skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would pay $10 a month for a recommendation engine only. I'm able to find the actual video files easily enough. (And I often do so, even with Netflix has it, as Netflix's player sucks, quality is iffy, subtitles are spotty, etc.)
I'm pretty happy with my (mutual) auto coverage.

In fact, right now I'm getting around on a rental car courtesy of my policy, while my car is being repaired; I'll be out of pocket about $250 total for around $2000 worth of damage to the car (tl;dr -- driving home a few nights back, didn't see a traffic cone that had rolled out into my lane and ran over it at 50mph, which is not good for some of the things on the underside of the car).
Reminds me John Hiesey's demo at SF WebRTC Meetup at Twilio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNi92K0ddEw

Just added to RTC.news:
http://www.rtc.news/posts/4Gt7n6dtCf6sPg2cx/show-rtcn-helpin...
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"our"?
Exactly what I was thinking, I'd consider myself pretty financially solid but $50k would ruin me. I'm assuming the OP was doing renovations of some kind already and had the cash on hand, or at least the majority of it.
Posted this last week to no acclaim lol http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/30/freevolt-free-energy/
>countless new techbros with no respect for Seattle culture who spend 11hrs/day at work and don't have time to develop a personality romping around town give it a real bad reputation.

I think you do a great job summarizing the hypocrisy of the left on this issue. According to the left, if a person is financially disadvantaged, they deserve sympathy and support. However if a person is socially disadvantaged[0], they not only deserve it, but also should be shamed for taking up space that more interesting people could be occupying.

[0] I don't believe for a second that there are many people working 11 hours a day. The people you describe are simply more introverted/shy people who work in tech, and you're looking for some explanation that makes their social situation their own fault.
I feel like I've read literally this exact subthread on HN twice before. Am I going insane?
Or do people just need to eat a lot of lettuce?
1. "function" is non-standard useless syntax
2. mpv now knows how to automatically spawn youtube-dl, fetch the URL, and stream it given a YouTube argument.
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Only liability insurance is mandatory, and that would never cover your hail-damaged car, so this seems like a specious argument. You're not required to have collision and comprehensive coverage if you don't feel it's worth it.
I'm a little bit worried. At least at the same level as when I see a bunch of developers compiling programs without much understanding of what an LL(k) parser does, or how a pushdown automaton works, or what a Turing machine is. I usually feel the same every time I see an elevator without a liftman, don't compute a square root by hand, or hear about Google self-driving cars.
Yeha, I'm a bit dumbfounded about the calling of the fire dept, the reaction and so on. I would have just figured out where it was coming from and cleaned it up myself with some gloves and a dustpan.
I don't want to give it a YouTube URL though – with this I can type `play pixies debaser`.
I don't bite. You're affirming many of the claims while listing a few inconsistent counterexamples. This does not invalidate the original claims though, as, relative to the virtually complete lack of standardization in writing SysV rc scripts (LSB notwithstanding), it is in significantly stronger shape. There are indeed disparities in rc.conf and rc.subr between the BSDs, though probably not any more or even less so than disparities in LSB initscript frameworks.

Really though, the primary reason to cite rc.d is to debunk the pants-on-head claim of shell script-based rc being intrinsically spaghetti and voodoo.
Housing money is not earned. It's made out of nothing by banks and then used to put a claim against a significant portion of a person's salary. As lending standards get looser prices go up.

Land speculators and money men capture all productivity growth.
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It really does depend on the file. However, if we're talking about most 192KB music files, they tend to sound "tinny" or shallow. There's not a lot of depth to the sound as compared to quality you would get from a CD.
We are only about 4.4 billion years too late. Mars has be bombarded by Earth rocks (ejecta from large meteor events) for billions of years. Some of these rocks were ejected under conditions where bacterial spores inside them can survive the trip to Mars. I fully expect we will find life on Mars that looks just like Earth life.

There is actually a good case to be made that life originated on Mars given that it had liquid water on the surface earlier than the Earth.
I don't think there are that many people. 50K is a lot.
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> I talked to a lawyer, who didn't think we'd be likely to succeed if we tried to get the insurance company to pay anyway. They did think whoever owned the house at the time of the spill would be liable, but it would be hard to prove that the spill happened at a certain time and they may not have the money.

Right from the article. Sounds like there have been multiple owners, no way to assign blame. Last owner probably can't be fined for something they had no knowledge of.
Ugh.

I could probably do it, but in all honesty, the "debate" has been so spoiled that I doubt anyone would take it seriously. My relatively technical article about FreeBSD and launchd (which had only one error about where plists were parsed, a relatively minor gripe in the text) was near-universally misunderstood and derailed by commentators who went on rants tangential to what I actually discussed. Same with my init history article.

But, if enough people want to, maybe I'll bite the bullet. Not sure if I'd like to subject myself to it, but I think I might end up writing a rather long treatise if there's demand and I do go with it.
Well, there goes net neutrality. Thanks Wired.

Recently, they also recommended using a product that is no longer being maintained because security by obscurity: http://www.wired.com/2014/05/truecrypt/

They don't seem to get it anymore.
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Wouldn't you in this case claim the money from the transporter and they would hopefully be covered by their insurance?
Neat site. I might consider signing up for it as I'm rather sick of Netflix and don't use it much anymore. Having a short list would certainly help the endless flicking through crap on Netflix. OTOH, it's still competing with every other film out there, as they're one click away off a Torrent site.

One complaint on the homepage that'd usually have me close right away, if this wasn't on HN:

Why do you ignore the user's language presence and send them a language based on a guess from their IP? My OS is English, my browser is in English and only ends en-US and en in the Accept-Language field. Yet because I'm traveling in Central America, I get content in a language I'm not keen on. With no obvious way to change back to the correct language.

Changing back to my US IP, it still continues to show stuff in Spanish. I've gotta clear history for it to reset.

This is a really annoying thing to do. Did this actually test well? That is, do users often send the wrong Accept-Language header and appreciate the site second guessing them? And those users, do they not like having a quick option to change the language back to the one they requested?

Otherwise, really interesting looking service. Kudos.
The true fully-internalized cost of fossil energy is enormous. Mass extinction, crop failure, mass human migration, ocean ecosystem collapse. You think you can put a price on that? Do you think it's going to look cheaper than a couple tens of billions of dollars spent incentivizing solar panel installation?
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Challenge for anyone supporting SPDY today (which has a lot more users) is HTTP/2 and SPDY are somewhat incompatible, so you have to choose.
Hell yes!

Python at last.

Between Lambda, task queue tactics and scheduled workers, I am going to have a lot of fun at the next few hackathons I attend.
What? The point of insurance is to pool risk. The expected value of insurance is not automatically negative. Look up the term "actuarially fair". Yes, there is moral hazard in insurance and it is sometimes necessary to exclude bad actors to prevent markets from unraveling, but to not to the extent which has become common in many sectors. Your whole post reads like an specious apology for bad behavior in the insurance industry.
>I skimmed that article for evidence of your claim that free trade caused the Irish potato famine

It was causing food to be exported to Britain while the Irish starved.
http://ewontfix.com/14/ is one of the classic posts here, but it deserves a good rebuttal, not the straw-man one included. (The starting point I'd make is, if init were really as simple as purported, why isn't it built-in to the kernel? Why not simply skip all the kernel code to reparent children to init, and have children die immediately instead of becoming zombies if their parent has exited? Why not remove all the code to panic if pid 1 dies, and make it just a process like any other?)
You're right. The parent comment is explaining only the actuarial risk model of insurance schemes, which is not the same as raising rates on a customer for makng a claim, even when his/her risk profile is unchanged.

The purpose is clearly to discourage you from making a claim, which is what makes insurance a legal scam.
I bet most people on here make more than 50k a year.
Bob: Hey guys, we didn't pass emissions tests.

Jay: I think we can adjust the ECU parameters.

Bob: Oh, nice. let's try that.

Mechanic James: By doing this you guys lowered the lifetime of a few components. We might need to re-engineer the whole thing :(

Bob: What if we detect we are undergoing tests and tweak it? This way we still can deliver the project on time.

Some manager: Yeah, do it.

Now Bob and Jay are in trouble.......
Tesla had wireless power transmission working over a century ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power#Tesla.27s_exper...

"At his Colorado Springs laboratory during 1899–1900, by using voltages of the order of 10 megavolts generated by an enormous coil, he was able to light three incandescent lamps at a distance of about one hundred feet."
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I'd put $100 on it but I'm not sure what the prevailing odds are or where we might place the bet.

Are there any legitimate prediction markets still operating where we might be able to do this? I googled around a little for it and stumbled across Augur (http://www.augur.net/) but it seems too alpha for such a long term bet right now.
I don't judge Hindus by that mob in Dadri or the people in JK state assembly beating someone up for eating beef.

Pakistan had its Hiroshima moment, when all the prisoners of war were repatriated from India after the Simla accords.

Don't think that "hazaar-saal-hukmrani" is totally unchallenged in the media there - I see people on Pakistani TV criticize it freely all the time. From the way you're going on about it you'd think the country was North Korea. It's not.
take people's money and don't do shit

That's not what they do, though. They are in business to make money, yes -- but they don't always. A bad hurricane season and they can (and do) lose billions.
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Has anyone used this service and found it worth it?
This pisses me off so much. I'm not a mathematician, but I like to think I'm a pretty good programmer. I feel like I could pick up a mathematical concept described in a computer science paper more easily if I could actually see the damn code and run it myself. But most of the papers I've read haven't mentioned where to find the referenced source code or, if they do, it's either horribly written and only runs on the author's machine or it requires specialized software that only a university could afford.
The article uses euphemisms and double-talk:

As more countries and states enact market systems that put a price on carbon emissions, clean energy technologies will actually become cheaper than fossil fuel technologies

Translated into plain English:

As more governments raise the price of fossil fuels through increased taxation, solar and wind may cost less than fossil fuels.

What does the author have to gain by obfuscating something so obvious?

What is the impact on people when their energy costs are raised? (Hint: energy - vast amounts of it - goes into everything, from growing food to producing artificial heart valves.)
I did that as a small child. I have a vague recollection of it. Pretty sure I wasn't rushed to the hospital. My mother was mostly upset I ruined the thermometer.
Two out of three most popular deep learning libraries have python front end (theano and caffe). The third one (torch) uses Lua.
Wow. They routinely recommend bad for me. I even tried going along with a lot of their suggestions. Spent a day trying that out. It sucked. Now they show up in my "Continue Watching" list which requires going into preferences to remove.

Now, Netflix doesn't even pretend to recommend good stuff. The "Recommended For You" sort gives me items that Netflix itself suggests I will rate 1-star. I must sort by rating to see the better stuff. And even then, most of the top items I've already seen. I cancelled.

I used to pay Netflix (before streaming) while not receiving any DVDs. The recommendations were good enough for me to decide what to download. Not so much now.
While I agree with you that you should only insure the risk you can’t carry yourself there should be a profitable business opportunity insuring individuals that have been dropped by other companies provided the reason from the drop is not predictive of future risk.
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You sure they won't claw back that claim in the form of raised premiums?
After 20+ years working with unix, I don't mind systemd. Every init system I've used has its quirks and they all get the job done.

Overall I'll hire the sysadmin who knows the most init systems still found in common linux and unix systems and is the most ready to adapt to whichever trend wins domination. Evolve or die.
I am guessing this will be a reality about the same time as the clean fusion reactors come online....
per (1), these are my dotfiles and I use Bash exclusively, ergo, I use the syntax I consider better (because you can easily search for "function" and not the standard syntax with no keyword).
Isn't that just the plot of Minority Report?

Think of the possibilities of machine learning for detecting precrime!
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Introducing a dominant civilization to a planet would more likely cause a sort of regression towards the mean in ecosystem diversity, at least over the short- to medium-term. In a highly complex and delicately-balanced ecosystem (i.e. Earth) it tends to reduce diversity as species and ecosystems are pushed aside, whereas in a non-existent ecosystem (i.e. Mars) it would cause something to exist in the first place, even if the system isn't as complex as what evolved on Earth over billions of years.

There would certainly be more life on Mars after it was colonized, not less - even if that at first only consists of a few dozen species used to support humans.
My response to a surprise $50k repair to my home would be to call the bank and say "House is yours, man. Keys are in the mail."
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There will always be busy sysadmins; there will also always be new sysadmins. If we agree that systemd is a good thing, the best thing to do is to switch over quickly and bite the bullet on the re-learning problem. I understand why it happened that way and there were excellent technical reasons for it, but Debian's and Ubuntu's slow transitions (through insserv and Upstart + logind, respectively) were probably a disservice in the end, if you somehow magically knew that systemd would be the end state for both distros.

I don't expect it to change again in the next 10-15 years, except potentially to a competitor that is designed very similarly but just plain better.

I would like to see more empathy for the fact that systemd is a complex, underdocumented system. Lennart's blog series is great for the "why," but very sparse on "how" and especially "how do I fix it".
What's lost? The completely pointless, wasteful and inhumane ritual commonly called "commute".

Yes, the company suffers a little. The humans who make up the company however gain considerably.

A person who puts the well-being of a company above that of the humans comprising it is one who has lost some of their own humanity.
Health insurance is somewhat the same too... Hospitals and Dentists have special rates for insured patients (much higher)... you can end up paying the same as an uninsured patient... Which is why I was getting hospitalization-only insurance, but with Obama-care, I can't do that anymore.

Also, I have been told that it might be illegal to claim that you are uninsured, pay the bill and then get reimbursed by your insurance company to avoid surcharges... not sure if that is true.
1. This is excellent. It means we're well on our way to sustainable energy generation. Wind and solar are only going to get cheaper. Even without subsidies, there is no reason to ever build another coal or oil fired generation facility. Natural gas will stick around until utility scale batteries ramp up, to where peaking plants are too expensive compared to utility scale batteries.

2. Nuclear is dead. Very dead. Thorium. Fast breeder. Pebble bed. I don't care which you pick, no one is going to pour 10 years and $1-4 billion into a plant that won't be cost competitive when it turns up (maybe some governments, but you can't fix that; it'll just get mothballed).

3. Utility scale batteries are going to be needed to make up for solar and wind's capacity factor (availability). Tesla is going to clean up with its Gigafactory. Well done Elon. I hope Mars treats you well.

4. Any pollutants or negative externalities of both solar panel and battery production can be much better contained and managed than the output of a coal plant.

5. Cheaper renewables means even cheaper power available for the transition to electric vehicles.

6. First world demand for renewables will continue to drive down costs, allowing third world countries to piggyback off the cost savings. Remember how Africa leapfrogged with cell phones instead of land lines? Imagine battery packs and solar roofs in every home instead of traditional utilities. It's already feasible with current economics.

Did I cover everything? Anything missing?
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To be fair, the numbers you're stating are for the entire systemd package, which is like comparing the entire Qt library to a single application.

Single out the init management portion of systemd (and journald since it's a dependency), and compare those numbers.

Everything else is an optional module.
I don't think what the author mentioned and what you implied are one and the same. From author's perspective, when you look at the actual price of fuel including the carbon emissions that they are causing, which cause expenses in other ways like health/environment, clean energy technologies are actually getting cheaper than fossil fuel technologies.
I still don't see what exactly is lost. Something concrete and detectable. Yes, people who go into the office don't have others to hang out with. That's not a loss. The article's really stretching the idea of loss.
So what happens if people get to Mars, are they in control of the planet? Or does the country that ships them out there maintain them as constituents?
> ...the pragmatic answer is to maintain deniability, make it as safe as possible and get out if necessary.

Seriously? Pragmatic, yes. But am I reading you correctly? It sounds like your suggestion is to simply sell the house to someone without telling them about the mercury, exposing them to danger, and then prepare to lie about knowing it was there if they do discover it (hopefully not the hard way) and come after you.

I mean, nice to make it "as safe as possible," I guess, but you still seem prepared to expose people to conditions that are, nonetheless, totally unsafe in order to get out of paying to fix the problem. (Not to mention the fact that now they have to pay to fix the problem.)
> It's not as if sunlight is a sparse resource (on a global scale)

But land is, particularly arable land, and particularly in a country like Japan. You can see for yourself in the picture that they have ~15 tiers of gardens, compared to a maximum of two or three when using sunlight. And sure, you could probably devise some method of piping and reflecting sunlight through to the lower tiers just to avoid consuming electricity, but then it wouldn't work at night, wouldn't work as well in winter, and so on.
A lot of those designs predated initramfs. I have yet to hear of a setup where there's a good reason for not mounting /usr in the initramfs. (Though, yes, I have heard of setups where you can, it would just be a fairly involved change. It is a legitimate problem for these sysadmins to be compelled to rearchitect things, although I'd personally blame that more on the distro model where all parts of userspace are tied together than on systemd itself.)
Now we just have to worry about the formaldehyde and VOCs that modern products emit...
>Yes, the company suffers a little.

Teleworker friendly companies attract better workers from a much wider area, remote workers are more productive, the company is more flexible in terms of growth, and has lower overhead. Yet, incompetent management needs a new fad to seem like there doing something which is why company cycle back and forth though this issue.

PS: On top of all that it makes it harder for lazy employees to seem like there working. Those long hours posting on Facebook pretending to slave for bosses who just cares about the appearance of work stop being so useful.
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> The point of insurance is to pool risk.

The point of insurance is to smooth risk, not to pool it. Pooling risk is not the point of insurance as a product; it's the mechanism by which that product (risk smoothing) becomes feasible as a business model.

> Look up the term "actuarially fair".

There's really no need to condescend by telling me to look up basic terminology; I am quite well-versed in this topic.

I didn't bring up moral hazard in this post, because it actually isn't necessary to explain why insurance has a negative expected value (which is equivalent to the statement that premiums are always non-zero[0]). It sounds like you're confusing a few different concepts here.

[0] Moral hazard is generally addressed by deductibles, not by premiums.
[root@mail /]# ls -laF /etc/init
ls: cannot access /etc/init: No such file or directory

Sorry, I don't follow what you're saying. Or why that would make putting everything under /Programs better for that matter.
VW will not be out of business in 5 year. Nobody will remember this in 5 years. All the major automakers have manufacturing scandals in their past that resulted in actual deaths, not just fudging some arbitrary emissions standard. They are almost all still in business.