skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said: I agree with the general sentiment of giving kids more time to be kids, to play and to learn non-academic stuff.

What I'm advocating, though, is that this should be, at least partially, at the expense of structured lectures, rather than homework.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3046136/Is-Yelp-scar...

It's pretty ironic, really, that Yelp, a company famous for extorting small businesses for advertising subscriptions (with the threat of hiding positive reviews), is complaining about the validity of reviews on their site.

Their whole business model, afaict, is a shady scam against people who are too busy running their business to learn how to do SEO.
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a doctor also wouldn't have to invest any money into a clinic, equipment, staff, marketing when working for a hospital... so no, the first 400k is not the same.
How working in silence made me 23% more productive, and how you can do it too
"Friends keep posting idiotic political rants Friday."
Three in the UK is 3G/4G only - but is noticeably patchier than other providers, since if you 'go rural' it will just drop out rather than fall back on GSM.
In-app payments and other forms of monetization are still monetization that require users to pay money. That said, I agree there's a balancing act. If a hypothetical "luxury smartphone" had a tiny market share, it wouldn't be an attractive development target in general even if its buyers spent a lot of money on certain types of apps.

But the iPhone isn't really in that position. Certainly, it seems to have no trouble attracting developers and companies creating apps to target travel, subscription, and other services.
Good idea！ My college days are spent in the 2G network， it's the segment unforgettable！
So a centralized control model that becomes a single point of failure? No, thanks.

Centralized, monolithic models fail. They're slow to upgrade, slow to adapt, don't fit the edge cases, and suffer from our inability to completely model a problem with 100% accuracy.

And that's not even counting the up-front infrastructure costs that would NEVER make it past any political process. And the 15 year standardization process for the technology.
I tried this for about 9 months, and then a year later, for about a month and a half.

I can massively agree with this:

> It is hard to describe how my life changed.

I lost a load of weight, and felt much better. However:

> Cutting added sugar is not very hard but it requires
> some willingness.

Your mileage may vary. Having had strong to mild nicotine, alcohol, and benzodiazepine dependencies in the past, kicking sugar was much much more difficult than any of the others.

At least part of the problem was that it's virtually impossible to get away from sugar; you'll eat something you thought wouldn't be sweet, but it is, and suddenly you have chocolate smeared around your mouth sitting in a field of candy wrappers...

Watching my wife try and give up sugar was also an education. Wild mood swings, bargaining, secret consumption ... it was quite something. We're both pretty athletically shaped and very active, but giving up sugar was comfortably ... impossible.

I have had excellent results recently eating 90% of my meals from a paleo food delivery service. I don't think I can get behind any of the "science" the paleo community puts forward, but eating balanced and very high quality meals had made many parts of my body much happier.
The first thing you need to fix is sending spam messages on behalf of a user to other contacts on his/her list. Here is a typical example that was automatically sent from my phone to a contact on my list without my consent:

"Happy Dussehra! Join hike this weekend & get a festive bonus of Rs. 51 free talktime on joining. It's 5 times faster with 10 new features. http://hike.in"

I'm thinking of reporting this to relevant authorities.
> I will say from experience that when companies announce such deals they have already done their homework...

Well, not always. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_purchase_of_Time_War...
The grocery stores are agglomerating as well.

Not to mention the airlines, and I just paid a month's rent to visit my parents for Thanksgiving, which I was forced to do because, you know, grandparents have an expiration date, and Thanksgiving is practically a holy day in our family.

I'm tired of it. Monopolies are real, and they tend to be bad for the people they purport to serve. But this is a power feedback loop that has tipped over the edge and probably gotten past control. Where are our checks and balances?
"free" is just a convenient excuse Facebook is using so they can pretend they have some sort of moral high ground when in reality they are just another big western-style business with dreams of imperialism.

If they actually cared enough to want to help people, they would be trying to help with something that is actually needed. An AOL-style walled garden is a joke compared to vaccinations, food, and energy. Instead, we are seeing a modern variant of the East India Company trying to insert itself into foreign affairs. This is rent-seeking of the worst kind.
I hate moving/changing/adding classes with Javascript. classList is hacky.

...in what way?
Three in Sweden got a big boost in coverage after the original legacy GSM licenses ran out and the frequencies got redistributed so that they got a slice of low-frequency spectrum to put 3G on.
Some data on the largest retail pharmacies [pdf]: http://www.drugstorenews.com/sites/drugstorenews.com/files/P...

It has figures for total stores and stores with pharmacies, and it looks like it is either most or all.
Probably. It seems to me that in China and some of the nearby countries, there is a belief that doing well in school will practically guarantee success in life, an idea that most Americans would find laughable. I don't know if it's actually a lot more complicated to get ahead here than it is there, but certainly there's a lot more awareness here that life is not so simple.
> Watch out for carriers in low tax EU environments
> poaching subscribers and then allowing them to roam

That sounds like an ideal situation, although as we've recently seen, companies need to be very careful with:

> low tax EU environments

as the EU has shown itself willing to declare these illegal state subsidies retroactively.
I think you just defined generally.
What would the book market look like if there were some way to completely get rid of used books (ignoring rare, collectors, etc books)? Would there be more money in it, or is the market already earning as much as it's going to earn, and the used books have no impact?

There is a rather large subset of society that consists of creatives, and for the most part those cursed with creative passions tend to perform economically poorly. I suspect that this is in part due to the selling of used creative goods (music, books, movies, etc). Most importantly the concept of used books may itself devalue the medium in people's minds. Much like what happened to mobile apps; things that used to be several dollars or more on the desktop are $0.99 on mobile. The idea of a $20 app is offensive to people. The idea of spending full price on a book is also, perhaps, offensive to a large number of people.

All that said, even if getting rid of used books was economically beneficial to those writing the books, there still seems to be no practical way to achieve it. So it's really just a thought experiment driven by hopeful desire to help those around me who are more artistically inclined and suffering as a result.

Perhaps the right solution is to come at it from a different angle. Subscription services seem to be one solution that is working in the sense that it gets those who normally pirate content to pony up for convenience. Though that doesn't seem to translate into greater income for the content creators...
The Thrifty ice cream was sadly overpriced these days at the RA I last went to. I could have bought a half gallon of ice cream at the grocery store right next door for the same price as two scoops at RA.
Huh? I've been using ADP's online 'portal' for over 2 years - no idea how long it existed before then. Is there a specific part of the service that they expanded to be online this year?
> 2) Do more with the time given, by cutting students who disrupt class.

If you keep doing that for a long enough time, no more students will be left in the class. So I don't think this a practical solution that will yield better results than whatever we have going on today.
Pentagon Memo Acknowledges 1000s of Cyber Breaches That Compromised DOD Systems
With the ground Apple has taken and the product's life cycle, yes. It's natural to start grabbing more and more profit. That's what business is for. However, the advance of operation excellence could also post a bigger challenge to the organization's product-oriented DNA. It would not be an easy task to keep both balanced. Most of the time, I found things went the operation route. Whether the past few products were big hit was less related here, it is the lower quality of the deliverables as a product that raises my concern.
Generally :)
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Sorry I have limited knowledge of the industry. I remember getting online services (iPay) from ADP back in 2011. I assume you're talking about a different online component?
From the article

The memo states: “Less than 0.1 percent of the 30 million known
malicious intrusions on DoD networks between September 2014 and June
2015 compromised a cyber system.” Any way you slice it, the DoD cyber
numbers do not paint a pretty picture.

First, there were “30 million known malicious intrusions on DoD
networks.” That’s 30 million cyber attacks over ten months. That
translates to 3 million attacks per month or 100,000 attacks per day.
Every day.

The “good news” in all this is that 99.9% of those attacks were
thwarted or failed. On the other hand, because of the sheer number of
attacks, there were tens of thousands of successful intrusions. Though
the memo is not clear, less than 0.1 percent of 30 million is less
than 30,000. Thus, in the ten month period ending on June 30, 2015,
there were up to 30,000 cyber attacks on DoD networks that
successfully compromised a cyber system.

Those numbers are incredible.
I know this is a highly unpopular opinion, but I believe there is a difference between mental illness and physical illness. There is typically at least some semblance of control over mental illness. Yes it may not be constructive to "victim blame", but doing the exact opposite and assuming absolutely no responsibility for bettering your own mental situation is equally unconstructive. Unlike a physical illness, a mental illness can not be cured by popping a pill. Typically it requires some effort on the part of yourself to fix it.

For example, I used to have OCD. To fix it, I had to make a huge concentrated effort on my part. This meant moving to a new environment, forcing myself to be social to get out of my head, and basically just making a concerted effort not to be OCD. If I had the mentality that "oh it's not my fault, I'm a victim", then I never would have taken the extraordinary amount of effort required to overcome it.

And same goes for depression. Most depressed people could fix it by making some massive lifestyle changes (eg. being more social, exercising more, changing their environment, making new friends, changing their outlook on life). Anti-depressants might temporarily boost you by numbing you to your pain, but they're not going to solve your fundamental issues.

So to summarize: yes it may not be helpful to "victim blame", but relinquishing people of any responsibility for their own mental problems (excluding conditions like autism) most certainly isn't helpful either, and if anything seems more harmful because there's no semblance of control over it. The cure to alcoholism is to stop drinking, and having a victim mentality will definitely prevent you from curing it.
> fuel cells are generally between 40–60% energy efficient

Which is reduced to 25% grid-to-motor efficiency when electrolysis and compression (required for practical energy densities) are taken into account. As illustrated in the linked graphic.

Electrolysis is assumed since other methods (e.g., methane reformation) generally generate greenhouse gases, but there has been some work on algae bioreactors [1] that might become economically interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hydrogen_production...
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I currently automatically assume that reviews online are fake. The thing about paid reviews is that I don't have a problem with them in principal. I would even like to see "trusted" groups or even companies who are paid to give thorough reviews and post them to places like Amazon and Yelp so that you get something other than "sux" "cover didn't look right" or "food wasn't spicy" that is utterly unhelpful and throws off the score coming from people who actually give fair reviews to products.

There would obviously be a conflict of interest for the people doing the reviews which is why I think it would make sense for companies to pay an intermediary who pays another firm to do the actual review. Companies that give reviews could earn "trusted" status through Amazon or Yelp (even though the are the mafia) etc.
Java-induced rectal apoplexy.
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Because they keep growing revenue. It's not that they want to not have profit, it's that they're wanting more to reinvest in the business than just have profit sitting around, or returning it to the shareholders. If it wasn't for that attitude, we wouldn't have AWS. We also wouldn't have the Kindle Fire Phone, so take that statement as you will.
Is this what I've got in my Lenovo X1 with vPro? The Ctrl+P shortcut to get into the config at boot doesn't work - can I poke at it any other way?
Target pharmacies were bought by CVS. No Walmart in NYC, nor the other chains that you mention. NYC is dominated by Walgreens, Rite Aid, Duane Reade, CVS.
Its a cron system for decentralized apps. Since there's no way to run 'cron' trustlessly, this alarm clock creates an incentive to call functions at given time periods.

Its one of those things that you need some background on Ethereum to understand, but if you understand Ethereum you know why something like could be the cornerstone of a lot of apps.
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Yea I think the change in Phil's character is that he goes from being cold and selfish to warm and caring.
What do you view as non-essential? STEM? Arts? Social studies? Recess/PE?

And how much time do you actually think is wasted on dealing with disruptive students? 10% of the day? 35%?

To me, this sounds like a recipe for creating an upper class of uncreative, poorly-rounded conformists and a lower class of people who are undereducated and permanently pissed off at the society that fails to serve their needs.

I think it's pretty unlikely that this would be a substantial improvement in modern American society or many others.

Kids misbehave at school for a huge number of reasons (many of them socioeconomic but definitely not all), and it's not really the public school system's responsibility to fix that, but it is the school system's responsibility to give them an education so that they can properly integrate into society as an adult. Shoving the problematic students to the side exacerbates this.

Bonus points if the education system can encourage more independence of thought and action, creative and analytical problem skills, and the tenacity and wisdom that come from actually having gotten some hard things done.

A better system would be one that is more capable of demonstrating the value of education to the students (incentivizing them to learn, and making learning at any level more rewarding), as well as one that can accommodate a larger degree of student interests and learning styles. I don't really know how to do this without having more internships and so forth, which aren't necessarily feasible for younger children but may be for teens. Maybe somewhere in the world or at some point in history this has been practiced more?
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The problem is not about resources. It's about the organization's product-oriented DNA and its familiarity to the field it works on. I hope Apple could show us some more polished products so that as someone who works on iOS could see a clearer and brighter future.
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Alas, not very helpful, from the top of the Google cache page :

This is Google's cache of https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41068. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 25 Oct 2015 20:18:41 GMT.

As the deed was done on 23 October, this version is not much use.

Anyone know of an earlier version (or how to get Google to spit out the earlier version it, for sure, has) ?
I agree that less competition is bad, but isn't the primary reason for expensive drugs is because of the Pharmaceutical companies who discover them, not the pharmacies that distribute them? Regardless, this change certainly won't help.
Umm, the place I've been working at uses them for 401k, payroll, etc with online portals since 2011 when we moved away from a different legacy payroll company that also had that sort of stuff since ~2000.

I think you are just mistaken and/or a feature important to you was online added this year.
I feel like this record has been played a lot. Pun intended.

Back in the day, horology went through the "quartz crisis" when quartz watches entered the market. The pendulum swung back, and mechanical watches are magnitudes more expensive and desirable than their quartz cousins.

Audio went through the same thing - digital replaced analog and became exceedingly cheap. Now the good money is in vacuum tube amps; good record players cost thousands, and people pine for the warmth of analog.

I imagine the same will happen here. Maybe not to the same degree... But that penny analog book probably still costs several hundred times for the digital download. E-books are a convenience and the way of the future. But purists will always hold onto books, and rare books will become more and more valuable. The dog-eared copy of Huck Finn that's worth $10 today will be worth magnitudes tomorrow after the pendulum swings back.

Technology disrupts right up until people have a crisis of nostalgia, and realize all isn't inconvenience in an analog world.
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So surprised whenever I hear about someone manually resizing their images like animals... imgix is fantastic
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Bob's Burger is CG, so I imagine it has a production structure closer to South Park (also CG) than the Simpsons, in that certain kinds of animation changes are much cheaper to make even late in production.
> To test his theory, Hoffman ran thousands of evolutionary computer simulations in which digital organisms whose perceptual systems are tuned exclusively for truth are outcompeted by those tuned solely for fitness. Because natural selection depends only on expected fitness, evolution shaped our sensory systems toward fitter behavior, not truthful representation.

So, this simulation required defining a truthiness function to compare against a fitness function.

Where it doesn't make sense to me: what a "truthiness" function looks like?

If we do know how to define such function (even in the context of a simulation), we gain no new insight from the simulation; if we do not know, then it's not unexpected a fitness function performs better than a flawed truthiness function, and there's also no new insight from the simulation.

Sounds like circular reasoning to me (I guess that's expected when you're dealing with epistemology).
Apple re-invest a ton into their business, both in R&D and manufacturing and supply chain. It's just that the amount they invest, even though in the billions, are still too small when compare to their profit and cash reserve.

They literally can't spend that much money, nobody can, Apple has enough cash reserve to fund NASA for the next 12 years for a literal moonshot project. Meanwhile Amazon's positive cash flow is less than one billion dollars per quarter and it's much easier to reinvest that much.

Even if Apple fund the entire Google X, it won't register as much bigger than a blip on their cash reserve.
That's a terrible title [1]. Generally, titles of the form "<name>, <age> <why the person is important>" are for stories about someone who has just died.

The title at the site is "The invisible device that powers everything you do". That's not very good either, but at least doesn't make it sound like he just died.

[1] current title is "John Goodenough, 93-year-old physicist regarded as father of lithium ion battery".
That's a good point, thanks I'll add it to the post under the top arguments.

My answer would be that the current upgrade speed is to buy a new car, and how many people do you expect will do that in 15 years?

This alternative approach brings up the lower bar, but still allows people to buy special cars like Teslas, if you want. So you can get the independent car if it's important to you, but you would also get the benefit of every other car on the road being safer.

This solution is more geared towards optimizing in the numbers in car crashes
My carrier (3 in the UK) includes Norway and Switzerland on the list of countries that already are free to roam.

http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Phones/Feel_At_Home
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Actually a Canadian waiting in line for the procedure.
> I don't understand why this purchase was not turned down for on grounds of anti-trust. There will be less competition for lowering drug costs. How is this a good thing for American health care?

Numerous other pharmacy chains exist. Many major stores have pharmacy departments. This merger would hardly creates a monopoly or anywhere near one, nor will it reduce competition to a degree that one company will be in an abusive position.
There's nothing wrong with high fat on its own. Sugar on its own is not good (might as well eat anything else, you'll save your teeth). But put the two together and you get heart disease.
Well there is probably a pretty big difference between the normal civic, the hybrid civic, and the natural gas civic, but I don't think there will be lots of per car model/line differences, just that the inability to contract out things means that modification is limited to technical minded people (and no, artful dodges like "The mechanic will set it up, and the owner can push the button" are unlikely to fly).

Also it throws hassles at researchers, some cars have a lot of different combinations of things that might change the ECU software from engine choices to different model lines (Sport models often have different tunings) to even the type of gearbox (Manuals have different tuning than automatics which are different than CVTs, and advanced CVTs actually communicate with the ECU in complex ways that are only activated on the higher trims). No one is going to actually own 8 different Honda Accords just to legally work on all the firmwares. While I have no doubt that a lot of shortcutting will occur (i.e. people will dump the firmware and post it, and if and only if an issue is found will researchers bother to become nominal "owner" of a particular model) it adds a hassle, and a tinge of illegality which is completely unwarranted.
> those two are not in the EU

Norway and Iceland are in the EEA, and Switzerland has similar trade deals. So, much EU law does apply to them. I don't know if the roaming law does.