment of clarity is just the point at which one recognizes a problem.

> No such "moment of clarity" exist for other diseases.

This is not at all true.
that's funny, I don't remember consulting my government this morning when I paid for a cup of coffee with cash
That just appears to be a fancy pattern generator. The core trick of Scanimate is that it uses the analog synthesis circuitry to modify the raster scan of a CRT displaying an image, essentially allowing arbitrary images like logos to be animated smoothly in real time in very complex ways. Think of it as the analog equivalent of texture mapping.
Is this mainly for novelty/fun or is there a serious use for this?
> few, if any, employers will care about your GPA

"Elite" careers care a lot about GPA.
There are many types of addictions where no (external) chemistry is involved at all, caused by purely psychological mechanisms.
>But this ignores the strong sociological component of addiction and substance abuse...

Bullshit. All kinds of medical conditions and their treatment involve sociological factors. Treating drug abuse as a health issue in no way precludes dealing with its sociological context.

Picking and choose medical conditions that differ markedly from substance abuse and contrasting them is disingenuous. What about other medical conditions that are much more similar such as dietary conditions, overeating disorders, etc? There are a whole range of metabolic diseases caused by or associated with patterns of consumption that are very similar and often even have sociological factors associated with them. These are treated as public health issues. Substance abuse is just another category of related conditions.
Dear Silicon Valley,

Please start something (company or otherwise) that will make it easy for adults (young and old) to become part of a large, real world social network. One which will help them form good career connections, as well as platonic and romantic relationships. Fraternities create their own unique culture (traditions, handshakes, songs, idioms, etc) to tie people together, so keep that in mind. Please leave hazing out of it too.

Kindly,

Baron
What about people's individual rights? I don't want the community to tell me what to inject into my body? (Ps I am NOT anti-vax)
It sounds like it's time for an ICO...just saying.
Sell at $14MM and offer to be an advisor for a small piece of equity in the sold company after you sell.
Door to door from NYC to NC is about 4hrs best case commercial and 2hrs private (Teterboro). Longer distance saves less as a percentage.
Done, contact me at thisanonguy1@gmail.com
Cartels don't cause addiction. Addiction + prohibition causes cartels.
10s of thousands of people go to the hospital every year for Tylenol overdoses and hundreds die. That doesn’t mean any use of Tylenol is abuse.
If you were unemployed and saw $14M on the sidewalk would you pick it up?

I suggest you do that.
Are they only removing the clause on those packages and nothing else?
Wait a second. With heroes you get painful, oozing sores on your genitals. It sometimes never goes away and can flare up at any time.

Does it really take a company to make people think of it as a disease?

"Oh my penis feels like it's on fire and oozing all over me. However, I wouldn't call it a disease."
You can reach me at thisanonguy1@gmail.com
The thing that makes distributions like Red Hat and SUSE "boring" is not that we only do maintenance work, it's that we've effectively solved the problem of maintenance and release engineering -- though of course there's still improvements to be made (and on the SUSE side, openSUSE Leap and the plans for SLE15 are quite interesting developments).

We do a lot of work on exciting and interesting projects, some of which crash and burn as well. But part of the benefit of working for an enterprise distribution is that generally if some project is not ready to ship yet, we don't ship it. Having an out-dated version of some package is fairly common, and as long as we can do the maintenance work on it, it doesn't really matter. So we have a lot of time to improve upstreams to be stable enough to ship.

[I work for SUSE.]
They claim they identify causality but I don't see how that's possible based on what's written here. The presence (or lack thereof) of frats is going to change the applicant pool to begin with. And once they are present, there are going to be differences between who applies to be in a frat and who doesn't.
I hate that the poor grammar gives me an impression that the info is more valuable. But, it does.
Remembering the Utils: Substitutions with Sed
I’m learning it as well. Was pretty blown away when I created a reagent SPA app skeleton with one lein command.

Been doing imperative / oo for years so this is quite different but I’m persevering because I’ve bought into the reactive UI for web apps and JS just seemed like a total mismatch
CNCF had begun the process of moving two internal projects (that will be open sourced when they hit beta) from React to Vue.js. We'll now re-evaluate.

FWIW, why we prefer Apache 2.0: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/01/cncf-recommends-aslv2/
>In the wake of uncertainty about our license, we know that many teams went through the process of selecting an alternative library to React.

Evidently FB saw enough people leaving to prompt this change. No doubt they were also afraid of an exodus of their internal developers on these projects. High-profile developers will move on to companies where they know they'll have greater impact if that's seen to be at risk.
I shut down my Y Combinator-backed African startup after 2 years. Here’s why
The best “fraternity” I ever joined was ROTC. My GPA went up half a point, I got in shape, learned a lot about leadership, and made some life-long friends.
It sounds like it's time for an ICO... all the cool kids are doing it.

But in all seriousness one in the hand is not worth two in the bush in these scenarios it's worth a thousand in the bush.
BoorishBears is correct if and only if you are a mediocre talent and you seek a mediocre career.

If you have great talent and seek a great career, then a high GPA will make it substantially easier to get (and to pass) interviews at top-tier employers, and to get into the most competitive areas within those firms. This will, in-turn, have positive knock-on effects for your future career.

It is possible to succeed greatly with any GPA. It is much simpler with a good GPA.
The potential for VR of course is that they're the ones who create the simulation.
Of course not. Lots of controlled substances have legitimate medical uses. I don't get your point.
Wish I had joined a frat in Uni..

What no one told me in Uni is that:

+ You're either tech or not tech, and not tech is not sexy in the valley

+ You need experience, no one cares about all the extra coursework you do, experience is king

+ Don't wear a suit to an interview in the valley, ever.

+ Your connections are invaluable, form lasting relationships, it's one of those weird things where not studying pays off, a lower GPA is actually good in this instance, and the bonding time with the bros is more valuable down the line.
Sure why not would you provide break down of how that would look with family:)?
you can start by subtracting taxes
Illegal things are real.

Real money is in your control, money on an account not necessarily.
Furthermore, suppose you're some company like, say, IBM which figured out some way to say, safely double the energy density and recharge cycles of Lithium Ion batteries, which you have patented. Let's also assume that you are shipping some critical problem which is dependent on React. Facebook could now freely use your patented idea, and violating it left, right, and center, and if you try to sue them for violating that patent, you're completely f*cked.

So Facebook's idea works fine if you believe that Patents as a Thing are bad (all patents, not just software patents), and should not be asserted under any circumstances, and it's fine for Facebook to arbitrarily violate any patent of any company who has become dependent on React.
Did you pay with cash or credit card?
Try LinkedIn and Tinder?
This is a win for fans of the mentioned packages. This license lives on in other facebook packages.
Long live vue's chance at market domination!
Totally agree but this stupid slaves to the system actually vote you down and defend this deeply immoral crap of a company.
Bitcoin never escaped the "trough of disillusionment" since its birth.

2008: Satoshi posts a paper to mailing list, nearly everyone declares the idea non-workable.

2009-2010: Satoshi releases software, no one cares. People throw away wallets with mined coins.

2011: A 8-month decline after the first speculative bubble.

2012: "Nothing" really happens price-/news-wise, only minor bubble from $5 to $15 to $10.

2013-2014: A year-long price decline in '14 after mtgox fallout, after the second and third big Bitcoin bubbles in '13.

2015-2016: Price went up from $250 to $1000 among the news talking how "Bitcoin is not cool, DLTs/R3/private blockchains are more interesting".

2017: Price continued from $1000 to $4000. Bitcoin is now finally entering a "trough of disillusionment".
Doesn't that already exist? It's not a technology problem. There's everything from Meetup.com to Facebook groups/events to private Slack channels to Tinder for dates to Reddit to so many other things.

Silicon Valley already does have its version of frats: companies. Alumni networks are the equivalent of a frat; working at Google or Facebook or another big company all have their own culture and opens up a lot of doors when you're job hunting.

At the end of the day, though, it's not a problem tech can solve. It's a people problem.
...except neither is, and Hollywood accounting is a real thing. Even domestic-market box office failures tend to turn a profit internationally.
I can guarantee no one really cares about your GPA, especially after your first job. If it's your only proof of competency/intelligence that's been validated by a third-party, they'll care, but if you have other outside evidence and interview well, no one will ever even think to ask, even in elite settings.

I, for one, have never put my GPA on my resume.
Bringing Chance the Rapper to the Deaf
Nice move! If you guys are still having trouble understanding these licenses, I recommend: https://choosealicense.com/
I've experienced this and the 404 related emails on Elastic Beanstalk are indeed annoying, and it would be good if there was any easy way to turn them off just for 404s specifically. However based on my experience this will pass, it won't be like this forever so don't worry. And then it will come back, but then go away again. I haven't had a single email related to this for several months now. After it realizes there's no vulnerability (in my case I don't have php admin) then it seems to stop trying but I don't know how long before there will be new requests trying again.