skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the obvious objection in this case that the incentive structure at the moment is terrible? Hence the lack of competition in most markets? Without needing to endorse one philosophy or the other, I'd say the telecom system in the US is a failure (for ordinary customers, it's been a ringing success for the telcos), and municipal broadband is worth a try (being less terrible than Comcast & Co is a fairly low bar...).
>In the US, employees must still be paid minimum wage. Depending on the state, an employer may count tips toward this amount. If an employee reports $0 in tips, the employer must pay them $7.25/hr. While I would like to believe that what you say is true, I find it hard to be true.

Sure this is technically correct according to the way the law is written but it ignores the reality which is that a large group of criminals ignore the law on a daily basis and face no consequences. Wage theft is MASSIVE and widespread across America especially for low wage workers, who often rely on tips (but it even effects high wage workers too!). More money is stolen in the US through wage theft than all other methods combined. Business owners (especially small business owners) steal from their employees by not paying them when they quit (oh I guess we just lost your last paycheck, sorry, we'll get it to you soon I promise), stealing tips, intimidating employees into not reporting wages under the minimum, refusing to pay legally mandated overtime or refusing to allow legally required breaks or a variety of other ways owners can use their power to illegally extract unpaid labor from their employees.

The solution is to abolish tips and require business owners pay their workers fair wages, or help the workers bargain collectively to ensure this themselves.
TBH I'm not sure why I left add/remove in, track/untrack is simpler and more in line with what I was saying. :)
My folks power company buried the power lines in the rural areas to avoid trees falling and causing outages. They should have ran cable or fiber while doing this, total waste of man power and work. Too far for DSL but they have power.
You could give the option to the owner of the room to set a password for anyone wanting to join. And maybe you could use the password to encrypt further communication.
Hopefully this doesn't get buried as it's 100% correct and thanks for that. Counterparty risk is why shorting tether isn't free money even though it should be (and cost to borrow but not trying to be too pedantic)
How about listening as someone who calls for your family to be terrorized and killed; NPR regularly gives a platform to people like that (so often in fact, that some right-wing friends call it National Palestinian Radio). You think that because of your political affiliation you can't possibly be harboring abhorrent views, come out into the light. No one is asking you to invite klansmen to your dinner parties, just know that your crazy little militia (antifa) is every bit as hateful, fearmongering, and dangerous as the klan ever was.

It's in vogue now to compare antifa to the communists in 1930s germany and to pontificate on the whatifs. We know the whatifs though, they happened not 1000 miles to the east and caused just as much death and terror (if not more).

Most importantly, consider that those extremists you're afraid to waste your time with are a lot closer to you in both life experience and views than you're willing to admit. (pro tip: if you make fun of Kushner's voice or Trump's hair you got a lot in common with /pol/ when they use slurs like sand-n* or compare Obama to a monkey).
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I'm not suggesting that tech has to fix the problem, but that it should at the very least be interested in helping others solve the problem. Blame lawmakers? Absolutely. Why not actively lobby lawmakers, and work with them to change the law?

> tech companies did not invent tipping and tech companies did not create a system where certain professions rely on tips.

No, but they did break the existing model whereby workers received tips, without thought how for what an alternative looks like. And it happens time and time again, like enabling the gig economy without considering what happens to the benefits and job security of those forced into it. And each time the industry as a whole throws up its hands and says "society needs to fix it" rather than engaging proactively.

Like I said, people resent Silicon Valley. Maybe not the majority yet, but it's on the rise. Before long Silicon Valley will replace Wall Street in many people's perception, as it helps to concentrate wealth to the haves and away from the have-nots. Those of us working in the industry ought to be concerned about that.
In the US, wouldn't they need to do a Meaningful Use attestation?

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ehr-vendor-marketshare-...

It seems like a solid number for those should be available somewhere.
Decentraland shows the potential of blockchain and VR combined
The 'cashless society' is starting to show another dark side here in Sweden in that several banks have started to close accounts for organisations [1] which don't "agree to the bank's ethical foundation" (the Swedish word is "Värdegrund" [2]). While there still are banks willing to take these organisations as customers this is a development in the wrong direction. It does not matter whether you agree with the "ethical foundation" these "banned" organisations have, the important fact is that they operate within the bounds of the law of the land. This used to be the deciding factor to separate 'good' from 'bad', legal from illegal, allowed from disallowed. Cash does not care about politics, it is - by law - as valid for a communist as it is for a priest or a libertarian. This currently does not go for the services provided by banks to enable transactions in a cashless society as can be seen by the Swedish example; there is no compulsion for those banks to take up anyone or any organisation as a customer. In a polarised society like Sweden where the pressure to abide by the "ethical foundation" is very strong this leads to extra-judicial sentences on those who do not abide by or agree to those ethical foundations.

Had those organisations been shunned because of their stance on, say, religion, those banks would be accused of discrimination. Discrimination based on political orientation however is currently not protected by law. If the "cashless society" is to succeed this probably will have to change, doing anything else will only lead to even more segregation where "left-wing" financial institutions refuse to do business with "right-wing" customers.

In short, in a land ruled by law it is the law which should be the boundary between what is allowed and disallowed. As long as an individual or an organisations abides by the law their ideological standpoint should be irrelevant to financial service companies.

[1] http://www.friatider.se/nordea-st-nger-ner-nationalisters-ko...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4rdegrund
How did you copy licenses if the power was out?
That's so great to hear! I love to see how it empowers small teams to deliver big stuff.

What was the trickiest part for you when it comes to real production usage?
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CompactGUI – Reduce size of progs on disk without performance loss (windows 10)
I was struck with the same thing.

There is a reason we moved from newsgroups, to HTML and browsers to search engines. Each step became a better, more powerful tool to find content faster, more efficiently.

These days so many of the tools we're using are so entrenched, even with some of the changes the author talks about, it would still be a monumental task for people to change.

I mean, look at how bad FB is (on several levels) and look at all the alternatives which allow you to keep your information private and share what you want like Diaspora or Freenet. I tried (repeatedly) to get friends and family to join my Diaspora pod and tried to convey all the advantages of it being private. Nope, nada, no way. None of them ever joined and many just said FB has such deep roots into their lives, giving it up would have a huge effect on their lives, it was crazy.
7ms is an eternity. You can do half of this [0] in 7ms or you can download one line of code. I’d be out of a job if I introduced 1/10 of that time for text padding.

[0] http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2017/12/15/mgs-v-graphic...
This is how I operate too. I have had additional monitors in the past, but they always just seem to sit there with never changing content. I am now just on a 15" laptop all the time.
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I am not a Linux expert, but I deployed clusters to 5 Raspberry Pi and Azure with custom terraform scripts. With the kubeadm things are much more straightforward now. My suggestion is to start with minikube with kubeadm bootstrapper than use more complicated solutions.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/pick-right-solution
Did your brother ever use the microwave offensively against you? https://xkcd.com/654/
One thing I do if I'm a little uncertain about my upcoming git actions is just move to a new branch: git checkout -b tryScaryGitStuff. That way if I ruin the commits, the original branch is still around as a back up.
> It’s pretty easy to understand that if the government were to suddenly double the number of dollars in circulation, the value of a dollar would go down by approximately half.

Just because it's easy to understand doesn't mean it's correct.

For example, the US money supply more than doubled in the last 10 years, yet the value of a dollar has not halved.

M0 quadrupled in 10 years: https://imgur.com/a/L9mDx

M1 tripled: https://imgur.com/a/AaLNS

M2 doubled: https://imgur.com/a/0RGeQ

Money doesn't work like shares of stock, where a two-for-one split makes each share worth half as much.

Velocity, yield curves, economic growth and exchange rates all get to vote.

If you double the number of dollars "in circulation", it also matters which economic actors hold those extra dollars.

US money supply more than doubled, but the balance in most people's bank accounts and wallets didn't double. The doubling went to actors who didn't spend it, driving velocity down.

This stuff is complicated with many variables. Unfortunately the "easy to understand" version doesn't explain what happens in the real world.
I can also hear a CRT on anywhere in a house/office. One of the best things about the transition to flat screens is that the annoying high-pitched whine that accompanied CRTs has gone away. Now I only hear mode scanning/input skipping flat screens. At the same time, i do feel like I've lost a bit of a super power.
"Comments are for people other than yourself and that includes you because future you is not you"
Theoretically. In reality - real traders couldn't even trade this thing as there was no infrastructure and too much system risk. If I fund my speculative 100-500k trading account who guarantees I'll be able to close out and cash out when I want? Noone could so far. Futures market will add much needed liquidity and confidence that one could actually trade this thing actively and with apropreate position sizes.

So far all BTC trading was done mostly by hobbyists who have no clue how markets function.
I can't answer for pfraze, but I've thought about this a lot.

For one, even right now we badly need better client-side ways of caching, searching and indexing content. I should be able to easily cache, tag and search a wikipedia article, for example, without ever touching a remote server. On the decentralized web, these tools are critical.

As far as search goes, it'd be interesting to find a way of letting peers run anonymous queries on each others' local indices. Maybe you'd still only want trusted peers (e.g. friends of friends) to be able to query your index. Or maybe you'd want to have some privacy settings for who can search what content. Maybe this is a job for zero knowledge proofs? IDK. It's a hard problem for me to wrap my head around. How to balance privacy with fluid information retrieval.

This kind of p2p search system could be a powerful replacement of centralized search, especially in the sense that it gives users the opportunity to index content with humanly meaningful metadata.

Remember back in the day when people had web indexes? You'd visit someone's www page and they'd have a list of cool links? Think about a next level version of that, where peoples' curated indexes are stacked with meaningful metadata and well integrated with the browser.

I could also imagine interesting peer-graph indexing algorithms that worked using gather-apply-scatter kind of techniques.
> there's an exchange printing billions of dollars of unbacked tokens they can use to drive up the price at will

Can you explain? What's the exchange? How do they print Bitcoin (I presume that's what you mean by "tokens")? How does that drive the price up rather than down?
We quite often get firm evidence, and the evidence turns out to be wrong. But I'm a sceptic, which is why I never bought any Bitcoins for $1 in 2012.
Author here, I also wrote a more in-depth article on how to apply concepts from functional programming to languages like Java 8: https://hackernoon.com/practical-functional-programming-6d79...
Amtrak train crash: 'multiple fatalities' reported in derailment near Seattle
The ACA mandated and funded the adoption of EMR in large part by providing funding to physicians' offices which they could use largely as they wanted as long as they ended up with a certified EMR. Unfortunately the certification process is "not free" to tune of at least tens of thousands of dollars in testing costs to outside certification authorities, plus whatever work needs to be done as prep or to remediate issues. OpenEMR also used to have a very unpolished interface in a "frame-driven late 90s web form" kind of way, and that probably hurt its adoption some when practices were looking at it and comparing it to more polished offerings from the commercial vendors.

There have been multiple open source EMR packages over time, many of them derived from failed commercial attempts that were then open-sourced. I believe that OpenEMR is one of those, but I think that most of the rest have fallen by the wayside or are used in situations where certifications and Meaningful Use attestation are not so relevant.

Others on the thread (e.g. brady) are core members of the OpenEMR team so they're probably better able to answer questions.
Just read the manual.

https://git-scm.com
Depends on the team. I would not approve anything other than using a runtime library or importing 'core-js/fn/array/is-array' from the wonderfully modular core-js: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js

Although for this particular strawman I think `foo.constructor === Array` is probably enough.
Sounds like you have been working at companies with poor procedures and employees without the required skills.

Avoiding SQL in favour of an ORM or inline sql is 95% of the time a sign of laziness.
Array.isArray is available in the runtime, but it was a later addition so folks may be downloading it for compatibility. There is a LOT of that in the javascript ecosystem.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Amazon's house brand AmazonBasics now sells over 1,500 products
The satellites don't provide enough information for self driving cars while they do provide enough information to be what China is considering a national security concern.
it is true on my end.

i've switched from gmail (the android app) to the fastmail app and it hasn't worked once.
The case of reloading only parts of a page (while retaining boilerplate and other already-received content) could trivially be solved if HTML could make use of entities (a concept from SGML on which HTML is based) in combination with HTTP cache controls. But once Netscape brought us JavaScript, any effort in this direction was doomed because it wasn't essential in an already Turing-complete scripting environmemt. As recently as earlier this year, HTML Imports were removed from the spec I believe (not entirely sure about this).
Hmm I didn't know Walmart offered company-matched 401k. In that case, if they have contributed there at least $100 (which I think should be possible with company match if you work fulltime) for a year, there should be enough money to take a loan of $500 AFAIK.

> If you are looking to take $500 from your 401k outside of those groups, I'm gonna guess things have gone horribly wrong

Yes, probably, but the question was is it possible, when the things go horribly wrong. I still think if you have 401k that should be possible.
I like how you assume that a mind that doesn't balk at "SprocketFactoryFactoryFactory" is also a mind that will ensure the implied contract of that name is adhered to. But I guess that sort of optimism -does- come with 'new developer on a project', so you're probably correct in what the developer will think they know.
We honestly need less comments on HN that end with, "Screw X!"
They are bundled, it’s called ES6/ES2015. But for backwards compatibility, the userland packages are still used regularly.
it depends on what you mean by "invalid transactions". If you mine a block that doesn't follow the rules, the rest of the network will just ignore it, and so you've wasted your computation.
China's Tencent, JD.com invest $863M in online retailer Vipshop
Reminds me of a wireless mouse I had that would intermittently become stuttery, but would usually fix itself whilst I tried to troubleshoot. I eventually realised that my laptop was between the mouse and its receiver, and any higher than normal utilisation of WiFi would interrupt the signal. Moving the receiver to the other side of the laptop completely resolved the issue.
> with no idea what I'm getting out of it.

Not a whole lot. I've looked at them and they are for the most part outdated, do not make the case for 'some swap' or are simply fluff to make the list look more impressive.
>On a side note do we even need door men?

At my buddy's old place in Brooklyn the security door for the building broke. It had been broken for about 24 hours before my friend discovered a prostitute giving a john a BJ in the stairwell.

Doormen keep prostitutes from giving BJs in your stairwell, among other things.
I didn't realise that others also actively avoid npm. I can't really place my finger on exactly why I do, but I guess it's somewhere between the cargo-cult mentality in Javascript (which makes me associate node packages with poor quality programming) and not seeing the point of having another package manager beyond what my distro provides.
> Even if demand for the dollar plummeted, the Fed could in principle keep burning money until a dollar is scarce enough to be worth the “right” amount

This seems like the crux of the argument of the difference between the dollar and Bitcoin in the author's view. To me though this statement doesn't make sense and is very misleading, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong. The Fed CANNOT just keep burning dollars because they don't have all the dollars. Individuals hold those dollars. Yes, if individuals just started burning their dollars the value of the dollar would adjust to the "right" amount, but who in their right mind would burn their money for the greater good? In light of this, the Fed doesn't at all seem like a "check" on inflation or deflation. The dollar is still subject to the same supply and demand properties of Bitcoin.
Well if you believe that Labour, Coalition and Tory governments have all conspired with all the train companies to somehow hide profits from the public and from their shareholders, that's not really something I can argue with.
I'm consistently confused as to who is buying all the tethers in such crazy amounts. It's not like they are appreciating in value. They are sort-of pegged to the dollar, but why not just hold the real dollars?
> US money supply more than doubled, but the balance in most people's bank accounts and wallets didn't double. The doubling went to actors who don't spend it, driving velocity down.

Note that this was done in response to the velocity going down for reasons unrelated to the money supply, and largely because the government completely dropped the ball on fiscal stimulus so the central bank was left pushing the one lever it has, even though the circumstances were such that that lever was obviously not well suited to move the economy in the intended direction.
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If I'm a new developer on a project and see a class called "SprocketFactoryFactoryFactory" I'm probably going to cry for a bit and wonder whether I couldn't have got a better gig, and then try to figure out a better way of producing sprockets.

Human short-term memory only has a size limit of about 4 simultaneous chunks so once you're juggling those levels of indirection any development is going to be glacially slow until you've acquired a great deal of experience with the codebase.

Out of interest, can you describe a concrete case where multiple levels of factory patterns have actually been justified and resulted in simpler code than an alternative?
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> That intrinsic value is that the US government accepts it as payment for taxes

That can be argued to be an abstract utility for the US Dollar, but it is not an argument for the value (or "intrinsic value", whatever that means) of the US dollar in that the value of it is what determines the tax obligation. That is, if I own taxes on a non-USD transaction (say capital gains for BTC sales), the amount of those taxes is dependent on the value of USD. There's no forcing function -- if USD is valuable, I owe fewer dollars, if USD is cheap then I owe more dollars. There's no net demand.

To summarize -- tax obligations create no net demand for USD, thus are not a factor in the value of USD.

The exception to this is things like fees and (in the short-term) specific value taxes (like property taxes). These are not a significant factor in US government revenue, so I think we can safely discount them, although many municipalities rely on them to a greater degree.

I don't understand why this tired old meme keeps getting circulated -- it makes me want to write an angry letter to David Graeber. I think it's an interesting thesis for the origin of money, as early taxes were more like fees, tariffs, and tolls rather than ad valorum, and serves as a useful counterpoint to the Mises regression theorem, but stating it as a fact for the current state of things rather than a historical vestige requires a gross misinterpretation of the facts.
> Java's excellent tooling means they'll even be somewhat maintainable.

I think it may be otherway round. Excellent tooling seems essential for Java to succeed. Since standard JDK could not even compile a project without ant/gradle/maven etc. Java has tools to parse/filter stack traces, of course because few 1000 line vomit for a missing file, or wrong jar means one need tools to extract relevant error from stack trace. A 10 level file hierarchy to read some config data means I can't really code without full blown Java IDE.
These exchanges will automatically liquidate your position in order to avoid causing a loss to the exchange. Okcoin uses socialised losses (clawback), bitmex uses ADL with their insurance fund. Bitfinex does some weird stuff.

They hold up pretty well during large price crashes.
It's to be seen but owners of the spec represent mesos, kubernetes, docker and cloud foundry so it seems like Docker is open to the idea. source:

https://github.com/container-storage-interface/spec/blob/mas...
How I Learned to Deal with My Bitcoin FOMO
They are amazing feats of civil engineering. I visited London recently and was riding on the Tube, most of the deep parts you cannot really see, but there are lines that are in cuttings and there the low-level foundation, plumbing and wiring of the city can be glimpsed.

I sometimes wish I had become a civil engineer rather than electronic.
I don't have a question, just praise. It'll be interesting to see how dat addresses could be persisted or addressable; content searched, etc. Nice work on Beaker. :)