skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point was that a passenger isn't allowed to buy a hamburger for a private pilot as "compensation", even though it only costs ~$10 and doesn't even remotely cover expenses. (In the case of a "$100 hamburger run", going to a restaurant at a distant airport may be the intended destination -- so offering to buy someone's meal at said restaurant might otherwise assumed to be a reasonable thing to do.)

You are, however, allowed to split expenses evenly with passengers -- provided everyone is sharing the same common purpose (e.g. flying for fun). But the key part here is that the pilot isn't allowed to receive anything that could be remotely interpreted as compensation.
> You haven't actually provided any real counterexample of a 3rd and better option.

That's because there isn't such an option -- at least not that I know of. Ads can be added on top of pretty much any website to generate revenue independent of the actual content of the site itself. And if the content is valuable enough paywalls are also universal in this sense.

The '3rd option' I'm proposing is something dependent on the underlying business and admittedly requires creativity and business sense.

> The podcast you mentioned is just direct... but rather just a hobby.

That's quite a simplification -- without the podcast they wouldn't sell books, swag, tickets, or receive donations. You can consider their business model as a form of direct payment but no listener is required to give them any form of compensation and their model is much more successful than if they had simply paywalled their content.

> The internet is incredibly free, open, democratic and accessible because of ads.

I disagree and think it's none of those precisely because of ads -- at least as it applies to ad sponsored websites.

* Websites that serve ads are not free. We might have to agree to disagree on this point but as long as ads serve their intended purpose they impose a cost on every user that views them.

* Ad supported websites are not open, as every part of the ad network except for the literal content served to the client is closed and a trade secret.

* Ad supported websites are not democratic because advertisers will not want to have their brand associated with 'unsavory' topics or opinions which means that the overall content on the web is curated by small group ad networks that effectively 'bless' content on the web by providing them ad revenue.

* The accessibility of ad sponsored content is just an accidental byproduct of paying customers visiting the site. If ad networks had the tools to discriminate between people who had high disposable income then the web would no longer be accessible to the poor as it would make business sense to simply not serve them the page.
Or... dear Economist, I would close the window but you crashed by Samsung J2
The labels are based on experiments and are cross-cultural.
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Wanna know how it works? Thats a secret.

The only people that can smell this kinda bullshit are technical experts. For example, there might not be enough white blood cells in such a small sample to do a meaningful assay. And perhaps there were a few people who didn't invest.

But on the other hand, their technology wasn't promising anything revolutionary. Nothing that couldn't be done by BD.

Hype+Boring Tech
Not necessarily to the former. Definitely to the latter.

To elaborate point 1:

- If the crucial parts of the devices that "were modified to improve accuracy" were modified early on in the study the data could be representative of the final product.

- The same applies for the devices not being fully assembled. If they weren't fully assembled, and the data were still good enough to defend a 510k, then the data should represent worst case usage, unless full assembly would somehow make the technology less performant.
> But they're both terrifying...

Welcome to PHP! Truly the language which most directly represents the soul of the web - a stateless static documentation presentation system which we shoehorn application functionality into regardless of the pain!
> mm, can you cite a RESTful cloud storage API that's consistently implemented between providers

Fielding worked at Day Software, which made a web content management system. They contributed parts of their system to the community as Apache Jackrabbit [1] before getting acquired by Adobe.

Not sure if Day Software's APIs match your asks though.

[1] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/
please define 'work smarter' before saying a whole nation is 'working dumber'

UPDATE:
I'm sure lots of 'smart' German businessmen or self-employed work long hours just like the rest of the world, not?
Sleeper agents should be reliable enough, considered that they (the in the long past "recruited") want to have their family and loved ones safe -- it would really be a pity if some stupid accident happened to any of them on their way home...
Sounds morbid, yes, but rest assured, with enough "motivation" financial options and "moral flexibility" you can always motivate others, to do as demanded.
I think that _the same weekend it opens_ is not in the span that most would consider "spoiler free". If the movie has been out for a month, maybe.
Please don't move the goalposts; You stated that c# does not have lambdas, but has for 9 years now.

You also asked "I don't know what major project you are talking which uses these features". As far as I have seen, and I've seen a fair amount, any and every non-trivial c# program (and many of the trivial ones too) use lambdas. Even if it's just in the small-scoped, rote use e.g. of

var matches = someList.Where(item => item.x > y);

Technically that counts as "using a lambda". Don't knock it for being trivial, it's a gateway drug ;)
Personal attacks and name-calling are not allowed on HN. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
Anecdotal evidence: 2.5" SATA HDD failed for me suddenly just last Tuesday, SMART was fine before, both the attributes and a long (complete surface scan) selftest I did a few weeks ago after I got this lightly used notebook from a colleague (I only needed for tests).

I think what people experience is that the sudden death of SSDs doesn't occur more often than on HDDs. But with the mechanical issues and slowly building up of bad sectors gone, sudden death is probably the only visible issue left.

(Just my personal opinion.)
As noxryan already pointed out, pilots without commercial licenses can sometimes accept some compensation, namely expense sharing as long as the pilot is paying his fair share of the flight expenses. It's important, though, in those cases that the flight is one that the pilot would be taking whether or not he had passengers.

The problem Flytenow and its pilots ran into is that the FAA decided that participants were operating as common carriers, and flying for a common carrier requires a commercial license.

The FAA defines common carriage as a service meeting four elements: (1) a holding out of a willingness to (2) transport persons or property (3) from place to place (4) for compensation. Elements #1 and #4 are the key elements.

Flytenow argued that its service does not meet either of those. They lost on #4 because expense sharing is compensation. It doesn't matter that it is a form of compensation that is allowed for non-commercial pilots. They lost on #1, I think based on skimming the court's opinion [1], because their service is easily available to the general public.

Note that the FAA does not have a problem with non-commercial pilots sharing expenses with passengers when they are not doing it in a way so readily available to the general public. If you mention to your coworkers that you are renting a Cessna to fly to some specific place to visit family over the holidays and a co-worker says they want to go there too the FAA would have no problem with you taking them with you and having them pay their share of the expenses. Even putting a notice on the bulletin board at work, where it might be seen by dozens of people, that you are taking that trip and asking if anyone wants to come along and share expenses would almost certainly be fine.

[1] https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/77E3D4B7...
Now you're just making stuff up. How is saying "Hitler didn't specifically target Jews" hate speech? I used to think it was just dumb, but now I'm not so sure any more.

Obviously it's not thoughtcrime, but it's illegal to even discuss it, not only to publish books about it.
"Hacker News" well well...
Holocaust denialism (almost?) always comes with antisemitic conspiracy theories.
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How is it hate speech? Are there people who would start killing Jews if they discovered it didn't really happen? Serious question, maybe Germany has people who are ready to commit violence but are held back by the thought that the holocaust probably happened? I can't think of the chain of causation from saying "It didn't happen" to someone killing someone else.

The closest I can find on Wikipedia's definition of hate speech is "...disparages ... a protected individual or group." Who is that group? Is it "people who believe the holocaust happened"? Surely belief in an arbitrary claim doesn't count for defining a "protected individual or group". Is the group Jews? How does it harm Jews?
Maybe hard work was characteristic of the people Hitler took advantage of rather than an attribute he instilled?
You may also be interested in Continuum. I love that show for its spot-on perspective of present-day technology mixed with a believable vision of the future. Anecdotally, I remember reading that Continuum had a hacker writing their technical scenes -- news that didn't surprise me one bit :)
There's maintenance standards for a reason if you put X hours on a plane you have to do the required maintence for X hours. Commercial licenses are much more about making sure the maintenance is actually done because people might skip the maintenance.

It doesn't matter whether passengers are paying or not, similar to how in cars if you put X KMs on it requires the same amount of maintenance.

Have you seen a taxi? They are regular cars. Just like an Uber...
I don't know why you're downvoted, I think you're making a valid and well-reasoned point.
scott_s was right, because the GP broke the HN guidelines by name-calling (in an otherwise fine comment). Your comment does too. Please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, old die hard fans being who they are for it to work it would require that you not actually tell anyone that you're remaking it.
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Sharing expenses is compensation and the reg alludes to that fact in part (a) and by virtue of the list of the exceptions to said reg. If you really need a concrete example that includes the "compensation or hire" verbiage look at exception (b) of the reg.

(a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) through (h) of this section, no person who holds a private pilot certificate may act as pilot in command of an aircraft that is carrying passengers or property for compensation or hire; nor may that person, for compensation or hire, act as pilot in command of an aircraft.

(b) A private pilot may, for compensation or hire, act as pilot in command of an aircraft in connection with any business or employment if:

(1) The flight is only incidental to that business or employment; and

(2) The aircraft does not carry passengers or property for compensation or hire.
But why would holocaust denial be illegal, if not because of a pro-semitic conspiracy?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799423
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Currently, I use a single classifier for all the news items.

I store the items, along with manual ratings, in a database, from which the classifier is trained. (This also allows me to keep a history of older items, which I can search.)

I hope to make it more sophisticated, eventually.
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> How is saying "Hitler didn't specifically target Jews" hate speech?

Simply put, because it is functionally identical to saying "the victims were liars on a humongous scale", with all effects that will have on an audience.

> it's illegal to even discuss it

Paragraph?
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10770153
Yes it is always possible their one test works, but reading between the lines it appears that Edison is flaky and hard to get to work consistently. Things like changing the pipet tips halfway through are amateur hour - issues like this should have been picked up in R not D.
...then build it up to regulations (which you should in any case) and have a law to require an inspection before being allowed to connect to the grid (and earn money from it).
I didn't try it but given the labs and research interests of the teachers who made it, it is probably good: https://www.france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr/courses/pari...
I'm primarily a Linux user, and only use Windows at work, and don't consider POSIX precisely the pinnacle of tasteful API design.
The way to achieve this is to develop new forms of economic contract that allow independent collaborators to capture the economic benefits of their intellectual labor.

That and automate the CEO role in the company as much as possible.

The models for such organizations exist. We have the tools to build them. Why don't we see more of them around these days?
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The point is not just that it is false, but that it leads to a political discourse that is incompatible with the established democratic system.
Can't wait for the inevitable discovery that NAND chips are being price-fixed. You would think after the exact same companies price-fixed RAM and LCD panels that peoples radars would go off faster. You expect me to believe that the metals and neodymium magnets and now helium containing drives are cheaper to manufacture than an array of identical NAND chips? NAND chips which are present in a significant percentage of all electronic products purchased by anyone anywhere? When a component is that widely used, it becomes commoditized. Which means its price to manufacture drops exponentially, not linearly like the price drops of NAND has done. This happened with RAM and LCDs as well. When you can look around and see a technology being utilized in dozens of products within your eyesight no matter where you are, and those products are still more expensive than the traditional technology they replace, price-fixing is afoot.

I am open to being wrong on this, but I don't think I am. Can anyone give a plausible explanation why 4TB of NAND storage should cost more to manufacture than a 4TB mechanical hard drive does, given the materials, widespread demand for the component, etc?
You can calculate the GDP per man-hour to compare "smartness". Of course that doesn't mean individual workers are doing something smarter, but that together they've built a system which operates more efficiently. Maybe past generations of Germans spent their work doing something that benefits current generations (figuring out how to make reliable car parts?), while past generations of Greeks worked on less helpful things (tourism?).
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Actually this was a joke. And yes: If you want to achieve something other than just getting a mediocre paycheck, you should put in the usual extra hours.

But afaik there also seems to be a slightly different work mentality here in germany, where you go to work and actually work, not chatting gossip or read facebook... at least some blog post from non-germans claim this (since I'm obviously biased I can't confirm this).
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> This is not an argument against Windows, but against those programming languages and their maintainers.

Disagree. It's the operating system's job to make it easy for programmers to write the programs they want. If language implementors consistently don't want to support a certain operating system, it's a sign that something might be wrong with that operating system. Not necessarily from a technical point of view - it could be, say, a marketing issue.
>Hindsight is 20-20. The iterative bloat during development can happen for so many reasons.

Indeed, I once had the pleasure of replacing a BizTalk server with 50 lines of C#. It wasn't that the BizTalk server wasn't a bad idea. The project was for a big harbour, which have documents, cargo manifests, import papers and a ton of other stuff flying back and forth. The idea of having a central hub for data exchange and data conversion wasn't actually that fare fetched. It's just that the only part that was ever implemented was a the upload of a small 5-10 line xml file to the maritime administration, regarding the departure of ships.

After three years of running a BizTalk server, for that one purpose, and with no-one fully understanding Biztalk, we just replaced it with a custom Windows service.

If anything the takeaway is that you projects should be revisited once in a while for clean up.
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thnx for your options.
I wonder if anyone else has noticed that this is really another case of the Streisand Effect.
Flying is inherently dangerous. Only with huge amounts of effort has it been made safe. There's about one general aviation crash a day in the US.

Air taxi services come under FAR Part 135[1][2]. This sets standards for an air taxi service as a business. The standards are below those for an airline, but above those for recreational flight. A general basis of US aviation regulation is that you can kill yourself if you want to, but you can't kill other people. So there are low level licenses such as "Sport pilot" and "Private pilot", and low levels of inspection for private planes. There's an "experimental" category of aircraft, often owner-built from kits. These crash about one order of magnitude more than commercially built aircraft.

Once it's a business, the rules get much tougher. The pilot, plane, and business are all regulated. The pilot has to have 1200 hours and meet other criteria, the plane has to have some redundant equipment, and the business has to keep records of aircraft, flights, pilots, and inspections. Single engine aircraft can be used, but they must have some redundant equipment, such as dual alternators, plus the usual IFR instruments.

Here are Flytenow's terms:

"FLYTENOW OFFERS INFORMATION AND A METHOD TO CONNECT PILOTS WHO ARE FLYING TO A DESTINATION WITH ENTHUSIAST WHO HAVE A COMMON PURPOSE IN SUCH DESTINATION, BUT DOES NOT AND DOES NOT INTEND TO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES OR ACT IN ANY MANNER AS A TRANSPORTATION CARRIER, AND HAS NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES VOLUNTARILY PROVIDED TO ANY ENTHUSIAST BY ANY PILOT USING THE FLYTENOW PLATFORM."

"As a Member, I agree that I am about to voluntarily participate in various activities, including flying activities as a passenger, pilot, student pilot, copilot, or instructor. In consideration of Pilot permitting me to participate in these activities, I, for myself, my heirs, administrators, executor, and assigns, hereby covenant and agree that I will never institute, prosecute, or in any way aid in the institution, prosecution of, any demand, claim, or suit against Pilot for any destruction, loss, damage, or injury (including death) to my person or property which may occur from any cause whatsoever as a result of my participation in the activities with Pilot. I know, understand, and agree that I am freely assuming the risk of my personal injury, death, property damage, or loss or destruction that may result while participating in the activities with Pilot."

This is no way to run a business.

[1] http://www.avweb.com/news/usedacft/184520-1.html
[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/part-135
Slightly ironic though - using Google to google 'search engine'.
Incompatible in what way?
So we should be allowing holocaust denial here and now, because otherwise people in the future might turn out holocaust deniers?

Holocaust denial has been refuted again and again. The reason why it keeps surfacing is not because of academics are still arguing about the facts. The facts don't matter: holocaust denial is one of the ways in which a very dangerous ideology searches for an entry point into the mainstream.
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I think, the decision is true because there can be so much security problems
Sure. My first purchase of SSDs were 3 80GB Intel SSDs which I put into RAID-0 and used for my primary system drive on my gaming machine. RAID-0 provides very-near 100% performance boost per drive added. Of course, it also provides the same bonuses to the likelihood of total data loss... but that was a risk I was OK with taking (and which never bit me!).
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Are you seriously asking that?
>"For example inventing patents and copyrights as tradable property."

Those are elements of a state-enforced monopoly (over patents/copyrights). Either way, the latter example you cite is (I'd argue) just as prominent as the former. It's called value-creation (or addition?), and is the core of a supply-chain.
Is there an advantage compared to putting each stream on a different drive?
a.) Where do you think he is wrong?

b.) Everyone who deviates from dogma on this topic is called a revisionist I think.
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> Why do you think I did?

Because you said that ignoring people's past preference leads to sub-optimal decisions and implied that the best decision is merely to reflect past actions. You can't possibly make that claim unless you have a model that states that people's preferences don't change. That would be a very wrong model, though, because we know that they change and we know what may change them.

> Actually you said "I cannot say that my predictions are better than random".

By that I meant predictions of the course of history. I can say with high certainty that social movements often achieve their goals, and without them, those goals arrive much, much later. In particular, the feminist movement (on all its forms) has had tremendous success since the middle of the nineteenth century, and there is little reason to believe that the trend will stop. OTOH, the resistance to change has also taken a familiar path (while historians don't try to predict the future, they do recognize certain patterns) of an unofficial glass ceiling, then appeals to "nature" and "science", a better past and the tyranny of the reformer against a sieged hegemony. All of these are very familiar to us.

> a particle's long term distribution will behave like a sample from the distribution f(x) dx

Sure, we could theoretically make that claim, but we wouldn't be able to verify it because our measurement time exceeds the duration of any reasonable error of the prediction.

Listen, I went into history after studying math (yes, including non-linear equations), with delusions of being the first to come up with a dynamical model of society's behavior (with "power" of course, being a central quantity). But then I learned history and realized how unattainable that goal is. Maybe one day, if we have near instantaneous means of measurements. Otherwise, coming up with a model out of grossly inaccurate measurements made at different times -- and far too few of them (there are so many variables, so many forces, including forces of nature, namely a lot of external energy) -- all mediated by narrators, makes it impossible. We can say that "social movements that grow large enough tend to work", but putting that into any formula won't make the prediction any more accurate. I still have a dream of a semi-accurate model of how power flows in society, but it will require much better measurements.