skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seems weird to come from a country which is explicitly organized around giving everybody a chance to succeed and then upon success saying, yeah but I don't like paying for it.

Succeed at what? What success do they gain from being a doctor in a country which prevents them from being rewarded for it? Their returns are fixed by the government, and even when they're working overseas (earning way more money) the government is kind enough to even it out.

It may surprise you, but it is hard work to be a doctor. These folks are basically forced to work however long is required by the state in a country where they're probably not even allowed on the internet, with a government which was built on tricking peasant farmers into willing their land to a psychopathic dictator who killed everyone who got in his way.

The conditions they work under have every feature of slavery, even if the clothes they put on look professional.

A 34 y/o American doctor, even if they are somehow still paying off school, had the personal opportunity to take on that burden. Every working person in Cuba, peasants, mechanics, and seamstresses alike, takes on the burden of training you as a doctor. Everyone, including the doctor, spends their entire life paying it off.
I wasn't complaining about Micro. I wasn't complaining about vim. I was just noting why terminal applications don't generally use those same key bindings historically, and why it still matters today. The only reason we are off in the weeds like this is because of your assertion that it's rare to need to background a terminal editor, which doesn't match my experience at all.
I have researched H-1B heavily (because I was transitioning into it myself). I don't think the regulations have changed whatsoever in the last couple of decades. If they have, I'd love to hear in what ways.
That says something about human nature. Many want to satisfy themselves in a way that money conveys.

I wonder if other countries (US, France, England...) students would see things like this Cuban doctor if they had full medical education for free. Would they think relatively to the tuition system ? would they say that being able to cure people is so worthy they'd do it for free.
> we do not have enough time to become multiplanetary anyway (since that will take centuries, and we will likely never leave the solar system anyway).

Neither of these statements are true. It's only a question of money, and money spent appropriately. Musk is demonstrating both of these.

As soon as we have a self-sustaining base on Mars, we're multi-planetary. There have been enough experiments to show that a man-made self-sustaining bio-sphere is possible. If Musk's timeline happens, this could be easily within a century, if not decades. To quote a phrase, 'necessity is the mother of invention'. It's likely that settling on Mars will drive the science and research that will solve these problems.

As for interstellar travel, that's well documented elsewhere on the web. It's doable, now, with current technology, without humans, but is massively expensive. And we don't know where to go. Once we do, it's just an engineering challenge for Musk V2 to solve.
From the "About" page:

> PLUS – Full sized, fully working version also coming in 2018 as well!
> DNS lookups will instantly become susceptible to forgetting that your domain exists entirely if any misconfiguration occurs

Just like TLS with HSTS headers or similar stuff.

That's what security is made to look like today. It is wrong. Things shouldn't simply disappear or get broken, but it's by no way a DNSSEC only problem.
The causality is not obvious. For example, throughout the 70s and 80s, organizations shipping medicine and other supplies to Cuba were regularly bombed or attacked (e.g. Hispania Interamericana). Anti-Castro terrorist organizations (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_66) operated openly in Miami.

So does Cuba lack medicine because they're communist? Or are they communist because the US worked against broad prosperity in Cuba, often very violently and explicitly, for decades before and after Castro?
Ah I see, we're taking about interoperability, not just naming.

This is related to my original interest in language structure words and ontologies. The idea there is that the set of 'relationships' between things is small and universal (X 'contains' Y, A 'is an abstraction of' B) and perhaps can be used to discover and 'hook up' two object worlds that are from different domains.
As a consumer, probably nothing.

But they still sell a lot of big iron to banks and FIs and try to shove QRadar down everyone's throat.
yes, good idea, let's make a modern console-based text editor that comes with IBM Websphere Real Time
Nobody actually believes this in practice. I think we might actually make more progress by not trying to dress up collective purchasing and institutional charity as grand egalitarian gestures.
Thanks. I like the idea of discovery phase for sure. Will consider.

We're also considering right to IP for things we develop from scratch, for future resale. We might propose a share of future revenues e.g 25%
I hope Ringworld tries to be a bit funny. It's got a 200 year old playboy, an impossibly lucky female sex symbol, a conniving vegetarian coward, and let's not forget the gruff, cuddly, badass Kzin Speaker-to-Animals; not to mention the tech is godlike, I'd bet on a Known Space fleet beating a Star Trek fleet any day.

It should be more like Tripping the Rift, Lexx, or Stargate with Daniel and O'Neil than one of the more serious Sci-Fi shows.
You don't have to pay large amounts of money for education and you don't have to pay large amounts of money to get a decent job.

You need to get out of your echo chamber.
There's a dead comment below yours that says "IDERA fired the entire Ext JS dev team yesterday" -- is that true or false? Why was it downvoted to oblivion?

Edit: apparently it's true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15366051
My friends that are residents in podunk Illinois are making 65k/year. It goes very far there.

Yea, if you break down all their on call hours and shit, it's not very much hourly. But they still make more than most people in their small city.
Don't get me wrong, 9/11 was certainly a devastating horror and the impacts were huge - I was just pointing out that the larger number of deaths (consensus is that around 3400 black people and 1400 white people were killed by the KKK or other racist groups that were part of a wave of anti black terror [correcting myself to my comment above that it was all attributable to the KKK]: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2013/nov/27/... ) and on the whole the conspirators were American born terrorists with a single goal in mind. This lynchings took place over many many years, but the affect on the black population would have been massive and the social and economic effects can still be felt today. Thankfully the western world doesn't see anything like this today.
Again, I'm not saying it's not possible I'm saying that it's going to be really, really hard and that saftey is the critical path to making this viable. I'm sure they are spending all of their time and resources devoted to improving saftey. I'm just pointing out the ridiculousness of focusing the PR on time savings and cost parity when the saftey deficit is currently massive.
I could swear I checked that spot!

Still, would be nice if there was an overview in the settings page, and a possibility to wipe the entire whitelist at once
The TLS CA has some functionality specified for non-global trust. It is just that nobody implements it.
They haven't done consumer stuff for ages.

These days, IBM's competitors are companies like Deloitte, not Dell.
With the world full of Reactish frameworks now I wonder if someday we will return back to these neat frameworks that understood browser limitations really well and created such a surreal experience in the initial days of SPA. Names like Prototype JS, Mootools, Dojo etc. where evolving with some great ideas and Ext JS took it to a whole new level. It's sad to see demise of most of these libraries (jQuery I think is the only survivor).
> Sadly, the majority of non tech readers will take is as given.

Even tech readers. I worked with a veteran who would just take that kind of stuff as fact because "17 intelligence agencies cant be wrong"
I guess the hope is that a round of computation can be shaved off.
I have been a close observer of code coming from India. I think the majority of the problems are because of vague, incomplete, and wrong requirements coming from the company that hired them. One company sent over someone. The guy spent a month talking to management, employees, probably the janitor and figured out what we actually wanted and the resulting code was decent.
Interesting that you mention Jobs in that Musk said, just like Jobs did, that he's reducing the product line to one thing, to increase economies of scale.
Military dictatorships are responsible for the atrocities you mention. Not communism. Evil people. Atrocities have also happened in capitalist counties - we're not placing the blame for those on the style of market the government chooses to adapt and it would be idiotic to do so.
Composition and currying are great if you're the only person working on a project, because you will understand everything that's going on. But my experience has been that developers will not inherently come to the same conclusions with this style, using this on a team of more than two leads to project fragility and incongruousness.
It's hard to effectively criticize consumer culture without sounding hostile to consumers. It would be worse for his persuasiveness to err on the side of appeasing the dominant cultural sentiment.
can you elaborate on the in-memory capabilities you mention? My google searches aren't yielding anything.
It’s rare to see an article about exploited people met with “yes they’re actually exploited, and that’s very sad” on this website.
>This is not a reasoned argument against the parent's argument.

FYI the parent comment was not reasoned argument either. The notion of relation between education and IQ is questionable.

>It's actually a pretty decent explanation.

No it is not at all. Since it requires rigorous calculation and estimation of how much immigrants have come, what is their average IQ, how much drop we see in population and so many questions.

This is what “pointing finger without any evidence” looks like. I don’t understand why you would consider your approach scientific when I am the one basically asking and questioning all the moving parts.
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Key West to Havana is only 170 km or so. Can you set up a microwave / laser link over that distance?
How do you propose filtering, ignoring the vast majority of "news" that is unsourced?
> This (A):

partial(Math.max, 2)

> is objectively simpler than this (B):

function atLeastTwo(someNumber) {
return Math.max(2, someNumber);
}

What the article failed to convey to me was why either of these are better than just using

Math.max(2, <expression>)

everywhere I need to use the greater of 2 and some expression. It didn't really explain why we want to hide the 2 at the places where we need to use 2 as a lower bound on a value.
Ah ok, that's not in the linked video, but in the following one that autoplays afterwards.
Ask HN: What are the best working side-income ideas for developers?
I'd like to know your story of generating a side-income as a developer? Was it hard to figure out which path to take? How did you earn your first cents? Or anything you want to share. Thanks!
On the higher end of 8-bit-micro reissues, there's the ZX Spectrum Next: https://www.specnext.com/about/ . The industrial design is by Rick Dickinson, who designed all the original Spectrums up to the QL.
I'm posting right now on what is by and large a forum hostile to anti-capitalist thinking; this is the very opposite of me being in an echo chamber.

Many "decent" jobs require at least a university degree, which almost always entails taking out a loan. So while you don't have to "pay" large amounts of money, you may need to loan it and then pay it back later.
One problem is that BGP has not changed in a long time. The last version of the protocol (v4 I think?) predates 9/11, as do all of the books on how to use BGP. Most routing people (many/most of whom are on the older side) look at BGP as a "done deal", rather than a protocol that requires constant changes and software updates. The latest change to BGP has been to allow for larger ASNs by increasing the byte size, and even that was quite the project.

Selling Cisco on it is the best path to adoption - they have a massive market share. Even most of those old books on BGP are just glorified Cisco router manuals.

Really though, I would be all for BGPsec for my routers, but it feels like lipstick on a pig. We're in the crypto phase of the net, and we now have ways to make distributed routing systems that require no centralized IP registrars. I hope this blows your mind as much as it blew mine: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
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There are more nuanced critiques of either of the predominant systems discussed in this comment section. If you want to throw unfair death totals for what are at best regimes loosely approximating their underlying communist or capitalist ideologies, you can just as easily claim capitalism kills tons. https://i.redd.it/h0l4hqcf5inz.jpg

but honestly, I don't think body counts are the right way to judge either. Makes for a great way to emotionally charge the conversation, though.
I think it's understandable. They see parts they like and either ignore or don't know about the rest. The most anti-communist places you'll find are in Eastern Europe where the old people remember going through sub-zero winters without heat.
I imagine because there was no source to back up the claim. There's definitely been an exodus of staff from the company in recent days, but it's not clear what the terms were. For some tweets from former Sencha staff who have departed over the past few days see my comment on another thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15365797

Edit: It certainly looks as though the entire team was let go based on the LinkedIn post you linked to in your edit.
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They should come to America. Doctors are never overworked here.
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> If you think being rational is a religion

Oh, no, I didn't mean that rationality is a religion. I was referring to a movement, mostly based in Silicon Valley, that calls itself "Rationality" (and is only ostensibly about rationality; if you read their materials you'll see), and might qualify as a religion.

> This "different kinds of truth" leads right off the cliff of being unable to evaluate truth claims

Absolutely not. Hamlet really does kill himself, but that truth is not the same kind of truth as Hitler killing himself. Call it different logical theories (i.e. sets of axioms) or different simulations if you're more drawn to a mathematical or computational description of different kinds of truth. Of course, it is possible to reduce all those truths to the same system, but doing so is not very useful.
> its hard to live there with the salaries they are are getting

hmm, sounds just like SF or NYC.
buy bitcoin, monero, and neo. wait 2 years. profit.
The most amazing thing, to me, regarding React, is that it's a pretty awesome framework, from the perspective of a developer.

...and yet, I go and try to use Facebook, and the experience is totally fucking repellent.

Even in a closed third-party testing loop, when you control for social variables and human factors, by populating your circle with only fake test accounts you control and have created yourself, for which no one else has the password. (e.g. staging a hypothetical sequence of events, to model an expected experience)

Just trying to do anything is met with the most bizarre and byzantine behaviors and switcheroos.
> Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge

> We are exploring adding data storage at the edge.

> I don’t see us going into hosting.

You must have your eyes closed then, because that's clearly pushing the camel nose into the Amazon lambda tent.
A bunch of these were also Spectrum hits: Heartland, the Monty Mole series, and Everyone's A Wally are some stand-outs. California Games got converted to pretty much every platform around.
Please educate yourself in heritability studies before repeating this line. The amount of confusion on this issue is baffling. I'm currently a PhD studying in this very field, and the word almost certainly doesn't mean what you think it means. Heritability, in the abstract, refers to the _variation_ in a trait that is explained by genetics. It is not a measure of how much genetics influences the underlying trait. "Having legs" is a trait with 0 heritability, because variations in leg-ownership are largely explained by environment. Heritability also crucially depends on the population you're studying -- hair color has a heritability score of 0 in African and Asian populations, but is much larger in European populations.

More worrisome, the methods for establishing heritability are methodological dubious (twin studies, for example, violate an enormous number of statistical assumptions heritability models rely on). This is simply ignored by the bulk of researchers in this area. For a really good treatment of this phenomenon read this post: https://www.madinamerica.com/2013/03/the-trouble-with-twin-s...

Even the notion of "intelligence" as a meaningful construct is in question. Really: the literature on intelligence is just so nauseatingly bad you should doubt nearly everything you read.
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The costs of university increase on a purely free-market basis because of incredibly expanding demand for a university education, now poor students can't afford to go to school. The government steps in and assures their loans so poor students can attend. Now since these loans are guaranteed capitalist institutions begin seeing just how much they can bilk students for and thus our dilemma. Our problem is the free market. Government intervention to this point has transformed one free-market problem (school only for well-to-do) into another (school for anyone but loaded with debt) because we haven't had enough government intervention. Just make it free and our problem is solved.
That's true regarding Seveneves. And hey, once you get a season out of part 3, there's no reason you couldn't continue from there with new stories. It's a perfect introduction of a new setting.
Even before taking that into account, an embargo with what would otherwise be their most obvious trading partner seems like a big impediment.
In startups you often have tech that is more general than it needs to be, and you start thinking about all the opportunities, but it can be a mistake. In your go-to-market strategy, you need focus. If you say, "We have 3 business models", it means you don't yet have a business model.

I hope Elon the best, but I wonder if that is happening here. SpaceX is going to sell Internet, do fast air travel, do space tourism, . . . . Same with Tesla: we aren't just a car company, we're a battery company! There is a hyperloop and a digging company and solar rooftops. I think it's true there are many opportunities, and history has had its conglomerates like GE, but there is risk in losing your focus.

Still, I'm thrilled he is pushing us forward!
Sounds like it. I think Cloudflare's edge (no pun intended) is going to be their 110+ locations to host this. As opposed to Amazon's 93 I believe? (If all cloudfront spots support lambda@edge that is) https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/details/
After the Concord was built, NASA did some research into reducing sonic booms (the Shaped Sonic Boom Experiment) which showed you could modify the fuselage to reduce the noise shock by about 30%. This would have brought the Concord below the acceptable noise threshold. Unfortunately it was never built-out commercially and we now have legislation banning supersonic flight over land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_Sonic_Boom_Demonstratio...
Yup. The only people who like communism are the ones who have never lived under a communist regime. Ask any Eastern European over 40 about what that’s like before you make any rash decisions out of ignorance.
Where did you learn about this? I'd like to investigate in more detail.

Visit Cuba and talk to people. The barman, the taxi driver, the bellhop, the waiter can easily earn in a day's tips in hard currency, over a month's wages in local currency, especially if they speak good English. It was the same in Russia when the USSR imploded. The chances were your taxi driver in Moscow had a physics PhD and had quit or was moonlighting from their official job in a research institute...
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That is not how slavery as practiced in North America, including Cuba, worked. You didn't get things "provided", you got absolute subsistence (or less) during your most productive years.
As the person who designed most of the tutorial, I'm sorry to hear this. My goal was to give people practice building a few simple components and connecting them together.

It's true that we assume preexisting JS knowledge, but your other point about how it doesn't give much insight into using React is one I haven't heard before. Can you say more about what you mean?

Anecdotally in my experience, most people seem to find the tutorial pretty helpful, but we can think about more options. Maybe there's space to add one that assumes less about JS. (And really -- thank you for complaining about this, or else we wouldn't have known.)
While I'm no fan of Cuba, I have to point out doctors come to the US from a lot of different countries because they'll get paid more. That's just human nature.
This bit from the Wikipedia article on the topic is actually quite interesting:

> In June 2000, a US Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) delegation visited Cuba to meet with Castro. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) mentioned to Castro that his district had a shortage of doctors; he responded by offering full scholarships for US nationals from Mississippi at ELAM. Later that same June, in a Washington, D.C. meeting with the CBC, the Cuban Minister of Public Health expanded the offer to all districts represented by the CBC. At a September 2000 speech event at Riverside Church, New York City, Castro publicly announced a further expanded offer which was reported as allowing several hundred places at ELAM for medical students from low-income communities from any part of the USA. Reports of the size of this offer varied in the US press: 250 or 500 places were suggested with perhaps half reserved for African-Americans and half for Hispanics and Native Americans. The ELAM offer to US students was classified as a "cultural exchange" program by the US State Department to avoid the restrictions of the U.S. embargo against Cuba. The first intake of US students into ELAM occurred in spring 2001, with 10 enrolling in the pre-medical program.[5][18][20][21]

> In 2004, the legality of the presence of US students at ELAM was threatened by tightened restrictions against travel to Cuba by US nationals under the administration of President George W. Bush. A CBC campaign led by Representatives Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Charles Rangel (D-NY) with 27 other members of Congress persuaded Secretary of State Colin Powell to exempt ELAM from the tightened restrictions.[4]

> Applications from US citizens had been administered through the New York City-based Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), headed by human rights activist and critic of the U.S. embargo of Cuba, the Rev. Lucius Walker Jr.[21]
Watch out, this goes against the oh so currently hot narrative that capitalism is bad and the government providing "to each according to his needs" is the silver bullet.