skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You know those regulations are there for a reason right?

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

> It depends on what you mean by 'destroy markets.' The market is functioning well in the sense that healthcare stocks keep going up. It's functioning poorly in the sense that it's the ill who have to die or go bankrupt to support it.

The measure of the health of a market is not the profits of the industry in it. A better rule of thumb would be how many people get serviced and at what relative cost. In that sense, the american healthcare market is very unhealthy.
Breakfast pizza. Genuine trigger food of the Gods. I'm glad the Whole Foods next door closed.
If you have a US bank account, we would be fine paying in USD.
Techmeme summary: Steve Lohr / New York Times: Stanford AI car-image project analyzed 50M Google Street View images and location data to find geographic trends in race, voting behavior, wealth, and more

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I do like the brief and to-the-point introduction. Stimulus seems somewhat similar, or at least similarly motivated, to a framework I've been creating as I go -- https://bindinator.com/

(It's gotten quite a bit bigger than stimulus as it's been used. Such is life.)
lol no.
It does not run in the browser I am using.

That is one reason I chose it. Choice is good.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't continue pushing for reform. I'm just saying that our government has proven incapable of reformation, and we should be pushing towards non-governmental approaches until they can get their act together. If we can improve the way things are through capitalism, that's still better than just yelling at politicians that don't do anything.
And the man laughs...
No one says on 9/11 "Those guys did a great job showing us a vulnerability in our security!"

...except that's exactly what happened. Regardless of whether you think the changes are effective, just compare airport security before and after.
From how I understand it the author does not make any suggestions to use natural keys as primary key. He just defines what is natural key. And he does mention that they may change and it has to be considered.

Actually in the summary he suggests to create column with uuid in each table and use it as primary key.
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Outcry as YouTube star Logan Paul posts video of dead body in Japan
Mapbox have products that people want to use. Mapbox GL is an astonishing product almost entirely without competition, and their routing is also top-notch.

It remains to be seen whether 200+ employees and sunk costs is a sustainable business; it's an audacious bet on their part that it is. But Mapbox without doubt has the foundations of a very sustainable business within it.

Mapzen never had the revenue, and never looked like it was trying very hard to get it, presumably betting that its Samsung parent would keep the tap running (and, to their credit, being aggressively open-source so that their work wasn't wasted when the day came that the tap was turned off). A bunch of the stuff they did was technologically really fascinating and valuable, such as Who's On First (their geocoder), but never got to saleable product stage. Commercially Mapzen hobbled themselves for geocoding by their laudable insistence on being a 100% open solution: you simply can't do worldwide, reliable, saleable address-level geocoding with open data yet.

Note too that there are a bunch of less noisy players within the OSM ecosystem - Geofabrik, Thunderforest, Graphhopper - who do work which is often as interesting and performant as the Silicon Valley companies, yet with a much lower profile. If you're looking for alternatives following the Mapzen shutdown, I'd commend all three.
Then, having to look that way when being portrayed may stemmed from who were the earliest people being portrayed: Saints, Kings and Queens.

That certainly might have contributed to the lack of smiling, yes. From sources I have long since lost, it is my understanding that portraits were expensive, and photographs were serious business. Add to that the fact of...umm, why do we smile for photographs again? I do it because everyone else does. Build a time machine, and someone from the 1800s is going to ask, "why does everyone in your photographs look like a smiling idiot? Was there a rash of some brain-eating disease in your time?" I've also heard the theory based on exposure times, but by the very late 1800s exposure times had dropped dramatically. Though it could be argued that not smiling was a carry-over from the days of long exposure. Again, though, documentation I've seen simply said, "that's just how it was done".

Fashions change, just like we don't wear corsets anymore (well, I don't; but I don't judge), now we smile for pictures.
Techmeme summary: Justin McCurry / The Guardian: YouTube star Logan Paul sparked outrage by posting a now-removed video of an alleged suicide victim in a Japanese forest

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This is not the reality though... with React and Ember (presumably also Vue) there is one place where client-side only stuff happens, and it's in component lifecycle hooks. It's perfectly clean and makes sense.
I'm not sure I understand where the gyroscope comes in.
Is he saying the warped image on the LCD changes as the iPad rotates? Does that mean two people sitting on opposite sides of the cone are seeing the same image?
I don't think that's a particularly controversial view. Your last few sentences touch more on the issue - when you're faced with losing someone, it's very easy to say "Pull out all the stops, having [ mom | dad | grandma | grandpa ] here for one more year is worth it." Honestly, the only group of people I've ever been around who have less trouble with that mindset are medical professionals. Most doctors, especially if they're 65+, are DNR/DNI because they've seen what spending significant time in the healthcare system is really like. But I've seen some of those same people fall into the trap of demanding care for their aging parents that they've explicitly rejected for themselves.
I thought the Apple acquires Netflix rumor was old. They were also looking at acquiring Disney and some others as well, according to the rumor.
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They have improved the integration with Webpacker, but also bear in mind if you don't use the HTML/UI type functionality in Rails, it's a lot less compelling.
I'm assuming DHH/RoR is sensitive to that hence these solutions like TurboLinks, Stimulus, etc that still use server rendered HTML.
In the software world, we would fork or rewrite, and deprecate the old version. I think we should do the same for healthcare. The existing system is unmaintainable spaghetti code that needs to be deleted.

Create a new single payer healthcare system that is completely separate from anything existing now. Don't attempt to incorporate any existing insurance, regulations, medical records, etc. Allow the new system to ignore any existing drug patents. Get a few brand-new hospitals, a few hundred doctors fresh out of med school/residency, and tens of thousands of people using it - probably do this in a single city, a la Google Fiber. Spend a couple years working out the kinks.

Once that is done, migrate everyone to the new system over the course of a decade or so. Any existing hospitals, doctors, and patients are free to stick with the existing system, but I suspect they'll learn to regret that decision.

There are no technical or medical roadblocks to this that I can see. The only obstacles are political and legal, which can be overcome in one or two election cycles.
Sure, but that only works so far. Even a european-style police force would eventually snap if they had to do 100 break-ins to combat ongoing crime if 99/100 calls were fake.

Both issues need to be addressed.
Oh, and also, I should say anyone interested can join that "chat" (not that there will be anyone, mind you)...

And it's especially slow today - not seen it like this before. Barely possible I'm hitting the extent of my small instance's capabilities.
Maybe it's just the documentation that is lacking, but when I've played with Svelte, the API and template syntax feels like a hodgepodge of special cases.

For example, what exactly does a tag starting with colon mean? Is it just arbitrary syntax for things that don't fit in? What does a colon in an attribute mean? (i.e., why on:click rather than onclick or onClick or even something simpler like :onClick?) Why is there both {{#if condition}}<p>Content</p>{{/if}} and {{{condition && '<p>Content</p>'}}}? I feel like all these different concepts break the "it's just HTML" promise, when it seems like it could be simplified a lot.

Yes, JSX has similar gotchas, but at least it has references and specifications.

And what's up with the crazy semantics of computed properties?

Sorry if this sounds negative, but these have been genuine problems for me in getting a hang of Svelte.
> and spend a whole lot of their lives fiddling with drop down menus to enable/disable JS

Even without special extensions and keyboard shortcuts you spend very little time on fiddling with menus. It seems like a lot only at the beginning and quickly gets to near no fiddling at all. But it also saves time on various things, like when your adblocker doesn't catch something and you have to close those clickunder born popups or see a page full of ads where it's hard to even find the content, things also load faster and so on.

My only problem without javascript is cloudflare. They truly are sabotaging it, giving impossible to solve captchas for example.
I'm bullish on crypto, but there are many better ones out there other than bitcoin. The scaling and transaction cost issues that have been on display for the past couple of months should scare anyone heavily invested in it. Without serious usage, what good is it?
Maybe then I'll get to use ApplePay at Target.
Having spent a terrible summer working at Target as a cart attendant, I can explain at least part of the reason why their restrooms are gross. The job of cleaning the restrooms, as well as every other awful job that nobody wants to do, is given to "cart attendants", who applied thinking they'll just be pushing carts around all day and don't find out about these "side tasks" until their first day on the job. So these side tasks often go neglected out of spite and a lack of willingness to deal with that crap (figuratively and literally) for just above minimum wage. Why a gigantic store like a Super Target wouldn't hire a separate person as a "custodian" or "janitor" for such things is beyond me.
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Can you explain your logic about pushing for non-government reform if "government has proven incapable of reformation"? There is no healthcare fix without government reform. If you provide healthcare, you must adhere to government regulation. You must accept Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement rates. If you provide insurance, you are at the whim of the government and what each new year brings [+].

> If we can improve the way things are through capitalism, that's still better than just yelling at politicians that don't do anything.

You cannot improve this with capitalism. You can only improve this by replacing politicians who are married to a broken system through vested interests.

[+] Healthcare startup Oscar is going through the grinder: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-15/obamacare...
I make no claim that climate change isn't happening. Being between the modeler and the results meant it was my job to explain the result to the modeler. So criticizing climate change models within the scientific community was my job for over a year and a half.
> you can't actually "vote with your dollars"

Sure you can, and you did. You're gripe is that the majority of others don't share your concerns--so you have been, thus far, out voted.
Original title: “Oh My God, This Is So F---ed Up”: Inside Silicon Valley’s Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side

Techmeme summary: Emily Chang / Vanity Fair: An excerpt from Emily Chang's upcoming book Brotopia, on Silicon Valley's drug-fueled sex parties attended by powerful investors and well-known entrepreneurs

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Correction, reading further I see that the linked paper describes using a gyroscopic sensor to dynamically vary the viewpoint as the user rotates the device, but it remains true that the conic apparatus can display an image to be viewed comfortably from any angle.

Based on these considerations I propose an additional enhancement. Using the well understood technology of privacy filters for laptops, it could be possible to effectively occlude views based on orientation, allowing for the display of several views of a scene simultaneously, with the one visible depending on the user's orientation with the device.
> I don't think it needs to be an either or.

In principle, I certainly agree. But in the reality of contemporary American politics, I think that sometimes we need to make decisions about which path to take.

Is it a problem that anybody that knows an address can summon a heavily armed, often poorly trained, sometimes mentally ill group of people to break into a home at that address?

Or is it a problem that, given the above, people are actually doing it?

I want to suggest that we do actually need to choose one or the other in this situation, and that the answer is flatly the former.
I think the question is more on whether a duplicate index would be created instead of having the unique constraint and primary key designation on the same column share an index
Damn! That's a pretty big detail! There was talk a while back of Amazon getting into the pharmacy biz anyway. I wonder if that wouldn't be more draw to make this deal happen.
As a bonus, this press release will create a fresh wave of greater fools for him to sell into.
I call this power discrimination. I demand equal treatment of all men by the oppossum sex.
I am from a partially socialist country that has free healthcare. I have had private healthcare, along with most of my socio-economic class, my entire life.

Making it socialized does not mean it will be better. Coldly, see it as a different system with different consequences. Bringing it to the US: look at how much medicare costs today: 3.6% of gdp, servicing 56 million americans. If you extended medicare to the entire population at the same per capita, it would be 26% of GDP.
I don't know.

There's a lot of institutional inertia and forces opposing any change (and change itself is just churn).

The science side of things has a much better track record, but the interplanetary stuff is done by JPL, which isn't really NASA, and most of the rest is mostly a-political (modulo the Earth sensing stuff, which I'm continually surprised isn't cancelled for global warming reasons).

Then there's private enterprise, which seems to be doing better. But I'm not entirely comfortable with the "Guilded-Age" model of development.

So, I dunno.

Edit: when I wrote, "Until an aerospace engineer and solid rocket dude pointed out...", that should be "pointed out to me".
Techmeme summary: Fred Wilson / AVC: Three interrelated macro themes dominated this year in tech: the breakout of crypto, beginning of the end of white male dominance, and the backlash against tech

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One analysis on bitcoin is that the entire value of the blockchain comes from the PoW powered by it. The bitcoin blockchain has so much more work that's gone into protecting it against double spending than any other blockchain.

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I agree; it should be technically trival to implement this. All of my comments along the lines of this are wildly downvoted though; I'm not quite sure why. Maybe privacy cowboys?
I'm a long time LJ columnist too, and this news makes me all kinds of happy in my heart. There's a freenode IRC channel where there's bunch of chatter going on about the resurrection - #linuxjournal - feel free to jump in and chat with staff there!
I only scanned it, and it seems like a solid book; however, I found that PHP is an odd choice for CompSci I book. From the book:

> PHP is a dirty, ugly language held together by duct tape, cracked asbestos-filled spackle
and sadness (http://phpsadness.com/). It is the cockroach of languages: it is invasive
and it is a survivor. It is a hydra; rewrite one PHP app and two more pop up. It is
much maligned and a source of ridicule. It is the source of hundreds of bad practices,
thousands of bad programmers, millions of bugs and an infinite abyss of security holes
and vulnerabilities. It is a language that was born in the wild and raised in the darkness
by two schizophrenic monkeys. But its got character; and in this world, that’s enough.
Yes, exactly. What's your point though?
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I'm still surprised that police would go shooting up a place without even verifying that the situation they are supposed to be handling even exists.
Companies like Infosys, TCS, Accenture, Capgemini provide backoffice services for many Western business at a lower price point than what they could do themselves. That adds much to the economy.

The real leeches in this system are the consulting/placement shops.
Smart lock maker Otto suspends operations
> the biggest failing of the American health care system is its fragmentation

This flaw will be extremely difficult to fix for as long as its nature is perceived as "freedom" or "choice".
It wasn't publicly acknowledged but people figured it out already. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16046636 (both the article and the comments) for example. This wasn't going to stay secret much longer.
Whats the externality of providing healthcare, and in regards to the diffuseness of utility, food has the same problem and its a relatively very efficient market.
Techmeme summary: Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Smart lock maker Otto, which unveiled its first product in August 2017, suspends operations

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"Sleeping with a guy is a built in option women have to better their lives, that men don't have."

This is a complicated issue, and there's a lot to unpack here.

That technique may be used for women (and, heck, men too -- I'm the female 'breadwinner' of my household, although I didn't meet my husband at a sex party...) to better their lives, but those gains may be sporadic, and they depend on the continued cooperation of the man they're sleeping with.

I was in a "trophy girlfriend" relationship when I was young and my entire life revolved around "keeping" this guy. After a while, he broke up with me, I had to ask my parents for rent money (I had taken a first class trip to Europe the month before, but what was I going to do, ask him to put the money into my emergency savings account instead?), my entire life sort of fell apart. I went to parties with his friends, lived in his apartment, had a credit card on his account. Making sure he was happy was a job, but the skills weren't entirely transferable and there was no security. Not a situation I wanted to be in again, and I didn't.

Having a job, skills are easily transferable between employers, resources in my own name, and a relationship built on mutual respect and kindness, gives me far more freedom and security than sleeping with guys for the lifestyle perks. Even with alimony and child support in the picture (in which case you need to "get him" to marry you and/or have children) there is no facet of your life or lifestyle that is insulated from the whims of a single person. No, you may not starve after a divorce, but, especially if there's a pre-nup involved, the "betterment" in your life will always be temporary gain during the length of the relationship while his will be a permanent one.

Now, I'm not saying women shouldn't go to these parties or sleep with these men if they want to, or that considering a man's private jet ownership when debating about whether or not you want to sleep with him is an immoral choice. But saying "This is a built-in option for women that men don't have... the rest of us poor schmuck dudes actually have to go to work everyday" is an incredible simplification that makes the two choices sound like equivalent things, when they're absolutely not.

On a side note: The presence of these particular sex parties, and the fact that they're so closely intertwined with business in Silicon Valley, I think is an problem. As the article paints it, there's sort of a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" issue that they're introducing for women working in certain companies or who are seeking VC funding.
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