skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the informal tax that a tourist would pay. I've even traveled there with someone that is a non-resident Indian (NRI) and he joked with me that while I was getting "ripped off" at one rate, he still wasn't getting the local rate, but "ripped off" a little less. Honestly, the ripped off part came to a few rupees here or there for the most part.
My tastes in music aren't mass market by far and I don't buy it in huge quantities. May be it makes it easier for me, but I don't mind managing my music collection myself.

And if we are talking convenience, it's really not related to DRM. I.e. nothing stops DRM free store from offering you a sync service or anything of that sort (GOG do it with Galaxy for instance). If anything, DRM always reduces potential usability as above.
The suicide rate includes only confirmed suicides, most common way in America is self inflicted gunshot. However this is because it excludes overdoses unless they leave a suicide note. If they don't leave a note those are classified as accidental death by the coroner.
With Rogers in Canada some plans get Spotify free for 6 months.
Each individual niche is tiny, but once you add up all the niches, it adds up to a significant part of the market.

Perhaps, but certainly not all of the market, and (I'm guessing) probably not even most of it. It won't be everyone all the time, but surely there are numerous people using Windows PCs today who could switch quite easily to another platform and carry on using their online services without too much hassle.

Is that an actual trend?

I'm pretty sure it is. Over the past few years, we've watched access patterns on B2C sites shift steadily from mostly PC to mostly mobile, and Android dominates most segments of the mobile market today. I suspect that at this point the PC, smartphone and tablet markets are all close to saturation, but device lifecycles are longer in the PC market so people are getting access to more powerful and higher spec mobile devices sooner, which is making the shift more practical.
When I say that border security may help reduce cartels, I am labeled a Trump supporter and it does not go well in the Bay Area. You can look up the stats on where the heroin is coming from, and I've personally seen the heroin importation come through Manchester in New Hampshire and make its ways to smaller towns.
Cool. Presumably they're already doing this, but I'd really recommend observation to understand the environment in which the product will be used and then following up with user tests as they prototype. There can be some surprising or unintuitive ergonomic concerns around heavy machinery. For example, factory equipment with automated movement often requires two-handed operation. Even if it could be operated with one hand, many machines will have two buttons--one on either side of the machine--which must be pressed simultaneously. This ensures the operator's hands are out of harm's way during the automated movement. If the operator takes a hand off of a button to perform a hand-based gesture, the machine comes to a halt. Also, operators tend to develop a flow as they perform repetitive operations. If a tool breaks that flow, it will likely be rejected or abused.

It sounds like your acquaintances are targeting service technicians, not necessarily factory workers, so the above examples might not apply, but I'd imagine their targeted industry has its own ergonomic concerns.

Sorry to ramble at you. Just excited because it sounds cool.
I was just wondering recently why something like this didn't exist when trying to learn about Matrixes via Kahn Academy.
> I don't know anyone in rural America that can't empathize with not having opportunity and being poor.

I guess I've never understood the bootstrap advice as empathy, was it meant that way?
Maybe access to guns / prescription drugs?
In New Zealand, Spark (our largest telco, the ex-state monopoly) offers free Spotify with their mobile plans.
Yeah, I'm serious. Two "much"es in from of "different". They seem more similar than different to me in this context. We're talking about changing operating systems based on the preferences of the user.
I am sorry to hear about your friend. I've never had to deal with addiction, I can't imagine how tough that would be.
I would reccomend PiHole [1] for something like this.

Not only is it more robust, it acts as a DNS/HTTP server that blocks this kind of stuff on a whole network.

1: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole
Supertasters are folks who are able to detect the presence of several more compounds than "normal". A common indicator is a dislike of certain foods like broccolli (they taste unusually bitter to them).
I am a 31 year old grad student and I still do internships. I am guessing it should not be such a big deal for you too.
Look up where the heroin is coming from. It is produced in Afghanistan and Mexico. With a large amount of heroin being imported through Mexico. Now I'm not sure a wall or border security is the answer, but the problem is that if I bring up the concept that border security is even a possible good idea, I'm labeled a trump supporter. So I have to remain silent and continue talking with them about how much trump is a womanizer and sessions is an idiot. I don't disagree with those statements, but I just care about my friends and I have seen the impact that foreign importation of drugs has had. The price of heroin has plummeted in my hometown over the last 10 years.
Wow, "security updates" from some random person making roms on the internet. Good luck buddy!
2000 was historical low for US suicide rate.

However, the current suicide rate is more or less in line with historical average.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Suicide-...
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It could be, but what could give rise to such disparity?
As someone who hates politics I love this response.
Followed by Ivy Ross and Tony Fidel...
The Soviets used the Fisher Space Pen, too. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...

Pencils have issues with electrical systems, waste, and flammability.
One thing missing in comparison to most other textbooks is a set of problems to test the reader's understanding. The rotating and interactive figures are a very nice touch though.

Along the lines of interactivity, maybe having a scratch area like a Jupyter notebook would be a potentially great addition so that I could try problems near the area where I'm reading.
Not to mention Muslim Americans, who are the boogymen du jure these days. Or any number of other minorities in America, like gays.

All of these are not only not empathized with by Republicans, whose base and support comes largely from rural America, but actively hated, discriminated against, and oppressed.
But black America is much much smaller
Apples and oranges. Might as well compare Go with the Universe and call it a day.

The right way to measure the skill required for a game is how many tiers you can construct where each tier reliably beats the one below it. I.e. ELO or something like it.

That said, who cares? They are both beautiful and deep in their own way.
Giving money is not the issue in rural America. It's not social welfare such as health insurance or anything of the sort. If anything I'd say there's a lot of disgust with how many rural Americans live off the system.

It's lack of opportunity. What is your answer to that? Tesla isn't opening up a factory in New Hampshire anytime soon. There certainly isn't as many amazing colleges such as UC berkley there. Throwing money into unemployment and welfare won't solve the problem at all.

Trump literally said I will fight to get you jobs back. Ignore if that is true. Ignore if he is an idiot. Ignore if that works in the long term. He was the only candidate that actually said a single idea that was directly aimed at helping them.
No, we're talking about an OS shipping with ads (that you can turn off) and an OS shipping with a theme that some people don't like (that you can change). One of these is a gross breach of trust on the part of the OS. You know the difference, cut the crap.
Are centralized wealth redistribution programs really what rural America needs? If they don't have any realistic opportunities, the best those can offer is a thin, meager - and worst of all - perpetual subsistence, I think.
> Where do you think the cheap heroin that is killing my friends is coming from?

The fentanyl and fentanyl analogues that have spiked opioid overdoses in the past few years are coming via mail from China and Canada. Literally hundreds of people have died in the span of two nights from batches of heroin laced with cheap internet fentanyl derivatives. The people selling cheap internet fentanyl laced heroin aren't cartels or minority run gangs, they tend to be in the 16-28 demographic of white-bread drug dealers with access to a computer. The margins make sense (a dose of fentanyl can be as cheap as 1/100 of a penny when dealers pick it up in bulk vs the more expensive gang-sourced heroin) and attract people without many opportunities nor the education/ qualifications to make sure they can accurately sell people micrograms of a powder and not kill them. People like our friends might be or might have been.

Different gangs and supply chains bring heroin into different areas of the country. Some areas still have Afghan heroin coming in, perhaps from the same fields we protected from destruction while we were over there.

I lean left and come from a background very similar to yours. There is a difference between acknowledging the importance of ignored issues in these areas and saying "this is why Trump won".
I really like this. This would've been handy as a student. I definitely prefer this to a textbook.
Ask HN: Feedback on this nonprofit idea for YC?
The 50 character description is "A user-automatable crowdfunder for cooperatives."

In case it needs explaining, cooperatives are democratically owned/controlled businesses. The Cooperative Market would make it easy to collectively start, fund and direct cooperatives, securely, over the internet.

* For the nonprofit qualifying usage, it could route charity/aid/loans to users in developing nations who could then directly fund their own infrastructure, utility or consumer cooperatives. To make such things easier it could be usable through smartphones and reduce losses to corruption by virtue of its transparency. Donors could also potentially customize their development-aid or tax-deductible donations so they would proportionally reward recipients for doing things like learning, producing more media/technology or improving within development, education or literacy indexes; thus incentivizing competition among recipients or even nations.

* For non-nonprofit usage, users could fund regular cooperative businesses or otherwise impossibly expensive things they could be proud of; like R&D, scientific research, brain-computer interfaces, aerospace technology, etc.

* It could also offer a method of dealing with profits that could create systemic benefits for members and incentivize becoming more involved. The case is made for redistributing profits from individual cooperatives, to all members of the cooperative market, in proportion to their joining, working for and spending/banking within the cooperative market. The continuous reward for having joined could be especially useful for attracting new members and ensuring that even those who have nothing could benefit from and spend money in the cooperative market. Work-based rewards could potentially be adjusted proportionally to job performance and potentially give an innate edge against the competition when it comes to pay.

Is it understandable? Appealing? Does it seem too long?
Would you say the situation is worse than the south side of Chicago? It seems really weird that we ignore problems in cities for decades and then suddenly when people start to move to them they are suddenly the crutch of the rich. What about people forced out of cities due to genterifcation? Not saying rural places don't deserve love but they have been getting fetishzied like crazy lately
> People in cities have the privilege of wealth and the ability to direct America in a way rural America doesn't.

Have you ever lived in a city? Tell black people in Baltimore that they have "the ability to direct America in a way rural America doesn't." And speaking of the ability to direct America--each person's vote in New Hampshire counts about double what it does in Maryland or New York, so there's that.

> The issues they face in rural America are completely ignored.

In what way? We spend huge amounts of money in this country on infrastructure for rural areas. A higher percentage of eligible rural residents take advantage of programs like food stamps than in urban areas. And we spend almost $30 billion dollars per year on agricultural subsidies--which go almost entirely to rural areas.

That's before we even get to wealth redistribution within states. Rural areas in most states are heavily subsidized by tax revenue raised in urban areas in those states. (Which is fine, of course--urban areas tend to be richer and should carry more of the tax burden. But to say rural areas get ignored is laughable.)

> But go to a town ravaged by heroin and lack of financial growth and bring up transgender bathrooms to them. They will be baffled by your lack of knowledge of how their lives operate.

That's an entirely self-inflicted problem. Nobody would be talking about transgender bathroom rights if people (disproportionately, people in rural America) weren't trying to ban certain people from using certain bathrooms.
The J documentation is pretty great if you want to stick to ASCII.
How could a 14 year old be a prostitute? You mean a sex trafficking victim? He got caught with a child sex trafficking victim.
The "scarce resources" definition is typical of Samuelson.

I find John Marshall's "ordinary business of life" distressingly vague.

Krugman and Wells (2008) give: "economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services."

I'll argue you've confused macro with micro: macro deals, generally, with inflation, money supply, and foreign exchange. Micro with market allocations and behaviour (under various degrees of competition, monpoly/monopsony, or oligopoly/oligopsony).
Lack of education, or an increase in education[1]?

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d1/Educati...
NYTimes All Access subscription ($5/week) includes a free year of Spotify premium.
It's far closer than you think. There were about 39 million black Americans per the 2010 census.[0] In 2014, 46 million Americans lived in rural areas.[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_America
The amazing flying machines of Chinese farmers
If you are not born in India and have guessed this just by studying about India from books and media then you are an excellent guesser.
There was an extreme amount of empathy for black America leading up to the election in the majority of the cities and America. Black lives matter. I think that's great and Black america absolutely has it's own issues. Not taking away from that.

Where was the movement fighting to enable Rural America to thrive? Which is over 40% of America!!! That's a lot of people!! I care about every single American including rural America.
Yeah fair enough, I think even if I didn't value their discovery the way I listen to music now it would cost too much to buy it all individually. I would probably just end up having to use youtube to sample things, the way I do with Spotify currently.
It is a solution to that annoying thing happening. Switching to Linux isn't a solution either, even if it has GNU in the name, if your problem is "run this Windows software".
I guess I'd say that great art always speaks truth, and that truth has no need for morality.

In particular I might argue that society might be better off if we were collectively more offended by bad art than by good art made by bad people.
> It's lack of opportunity. What is your answer to that? Tesla isn't opening up a factory in New Hampshire anytime soon.

In generations past, Americans picked up and moved to where the opportunity was, rather than staying put. Why is it unreasonable to expect the same now?

The economy has permanently changed - those jobs are never coming back. On the other hand, moving is far, far easier in 2017 than it was for those on the Oregon Trail or the Mayflower.
I would imagine non-disparagement would challenging to hold up, and even less likely to be even tried. But...the possibility that they could be used to cause grief is probably enough for most people.

A more decisive legal benefit, I think, is release of claims. If a employee takes severance, releases claims, then comes back around with claims, it's a real hit to credibility. In this scenario, the company is the defendant.
After listening to him for a bit, reading some of his books, annoying him a fair amount, I think that my opinion of J Searle is that he doesn't know jack shit about AI.

Gedankenexperiment as a methodology has had considerable success in physics and miserable, complete, ridiculous, awful failure in psychology and cognitive science.
This is fantastic, and where I have expected e-textbooks to go for years. Kudos!!!
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So glad someone made this. I'm a "true believer" in animations and interactivity for learning math. They can make some concepts instantly intuitive that take a while to grasp symbolically.
Many albums on Bandcamp are available fully (or at least partially), so you can easily sample and discover them. If I like something, I buy it.

Some albums I bought recently:

* https://dbfiechter.bandcamp.com/album/scotland

* https://jonathangeer.bandcamp.com/album/owlboy-ost

* https://danielamosboots.bandcamp.com/album/neverhood-songs-d...

And you are right. Stuff often ends up on Youtube, which is great for discovery too. And again, if I like something, I'll gladly buy it (as long as it's accessible in DRM-free stores).
In theory you could enjoy the art just as art, but I tend to like art because I enjoy learning from how they saw the world. Finding out they were doing horrible things makes me less excited to absorb their life lessons, which makes the art less interesting to me.
This is very nice.

As a suggestion for improvement, consider allowing the learner to edit the formulas which represent the figures and have the figures update. Additionally editing the figures could update the formula in real time.

This sort of bi-directional instant feedback will aid the understanding and engagement of the learner better than figure manipulation alone.
So it's slightly better than trying to find an answer on Apple's support forums.

I'm kidding, but only a little. This actually sounds a lot like the state of the Minecraft ecosystem last time I checked, about two years ago.
It's weird how these are problems in cities but they are also hurt by the EC as well!
> Since Airship self-updates, it needs to be able to write to itself.

> chown -R myusername:www-data airship

> chmod -R g+w airship

Have you ever wondered why some people say that PHP is insecure? That's one of the major reasons.

This app claims to care about security, but at the same time it self-updates and has no external code integrity control. This means that if the webapp has a vulnerability which was exploited, it will be very hard to detect it -- was this file changed by auto-updater or by malware? you don't know. And even if the new version of webapp was released which fixes the bug, you can not be sure that infection is gone -- because the update process may also be compromised. And you cannot easily remove code dir and re-download -- the settings are mixed-in with the code.

Compare it with any other stack -- Ruby on Rails, Django, JAR files, whatever. Code cannot modify itself. The only writable thing is the database. Additionally, the repository is often under git control. If there is a vulnerability, update software and restart the server (if in doubt, backup the database and nuke/rebuild the server instead). Even if you made a configuration error and left code dir writable, "git status" is enough to tell you any changed/added files.

And this is why you, as an admin, should avoid PHP if you care about security. Sure, you can use sane techniques even with PHP code -- I am sure that's what Facebook and Wikipedia do -- but most random PHP projects will require writable code dir. When choosing a web app, choose non-PHP one first.
Presumably the cost of living in cities with growing economies disincentivizes poor people from moving.
City folk's contempt for rural folk and vice versa is hardly a new phenomenon and would be unlikely to explain the recent increase in rural suicides.
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Are their motives similarly aligned?
The Trump Campaign Literally called Black Lives Matter a Terrorist group . Every poltician caters out the ass for rural voters ( see Iowa) .
You could turn outages into a gane. Have someone who knows the systems design the root cause scenario and pick responses to your actions.
The places where the rational choice model has been applied are, because it's a predictive model; to the extent that there may be things that are properly called "economics" that are not part of the predictive social science with that name, they are not relevant to why the rational choice model.has been used.
There is a very interesting book on this topic - memory competitions - the book is about how ordinary people using an ancient Roman technique (Memory palace) becomes extraordinary memorizers. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything https://www.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remember...

I could pickup the technique to help me in my day to day life. For very little investment in efforts it managed to drastically improve my life.

Context: I consider myself quite challenged when it comes to memorizing numbers.

The technique described in the book (and in this article) allowed me to remember details of a financial instrument which involves 32 numbers without any pattern. Whenever I have to use this instrument I have to input random 6 numbers out of those 32. Before I discovered this technique I had to pull out the hardcopy of the instrument every time for reference (it was painful - sometime it will be not in my possession, or it would be buried inside some cabinet etc.)

The technique that I use/adapted essentially is, I use mental map of a roadway which I’m intimately familiar with to place the 32 numbers on the various 32 landmark along the way (landmarks can be anything - a funny looking rock next to the road will also do. The key is one should be able to visualize it very clearly). So, whenever I need to retrieve numbers I mentally ’drive’ on the road and start checking out the landmarks. Example: I need to retrieve number corresponding to landmarks 5,9,15,20.. I start ‘driving’ reach landmark no. 5 and able to remember immediately this landmark is associated with number 29, then I move on and reach to next landmark, when I ‘reach’ that one I’m able to recollect that this landmark has number 89 associated with it, and so on…

Somewhere I read that it works so well because as a human species we have ability to remember geo spatial things much better than abstract things like numbers. I would guess that it has to do with our hunter-gatherer days when we were primarily dealing with spatial concepts; brain is hard wired to store those information much better than things like numbers.
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