skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add further:
The difference between sexism and sexual harassment is that sexual harassment has nothing to do with the sex of the person doing the harassing or the person being harassed. As much social stigma there is for women to come out and talk about harassment, with toxic masculinity that most men suffer because of, it seems like an equally large if not larger problem. With women it is "she was asking for it" and with men it is "what a pussy" or something to that effect.
Which is why Singapore plans to roll out GPS-based road pricing from 2020.

http://roadpricing.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/singapore-will-ha...
Random anecdote: I commute by MRT. I guess my average wait time is around three to max five minutes on the platform.

I'm used to public transportation from Germany, but SG's transportation is so much better and very affordable on top. Cabs, Grab and (no clue, never used it myself) Uber are cheap when you need an alternative. I had a car for most of my life in Germany, don't miss it a single bit in SG.
This page takes ~5s to load if JS from cdn.ampproject.com is blocked...
> BC Medical tends to get a pile of funding every couple years for CI patients, like 10 million or whatever, and out of that pile they prioritize younger adults who need at least one CI to be able to hold down a job, people whose equipment is starting to fail, etc. If there's any left after everyone who needs one CI or replacement equipment has got what they need, they can offer second implants. They've never gotten that far down the list though.

That sounds like a relatively reasonable methodology... I would really like to see the balance sheets of these companies to see how much they're gouging us -- I refuse to believe that what's essentially a condom and plastic tweezers really costs $700.
> Screenshot of Shovel Knight

I don't think it's fair to put Shovel Knight in your list.
Yacht Club Games tried really hard to recreate a NES aesthetics and constraints (limited color palette, sprites, etc...) with careful deviations when it is really necessary [1]. I don't think you'll find more aesthetically pleasant game in the NES library.

[1] https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidDAngelo/20140625/219383...
The Siemens Orion is sold in India for around $250.

While it is not a premium hearing aid, it appears to be adequate for at least some.

Unbranded Chinese hearing aids are available for around $25.
I can understand why you might have trouble groking this as it might be a slightly foreign concept, but not everyone even here on this forum is lucky enough to be able to throw money at all their problems.
> Meeting people requires talking. Earplugs, like the headphones I wear in the office, are a social signal to tell people "don't talk to me".

That's a hell of a sacrifice to make based on something that's almost purely your imagination. You can have custom earplugs made for $140 that are clear and almost unnoticeable, which will block the majority of damaging frequencies while still allowing you to hear talking pretty well. I promise, no one is going to stop talking to you when you have them in.

The isolation I've experienced from hearing loss is so profound and damaging that it's painful to see how casually you treat it. I'd pay any amount of money to get my hearing back.
People worship Star Wars and Roger Federer and whatever modern marketing machines want them too. Who cares if it's an AI god.

The point of worship is to the give the devotee something to focus on - to take away focus (atleast for a bit) from things they can't handle - to give them time - to give them "faith" that tomorrow can be a better day.

If AI gods satisfy those conditions, and aren't taking advantage of my weaknesses, sure I'll worship at that alter.
I thought it wasn't the weight so much as it was the Pan-Am markings.
Hi, I always like to read user feedback, especially if they make me smile. I created yc.metachat.com with 2 friends as a side project.

We applied to YCW18 and wanted something that aggregated news about it and gave us the opportunity to chat with other people who have applied. If you would login, you would see there is quite some activity. I'm sure there are many areas of improvement to be found.

To come back to your list of critiques: 1) We are not affiliated with YC, nor do we claim to be. @vinaipay already pointed out your misunderstanding about the company's domain owner. 2) Registration is a standard Laravel component that hashes your password. 3) We are loading external images from rss feeds which are not over https. Maybe that is what you are referring to.

Things we will do: 1) We are putting a disclaimer on the website that we are not affiliated with YC 2) When and if this side project becomes something more than a side project, we will invest time and money to store the images and send them to you over https

Note: I was tempted to write this entire post in all caps :)

Have a great day!
There are European versions of Xiaomi working on all European frequencies now in Poland. You can grab a nice Xiaomi phone for $150 with a fingerprint sensor and 3/32 memory.
Yes, but the point of UBI is not boosting V, it's just a side-effect. The point of UBI is change in structure of production.

Also, regarding savings, according to standard theory, savings are indeed equal to investment. But I think it is wrong, because in the real world, there is a difference in reversible and irreversible actions. So I consider investment/consumption to be only irreversible actions on the world (for example, building a factory), while savings are reversible actions (buying a gold brick from someone). In the real world, it makes sense to postpone irreversible actions if possible (you can always react to others), and so investments and savings are not the same thing!

In fact, this happens in deflationary crisis, people hold money (that is, postpone irreversible decisions, and by above definition, save) in expectation that the money will gain more value. And they are effectively deadlocked, waiting for each other to make move and make irreversible decision. This is bad for economy, because economic production requires people to make irreversible decisions (to invest and consume), and so giving everybody some amount of money (especially to people who have no option than to spend, in the form of UBI) can break these deadlocks.
> Developed countries are actually experiencing a population decline.

Japan left aside, all developed countries populations are growing. It has been 20 years that half of those countries are supposed to experience a population decline and it does not happen. At worst a handful stagnate. Even Germany is at its record high. France exploded each of the forecasts which promised its population decline, so the next ones are revised upwards and then exploded again.
goquery [1] is pretty nice.

[1] - https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery
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Utilising that reasoning the game analogy fails also
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Not directly related, but a question that popped up while reading this:

As a C++ programmer I'm quite happy to see the language keep improving in quite a good pace, but I'm wondering if anyone can shine some light on how this evolution compares with other widely used languages.

Of course newer languages can change drastically quite fast (Swift comes to mind), but I don't follow more accomplished languages (PHP, Java, JavaScript, Python, Even C, ..., sorry if I didn't name your language) close enough to get an idea.
There's Elixir for that..
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Building medical devices is extremely difficult due to regulation. I don't know if they are price gouging or not, but it is expensive to do.
Latch on to that idea -- corners don't look like that -- and follow it to its logical conclusion: no one knows how to make any fully-simulated video look indistinguishable from reality.

That's a huge leap, but it has the benefit of being true.

(To be precise: no one has ever created fully-simulated video capable of fooling human observers anywhere close to 50% of the time. The video has to be reasonably long (>30sec) and complex. But in a double-blind test, almost any nature video will handily beat any synthetic video.)
Heh, the clear screen hotkey (ctrl+l) also jumps to the address bar. I think he needs a "return false" somewhere
Remember: this comes from a company that is obsessed with design and has guidelines how other people must design their apps for their store.

Messing up their own apps leaves a bad taste.
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> I'm not sure people understand quite the level of investment Apple puts into 1) quality-control

Is this suppose to be a joke or something? Hello from 2 weeks ago when password was saved as password hint on encrypted drives.
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As far as I know, there's no real water market anywhere, it's all granted by governments. Unsurprisingly, some governments are better than others at managing such resources, and large companies take advantage of that.
Why is it necessary to have car if you have kids? It's quite possible to get around with kids, if the city is built for it.
I wish we as scientific community could make some secure, anonymous, shared hosting work for this. With sci-hub as authority and everyone else being able to allocate as much of their local disk space for this.

edit: Before someone suggests IPFS: IPFS is not suitable. a) it is not anonymous and b) it duplicates everything for its block storage so you have to have twice the space...
Thanks, actually the wikipedia link was "per generation" and they assume ~ 100 divisions/mitoses per human generation. So it should be 1e-10 mutations/bp/division.

However, that is for germline, somatic mutation rates are apparently 10-100x more more common: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15183

These rates no doubt vary by cell type, environment, etc. I was actually thinking something like 1e-6 to 1e-10 mutations/bp/division.
In sublime text you don't need to select anything, ctrl+up/down will move the whole current line up/down.
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No need to be paid directly when the indirect dollar-value of publication in the right journal can be six figures or more. With such incentive, it's no wonder many researchers skew their work towards whatever increases their chance of publication; dreaming of a Nobel Prize (apparently many in academia spend a lot of time fantasizing about it).
The first thing I turn off in most games is Bloom. I actually do have glasses and the bloom effect in most games just looks like my glasses are greasy, no thanks.

Also, AA is another thing I generally turn off. It gives quite a performance boost and the resolution these days is high enough that I'm not bothered by it.
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Thanks, that makes it clearer for me (non-academic) to understand. It does astound me how much control the 'journals' have over the academic research world!
I don't think you'll have to. Both hidden and conspicuous watermarks are common in trade book PDF downloads. RIAA members poisoned the Bit Torrent well.

I'm neutral on the matter, but there are some obvious paths of recourse for publishers who don't want people sharing their credentials.

(Disclaimer: I work for Crossref, which is an organisation in the scholarly publishing space.)
This shows how important UX really is. UI can be all glam and shiny, but the software with the most accessible of UX wins, more often than not.

I always come back to the example of WhatsApp and how it took on SMS, IM, and emails and won. People claiming WhatsApp went in mobile first are getting it only partially right. WhatsApp defined itself as a replacement for SMS: No login passwords, no chat history, cross platform and that led to them being cheaper, better, faster, frictionless. Later added MMS-esque capabilities like media and then email-esque features like Groups with super nice execution on the UX front.

Similar thing for AMP pages: It just works and it is blazing fast.
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It hit top of reddit yesterday, I don't think it was a mere 60k hits.
Current startups are jokes. Not really many of them have techs, let alone a working business model. All they have is websites/apps, nothing more.
I don't think there were enough details. I usually like to see the pics of the accused and the victim to make up my mind.
Supposedly the Journal of Co-ordination Chemistry costs $11,367 per year, 24 issues [1].

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/why...

https://svpow.com/2012/01/13/the-obscene-profits-of-commerci...
But researchers always want to disseminate their work to a wide audience (of other scientists that will cite their work and thus help them get a long-term job).

I've been researching the industry for quite a while, and have written up the vicious cycle that keeps this in place in some more detail here: https://medium.com/flockademic/the-vicious-cycle-of-scholarl...
https://twitter.com/sci_hub/status/731467465973174273?lang=e...
Yeah, something similar in implementation. It actually seems like they already have systems like this in place, but they still only charge for access during congestion in specific zones. My suggestion is a bit different in that you would also be charged for non-congestion running time, outside of congestion zones.
Well, technically technically it is correct. Replacing isn't adding. The total number will stay the same
By not trying to window-shop? Aka, posting wishes disguised as suggestions.

My all time favorite- asking for a feature that is already existing, not taking time to search the documentation, then when somebody duplicates the information for you (basically becoming your free of charge search engine) - you dont thank him, but ask for a implementation (basically hiring a programmer for free)- once that doesent happen, you are never heard of again.

And that above is the norm in Open source community. Those hostility arise, because there is a constant stream of clueless users doing the crybaby on forums. Which is why man open source devs retreat to irc and only answer your question if you lurk for a day and post a little history detailing your own investment.
@scihubot [0]

[0] - https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub/status/731467465973174273?ref_sr...
I'm surprised that this isn't old news for every HN reader. Did something change that I'm overlooking?
Seems like they're currently only planning to use it to do the same zone-based congestion pricing that they already do.

It seems like they could do more interesting things with it in the future though. :- )
It's difficult to achieve because one cannot downgrade a device to some older version. So when 3GS became insanely slow with updates, no one could at random get a device with an old OS version.
> throwing all of it away is rarely possible without endangering the profitability of the company

Well, obviously I don't mean "turn it off and wait for the new system to be finished". You build the new one whilst the old one is in maintenance mode and swap in new bits as and when you can.

For example, at current $WORK, the backoffice system is a horror show of overcomplex PHP that is riddled with bugs and no-one really understands how it all works. Replacing that would be a huge boon both humanly and monetarily to the company because CS use it heavily every day.
Are you aware of the SG ERP [1] system?

It's a toll system, that taxes you for driving on key roads during rush hours. Say electronic "Drive on this road before 9.30 and you'll be taxed 2.5 dollar" signs.
That feels like a decent idea to me?

1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Road_Pricing
I dont understand why there’s no calculator on the iPad included....
They are very common here in Austin. The woman working at the counter in the Post Office wears one and the last couple of doctors I've visited wear them. How common are they? I'm not sure. The fact that they have a distinctive appearance makes them much easier to identify than other watches since the other watch companies make so many models.

It would be interesting to see the geographic distribution; I was in Delaware a two years ago and used mine to pay for my purchases at a Bookstore and everyone was quite surprised--they were unaware of the active Apple Pay feature on their own point of sales terminals.
They must believe that the consequences for making it an afterthought are not severe. Depending on what they are building they might be right or wrong about that.

I find that in bigger teams with more complex projects that are sold to the customers it’s not usually an afterthought, they take quality seriously usually, at least relatively. I can understand why it’s an afterthought for a small startup trying to see if they can even get customers but they have to be careful too, if they do get traction then quality should be taken very seriously. I can also understand why it’s an afterthought for some internal tooling, the consequences aren’t severe.

I run a cloud based automated test reporting app called Tesults (https://www.tesults.com) and I’ve worked as a software development engineer in test at large tech and game companies. Based on my experience reporting is definitely an afterthought and this makes testing in general an afterthought sometimes. You need a way to keep on top of failing tests and have some measure of the problems that are being discovered. Especially when it comes to the modern agile style way of working where constant check-ins are made.

Another issue is that a lot of testing now (particularly for performance and automation in general) requires testers to be engineers and in some organizations this still isn’t understood. The manual testers are still required of course for UI/UX testing but there is definitely a shift in this area and in games at least it’s taken a long time to understand that.
I think everything else (Blu-Ray, DVD, cable TV) is using the same technique.
> If insurance plans don't cover hearing aids in general, they won't cover hearing aids in any specific situation either.

GP was asking about insurance plans that do.
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Sci-Hub's an important player in the transition to Open Access. Note, however, that many papers are already available elsewhere (e.g. ArXiv), legally. You can use the OAButton [1] or Unpaywall [2] extensions if you hit a paywall to find a free version. They're not perfect, and solve a problem that shouldn't exist, but it's nice that they're there.

[1] https://openaccessbutton.org/
[2] http://unpaywall.org/
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I had reason to gather news articles and extract keywords and authors - can't remember why I didn't use BeatifulSoup, because that was my first choice. In the end I used lxml with its html5parser:

https://github.com/vonj/scraping

Regarding legality - something frowned upon is putting load on servers. You may get blocked, rate limited or worse if you put too much strain on servers. Especially when you as I did, experimented with different query options to get the data I needed, and had to rerun scraping a number of times.

A neat trick I found, was to configure a web proxy locally (squid, in my case) to aggressively cache EVERYTHING. This was, new runs only went out to the news sites for new queries I had never run before. Very helpful, it also speeded up the development to access files locally (cached in squid) instead of having to go out to the internet all the time.
The only issue I have w/ airpods on iphone 6 is stuttering when walking away from subway. What's up with that?
My main problem with it isn’t that it’s unrealistic per se, just that it looks bad on static geometry. But SSAO is typically sold as a “realism” feature.
I still use Mavericks for personal stuff. Ditched iOS for MIUI (more polished than iOS these days).
I'm unable to start Vim.
I pasted the source code on Bookmarkify so that installation is a breeze:

https://bookmarkify.it/7318

Disclaimer: I made Bookmarkify
There is another way of doing mathematics [pdf]
To get the shit out, I presume.
It's a coordination problems.

Each individual researcher wants their work published in as high-impact paper as possible. Individually fighting against the very publisher you want to publish your work with is harmful to your career and will accomplish exactly nothing.

It takes a critical mass of researchers, acting in coordinated way, for the attempt to change things not be suicidal.
There's no direct proof yet, but we have detected the magnetic fields that theories predict, and of course observe the gravitational effects. The Event Horizon Telescope[0] will probably deliver something more tangible by 2018.
[0]http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-hunt-for-a-black-hole-with...
> 1. lxml is way faster than BeautifulSoup - this may not matter if all you're waiting for is the network. But if you're parsing something on disk, this may be significant.

Caveat: lxml's HTML parser is garbage, so is BS's, they will parse pages in non-obvious ways which do not reflect what you see in your browser, because your browser follows HTML5 tree building.

html5lib fixes that (and can construct both lxml and bs trees, and both libraries have html5lib integration), however it's slow. I don't know that there is a native compatible parser (there are plenty of native HTML5 parsers e.g. gumbo or html5ever but I don't remember them being able to generate lxml or bs trees).

> 2. Don't forget to check the status code of r (r.status_code or less generally r.ok)

Alternatively (depending on use case) `r.raise_for_status()`. I'm still annoyed that there's no way to ask requests to just check it outright.

> Those with a background in coding might prefer the .cssselect method available in whatever object the parsed document results in. That's obviously a tad slower than find/findall/xpath, but it's oftentimes too convenient to pass upon.

FWIW cssselect simply translates CSS selectors to XPath, and while I don't know for sure I'm guessing it has an expression cache, so it should not be noticeably slower than XPath (CSS selectors are not a hugely complex language anyway)
Some plugs since I've spent quite some time learning about this issue and writing that up, and like seeing the number of reads go up:

More about the Impact Factor: https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca...

More about why intelligent people "put up" with this: https://medium.com/flockademic/the-vicious-cycle-of-scholarl...

An overview of some hopeful initiatives by people who aren't putting up with this: https://medium.com/flockademic/these-trailblazers-are-paving...
Kids can walk, when not young enough for a trolley. My 5-year old just cycled 4km with me this weekend.
AskHN: Why there are so many posts I'm not interested in?
sometimes I find a few posts in a row I'm interested in. But many times there is nothing i want to read.
And Antennagate resulted in Jobs demanding the head of SVP Mark Papermaster - which actually proves your point: he took swift and decisive action (no, I'm not talking about the public-facing discussion trying to minimize the issue - obviously, internally, there was agreement that this was a very real issue, hence the free bumpers and the redesign in the following model, but most importantly the canning of the SVP who oversaw a fuckup this egregious - it's not like it was a subtle or super unlikely corner case).
just curious. how did you turn up? what are you up to these days?