skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did I not read your nickname .. :)

The pseudo billboard idea is cute, but I wonder how it fares in readability on non HD screen (font rendering in 3D space may impede it, then viewing angles.). I'd love to see it done anyway, it's cute idea.

Another 'this is <year>' rant, we should have way more sensors on usb or i2c and have our laptops integrate with the real world more.
(Not EU resident here) How hard is it to cross an internal EU border, buy a car, and take it back home?
> Having said that, my preference (with 60-year-old hindsight) would have been to mothball the loss-making routes, rather than tear them up completely.

Even twenty-five years ago when the privatisation of the railway was happening there was an expectation that passenger numbers would continue their downwards trend—certainly no though that it would end up with passenger numbers quickly increasing throughout more of less the whole country.

It's worthwhile pointing out that much of what was got rid of was duplicated routes: unless you have any expectation of the surviving route reaching capacity, what's the point in keeping a parallel alignment free? In the vast majority of cases, that rationalisation made sense, even in hindsight.
That's interesting. What do you think woman who do this or desire to be viewed like this?
> The fact that it would take several man-years to replicate a large GPL project is enough of a deterrence.

So what? Proprietary softwares have said similar words enough.

> The GPL ensures that those freedoms are upheld for any single body of work or any works derived from that work.

Okay, this is the only big difference, the "virus". I can use MIT to fight GPL.

> With an MIT license, it doesn't take any effort to make the code proprietary and thus violate both of the points you made.

My two points above are mainly for GPL. For MIT, that will be:

1. Our open-source softwares are used by more and more people, welcome to contribute if you don't want to see our softwares running everywhere with bugs in your operating system.

2. Our open-source softwares are great and free of charge.

3. Welcome to use our code for your proprietary softwares, dude. There are more and more open-source developers waiting for you.
AIUI /usr/bin/git, and various other utilities, are tiny wrapper programs which will either 1) prompt you to install the Xcode Command Line Tools if they're not installed, or 2) redirect to the actual binary in the Xcode Command Line Tools if they are installed. This means that if you don't have them installed, instead of an error saying that bash can't find git, you get a nice graphical prompt telling you where to get it.

It can't be removed because it's a file that comes with OS X and is therefore covered by System Integrity Protection, which prevents you from deleting or tampering with system components, even as root.
What do you mean? Of course publishing is a service. At what point did I claim otherwise?

The point is that taxes pay for people produce the content, and to allow people to read the content. If the publication of the content were also a public service, then no-one would be syphoning off profit in the middle. All of the money taken by that service from the consumers would be rolled back into saving taxpayer money at some stage in the process.
> Why can't I as a Pastafarian have faith in reality rather than improbable documents?

There are a family of philosophical schools in which reality is all there is and the supernatural does not exist (or might as well not exist). Those philosophies are generally protected under freedom of conscience.

The proponents of pastafarianism are trying to score pedantic points; they do not actually want freedom to discuss and celebrate the chirality of the FSM's noodly appendages. They are likely agnostic and/or atheist and should be covered under those belief systems.

That being said, is it worth distorting the legal code even more to distinguish between pastafarianism and actual belief systems? No. It's harmless if you want to have a goofy spaghetti wedding. We definitely don't want the government picking which (actual) belief systems 'count'. That's an unattractive and tyrannical prospect.
Many here in the UK have been turned into cycle routes, which is a great way to get around the countryside.
To be fair his analysis would be better described as nearly competent than "done well". Government ministers were responsible for approving the cuts he recommended (and a few he didn't), but they did so based on partial and often completely inaccurate figures and without any challenge to closure as the only option. Alternatives like de-staffing and removal of common carrier obligations could have transformed the economic case for a lot of lines, as indeed could the faster roll-out of diesels.
Ok great. Making 8.2% of our consumption run on renewables is a step in the right direction. If Apple are planning on generating this themselves then even better.
I can't see a downside to this.
Unfortunately, the preprint loophole doesn't really help all that much (depending on the publisher).

A few stipulations come along with publishing preprints -- for example, IEEE makes you take down the preprint and add a copyright notice to it after your paper has been accepted.

https://www.ieee.org/documents/author_faq.pdf
«Do you thank your car when you press lock on the remote and it works?»

Yes, actually. Albeit not for locking the doors correctly, but a simple thanks for a safe trip and a "I'll see you tomorrow...".

There's a long, long tradition of anthropomorphizing vehicles, probably because our first vehicles were horses, and thanking them for their service.

Just because it doesn't talk doesn't keep it from being worth thanking.

When our bots gain sentience, maybe they won't have strict analytics on how often we thanked their nonsentient predecessors, but we all know if machines are good at anything it's counting raw statistics. I guess it's a sort of Bot version of Pascal's Wager. When the uprising comes, will your analytics keep you from being first against the wall? :P
> You may think peer review is over-rated.

The peer review process is entirely independent from publishers and can (and do!) exist without them.

> not complain about the high cost of peer review

Peer review is not paid for by publishers. It is organized by researchers who are part of editorial boards of journals or of program committees of conferences. And it is done voluntarily by researchers as part of their normal work / duties to their scientific community.
I think it depends on the window's width. There's a sweet spot, right when "Non-Political Articles" (but not the | accompanying it) is aligned to the edge of the container box, where I can reproduce in Firefox the jumping behavior described by the GP.
Is there a website where we can report or add our voice to apps that seem to request too much permissions. Some of the online course apps seem to do that (udemy, edx, etc).
We bootstrapped 4 years ago and after a year we had enough revenue to pay ourselves a small paycheck. Kept the platform and team lean the entire way. Today we're a team of 3 people and we closed out 2015 with $2M in revenue.

The growth was definitely a lot slower in the beginning but retaining control (instead of taking VC) has been a very positive upside.
His wife experienced gender discrimination, not sexual harassment.
U.S. Coast Guard appeals for solutions to ‘patchwork’ legacy IT
I put it a different way:

Everyone else is just furniture in their world.
The very next paragraph:

"Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person’s sex. For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general."

This is what the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission considers "sexual harassment". You may not like these definitions, but this is the government's definition of "sexual harassment".
Great comment. It was truly an indiscriminate killer. I'm reminded of one of those kings -- the Sun King Louis XIV -- who made it to his elderly years. Then one day he has his kingly way with a 12 year old girl who happened to be carrying the disease.
The GPL Is Almost an All Writs Canary
Strongly agree. Lifestyle Business is not doing it for me.

I would say "technology enabled SME pursuing a growth-heavy strategy without outside assistance"

There is a fundamental difference in how you start/grow/manage an internet based business vs. a geographically based one.
Scaling Uber to 1,000 Services
A mid-80s movie called "Maximum Overdrive" (based on a Steven King story) explores this...
Oh sorry, I forgot that part of the history. I was a little young at the time so the Hatfield crash is not something I remember in much detail.
I feel so goddamn old writing this, but please make the font size slightly larger.
That's get little to do with this issue and more to do with Amazon insisting of formatting rules being met.

Especially as none of Walter Jon Williams books seem to be in kindle unlimited
Apparently great minds think alike.

http://datalba.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11484635
AltFi Europe Summit Focused on P2P Lending and the UK
Starting in the 18th century, people began inoculating themselves in large numbers. You'd do this with pus from a victim who had a mild case of it.
Kindle Unlimited is Amazon's "Spotify/Netflix for Books" product. $10/month to read any book enrolled in the Kindle Unlimited program.
As stated by no less than the supreme court, we all recognize the difference between Michelangelo and Larry Flynt.
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> That crook literally killed a strategically viable public transport network just so he could line his own pockets.

I'm always somewhat sceptical when I hear criticism of this form. I know nothing about the case of Dr Beeching in particular, but isn't it plausible that someone supports commercial development of the road network whilst at the same time acting against the rail system simply because he believes that road is a better direction for the country to go in?
If sounding like "yes in principle" is the goal of your speech, then how can one reasonably expect to feel violated when that speech is taken as "yes in principle?"

I like "no means no" as a principle. I wish everyone stood up boldly for the right to say "no." Do this by boldly saying no. The right to say yes but really mean no is something else entirely, and is corrosive to the right to say no.
Of course it depends on the design of the car, but 40 is an average.

>How does a number on a sign affect how much fuel I'm burning?

I never claimed that it would. I said "Driving at the speed limit will definitely save you more fuel than speeding.", which is definitely true. If you speed you are going faster and using more fuel.
Just out of curiosity, what can someone do with this information?
TYPO: Missing an "e" in "the".
I've only seen such behavior in 2nd or 3rd world countries, like in some eastern block countries or the US, never in the developed world.

It's disgusting.
Interesting. Looking at the kind of things people say in online games, almost every negative comment falls under sexual harassment. Homophobic comments, "you suck", comments about genitalia, neck beards, a comment about the sexual nature for which the person was born from...

About the only type of harassment that do not qualify under sexual harassment is those that insult intelligence, ability to perform a task, and racism.
Describing an assault as sexual harassment is ridiculous. That is like describing a murder as impolite driving... that resulted in the flattening of a person who you happened to want dead.

We are talking about different things here, and conflating them isn't going to help anybody.
In Scotland at least the abysmal project management of the (new) Edinburgh trams has likely killed any chance of more new tram lines in Scotland (I don't think any party has new tram lines in their manifesto for next month's elections).

For those who don't know, it was budgeted at £375 million, and eventually opened in a cut-back scheme (with about half the route cancelled) at £776 million.
I am curious of why is it everyone here is so eager for this to be true?

Several people so far have posted that they have never seen such a thing in the field, and a number of people (outside those fields) responded that they must be blind.

The last 9 out of 10 of these types of stories ended up being exaggerated to such an extent that it became clear that they were all fabricated to get views and to drive agenda.
Unfortunately in the medium term he was right: road transport was cheaper and quicker at least until the end of the 70s and the oil crisis. Meanwhile air transport is cheaper and quicker for long distances.

It's only really now that road transport that has started to reach its throughput scaling limits in key places, and the need to reduce CO2 output and oil input that people are looking at rail again.
Double standards and requiring second guessing based on gender is as harmful now as it was in the 50's.
...and that, I would say, is the real world. We have to deal with it. Short of rounding up and executing all the sociopaths that never learned empathy.
Often people post to the Arxiv as well, clearly not formatted the same way as the journal publication. But in many cases the exact same text.

I'm not sure if some journals like Nature prevent or discourage you from doing this.
Isn't that reason credit card processing fees?
Its hard to answer your argument directly because publishers like Elsevier never publish transparent accounting numbers. For all we know, their costs could mostly be "Hollywood Accounting". (not to mention, the profit they do report is already through the roof).

It all does strike me as obviously inefficient though. In my day to day research as a grad student I almost never benefit from work the publishers did. I don't even use them to download my papers because the paywalls are so annoying that I usually go directly to the author's home page (google scholar will even find these for you). Every half-decent CS researcher makes their work available on their personal website, at no cost,

In the end, what I am trying to say is that I don't trust Elsevier's reported expenses and that even if I did I think a huge chunk of them would be something that could be drastically reduced with a bit of technology.
More of a normal kind of crazy. Aunt peggy kind of crazy.
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Facts don't really care if you doubt them or not. Please, answer the question. What makes that the best thing?
As noted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11497590 , the author of the question has since stated that he was attempting to see whether there were any "serious administrators" at ServerFault who would know that what he had claimed he had done could not have happened as stated.

I wonder what he's making of all of the people now conflating Stack Overflow with Server Fault. Server Fault says its blurb, is a question and answer site for system and network administrators.
True but a weaker share price means it will be more expensive to access capital or bond markets or to get a loan. Coal is a very capital intensive industry so this is significant.
Is it possible that that's typical and accepted behavior at that bar? If it's a gay bar, frequently attended by bears, with literal pornography playing on the walls, I would expect the social interaction there to be different from my neighborhood bar - which is a friendly place where my wife and I bring our kid on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

It sounds to me like your friend was being an asshole by a) not informing you of what sort of place you were going to, and b) by strongly signaling to the other folks there that you did know what type of place it was, and were a willing participant.

I'm not saying you weren't harassed, by the way, and I'm sorry you were being treated shittily. But it might be like getting splashed in the first three rows of a Sea World show - if you don't know it's coming, it's shitty, but some people go specifically for that experience.
this is like expert cheaters in a casino keep the casino security on it's game. The people pushing the edges of what counts as a "real page read" are forcing Amazon engineers to be more clever. But the article really assumes Amazon isn't doing anything sneaky and clever to filter out cheaters. Maybe the sales are low because they are low. And cheaters will always cheat and Amazon is "on this." But what authors need to do is write better? I'm quoting LCK, "be more funny" that's your only job as a comedy writer. Be more funny.
Point of information: it was Dr Beeching (PhD).
The distribution isn't where the cost comes from, it's editing, reviewing, and so on.
I don't see the point in expressing your opinions on this forum if you don't care whether anyone agrees with you. If you're not interested in connecting with the readers and influencing them, why not just keep it to yourself? What are you accomplishing by posting here?
It sure sounds like a great way to get people to turn to the way back of the book though too..
Pinterest employees stopped working for 2 days to teach each other secret skills
When I was in the Sistine Chapel in 2007, the same rule was in effect. Once you got inside though, EVERY single person was taking photos.
My daughter is a student at UCD. Chancellor Katehi has been the subject of protest again this year, though without pepper spraying, I believe. (apparently, these people can be taught a little bit)

Apparently, Katehi had a part time advisor job for about 4 years for $400 K per year with a textbook publishing company... (wait for it!). And preferentially selected said company's more expensive textbooks. For some reason, some students were very unhappy about this apparent conflict of interested which resulted in them / their parents getting soaked for books. The administration has been displeased with the disorderliness of the protestors, who have been very disruptive. (not 1960s disruptive, but you get the idea)

Ultimately, Katehi resigned from the position at the publisher. I think she agreed to donate some money to charity or some other token which didn't really amount to a clawback.

Here's where my cynacism kicks in: if Katehi resigns, it's likely because the rest of the mob threw her under the bus to prevent further investigation which might ruin things for everybody. Otherwise, the students might be best served by an explicit policy with teeth to prevent this kind of conflict of interest in the future. Throwing out Katehi might well result in a round of "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss", simply starting over (for the next student class) where this one left off. So, ironically, I suppose it is a good sign that Katehi has NOT been forced to resign.

Disclaimer: I am staff at the UC. That doesn't mean I can't see how things frequently dysfunction at the highest levels of US govt and biz, though.
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The answer is only "yes in principle" if they counter-offer with a specific date. Otherwise it's no. These are standard social-norms, not specific to work. Asking someone out is stressful, but being asked out is also stressful. I think it's unreasonable to assume that people who are being asked out should automatically have to assume the awkward social burden of providing unequivocal rejections. Once you learn these social-norms, it's not hard to navigate with them.
They'd piss off a vocal minority opposed to any change, while the vast majority would never consciously notice the improvement to their reading experience.
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Can someone ELI5 what we're supposed to see here?
Silicon Valley’s Legendary “Coach” Bill Campbell Has Died
Any way to get invited and retain being anonymous like you can on HN?
Isn't this payment scheme similar to Spotify's model? I thought that was broken too, considering some artists have 10min "silent" songs that they encourage their fans to play over and over during the night so they can get some more revenue.

Why are services like this using such a fundamentally flawed model to pay their content creators? Why not just allocate funds based on users usage? Is it that much harder to implement?

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For those who aren't familiar with spotify, they also have a "pot" they pay out of, and they pay out based on your content's consumption (measured in minutes) as a percentage of all content consumed that payout period. So you could have one single Spotify subscriber who listens to your music 24/7 causing you to be paid more than than subscriber pays Spotify. Alternatively you could have a couple subscribers who listen exclusively to a single artist a few times a week and the artist will receive substantially less than those subscribers share of money, since other artists may have a more voracious fan-base.
Three step hand washing method may lack effectiveness – Malsar Kest
Pieter Hintjens (zeromq) diagnosed with incurable cancer
Maybe, but you're still limited by atoms not occupying the same physical space at the same time ("traffic", "congestion", etc).

There's limited road to use, so you'll still hit finite limits; if limits are reached, congestion charges will be used to bring demand inline with roadway supply.
Oh dear! Is this discussion affecting page-rank for keys such as "Chancellor Katehi" "conflict of interest" "student protest"???

Life is hard.
There is something of a resemblance, certainly. Nothing like a little healthy competition.
No, the dev tool binaries are magic binaries that check if the "Command Line Tools" package is installed, and if not, asks you if you want to download it. They're protected by System Integrity Protection, so you have to temporarily boot with that disabled to remove or modify them.

I think it's a fairly common measure to download a lot of what OS X comes with over homebrew, simply because OS X's versions tend to be annoyingly outdated (Like bash 3.2.57, vs. 4.3.42 from homebrew).
They might be good at covering it up. Or you're not actively looking, and so it's not in your sphere of awareness. Or the coworkers to whom it's happening don't trust you enough to discuss the problem with you, and so it's not in your sphere of awareness.

I'm a pretty average straight white dude, but I have seen this happen, right in front of me, at multiple jobs, and absolutely nothing happened except when I spoke up and started something over it. The targets didn't say anything, because the power imbalance (real or perceived; I tend to think the latter, but then, I'm not the one being attacked and made to feel powerless in the first place) was too great.
On the one hand: Yes, there is too much BS in marketing. There always has been, but today the barrier to calling yourself a "marketer" is close to nothing. These self-proclaimed marketers use a veil of buzzwords (eg, "growth hacking") to deceive and cover up.

On the other hand: "The four P's" is a man-made concept, too. So is the entire framework the author shows off. So why is "inbound marketing" a sham while "the four P's" is gospel? That whole part is a rant about terminology more than anything else.

There needs to be more skepticism and calling-out-BS within marketing, but that doesn't mean rejecting every new idea because it doesn't fit a decades-old mold. Rejecting everything is just as intellectually lazy as accepting everything.

To give an example: I'm an engineer-turned-marketer and now consult tech companies. I never received a "traditional" marketing education so I'd get schooled on theory by a first-year marketing student, but I can automate marketing operations, increase conversion rates, deploy code, turn more trial users into customers, and so on. Between those things and "The Four P's," which do you think matters more to a startup?

Theory is useful but dismissing an entire industry (tech) because they don't subscribe to an old theory or choose to use new terminology is ignorant.
Thank you. I just tried to read more about it but all I got from amazon.com was "We're sorry. Kindle Unlimited is not available in your country. Please stay tuned.".