skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the ACA isn't that everyone can get coverage, the problem is that insurance companies are still involved. The idea of designing a solution where private companies are free to profit from the basic operations of a public service is bonkers. They add nothing of value, and will only push prices up. I could've told you from the start that the ACA was doomed to failure, and I come from a country that has socialised healthcare and has benefited from such a system.

Take health insurance companies out of the picture, and address price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, and you'll almost certainly see costs come down. I'm pleased to see there has been some momentum for single payer, so the US can scrap the ACA.

On a side note, ACA was similar to a plan proposed by Republicans back in the 90s:

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2013/nov/15/...
it takes extraordinary mental effort to compare them

Worse is that you can't just sort on hashes alphabetically and recover the correct version order. That alone is reason enough to use some kind of sortable versioning scheme.
Atlanta currently has best odds for landing HQ2 at 3/1
The best Youtube playlists I've found for quickly absorbing fundamental concepts in C++ are:

https://www.youtube.com/user/BoQianTheProgrammer/playlists

I can't recommend these highly enough. Before diving into them, you should have a fundamental understanding of OOP, pointers and memory management.
The only shortcoming is the user. Only install ad ons that you know and understand. And only from the official project source.

Or you can (correctly) assume users are a danger to themselves and coddle them. The Google Chrome/Apple/Microsoft philosophy.
Agreed. When I first started at my company, our graduate programme involved a ‘showcase project’ where we had to think up a problem to solve within the business.

It certainly wasn’t effective in allocating effort - most groups did a month of research only to find out why it wouldn’t work, and those ideas that were pursued were 90% dropped after the showcase presentation. However, failure had important lessons in learning about the business (10k+ people on size) and how to explore it for info.

In a few specific cases, they became genuinely useful ideas that were implemented. Mine, for example, was because it involved us as grads identifying a missing capability in one arm of the business that had been solved elsewhere, however the two arms never talked. The net result was a significant safety mechanism improvement.

In the overwhelming majority of cases, juniors lack the business understanding to vet ideas for those that may work. But I genuinely believe that giving them some rope to go and find out why their ideas don’t work, as opposed to just saying so, can be very valuable for a variety of reasons beyond just learning to logic through problems.
Everyone wears stillsuits.
Yeah. Reading the post I see a guy overwhelmed by a bunch of equations and numbers. Which isn't to say he shouldn't learn them, but math is always far more intimidating when you don't understand it than other subjects.
Can you explain the agreement in English-for-people-who-don't-follow-Bitcoin? I found this: https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-conse...

Which says:

> We agree to immediately support the following parallel upgrades to the bitcoin protocol, which will be deployed simultaneously and based on the original Segwit2Mb proposal:

- Activate Segregated Witness at an 80% threshold, signaling at bit 4

- Activate a 2 MB hard fork within six months

Where does Bitcoin Cash fit in here, and what's going to happen when the exchanges start honouring it? Was BCH the hard fork they talked about? What hasn't been honoured yet?
For about $300/mo you can have a personal assistant who will do what he wants to have done with phone calls. But, for free, you can have Google Voice, which you should get anyway if you travel internationally or use Hangouts, which will block spam calls and screen calls from numbers not in your known contacts. If he works with a group of people in a consultancy, there are numerous small business pbx-aaS services that have auto-attendant features for call screening or that can be used in combination with a human personal assistant.
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This one doesn't look correct in the terminal though as the characters don't join up

(parent):

╱╱╱╲╲╲╲╲╲╱╲╲╲╱╱╱╲╱╱╱╲╲╲
╱╱╲╲╲╲╲╲╲╲╱╱╲╲╲╱╲╲╱╱╲╲╲

vs (yours)

\\\/\\\//\//\\///\\\\////\
/\////\\\//\\\/\/\/\\\\/

Also in the terminal there isn't the space between the lines for the parent either (that's just HN formatting), but there is a space when using \ or /
Hey, Matt

A lot of founders who are looking to sell their businesses can't estimate what their company is worth, mainly because they are too emotionally invested in the project. A good way to see what's a fair price in your case would be to let the market decide it. I made Soochi [1] so founders who are interested in selling their business can see how much can they get for their business, as well as find the right seller i.e. someone who can actually take the business forward. Let me know if you'd like to list your business on our site? We're running a $30 off promotion right now!

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import random
while True:
print(random.choice("╱╲"), end="")

How's that for readability?
I can see the analogies in some of the points you mention, and I agree with your point of view. However, I think each of us has to make the decision. In my case, I realized I just waste time on Facebook, there is no value in it whatsoever - so I quit using it. I still have some dummy accounts to manage product pages, but I use the News Feed Eradicator plugin so there are no distracting elements.
Geez I feel old when I read a post where the OP feels the need to explain how BASIC works !

It's kind for those who weren't there at the time (and is a logical thing to do)

Where are those 30 years gone :) ?
Mars Ancient Structures
There's an interesting book that uses that C64 one liner to "understand the cultural context of computing" and it's an open access book:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/10-print-chr2055rnd1-goto-10
That's because of HN formatting.
> The manufacturer refused

That's how you create business opportunities for others, heh
Now computers are writing perfectly acceptable pop songs
Society allowed me to graduate with degrees in science and engineering without knowing the difference between a stock and a bond, and yet the same society gives me complete control over my retirement investments.

Luckily, investing is not very difficult to figure out on your own. I read the book "Investing for Dummies" and I thought it did a great job at teaching basic ideas, and basic ideas are enough for the majority of people.

If society expects us to manage our own investments, then it should also equip us with the tools to do it effectively. It should be a required topic at the high school level.
I bought a house in 2007. Ten years later it still is not worth what I owe on it. Sometimes the market doesn’t recover.

I’ve wanted to move somewhere else for at least five of those years. I finally have, and my options with the old house are either to rent it out (rent would not cover mortgage payment) or try to deal with the bank to avoid foreclosure, via short sale or deed in lieu. In any of those cases, now I have two problems.
Ask HN: Getting started with bug bounty hunting?
I'm aware of Hacker One and some of the other bug bounty programs. I have done my share of fun little SQL and XSS exercises on homegrown PHP forums back in the day, but it's easy to get lost in the breadth of the bug hunting surface area today. What are some of the ways to get started when it feels everything simple has got to be claimed already? Any good resources besides reading writeups on past exploits?
Why flush?
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I quite don't understand the appeal. If you want a PPC laptop, just buy an iBook G4, they sell for $30 on eBay…
They will absolutely not deploy it in 5 years. They need a rocket to fly an engine and the Ariane 6 will only use it. The next rocket after the Ariane 6 is many, many years away.
I won't say you're wrong since I stopped taking physics in high school, but this makes absolutely no sense to me. How does defining the Planck speed unit to be the speed of light suddenly make c a unitless constant? It's not "c=1" (except in informal shorthand), it's "c = 1 Planck speed unit". It seems like all sorts of things would "break" very quickly when you start dropping units.

Maybe someone has a link that goes into more depth on why all of this is okay?
It's because u'\u2571' is a different character from chr(92)
(loop (princ (char "╱╲" (random 2))))

... or, if you use alexandria (a popular set of utilities)

(loop (princ (random-elt "╱╲")))
History has shown us that users are overwhelmingly a danger to themselves when it comes to this sort of thing. Pretending otherwise is not a good strategy.
Every day, more and more people are understanding just how little control they have over the processors that run in their Intel and AMD chips [1][2]. Maybe soon there will be enough people who care to stop giving Intel and AMD money and fund projects like these ones.

OpenPOWER seems to be quite open and free. Normally it's quite expensive though, although their main products seem to be aimed at servers.

Thought saying that, you always pay. Pay hard cash for a computer, or pay your privacy and freedom.

1. https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme

2. https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd
Because there is money to be made as in any speculation.
We have yearly recovery exercises for randomly chosen subsets of servers and databases.
"Why PowerPC?:
The PowerPC architecture design is newer than the other successful CPU architectures.
..."

This if like saying a screensaver of a fire is better than actual fire in your fireplace since its newer. Ignoring the fact it doesn't come close to half the features of a real fire (except for maybe the risk of burning your house down).

But as a long term Apple user from before the the x86 era I can't deny there sentiment of going with the underdog :)
You can't just blame the user when bad actors actively seek to purchase and re-purpose browser extensions, open source projects, downloaded software etc into malware. It will be our turn when they figure out how to compromise NPM etc modules profitably.
The argument that 'reusable is not proven' simply does not fly anymore. Multiple commercial reuses, no indication of any plan chances, NASA and Air force have looked at it and find no issue with it.

Markets will only solve it if government does not stop it. If Ariane had to compete on the commercial market only they could already not compete. If Ariane 6 had to actually earn its own development cost they could not even build it.
That's cool, didn't realize HN would allow that.
Choose – versatile fuzzy matcher (for macOS command line utilities)
> "intimidating"

Exactly.

/speculation

There is a point where one starts to see "behind" the symbols. It's a strange sensation, as if one could understand the ideas in a non-verbal way. The symbols become optional. Intimidation crawls back before curiosity at this point.

An amazing book on the subject is:

"Hadamard - The psychology of invention in the mathematical field"

/speculation
Pension funds are pretty safe if they are sector based instead of just individual companies.

Oh and obviously the government needs to guarantee them as a last resort. That way if a company doesn't hold up its end of the bargain it is not citizens that have to try to collect but the big bad Treasury wolf.

But government is considered evil in the US I know.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the paragraph in the paper that begins with The final type of neighbor that the system handles, changes
a rule from being handled normally to being considered a
“control” rule. This handles the case of rules that the player
makes decisions upon.

After rereading it I'm no longer sure of my previous interpretation. Maybe they are generating these rules conditional on the player input without telling the training process what the input was.

But they evaluate the realism of the learned engine against the original by training a reinforcement-learning agent to play the game, which means that they somehow connected those conditional rules to their corresponding input values.
If you're in doubt just take an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enalapril pill once a day
I'm guessing POWER has surpassed what a laptop from 2003 can do since the iBook G4 was released. What if you want a better display? More expansion? A GPU? Bluetooth 4? I'd be surprised if an iBook G4 can run a modern Linux stack.
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Firefox on Linux has supported it for ages, too. I’ve used it frequently, at least.
How likely is somebody still using Windows XP (6.5% of all desktop users, according to [1]; most of them Chinese running pirated copies, I would guess) to buy what you are selling?

[1] https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...
The Dream Chaser spacecraft has completed a successful free flight
Learn FFmpeg Libav the Hard Way
Looks pretty great, are there any demo apps available to play with?
I initially put a sleep in, it's unnecessary in this case.
>Lastly: https://i.imgur.com/epXYhJd.png If you cover up the top half of the image, the bottom looks gray. But the strawberries look red.

For me covering the BOTTOM half makes the bottom look grey. Otherwise it looks slightly red.
Live Chat is also nice because it doesn't distract me the same a phone conversation does. I'll live chat during the times I'm doing some mindless task (like running scripts).
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/73n9pm/d_c...
Who’s afraid of A.I.? A conversation with George Hotz
What about a complex codebase with nearly 8 billion subtly different running copies? Your copy has a bug, so you find a copy that doesn't and monkey-patch the assembly. Have you fixed the bug? Unless it was in some initialization code that won't get run again, your odds are pretty good.

A lot of genetic disorders are simply "whoops, your gene for X protein/enzyme/whatever is corrupted". I'd sure be tempted to patch that in myself.
Quality of the pictures. It basically takes a screenshot of the camera preview, instead of actually taking a picture. Also often bugs, laggy interface etc., which is bad when you have one attempt to view a picture or message..
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No, it is not a compiler error. It is never a compiler error
Nobody is preventing them from offering either ads OR a subscription service.

Hey if they discover it too late, that’s on them!

At their size, there are few changes that will help user growth without improving content.... goood luck with that.
An interesting thought though.. if a 3 bedroom house in Cupertino costs $1.7 million and an equivalent house costs $250k in a Houston suburb. Then the property tax in Cupertino will be vastly higher for the same amount of space. While that higher housing cost is offset somewhat but a higher salary, that higher salary also lands you with a higher income tax bracket and overall tax bill, which means at the end of the day, your standard of living, your disposable income is vastly lower in the Bay Area vs. Houston. You could argue that Cupertino has better schools on average, but then again for the income differential, you could afford Houston’s best private schools and still come out ahead financially. The only objective reason to live in SV is because you are required too — you work at Apple, Google, etc. If you are a startup locating to locate somewhere, it’s a fallacy that you have to be in the Valley. If your business is worth funding, being near Sand Hill is unnecessary.

The ‘money’ is located in the Valley for sure, but remember those guys writing the checks aren’t paying the same kind of taxes the employees are. While the people that actually have to work at your startup are just scraping by despite the high salary. I ran the numbers and it would be cheaper for me to live 2 hours from Cupertino, buy a Cessna and commute via 20 minute flight each way than to live within 20 minutes drive — that cost difference includes buying and maintaining the airplane, hangar costs as well as a cheap car kept at te Reid airport in San Jose. Even having to drive occasionally due to weather makes that idea still more reasonable.

A standard engineer salary in the Valley isn’t enough to buy a house unless you win the equity lottery or save for 10 years for a down payment. Anywhere where housing is 40-50% of salary plus high taxes is a recipe for disaster — regardless of how many electric car charging stations or trains their might be.

Obviously this is a tangential issue to taxes, however it’s still a vital part of the calculus of being in SV.

I just wish I could commute to Nevada as that would be a huge savings, but a bit of a stretch for a twice daily Cessna flight.
You don’t need to understand everything in every field and I doubt very many people do.

When Einstein was working on general relativity, he had a lot of help from friends and colleagues who pointed him towards the math he needed. He didn’t learn differential geometry until he was already deep into general relativity.

Find a level of abstraction that you’re comfortable with and learn to be okay with black boxes at the lower level, and only dig into those boxes when what’s inside them actually matters.
In many cases, like Texas, necessities like food, medicine, baby products, etc are exempt from sales tax to reduce this burden.
Startups worship the young. But research shows older people are most innovative
Veritasium had a video explaining this a few years back, it's one of the videos responsible for sparking my interest in physics and cosmology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztc6QPNUqls&feature=youtu.be...
Spoken poetry,
I feel Rails is not as "popular" as it used to be, and Python is getting more mainstream due to ML and AI and Bigdata etc, similar to what Android helped Java. I would think Django is a safer bet, though, Python is not the best lang for the web, not for the client side for sure, on the server side, PHP(laravel) might be a better fit.
> superhumanly beautiful music

The problem with your hypothetical lies in these three words: there's no such thing.

Art and appreciation of it is, in big part, a way to connect with the mind and feelings of other people, the artist and everyone else who appreciates the art. Most (not to say all) people wouldn't even consider buying a piece of art that wasn't made by another person, methinks.
I saved this comment from jlcfly from an AskHN that was answered a long time ago and have reposted it many times, as I feel it is an excellent philosophy for making your team better.

"Teach them to be better than you. That may seem counterproductive. I have a type A personality, and I have decent coding skills. I've been in your situation a number of times. I also know there's these mythical expert developers out there that I can't seem to find (or afford). So, what to do? A few years ago I realized that if I continue down this path, I'll end up with some serious health issues due to the stresses that come along with having a reputation for being a really good developer. So, I decided that instead of searching for developers better than me, I would teach developers I work with how to BE better. It's taken a lot of patience. And it's taken me quite a bit to LET GO of my way of doing things. I had to take my ego out of the picture. (VERY hard to do.) Nowadays, I realize that developers don't have to BE better than me. I simply have to ALLOW them to do what they do without being so obsessive about it. Turns out, even junior developers really CAN do good work. They just need a little guidance that only comes with experience, and then they need me to get out of their way."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8649415
I respectfully disagree. He is imprecise, metaphorical, and offers entertainment, rather than knowlege.

And jet, he knows his reader very well, and he delivers important bits of knowlege in very digestable form. Sure, this is not a substitution for reading a book.

But his target audience will never read that book, nor perform any research on their own.

Now i firmly remeber what QCD exist and firmly believe I don't know what it is about. Isn't it good, by itself?
The capacitor and power requirement are very small for a GSM device. My SIM800 experiments needed always a way beefier power supply.
Some business guy could come in, copy the software.. add 30% extra cost and use that for marketing. With a sprinkle of socialism you could let governments run the server with API's and force removal of competitors.
Sure. But it’s useful today. Are they going to continue the unicorn startup charade and ruin the product in the progress, like facebook? Or snapchat? Or even twitter! We’d be distinctly better off as humans without any of them.
This reminds me of another great article.

http://www.learningclojure.com/2010/09/graphics-like-its-197...

The author talks about how its harder to get graphics on the screen without installing prerequisite software than it used to be, and goes on to sing the praises of the ZX Spectrum and its concise and well written manual. He finishes the article with some fun coding experiments writing Clojure code in the spirit of the ZX.
What cycle is this? So far as I know ESA never developed staged cycle but I can't find any information. A methane engine that is open-cycle will have hard time being the bases of a reusable booster.

SpaceX is of course building a full-flow stage cycle, while BlueOrigin is building a ox-rich stage cycle.

BlueOrigin will have the biggest, but SpaceX is building the most advanced engine.
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For those interesting what “; :” is, “;” is print’s command syntax for not putting a newline, and “:” is a command separator. Old basics were lexically rich, e.g. box drawing looked like:

LINE (x1, y1) - (x2, y2), 2, BF

[B]ox, [F]ill
Agreed. The really hard part, to me, is to get people to stay out of each others' way.
True, but some of those space predictions may come true sooner rather later now largely thanks to Elon and SpaceX. For example, a startup called Positron Dynamics has a serious proposal for an antimatter rocket. If it works, that would likely open up the solar system to human exploration. I doubt they would have gotten funding without the renewed excitement around space.
I can't find what this Lorentz hypothesis of 1911 is, but surely you are claiming too much. Physical entities can detect X-rays, but humans haven't evolved that ability (except, recently, externally/collectively).

The idea that our perceptual apparatus is optimal, rather than a contingent product of a particular evolutionary path, is easy to refute -- but maybe that isn't what you mean by "reach[ing] the limits of what is possible."