skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different kinds of libraries have different kinds of needs. A major research library will typically keep one of anything they ever had (most of which is in high-latency offsite storage) while your local library typically has best sellers, major self-help guides and stuff supporting the high school curriculum.

Like a distinction between a consumer and professional tool.
> The calculus of incremental value vs. cost is subconsciously seen as inhumane across the industry -- it's seen as starting down that slippery slope that ends with a "dollars per life" number which feels wrong to everyone. Nobody wants to be the person who traded someone's health for a buck.

That's not what's going on though, is it?

All across healthcare you have groups trying to provide an evidence base, and other groups trying to decide whether that evidence base means something is value for money or not. In England that's going to be NICE, in the US it's insurance companies.

The US has a serious problem of over-testing. The reason isn't because they think it improves outomes. They know it doesn't, they know it makes things worse. They over-test because it means they're less likely to get sued. The cost of the test is lower than the cost of getting sued, even though too much testing is causing harm.
Everywhere I've lived, the public library has a massive annual book sale. Also, we keep building new branches -- at least 4 here in the past 20 years.

I don't doubt that they also throw many in the trash, but given that there's a steady outflow of books back into the community, and that total shelf space is generally increasing, I don't see why it'd be illogical to believe that no books got dumped.
You're suggesting that an investigation that likely took months, if not more than a year, is actually just a stitch-up job to take down Twitter's stock value at the moment of acquisition?

edit: I'm referring to the NYT story, not the OP
Let's assume the company statements are true, they are shipping on time; what is the break even point for shipping $1,000 starter kits, flow cells, and sample prep items? How many devices are they shipping? What's their revenue?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/breakevenanalysis.asp

Are they anywhere near break even or are they going to require another large infusion of venture capital and can Nanopore find these new investors?
> Of course, if it turns out that anyone was actually affected by the legislation as it stands then that should be dealt with as a matter of urgency.

How do you decide whether "anyone was actually affected" by ISPs storing as much browsing data as they can? Doesn't that affect either everyone or noone depending on whether you think it matters? And if it matters, does it not affect everyone? What can you possibly do about that retroactively?
What makes the US health care system so expensive
Maybe you should replace the battery
It also has to do with risk and risk tolerance. I assume $10 was chosen as an amount that wouldn't hurt too much to lose for most people whereas some people might miss $100. The higher the upside is, the higher the chance you'll lose the money can be and still be worth investing. In this case the argument is that although you'll almost certainly lose all the money you invest into bitcoin, it's still worth it because the upside is so high if bitcoin does end up succeeding.
So Polish Resistance soldiers who so bravely fought Nazis are considered "foreign spies"? That's basically what Soviets were doing in Poland: arresting all the members of Polish Home Army [1] they could find and sentencing them to death. So yes, that's brutal and it makes the Red Army just another invader, not a "savior".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Army#Postwar
Jealous of having to rely on Kafka client with not too much of testing or performance written from scratch on top of experimental language?
Not sure what the point of this article is... obviously the index he mentions means something. It shows the trend of languages.

I do think javascript has won something - the browser. What other language is supported across all browsers?
Nor I. Let's just have some popcorn and enjoy the fall out I guess.
Should I expect to have to to escape "/" as "\/"?
Which is the same as it is for paper records, so again, how is encryption supposed to be some weird case where we need special rules?
And if you know Ian Bogost, the author of this article, you know he is not a shill of anything. He has a well known trajectory of being highly critical of... well, just about everything. But especially anything internet-related. I first became aware of Bogost when I read his article "Gamification is Bullshit", and he is also the author of "Cow Clicker", a spoof of Zynga's style of games -- both of which will give you an idea of what he stands for.
Another awesome functionality on top of an awesome product.
I'm learning Mandarin and Taiwanese. The site supports Cantonese, but I don't have a good data source (or local friends) to help me check it. See Advanced > Regional. Simplified/traditional conversion and bopomofo are all built-in.

http://pingtype.github.io
> in order to make a 10000x return requires a strong belief that Bitcoin will actually go that high. Because to reach 10000x you have to resist the strong temptation to cash out at 10x, 100x and 1000x.

Indeed. The article gives no rational explanation for why someone shouldn't have sold at $11,600, or why they shouldn't hold on and wait for $1,160,000. Saying "If you bought at the start of the bubble and sold at the peak you would have made a ton of money" is pretty meaningless, especially when the reasons for buying at the beginning weren't great ("If Bitcoin becomes the new global monetary system"/Bitcoin "eventually replacing a decent size fiat currency").

You could have a system for pulling money out (as a comment mentions), but that involves a different understanding of Bitcoin and also involves earning less money than the article mentions.
More than I could ever think of on this topic (podcast and links related); http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/08/benedict_evans.html
Six Software Startup Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
duh, anyone who watches Teen Titans Go knows that aliens built the pyramid with the help of Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster.
For the doctor, a great benefit of being cash only is you don't have to do billing, a non-trivial task.
How to launch when everyone’s watching
Complex regexes do render (must escape "/").

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http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/REX.html
SEC halts AriseBank ICO
"No more having healthy people pay for sick people"

This is actually a dangerous mentality to have in a generic sense. However, having a healthcare system where rich(er) people bear the brunt of the poor actually makes sense and has even worked out well in some countries in EU.
Plus you’re not being paid for time off or sick time and you’ll also just have downtime; you can fill that with other necessary activities to some degree but probably not completely.
Blech. You just described what I hate about most tech books. The constant cutouts or inserts or sidebars or whatever you call them. You know, the ones where they have a table at the beginning that says "If you see the (!), it means it's a warning! If you see (#), it's gotcha!" and every other paragraph you have to stop to read another box.

If it's just text and it's important enough to mention it right now, put it in the paragraph with the rest of the text.
Apparently small loopholes can be readily, repeatedly violated.

I... I think I'll never argue about anything on the internets again.
Similar to the story of “how do we build this?”

“I push this button.”

How much does it cost?

“$10,000”

What?!

“$1 for my time, $9,999 for knowing which button to press.”
Until you can run Xcode in iOS, you'll need a Mac to make apps for Apple's various platform.
We are not in a post-fact age. A certain someone who is on TV and Twitter a lot who you don't like tells lies and half truths. Like people always have. This person is just more brazen about it, and you really, really don't like this person.

You still live in a world with facts. If you get charged for a pound of lunch meat at the deli but are given half a pound, you complain and this gets straightened out. Most delis won't assert that we now live in a post-fact world and thus your half pound is really a pound.

If you make up your own facts at work, you're not likely going to keep your job very long.

You still live in reality. The world is not spinning out of control. Everything is going to be OK.
Pricing as a Service? Does this exist?
I think most suggestions file under "Good Documentation". Is example bits of UI easy to copy and paste? How well have you documented your "helpers" and "glue" and less obvious stuff? Have you documented your goals in the project? Your non-goals and things you know don't work right?

Also, I'm curious to see how you are applying the MFD to web. I'd be interested to see that.
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Apple Services a 'Joke' in India, Say Users as Company Loses More Market Share
Your insinuation is kind of grotesque.
Jan from ArangoDB here... please note that this is a milestone release of ArangoDB 3.4 and ArangoSearch is fully tested but not yet production ready! The title here on HN might be misleading
Horizontal scroll would be useful.
You might be able to, but even then it is more likely to be a person doing exercise on a device with the wrong time zone than it is to be someone on patrol.

To reiterate: Strava isn't always on. These are activities people have actively chosen to log. The chance of it being someone out on patrol is... not high.
The Email::Valid Perl distribution ships with a more than 6000 character regex to validate E-Mail addresses.

Both goo.gl and bit.ly refused to shorten it, and when I tried to paste the link here HN refused to accept my comment.

But on a machine with Email::Valid installed do:

perl -MEmail::Valid -wE 'say $Email::Valid::RFC822PAT'

And copy the output into the Regexper form. It takes a while to render, but it'll eventually complete.
The assets include Dogecoin.

We all died in 2000 when the end of the world came. This is a parody timeline, sort of like when shows go on for too many seasons and hack writers take over.
See the world for my retort.
Or the 3 million Polish gentiles that were also killed? Remember that Poland lost 6 million citizens.
Why didn't you price it at a 100 bucks?

People do not value things that are free or cheap.

I once provided some services to guys who were a kind of marketplace for low grade e-books.

An e-book sells better at $27 than at $9. At $9 people think "can't be much".
Business themselves don't cause them. They can try to have good processes, verification, etc, etc, ... but even then something can happen by simple human error.
Because if ARM cannot deliver they are fucked.
Not sure if this is allowed but I created a Udemy course on PID control where I go through the theory and then in the assignments you write Python code to create a PID controller for an elevator (with the goal of moving the elevator to the desired height). A PID controller can be written in less than 10 lines of code but understanding the different components is very important for tuning it and getting it to work. If your interested just go to Udemy and search PID Control, you'll find it.

If you'd like a discount code (not worth the full price if your a SW eng) DM me on Twitter as I'm not sure I'm allowed to post it here.

When I did my MSc I did all my PID controllers in MATLAB/Simulink but since the actual code for a PID controller is very simple, it's easy to implement in Python or C++.
I would expect that this is where WebAssembly could offer great help. You could write your algorithm against flat memory rather than the inpredictable data structures that JavaScript offers. Or port one from C. (https://github.com/kripken/lzma.js)
Didn't know about the involvement of Big Foot and Nessie, but it's obvious that the pyramids are in fact landing pads for similarly shaped starships.
I guess for a lot of people its impossible to believe that the ancient Egyptians really BELIEVED in their religion and society.

Hell you could easily wonder today why entire cities spent a century building cathedrals instead of sewage systems.
I get what you're saying but that's when we talk about averages and generalizations. It doesn't necessarily apply to an individual. For example, the average lawyer makes about 120k a year. A really good lawyer with a great local (and perhaps state-wide or country-wide) reputation will charge a lot more for their time since their time is a limited commodity. It doesn't matter that the average lawyer can still only charge ~120k per year. They can personally charge much more than that so the supply and demand aspect of the market a whole is meaningless to them specifically. Similarly, if this programmer/developer has a ton of skills and experience and can crank out code, they can conceivably charge a lot more for their time.
I've been expecting a iPadTop ever since the A series chips started beating medium-end Intel chips in browser benchmarks. Just imagine how thin the device could be, how could Apple not do it? The A12X should be more than powerful enough to make a notebook feel snappy. It would be sort of an Apple Chromebook.
> The culprit is the numbers themselves, not the lies that augment them, nor the profits made in doing so. The only reason there can be a market, let alone a black market, for social-media engagement is because these services are marketplaces of attention, not of ideas, products, or services. That’s why Twitter counts followers, likes, retweets, and all the rest so prominently. If the numbers were less visible, or entirely hidden, everyone might live more meaningful, more productive lives online, using posts as means to ends rather than as circulations within the system.

Sorry, I haven't had my coffee this morning, but this reads as eloquent but blathering nonsense. What kind of marketplaces for ideas are there that don't intrinsically involve a competition for attention? Twitter is far from perfect but that doesn't mean that all the numbers that users accumulate are as fake as the author's own following.

There is something rich about someone turning up his nose toward the vanity of social media, while publishing his screed in a mass-market publication in which his byline comes attached with a resumé worthy blurb ("He is the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in media studies...His latest book is Play Anything) that links to his Twitter account.
Cryptocurrency historical price data with Python
It's simple and the article misses the reason: Profit
The evolutionary psychology of primitive war very likely includes these "reproductive opportunities". Going to war without benefit to the genes driving the impulse? We'd probably have stopped doing it a long time ago.

We'd like to replace these, uhm, traditional benefits of war with, say, increased status at home for veterans, but have such efforts been going on long enough to erase the underlying psychology?
I want life to be boring, says Linus Torvalds as Linux 4.15 debuts
> But... Why?

It's because Corbyn was attacked excessively at the start. That allowed him to circle the wagons, and Labour is still in the grip of that siege mentality.
I saw a therapist for some time who was taught by an old German psychotherapist who, when asked about whether he could do it over the phone, responded no -- it must be in person -- "If you can't kill them or fuck them, you can't do the work!"
Yes, Apple is better. They'll slowly reduce dosage as you grow older so you can get a more expensive medicine.

Amazon is much more customer-first than Apple is.
Can mods please use "cryptocurrency" or "cryptocoin" ? How on Earth am I supposed to know which links are about cryptography now ?

I was looking forward to a sweet post about cryptography failure, with possible advice relevant to my day-to-day work... but no, yet another Bitcoin analysis I really don't care about.

Sigh.
We’re young, we’re working, but we’re not employed
Americans Are Saving at 12-Year Low
It's _probably_ not a hit piece, but just relevant. [0] Something, something simplest explanation, something.

[0] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
I doubt he would answer "Yeah I'm Satoshi, please don't publish it."
Tyson Foods Invests in Firm Trying to Make Meat from Cells
What do you base that on?
The studies I've read about remote CBT seem promising

I'm very skeptical of apps and products that claim to be based on CBT or "mindfulness" and/or claim to cure various mental illnesses (mostly because these commercial actors use buzzwords rather than conform with the formal definitions used in research), but I don't think we should offhandedly discount all possibilities.
The author of this book should be treated with extreme skepticism. His stated goal is to "free this world we call home from the Jewish slavery it now finds itself in for these past hundred years" by writing about the "real Holocaust" [i]. He writes about "racial reality" and "Jewish masters who want to flood Sweden with Third World trash" [ii]. His agenda is Nazi apologism and bald-faced antisemitism.

[i] https://chechar.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/the-hellstorm-proje...

[ii] http://thomasgoodrich.com/
"Amazon Prime, now with basic health insurance included in one low yearly or monthly rate"!
What's with clueless authors and confirmation bias?
Interestingly this was my approach to haggling. If the vendor is smiling when you leave the store, you badly bargained.
I know a lot of people in Silicon Valley who are called engineers and only have a physics background. They aren't certified professional engineers in the disciplines that have licensing, like civil engineers, but they're still engineers.
Greenland turducken from hell: the real bird-seal meal (2013)
Indeed - I am familiar with people who were misdiagnosed by a GP (in England) for over a decade before a visit to a different doctor yielded the correct diagnosis and treatment.
Ya, I've always been wary of privacy zones' effectiveness, to the extent that I simply just keep the feature off.
I think most people see ACA's failure as a failure of government regulation, not as a failure of private insurers. If anything the pendulum is going to swing the other way, and we'll see more privatized healthcare in the near future (5-10 years).
What You Need to Know About That 'Nationalized 5G' Proposal
I hope this helps. https://www.fs.blog/mental-models/
From a quick glance, seems most of the startups are from singapore
Not sure if it is because of the author is from singapore or if singapore is actually more vibrant in the startup scene
Hungary also got a piece. All with the blessing of UK and France, but not the USSR which opposed the treaty. Presumably this is what forced the USSR to sign their own separate treaty with Germany. There is really a lot of blame to go around.
It’s a tad extreme to compare Theranos and Holmes with Musk and either company. SpaceX is possibly profitable with clear delivering results. There’s no comparison there. Even if one of his companies goes belly up, it won’t be a Theranos and Holmes like situation.
The way I read that is....as a general rule, set prices that are consistent and not based on your availability ...but if a client is desperate, and willing to pay you more to work over a weekend, then sure, make an exception to the rule.
To me Pony looks like a mix between Kotlin/Ceylon and Rust and at the same also happens to pickup all the low hanging fruit of programming language features that most "modern" languages haven't even attempted to pick up yet.

Rust has some flaws. Kotlin has some flaws. Pony appears to have even less flaws than either.

Of course I have merely read the tutorial. In practice it could be worse than either.
And Garmin Connect still doesn't seem to offer anything like privacy zones, it's all or nothing worth them. If anything, Strava is the beacon of privacy on the field of social fitness tracking. Garmin's only redeeming quality is that their failure to get Connect to really get off the ground in terms of social (segments and the like) that there is little incentive to ever set anything public there.

In fact, I believe that their lack of gradual privacy controls was an important factor in the failure off Garmin's attempt to gobble up Strava's market (back when they introduced their own competitive segments with the Edge 1000, now they are happily cooperating).
So you want a poor man on skid row to start a health care company?
Increasing the capability raises the noise floor, so you would also need a grooming or discovery mechanism in order for the better ideas to achieve greater adoption.

For instance, if someone comes up with some way for aluminum smelting to use x% less electricity, but no aluminum smelter ever knows about it, no benefit will be realized. Conversely, if all the smelters adopt it, and the inventor is never rewarded, they will simply stop telling people about their ideas, and restrict their thinking to those areas that will benefit them personally.

I would argue that the patents and copyrights system is so lacking in additional capacity with respect to promoting good ideas that the overall benefit to humanity from increasing the raw mental capability will be negligible.
Are you also going to buy the new Blackberry smartphone?
Can someone make a form that calculates that for you?
We (sapiens) and perhaps late model erectus are the African species/subspecies of the archaic human group. Denisovans are Asian and neanderthals are European.

It's all based on migration theories which are far from certain, currently. The story gets more complex with every find.

The morrocan find is a spanner, as it "proves" a wide distribution of sapiens early on. This essentially excludes the idea of a migration out of the horn of Africa 200kya, the original out of Africa theory. Modern variations have gotten bigger.

In the Levant neanderthals follow sapiens in the archeological record. The early sapiens are a little more neanderthal looking, especially the brows. This has lead some to a theory that neanderthals evolved from sapiens, and arboreal subspecies.

The Australian story is even more confusing. 70kya is before behavioural modernity. But, seagoing boats are unmistakably modern behaviour. If modernity is strongly genetic, did (almost identical evidence) modernity evolve separately in Oz?...

A lot of mystery still. We have very few finds.