skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution is to address the health problems structurally -- it is not going to be addressed by competitive health insurance marketplaces.

Rather, most of health care costs are from chronic disease from mostly tobacco use and obesity. Obesity is largely caused by sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs). Taxing tobacco and SSBs will dramatically reduce the chronic disease costs from smoking and obesity.
In theory, one can sue Google (or any other party) for any reason whatsoever -- no matter how absurd or "out there".

IANAL but I doubt they'd get very far. What would their actual argument even be? Google isn't obligated to include every web site in existence in their index.
Whatever. Unless it's carefully moderated (ie., censored, to some) it will gather a large collection of angry right-wing posters or angry left-wing posters. One side will harass the other and the other side will eventually go elsewhere. Then it will be just another echo chamber.

If the creator has pivoted to the alt-right, it's a pretty sure guess that it will wind up being another 8chan/stormfront/what have you.
> I'm so disappointed in how partisan YC has become, capitulating completely to prevailing meme of SJWs.

This had little to do with politics. The guy mocked a YC founder who expressed fear for his safety, and called another YC founder a "coward", among other things.

And just a couple weeks ago YC didn't capitulate to demands to cut ties with Peter Thiel over his support of Trump.

What other instances are you referring to?
There are also more details mentioned in this Chess.com article: https://www.chess.com/news/carlsen-plays-white-in-round-one-...
GoPro Karma Drone – Instant Karma, Bad Karma or Good Karma?
Sure, but if choosing your moves is a creative task, then why wouldn't the moves be jointly copyrighted by the two players?

What's the difference between:

1. e4 e5
2. Qh5 Nc6
3. Bc4 Nf6??
4. Qxf7#

and:

fmt: .string "Hello World!\n"
.balign 4
.global main
main:
stp x29, x30, [sp, -16]!
mov x29, sp
adrp x0, fmt
add x0, x0, :lo12:fmt
bl printf
ldp x29, x30, [sp], 16
ret

if both are the result of a creative process?
The Great Rent Squeeze
"and when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."

The context does't lead me to believe anything about Trumps actual actions.
Virtual realty: can a computer game turn you into an ‘evil’ property developer?
I don't see how people buying knockoff (but in-stock!) consoles will hep Nintendo sell more Nintendos
The sports apis I think you need a licence or they're very expensive for some other reason. This one is $1200+ /month. https://fantasydata.com/pricing/mlb-data-api.aspx
Thanks so much for sharing this, great read !

For those, like me, that want to play with what this stackoverflow talks about, here's a fiddle of it: https://jsfiddle.net/tbinetruy/Latkmk2q/1/ (code takes 2s to run and loads firebug for console logs).
Jakearchibald/navigation-transitions
Thought of this when I was browsing AliExpress for Singles Day, today, and found this:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Video-Game-Projector-PGS-Con...

Available cheap for another 8 hours, maybe something to tide them over?
Does anyone have a good spreadsheet app with near-feature equivlance to google sheets (filters, conditional formats, etc). Tried EtherCalc and it's ok for issue lists, but a bit limited for status reporting.
The article revolves around the concept of hidden or visible "sectors," and never seems to explain what kind of thing thee actually are. Does anyone have the expertise to clarify?
Didn't it take Wikileaks to reveal the email server? What do you consider 'verified'?
Link it to other information from my contacts as well.

"Hello ... Dave. How is your ... wife ... Kelly? And your ... dog?"
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We don't actually know what happened which is the hard part. They could have done it wrong, or they could have done it right but a bug caused it to be filtered in google search. Maybe some automated process deemed the new side as fraudulent. Last thing anyone wants is a new site with a similar domain stealing SEO.

Moving domains always comes with its risks.
You don't need a computer!
What was the "Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision" retro-release? Seems like a newish phenomenon due to falling cost of production.

Objectively, (if you put a complete novice kid in front of a console), NES and SNES's good/great games are the best.
You could bubble them. Left folk who don't like right wing folk only see left people, right folk who don't like left wink folk in their own bubble.

Let people see who they want to see, but if they & enough of their friends say "don't show me X" then don't show them X.
The thing is, in the case where arbitrage doesn't exist, people without discretionary income still lose—because people with discretionary income can trade that income for someone else's time, which they can use to reserve more slots in any sort of a non-monetarily-determined distribution system (paying them to stand in line for them to get a first-come-first-served finite good; paying them to enter a raffle for them; etc.)

Adding arbitrage just makes this process more efficient, by allowing the richer consumers to express their desires directly, rather than having to hire someone (or, more likely, pay a service to hire someone, or use someone they already retain for miscellaneous tasks) to spend their time (exchanged for money) to acquire the good. Either way, richer consumers will preferentially acquire goods in a market; that's one of the fundamental properties of markets, and can't really be divorced from them.
China launches pulsar navigation satellite
Google Pixel pwned in 60 seconds
2017 Volkswagen GOLF 7
Name / address / Credit card registration.
If they would stop the problem at the source, they might be out of work... but anyways I think that it is not a good idea to become an outlaw to catch other outlaws...
It appeared to be a short term bug. Everyone on my feed was seeing it, and I saw it on every friend I checked. But 10 minutes later it was done.

I'm sure some engineer frantically watched a "roll back" continuous integration process run for several minutes, while his coworkers played the GoT "Shame!" video over and over and threw things at him.
MBA Interview pro-tip: Amazon should make NES a Prime-only item.
I like being entrepreneurial and making things more efficient. This takes away jobs. I don't want to stop making things more efficient through automation. I don't want to hold back progress. But these people need to live. So basic income.

Sanders has too much animosity towards the wealthy.
As a proud member of the rest of the world, please don't speak on my behalf. I may live in Europe but what happens in the US very much concerns and affects me, and many others like me.
Yeah right, pal.
Although there are plenty of studies to suggest otherwise, at least one study: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou... suggests that smokers have a lifetime healthcare cost that is lower for the simple reason that they die earlier, and dying is cheap.

full disclosure: I smoke, and am thus not impartial when it comes to higher cigarette taxes.
I get the concept of introducing tiny errors to make it look better, but I disagree with almost all of the examples you cited.

For the bird one, the shape of the bird in that cage is different than the other yellow birds, but is identical to the black one. So that bird was probably originally black, then was edited to be yellow but they forgot to restore the black bars over it.

For the moon one, that's extremely implausible. It's a tiny rope, right next to a large shape that clearly cuts across the moon. Having it go behind the moon doesn't make the moon stand out any more, it's simply an error. In addition, the moon isn't even the focal point of that image, it's a fairly incidental detail (hell, it's almost hidden behind the house).

The toe one is the only one that I think is plausibly intentional.

For the tree one, I agree that the scene was likely drawn without a sun, then the sun added in after. But that does make it an error, because they decided to stick a sun somewhere that clearly contradicts the lighting on the rest of the stamp.
When I watch MLB games streamed from mlb.tv, there is a warning at the end that says you may not reproduce or transmit the game or descriptions thereof (or something like that). I don't remember the exact language, but I do remember being struck by the fact that it extended beyond the game itself.

I would imagine that the websites that give play-by-play info may have paid for the right to publish information about the game, or they may be able to just watch it on TV (or live) and update their info that way. As another commenter noted, the organizers could have set up the competition to forbid the audience from disseminating info, but they didn't for whatever reason.
Arithmetic, Population and Energy – A Talk by Al Bartlett
I don't seek out garage sales but look for old Nintendos when I end up at one and I never see them, never mind for cheap with a pile of games.
On (apparently) the original announcement [0], we're told that:

> Sandstorm for Work is priced at $15/user/month ...

But if I click the "And more..." link just above that, I'm taken to another page [1] that says:

> Priced at $10/user/month

I assume they dropped the price at some point and $10/user/month is the correct (current) pricing?

[0]: https://sandstorm.io/news/2016-04-06-sandstorm-for-work
[1]: https://sandstorm.io/business
What happens if you put a VR-Cinema into a Elevator attached to a Cardanian Cage? Total Vomit-immerssion!
> In fact I've always found Ramanujan's story to be an excellent example of open-mindedness and the meritocratic approach to judging people.

Can you elaborate on how those themes are more prevalent in reality than the underdog against a racist system ones presented in the movie?
Yeah, good luck with that. So far, it looks like it's going to be W.'s third term, in practice. But with more racism, xenophobia, and general gloom.
Scrapy is a framework and does require knowledge of python oop and idioms. One thing is that knowing scrapy is a career boost because there is a good market out there for it.

What are your goals? Simple scraping? Then bs4 is ok. If more complex then go for scrapy. Its the django of web scrapers.
Your point was:

"Take it from someone who saw what Brexit did to the UK: Your country, by electing someone with an unpleasant set of views on race/religion, has implicitly given free reign to people with even more unpleasant views on those to do whatever they want and not fear repercussions because... after all, they've been told they're in the majority now."

You argued that there would be an increase in "do whatever they want", which I take to mean crimes (assault, robbery, hate crimes, etc) by people who feel empowered by a majority.

You cited anecdotal evidence as an example (take it from me, I experienced brexit...) to back up your claim there would be an increase in crime. I cited a source ("rag" or not, they cited direct quotes from the police and the police's own analysis of the statistics that there wasn't an exponential increase) to prove the idea that there is some kind of magical "exponential" increase in crime to be false.

My point is that electing Trump is not going to cause this increase because the vast majority of ordinary citizens will not turn into criminals exponentially.
Kadin's comment, which I replied to, never mentioned anything about science or science reporting. He only talked about press in general and made the point that since the news organization is not trustworthy, any news out of it can't be trusted. You were the only one talking about science reporting out of all the comments in the whole thread. That's kind of irrelevant to the specific discussion.

Edit: Or are you saying the science news reporting from People.cn are separated from the political reporting and thus can be trusted? You were making the point that science reporting and political reporting are different.
A non-free pass would mean Beck actually took responsibility for his actions and apologized rather than than attempt to excuse himself with false equivalence.

Let's be clear, he baselessly demonized Obama's presidency while the man was actively trying to reach across the aisle and even brought numerous Republicans into his administration. Beck fed lies and hate to incite an angry mob, and was a key player in the last eight years of the bitterest partisan divide and obstruction that we've experienced in the modern era. And now he's minimizing Trump's vile words and actions -- arguably a direct product of the climate Beck helped create -- because somehow Beck's own insane apocalyptic fantasies about Obama should normalize them? That is the furthest thing from an apology. It's a gross insult to anyone familiar with the facts, a cynical attempt to abdicate his personal responsibility, and attempts to mainstream the worst of Trump's behavior.

No. What Glenn Beck is doing right now is just pandering to his own audience that he was at risk of losing entirely if he didn't eventually fall in line with Trump.
If you do not hide the fact that you are a Trump supporter, you will be fired (or more accurately, a reason will be found for you to be fired).
What else can TFA fall back on. I know steam uses email and iOS tells you're other devices, but is there another option.
Maybe it's evil in consumer devices, but secure boot is very effective when you don't want people to tamper with your hardware, e.g., preventing counterfeit commercial-grade routers from entering the market. Cisco for example is facing a HUGE problem with counterfeits and is looking at secure boot as a potential solution. I'm not affiliated with Cisco, but I did attend a talk by one of their researchers at Georgia Tech.
You can copyright a particular arrangement of facts (or other non-copyright protected content) where that arrangement required creative thought (even if "arrangement" is just layout as simple as page numbers/breaks).

Notes are facts, but sheet music (and other representations) of sequence of notes, aka a song, are copyrightable. Why are a sequence of moves not the same?

This ruling seems more about biases people have about art (music) and sport/game (chess) than about copyright law.

So what is the difference between two people playing chess and two people jamming (musical improv)? Both have limited moves, rules, structure, the creative input from two people. The chess moves are not copyrightable but the song notes are?

I actually think neither should be.
Yes: https://sandstorm.io/news/2016-08-31-sandstorm-for-work-read...

Pricing is hard. :/

PS. The current pricing is $5/user/month if you pay for a year upfront!
This was announced 72 hours after Trump was elected... a president who vocally opposes net neutrality.

http://about.att.com/story/att_introduces_stream_saver.html

Note that this is categorically worse than the T-Mobile deal. Unlike T-Mobile Binge On, this throttled data still counts against your data quota. Users get nothing in exchange. It's forcing a quality limit setting (one that most mobile video apps already provide) and making it difficult to disable.
For Arch, it's just

pacman -S gource
If he lets the Tea Party horsemen of the apocalypse loose on Yellen and the Fed, he just might

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/25/infrastructure-co...
The chip is targeting ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) applications, and I would assume that the hard part is to run vision algorithms (that is responsible for reading the cube and/or visual servo) on an automotive MCU, which almost always prioritizes safety and standard compliance at the cost of performance and has weird custom architecture (PowerPC in the auto world is already "mainstream"), at a really high frame rate.
Political discussion in non-political threads could be very damaging to HN overall, I'd be fully supportive of a very short leash outside of threads that aren't explicitly political, but we should be able to have political threads, I can't see how that is harmful at all. If HN can't have these discussions then god help us all.
Are you offended by the idea of safe spaces? (you have no right to this)

Are you offended by people acting on their ideas? (you have no right to this)

Are you offended by people acting on their ideas impacting other people? (you have no right to this, umm.. wait, maybe you do)

Would you prefer that people carefully segregated their ideas to certain places to avoid impacting on (or being impacted by) other people? (oh fuck, the world is complicated eh?)
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Because empathy is explicitly not transactional.
Yup, and we should've been willing to pay a whole lot more, so that more people kept their rust-belt jobs, and weren't swayed by Trump's "jobs, jobs" appeal.
If you'd like another example, try Steve Jobs. Or Bill Gates. Or Mark Zuckerberg.

Your position isn't tenable in the face of history, unfortunately.
I mean, paranoia aside, he's not wrong. He's making horribly false equivalencies but that probably comes more from a lack of understanding of how bad the situation is in china, than a lack of understanding of the west.
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In broadcast and print media, there are "facts" which are routinely embargoed (they cannot be released before a certain date/time). Financial results from publicly-traded companies are similarly embargoed, even though they be simple facts. Why can't this mechanism be employed as a condition of being permitted to attend the event?
I have to agree. This was a particularly irritating popover, and the means to close it was virtually invisible. It took me a while to find it.

I think that with the advent of the almost universal use of adblock, websites have become more aggressive in seeking revenue by other means. Popovers have become much more pervasive, even over the last year. They are going to be harder to kill than pop-ups since they make viewing the web page conditional on a deliberate action by the user.
Calculating the Memory Usage of Objects and Arrays in Java
Traditionally, toy companies will have a "tent pole" item they hype up and sell out of before Christmas (originally Cabbage Patch Kids but later on Elmo, Wii, etc.) This forces parents to less desirable accessory products for Christmas. Mysteriously after Christmas the tent pole item is in stock.

Eric Clark's book "The Real Toy Story" goes into the origin of this and other trends [1]. Nobody is really wild about the idea, but the industry is kind of forced into it because sales are literally all within a 3 week period. Miss it and you're dead. Tactics like the 'high demand, low availability' hot Christmas toy are a matter of survival.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Real-Toy-Story-Ruthless-Consumers/dp/...
I despise McConnell but he is looking down the barrel of a raid on the Fed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12935834

When push comes to shove and if Trump tries to suborn the Senate, McConnell, like Roberts on the Court, might be the great white hope.
For WordPress.
I hadn't thought of that kind of application before. Thanks.
You unwellness takes another person's skill and labor to treat.
CLRS "introduction to algorithms" has a bit on it. Some quite versatile graph algorithms e.g. A* are dynamic programming. From memory some project Euler problems are pretty approachable with dynamic programming, but these are abstract without any applied context.

I had a bit of fun years ago writing search algorithms to find profitable trade routes in Eve online, from memory that was largely based on some strange variation of A*, perhaps you can find some entertaining application like that.

Worth also checking out out some operations research / combinatorial optimisation problems. E.g. one of the simplest problems to tackle with dynamic programming is knapsack.

If you learn linear programming there's also some combinatorial optimisation problems that can be tackled by integrating an LP solver with a custom dynamic programming algorithm. This can be used in a technique called "column generation" where in this context "column" in jargon for a decision variable. You start with an initial set of decision variables and do an LP solve, then get the dynamic programming algorithm to search to find a new variable that can produce a better solution (incorporating information about the prices of constraints from the LP dual solution). Then you plug that new variable (if there is one) as an additional decision variable in the optimisation problem and solve the resulting LP again, getting an improved solution. Then repeat with the new dual prices, iterate until you hit a fixed point. Is applicable for certain problems that can be modelled as LPs where there are very large numbers of decision variables (e.g. > millions) but only a sparse subset are non-zero in a good/optimal solution. I think the classic application of this approach is the "cutting stock" problem.
I didn't actually claim that Thiels book states the line in question, the claim was actually made by an earlier commenter, presumably based either (a) directly from the book itself or (b) from the phrase in this bloomberg article [1] that is indicated to as a direct quote from the book in question.

My point was, edblarey objecting "that is a lie!" and then decrying that multiculturalism is bad is nonsensical.

Is the lie that Thiel wrote the book? Its existence is a matter of public record. Does he instead mean that it is a lie that the book makes the claim that "multiculturalism exists to destroy western culture"? Did Bloomberg fabricate the quote? Or does the quote exist but when considered in context mean something different than Bloomberg claims?

All of these are certainly possibilities, but we can't hope to divine which one edblarney means because he spent his comment defending the multiculturalism-is-bad angle (irrelevant to whether Thiel made the claim in question) rather than point out how Thiels claim either does not exist, or does exist but has a different meaning in context.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-21/the-strang...
Chess is far more constrained than that. Pawns generally have 0 or 1 move with the maximum possible of 3 moves followed by piece selection which is knight or queen as bishops and rooks have the subset of a queens moves. There are a maximum of 8 pawns. Thus (8 * 3 * 2) = 48

Kings have a maximum of 8 moves. 2 Rooks a maximum of 14 = 28, 2 bishops 12 = 24, and 2 knights 8 = 16, queen = 36. And this is individually on an actual board there is often less then 50 legal choices (ex: 20 for opening) and the average game is 40 move (pairs).

Thus you could encode most chess matches as a tweet.
After spending a week evaluating if we are to pick Solr or Elastic, here are some of the more interesting conclusions:

- Solr comes with optional security config; Elastic charges for Shield. At the time of the evaluation, Shield pricing wasn't online (and there were hints online it starts at 1600/year and goes upwards from there).

- Elastic can have a 'split brain' from time to time, and some data can be lost.

- Elastic is more user friendly, but that comes at a price of installing Kibana + other software. Solr is all-in-one.

- Both will let you shoot yourself in the foot with dynamic fields and schema, but if you go the hardcoded schema way, solr is easier to setup.

- Solr has DataImportHandler, which makes configuring the entire DB import from an existing database, 2 minutes job once you know what you are doing. The import seemed to be doing 50k records / second, and it can also do partial syncs if things have changed.

- Performance wise, they are both overkill if one is staying away from managed schemas and provide decently beefed-up VMs. But Solr+DataImportHandler, gives you one more option (aside from zookeeper) for cheap scaling. If you have mostly read heavy instances, you can put separate VMs behind a load balancer to ensure near 100% uptime and robustness, with the minimal fuss of clicking a button once a month to add the deltas to the separate VMs.
What went wrong at Tesco Bank?