skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so this is taking on the feeling of an Internet Meme, "Your <noun> has less/more <property> than the testing said it had."

Is there anyone here who doesn't believe if you make a testable property a price effecting feature of a product, the manufacturer will find a way to optimize for the property value they want, at the expense of the consumer or testing agency?
Even if you have the world's greatest system to queue for a scarce resource, you're not going to make people happy to queue :)
It's easy to be cynical (apologies if I'm misreading intentions here) about reduced paychecks. There is one complexity here that generally doesn't get mentioned.

There are two mechanisms by which we get richer. One is by increasing our income. The other is by reducing the prices of the things we buy with it. The former is how we increase our wealth relative to other members of society. The latter is how the society increases its overall standard of wealth.

On one hand each of us wants to get paid well. On the other, the more we get paid the higher the costs of the business we're in and the less of its fruits the society gets to enjoy overall.

This dilemma is particularly acute if you're lucky to be in a business you genuinely care about (a huge and rare privilege). For example, if you work in space industry, your salary and benefits contribute directly to the costs of space exploration. This means that ultimately the more you earn the less space exploration we can do per buck.

Generally, people's pay is a balancing act that should involve both fairness and efficiency.
Won't a central storage for the large files alao make it straightforward to add locking functionality in a future version of git-lfs, or as an add-in? I agree it sure looks like an omission to have a vcs that is centralized and aimed at binary data, without having any locking functionality.
Dry counties have more meth labs
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If it were the primary motivation to avoid confusing Prime members they could easily just add a bold description field: DOES NOT SUPPORT AMAZON VIDEO. They could also just drop it from Prime-eligible rather than drop it from the store entirely. Many Prime members filter things by Prime-eligible (for many different reasons) and that would possibly be more effective than dropping it entirely.
Data for Poland is outdated: PlusGSM network already have 80% coverage, and Play has 70%
Vudu is a pretty solid platform for both renting and buying digitally. It works on pretty much everything these days, but I don't believe there is a native AppleTV app yet.
meant to say ...my email is lawrence.donegan@gmail.com

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I had a buddy that lived in a coffin apartment in Chinatown (Chicago) for <$200/mo. He was a struggling musician and I was impressed at his ability to make it work
The Best Job Candidates Don't Always Have College Degrees

Is there anything surprising or interesting about this truism? There are millions of jobs and millions of people without college degrees with infinite combinations of skill sets. Of course you are going to have some jobs that are best executed by some people who don't have a college degree.
Hahaha... that's not how AWS works (unless you pay them hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a month). Amazon is terrifically unresponsive even for medium-to-large clients.
Dishonest marketing? Really? Homebrew, a free tool was out spreading lies about MacPorts? That's ridiculous. When pretty much every major Ruby shop uses Homebrew, why would I want to kick around with MacPorts? I trust Thoughtbot, Pivotal, etc, far more than the two guys actually using MacPorts. Perhaps Homebrew 'won' in that particular community because it was better, ever considered that? Wide community adoption is a far bigger incentive to use a tool over potentially trivial conceptual disagreements.
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I think there should be a word for not having this fear, since I think most of us shudder at the sight of those images.
Been using eslint for a while now, it truly is great. Using it with the airbnb javascript conf for react development often catches stupid style mistakes and helps my team keep in the same style.
Once you are over the initial hurdle of creating a config file, which is sort of like picking words you like while browsing a dictionary, ESLint is a great replacement for the JSHint and JSCS combination - much more compact and less finicky.

Here's a simple .eslintrc that hits pretty much all the high points and syntax conventions that people fight over, while leaving the things that most people agree on as the standard defaults:

https://www.exratione.com/2015/07/eslint-as-a-replacement-fo...
Can never trust a company with similar competing products.
That's a really interesting idea. As a data point, lets look at a healthy, modern, high quality project, what does it use the issue tracker for?

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues

They are using the issue tracker for all sorts of things, and it clearly has value.
Legality should not be the bar you hold products to. For example, you don't want to sell products which don't work. You don't want to sell mislabelled products.
I've seen the same with Scotts, Fiskars, and a few other brands. Also, things like planes, chisels, etc. seem to be cheaper at B&M stores. On the other hand Amazon does have a wider selection.
Table-top games are booming in the video-game age
It's always exciting to see the list of services supporting U2F for 2FA grow. It now includes Google, Dropbox, and GitHub.
PS4 Remote Play for Any Android: Updated for FW 3.00
Best line in the article, the one that convinced me: Robots are things that don’t do useful things. Once they eventually work, we call them what they are, like "dishwasher" or "toaster" or "drone."
Alt title could read "The Best Job Candidates Sometimes Have College Degrees"
I'm pretty sure there's an entire generation (or two) of parents who beat into their children's heads that if they didn't get a degree they wouldn't amount to anything. Also, see: credentialism.

So yes, for many people there is a belief that the only jobs for the un-universitied are garbage collection and scrubbing toilets.
Being Bezos (or not)- 4 things you can learn from Amazon CEO
Amazon claims it's removing Apple TV and Chromecast because they don't support Amazon Video... but Amazon was the one who decided not to support Apple TV and Chromecast in the first place.

Chromecast and Apple TV are more than popular enough to warrant app support, so it can't be a question of platform marketshare, either. (Chromecast support is so simple that the idea Amazon can't do it is laughable.) Android TV is not as popular, but Amazon already has an Android TV app, except it's restricted to Sony TVs:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/16/amazon-disables-the-...

This is not a retaliation. Amazon's suggestion that this is Apple or Google's fault is simply false.
I observed people using the tool before it was bound to the scroll. Almost everybody used scroll in attempt to fly forward, while WASD navigation wasn't obvious. So I decided to show help on scroll...

Will bind it to h and ? as well
It all began a long time ago, when 1Kb was equaled to 1000 bytes.
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Good for you, nothing to do with my point that not only people getting drugs get in incidents, as proved by the article.
I'm pretty sure someone could come and tell you "I've lived in LA/Washington and never got robbed", would that make your experience getting robbed in LA or statistics about Mexico City being safer than DC untrue? no.
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The branding here is awful, there exists confusion on the part of the public, the press, the commentators here, and even the executives from Amazon. Isn't their streaming video service called "Amazon Instant Video"? Isn't Prime simply a feature whereby a tiny fragment of their video catalog is provided at no additional charge to Prime subscribers? Isn't the entire rest of the catalog available on a pay-per-view or purchase basis?

Everybody here is saying "Prime Video" but I can't imagine that's a major revenue stream for Amazon or a major source of entertainment for anyone else. If you only watched what's available to Prime subscribers you'd run out of things worth watching fairly quickly.
The production price for this of £100 per MWh is what I currently pay retail price for my electric in the UK.
The part of the article that addresses data interoperability and databasing on the endpoint (without cloud middleman) is important for use cases where there are ownership issues. The author would no-doubt agree that having to subscribe to a cloud-based gatekeeper middleman, to access the data on the fridge you own, is absurd and against the spirit of the internet.
I feel like this is actually a potentially serious problem for Amazon, and it's getting worse.

The other day I went to buy a pair of standard issue Apple headphones. The same exact ones that come with the iPhone. Yeah they are slightly overpriced but I am really used to them and they sound good and my pair was getting ratty and I wanted another one.

It was literally impossible to do. Try it and see what I mean. I see "Original OEM iPhone Earbuds with Mac and Volume Control" as the first result, for $4.94. As a non-clueless person I know those definitely aren't real. But are the results for $24.99 or $29.99 real? It's really just impossible to be sure, you can look for "Sold by Amazon" itself but even that can be ambiguous. The day I went to do it I literally could not. I gave up and went to apple.com where it took 30 seconds.

That's not an uncommon experience. I typically buy Apple stuff from the Apple online store, or from B&H, as a rule, because this is such a problem. And I'm noticing it more and more with other products, things like USB hubs or IP Cameras and the like.

My default has always been to buy almost everything I can from Amazon as the first preference, but it's getting harder and harder to do in entire categories of products. I hope someone there is paying attention to this problem, it's real.
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Pushing the Limits of Kernel Networking
A lot of schools, mine included, have cost-reduced away the kitchen staff and facilities. Food is brought in from a central kitchen and kept in warming bins until lunch time.

Silverware sounds nice, but our school has no dishwashing facility. Utensils and dishes would need to be reclaimed and brought back for cleaning.
The claim from the article is that the "motion lighting" feature (or something that Samsung attributes to it) activates just when the content is played "faster than normal" and that it effectively recognizes that the international electrotechnical commission (IEC) test is in progress.

If Samsung would really document the exact conditions for the activation and they would be repeatable and independently confirmed then I'd believe it's a real feature. Somehow I don't expect that I'll read that though.

But it's also true that the modern devices don't have constant power load and that it's a good thing and that regulatory bodies didn't complain for even things still in use: My old PC used 30 Watts when "powered off" (!) and my cable box does that still (!) same 30 Watts load either powered on or powered off. That's a real sucker. The TV set uses a tenth of Watt when powered off.
It should be more such judges, until the politicians got some brains.

Many modern (software related) patents are bringing no advances at all, but are simply claim-pitching of corporations like in the gold-rush times.
Hey Dang, sorry we sent an email to the one on the first comment and thought we could just repost sorry about this.
Similarly, the normal buying experience is being compromised by the pushing of Amazon Prime. When you simply buy a product and want it sent to you, you really have to hunt out the small, unbolded text which allows you to do that without paying any subscription, as against a display of advert and button covering about 2/3rds of the screen to sign up to Prime.

I have had an elderly neighbour ask for help after mistakenly signing up for the service, and personally, the experience reminds me of hunting out the real download button on free download websites, in amongst the flash adverts. I've always thought the big advantage of Amazon was its ease of use for casual purchasers, and I can't imagine that level of hassle and uncertainty is appreciated.
Wouldn't a great solution to Amazon's "problem" with Prime Video not being available on other platforms be to allow users of Prime Video to access it on those other platforms?

I can't imagine they're making much on the hardware...
It is a good idea in general, but the idea of infosec for genetic data is a minefield. I deal with similar limitations daily -- one of my areas is large-scale meta-analysis of expression data, which was dandy when that data was collected using microarrays. Now, it's RNA-seq, so a lot of that data indeed stays locked up and you have to apply for special permission to access individual datasets from dbGaP, making large-scale studies difficult/impossible.

But although "algorithms in/results out" sounds good in principle, I think it will be hard to implement in practice. You would have to make algorithms run without network access to prevent a bulk_send_data_to_ip() type of function from being written, but that would hamper complex programs requiring external data.

In general I think the only realistic way forward is to take the 1000 genomes approach of finding people who are willing to take the privacy risks of truly open-sourcing their data. But it sounds like an interesting idea and I hope I'm wrong and your approach turns out to be workable.
> Sure, but you're allowed to be anti-competitive as long you're not in a monopoly position in the marketplace.

An antitrust "monopoly" is defined by market/pricing power. I wouldn't be all that confident that Amazon's online retail operation wouldn't be found to have such power.
You may not have noticed, but about the entire world has stopped growing by now.

Everything looks like growth will resume, but in a different way, and conditioned to a different social organization.
The Samsung's feature from the article is apparently from 2011.
Even that is just a special case of Goodhart's law:

> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
If someone has really bought adblock, it signals that making adblockers is becoming a gold mine :)
Every experience I've had with the Java/JVM ecosystem has been anything but amazing to the point where I now avoid it like the plague.

Nope, just the opposite here. The JVM ecosystem is hands-down my preferred environment for building / deploying pretty much anything.

"Different strokes for different folks" and all that...
Celeste: A New Model for Cataloging the Universe
Pure curiosity: Is security taken more seriously in those deployments than it is in the consumer stuff we've all heard of? (Would love some links to read up on the subject.)
Pitching a Product Is a Bit Like Dating
Amazon _Prime_ almost never has new releases. Can you point to any recent release that's on Prime right now?
I find this interesting considering I wanted to stream amazon instant video on my android devices... but you can't do that unless you buy one of their kindle/fire android devices or something iOS. Not sure if that has since changed these days, I eventually got tired of waiting and moved on to other services that weren't held hostage to devices I didn't want. I would have thought this is a great lesson about bad decisions. Killing the strongest components of Amazon for the weakest. Somewhat concerning strategy if you ask me. Guess I'll start buying more things from google and apple stores.
Thanks for the break down!
Because the kind of person who makes a drone strike tracker app is going to pay $5k for us to tell them "no, Apple will probably remove your app"?
Yeah, good comment. I had a few of these thoughts myself in the early days but I think you're missing the main value of it. Apologies for the over-wordy reply.

> leveraging the fact that good drivers tend to know good drivers

I think humans might overestimate our ability to pick 'good' drivers. I wouldn't trust it very far... but it also doesn't matter much.

What matters is badly underpriced drivers, for example your mate who drinks and drives but doesn't yet have a conviction for it. Don't invite him. Everyone else is broadly fine.

> ...there could be a social pressure to not affect the group's members

That's a factor we're expecting to be able to measure, but it's not part of the business model per se.

> The function of your company would be similar to that of the traditional insurer except all of the premiums go to the pool for claims and admin instead of also having to share it with shareholders/investors.

Yeah, broadly speaking. Guevara's revenue stream is a flat fee, compared to a conventional insurer whose income is your premiums... so Guevara isn't motivated to inflate your premium or to look for technicalities when handling claims.

> when claims are more than what's already in the pool?

The UK motor insurance market requires policies to have uncapped liability, so you always need reinsurance. Even when you're insured through Admiral et al the larger claims are farmed out to Munich Re, Swiss Re, Trans Re, etc.

> ... premiums would have to go up to cover the loss...

To an extent, yeah. You do get price volatility, but we cap it at 100% of your (competitive) Year 1 premium. Your premium can drop as low as 25-30% of your typical market rate in a good year, and averages out costing about 50%. You get that huge discount in exchange for taking that volatility.

That discount is effectively the underwriting profit that would normally go to the insurance company.

> ...so you're banking on the fact that by group selection, claims will be less than the average.

We're not banking on group selection being meaningful to our claims rate. We hope for lower claims rates, and lower average claim size, but we'll be very successful without those things because it's simply a better business model. There's much less moral hazard, lower susceptibility to fraud, less information asymmetry... but more importantly (a) as you build up capital your premium drops, so you get a lower price and we get a higher LTV through reduced churn, and (b) we have a lower CAC compared to conventional insurers. I know I'm biased but I think it's a strong model even before any of the behavioural benefits.

I should add that I have now stepped back from Guevara (I can't commit enough time for family reasons), so my knowledge of product pricing, policy, and the rest of this stuff is dating rapidly.
Unless, in fact, they can. Of course, any career progression requires more than just one trick in your bag. Being able to communicate well, moving from coding into managing, moving from coding to freelancing, getting domain knowledge relevant to your customers (internal or external).

Turns out there are many important qualities that a person can posses that are important and perhaps indispensable, but often a degree ain't one.

(And yes, I am an old guy speaking with first hand experience).
I don't get the graph's message. (I'm not smart)
You're argument assumes that all cost is labor which is obviously not true. The higher a percentage of cost that is labor, the better of most people are, since they work. To put it simply, if everyone in the service sector made double, prices wouldn't double. The only people who would suffer are people who make most of their money through capital gains. Even many of them would benefit to have a healthier economy, margins can be replaced by volume. You would also see a spike in prices for limited resources that many can't afford, but innovation usually solves that problem. If you want a good empirical data on this, see the institution of minimum wage. Contrary to the naysayers predictions, there was little inflation and overall, a better economy.
Sort of, except Amazon loses some cred with everyone who tried to buy it from them during that time, and from press like this story where now I'll be a little hesitant to check Amazon first for Apple products in general (because who knows where else they're trying to compete). Which is a terrible impression to give.
Because a properly configured content security policy will block any inlined js (and external js files on non whitelisted domains)