skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A complete joke, India can't even supply 24/7 electricity and water to the majority of their population, they may as well be discussing the outlawing of thermodynamics. It is as if a child showed up to a dissertation discuss astrophysics, what a bunch of clowns.
If you have a brick and mortar business, probably nothing. If you are selling on the internet, and, probably put a step between you and an old school credit card processor that will do that checking for you, professionally. There's just way too much money in credit card fraud to have anything that even resembles good online protection as a small business.

Some fancy online card processors will do this for you automatically. Otherwise, there's companies that do this logic for you, and work across processors.

Ultimately, we should all get out of the business of transferring money by just entering credit card numbers, which are easy t copy. Many parts of the world are already moving to systems that require 2fa, and fraud rates drop like a rock. Good luck convincing US banks and online retailers to change everything to do this though.
Thanks for your insight. Have you come across any scenarios where someone without specialist skills has been able to thrive?
Well windows 10's time frame is now "as long as Microsoft is in business". It's going to be a series of beta quality builds until eternity.
Huh, I didn't realize that. Thanks for pointing out.
Market capitalization general corresponds with the amount of debt a company is able to take on, and the creation of debt literally is the creation of money.
Whenever I need to buy things from Amazon, I always cross shop at Walmart. I've found them to be cheaper in many cases, and sometimes considerably, particularly when it comes to food related items.
Public records might have the structural drawings of your house is recent. They probably won't have full layouts because the codes don't care. Depending on where you live and how diligent they have been about digitizing the records, though, there may not even be structural drawings on file.

Source: Annoyed when I realized my house (re)built in 2009 has no architectural drawings.
Is that actually the same bike? Walmart seems to sell things under the same name as other retailers, but with some 'cost reducing' features... at least they have in the past.

Also, I presume GMC doesn't actually make these, any idea who does?
It sounded to me like what the company objected to was Amazon claiming that the MSRP was higher than it actually was.
I'll be catching up with one of the Lanyrd team at a conference in a couple of weeks; I'll ask him about it.
Sorry, as the OP that wasn't the intention (the Vega rendering API has been around for some time and predates our porting it to GPUs).
MS Paint, Screensavers Get the Axe in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Tech workers from lots of different companies are organizing to get better working conditions for cafeteria workers and other service workers like them. See: http://brokeassstuart.com/blog/2017/06/27/the-tech-workers-h...
Why would they not be here? They are here just like "SJWs" are here. Does technology, or this website, somehow imply a barrier to any group to join it in conversation? I would say that you will find each and all interests groups represented to some extent here. Just because you don't hear them here does not mean they are not here. They may just choose to keep their views quiet here because it is well known that the HN community at large would rather kick them out than engage in discourse. We know the HN community, because it's highly San Francisco-centric, are highly sensitive and establishes that this forum be a safe space
Er, is this not illegal in the USA? It is in Canada:

The Act prohibits false or misleading representations to the public as to the ordinary selling price of a product, in any form whatsoever. Ordinary selling price is validated in one of two ways: either a substantial volume of the product was sold at that price or higher, within a reasonable amount of time (volume test); or the product was offered for sale, in good faith, for a substantial period of time at that price or a higher price (time test).[0]

[0] http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/02...
Agreed, this is just part of business for hospitals. We as honest people feel ashamed if we cannot pay bills. But I make an exception medical bills and other unpredictable broken industries (if any).

If someone bought a car or house, they knew their obligations exactly. If they declare bankruptcy, I would lay some fault with them, if not all.

But with medical billing, you cannot get a straight answer. If they cannot tell you what a simple procedure would cost you, then you don't owe them anything.

Also hopefully if enough people don't pay surprise bills, then medical industry would have motivation to simplify their systems.
They're definitely here. I've had HN users insist that I, as a Jew, should be deported to Israel.
Wayyyyy too many :)

A few months back I wrote a Reddit comment listing "just" the high-quality React-related blogs that I read : https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/5t8loz/what_are_yo... .

I read a lot more besides that. To pick out just a few:

- Scott Hanselman: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/

- Robert O'Callahan: http://robert.ocallahan.org/

- Henrik Warne: https://henrikwarne.com/

- Andrew Wulf ("The Codist"): http://thecodist.com/

- Lin Clark: https://code-cartoons.com/ . (Her actual blog hasn't been updated in a while, but she's also posted many in-depth articles to Mozilla organization blogs over the last few months.)

And while I don't think
Wouldn't that be fraud?
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Really appreciate bulma and cssreference. Regular visitor to both the websites, I didn't know about HTMLreference but I would check that out as well.
Not gonna comment on the image format itself since I'm not very familiar with image compression, but from a code aesthetics point of view this project makes me a bit sad. It's a half-hearted modern C++ attempt and everything is in one directory. At least we don't have to dig it out of the Chromium repo, I guess.
There were good deals on shoes. I bought shoes for $36.20 (New Balance) that retail for $51.
Nope:

> We are implementing optimization and transcoding technologies in our network to transmit data files in a more efficient manner to allow available network capacity to benefit the greatest number of users. These techniques include caching less data, using less capacity, and sizing the video more appropriately for the device. The optimization process is agnostic to the content itself and to the website that provides it. While we invest much effort to avoid changing text, image, and video files in the compression process and while any change to the file is likely to be indiscernible, the optimization process may minimally impact the appearance of the file as displayed on your device. For a further, more detailed explanation of these techniques, please visit www.verizonwireless.com/vzwoptimization.
Hmmm. I seem to recall that Sears was sued for running "sales" more than six months out of the year, and lost. I feel like that would apply here?
As a consultant I recently traveled to a client office; the Wifi was spotty and failed so often I literally had a mild anxiety attack and had to head back to the home office just to clear my mind.

I can only imagine what privileges the next generation are going to upgrade to necessities.
Don't they follow that model for everything? For stuff like RAM, HDD's and anything related to computers? They actually build the product for enterprise and then also sell it to individual consumers.
> Argue the whys all you want, these sky high rates have to change.

If you don't argue the whys, you're mostly providing a lot of noise that is convenient cover for the next attempt to bilk insured people.

Yes, premiums are way too high. They are not high "because ACA", though. In fact, they'll rise at a much faster rate if we get rid of ACA. (The latest bill had an annual rise of $11.4K for a single male adult >62 years, with an annual income of $12K.)

There's no question ACA is broken, and we need to fix it. But we need to know and understand what is broken to fix it. A repeal won't do that.

There's a good argument to be made that e.g. enforcing cost transparency would do that. (Right now, you have no idea what insane cost your provider will charge you - they make shit up as they go). Single payer is one possible way to do that. Not the only one.

There's another good argument to be made that we need to talk about the right to die. Numerous patients are kept alive at insane costs, even though they would rather live out the last few quiet moments at home, with their family.

There's another good argument that for a decent risk pool, everybody needs to be insured. (This is an argument that stands little chance until being insured is actually somewhat affordable)

There's a good argument to be made that Medicare should be allowed to actually get competitive bids. (Right now it's rejected to "pilot projects" and "test markets").

There's a good argument to be made we need to focus much harder on preventative care. Follow-up costs from acute episodes are much higher than a decent investment in preventative care.

There's a good argument to be made we should talk about our test and prescription obsession. The amount of stuff unnecessarily prescribed "just in case" is ludicrous.

None of these will immediately lower rates. But each day we spend wasting on the theatre that is the junk the current GOP tries to ram down everybody's throats is a day they rise. And should this pass, they'll rise tremendously.

If we don't all inform ourselves as to the why's and then hold our representatives feet to the fire using well-formed arguments, so they can't weasel out, we're stuck with a shitshow. So, while I understand the frustration - I've got health care bills too, after all - an attitude of demanding change without informing ourselves what change to ask for leads to an even worse disaster.

And that feet-to-the-fire thing applies to all parties, in case you were thinking I have a particular partisan view. But it needs to be an informed roasting, or we'll merely end up with the loudest guy making the good sounding promises.
Glad to find a fellow member of the Surprised Party!
>but is this really an accurate statement of many people's beliefs?

yes. Those on hacker news may understand its not true but non-techies say it all the time ever since apple ran those I'm a pc tv spots
>have a lot more people expressing their inner (and honest) murderous urges

Most people would not. Minority, like psychopaths, would try do it for a little bit, but they will be put down by mentally stable people very fast. After that normal humans will create new law by themselves and you are back to square one. Your example does not really work, because you have to expose your body in real life to do stuff.

And let's not compare murder with opinions on the internet in the first place.
Honesty on the internet cannot do real harm, annoyance maximum. If you are afraid of harassment, don't associate your persona with your opinion, anonymity will protect you.

We sacrificed "real life" freedom to hypocrisy already. Let's try to do better here.
This brings up two problems based on the fact that very few people take the time to pay for and use a tumbling service unless they are trying to launder money:

1) Governments know that criminals use tumbling services, so there is a non-trivial chance that tumbling services are actually honeypots run by LEO's. If you think LEO's are not smart enough to think of this, consider freeway DUI checkpoints: a huge flashing sign across a freeway announces "Warning: DUI Checkpoint Ahead - Prepare to Stop." If you stay on the freeway, you'll notice that you never see any DUI checkpoint. The checkpoint was actually at the end of the first exit ramp after the sign - placed there to catch the fearful drunks that take the first exit after seeing the sign. (Frankly, I'm suspicious of publicly-available VPN's like StrongVPN for the same reason.)

2) Once your coins are tumbled with the coins of other criminals, the coins you withdraw from the service are associated not only with your own crimes, but also with the crimes of all the other criminals using the service at the same time.
Interesting. Are there any obvious implications?
>This smells like cheap and irresponsible journalism

Of course it does, it's Gizmodo.
Bitcoin can be tracked and a government could mandate that the bitcoins you use to buy a house be from the "legitimate" subset of bitcoins. With Monero, you can earn money from selling weed and turn around and buy a car with the exact same coins. Nobody can even ask you to prove where they came from, short of declaring them as income, (as with cash) but that becomes much harder when you can just fly to France, buy a house there (the government doesn't care if you paid taxes for that money in another country), and fly back.
The smaller the transmission radius, the more bandwidth available to the users of a tower.
This is newsworthy and should be called out every time, especially when it is such a trusted seller as Amazon.
Because NPR's audience tends to lean strongly left, and the left in general couldn't understand why anyone would vote for this obvious shyster.

I don't see that NPR is at all relevant to it. Having a different source of information won't suddenly make people able to comprehend an utterly different way of thinking. I'm sure I could consume nothing but Fox News and other right-wing media and I'd still be unable to comprehend it.
The article isn't about linguistic properties. It's about the uptake of Esperanto literature and culture throughout Asia. (Yes, Esperanto has a culture.)
Do you have any specific examples?
Pretty much anything I don't need immediately, I set an alert for with 20% of the lowest price in the past year and just wait. If it never gets that low I usually just forget about it, if it does get that low or even lower it usually the best deal I'm going to get online.
It would be fraud if it's the same model number, AFAIK.
This is just a way of saying that we have probed the electron for internal structure to a significantly more precise level than the level necessary to reveal the known internal structure of nucleons. But it's just an upper bound. For all we know, the next accelerator (if there is one) could reveal composite structure just below the bound.
Set up a website and submit a Show HN instead of asking if people care every few hours please.
Further evidence is given in the form of part of the TOS where you essentially agree that if iRobot goes under, the buyer will get all the data.

As if anyone reads those things.
No that's not how auto insurance works. It's a commodity with high competition and low profit margins. Insurance companies set prices based on expected losses. There's no reason to think that the arrival of level 4 autonomous vehicles would cause an increase in losses on human driven vehicles. If one insurer jacks up prices then the others will undercut them to gain market share.
It is correct that HTTPS and other protocols generate temporary keys for each connection but there's another much older reason why this is done, particularly for TLS.

Asymmetric encryption algorithms are, in general, orders of magnitude slower at encryption than AES. With these protocols the initial secure connection is done using asymmetric cryptography. It makes sense to use the established secure channel to exchange another set of keys and switch over to AES or another symmetric algorithm immediately.

Nowadays the two ends negotiate a key exchange to allow things like perfect forward secrecy as well, so this is becoming a historical footnote to an extent.
From my observations, neither side has done much to reign in the cost of the cost of hospital services and doctor/nurse compensation, which are out of line with our developed world peers.

On the coverage side, the two parties have contrasting stances.

Healthcare and Health Insurance are related but distinct topics.
Yes it is the same awful bike. Kent International owns the brand it does some assembly in South Carolina, the parts and frames come mainly from China and Taiwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_International
In what way is it not? I'm a firm believer that the two-party system sucks and we need electoral reform to make third parties viable, and every time I vote I wish it were already so... but there's no escaping the reality that the system, as it is built today, makes third-party votes as useful as drawing a spaceship on your ballot.
FOX is fishing for how Amazon could be hurting consumers so as to get anti trust litigation going. It is not illegal to be a monopoly but if it is hurting consumers it is fair game.

My opinion Amazon is NOT hurting consumers but rather Trump and the Republicans want to hurt it. YMMV
You've described "maintaining a website" and dropping out of university, and those virtues have enabled you to travel the world. That suggests that this ability is independent of your skills. I honestly feel like I'm being trolled here.
Ok, internet explorer.

At what point in history did microsoft drive out all its competitors, and then raise prices?

Oh wait. Never. They never raised prices and kept internet explorer free forever.
Yeah, screw kite.
Other people have answered in specific examples, but for me the problem is just it isn't a good website for discussion.

Populist answers that get in early and are digestable get upvoted heavily. Long, wordy answers that don't give an easy answer are not voted up as heavily as they take longer for people to read, or worse yet, sometimes they state their point early, provide their argument later and people dont read the justification and just upvote the top part as it aligns with their point of view.

Reactionary posts get a lot of traction because people get caught up in emotion and upvote. A placid answer saying "guys lets calm this down and wait" will not garner many upvotes because its not particularly polarising. Nuanced answers tend not to be as popular as ones that give a clear bad/good guy answer.

Worse than that, almost nobody reads the articles linked, its mostly people reading a headline, going to the comments and finding the first comment that falls into their world view. Too often you find an article that is quite good, with a highly upvoted comment rebutting the article in a way that makes no sense - because people aren't reading the article, they are just assuming and then finding the comment they -believe- counters the article.

I browse reddit constantly, but I don't think it represents issues well at all, it basically is a bandwagon simulator.
Some people drop ship things from Walmart via amazon.
Right now we create feed forward neural networks that have a very specific architecture so that we can easily train them. If we want a really "general purpose" sufficiently complex neural network we would need it to use way, way, way more computation power and take up many 100s of times as much data. It would be insane. So instead of having an amorphous blob of artificial neurons, it's much easier to design clever components and assemble them in a general purpose way.
Please consider adding hyperlinks to the articles themselves in your RSS entries: right now it's a useless bullet point list of titles: https://www.discoverdev.io/rss.xml
Avoiding terrorism is pretty easy: avoid the busy parts of the largest cities. Nobody is carrying out a terrorist attack in Boise.

Which is ironic that the Americans who appear to be the most fearful of terrorism are the ones who live in places where it will most likely never happen.
Over what period, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 50 years, 100 years, 500 years, 1000 years?
Sorry should have clarified! - scenarios where someone without specialist skills has been able to thrive under employment?
NPR is known by pretty much every right-of-center person in the nation as being the Fox News of the left. If you're left-of-center you have a stake in NPR's skewed coverage being the neutral truth (because that validates your world view), but it's just not the case.

The bias isn't necessarily in the sourcing or the facts, it's in the selective coverage and the constructed narratives and the overt bias in what kind of people and perspectives they choose to give a platform to.

I'm honestly surprised that anybody would expect NPR to be neutral or defend it as such. Their entire staff is extremely liberal. The idea that there would be a media organization staffed almost exclusively by liberals that put out totally unbiased journalism sounds like pure fantasy to me.

I think journalism in general will always tend to have a liberal bias, because the type of person who ends up in that career tends to be a liberal. It's similar to what's happening in academics. For whatever reason, liberals are just more likely to end up as teachers and TAs and professors and deans etc. Academics and journalism are both, to a certain extent and to varying degrees, nation-wide liberal echo-chambers.
OO doesn't have serious problems. Crap implementation of OO bolted onto Algol derivatives has problems.
Walmart often sells not-quite-same models of things.

One, they often sell main items at below cost, because they make their money on accessories and groceries and whatnot before people check out. Computers and TVs are big ones. They will often take a big loss on a TV because they expect to sell DVDs and cables and such.

Two, I didn't click this product but often they will have a submodel of a popular brand. Like an imaginary Dell Laptop-XX-XD might normally be $599. Walmart sells a Dell Laptop-XX-SP where the RAM is soldered on and the network card is a Chinese knockoff and so on for $499. Same company, same-ish model, Walmart special.
I work with hotels. They face the same problem (how to get customers). There are basically two approaches: either pay someone a commission, or build a brand.

Building a brand is hard, it takes a long time, but it's worth a lot and is monetized over time.

Paying someone means accepting you're going to pay 10-15% or whatever price to someone like 10x consulting or some other sort of agency to find you work. This can be the right option if you aren't in it long-term or just plain don't want the hassle of brand-building.
I did something similar (as an SEO gambit). Filterable by country (click the map). Feel free to take my data!

https://codefor.cash/startup-developer-tech-conferences-2017...
Just curious, what exactly is their ideology?
Their architecture is definitely novel. What are you referring to that made it sound like real AI we have could already do this?
You're right, English will continue to fragment and already is fragmented.

We are already starting to see the development of a simplified international English dialect. Given enough time, once American dominance seriously declines, it's possible that English and International English will diverge into 2 languages.

However, I think you'd see the same level of evolution and fragmentation with Esperanto as well if it were to really take off. Eventually people would start making blockbuster movies in Esperanto, kids would start learning it, and younger people in smaller countries would use it more than their native tongue.

It would evolve and it would no longer be simple because it would no longer be artificial. It would no longer have the advantage of belonging to no one.