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Haskell. I can only do simple things and need to understand more jargon.

Category Theory. I'm actually fixing this right now doing an online course.

3d modelling. Haven't gotten started. Really want to learn it.

Rust / Clojurescript. I've started several times but not really been invested enough in the projects I think up to get very far.

Swimming. I am also starting to make progress here.

Handstand. I have the strength and flexibility but need better technique.

Spanish. I understand when I listen but haven't learned how to speak, need to move to a latin country.

Eye contact. I can do it with some people but with others (people who feel insecure) I empathize too much and break eye contact and start talking to the sky.

Sperm retention. I want to be able to control my ejaculation, I've practiced a little but it's quite hard.
Often it’s only on LAN games for tourneys where the tick rate is that high. With internet latency or bandwidth requirements at that rate you are going to start dropping more and more packets and suffer from potentially more client side mispredictions.
Indeed. I'm inspired by Rutger Bregman who famously states in his book Utopia For Realists:

> "It's more expensive to sustain poverty than it is to eradicate it"

When is enough, enough? Do you really need that other billion when you already have a few? Giving money to the poor works: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/06/utopia...
The US and Europe are not really great comparisons for a bunch of reasons, but the fundamental one is that Europe has been at Malthusian population limits for a long time, whereas North America has had an essentially unlimited, unpopulated frontier that new people could move to and create lives for themselves.

Thus, the American notion of pulling your self up by your bootstraps was a workable one. Since North America was first colonized by Europeans, Americans have moved west and made a future for themselves and their descendants by using hard work to harvest the bounty of nature. But Europe has been full for thousands of years. You can't just move West, work some land, and raise a family; there are already other people wherever you would want to go.
Bro this is insane!!!
Its made with Electron so my understanding is it should work on Windows/Linux/Mac out of the box!
> You literally couldn't make up worse things than their administration has been caught doing with little or to consequence.

I literally could. The scandals you're referring to basically come down to them having been cooking books about care records. Bad, but not exactly in the realm of "literally nothing worse" hyperbole.

In fact the VA tends to produce health care outcomes that are well within the range of US citizens in the same income bracket (which is to say, not great relative to the rest of hte industrialized world, but not bad) at a cost that is much less than that of private insurance.

Really, you could do a lot worse. The criticism of the VA tends to be very similar to the criticism of the NHS in the UK. It's valid as far as it goes, but... neither UK citizens nor US vets are suffering serious catastrophes here. They're getting care and living decent, healthy lives by any reasonable standard.

Literally.
It might be question of opportunity costs for him. Maybe he has some project or idea that he wants to realise. Seven months can be a long time in the tech industry.
The innovation of the iPhone was in the execution. The ideas were around, along with a ton of failed attempts at it. A computer in your pocket had been an idea for decades. Apple made one that a critical mass of people could/would actually use.
We've worked at different companies. I've seen the opposite. In smaller organizations there's more of a ... for lack of a better word ... team spirit. Conflicts rarely devolve to a zero-sum faceoff and people are more likely to be interested in the same goal (i.e. moving the product forward). The bigger the organization, the more muddy the waters. Cryptic territorial fights, all up and down the chain, become a shade coloring a great many decisions.

Passing decisions up the chain of command doesn't really sidestep the issues in the article though - cause you still have to decide when to escalate something from "hey, what about this?" to "hey, you are wrong". If anything that's a more drastic step now that you are bringing an issue to An Authority Figure.

I do agree that a lot of problems fester because of a lack of clarity about RACI-matrix. That can happen in any size organization, definitely worse in smaller ones.
> Its quality has been found to generally exceed the quality of private hospitals. The media and conservatives paint this idea that the VA is "atrocious" but it has no basis in reality.

That's certainly one way to summarize the research around the VA, but it's a highly misleading one. It's easy to cherry-pick the metrics on which the VA performs well, but they're not representative of the big problems that the VA has: massive disparity between regions, accessibility of care, timeliness of interventions, adherence, and so forth. This is why VA hospitals have dramatically worse patient satisfaction rates than their non-VA counterparts. (They actually got in trouble a couple of years ago for misrepresenting and hiding the data around this for a while, until independent studies were done which forced them to admit that they'd redefined their internal metrics to make themselves look better).

As someone who has experience with Medicare and the VA, both on a personal level and on a professional level, nothing makes me more skeptical of arguments advocating single-payer healthcare than people willfully ignoring the vast documented problems that exist with both of those systems. That doesn't mean they're not fixable problems. If you want to advocate for single-payer healthcare and argue why these problems could be fixed in a single-payer system, fine. But don't go around pretending that they don't exist - you can't fix a problem by ignoring it and hoping it will go away.
So I've stumbled onto this by accident, but this works for me:

Most spam calls that I get are using local number spoofing. I have an area code from where I grew up, but live in a completely different state now. I can recognize the spam numbers immediately: if it's from the area code where I grew up, and it's not in my contacts, it's spam. Everything else I let through.
> Get familiar with a command line text editor (vim, Emacs, nano, …).

Can someone explain to me why it would be beneficial to learn these? Most of the time if you needed to edit some file couldn't you just <fav text editor here> file.*? I am trying to understand this. Thanks
There is a difference between buying a small island for fun and buying a small island and building your own fully staffed pleasure paradise with an airport. My imagination has no limit on how to use infinite ever increasing amounts of money.
Keyword here is "helping". It's only reducing the probability to get a malware.
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Hey Josh,

This is unrelated, but since you're here: any chance of Travis rolling out newer versions of Ubuntu?

We use Travis to test Kubernetes apps with minikube, which will stop being possible soon when minikube stops supporting systems that don't run systemd/journalctl[0].

[0]: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/2704
Keep treatment free only for accidental injuries or harm caused by third parties.

If a country has cheap treatment though, they could earn a lot through medical tourism.
How do we get their attention though? Right now they are lieing and saying there is nothing they can do about it, and have convinced congress that they cannot. (in fact it is easy, it just require that they filter the from numbers that companies are allowed to use - it would however cost them money to implement the filter for each company and they prefer profits)
Here is an example:

http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/mutt-html.html
I would argue it is coercive, but so is the property system underpinning the market in the first place. Adding a redistribution element to a system of private property doesn't introduce violent coercion, it merely changes how it is being used to allocate resources.
At my old office, we bought phone numbers in blocks, so there was a good chance that if the first six digits matched, it was somebody from the office calling.
At what point do you hit massive diminishing returns? $3.4b a quarter is $285m in R&D every single week. That's a lot of money, no matter how you slice it.
Yes, I've worked with several that can do that. The interesting thing with disk arrays now is the controller heads are becoming the bottleneck.

You used to have many many shelves of SAS drives per controller pair, now the SSDs are so fast that the CPUs are saturated and you have to scale out, not up.
The explanation is that the US is huge and UK/Germany/Sweden/whoever is not.

Efficiency doesn't scale proportionally to size, unfortunately.
It's a fair question; I suspect most of the reason for the lag is that consumer internet connections rarely offer >1gbps, consumer LAN applications requiring >1gbps of traffic haven't emerged (for NAS/SAN, a directly connected USB 3 is probably the way to go for 10gbps transfer, which is what you're looking for here), and WiFi - how most people are connecting their consumer devices to the network - doesn't offer more than a gigabit of goodput in almost any consumer configuration. (e.g. 802.11ac with two spatial streams and 80MHz channels gets ~700mbps at MCS8)

That said, the NBASE-T and MGBASE-T efforts did consolidate to produce a 802.3bz standard that can carry up to 2.5gbps on a Cat 5e line and 5gbps on Cat 6, and we are starting to see consumer and SMB switches, APs, and NICs that support bz.

Moral of the story is wire for Cat 6 and look to upgrade to bz in the next year or so.
Romania, apparently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14025864

Which is unsurprising given that it has the lowest per capita healthcare spending in the EU both in terms of absolute values and percentage of GDP:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?...
Electron? The obvious snarky comment has to then be "oh and it should manage to be slower than Thunderbird out of the box, too!"

I hope he's had better luck integrating spell check than the RamBox devs have ;)

edit: yes, I would love to test it and provide numbers rather than just snark - I just have to wait for the ~5,000 people ahead of me in the queue to have their software pressed to disk and posted to them before it's my turn o.0
I'll give you accessibility and decent touch controls in a pretty package. But I can't let this slide:

>How long would it have taken to get the App Store? That single innovation (making it trivial for people to find/buy software)

Package management was not an Apple innovation, and before iOS 2.0 there were no officially supported native third party applications at all, and the only way power users accomplished this was by installing a package management system based on APT (installer.app/cydia). Jobs believed that web applications with native controls would be all anyone needed with the original iPhone.

So what do they do in iOS 2.0? Give you a crippled, prettier package management solution that requires Apple hardware, and fees, to develop and publish on, and gave the finger to power users.
Cancer sounds like a pretty fair description to me; a destructive mechanism that sucks up tons of resources while turning the tables on something we usually consider a good thing (growth). It's not literally a disease that kills people.

Leaving out all the blockchain dogma and speaking purely from a technical perspective, I do think ICOs are pretty interesting in that they allow low-tech people to spin up digital tokens that can be traded in a decentralized manner. Of course, this is of dubious utility which is why close to 100% of ICOs are scams, but it is pretty fascinating to think that the fundamental primitives that emerge from a piece of open source software are capable of facilitating billions of dollars worth of fraud.

Edit: to elaborate a little further, the use of the word "fraud" there is not meant as a cynical jab, I think it is an uncomfortable fact and an ethical indictment of blockchain software, but if we suspend those considerations for a moment, I think it is interesting to think about the fact that the fundamental "coin-like" behavior of the software actually works (for all its extraordinary costs) and is such a tangible and captivating concept that it has spawned what has essentially become a real-life cyber-punk religion. It's kinda cool that it even exists. It'd be like if a malevolent AI emerged from the internet bent on destroying humanity, it would actually be a really scary situation but I think the HN crowd could not help but be somewhat amazed that such a thing actually existed.
Universal healthcare doesn't necessarily lower costs - countries that have universal healthcare also tend to pay less for healthcare. Correlation does not equal causation, especially since the arrow arguably goes in the other direction here - in other words, the US would have universal health care if our costs were in line with other first world countries. If that second possibility is the case, implementing universal healthcare in the US might be ruinously expensive...

As for better outcomes, I think that depends on how you define "better" - if I'm remembering correctly the US is still at the top for "healthcare outcomes of the rich and powerful". That's a different criteria, and probably the one most important to the people with the ability to cause change - namely, the rich and powerful!
My biggest issue is similar. My friends and I can hang out together easily, but we don't really just hang out anymore, they always want to go to bars and I'm not really into that.
I read the whole thread and... it seems that people are looking at the solutions at the wrong angle: we have lot's of unwanted marketing/spam calls so we need to find a way to block them. Then they spammers get smart and generate more and more spam - vicious circle.
Wouldn't it be better to motion solving the problem at the other end - ban all non-personal calls that are made without your explicit consent? Something similar is done in Europe/Poland and I virtually don't receive any unsolicited calls.
Of course this would cause all the "poor" telemarketing companies to cry outloud how they are "persecuted and not free to work normally, bla, bla, bla" and probably there would be a huge lobbying involved not to make it happen…
google defines cancer as "a practice or phenomenon perceived to be evil or destructive and hard to contain or eradicate." So we can get back on topic now
I get several voicemails a week from unrecognized numbers that are ~3-5 seconds of silence. I suspect it's the spammers' autodialers not recognizing that there's not an actual person on the line, and giving up once there's a few seconds of silence (post "leave your message at the beep" beep).
Okay. I pick any of the injuries of others that you're ignoring right now.
'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi
What online course are you doing for category theory?
Some stuff needs to be sorted out and adapted to Linux so it might take some time before it's out on Linux. However, a lot of users has requested a Linux version which makes this a priority
The takeaway from this is that management defines reality. Opinions and objectivity goes out the door if management doesn't like the decision. This is why a clear chain of command is vital. Humans need it to function in groups if the group is to stay together as one unit.
IS that a simple wow or reference to the last words of Steve Jobs https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/31/steve-job...
Given that we're on HN and SF has notorious homeless problems, I'd say odds are high that it's somewhere in the Bay Area.
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> Using the word "addict" is a cop out to take away personal responsibility.

It's not a cop out. It's a fact. Social media can fit the exact definition of "addiction" for some people.
Personal responsibility is present if you're abusing a drug or social media.

From your comments, it appears you aren't affected. Great. Similar to how you probably can't relate to a heroin addict means you can't relate to a social media addict.
I put my name on the waitlist, but instantly lost interest and confidence by:
“Jump forward 5 steps in the line for every person you invite and get beta access sooner.”

Why? If the product is that good I’ll evangelize it. This is a desktop application, so I don’t see a big boost from a network effect. All this does makes me wonder if the product is more about building hype than value
What version FF are you using? It could be that you are on a beta build and something is slowing it down, or you are running an older version.
I had been a Linode customer since 2008 and recently migrated to DigitalOcean about 6 months ago. So far my DO experience has been flawless. I needed basic, reliable block storage and at the time, Linode had promised "it's coming" for years. I beta-tested the Linode block storage and it was not stable for me. At the end of the day, Linode has rock solid stability, but they are unfortunately too slow to develop new features, thus I simply had to move on.
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Universal Health Care / Medicare For All --> "That will never happen." Candidate for President Hilary Clinton

Trump being elected is not actually germane to this discussion.
That's not really responsive to the point of the article though. The goal isn't actually to "arrive at a decision". Any manager can do that. A military-style chain of command with autocratic power exerted feudally at each level is like the simplest possible form of organization.

The point is to avoid getting to a situation where a manager needs to step in and make that call in the first place, because despite its simplicity autocratic control (especially in creative fields!) is a pretty craptastic way to run a company.

Your point that "feelings are saved because roles are clearly defined" just doesn't work in practice. And anyone who's ever been overruled by a boss can tell you that.
We would love to hear what you like about Rmarkdown and Sweave. Jupyter tooling is always improving, and we are very interested in engaging with users about their needs, and helping grow the ecosystem to be able to address those.
They are sensitive to collateral damage, though, otherwise they could just turn off internet access. It's actually pretty easy for a state-level actor.

Why do you think they don't?
Thanks for the ping about this. Could you email support@travis-ci.com and we can look into this for you. Feel free to also mention that we chatted here.
The only potential consumers I can imagine are like the Great Firewall of China traffic monitoring systems.
Head of AI / Data @ Atrium here. Just want to second Justin's comment. Its insanely exciting what we're doing and if you're into NLP and ML, I'd love to talk to you. Come to https://www.atrium.co/careers/ and we'll get back to you.

Max
Insufficient local supply is why the programs exist, not international supply. If international supply was insufficient then the programs wouldn't exist.
The nitpicking is somewhat understandable, in that TFA highlights "assault rifles" as having anything to do with the vests. Any rifle (other than e.g. a .22) can do what "assault" rifles are described as doing. In fact most hunting rifles are a lot better at penetrating armor than an AR-15 is.
I mean, I hope they fail and the publishing industry continues its decline, but I think that is where they will make inroads.
I read the first two chapters of Algorithm Design by Jon Kleinberg and Éva Tardos. The prose is very clear and lucid, but it has one problem: it's incredibly long-winded. A good editor could probably lop off a good 1/4 of the book without loss of info. That would make the book spectacular.

Also, if anyone is interested, these lecture notes [0] (Algorithmic Math by Soicher & Vivaldi) below introduces algos from elementary number theory/abstract algebra.

[0] http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~lsoicher/ambook.pdf
P states and performance impact
> It's likely that we would have ended up with something very similar to today's smartphones even if the iPhone had never existed.

I'm not so sure.

A picture says a thousand words:

https://www.cultofmac.com/145083/what-phones-looked-like-bef...
Google starts throwing cash at Google Assistant startups
Traffic circles where I live are a complete boondoggle. They are seen by city planners as a wonderful, progressive, very forward-thinking concept. And I have no problem with them in theory. But when they convert a normal "four-way" intersection to to a traffic circle it always seems to take about a year, is built far larger than necessary, requires annexation of pieces of private property around the perimeter, and features a large center island with trees and ornate landscaping.

I can't see a reason it should take more than a few weeks to round out an intersection and remove the stoplights/stop signs.
I think that that one email app that got acquired by dropbox before even launching did this and I think people are just copying it.
Apparently the process was stalled again. Check the forums.
> "Animation avoidance makes users ignore areas with blinking or flashing text or other aggressive animations."

I will say that there's a part of me that thinks the deprecation of blink and marquee was a mistake. I kind of miss those sometimes. It's a very small part, mind you, but still.
Nonsense.

1) There is no consideration of cost (typical statist nonsense). In most if not all places the healthcare system is piling up debts that will never be paid
2) Every useful activity that the government performs, the private sector does cheaper and better.
3) If it had benefits then people would buy it on their own
> ICOs are stupid, but really easy to avoid

The cancer analogy is relation to the financial markets as a whole. Once people make more and more money from ICOs, they reinvest and push aside other more legitimate/productive forms of making money until there's nothing but ICO activity - investors who didn't jump on get FOMO and add to the new tide.
I sometimes wonder what motivates obscenely rich people to continue working, particularly when that work is as controversial as Facebook. The values of these people are clearly different from mine. In Koum's shoes I'd probably make the same decision, he doesn't need to work another day in his life if he doesn't want to so he has no excuse to violate his personal beliefs.