skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The problem I have with the "blame the consumer" trope is that there's the implicit "and if consumers had full pricing knowledge, The Market(tm) would correct all of the other issues, and healthcare in the US would be fixed." I assert this mostly through anecdotal evidence based on where these conversations tend to go.

If the consumer had full pricing knowledge beforehand then the market would certainly correct some of the other issues, probably not all but certainly some. Take a look at dental for example.

>I also find it to be some of the most disingenuous handwaving I've seen in recent memory. No one is going to comparison-shop when they have a ruptured appendix. Worse, if they think they can just "tough out" the abdominal pain because they can't afford the doctor visit _or the treatment that might result from it_, they'll just die.

Getting ripped of because you couldn't afford the time to shop around is par for the course in many industries. Yes, some peoples' appendices will rupture without warning but many more people will have conditions that give ample warning and allow comparison shopping. I think this there is a very good comparison to automotive repair in these scenarios (albeit higher dollar amounts and consumers being more willing to have work done up front to avoid more later).

> a system way off the rails.

I agree.
How you deliver the advice is as important as what advice you give. There's a difference between:

"Hey, I saw your thoughts on X, but actually here's some info that says you're incorrect"

and

"You're wrong. Here is proof, please read it and stop spreading worthless information"

Based on the tone of your comment, is it possible that your delivery may be too harsh?
According to WinAmp folklore, he was a contractor for WinAmp 3 skins and not necessarily a full-time dev: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118192

You might be thinking of Justin Frankel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Frankel

The connection is still kind of cool though!
I think there are much more to the dynamics than just genetic distributions. For instance, not every male and female are opting into tech careers; only those w/ interest and/or talent are pursuing tech careers--after this filter, for example, who knows what remains of any genetic distribution?
Who mentioned patents?
OK people, the definition of empire is this:

From merriam-webster:

1 a

(1) : a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority; especially : one having an emperor as chief of state

(2) : the territory of such a political unit

b : something resembling a political empire; especially : an extensive territory or enterprise under single domination or control

2 : imperial sovereignty, rule, or dominion

3 capitalized
[Empire State, nickname for New York]
: a juicy apple with dark red skin that is a cross between a McIntosh apple and a Red Delicious apple

Since the US does not have a single authority controlling it (i.e. "is a democracy") it cannot be an empire. They are mutually exclusive according to the dictionary.
If Batch C is different enough from Batch A that the reviews don't apply, then should it even be the same product?
This would definitely drive me crazy. I have a couple of American friends who are like this and it's really hard for me to not get angry when they are 45 minutes late to something.

I honestly do not give a shit what time someone shows up to a social function as long as they say an accurate time.

If you want to meet at 8, then lets meet at 8, but if you say 8 and then don't show up til 9, what the hell.
Brook’s Law
You can support California SB 10 to help fixing the Bail system.

https://www.aclunc.org/article/california-money-bail-reform-...
Building Wordpress Gutenberg Blocks with Vue.js
The "DOM Interaction" and "DOM Manipulation" sections just show imperative code. So how is this a fundamental improvement over using jQuery? Especially for a language that markets itself as "seriously functional", it feels like a big step backward. I can't see what benefit this actually brings except being easier for OCaml developers to write web apps with. And even then they'd probably have no trouble learning TypeScript which doesn't need a bridge since it's a strict superset of JS.
I don't have any off the cuff but examples I've heard include future newspaper headlines and policy announcements. This leads me to suspect that QAnon is managed by Trump's organization or those closely allied with it, perhaps with or without the knowledge of Trump himself.

I'll offer my own take on the appeal of these things.

Implausible conspiracy theories have appeal today because our authorities have collectively done too many things that erode public trust in them. Specific examples include the Iraq war and its false pretense, the inequitable and likely corrupt bank bailout following the 2008 financial crisis, and significant neglect of the economic well being of large numbers of people and (perhaps more importantly) large geographic areas of the country.

When people lose faith in existing authorities they start asking who they can trust. Demagogues tend to emerge that offer easy answers and scapegoats.

IMHO the ultimate blame for all this falls on our establishments including our government, media, and elite educational institutions. Trust is hard to earn and easy to squander. Decades of greed and incompetence are threatening the trust basis of our entire society.
Yup, apparently we agree about his Latin and math.

Both the TODO list and I talk about squaring a triangle, not a circle.
8 European startups that set out to enable you to live a happier life
Affordable.

You opened the can of worms, now eat it.

Healthcare costs were always increasing. That trend slowed under Obama.

https://www.factcheck.org/2015/02/slower-premium-growth-unde...

Democrats wanted a much better of the ACA, but let's not forget that Republicans were walking around talking about how they'd "oppose anything Obama did," without even reading the texts of the bills

http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/23/the-party-of-no-new-det...

So back to my original point - Republicans, why they be like they do?
On a related note I’d love a way to optimize kitchen layout. What items to store in cabinets and drawers to minimize dishwasher unloading time, optimize cooking.
I agree with everything
This might not be what you're looking for, but this is a very old site that has never changed. It's a french language page call "perdu.com" which simply means "lost". The content simply translates to "You are here" with an arrow and an "X" to mark the spot. It's not usefull in any way, but it always makes smile.
Wow that's pretty much me. During high school I was always forbidden spending any allowance for books, so I would do it secretly.
Since I'm in eastern europe and books are expensive I very quickly turned to english editions, preferably paperback and as my interest in sci-fi and fantasy grew I was usually choosing the thickest bricks available in my local bookstore.

Getting a Kindle for my 18 birthday from my friends was a total revelation since at this point I was reading completely in english and all of a sudden got access to pretty much every book ever.
He's alive and lives in peaceful Scottsdale, Arizona.
You may wish to look into behavioral economics [1], a system of psychology + decision making that looks deeply at how individuals often do go against their economic (and other) self-interests.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics
Good to see you here! I have a few questions if you're still about.

Have you worked with professional translators much along the way? Most of us use and keep our own translation memories stretching into the millions of segments.

What would be the ideal training material for these models to work from?

Do you think NMT could ever recognise the type of text to be translated and apply style and context accordingly? Displaying an element of creativity, for example, drawing from relevant contextual themes. I suspect it might do this automatically if trained widely enough?
I’m really bummed Chrome discontinued Chrome apps.

Basically what I really want is to be able to make electron like desktop apps but not ship and load an entire browser with it.

Chrome apps were light weight and you could do a lot of desktop like things with it.

Progressive web apps are nice but there’s a ton of things lacking.
Healthcare costs increases slowed under ACA.

https://www.factcheck.org/2015/02/slower-premium-growth-unde...
For example, without the threat of forfeiture how do you ensure people actually show up to court?

Because my life is fucked worse than it already is if I don't show up. If that's not the case, then that's almost the working definition of "flight risk", and you don't release them for any amount of money.
How we scaled Nginx
With the exception of the military economy, how many successful restructurings have there been of major industries? Is it possible for a polity to decide such a thing and do it?

As an outsider getting occasional (and highly combative) tidbits of the last american health system debate... It seems like a tall order. Doesn't seem possible to make a reform that (a) half the people don't think is the devil's work and (b) works in theory, which is important to Americans and (c) works in practice.
> you have to be tried within 56 days

If this was attempted in the United States, and we wanted to maintain the due process protections afforded by our Constitution, we would have to fund our indigent defense programs at levels far, far beyond what anyone has been willing to do.
> mythology selected by state education boards

For example...?
Well,

The thing about adding capabilities to robot hands is it shows how far we have to go also.

One could give a hand 100 different generic manipulation skills like moving cubes and rectangles but that would still result in something far, far away from the human ability to take an object and accomplish a goal with that object - say a task summarized as "take this shovel and dig a hole to put this post in." and even if a robot could accomplish a given as a sequence of primitives, such actions would be quite inefficient compared to the how a human acts, which is to formulate various arcs of force and movement specific to the task at hand.

This is why Boston Dynamics robots, which clearly can walk, seem to never deployed in situations where you'd imagine a walking robot would be useful (while horses, with "horse sense" wind-up deployed reasonably often in such situations).
Affinity Photo or (Mac only) Pixelmator is probably closest.

I know that it's widely hated on HN but I still find GIMP is quite suitable for nearly everything. It integrates poorly on macOS though.
Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?
I'm in my early 40's and have traveled a lot during my 20's and 30's. I think I was always a little bit nervous about flying, but never enough to make me really anxious.

A few years ago, on a short flight to NYC, the plane went through a sudden turbulence. It was strong enough to send 2 flight attendants to the floor. It probably lasted 10-20 seconds and, during those seconds I thought we were going to crash because I had never experienced turbulence that strong.

Since then, I started to develop fear of flying. Even though I have flown since then, each time it has made me more anxious. Now I actively avoid flying.

After some introspection, I realized that I'm more afraid of the moments preceding the crash than actually dying. This fear got worse after I had a daughter because now I also picture how the last moments would be if she was by my side on a falling plane.

Rationally, I do know how infrequent plane crashes are, and how driving is more dangerous, but at the end I convince myself that the best way to not die on a plane crash is to not get on a plane. Since flying is not required for work, and I've already seen most of the world, it's not hard to convince myself that I don't need to get on a plane.

The last few times I've flown, I used a mental trick to help me get through it. I read that the odds of a plane crash is 1 in 1.2 million, so I used a random number generator to generate a number between 1 and 1.2 million, and then tried to guess what that number was. That gave me some relief but didn't completely stop the bad thoughts.

How do I overcome my fear of flying?
MusicBee is much better
I have two VS 3100s that I keep intending to install VMS on. I used VMS in my first year of college, and there's been nothing quite like the versioning file system to come along since.
It's incredible to witness, real-time, people such as who you're replying to trying to change the facts of history mere years after the thing occurred.

This is in line with my original point - since when did facts become so malleable?
It's absolutely not a false equivalence.

For starters, many people do die in police custody without being convicted

But "kidnapping" does not require a threat of death to have a real impact on your life. If your choice is to "confess" to a minor crime with time served, or lose your job/home/etc due to being locked up without trial, it's a no brainer for many people to falsely "confess", and it's absolutely under duress
Just curious, how does github manages to render org files so flawlessly, including embedded code snippets. I thought emacs was the only popular environment supporting org files.
Email is effectively closed these days. You can’t really send email from your own server and expect it to be read.
Chrome apps always felt weird to me. They're not really separate from Chrome, but they.. live outside Chrome? And you have to launch them like a real app? Even though they're not real apps. It's just so weird. I would prefer an Electron app any day over those weird Chrome app things.
Facebook Has Identified Ongoing Political Influence Campaign
I don't think you get to claim cultural relativism on not putting up hazard signs. I'd also recommend against claiming cultural relativism on things like wheelchair accessibility, hard hats, fire and earthquake codes, or really 95% of the things covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the ADA, or similar entities. These are not things you should be proud of not having.
It’s for real, and there aren’t many planes left with the older livery painted on them. Most are either the newest or second-newest.

(I’m an infrequent observer though, I’m sure a planespotter can chime in with more precise info.)
I remember messing around with that ages ago. I wonder if any of the contributors ended up working with VMS Software on the port. It looks, from their site, like they are getting close.
In a free market, why would the insurance companies continue to cover someone that got cancer?

And then, when coverage was revoked, why would any other person insure this new cancer patient?
I'm not trying to pass premature judgment on anything here but the article spans several broad categories. There is various verbal harassment mentioned, age discrimination is mentioned, perhaps some missing overtime pay or a misunderstanding about exempt employment, some cut backs on certain office benefits that a struggling company might normally do and then there is the "piece de resistance," outright financial fraud. Harassment is bad, period, I don't know what the girl running in her underwear had to do with anything, but it doesn't sound like something you want circulating in your workplace, these sound like really valid beefs.

So this company was bought and presumably some audits happened and there was some due diligence. From my personal experience, people who tend to get really wound up about not being paid overtime tend not to be the most knowledgeable about this sort of fraud. I might be wrong, but I think maybe some upset folks had some real complaints and they may have mixed in some rumors. If the fraud is remotely true, there is tons of missing money, companies tend to notice that.
LinkedIn REACH Program 2018
A short history of market cap milestones
The final chapters of Ender's Game take place in rooms like these, and the protagonist is creeped out in the same, inexplicable way.
Just a shameless plug: there is very little information in the form of Stack Overflow-like things and getting started with mainframes is, as this article shows, pretty hard. I made this SE proposal that's in commitment stage (where people commit to support the community). If you know about mainframes and are willing to be part of it, you should commit too.

https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/118484/mainframes...
Cool ways tech firms are working with the International Space Station
Can't remember but, wasn't 52x spin the max (I heard urban legends about the disc spinning apart back in the late 90's)
Wait a minute, you mean the guy in the mall audio store in 1982 or so who claimed you could break the disc and still play it might have been lying to a kid?!
Slightly off topic: I really wish Bloomberg would respect peoples mobile data limits and not auto load video on mobile.
OpenWrt v18.06.0 released
Right optimized one looks best, because it's the only one that doesn't squirrel any of the big rooms (library, gym, cafeteria) away at the ends of corridors.
Quitting your job sounds like a bad idea. How many months can you survive without a salary? If the answer is < 12 months, or in your case < 24 months you should not even think about quitting. Learn to code on the side and if your coding skills are good enough you should build a MVP, preferably also on the side, to test how things will work out after quitting.
It could work but you'd probably have at least a moderate free loader problem with it being so easy to move from state to state.

There would be nothing to prevent a healthy person from living in a low tax/no gov't health care state until they get sick and then moving to a high tax state/state paid for care.
How much of this is Agile vs just the methodology for writing good tests?
"trn" on Lobste.rs has been posting the company's slide decks about their progress. A recent one, "Proof Points to x86 Boot," shows they're getting close:

http://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html

See "History of the Port" in bottom right for older posts. You might want to do it bottom-up going from oldest to newest. Also, a few things trn posted indicated they were doing non-x86 work like Alpha releases, too. Example below:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/07/prweb14487932.htm

So, it looks like they've been modernizing all three platforms instead of just porting to x86.
Seconded. My memories from those days were that software offered more functionality while being leaner. Doubly so when we compare the old software to web versions of today, that are all feature poor and resource heavy.
The govt needs to rip out the tax deduction for employers, which is a big band aid. Until this is done nothing will change.

Your company doesnt pay for your car insurance or home insurance, why does it pay for your health insurance?
Unfortunately, government subsidies were the focus of the entire sales process. When they signed a contract they would usually finance the cost of the installation with a third party then pocket the subsidy and use it for payroll and operating costs. A lot of the missed paychecks were because they didn't have the money until they received the subsidy checks.

The entire business model was sketchy as heck. I don't know if it's the same across all the solar companies, but that seemed to be the case with the two he worked with.
That's a certain death too. I'm in the same boat. Reading a book has gone from guilty pleasure to the "I really need to do more reading" chore.

People still like Shakespeare. But, it's not a guilty pleasure anymore. Its something you do to "better yourself." You might call it a bourgeoisie pursuit.

A lot of art looks like this when it retires. It moves up the class ladder where it is maintained for posterity.
As a brazilian who has had some education abroad, the most interesting thing Feynman wrote about Brazil was his critique of the education system [1]. I studied chemistry in high school without ever going into a lab. This holds for all classes, even maths: everything was abstract with no real-world applications. Even Portuguese Language classes had this disease: about a dozen rules for diacritics could be simplified as the usual case and the few exceptions, but they were taught as independent rules (making things a lot harder to retain).

[1] http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
It's been around for a very long time. A lot of sites have such keyboard accessibility features: Twitter, Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Jira, ...
As somebody who's always been strong in math, I agree. For the MIT crowd it can be a reasonable expectation, but in general an introductory course in Topic A should not require advanced & unrelated Topic B knowledge.
I know it's not exactly what you're looking for but for personal use anyone else wanting this sort of thing, this is how I display sites as apps (Google Calendar, Todoist)

google-chrome --app="https://sbussard.github.io/canvas-sketch/"

Replace google-chrome for the correct binary for your system
New Web Attack to Identify Social Accounts That Exploit User-Blocking Mechanism
It's quite simple. The press is free and it is not responsible for national security, whatever that means today. It is responsible for getting the truth out. If secrets must be kept, it is the spies' responsibility to keep them, not the media's.

And WL is absolutely part of the media.

As for the 'reasonably general conception of the public interest' of wikileaks, I suppose it is 'to get all of the truth out'.
I intentionally did not mention Simpson's Paradox as it would be distracting. The fact that the Berkeley case is a good example of the paradox is mostly a cool artifact. My point would be as valid if in every department the admission rate was roughly equal. In terms of the actual lawsuit, the issue was that there was no bias - or rather, the bias was in the preferences of women/men, not in the admissions process. Men opted for departments where admission was easier.

I'm not claiming Simpson's Paradox here. I'm commenting on the observations IvyAdmissions made (which was also my observation when I was in school). If what he says is true, the bias doesn't appear to be entirely from the admissions committee, but from the fact that Asian Americans are targeting a few professions (e.g. medical school) in a much higher proportion than other races.

Although I did not go to an Ivy league, I did go to a top school, and I saw pretty much the same thing. I hung out a lot with the Asian students, of which there were many. The Asian undergrads with top grades (South or East) were very reliably predictable: They either aimed for medical school, an MBA, or law school. The motives were all similar: These were high paying jobs. Almost none of them showed any passion for any of these fields. None of them wanted to become a lawyer to fight for worthy causes - they all wanted to go work at a law firm to get high pay. The pressure from their parents to go into one of these was strong - so much so that some of them did exhibit a passion for something, but they abandoned that passion and went into one of these career paths for grad school due to parental pressure. There were exceptions, but they stood out.

If this is reflective of the reality, it's understandable why Harvard is not admitting many of them.

This was quite a few years ago, and anecdotally I do see differences in the latest batch of Asian students - they are much less prone to the pressures of "must go be a high paying doctor/lawyer/businessperson". I do see a lot more creativity, variety and entrepreneurship, so things probably have changed.

Of course, all the usual caveats of relying on anecdotes apply here.
Fair enough - if who I replied called it, "prison", I'll remit my nit-picking ;)

But usually you cannot bail out of prison, right? You get arrested, and go to a city jail, where you can get bailed out. If you are found guilty, you go to county or prison to serve a sentence.