skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could believe that the Senate is a fine implementation of it's goals (to protect inhabitants of smaller states from the tyranny of the majority, or whatever) while also believing that the electoral college is a failure that just adds noise to the popular vote.

Not saying that's precisely my position...
Raising your kids in the city? Here’s why it’s the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij1pZvv9m0g
Living in a giant state with just over a million people definitely changes one's perspective on city versus town.
How Do You Buy the Magna Carta? (2013)
Comcast will likely (if they are not already) try to get a state law passed.
As an American voter, I definitely don’t want this. Health services, like any economic good, are scarce. I’d rather have rationing through the market then rationing via government (and yes, there has to be rationing; it’s not an unlimited good.) Maybe some poor don’t get the best care quickly, but under a government system, everyone is equally limited in their access to care (i.e. waiting lists.) Someone who provides significant value to society waits in line behind a person who doesn’t provide much value — that isn’t good for society. It’s unsaid because it’s incendiary, but all people in society aren’t equally important to that society: an electrical engineer is more useful than an unemployed cashier. With price-based rationing, those that generate more value have easier access to scarce care resources than those who generate less value. It’s logical, but politically tough because those that generate little value outnumber those that produce high value — and those low value people vote.
I would love to see some sources for your claim that "the view that a successful relationship necessarily involves children is still quite current" and that "it is the overwhelming consensus."

Anecdotally, in my environment you would be hard pressed to find someone who thinks children are required for a relationship to be successful. Many people _want_ children, but are not deluded enough to believe the entire concept of "a relationship" is a failure without them (nor that it is a success with them).

Thanks in advance for any sources you can point me to.
How can you say this given the fact that America is still at war in Afghanistan?
Nobody sets out to build something that is over-engineered. Over-engineering happens in pursuit of a "clear and simple" solution.
Similar for me. Tried to get into typed FP multiple times with no luck, but then I built a couple of web services with F# + Giraffe and an app in Bolero. It let me take my time getting into FP concepts and incorporate them along the way
It doesn’t solve this problem at all. The site says:

How do you know that Google's public key is actually Google's public key? When you make that first request to Google, an intermediate network may have intercepted your request and returned a fake public key for Google. CAs attempt to solve this problem. CAs are trusted third parties that verify the authenticity of public keys for websites.

How does proof of work ensure that google.com really goes to Google and not someone who paid $2,000 to mine something?
I agree with you here, to a degree. It seems the model of “one place” for all movies would be (and has been) a huge boon for viewers. But eventually I think that “one source” would become monopolistic, and we would see consumer abuse and degraded service. If you doubt it, Who would of thought anyone would abuse their monopoly on search? Or social? Or online retail? I guess I don’t know the best long term solution....
2019, more databases, more programming languages, more everything, less me
Open Secret for Trading Crypto
If by "free" they mean a monthly subscription to access the web app that I already paid for, then sure, it's free.
Remember tpc.int?
Inkscape is great. I don't want to be a dick but I miss Xara XL
https://monday-morning-macro.com/2019/09/17/far-too-little-f...

This is the best technical write-up. Most mainstream financial reporting will focus on explaining repo so hard to get into the details, and the truth is that 95%+ of those who work in financial services have no idea what the repo market is.
> Raising your kids in the city? Here’s why it’s the best

As someone who works in NLP with media, the simplest way to identify a click bait headline is the use of when/where/why/what/how and either a question mark or exclamation mark
"rabidly anti-gun folks who refuse to put a "This home is proudly gun free" sign in their front yard"

Do you have to list all the things you aren't protecting your home with?
The GED requires that you have health insurance to take it? I looked around for more information about this, but I can't seem to find anything. Do you have more information?

I took my GED back in 2009 and I don't remember having to supply any information about whether I was insured.
"declined the insurance offered by my company."

don't know how it is in the US, so this may look uninformed, but are you getting extra $$$ added to your salary, equivalent to what the employer was paying for the insurance?
I know about the scenario simulation, and when I have corresponded with the support team it is where they have pointed me. This in spite of saying I have read it and explained why it isn't doing what we're after.

In its current form, it is not adequate. We have to manually set up the resource to run it on. Once run, there is no easy reset, to re-run it (if, for example, the response was handled incorrectly).

It can be argued that mocking all behaviours should be carried out our side and not involve the GoCardless sandbox. I am open to that, but note we have not seen any existing libraries handling this.

And the behaviour of other payment processors suggests this is not the most common approach to take.

Edit: As samples of all events/payloads are not present, we have to record production data first in order to get the data we can use in our mocking and testing.
Did not do a code review but I would not be surprised if they were using Unreal's default vehicle simulation; which, as you noted, is indeed sub-par. It's honestly a very challenging task to get vehicle physics to accurately replicate real cars, and the systems which are out there (commonly used by manufacturers to make advertisement renderings) are proprietary and expensive.
Automatically generated source-maps could be revealing your project's files
Well, you just can't omit libcaca :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libcaca
> People who had cut the cord... As long as you don't care about the zeitgeist...

That's not really what it's about. You have no idea how utterly janky Plex and torrenting is. People on Hacker News find IT stimulating, so their experience is basically moot. It's like trying to predict trends based on a nerd's hot take of the iPod.

It has always been about enforcement. Seen in this lens, the hassle of pirating movies is itself a form of enforcement of copyright protections, even if the IT is not a legal instrument.

Enforcement has definitely weakened. Why though? It wasn't limited to bad PR, although again the Hacker News crowd is wildly incomparable to the population at large when it comes to issues like this.

What has changed is that TV makers are also now Internet providers. They are recouping the costs of piracy by raising your Internet prices. They don't make content you consume in the rest of the world, so naturally in the rest of the world fast Internet is dirt cheap.

Calling this a consequence of consolidation is accurate! It's just not about consolidation among ISPs, but between producers and ISPs.

And on top of that, all the people who held onto the cord were subsidizing your television. Now that they finally cut the cord, who's going to pay for it?
I'm seeing lots of traffic to amazonaws now too.
Math Reveals the Secrets of Cells’ Feedback Circuitry
I pay <$20/mo (22,000 KRW) for 2.5Gbps with a free modem having a 10Gbps ethernet port in South Korea, with a 4-years contract.

I know it is very unfair to compare it with such a small country but $60 still sounds too much.
> I feel like there's a business opportunity for a meta-service that automatically manages monthly subscriptions for you on different services. You queue up a catalog of shows you want to watch, and it creates an optimized schedule for you and helps sign up for the individual streaming service on a given month in order to watch the show you want.

Yeah I think this is what people mean when they say they want "one service". An actual single service would mean a monopoly and extravagant prices. That being said the other streaming options are being offered up by large telecoms that dwarf Netflix in what they control.

My ps4 menu already lazily sort of implements this in it's video section with a highlight menu of available shows on various platforms.
You must not know what taxis used to be like.
I identify with your view completely. My undergrad degree is in accounting and I know enough not to do my own taxes. I don't trust my ability to guess what are valid deductions and what are not when the laws are frequently updated and I'm not focused on staying current.
It certainly does exist. It even exists in Canada for extended coverage like dental and vision.

Now why dental is not part of medical coverage is beyond me, but that's another topic.
You don't need "5G" to do this; low-cost line-of-sight wireless networking technologies have existed for well over a decade now. There is a reason line-of-sight WISPs have not replaced, or in most cases even effectively competed against, wireline providers.

That reason is: it's far more difficult to provide reliable service this way than it seems at first.
The USA spends more than double the OECD average(1) in 2014, but is 28th in the world in OECD life expectancy(2) in 2016.

Personal commentary:

As someone from New Zealand, who moved to Canada, I still don't understand why people would want the responsibility of their employer and themselves to choose what health coverage they want in life, especially when employment tenure can be upended so easily.

Yes I know, USA has funky research and new drugs and whatever, but as a whole, it doesn't seem like a particularly efficient system. So if it's not efficient, what's its objective? For me it sounds like prioritising medical providers to extract the maximum amount of revenue from captive customers, in a scheme where all the prices are similar so it's not a monopoly, but none of them are cheap, so it's nearly like a cartel.

Citations:
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
Management in this society needs to be brought to heel
Sigh. The recent drone attacks on infrastructure in Saudi Arabia have dramatically changed things. A single drone dispensing small cluster sub-munitions could destroy a large swath of solar panels.

I fear that large-scale asymmetric warfare will become more common, especially in the volatile Middle East.
South-Pointing Chariot
> In fact the opinions he expressed are actually the law in some Western countries.

Can you name any Western country that allows people under 18 to be prostitutes? Especially if those people are the victims of coercive force?

> I.e. that someone below the age of consent may be able to consent to sex and that, as a consequence, sexual activity with someone below the age of consent is not automatically rape though an offence.

Rape is a word defined in law and in English language. An activity may not meet the legal definition while meeting the English language definition.

Saying that Minsky's actions were not so wrong because really it's not assault if violence wasn't used and that this rape isn't really rape is obviously problematic, especially when paired with Stallman's previous comments about child sexual abuse (familial abuse isn't a problem; willing child sexual abuse isn't harmful; images of child sexual abuse are fine).
just playing a amz-devil advocate, what is the point of hiring part-time employees who earn 30-40K a year and pay them just as much in health benefits? america's health care costs are out of this world and that is a much tougher problem to tackle as opposed to who is paying for it
I've had the opportunity to chat with many ex-bank developers and based on those discussions I'm as positive as I can be, without my own personal experience, that this is assuredly utter garbage.

The last two I've spoken with had read-only access to _everything_. The entire company did.
Who is saying that anything is “benign or ok”?

Saying that one crime is less severe than another does not imply that the lesser crime is “benign”.

Stallman takes issue with the word “assault” because he doesn’t think it likely that Minsky forcibly assaulted the victim. That doesn’t mean he is saying Minsky is without guilt, or that the whole Epstein ordeal is somehow “benign or ok”.
Also recommend this episode. They go into details on several different CO cites/towns that are implementing it as well as the lobbying aspect from Comcast, etc.
You're definitely right about that human trafficking implies a lack of consent from those being moved which people smuggling doesn't. And if the coyote profiled is telling anything close to the truth, I think "people smuggler" would be the proper term for him.

Deciding which term to use for coyotes in general is harder. They're definitely people smugglers, that's essentially the definition of the job. But a lot of them are also human traffickers to various extents.

The people being smuggled pay a network to start their journey, and if they make it to their destination they'll likely be free from the coyotes, but in between their position is a lot like trafficking victims. It's pretty common to extort travelers for whatever they have left, abandon the agreement (e.g. by taking them somewhere other than promised to get a payoff, or stranding them with no compensation to avoid police), or outright force them into things they never agreed to like drug trafficking or the sex trade. As the article notes, '“Those taking money from the top are the same ones taking money from the bottom,” Zambrano tells me. Although coyotes are described in the news as not having much reach, they actually try to steer the migration flow based on their own interests, at the expense of refugees.'
I'm pretty sure that anyone who's actually dealt with children who have engaged in sexual experiences with adults will say it's harmful. I'm not a psychologist, but I think the burden of proof is on people who think it may be safe to show that it is safe, not the other way around.

But to understand a bit why: I think this is a bit like asking, "Is it really always harmful for professors to sleep with their (adult) students, or managers to sleep with their employees?"

The answer to that is, sure, you can imagine that this or that particular relationship might never be any hint of coercion or favoritism, and be considered afterwards a positive experience for all parties involved (including the professors other students / the rest of the manager's company). But we still universally say these relationships are wrong, because there's no way to tell in advance whether that will be the case; the risk is just too high.

I think it's the same for paedophilia. Children know so little, are so dependent on the adults around them for so many things -- including basic things like "what's normal" -- that it is simply not possible to ensure that there is no element of coercion.
There's an entire industry of consultants who will help your business pass a PCI audit, and everyone who handles payments requires a PCI audit annually.

There should be equivalent standards and audits and consultants for private information of all sorts, including healthcare info.
Facebook introduces Portal TV, a video chat camera accessory for your television
> With price-based rationing, those that generate more value have easier access to scarce care resources than those who generate less value.

No, it just means that people who are rich can afford healthcare and those who aren’t can’t.

> It’s logical, but politically tough because those that generate little value outnumber those that produce high value — and those low value people vote.

Should they not?
Yes but if everyone is vested in fossil fuels nuclear won't happen, don't you see?
I think it might vary between states. In this case, it's NY.

I can ask him tonight for clarification.
Removing .su != burning books. I will tell you opposite: we should write in history books the truth about what in realty USSR was and teach children with it so tragedies like USSR never happen again.
Java Design Pattern: Prototype Pattern
"* Learn how to use it once * Keep using it for a life time"

Yeah, right. Like Xara XL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xara_Xtreme_LX
“as reality drifts from the plan, the project manager shouts louder and louder at developers to try get reality back to matching the plan”

Welcome to my world :). Just a few weeks ago I had a conversation with a project manager explaining that no amount of additional planning meetings, motivational speeches or free pizza can change reality.
What’s new in Kubernetes 1.16?
Maybe I am wrong in my understanding, but for agile to work, observations from testing or using is fed back quite quickly so that fixes can be included in the next sprint. For the hardware where the validation can be quite lengthy, this is feedback loop is much, much longer. Especially true when the project gets closer to start of mass production.
I didn't suggest it was/wasn't part of Microsoft or BB, I suggested it pulled of something which they didn't; Google was not even in that statement.

Even Firefox itself wouldn't have been able to pull this off because it's FSF philosophy would have been in conflict with exclusivity agreements which KaiOS offers to the carriers & also it being a closed source.

Although FSF supporter in me wishes FireFoxOS had survived even at enthusiast level like Ubuntu Touch does.
This is one of the main pain points of health insurance policies in the US that makes it nearly impossible to see if you're getting true value. A monthly premium, a copay per visit, a deductible, co-insurance/cost share and out of pocket maximums. Then factor in potential fees from an employer.

All of that aside, it's impossible to know how much you're actually going to visit the doctor aside from chronic ailments.
Relational databases stink at trees, dags, etc. Anything that involves n-depth self-joining heavily in a SQL server is excruciating.
It's almost certainly the best thing we've got.

It’s sort of the national religion that the NHS is “the envy of the world” but it’s really only the envy of the US. Ask any French or German or Egyptian if they are envious of it...
I don't know where you get that impression, it is an undeniable work of genius.
On Spain, I'm paying 25€ for 600/600, unlimited calls, a mobile phone line with 3gb of data and 10 hours of calls.

$50 for just 1gbps, seems like they can even make profit from that.
I have counterpoints on both ends here.

It's not always possible for a "goto definition" function to work in dynamic languages.

If you're in a large file, it's quite easy to jump around with line marks (a la vim), searching, etc.
As a Canadian, this aspect of the United States health care "system" (if you can call it that) has always baffled me: for a country that blasts its love of capitalism to the whole world, and emphasizes its past revolutionary actions against the old world of aristocrats and monarchs -- this is a glaringly _feudal_ model of health care delivery.

Having employees depend on their lord^H^H^H^Hemployer for their very physical existence... how medieval.
I've watched the video several times, still don't know what he was doing with his hands.

Obviously in retrospect the police were in zero danger, there was no hostage, the house wasn't really doused in gasoline. There was no way for them to know that. We've had 20 months to think about what happened that day from the safety of our homes. They had seconds to deal with the situation unfolding in real time while believing their lives and the life of a hostage were in danger.
I feel like airline pilots should in theory have that level of understanding of the systems in their aircraft since they are trained professionals and the stakes are very high so they need to be able to handle failures gracefully.

I agree. But you need to knowe that a system exists in the first place.

Something the manufacturer failed to document to begin with.
The business plan is interesting: https://www.fcgov.com/broadband/files/broadband-business-pla...

Key points: they're expecting this effort cost $130-$150m, not pay for itself until 2033 or so, and only get around 28% market share. If Comcast/CenturyLink drops their prices slightly, uptake might be substantially worse.
Awesome; it looks like GTA gone serious.
> But the Manifesto doesn't specify process, it proposed priorities and objectives that should be considered for process that (changing only the words “working software” to whatever it is you want to produce) are fairly broadly applicable.

I disagree; I think those priorities are appropriate because of the unique situation of software development. Prioritising individuals and interactions over processes and tools makes sense because it is easy to adapt and modify software tools, and because software allows abstracting out any form of repetition without needing to make it a process. Prioritising working software over documentation makes sense because source code is understandable in itself to a much greater extent than physical artifacts. Etc.
So will neo4j switch to gql? and will spark support switch to gql?
Finally I could see my raw records without going through the beuracratical shenanigans.
> But that's non-investment, not divestment. Divestment is about selling existing stock.

I'm not sure this distinction makes sense when you're talking about things like sector funds
Why does everything have to be "streamed" these days? Hard drives are cheap. Just have a file and playback locally or on your LAN. No special set up of some server, your router, etc. Given the $/GB curve throughout the years you'll likely never run out of space. Do people really need to do a significant amount of movie watching outside their own LAN/home?
I grew up there, and just moved back. Is much nicer than 30 years ago, and legitimately nicer than boulder.

Fiber is great, and people forget how much of US infrastructure was communal in early electric buildouts as well.

Some of the objections seems to be reflexive anti-government sentiment. I haven't seen corporate services do well enough to convince me of the realistic improvements. And with most services negotiated on the national level (Netflix, apple, hbo, whatever) as direct buys, the last mile as a subsidy for cable negotiation seems wasteful.