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"I am a Christian"

Yeaaah, I remember you having very odd, non reality based objections to geology yesterday, too. Now I know why.

I would suggest that you re-evalute your ideas, they seem utterly crazy to me. We aren't all born with the same skills, even if we all work as hard and smart as we can we aren't all going to make six figure salaries so that we can afford medicine. Someone has to dig the ditches and take out the garbage, and you should not be using twisted religious logic to condemn your garbage man to death.
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I don't see any ethics in the subject at all. If that's how much they were being paid then they're likely terrible negotiators but that doesn't make any part of the contract unethical.

If they were promised equity, a bonus, or some other extra compensation that was not subsequently delivered then not paying that out would be unethical. But agreeing to a lowball amount and then complaining about it being a lowball amount isn't ethics related. It's just sour grapes.

It's the same in the opposite direction. If a contractor charges a company 10x his normal rate and a company accepts those terms, there's no ethics involved either.

Nobody has a proverbial gun to their head to accept a deal either way. If they do then sure there's ethical issues but I haven't seen that in this situation. Just very poor negotiations on the part of the original dev team.
> Yes, the pharma companies get a great deal of revenue from the US, but the great majority of it is spent on marketing, not R&D:

What point are you trying to make? It's not really relevant how much is spent on marketing in the US, because:

1) European sales are nowhere close to sufficient to sustain the levels of R&D conducted in the US or funded by the US market.

2) The US still funds the outright majority of R&D in the entire world, including R&D for pharmaceutical companies based in Europe.
Now if only they would ban the 50-second, unskippable, "legal steroid" ads that are popping onto YouTube...
Administrative overhead accounts for most of our costs. Everything else is round off errors.

https://drkevincampbellmd.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/the-rise-...

https://drkevincampbellmd.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/growth...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=growth+of+physicians+and+administr...

I believe, but cannot prove, runaway administrative costs are caused by insurance company driven blame shifting and profiteering. Though I am open to the notion that insurers may just be amoral bureaucratic beasts feeding on people.

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
by David Graeber
http://a.co/6olvPDM

Source: Healthcare IT. Everyone inside the beast knows single payer is the correct answer.
Medicare has the lower administrative costs than ALL private insurance.
Every large company I've worked at, there's always a few old, crusty engineers who have been with the company forever who say "This used to be a great place to work."

And the reason it stopped being great is always some variant of "..and then the MBAs came."
I read about that method too, but unfortunately doesn't work if you're connected via ethernet.
Ironically, I just took a break from work to make a cup of coffee. On returning, I find that my (virtual) pc is "working on updates".

It feels like the primary focus of Windows is no longer to do what the user wants, but to do what Microsoft wants.
'I haven't achieved much recently': Einstein's private fears revealed in archive
I always tells noobs to skip career mode and do science mode. You don't have to manage money or kerbal lives, but you still get a sense of progression and value as you unlock new parts. You still have a purpose and a reason to go do things (i.e. collecting science), but it's much less complex and lets you focus on just having fun and exploring.
Like carrying guns as if we were still in 1800.
I agree with you, the ODROID XU4 is significantly more expensive and doesn't have nearly as much support as one can expect from the Pi community.

However, the ODROID C2 is priced similarly to the Pi and has more support than the XU4. LibreELEC has out of the box support for the C2.
To be fair, drivers for most x86-compatible hardware are binary-only. Not that I agree with the practice, but there is precedent.
But doxxing is free speech and should be encouraged by anyone who runs a website with a comment form, of course. /s
Why do providers accept a loss doing treatments for Medicare?

If it's a loss per patient, it's a loss and you'll go out of business. What is the advantage for the provider to do any Medicare work?
I think that it matters if you can dig into anything. Given reasonable timespan being able to learn x64 machine code, debug and fix buggy driver if necessary, for example. If you're program has GC issues, being able to read papers, read GC source code if necessary and find right set of parameters or change some lines of code. If your Rails app has vulnerability because of underlying HTTP issues, being able to learn more about those HTTP issues, read RFC if necessary, read Ruby http code if necessary and provide required fix. If your manager heard about Meltdown issue and wonders whether our services are vulnerable, real programmer should be able to read papers, understand vulnerability and whether it's important (to shut down services, for example) or not.

Abstractions are leaky. I've yet to encounter one which doesn't leak.

Though if you're working in a team, it's not necessary for everyone to be real programmer. One or two is enough. Those tasks which require real programming are rare, most of tasks are mundane.
Do we really need to put an idiotic comment at -150 points to make a point though ?
Does this include software services related to cryptoasseta?
Of course one should be humble and seek for ways it improve. There are different languages/tools suited for different needs. But, I do not understand why do you think this piece should be a required read for Javascript devs. AFAIK, neither Lisp had a monopoly, nor Javascript does have one. It probably just has the largest user base.

In my view, users of different languages might benefit from this piece as much as JS devs. This behavior against JS devs cause unnecessary hostility.

In addition, Javascript may actually be "too big to fail", and it is actually in a very different state than Common Lisp in this sense. What I mean by that is being "the language" that is used in browsers and having the largest registry (npm).

I am not trying to attack, just curious about why do you think it specifically applies to JS devs.
Mainstream media is driving campaigns against Google in many countries. They do need to do some PR and appear to do "good" things, even when it is quite clear that is just gesturing.
My experience with C++ has been watching a trend towards standardization across platforms, and incorporation of functional programming concepts.
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Since this is Hacker News, I feel like asking...

What startups working to fix these issues? Large companies? Is there a market opportunity here?
Unless you already know it, don't bother trying to configure Emacs. Like macmac, I suggest Clojure with IntelliJ + Cursive plugin.

If you want to use Common Lisp, I would suggest Portacle[0].

I suggest the book 'Practical Common Lisp'[1]. I've worked through it and 'Land of Lisp' and while they are both worth reading, I personally prefer the examples in Practical Common Lisp.

[0] https://portacle.github.io/
[1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
Yes, however even Theresa May can’t make the NHS look as bad as the American system.
Honestly I could tolerate the defaults being heavy-handed towards updates, but I was really miffed to find out I literally didn't even have an option to not update, even when it was a system-wrecking one.
/r/DrugNerds, /r/TrueFilm, /r/MachineLearning, /r/SecurityAnalysis, /r/options, /r/CryptoTechnology

As you can see, they're all very targeted to specific interests. However, I'd also be interested in learning about other good subreddits regardless of their focus. Which ones did you or anyone else find?
Assets vs. Inputs.
wouldn't trains be the easiest transport system to add self driving to? all it would need is throttle, and if they have access to the position of other trains too that's a major advantage.
As a Brit who grew up in the 80s / 90s I got the reference, shame it seems to have gone over the heads of some people ;)
My healthcare provider always opts for the generic drugs. When that's not an option they negotiate hard with big pharma.

It amuses me how in the ostensibly capitalist US nobody cares about efficiency. You would think that the insurance companies in the US would care about profits, instead billions are being wasted every year. It wouldn't even be so bad if healthcare was actually the best in the world so people would get what they pay for but it is not even close...
Going to disagree with you. Doctors often have incentives to prescribe certain drugs over others that aren’t necessarily the best drug. If it’s legal to advertise to physicians then it should be legal to advertise to consumers. Ultimately the consumer is in charge of their own health and should have a say in their drug choices.

Let’s think of another industry — tires. Is a consumer typically an automotive engineer or a mechanic? Then why should it be legal to advertise tires to consumers? Ultimately a mechanic will have to install the tires. However, that certainly shouldn’t preclude a consumer making their preferences known. With meds, a doctor can always say no — and they should and do if it isn’t indicated for the particular affliction.

The idea that consumers need to be shielded from information is a bit weird to me.
I'm wondering how this works.

At what level does it interact with the editor?

How does it ensure that the state of the editor is eventually consistent across users?

Does it maintain a copy of the state of the editor?

Is it somehow able to peek into the state of the editor?
Pyar Ki Dwai – Sonika Singh – प्यार की दवाई – Haryanvi Romantic Song
Straw man attack. I don't condemn garbage men, and I said so very clearly if you would go back and re-read. I want them to in their spare time pick up Lean Startup and learn what they need to start a business. You're on the YCombinator website. You of all people should agree.

I repeat: We are all guided by absolute morality.* Ensure yours takes into account ALL factors.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get my business off the ground. Can’t spend my whole day here chatting. People in Texas and in Haiti lack healthcare and I’m aiming to do something positive about that.

* Edited to add exhibit A, the statement above by yequalsx: "The U.S. rations care [does so] in an immoral way."[1] That is a statement of absolute morality on the part of yequalsx. I didn't bring up morality, they did. Their belief is absolute; it is not relative. They do not believe that what is good for them is only good for them, but that this morality must be obeyed by the entire world. That is an absolute standard.

The hole in this absolute moral standard is it seems to fail to take into account those who either steal or who miss out on opportunities due to a lack of awareness. See my carefully-worded comments above.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16583943

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16584193
To add to the confusion, this Wikipedia article says that Scheme is "one of the two main dialects of Lisp." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)
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Pretty simple actually. Just running express with socket.io on heroku. Using redis to enable socket.io cross-server messaging.

Client side the core engine is built on webrtc. Not using any major client side frameworks.
ok, perhaps before talking about why a career is ruined, a pre-requisite should be that the said career is indeed ruined.
If this article was 5-10 years ago, I would have agreed with most of it, but as it stands you are absolutely correct.

The Reddit algorithm now is incredibly opaque with constant tinkerings that make me think the "voting" is more of a placebo button on the front page. In recent memory, there were a few incidents of /r/The_Donald fully populating the front page, all with 0 upvote scores, which came off suspiciously as if they were deeply messing with the voting system.

Where it used to be a platform where you could be assured there would be minimal censorship, it is now commonplace to "shadowban" users who go against the narrative and the rules are arbitrarily enforced to ban subreddits. (Check out /r/shitredditsays for a subreddit that constantly breaks site rules but still stands unopposed)

Reddit is obviously striving for constantly more advertising friendly platform and it has been demonstrated multiple times upvotes are easily bought and advertisers are constantly sneaking in posts disguised as users to do their "viral marketing"

No, author, Reddit is moving right towards the direction of Facebook rapidly. It is only a matter of time before they begin to lock out content behind a login page, you can already see the transition today.
Thanks for the great list Derek. I just bought Ego is the Enemy - I live by the same author's Daily Stoic book, so I am looking forward to this one as well.

I am an aspiring writer (I have written about 20 books, some of them are pretty good). I am addicted to writing and your book Anything You Want helped me understand what I needed to work on. Thanks again!
If you buy potatoes to eat, or even really to turn into french fries and sell, its an input.

If you buy them to HODL because you think potato options are going to bring you a return, it's an investment.

If you've invested in a global, decentralized game of hot potato, well, that's crypto ;)
Its generally understood that no one is perfect...

Pointing this out while discussing the death of possibly the most respected scientist ever to a tech & science literate crowd is quite unnecessary.

RIP SH.
JavaScript is for HN what sex is for highscool : those who talk the most about it are those who practise it the less.

I was using JavaScript professionally in 1999 and still write it almost every day. Not sure what that makes of your sex analogy: maybe I'm the middle aged guy who goes "free love used to be much better in my day"?

You probably know what I meant by "make npm work" — dealing with the messy dependency ecosystem and the less than ideal tooling.
But author is talking about refusal to learn something "destroyed career".

I hated Java as everyone was supposed to in school among my peers. Java was for lesser programmers. But, there was interesting job in Java available and after using it, I liked coding in Java better then previous languages I knew (C, C++ mainly).

I liked Java pretty fast, but learning to like JavaScript took more effort. Imo, it was very very worth pain. The more pain, the more the learning process is worth - it hurts because you are learning something fundamental and getting new habits you miss.
I don't know because I don't click on those out of principle and didn't click on this one, either :-D
An asset is something that puts money in your pocket. A liability is something that takes money from your pocket. Unless you are a professional runner or buying rare vintage sneakers — buying shoes isn’t “an investment.”
We can't have nice things because of corruption, profiteering, neoreactionary sabotage, etc?

Edit: psychometry above phrased it much nicer than I did. I was responding to retric's defeatist sounding reply. Yes, I'm easily triggered by concern trolling.
Are the server edge-points true to UTC Time? As in, are they synced with something like NTP? There is a severe lack of accurate time coming from edge-points in systems such as AWS Lambda, and no one appears to be confirming if they do or don't make sure their time is correct.

It would be incredibly useful if there was an edge-point service that could return linux epoch time in milliseconds (Thats accuraet to withing a 1ms of UTC time). I've been working on a Live broadcasting syncing system and there really wouldn't be anyone in a better position than CDN's with lambda-like functionality.
Yeah, I have an incomplete, not-written-down all star list of Free/Open Source software that exhibit the following attributes:

- Level of quality that is so high that a rational commercial entity would have long ago decided that marginal gains in quality were uneconomic.

- Fills a niche that needs filling.

- Has an extended history of continual incremental improvement, most likely but not always having lived long enough to see the original creator pass the baton.

- Remains intelligible and consistent over time. If I’d been frozen a decade or two ago could I wake up today and feel familiar with the software?

SQLite is definitely on my all star list.
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> It always bugged me that Myrhvold could be such a negative force in tech while doing so many cool things with e.g. food and dinoasaurs.

Why? You can be an asshole and be interested in things.

It's one of the big issues of modern western and especially US media to paint people uniformly, it makes detecting evil so much harder because mass media does not prepare citizens for the fact that yes, somebody can be an unrepentant criminal and like Buffy, or a corporate/SI stooge and listen to ska, or a neo nazi who DMs Honey Heist or Big Gay Orcs.
Reddit has very dark subreddits, but:

Reddit's based in interest (subreddits) YOU can choose, not in who you know, not on who knows you and uploaded their contact.

Reddit doesn't tailor adds and content based on your purchasing history from your and your wife's credit cards

Reddit doesn't limit your browsing to only the last 10 posts.

Reddit can reset your password via one email, it never asks you to upload you picture and doesn't block you every 24 hours for no clear reason.
Often the significant innovations don't need to advertise. I didn't use the early Google because I saw an ad for it and I don't think Etherium did paid ads for their launch.
Anonymity?

Buy gift card from random ebay person.

Pay for something that you'd rather keep secret using gift card.

Reduced chance of getting caught?

e.g.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/gift-card-paymen...
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No it doesn’t. One invests because the asset they are purchasing will either appreciate or generate cash flow.

“Food” doesn’t generally appreciate or generate cash flow. (Outside of obvious restaurant contexts.)

You can call food an “investment” but you could also call a dog a cat — that doesn’t make it so.
Objective metrics of performance are easy to come with: speed, memory usage, latency, throughput, energy efficiency, depending on type of your software. I can launch Windows Task Manager and those metrics are right there. Those metrics can be measured and compared. Quality isn't hard either, just count bugs. Many customers don't want to pay for performance or quality, they want features, delivery speed, shiny UI and listen to marketing too much. Slack is a joke when it comes to memory consumption. But it has smiles and marketing campaigns, so everyone's using it anyway even if chatting was a solved problem 30 years ago in kilobytes of memory.
Yeah, I heard some bunch of assholes green-lit DRM in the Web.

Oh wait, that was Berners-Lee and the W3C. He must be taking about some other systemic failure here.
> Reddit has very dark subreddits,

They've been doing a bit of work on this. There were a couple of pro-anorexia subs which got banned. There was a pro-self harm sub that got banned.
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"Let's not pretend you're not attempting to gaslight me."
"you can easily spot a culture of victimhood in others"

I think you should focus on continuing to build your case on reddit and then you should definitely return here in a few years once its ironclad!
Funny you should mention this - I feel the same way!

https://imgur.com/WuB4qY0
Ask HN: What is the best way of following statistics on a specific industry
Specifically interested in the restaurant industry. Once in a while there are articles in online that show stats, percentages, infographics etc. Is there a way to make sure that everytime something like that happens I know about it.
Something along the lines of Google Alerts but somehow it seems like it's not precise enough for Google alerts?
Thanks in advance :)
Well, it was true, at least until clojure. Now we've got clojure, common lisp and scheme.
Rest In Peace Hawking
> it was the only thing available like that anywhere around. Remember, this is before you could get any book in existence within one month via Amazon

This seems to still be the case, I recently spent some time visiting my moms place in a small town in Ontario, Canada and visited the old library. I was looking at the biography section of the local library and outside of the usual mob or famous actors selection the three choices among the "great minds" were bios of: Isaac Newton, Hypatia, and Stephen Hawking.

Even if his ideas may only be poorly grasped by the general population he still ranks among the greatest and most accessible minds in history wherever you may live, and we're all better off thanks to him.
I have a lot of books that get suggested to me that are on your list, on topics like Stoicism and Self-help, but I ignore most of them. Many feel like reading them would just be rehashes of early books I have read on the topic with nothing new to contribute.

I like that your approach was to actually read these anyways, most of the time you rate them low because there was nothing new, gives me an idea of what to avoid. Thanks for posting the list!
Which microsoft departments would you consider user friendly, and why?
What if reality is elitist? Are you saying that because you don’t like a certain thing, then it can’t be reality?

> Entire businesses like SAP

Companies like SAP mostly waste people’s money by extracting huge sums from municipalities.
Go-internals: work-in-progress book about the internals of Go (1.10+)
In Europe yes, Ada has been a constant presence at FOSDEM in the last decade and many universities.

This has taken off since we finally got an open source Ada compiler (GNAT) without the typical enterprise/military prices.

Also Ada 2012 is quite different from Ada 83.

Then we have this, https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/opmemc-1/memor... increasing exponentially every day thanks networked computers.
Why do you think that writing those tools is harder? Oftentimes it is not. A lot of it is easy.

Yes, well done abstractions are how we keep large projects manageable. No one can learn all of them at once. Neither those writing "plumbing" nor those doing libraries.
I don't know, like I said, I'm not a developer myself, however I thought epoll was universally criticised for being poor.

I researched a little after I was told (while pushing linux) that things like epoll were why they would never use it.

I did manage to convince them to write their storage backend on FreeBSD because that uses kqueues and has ZFS.

https://idea.popcount.org/2017-02-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-...
> Combined date and time in UTC:	2018-03 14T12:33:18+00:00

> 2018-03-14T12:33:18Z

> 20180314T123318Z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
More importantly it isn’t statically typed (like F#, Haskell, etc)
The first rule if reddit is to unsubscribe from/r/all.