skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are means to reduce development and maintenance costs for a given capability set. Users can get more website functionality without raising their costs (typically paid in ads, reduced content, be our actual $). After taking into effect websites that actively lost money before.
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Is anybody here using perl 6 in production at the moment? Or perl 5 for that matter?
The reason is that I copy-pasted the excerpt from an Angelfire website that wrote them using those...
> There's no reason insurance companies need to be involved in health care at all.

As a Brit I sort of agree, because I think free healthcare at point of delivery is the right solution. However the more continental model works perfectly well and many countries use private insurers for that sort of model. Insurance companies have a lot of expertise in risk management, analysis and costing so to claim that they've no place in healthcare is odd.
Yeah, and they've promised to work on performance for ages now with almost no improvement.

I run a very small installation with only a couple of projects and some hundred issues on a 4 GB machine. It eats up 2 GB (sigh!!!) - and often still feels extremely slow. I mean 2 Gigabytes!! What for? That's a multitude of all the data I have in the DB there. And then it's not even used for something useful like caching. Some pages take several seconds to load. As a developer that's totally unacceptable to me.

Is ruby really such a mess that it's impossible to run an app with reasonable memory consumption?
What can we blame on JavaScript next?
Staying awake as a way to treat depression
My 2 cents:

1. in-n-out is amazing. It is my favorite mcdonalds-type burger. It's simple (only one burger on the menu, with or without cheese), it's fresh and it's cheap. In addition, employees are always nice to you. I wish it was in Europe.

2. I worked at McDonald in France, got minimum wage. I got out quickly but some friends stayed for quite a long time (3 years). The main reason is because they promote you quickly. Everybody hates the job (unless you're staying for a few months only, then it's fun) but everybody gets trapped by the constant promotion system. The trick is that promotions don't necessarily increase your salary, or if they do then it's peanuts. Even the director of my restaurant (not a franchise) was paid peanuts.

3. Working in a fast food can be fun! people don't expect that, but I always recommend people to try it. There is definitely a pleasure in manual labor, an instant gratification that you don't necessarily get in intellectual-type jobs.
I hear Haskell can accelerate to 60MPH in just 0.2 seconds!
Anecdotally, I have programmed in python, js, java, c#, go, C, C++, ruby, and php all in a professional environment and I'd have to say I prefer python the most. It is a very logically made language with a nice balance of abstraction and expressibility. My general language choosing path is: can I do it in python? If so, use python. Obviously you need to drop down to lower level languages for certain cases, but why work with memory management for application code if you can help it? I guess my point is that if you're going to be learning ML, you should be thrilled that you have the option of using python. That said if other languages float your boat, I've certainly done some ML in c++ with openCV and it was a positive experience. Use whatever you want.
It’s a fair comparison. Cars are about 3X slower than bullet trains, even when there is no traffic. If SF to LA had a bullet train, it would take less than 2 hr instead of 6 hours. That’s huge difference even if you don’t count for return trip. More cars per capita is due to lack of such train network in first place. If you go to places like Switzerland which is pretty sparse, trains are defacto way to travel even when people could easily buy car if they wanted to. The country heavily invested in public transit resulting in lower cars per capita.
I've never seen a years recouped metric in reference to P/E used in a professional context ever. You don't see it because you're holding everything static. This makes no sense (particularly in the case of growth stocks) because the whole point is that you're expecting growth in earnings and that number is going to wildly change over time periods and what earnings you use.

One of the biggest reasons why P/E is a relevant metric is that it enables you to easily compare stocks between one another.
Perl 5? Off the top of my head: Deutsche Bank, Broadbean, Photobox, BBC, Booking.com, Net-A-Porter. I'm sure a more enthusiastic Perl user can provide a surfeit of examples.
I read an article recently about how we know what we know about history. The big takeaway for me was that most of what we know about ancient times, we know because the information was repeated. Ancient texts were copied by scholars and monks over and over again. Even when the originals were destroyed or decayed, we retained some of the copies. This turns out to be a common pattern with almost anything in the sum of human knowledge. We only know what is newly discovered, or what is rediscovered (repeated).

In the digital sphere we have the same issue. There is a whole heap of data out there, but much of it is under threat of being lost, because it only exists on a hard drive we have lost the technology to read, unless we rebuild it (but we've also forgotten how to do that). If the platters decay without that data being copied, it's lost forever.

Just as the military knows, with its constant drilling, the same is true of human behaviours too. Repetition is the key to everything we know, and everything we do. Knowledge and behaviours that aren't repeated will be lost.
> I suppose now you can play 3d games?

No one does this. We have Steam, GOG, Origin, etc. Why use a substandard implementation of GL?

> Watch videos without flash?

This was possible of out the box in 2001's Windows XP with Internet Explorer. You just used <object> instead of <video>, have people forgotten this?

Nothing has significantly changed in the last decade or more, except for the fact that people think sending several megs down the pipe is acceptable.
This post lists three examples of dark algs/UX.

However, the second and third examples are speculative. They might be a result of an algorithm, or they might be a result of stupid policies, or they might be a result of operational errors. Who knows? Alleging that it's a "dark algorithm" sounds cool, but it isn't really damning without evidence.

So we're down to one example of actual dark UX, which doesn't make for a particularly strong allegation. I wish the author had taken just a little more time before publishing to collect a few other authentic examples.

That said, I know from my own experience that health insurers' online portals tend to have horrible UX, because it is not in their best interest to have great UX. Just yesterday, I had to fill out a form indicating that none of the five members of my household had other insurance or were Medicaid-eligible. There were a total of 10 checkboxes I had to check. After checking each one, I got a loading indicator and then the page refreshed, so I had to scroll the page back down to the next checkbox. It didn't prevent me from filling in the information, but it definitely made it needlessly tedious.
Ask HN: Time for an alternate work culture?
A network (imagine as a part of YC) where startups are looking for talented people. What they cannot afford is paying a good enough paycheck or benefits which a big corporate might provide to the employees who have those skills. Also, full-time offerings might not really be feasible in early phases.

A lot of working people seek something where they may work on something different, it may be learning a new tech or working on a specific problem. Short-term projects for 2-3 months (remote OK) are also something people seek in certain cases.

This network will bring them together. It can just be a forum or something more organized.

In a lot of cases (in beginning), experience and full-time employees are not really as important or even feasible. What is needed is getting things done (of course it does not mean allowing a totally crappy code or unstable infrastructure setup).

This is not really new - it does happen! Mostly via referrals.

Imagine a chance to work with one (or more) startups for a couple of months for 10-15 hrs a week (not pro-bono, but money is not the primary driving force here)

This may also be a place for those looking for cool weekend projects to work upon!

Related HN Posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8111190 (Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself at a boring corporate job?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10608903 (Bored to Tears by a Do-Nothing Dream Job)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9946399 (Ask HN: I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842684 (Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network and can only do remote?)

This is something I would find a very good experience. (got into a similar situation via personal reference, loving it!)

https://www.workatastartup.com/ would be similar if it also makes short-term flexible contracts a possibility.

Imagine an IBMer working for a budding startup 6 hrs/week.
I personally believe this has much to do with with two things.

1) In-n-out is not public. At all. So they don’t have to answer to the pressure of Wall Street and it’s sharks or get a huge stake taken by a hedge fund or Any of those other external pressures of that nature.

2) they’re still majority family owned and the guy who founded it reallly believed in taking great care of his workers
Actually not that true, there were some experiments in the 50s that shown that through bone conduction a human could hear up to 100khz. Likewise, babies hear much higher frequencies than the "common" 20khz.

sources:

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10848570

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5285336/

* http://asa.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1121/1.2761883
This video shows what Super Mario looks like at 380,000 frames per second
The Town with Equal Wages, Full Employment, Housing and Food for All Residents
Chambered in 7.62x51mm round, cca equivalent of .308. Very powerful cartridge, much more than AK-47 ones, which are already way more powerful than what most NATO is using (5.56mm - fast&precise but lightweight and often stops too soon, as troops in Iraq/Afghanistan know too well).

Not only it causes literally dismemberment (hit in limb will create an 'explosion' in tissue, you can literally blow off head of a person), but it over-penetrates (ie brick wall doesn't stop it). We're talking about regular ammo, not armor piercing ones which is another level above.

Against 'soft' targets (without ballistic protection, not behind thick concrete), you want exact opposite - something that hits and stops immediately (ie you are in your house and there is an intruder - you don't want to shoot him and your kid which is behind 1-3 thin walls in same direction).
> Forgotten Twitter log-in details have been blamed for delaying a public correction to Hawaii's missile alert earlier this month.

Kind of floored that twitter is what the government has to use to put a notification out to it's public to provide critical information.

But then I continued to read and the article goes on to say that twitter and other social media was used by the Governor after the emergency text message was sent out, which means it obviously isn't a primary source of information.

So actually it's just clickbait journalism. Anyone panicking in the area would have almost certainly picked up a text before getting anything over twitter.

What is pretty terrible is that the governor of Hawaii most likely doesn't have 2FA on his twitter account and keeps the password on his phone, probably in a notes app of some kind, and is willing to publicly admit that.
Oops, you're right. Somehow I got transported to last year while I was writing.
je ne comprend pas
I'm not sure where exactly the author got the number 25 from either, even without counting comments or white space this is somewhat more. Of course, as you say, it can be any number of lines you desire it to be.
> Decades away

Worth mentioning that Iceland has virtually eliminated Down's Syndrome from the population with genetic screening of pregnant women.

Almost all Icelandic women choose to terminate the pregnancy, if the test comes back positive for Down's Syndrome.
DuckDuckGo, ZipRecruiter
Is Hetzner not known to generally be a "bad" host? I have suffered so much abuse at the hands of their clients (DOS attacks, aggressive spidering/SQL Injection probing) that I've blocked their entire IP space on the majority of my client networks. I've never received a single response from their abuse report email/tool.
Instability of an unsteered bicycle over 800 tests
When contacting OVH support in French, I generally receive very good support. I sometimes wonder how good the response is when they receive the same question in English.
That's interesting! Thanks for pointing out.
I spent a huge amount of time in my 20's writing Perl 4 & 5 scripts. Even though I no longer use Perl, I still feel nostalgic about it.

That said, I can't find any reason to pick up Perl 6 and start learning it. With so many other useful and interesting languages out there: Python, Elixir, Elm, Rust, etc... what appeal should Perl 6 have to the masses these days?

Is anyone jumping into Perl 6 like they did with Ruby a decade ago and saying, "Wow, programming just got fun again"?

I'd love to see a Perl 6 breakthrough, but honestly it feels like those attempts to keep BeOS going... too little, too late. Its time has passed.
OVH is great when it works but inconsistent, Hetzner stuff 'just works' and is roughly in the same price range, unless you need lots of bandwidth, then it can be very hard to find anything that can beat OVH.
The parent's point is that every production push everywhere was, at some point, a release candidate. Most people just rename that branch to remove the -rc suffix. Gitlab doesn't.
That's why the epoch was arbitrarily set at 10,000 years before the BC/AD epoch. A rough approximation that lines up with the current calendar works a lot better for everyone than a more accurate approximation.
bloodlines
To be fair, posting on HN under a nickname is closer to writing an anonymous rant on say a toilet wall. I wouldn’t say he’s doing it “publicly”.
> There's bunch of cheap stuff coming from all over the world.

Said cheap stuff from everywhere cannot be legally mass-imported into Western countries (and that for good reason).

> Collusion on that scale is not possible

Oh it certainly is. The "old" insulin may be produced as a generic but the new varieties (as described by the article) are patented by a few companies.

In addition insulin production is extremely expensive compared to simple pill pressing as you need bioreactors and GMOs to produce it. Many generics vendors opt out of that complexity.
Looks awesome. Makes me wish I still used LiveScript because of the \string syntax and other features that would go great with ijk.

You refer to h but what is it? I searched around but obviously something called h is hard to find.
AFAIK Hetzner and other major German hosting companies require scan of EU/EEA ID or international passport. Possibly this is required by German law. Just acquire a passport or find local reseller on some "webhostingtalk"-like forum.
Very interesting interaction model. I love the idea of a program being able to read the shape of the paper - lots of cool possibilities.

However - slightly disappointed that the programs are not literally controlled by symbols on the pieces of paper, but rather the paper just holds identifiers who point to a program on a server.

I wonder if you could extend the computer vision system to pick up actual programs from the paper - either by OCRing actual text (perhaps limited to capital letters only, and/or particular shapes for letters such as I-for-India, to make it easier?) or a combination of symbols (each corresponding to a function in the API) and numbers (parameters).

That way you could do really interesting things: modifying somebody's program by literally pasting a scrap of paper on it containing different symbols or parameters, or having programs which interact with other programs (either by treating their program code as input data, or by piping data between the programs).

On the other hand, it's probably easier to write interesting programs with an actual keyboard :)
I don't think they'd need to intentionally cooperate. In fact, one of the worst motivations could be competitive status-seeking. A few billionaires trying to go to space is good. What if 10 of them do it?

Read about Fordlandia. It's hard to measure the economic impact of Ford's obsessions on Detroit.

> us vs them

I'm not sure where you got that sense. Capitalist societies tend to create log-normal distributions of wealth. There's no threshold where you can say one person is "us" and the next on the curve is "them".
Not pedophilia, I hope? Unclear if you mean this century (2000 onwards) or the last hundred years (1918 onwards).
Hawaii governor forgot Twitter password so couldn't correct missile alert sooner
Not sure what made you think all these things you're writing. By abuse I simply meant 'verbal abuse'. You yourself first apply hyperbolic meaning to the word, and then say it's not that. The whole argument is kind of strange to me. And when did showing dictionary meaning of the dictionary word I'm using start to be a fallacy of argument?
All three of those examples have been canceled.
This is not an atypical salary for yum brands managers in the Bay Area. I wonder how much of this is being a primarily California chain.
This. Most movies I want to watch are still not in there. I still pay my monthly membership and refuse to subscribe to anything else by principle. They were the first to move and they could become what we've always wanted, but that's if we support them.
Unknown. There's at least one approach to quantum gravity based on the idea that it is (causal sets), but we haven't proven it one way or another.
I always thought that when patents expire, a generics company will duplicate the drug (or treatment mechanism) and the prices will plummet to close to marginal cost due to competition. I get the impression that this happens in Europe, given the generic options that I am encouraged to choose when I’m picking up a prescription at the pharmacy. They are invariably cheaper.

What is different for diabetes, or the United States, to cause this to not be an option? Seems almost like a human rights violation, or at least deeply unethical.
The price-to-earnings ratio is now 230, meaning that if an acquirer were to buy the company for cash at its current market capitalization, absent any growth in earnings, it would take the acquirer 230 years to earn the money back, all else remaining the same.

However, the 230-year figure might be optimistic, because Netflix's cash flow from operations, before capital expenditures, has been negative for the past three years, largely due to fast-growing spending on content. Operations burned almost $1.8 billion last year. It could take longer than 230 years.

In theory, Netflix could stop aggressively investing in content any time now, and it would become more profitable. In theory, they could find other ways to monetize the content at some unspecified time in the future, to generate additional profits. In theory. In reality, it remains to be seen if they can and will do those things at some point in the future, and whether doing them will justify today's market capitalization.

It is, how shall I say this, questionable whether Netflix will be able to generate sufficient cash flow in the future to justify today's market capitalization. That said, I love the service and think the management team has done an amazing job building it, so I hope and wish they can pull it off, for the sake of their current investors, who must be relying on similar hopes and wishes.

BTW, Netflix is far from the most optimistically valued company today in terms of current earnings. Amazon's price-to-earnings multiple is currently 335, and Salesforce's is 14,796. These are not particularly unusual examples in today's stock market. There quite a few companies trading at high-double, triple, quadruple, and quintuple multiples of earnings.

In other words, there are currently many companies whose earnings-payback period, for a would-be cash acquirer, all else remaining the same, is in the many decades, centuries, millennia, or even greater. It makes no sense to me.

Source for all figures: https://finance.google.com
This is such a broken argument. The one upside of behaving this way is that it makes the HN frontpage and one can argue about the value of that for the issue at hand. It's pretty much established fact that, all other things being equal, being an asshole to people doesn't further your objectives and generally just results in people either ignoring you or getting more defensive and less cooperative than they would otherwise be. Being socially inept is not exactly a rare trait amongst very smart people but let's recognise it for what it is, a personality flaw.
Never attribute to maliciousness that which can be explained with incompetence.

Since two of the three are complete speculation, without any evidence, I'll address the first example.

"suppress empty div" could mean that it is hiding an element until a condition in the form is met. You need to see the accompanying JS to understand any intent. It's entirely possible that bad programming is keeping the div both empty and suppressed.
Ugh. Flash backs of my older brother's torment when he wanted to use the computer and I wouldn't get out of the way fast enough.

"Quit grepping yourself! Quit grepping yourself!"

#IKnowYourAreButWhoAmI?
Perl 5 is still as fun as ever. And newer things like Mojolicious keeps adding to the goodness.
Faux Grid Tracks
That's incredible. Humalog is a quite similar low price in Canada. It's strange that it'd actually be economical for many American diabetics to just book a (yearly) flight to Canada and buy 12 months worth of insulin.
4) Unmanned mining in space - as automation and machine learning progress capturing the right asteroid could bring in a few Billion or Trillion worth of nickle or whatever.
Velib apocalypse: Why Paris destroyed its bicycle network
DuckDuckGo adds tracker blocking to help curb the wider surveillance web
Why social media bosses don’t use social media
How to validate you idea without huge costs
That’s not very secure. Instead, use “password124”.
A Beginner's Guide to the Gnome Desktop
I walk pretty much everywhere within a two mile range if I have the time. It's a bit meditative and I can also get a little exercise (if you could call it that) in.

According to WaPo, 70% of Americans are overweight or obese, so I don't think that, statistically, many people are really in a place to look down on you for walking.
Seeing the Dynamicland tweets made me rethink all of Bret Victor's previous work, and I wrote up why it's interesting from a design perspective here: http://vitor.io/on-dynamicland
Not only do they torture them, they harvest their organs (sometimes while they are alive for "freshness"). China is on a whole different level.