skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was intended more as a general one, that you can't simply assume what the market chooses is actually the best choice, as individual market participants have different priorities to the collective.

> So, all I have to do to impose my will on you is to insist, backed by little to no evidence, that highly-regulated taxis "benefit society" more than less-regulated rideshare services do. Correct?

No, the regulations predate Uber. Uber needs to either change the law through lobbying or adhere to it.

> It seems that the people who determine what does and does not "benefit society" have a significant amount of unwarranted power. If this weren't true, we wouldn't be seeing cases like this one where the people -- the same ones that supposedly make up the democracy in question -- insist on using unauthorized/illegal rideshare services.

> If your response to my reasoning is, "Well, it's a democracy after all, they're getting what they voted for," then the contradiction is too obvious to bother pointing out.

What we have isn't democracy, it's representative democracy, which addresses exactly the problem I was originally making. The masses can't be expected to make informed decisions on everything that concerns them, so they elect a few people who can on their behalf.

When an average person decides Uber vs. Taxi, in the 10s or so they spend thinking about it, they're not considering the impact it'll have on the local economy, the safety features of the vehicle, the qualifications the driver is required to have or the regulations they're required to adhere to. All your average person thinks about is that the Uber app is already on their phone, the car will arrive quickly and in the grand scheme of things, the likelihood of something bad happening is small.

Elected representatives will listen to experts, consider the wider impacts of their decision and do their best to make a decision that benefits their constituents. Sometimes that decision will conflict with what their constituents would choose themselves.
I don't see how this comment is in any way useful, insightful, or constructive here.
I have, and I'm sorry to report they may still be in use in healthcare, government, financial institutions.
9600 baud modems had just arrived in 1993.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1993/hr159.html
Interesting, it seems the Everett family is still obsessed with the Pirahã. This is both a nice thing (indigenous languages and societies are poorly studied) as a bad one (it doesn't help them with more linguistic authority at all, others should study the Pirahã instead). As a linguist I used to feel a bit of shame for liking the Everett's research, oh well...
> But except for the parent and a lot of other people.

I've seen placebos work too - most of my childhood homeopathic medication was probably placebos.

For a single person, the important factor for treatment is outcome - not statistical significance. If something makes you feel better, the outcome is achieved. I've also seen doctors exploit it, because their goal is aligned with your outcome - not studying the causation.

However, the problem is when you offer advice to a skeptic, the placebo effect is out of the picture.

And it can be worse, the time spent with the placebo might be lost time to the sufferer where it plays out as "If only you'd come to us earlier" elsewhere.

There are long-term consequences, when you offer medical advice without the expertise beyond your outcome ... outcomes heavily bifurcate for people who trust you (strong placebo effect or time lost waiting for results).
The words do indeed go back to others. But Jefferson distilled them into a potent form and put them on the founding document of a nation (at the very personal risk of his life).

Nobody had done that before.
"Anecdotal" is not the correct term. "Testimonial" is. People are relaying the truth they observed, which is testimony. Anecdote means more along the lines of hearsay, or repeating something from a third party as if it were testimonial.
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I'm pretty sure "noreply" was a thing in 1997.

Didn't he receive even one single e-mail from "noreply" addresses in the last 20 years to recognize that, hey, people are using this thing, which is the same as mine!

> The time for his email provider to reject the address was when he requested it.

Do any of the same people even work there any more, you know?

Maybe at that time, you could have gotten "abuse" or "postmaster" if you had asked for those from the same provider. Sometimes such things slip through the cracks.
> Maybe that's another signal (along with the linked article) that the "science" in this arena hasn't advanced to the point of being repeatable and predictable.

Why would there be a treatment right now that works well but can't be shown to work in a controlled study? There's nothing special about back pain that makes it impossible to scientifically study.

Personally, I think the signal you mention is more because back pain is susceptible to placebo effect, coming and going by itself, clearing up by itself or because something else you recently changed around the same time is helping it. These reasons and more are why you have to do large scale controlled studies to find out if something works rather than relying on anecdotes.

I don't see many people giving anecdotes for how alternative medicine fixed their broken leg or cured their cancer.
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Is there a way to master that , if yes , can you tell me how ? Is there a site or something ?
That "something" is that the vast majority of people need to be given structure by someone else. In the vast majority of cases, if you leave someone to do something by themselves for which there isn't a clear, short term benefit, that person will do nothing.
Isn't the relevant thing the relative value? What information are you getting from the absolute value which is the only thing you'd need a label for, given the author says taller is better? (We'd assume linear unless otherwise specified.)
What did (or didn't) this study control for? I appreciate them stopping short of saying that proton pump inhibitors kill people, but without a causal mechanism it seems more plausible that chronic use is correlated with other life-shortening factors.
FWIW, I've never noticed signs of interest from the opposite sex; it was only after the fact, when I talked about an odd occurrence, or someone acting unusually, that people told me that it was probably a sign of interest. I didn't start a relationship until I started making much more active moves; that took many years.

My point being, I don't think it's that unusual for many men to simply not notice these signs you find obvious. To this day I can't tell. I'd be having dinner at a restaurant with my parents and my father would tell me that the waitress was unsuccessfully trying to flirt with me!

(I mean this as no defense of Dave. My fault is never noticing and never acting when it's welcome; I have never acted without verbal or written invitation. It took my current partner sending me a text saying that she was worried I wasn't into her, before I knew I could move further.)
Seems like a mistake to assume drastic differences in the number of cell divisions between say humans and Elephants. Starting from one cell it's an exponential process so it's likely ~50 vs ~54 cell divisions or something.
I didn't quite get the numeracy thing, Derriz.
If you don't like it, you can get back to the classic version of Google News by installing the User-Agent Switcher for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switche...) and switching the user agent string on Google News to Windows Phone 8.
Or it's a reference to a Beatles song or a simple joke, from a time on the internet when there were very few widely known "de facto" rules.
Out of curiosity (as someone who never had the chance to see Usenet at its prime), what are Usenets strengths and weaknesses?
What is it that you think he was saying? He was most certainly not saying that Africans were created equal to "whites". He didn't even believe they were the same species.
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A lot of hardcore evangelicals are actually not in favor of churches and prefer bible-reading peer groups, although these serve a similar function and are just as conformist, or more, than churches.

I don't feel like digging up references for this right now. Follow some fundamentalist Christians on FB if you want to have a look into a very different reality tunnel.
Are you trying to tell me "western culture" or "western civilization" is a fake concept? If you don't see Ireland and Italian belongs to one group, and Mexico belongs to another, I don't see how we can communicate. Our worldview is just too different.
The name I've heard for this is "Eternal September":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
>I don't think it 'screams' anything, although many insecure folks might take it that way.

Then you better not put it on your resume.
If Angular is trying to follow React (which I'm supposing is "the leader"), it is doing a very crap job of it. I'd say Mithril is following React, but I wouldn't say that about Angular.
Being able to make data-driven healthcare decisions would help to improve the 'last mile' of health care delivery. Not everyone has a committee of experts at their disposal. I hope that we will rely on more on big data to deliver smarter and individualized healthcare. There should be a whole branch of quantitative analysis dedicated to improving outcomes and reducing costs (unnecessary medication, surgeries, tests, etc).
Look for the book by his father (Daniel), Don't Sleep There Are Snakes.
Eastlink is a popular ISP, not just a webmail provider. They almost certainly do offer IMAP access to their email accounts. and this help page[1] seems to support that.

[1]http://my.eastlink.ca/customersupport/internet/faqs/email.as...
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Fastmail is actually an amazing alternative over Gmail. Have been using it for half a year now and will never go back. I use my own domain with it, so even if Fastmail disappears, I am still in control.
That has nothing to do with gains in productivity. If you produce ten times the value you did ten years ago, that fact is unaffected by the nominal dollar equivalent you make. Inflation - in your quote, of fiat currency - devalues stores of money, not stores of value, because it's a change in the relation of money to value that is strictly controlled on the money end.
You want to see how scummy AND scammy Yelp is? Look no further than further up the thread with HN:keymone responding to me, dismissing how Yelp is an extortionist.

Oh yeah, keymone WORKS AT yelp. Probably as paid developer and proxied user to post bad posts for businesses that don't pay up. Extortion costs a bit, but pulls in dividends, I guess.

Post below is my response, and proof of said user. And just... damn.

___________________________________________

You've been consistently a bad actor here, regarding Yelp. So, I searched google with "keymone yelp" (keymone is the HN username), and found the following:

https://github.com/keymone

[Name Removed]
Yelp
Hamburg, Germany
http://www.yelp.com

Organizations
@Yelp

Hmm...... Uusally people with direct interests (like yourself), will properly disclaim (I WORK FOR X, BUT NOT THEIR OPINIONS).

_________________________________

https://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=1zHW3SSTF3RFjHkgHzR...

Same pic as the Github profile. Certainly not a coincidence.

_________________________________

https://twitter.com/keymone

Again, this says "happy developer" at Yelp.com

_________________________________

Yeah, I'd suggest if you were to play the devil's advocate, I would properly disclaim that "[You] work at Yelp as a developer" instead of me playing guessing games and finally google your name and see dozens of profiles with the same Skiing pic.

Frankly, you prove more of what I'm saying. So, tell me. How many proxies do you use when you seed bad reviews for companies that don't pay up? Because already, what you're doing is SHADY SHIT.
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Did we get to this point of fragmentation due to smart phones and their walled garden philosophy? People stopped making applications for the sake of interoperability. ... if RealAudio™ was founded today it'd be king.

Or is facebook to blame? John Gilmore famously said "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- he was wrong, censorship just has to wait for the right monopoly to appear. And with the success of monopoly interoperability becomes its casualty
Actually, cancer treatment has made huge progress in the last decade or so. Melanoma, in particular, has gone from a virtual death sentence to being one of the more treatable forms.

The idea that we haven't found "the cure" to cancer is silly because cancer isn't one disease, it's many, down to the point of everyone's cancer being genetically different, and in fact different cancer cells being genetically different within an individual.

Cancer is all statistics. You slowly accumulate mutations in your tissues over your life time and if you accumulate enough mutations (especially in oncogenes[1]) you will get cancer. The only way to avoid it is to die of something else first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncogene
What do you think makes G different from J and U in that regard?
That’s until someone, like Microsoft, makes a serious version of this, and integrates automated obfuscation.
Epochs are primarily deprecated syntax behavior, so it's more like branches in the parser or other relatively self-contained bits. As the RFC says, the core language will continue to stay the same.

So I don't see this as leading to some major accumulation of cruft.
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Anecdotal sounds accurate to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence

> Anecdotal evidence is evidence from anecdotes, i.e., evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony. When compared to other types of evidence, anecdotal evidence is generally regarded as limited in value due to a number of potential weaknesses, but may be considered within the scope of scientific method as some anecdotal evidence can be both empirical and verifiable, e.g. in the use of case studies in medicine. Other anecdotal evidence, however, does not qualify as scientific evidence, because its nature prevents it from being investigated by the scientific method.

> Where only one or a few anecdotes are presented, there is a larger chance that they may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases.[1][2] Similarly, psychologists have found that due to cognitive bias people are more likely to remember notable or unusual examples rather than typical examples.[3] Thus, even when accurate, anecdotal evidence is not necessarily representative of a typical experience. Accurate determination of whether an anecdote is "typical" requires statistical evidence.[4] Misuse of anecdotal evidence is an informal fallacy and is sometimes referred to as the "person who" fallacy ("I know a person who..."; "I know of a case where..." etc.) which places undue weight on experiences of close peers which may not be typical. Compare with hasty generalization.
I feel like the questions I just posed left you a whole lot of room to rebut me specifically. Can you do so?
There wouldn't have been a Constitution without that compromise. The Constitution did, however, lay the groundwork for the eventual elimination of slavery (which is why the South seceded). With no Constitution, slavery might have persisted for much longer.

It wasn't like everyone wanted to get rid of slavery, and ornery Jefferson blocked it. The fact that a terrible war had to be fought over it should be good evidence for that.
How does that realistically work? Imagine hundreds of thousands of servers publishing their logs to a block chain, which has to be synced around the world and stored on the many thousands of participating computers.

Sounds like the very definition of a DDOS, or a new category of virus.
There’s an obvious issue that you stomach acid is there to digest food correctly and also provide the environment for growing the correct microbiome; both of which are pretty vital functions I’d say.
They didn't find a similar effect with H2 blockers, which pretty strongly suggests a specific problem caused by the mechanism of PPIs.
I'm in agreement that most of back pain is better served by keeping active rather than resting, but running specifically is not the best way to keep active for it. Sure, if it doesn't hurt and actively seems to help, go for it. I love running, but the constant pounding does my L4/L5 herniated disc no good whatsoever.
Well, let's say that medical ethics is a thing, and ethics in used-car sales is not. I'm attached to a medical school in a Southern state, and Trump was ahead in my neck of the woods with 2/3 of the vote, and it's taken seriously here by the physicians.
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The contributions of those anodyne 'hold-on-a-seconders' should not be missed. There was a reflexive script that they worked off that sounded all very mature but pretty much came down to people wandering into every thread and reminding everyone that sometimes victims lie.

They never had any specific reason to do this; it was never the case that these guys had new information. They just felt consistently moved to remind us all that No-one Really Can Know All The Facts every time an allegation turned up, like they had just invented epistemology and wanted to tell the world.
I think your example describes a type of jamais vu[1]. It happens to me (and presumably everyone else) too.

[1]"A sense of unfamiliarity with, or of never having experienced or seen before, something that should be familiar." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jamais_vu
Sounds more like corruption than authoritarianism - questionable criminal charges that go away for the right price. (Authoritarianism would be questionable prosecutions, rigidly enforced).
You seem to have missed that his son had already played with Processing, which uses a simplified Java and a painless graphics API that lets you just put some commands in a file and get to a drawing on screen quickly.
Also using it for more abstract projects like addition is not really a bad choice.

You may also be overestimating how much easier Python is to learn for a complete beginner. When I was 12 or so I discovered Python via RenPy (https://renpy.org) and although I could type some simple commands into the REPL, even the fact that you could put your code into a file to execute later was non-obvious to me. My experience with Processing was much smoother in comparison.

In my opinion, you should focus less on syntax and more on getting to an engaging experience with a fast feedback loop.
an api to control gdb, bash.
a real time stock price api.
If "catch" becomes a keyword in a future epoch, how does code in that new epoch call functions with that name defined in libraries from previous epochs? Does Rust support stropping?
It is as if you were doing work
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Smalltalk environments have used this as a fancy docsearch for ages now, I believe - Pharo has one. It's actually pretty nice for beginners to help them learn a standard library. It's unfortunate that the search space is probably to big for some of the less trivial examples you'd want (e.g.
the trickier Clojure collection functions).
No, Jefferson was just one of the ornery people who blocked it. It's odd to try to rationalize support for the institution of slavery as striking a blow for emancipation.
This a great example as to why we should start moving away from centralised services as well as trusted 3rd parties.
It's less about the average consumer than the individual ISP's approach to giving out email addresses.

Given that Eastlink wanted to take back noreply@eastlink.ca (sans subdomain) and that they're a smaller, regional Canadian ISP, I would guess their process for handing out email addresses is less sophisticated than Comcast's.
Identity tokens only implement the underlying address space. Friendly identifiers either have to be immutable (read:nearly worthless), or handled by some form of registry.

First come, first served registey with some form of expiry implemented via smart contracts might be possible, but it seems unlikely any one registry would ever become 'the canonical registry', as that just puts is back in the same situation as DNS.

This is a hard problem to solve without asking folks with big sticks/guns to enforce policy decisions.
I was not expecting a site about finances
I was expecting something about Linux Mint, or maybe herbal mint
Password Rules are Draconian and out of Date
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/techftc/2016/03/time-r...

http://fortune.com/2017/05/11/password-rules/

Your rules would force me to write the password down somewhere because of the requirements of using symbols
The pass phrase i chose would take 10 million years according to https://howsecureismypassword.net/
So I just punted, and went about my business.
I NEVER GIVE OUT MY PHONE NUMBER TO ANY SITE,
not gmail, not facebook, not any site anywhere

This is my opinion, as a 62 year old Software Engineer that has learned to keep safe since the internet was started. Only my ex Wife ever stole my identity.
I use Maildir over ssh/sftp.
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Uber tracks you every 30 seconds. They struggle with it at that scale.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/9/28/how-uber-manages-a...

10 times a second made me laugh out loud.
> However, kindly don't misrepresent the contents of Talia's article and shift the goalposts

I have not misrepresented anything. Please point me to an instance in my comment where I have.

In addition, I'm not shifting the goalposts. She said herself that she had a car, an apartment, residence in the US, credit cards, and a college degree, and she wants more. I believe she already has the bare minimums, as she would be considered incredibly wealthy by about 80% of the world.

> Because she's asking for the bare minimums, not a comfortable life.

As I pointed out earlier, she wants a comfortable life. More importantly, in her article, she has not pointed out any negotiations she's done with her employer to ask for a raise. She is simply demanding more money, for no good reason whatsover. If you cannot demonstrate and communicate the value you're adding to the company as well as your willingness to leave, why would the company give you more money?

Also, this article seems like emotional blackmail that plays into the current zeitgeist of "tech is bad, you should give more money away". If she gave compelling value add arguments, she'd definitely get paid more. Right now she's only presenting her wants and needs - the company doesn't care.
Yep - I somehow managed to move my account from free to paid (~$5.50AUD/month). I'd love to cancel it, but Google offer no migration for Play Store apps - so I'd have to re-buy everything.