skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This cycle is one of big concern to me. In Pennsylvania, UPMC keeps growing its monopoly and getting into territory disputes with Highmark Health. In this case, both companies offer insurance and health care. At one point, UPMC decided to stop accepting Highmark health insurance, which is what the state government used as their health provider. State employees became effectively barred from using the near-monopoly healthcare provider for the Western half of the state. This has been going on for years, each year with variations of "consent decrees" where the two providers make concessions what facilities in underserved areas they will see other's clients in.

I've been watching this play out in my state for years, but never quite realized the full impact of this until a recent Guardian article mentioned UPMC by name as why single-payer/medicare-for-all could fail.

>Who would blink first if the government threatened to exclude UPMC from its healthcare plan, which under a “Medicare for All” system, would be the only one available? Without access to the UPMC system, the region would face an instant healthcare crisis.

As someone that watched a state government blink first and change insurance providers, this really drove the point home.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/28/big-me...
There's no evidence that even 1% of all police are complicit. What is your standard for "large enough"?
> It is not just Baltimore cops. It is cops. They will shoot you in the face in front of your infant daughter. They will choke you to sleep for selling cigarettes. They will shoot you in the back for walking away.

Where's the lie though?
Idiomatic Python Stream Processing in Wallaroo
There is no good database.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...

This is probably the best there is that I know of and it only goes back 2-3 years. The federals don't have anything complete.
India Turns Against Bitcoin but Embraces Blockchain
I am very aware of that but overall it still looks like it if you have a look at all topics, personal stories and experiences etc.
I'd be rather fearful to go the the US, starts at the border, then their cities and then I'd be fearful of their police.
Not to mention all the other issues this country seems to have. The poverty in the USA is worse than in some ex 2nd world countries, so bad that even the UN called upon it.
She's doing it wrong. She fell behind on her insurance (ACA) payments and lost her benefits.

It may sound callous, but perhaps she should have taken on more work (a second job perhaps) as soon as cash was low enough that payments could not be made. Her health is largely her own responsibility (as it is for all of us).
Hmm. Population of NI: 1.8m. Population of Baltimore: 600k (declining! as shown by a helpful google graph). So NI is three Baltimores.

Worst year of Troubles: 1972, 479 troubles-related deaths. I'm unclear as to whether that includes "background" non-political crime, so I'll round it up to 500 (current NI murder rate is about 1/100k pop).

Current Baltimore murder rate: 373 in 2017.

Murder rate for three Baltimores: 1119.

That makes today's Baltimore twice as lethal as Troubles NI, with all its carbombs and troops on the streets.

It's a mess that to me would seem to warrant national intervention. https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21724399-americ...
> maybe that it's all awesome until someone dies

Someone dies every 500ms around the world. It’s tragic, but it happens. If the person dies doing something they love, who are we to judge?
Another example of stupidity around the term "tuple": it was not supposed to
have a sequence, it was supposed to have a structure. The previous such
dumb thing was (and still is) in Python.
Is there a US city where cops who murder unarmed black men are convicted with any sort of regularity?
I meant something else but anyway.
Institute Launches the MIT Intelligence Quest
It is not easy, especially if you don't already have an account at a Bitcoin exchange. See my other comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16277833 for more details (tl;dr: we've been looking/signing up for exchanges for over 3 weeks and none have responded to our signup request yet).
No they didn't.
What they did is show the world how to create a marketing campaign.

They took it to the point when people thought that Apple invented 3g when iPhone 3g went out, when it was on market for almost 10 years, and it was an update to what everyone else had already.

iPhone was way behind Symbian and Windows mobile at date of launch.

It didn't even have multitasking...

Also, use some arguments instead of switching topic every reply.
Oh I see, thx !
How does it compare directly to Camtasia in a real world comparison?

For example with Camtasia, you can click 1 button and have your desktop + audio + optional webcam all being recorded to your video project, and then you can hop in and edit it with a bunch of great tools and presets. This includes complex animations and tooltips with doing nothing more than dragging around a few sliders.

Basically you can get up and going with an excellent work flow as 1 single person who isn't a video editing god.

Where does Shotcut stand compared to that?

At this point price isn't an issue for people in a position to create videos. It's all about how fast it is to go from an empty folder to a high production quality video.

Camtasia is one of the only reasons why I run Windows so if your project can solve all of those problems, that would be an incredible feat since Camtasia seems to have no intent on supporting anything but Mac / Windows.

Also if it helps gauge the comparison I have tried kdenlive about 6 months ago and compared to Camtasia I would rate kdenlive a 0.001 and Camtasia a 9.5 on the sole task of "quickly create a nice looking screencast".
> Licenced taxis pay much higher insurance and the cars have to be inspected more often

I have yet to visit a city where these inspections and insurance premiums seem a reasonable cost-benefit trade-off for the median rider. The long-term competition from ridesharing, and lack of prevalent organized rider (versus driver) opposition to it, corroborates that observation.
Wonder if you're a well off white dude...
Always be time efficient
GitHub repo: https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut
That hits like a pliers on a pig. Now you are playing to the Dutch people the zwartepiet. We share selflessly with you the best parts of our amazing language and you look the given horse in the mouth! This is why we not the effort taken to learn you Dutch, because who not honors the small is not worth the big!
I’m not a scientist. But from my surface research, fasting helps to clean up bad and old cells. So if there’s a mechanism to detect these stem cells, then they may be vacuumed out too.

Anecdotal evidence. I’ve had a weird, small bump on my arm. Like a large pimple, but not gross. Got it checked. Dr said it was fine, not a toumor. Just a knot or something like that. Said it’s conmon for men over 35. One day I fasted on a bet for 2 days straight. Zero calories. Only water and coffee. The bump went away by 80%. Only a slight dark mark left.

This evidence was enough to convince me that fasting is good. Now intermittent fast every day. I get better focus. I have my first meal around 1-3pm.
Cyborn Wants to Revolutionise Data Protection
Ask HN: Does YCombinator fund single founders
I would like to know what my chances are of being funded by y combinator as a single founder.
They work on both - for example, if you specify $expr:expr, it will actually parse it as an expression node and won't allow to simply pass it into another macro as $pat:pat because of AST node type mismatch even if actual tokens are still compatible.
To clarify, by "we" I don't mean FSF. I work for a different 501(c)(3) non-profit.
They only got so high when Paypal was required as the default to sell on eBay. Before that fees were lower - half or even less.

Add in the succession of anti-seller changes and eBay has become a rather toxic place for sellers. eg Refunds given to buyers who claim they were sent an empty box or broken item resulting in seller being out fees and the item. Even with proof of sending, delivery and weight. Or the pay via Paypal, collect item, scam. Many cases in the media over the last year or two.

Little wonder there's not the activity of a few years ago.
Facebook usage falls in the US as it begins to tinker with the News Feed
For those in countries outside the USA-- please be assured this is sensationalist rubbish.

Cops are the most under-payed, overworked, least respected workers in the country. They put their lives on the line every day and have to put up with hostile press.

They are told to wear body cameras, then are told to take them off when the results are not to the liking of the agitators.

Cops are simply a political football, and it is disgusting. They are public servants.
I don't use panes much, but Terminal.app seems to have panes too.
Enough, already
The author is citing real events.

When some cops are corrupt, does it matter that the rest might be decent? An individual police officer represents the entire force. They wear the colours and the badge as a representative of the whole establishment.

Would you call the police if you knew there were such troubling corruption issues? It would definitely make me think twice - you just don't know which officer will turn up.

Zero tolerance is the only way forwards when it comes to this, otherwise the few destroy trust for the masses.
So apparently our police force is equivalent to ISIS. I guess it would be better if gangs ruled the streets. At least they don't do as many bad things as the cops do.
> Are people w nut allergies sensitive to the presence of nuts nearby?

Some, yes.
Anon1096 clearly stated that he was speaking for himself (or herself) but I agree with him: I want privacy but I don't necessarily need complete secrecy. This isn't a zero sum game: Telegram and Signal can coexist and serve different needs.
Ok. Lets see

https://medium.com/@wireapp/making-your-conversations-secure...
does not state any information on key management solution: how encryption key is transferred to another device.

But it has links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm
which has nothing about cross device key sharing and https://wire.com/resource/Wire%20Security%20Whitepaper/downl....
I've read it through and found nothing on cross-device key sharing as well. Can you point me to the right part?
Why are DevOps Engineers so hard to hire?
There is indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgIZrSlPuko

It was a show called LaserMan -- part of ElecTRONica, a nighttime event at Disney California Adventure promoting the release of TRON: LEGACY.

Creator's site: http://www.theodari.com
In the last paragraph:

> It is not just Baltimore cops. It is cops. They will shoot you in the face in front of your infant daughter. They will choke you to sleep for selling cigarettes. They will shoot you in the back for walking away.

It appears his main point is to say because these Baltimore cops have been accused, all cops are guilty.
Hi all,

I'm Sean. Vp of Engineering at Wallaroo Labs. My colleague Andrew Turley wrote this post but is out and about this morning. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread and will answer questions in his place until he is able to join.

Personally,

I want to thank everyone from Hacker News who jumped on calls with us, and corresponded by email to give us feedback on the first version of our Python API. You gave us a number of good ideas and helped us validate some that we already had. Y'all were awesome!
Is the War on Encryption a Fight Between Privacy and Safety?
This feels like the CueCat from the 90s. A supercharged "I feel lucky" button. Honestly I can't understand why this is worth $5M funding.
In several cases, it’s been done.
Presumably to highlight the difference between real journalism and this glorified blog post. He used the quotes correctly.
An Updated Lead-Crime Roundup for 2018
You just unzip the bz2 file and then double click the Shotcut.desktop icon. There isn't an install procedure as such.

If you're on Ubuntu or similar, then once you're running it you can right click on the Icon and choose "Lock to launcher"
I mean, Perl 5 wasn't actually ideal for this, but it was better suited to the task than anything else that actually exists.
That is the point. It looks like outlawing firearms tends to reduce overall gun-related fatalities. Who knew? Apparently USA has some catching up to do.
I bought Gene after litening to him on Sam Harris’ podcast (just looked it up, episode 77). Definitely worth a listen, he’s an equally impressive conversationalist. Love him or hate him, Sam’s no slouch either and I left the end of it wishing I had a brain.
In what sense? Sweden has had a deregulated taxi market for ages
Do you have wife and kids? or maybe you are single? I think you are not representative for your demographic. I agree with OP here, it matches my experience and experience of most of my friends and their friends.
Except minijacks on every devices (smartphones and portable media player) I have ever owned have become useless after some time because the plug starts working randomly.

I am so much happier with a bluetooth headphones: free movement \o/. Software problems but you know what they say: software eats the world.
What goes on in Chicago and its gangs goes far beyond the police and the indiscretions that go on there. Case in point:

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2016/Chic...

Drill rap, the music of Chicago's gangs, is ultra violent and serves as a method of calling out other crews and taunting them into a response. Thanks to Youtube, Soundcloud, and social media the spread of this music is now easier than ever. The threats that come from this music are often followed up on.

Why do they do it? As one rapper says:
“If I wasn’t doing this, would you even be down here in the low incomes? Would you even care that I exist?”
“You know, white people, Mexicans, bitches, those people don’t live the life, but they love hearing about it. People want the Chiraq stuff. They want a superthug ghetto man, and I’m giving that to them. I’m just playing my role.”
Not sure about any niche audience here (haven't hung around that long), but that last paragraph got all my red flags up as well. Writers like this need a body cam of their own. Oh wait, that's right, there is one already - called the internet...

Which may prove that proof of rotten behavior is not enough to solve the problem when the root cause is confusion as to what is appropriate behavior in the first place.
slight tangent - but I've never heard of the 'Roaring Forties' - Turns out it's the name for a particular set of winds - Fascinating stuff
Risset's Harmonic Arpeggio
I'm flattered you assume I have this knowledge, but I don't. I would presume the key is derived from your sign-in information, but I honestly don't know.

What I do know is that you don't have access to messages that happened before you first signed in to the device you're using. My message history is complete on the phone I created my Wire account on, but I installed it on a laptop a few days later and as such is missing those first days. Messages get delivered to all your active devices without problem though.

The source code for all their different client varieties (iOS, Android, Web/Electron) and server software can be found here if you're interested [0].

[0]: https://github.com/wireapp
For a decade or so the situation seemed to be that there were dozens of FOSS editors, all of which claimed to work perfectly but none of which was usable in reality. Blender was the first thing I found that actually worked properly. Having found something that works I'm a bit reluctant to return to the historically infuriating task of evaluating FOSS video editors, but maybe it's time to check out some of the other options again.
Meetings are probably the most actionable way of transforming organizations
both, sometimes simultaneously
> At this point price isn't an issue for people in a position to create videos

There's an awful lot of people who want to break into Youtube with no money.

There's also a small but well-represented on HN market of people who want to have an OSS/Free Software only workflow.
If someone made a pair of headphones to the same standard as high-end hearing aids are made, the price would surely be similar - and that's just way too much to pay for headphones for most people.

Let me put it this way - if I buy a $50 pair of bluetooth headphones and a $50 pair of normal headphones, put them both in a box and opened the box in 10 years, the first pair will be unusable due to the built-in battery, while the second pair will continue working just fine. Sure, maybe a $200 pair of headphones would have a replaceable battery - but I find it extremely difficult to spend so much money on a pair of headphones.
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Some options:

1. https://www.keyvalues.com/ is great job board that has some companies that explicitly claim they have work/life balance. The writeups let you see working hours in some cases, for good or for bad; make sure to read them, they all have different definitions of work/life balance.

2. You can apply to any company that sounds like it'll be reasonable, and if you get a job offer negotiate a shorter workweek. I've done this, and I also interviewed someone who did this at 7 or 8 different companies: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...

3. Negotiate a shorter workweek at your current job. Actually easier than finding a new job.

4. Just... work less hours. I.e. you're at normal 40-hour/week job, and you just work 7 hours a day. If you're good at what you do you'll be just as productive, if not more. I did that involuntarily at some point due to RSI limiting how many hours I could type. No one complained about shorter hours because I was productive enough. Downside is companies often judge you by hours in office, not by output (https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/06/21/why-company-want-lon...).

I cover these and other approaches in my book: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/
So are you saying cops weren't planting toy guns, and the story is false?

Or are you saying that they're excused from behaviour like this because they have a hard job?
Behold, 12283 lines of very good engineering:

https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/e9e40cb13ea942b148b25...
LINE, the chat app with 200M users is starting a cryptocurrency exchange
Glanced over this yesterday, came back to it today when I saw it was by jashkenas, who has done some real innovative work over the years. @jashkenas -- is this your primary project now? Are you building a business around this or is it more for fun/open source?

Would be curious to hear plans to monetize it.
I could be wrong, but it looks like it is an optional dependency that adds additional image format support to MLT, which is a dependency of Shotcut. Also, some Qt builds require at least glib for event loop integration and some even require GTK as dependency to enable GTK styling in Qt apps. The build script for Shotcut appears to have an option to disable this dependency.
Is there evidence of 99% of supposedly non-complicit officers standing with victims, insisting on justice for those guilty?

Because that's the standard I'm calling for.
To clarify, the description says "Using a new route I created, I executed the first ever sub-1min Super Mario World credits warp speedrun" - where "credits warp" is the critical piece missing from the HN title.
kmscon looks pretty neat.

Anyone have any experience with it?

Was it easy to set up? Does it make for a comfortable environment? Is it relatively easy to write your own applications that can output on top of the frame buffer, e.g. if you are developing a game with OpenGL and want to develop in this environment and to test your game from there as well?
All too true. I try to explain to my tech friends why it is in my self interest to contribute to the ACLU, FSF, etc. but donating a hundred dollars or so a year is a hard sell because people tend to look at the ‘free’ services they get, and think ‘no problem.’
If you need to set up even a very small ISP, you will still need to have a relatively sizable v4 ip pool.

Why a radical solution - NAT64 sees much better traction with anybody, but largest ISP's than a "soft landing" solution of 464XLAT favored by big co. is that:

1. Setting up a nat is a 5 minute exercise.

2. It appeals to beancounters because freed IPv4 blocks can be profitably sold.

3. Skype/netmeeting/netflix broke? Not our problem - ISP says. You can see that the proportion of big to small ISPs is much lower outside of USA, and the West in general. And fewer of them bothers with things like direct peering with CDN networks, installing youtube cache appliance or dealing with Neflix openconnect, unless being paid to do so.
WxPython 4.0.0 Released
We raised more than $ 5 000 000 on ICO. AMA
As for the design, I would encourage you to sign up, I am sure you will be very surprised with what you'll find. The app is VERY polished (for a beta).

We are spending a lot more time on the app than we are on the website. That will change soon, but this is why you are perhaps finding the website's content to be insufficient yet.

Thanks!
People died in Cirque de Soleil, climbing Everest and others. I don't think these activities should be forbidden, but I personally refuse to go to circus shows.
If we all ignore these people and their activities they might stop doing it.
> When some cops are corrupt, does it matter that the rest might be decent?

Yes. Of course it matters.
And there are way more video recorders than people on earth, lots of people want to create videos from their children, family gatherings, vacations etc. if only they knew how.
How does this compare to doing it with a normal soldering iron? I just ordered a bunch of surface-mount components - just because they were so much cheaper, but I haven't really got any notion about good approaches yet.
Tone aside, most of this is from the transcripts of an on-going court case. And although some of the witnesses are highly dubious, most of these accounts have come from police officers who are testifying. So yeah, they might be lying under oath but I'm not sure that helps your point much.
Bored with Banking, This Former Citi Trader Created a Crypto Derivative Exchange
It won't be long and you'll be stringing together a bunch of Neural Networks with some glue in the middle where each of the nets performs some task.

One net to crop the image, one net to recognize it, another to synthesize the words to describe it and presto: a new application.
> Science is not a popularity contest where the candidate with the most upvotes wins.

Correct, it's the most citations.
50% of your revenue goes towards taxes, office space, and buying products and services to support your business.

Healthcare is still by far the biggest cost difference most people will face but even if you add all these things up, they don’t represent anything even remotely close to 50%.

I beg to differ. For a family of four in Texas, we paid nearly $15,000 per year for insurance and that's deemed a "good policy" (not great) meaning that it has a good PPO, most docs are in network, and most medications are $10-$50. Insurance premiums don't scale with income and that's not accounted for if I read your arguments correctly. If we compare two families of four led by "a freelancer" (as we're talking about here) in Dallas and one freelancer makes $100k but another makes $200k, both have to pay the same $15,000 per year in health insurance premiums. For the $100k freelancer, his health insurance takes up 15% of his gross revenue - that's absolutely going to get him close to or above @ollerac's 50% figure. Maybe not so for the $200k freelancer who only has health insurance account for 7.5% of gross revenue.
Just a note - the solder mask is actually part of the PCB, in the past often green but now all sorts of colours. It covers up the tracks and copper fills etc. that you don’t want solder on.

What you’re referring to in the first paragraph is just called a stencil.