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I'd really like to get into hobby electronics, specifically DIY guitar pedal design.

There's a great subreddit, /r/diypedals, which I've been lurking for a while, I just haven't made the dive into buying my first kit and soldering equipment. Does anyone here on HN have any tips or words of wisdom?
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I’d venture to say that is wrong at least in the case of Postgres.

In order to be able to reason with certainty about your data, information should be coming from the source closest to the truth, and that would be your database. You can’t really trust the application, it may have been written wrong.

Postgres’s LISTEN/NOTIFY commands, which are not part of the SQL standard, exist for these cases.
You need an organization that can utilize resources derived from the whole of the economy to provide service to the whole of the populace. Ideological prejudice against “government programs” obstructs getting this good work done.
Obviously corruption can undermine any system. I assume in those countries the corruption extends to areas other than healthcare as well.
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Sure. But what if the costs keep skyrocketing? Say you pay 50% in taxes now -- you cool with 70%? 80%?

Presumably there's a limit to what you're willing to pay.

I am in favor of higher taxes but it's impractical to assume just paying for universal health care at all costs is a viable strategy.
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> Koum’s decision may be made easier thanks to the $10.4 billion fortune he’s already accrued, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He’s already sold $8 billion worth of Facebook stock since 2015, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

What's the point of FU money if you never say FU? Good for him.
I wonder if the author likes Apple because Apple has, as he states himself, stopped innovating. This means that Apple's offerings offer stability, which means comfort.

That being said, I agree with the authors sentiment.
That's the thunderbolt port, which is designed to pass full current, that's why it's specific to that port.
Minimal JS Integer Framework:

function plusOne(x) { return x + 1 }
function plusTwo(x) { return x + 2 }
function plusThree(x) { return x + 3 }
function plusFour(x) { return x + 4 }

Using this framework, you can truly adhere to the DRY principle: instead of repeating x++ all around your codebase, you can simply do:

x = plusOne(x)
Though the current notebook is the 6th prototype, so there've been quite some work before actually being made "public". Hope the notebook didn't distract you too much from your PhD !
Functional for GDPR does not take into account revenue from my understanding. You’d need a fallback ad solution that doesn’t rely on cookie targeting for users who don’t opt in.

Isn’t GDPR fun?
Thoroughly deserved - Jupyter is helping push science forwards.
Remember that you're competing with a team that implemented a feature that redirects you to the domain with the tld of the country of ip !!!
Do you think this is related to Finland being much, much, much more homogeneous demographically than the US?

I was going to say "ethnically homogeneous", but that isn't even the core of the issue. The US has populations with vastly divergent cultural backgrounds and outlooks (there's even a few types of white people); it's harder to argue that Hassidim in NYC should care for Crips in outer LA.
i.e. do i need an abstraction layer over my orchestrator?

Somewhat reminiscent of the early 2000's fad to abstract over databases when in reality folks never 'swap out the db' on real projects.
Because it is about making money, not helping sick people become healthier.
Imagine your city is a grid...N/S streets are numbered, E/W streets are lettered.

Toll roads wouldn't be efficient if 5th-18th ave are toll roads (operated by multiple companies/agencies) and then Fst-Hst and Ost-Xst were also toll roads. You'd never be able to get across the city.
Your first paragraph is false and indeed can not be true in any system that rations care. All health care systems ration care since no soceity has enough resources to cover and pay for all possible needed health services. Here resources includes number of qualified workers.
How? The area west of 280 is mostly protected land, so it's hard to build. Some of the empty areas out by Alviso/Milpitas are superfund sites. Apparently it's much harder than it looks to reclaim the Bay and build on it (best chance of opening up large amounts of land). Is there some map that shows areas that can be developed?

Also, Santa Clara county is chock-full of EPA superfund sites. Lots of soil and groundwater contamination.
> "If the VA is the best the US government can do..."

It's not the best Uncle Sam can do. It's the best it wants to do. It's the (minimal) "best" is has to do.

Sure there's plenty of verbal grandstanding - by both politicians, the public, and the private sector (e.g., NFL) - about supporting the vets and their families, but actions speak louder than words. (Verbally) supporting the vets is good branding. It's that simple. That's all it takes.

Put another way, if the US brought back the draft and the armed forces made up a wider cross-section of society (i.e. poor, rich and in between) priorities would change. Actions would speak louder than the words.
And the rest is non-discretionary, most of which is welfare: Medicare, Medicaid, social security.
I never made it to any of the developer conferences, but I remember the mood on the Fox forum on Compu$erve being very grim when the announcement was made. People joked about jumping out of windows...

I'm no fan of Access or VB, either. I do everything outside the main application in Python, too.
> Steve Jobs: no talent. Bezos: no talent. Obama: no talent.

I'm definitely not saying that. What I am saying is that their talent had to be coupled with an immense amount of luck, being in the right place at the right time, and things falling in line just right for them.

> Again, I'm not wealthy, so these taxes would not affect me. But I'm not sure you're correctly modeling transmission vectors for communicable diseases.

They would absolutely affect you -- you'd get medical care. It's also not fair to say you don't pay taxes even if your marginal tax rate is 0% as your employer pays ~15% of your salary on top in payroll taxes, and your employer could also be taxed to provide healthcare as some countries do. Even San Francisco follows such a model with Healthy SF.

> You're saying rich people should pay really high taxes because poor people getting an education will cause the stock market to go up? Uh...not sure that's how it works.

A quick google search yielded all sorts of great reading material on how that could work [1], [2] and [3].

Of course correlation is not causation and if you reject that data, the reality is you participate in a society -- would you rather your peers be uneducated or educated? Healthy or sick? Terrible roads or good roads? Drinkable water? On fire? Ultimately those of the highest means have the highest responsibility to that society to give back.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/opinion/knowledge-bank/2015/08/12/edu...

[2] http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EDUCATION/Resources/27820...

[3] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp
You should check out "Conceptual mathematics" and then "sets for mathematics", both written by lawvere. They are the amazing
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> The VA was a good system not too long ago, but the past couple decades decades has seen it get extremely underfunded in a starve the beast strategy. It used to be a black eye in the Republican's view of healthcare, but they sure fixed that.

While it's tempting to blame any failure of national healthcare on Republicans, this is simply not factually accurate.

It's been at least two generations since the VA was anything resembling a good model for healthcare, and it's not simply the Republicans to blame for that, nor is it merely a problem of funding.
I don't know that these are learned the same way learning how http works is learned, because it requires an emotional shift and a shift in how you already view the world.

These changes are transformative, not additive - unlearning can be a lot harder than learning.

Excellent list otherwise.

Most of these things will become 'natural' if you spend time around people who've already internalized these lessons, so for the younger folks, the greatest help would be getting to spend time with people who already have these qualities - it'll slowly mold you into having them as well.
There isn't really. In this case, the organization paying the cost has the power to confiscate whatever it needs from the citizens to fund its expenses. They are not operating with the financial motivational pressures of a business or even a non-profit organization.

All of government is a big cost shared by everyone paying into the common fund. That doesn't seem to have created any incentive at all to control spending. Quite the opposite in fact.
I read the first four books and I think they are very good. Good choices!
Yeah, me too. Used to laugh them, now I use them for the past several years and don't plan on switching to something else for now.
Ya... I don't get this article. I think the skills are good, but they aren't going to make you stand out.

If you don't know DNS, how did you get a website in the first place to start working on.

If you know how to code, you probably know how to get your changes onto the website with GIT.

And if you have made a website before you probably know how to use Chrome Dev or Firebug.

All this stuff except the HTTP, and Network Debugging would be covered in the first two weeks of any coding bootcamp.
What if they aren't? Are there criteria that can be met that make the decision to leave someone injured on the side of the road morally sound?
CSS is broken in Firefox.
My situation is opposite: I know many things but React/Vue/Angular. It is interesting how the remote job market turned away fast from mobile development. I have elected to learn React and Vue, hoping to bet on the right horses :)
Are there any examples of Electron apps that don't do that, though? I've never seen one that didn't like to eat at least a few hundred MB, and most of them seem at least somewhat leaky, too.
This has been possible and quite easy with FUSE (and overlayfs / mergerfs / mhdfs / aufs if you don't want to implement all the functionality yourself) for the last 8 years at least -- I've used mhddfs and fuse for exactly this on Ubuntu 10.04
> cognitive behavior therapy that replace or supplement only eating pills might help a lot of folks with addiction and raises productivity.

This is a nice sentiment, but would you quantitatively argue that this is a good investment?
We probably won't be a JupyterCon, but my CTO would love to have a call. Is it OK if Eliran, responsible for partnerships, reaches out to you for a video call?
You do need some administrators, like the receptionist, someone to manage the janitorial staff, etc. There's now something like 18 administrators for every doctor in a hospital. I think it was barely 5-6 years ago I was complaining because the ratio was 10 to 1. Their salaries are also pretty high, typically in the $250k range.
Of course. The obvious answer is always to just fire people. Improving your own communication skills couldn’t possibly be the solution.
That's wrong - here is the study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1212321#t=articl...

We found that insurance led to increased access to and utilization of health care, substantial improvements in mental health, and reductions in financial strain, but we did not observe reductions in measured blood-pressure, cholesterol, or glycated hemoglobin levels.
> You think people arguing that it's immoral for someone to die because they were born poor are not actually sincere in their argument?

That would depend upon the specifics of the argument at hand. I also don't think increased funding is a solution to the problem.
FOIA 101
I would have thought she'd mention Introduction to Algorithms (Rivest et al). The Pierce book is great but hardly something that I'd include in an every-programmer-must-learn-this list.

Code Complete is fantastic. I haven't re-read the Pragmatic Programmer in probably a decade but I remember that giving me a very good handle on approaching code as a young developer.
Healthcare is expensive because of the three-way symbiosis between insurance companies, drug companies and regulation that is designed to only take care of the aforementioned.
You've never heard of Progressive Insurance? The name is not an accident - it's a very deliberate expression of their pretty much communist values...
I believe the poster was referring to England and France being party to a secret agreement to partition the Ottoman Empire after World War I, despite overtly backing Arab revolt with promises of independence.
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Quantum mechanics. I should have studied it better when I was at university and my math was fresher :)
>Do Medicare recipients seek to leave it?

No, because it's free, but 1/3 of Medicare recipients opt to receive their coverage through private insurers that typically add on additional coverage, an indicator that Medicare alone is not enough for a large segment of the population, or that they prefer a private insurer even with government subsidization.

https://www.kff.org/medicare/fact-sheet/medicare-advantage/
Tell that to little Alfie.

When you have an unconditional "right" to consume someone else's labor, the inevitable result is tyranny, rationing and the force of government determining outcomes.
I don’t understand why you were downvoted. That you were downvoted for your comment suggests how bad things are in the U.S. for a progressive like me.
No, in the first place, you shouldn't have a significant percentage of elected officials in the government who will fuck up any government in an effort to prove that government doesn't work.

If you do have that, then it is highly unlikely that your country will be able to implement a health care system that is competitive with Canada, Japan, Netherlands, etc.

But beyond that, it's very unlikely that your country will be able to implement other fundamentals, such as uncontaminated drinking water, safe schools, etc.

In other words, if your country has three branches of government, and the party that controls the executive, legislative, and judicial branches really is willing to fuck up any government in an effort to prove that government doesn't work... then, I'm afraid you are really pretty fucked.
I made the same transition a few years ago. Over time I've supplied my family with iPads to 1) get us on a common chat platform and 2) reduce my tech support requests as much as possible. It has worked well!

I have a Pixel 2 XL and Chromebook for work. There are a few features I wish iOS would take from Android, and a few I wish flowed the other way, but if you buy in to the Google stack, it's hard to beat the Pixel/Chromebook pairing.
Wrong--it is certainly the case that many insured individuals are left insolvent after necessary but costly medical procedures.
As you wish: https://craftyguy.net/paste/5X0XnLzW
Would anyone else like to say sorry?
XKCD Galilean moons. https://xkcd.com/1300/

Congrats BTW.
It has the benefit of being supported by the state, yet nowhere has it obsoleted private healthcare (except for places where the government outright criminalizes private healthcare). There is something rotten in Denmark.
I agree with the long term / short term dichotomy.

I believe the same dynamic is at work WRT the concentration of wealth in the US. I understand the short term desire to accumulate wealth. I do it myself. It seems to me that if trends continue, there will be less and less income for the other 99% to spend. (Yes, I'm mixing income and wealth here because I believe that the desire to increase wealth on the part of the wealthy results in downward pressure on income for the rest of us.) In my Econ 101 class they spoke of the velocity of money - how much gets spent. It seems to me that the velocity has to go down as earnings go down and at that point, the ability to accumulate wealth would start to decrease.

(These thoughts ignore the possibility that those who are not wealthy could provoke social upheaval. I don't know if that's a real possibility.)
Good list for more experienced programmers but there's nothing new here except the sales pitch for her python book. It's not a great list for beginners learning by themselves for the first time.

It seems that the article is aimed at a complete beginner starting for the first time given the part about learning python first.

If I had just learned python as my first language and then tried to read some of the books in this list I would be very confused.
(Disclosure: I hold AAPL)

Great article but a couple of points:

On Tuesday’s call, there was just one question about innovative offerings, and it concerned health applications, an important driver of Apple Watch sales but not a potential world-beating sensation. Apple appears to be happy to think small and focus on its shareholders, not on pie-in-the-sky ideas, like other tech companies, including industry leaders.

There's a key point I think the author is missing here. If Apple could spend $50 billion on R&D and get a worthwhile return, I think they absolutely would. Their below-par R&D is not from a lack of wanting. It's because they are much more focused. They don't burn cash on new ideas just because they can.

And if I thought Apple's health aspirations were limited to Apple Watch, well, I wouldn't be in the stock.
Yes, the problem is American universities, like hospitals, are severely overpriced.

There are many reasons for this, but it's easier for Finland to pay collectively for higher education when the tuition is reasonable.

Just like my healthcare argument -- if we could bring down the cost of higher education then subsidizing it for everyone would be less controversial.
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My position is to take care of that person, like weve been taken care of visiting while other countries, but trying to avoid the illegal/undocumented immigrant strawman for clarity.
Love the work you put into this and the detail put into describing the features. One thing missing from the site. Why did you make it?
California’s Top Court Sets Tougher New Rules on Hiring “Gig Workers”
> I resent the fact that I had to spend so much time in world renowned educational centers learning so much theory that I never use in the real world.

Having worked on everything from OS components to embedded systems, I use that theory constantly and wish I'd had the opportunity to learn more.

Where you took your career rests solely on you; don't blame those who educated you for it.
I love the concept of Rancher for someone working in Corporate Atmosphere - where I have to install everything on the companies infrastructure and all the GKE, Fargate and Azure Kubernetes is not allowed... But the people at Rancher failed to recognize that they need to support clustering without any manual intervention to actual click through their UI to achieve clusters - give me an automated joining of clusters method - if you want me to adopt Rancher.
I had a new macbook pro for a developer job and three weeks after I got it something on the motherboard shorted out and caused one speaker to make a loud popping noise and stop working. it crackled for months before we could get it looked at, and when they realized they needed to replace the whole motherboard the sent it back after certifying that the speakers now worked. Only the broken speaker still sounded noticeably different from the good speaker. I don't have that computer any more, and it still irks me that apple couldn't be bothered to replace all the broken parts.
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Trump had made it pretty clear he was against the Iraq war, and plans on closing military bases overseas to reduce military costs.

Keeping our military in European bases certainly does cost the United States significant resources to counter the Russian threat to Europe. While NATO countries don't pay their fair share of costs of maintaining their security, the United States has to pay the balance.

If European countries actually spent what they ought to, they absolutely would have less money to spend on their welfare systems.
>Damn if you do. Damn if you don't.

You're conflating healthy skepticism with being cynical.

>So please acknowledge this effort from Facebook rather than staying on your high horse and being cynical about everything.

Please acknowledge FB fundamentally doesn't operate with our best interests in mind and this is why the default attitude to the company should be one of being skeptical and cautious.
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> Is it Youtube’s job to enforce morals? ...

Wrong frame. YouTube’s ethical responsibility is dictated by their ethos and that of society.

It’s Youtube’s ethical responsibility to not have videos which promote academic cheating products.
The most economically efficient way to pay for B is to allow the free market to drive the cost of care so low that the person is either able to pay for it, or the cost through charity is trivial. This has the double benefit of not attempting to rectify one moral wrong (person does not receive care) by committing another (violent coercion by the state).
The author of this opinion piece is praising Apple for its willingness to NOT innovate.

I strongly disagree.

The best solution to privacy concerns is not to stop innovating. Surely there are better solutions.

Apple is leading the way on some consumer privacy issues and I applaud them for that. But surely if Apple halts innovation, it will die as all companies do. Let us hope they are smarter than that.