skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are theories like Duverger’s Law[0] to try to account for why a two-party system emerges from the voting conditions in most of the US.

Giving the appearance of conceding to collective bargaining, when really just ensuring that a single monopoly union is in their pocket, is just another type of regulatory capture.

[0]: < https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law >

Added: a concise way to understand Duverger’s Law, if you are mathematically inclined, is to say that plurality-rule is like L1 regularization among political parties, tending to force the participation of small parties to zero and create a sparse set of parties (generally only two). Whereas proportional representation is like L2 regularization, allowing non-zero participation by many parties.
I read somewhere that statistics actually suggest the opposite - that bikes with loud pipes are more likely to suffer a serious accidents and injury. I suspect that's because the type of bikers that have loud pipes are also the ones riding aggressively, overtaking frequently, weaving between traffic lanes, etc.
Extremely poorly? How so?
I believe that is per year.
Eh, worked for me! YMMV.

I couldn't do the dialogs until I got through the rest. I also enjoyed IAASL a bit more than I enjoyed GEB. Definitely not saying what helped me figure the book out is what everyone should do.
When your post reads like "rationalist" (read: white supremacist/American nationalist) whataboutism and seems to be there just to pivot to What About The Islams, Man, having a mod like 'sctb suggest you chill out is a pretty light response.

Not saying your post is that. But I am saying that if somebody of that mind wanted to derail some things, they'd write your post.

EDIT: Ah. Saw your comments elsewhere in the thread. Sorry for giving you the benefit of the doubt.
Your graph (2015):
United States: $10300
Canada: $4400
Ratio: 2.34

My actual findings (2017):
United States: $9250
Canada: $6600
Ratio: 1.40

I think your graph is fake news.

Sources: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/04/20/5247741...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-to-spend-more-than-6-60...
Yes, it's clearly true that architecture plays a major role. I've worked on one of those inheritance towers before. But adding/changing/removing code in a dynamically typed language always leaves me worried that I've missed something. The only notice I have in such systems that I have missed something is a production runtime exception. Sure it takes longer up front to add a feature. And it's typically harder than in a dynamic language. My point is that taking the convenience of an untyped language is usually a poor/lazy architectural decision.
Big red flag:

> The hash of an email is computed using the SHA2-512 hashing algorithm and signed with our own 512-bit private RSA key.

Why even bother signing it if your key is that weak?

Furthermore, they sign every message individually with the same key. This does not make sense to me: why not just sign the root of the Merkle tree?

Other fun stuff:

- They both supply email tracking, and protect your privacy by blocking email tracking...

- It doesn't prove that the email has been sent, it just proves that it has been submitted to Gmelius for signing.
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Don't you need someones phone number to use WhatsApp? What happens when you just text (SMS) someone instead? Do they refuse to respond?
Containers not being good for production.
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It is likely true that there is a high degree of self-selection here: because U.S. citizens dominate a lot of these discussion boards, U.S. news will dominate them as well. And because emotions garner upvotes, news of terrible things in America rise to the top. And on top of that, the most vocal, emotional commenters with the most amazing stories of U.S. suffering tend to rise to the top of the comments section.

Take it all with a huge grain of salt and stick to the facts and figures.
Note: optimism in SF more easily sighted when the preferred political party is in power
Hi all! I made Tab Lasso with my business partner because he's kind of an information addict and always drowning under hundreds (sometimes thousands) of tabs.

It turns your new tab page into an overview of all your open windows and tabs that's searchable and organizable. It lets you close tabs, save tabs, and drag and drop tabs between open windows (and also saved windows).
Even here in the UK with our avowedly socialist NHS you don't have to wait for anything - if you want you can always go private.
Post correspondence problem
YC-backed Buttermilk brings easy-to-prepare Indian meals to your doorstep
You can use a blockchian to as a trusted timestamping service https://strongcoin.com/blog/using_the_blockchain_as_a_truste...

Wether this would hold up in court or not is another matter.
I don't think GKE is lockin when there are other offering from other companies and the migration is quite simple. Also if at some point you feel like it's time to host your own then you can do it. Also I don't find GKE that expensive especially paired with their cheap vms or preemptive vms if you're fine with those.
Yeah I'd buy this as a gift in a heartbeat
I’m pretty sure Global Weird HQ is not in America. NYC and SF are some of the most uptight places in the world.
Original version has charts:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/07/04/is-it...
Haven't read the article, but I'll take a guess: They built a service that people wanted, a pure internet-based streaming service that didn't need a cable subscription.
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> We need to understand why complete strangers are so politically and emotionally involved in the existence of babies they don't know.

Because of basic humanity? If you grant that they actually do believe
(as they say they do) that those babies are human beings with rights, should they not act?
Damn, so you want to live in a country that exploits the rich (you) ?
"Different sources have slightly different numbers" isn't the same as "fake news". The OECD's numbers are publicly available.

The NPR link you cite has Canada at 4576 and the US at 9237, for a ratio of 2.02. The CTV link (citing a different organization; perhaps one considers dental/eyeware and the other doesn't, or something along those lines) doesn't offer US numbers to compare against.

Wikipedia has a consistently-sourced list you can peruse, too, for multiple years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
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Flawed premise. The lack of a sane social safety net and of a 1st world healthcare system affects everyone in the US.

Yes, being well paid in tech helps alleviate some of the issues due to them being absorbed by money, essentially, but that is itself an effect on the spending power & mobility of the individual.

The US has effectively mortgaged and remortgaged is population and has not been keeping up on maintaining it. That bill will come due.
I remember a short time after AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, etc. had fallen out of favor and Google Chat used XMPP and I think even Facebook used it.
Facebook wants the best of both worlds and I bet that the Government will let them...
> Have you ever tried to get non-urgent surgery in the US?

Whatever you say on this does not line up with reality.

The UK, a nation of 60 million, has 120,000 people waiting over 6 months for surgery: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-patients-waiti...

That would be equivilant to over 640,000 people waiting over 6 months for surgery in a country with 320 million people.

The wait times do not compare. They are 10x, 20x worse in Europe.
I think it all comes down to how Americans see and value money versus how the rest of the developed world values it.

American culture puts 100% emphasis on how much money you make, and how you make it. More than health, or stability, or a well rounded life, American's are taught that money is the cure-all.

And sure, when you are in the top 1/4 of income earners, the U.S. has quite a bit to offer. But what good is all that money if your job can literally disappear over night? Or you get sick and can no longer work? Or any other unexpected tragic circumstance.

Somehow, we as American's have been brainwashed to believe that we are all just 'down-on-our-luck millionaires'. The opportunity exists, but it is certainly not a fair playing field - and offering assistance to those who experience bad luck or tragedy will not take away from someones ability to make what they wish, despite what we are being sold.
I just ... don't care about the distinction. The entire subject is nauseating.
The PICO-8 "fantasy console" is a playful old-school computer style emulator that passes it's programs through images. You might even look into it's algorithms [1]. I think it'd be perfect.

[1]: http://pico-8.wikia.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat
Planning and Managing Schemas in MongoDB (Even Though It’s Schemaless)
I'm left handed and use mouse on the right side. Thanks for putting a positive spin on this. RSI in particular.

Unfortunately I miss out on the being an interesting person part!
I'm not sure what events you're referring to regarding the Western US, but I was specifically referring to emancipatory (even in a symbolic way) radical politics, rather than reactionary protests that are mostly uncritical of the history they claim to represent.
I've never been able to get into audiobooks. I listen to podcasts already, and to be honest I find my retention on audible things drastically less than the written word.
This is fascinating. I'm starting a new job soon with a new platform to learn and this is something I'm going to incorporate.
Actually, localization is true for the early phases of input systems (sensory) and for the later phases of output systems (motor).

From the published paper:"This strongly suggests that PPC neurons encode choice-related signals related to decision formation or motor planning." 'Decision formation', if seen in isolation, sounds like a higher cognitive process; however, it is 'motor planning'. Here, one has enough freedom to fall back on the motor system and its dependence on the sensory system as well.
I regularly pay extra for a flight with no babies.

There are two airports an equal distance from my house. One has cheap flights, and the other does not. The one with the cheap flights also happens to be the airport for Walt Disney World.

I fly out of the expensive airport whenever possible.
Pigs are awesome and most of them (all except for wild boar) would not be around if not for us eating them. We should strive for avoiding unnecessary hardship and unsustainably high numbers, not for extermination through total disuse.
10 things to know before getting into cyber security
How does that prove the email was sent, though? Couldn't one timestamp the email into the blockchain, without actually sending the email to the other party?

Edit: btw, I released something that utilizes bitcoin's blockchain for timestamping back in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5790382 (the website is no longer available because better solutions came since, but its up on github[0] and the wayback machine[1])

This has some interesting use-cases, but people tend to overestimate what blockchain timestmaping actually gets you. You can prove that some piece of data existed at some point in time, but that's it. It doesn't prove this data is authentic, that this data was communicated to anyone, that no one else timestamped this data earlier, etc.

[0] https://github.com/shesek/btproof

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20140430152135/https://www.btproo...
Yes, it depends on whether remove_me() (provably) always returns or not.

Optimisations frequently do things that take people by surprise when debugging, but that's par for the course.
I'm not in the business of defending abortion, actually very much agnostic on this topic and don't think it should receive the attention that it does. But man-oh-man, calling fetuses parasites is simply wrong and makes one look heartless. Parasites are of a different species, invade rather than being seeded by the host, and create misery for the host. Fetuses, on the other hand, are usually awaited with excitement, welcomed by the family, and bring joy and happiness to parents.
To call them parasites really is Orwellian. The only thing they have in common with parasites is that they live inside another's body. Even our gut bacteria is not parasitic.
Apple reportedly won’t use Intel’s 5G modems in 2020 iPhones
I did this when I was using Photoshop in college and started destroying my right shoulder. Now I have a wireless mouse I switch from hand-to-hand every so often to ensure I'm ruining both of my shoulders instead.

Using a mouse on the left side as a right handed person is amazingly fast to pick up. It's also really useful when showing people how to do things on a computer as you train yourself on the mouse, rather than just the muscle memory.
I don't think there was a "scam." I think they learned that in order to issue tokens and get exchange listings, they needed KYC in the new environment by the time they were done. There was a definite screw up in the initial governance when the picked a bad apple for the foundation.

The foundation and founders are reunited once again, so if the tech is solid, and so far it has been, then all signs are positive.
The only way to make the content move elsewhere is to have enough people move elsewhere so that the content needs to move to meet an audience.
The internet says Hofstadter was born in 1945 and GED was published in 1979. ~34 years later?
Abstractions are leaky, and for sissies
So you don't know statistics nor how observations are made in particle physics... Do you think that we collect these things in a jar and make a picture? Of course you look for a signal on top of a background, after modelling it within a control region and then unblinding with data somewhere else, and of course you compare signal against a Monte Carlo simulation because there's no other way to do this. You're welcome to suggest 10,000 particle physicists your ideas about how to find particles with lifetimes of 10^-22 s and a production cross section of 57 pb. I don't understand what makes people that have never opened an actual book about this, nor stepped into a lab, entitled to think they know better than professionals working their asses out what they're talking about.
"Dynamic" is a word intended to invoke the idea that the USA is young, fast-moving, growing, while Europe is old, slow, near-death.

It doesn't have any meaning other than to invoke this common US belief. It's part of the American exceptionalism story.
By the way, HN being one of the most censorious platforms, my post is no longer visible on the topic's discussion page. Think about that.
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>> Well, virtually nobody browsing HN can say they share the pains of the workers of the US that 'suffer when compared with the rest of the world'.

Thats a huge generalization. Not everyone reading HN is a top earning software engineer. Some people are just genuineley inerested in HN-topics but earn their wage with something else entireley. And there are lousy paid IT jobs as well. And there are software developers, that don't live in the US or Western Europe and could be in the same situation. Moreover:

>> All those things are true for the 'disadvantaged', and engineers, technologists, computer scientists etc. are _not_ part of the population

But there are 'disadvantaged' engineers, technologists etc.. There are numerous medical conditions that can make employment nearly impossible, while actual work is possible. Just talk to some HR people if they would hire someone with some sort of chronic disease. Most will be very reluctant, despite the fact that this condition might nevery have material consequences on the work you are doing.
As a general note, it’s better to not use code formatting for quotes because it makes the quotes unreadable on mobile
Do any people actually associate the ads they see with the content next to them on any platforms hosting user generated content? (Or any platform whatsoever)

Like, I might if the ad is relevant to the piece of content in question. For example if I am watching construction/woodworking/industrial videos on youtube I won't be surprised if I see ads relating to tools, but thats about it.

I'm not gonna go ahead and buy this tool specifically because the ad is on a video I enjoyed, or associate another company with evil just because it's on a bad video.

Another guess would be it's simply the subconcious thing of seeing an ad to something potentially bad?
I’m really impressed by the email parsing success. How did you tackle the hellscape that is parsing replies out of emails?
> There are some people who push for an alternative called Telegram, which uses home brew cryptography instead of established standards.

No, it might as well have no end-end cryptography.

The crypto is only enabled for "Secret Chats" and Calls, and I have never seen anyone actually use the secret chat functionality. Using a secret chat limits you to one device and blocks features like bots, so most people don't want to use it.
> The wait times do not compare. They are 10x, 20x worse in Europe.

What's the surgical wait time for an uninsured American?

That's 12.2% of America, or forty million people. http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/16/news/economy/uninsured-ameri...

In some cases, this winds up being an infinite wait time: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02...

Side-note: I'm citing a whole bunch of sources in my replies to you. Maybe you could do so for your "10x, 20x" numbers?
> ...frees your right hand to use keyboard buttons intended for the right hand...

On the other hand (ha!) you lose access to navigational keys that are typically used when you're "mousing", changing between apps/tabs and screens - e.g. alt-tab, ESC, alt-w, alt-q, alt-F4, meta-shortcuts, etc.

I noticed that I use the right keys - enter, backspace, delete, etc - mostly when I'm typing, so I want my two hands in the keyboard anyway.

For me the mouse on the right side is the best combination.
This comment betrays an incredible misunderstanding or naivety of how medical insurance works in the US, and what/how it covers people.

Also a completely bizarre use of 401(k)’s which are not available to most citizens and are highly volatile.

Compared to the rest of the world the US spends more individually on healthcare & gets less. It’s average retirement savings are amongst the lowest in the developed world!

Hand waving away like you’re doing is not supported by the facts.
I couldn't figure out how to run master-slave configuration on ECS.
I 100% agree ... so allow me to reframe my argument around "tech" and not just "coding". No matter if you can sit for hours etc... going into tech is much more likely to allow you the economic freedoms I am speaking of than trying to make it to the NBA or as a rapper etc...

Edit: e.g. as a product manager, product manager, graphic designer etc...
You can listen here. Just skip to 2:33 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b85mct#play
Why would you not want that as a voter?
That camera can tell you what the Sistine Chapel looks like - but it can't tell you why you were there, or the importance of the photo.

Sure that cupboard in the article might look ugly, but it was the first completed DIY project for the camera man.

Image that sort of context getting applied by AI...
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To be fair, the author mentions that they're discussing death for PvE content:

> And more specifically, let's talk about losing in a PvE game, either solo or cooperative.

And through that lens, the death system for WoW is pretty lame. But I'd beg to differ for PvP or RPPv(E|P). The run-back system allows people to camp your corpse. This would cause you to request help from your guild or hop on an alt and get help in trade chat. Now you have an overworld faction battle going on. For RP, it becomes an RP element.
Well Apple is going to have Oprah to start with. I think they are making clear that their shows will not have anything edgy. They will be looking to emulate Disney. Mostly stylized crap or some simplistic take on sensitive issues.
The insertion is only done once we have received a response from Google servers that the email has been indeed sent (without bounce or other errors).
Sounds good to me. I've love to see Gnome and Gtk die off or at least become much less popular. There's much better technologies out there which are getting passed over because of RH's dominance here.
> Do any people actually associate the ads they see with the content next to them on any platforms hosting user generated content? (Or any platform whatsoever)

Yes. This is how branding works. It's why companies pay for a famous celebrity to represent their brand, instead of a random person, because you associate a higher quality with a famous celebrity.

The major brands have very specific rules on what their ads can appear next to.. they actually write down things like "our ad can't appear next to blood/violence" etc..

Doesn't matter if it's user-generated or not. As long as that image exists next to the brand, the brand is fucked. I mean, what would you think of Chanel if they ever placed their beautiful ad next to a picture of a dead body?
While it may be true for a subset of posters here, the idea of just finding a new job if it doesn't suit you is not possible for most people. The majority of people need to be able to do something mildly productive and be able to live a happy life as a result. If your economic model is leaving this many people behind--or they even feel they're being left behind it's not a good model.

Everyday I find it harder to argue against things like medicare-for-all. Private healthcare only adds unneeded pressure to workers--heck even me sometimes. Even if it weren't cheaper which it should be[1], there is surely some value that soulless accountants could extract from lower stressors in the workplace.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/upshot/why-single-payer-h...
I feel compelled to note that this page is from 2003-05-13, so I have no clue how much of its gripes are still valid in 'modern' C++ :)
Post-high school schooling for a standard family doctor (one of the lowest paid doctors):
4 years bachelors + 4 years medical school + 3 years residency = 11 years post-high school education.
Well, groups exist. You can't join a WhatsApp group from SMS.
Neat, I'd think the same example applies to Rx! Likewise, their library (seems to) do modular imports, which gives pay-as-you-go tree shaking. This is a good push to clarify that!
Congratulations! But they'll come back with some new garbage, they always do. So there will another need to repeal something like that.
I wonder if you could automatically a/b test the impact of changing the og:images tag has on social media sharing/interaction. That would be a nifty feature too.
Not in my experience.

Most companies I know much rather have permies than contractors.

Pay tends to be quite a bit higher for contractors but without all the perks like pension contributions and leave that a permanent position has. However, as a contractor, you have more control over your life.

As a contractor, it's also easier to get exposure to different tech, rather than be stuck doing the same thing day in and out.
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Great article. I strongly refrrence it in Study Swami.
Well, some of us arent in the private sector anymore. I enlisted few years ago because i was tired of the ratrace. Im still doing much of the same tech stuff, near my old home. Pay isnt great but no ratrace and the benifits are amazing. Anyone else get paid exercise days? Im booked for a paid day firing machine guns next month.

So, no. Not everyone here is a standard brogrammer.
`youtube-dl -g` will output the final URL it has resolved, which you can then pipe to any video player that supports streaming from an URL.