skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bird vision is so much better than mammalian vision. Primate vision is a poorly hacked together attempt to get back to something similar to what birds have, but compared to the cephalopod eye they are both hacks [0].

What are the criteria you consider when you say bird vision is better than primate vision? Fundamentally, different evolutionary pressures will lead to distinct optimizations in different lineages - this, it is difficult to suggest that one extant lineage is better than another.

As an example, consider the cephalopod. The different organization of the cephalopod eye does indeed seem better. But it’s possible that 360-degree vision was important to evolving cephalopods, so the anatomical organization of the eye adapted to facilitate this (i.e., through avoiding the presence of blind spots)
Just look for introductions to duality in math and category theory. It's not the sort of subject that'll be broken out individually, but rather an assumed consequence.
If interested in more ClojureScript games, I made Breakout: http://city41.github.io/reagent-breakout/
Switching from a co-pay based insurance to an HDHP + HSA was a big change. My deductible is quite high, so all normal, non-catastrophic medical costs are paid for without insurance.

A doctor visit starts at $139 and may be from $300 to $500 depending on the diagnosis. One cannot determine the cost in advance. Any lab work is extra. Is it worth $1000 every year to have a doctor do standard blood tests?

Like anything that suddenly becomes very expensive, it makes one look at things differently and question whether they are necessary. Some people put off doctor visits longer until things seem unbearable. Some research online and try to self medicate with over the counter things.
'cat > somefile' is my first instinct, but the while loop described allows for editing, rather than wholesale replacement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

If you surround an asterisk by spaces it works fine: a * b * c * d
That's not what you're doing. You're shitposting about Elixir developers--while Joe was enthusiastic about Elixir to the point of being a mod on elixirforum.com.

Stop.
Interesting. I never heard that from any other country. I guess it's a mechanism to limit the number of cars in those cities?
I've written and shipped UIs with AppKit/UIKit, Qt, a Tkinter (I know...) implementation, and HTML/CSS.

HTML/CSS win for a reason. ;P
> A high school student with a week of JavaScript and HTML could write AirBnB

I actually love it when a developer says something like this, because it tells me way more than even 2 full days of pairing or interviewing could: They know absolutely nothing about software at scale, and are probably extremely arrogant to boot.
It’s still over complicating things. If you just want a separation of concerns, reduced merge conflicts, and the optionality of separating a module out into a separate microservice later, you can accomplish that a lot easier in a monorepo with (speaking in C# terms, choose the equivalent for your language of choice) one solution, separate projects for separate “services” (domain contexts), exposing the assembly/module via public interfaces and using DI.
As time passes, practically no actively maintained codebase is going to clear your bar. It's going to pass through several different teams, with different policies and standards. Eventually, parts of it are going to be put on life support, which generally means an understaffed team that scrambles to patch up the most egregious bugs, often with dirty hacks, because they have no time and resources to do massive rewrites that are necessary to fix things properly. Maintaining such codebases requires a lot of "code archeology", and good history makes it much, much easier.
Wait, what? I live in Colorado, and a third of the state is public land. There's two long distance trails (The CT and the CDT) that go over much of the state, or completely through. I've lived for months on a bike, and never camped in the same spot twice - and never once had to pay for it.

I think there's more public lands in the county I live in currently (Boulder, CO) than there is in all of the State I grew up in (CT). I know many places in this state that I could walk 100 miles through, without hitting a paved road. I live 30 miles from a National Park, and 18 miles from the nearest Wilderness Area.

A, "right to roam" law would certainly be nice to have, but we're not being suffocated by private land ownership. Things are just different here, than in Scotland. Less people per area of land.
Just going to throw out there that the company I work at (JumpCloud) is a directory service that makes it super easy to setup 2FA with your SSH. Literally a couple checkboxes, and you can mandate that your whole staff has 2FA setup.
Language changes, and in American English at least, the definition of liberal has changed. If you use the word liberal to describe what we might refer to as "classical liberal", you will needlessly confuse people.
In the western US, most land is owned by the federal government, which on the whole does a pretty decent job of forest management.

Why should large landholdings beyond individuals’ management abilities be left to particular families?
and check out the Project-Byzantium.

https://github.com/Byzantium/Byzantium

https://project-byzantium.org/

https://hackaday.com/2015/04/28/meshing-pis-with-project-byz...
A Georgist Land Value Tax would be a much better solution.
It sounds like you've been through a lot.

The lawyer chasing you for a HN comment sounds like a movie. Somehow it would be fitting if it was over spaces vs tabs.
On VC Startup Myths
Actually there is an Anomaly Detection Cognitive Service in Azure currently in Preview Mode for whom wants to retry experiments before real buttons push

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
I'm not sure why everyone thinks it's fair the government should get paid when a citizen dies.
Obamacare is unfortunately a band aid solution and does nothing to address the fundamental issues:

1) complete lack of price transparency, which means virtually no price competition between clinics / doctors
2) artificially low supply of doctors to jack up prices
3) corrupt regulation to prevent consumer health startups from existing

Fixing these issues is going to take a lot more than just taxing people for not buying high deductible health insurance.

There's no fundamental reason why most doctors should get paid more than airplane mechanics for example. Either way if they mess up, people die.
How does this compare to just putting a passphrase on your ssh credentials?
I've spent a few hours reading SCPs so now I really have no idea what the hell an anomaly would mean in this context.

Just a small computer glitch or, things firing/smoking when they shouldn't, or something more drastic?
I apologize because I've worked for people who truly think eastern europe is nothing but goat farmers etc. Literally I think american corps in some aspect are trying to scrape talent from places (they think) are 3rd world countries.
Ignore the citation. Come to Houston and see for your own eyes. We don’t have zoning, and laws are pretty lax. HOAs are another story, but that’s a different issue entirely.

New York has a problem - we don’t. And I’m not going to solve their problem because they created the set of choices that led to it.

What makes America great is all of these cities get to make their own unique set of mistakes. Over time, we figure out as a whole what works and what doesn’t. Some cities can choose to follow that path or ignore it, but either way, it’s that city’s problem, not everyone’s problem.
To play devil's advocate for a moment: most wait staff are paid primarily with tips, unless they don't meet minimum wage, in which case the employer makes up the difference.

This is functionally equivalent to the situation at Instacart.

Tipping is a really bad practice that we should end, rather than defend.
> And that's exactly what happened, most developed countries have got variants of socialized healthcare

At least by the accounts of the Social Transformation of american medicine, european health systems were pretty much top down, but the AMA was so politically powerful that it was able to fight it effectively.
Universal catastrophic insurance is a much better idea than universal heath care. Much simpler and cheaper.
> We protect other peoples' property rights in order to secure our own.

And from there follows a simple equation - when the distribution of benefit from recognizing existing property rights is too skewed in favor of the few, the gains to be had by the rest from refusing to recognize those rights anymore exceed the risks of not being able to secure your own.

When elites forget about this equation for too long, revolutions happen.
I'm less worried about losing a hardware key than I am about something breaking in a mysterious way and locking me out! My initially question was really about personal (unshared) systems. (I don't know - a random auto-update busting a non-standard PAM module and preventing it from loading, or even something just changing the PAM configs on its own, doesn't seem impossible to me). I'd definitely keep a spare if i went the Yubi route.
Okay, I kind of want to question the "just throw it in Postgres," attitude I've seen throughout this thread. I've dealt with similar sizes (maybe 750GB, number of rows in the small billions) and as much as I adore Postgres it just wasn't a great solution.

-- Loading would take hours, even with dropping the indexes beforehand

-- Creating the indexes afterwards would take even longer

-- Query performance was very hard to reason about. Even simple queries required altering some spillage limits.

-- Analytical queries were basically out of the question, with something like "select sum(thing) from table" taking many minutes.

Even if I could live with the above as just an initial load, there would have been a lot of churn as new data arrived that probably would have been even worse.
It's one method the Five Eyes[0] use to obtain information regarding specific travel plans in the majority of cases. Given the nature and timing of the case I would be surprised if the US didn't use back channels to suggest this arrest by Ecuador, based on knowledge of his upcoming movements.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
yay for testing!
" service boundaries become obvious to developers when they start seeing the friction."

I like this. Splice when the pain starts to show, or becomes obvious.
Great find OP. Now I am interested in buying the book.
Is this a compelling argument to you?
Their linkedin profile says so.
There was a loophole. Apple sold them at their stores with an (iTunes?) activation procedure. You could (and I did) buy the phone outright and never activated with AT&T. I just used a local GSM sim. Of course the visual voicemail never worked, but a small loss.
What issue is smart guns really going to solve? In a venn diagram where you have people that are irresponsible with firearms that cause accidents and people that would buy a smart gun I suspect the intersection between the two groups would be negligible.
I dont follow the math here: if you are not on medicare and pay the medicare tax, you are not getting any benefit at all and paying for something.

Govt cost per capita for medicare is a measure of its efficiency, but not that its already funded for everyone.
Do you have anything to back this up? The OP article is a lot of complaining but almost no data except what seems like to be one lousy anecdote. I actually had been a hiring manager desperately needing people to fill open positions I had. I'm not saying I got zero resumes. The problem was that most resumes were sort of "I learned JavaScript and HTML 3 month ago" or "I'm a founder of my own company with 3 funky iOS apps". Nothing wrong with that but the folks I needed for my jobs had to have some experience with distributed computing, solid CS background with high performance algorithms design skills (yes, we actually used those complicated graph algorithms you only find in CS textbooks). These stuff you can't learn by going in to code school for a month. These skills requires years to master and possibly CS education. I would probably come across may be 1 candidate with anywhere close to this kind of background per month total. It would take me 3-6 months to fill one position - if I'm lucky. Often such candidates will have multiple offers and the probability that they would actually come onboard is less than 50%. Think about that for a bit and you should feel the frustration you might have if you actually were hiring manager for such positions.
No limits. Take away rules, dont add rules.
I know only one _real_ revolution in history, where the elites were replaced by new blood -- the communist one. Communists killed/expelled anyone who was a little richer than others.

In all other revolutions elites stayed mostly the same.
Jackson is really good. There are actually a lot of other good books in that general category depending on exactly what you are looking for.

Cheng's "Field and Wave ELectromagnetics" is an excellent undergrad book to start to learn then you have
Harrington's "Time Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields" and Stratton's "Electromagnetic Theory" which are both really fundamental and thorough
and more high end you have Collins' "Foundation of Microwave Engineering" and "Field Theory of guided waves"

A bit more practical if you like smith charts you've and matching networks you've got Pozar's "Microwave Engineering"

and for Antenna theory you've got
Stutzman and Thiele's "Antenna Theory and Design" or Kraus' "Anetnnas"

Balanis' book is good but a lot of the material in in comes from these books + Jackson and I think it makes a much better reference than a learning text.
A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery
First off, you'll almost never get an indication of why your resume was rejected. Secondly, as someone already commented, federal positions don't have tho play by state rules.

They do sometimes even ask for pay stubs to prove salaries claimed
I disagree here. If insurance is optimized to handle catastrophic incidents it'll quickly be underwater for obvious reasons and will potentially contribute to idea that universam health care is terrible. It's orders of magnitude less expensive to treat someone in the early stages of most diseases than when symptoms are catastrophically affecting them.
Syntax Highlighting in Vim for Swift via Github.com/Apple/Swift
Medicare is expensive per capita, and also is not self-sustaining: it needs people paying and not getting benefits to subsist. The entire social security paycheck wouldn't cover the cost of medicare per capita.
Hmm, you are probably right.

Spanner does have somewhat less scale than their NoSQL offerings; and even Google says internally to go for the somewhat less scale-y spanner than them. (Because it's easier to react to needs for scale laten than it is to live without transactions and relation querying.)
all I'm thinking: it takes a lot of luck and discipline to keep a fortune for 950 years. You could say laws (might forbid sale unless...), but I imagine that they weren't enforced uniformly. Where do you store the title? Imagine what the country went through 950 years.

IIRC, they only lease the land for as much as 999 years, don't sell.
Yes. That's the remaining reason when compilers for the languages in question have gotten as good as they can get.
No, your original answer was what I needed! I'm fine using just keypairs where the private half has never left a yubikey.
This is exactly why the US [used to] have a meaningful inheritance tax.

Without such a tax, compound earnings on investments implies that over time, a very small fraction of the population will control the vast majority of all economic resources.
Looking sketchy isn't great when you're trying to make a security product, FYI. Maybe get your ducks in a row first, then announce.
You dont need socialized medicine to solve the problems you state.

> The freedom to move between employers and not have to concern yourself with tying your ability to get specific health service based on an employer's ability (or whim).

It is the government that subsidizes employer insurance (a 260 billion tax subsidy for the richer part of society) and has made it mandatory. Repeal laws and this would naturally stop happening.

> The freedom to move geographically and not be concerned that you won't be able to afford access to health services.

This is not solved by socialized medicine: in a full government control scheme, the government decides where the doctors and hospitals are through the payment model. And the government will pay differently based in location as it already does for federal grants to hospitals.

> The freedom to start your own business (purportedly the backbone of 'US conservative thinking') without worrying about crippling debts.

Just crippling taxes. Its not that the cost dissapears, its that its mandatory to finance it with taxes.
No, HTML and CSS are document markup languages. They are actually quite bad at UIs.

For example, implement a table with more than a few hundred rows. UI toolkits don't even blink while HTML just falls over.
Thank you for this. It gives a tangible sense of the waiting and venting that followed a space shuttle landing.
Why are they unjust? I don't see how wealth transferring from one person to another is the same as "inheriting the accumulated wealth of the whole society". Did the heirs also steal everyone else's things when the wealth was passed on? How does that happen?
Man, that's horrible. Prosecutors afraid to prosecute pimps because it's hard. Prosecutors should be willing to lose a few cases in the aim of scaring those folks off. That reminds me of James Comey, who met a group of prosecutors he was surpervising and basically said "Who has always won their cases?". Then he told them they were not trying hard enough, they should lose sometimes. Like almost no federal prosecutors prosecuted the financial crimes after the 2008-9 recession
It is actually explained in the OA the issues with the mammalian eye. One issue they didn't mentioned is the hacky way we (primates) got colour vision via gene duplication of the red light receptor to form the green receptor. This makes primates prone to colour blindness due to recombination between the red and green receptor genes. Any system that results in ~5% of males having colour vision problems is a pretty bad system.

The cephalopod eye is better in almost every respect to the vertebrate eye. Not only isn't it wired in backwards, it can regrow if damaged. If there is a designer God, his second attempt was certainly the cephalopod eye.
The amazing part isn't that British tea is bad, but that it nonetheless is upheld as a great tea culture by some other countries, as the parent points out.
HDHP are growing a lot, so its succeeded. PPO plans are garbage. Way too expensive and has terrible utilization incentives.
yep. I've 'paid in' more than $100k in premiums in my lifetime to various insurance plans. And a similar amount in FICA taxes, at least. I would prefer all of that having gone in to a system which I could utilize even during times when I couldn't pay in.
For that service you need to pay more than the 10k, as you need the wones working paying for the ones that don't.

You cant make a pizza larger by cutting it in different ways.
"Unfairness is perception."

Inequity is math.

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

"...someone who is poor in Scotland can become rich..."

Five minutes of casual googling didn't yield Scotland's current measure of social mobility. The Great Gatsby Curve is a rule of thumb suggesting that inequity & mobility are strongly correlated. Further, the members of the commission responsible for the Elite Scotland report (meant to update the measurements) all resigned in protest, which is probably a bad sign.

"(I am not even sure what [clearings] means...)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
One refers to the event as a statistic, the other captures the immediate aftermath and potential for danger relating to the event.
Would they want to return to EARTH currently

the Global SOCIALIST LEFT refuses to accept
Facts
Science
Biology
Common sense over the CULT of the NARRITIVE

Most if not ALL Western society has been ruined via Socialism , the LEFT and "Diversity"

Almost every part of western society is on the colapsing point due to refusal to look at problems and issues and corruption

but hey SOCIALISM will SAVE america

Just like it worked in
RUSSIA
CHINA
AU
NZ
and Canada
A real writer. I've never been able to achieve something so... fluid, complete, interesting.
I just launched https://staticIP.io and waiting to be profitable yet :)
I just launched https://staticIP.io so still waiting to make a profit
> it is not your choice to have someone else's wages decline

By your own logic, every time I help someone learn something to do with coding - for free - I undermine the wages of everybody else in the market whose job that person is going to be able to "steal" now.

And yet it is my choice to do so.
Is the science on xylitol still up in the air? Is it likely that it's at least as harmless (compared to sugar) as other sugar alcohols (erythritol, sorbitol, etc)?
Balanis' book is a great reference but I wouldn't recommend it for learning. Honestly the ARRL antenna book and antenna handbook are the best practical books on putting an antenna together without getting bogged down in the details. The real hard part is getting some radio equipment so that you can experiment and learn since Spectrum and Network analyzers are waaaay out of most people's hobby budgets.
Hi addicted, yes you can do both of those things by editing the i3 config file. Details on the internals page of the site.
Consider looking at the Inferno operating system / virtual machine: you can use Tk from the command line. If you like Google Go or Plan 9 you will love Inferno.

http://inferno-os.org/inferno/papers/sh.html

See how simple it is to draw a button:

load tk
wid := ${tk window 'My window'}

fn x {
args := $*
or {tk $wid $args} {
echo error on tk cmd $"args':' $status
}
}

x button .b -text {A button}
x pack .b -side top
x update
Not to mention that wealthy buyers and foreign buyers are more likely to be using LLCs and Trusts to hide their identity.
Property rights beyond "what you can defend is yours" are a purely human invention; there's nothing innate to the world that says that the property rights regime that exists now is the right one.

There are other ways you could approach it that would distribute ownership and political power in a more egalitarian way, and as ownership (and political power) become increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few, more and more people will realize that "we protect others' property rights to secure our own" is not meaningful. There's nothing of our own to secure, and never will be in a significant way.

This sort of refiguring of property rights can happen incrementally and peacefully (through tweaking taxes, etc), or suddenly (revolution). We've seen both lots of times in history.

Where we go next is the question; but ending the discussion the way you wanted to isn't all that practical or interesting.
Why was there only one communist revolution? If you're feeling up for seconds, which one was the real one?
This is just market at work. If it becomes cheaper to invest into teaching and grooming more engineers than it is to pay exorbitant salaries to the existing limited supply, then companies will do so.
Mod + / should bring up the shortcuts xisukar. The i3 config file binds to those keys and toggle launches conky. If it's not working for you please file an issue.
How VW Is Modifying Its ID.R Pikes Peak Racer to Set a Nürburgring Lap Record
Andrew McNeil has a good set of videos on building 2.4 and 5 GHz antennae on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHqwzhcFOsoFFh33Uy8rAgQ