skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am willing to have a pondered discussion about this, because it is most certainly true that we both have biased (to one side or the other) views of what they do. It can even be that neither of us is right.

I am obviously not for censorship of ideas, but reddit goes deep into the worst mankind has to offer. There's a line that each individual will draw on what is acceptable to them or not. I think that reddit often crosses that line for many people (would say most, but I don't know and am trying to avoid bias). I do think they need to stop the proliferation of racism, pedophilia and other societal maladies. You may draw different lines.

But I would love examples (and you have what appears to be a throwaway account here, so I think you can be comfortable sharing) of what you think is reddit's censorship or their manipulative propaganda. I mean this in earnest. I don't see it, but we all have different views of the world.
As the author points out that at least Reddit shunts you out of the website when yoU find an interesting link.

Facebook wants you to react as long as you react within its walled garden.
I'd say you're basically redefining elitism to mean something it doesn't mean (or at least not how it's used here).

That said, I do agree with you. I think that 1) it can be be very important to make distinctions between types of programmers, because 2) it makes it easier to actively explore the field and finding what suits your 'type'.

For example, for many people, someone who 'does' HTML/CSS with some jQuery plugins, is a programmer. But personally I'd not really call such a person a programmer. I don't mean that as a value judgment, but rather to make a distinction between 'types' of work.

Making that distinction earlier in my career could've helped me (whether the label it programmer/non-programmer is used or not), because I spent more time than I'd have liked being such a HTML/CSS/JS guy. I learned tons of very specific rules/tricks/lore that were necessary, but did not help as a programmer, and spent countless hours doing this kind of work, not really enjoying it all that much.

It was only when I started doing 'proper' javascript stuff that I realized how much fun programming is, and how my relative enjoyment of the whole front-end stuff depended on the bits of 'real programming' I would occasionally get to do. In hindsight I wish I'd figured that out earlier, and not spent so many brain cycles and storage on CSS layout tricks and discussing how much 'semantic HTML' matters.

(thankfully those things are still useful when I do full-stack type stuff, but still)
Crunch has zero to do with quality of programmers or tooling.

It has everything to do with management practices, organization, anxiety, fear or personal wish to be seen as hero.
> Why do providers accept a loss doing treatments for Medicare?

They don't really "accept" it, as much as Medicare can set the rates unilaterally, and providers don't really have a choice (other than refusing to treat Medicare patients).

> If it's a loss per patient, it's a loss and you'll go out of business.

Exactly.

> What is the advantage for the provider to do any Medicare work?

There... isn't a great incentive, really. This wasn't always the case, but it's gotten worse in the last 10-15 years. That's why many private practices have gone bankrupt and closed (or gotten bought out by larger systems), and others have stopped taking Medicare patients.

Larger hospitals have some tricks they can use to make the numbers work out, but as Medicare's reimbursement rates have gotten worse and worse (compared to COGS and inflation), they've been feeling the pressure too. That's exactly why some are starting to talk about refusing to treat Medicare patients altogether.

There are some exceptions, too. For example, Medicare has a special program for hospitals in rural areas that treat large numbers of Medicare patients, and they'll essentially pay them an extra sum on top of their normal reimbursement rates, to make up for the fact that they don't have many privately-insured patients to overcharge to make up the difference. (But most hospitals aren't eligible for this, even if they treat large numbers of Medicare patients).

For independent practices, refusing to treat Medicare patients is easy (and many already have). For larger practice groups and hospitals, refusing to treat Medicare patients is the "nuclear option". It'll take a lot of work structurally to adjust the way they're organized in order for this to be feasible. But the way things are headed, that's what we'll start to see, because, as you pointed out, you can only lose money per-patient for so long before you go out of business.
I think that depends on your definition of intrusive.
The first percussion cap for a cartridge wasn't patented until 1807, not in common use until 1825-30 when the bolt action arrived, and not popularized until the Colt revolver in 1835.

Rapid firing guns of more than ~6 shots didn't arrive in the US until the civil war.
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> You don't make npm "work"

Maybe not, but I did spend a whole day trying to get a Polymer example work at all.
IME when talking about "Perl", most people consider that to be Perl5 and not Perl 6. Giving that Perl 6 can be and often is considered a different language.

But yeah, I agree with you about Moose. But I also stand by my opinion that Perl changed muss less than C++ or Java in that time period.
Why only mention cryptocurrencies in the title? There are other financial products listed...
Not sure why the downvotes..
>One of these is certainly not like the others.

May he rest in peace.
From my point of view the term holds another problem. It sounds like you can't use/host the provided "Rendezvous Server" at all and must also write your own to connect the people.
Wow thanks for that, this chick seems awesome. Maybe my reading comprehension is shit but I never saw where she linked to her 'centralized feelings on bitcoin' or whatever. Did anyone see where that is? I've been sitting here in my little traditional finance world shaking my head at Bitcoin for years and would love to see her much more elegantly written tear down.
An important part of science is exposing it to the public. Concepts about the big bang aren't really relatable, which means little coverage, little funding, and the next generation of would-be scientists not being enthused by the possibilities. Hawking brought those concepts to the masses, which is a very important goal.

Hawking, in a large part due to his success in the face of his disability, attracted media attention that people like Peter Higgs just can't, and he did this while continuing to be a theoretical scientist (unlike people like Neill DeGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox etc, who are all very good at bringing concepts to the public, but don't practice themselves)
For me, the reason to use templates is so that the navigation, header, footer, etc. is internally-consistent without O(n) human effort.
There's nothing back door about it. It's an open and transparent defunding of the NHS to push a privatisation agenda.

Privatisation already exists within the NHS, and the programme is already well under way.
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The 3B+ has GbE, though bottlenecked by USB 2.
If I don’t pay my TV license Ill go to jail eventually and it pays for the BBC so this is as state media as it comes in the West today.

It’s also government owned (partially BBC America, World etc. are separate entities and if you are in the UK you can’t even access bbc.com)

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/bbc
Better discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582878
Because HN crowd seems to be more left-leaning
If you prefer to be pedantic regarding English sentence construction, instead of the actual problem that costs lives every single year,

> Like carrying guns as if we were still in the 19th century.
I find it very hard to remove soap scum from bathtub if I don't use cleaning sprays. Can someone please suggest a better way.
What exactly are you trying to achieve? Your questions are very vague and can't be answered this way.
"Our system, for all its faults, naturally favors those who choose to excel in their field."

Choice of parents and zip code are the prime factors.
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LOL. How? By geolocation? Geolocation is exceptionally annoying and inaccurate. I am near Marseille but geolocation has me in Corsica and sometimes Malta. With VPN, I can instantly be anywhere I want.

Google.com should be google.com — everyone that visits should see the same thing regardless of location.

If I visit a shop in downtown Mountain View, they don’t re-arrange the shop because I am resident of France do they?

Then why the hell do websites do that?

If I want the French location of the Google “shop,” I will visit the shop in France — google.fr.

Of course, Google France would need to follow French law, but why Google Mountain View would need to — it makes no sense.

The consumer is choosing to visit the website. The consumer should have the choice if they want to visit California or Lyon.
It's normally better to email the mods, because I don't think they see these comments.
I believe that is the real key to enjoying Reddit. Communities that are laser focused. Basically doing just one thing well. When a community is too big and too general I think the quality suffers.
But it matters what exactly he said and what exactly NY Times writes. For example, if I write in all caps SWEDEN IS DYING, ECONOMY iN SHAMBLES - SAD! - this would be a lie and not useful content and google can decide to remove it and we would be no worse off.
sure, remove memory. and decision making, that's biochemical too. And personality? probably. Remove some impulses and reflexes and primordial pathways. Now that's the real you! What's left, though?
Building a neural network in JavaScript without completely understanding it
>Lisp is Turing-complete while StringTemplate doesn't.

Well...C# String interpolation is.
Serious question, why is Elon Musk lumped in with Tesla, Hawking, and Sagan? Musk's achievements are assisted by the fact that he has tens of thousands of engineers
at his companies and he gets credit for every one of their ideas, all their work, and all the life they give up for his dreams. He didn't found Paypal (his company merged with it), he didn't found Tesla (kicked out one of the original founders), and he didn't come up with the idea
for the Hyperloop either. So, why is a CEO who benefits and takes credit for the effort of others lumped in with individuals?
GlassDollar is an investor discovery tool for founders who’d rather create than waste time on the fundraising process.

Based on your industry, start-up stage and location, GlassDollar shows you investors that are most likely to be interested in your start-up.
No worries Bill, I understand that hypnosis has a lot of negative perceptions and stigma surrounding it and that it will require strong scientific evidence to fully become mainstream and accepted.
"Sometimes we see founders who are not 'all in' but are looking for YC to validate them."

Isn't that a bit irresponsible?

I, for one, had to taper my startup ambitions for a year after graduating university because I had student loans to pay and an initial bank account balance of zero.

Some people are a bit more privileged to have a bit more of a safety net when they start, so jumping off the deep end is a bit easier and less risky.

Many tech companies don't see profit for several years. I don't see how that's possible for some aspiring founders without someone like YC giving them that initial boost.

Despite this "strike," I'm fully self-sufficient now with my own business that is ramen profitable despite having a bit more of a barrier to overcome to start with (which meant biding my time at a Big Company and legally moonlighting by doing remote work with my cofounder while building my business).

Is it not equally impressive that someone started with an empty bank account and worked a full time job for a year and then worked 8+ more hours each day after work to bootstrap their own company?

Please keep this in mind, if at all possible, when deciding whether someone is "fully committed." I hope this makes sense.
While there are many bad examples, that should not be a reason not to do it right ;)
Although you get downvoted, that is a very valid question. Right now there is a process going on in Sweden to change the country's constitution, thus enabling the government to perform more censorship. It is fueled e.g. by established newspapers and tabloids who campaign against Google, Wordpress and other Internet companies. Who gets to decide what is fake news?

I am concerned by this trend. Instead of more open and more honest reporting in mainstream media, the governments try to silence those who post controversial stories - even when they are true, or at least not any more false than "accepted" news.

[Trump's comment about Sweden was false in the sense that "last night" nothing very unusual happened in Sweden; it was true in the sense that every night there were some things that you wouldn't expect from a country that has been so stable for so long as Sweden has, even though the claims about "civil war" in Sweden are highly exaggerated.]
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novel uses of cryptocurrency will almost inevitably gain traction because of their worth, especially considering how hot the market is right now with whales willing to throw ETH/BTC at anything that has a tiny chance to moon. how would Google enforce a rule like "we will block ads that present unrealistic claims?" who defines unrealistic? if you left that definition up to me 99% of the ERC-20 token based startups out there are unrealistic. there's no way that Google could "apply that rule equally across all advertiser" without being accused of being impartial/having vested interests.
What else is on your list?
We built a rail system that spanned the country once and the highway system doesn't just maintain itself.
Not all the ICOs are bad, just most of them.
If you are able to identify the blogs/papers that publish what you are looking for, you could subscribe to them on feedly and use it's 'mute filters' to filter out the rest. It's a pro function in feedly, but there might be other apps which offer the same functionality.
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I reckon all software is plumbing. Plumbing as in taking data in, processing it, and pushing the data out. Doesn't matter if it's a database, a compiler, or a CRUD app; it's all just plumbing.
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>If anyone hear is looking for a true upgrade on the Pi, try the ODROID C2, it's years ahead of the Pi in terms of performance.

I'd pick one from here: https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8
Thats a very long time ago in cloud computing years.
not a general purpose language (but a DSL for relational data), but: SQL. :)
If everyone followed your advice to start a startup, how would you find employees?
Thanks for your feedback gus_massa, we'll definitely try that. It's not that I only write about books, there are more than 1000 articles on my blog on Java and Programming. But, if that's the reason I'll probably share the articles which is not about books here.

Thanks anyway.
Sounds like you coded in Scheme, not Lisp. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16584082) Common Lisp was designed for the messy real world, it's a workhorse, even at the cost of 'prettiness' that Scheme fans like to point out as a benefit for Scheme. So it's been used (either directly or to output a lower level machine code) for all sorts of real world things like OSes (see the Lisp Machines), video games, CAD systems, Mars rovers (subject of this submission), etc...

From the most basic level of syntax, something like https://github.com/TeMPOraL/cl-wiringpi2/blob/master/example... doesn't seem that different to me than the C equivalent I've written for embedded devices.
They know exactly what they are doing. They are raising massive funds in an extremely short period of time with no direct obligation to provide returns to shareholders.
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Nothing suspicious sounding about that.
None of that precludes the case in which you’re the one immortal in existence, and you are immortal by chance and not choice[1]. And you could live in a way that has zero impact on the natural resources of the planet[2], or even a positive one.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Impact_Man
I concede that I know what you meant by "make npm work" but I am sorry to hear that you have your left hand busy trying to figure out what's this week's fashionable way to pass around some data in this month's fashionable framework and your right hand busy trying to make npm and Webpack work.

More than 18 years of it must have been such a chore. I am glad this is not how either my coworkers or I spend our time using JavaScript professionally. Maybe I am very lucky, or maybe I just can spot a stereotype when I read one.

More seriously if you still use JavaScript after all those years that very likely proves the point that you can actually be productive with it.
From where I stand, it's not really gaining any popularity, but I always
wanted to use Ada for something practical, and I finally have something
that needs a good language with a rich type system that is compiled to native
code (and not statically linked at that), and somehow I don't like Rust there.
> This is actually one of the major advantages retail still has over online purchases: returns to online providers require paying for shipping, and the initial shipping costs aren't refunded either.

I disagree. At least here in europe, with mandatory 14-day return period, buying and returning something feels a lot easier than in a brick and mortar store.

I'm not quite sure, but I think even the shipping costs (for items above 40€, I think?) are covered by the return policy legislation. I appreciate this minimal set of standards.
And the missionaries come knocking...

1) "some people apparently need a system that will never update"... Didn't Microsoft literally ask to disable updates during install on every other editions? Whoops. Your statistics are really bad.

2) I see that WannaCry caused $130k in cryptocurrency damages. It's ironic because Bitcoin miners are the very users of these scripts.

3) Conversely, how much has this update policy lost in productivity? (the crypto miners lose twice I guess). It's insignificant to Microsoft's Telemetry and advertising profits. And hell, does Microsoft even need a support team anymore when you can provide it?

How much must I pay Microsoft to disable auto-updates? It's increasing every year. No I'm not going to run some rogue script. No I don't need any snake oil "idiot insurance". Yes this matters to a broke-ass business. No I can't afford enterprise support. Yeah I get it, just enable "metered connection" and ur gucci bro you don't need those updates.

I'm on Linux now, thanks for your concerns.
While for docs which are very close to code, you're right, good documentation has a lot of things at much higher level than code, and a lot of times teaching people how to do things unrelated to the actual implementation, ie "how to expand a linux file system after you increased an EBS volume". Your comments are a bit reductionist.
Using Service Worker as an auth relay
No. They just aren't assholes.
I'd say the world 'real' muddles things up and injects too much value judgment, and with little purpose I can see other than making oneself feel special (or inferior).

I'd much prefer 'highly skilled' or 'advanced', if at all necessary.
I think the author missed the actual special trick that Reddit allows over other subs/forum systems - subreddits.

Look Reddit is transparently similar to many forums that came before it, and most of the old farts from slash dot will know this.

What major change Reddit enables is subreddit budding/splitting for forums.

Forums had a terrible problem with the noise to signal ratio- sometimes the topic (say pictures) was too broad to deal with. How the heck do moderators of a forum on pictures deal with memes? Or just cute baby pics? Or nature pics- and so on.

Well subreddits solves that - while giving you a single identity you can use to traverse all this stuff, with a relatively consistent set of functions over each subject domain.

This is a pretty major function and any large scale forum will have to enable this functionality.

Also subreddit creation is a snap.

—-

As for everyone who is bemoaning the state of Reddit - that’s the state of any forum after it starts attract the full attention of the internet populace.

The truth is long since known. The net is generally an ugly place and assuming that the admins or mods are some how unusually responsible for this state of affairs is dismissive of reality.

I Once modded at Reddit - I’ve gone from pro free speech to defining a whole new set of rules and conditionals for working with speech online.

Free speech in the old net sense is long since gone, and it’s not implementable at scale. Trust me, we’ve tried.

At best there’s networks of ideas and forums working with or against each other.
Interesting to see this posted as I'm taking algorithms this semester and the homework due in 2 weeks has a LIS question.

I accidentally implemented the longest common subsequence that runs in linear space[1] and it actually worked as a drop in replacement for LIS, for my particular question.

[1] http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cheung/Courses/323/Syllabus/Dyn...
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Now that you mention it, i think i got the "multimedia" edition of that as part of the bundle when i bought a CD-ROM upgrade kit back in the day.
Perhaps it has features that Python, Go, Node, and even Perl do not have. The reader is built in the same language as the rest of the compiler which means you can change it: you don't have to fork and compile a new version of a Lisp compiler to parse a completely different syntax or interpret a new kind of grammar. It has amazing error handling in its conditions and restarts system. It has the best OOP system I've ever used: being able to run the game I'm making, change a class definition of an entity and have all the live instances update while the program is running... is quite awesome. It's still one of the best developer-experience languages out there. The tooling is amazing.

The fundamental structures underlying Lisp are quite solid. I like the distinction Phil Wadler makes: Lisp was discovered while languages like Python were invented. Everything in Lisp fits well together. Other languages in this vein are Haskell, SML, OCaml, etc. You can spot these languages because all of their features are usually built from the primitives of the language. An invented language forces the inventor to try and remember how a new feature may interact with all of the others... and sometimes it doesn't work out.
Aside: My first encounter with Margulis’s Serial Endosymbiosis Theory blew my mind.

I’d go so far as to say that SET changed my worldview. I’d always looked at evolution solely through the cold, brütal lens of selective pressure and competition.

SET showed us, however, that symbiosis (i.e. fundamental cooperation) is right up there with competition... kind of a countervailing force within the story of evolution.

I don’t know why, but I take great emotional comfort in that. Perhaps, being non-religious, it allows me to see something humane(?) encoded in the rulesets that govern change.
See also this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2418837
The really big thing missing in the spotify mobile client, is being able to see the whole title of songs/albums when looking through a playlist.
Who is they though? Why can't a community grow around python2?