skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah so you know that I like telescopes, talking smack on Twitter, and watching Let's Plays of Dwarf Fortress. Now, how do you monetize that? What meaningful marketing information does that give you? You see where I'm going with my skepticism? I'm skeptical that the data itself is useful by any measure because in itself it does not give a marketer nor a business an insight that they couldn't infer by more low tech means (my age, income bracket, how often I buy things, etc all which is already in their records in the majority of cases). None of this "big data" stuff is really that novel and it's an attempt at modern alchemy of turning crap data into "valuable information." Knowing the minutia of your customers or users in general won't help you serve them nor will it help you get more of them. At some point the supposed tacit information of the market devolves into the random noise of the universe.
This I already copywrite long ago
I think the parent is correct, and the situation is more nuanced than your argument would suggest.

Politics: Are you critiquing the distribution of funds to the school your child attends? You probably have some insight there. Are you instead expressing a strong opinion on a complex subject that you likely don't have an iota of experience with? Well, then you should realize that you're probably not in a position to have such a strong opinion.

Meal: You're the user, so you have experience here. All you're commenting on is how it tastes to you, so that's perfectly valid, no need to become a chef.

Car: Again, you're the user. Are you critiquing a UX problem? Well, then you're in a perfect position to do so. If you're remarking about e.g. the torque to weight ratio then you should probably understand some of the engineering that goes into creating a vehicle.

Your argument is the fallacious one here. You're making an all or nothing comparison and life rarely works that way. If you're going to make a statement like "you should rewrite curl in X language" then yes, you should know what the hell you're talking about because you're making an engineering level statement.
"Free" in relation to pricing is very different from "free" in relation to ownership by the commons. The law being the latter is crucial to a well functioning democracy.
Interesting takeaway: going forward I'll always ask the pharmacy if paying out of pocket would actually be cheaper than using my insurance and paying a copay.
Electronic License Plates for Drones
Apps aren't compiled for a specific file system, so no.
Maybe I am misunderstanding the comment. Many big and successful businesses provide free product/services. Besides if the user is tricked to pay for a service they do not find worth paying for it will have a rather negative effect in the long run - personal experience. Hence, forcing their hand is not the goal but making the software useful to them and only then asking for payment.

I know that some types of software are immediately useful and if you are lucky to have created one then good but often it takes time for the software grow and nurtured hence why eliminating any obstacles is a key to long-term success imho.
One point about these guys is they were men of means. They were hyper-rich for the time, had vast properties and many servants and such.
In 18 Years, a College Degree Could Cost About $500,000
The "execution" seems better at first blush. The documentation is short and to the point, which means it's something which would lead me to use it, especially since I still haven't figured out how to easily deploy most of the others you mention.

The ability to have go produce cross platform binaries would ease a lot of deployment issues as well. Along with distributed logging, it's something I'll probably try using. Unless any of the above have advantages, primarily in the ease of use category.
HTTPS Everywhere forces HTTPS on all of your web traffic
Seems like it would be a pretty long term effect though, so the drop off might not be apparent yet.
Or: we could just emulate what those other countries are doing to control prices, which apparently has been empirically proven to be effective. Why set up this rube goldberg export / import system when we could, apparently, just import some good legislation?
I'm going to be That Guy and ask: why is this on HN?

I know all the standard lines about intellectual gratification and how it doesn't just have to be computers and whatever. But this doesn't seem like an HN-type story at all. Dog kills man, witnesses questioned by police... tragic, but what's interesting about it?
Age and gender seem to be two of the more significant variables in ad selection. Many women I know started getting ads for baby stuff once they turned 26 despite having never been interested in the topic.
In context, what do you think? Did your people found the US, or practice indentured servitude and slavery? As I understand it you were part of a very different and much older nation that predated the current one. Again, as I understand the people I'm describing came by and decided to take it from you, founding a new one its place. I'm not endorsing that, and my ancestry is utterly unrelated to either group's history.
yes, you are quite right -- i was referring to the binary digit rather than the shannon
My personal view is that most people would be OK with the lowest non-Medicare rate, i.e. "the free market rate".

Why Medicare reimburses at an unprofitable rate is another discussion.
It'd be great if Channel 4 let you pay a subscription to go ad-free. I think ITV does, but I have no interest in their programming (unlike Channel 4, which would be worth it in my opinion).
Interesting List of Philosophy Student Malapropisms
Why ask? If you don't mind how it's used, just make it MIT, 2- or 3-Clause BSD, or Apache 2.0
It happens over a shorter timeframe than funerals are needed to explain. The past decade or decade and a half has been long enough to see outsiders having significant influence in the aging research community, steering it from determined non-intervention to greater willingness to work towards therapies capable of addressing the causes of aging. All of the players are the same at the start and the end, aside from the new faces coming in from outside.
> Retailers saw Kodak starting to make noise about switching to digital, which would have (and eventually did) destroyed that very lucrative sales model - so the retailers threatened Kodak with "if you push digital, we'll drop your products" ... so rather than sacrificing the cash cow, Kodak slowed the digital roadmap to ....

I don't think that is the right narrative. All those same retailers print out pictures more now then ever. Kodak's digital products were a sub par and their competition (Especially Sony and Nixon) were destroying them in the market.
What I struggle with personally is the question whether it is for us to decide what constitutes 'better off'. Perhaps for some homeless people the best life they can have, at least within our current, flawed system, is on the streets.

Part of the reason why I'm struggling with this question is that since about a year it also applies to me, to an extent. My problem is unrelated to homelessness, but it seems clearer and clearer that the solution that works for me (read: makes me happier and more 'functional' than anything else I've tried) could be considered by many people to be 'worse off', and consequently eligible for some degree of intervention, simply because they are not like myself.

There are no easy answers to these questions, but I feel such answers start with compassion and active engagement with and understanding of those whose lives we are 'managing'. Social workers probably qualify, and the managerial class are probably the last to do so.
Possible patent troll suing duo, vasco and more
The challenge with that is that simply allowing drugs to be imported doesn't prevent drug companies from allocating volume on a country-by-country level and maintaining price discrimination.

This happened back 6-7 years ago when getting your script filled by a Canadian pharmacy was all the rage. The drug companies simply setup quotas for Canada. They have a good estimate of how much drug Canadians need. If a wholesaler tries to buy more, the drug company tells them no. Then all of a sudden Canadian wholesalers are in a bind. Do they sell to Americans and tell the Canadians no?[1]

In an April 8 letter to Canadian pharmacies and wholesalers, AstraZeneca wrote that some prescription drug orders would be reduced because of a new allotment program designed to address "unexpected sales increases"

[1]http://khn.org/morning-breakout/dr00017294/
Looks like they own some patents involving mobile push security or something. Companies targeted involve gemalto, duo, vasco, secureauth, entrust, centrify and trustwave. Do people actually realize big paydays from these types of lawsuits?
Thirteen publicly acknowledged by South Korea, and 700 missing. Most of which, if you read the cited article are thought to have defected back or attempted to.
I agree completely, and anecdotally it's the ad-free option that finally got me on Hulu.
I wonder what groceries would cost if we didn't buy them with cash or credit but instead a "Foodcare plan". I also wonder what the bills would look like in that case. If I went to the deli, I imagine there'd be all kinds of interesting blade sharpening fees and glove disposal fees and whatnot.
The next startup hubs
curl is currently one of the most distributed and most widely used software components in the universe, be it open or proprietary and there are easily way over three billion instances of it running in appliances, servers, computers and devices across the globe. Right now. In your phone. In your car. In your TV. In your computer. Etc.

If we then have had 40, 50 or even 60 security problems because of us using C, through-out our 19 years of history, it really isn’t a whole lot given the scale and time we’re talking about here.

I think there's a disconnect here. Given something that's has a thousand instances running and averages 20-30 security problems a year and something else that has over three billion instances running and averages 2-3 security problems a year, which one do you think I care more about? I care about the one running everywhere, and on devices which may never see updated code in the rest of their lifetime.

If curl were some unused project this wouldn't be a conversation. At the point where your code is on all those devices, you will get scrutiny. Expect it. Your choices may have some impact on a significant portion of the Earth's current population.

At the same time, it's not fair to expect curl to rewrite their project in some other language. Some other project can start with the goal of providing the same API as curl (or not) that attempts to mitigate security problems though a different code architecture or language, and maybe curl devs will contribute. But expecting curl devs to start over from scratch is not feasible.
If your drug is so good, you should let the market decide what the fair price.

The problem is that drug companies and wholesalers don't let that happen by lobbying against open markets and government paid healthcare.
We "disallow trade" for lots of legitimate reasons. One such reason is when government intervention in another country drives prices below market levels (e.g. we put high tariffs on Chinese steel to counter heavy Chinese government subsidization of that industry).

That's exactly what happens in Canada. Because the healthcare system is publicly funded, the government has enormous market power that it can use to drive drug prices below efficient levels: http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2009/12/should-the-governm.... Allowing re-importation of those drugs into the U.S. would create a price ceiling at whatever level the Canadian government had negotiated, and would effectively allow the Canadian government to set drug prices in the U.S.

That would be good for consumers in the short term, but not necessarily in the long term. It's no coincidence that the U.S. is the epicenter of pharmaceutical advancements. When I was a kid (early 1990s), HIV/AIDS was something we regarded as a death sentence. I vividly remember people talking in hushed tones when Magic Johnson was diagnosed in 1991. 26 years later, Magic Johnson is still kicking, HIV is no longer a death sentence, and we have Big Pharma to thank for it (and not Canada).
Major undetected flaws could also manifest after MECO if something goes wrong during reentry or landing.

It would be really interesting if that happens. I wonder how people would react. Here's hoping we don't have to find out.
Spaces was never used by any major groups. It was an experiment and it ended. Using it to fuel the "Google shuts down everything" meme is just silly and makes the memers look silly.

Google has never shut down a major product. The closest thing they've come to is shutting down Google Reader, which was popular in the tech crowd but not mainstream in any way. That hurt. I totally agree with feeling the pain here.

They've never shut down anything of consequence besides this. Lots of little experimental things but nothing of real value.

They've also transitioned lots of things which does not count as shutting it down because you can still use the damn product. Latitude became Google+ Locations which became Maps Locations. They changed the name. Big whoop.

From an end user perspective the meme is a total joke. From a developer perspective there's a bit more truth but it's not as bad as the joke entails.

Sure they shut down some APIs but they give months or even year+ notices and pretty much universally always have an API with roughly equivalent functionality to move to. They rarely leave devs in the cold. It has happened but the vast majority of the time you just swap a few lines or a module and you are back up and running with probably better features.

Their PR has taken a hit because people don't like to do their research. They just shit on Google because it's fun.
You're slinging far more shit in this thread than are the people replying to you, and you know perfectly well that accusing other posters of commenting in bad faith or of astroturfing isn't acceptable here.

If you're going to bring speculation from the "/r/conspiracy" crowd onto this forum, which you won't even admit to believing yourself, you should expect and tolerate the inevitable reaction that follows.
He means the former, which is called "Telegram Desktop".

The Mac-specific App Store version is a better app, but has been abandoned in favor of the (crappy) "Telegram Desktop."
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The deal is stock options, a 4 year vest and a clear IPO at the end. All of the companies doing/did well (tech wise) IPO'd < 10 years after founding.

Amazon (3 years), Microsoft (9 years), Google (6 years), Facebook (8 years), Yahoo (1 year), Netflix (5 years).

We may disparage Yahoo but the initial formula was right.
While this country may be wealthy, there's rampant disparity in who holds that wealth. This is an issue because real people are making the decision to either pay for food or pay for life-saving medications they depend on. The number of people in the cross-section of "suffering" and "have the means" is much lower than the number of people in the cross-section of "suffering" and "don't have the means", and rational society is based on the simple premise of making decisions that optimize society for the majority.
VPN also does what I want, and I can control it[0]. Client connection works out of the box on Windows, macOS and iOS, no further fiddling.

[0] https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn
What a weird setup for a false dichotomy.

> My latest data shows that 76% of HPEs are not primarily motivated by money. But why?

When you come across a peculiar result, "But why?" shouldn't be the first question you ask. Maybe more like "What have I missed? What am I not accounting for? What am I conflating or grouping together? What assumptions did I make, and did I allow my respondents to make any implicit assumptions?"

Did the author ask what the cutoff is for money? Is it non-zero? Is he suggesting that his data shows that 76% of HPEs would rather be starving artists with great recognition? Or is there an implied "gobs of money" that's already on the table? I'm guessing the latter.

There is no acknowledgement that "not motivated by money" and "not motivated by more money" are two very different things. The way he phrased the question, there's no way to parse out what's implied. He simply asked:

> Are you motivated more by mastery of skill/craft, or motivated more by earning money?

Lots of people may answer one or the other for very disparate reasons.

> The mysteries are hard to explain.

Or maybe the author crafted the same poor questions that usually fill these surveys. The data he gathered is probably useless.

There are no profound mysteries here. Just the average tea leaves reading.

> an HPE’s connection to their trade resembles more a mysterious spiritual illumination and growing devotion than it does an evolution of practical decisions aimed in a concise direction.

Tea leaves.
Why would they let him go after they just spent so much money training him?
Yes but in the universe of knowledge work, what is work and what is not-work?

Do we count work as "being in the office/lab"? Or do we count work as thinking about the problem?

If one were building a company like Tesla for example, I would count going to the gym and thinking of the problem domain while running on a treadmill as work. I would also count thinking of the problem while going for a walk as work.

If one has really set one's teeth into a nasty problem, things like going to a party, or social calls like seeing friends not engaged in the problem, isn't relaxing, it's frustrating.

I think we should redefine the parameters of this conversation into time that depletes the body and time that replenishes it.

Being in front of a computer for long periods is hard on the eyes, it can be hard physically especially if the ergonomics aren't perfect. Being at the office for long periods can be draining as well because unlike being at home there aren't places to go that are replenishing on demand.

If one has a good sit/stand desk and spends a lot of time coding while standing, 10 minutes lying on a bed is incredibly replenishing for example.

The other dimension here is that perhaps it is alienated work that is inherently depleting. Working for someone else, or on something one does not really want to be working on is draining.

Working on something you care about is invigorating and I can't see how spending less time in that state can possibly be more productive than more time in a productive, non-depleting state.
Garden path sentences
Pied Piper, is that U ?
Why? This is a particularly hard lesson to learn and everybody has to learn it, why not write it down in places?
What? Is that like normal practice, that women can be charged $40 for holding their babies immediately after a c-section?
It is a valid strategy when you end up learning as much as a person not cheating. But in general, this is not the case because students see cheating as an alternative to hard work.
Have any examples? The FDA won't approve a drug unless safety and efficacy have been proven.
Because we literally handed over a piece of paper yesterday formally starting the process whereby we'd leave the EU. I suspect the parent feels like this is a project that might not have had access to this kind of funding outside the EU in an independent UK
A poster on another forum I frequent made the point that "regarding the political parties, there are no actual ideologies, only, different interests they represent" and that does seem to ring true some of the time...
For me personally and for a few others I know, we have loans with 6%+ rates. For one of my loans its over 8%. I've looked at refinancing, which ends up with me paying less money overall but paying a higher amount each month.means I would need more money saved up in my emergency fund and have a higher risk of not making payments if I lost my income.

This has led to me just taking the money I would have put into a 401k and using it to pay off loans, which provide a financial benefit equivalent to having an investment grow by the same rate as the loans interest rate. That lets me snowball my payments and pay off the debt faster and eventually I will move the debt payments over to retirement. I probably would be better off overall putting the money into a 401k or Roth IRA if I could guarantee I would never be out of a job, but having graduated into the workforce during the Great Depression Ive become pretty averse to holding any significant amount of debt after seeing people lose everything
To quote Ali G:

"What if terrorists drove a train into the White House?"
Maybe if I committed myself and more time to analyzing this story I would understand its significance. But I'd rather not.
I see 403 in Chrome DevTools, though.
LG has a huge open source archive of their devices software
I have insurance with a high deductible. That means, I'm most likely paying a price similar to a cash patient.

Often, it makes more sense to use a free 3rd party "coupon/membership" prescription company to get a better price.

Here are two that have saved me money.

https://www.goodrx.com
https://www.blinkhealth.com/
"Building a small linear algebra library"

That's the mega tedious part that's no-fun to debug. It's usually where my raytracer projects end haha
>"Lookup Musk on Wikipedia and you'll find that he has a BSc. only, and he started a PhD only to quit after a few weeks to pursue his business endeavors."

Three of the most important scientific papers in modern history—uncovering the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion and the special theory of relativity—were written about a hundred years ago by a man who could only sign them "Mr." when first writing them. About 80 years before that, another physicist who had no formal schooling past the age of 14 was pioneering advances in humanity's understanding of electricity and magnetism.

Science isn't restricted to or based on credentialed people. If you look at the history of science, credentials and recognition often follow groundbreaking scientific work.
http://www.hi-energy.org.uk/renewables/hydro-energy.htm says 12%, which seems more realistic. That page also says it's been overtaken by wind power.

Both Belgium and Florida seem like good candidates for offshore wind, although I'd be worried about hurricanes in Florida.
I really despise that "we live in a wealthy country" communist mentality because it is impudent and parasitic.

It is precisely because people who had the polar opposite mindset who brought about the outcome of "living in a wealthy country", and now people like you want to give away and sabotage things and culture and mindsets that are not yours to give away or destroy just because you take them for granted and have no sense for what it took to achieve such a state.

"We live in a wealthy country" not by accident, but by people's values and tenacious determination and culture and social priorities that are often generalized as God's blessings or by the grace of God. You can look to places that are not wealthy for clear proof of mentalities and values that never have, currently do not, and will not result in the same outcomes no matter how much you give away other people's things. Feel free to give away what you have to others that don't have whatever you want to give them, but how about you control your authoritarian dictator impulses to give away other people's things, lest it result in inevitable conflict and misery. It's always the same story with you immoral authoritarian types, give away other people's things against their will, but not your own.

"We live in a wealthy country" is the counter-productive entitled mindset of someone who is freeloading and has things they were provided without having to earn them and therefor have zero sense for what it actually took to bring such a state about, which leads to it begin taken for granted and seen as inexhaustible.