skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, people here are ridiculously addicted to cars, even in inner city regions. Ridiculous.

> Will we have better cars that are less polluting, safer, even self driving?

Sure, whatever. Considering the huge amount of pollution that goes into just creating the car, it is silly to talk about less polluting. Safe? Yeah, that why the road toll is going up. Self driving? Can't come soon enough, since people are incapable of concentrating long enough and are too selfish to drive safely.

Private cars are a stupid idea, and have caused way more problems.
Tips from an FP Noob
Cell phones emit RF signals that penetrate the body. Lightbulbs for the most part do not. I've always considered the notion of antennas important. Your circulatory system may act as antennas of all different lengths and that would put the received energy right into the blood where it can cause leukemia or other similar cancers. Just speculation of course, but the proposed mechanism applies to RF and not light bulbs.
Do we really have to relive this?
> . Recently I learned that my niece Dara, a sophomore at New York University with a 3.7 G.P.A. (and a boyfriend), was offered a week of travel in Buenos Aires as part of her honors seminar. I was retroactively envious to learn that a 3.5 G.P.A. or higher at many schools qualifies you for free trips, scholarships, grants, awards, private parties and top internships

For some reason I don't think this is common.
If he did that, then the company couldn't have gotten this popular. In the beginning, it was VERY difficult to get a better deal on products than Amazon because of how low their prices were.

If they started to pay their employees more, then they could have never priced their goods as competitively.

"But wait, that was then, why not start paying their employees better now?"

Because this is just the beginning. Amazon will use that money to grow even bigger by investing into itself. You don't even know what they might expand into in the next ten years. And yes, they will have to do it by paying their employees as little as they can get away with to keep growing the business at the same quick rate.
Unfortunately the other betting exchanges have far far less liquidity than Betfair, and much of the bets on offer are from bots that are simply mirroring the odds on Betfair (with their own margin added on)

Basically, all the money goes on Betfair because that’s where all the money is. It’s a vicious circle, great for BF and very difficult for any competitors to break in to the market.
100k in your pocket sure, but 100k gross? That's 120k USD, not sky high for the US. And don't taxes net out so you only end up paying the higher of the two rates in most places? In Europe total income taxes are likely higher than US federal income taxes just about everywhere.
You can get an astronomical light switch that replaces the manual light switch that can do that and more based around actual sunrise/sunset time for $30 - it’s a little pricey but they just work.
I barely made it through college and I can tell you what eventually was the most valuable thing I that was doing there:

Networking.

I didn't fail linear algebra because a friend explained one important concept to me twenty minutes before the exam.

I got my first(not related to my education) job because I helped a friend with calculus(his father was a manager in a company and hired me shortly after his son passed his exams).

I got my first paid internship because I bumped into my friend while I was visiting some other friends in their dorm(apparently the said friend's manager was looking to spend his budget - or so it seemed given that the hiring process was a formality really).

I got my first "real" job because a friend of mine ran a company and was in need of devs.

I could go on and on. Basically connections were the thing that jump-started my career.

So my advice would be: try to be likable and hang out with people with grit.
> However I am pretty sure Apple does some DNS tunneling.

That seems very reasonable. It would be better than hardcoding IP addresses and safer than straight DNS for management things. Maybe their implementation of that doesn't have a very long TTL?
It tends to be annoyingly cool when it rains for about six months out of the year. Take today for example -- 50 and raining. It won't kill you if you're otherwise healthy, but being caught out in it without proper attire feels "shitty". Good rain gear that you can wear every day for months doesn't come cheap, either.
I have been logging, redirecting and blocking these queries for these domains and more for years.

It is one of our biggest complaints about the "new" Apple.

There is no option for the user to disable the nonstop phoning home. iOS is a BSD-like OS configured so that the user does not fully control it (e.g. can't stop someone else's software from incessantly trying to phone home). The user cannot fully configure it (e.g., can't access HOSTS file). Only Apple can (they get root and they do not even own the device). Important settings are placed off limits to the owners of these devices. This is no fun.

Turn on an iOS device and it will keep trying to connect to Apple servers; it will not stop. An incredible tracking device if those servers keep logs, irrespective of Apple's reasoning. Not to mention lots of unnecessary network chatter on the home network.

Clarification: After many years of desensitization to this practice since the first iPhone, it is neither "a secret" nor "scandalous", but it is still disappointing. Moreover, I am not advocating any other mobile OS simply by making a comment about iOS. In fact, none of the "smartphones" being sold today are satisfactory to me as portable computers when compared with the control I get using an open source OS with i386, amd64 or even a development board.
What exactly makes this "alarming"? I could understand "large" or maybe even "unexpected", but if this is background noise, I'm not sure "alarming" really fits here unless we're sure this is bad behavior.
Sure, I was mostly referring to calculus and the other subjects you study as an undergrad though, where the trade books you can get on Amazon are generally much better than the textbooks that the university courses use.
I also have a DNS logger and I found that iOS makes a lot of requests to time-ios.apple.com. That one isn't really alarming, though.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dissociated+diet

I remember seing a book about that diet 20 years ago by a singer:

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaella_Carr%C3%A0
Thanks for the tip about the census I found this http://profile.id.com.au/australia/car-ownership

Looking at aust-wide and state by state, it's as I described, at most (in wa and tas) 18% with 3+ cars, but 60+% fall into 1 or 2 cars per household. The rest is no car and no answer.
They achieved what Escobar couldn't: respectability on a mountain of skulls.
I'm very familiar with Sanger sequencing. Base for base it's one of the most accurate methods. It is by no means worthy of being considered a gold standard, it's just somewhat better. And the drawback is that dollar for dollar, it's pretty inefficient. You can genotype all the common variants using an Affymetrix gene chip,and base your inference on vastly more data. For forensic analysis, where the goal is to discriminate genomes, that would be much more accurate. Maybe go back and verify the most discriminatory/confirmatory loci with Sanger sequencing after that.
Does your device behave correctly when you block these domains? If so, what is the impact on your service and battery life?

I really feel a dissonance between Apple's marketing position with privacy and the behavior of their devices in the background.
The idea that the patient should be influencing treatment BASED ON WHAT THEY SAW ON TV is absurd.

It's like you didn't even read what you responded to. What is this, reddit?
Deliberate deception is not protected speech. These people deliberately lied and created the most lethal epidemic of drug abuse in our country’s history. Don’t defend their right to do it. You cheapen the notion of free speech when you do.
I wonder why base 24 is such an extreme outlier. I had noticed it already when I was playing with this concept in Mathematica, it's the only one I couldn't exhaustively search.
This is essentially what I meant. I think it's a great way to approach hacking on and learning React, Vue, or similar.
>iOS is a BSD-like OS configured so that the user does not fully control it

Oh come on. You act like this is some malicious or unexpected new behavior when this is how Apple has behaved for at least 15 years now. And if the BSD guys didn't want their software used in that fashion, they'd change their license. But since BSD wrote their own license that allows for that, they explicitly approve of it.

Don't act like you're scandalized about discovering the big secret that Apple won't let you fully control your iPhone in 2017.
This suggests a thought experiment for those worried about superhuman AI. If you add more matchboxes to this setup while teaching it to play something else, is it going to become intelligent eventually? Maybe at a billion matchboxes?

If that doesn’t seem believable, why be worried about machine learning algorithms running on digital computers instead of matchbox arrays?
> The bookmaker wants to balance his book for each game to make sure he makes a profit no matter what the outcome is.

This part is not really true. Bookies will very often have an unbalanced book and will be happy to keep taking action on the side that increases their exposure, if the price is right.
Because Bob bets when it is profitable - when the line is wrong. Taken as aggregate, Joes bet on both outcomes, the unprofitable ones and profitable ones.
Have someone else sit at your table when the count is good and bet high
So, what is your process to disprove wrong assumptions that you or someone else has?
I can't imagine remoting will be that huge a chunk of the market for a long while. Even in software whenever I go over postings its usually only about 20% that offer remote as an option - and in practice software development is one of the most remote friendly careers.
No one is handing out boy scout patches for trying. I'd prefer we charge singular car commuters the actual price of their destructive habit but for now I will happily settle with shaming their antisocial behavior.

Guess what, the moment this nonsense becomes indefensible or plain too expensive is when that train or bus suddenly starts working and running on time.
Bookies will limit you no matter what your stakes are. You can get your account closed by placing £10 bets, and even if those bets don’t win!

Bookmakers are on the lookout for exactly the kind of betting behaviour described in the paper: people only betting on the top price, and shopping around for the best odds. If they see that you are only grabbing mis-priced offers, you are unlikely to be a profitable customer to them.

The bet size doesn’t really come into it. Just look at it from their point of view; why keep a customer who is costing you money, however little it is.
I used to hate writing papers, especially in HS. But what I was really hating was the night before it was due, thinking somehow the magic would happen. It never did.

The key is getting a draft out, literally a raw simple draft of what you're gonna say, a week ahead of time. It's kind've like pseudo code. Then fill that in.

Then I'd hammer on my papers over the week. They'd start out raw and get better and better. I'd tweak. I'd find a better word. (Is this sounding familiar?) I'd work on it.

When I turned it in, I knew I was getting an A. I had two papers quoted in lecture. Hey wait, I wrote that! I don't think I ever got less than a B+, generally A's.

Writing isn't magic. It's work. In fact, what 'they' do isn't really that much different from what 'we' do.
> time is better spent working on personal projects, hashing out ideas with peers

When I was entering college I thought this would be what I'd do in my free time. Instead, it turned out that all of my peers were disinterested in these sorts of things. I still did projects and research and decent internships while having an OK GPA (~3.9) but this definitely isn't possible everywhere.
then can we at least wait until further research is done?
> Kiewit, the Nebraska-based construction firm that has the main contract to rebuild the main spillway and emergency spillway at Oroville, the nation’s tallest dam, estimated in its winning bid in April that the work would cost at least $275 million. But the price tag has now grown to at least $500 million

Out of curiosity, what was the runner-up bid? Is there no mechanism to re-open bidding when the circumstances change? What prevents me from bidding $1 and then busting it to $1 billion after winning?
Is is if your you want your alarms to sound on time.
Jon! :D
Relevant excerpts from the linked article:

> when it doesn’t last, patients can experience excruciating symptoms of withdrawal, including an intense craving for the drug.

> Even before OxyContin went on the market, clinical trials showed many patients weren’t getting 12 hours of relief.

> OxyContin’s market dominance and its high price — up to hundreds of dollars per bottle — hinge on its 12-hour duration. Without that, it offers little advantage over less expensive painkillers.

> Purdue tells doctors to prescribe stronger doses, not more frequent ones, when patients complain that OxyContin doesn’t last 12 hours.

> Research shows that the more potent the dose of an opioid such as OxyContin, the greater the possibility of overdose and death.
Interview with Susan Fowler
How? “Into the blood” isn’t a mechanism. When was the last time you saw a lump of meat arc and spark? This is fear mongering.
> which Sound Transit is bound and determined to pretend does not exist

I think you mean "which Kirkland is bound and determined to ensure never carries trains ever again."

There's a reason why "South Kirkland Station" is actually in Bellevue and the Kirkland City Council is it.
Let's pick common ground. Define "Melbourne"? How far from the cbd before it's not Melbourne for you, because I know you can't be suggesting people in Frankston or pakenham don't need a car.

And from personal experience I can tell you that any argument of not needing a car goes out the window as soon as someone has kids. Discussion over. Unless you're volunteering to cart around all the shit parents take with them?
Hmm interesting ethics in this one.

I care about Newegg, I feel they offer me good prices and service. I bought many things from them over the last decade.

So if this suit succeeds and Newegg takes a massive hit (for seemingly real fraud), a few big dogs will make money and the consumers will get shafted.

Will be interesting to see what happens. Part of me wonders why it's "buyer beware" for the consumer, but if you're a big bank and you get ripped off, it's time to sue everyone you can.
Yeah, just walking into a supermarket and expecting to find a B2B connection is unlikely, but like you said, walking into a convention where your likely customers are is a great opportunity. Even coupling that with the other guys suggestion of just taping fliers everywhere outside the convention or dropping business cards on tables in the entryway lets you skip buying tickets to the convention but still get some boost from it.

$300 will get you pretty damn far that way, enough to get a customer or two that you will hopefully be able to provide good enough first-class service that they'll help you from there.
UPDATE: I updated my article with a more recent graph with more devices connected.

Here is a quick CSV export of all the concerned hosts (subdomain + domain) I could pick from my database.

https://stan.sh/images/ios_domains.csv

I really want the story behind pancake.g.aaplimg.com
One strategy I know of is to have multiple people. One person sits at the table and always bets low, the other always bets high but only sits down if the person at the table signals to them that the odds are good (They can be off doing other stuff while the low-better is doing the counting, so they're not just standing around waiting).

You're still right though, the odds aren't that great and once they get a hint you're doing something weird you'll get thrown out.
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I think sugar is really what pushes societies from healthy and slightly stout to obese and diabetic, since those diseases are issues of insulin resistance. If you eat too much sugar, your insulin resistance will go through the roof because excess fructose (which makes up ~50% of sugar) leads to a fatty liver, which leads to insulin resistance. The liver is the only organ that can process fructose. Bread, on the other hand, will get metabolized into glucose (oversimplifying a bit here) and every muscle in your body can use glucose for energy, so it's a lot more evenly distributed.

If you're in the "I'll never give up bread!" camp, I would encourage you to try and find sugar-free bread. I tried doing that, and let me tell you, it is extremely difficult. Even your healthy looking whole grain, multi-seed, organic superfood bread usually has a ton of sugar. But it can be done :)
It could get even more people to ride the bus if they extended the idea of dedicated lanes for buses farther into the suburbs and along major corridors (like I-5, but they'd get crucified by all the car drivers if that were to happen).

I absolutely hate my commute because on the very best of days (i.e. minimal traffic, which is almost never), it's 1h20m long (were I to drive on that exact same day and conditions instead, it would be 30 minutes--that's a steep price to pay for me to prefer public transit). 10 years ago it was great--40 minutes max by bus, but commuting from point A to point B almost only ever gets worse over time, never better. I'd love to take the bus all the time if it was much more consistent--but it never will be.
I agree. I usually start with the first paragraph, but if I am unable to complete the first paragraph (where I state my stand), I just go into the body. I usually have the outline on a piece of paper, and probably erase the whole word doc a few times. On this topic: I don't like setting an upper bound for word limit. The longest essay I have ever written was 15 pages because I had so much to write...
ATTN Frequent Flyers: App that predicts airport lines to avoid wasted time
I'll second that. I've been checking in on his videos every once in a while ever since the original Oroville dam crisis.
I'm still amazed that computers are so terrible at telling reliable time without connecting to a network constantly. I've seen computers with a fully-functional CMOS battery lose 5 minutes a month without a network connection. Mind blowing.
A follow up question would be, is he personally running the companies which you have mentioned and doing those "crimes" or covering up for them or is it the people who are actually running those companies doing it?
The books rarely balance up though, especially for markets with more than two outcomes. Football/soccer has win/lose/draw (and you can never get enough money on the draw, as hardly any amateur is going be watching a match cheering on a draw!)

Horse racing is even worse for the bookies, with multiple runners, their books will rarely balance, and the standard outcome is a loss if the favourite wins. Any outsider winning a race is a ‘turn up for the books’. (n.b. this is for UK style horse racing betting, where the bookies offer fixed odds. Pari-mutuel or pool betting doesn’t have the same problem)
That’s called “getting cooked”. If you stand under a heat lamp many multiples higher in energy than direct sunlight, bad things happen. News at 11.
Let's have some fun and also save the world :)
cost of not repairing is still higher
> Idk, SoundTranist also tried a massive money grab on car tabs on inflated valuations.

Sound Transit didn't "try" anything. They're running the MVET the way that the legislature told them to do it and that the voters approved.

(Full disclosure: I voted yes on Sound Transit 3, knowing full well what my vehicle registration would cost after the vote.)
You know what would give you even MORE energy? COCAINE! Try it out!
Pretty common strategy in bidding. Undercut the second bidder to get the contract, then run over budget to make a profit.
Sugar is a drug that is addictive and releases dopamine when consumed which is why you feel good when you eat it and have cravings for it.
good luck affording an apartment pretty much anywhere that is anything like that with a part time job these days.
It can provide false positives but not false negatives, so it's good enough because the goal was only to prove that the number on the pencil is the largest left-truncatable prime. If it provided a positive result the author would have checked that one separately or added more primes to the check.
In the context of Hegel's dialectic, my understanding is that "undesirable" would be the synthesis of "bad" and "something that tempers the badness," which could simply be "low intensity." Said another way, I don't think your question is all that valid, it's like asking "Why is something pink, if it is not red?" Which if you ask me sounds like a pondering from a pre-Socratic also-ran, and at any rate the question can be dispensed by saying that pink is a less intense red. All in all, they're all value judgments, so the good-faith answer is: like all value-judgements, it's because the perceiver says so.

I’m interested in digging at the normatives.

Assuming this isn't to indicate a search for consensus where there isn't any, the "normative" is that someone donating $1 can't make these demands, so maybe a better question would be why do rich people demand namings, and could it be merely a personality flaw to force people to use their name to refer to something oriented around their donation (building, fund, etc.)? That is, rather than right or wrong, can we ask whether it's selfish? Immature? Something else? Fire up your dialectic if you like.

How ridiculous would it be to create "The Barney Google Fund for Helping People Reach a State of Getting Things Named After Themselves?" I'd say if you think, "say, that's not a bad idea!" then you probably don't see a problem with donations purchasing naming rights. Plain and simple, no dialectic necessary.

But we can come up with reasons not to do something all day. So, assuming for simplicity that naming is optional and the money would be given regardless, in what ways are named donations a good thing? I find this approach more readily exposes the details.
Not really for the masses, since it wasn't cheap or plentiful. The wealthy that consumed high quantities of sugar did have the same illnesses that are so prevalent today.
>What prevents me from bidding $1 and then busting it to $1 billion after winning?

Isn't this why most publicly financed projects have massive cost overruns? Bidding realistically will lose you the contract; bidding low and then running overbudget may have consequences, but they are not as severe as not getting the contract in the first place.
> So movie theater > movie at home for most people.

I'm really wonder if that's true for most people. Sure, there are people that would rather watch in the theater, but there are also people who'd rather hold a hardcover to read.
How would you re-open bidding and enact a switchover? They're already time crunched. There would be big costs in money and time from hauling out all the existing equipment from the first bidder, and bringing in the new staff and equipment from the new bidder.
*presuming that you can sell 5.9x10^9 dollars worth of BTC
Limiting those who stand a chance of pulling off the type of big wins they advertise heavily on television is rigging the market. It's manipulation, pure and simple. What they're selling is a bullshit dream that if you ever come close to they will bar you. This type of activity is the definition of predatory. It's straight up rigging.