skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"According to the Internet Association, governments should be prohibited from requiring that certain kinds of data, such as sensitive personal information, be stored or processed in the country where it’s acquired. They should be banned from treating platforms like Facebook and Google as publishers and holding them responsible for the content that appears on their sites. They should be forbidden from requiring companies to disclose the secrets of their algorithms, such as the all-powerful Facebook News Feed. They should be prevented from regulating online services as public utilities, or imposing tariffs on digital trade."

These all sound reasonable to me.
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Bryan Ferry on how Roxy Music invented art pop: 'We were game for anything'
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I was a Yahoo site of the day, equivalent to reddit/hn/sd/ph hug now. It was bonkers. No notification just BLAMMO!
megaupload
I'd say that's more of a selection bias that bullshit. The only companies blogging about interviewing are the few ones that actually have made a conscious decision to deviate from the norm (regardless of the reasons).

It's like if you were trying to evaluate the average math proficiency of the population by only reading blog posts about math. It would seem like everyone really knew math! Except of course, the only people who blog about math are the few that are into it. They're not bullshitting, they're just overrepresented.

Not that I disagree with your original point, by the way; BS is rampant.
A good faith effort might be to provide two parallel offers: One based on using the social media meta data coefficient and its commensurate reduced fraud rate, a second tier without social meta data coefficient and obviously without the reduced fraud discount.
stickdeath.com

Can't find a mirror or archive of it, nor the creator. :(
Well the rampant disregard for evidence instead favoring personal emotional experience is not exactly a good look if you want to be taken seriously scientifically.

You could point to all manner of quantum-woo that uses similar arguments (basically everything from the atrocious What The Bleep Do We Know "documentary" for example).
> The first one was where a customer was paralyzed. A social media search helped confirm the information more quickly through pictures of the customer in a wheelchair

This seems highly dubious. Are they really using information like this to decide to pay a claim? It's pretty easy to put someone into a wheelchair and take a video of it.

The flip side of that is that it's pretty challenging to take video of a paralyzed person playing basketball. It seems clear that the use of this is going to be biased in one direction.
Our customers are academic, pharmaceutical, and clinical research. We don't do any direct-to-consumer sequencing since we're not currently HIPPA compliant.

We also only have an Illumina MiniSeq which is really designed for bacterial, viral, yeast, and targeted human sequencing. It doesn't have the power to do full WGS however we're working on figuring out how to acquire a NovaSeq.
kopikol.net, an early (2005 until 2007) very nicely designed digg-like
No, as I said,

> Tether is sold as a fully-backed instrument, so there's major (potentially billions of dollars of) fraud if it's not fully backed

The fraud issue (not to mention the securities price manipulation issue) is still a big deal.
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It is interesting that you went from longer-form blogs to twitter.
> Undoubtedly, launchd can be told to disable photolibraryd, but the approved mechanism wasn’t immediately obvious to me.

You want "launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.photolibraryd.plist".
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Not really. The language in lower class is coarse, but it's also very blunt. For example, I was once told that it must be irritating to know myself by some working class, or I've been insulted by a food order. This is how they talk among each other. Heavy insults and expressing your opinion is unambiguous.

In upper class, the language probably has more "fucks per minute," but there is a fluid dance that moves between honesty and somewhere else. Any compliment like "a great conversation" or "I like your clothes" is on a continuum rather than a discrete statement.

That's a simple example, but everything sort of falls along these lines, and it's exhausting to parse it all.
The MimbleWimble paper is pretty exciting, opening up a whole new way to transact with both privacy and scalability.
> synthetic whistles trying to label things

Oh, that's not very helpful..

> we do not know if dolphins indeed label things in their natural communication system

I believe we'd need to start with that as a basic assumption for how language works to begin with. How does that assumption seem to you?

> dolphins appeared to be using signature whistles of dolphins who died some time ago

I guess they probably talk about loved ones even when they're not in the same "room", same as us.

> Signature whistles are tricky

"Signature whistle" seems like an awfully complicated way to say "name".
static readonly StaticSymbol: unique symbol = Symbol();

just no!
> If something like this is implemented, I'm curious to see what it does to prices - will a heart surgery continue to cost less than $2,000?

In most countries, the cost of such operations are fixed by the state (ex: Canada).

> "Where healthcare is affordable, demand should be stable year-to-year.

What do you mean? There are so many factors that could explain higher healthcare costs, including an aging population, or better health coverage.

I'm also not sure what it means for healthcare to be affordable. In most countries, the cost seems proportional to the general wealth. The US might be the exception, since it's one of the few countries with great wealth disparity and with a non-universal system (more bureaucratic overhead/costs).
New observations of galaxies challenge the standard cosmological model
The Cult Skin-Care Brand Whose Secret Ingredient Is Being Dirt Cheap
> This thing isn't just some dumb pathogen floating around that just DoSes your body. It's digging tunnels and cutting phone lines. It has strategy.

The cancers that haven't mutated to emit VEGF don't survive to grow and kill you.

It's natural selection, not intelligence.
Synchronized Galactic Orbit Challenges Our Best Theory of How the Universe Works
I am reading through this PDF, and I should say its very very interesting to see such interesting developments in aircraft control. Controlling an entire airplane using purely neural networks and software is a remarkable feat, one that will act as a catalyst for future technological advancements.
I live an europe, and having recently gotten very ill, I go to nationalized doctors a lot. It's not free, but very close to free, and I would be bankrupt in the US by now. For instance, I did an MRI for less than 50 EUR. How much do you think it costs in the US? I would guess at least an order of magnitude more, likely more.

I went to a just a few private doctors too to get a second opinion, and because they had a reputation as some of the best in the field, and they were cheap as well. My guess is because they have to compete with the national healthcare system.
The one I miss is one that may still be around, but not for long since it was a Flash page. It was, if I recall, a demo page to highlight the designers skills. I don't even remember the name. It was an anime style video that ended with a girl standing on a cliff with flower pedals flowing along the breeze that was blowing her hair as she stared off in the distance. I would love to find that site.
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+1 for Inoreader. After Google Reader shut down there was a lull where no RSS reader was good enough or similar enough to be satisfactory, but Inoreader is now the proper replacement for me
The headlines are certainly annoying but headline annoyance is its own shallow water, so let's try to avoid getting stuck there. Not pointing at you personally—it's a collective phenom.

We've updated the title above to a representative phrase from the article body.
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Because of the quote above or something else?
Who cares? They're in one of the most profitable niche in the planet. They don't need IPO.
There’s a difference between working hard and working smart. One is the brute force solution. The other uses a heuristic to narrow the solution space.
It must be tremendously difficult for the parents. It's only natural that they would hold on to any chance of seeing their daughter again.

From the perspective of society, even assuming that someone declared brain-dead could be revived -- maybe with some future technology if they just keep the body functioning -- at what cost does it make sense to end the life?

Are there other cases where the unpleasant (edit: was "distasteful) subject of the cost of a life (as valued by society rather than Bill Gates) comes into play?
This article is poorly written. The first paragraph has a bad typo ("new brainer" instead of "no brainer"). Then they discuss the benefits of kotlin and delve into a discussion on why not just use TypeScript? TypeScript is not a language you can use to write native apps unless you are building on Cordova or react native, completely missing the point of kotlin.
Sure, you also have bernie madoff that made the biggest heist in history under the alledged supervision of the SEC.

Or worse, the 2008 bailouts, which were the equivalent of today the US government saying they will buy all the tethers on parity from bitfinex so their insolvency doesnt affect the market. I say let the chips fall where they may. If bitfinex is insolvent it should go down, and the lawsuits on fraud should put the people in charge in jail. Nothing else needed.
Ask HN: What are the real drawbacks of an energy based currency?
Fiat currencies have tremendous issues but they also serve a general purpose of allowing governments unrestricted control of their economic growth (or at the very least, money supply which has tremendous impacts or rather should be reflections on economic growth). This was done with the intention of allowing governments to be able to pay their debts, bearing in mind that if they over inflate their money supply they will suffer inflationary consequences.

Here's the thing. I think it's bupkis. We live in a global economy. The fundamental unit of exchange in nature is energy. Energy is required to change the state of all matter (either it's consumed or released). Energy is what matters when all is said and done for human survival. Why isn't energy or rather energy back currency the global currency of the day? I know things like electricity contracts and other energy derivatives exist but really energy is required for everything. I think by also creating intelligent derivatives of energy this currency can also assess environmental impacts. Energy is fundamental to our survival from food, to electricity, to heating and cooling to all the energy required to make all the good we consume.

Even cryptocurrencies are fundamentally derivatives of energy...and they consume a hell of a lot of it.

The biggest thing I can think of is, how does energy measure human creativity and ingenuity. The answer I have is, honestly current money doesn't do a great job of that and we let the "market" decide that anyway.

There's lot's of flaws or shortcomings I haven't considered. At the risk of starting a brutal heavily opinion based flame war, please critique and discuss!
AirBnb has recently been made illegal in my state (New York State) for stays under 30 days. Of course a lot of people don't know or don't care about the law, but they're giving out fines left and right. This is likely true with other states as well.
meebo.com

There's nothing like it anymore (web-based, quick, secure). It was fast and excellent. Google killed it.
I love this book, but it made me hate everyone :)

One of the takeaways I got from it was that every single upper class activity is designed to be incredibly expensive and time consuming, just because only the wealthy can maintain those form of activities. Having driveways made out of gravel, that constantly need to be redone at considerable expense, or having a yacht. Despite this, the true upper class is incredibly banal; Fussell describes them as totally uninterested in ideas, reading time and cheap disposable mysteries if they ever bother to do so. There's really a lot of Thurston Howell in them.

I think most people here would dislike how Fussell pegs liking science fiction and technology as a fairly low class activity. But it's funny how right he is, because among the upper-mids here...you hate social media in the same way, and the lower class uses it just as much.

But, oh that book is devastating. Fussell is a wonderful writer, and a keen critic.
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What’s your suggestion then?
I wish this was good but it isn't, unfortunately I have to run a windows partition just for vegas, seems like a complete waste when everything else that I use runs in linux.
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It does for most formats, but drafting is $15 or less for a night of in-person gaming, potential prizes if you win (making your money back in packs is possible), and some cards you can keep for deckbuilding/trading later (of which only a few may be actually worth more than pennies, but still)

There are many of $15 indie games and board games (see: Star Realms) that offer many nights of fun, though...
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I feel your pain on loosing Google Reader. I have tried dozens of replacements and finally landed at https://digg.com/reader if you can believe that... Also, I am sure you have seen them but just incase you haven't - https://theoldreader.com/home was super similar to Google Reader.

Alas neither of these are the same but perhaps they will be "good enough".
Geocities
I have a lot of fond memories of Harmony Central. It was a guitar / musician / gear site. It had a bunch of gear reviews.

I pretty much learned to play guitar off that site and off the early web in general. I took one year of guitar lessons, and then after that it was all learning on the web. This was 1994-1997 or so.

EDIT: Woah I just checked and they're still around!

http://www.harmonycentral.com/

But they got acquired a long time ago, and the site changed. IIRC it was started by an MIT student, and was acquired around 2000.

Oh it appears that Harmony Central used to be owned by Guitar Center, and then Gibson Guitars in 2015. I had no idea!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np2G0yr5xI0

Breakdown of a quick solve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O2FmT_6pGc

History of records from 1982 to 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w_5MQq9Aq8
SoftBank's “vision” thing
Isn't there much more for them to explore outside hosting guests? Their recent redesign focusing on „accomodations“ + „activities“ seems to indicate this. Companies like GetYourGuide raised $200 Mio. [1] just for activities alone.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/getyourguide
I FC and those days.
report itself (pdf)

http://socialpuncher.com/media/files/CFPB-IBTimes-Case-by-So...
> Who cares?

People who want to cash out.
He can still be a great neurosurgeon.

Though when he's making statements about the mind and how it could define what 'death' means in a clinical sense, then nonsense like "The music seemed to transcend the spatial limitations of matter" which is contradicted by all existing evidence, reduces my respect for him on that topic and makes me nervous about his scientific/critical thinking in general.

If they can't get that right why would I think they have a good idea about something where there's less evidence that's even more controversial?
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This may be a better link:

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2018/01/29/guest-po...
Author here—-that is vastly better, thanks for pointing it out.
I get the same reaction watching people doing tower work. Full equipment, hardness, ropework, PPE, etc, just as gutwrenching to watch. Just interesting to know you can get the same value without someone putting their life at risk for your entertainment.
kuro5hin & MetaFilter ...
I really dislike when professional journalists call it "free healthcare", this should really needs to stop. It's not free, half the country will be paying for it with their taxes. In countries with public healthcare up to a third of their taxes expenditure goes to healthcare services, it's a significant expense and far from 'free'.

Journalists should really start using "public healthcare" or "public health insurance", otherwise they are making their agenda quite clear. And I say that in support of gov subsidized health insurance.
Found something about the original.

http://www.research.ufl.edu/publications/explore/v09n2/featu...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2004/11/30/health/bacteria-enlist...
Hey there, happy to answer any questions you might have.

Diamond's working to make permissions more granular and transparent with each release. Some quick points:
* we don't store the files themselves, only the metadata the service provides (e.g. file names, collaborators, paths)
* we don't store service passwords (authentication is handed back to the service itself
* we do on-prem installs for corporate customers and we'd consider a version of it for pro as well.

We take our first impressions on security and privacy very seriously. Happy to take some feedback on how we can improve trust.

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At this point, the only people that should be worrying about Spectre/Meltdown are cloud hosting providers. For individual users, Spectre/Meltdown attacks rely on malware processes running on your computer, and if that is happening, you have bigger problems to worry about.
In America, everyone eats burgers and is acclimated to fast food.