skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the real benefits are having some fun and warding off Alzheimer's, as the time spent learning and tweaking probably cancels out with future productivity gains.
Ok, why pay for a deliverable I might not be legally allowed to use, or might be associated with unknown follow-on costs to aquire that right? They are obtaining third-party resources somewhere, they would be in an excellent position to provide relevant documentation.

Unless I'm missing it in the terms, the user isn't even clearly allowed to use their designs as the basis of a known-safe design, since they don't explicitly permit changes to it?
Really? You're paying for logo creation. Due diligence is different and likely more costly. I see no problem with the current model because it provides a useful service for a fee. Just because it doesn't provide a more useful service for a larger fee doesn't make it useless.
The problem is very simple. Everybody understands how to sum cell A1 with cell B1 and have a result in cell C1. Summing arrays, though, like in an R dataframe, is much more difficult to understand. You don't see it and you need to train your brain to think in SQL terms.
Hey, thanks for sharing your setup. What's this thing about `ping search engines`?
Laying cable isn't the only way to deliver internet service. Wireless ISPs are a thing.
> They provide direct economic benefit to the hospital by handling patient workload at a lower salary than more senior doctors

But do they do so at lower total cost including both their direct costs and the additional cost of supervision by a more senior doctor?
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How's it spam? I select people/accounts I want to follow, and tweets from them show up in chronological order in my timeline. Sounds brilliant, someone should get on that!
My understanding is that it's not that they're "blocked", it's that "you only can access what you pay for", which in this case is only those specific sites for which you pay to access. In other words, they don't "block" HN, they only provide access to Facebook, for example.
This article is total bollocks. Doctors are not overpaid in the US, the ones in Europe are massively underpaid and overworked because they are funded by tax payers.
No, but the user will be able to run their device in the way that they want to. I'm not supporting no protections, but you should always let the user override those protections at the end of the day if they so choose.
Using a VPS as a VPN vs. using a dedicated VPN service?
Any of you folks have experience with this that you'd like to share? I've heard a pro of VPS-based VPNs, for example, is that you can verify for yourself that it isn't collecting logs (by setting logging to /dev/null/).

Any recommendations for VPS services that'd be suitable for hosting an openVPN instance, if I go with that option? Should I be worried about the transfer limit on VPS services for this use case?
This problem is never going to go away as long as ISP are private companies.

Think what would happen if your power/utility company was driven by profit and not solely to provide a critical service.

Internet access should be de-privitized, the free market isn't going to fix this ever and this battle is going to just going to repeat itself every 6-12 months until they win.
The cars in Europe are generally much smaller too.
If excel online was better, a lot of that would be pretty doable.good points.

But..I do think that if we're thinking in terms of "users" and "developers" then we're no longer talking about excel. The whole reason excel is used this way is the continuous spectrum of sophistication.
The author forgot the most obvious one: I'm too tired to do the work. Its hard to get daily tasks done when you are mentally and physically exhausted.
That argument is really sound. In India. It doesn't really apply in developed countries where internet access is already present (or accessible to the majority).
> You clearly have limited view on application bugs.

Please leave out the uncivil swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What are you smoking? Google (YouTube), Netflix, Facebook, etc. wants access to as many eyeballs (and their bandwidth) as possible. Having either them or their eyeballs having to pay for access eats into their profits.
They can't replace something with Wayland because Wayland is a protocol and interface, Mir needs to implement code to speak that protocol.
This is something that I've never understood. This happens with Google Home too.

Something like Harmony uses native API's on Alexa, but third party API's on GHome. So on Alexa I can say "Alexa, turn the TV on" while GHome I have to say "Ok Google, tell Harmony to turn on the TV. Google Home will then reply "Ok, here's Harmony", pass the query to the Harmony "app", and Harmony will spit back "Ok, turning on the TV".

It's great for when I've lost the remote, but a terrible UX. What I don't understand is why can't I as a user determine what skills/intents get promoted. I understand the "Tell X to Y" for security measures, but if I could have a whitelist instead of a bunch of 1st/2nd party "power skills" it would make the entire experience more intuitive. I personally do not use skills just because of how clunky they are.
Sadly the article doesn't link to the study by Verto Analytics and I wasn't able to found it on their website (http://www.vertoanalytics.com/verto-reports/).
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...because the marketing department tells them they do?
> Doctors and other highly paid professionals stand out in this respect. Our autoworkers and retail clerks do not in general earn more than their counterparts in other wealthy countries.

You need to compare doctor pay with pay on other skilled careers like software engineers and lawyers. A software engineer earns considerably more in the US than in Europe.
> allowing you to make even more money

Is there any evidence to support that claim?
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If they have access to the code inside Github, would they have been able to push their own changes to the code without anyone noticing?

Maybe pushing something that was labeled as a "security patch" but was actually a disguised vulnerability? I could see not even checking into that, and just downloading it. But I'm on a small team. Do big companies have procedures to protect against this?
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Normally, yes, but...

If you don't check in the generated code, that means that you have to run the generator every time you build (or at least every time you get a clean copy of the tree and build). For code that changes very rarely, that may not be a net win.

Also, if you don't check in the generated code, and then you upgrade to the latest version of the generator, surprising things can happen (or even if different people have different versions of the generator installed).

So there can be cases where checking in generated code can be at least a reasonable thing to do.
Yes, they're a thing. A shitty thing.

Wireless ISPs would immediately collapse if they had to serve the amount of Netflix traffic wired internet connections use in an evening. They simply aren't a viable alternative for the population at large.
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"If they worked in 8 hour shifts, there would be a handoff and loss of information at each shift change that resulted in worse outcomes. It’s a fairly well studied phenomenon."

Do you have a citation for that?
Wireless spectrum is limited and either exclusively owned or subject to congestion. Dedicated ine-of-sight direct links are possible and avoid some broadcast problems, but still have property rights issues (they manifest a little differently, since you can smoke a connection without establishing property rights to the whole route, but then you are at risk of someone on the route interposing a temporary or permanent obstruction at any time.)

The existence of wireless connections does not change the fact that broadband last-mile service is a natural monopoly.
Google Sheets is great and makes sense for a lot of vanilla use cases, but even in its current form, doesn't hold a candle to Excel running on a Windows machine when it comes to doing anything even slightly fancy or non-trivial.
Here's a purely economic argument: if there is an expected profit from self-funding but it is less than that from receiving the Medicare funding, and there is a perception that the Medicare funding only exists because the argument has successfully been made that self-funding is not profitable, then making the smaller profit from self funding would put at risk the possibility of receiving the larger profit through Medicare funding, and administrators might determine it is not worth the risk.

Here's a practical argument: perhaps combined with the uncertainty of the above calculation, administrators are humans, for whom the inertia of the status quo "this is just how it's done" is powerful.

That's all speculation, just like your purely economic argument is just speculation. What would provide actual insight would be some understanding of why residencies are unprofitable, if it's true that they are.
I have another example.

In web frameworks, there is usually a little bit of boiler plate for each view.

You could refactor this completely away, but not without an almost total loss of flexibility and a good amount of readability too. Often the views will look very similar, then start diverging as the project grows.

With you on refactoring common patterns out, and yes, some people don't do this enough. But really, the important thing there is that those patterns are truly common to a large degree and should stay in sync - so it's worth it to introduce a maintain a new concept to keep them that way.
Well, evidence suggests that the 'battle' may be difficult, but that the 'war' is on the side of NN people. It seems that the Reps. have been given the keys to the house and promptly shoved them up their nose and into their ears. Making the argument that the Reps. have any idea what they are doing is nonsense (even by 'normal' standards of the US Gov.). Though the Reps. are 'in control' they are evidently nincompoops. Yes, they have done some 'damaging' things, but their main policy goals and bills are coming out like wet farts.
> IMO that solves most of the problems

And creates echo chambers.

That's part of the problem with Facebook, once you start posting and interacting with certain types of content you get the same type of content more often. Leaving out the opposing viewpoints and giving you the impression that everyone agrees with you.
"are you just saying this to baselessly discredit advocates of net neutrality?"

Let's not jump the gun here, I clearly stated that I do not know the intentions of advocates. I haven't heard of any legislation in congress, but that doesn't mean there isn't any.

I don't trust the FCC, Aijit Pai is actively calling for removing power from the FCC. I trust this specific act of the current FCC chair, I don't trust the FCC.
I ranted a couple days ago about the evils of what has become of cryptocurrency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15746019
Better/friendlier string functions.
Why not? Redux is a very good, framework-agnostic state management solution. There is no reason you can't use it with Angular.

Edit: Contrary to what the readme says, it looks like the project actually uses ngrx, not Redux (unless I'm missing something).
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Looks like it's mostly private cameras? Those probably won't be monitored at all, in practice; most private security cameras aren't. Back when they used tapes, a surprising number weren't even actually hooked up to record.
If I need a terrible logo, I use http://www.horriblelogos.com/

They're horrible and only $5
You can get older models for about the same price as cheap Android phones - i'd much rather use a 5 or 5S than anything by Kyocera, for instance.
I made the mistake of buying a cheap Andriod phone for $40 when I could have gotten a 4S for 50. The 4S would have had a superior camera, security and even typing performance.

Currently I have a iPhone 6 that i got for 200, no contract. Seems pretty affordable to me. In Liberia, maybe not, but I imagine there are millions of iPhone 4s they would be welcome to take off our hands.
> In this case, the likely culprit is that accepting residents for less than $150k/yr in sponsorship sabotages their ability to claim that the fair market value of residency training is $150k/yr, and they've calculated that the marginal benefit from accepting a single resident at a lower cost does not outweigh the risk of being forced to provide the same discount to their existing residency positions.

So you're saying that hospitals which receive no funding from Medicare eschew this potential profit center (a residency program) so that their rival hospitals can keep receiving funding from Medicare and make an even larger profit?

This makes even less sense than the other theory being proposed, which is that hospitals are eschewing short-term profit in order to increase the expenses they have to pay in the long-term.
After your watch battery dies, when you change the battery in your watch, it continues to have a 1 second precision.

But it's inaccurate by many hours because you haven't set it yet.
It has also been shown that direct negative publicity has an even bigger effect. Editorials in local papers calling out your representative are effective. Getting on the local news protesting outside your reps office is effective. Going viral on social with some kind of #MYREPisOwnedByComcast #theinternetISfreedom or something has a huge effect. Most reps have a huge ego, they don't like being in a constant spotlight of negativity.

I think our biggest problem is that a lot of these issues don't have a leader a la the civil rights movement. Even Occupy, which built to some serious momentum, didn't have sustained vision and leadership to force the changes we might want. Plus, we (incl. me) are lazy and know it could be worse (NK, China) but we are slipping faster and faster and need to rally before it really is too late.
They will usually take 3 years to figure out they can't and then it's time to junk the 625 million cams and upgrade to the next dumb solution. Your basic tech industry employment guarantee scheme.
He's only going up to 1800 feet, it sounds like. It seems like a flight on a jet would be cheaper and more effective.
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I used to be a big believer in freer markets in these areas, but all the places that are cheaper appear to use monopsomy power to drive down costs which is kind of the opposite. Even if there is a widely competitive market you don't get to make informed choices, negotiate and leave for elsewhere when you have a bad hospital or surgeon in a priority case. It's also far easier for people to make irrational choices when dealing with their health. As far as filling cavities, many fillings literally amount to cutting a tooth open inserting a material and reattaching the piece that was cut. Common complications include hitting nerves. Allowing assistants to do this on fairly limited training seems to be a very poor idea -- I've changed dentists because of complications from a filing and the inability to fix it, and I wouldn't wish the complications on someone.
I was hoping for something more scientific or at least psychological, but alas.

I would say these reasons don't line up with my observances at all.

For instance, one of mine is "this project is so big, I don't know where to start". Once I find a piece that seems like something I can get done quickly and ease me in, things tend to go a lot easier.

Another is "I have so many (different) things to do that I don't want to do any". Presumably this is not so different than the earlier one, and it's hard to get started without an obvious plan of attack that having only one or more tasks ahead of you brings with it.

Lastly, as a lifelong procrastinator, I've noticed that waiting until the last minute to do something you need to do OFTEN results in never having to do it at all. You end up doing only things that really needed to get done.

In the end, I don't really worry about it, or I hunt for tiny tasks to get my momentum going.

As for the article's "I'm not sure how doing that work will take me to the next step" I guess? Maybe? But "I'm not sure what I would do after I finish that work (what the next step is)" I don't believe has every been a factor a single time in my life.
I'm a surgical intern right now, it's not fun. I'll be doing radiology next year, and very much looking forward to it.

I'm biased, but I don't agree with the premise of the article; Doctors should be among the highest earners in any country, it's the price you pay to ensure the brightest students are attracted to medicine despite the long training. I do agree with the following:

A second route would be to end the requirement that foreign doctors complete a U.S. residency program in order to practice medicine in the United States. This means setting up arrangements through which qualified foreign doctors could be licensed to practice in the United States after completing an equivalent residency program in another country. The admission of many more doctors would put downward pressure on the pay of doctors in the United States, as insurers would have a new pool of physicians to add to their networks who will accept somewhat lower compensation.

I've met many foreign-graduates who have already completed residency. In makes ZERO sense to have these individuals repeat a residency in the U.S. They have already undergone 12+ years of training, actively treat patients in their home countries, and there's a need for physicians in the U.S. This is very much cartel-esque of the AMA. I know it would result in lower salaries, but this would (hopefully) translate into lower-cost medical school in the U.S.

This is a situation that may benefit from tech solution. There are already certain states allowing foreign medical graduates to practice in the U.S. If you're looking for a "startup pain point", let me present you with the two sided market:

1. There were ~7,500 international medical graduates who applied to residency in the U.S. (http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Charting-Outc...) Presumably, these are individuals who want to practice in the U.S., but must undergo a U.S. residency. I don't know how many of them have already completed a residency in their home country, but let's conservatively say 25% or ~1,800.

2. The AAMC is estimating a physician shortage of 30,000 by 2030 (https://news.aamc.org/medical-education/article/new-aamc-res...).

Even if all of the foreign train medical graduates were allowed to practice in the U.S. w/o residency, it still wouldn't be enough. Maybe there's a startup opportunity that matches foreign MDs to positions in the U.S. As I mentioned, states like Missouri have already allowed some non-residency-trained physicians to practice (https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/15/missouri-doctor-dearth/). My preference would be to have a foreign doctor who has undergone residency in his or her home country rather than a U.S. grad with no residency.
Also because Excel is both an IDE for developing spreadsheets, and a GUI container for operating them. Splitting dev time and run time environments would help with control. When a dev supplies a user with a traditional .Net GUI app, they don't enable the user to hack the app by supplying a copy of VisualStudio alongside. Effectively, this is what Excel does.
> then ISPs will only see opaque encrypted traffic and will be unable to effectively implement really fine-grained traffic prioritization/de-prioritization

Is there any doubt that no-tolerance of encrypted traffic will be baked into their ToS with proprietary encryption becoming the standard between the bundled endpoints?
He most probably has huge cost of living. Cudos if not though.
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This is the point that's going to get missed a lot. In the corporate world Excel is the proverbial hammer to nearly every use case involving data manipulation, regardless of how well suited it is for the task.

Edit: I just noticed that I'm the third person to reply to you and we all referenced hammers.
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Even without certificate pinning, starting with Android 7, you must decompile the app to allow user provided certificates. Or use an xposed module if you have a rooted device.

See this mitmproxy bug: https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/2054

And this tool is nice to automate decompiling, adding the line in the manifest to be able to use user-installed certificates, and recompiling: https://github.com/levyitay/AddSecurityExceptionAndroid

Also, if the app uses Google signin, you have to be rooted, because play services uses the package manager to check the app signer before giving the app a token.
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"This is where server/compositor/window manager and panels/docks/desktop are all in a single process."

This sounds like gnome-shell, and it's atrocious. It's unresponsive and laggy under any sort of load, even the mouse cursor skips around
There is a way to politely ask for it and be careful to what you get.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_double
Yes, obviously, residents are doctors. By "doctors on staff" I meant supervising doctor. The phrase "on staff" usually means permanent staff vs the residents who are temporary.
> There was a time when I thought of regulations as progress killers, but I find myself shifting on that and getting nervous every time I hear about self-driving tech.

IMO, this notion applies to garage tinkerers and should not apply to billionaires or their corporations

The reasons should be obvious, but a garage tinkerer has a finite reach in whom his work can impact

The same isn't true of the wealthy elite and corporations. Who very plainly have the ability, in modern society, to impact just about every human on the planet.

It's as if, on one hand, we recognize government must be reigned in because of the immense reach of their power, but ignore the same problems when it's Bill Gates.

Propaganda is a powerful thing.
You should really give the IdeaVIM plugin a try. I use it in several Intellij editors, PyCharm included, and it is terrific. It has a few quirks and discrepencies from VIM, but it is a far better text editor than the editor that comes stock in any other IDE.
Hate to break it to you, but your family is much more likely to get killed by their own mistake or the mistake or someone else (e.g. a drunk driver) than a self driving car.
You might want to check out Webpass, which is now owned by Google Fiber. They can and do deliver high speed internet. Webpass specifically targets dense population centers.
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That's true, except it used to be common to label such articles as "editorial" or "opinion". Granted, you and I can already recognize that it's an opinion piece, but not having an explicit distinction is obviously intended to blur the lines between fact and opinion. I'm just not a fan of this practice.