skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to give us more information. What kind of product is it: consumer or business-to-business (enterprise)? Chances are, if your retention is nearly perfect and you've converted nearly all cold leads into customers, you're not charging customers enough money. Second, throwing money at ads -- when you have hardly any money -- is a typical mistake. Always try to earn attention before paying for it. Send some emails to bloggers about your pleased customers, ask your customers if they'll mention your product in their networks, write about your customers' success on your site (in your blog, etc.). When people don't want to freely talk about you anymore, then throw some money at ads to boost the old conversations.
I don't know if this has been said already, but to me the hazard is that it makes it ok for any country to make demands on software creators. I think it's a dangerous precedent. Really, all software should be publicaly reviewable or it should be the sole choice of the creator.
Some people prefer sanitizer as opposed to soap and water? shrug
I try to stick to hard alcohol but will make due with wine or beer.

In wine there is truth, in beer friendship, in water... bacteria.
Redesigning with confidence
1) yes
2) you are assuming that it was even possible to buy health insurance as a single person prior to the ACA. I actually tried and found it incredibly difficult.
This is a commonly belief with no basis in actual science; see this answer from a Mayo clinic dietician.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-he...
It's a valid solution that will never happen. Why?

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AUNH&fstype=ii&ei=QD1... $184B in revenue and 230k jobs gets eliminated

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AAET&fstype=ii&ei=Zj1... $63B in revenue and 49.5k jobs get eliminated

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AANTM&fstype=ii&ei=yj... $84B in revenue and 53k jobs get eliminated

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AHUM&fstype=ii&ei=7j1... $54B in revenue and 51k jobs get eliminated

That's just 4 companies that total $385B and 383,500 jobs. More broadly, healthcare spending is about 20% of the US's GDP.
Would you rather fail to register for an open seat or fail to find an open seat? Maybe I'm biased because I made the same choice as an undergrad, I stopped short of registering for the class automatically.
If you've ever had coffee or tea on a plane, you probably already know that the water usually tastes terrible anyway. So, germs or no germs, stick to cold drinks. Like gin and tonic.
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Sounds like the quickest way to get a call from the university's IT department…
That's sort of side-stepping the point. if a trusted third party is a satisfactory solution for the problem then a more complex and obscure trustless alternative is not compelling.

Additionally, your response is in the context of the question: "How does Ethereum help with retail?". Your answer is "it helps to avoid erroneous charges", but that doesn't answer the question of why Ethereum is a compelling option compared to a system that has already solved this problem without the inefficiencies of the blockchain approach.
> That's a fair argument but I'm more interested in how much R&D happens under single payer systems.

Half of all medical and pharmaceutical research in the world is directly funded by the US. That number doesn't include indirect funding which takes place as well - for example, pharmaceutical companies that are based in Europe (such as Astra Zeneca) often receive the funding for their research from the US, and use additional indirect funding methods to essentially subsidize their research that takes place outside the research with the money they make in the US.

The US's market share of medical research has dropped a bit in recent years, but not because countries with single-payer systems are picking up the pace - it's because the research industries in China and India have grown incredibly fast in the last five years.
Simply heating does not kill all bacteria magically. That would require boiling for some time and I doubt that happens in-flight.
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> free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny

More important is the enlightened citizens. You can name all sorts of intelligent ways to be the only safeguard against tyranny. In the end of day, if you are less intelligent and knowledgeable than the privileged few, no matter what you do, you'll be managed.
GSK is British. Novartis is Swiss. Roche is Swiss. Bayer is German. In short: plenty.
Or simply, our means of production have become so efficient that it didn't matter whether you were right or wrong, things would still hum along and the profits would continue.

In the agricultural age, if you fucked up a harvest, you and your family could starve.

Before agriculture, if you fucked up a hunt, your whole kin-clan could starve.

Nowadays, if you fuck up the housing market, and millions of people go bankrupt, nothing gets broken enough to turn a concern into a crisis, so we never fix anything, and nothing ever changes.
Pardon me, but this is not a satisfying answer to the request "show me the proof". Unless I am missing something, the paragraphs you cite are conclusions made by some authority bodies - based on evidence, perhaps, but without any demonstration of the process how such conclusions have been arrived at or of the evidence itself. Which makes these statements not independently verifyable. They can not therefore be regarded as proof - merely as an opinion.
And yet, people swear by them as though they have the same validity as physics. I never really understood that mentality.
In 2005, which had a very bad hurricane season in the Atlantic, (that was the year of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma) they ran out of names for hurricanes and had to use Greek letters. The last hurricane of the season was called Epsilon. Due to my mathematical training I found it very hard to be scared of it.
Greg from Twilio here. Congrats on your immigration! Glad we could play a small part in that journey, but credit goes to you for your courage and creativity. Would love to hear more of your story. Would you mind dropping me a note at gb@twilio.com?
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>although they obviously kept much of their supporting evidence classified.

Was anything not classified? I have trust issues stemming from an unnecessary war based on false premises when I was a child.

Most of my hesitation stems from a lack of information about it.
"Russians hacked Podesta's emails and released them to Wikileaks."

"Russians hacked voting machines."

Those are very targeted statements, and I'd feel better about the whole thing if more questions were answered.

Have the hackers successfully been linked to the Russian Government? How?

How long has this been going on? Since before this election cycle? If so, why is it only now an issue worthy of public attention?

Have other Government entities, China, North Korea, etc, done the same?

Have we seen similar attacks from inside the US?
AFAIK : not at all :(
On Android, Flutter uses its own C++ runtime totally separate from the Android framework.
>Is there a website like HN that's actually focused/moderated and doesn't mix Cosmo type clickbait with actual news?

There probably isn't one that will never, ever, ever include a link that you're not interested in.
This is ridiculous. The incapability and bluntness of Chinese government shows its true color...
Doesn't the device case act as a faraday cage?
in which prod app are they using it ?

One month ago a flutter member told me it was only used for internal apps at the moment.
Oh, now I see how my sentence was ambiguous.

The "anxiously enumerating pros and cons part" is bad. Cohabitation is fine.
Go solves this problem by permitting

foo := Foo{
x: 10,
y: 24,
}
The browser makers are basically building superadvanced parasitic OS's.. that in many ways are outstripping the ancient OS foundations they are built on.
It's also a reference to the author's article, To Fall in Love, Do This [0] which I remember as being extremely popular and shared all over social media when it was published.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/modern-love-to-fa...
When companies hoard profits, they really serve no purpose and no-one but to perpetuate their control and to reduce and eliminate the ability of others to compete. The massive access to capital is akin to a super power. Well, superpower can be used by for better or for worse.

Just as anti-trust laws are necessary, there will be drives for measures to encourage and even force companies to put their cash piles to use. Cash is the life of an economy, it needs to flow and flow.
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I embrace all chances to strengthen my immune system. challenge accepted.
> We shouldn't trust Russsians, and they shouldn't trust us.

WHAT will it take to end this tiresome, counter-productive, primitive tribalism, really?
Google Hacker SWAT Team vs. Everyone
I believe they now benchmark by running popular websites/webapps instead of single tests in loops.
The root cause is that the more convenience the more danger.

cyberattack can be easily overcome using the steps below:

1) DON'T connect your computer to the internet physically

2) if you want to use the internet, use another pc which has no credential data

3) for bank/shop online,etc. we should use a dedicate device which couldn't be reprogrammed.

To sacrifice a little convenience for the safe. That is it.
> There are non-bogus ICOs

Where?
According to the CDC, at elevations above 6,500 feet, water needs to be boiled for three minutes to kill E. coli.
Greg from Twilio here. I love Southwest[1] and have wanted to do something like this forever. Would you be up for sharing the source? Can drop me a note at gb@twilio.com.

[1]: http://baugues.com/southwest
Well the board felt it was reasonable, and I'd expect the board of a publicly traded company to know more about its finances than me.

The question was about how much R&D happens in single-payer counties, not how much one particular CEO made. I am a proponent of single-payer health care in the US but responding to unrelated, valid questions with, "yeah, but this one person made a lot of money and that makes me mad!" is ridiculous.
You're making good points but the nice thing about capitalism is that if a business finds switching costs too high, then another business will come up with a cheaper technology and kick the older businesses' ass. What we really need is to ensure that in these scenarios, the older business doesn't use its power and resources to stifle the upstart. That is one purpose of AntiTrust laws, I believe.
Adjusting 3D-printable mechanisms to fit new shapes
Performances are really far off still.
120 fps ? it can't do 30 at the moment.

(and fps is a pretty awful metric on mobile, what matters is the number of frame dropped)
Doesn't our stomach kill a lot of bacteria with the acid?
How AI can help our cybersecurity crisis
> I assume that this is a just alarmist journalism, since water for tea/coffee is heated to boiling ...

Boiling at elevation is different to boiling at sea level.

To kill Cryptosporidium (etc) you need a rolling boil for 1 minute (no one does this) ... and that's at sea level. At > 2km up you need to run that for > 3 minutes (and absolutely no one does that).

And all this is before I even get started on the woefully uncivilised idea of using 100C water for green tea.
Leaked photos of the Tesla Model 3 ignite an internet power struggle – The Verge
Right...to actually sterilize something, you have to hold it well above boiling. Autoclaves run at high pressure so they can get liquids up to 121C.

However, you don't need sterile food; you just need to ensure that there are sufficiently few bacteria that your body can deal with the rest. I would suspect boiling water (to make the coffee) and holding it hot (for serving) helps quite a bit with this, but I was wondering if anyone had some actual numbers.
Honestly, when it comes to cyberattacks, I think the truly worst area right now is "Internet of Things" devices and similar Internet connected devices like point of sales. At least Windows (and other computer OSes) have slowly become more secure over the last 20+ years. As far as I know, all the major OS players are very good at patching discovered exploits quickly. Malware spread by social engineering (eg tricking someone to execute malicious code) is the most common way things are spread these days.

Many IoT companies, in contrast, have root-level exploits that are laughably trivial to hack, and some don't seem to care that much at all when exploits are discovered (https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Undocume...). Windows is imperfect I'm sure, but I'd rather connect a Windows machine to the public network than any so-called "smart" appliance at this point.
It will kill the pathogens which cause vomiting and diarrhea: the article mentions e. coli, which the CDC[0] recommend 1 minute at boiling temperature to deactivate. I'd skip that and stop as soon as the water boiled.

Note that sterilization requires higher temperatures for longer periods, but it's not required for food products consumed by the general public. Some bacteria may survive the boiling process, but your stomach acid + immune system will destroy them.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/private/wells/dise...
Aside: I would love it if ML caught on. Such a good balance between expressiveness and usability. Imagine if Caml had caught on in the 90s instead of Java...
Also, 'boiling' at the cabin pressure is not quite normal boiling.
A joke from Good Will Hunting is coming to mind...
>Does it seem to anyone else that the finance industry is increasingly distracted from actually matching up capital to fundamentally productive companies, especially new companies?

This is somewhat controversial to posit, but I believe the corruption in the financial industry is extraordinarily entrenched because of the Fed. Before you call me a lunatic, smart and good people from Aaron Schwartz to Sanders have said things like this: that it should be eliminated, or that it is nothing more than socialism for the rich while hurting the poor.

The most obvious problem with it is that it creates astronomical moral hazard by protecting and guaranteeing the big banks.

After the Fin Crisis Krugman was talking a lot about making banking boring again, and run like utility companies. You can still have VCs, hedge funds, or whatever you want--but it's not funded by and guaranteed with anything other than the money you put in it, and it's separated from vanilla banking, ie Glass Steagall.

But then we had Dodd Frank and sometime after Krugman never went back to talking about that again.

Unfortunately, the dogma about the Fed is so entrenched in mainstream economics--so much so that speaking against it is immediately written-off.

Nearly 1.5 centuries ago, all the banks were actually betting against Lincoln to lose his war. So he used the constitutionally-granted right to print the nation's own currency, and won the war with it. The point is, there's no reason we can't do this if we really wanted to (and if you care about poor and working class, and eliminating cronyism from the world, you should want to).
Some people prefer free sanitizer to booze.
Better coverage from the South China Morning Post.[1] (SCMP, which is based in Hong Kong, isn't as independent as it used to be be, but they do have actual reporters gathering news.)

Censorship requirements for live streaming in China have been in effect since 2008, and were tightened up in November 2016, with new regulations issued.[2] Now, apparently, three sites not in compliance have been told to shut down streaming. Sites are supposed to have licenses and in-house censorship staffs.

Over at People's Daily, we can read the party line.[3] "A documentary program promoted by the Finance Channel of CCTV has recently attracted public attention for encouraging ordinary people to plan and produce their own films. Amateur filmmakers can choose from a wide range of topics related to China’s achievements in recent years - for instance, the 4G telecommunications tower installed on a cliff, the Shanghai-Kunming high speed rail that has shortened travel time between the two cities to 10 hours, and artificial intelligence. Once the videos are shot and selected, they will be played on a number of TV programs, and will also be promoted by a dozen online video platforms." So that's what good Chinese citizens are supposed to be doing.

China's approach to censorship is not leakproof, but is effective. There's a combination of subtle pressure and explicit control. Once something becomes big enough to get attention, something is done about it.

[1] http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/209...
[2] http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/204...
[3] http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0623/c90000-9232613.html
Crony capitalism is not a misnomer, its the endgame of all capitalists. When people have the resources to buy a regulatory advantage, of course they are going to do so; that's just capitalism at its 'finest'.
Food and drinks pass through other parts of our body before hitting the stomach.
Hunt for offshore oil is killing sea creatures that are key for healthy oceans
Or tomato juice: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-engber-tomato-jui...
When I read the article, I wonder how viable the business really is. The business started in 2015 and he's still below the poverty line: "He needs the subsidy, because he’s taking only about $17,000 in salary per year from the fledgling engineering company."

I attempted to run a company prior to ACA. Because I had a pre-existing condition, I had to buy COBRA. This forced me to get something running within 18 months. I also paid much more than "$100 per month" for my insurance.

18 months went by and I was nowhere. With the ACA, I might have lasted a few more months; but I'll never know if I would have gotten anywhere. Either way, after 18 months I did not have anything close to a viable business.

I think it's important that people are able to start businesses, and health insurance should not be an obstacle to that. There's a fine line, though, between fair access and an outright subsidy of a fledgling business. It's hard to see where that line is when reading this article.
They cook the shit out of everything now cause everybody’s afraid of food poisoning! Hey, where’s your sense of adventure? Take a fucking chance will you? You know how many people die in this country from food poisoning every year? 9000... that’s all; it’s a minor risk! Take a fucking chance... bunch of goddamn pussies! Besides, what do you think you have an immune system for? It’s for killing germs! But it needs practice... it needs germs to practice on. So listen! If you kill all the germs around you, and live a completely sterile life, then when germs do come along, you’re not gonna be prepared. And never mind ordinary germs, what are you gonna do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid shit? I’ll tell you what you’re gonna do... you’re gonna get sick, you’re gonna die, and you’re gonna deserve it cause you’re fucking weak and you got a fucking weak immune system!

-George Carlin
Actually, this is quite a nice way to tech-bomb a totalitarian economy- have some near suicidal or well hidden dissenters using soon to be important tech and watch the censor-ship department sabotage the countrys economy.

Highly cynical view-point, but hey, if it hurts, why not use it?
Yeah, right now it is all about email marketing automation. Few years ago, the hot space was project management software and before that it was bug tracking software. Get your timing right and you are golden, start too early or too late and you will be in a tough space.
There's a useful guide[0] if you're going to use a VPN and you should take it seriously. Personally I think a VPN is only ever useful for routing traffic over hostile networks (like at shady cafe wifi) and spoofing your geolocation to access geo blocked content.

[0] https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
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Maybe if you're an economist. If you're an accountant, categorizing Saas as OpEx (vs CapEx) certainly also make it seem that way.

However, as a software developer, calling it rent-extraction glosses over architectural differences and value derived from not having servers tucked away in an office closet. Flexibility and capacity on the server-end, as well as huge benefits of software distribution over web-browser reducing support costs. I derive a ton of value in never having to drive to a data-center and paying EC2 by hours-used seems reasonable since there is actually a server (albeit virtual) running for my money.

However, it's certainly rent-extraction when the only thing thats going on via the Internet is a licensing check.

Adobe Photoshop switched to the cloud model, so graphic designers now pay 30-$70/month for the entirety of their career. Yeah it's always an up to date version, but before the shift to a SaaS model, it was some $600 but it would keep working for years if you couldn't scrape together the cash for the latest version.
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> people have to work on maintaining those browsers. Same with MS office, Photoshop, etc.

People do, but I won't be learning C++ to apply for a job maintaining some gigantic piece of software. I never asked about the job market for C++ developers, because there obviously is one somewhere and I can just search the job boards for them.

Implied in my question, or so I thought, is what kind of project can I use C++ for - not what kind of future employment opportunities could I enjoy if I developed professional-caliber proficiency with C++. I was looking for a reason to use C++ as an individual, not as part of the Chrome or Safari team in 5 years time.
> socialized medicine

When you put this word here, they succeeded. Socilized has a special meaning here, and it's installed through near 5 decades of propaganda (number could be wrong, you get the idea).

WHY pooling the society's resource for health care is "socialized"?!

WHY
WHY
WHY
WHY...

When anyone examine this idea, everything falls apart. WHY? I don't know, and I will surprised anyone knows.
I know what you are getting at here but almost any individual market at the state level is going to be bigger than almost any entire company from a risk pool amortization perspective.

Given that, your fourth bullet point would point in the direction of insurance companies preferring the state pools to selling to companies one at a time.

The problem with the state pools is not (for the most part) one of size, but of adverse selection.