skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hayek’s point in his famous essay of 1945, “The Uses of Knowledge in Society”, is that central planning cannot work because it is trying to substitute an individual all-knowing intelligence for a distributed and fragmented system of localised but connected knowledge, much of which is tacit.

Yet centralized control is the hammer that everyone turns to whenever there is a problem. Instead of figuring out the root-cause and actually solving problems the default instinct of all modern state-heavy economies is always to add more layers on control. And I don't mean the 'state' but people... I see it all the time on HN and Reddit too.

A perfect example of this recently is all of the calls for price controls in pharma - prices are a great example of distributed knowledge systems. Despite the fact research points to gov-backed monopolies being the primary cause for drug price fluctuations [1], sometimes increasing prices 2000% at a time. In any other market if a company increased prices even 25-50% they would put themselves out of business because a competitor would step in to offer a better price.

This was demonstrated recently with the Epipen controversy [2]. They would never have been able to jack their prices so high if they had any competitors, and there are companies dying to compete with them, but they have been stuck in the FDA 'backlog' for years.

Plenty of other research shows that price controls results in shortages. Just like the massive food shortages that have been happening since Venezuela enacted price controls on food.

Yet the argument is being characterized as the evil selfish individualism which permeates American 'capitalism' making these pharma CEOs jack prices up.

Of course not all regulation is bad. There are many externalities that can't be controlled in the market (pollution is the perfect example). But this immediate instinct to always turn to more centralized control with blind trust, while villianizing markets, is an unhealthy obsession IMO. People act like capitalism is the shining star of American culture but as far as I can see it is continually villianized in movies and pop culture to the detriment of society. While government is held to such low standards that we only expect mediocrity from them.

For example, in response to pharma prices, how about cleaning up the existing regulatory system so the FDA doesn't have companies in the backlogs for years? Or investing more capital so they have enough people to handle the load? Or are we just so used to inefficient government that we just expect them to not do their jobs well? But no, clearly the solution is to give them even more work to set prices for thousands of drugs.

I'm all for Hayek being taught in schools, maybe people would hold both markets to higher esteem and governments to higher standards. So we get better policy and new policy only when centralized control actually makes the most sense.

/rant

[1] http://khn.org/news/government-protected-monopolies-drive-dr...

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-dr...
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Fair points.

Extracting data from the EMR is very difficult because all EMR was originally intended to only be a storage place for data - not designed to output data back to a user.
Speaking of sound and CLI, I created this musical command-line alarm clock recently (in Python):

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/12/jal-tarang-and-musical-al...
This is not competitive and they are unproven. This should be either free for three months and then no more then $10 to $20 a month.
He should find a lawyer friend to help him out. And change his attitude 180 degrees.
I remember the first time reading about ifttt as a non-native speaker :)
To be honest, this article seems pretty insubstantial. To the best of my ability to discern, the only concrete complaint is that access control is too coarse on modern databases, although it's not really specified in what way this is true.
Ha. Good joke.
Cool I didn't know about PARSENAME. I've always written udfs for that. I suppose it wouldn't work in all cases since it can only split on '.', but with REPLACE it gets you a long ways.

Edit: Looks like PARSENAME is more exciting than that. It actually unescapes escaped identifiers:

select n, parsename('[srv with
newline].[db [ with ]] brackets].[schema with . dot]."quoted . dot"', n)
from (values (1),(2),(3),(4),(5)) n(n)

/* results:
1	quoted . dot
2	schema with . dot
3	db [ with ] brackets
4	srv with
newline
5	NULL
*/

Another fun fact about SQL Server: Object identifiers support newlines, among other crazy characters. Don't believe me?

create table #t ([newline
here] int)

select * from #t

Stay safe, and always use QUOTENAME [1]. :D

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/quotena...
Part of what "not open" means is lack of publicly released documentation.
How to Become a Data Scientist
What the PowerShell is trying to be is more of a Lisp descendant, something to which Unix has been mostly deaf.

"Unixy" invokes very specific concepts; it is not a synonym for "computer sciency", "intellectually agreeable" or "non-sucky in some ways". (Relative to some things, it sometimes is these things, though!)

Dumb character processing is "unixy", and Bash is in fact "dead unixy".
The same? That's pretty odd. You've never had fun without learning something at the same time, nor learned something without having fun.

For me only one of those things is true: I think I always have fun learning, but I certainly have had fun without learning anything, too.
Direct X CPU instruction that were handled by the CPU is now handled by the GPU!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE2hNrq1Zxs&feature=youtu.be...
Yes, where do I sign up?
I can see how these transactions can trigger an alert but why don't they give people a chance to clarify the situation first before taking action? This seems extremely unproductive and a big burden for someone who can't afford a lawyer easily.
Welcome to the wonderful world of "App Stores" where some random company which managed to put itself between you and a substantial part of potential customers decides what you can distribute under what conditions covered by their own vague rules which are suspect to arbitrary change at any time anyways.
The author John Grey, who, wrote Men are from Mars, and Women from Venus got his doctorate from Columbia College, in San Rafael CA, 94901.

I would really like to see an end to the PhD. Hell--I would like to see medical doctors drop the title. It just seems to go straight to the ego, and doesn't help anyone.
I know. The point was that if you are an Android user and want to try out "open source app X", there's no need to install an open ROM or F-Droid. Just grab the app from the existing app store. The path between "normal users" and "pure free software" ones is smooth and easy. It's not like the desktop where you need to convince people to install Ubunto or Arch instead of Windows or macOS.
Frankly I trust Google and Facebook more than I do myself with regard to backups. I know it will eventually burn me, but I've lost, misplaced or misplaced the key to my backups more than once.

I'm probably in the minority being so irresponsible with my own backups, but I'm not alone.

Google and Facebook have a lot on the line with regard to user trust of their reliability. Also, they can't monetize data that they've lost.
So if you buy a Square Enix game for iOS you feel entitled to have the same game for free on Android?
Most bars in the suburban US don't stand alone; they tend to be accompanied by other restaurants and strip centers. I'll post a few Street View links for the northern suburbs of Dallas:

https://goo.gl/maps/AfQX2VDpYaA2 - The Draft House, Far North Dallas. Note the strip center that contains, among others, a sushi/Thai food place, a pizzeria, and a food mart. (as a side note: I used to go to the Draft House regularly but stopped after management changes ran it into the ground)

https://goo.gl/maps/bmSsv6ZgGyQ2 - The Irishman, Far North Dallas. If you're not careful, you might not even notice it among all the other places there.

https://goo.gl/maps/mGFCmq669xP2 - Katy Trail Ice House Outpost, Plano. This is a huge, huge shopping center.

https://goo.gl/maps/kEdHh41QAJF2 - Lonestar Grill and Sports Cafe, Richardson. In the middle of a strip center with a freestanding Dickey's. If you don't see it, look waaaay in the back, just to the right of the Dickey's.

https://goo.gl/maps/Fy946RDP6Ly - The Hub & Ron's Place, Addison. Next to a UPS store and a whole bunch of other shops. The two bars are connected; the logo for Ron's Place is an R inside a square.
This would be my advice as well; talk to the Plaintiff's attorney. I have all my business accounts at B of A. I shopped around, and they have the best online banking services. Part of the problem is arcane banking laws. Since I opened the accounts at B of A in Texas and now live in Seattle. Even though I walk into the B of A office here in Seattle, my accounts are "out of state" and require all sorts of extra paperwork.
Try getting a cab in Manhattan at peak times, or during shift change (6pm-ish?). Technically they have to take you by law but even if you get in and refuse to move they will sit there until you are forced to get out.

It got to the point I was getting turned down more than accepted for rides from Manhattan to Brooklyn so now I just use ride share by default.

(For reference, I'm white so it's not a problem of being a minority. I do live pretty deep in Brooklyn in a "bad" neighborhood though - maybe getting a ride to Williamsburg etc is easier)
You can bum around and live off welfare. Quite a few people have pulled that off and seem to enjoy it.
I don't buy that argument completely. Where I went to school, not so many kids were driven to school by car (and much less drove there themselves) - but during the 6 weeks summer vacation everything was a bit quieter, not only during rush hour. But also most people with kids spent their summer vacation away during that time. And also some amount of people without kids still want to use that time for vacation.
The Conversation About Basic Income Is a Mess.  How to Make Sense of It
The 'cloud backup' part could still be extracted away, using integrations with common providers (dropbox, onedrive, gdrive, etc). It would be a configuration step, but one that has pretty obvious benefits to the user so maybe they'd be likely to supply their credentials for that.
I mean, just try to imagine them blocking Steam and the impending shitstorm afterwards...
Hayek is an interesting figure. He was a total knob, especially to Marxists and other such lefty economic thinkers. But he did so much interesting work that he's worth reading even for people who think he's a reactionary. It's unlike the case with a lot of other liberal/reactionary knobs who are easily ignored if you reject classical/neoclassical economics any anything right of that.
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>there’s even a plugin to directly build a GraphQL API from your postgresql database

Would like a link for this.
The entire stackexchange and English Wikipedia dumps including all media is less than 90 Gig. Even low end cell phones have men expansion slots to 128 gig. Whatever you plan to do socially maintaining a local copy is not a storage issue. Non of the cloud ppl will tell you that though.
The popular free email providers do not like busy transactional mail service.
It Looks Like JPMorgan Is Building a Robo Adviser
I really disagree with this - separation of concerns is incredibly important. Why does the database server need to do everything my application server does now?

I don't want to have to know about how my database works internally just to implement a new feature in my application. I don't want to worry about a junior dev corrupting data while building a login page.

My "simple old-school" database is reliable and consistent BECAUSE it's been tested for years. My application server is not because it's solving a new problem (And that's OK, I won't lose customer data if someone can't login).
Fascinating indeed: the notion that a college president would hold title to the school's buildings. Etc.
> It's really a shame we don't value education more.

This might sound nit-picky but I think we all (Americans) value education as a whole. We just don't care (as a whole) about education for others outside of our sphere.

When you have the ability to move to better school system or to pay for private school attendance, you have no need to improve public schools. Not all public school systems are bad. I image that everyone can think of one relatively close school that they can unequivocally call a good/great school system where they expect most student to exceed by some set of positive metrics

As long as the people who can fix it (no matter if its more staff, better pay, better resources or whatever change necessary) can place their children into C-Level Preparatory Academy, Dumpster Fire High School probably won't see much improvement.
"Think of it as "I am forced to be away from my loved ones for most of the daylight hours and most days of the year excluding these permitted 'holiday' periods"."

As opposed to what, though? Hunter-gatherers may or may not have had a lot more leisure time, depending on who you ask, but they didn't hunt and gather together in family groups all the time, and while many people use their words to sing the praises of this time period their actions suggest they don't really want that, since they could still have it if they wanted it enough. Not to mention many of these hunting trips often spanned multiple days from what I gather. I suppose militaries had a lot of cohesion, as long as you don't mind defining "loved ones" as "my squadmates". Family farms still generally would end up with the family cut in half between the women and men, assuming the men even stayed together. Etc.

I can't off the top of my head think of a time period where there wasn't a large portion of the population separated from at least half their family for long periods of time.

The current situation isn't perfect, but let's be precise about what we're comparing it to, and when exactly it supposedly existed and was widespread.
Swift on Android
Is there anything one can do to reduce the risk of a disovery fishing request on my personal devices?

Or is simply working for a company being sued sufficient to be compelled to produce my personal devices?

For example, if I stated that my personal phone does not contain any work accounts, and does not access the work network, instead relying on 4G? Or would I have to leave my smartphone at home? Or would not even that be sufficient? :/

This entire concept is deeply troubling to me.
Policies to stabilize the financial system may do the opposite, study finds
But you can!

F-Droid has several apps where they download a built APK, decompile it automatically, extract the API key, and build the open source app with that key.

You can do exactly that already.
An Oral History of Something Awful
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If you want to pirate movies that are 20+ years old I'm not going to judge you for it. It's not that I disrespect copyright as a whole, it's that I think the length has gotten way too long.

And piracy is not the same thing is downloading something you already have a license to.
I agree with the article that modern middleware is too fat, and we could make more reliable systems by leaning on a full-featured database.

I disagree with the three reasons he gives for why we have fat middleware today. PostgreSQL solves 1 and 3, and PostgREST solves 2.
It's so ridiculously easy to start an MVNO now-a-days, someone here should start a Hacker News cell company that guarantees to be open and not do a bunch of bullshit with your data. You only need ~100k subs to be profitable, with all this privacy news lately I bet you can hit it with the privacy conscience consumer
No need for 3rd world country. Quite a few people (mostly older, but not only) in my whereabouts see stable 9-5 job as freedom and strive for it.
Not _shell_ processes, no.
Just need to read the manual better:

https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
What blogging system? Who provides the infrastructure? Getting back to pull/subscriptions via RSS would make me happy to, but this doesn't solve the problem of who's platform are we all sharecroppers on.
I think they are still working on the homepage (LineageOS is pretty new as it was CyanogenMod previously).
https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql
> The only reason they're a bit behind the times is because hardware manufacturers are loath to open up their specifications to open source implementers.

Not entirely true. The mobile hardware ecosystem is vastly more diverse than the PC ecosystem.

For starters, there was never any cloneable, de facto standard (a la IBM) thus everyone started from divergent designs.

Add in the limitations that PCs never had to deal with (miniaturization, power, cellular radio integration) and you rapidly get each company integrating things as quickly as possible so they can get a product to market.

And honestly, there's not much reason support clean code underneath the hood. 99% of your customers will never flash a custom ROM, much less change the OS. If your stuff works, and you've got the time for a rewrite for the next model, full steam ahead with business as usual.
I can't ever imagine using Comcast again after being forced to wait through their customer service.
There is no Time property. Your initial command 'ls | sort -property time' simply sorts by nothing, i.e. effectively the same as using sort { $null }. I think that's what they were so confused by.
This excites me. I'm probably naive, but I always imagine that one day I'll retire and spend my days trying to work on an open source mesh network (or something similar).
I want future generations to live in a world where 'the internet' isn't a thing that authorities can grant/deny. A headless social network is a promising omen of a headless internet.
Because I don't care what qualifications you have. If you want me to respect you and call you by some honorific name, you have to make me respect you enough to do so, otherwise I don't care what some piece of paper says you should be called.

I don't call English "knights" Sir either, because fuck that.

Note that none of this means I'd be rude, I just wouldn't afford them any more respect than anybody else.
I really liked what RSS readers did. Also the HN app pulls out the text from the article and shows it in a consistent style. We'll spaced black on white sans-serif text. No ads, no bullshit, just text and images. Same clean design for every post.

I would really love browsers to have a read mode, like incognito mode. If website owners want to make their site not work with standard html, then search engines should rank them lower.

I really don't care about wiggling text underlines. It hurts my eyes. I want accessible clean design optimized for readability and speed.
presenting social content in a different format would be interesting, but I've not seen any compelling options. But the issues of looking for approval and social status are social issues - not sure how a social network tool could avoid that. Isn't that what a lot of people's casual relationships are like? What do most people do at parties and social events in person - they talk about themselves and each other...
idk dude. It's the same argument as pirating Game of Thrones. Most people when offered a convenient and safer channel would probably just pay for Game of Thrones, but many have no simple recourse other than paying out the ass for cable.

e.g. I live in Canada. Pretty sure HBO Go doesn't support Canada, and I'm sure as hell not wasting my money on cable TV just to see Game of Thrones. I'd rather pirate it. But if I can watch something on Netflix, obviously I'd rather just do that and pay for the service.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14046594 and marked it off-topic.
In some way it's self-correcting, drunk cyclist can't ride fast. If he's super drunk, he becomes more of a pedestrian than cyclist. I agree it's not the best argument.

I like numbers, and numbers say drunk bicyclists are not a problem.

Drunk cyclist is hundreds times less danger than drunk driver, and should get hundreds times less punishment.
Yeah, I mean, I do choose Comcast for home internet, because the other providers in my area can't provide the performance I want.

...But the last thing I want is to do more business with them.
Braaaaappppp. The funnest days of my life have been on 2 stroke dirt bikes. Living in a major city, it's something that I miss on a daily basis.
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So... Instagram?
That seems fairly close to how LiveJournal works.
Finding the right balance usually requires, unfortunately, a very mature company with a policy of keeping talent happy and a strong R&D department (which requires a lot of income to maintain). The creators get to thrive in R&D while the maintainers get to thrive in working on very mature (and usually profitable) codebases.

I say unfortunately, since those companies tend to look like (and are) Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, etc. Oracle, in particular, has a policy that you can make any lateral move you want at almost any time; at the cost of pushing out your eligibility for a raise.

This kind of flexibility doesn't exist in most startups; I've personally been turned down for a lateral move within a startup because I "failed" a whiteboard interview. Startups also don't tend to attract the Maintainer personality since they are considered startups because they're creating something new.

I also think they have trouble with easily accepting lateral transfers because there's so much raw talent banging on the doors that it's appealing to bring in outside help on new projects. Especially since a transfer will be viewed as a loss of critical knowledge about the project that just switched into maintenance mode. What's missed is that the person who requested the transfer is probably going to leave anyways because of a the mismatch with their new job role and what they want to do.
I think databases have been so wildly successful because they were actually based on some reasonable research about data access models and set theory. I encourage anyone who wants to criticize the relational model to start with E.F. Codd's "A relational model of data for large shared data banks".
I use 2 browsers. Chrome as my default and Safari as my secondary browser when requiring a secondary window
I don't know much about SDN, but Google did seem to imply that DNS responses based on querier is not a very good solution.

> Rather than pick a static point to connect users simply based on their IP address (or worse, the IP address of their DNS resolver), we dynamically choose the best point and rebalance our traffic based on actual performance data. Similarly, we are able to react in real-time to failures and congestion both within our network and in the public Internet.
Would you mind detailing the process of actually starting the company, ie incorporation? What are the costs involved, recurring or otherwise? Did you hire a lawyer, or use a service like LegalZoom?
How would an MVNO prevent its upstream provider from doing bullshit on the data? It seems like each provider in the path to the backbone has the opportunity, means, and motivation.