skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be tricky with yes and no logic and how the issues are presented. I've read several proposals that were voted in my local city council, and without having excellent reading skills into the council jargon it would be really easy to vote wrong. To further negate the relations, there might be a vote for an opposing proposal, so if you want to support the original you vote no. I usually understand what I read relatively easily, including articles on complex algorithms, but had I had a seat in the city council these would've stunned me several times.

For things with big impact like state parliament and EU votes there should be a clear announcement before the vote to clarify which "side" the voting works out to be.
I have no problem forcing all non-vaccinated kids to go to their own (quarantined) school.
These kind of tactics should be extremely frowned upon. Stellar is created from thin air (without mining) and they hold the majority of Stellar which increases the price through artificial scarcity. Then they can bribe people and organizations with this artificial price. Same story as in Ripple who bribes banks to use their system.
You’re being downvoted because you’re wrong, and anyone with any familiarity at all with the other systems knows you’re wrong.

Let us consider:

> Did I mention that there is no way to go private other than paying out of pocket, and of course who would run a medical company in a country with universal healthcare?

Like many people here, I’ve held private insurance in the UK. The last time I paid for it, I think I paid £150/m for it, but I’ve had several employees cover it.
> the drop accelerated after 2010 – just as smartphones use started to grow.

Does anyone think not giving them access to phones till they go to college and encourage them instead to play sports with neighboring kids help? (assuming both neighbor parent agree to this!) Is that any practical anymore?
> There's no reason to jump down a new user's throat. If you are annoyed by a question, move on, let others deal with it if they so want. Or improve it.

But then you're keeping them ignorant. Letting them know they're expected to do their part is a net positive in the long run, for everyone involved.
Been offering credit cards, paypal, and bitcoin payment options to my customers. Bitcoin is horrible. 1 or 2 transactions per month - not worth the investment it is just a hype for ecommerce.
Paypal vs credit card is completely different story. On my end I get 60% of all payments made via PayPal. In general, if you are not offering PayPal as a checkout option then you are probably missing 10 to 15% of potential sales.
It would help if you could say which healthcare system you're talking about, because what you say bears no resemblance to the English NHS. I'm not sure why you mention the UK system because you don't appear to know anything about it.

And that's one of the really confusing things about people who criticise the NHS: there are plenty of things that are real problems and that we're trying to fix, but these aren't the things they talk about.

> Universal healthcare definitely helps pharma and medical companies (they can overprice a lot, just like with any other governmental project). Lobby?

This point in particular is incoherent. Universal healthcare always has cheaper medication pricing than eg the US. The prices are open and available. Pick a med and compare.
Title is sorta misleading/confusing.

Securdrop has always been open source (fun fact: Aaron Swatrz was an original developer).

Now the code running behind the securdrop.org website is open source too.
Generally, the French don't seem to care all that much about what their politicians do in their private lives.
I wonder if one of the biggest drivers of loneliness isn't necessarily that kids are spending more time on their phones or even that they have less face time with their friends, but that their social media can tell them more about what their friends are doing when they aren't together. First, everyone knows people curate their social media presence so that they look cool and that they are doing fun things. Second, if two of my friends in my group of friends hung out, I wouldn't necessarily know about it until after the fact. I wouldn't be able to see fun images of my friends or even people who were like the "cool kids" hanging out. Essentially, that limited the amount of FOMO you could experience because you just didn't have that ability.

I definitely think some of it also has to do with the level of control and protection we try to place on kids as well. It's just probably discouraging to kids or, worse, they sense their parent's fear that something will happen to them so they become afraid and ultimately pull themselves back from social interactions.

I wonder if kids also tend to feel more lonely because parents have also increased their smartphone usage. When I go out to restaurants, I feel like I am more likely to see entire families on their phones sitting around the table instead of talking with one another. That can't help either.
A bit offtopic, but I've been wondering - is it possible to destroy money in any way other than literally burning banknotes. With electronic money you can only transfer them between parties, so while you can give away all your money, the money still exists in the system - you can't call the bank and ask to have 100k deleted from your account. Am I missing something or is there no way for money to ever disappear from the banking system?
that's not really a valid defense. the default state is copyrighted unless otherwise stated, this assumes the contrary.
But there /is/ always going back. That's the thing. They can decide tomorrow, or next week, or next year that actually Article 13 is a bad idea and revoke it.

There are reasons to support a different mechanism for voting, but the idea that this is irrevocable and so needs safeguards to prevent mistakes is not one.
UK does not have a universal healthcare system in a comparable way to continental Europe. It is excluded from what I said, but it's not much of a change - that makes it sixth in the world. Out of 195.
In Spain, the setup process is the same as when you are asking for a pos machine, you usually have to open an account with them. You get the same conditions than with the pos machine, something like 0.50% and 0.25€ fixed price, with discounts if you have great volume.
Not at all - socialist countries protect you from that. (Hence in many European countries, you would be fine, financially speaking).
Noone in Switzerland spends their lifes paying bills. Perhaps the system as you implemented it is wrong, but not the general idea?
A sexist and his hostages: why you see ads for Game of Sultans everywhere
Google assistant but offline, private and 3000x faster
AFAIK Total Commander was fman's main motivation (IIRC the developer mentioned that on the bootstrapers.io forum). It'll be interesting to see how it evolves, but TBH i find Total Commander perfectly fine and i love how lightweight it is (...compare win10 calc with tc...) while providing a ton of features. And while i understand the (fman) author's point about lifetime licensing, i still prefer TC's lifetime license.
How do you see the future of Lisp? Does Common Lisp have one?
How does the UK not have universal healthcare?
Now, I do agree that part of the responsibility is holding our leaders responsible, and it saddens me that we elect in such a way.

This doesn't excuse facebook, however. This isn't just their ad business I'm speaking of - I was merely pointing out that suggestive paintings are too much. Pointing out they punish artists that paint tasteful nudes. Historical photos are a grey area, and it has taken heads of states speaking out for those to be reinstated.

These are merely normal people's posts.

Yet allowing posts that harm others and entire groups that do the same? Yup, allowed. Because they choose to allow such posts, they share responsibility. They choose to turn a blind eye to anti-vax groups and the like.
>I dislike the antivax movement but mandatory state injections would be a huge violation of liberties in my opinion.

That's true, but if we consider any violation of personal liberty to be harmful, then we're left with primitivist anarchy.

We've decided, collectively (albeit not individually and not always voluntarily) that it is beneficial in some cases to abridge the rights of the individual for the sake of society. We invented systems of laws and courts because we consider a fixed set of common laws and a controlled system to adjudicate them to be more just and fair on average than retributory violence and clan based tribalism, despite the existence of the state and its monopoly on violence being an abridgement of personal liberty.

We've also decided that, while scientific inquiry has its faults, it is preferable to assume that the premises of science (specifically, epidemiology and the utility of vaccines) hold sound, given the evidence, despite this amounting to an appeal to authority for most people, who aren't likely to be willing or able to do the work of personally validating all of the claims ever made by a particular scientific field.

In the case of vaccines, we have ample historical evidence of the effect of epidemics and a lack of preventative measures on human populations, and of the improvements made to society as a result of vaccination and preventative measures. The choice here is not between potentially harmful vaccines versus a healthy life in their absence, rather, between between an abstract threat (vaccines) and a concrete threat (disease.)

So, yes. Mandatory vaccines are a violation of liberty. We didn't spend the last several millennia laying a foundation of civilization and scientific progress just to subject ourselves to the blind malice of nature for the sake of a few people who don't like the government telling them they're not allowed to catch polio if they want to.
Artificial intelligence pioneers win tech's 'Nobel Prize'
> "your money or your life"

> (I've heard quotes in the 100's of K even in the 1-2 M)

The thing is that no one+ has that kind of money. So it ends being your money or his life, over and over again. This has long since moved from the space of individual decision making to public policy. But we in the United States refuse to face up to that. We like to pretend that the doctor and patient should be the only ones that have any say in deciding what to do and if anyone outside that room balks at the price tag, no matter how high, they are an evil insurance company or government bureaucrat that doesn't care about human life or something. That's naive and silly. Spending $1 million of public or collective funds on a single individual isn't something that should be done automatically or that we should do out of a sense of guilt.

+Okay a few, but not enough to make a market.
> I can't wear headphones for an extended period of time due to physical pain

Well it's comforting to see someone else has this issue. I find this to be the only part about 'open' offices that I personally take issue with at the moment. I really can't continually wear headphones and it does not seem unreasonable for software developers to be able to code in a relatively quiet environment
>Isn't it interesting that the best healthcare system in the world is entirely privatized, in Switzerland?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland

They still have universal healthcare/ mandatory health insurance.

I don't think the libertarian types would be too happy with that.

and

>Insurers are required to offer this basic insurance to everyone, regardless of age or medical condition. They are not allowed to make a profit off this basic insurance, but can on supplemental plans
Lots of prior art but the tweet didn’t say PG inspired the paradigm; rather just Redis specifically.

Anecdotally, I’ve used plenty of in memory DBs (and written some too) but Redis has been by far my personal favourite.
Fun for you != fun for everyone else.
Not only social media I might add. Traditional media also has a role to play here. They are generally more critical of these types of groups, but they also seek ever more ridiculous stories to tell, in order to get an audience -- so even a story that questions the theories of these groups but reports them as "one view among others" is problematic.

It is the structure of our media/advertising landscape that keeps nuanced but true views below the average interest and and amplifies outrageous crap, since it generates clicks and eyeballs.
Made this little visualization of the night/dawn/sunrise/day/sunset/dusk/night times throughout the year.

https://codepen.io/JohannesEH/full/JzVgeR
A CSS markup fragment broke C++ compiler
"Rogue/terrorist satellite goes out of control, threatens territorial sovereignty of India (or its friendly neighbours). It'll do some harm if it comes down over India, so: swish-BOOM! Industrial catastrophe averted, problem solved. Thanks, well-maintained military!"

I mean, its not basically impossible. Unlikely, thankfully!

(or .. maybe .. not, hmm...)
I'm aware current employees comment over here.
Two things to mention: principal/architect roles are always based not only on a merit of skill but politics. So, taken with a grain of salt.

Moreover, if you inspect the person's comments you will notice how "legally" clean they are. Even the phrasing looks the same for both comments "based on my experience", "this information if wrongful" etc. Looks like those were refined by the legal team before posted.

I wonder all that, because since my first engagement with AWS and Amazon recruiting around five years ago the engineering tone did not change.
That concerns in a way that putting an effort to get a job there may turn out a major disappointment.

The cutthroat approach is nice sometimes as it adds the taste of competition but the whole noise seems like you're about to get buried rather than played or burned out.
Although anecdotal, I studied in the public system and I would say that most of my classmates did not really learn critical thinking, neither from school or a different source.

I guess it depends on the education system in question, as some of them, like mine, are more focused on memorizing facts instead of questioning them.
Yes, it can, but potential breakage must be taken into account. Windows is probably the ultimate example of backward compatibility including many arguably buggy or incorrect behaviors that clients have became dependent on.
Book version is so much better: https://www.amazon.com/Grinding-Out-McDonalds-Ray-Kroc/dp/03...
You are downvoted because you generalize your experience to every country except a vague set of 5...
What you are saying is simply not true in most of Europe.

Case in point, last year I have been treated for some serious health issue that would have immediately bankrupted me in the USA, forever.

I was in the network of Charité Berlin, one of the biggest hospitals in Europe. The treatment and care was overall fantastic.
Yes, usually it seems the universal healthcare moves slowly. But once I was diagnosed, things _kicked_ in, let me tell you. The operation was brought on within days, insurance immediately got out of the way, the aftercare and radiation was scheduled immediately - things just went automatic. There were no 5-people hospital rooms and of course every room had a bath and toilet - what are you talking about? The facilities and rooms were all top notch.
Moreover, the doctors involved were Professors and otherwise top experts in the entire field, treating hundreds of tough cases every year.

And you know what I payed?
Nothing.

Again, in the USA, all the operations, radiation treatment, medicine, expensive machinery used and months in the hospital... It would have cost literal millions. I probably simply would have DIED because I could never afford it.
Here, however, I had close to the optimal (and positive!) experience that one could have in such a situation.

So yes, if you have a common cold, you will probably get less "treatment" on public than on private insurance.

But - from my experience - when you get seriously ill, the amount of ressources, personell and technology that hospitals like Charité can and will bring to bear to save your life, at no cost to you, borders on ridiculous. Seriously I often felt uncomfortable because of the amount of care. Those people seriously wanted to make sure I don't die, even though I am not important, don't have money and certainly not private insurance. This includes hospital staff AND the people from the public insurance.

For the latter, I expected a lot of resistance to the cost - like a private insurance would do. Them trying to minimize the treatment. Instead, the people at the insurance immediately "stamped" everything, and even me asking timidly about the costs was met with non-comprehension. It was pretty clear, when things get serious, the public insurance officials care about your life, no matter how much you pay.

Sorry but I feel rather passionate about this, and might I even say that I actually prefer public insurance for that reason. No where else would I have been important enough to live.
Yes, it is. It's a form of republication, and as such, protected under copyright law. The difference between a third-party server side solution and client-side solutions is easy to see: client-side solutions don't redistribute.
Perl's `Storable` springs to mind here - I know many places who have mini-"databases" that are effectively straight dumps of Perl variables to disk that get loaded in, worked on, then saved back out.

I guess Smalltalk's images are the ur-example here?
Perhaps you want to increase survival chances against people with legal weapons (aka dogs):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_dog_attacks_in_England_a...

This whole thing is just nonsense and another form of humiliation of the oppressed by "the" "state".
Is there any other way to do long-term verification?
https://msgpack.org is absolutely fine. I wasn't criticizing msgpack. You can also serialize the bytes of an array of C structs, if you see what I mean.
Yeah the 32bit timeout was removed some time ago
>DF is a "create your own fun" kind of game.

That's exactly why i stopped playing Elite Dangerous, devs making empty universes and all the fan boys saying to make your own fun.
The really interesting part of the article comes after the "What could have been done differently?" headline. I think the article would have been better if it wasn't focused as much on MongoDB because now everybody is discussing if the caveats still apply or ever applied.
This is the definition of hindsight bias.

The best ideas often seem obvious in retrospect.
Android Naming Convention Cheat Sheet
I think 'source available' is already an established term, i.e. the source is there to view, but that's about it.
Security Fixes in iOS 12.2
have you tried to search in GitHub?

Here's a link https://github.com/abdelhai/awesome-bots
> I see little value to society in "maintaining a laudable and consistent ethical position" for any length of time if such a position does not help in actually advancing your cause.

There's some implicit logical fallacies in there. There's a hint that if your cause isn't immediately advanced, then you should abandon your ethical position. There's the suggestion that your outside (and seemingly somewhat biased or under-informed) evaluation should be sufficient to convince others to abandon those positions.

Then there's this claim that could best be described as asserting facts not in evidence:

> Proprietary software is stronger than ever in part because non-Affero licenses do not require SaaS vendors to contribute code back to the community.

As to:

> Don't tell me what I failed or didn't fail to comprehend - facebook builds shadow profiles on people who don't have accounts, irrespective of whether or not they voluntarily provide information.

Do you have a Facebook account?
I enjoyed reading about the soup line in that article.
> denying kids to participate in school may not be an option (and would also not be in the kids' interest)

We're talking a hypothetical that might require legislative changes, which isn't too far-fetched if the problem keeps growing. Also, I'd argue that not vaccinating a kid is also not in the child's interest, and not in the interests of that child's classmates.

Education is compulsory and a constitutional right where I live (Romania) and we have problems with low vaccination rates here as well. I'm question at which point do we put the well being of the pack above the individual's rights.
I was unaware of his history of bias. Is there another source who reports as in depth on the proceedings as he does?
SAP's definitely does this, I just checked.

In fact I relied on it so much that I thought every JVM does this.
Have you tried doing the Sprint flavour of capital-A agile? As you describe with the benefit that the powers that be can change their mind about priorities as often as they like, but you only listen to them when reprioritising once every sprint cycle.
That is going to be a problem regardless of technology.

With an enforced schema you will at least know that all of the existing data matches the schema. Without it you have to hope that you had zero bugs while collecting the terabytes of data.
All of Addy Osmani's stuff is well-coded and/or well-written, I've been reading his front-end stuff for almost a decade now:

https://addyosmani.com/blog/large-scale-jquery/
Great article - it's definitely vital to fully understand the tradeoffs of any technology you choose, and not just going with the latest fad.

I work at MongoDB, so I do want to mention that MongoDB has changed a lot over the past few years. MongoDB now has multi-document ACID transactions. Also, schema validation means you can enforce a strict data structure if you want. On top of that there have been improvements in data durability and consistency (the Jepsen tests are now integrated into the MongoDB test suite).

As mentioned in the article MongoDB has matured a great deal. It's far more mature and fully-featured in 2019 than it was in 2012.
I think that might be the "best" we can get to, a system that takes cash and is willing to cash you out in some cryptocurrency. I coulda sworn to some extent you could do that with CoinBase to some degree, where you accept a bitcoin payment and the other party uses their card, but CoinBase doesn't have the 'seamless' brand recognition that someone like Stripe does atm. People use Stripe cause it's convenient as heck, at a food truck they can take my card and so long as they're not stealing my info I don't care.
I think there is no serious authenticity associated with this blog post.
India announces it successfully tested anti-satellite missile capability
"Makes you wonder what life will be like for children 50 years from now, and how that would compare with today."

I cringed watching the new ALITA: Battle Angel movie, (Spiritual successor to Avator, directed by James Cameron). There was a teen romance section where the android and hot guy went through the tropes (riding on the back of his bike hugging tight, sneaking into his bedroom, watching him put on a tight fitting shirt)

it was weird because in Japan they are intensely lonely with people paying for surrogate GF's etc... and the robot industries are starting to develop 'romance' robots.
Maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605 ?
Since this is essentially a shareware product, wouldn't some service that handles all those options for you be better, like BMTmicro and Fastspring?

These also handle hairy stuff like VAT MOSS for EU customers that -AFAIK- Paypal doesn't handle for you and you have to it yourself.
Do you have another source you can recommend?
South America's marble cathedral carved by nature
Can confirm I had a terrible experience and I'm weird. I was bullied and driven out.
Drivers are rarely held to blame, though. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-t...
The Scene Inside D.C.’S Sold-Out Slime Convention
I still think that you would get more results/traction with a more established language but it was interesting to read your perspective. Thank you
not available on Android..