skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an idea, don't trust your users and use your intuition.
Here's why I'd never invest in the Uber for dog walkers: Once someone finds a walker they like, they'll just do a deal with them. Dog walking isn't like needing a ride. Usually when you need a ride, you need it now, and you don't care who provides it.

With dog walking, it's usually at a scheduled time each day, and you care a lot about who is providing the service.

Dog walking is not a good candidate for the Uber model.
Not as big of a downside as it might seem, what with the very rapid rise of solar/wind and storage technology of late. Simple economics are going to make those undeniable in the next 25 years, if not sooner. NG would be excellent as a transitional energy source, I think.
PETKIT wants be more than smart hardware in easing the burdens of pet owners
Speed limits are designed and enforced poorly.. For the most part; outliers create more danger than many cars going the same speed.

The CBC had some nice coverage of this.
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I guess that's what I was trying to get at - you can report facts and human interest stories til the cows come home, it's just noise at this point, we've heard these stories thousands of times. If journalists want any hand in the healthcare revolution, they need to be more than just mouthpieces.
This isn't so much a unique feature of serverless though, any self-healing cluster based system is better monitored this way.
It’s pay per use. Most fax services require you to have an account, which is really heavyweight for most people who really only have to send a fax a few times a year (if at all).
I've been burned by online furniture too many times. There's just no way to get a sense of something's quality online. You need to be able to touch it.

Price is not an indicator. My grandfather bought a couch and coffee table from Ethan Allen in the 1960s. They seemed to have been carved from a single block of wood and weighed a ton. Now everything they sell feels like it is made of cardboard, but it costs thousands and thousands of dollars.
Most interesting. It'd be nice to see this sorted by age as well, to infer whether the distribution of gender had changed over time. And...well it's easy to imagine many other contexts that it would be good to see similar analyses applied to.

I wonder if/how this will change now that Kim Jong Un has promoted his sister to more visible public roles.
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If only humans always chose the best solutions to a problem. That's not how things work though. Many sup-par solutions have been chosen because they gained adoption more than because they were the best solution.
Wouldn't a good compromise be treating medicare reimbursement rates as price maximums? Since CMS effectively sets the prices by being a monopsony of sorts, codify it into law.
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I'd love to sell Tittie Time

http://www.tittietime.com/

Edit: (other than the logo and name, the homepage is SFW)
I use Rover quite a bit. I have some "usual suspects" for dog walking / dog sitting but they're not always available.
Maybe interesting:

”How to Make Roman Concrete”
https://youtu.be/tOhAfaFboNU
They definitely deserve immense credit for the renewables build-out the last decade. Having more than doubled their energy production from renewables from ~15% to over ~35% in that time. Accounting for 2-4% more per year, hopefully it's near a tipping point where it begins to hammer down coal consumption there. Throw in some natural gas on top, maybe Germany chops coal use down by 1/2 in the next 10 years.
Unless those pipelines were cut off.

Energy and geopolitics are practically the same thing.
isn't it generally accepted that gold and other heavy elements are formed in supernovae?
I've seen a lot of interest for Fulfilled by Amazon e-commerce businesses on Flippa.com last few months. If you're making $1K or more per month in revenue, lots of buyers.
Who says they were pressured?
Same with cleaners, car wash, landscaping, etc. These are all services that people put more scrutiny into.
A sphere and a hyperboloid are both locally Euclidean (as is color space). The interesting stuff starts to happen as you move around a bit further in the space.
You're welcome, it was ironically based on ideas drawn from a C Port of the Amber potential function I wrote back in grad school. While I'm not proud of the code these days, I put it on sourceforge a long time ago.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/folderol/

Why write the port in the first place? Because back in the days of yore, I was doing the equivalent of adversarial search to try and design a better potential function for predicting protein tertiary structure. I ultimately arrived at the result that there were too many adversaries to make linear models and single hidden layer neural networks work.

And unfortunately, my postdoctoral advisor at the time didn't consider this publishable research.
Dog boarding, on the other hand, is pretty irregular. So rather than Uber I think the correct analogy should be AirBnB.
It's the predictable margin between cost to provide service and the value of convenience to the customers.

The marginal cost of sending a fax is, arguably, about one cent. (1.8c/min VOIP cost, 30 seconds to send, some electricity). Most faxes will be one page anyway, so the profit margin is a nice 10000%.

Finding a working fax machine if you don't have one sitting around all set up is a hassle on the order of 10 minutes to an hour, and likely to end up with a visit to a UPS/FedEx/Staples or the equivalent thereof, where they will charge you $1.50-$2 for the first page anyway.

Find a cheap old technology that people want to use infrequently and are therefore willing to pay a relatively large markup for convenience. Let's see... appointmentreminder already does voice calls for reminders, but how about automated, customized calls? Get a good speech synthesis app and let people send and schedule calls that read out whatever they want to type. That's probably worth a buck to people who only want to do it once, and then you can offer a subscription rate for frequent flyers.
I like the aesthetic of the site.
+1

I don't use Uber, but if I did, I wouldn't really care who was arriving as it'll be a one-time interaction to get me somewhere.

I love my dog more than most of my family tree, I wouldn't just hand him over to anyone. Finding a dog walker is about meeting them and making sure you trust them, and once that relationship is in place it's going to be paid in cash or invoiced, an app is just another middleman wanting a cut.
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> So there's mathematically no way that Medicare could be providing a disproportionate share of fee-for-service reimbursements.

Many people receive services then pay 0$.

And really that's the core problem. A hospital can send a clam to collections but collections agency's pay penny's on the dollar. And if someone dies in debt there is nobody to collect anything from by law unless someone is dumb enough to voluntarily takes on that debt.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_coverage_in_t...
We currently don’t offer subscriptions, as were just starting out.

Out of curiosity what’s your use case? There are lots of subscription fax services out there (efax and hellofax are 2 popular ones)
It was pretty positive. I bought two area rugs from them, both are holding up well. According to my order history, they're now 2.8 years old, so I'd say I'm pleased. Not super-cheap ($375 for the two of them), but free shipping. Neither seem to be available anymore, which isn't super-surprising given stock turnover and so on.
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I wish the USA could handle things like South Korea does.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/17/515753599/...

Top ranking company brass actually go to prison for crimes, versus the USA, where they get a tiny fine at the very worst. Or a large severance payout.
Just because there are some folks that use Haskell for for experimental studies, doesn't mean that Haskell is not a great language for line-of-business programming.

I can't say it better than Gabriel Gonzalez:

"Haskell is unbelievably awesome for maintaining large projects. There's nothing that I can say that will fully convey how nice it is to modify existing Haskell code. You can only appreciate this through experience.

When I say that Haskell is easy to maintain, I mean that you can easily approach a large Haskell code base written by somebody else and make sweeping architectural changes to the project without breaking the code."
Unfortunately, since I had previously overwritten the factory OTP configuration, I had to take photos of my affected Yubikeys, including my email address in the photo. A bit longer, but still easy enough. Now to wait, and hope they don't deny my claim (despite having ordered them directly from Yubico in April of this year...)
How did you get this job?

I studied astrophysics, but I mainly try to lure people into clicking on ads these days, when I am not doing consulting.
I would love for someone to explain how keeping the pricing information away from me, for weeks or months equates "Informed Consent"?

Because if I would have known the price, I would have chosen not to "consume" the services. I would love to see a lawsuit based on this very area, with complete lack of informed consent with regards to cost and health benefit.

Because the way it's currently handled is like if I went into a Walmart, loaded up with lots of stuff, and walked out the door. Then 3 months later, I get letters saying I owe X*$1,000 on threat of all sorts of things (garnishment, lawsuit, etc).
The UK has a national health service that is excellent and yet some people are happy to pay for additional health insurance to cover non-essential and service-related things.

Want gourmet meals and a playstation in your room? That is a perfectly fine use of "extra" health insurance.

Everyone had a right to free primary and secondary school education yet some people opt for private schools - this too is okay.
I'm not exactly a paranoid conspiracy theorist,

I think we can very safely just drop the term "conspiracy theorist", from now on. There can be very little doubt that "jobs" of this nature are not just approved, but very carefully considered and approved at the highest levels. The questions to be investigated are which organizations were responsible, which individuals were involved and how they operate, exactly.
Yeah I've had 'Silence on the Wire' for awhile - brilliant book, although I confess I haven't ever been able to sit down and really read it end to end. But I'd say I'm familiar with the topics he talks about.

I'm not sure how that compares to the fact that WPA2 is completely insecure and trivial to decrypt on Android as "no, that is bad". Except maybe in a "well who trusts Wi-Fi security anyway?" to which I'd reply: "Actually, a lot of people. Including people on this thread".

I actually buy the argument that the RSA issue that affects YubiKey, that was announced today, is perhaps more important since it's harder to mitigate than using a VPN, but I don't know how bringing up silence in the wire makes this any less important.

Again, I haven't fully or detailedly read the book, so I could be wrong about that I guess.
The best way is, if someone signals a lane change, let them in.
Any app in particular that you recommend?
Light rain. Bit of wind.

Have to say, while it is tragic that a few people have died on the roads, the way that Irish people handle a "National Emergency" like this is hilarious. Gotta love some of the dry humour going round!
The longer I work, the more "High Quality Code Base" matters to me.

Maybe after you've had enough of working on so much others' shit, not much else matters.
> Note, also, that on a Lisp-family language, creating a DSL is very easy.

I'd argue that this is a bug, not a feature. Yes, DSLs can make for elegant code, but it comes at a high cost in the form of a hidden dependency: the state of the DSL author's brain.

In order for us to share a codebase with a DSL, I now need to understand your unique, high-level view of the problem, and be able to speak it fluently.

And if your view of the problem is incorrect, I need to be able to hold two conflicting viewpoints in my head and find a way to resolve them. (Something that humans find quite difficult.)
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Maybe it should be called a "anywhere in the United States stop."
People can and do distinguish between dollars and IOUs, the IOUs are called US Treasury Bonds.

Sure, they're traded at very close to face value, but that's because traders trust the US government to pay. That's different for governments considered at risk of default. That could also become different for the US government, if the economy really goes south or if enough people start talking about defaults.

I don't see how criptocurrencies would change any of that. For how much less than 1 BTC would people trade a 1 BTC IOU backed by the US government?
Sounds like the same reason Homejoy failed: https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/31/why-homejoy-failed-and-the...
Also regulation will not work. In Vienna for instance certain dog breeds need a “license” which is for the human/dog pair. So you can’t get any random walker, the walker needs to do a license with the dog once.
People mention "when there are no more human drivers" like it's the inevitable endgame (probably people who work for autonomous driving companies I'm guessing) I hope I don't live long enough to see the day the law prevents me from riding a bike down the street, or walk down it for that matter. The implication of the above assumption is there is no freedom. (Analogous to gun ownership controversy, btw)
Can someone explain a bit more about "horizontal transfer"?

It would seem that a gene is simply a symbol in relation to the DNA it is a part of, and so there is no reason to believe that a particular gene would mean the same thing in two different species DNA.

The context for the meaning of the gene would seemingly be completely accidental. But then if a horizontal transfer resulted (by chance) in something with selection value, it would be likely to remain in the population.

Do horizontally transferred genes typically do something novel? Or do they interact with other (distantly, vertically shared) genes in their resulting expressions?

Is my description of a gene in the context of DNA being a "symbol" accurate? Or is there a more accurate programming metaphor. I would hesitate to liken it to a subroutine, but I am curious if it might be more analogous to a type class or something like that.
Hey,
This is a really good site for your question.
https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses

As a follow up question:
I'm pretty curious as to if you are working on a sideproject should you create a business and than products for that business or just label it as products. For instance Microsoft has Bing, Azure, and other products.
We bought a couch that seemed pretty good and wasn't cheap. It was really comfortable for about a week, then the whole structure just started to sag.

The kids like to stand on the arm rests and jump off. We very quickly learned that the entire structure of each arm rest was just a cardboard box, and they both promptly crushed, and now we have deformed, squishy arm rests.
Uber for Dog-Walking??! Good lord, what a horrible image. I sure hope they're not sexually harassing dogs!
As an outsider taking a quick look I found it difficult to navigate. Guided by a course that can be fine, but without that I have no idea where to start. Compare that with the tours of D and go: https://tour.dlang.org/ & https://tour.golang.org
Hey, thanks. Twilio actually does do faxes, but this was built prior to Twilio dipping their toes into the fax waters. We use Phaxio (https://www.phaxio.com/): the API is nice and clean and we've had an entirely happy time working with it.
I wouldn't trust most Lyft/Uber drivers with my dog. That is a entirely different level of trust.
yes, especially when bloggers and conference talks show off that edgy stuff. People begin to get attracted to Haskell because of those things.

Things have changed a bit too over the years. I've heard of folks that burned out on haskell after wrestling with Arrows, and obscure arrow operators. Also, remember iteratees?
It sounds rather like he is trying to blame OpenBSD for his own mistake. As multiple people from OpenBSD have said, he agreed they could apply the fix, so they did. He didn't have to say they could. The fact that CERT persuaded him to extend the embargo later is not their fault.
VirtualBox 5.1.30 (released 2017-10-16)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* GUI: translation updates

* GUI: Fixed double mouse cursor when using mouse integration without Guest Additions, actually a Qt 5.6 bug fixed with QT 5.6.3 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15610)

* Solaris hosts: allow increasing MTU size for host-only adapter to 9706 bytes to support jumbo frames

* Linux hosts: glibc 2.26 compile fix

* Windows Additions: 3D related crash fix (bugs #17082, #17092)
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Yes, they also suffer from cold starts. When people talk about it, they usually measure the percentage of cold-started function calls, which mostly ends up being around 0.1% of all calls.

In a sense, you have to have a good amount of baseline traffic to end up with that problem, which reduces the percentual impact. So the problem is less pronounced than with a function that is very rarely run, where a high percentage of function calls are cold.

(In theory, the worst case where a CloudWatch trigger would be mostly useless is that a function is totally idle and removed from warm-state, and then gets a huge concurrent spike, is idle again, gets a spike etc. But that is not a realistic traffic pattern, I assume. It would also break with existing auto-scaling that would be even slower with bringing up new instances.)
We recently moved and my wife attempted to purchase 5 different items from Wayfair: we ended up returning 4 of them.

The problem was color: the photography online was typically very different from the final product. We kept thinking there was a simple fix: send sample veneers to a customer to let them see what the actual product looks like. They could rent them out like lots of other furniture places do with fabric. I'd easily drop $100 on rent if I didn't have to deal with returning something.

We also had one coffee table that was half-stained: they literally forgot to stain half the table.
The NES had a memory-mapped APU[1], so the game just sets sound registers to play the appropriate notes, and ticks down a timer until it's time to switch to the next note: https://gist.github.com/1wErt3r/4048722#file-smbdis-asm-L156...

[1] https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/APU
I didn't read the headline (perhaps it has mutated since) as indicating that she was involved in the release of the Panama Papers, per say - just that she was a journalist who wrote about them.
Rover.com is doing pretty well [1] with a similar service. In my area at least, these dog sitters (and, I assume, these dog walkers) are young, and take it on temporarily as an alternate source of income. They may not stick around for long, and you'll soon be looking for another. Also, their schedules may change frequently - your preferred walker/sitter may not be available on the date of your vacation or other cause for needing the service. And for the price, both the sitter and the walker may find keeping track of billing and payment through the app to be simpler.

[1]: https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2016/10/r...
> Many people receive services then pay 0$.

That's actually not really true - at least not the "many" part of it. For most hospitals (including critical access hospitals), the default rate on medical bills is nonzero, but nowhere near the amount of money they lose on Medicare patients. The difference is a few orders of magnitude.
I have done some traffic modeling in your area, and lived in the area. Boston has some aggressive drivers but that's probably due to the infrastructure being based on things like cow paths.
agree. Also many of those things are open to interpretation. What does product-driven and design-driven mean and how are they different? Work/Life balance seems ambiguous as well. Balanced in what way? team is diverse? diverse in what way, height, weight, grammar skills, gender, musical interests, etc?
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Oh. I see the error in my ways. Maybe one inch short than it's description online? In such a way that it doesn't fit as nicely in the spot.
If you're looking for a $249 couch, it's the way to go.

Around here, at least the low-end furniture stores like Art Van stock a ton of low-end Chinese-built furniture. Everything is particleboard and laminate, it scratches and peels and is basically junk, but they want to charge full price for it. At least when you buy a cheap table from Amazon it's priced accordingly.

I can see their industry turning upside very quickly. Furniture store are huge, they have tons of sales people making handsome commissions, they rely on selling furniture marked off by 40% with a different 'sale' each week, and make most of their money on the financing arm and fabric protection packages and wood polish extras.
It's still a grab for market share before the race to the bottom is finished and hopefully they've iterated to autonomous drivers, until then both companies are loss leaders with no profit visible on the horizon.
Random idea, but here (Italy) it is common enough for hunters to have dogs fitted with a GPS locator when they go in the woods hunting, those are often costly, but there are simpler/cheaper versions intended for use where there is good coverage of cellular networks.

I wonder why - since this service is so innovating/high tech - they don't simply provide their pet walkers with a number of such devices, I believe they cost (at end-user level) in the 50-80 Euro range, maybe 100 for more professional versions.
Honest question.

I'm curious what a the OPs motivation is. Are you looking to turn these side projects into profitable businesses, or are you hoping to use your network to flip them to a more interested party that would otherwise not have found the side project?
Yes and I think you just described Rover.com
It's been years since I've done music recording as a hobby so someone correct me if I'm wrong -- you can be guaranteed that almost all popular music is pitch corrected in some way. There's Autotune and then there are other ways of pitch correction as well -- Melodyne allows you to manually adjust pitch at a microscopic level. I was able to use Melodyne to perform manual pitch correction that sounded far more "natural" and non-exact than auto-tune.

Of course a lot of folks cannot tell the difference, but to me it's night and day. I couldn't stand Glee for instance because of how auto-tuned the voices were.
Dynamic typing is a typing. Also, duck typing is used more in the dynamic sense than the static sense, where in the latter it is instead called structural typing.
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Not necessarily. If you have a dog walker he may not always be available.

I have been with pet owners and they would leave a bar early because of their dog. They may be using that as an excuse but I think there may be a market for flexibility. Especially when it comes to spontaneous work happy hours.
And yet somehow America didn't lose WWII. This type of rhetoric (that we need big government to make decisions for us) scares me a little.

Also, people don't need to be altruistic saviors, they can buy bonds.