skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think its the other way around. Wouldn’t programming get classified as engineering, hence the name Computer Science and Engineering?
But now they are offering this delete feature. What do you want them to do? Shut down the company because of the mistakes they committed in the past?

Also, Google and Twitter are relevant here since they are collecting 3rd party data and not offering this delete functionality. But no one is taking that up. Sometimes I wonder if this is really about privacy or just about Facebook.
>When a person gets a life threatening disease they ought not worry about whether or not their treatment will leave their family in penury. This is especially so in a nation as wealthy as the U.S. The American healthcare system is immoral and I hope it drastically changes.

If no one has to worry about the monetary effects of their health choices, poor health choices are incentivized and those who make poor choices are subsidized by those who make good health decisions. The vast majority of healthcare spending in the US is already on preventable chronic conditions yet everyone keeps gorging themselves further into obesity, diabetes, hypertension, CVD, etc. Almost no one is against paying into a risk pool that hedges against unforeseen health problems even though they may never directly benefit. If I pay my entire life to cover someone else's cancer, that's fine with me. What we are sure as hell opposed to is a creating an entire system based on perverse incentives that punishes people doing their best to save their pool from spending on them and rewards those whose voluntary actions are the driving force behind increased costs. And the US healthcare industry is not some libertarian wild west show, it is highly regulated and dominated by the edicts of CMS yet the state of the public's health continues to worsen in ways our forebears who optimistically, though naively, created these programs could never imagine.
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I get the vibe the Zuckerberg and Facebook don't really know what to do about the news situation.

I find their promises of "we promise to only feed you real news" dishonest. Isn't the whole premise behind news that it's information aggregated and broken down by a person. That makes it inherently biased no matter how hard a person tries to keep bias out of it.... it's just part of it. So under what metrics will they determine that information isn't biased? It just doesn't make sense to me.

It feels like a catch 22. Facebook makes a lot of money by posting ads for news and funneling traffic to other sites. But users leave when their feeds are garbage or they feel like Facebook isn't doing anything to protect them. Lets just tell both sides we will solve the problem, but never actually explain how we will do that.
From a security perspective, I don't think there is a big difference between process isolation and kernel isolation. Oh, you think you made some really secure software? That's great, here is how I will use a side-channel to work around it.

If it weren't for the fact that the vanilla Linux kernel is the security equivalent of swiss cheese, process isolation should be good enough for basic "sandboxing". Add SELinux and some patches and it's good enough for the NSA.

So rather than waste time on piling on another layer of abstraction for what is, in practical terms, no significant security advantage, just make userland containers (don't run your container manager as root) and secure the OS and stop reinventing the wheel with added complexity.
For some use cases, Go might be a good alternative to Python. It's performant, yet simple and readable and it has a great ecosystem.
You can implement a custom file system as a separate process (called Gofers) and have the sandbox connect to that. The custom file system has to adhere to the p9.File API (see pkg/p9/file.go) - the protocol is an extended version of 9P2000.L.

(I work on gVisor.)
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Notebook: https://github.com/OpenMined/Grid/blob/master/notebooks/Denv...
What if you use an S3 upload hook? Are you charged for bandwidth S3 -> lambda? Also, wouldn't you use the same bandwidth with elastic transcoder anyway?
i thought Graphql was confusing at first, merely because of their distinction of "Query" and "Mutation". It turns out (which I should've known), "Query" is just like GET requests where you are retrieving information and "Mutation" is like a POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE requests that can modify the data.

After grasping this, Graphql was pretty similar to working with REST and a bit more flexible in how we want the data to be returned.

Graphql really does fix the whole "query multiple endpoints to construct a single data" dilemma.

Only thing I didn't like about it was the way Graphql schema is to be written in server side, thought it could be a bit more intuitive and simplified . Currently, it can get pretty verbose and breaks the DRY mantra. Would be nice if the Type system can be hooked up with the whatever ORM you are on (Mongoose, AR, Sequel) because you'll be re-mapping the fields to Graphql which can be an overhead for no reason.

Also schema is like working with SOAP's WSDL all over again. I used to hate it but it's back with Graphql so I'm trying hard to like it!
I don't — I use a laptop from Zareason. It runs Debian, and I'm happy with it.
How do you know that that, rather than something else, accounts for the high costs?

Edit: for example, Scott Alexander's point about US providers feeling they have to provide expensive treatment just to cover the possibility of a lawsuit: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...

Edit2: Also, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, and several others have typical cost savings but aren't single payer.
If Python had a 10th of the funding JS has, we would have start up time, packaging, gui and mobile apps solved by now.
performance != startup time for lots of applications.

I use a C curses application (dokia) to store some oft-used commands, but anything that won't be run 500x/day or runs longer than ~1/10th of a second I'll write in python for easier/more powerful development
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Even if you don't end up using React itself, alot of libraries are similar in concept. By learning one you can gain the concepts to use many. For example vue.js is really easy to pick up if you already know react.
Here we go with this bullshit again! IMMORAL! Um, whose morality are we talking about? You sound like a shrill, smug, teetotaler in 1930!

When a person gets a life-threatening condition in China, they may not get care at all. Is that "immoral" or just a reflection on how a non-market-based system uses rationing to determine, based on party loyalty, who lives and who dies?

How about in the socialist paradise of Venezuela? Is there full on collectivist healthcare system immoral or just stupid? You can't even get treated for a gunshot wound in Venezuela right now. You might get a dirty bandage off of a corpse if you're lucky that day.

US healthcare has massive problems, but when you need it, you can obtain care. I don't know why people have such a hard time paying for things they need except that US higher education has completely messed with so many people's brains in this regard and so they have come to believe that strangers owe them something or that human nature is somehow different today than it has ever been. You are not entitled to live, your outcomes in this world are almost completely random and placing an oppressive, confiscatory government on top of your head is not improving your chances of survival.
> Not sure the bible is a good source for astronomy.

Agreed. I used the Bible in this context as a source of historical human ideas.

There are lots of similar passages, both in other parts of the Bible, and in other works, that refer to the stars as "uncountable" in some form or another. I used this particular reference because it was the first one I found. :)
From Wikipedia:

> Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of an entity, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit.

I would say that their actions clearly fit that description.

They are abusing their customers by preventing them from using software outside their controlled ecosystem, and they are purposefully creating incompatible communication protocols in order to make everything around them effectively worse.
Are there any differences in criteria for REMOTE and on site engineers? How many remote engineers are currently on the team?
I have some questions, mainly around networking and the like. Is there somebody from DO that I can get in touch with directly? Thanks.
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You can indeed safely run containers as root inside the sandbox. The UID/GID you run as is configurable.
This is truly a problem. Even more so if you host your application on a network directory. Loading all the small files takes ages. I really wish there would be a good way to compile the whole application with all the modules into one package once you're ready to release. I really wish the creators of Python would have given such use-cases more consideration.

Edit: I'm aware that there are solutions that put everything a program touches into a kind of executable archive. A single file several hundred Megabytes in size. I've tested it. It doesn't really pre-compile the modules. The startup time was exactly the same.
Man, is that "cons" section ever terrifying.
Would it be feasible to keep a set of Python interpreters around at all times and use a round robin approach to feed each already-on interpreter commands then perform an interpreter environment cleanup out-of-band after a task is complete?
I really like the idea. However, let's think about abuse patterns: what prevents CEO agency from creating 1k t2.micro instances and clicking upvote for a link of interest and downvote all the competitors?
Absolutely jest.
I have been looking at the Lenovo X1 Carbon or a Surface Pro to replace my aging MacBook Air.
>>>He runs a media company that has—with Google’s help—dominated the vast majority of digital ad dollars and eviscerated the journalism industry’s business model

Oh, bullshit. Google and Facebook didn't kill journalism, "journalism" decided not to complete and thought people would keep paying similar ad rates for something objectively worse.

And whining about how Facebook doesn't pay to license journalist content? In my "trending" section I can click to see a one sentence summary and then click through to the news site. It's not on facebook, except for that one sentence (which might be written by a user? Not clear to me) and a link. What would they pay for?
Why would anyone refuse free money? Are you sure you understand the parent's point? They are taking the money but using private networks, which indicates they prefer private providers.
It's not free. It has never been free. Just because strangers forfeit some of their wealth at the point of a gun doesn't make it free.
Research paper in question: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24318-x
Hi Operyl - I appreciate your candid feedback on this.

As with anyone else, please feel free to email me directly if you want to follow up: zach@digitalocean.com

Regarding the actual system, its functionality, etc, we are planning an update. If there's anything that you want us to include in the system, or support systems that you enjoy using, please let me know.
Well deserved. There are few softwares that totally amazed me when I first used them. (I used Jupyter for the first time last week).

I was like "Did they actually achieve this?"
And the insufferable genius often produces shit code anyway since he has no concept of how to work together with other humans / write code for teams.
Do we have numpy, matplotlib, scipy, pickle etc. for Go?
GC still brings its own set of problems like Finalizers and the like.

GCs also tend to have cliffs where you hit some unknown threshold when they start thrashing where deterministic release of memory tends to be much more linear.
Internet Rule #45 - "if someone made a list, produce your own list and publish it at the same thread".
You can defend however you want. The original comment was a snark and the way it was written clearly showered cynicism when I read it.

>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.

No I will not acknowledge this. Personally, I like that FB ads are well targeted, that I am able to discover new content, and also the fact that I am able to keep in touch with a number of my friends (who otherwise I wouldn't have) because of it. This is your opinion and you are totally entitled to it.
>What you actually want from policy is something like a trajectory toward the best expected result in existing markets over reasonable times.

What I don't want from policy is you* deciding for me what results should be aimed for and then forcing me to maximize your personal pet project. If you have good arguments that something should be funded, you don't need to force me to do it.

*: The you here is proverbial. Feel free to insert Donald Trump as an example of the type of person who would have a say in my healthcare options.
Try forwarding the article.

Actually don't, it will be counter-productive. But it would be nice if they saw it somehow.
Tax cuts are an interesting analogy I hadn't thought of. The first difference that comes to mind is that a tax cuts are still "earned" money. Less of the money I worked to earn gets taken. So while a tax cut does result in more income, that income is still tied to work done by the individual, and proportional to their gross income. Also, there are generally more strings attached to tax cuts to incentivize the income being spent on certain things (ie child tax credit, retirement, etc). So not apples and oranges, but worth thinking about more and seeing if there are studies linking (or not) inflation to tax cuts as other replies suggest.

The $1001 candybar is just an analogy. I am _wondering_ if prices in general would adjust in a way that negates the UBI in part or whole. If 1000 is the new 0, then would pricing just adjust? I'd love to see data one way or the other on this, but am concerned that small-scale or regional studies might not be able to see this sort of effect.
> 2. I can get an MRI in the USA within 3-5 days (sometimes next day), virtually anywhere in the country.

You can get that in Germany as well and don't even have to pay anything for it. And I'm speaking out of experience because my girlfriend was diagnosed with a brain tumor: If you have sudden symptoms (like a seizure in her case) or a threating disease you basically get all appointments within 2-3 days.

So far her total co-payment for 18 months of treatment, 3 hospital stays with surgeries, about 10 MRIs, radiation and chemo therapy and daily medicacion is about $300.

And since she can't work at the moment because of her illness she gets a monthly payment ("Krankengeld") by the public health insurance which is about 90% of her last after-tax salary and lasts for 78 weeks. Since you already have to worry enough about your illness you shouldn't have to worry about money as well.

I'm so glad that we don't live in the USA.
Why should Facebook be choosing what's good for me and what isn't? Isn't that part of the problem, that it reduces the visibility of material that one person or group thinks we ought not see?

I don't have a horse in this race, since I quit Facebook, but I'd rather see Facebook do its unavoidable filtering in a way that is aware of relationships but blind to content; you see more posts from individuals and groups that you give evidence of caring about, without regard for what they say.
Quite a challenge you chose for yourself, I respect that! There are very, very few passable email clients in this world: Thunderbird, Mail.app (macOS and iOS) and GMail Web client.
We aren't talking about those abstract ideas, we are talking about health care and it's associated access and cost. As such, the data shows us the United States fares worse than similar countries on the measures of access and cost (both to the individual and the state)[1]. The United States also has the most "free market-like" system of comparable countries. How can it be that costs are so high and outcomes are no better if we are closer to a free market than others?

[1] https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs...
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Only if you are an experienced programmer. But a lot of great python tools are created by mathematicians, geographers, biologists, students, sys admins, etc.
Surprised no one has mentioned Lenny: https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/

Edit: Ok, a couple have :)
That makes sense. Medicare works in a similar way in the US.
I imagine this could be handled by some kind of "fork". Where you instantly duplicate the whole process with copy-on-write.
Or the NSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
If Jobs had aged, needed reading glasses, and maybe had Parkinson's, would there be more of a push towards making devices easier to use?

There are accessibility settings on iOS that mitigate every one of those items (and more), and iOS has consistently been one of the most, if not the most, accessible phones out there . What specifically are you looking for?
Right now, GKE charges $18/month for a load balancer on top of node costs, which is costly for small scale/personal projects. Will DigitalOcean have anything similar?
Differentiable Programming: A Semantics Perspective
the main problem for people complaining about the new macbooks pro is the keyboard. just buy a silicone keyboard cover protection and it's working great!
(this is 2009 timeframe)

When I had an abdominal CT scan in the USA, I paid cash for it. $262 on my VISA card, paid at time of service.

If I'd had insurance with 90% paid, I would have ended up paying about 10% of $2K, because that is the "retail" price and a typical policy at that time covered 80-90% of the "costs". Plus I would have had to pay into the insurance scam for several months to have had coverage.

I'm not really sure that you know what you are talking about...
The Italian doctors agreed treatment was futile. They were only offering end of life care.

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/thomas-evans-v-alder-...
In the last year I've only gotten 2 spam phone calls. So either Google Fi is doing a better job at blocking them than Verizon was, or the scammers that targeted me stick to known numbers. Either way I'm not taking my chances. It was seriously frustrating being on their victim list.
Best use of encrypted data? What does that have to do with ranking news organizations?
Apparently doctors should only work for the public good and accept (relatively) piddling wages but startup tech bros and VCs are absolutely entitled to their billions.
>Just because the state provides benefits (self-defense, rule of law, etc) doesn't preclude you from ownership rights, not really following your argument there.

Its a fundamental different view of reality and especially society. We are animals, we have no rights and not duties. We do what we want. Things like ownership are derived not from some concept of rights, but from power. We combine our power through government, and in doing so grant the ability to own things. Theft is wrong, not for a moral reason, but because we decided to punish those who steal.

This view doesn't completely reject the notion of rights and duties, because we can still use the concept of such to determine how we run our combinations of power. But it does do away with the assumption they inherently exist. It becomes something of a more philosophical question, much like asking does math exist outside of humanity (or any other intelligence that is able to understand the concept of math).
Most news isn't actionable.

Anyway, it's like the difference between checking the top voted stuff here at HN versus the newest stuff.

There's also a strange social dilemma here. In order for the curated stuff to have more value and lower SNR, responsible people need to be looking at the newest submissions. So, it wouldn't work if everyone rejected the neophilism, all of us wanting someone else to do the curation while we wait.

A better argument would be that the people who do the curation (the journalists, book authors, voters on submissions etc.) should aim for a higher SNR and stop publishing or promoting low-value stuff. Unfortunately, there's a conflict of interest. It's more profitable to play up whatever random latest story than to cancel or shorten the news report on a slow-news-day…
Given it is known how slow Python at starting up, I am puzzled why Mozilla continue to use it in build scripts. Perl is just as portable but starts up like 10 times faster.
Wow this was really useful. I was feeling guilty for not trying Jupyter, after using Python for 15 years and doing data science for much of that time.

I hear so many good things about it. I wrote this comment about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16979057

But ANY of those four is is a dealbreaker for me. I want to use languages other than Python, with remote kernels, and I want version control. And I like my text editor to be really fast.

I think it comes down to a scientific background vs. a software background. I've memorized a boatload of tools and weird shell incantations, but the result is that I have a more solid workflow than Jupyter provides. Solid in the sense that it is likely to produce reliable results, not that it's "easier".

But if you don't have that software engineering background then I understand that Jupyter makes a whole bunch of things easier. It's not optimal in my view, but it's easier.
That cons list needs to be put in the context of C/C++ tackling the same set of issues.
Heavy rancher user here for managing Kubernetes clusters, the Rancher team has been an absolute dream to work with, fast to fix issues, and have created a super solid product. Very excited for the migration to 2.x from 1.x (:
From a foundations perspective, that makes sense. My comment was more about marketability of skills. I tend to tell people to learn Python or Ruby first, because there's a wealth of material, jobs (once you're good), low barrier to entry, and both languages are reasonably well designed.
You are not alone in this attitude, so don't take this personally, but I'm going to reply to you because you're the top comment. This is an incredibly destructive point of view. Promotion is essential to any software project, even open source, and in the vast majority of cases, word of mouth is not enough. This is an ethical, up-front, straightforward ask that costs you and anyone you might contact very little and is optional in any case. He's a solo developer. Cut him some slack.
Or just use the operating system's `fork` system call?

There's also nailgun for Java which sounds like it works a little differently: http://martiansoftware.com/nailgun/
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