skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm making an argument that can stand or fall on its own.

Not when your argument depends on that 90% number being correct. Some people might read that and say "wow really, 90%?" and that might actually persuade them. When you make a quantitative statement that has no backing its not up to you whether it stands on its own or not - if your numbers are not correct then it does not. You could say "some" instead of 90%, but you can't even say "most" without some kind of proof to back it up but you don't even do that, you just pick a really high number that would be very persuasive to anyone who doesn't question whether or not that number is true. Its lazy at best and intentionally misleading at worst.
The FDA’s Rigged Drug Committees
If someone is driving behind you at 95 mph and you don't merge right as soon as it's safe, you are putting yourself at risk.

Also, consider why do they drive that fast - maybe it's an emergency. Sure, in most cases it isn't, but what if this one is?
Ask HN: Is Meteor(JS framework) is dying slowly?
I am not trying to assume anything here, but I recently read a blog post about the Kadira's(meteor analytics platform) shut down claiming poor ROI, and it also seems like meteor developers are shifting their focus towards Apollo(GraphQl based) framework. Does it mean meteor may be eclipsed soon?
Many people complain that meteor is too much magic and full of surprises to develop enterprise grade apps, and it seems like meteor depends mostly on Galaxy for ROI. Given that meteor is not used much by enterprises, will developers slowly shift to Apollo(since GraphQL is in trend right now)?
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Amazon Web Services Buries Another Rival in the Cloud Wars
Hotels have to comply with other regulatory mandates like health insurance for the workers, worker's comp, pension/retirement plans, in some cities - unions, etc.

You may also be forgetting the other amenities that hotels may provide: the additional cost of common area facilities (exercise rooms, breakfast areas, pool, etc) the hotel provides for the guest. Room service, turndown service, and daily cleaning also play a huge role.

There's also a huge amount of space that's used for things like lobbies, front desks, back of the house offices for the accounting/managerial/etc staff that keep not only your one room operating, but provides the flexibility to rent 100, 200, 300, 400 rooms.

Then of course, you have the construction + regulation that goes into a hotel. Guestroom entry doors must meet a specific fire-rated standard (greater than those normally found in residential homes). In the United States and in Europe, each guestroom is designed to maximize the protection of the occupant from environmental threats. Fire alarms and sprinklers are regularly tested, every entry door has a lock whose key is tightly controlled. HVAC systems are constantly maintained so that dust and mold don't build up inside.

And so on, and so forth.
And here is another example (notice it almost works, proving there is no hardware limitation): http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/42426/can-i-upgrade...
playing the piano well also requires practice, discipline, and effort. it's not science. it's an artistic performance skill.

meditation is an empirical approach to psychological and spiritual development. there is a lot of overlap between the empirical approach of Buddhist meditation and the empirical approach of Western experimental science. however, it's not accurate to describe meditation as science.
Exact same experience. Roughly 48 hours of uptime and then I have to reboot in order to maintain a SSH connection.

That, and Finder that becomes unusably slow after working with images for a few hours. (Admittedly, tens of thousands of images, but it degrades to the point that merely opening an empty folder takes 2-3 seconds.)
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Classic HN: Black Triangles (2004)
That really depends on where you live :)
Not so bright, If you are living in a country which has a low rent index.

The calculation is really messed up, rent index should be a contributor not a multiplier.
Good article! For those who haven't finished it, here's the bottom line:

"ELLEN SCHRECKER, professor emerita of history, Yeshiva University: What Sokal was showing was the downgrading of academic expertise. Historians go into the archives and we interview people and try to find out what happened from the evidence — rather than relying on secondhand information. Basically it’s a confrontation between a trained mind and a piece of evidence. This is what physicists do, this is what biologists do. This is what literary theorists do, too, but I think what happened to them is they ran out of new documents, and so they began to poach on the rest of us.

[...]

"What really bothered me was the inability of Alan Sokal and the other people who were responding to him to realize how this was playing out in the larger world. The hoax was very clever. But then he should have made the broader point about what’s really happening out there. I don’t think that things would have changed if he hadn’t written it, but he didn’t look around him and see that academic expertise was already under attack. Today is the culmination of 40 years of attacks on academic expertise. It’s fine if you want to make fun of deconstruction, but it’s not fine if you make fun of climate change.

"BÉRUBÉ: It’s widely accepted now that among the most controversial things you can do on a campus is deal with gender and sexuality, the Middle East, or climate change. I mean, they’re not exempt, the scientists. I didn’t think they would be, but it took some years for my argument to take hold. I said, the forces that are this anti-intellectual and this skeptical of what we do on campus, they’ll get wind of you soon enough.

"SOKAL: There is in American culture a persistent anti-intellectual current, which looks down on the pointy-headed professors and is happy to pick up on any excuse to have a laugh at them. That was the negative side.

"BÉRUBÉ: The echo chamber that publishes Sokal’s essay is so much less pernicious than the echo chamber that believes Hillary Clinton was running a child-sex ring out of a pizza parlor. Now we’re talking something well beyond epistemic closure and something much more like total batshit.

"SCHRECKER: What we’re reaping is an incredible moment of anti-intellectualism in American life, and it’s dangerous."

My take is that Sokal wanted to attack a specific, limited movement, although he didn't necessarily understand the nuances of who he was attacking. However, the result of his hoax was to give a freakin' big stick to them as want to attack those ivory tower eggheads with things like, "a majority of published research is wrong, and given that academics inhabit a very rarefied and solipsistic reality rather different from most of us".
While there is an argument that economic coercion is true coercion, most people think that if you freely choose to provide a service (like farming animals), and freely enter into commercial arrangements concerning the fruits of your labour (selling meat) to others who freely choose to swap money for the things you're selling them, then no imposition has occurred.

The main way to make your argument work I think is by looking at the externalities imposed on everyone, but things become less clear cut then, because nothing we do is entirely free of side effects, and choosing which to restrict legally is not simple and ideally should be done impartially when it is done.
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Hi, TiDB maps SQL table to K/V table and store the SQL table to K/V store(TiDB store these K/V to TiKV), Please see https://pingcap.github.io/blog/2016/10/17/how-we-build-tidb/
coffee shop wifi's will not connect unless u goto an http only site.
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Extensive discussion from 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13290875 (128 comments)
Yes it left a bad taste in my mouth the moment they asked everyone to submit their laptops. What's even more surprising is that no one objected. Not even one (this was a batch of ~60). People are so very eager to give up rights to their own property for $146/month for 6 months. I was more disappointed in the interns than angry at the company.
Sublime Text vs. Visual Studio Code vs. Atom Performance Test (Dec 2016)
Ask HN: What is the best resource to learn about modelling NoSQL data?
That is false. You will typically get a 10% or 15% cash discount from the hospital ticket price. Still easily 3x what an insurance company would negotiate for you.

Some hospitals allow you to fill out extensive paperwork to apply to have greater bill reductions, and you need to send in several years of tax returns, bank statements, a personal financial statement, an explanation of your situation and why you can't pay in full, etc. It's a grueling, paperwork intensive, and invasive process.
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Sure, but the laws regarding eminent domain already show that the state can appropriate property if it's considered to be in the public good. Just because something has value it doesn't mean that we have to allow someone to extract wealth from it.

Regardless, I see what you're saying about OP contradicting his/herself, but it's not necessarily a contradiction: the value to society may be greater than that to the copyright holder. Of the millions of works still under copyright today created in 1960, only a handful are still generating wealth for their copyright holders. But could all those works which are not generating wealth actually be valuable to modern people breathing life into old works by republishing or remixing? Perhaps.
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"But practically speaking, ownership has worked out better for most people over the long run."

As I said before, as long as you don't buy high and sell low, your money has effectively been flushed down the drain in the form of rent.
But your original feeling is right- most complete models are in fact time reversible. The static analysis toolkit is a simplified physics for engineering analysis.
Let me reply as someone who's used Gogs for a year.

The main dev seems to be a good guy and it was always a good experience to communicate with him on bugs/features or pull requests.

He is a single point of failure, though. There were quite some active contributors to Gogs. They work on Gogs quite a lot, fixing bugs and improving it. Even simple fixes like typos don't get merged for weeks. And that's when Unknwon is available. When he's gone, he's just gone and other developers have no idea if the project is dead now, or not.

Most of the recent activity in Gogs development came from the people who now work on Gitea. I hate that this fork happened because I really don't like the Gitea name and logo.. but that's where the development is happening now..
If it was directly for the SEC, you would apply through a .gov site, so it is pretty safe to assume this is a contractor.
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Craft CMS. It allows you to define a meta model in a convenient editor, and lets you render out data with a template engine (HTML/JSON/...). The meta-meta-model consists of a few sensible objects, so it's not just UML rendered down. It has fine grained access control, so you can define which user can access what data.

Things like image uploads in the backend (admin) area are solved. E.g you can setup an S3 bucket that is used for your site's dynamic assets.

Security updates are one-click-installs and I'd say there is at least one per week.

There are plenty of plugins available, too.

It's a bit pricey (compared to FOSS) if you use it for clients, but you can develop for free or even host your own website for free with it.

I've used it twice so far, and I enjoyed it very much.
>You don't actually lose anything until you sell.

If the value of your asset falls, you've lost net worth.

It's preposterous to claim that, even though the price of your home has fallen by half, and you are servicing the mortgage on the old value, that you haven't lost anything. Or that the fact that you can offset capital gains with capital losses somehow makes a plunge in value "worth it".

"Paper losses" are losses. The value of the asset isn't based on the price you paid.
Seems to be a contractor:

http://www.aretecinc.com/2016/09/30/aretec-awarded-blanket-p...