skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be sure not to confuse subjective opinion for objective fact. "I don't like X" does not imply "X is bad".
It's simple. The rest 40M+ ppl in the city are "illegal immigrants". Which means no permanent residency, no health care, no education but only cheap labor.
'This said, we probably should add a tiny ambulance fee ($50), and apply a fine for inappropriate use.'

I agree although reclaiming this fee from those who abuse the system is likely to prove difficult?

I can remember a time in the UK when ambulance and, IIRC, fire service would bill you after the event for attendance.

Not sure if this was every case or just where they deemed it appropriate? But, I do remember, it was common knowledge there was no penalty or follow-up if you didn't pay.
Mostly it's a mix.
Lipreading is different. For example the «sh» sound is made by slightly pursing the lips but not all speakers do this. In German it gives a very clear visual picture.
It's more like your car warranty paying for an oil change, so they won't have to pay for a seized engine years later.
Set all potential emergency numbers to be important. Set your phone to no interrupts except for those contacts. If your phone doesn't make a noise, don't touch it.
As skeptical as I am about predictions on the imminent demise of the Chinese economy (which occur regularly going back at least to Gordon Chang), I'm intrigued to see what an experienced documentary maker like Alex Gibney will add to the discussion. Thanks for posting the link!
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It's obvious to understand that 1.5 billion people can't be fit in 5 cities. Or you want me to draw it down?

The fact is that in this article, there is no news. We all should take it as example to build multiple cities and not concentrate all the services, industries, workers in one or two cities.

US and Europe suffer this issue and it's quite obvious. San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, are examples of places where the cost of living is so high that even people who have a proper job can't afford to live. Yet, we still put all the companies and the services in the top cities and we create a new class or poor workers that couldn't even pay a rent to live decently.

We like to talk smart, but we act like idiots. I can only see that, at least, in China the trend is different.
Sorting functions implemented in C as std qsort() format
That is true. But the form of polygamy practised in Saudi Arabia appears to be a 'milder' form: only up to 4 wives are allowed and most marriages are monogamous. But no mention of the 'bride price', as far as I can tell [1]

[1] https://www.quora.com/In-Saudi-Arabia-are-women-forced-into-...
> As John Oliver commented last month...

That pretty much says it all.

This is like requiring the manufacturer of glassware used in the labs to hand over their proprietary manufacturing information, or all the evidence processed by the lab must be thrown out. The glassware can be verified to work properly given appropriate testing, etc. So can the software without looking at the source.

In fact, treating the software as a black box and employing appropriate testing without consideration as to what's in the box - just what the box should be able to do - should lead to more confidence.

The real issue here is whether there is such a certification / testing process that the tool meets that can be independently verified.
Google’s hiring advice has done incredible damage to the United States. They were the ones who first widely promoted the idea / made it sexy to interview 750 candidates for 1 role and then still saying no to all of them, just so you can be a cool / desirable company. That kind of hiring methodology drives people insane.
Display ads will die out when it becomes an uneconomical business model.

But, I recently trialled a subscription to The Times (UK) and found they were still deploying banner ads almost to the same degree as non-subscription alternatives.

So, maybe, they are going to be sticking around for a while yet?
The health insurance system in the US is about as far away as you can get from capitalism. It's heavily regulated, a cartel, the prices are not transparent, and there is no competition (existing hospitals have to approve new hospitals, etc).
What's wrong with soybean and oil? Economy of Australia is beef and coal. Brazil also produces and exports aircrafts.
Developing desktop apps is hard. I'm working on an open source project [1] that aims to take away much of the pain mentioned in the article, such as code signing. Perhaps some people in this thread will find it interesting.

[1]: https://github.com/mherrmann/fbs
You read a 'hater', I read a counter viewpoint.
I'm currently a student in the Bay Area. One of the first thing that my seniors told me here was if you are ever injured or in an accident do not call 911 unless its life threatening as the ambulance bill can bankrupt you. We do have insurance but the system is too complicated and the consequences are the too scary if we don't get reimbursed.
3 Hour Crypto Setup: A Practical Introduction to Bitcoin, Ether and Altcoins
To be fair, that is only applicable to 1 of the items on his list. The rest seem pretty unique.

And even that one which is similar to Tokyo is a different experience than amazon which is really where his list was aiming to provide contrast.
Ask HN: How do i do biz dev in 6-weeks?
I have 6 weeks where the wife and kids will be traveling and I will be home alone. I want to go in a HYPER BIZ DEV MODE to get more client/contracts for my consulting business (custom software dev).

Any tips or ideas on how to effectively use my “free” 6 weeks?
Tl;dr: no one knows how they came up with the name. It used to be called other things before branding became a thing. Board minutes don’t detail where the name Smarties came from, just that it was decided.

The title is a misrepresentation of the article really, it should really be something like “Smarties: How the stocking staple came to be” since it’s more a chronicle of its origins, than an account of how it got its name. Still an interesting read though.
Beverages Manufacturers, Suppliers, Soft Drinks Wholesalers and Exporters
true as you can fit 2 liters of wine in a 1 liter jar.
Cool.

Is there a good enough rust to wasm compiler available already? I mean other than emscripten or binaryen?
> [Medicare dollars] may not even exist much longer if the GOP gets its way.

Has the GOP actually suggested eliminating Medicare? That doesn’t seem to be accurate at all.
Genuinely curious : What's a good alternative to setting a population limit per city ?

Having lived in cities that are crumbling under poor infrastructure, unchecked growth, excessive pollution (from vehicles, stuck in endless traffic jams), shortage of water/electricity, I wonder what can be done to fix this. Everyone from across the country wants to migrate to a few big cities that provide good employment. We shouldn't stop them from seeking opportunities but at the same time the local government has to ensure a minimal quality of life for the existing residents. What would be a short term solution (implementable in 1-3 years) that can balance this ?
This is an oft repeated fallacy by blockchain enthusiasts. Skeptical predictions from the past that turned out to be incorrect in hindsight has absolutely zero relevance to the viability of blockchain technology.
> they wanted to move everyone to the major cities

Source please? What I know is they wanted to move everyone to cities, "major" is not necessary.
Apache vs Nginx: Practical Considerations (2015)
About Bitcore BTX:

This is not an airdrop or claim, you just need to keep your wallet and claim your BTX once your wallet.dat with (keys to) bitcoins held on Nov 2 don't contain any BTC anymore. Doesn't matter if you do it now or in 2 years though. Is that correct?

About United Bitcoin:

BTCDIV says: Must act before block 501878 (Jan 03, 2018).

UB.COM says: All users who transfer Bitcoins from his/her own address to his/her own address between Block 494000 and Block 498777 (11 November 2017 to 12 December 2017 GMT) will be eligible [...]

So what's the date, Dec 12 or Jan 3?

About Bytether.com:

A little bit complicated but as long as you had a BTC balance at the BCH fork, you can claim whenever you want (and as long as the site and contract are live).

Is that correct?
3D Tilt Brush Artist Kab Age: Most Strange and Beautiful Things from Conscious
Not entirely true..

https://surgerycenterok.com
The annual CTF competition at CCC starts tomorrow
In the past, when I was writing web scrapers and I wanted to put the results into a database, I was just using the command-line interface for the database via the Rebol `CALL` function.
It was a couple of lines to create a `SELECT` and `INSERT` function to abstract this detail away...
If you are really curious about Red, you should give this approach a try and in case it's not performant enough for you, then you can put this option on hold until Red has proper I/O support.
Strobist: Lighting 101 – An Ideal Starter Lighting Kit
Also look at https://ctftime.org/event/544
Choosing the Tools to Build Your Next VR Application
Ever heard of antibiotics, pesticides, rat poison, cockroach sprays and mosquito mats?

Humanity is done playing the morality game a few thousands of years back. There were a few socio religious movements in India, which focussed on these things and they more or less concluded these things were beyond impractical.

And yes, even today rats and other animals are used for experiments in manufacturing drugs for humans.

What is to say they don't see as rats?
> Why PostgreSQL is underperforms so significantly? The answer is simple, we’re doing an unfair benchmark. As you may notice, we were indexing only an ID in a document for MySQL and MongoDB, and an entire document for PostgreSQL.

That's hardly biased after and very much before.
As long as people are migrating, people are voting with their wallets that a city "crumbling under poor infrastructure" etc. is better than whatever place they're migrating from.
> Health care costs have spiraled out of control because of the detachment of who is paying from who is receiving the service — much like higher education.

No, they have spiralled out of control because health care is something where no real market can exists, so you need good regulation (which the USA doesn't have). If you have an urgent and life-threatening health problem you can't shop around for a cheaper hospital or decide to go to none at all if the alternative is death. So they can charge whatever they want if there is no regulation.
What is a Dominant Eigenvalue?
Excuse me, but where does the number 40M+ come from?
1/ Make a sales process : materialize in software (dedicated CRM or Trello or whatever) and decide how your sales pipeline should look, how you should follow up with customers. Don't over engineer it, just try to make a formal process that you will be able to follow for after (not only those six weeks).

2/ Follow up with contacts (easy, stupid, but very often neglected)

3/ If you lack recognition / portofolio, maybe run a quick "marketing project", something that could reach front on HN (but might not) but that you could anyway showcase to customers. This could also be a nice opportunity to engage a discussion with customers.
I agree in a sense, but it depends on whether we're talking about disrupting the current incumbants or about disrupting the mechanisms of centralisation itself.

Microsoft's PC has disrupted IBM and created a new "monopoly". Same with the web and mobile platforms, which are now dominated by a handful of oligopolists that appear stronger than everything seen before.

I think incumbants can always be disrupted, but can they be replaced with something structurally less prone to centralised control or are we just headed for the next cycle of disruption and re-centralisation of power?
I once read lipreading doesn't work very reliable, even for very skilled lipreaders.

Maybe that's why most animation studios don't bother.
This is naive voice of someone who has never needed an effective healthcare system or faced many of the challenges that many do, such as chronic problems, unemployment etc.

What happens if it was your brother or sister dying? Not paying for them! Nice chap.

Healthcare costs are high because of lack of regulation and the ability for private enterprises to set costs. Profitability is not ethical when it comes to doing no harm. I’m sorry I can’t treat you, you can’t afford that option.
That's not true, China does not want to move people into major cities, that's why they have the "Hukou" system, which is a residency registration.

What they want is urbanization of the less developed areas, many of which were farmlands from before.
Demonstrating to whom?
But people already in that city can't vote with their wallets to stop the immigration.
Hm, this is interesting to me -- if your example is representative, US income tax rates are often quoted at the marginal rate, whereas European taxes (higher on a percentage basis) are quoted at the net rate, skewing the perception in the direction of European taxes sounding lower than they really are.

Of course, there's both deductions and non-income taxes also, which complicate the issue. In Norway, the total tax pressure is significantly greater than 50% for most people. (VAT at 25% always deducted from already-taxed income, long-term capital gains at 30%, pre-salary employer tax at 14%, company profits taxed at 24%, salary taxed at ~33% on average, fuel tax ~30%, wealth tax 0.85% of net assets after deductions +++).
Before I started programming in Rust I had similar concerns when I saw people pushing rust as backend language choice. However having written a non significant amount of rust it does really well at feeling a lot like ruby/python while still achieving high performance and low level access.
> Miners are very incentivized to fix it, because they get fees on transactions (so, the more transactions the better)

This is not true at all. Miners are much better off under bitcoin's crazy fee market (in the short-term at least). No other cryptocurrency is generating anywhere near as much value from transactions as bitcoin
The problem I see with the bindings at the moment is, JS uses very different data structures from Reason, so a simple conversion often doesn't give you the power pf Reasons type system.

This requires people to bind to JS and then do some runtime-conversion to get idiomatic Reason out of it.
The headline of the article is '...how could the government strike such a bad deal'.

I actually don't agree that facts always speak for themselves. I think it's very easy to pick naked facts to lead the reader where you want them to go without explanation of the decision making process or what the alternatives were.
Art is also about discovering when to break the rules.
I don't think there are any short term solutions, but there are a lot of medium/long time things you can do.

One policy I have found very interesting is to require developers to "invest" in the neighbourhood in exchange for building permits.

For example, the government could require developers to pay for public infrastructure before they can build (eg. they need to pay a part of a new subway line, or they need to renew the sewer system etc.)

This helps address the problem that there is lots of capital available for building new stuff, but nobody wants to pay for maintenance.
One improvement might be to use a pronunciation dictionary and map the emojis to actual sounds rather than characters. Having recently needed such a thing, I found that there are two widely available datasets: CMUdict and Moby Pronunciator:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?n...

https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict

The problem is that they'd be pretty hefty payloads to load on the client, so you'd want to do the text -> phone mapping elsewhere. Then use your character mapping as backup for words that aren't in the dictionaries.
Ask HN: Your predictions for 2018?
Similar to the previous years, predict what will happen in the next year. Please use lists instead of paragraphs. This is open for any kind of predictions (tech, politics, finance...)

2017: none?

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809767

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822723

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370

2013: none?

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970023

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681
It’s simply not true. In the 4 countries I have lived in, the US was the only one with very expensive heathcare, and in the other 3, which all have what Anericans call socialized medicine, healthcare was even more detached, but much cheaper.
Scala Cats hits 1.0
Most people just move to the big cities because there there are the jobs which pay better (and the chance to hop between them in case of being fired, without having to relocate)

A good start could be just to make remote all the jobs that can be made remote, but of course this would not cover a big part of jobs which need a whole team in the same location and specialized machinery (Eg the whole manufacturing sector)
Understanding the Essentiality of a Mobile App for Your Newspaper or Magazine
The parent did mention that "in the West" individual liberty is more important than mass control without providing any evidence to back it up. Then proceeded to mention how corrupt the Chinese government is. It is true that they never say that the governments in the West are not corrupt, but by setting up the main point like that, it sure looks like trying to mirror the corruption and mass control in China with the individual liberty of the West, which seems a lot like whitewashing to me.

There is mass control and corruption in the West, it just takes a less obvious form.
You could actually propose a whole set of Unicode characters that are making realistic-for-lip-reading movements.
Thanks for the link. After reading up on reversible for an hour after seeing this story, I'm still trying to figure out in an intuitive way why physical reversibility will not lead to energy loss. Or to put it another way, why does bit Erasure end up in energy expenditure. I understand why from a theoretically derived perspective that entropy increases, but I haven't been able to make the connection with the physical world.
London has a green belt -- an area of land around it which is legally protected. This makes the cost of living in London prohibitive, and limits growth.
It's better for them individually, and under the current conditions. That doesn't mean that changing the conditions (e.g. by some measure that reduces population of the largest cities) cannot bring a situation where the average person ends up better. In ML terms, the local gradient may be leading you to a local optimum.

By the way, individual people aren't good at all at evaluating invisible, long-term costs like that of pollution and its health risks.
What problems does it lead to in Hong Kong? I'd have thought Hong Kong is one of the most livable cities in China
I'm not even sure it will work for anyone besides me...

The overall approach was inspired by the book "Drawing on the right side of the brain" by Betty Edwards. It starts with some simple exercises that don't teach you to draw per se, but get you into a strange inner state where drawing makes sense. (Repeating real world curves and angles with your pencil without looking at the paper, redrawing a sketch upside down, etc.) It works incredibly well - an adult with zero artistic skill could do these exercises for a couple hours and get a strong sense of "holy shit, I can draw anything I want!" It really feels like you're unlocking a part of your brain that was always there. And the upgrade sticks with you for life.

The point is that I think many skills, especially those with a bimodal separation (you either get it or don't), are really about your inner state. The right inner state is hard to teach, but it can be taught, and then you gain the skill quickly and almost miraculously. For example, all those infuriating people telling you to "just be yourself" are referring to some kind of change in inner state, but haven't found the key to communicating it. For drawing, Betty Edwards has found the key. For social skills, no one has found the key yet. I'm skeptical that my approach will work for everyone, but I'm certain that self-experimenting on your inner state when around other people is more fruitful than trying to force things with them (bravely approach! pay attention! ask them about their job!) It might take a long time though. For me it took years, and only after I stumbled into the right state a few times by accident.

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Anyway, if you want to follow me, here's what I would suggest. All training must be done while you're around other people, and the first step is noticing just how much information you're sending out. Many nerdy folks don't even fully register their own mood - how good or bad they feel at any given moment - even when everyone around them can see it plain as day. To me it felt at first like a firehose of information, much of it negative, that I couldn't help but blast at whoever was close. (Not through words! Through my pose, my eyes, etc.)

One way to notice it is by contrast. Watch a clip by Sean Paul, and imagine that everyone around is constantly comparing you to him. That's the firehose. It's very hard to change, because it feels like "water", a part of what you are. And it's hard to accept that the true reason people don't flock to you is your low-grade depression. It feels unfair! But becoming hyper-aware of it is the first step you must take.

When I'm socializing, the focus of my mind is being aware of that firehose of information. It's easy enough to redirect when it feels nasty (just turn it away from other people). And if I deliberately ignore what I want from other people, and focus entirely on making my firehose a bit less off-putting to them, I can slowly affect change. Breathe out, breathe in slowly, don't lose touch with the immovable object, and very carefully make it move.
> But many voters believe what we should preserve is the single-family home, built environment

> Do you believe this is an honest characterization of their core goal?

Yes. I can quote Rothstein about racist motivations[0] or Marohn about short-sighted financial recklessness,[1] but I believe more people have nostalgia than malice. Even if they deploy structural racism and racist rhetoric.

Most people become set in their ways very quickly, and have difficulty imagining what is good other than what they thought was good when they were young. By now, you cannot find a native-born American who grew up in a time before cars became supreme. Most Americans don’t even remember a time before the Suburban Experiment.[2]

So, yes, people will bring up building heights, and respecting the neighborhood, and traffic, and parking über alles, but I think the main motivation is that they can’t imagine someone else can have a good life that is a benefit to the community other than the life that they think is a good life.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segr...

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org

[2] https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside-chat-1/2015/12/14/ameri...