skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great real-world example of the Nobel Prize winning concept, The Market for Lemons. [0]

A buyer wants to spend somewhere between price 4-6, but they aren't able to tell quality 3 from quality 7. Due to fear of getting taken advantage of, they end up settling for low quality at low price. Sellers react to this behavior, and we get the price/quality distortions described above.

[0] http://www.economist.com/news/economics-brief/21702428-georg...
There was a resistance to using Pocket, because it's a closed proprietary service. Now Mozilla plan to open source it, for which they had to buy it first. So it's a good outcome IMHO.
This wasn't an article trying to prove that immigration is horrible. He was simply pointing out that there is a lot in question that needs to be discussed, and that it is unproductive to call the other side racist and xenophobic which seems to be the mode of discussion right now.
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Looking for input from LinkedIn users:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13738855
"Etak eventually became a part of TomTom, ensuring that its map data, some of which was first digitized back during the Navigator's development in 1984, would live on to this day."

The story of how TomTom and not Garmin ended up owning the data originally digitized at Etak is interesting. At the time, there were only two digital map companies: Tele Atlas (from which TomTom got their map data) and Navteq (from which Garmin got their map data).

From Wikipedia [1]:

"On July 23, 2007, a €2 billion offer for the company by navigation system maker TomTom was accepted by the Tele Atlas board. This was then trumped by a €2.3 billion offer from United States-based rival Garmin on October 31, 2007 initiating a bidding war for Tele Atlas. TomTom responded by upping their bid to €2.9 billion, an offer which was again approved by the board of Tele Atlas. Garmin had been expected to counterbid once again: with Tele Atlas' main global rival Navteq subject to a takeover bid from Nokia, the company had stated that it did not wish both companies to fall into the hands of rivals. However, after striking a content agreement with Navteq through the year 2015, Garmin withdrew its takeover offer, clearing the way for TomTom. On December 4, 2007, TomTom shareholders approved the takeover. The European Commissioner for Competition cleared the takeover in May 2008, and it closed in June."

TomTom (where I worked at the time) was shocked and dismayed that Garmin outbid them by €300 million on Tele Atlas, because while it made a lot of sense for TomTom to buy their own map data supplier, it would have been prohibitively complex and expensive for Garmin, who used Navteq data, to switch map data sources and retool their entire map data digestion, distribution and error correction pipelines.

TomTom was so determined to buy Tele Atlas and keep it out of Garmin's hands, that they raised their bid by €900 million.

In the meantime, Garmin renegotiated their deal with Navteq, so they didn't have to pay as much for the data, and didn't have to switch map suppliers.

The stunt that Garmin pulled of was, in my opinion, an ingenious head-fake that cost TomTom an enormous amount of money, almost a billion euros, and at the same time saved Garmin a whole lot of money by enabling them to renegotiate a better deal with Navteq, who was faced with losing their major customer if they didn't lower their prices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tele_Atlas
I would say every red light runner affects society. The main reason people support self-driving cars is because of how common traffic deaths are. Because of how bad humans are at driving. It's a lot easier to do a software update on a poorly-behaving self-driving car than it is to re-educate poorly-behaving human drivers.

The real question is not "do self-driving cars commit traffic violations?" but rather "do self-driving cars commit traffic violations at a lower rate than humans?". That's what matters. Not that they're perfect, but that they're better in a measurable way.
> at Facebook we'd say "clowntown"

Aren't you the same people who produced that monstrosity of an iPhone app and then publicly boasted, in defense of it, that iOS can't "handle our scale?" Considering that Facebook's reputation as an engineering company isn't exactly stellar, tossing in an "at Facebook" only serves to undermine your post rather than bolster it.
Well, that's how really-existing capitalism functions. Socialized losses and golden parachutes for the ruling class, wage theft and austerity programs for the working class. Still, I suppose the "why" is worth pondering.
I'm a skeptic. Even if self-driving vehicles work perfectly, most people desperately want to drive. For many, driving is the only time during the day where they are alone and are in charge.

There is a huge psychological element to why cars are so popular.

[Personally I hate cars altogether and only use public transport.]
Yep, I can confirm that.
In Marc Andreessen's case it really, really makes sense though, at least from my POV.

How is it an excuse for a technology company to ask for more money so they can do more business? Their business just happens to be giving people technology.

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To put it in clearer terms, Marc Andreessen is with the crowd that has the most to gain from charity contributions. He's got his fingers in all the right pies to make a lot of money from the results of more charity activities. He can is described as "a co-founder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook,[5] eBay,[6] and Hewlett Packard Enterprise,[7] among others" according to wikipedia and he was apperently involved with Free Basics.

You can read more about this here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen#Criticism

The Free Basics thing is exactly the worst possible thing for any third world county I can think of. Getting spoon fed the "right" information from an overload mega-corp.

I think it's fair to say that his buisness is collecting data on people and manipulating them and that "just happens to include providing technology" which is one of the things he can do by finding selective charities.
To state the obvious-- Hypothesis is eager, and is running one. If we can be so bold, we think we are also trustworthy. We knew that this could not work unless we also created a service.

We welcome all others.
Something I've always wished Pocket would do is download an offline copy of videos I add to the list (using, say, youtube-dl [1]), so I can watch them on the subway, etc. But they never did this, presumably either for legal reasons, or because it was a giant waste of bandwidth considering a huge percentage of Pocketed articles never get read.

Now that Mozilla is promising to open-source this, I eagerly await adding this feature to my own fork :)

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[1]: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
You're standing on the shoulders of giants but not in the way that you think.

The modern anomalous rise in wealth is directly correlated to an increase in the use of fossil fuels since the beginning of the 20th century. So if you want to talk about giants, you should mean to say you're standing on the shoulders of trillions of carbon lifeforms condensed into coal, oil and natural gas over hundreds of hundreds of millions of years.

What people have accumulated in wealth between when life arose and 1850 is entirely insignificant than what was built in the last 167 years (roughly).
My experience has been that my friends and I troll each other by submitting endorsements for irrelevant things like "Microsoft Office" or "Public Speaking." I usually spend a few minutes on LinkedIn when this happens, so this is consistent with your point.
For ~100 years nobody has been able to make a light red enough for people to consistently stop and wait to proceed.

Uber and all the other companies will permanently solve that problem the one time they figure out how to reliably identify a red light.
I read these articles until I get to the first major methodological problem. In this case, it is this claim:

"It turns out that people’s interview language of choice matched their most endorsed language on LinkedIn just under 50% of the time, so, you know, just slightly worse than flipping a coin."

That would only be true if there were only two programming languages.
Samsung’s Staedtler stylus is ~5,000 times more awesome than the Apple Pencil
How did you know? I mean, is it a habit of the author to sniff for unprotected/useful APIs, or was the word on the street about Domino's crap privacy?
Actually, LinkedIn endorsements have to be accepted by the endorsee before appearing on their profile. This has always been the case, I know because I haven't accepted endorsements for `Cascading Stylesheets`, but for `CSS`.
I broke my toe on the coffee table last year and in my old mbp battery swallowed - so it's not very comforting
One thing I'm curious about is if the author noticed a budge before the laptop exploded and brought it to the Apple store. I had a similar problem as I noticed the laptop was uneven as I was typing. Noticed there was a bump on the bottom and brought it to the store to have it repaired. Not saying it's ideal, but there might have been a chance it could have been prevented before it got too far out of hand.
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Analyzing the potential market size of karate clubs in Slovenia – Revision I
I use pinboard.in I never had an issue with Pocket because I never used it and just uninstalled it.
I think reasonable people can disagree regarding the net effects of illegal immigrants, but at the same time one can't ignore the fact that they have a distorting effect on the u.s. labor markets and undoubtedly there are winners and losers as a result of those distortions.
I think that's the best use of them yet.
Your evidence only demonstrated the existence of the bottom of the slope.
Not everyone wants to live by amazon or even succeeds with it.

Try https://bubbl.in for example if you wish to sell your work like a responsive book straight on the web. Zero lock-ins and great sales outside of a garden if you will ;)

Full disclosure: I'm the developer/engineer behind the service.
I am in the same spot. I bookmark a TON of stuff and I never visit it again.

I do sync pocket right before a flight but find myself engaging with it rarely.

I find my use of bookmarks akin to liking something on facebook (or even saving it for later, which I never go back to).
The skepticism enters when we question whether they actually be able to deliver. If companies are actually far less able to build a self-driving car than the image they like to project then the dangers enter.

Also:

Self-driving cars won't start out safer than humans.

Cars which can self drive in some situations but not others will be abused by lazy humans.

Self-driving cars will drive differently than people and thus kill people in accidents which would not have occurred had there been a human driver.

There is no such thing as "mostly autonomous." Humans will not be able to take over and drive at their normal skill level within short time frames.

There has to yet, been no apples to apples comparison of human drivers and autonomous vehicles. Until we get that, why should we let companies use our public roads as their testbed? When Tesla or any other company can prove to me that their cars are safer than human-driven vehicles, I won't oppose them on my roads.
I got a year of it through the humble productivity bundle (or something similar) a couple of years ago. It's one of the few things in the bundle that I continued to subscribe to (along with lastpass) after the bundle ran out. It's cheap, and I enjoy the service. I don't really use the premium features so much that their absolutely indispensable, but they are nice. I keep a huge library of stuff in pocket and the unlimited storage space and easier searching is nicer than having to re-google for things.
We thought of that too and tried to see how often people were endorsed for their language of choice vs. their most endorsed language. Keep reading? (You can scroll down to where the gray histogram is.)
Well it's not just about that though.

With that many in the sector its going to have huge economic consequences for the country.
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I've been thinking about this lately, and whether my preference for modal editors is a historical accident, an adaptation to the limited resources available when I was an undergrad, or whether there's more to it. I think there's more to it. What separates vim and emacs from editors with a more forgiving learning curve is that they embrace a separate language for editing that's distinct from text entry.

That's not to say that other editors lack a meta-language. Even Notepad has Control-this and Meta-that. But vim and emacs (and my new favorite, kakoune) are all about using the meta language to manipulate text as much as possible, and only doing text entry when text entry is truly called for. Subjectively, I feel more productive using one of these, and completely hamstrung by IDEs, even when they supposedly support vim keybindings.
Why was this down voted? lol its a legitimate solution..
Finland has the same system. A nice side effect is that since the bottles are supposed to be reusable, they are thick and sturdy plastic instead of the paper thin disposable ones.
Uber's leaked finances show the company might be able to turn a profit
I can't claim to have ever "tried" to get into vim - in the sense of ditching my daily driver (Sublime/VS Code) and going 100% vim. I've done the vimtutor, I even know how to do basic text editing (cut, copy, paste, find-and-replace, visual mode highlight) in vim, plus some of those "magic" things where you can repeat an action multiple times (:2wi or whatever). And I'll happily fire up vim if it's something really quick, like making a list in a plain text file or something.

So what's kept me from going 100% vim?

1. Plugin/add-on support - I have no clue what's going on here. There's no clear guidance on what to use (vundle? pathogen?). I haven't really grokked how plugins really work - where do they come from? how do I search for them? where are they really installed? how are they organized in the install directory? do I need to care? etc (I'm aware this is all documented somewhere, and maybe I just need to make more of an effort). Whereas in something like Sublime Text there's an easily installable package manager that takes care of all these things for you. And if you really care to learn, you can drop into one of the packages and find easy-to-understand Python and JSON. Versus vimscript, weird config files and whatever else vim uses to configure things.

2. Multi-file support - Sublime has a Cmd + T fuzzy filename finder right out of the box. With vim (for a beginner) your choices are either: a) open multiple terminal windows with a single file in each, Cmd + Tab endlessly or b) open multiple files in the same editor and drop out of insert mode every time you want to switch files (way more keystrokes than Cmd + T or Ctrl + Tab; maybe there's a toggle file shortcut in Vim also). I'm aware that there exist plugins for fuzzy-file searching in vim also, but because of 1 I don't know how to find or install them.

3. Buffers and marks - I'm vaguely aware they exist. I'm not sure what they do and why they're important. Again, this one is probably on me rather than the tool itself.
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I agree. For example, you can't really see a list of what you pocketed unless you go to their webpage. Or if you want to be able to read them offline, you need to download the Pocket application. I wish all was integrated in Firefox. It's 2017 and a browser needs this and tabs on the side by default.
I would regard that $100 as an indicator that you have a real question that is important to you. Marc doesn't need or care about the money.
The first thing I do with a new Firefox install is remove the Pocket button, but I still welcome the prospect of seeing the Pocket service becoming open source and part of Firefox Sync. There are definitely some interesting ideas around the Context Graph, and hopefully the Pocket team will be able help move the project forward.
Aren't you able to log into Pocket using your Mozilla account for a while now?
I did for the same reasons and also in the hope of having advanced search.
you can always learn vim stuff by using a plugin for your favorite editor. I'm frustrated quite a bit if I have to use an editor without basic vi shortcuts at the very least.
That seems a rather big privacy issue on Domino's part.

I wonder if it also opens the doors to some kind of social engineering attack, with someone pretending to be Domino's asking for money over the phone.

As an aside I thought this is rather cool - Pizza Party a CLI for Domino's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J691aLfkWP0

(One day I'd like to be able to afford to cron job something like that ;)
It seems to make them happy.
What can I do for Mozilla?
Thanks! Great idea.
This is stated in the article.
Nice take on the job aspect of work life.:) Yeah, sometimes its hard to think of oneself as a complete mercenary. :(

But there is another aspect too, like if we can plan and buy some financial freedom we can pursue other creative fulfilling stuff.

I think this problem exists across ages unfortunately.

I currently have a car which shouldnt be difficult to let go.. after all its my inner freedom that i crave for.
"Healing Touch" is another fun one.
If you sit a MBP on a pillow, the fan circulation is significantly reduced, causing overheating. It also depends on your CPU usage...running with a few dozen tabs open while editing videos? Yikes, hot.

One other thing: if you smoke, residue can also reduce the effectiveness of cooling systems and affect system performance.

EDIT: Not suggesting this was the OP's fault, just suggesting there are logical ways to reduce this risk.
"most valuable company on Earth sues man whose testicles they burned off" is about the worst PR possible
> How many gay teens were trying to commit suicide because they weren't allowed to get married (while in high school)

Pretty much none, I would expect. However, legalising same-sex marriage indicates a degree of acceptance by gay people.

I'm gay, and was born in 1985, in Ireland, which only formally legalised homosexuality in 1991. Employment discrimination against gay people only became illegal when I was 15 or so (thanks, EU), and we voted to legalise same-sex marriage when I was 29. As a kid, I felt that society was pretty bloody hostile to people like me, and I certainly did feel better when the employment discrimination law came in; I felt less like a second class citizen. Even though in practice it was rather rare for people to offend against this law, it signals certain societal attitudes.

The marriage referendum came late enough that it didn't really affect my self-image, but it's certainly plausible that it did for younger people.
Just to be clear, the $5 is a one time charge to be able submit extensions to their store, not a charge for users to download extensions. I think it's a good solution to help keep pure garbage from being uploaded... if you upload something, you think it's worth $5 (hopefully a trivial sum to you.) If you don't want to pay the fee, you can tell people to download your extension from your own page and manually install it. Uploading it to the store just helps people discover your extension and makes installing the extension a one click thing.
>I would say every red light runner affects society.

But we're not talking about the act of running a red light, we're talking about the act of lying about it.

>It's a lot easier to do a software update on a poorly-behaving self-driving car than it is to re-educate poorly-behaving human drivers.

What makes you think this?

>"do self-driving cars commit traffic violations at a lower rate than humans?".

Indeed. So the companies behind self-driving cars should prove it.
Yeah, I added and then deleted that the victims were probably under some sort of security observance already: the watches notice a gun earlier.
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It is so hard to buy lunch in NYC without ending up with a frightening amount of plastic (and paper) waste.

There is a start-up-esque thing called Eatsa that is sort of an "automated take-out" place: I go there a lot - not because the food is mind-blowing or I hate interacting with people, but because I can just take the cardboard bowl of food (with a thin plastic top: not good, but "least bad") and not be forced to have a plastic bag, 50 napkins, tonnes of plastic cutlery (fast-moving lines means it's hard to opt-out).

There was a couple of cafes in Australia that were doing "waste-free" (maybe it was http://lupiicafe.com/ ) operations - I hope that this catches on, because I feel like an asshat every time I throw an industrial-strength plastic food container in the bin.
> I fully understand that most adherents to the social justice movement actually don't believe the arguments they make,

At best this is a strawman, at worst you are just completely incorrect. If you truly believe this, you need to broaden your horizon, and maybe interact in good-faith with the people you are trying to ridicule because you refuse to understand their position.

I am not telling you that I think their argument will end up being the correct one, or that you'll end up being wrong. I am telling you that you are debating in bad faith, and without trying to actually have a topic to have a debate about.

> Are you suggesting the arguments are wrong?

I am suggesting you are purposefully misunderstanding and mis-using them, because it suits your world-view.

I am also suggesting that you are using dishonest debate tactics to try and "win" at a debate where there is nothing to win. I do not understand why you had to bring your flawed understanding of what is meant by "privilege" in to this discussion and kind of try and use it against me, when all I did was point out to you, that insulting people isn't very nice.

You, not me, not anyone else, chose to write down on the screen in front of you, an insult and then, when being called out on it ever so gently, chose to start a dishonest, bad-faith debate about "tone policing".

Why you did this, is something that only you can answer.

Good day.
> Of course, there's a counter-example in the inner solar system in the form of Vulcan. It was invented to explain Mercury's orbit, but the solution ended up being Relativity. So it's not always the right answer.

If anything, the Vulcan hypothesis was not bold enough. It was a much greater leap of faith to assume that Newton's mechanics was just a low energy approximation, hence the twist in Mercury's orbit.

Anyway, we don't really know what this whole dark matter business is, but for now the prevailing hypothesis is the dark-matter-as-a-new-type-of-particle. Of course, you're welcome to pursue a different line of thought, and let the truest hypothesis win. This is how science works.
You actually have to accept the endorsement before it shows up on your profile, if you accept noise, I don't think you can complain that your profile is noisy.
I've used Pocket in the past but when I started using Evernote I discovered that I do not need Pocket anymore. Is there any killer feature that I do not know about that Pocket offers and Evernote doesn't?
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That might be true, though I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that. But my point wasn't that regulation is inefficient - it's that libertarians can be quite a bit more extreme than the OP thinks.