skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microinsurance is the answer to the insurance industry
Back in 2007, they refused to open the source, I think the authors just hated(!) the open source movement. Why so sudden change?
But in the real world, you're usually going to be writing in a context where your writing will be read alongside work written by others. E.g. a corporate report, a newspaper or magazine article, etc. If you're writing a novel, sure, do whatever you want.
These are good points, I agree (partly). There are probably useful things these record labels do, which I'm not aware of.

Still, I'd like to argue that their value-add is much lower today, since they both distribution and marketing/outreach can be handled by the artist herself (more or less).
I enjoyed it quite a lot.

It obviously mirrored the original quite strongly. Had I been alive when that movie was released, I might have been upset about this. However, A New Hope is just one of the most solid coming of age stories there is, and I can't fault Disney for wanting to do a soft reboot for a new generation.

The film added little new lore since it is mostly a recreation of the original, but I at least do not watch Star Wars movies as a lore hunter. I watch them to be entertained, and TFA delivered in spades. I don't feel like Star Wars has ever been particularly strong on lore, so not much is lost in my opinion. In fact, my main disappointment with the prequel films is that they focused more on providing new lore and less on being solidly fun to watch. They provided a lot of great material for Star Wars wikis, but not much else.

I feel like it improved on the original in a lot of ways that matter to me personally, but may not matter to others. It might have regressed in ways that matter to others, but not to me.

The acting in general was very good, and I liked Rey more than I liked Luke. This is a big deal for me. The actors carried this movie extremely well.

I enjoyed the older Harrison Ford more than the younger -- he's grandfatherly now on top of all the traits he already had when he was younger.

Kylo Ren was a more interesting villain to me than Darth Vader. Not necessarily better, but more interesting. Vader only became interesting retrospectively with the information gained from The Empire Strikes Back and ROTJ. Given only what was known in A New Hope, he was incredibly one-dimensional.

Starkiller Base was obviously highly derivative of the Death Star, but it was so visually stunning that I don't mind. The film excelled at showing its sheer scale. It was a sight to behold on the big screen in 3D. Any Star Wars movie needs an incredible spectacle, and I think Starkiller Base delivered.

This film is probably the first Star Wars installment where none of the humor annoyed me. That's a big deal for me as well. I'm glad that C3PO was featured very minimally here.

I could go on, but I'll leave it at this. Bottom line: I was very satisfied with it, but I don't regard it as a perfect film. It worked for me, and I suspect it will work for most viewers, but certainly not all viewers.
Google confirms next Android won’t implement Oracle's proprietary Java APIs
>Picking the proper names for software constructs is also part of that category. I'm always impressed at how choosing a slightly wrong-one can have a huge impact down the line.

Similarly I'm often shocked at just how critical name disambiguation is. There's a shocking number of extremely similar concepts when writing code which, when given the same name ends up causing bugs.

A good example is 'file' which can be used to refer to a file handle, file name, file object of some other kind, a 'file' representing an aggregate of information on person, and often it ends up referring to directories, devices and links as well.
How computers are taking the wheel
Record labels also act as banks by providing advances.
Ha, nice work. It definitely helps one appreciate how long "The Long Way" really was.
Wikipedia will always be in flux. I don't use it much for looking up science based stuff but I do check it to see what's being said about the conflict in Syria, the Israel/Palestine conflict and other contentious geopolitical topics. Edit warring and vandalism/inserting bias are the norm for these pages. (I do edit entries when I have the time.) Arguably there is no "right" answer that can settle arguments about political topicsand no matter what is written somebody will come along and claim bias and change the wording or delete sections they find objectionable. Pages about less publicized event (e.g Russian-Georgian war of 2008, the Mahar Arar affair) are blatantly slanted to one side or another and stay that way for months or even years.

The science articles I have read are sometimes overly technical or needlessly verbose but others know more about that than I do so I can't provide examples. If every person who posts a long rant or complaint on an entry's Talk page took the time to edit(in good faith)the parts they think need improvement the public would benefit by having access to better quality information. As it stands people put a lot of energy in pointing out, often valid, flaws but very few actually do anything about it.

Wikipedia is only as good or as accurate as its editors make it and humans, being the strange creatures we are, have a difficult time agreeing on even relatively basic things so it will always be a work in progress. That it exists is a positive thing overall and to really get a sense of how accurate an entry about a topic you know little about is reading the Talk page is a must. And if you do know have knowledge that you think is missing from an entry or think you can improve the wording...be bold and go for it!
Utilising the ability of protein like molecules to self structure?
Trying to make it a native platform rather than it's original intended purpose (document sharing and simple data input/retrieval) is where all the issues arise from.

A pretty good read other than all bullet points. I kind of enjoyed the part where he said the initial solution was to not use any Javascript. I think the simple way to make the web great again, you'd have to just use JS sparingly.

Everyone has their own opinion on the web but I tend to think it shines in simplicity, sites such as HN are a good example of that. Let the browser do what it can and forget the rest.
it was all good till you mentioned codeigniter
ggplot2 is a graphics module, but has shortcuts for common chart applications without having to write the code itself, such as smoothing trend lines.

The ggplot2 docs are the best source for determining the scope of the package: http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/
And I was wondering why the sudden drop in silly points. You went through my comment history and downvoted them, didn't you?

Oh, my most sincere apologies, I forgot we mere mortals cannot talk about moderation in public. Can you find it in your moderator heart to forgive your humble subject?
No.

Typical assumption is that the peak of Laffer Curve is somewhere between 30% and 70%.
At the rate of payday loans? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payday_loan
I'm curious what advantages are there with this or (PyCharm) over something like Spyder?
But the thing is, the members of the council don't know either. Do you think the retired economist or the graduate in communication studies - the two most senior members of my local council - know about sewers?
8-9 years isn't sudden.

I mean I know it feels like yesterday if you don't stop to think about it.
Can you tell him that I really enjoyed the book!
Not exactly the same premise, but I've heard it called "Queen Anne Likes".
If you just want to get all the tabs out of your face but be able to find them later, try OneTab. https://www.one-tab.com/
Also, when we bought a car a few years ago there were some standard colors that cost nothing, and several "premium colors" that cost a lot more. So the concept of letting customers pay for special colors is not new (I already mentioned the black Apple MacBook in another thread). I still think it is simply a status symbol that you pay for.
H2O – the optimized HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 server
The API wasn't too bad, but it's woefully under-documented. The sample code is worthless. I also don't like that you have to implement it all and run it against test before you get production keys, but no biggie.

The bigger issue: I uploaded my catalog 2 weeks ago, and all products are still "under Jet review". I emailed and they said some partners have waited over a month.
Sounds like a great time to buy one of these homes.
There's always simple.wikipedia.org for Simple English explanations of complicated topics, though it's lacking in nearly the same size as the regular English Wikipedia.
> it's that nobody actually becomes successful on their own

That would be pretty much be my answer.

Yeah it is nuanced issue and I agree it is hard to figure out. It is not even the divide between the two people, but even between the same person who was poor and now maybe made it (through a combination of factors: work, luck, etc).

I often have to stop and remember what it was like to ration food or stand in long lines to get bread and so on. And I find myself criticizing like I mentioned others do (why don't they learn to program it is easy or why don't they work 3 jobs, save and invest etc.) it takes a bit of introspection to catch myself not doing it.

> I struggle with this on a daily basis, especially as a former liberal.

I don't even know if am a liberal or conservative. Probably a mix depending on issues.
I am biased towards Oracle because I do want Android to be closer to orginal Java and wish both companies collaborate for future Java versions. However I do agree that Google's PR has tried to picture Google as victim. If we see Google specifically didn't choose OpenJDK to avoid GPL. So they wanted to make profits but avoid collaboration. If this makes them bring to use GPL, let it be.
If voters oppose, say, drug decriminalization,[1] who cares if rich people who might benefit from the drug war lobby to keep the existing laws?

[1] Which they do by a huge margin, with the sole exception of marijuana: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/drug-legalization-p....
Ford has patented a car that can separate into a motorcycle
I get that it's not a physical good but the mathematics of:

Made by <Creator> + Enjoyed By <Person> = Endless Money for <Creator>

doesn't add up in the simplistic way that people like to make it seem. "As long as you're enjoying it why shouldn't you be paying for it" seems to be a common mantra on HN during these discussions.

I might enjoying staring at a city skyline too, but that doesn't mean that I need to pay royalties to each and every architect that designed those buildings.

> if a lot of people like it, they make a lot of money. If nobody likes it, they make no money. Seems fair to me.

But for how long? 100+ years after the author is dead and buried? Seems a bit extreme.
Yeah, I'd imagine third-party copyright enforcement would be the primary consideration there, though they also include the typical prohibitions of objectionable material.

1.2 Using Your Files with the Service. You may use the Service only to store, retrieve, manage, and access Your Files for personal, non-commercial purposes using the features and functionality we make available. You may not use the Service to store, transfer or distribute content of or on behalf of third parties, to operate your own file storage application or service, to operate a photography business or other commercial service, or to resell any part of the Service. You are solely responsible for Your Files and for complying with all applicable copyright and other laws, including import and export control laws and regulations, and with the terms of any licenses or agreements to which you are bound. You must ensure that Your Files are free from any malware, viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, worms, or other malicious or harmful code.

1.3 Sharing Your Files. The Service may provide features that allow you to share Your Files with others. You may only share Your Files in which you have all necessary copyright and other rights. If you share a file, anyone with access to that file may view and download copies of the file. You are solely responsible for how you share Your Files and who may access Your Files that you share. You may not share files (a) that contain defamatory, threatening, abusive, pornographic, or otherwise objectionable material, (b) that advocate bigotry, hatred, or illegal discrimination, or (c) if sharing those files violates any law, any intellectual property, publicity, privacy, or other right of others, or any license or other agreement by which you are bound.
I don't know about abolishing copyright but charging $10 for a digital album is ridiculous. A buck for 10 songs sounds about right to me.

You can't make any money playing live though, unless you're in Pearl Jam you're basically scraping by as a glorified beer salesman and it's a pretty shitty existence.
I wonder why they didn't op for merger or acquisition . . . and what they're planning next. I remember meeting them early on in 2013, they seemed waaay ahead of Uber and Lyft.
Moreover, in the tech world, these punctuation characters often have actual technical meanings and being precise can be very important. For example, consider the following punctuations of a quote:

- "Resolve the DNS record for example.com.".

- "Resolve the DNS record for example.com".

- "Resolve the DNS record for example.com."

Only the first and second quotes are unambiguous. The third, which is supposedly correct, is unable to differentiate between a meaningful trailing period, which in DNS means to not use search domains, and the period inserted to end the sentence. While these issues are rare, logical punctuation solves this problem.
To be fair, the indoctrination starts at a very young age.
Show HN: View an old version of a page instantly
For liability reasons, they release you to the family member or friend who then escorts you.

You are still legally allowed to 'check yourself out' which would be considered 'against medical advice', and god knows what you'd have to sign, but the point is that's not typically the way it works. You are under their care until a responsible party comes in to retrieve you.
A lot of times, you can't. They literally will not discharge you until you can prove you have a viable form of transportation, in the form of a friend or family member who can look after you, or a medically-trained taxi. Until you've set one up and they have released you into their care, they will not let you leave.
It's a combination of the people and the realities of a crowdsourced platform.

The problems in technical topics (beyond the, often, lack of coherent editing that can be a problem in general) include:

- Editors who think they know a lot more about a topic than they do

- Editors who are genuinely expert but aren't skilled at explaining the topic to someone who wasn't, say, a math major. (Or, indeed, it doesn't even occur to them that they should do so.)
This is what you said:

> The spider-like hallucinations are classic alcohol-withdrawl symptoms not directly associated with dementia or alzheimer's.

You said "not directly associated with alzheimer's".

That's incorrect. Some, but not most, people with alzheimer's experience tactile hallucinations.

Here's another cite:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105559/

> Alzheimer's disease

> The prevalence rates of hallucinations in Alzheimer's disease (AD) range from 12 to 53%. Hallucinations in AD most often are visual, although auditory, tactile and olfactory hallucinations have also been observed. Hallucinations are most prevalent in the moderate to severe stages of the illness and do not seem to occur at the end stage of the disorder.
I point to a provable, objective cause of poverty and you still wish to blame white people. Who's the racist again?
Have you talked with a lot of artists about it?

Labels are especially helpful now, when PR job is a thankless grunt work involving a lot of know-how. Personally, I've worked with a couple of labels and promotion groups, and the amount of effort label puts into promotion has tremendous impact on the outcome.

Basically, there's almost no listeners who actively look for new artists and music that is outside of view of some spot of spotlight — and to get into that spotlight, you have to work. I'm not even talking about publications of scale of Pitchfork or xlr8r now; much smaller blogs get flooded with review requests and demos.

But most importantly, the kind of activity you have to do to actively sell yourself on social media is completely psychologically repulsive to a lot of artists. I've talked to a lot of people about it, and most agree that while they could see themselves pushing someone else's creations, doing it for themselves too often pushes one into apathy, self-doubt and depression.

The awesome stories that you hear about self-made success suffer from survivorship bias. Labels are there for a reason, and they deserve every penny that they take.

Edit: sorry, I missed your link. I get ~80% of my releases; didn't realize you were talking about the big dinosaur labels here.
Another option would be to get more scientific knowledge online. When I log into my local library with my library card and do a JSTOR search, the difference between those results and what Google hands back are night and day.

"The Internet" returns the cheap, fast and crappy version of so, so many things. And people seem oblivious to it.
I've often wondered how CRISPR is actually useful, because at its core it's just a nuclease. It allows to you precisely cut DNA where you want to cut it. But for that to be useful you still have to put the DNA back together afterwards. I found this article useful for understanding the different ways that happens in practice:

https://www.addgene.org/CRISPR/guide/

Turns out you get some small mutations in the most common mechanism (non-homologous end joining or NHEJ). This could be a problem for use in therapies, but definitely not a huge issue for most research-based applications where you can control which mutants you allow to proceed to the next experiment.
Thanks for all the fish. Seriously, I took the fish out of the sidecar and stuck them in my topcase when you weren't looking.
I'll chime in with another nod to Postico. I've been using it the last few months and really like it.

https://eggerapps.at/postico/
His problem doesn't seem to be with BitLocker, but with the "device encryption", which is what most Windows 10 users will get. BitLocker is only available on Pro and Enterprise (a very lame move on Microsoft's part, if you ask me).

Device encryption tends to be terrible, and as Micah says you can't ever change the storage option for the recovery key. It's automatically tied to the Microsoft account.

If Windows Home had BitLocker, this wouldn't be a problem. But as with most of Microsoft'/Nadella's moves lately, they seem to believe they know best not for 99% of their users, but for 100% of them. That's how we got encryption keys that can only get stored in Microsoft/NSA's datacenters, telemetry services that you can never truly stop, and even if you do, they come back as zombies, and updates that you can at best delay, but also never stop. And that's on top of all the other privacy invasive "features" that are set by default, and Microsoft makes it hard for 99% of the users to know they can turn them off.
Gramo and Tono, the Norwegian organizations, collect both a copyright fee and fees from public performance on behalf of performers and song writers. Copyright fees were historically 9 % of revenue from physical and digital copies sold, but I'm not sure it would apply to streaming. Public performance include broadcasting, concerts and playback in public places (shops, restaurants etc.)

EDIT: These organizations also collect and distribute from and to other countries.
This looked plausible until I saw it was David Lowery.

I predict this will go nowhere.
if you read the article its clear that Tegmark is raising deeper questions, not claiming to have the answers.
In your tutorial you recommend rendering charts on OS X in order to get proper antialiasing. Isn't it easier to render to a vector format and then batch rasterize outside R with e.g. ImageMagick? Or even better, just use the vector format?
I intended the first meaning if my original comment wasn't clear. I agree that could be read either way and indeed, convention is useful in some situations. As far as driving on one side of the road or the other, if there were a compelling reason to switch sides of the road and it were practical to do so then it might make sense to switch. I don't believe that is the case, especially because road safety relies on a homogeneous rule set. Writing is not this way and using one style when it is appropriate does not affect the legibility of another independent body of text as long as the rule set is applied consistently in a particular body.
yeah, wonder what features are not covered by free version of PyCharm ( except of UI obviously copied from R)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10766672
In the case of sound insulation, the solution would be to mandate sound insulation (STC) and ceiling/floor insulation (IIC) testing as a condition of obtaining the occupancy permit.

Such testing is performed on HUD-financed housing and for housing where state and/or Federal authorities are kicking in funds to mitigate noise from a capital project (typically an airport, highway or rail project). For private developments, it's typically not done unless the developer thinks the architect or contractor screwed up and wants to cover his ass in the event of a lawsuit down the line.
The simplest way to deploy your homebrew ROMs to a real NES is to use something called a "flash cartridge"[1]. This is equivalent to a real NES cartridge except it is backed by rewritable flash memory instead of a permanent ROM. It contains all of the necessary glue logic[2] so the console can't tell the difference. You can rewrite the flash if you connect the cart to your computer via USB.

The magical thing to google if you want to do your own research is "NES flash cart".

The "EverDrive" that aji suggests is, indeed, an example of a flash cart. It may or may not be the best one for the NES - I honestly don't know, all of my experience is with the GameBoy.

dpflan's approach of erasing and reprogramming a REAL NES cart is also possible, if you enjoy pain and suffering in the name of being lavishly historically accurate. (I know I do sometimes.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_cartridge
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management_controller
Definitely there's a market for postgresql books. Specifically, books with laddering type of learning experience (e.g.: beginner, intermediate, administration, developer, etc).
I think the lesson here is to not fuck it up in the first place. When inventing the new framework "Foo", call the variable FOO_DEBUG, not FOO_ENV.

As you've observed, it's not really possible to go back and fix this kind of mistake after it's been made.
That's not really the context for the reference. Also beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The Crystal authors aren't really debating the goodness of Ruby syntax... That they think it's good is kind of the precondition to Crystal existing.
For anyone that is unaware, "hit count" functionality has been present in GitHub for at least several months. If you're the owner of a repository, you can view it at https://github.com/<username>/<repo>/graphs/traffic which gives you a breakdown of visitors, clones, referring sites, and which pages within your repository are popular.
I don't think they'll physically stop you from walking out the door, though (that's kidnapping, in fact). But as rconti said, they'll make it very clear to you that you're leaving "against medical advice".

(I suppose they might physically restrain you if they have reason to think that you aren't mentally competent at the moment...)