skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CNN has taken it to the extreme with a full page takeover when you try to leave
I love this, I just love this. This is what Google should have released a few years back when podcasts started taking over. I can't donate with PayPal because that platform hates me, maybe I can venmo you money for a beer!?. Thanks for sharing it with us!
I’m a subscriber, started at $14 a month, and now I pay about $7 a month after calling to see if they’d let me latch on to a promo rate.

I don’t understand this hostility toward paywalls or paying for a subscription. Just a generation ago, most households paid for newspaper subscriptions, and even some magazines. I am happy to pay for the journalism from what I consider to be a high quality news source. It makes me a better-informed individual.

Many of the users of HN are attempting to monetize a service or product using a subscription model. Yet you don’t want to support a newspaper doing the same thing? Do you feel that the journalism should be free, or free to you? If so, why do you feel that entitlement?

News sources such as WSJ, NYT, Economist provide education and value to individuals and society, and people who earn enough to get a Starbucks on the way to work and go to the gym on the way home (also a subscription model) should not have this level of disdain for the idea of paying for content from a reputable newspaper.
I just signed up for the nytimes a couple days ago, and was exactly in the same position (I wanted articles + crosswords for myself and my SO). You want All Access which gets you two accounts with full access including crosswords (including mobile app). For the first year it's 8 dollars a month all-in, which seems like a pretty amazing deal. I think this may be a temporary sale.

https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/multiproduct/lp8XKUR.ht...
great tip, and to make sure I only hit salary reqs I search for "| $"
That's a great philosophical standpoint, but unfortunately in the real world BusyBox/musl is just incompatible with some software.

I recently had issues getting Node running with nvm (see [this issue][0] and [this one][1]). Sure, there are workarounds, but GNU coreutils is the standard user land toolset for Linux, and it's no surprise alternative tools are less supported overall.

I hope this will improve over time, because Alpine is an awesome distro.

[0]: https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/1102

[1]: https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/1250
That would only happen if the truth itself were not fatal to them, and their destruction of evidence suggests that the truth is monstrous. As others here have said, maybe their financials are as crooked as everything else about them, and then there’s no IPO, and no future for Uber.
Disengagement rates out of context don't indicate much. Going 10,000 miles up and down a lonely stretch of highway without an unplanned disengagement makes for a pretty number, but is worth less than going a mile in dense urban traffic with cyclists, pedestrians, left turns through busy uncontrolled intersections, double parked vehicles etc.
Consumers never benefit when there's only a single middleman. Have you not heard of robber barons? Or looked at the effects of a monopoly in an economics class?
Great article - I enjoyed it and it makes me want to play more with 3D rendering!

The camera placement and black shading work seems excessive - I think it could be simplified by having the camera behave as a physical object that must obey collision rules in the game world.

So desired camera lcoation is displacement XYZ relative to the player, but the displacement is reduced by collisions as needed until at the player's location, yielding a first-person view if the player is right next to a wall.

Then the only blocking surfaces would be the player avatar itself, which could be rendered transparent as needed.
This looks interesting!

Two reasons I wouldn't try it on the spot:

1. It's only for Chrome. I prefer Safari (for battery life), or Firefox (for extensions).

2. The free version doesn't allow "Intelligent scanning for weak sentence patterns" nor "Detect hundreds of jargon terms, redundant phrases, and other weak expressions".

That's a deal-breaker.

Why not let the free version do everything the "Full Boost" version can, but limit the number of emails it scans.

Say for the free version: "scan 1 email per day" or "1 per week" or whatever seems reasonable in a Freemium model.
Shervin Pishevar responds to allegations of sexual misconduct
Title is slightly misleading.

Everyone knows that they are bleeding money, but it is
by design to get as much marketshare as possible/get as many people using/ addicted to their services.
EDIT*
They are a software based business ,of course they can and are highly likely to turn a profit if they raise prices
*

The better question that many journalists seem to shy away from asking is: What are the effects of subsidizing goods/services on the end user? Will end users be more likely to pay for the goods/services if they increase/charge market rate for them?

Is it okay to make end users addicted to your services?

It will be a very interesting next 10 years for business models of businesses like Uber.
Oh man I think about this all of the time....
I did that throughout my early 20s. I'm still in regular contact with people I met 14-15 years ago. It takes effort for regular stuff. The only reason I keep my Facebook around is because it's a glorified address book and I'll hear from some of the folks from my past travels on there around holidays and birthdays. It's about the same as I talk to cousins and aunts/uncles.

My core group of friends is in touch all the time. About 12 people since 2001. I don't talk with anyone from high school (pre-01).

It just depends on your level of effort. I think for American kids, it's definitely worth getting out into the world and seeing a different perspective. It can only improve our country when we get outside the rhetoric/news bubble and see how things are done, for better or worse, in the rest of the world.
Should arXiv papers have comments?
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So it supports arbitrary code execution like Ethereum?
That link was directed at you...
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If you want a fair comparison, do GDP vs value produced by that investment fund in a year.
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I know most of you know this, but...

Deleting cookies will get you another 5 (used to be 10) "free" articles.

Also Guardian US, which is free just with nags and a terrible ADD design is a mediocre alternative.
I'm getting a 503 Service Unavailable from the call to the FCC service.

<h2>FCC Message Alert!<h2>
<font color="red">An FCC error has occured</font></font><p></p>
<font type="Arial" size="2" color="#000000" style="font-weight:normal;">We're sorry, an unexpected error occurred with your request.</font>
That could easily cause someone else to rear end you. Braking in excess of rolling should require the use of the brake pedal.
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True, but even if they had just called it Parrot or Lerp or Rakudo or really anything but Perl 6, I feel like they could have attracted the kind of new userbase to augment an already thriving community. I didn't follow along with all 594 years of development, it seemed to me like Larry just went nuts with adding every CS novelty. It didn't feel like a language for mere mortals to me anymore.
Here is the form the NY AG published. Once the FCC search results finally load (may take a couple mins, or more), you'd need to click on your name under the "Top Filers" box to the left. The first batch of search results don't appear to be fully filtered against the name you entered into the NY AG form. https://ag.ny.gov/fakecomments
I used to have this happen when I lived in Germany and was trying to learn German. It would often lead to a funny situation where I would speak German and the German person would speak English. Given that I'm pretty stubborn, usually they would eventually switch back to German...
Gray or black jeans - I have several pairs of exactly the same kinds.

Gray or blueish nondescript v-neck t-shirt, no logos.

Black hoodie.

It's winter now so also I have a beanie and when it gets cold enough, a black Carhart jacket.

Asics running shoes.

It's getting to the point that the employers I talk to just assume, "you're a coder, so we know you're going to show up to work in a hoodie. That's cool." It's a little thing but it makes a huge difference to me.
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I don't understand why this is legal? I thought there were laws about operating at a loss to drive competitors out of business.
This is Comma_ai's(via George Hotz) take on the relative GM investor presentation: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vOGwNgwBQRKB [direct periscope link]
You can't explain away 100 million victims if you tried.
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If you haven't already, check out the New Yorker. It's a weekly magazine, so obviously not quite the same, but what you're describing is their bread and butter.
Having only one option very rarely benefits consumers.
The OP compared Russian to Mandarin by counting the number of forms words take in Russian (10-20) and in Mandarin (one). You objected, saying that Russian only has "5 declinations" and so it could not possibly be that many forms. I corrected you pointing at the many forms different parts of speech take in Russian. Being a native speaker I could not possibly judge how hard or easy is it to learn Russian so I have not made such a judgment. For what I know the OP is not lying and finds it difficult to memorize different forms for almost every single word.
I'd like to do my part and support good journalism and pay for my NYT articles on a per article basis, say 5c-15c per article. They won't let me.

Strictly speaking as a consumer, Am I the only person who doesn't like subscriptions? Do the subset of masses who are willing to pay for journalism really prefer subscriptions over one time use payments? I guess i'm just weird.
"They are a software based business of course they can and will turn a profit."

The aren't as software-based as many people make them out to be. They need driverless cars to become what their current valuation and growth expectations require.

Don't get me wrong, I'm long Uber and think they'll survive either way, but if others dominate them in driverless and drive prices down before Uber is ready with their own fleet, they will be forced to conduct a massive down-sizing.
He was certainly more than a gangster but he seems to have been a horrible person. He lived an acetic lifestyle and pushed that disdain of pleasure into the party orthodoxy. He used his allies for advantage in a way that went way beyond the political norm of the time. And he laid the groundwork for the Soviet Gulag system. An apparatus that inflicted the equivalent of half a dozen holocaust's worth of human suffering over its existence.
Bone-conduction headphones are a good compromise here - they don't block any of the incoming noise, though distraction may still be a problem.
An apples to apples comparison would standardize across:

1. GAAP v.s. non GAAP. Different media sites are reporting between 1.5B and 750B for Uber because of this discrepancy.

2. Timelines - Uber numbers are from Q3. Lyft from H1

3. Size discrepancies - it's better to look at loss per trip given that Uber is far bigger.
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Many such contructions gets done for military reasons.

The railway was a massive improvement for moving men and material in times of war.

Damn it, one may wonder if the US highway system had not happened had it not been for the cold war putting a fire under everyones ass.
Right, it is not about whether or not the code is complex and difficult to understand.

That is the traditional (and bad) commenting advice: that you should add comments to code that is difficult to understand.

The point of commenting everything is to allow the program to be understood entirely from comments, so that when you are maintaining a code base you rarely have to read code, and instead are working with native language.

I would comment your example like this:

// complete purchase process
this.completePurchaseProcess(paymentInfo)

When you have "complete purchase process" written out as english words you can process that much more quickly than "this.completePurchaseProcess(paymentInfo)"
It is unclear if Perl is actually a language.
Full disclosure: the tactic mentioned in this post roped me into subscribing last month. But, I did not do it for the same reasons as you. I just noticed I wanted to read more articles they were posting.

The Guardian is a bit different situation because they have the Greenwald/Snowden legacy under their belts and a general reputation for truthiness, but I struggle to see how subscribing to NYT inspires better journalism.

Is the theory that less dependence on ads would allow them to publish material on touchy subjects that would otherwise get demonized? I would like to support a cause like that but I don’t see how this would be it.
San Francisco Chronicle does with SFGate vs SFC
Robert Sapolsky has two stress-related lectures that were absolutely fascinating - one titled "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers", and another one whose title I forget that was about his work with Baboons. They were great for making the Austin -> Dallas drive.
Bittium's ToughMobile has some special hardware and a government certification (KATAKRI) to be used as a container of classified information. Finnish Defence Forces just bought a bunch of them.

https://www.bittium.com/BittiumToughMobile

It also comes with its own Secure Suite MDM and is not tied to any unwanted third party. It's quite expensive, though, and I have no first-hand experience of it. Just talked with some Bittium guys recently. Lots of former Nokians working there.
As a casual observer the entrenched expectation of copyright is wholly incompatible with today's means of information flow and can only result in further erosion of privacy in and around all digital communications.

The entire premise of a limited monopoly was, previously, fairly easy to police, all things considered.

Realistically, expectation or desire for a full copy stop is a fools errand and further attempts at this along with the simultaneous desires for harsher penalties will hurt the many much more than any rights holder could ever be helped.

A digital age copyright solution is being prevented because of unrealistic or outdated expectations that are being wedged into a reality that has, effectively, aged out.

In my opinion the trifecta of threats that are at the root of the impending Internet Dark Ages consists of large media rights holders, ISPs and the sub-constitutional security state.

The only sliver of light that I can spy includes a catalog that is on par with our digital age. If the expectation is that any and all works can maintain their own copyright gates, or, worse, that the government can man it for them, is harmful, childish and doomed. The CASE Act appears to be more fear-based garbage law that will continue to aggravate the already untenable state of copyright and the expectations of protections. .. treating symptoms with poison.
Cross-overs are pretty popular. There was an article not too long ago about how they pretty much all blend in together.

The Bolt looks more like European cars than what we imagine 'American' cars looking like (though that has changed over the decades). We'll see many more like it as more people move to cities but still need cars.

Yeah, Chevy doesn't scream cool. I've had an Acura since 2003 and knock on wood will drive it until it's dead. I wouldn't put as much stock in an American-made car to last as long.
I know what you're getting at, but if you find Python and Perl to be diametrically opposed languages, you may want to spread your wings a bit and try something really different. From my point of view, on the grand programming landscape, they're right next door to each other, and at the global scale that includes things like SQL, Prolog, J, Verilog, etc., barely distinguishable. (The dynamically-typed scripting languages form a fairly tight cluster overall, with Lua hanging out a bit.)
You cannot run whatever distro you want on a System76 if you want ME disabled.

> You must run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Pop!_OS 17.10, or an Ubuntu derivative and have the System76 driver installed to receive the latest firmware and disabled ME on laptops
This looks very promising! I've thought of doing something similar and started (very slowly) on the project a month ago.

What are the data sources you're using for the transcripts behind the api?

As an idea for others who are better able to implement, I'd love a system which would search every podcast I've ever listened to. It's very difficult for me to remember which podcast I heard a specific story, maxim, or interview when I want to share it with a friend. Bonus points if a transcript has some timestamps lined up.
Ask HN: After iOS 11 problems with battery. I am alone?
After updating to iOS 11 on my iPhone 7 ( <7 months old), I had several issues with my battery life.

Initially the phone would act very weird and would turn off whenever below 20%.
This was (partially) fixed by updating to 11.1.1 but the phone now would act erratically. The battery would suddenly drop several % points (like from 30% to 21%, in a matter of minutes).

I have interrogated both online Apple support and have also gone through an intensive (1h) session with one of their geniuses. However, apart from having me walk away with all my settings disabled (no background activities, no location updates for any app, no automatic background intensity, ...) they have done nothing else. The battery is still acting erratically, and they claim it is still in their GREEN zone. So not much from them.

I don't think it is normal to pay a phone that much (I got mine for >£650) and then having to disable all its features to still have it not working.

So I am asking, is there someone who shares the pain or am I alone in this? Is there a "bug" in their iOS 11.x.x that I am not aware of (and probably neither they)?
Three 3 simple steps to prevents hacks like the Uber Hack