skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I peapodded for a couple years when my kids were very small and ultra-high labor, but I found the ability to micromanage my delivery made me spend about as much time on their website as I used to spend shopping (omg hold on while I google ten pages about how many oz of fresh blueberries I need to buy to make exactly 1/2 crushed cup whereas at the store I'd rely on my finely honed nearly instant engineering estimation ability). So if my daughter needs a box of raisins for snack time at school and there's 6 days until delivery and 2 are a weekend and there's 8 on the shelf and the next delivery is the 22nd then I need to buy how many packs of raisins? Whereas in the store I'd just buy one week sized pack per week until there's a backlog and then skip a week which is a much simpler algorithm.

Also I like hiking but lets get real sometimes the weather sux or its dark out or the air is clouded with bugs... and the supermarket is well lit, flat, hvac, bug free, sometimes I just need to put a couple thousand steps on the ole step counter...

I am also an amazon S+S user like yourself and a HUGE gripe I have is UPC churn. So I subscribe to three gigantic mouthwash bottles delivered every six months and like clockwork each time that rolls around the UPC has been cancelled/discontinued and I need to shop a fresh for something inflation adjusted to be 1.5 oz smaller for their profit or whatever. I would like to S+S to a more generic product/service like ship me qty three of two month sized (enormous) mouthwash bottles twice a year of minty fluoride freshness and I don't care the exact brand or the exact size to the mL.
Sure, it depends on the drug. But lots and lots of them are inexpensive, the system isn't completely broken.

It's also often worthwhile to see what the price is with a discount card or at Walmart, as it can easily make a 90% difference in the price for someone with no insurance.
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6.6M ClixSense users exposed in wake of site, company hack
Well, except in law of course. Then, traitor == wrong and deserving of punishment. Its in the US constitution in fact.
There's nothing stopping you from using one. The great thing about OSX is that you can get to the command line just like Linux and use Emacs or Vim. Or even GUI IDEs like Geany if that's what you want.
That is a cellular automaton, whether or not they call it one.
The only problem: It’s really hard for a family of four to live in the Bay Area on just one income — even if it’s a great income

In any of the prime real estate markets it's hard to live on one salary. That is not a problem unique to the Bay Area. Furthermore, barely breaking 6 figures is not a generous salary in tech (he even says it was on par with his salary in AZ).
> from someone older, who was in the 80s

There was the same amount of time, but it was allocated differently.

There were phone calls. If somebody calls you on the phone, you stop doing what you're doing and talk to them.

Apart from that, time was scheduled in larger chunks, with fever context switches. You watch a movie start to finish, not a bunch of 2 minute Youtube videos. You spend an evening printing photos in the dark room rather than two seconds on Instagram. You go to a chess club and play with somebody sitting across the table.

So generally you do one thing at a time for longer stretches, and have to plan those activities in advance.
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GM recalls 3.6M cars due to potentially fatal software defect
Ramen is cooking for yourself! It's very expensive if you eat out[0].

[0] http://tokiunderground.com/
Don't play the blame game
You think every IT person in the government should have the ability to disclose any Top Secret programs based only on their own personal opinions about their legality?
> 2. Cooking: 3 h (who the hell cooks three times a day?)

i work from home so i do usually. once you get good at cooking, most restaurant food is un-appetizing or extremely expensive for what you are receiving. it also helps me maintain my weight and not be a complete fatass.

i still eat out a couple of times a week but i'd say a good 75% to 90% of my meals are cooked at home. par-cooking common ingredients in batches helps a lot. it's basically like running a small commercial kitchen for myself.

once you get good at cooking it's basically a 'flow' activity. line cooks get 'in the zone' when the rush hits.

also, once you get the basics down most day to day meals take about 10-15 minutes to cook, not including roasting time which is passive.

the only downside for cooking to me is the cleanup. that never stops sucking for me and brings out my lazy streak.
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--> "busy" people
You shouldn't plan a grocery trip
--> you
You shouldn't schedule a grocery trip
You shouldn't consider your diet in advance (plan meals)
You shouldn't check if groceries are needed before shopping
You shouldn't make sure you have money in the bank before shopping

So there isn't much of a difference, you still have considered that you could afford groceries, that you need them, and even have a time planned. Then I wonder, why can't one make a grocery list and then go watch the birds?

As an aside, those living on tight budgets typically have no choice but to think about everything in advance, like you're piloting a dinghy on the high seas.
First look and semi-critic review of Actiongram beta: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JQX_OVTj4v0
Seconded. As a self taught generalist ruby/python/java guy, I read POODR two years ago and it stands out as a great investment of time. Lots of "a-ha, that's what I should be doing" moments. Has anyone checked out her new 99 Bottles book?
Apple AirPods vs. Google Glass
Maps --> Hamburger menu --> Settings --> Notifications --> Your contributions --> Turn off the slider for "Adding your photos" and/or "Adding the first photo"
Do you think comma.ai is undervaluing it? Do you think they don't know that they will be under an irrational microscope the second they release an MVP?
I very much like free market. But here, the final consumer is not in a position to bargain prices when getting sick, which is a pre-requisite for a free market to function. Single-payer system works way better in that very particular industry, because both parties can now effectively negotiate.

Example: GSK is selling Advair Diskus for $300 in the US, and the same Seretide Diskus for 30 euros in France. Because on one side, they negotiate, and on the other, the enact laws to prevent negotiations (see Medicaid). When you need that disk every month, it's a huge difference.

I understand why this system is better for GSK, their shareholders and management. But why is it better for American people to persevere with a system where you pay 10, 100 times the fair price?

And don't blame the lobbyists, they can lobby all they want, the voters are the boss. If the majority wants to stop paying 100 times what they should, if the majority is tired to go bankrupt when they get sick, it just takes to publically support a single-payer system, and to vote for that. Politicians will listen.
I don't know what long risk mitigation is, but I'm offended. /s

But seriously, nobody at the NSA is going to place* you on a watch list because you are part of a small vocal minority that raised support online for Snowden, a wanted traitor and saboteur of the USA.

*There is however a good chance that the money grubbing bastards at one of the third party contractors the NSA eats up reports and analytics from will profile you into something you are not (or lets face it, you are) and that will be ingested into our intelligence pipeline.
Is it really mysterious?
This hit right in the centre of the target. My time got exponentially less with every additional member added to my family. Of course I do enjoy maintaining the relationships but it does have a toll on work and personal leisure.
As someone who just finished grad school, I'm preparing my future for "minimum maintenance" so that way I can have lots of free time for interesting projects. Shopping, cleaning, commuting, and house maintenance are not on my list of interesting projects, so I would like to minimize the time spent doing these things.

* Shopping — Don't shop, except for the necessities (and when you need them, buy in bulk). I generally feel like having stuff adds stress to my life. My girlfriend and I once had a somewhat humorous argument over whether a kitchen table is really a "need".

* House maintenance — I'll probably rent apartments as long as I can get away with it, but because all of the best high schools are usually in the suburbs, I imagine I'll need a house once I have kids. It will be a small house, but well built. Poured from concrete so I don't have to worry about weather and tornados (most American houses are made from cheap wood). No wallpaper — that stuff gums up all of the time and is a pain to clean. No carpet or wood — carpet is a grime magnet and wood gets scuffed up. I'll use large tiles on my floors (or at least those ceramic tiles that look like wood). I'll have a tiny yard. If I have to mow, I don't want it to take more than five minutes.

* Commuting — After the initial years of my career, I want a job that requires a commute no longer than 10-15 minutes. Living near a city center or finding a remote job are both solutions to this. My brother-in-law drives 3 hours a day for his job; I can't imagine giving away that much of my time.

The key to having more time is to try to think about how every decision you make might cost time in the future. Granted, many people may not be able to make free time because of circumstances beyond their control, but I think these tips and this kind of thought process can at least help a little bit.
I've spent the two halves of my career thus far working on each stack, and I really can't see where those sorts of claims come from, honestly. C# as a language is a win over Java, but from an operational perspective, it's a disaster--IIS is an absolute nightmare. Beyond that, I tend to think that because of the niceties that C# has over Java, that has somewhat held back .NET community adoption of some better practices (specifically immutability).

All that said, .NET Core is a huge win on the operational side of things, so it's definitely moving in the right direction.
As always, great article from The Guardian.
It's silly to be throwing out dire warnings about Comma's product without first going after Tesla. With a level 2 system, whether it works 90% of the time, or 99.9% of the time, the driver has still got to watch the road and be ready to respond in an instant. In fact, the less reliable the system is, the less there is the likelihood that a driver will entrust their life to it when they shouldn't.
Okay, maybe not a spy, but an agent.

https://20committee.com/2016/06/11/edward-snowden-is-a-russi...

"The proper espionage term for Edward Snowden is defector, meaning an employee of an intelligence service who takes up residence in another country whose spies are not friends. Since 1917, every single Western intelligence defector to Moscow has cooperated with the Kremlin, on grounds of quid pro quo. There is no known case of a defector not collaborating with the KGB or its successors. If you want sanctuary, you will tell the Russians everything you know. That is how the spy game works.

Any Russian intelligence officer who wants sanctuary in the United States will be required to collaborate with American spy services, including extended debriefings by multiple intelligence agencies. Are we really supposed to believe that Vladimir Putin, former KGB colonel, is more charitable?"

https://20committee.com/2016/07/02/the-kremlin-admits-snowde...

"Now, the Kremlin has settled the issue once and for all by stating that Edward Snowden is indeed their man. In a remarkable interview this week, Franz Klintsevich, a senior Russian security official, explained the case matter-of-factly: “Let’s be frank. Snowden did share intelligence. This is what security services do. If there’s a possibility to get information, they will get it.”"

Trumps daughter pals with Putin's girlfriend. Just saying.
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> Could you possibly find something a little less conspiracy theory looking? Also something a little less manifesto.

Clearly his own blog.
I was about in the 70s and 80s. Still the same number of hours in the day and internet was largely replaced by reading and TV. I don't know if it was better or worse. I think I prefer the internet. At least you can type stuff into it unlike books and TV.
Phone and electric are commodities with very, very high barriers to alternatives, and so they are regulated as common carriers.

There literally thousands of existing social sharing and networking sites in existence right now that serve as alternatives to facebook.

One of the arguments is that they are "controlling the dialogue," yet here were, having dialogue but not on Facebook.

At any rate, I doubt that you seriously believe your own arguments. For example, I doubt that you support Facebook being for to host white supremacy groups.
On a practical note, is it possible to pardon someone who hasn't yet been convicted of anything?

Presumably Obama could instruct the AG to drop the charges but that wouldn't prevent a future president from pursuing them.
However, octopuses are widely considered the smartest invertebrates, and they are solitary creatures. Hunting also exerts selection pressure for higher intelligence. You still need to predict the actions of other species even if you rarely interact with your own.
You mean something like git submodules or git subtree[2]?

[1]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules

[2]: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/05/the-power-of-gi...
the group partners were the primary value delivered by YC during the program

Interesting insight. The hype is around the money and demo day, but it seems like insight from great partners is the true differentiator for YC.
No shortage of lawsuits at the company referred to and they are out of business.
This was the book that really drilled into my head how to design in OO. It's VEEEEERRRRYYY easy to understand and will give the good heuristics to use in OO design. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00AA36RZY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_...
I'm not sure an article about "drug prices" makes much sense; the reasons why an EpiPen is expensive have practically nothing to do with the reasons why Hervoni is expensive. If you lump it all together and start looking for reasons why both are expensive, I doubt the answers you end up with will get you very far

I think this was covered in excellent detail here:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-dr...
Probably. One day I'll have to spend half an hour digging in to the settings in Camera, Photos and Maps to disable it. I tend not to take the time when I'm out in the countryside on vacation, which is when it happens.
Right. The soldering used lead and was poorly done.
First, it's an op-ed, it doesn't have to be balanced.

Second, we passed the point of "balance" long ago. A balanced take could be made when you could conceivably avoid being tracked without Herculean effort. This is no longer really possible and even the slightest consumer pushback results in articles with titles like "Do Consumers Have A Right To Opt Out Of Advertising?" [1]. We're so far into extreme privacy invasion territory that a sane "balanced" take would still be a rollback to early 2000s adtech.

Edit: the pot is boiling and you're saying that the balanced response is asking that it be turned down to a simmer. We're getting cooked either way!

[1] http://adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/consumers-right-...
Where is the question of a pardon if one has not faced trial and been found guilty?
Said just like my Dad. :-)
I read the list, to my surprise it mentioned nothing about raising kids, which took away 40%+ of my daily energy averagely and is the sole/main reason I feel busy, not to mention all the arguments and emotional stress etc you have to deal with daily.
Everybody wants to maximize the value of their investment, or product.

To the consumers affected so much by the high price, this comes around as greedy. While to the business themselves, they see this as good business incentive.

Of course, there are other factors:
+ economics of how much people are willing to pay for, the scarcity of the product (and resources used to build it)
+ the derived (and perceived) value of the people taking the medication
+ politics and lobbying cost

In the end, it all comes down to the business' bottom line and the consumer's capacity to pay. It is very probable that the pharmaceutical companies have done a lot of calculations to ensure that their price point would be at the stage where they have balanced everything to lean on profit for their side.
I agree with the interpretation of Facebook as a sort of ISP. One doesn't have to support hate groups, to support freedom of speech.
The OP clearly doesn't have kids for how glossed over the point is. Amazing that they come up with just 10 spare hours a week without even really factoring kids into the equation.

For those of us who have kids, you just sit back some days and wonder... How little we recognized at the time, the sheer freedom of being able to just head out for dinner or a drink any day of the week, plop down and watch whatever movie we wanted, sleep in on the weekends, etc.

OP does acknowledge the workload of having children is "indefinite" but doesn't really do justice to the reality of raising children.

The funny thing is how that theoretical 10 hours per week of free time will somehow make way for the ~40 hours per week spent on the children. Shopping for new shirts because they don't excite you anymore? Yeah, parents ain't got time for that BS!
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"By taking action you agree to receive occasional email updates from the Pardon Snowden campaign."

This alone is enough to deter participation. These campaigns need to separate social action from database building.
Chilling effects have a long tail.
If you ask that "why" question like a 3-year-old - i.e. keep asking it repeatedly until you get to the reason behind the reason behind the reason, the answer you'll arrive at is entropy. You can surrender to it or work against it. How much order you want, determines how much work you'll have to do. Western society has a certain baseline level of order that takes a fair amount of work to maintain.
To be a better programmer?

I don't think I'll ever work in a purely functional language, but I still took an online course to learn something about functional approaches. It was great; it has definitely changed how I program for the better.
Your source is very biased. Do you have any evidence of Monsanto suing farmers for unintentionally growing crops from seeds that have drifted onto their fields?

The most well know case is Monsanto Canada Inc v Schmeiser, but the facts do not support the farmer's claims of innocence. It's clear he tried to grow and acquire as many of Monsanto's seeds as he could.

The case you pointed to is about invalidating Monsanto's patents, or at least rendering them unenforceable. It's plainly just an attempt for farmers to save money by using Monsanto's seeds without paying for them and nothing about "victimisation".
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> I think Trump is in favour of Snowden being executed, isn't he?

I'm not sure but I can imagine him saying that at some point. Still, I'd put him at non-zero because he doesn't have the same political baggage that Clinton would worry about.
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The thing I hate about them is that they don't also recorded dissenting views and register numbers of dissenters.

A petition only works if each vote is tied to a real individual.
> While raw "existence" is free, a sheltered existence is most certainly not.

I was replying to "We have to pay to exist?", not "We have to pay for a shelter?".

Being free to do something does not mean the means to accomplish it should be free of charge. I know lots of people think otherwise and therefore believe things like food, healthcare or accommodation should be given to them somehow for free, fortunately most people don't agree.
>do you know of the number of groups who are actively developing AGI? who have made steady progress over the years?

I do not. It seems like researchers who call themselves AGI researchers have made no more significant progress than researchers developing specific analysis techniques. Do you have a list of these groups? I would be very interested to read about their approach and progress.

On the human brain initiative it seems like their is such a huge gap between AGI and current techniques that these HBI projects (and the US response[0]) are a bit misguided into giant neural simulations.

> ... companies specifically pursuing AGI and I see a whole range of individuals ...

I completely agree this is the necessary approach to pursuing AGI. Who are these companies? They sound awesome and I would like to learn more. Are you talking OpenAI? Some other companies?

Geohot. Will check him out.

EDIT: oh, George Hotz. He is using deep learning[1]

Agreed deep learning will be a tool, but not the end of AGI. Companies padding with deep learning PhDs are looking more at specific tasks that can be tackled with deep learning. Also, I would argue that deep learning has become an umbrella term for all neural network based approaches (great marketing) and there are still great advances to be made with DL building blocks.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAIN_Initiative

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...
It seems we really like to focus on "the evil" company, but it goes two ways.

Example:
A family member has serious adult scoliosis, which causes quite a bit of pain. For years she has taken Fentanyl Nasal Spray that was made by a compound pharmacist (e.g., they take the raw Fentanyl powder, and mix it with a liquid solution by hand). The retail cost of this is ~$3k for a 30 day supply. Her insurance brought that down to sub $100.

2 years ago, she received a letter from her insurance company stating that because the FDA refuses to guarantee compound (made by hand) drugs, they will no longer cover her current nasal spray and she must move to one of the alternatives.

One alternative was a lollipop, which she used to take but caused her teeth to rot and she now has dentures.
Another was different oral delivery system, but it was discontinued by the mfg less than 6 months after this.

So far her only option is a product called Lazanda, they are individually packaged and metered glass bottles of Fentanyl nasal spray. Each bottle is roughly half a day's dose, has it's own box, literature in EACH BOX, and a month's supply is 60 of these boxes.

The retail value of this? Last time I looked it was >$30,000. And the insurance just accepts it.

Madness.
See from Java perspective, it's just 20 years too late.
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OrderedDict is dead. Long live dicts that are ordered
By and large, the party line on HN is that everybody does (or should be doing) functional programming and / or lisp.
>Also, I'm pretty sure Germans don't consider socialism to be an authoritarian ideology.

I'm not sure why the opinion of Germans matters here, they have the same capitalist economy that the US and the rest of Europe do.
Samsung 'will limit faulty Note 7 batteries' to 60% charge
"My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked. That is why I accepted that position about three months ago."

"If I have time to go through this information, I would like to make it available to journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of US network operations against their people should be published."