skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might not be the most authoratative source, and I'm no medical expert, but this overview from Encyclopedia Britannica[1] nicely describes the diversity in how diseases are classified (I know we aren't using the term "disease" here but the concepts are presumably related in practice - I found this summary informative but welcome any informed corrections):

> The most widely used classifications of disease are (1) topographic, by bodily region or system, (2) anatomic, by organ or tissue, (3) physiological, by function or effect, (4) pathological, by the nature of the disease process, (5) etiologic (causal), (6) juristic, by speed of advent of death, (7) epidemiological, and (8) statistical. Any single disease may fall within several of these classifications.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/science/human-disease/Classificat...
I use this on my yard in the midwest. Turns it into a no-fly zone. Fine for dogs, not safe for cats so keep that in mind.

Permethrin SFR 36.8%

*Edit - Nevermind - this WILL harm bees. Sorry about that.
You're assuming they have much lower costs because of socialized medicine -- that's not necessarily the case.

But my broader point is just that universal health care is not an honest description of what it is, and our costs are so great we're unlikely to ever implement such a wealth transfer.

It's a lot less pie-in-the-sky IMHO to focus on bringing costs down. UHC could help in some ways but it's a broad assumption to make that if say Medicare paid for everything prices would just automatically start to drop.
Yep. Fixed, thanks for pointing it out.

(Not that any of this is relevant, I guess, since the post I responded to was deleted?)
Pentagon Orders Stores on Military Bases to Remove Huawei, ZTE Phones
I had a similar experience with Ruby.
Start with the data!

> there are still fewer medical schools today than there were 100 years ago... it may get the number right or it may get the number wrong... And it's a major part of the explanation why US doctors make 2x+ what their counterparts in countries like Germany make.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Health/Physic...

> Most of the differences in outcomes between us and other wealthy nations amount to lifestyle/culture much more-so than affordability and availability. Americans are very obese. Not having to pay a copay to visit the doctor is not going to change that. But obesity means we'll have more problems with newborns, lower life expectancy, etc.

https://obesity.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0043...

> During the New Deal era regulations wage caps were put on workers in the hopes of staving off inflation. Employers, wanting to entice good employees to work for them sought to get around these wage caps by offering health insurance. This then spread like wildfire, coincides with the time healthcare inflation separated from general inflation, and began the trend towards a lack of price transparency.

Except, of course, in the countries where it didn't spread like wildfire. Why all this crazy post-hoc history-building when you can just... empirically observe how the natural experiment played out?

Your modus operandi in this thread is the start with an ideology and then derive conclusions that are often wholly inconsistent with observed reality. There's nothing wrong with premises or theory-building, but when the data flatly contradict your conclusions... well, that's the difference between reality and fantasy.
I would go so far as to say that netcode for an FPS is objectively wrong if it's not sending data in a redundant form that can tolerate lost packets.
The solution to this is simple, but would need to be implemented by your provider.

Just add a screen, like a voicemail, that requires an action be taken to get through to speak to you. Your friend with a new phone number calls, they get a message saying, "Stay on the line one second. If you want to speak to me, hit 445." If they take the action, they proceed to connect the call as normal. Otherwise, you don't even know there was a call.

Google Voice already has something like this. But it's too annoying to switch over everything to that, plus I don't trust Google to keep features around and can't use them for something that essential.
Thinkpads are no longer the high quality machines they once were...

Apple should devote more effort to the MBP lineup (in particular a higher end machine with up to 64 GB of ECC RAM like Dell and HP offer), but the MBPs hit a sweet spot for development in many ways.

You can always run Linux in a VM if you really need to do something with Linux...
What is this site written in? I've seen this style for a couple others. Is it a github wrapper or something?
What is wrong with just running your own instance of Bind9? According to the test on IsMyDnsFast.com it indicates that it is "fast" with the green yes button. DNS resolution on my linux boxes usually take only a couple miliseconds. 35 miliseconds on the mac for some reason. Installing Bind9 isn't as scary as it sounds.
'Staggering' clean-up of river polluted by metal mine
$PYPL hugely down on the news. $SQ took a hit too, weirdly. (I mean at 2:50 PM, after hours is separate with SQ's earnings tonight)

Amazon dips its toes in this space all the time. It's hard to tell how serious they are.

Amazon Pay has been relaunched at least once.

Amazon Register (CC processor which competed with Square) died in 2015: https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/amazon-shutting-do...

Amazon Handmade (the Etsy killer) went nowhere and languishes. Surprised they didn't kill it yet.

Amazon WebPay shut down years ago: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/09/11/amazon-killing-fre...

How do merchants know the investment is worth it this time? (Especially if they may some day eat your market, once they have enough data on it.)
There's a link at the top of the GH repo: https://www.jivesearch.com/. You can also run it locally.

This is different than DDG/Startpage, etc in that everything is open source. I think I have a good start on the instant answers: "shaquille o'neal height", "weather", "matisyahu discography", etc. To my knowledge neither has Wikidata instant answers.
I've also written a little asynchronous module loading system. Why not load a module we know we're going to need in the background?
This is pretty confusing, because it seemed like Amazon made a big push to sign merchants up for its payment service 10 years ago and then completely abandoned it.
Yes I do, especially when the situation is new or weird in some way. Altrought often it happens after and I use different phrasing next time similar situation happens (e.g. I thing offline about how I told things and what happened after). I don't think I am outlier, because most people talk differently in front of different groups and also because I am more impulsive then most.

In context of study as described in article, I would think about way I talk in advance. If asked to analyze situation, I would do some social situation guess to determine whether to talk about relationships, tech, whether use experience or go strictly by text. How I want to look like and which part of me I want to hide/keep secret would be a factor.

The "feels natural" part is influenced by your previous experiences too, naturally.
Nuitka: A Python compiler
Exactly. It's also not a tax mandated by the state, which is the key difference between insurance and universal health care.

If America wants to introduce UHC, great, but let's be honest about what it is, and let's understand it's going to be prohibitively expensive unless we bring costs down first.
I'm a long time python user, but never really peeked under the hood. However, I have a few ideas.

Optimized modules loading: maybe loading a larger 'super' module would be faster than several smaller ones? For example a python program could be analyzed to find it's dependent modules, and then pack all these into a 'super' module.

Once the python program executes, it would load the single 'super' module and hopefully bypass all the dynamic code which each module runs when imported to load up.

As mentioned previously, this is just off the top of my head and would certainly warrant more investigation/profiling to confirm my hypothesis.
Let's give it some visibility then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16980704
> What?! How does an infant/toddler receive legal representation arguing for the plug to be pulled, outside of the wishes of his parents?! That is the very definition of authoritarianism.

So, arguing the doctors' point of view of a terminally ill child's best interests is "authoritarianism", and arguing the parents' point of view is not? OK.

Fortunately English law disagrees, and believes that children are not their parents' property. If you want to know more, start here and follow the thread: https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/98919574700547686...
Nope. Jobs was adamant that laptops shouldn't have touch screens.

I tend to agree with him.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15354613
Apparently he's not the only Facebook employee that saw the dating potential of the database.

Google once also had a case like this. What speaks for FB (and Google) that these things happen so rarely. Their processes (including hiring) and monitoring must be quite good to be able to have a workforce that large and yet so few incidents of this kind (at least, that we hear about).
One thing I dislike about the homepod is the silent failures. Where I say 'hey siri turn off bedroom' and the homepod lights up and then does nothing without any sound whatsoever.

While the echo will always respond.
Zynga's founder cedes control in a rare move for tech companies
What's a "western culture?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_naming_customs
Based on the page source, it looks like it's docsify:

https://docsify.js.org
The radio link is still encrypted so an attacker won’t get much out of it. In fact, it’s a lot easier to tap a cable, DSL or fiber line (which operate without any encryption unless you put IPSec on top manually) than a mesh link which would be using WPA2 Enterprise with perfect forward secrecy.
I’ve reversed and broken real-life products written in JS, Java, WebAssembly and native code.

Minified JS and obfuscated Java (DexGuard or ProGuard) are almost identical in complexity, you can restore the actual datatypes still, and you can even restore the rough outlines of where control structures were.

Obfuscated WebAssembly, NaCl or native code is much worse to work with, and often data structures and control structures are gone entirely.
Mozilla is implementing it:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366287
Thank you for exemplifying the attitude I decried. I wish people like would leave the U.S. Live elsewhere. Escape the burden of possibly having your tax dollars help someone else by emigrating.
My point is if you're serious about eradicating mosquitoes, you should at least consider moving somewhere dry which is a far more practical and immediately viable option.
Yes but spelling out which items are actually "trendy" is useful.
Do you have a favorite tutorial or simple use case that helped you grok it?
Pretty much everything you said is bullshit, fwiw. Nobody gives a shit about your name drop of firms, nor will not having an audit from any of them impact the target market for this app.
Sometimes I wish it didn't. They don't give you the original audio, any kind of confidence score, or even alternative hypotheses. It's really a pretty rigid platform. A lot of things that seem like they should be reasonable are impossible. Eg., I'd prefer to just say a list of post titles and let people interrupt Alexa when they hear something they like. That is impossible right now without pretty serious hacks.
Point to point wireless links can definitely be used as long as you’ve got line of sight between the endpoints.
i got u
Simple API for common video streaming sites
Unless your Python compiler can use cpython modules without a massive performance penalty, it's going to see very limited adoption. The ecosystem matters.
> I'm so longing for a Python(like) compiler.

There is Cython, of course, which is a great python (+) compiler. I assume you mean a just-in-time compiler as opposed to a static compiler.
>I've never seen a plausible explanation of why a health care system would work for 60 million (UK) but not for 300 million

Scaling advanced systems to large numbers of users is very difficult and is the reason Facebook is worth ~1/2 Trillion dollars.

"James Madison argued, especially in The Federalist No. 10, that what distinguished a direct democracy from a republic was that the former became weaker as it got larger and suffered more violently from the effects of faction, whereas a republic could get stronger as it got larger and combats faction by its very structure."

<our politicians are bought so very, very cheaply, and enough people are enriching themselves

If this were true, we should arbitrage this value-mismatch and create a market for buyers and sellers of this powerful, political influence. "cheaply"? As the saying goes, "Extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence."

It is possible that the lawmakers share the same views as the for-profit/non-profit corporate execs, just like I agree with Green Peace(i.e. lobbyists) that we should end the practice of whaling significantly. The sovereign nation of Japan disagrees.
Anything that reduces the number of running chrome instances on my poor little laptop would be nice.
"Apple is a rock of common sense in an industry that’s gone rogue" is too baity, even more than the original title we changed. It's guaranteed to provoke objections if we put it in there. Ditto with "perfect tech company"—can you imagine the arguments that would lead to?

You're welcome to make a bot to track title changes. People have done this kind of thing from time to time, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16018430. IMO the main thing it would show is how much work goes into getting this right, and how hard it is.

Edit: Btw I agree with you that the title we changed it to isn't great; I just haven't thought of a better one or seen a better suggestion. If someone has an accurate, neutral title that preferably uses representative language from the article, we'll happily change it again.
Is this on github, I'd love to contribute!
> So the US healthcare model as it stands is a euphemism for the wealthy and healthy subsidizing the poor and sick in an insanely inefficient way.

Don't really understand this line. The US model itself is a euphemism? What?

I have no doubt that indigent patients get a break from a lot of facilities, but my question would be: why are those services so expensive in the first place? Why is it totally impossible for a person making a reasonable income to pay for a service like healthcare by themselves? You seem to be assuming the costs for your lab are totally normal and legit and wow, isn't it amazing the breaks we give people, but maybe your lab could be charging a lot less than it is for its services?

I don't know obviously, you work there, I don't, I'm just pointing out the underlying issue.
Isn't their solution Toom-Cook where the base is 2^32?
Ask HN: Most clever business models?
Sometimes, very clever business models appear that are key to the success of a product. For some research I'm doing, I'd like to collect as many examples as possible
I have used both of those navigation libraries in medium sized projects as well. This is the section that struck me as overstated:

"The last time I checked there was still no reasonable, scalable way to do complex navigation on the platform. Most third-party components are unusable six months in due to API changes."

The links are counterpoints to the complex navigation issue. Showing that libraries exist and can handle complex navigation. If you want to argue that they are going over rapid change, which is true, then that is another thing. But I'm gonna disagree with the blanket statement of "there was still no reasonable, scalable way to do complex navigation on the platform" as overstated.

As for the second point. I assume what you mean by 'third-party components', is actually third-party native modules. In which I agree the API for them doesn't seem to have stabilized yet so there is a lot of churn in native modules. But a lot of third-party components I have seen continue to work in newer versions of React Native.
I always thought it was strange to see the example loopback address listed as 1.1.1.1 or 1.xxx.xxx.xxx in many of tutorials and official network certification guides and why they did not use a private. This is more than likely why many users are having problems because they are being routed to a loopback address on their router or another router. Hopefully network admins and engineers will choose a non public ip space as their loopback address to resolve the problem.
They’re using a wrapper they wrote themselves over the gl crate.
I have set up wireless bridges that could supposedly under optimum conditions, connect to one another over 11 miles.

So with line of sight I know you could 'beam internet' from either a plain old ISP connection OR from an internet exchange.

This was consumer grade equipment too, I am sure there is much much stronger out there.

As far as the potential of mesh in rural areas, I think one of those two options should be workable. Of course there are costs and geography that may hinder.
Nice false dichotomy you have there. There are other possibilities than the status quo or doctors getting piddling wages.
The first few paragraphs convey exactly how I've personally experienced Karachi as someone from Lahore. It's a wonderfully clean, or incredibly polluted, well managed or a completely broken down city, with beautifully complex and horridly broken bridges which is fairly safe, or so unsafe that I should avoid wearing a business suit or carrying a moderately expensive phone.

The people I've interacted with are usually either very educated, or not at all, and either health conscious or addicted to chewing tobacco (or whatever the "gutka" really is). Incidentally, I've heard that the gutka is a just chewing tobacco, or a mix of cigarette tobacco, battery acid, and animal blood.. all when I asked someone in Karachi.

But hey, atleast everyone in Karachi agrees that their food is better than Lahore's. However, much like everyone in Lahore, I believe they're mistaken.
It's closed source. Sorry. I've thought about things like trying to crowdsource the summaries, since people sometimes write "tl;dr" comments on posts.
> I'm guessing that users share the same IP address

I don’t see why that would be the case - you can give every user their own public IP directly. I would imagine they’re giving everyone an IPv6 /64 and a carrier-grade NAT for IPv4 (as it’s really hard for any new player to get usable amounts of IPv4 space).
Fair enough, I'll replace the word FUD with 'overstated' I do not mean to attack the author.
Tesla First Quarter 2018 Update [pdf]
Console Painting
A Rough Guide to Running a GDPR Compliant SaaS Business
Not a native English speaker and also not that well versed when it comes to marketing talk, but what exactly does "$200 monthly free credit" mean? (from this page: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/user-guide/pricing-ch...). Do you get a sort of voucher with which you'll be able to use Google Maps services worth $200 each month? Will Google automatically start billing you once you surpass that quota? I'm in the dark here.

Later edit: I've found the answer to my first question, as in yes, the "$200 monthly free credit" acts like a voucher, sort of:

> Can I still use Google Maps Platform for free? Yes. Starting June 11, 2018, when you enable billing, you get $200 free usage every month for Maps, Routes, or Places. Based on the millions of users using our APIs today, around 98% of them can continue to use Google Maps Platform for free with this credit.

Still don't know the details of how to set up things so that I'll never surpass that traffic quota of theirs.

I'm part of that 98% they mention with a couple of small personal websites that aren't intended to bring any revenue, I'm not that hyped with giving Google my billing details.

Later later edit:

It seems that it's possible not to give them your billing details so that they'll automatically "degrade" your API calls once the traffic quota is reached without billing you. I guess that's the route I will take, it's the least amount of effort and seeing as my projects won't reach those quotas it also makes sense not to worry about API calls "degradation".

> Is a credit card or billing account required?
Even though your first $200 of monthly usage is free, all Google Cloud Platform services require a credit card and billing account, to cover any amount you spend over this free credit. If you are billed, we'll credit your account for the first $200 of monthly usage. If you choose not to add a billing account, there is a risk that if your usage exceeds $200 in a given month, your Maps API implementation will be degraded or other API requests will return an error. If your estimated usage will be above $200 a month and you don't have a credit or debit card to set up a billing account, a local Google Maps Partner may be able to help.
> Your OS will swap the software out when you aren't using it

Wrong, since Electron apps NEVER sit still.
Oh weird, I was just looking at docsify this morning, that's why it must be so familiar to me.
How IoT Technology Will Be Worth $6 Trillion in a Few Years – iCoin Blog
I've used Qt developing various data-heavy apps for financial research at work and agree that making this comparison is rather inappropriate. For people who are not familiar with JSX this is not any better than the Qt syntax. This would be an alternative to Qt, but before I see a full-fledging app developed with great performance/memory metrics using this, I am not convinced enough to put it in my framework stack.
What is the agent's thought process on a visit like that? Do they not know what Tor is?
This is pretty meaningless without real dollar amounts.
Disclaimer: haven't been on Facebook for years, mainly because I was pissed at all those stupid games and surveys at the time.

The problem with simply providing a trust appreciation is that you continue to encourage low-value social behaviour. If you want to solve the problem, I think you should try to promote critical thinking.

Why not simply de-advantage the news and concentrate on social aspects? Simply put more emphasis on Original Content created by your "friends", not re-shares (no social added value, as the cost for creation was low) or simple link sharing (same thing, if you don't integrate a small comment or analysis, it has no social added value).
Oh, I understand he wanted to keep it sacred so the ‘commoners’ couldn’t sully it with their lack of taste (see: fart apps).

But it was immediately clear that everyone wanted to program for it. And once they decided to go down that path my impression from articles and interviews is that webapps were something of a stopgap until they could get native code ready to release.
Respectfully, losing a single potential user is not indicative of "bad decisionmaking". It may very well have been an excellent decision, particularly if using Electron allowed them to support macOS and Windows out the door - thereby expanding their target audience significantly.

I get why you don't like Electron apps. I share your position in that. I would expect that if Ivelope grows quickly enough to justify it, time will be spent on improving resource utilization. That could be through scrapping Electron or through optimizing within it - but either way, at this stage "time to market" and "speed of iteration" are much more important than resource utilization.
If you know that you'll need more than 8 minutes, why wouldn't you just run ffmpeg on EC2? EC2 is now pay-per-second. I haven't looked at the prices recently, is AWS lambda so much cheaper that it's worth jumping through all these extra hoops?