skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fast, cheap. Not thanks to net neutrality,

https://netzpolitik.org/2016/sweden-the-weakest-link-in-eu-n...

Why do I suddenly feel like I've been duped? My American internet is something like 5% this fast and costs twice as much.
I recall a story told to me many years back of him at a (U2?) concert where he was up in the upper deck. He would make a paper airplane out of the $2 bill and throw it. He would watch it with binoculars to see where it landed and the confusion on the person’s face when there is a bill stuck in their hair.
Even so, the problem outlined isn't after-tax earnings, it is wages. Lower tax rates don't solve that fundamental economic issue.

In the past twelve months, the unemployment rate has fallen, from 4.8% to 4.1%. Meanwhile, the laborforce participation rate has also fallen, from 62.9% to 62.7%. This is not easily explained by traditional labor economics. It seems like there is a broken link somewhere in the chain.

Why haven't we seen wages rise with the falling unemployment rate? Why aren't discouraged workers moving back into a labor market with 4.1% unemployment?

data source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm
Ask HN: If you could do it over how would you learn Rails from scratch
In my learnings, every few months I like getting new perspectives on learning and attacking rails. Would love to hear more stories of you guys/girls on how you would tackle it from the start knowing what you know now.
Common problems React.js learners stumble into
Ah. Thanks. I hardly ever use eBay any longer and I didn’t see that. Good to know. It’s sometimes useful.
Simple carbohydrates and acids are the worst offenders. Kissing/sharing saliva with people with cavities also increases your risk.
Re Python netrc bug, you shouldn't put valuable passwords in ~/.netrc:

http://jwilk.net/blog/20131104-netrc-security
Net Neutrality Gets Its Official Execution Date
How does lesspass handle password rules?

i.e. one site allows special characters, others don't?

Or say one of your passwords gets compromised and you need to change it.

It doesn't seem like lesspass would be able to do so without a db.
That's a very narrow short term analysis, as compared to the broader long term analysis detailed in the discussion of this article. Also consider that your article's starting point is 2009, right after the massive global economic crash.
This is a really good point. Particularly for Twitch, owning their own CDN has turned out to be a massive comparative advantage. From everything I've heard, they've also done an incredible job with relationships and peering agreements over the years to bring costs even lower, and I'm sure that's only gotten better with the weight of Amazon behind them.

That being said, with solid relationships and a little scale behind you, the rate card starts dropping pretty quick. We ultimately use traditional CDNs for delivery, we just switch between those CDNs based on which one is going to provide the best experience for a given viewer. It makes a lot of sense for some teams to build out their own hardware/data centers/POPs at a certain scale, but I think we can all agree that's a decision that shouldn't be taken lightly.
Starches can be worse for your teeth than sugar because unlike sugar, starch isn't hydroscopic.
That's because the implication is that entertainment has no value, and that sort of argument can be reduced to absurdity. Do we really need any comfort? Sounds like the whole clothing industry other than wool and cotton shirt/pant producers are useless and even then only for what's needed in cold weather.
Most dyes are useless,colors are only useful to write signage.
The only cars that are useful are the ones that have the currently most fuel efficient setup.
Do we really need safety features? We already have enough people and any dead ones can be replaced.

That's why the idea is being disagreed with
You wouldn't manage that with a one-line shell script, assuming that you want to format it reasonably. :)

I do agree that having to install loads of things for a simple tool is overkill, but I'd wager the actual binary produced doesn't have many dependencies (I'd expect just libc, in fact); so would this at some point land in a package manager, your life will improve.
Honestly I don't know. I assume acidic foods of any kind. But our bodies are designed to eat plenty of acidic foods, so that is why I don't think demonizing acid is the solution.

A few stories I heard a long time ago was babies having their front teeth eaten away because their parents gave them fruit juice in a bottle or sippy cup all the time.

So anything that is over done, where the body can't balance the ph on it's own, would be bad. But going too alkaline can be bad also I'd imagine.
Looks like it's not just Bush Sr. and Bob Dole bought up by the Chinese Communist Party. They are buying up former FBI directors, former CIA directors, former state governors... why do they always end up wined and dined on these remote islands?
Hella awesome news!
>You are so entrenched in your point of view that you automatically assume

My point of view? Gee. A lot of assumptions there. Sounds like you think you know all about me. Hmm no, I don't assume drinking alcohol===drinking problem. It sounded like the guy you replied to first maybe did. Maybe you thought we're the same person? I didn't say anything about "proof".

Ahhh yes, you have confused me with the first guy. That explains some of your "so entrenched" language. You're mostly talking about what the first guy said, I'll let you take it up with him.

ps Counting the days since you last had a drink doesn't make me feel I was wrong. Good luck with that! I've had alcoholism ruin a couple of friends lives, it's such a terrible thing, so hard to do anything about.
Youre talking about an entirely different product and potential market. The manufacturing process, distribution, materials, along with red tape (food safety containers and preparation) are going to have a much higher investment and time to market than OP's niche. This is what makes serving a small niche, and the process involved with executing a business plan around such a niche, not as easy as it initially appears. I love your idea, but it has nothing to do with 'bricks', and has everything to do with 'fun custom confectionaries'.
It's form over function and I'd be shocked if anyone ever shares statistics where making the button more difficult to see increased user interaction with it or made it easier for users to do other tasks by "getting the button out of the way".

The only time I'd use a 'button' without a background color is something I don't actually want the user to use. For example, a 'delete' option on their profile or the 'unsubscribe' link in a newsletter.

But I'm not user hostile so I'd still make those options easy to find for users who wish to use them instead of trying to pad my "user retention rate" or whatever numbers the marketers are trying to make look good.
Fundamentally, we refuse to pay for content. As long as we continue to do so, they won't be profitable.

The issue is that we also complain about the dumbing down of online info, and decry the lack of quality content.

The advertising model does not work for valuable content creation. Period. Until someone figures out what its replacement is, news (and all non mass-produced content) will continue to slowly die online.
I'm hoping they don't respect the plot too much, and improve it instead. Consider Phlebas was by far the worst of the three Culture books I have read so far. It had elements of a great story but IMHO was badly in need of an editor to polish the narrative.
> We've done that for decades with North Korea, and you see the result: North Korea armed with thermonuclear weapons and delivery systems that can reach most of the world.

I mean, at the same time we convinced Gaddafi to quit his nuclear weapons program and then pounced on him as soon as we could without international backlash. We sent a clear signal that we only respect the sovereignty of nuclear powers.
this post is from 10/12/2017
It works a lot better than the comments section. You include this comment and yours in that.
What could possible result by marrying Reddit and Ebay?
I don't know if anyone cares at this point, but I did google around and found an app called Patook that's for this: I didn't dig further than play around, but it is something others might want to check out! FYI.
Another dentistry advancement that won't leave the lab.
One of my friends is fond of saying “no code is better than no code”. I tend to agree. Code is fun to write, but it’s such a liability, especially if you have less time than when you initially wrote it. This is why I think so much time can be spent on automation or documentation; because it helps out future me. But the most foolproof way to win is to just not play, given the option.

In my experience, you sometimes need to write code in order to realize that you didn't need to write it in the first place. Maybe that's one of the things that separates a senior developer: they know what code not to write.
Anything with anti-nutrients, phytic acid for example.
Police called on video game developer over 'Global Thermonuclear War' plans
> I said it was unavoidable (it is intrinsic to the research process)

No, it isn't. It's intrinsic to our research culture and that's wildly different.

Look, competition gets us things like Microsoft Windows and iOS. Cooperation gets us things like BSD and Linux. Competition gets us the Google Play App store. Cooperation gets us the Debian repository.

> and I said (in various comments) that it's a good thing (i.e. a net positive), including that there's clear historical evidence of this.

Except you don't cite anything.

What about the fact that essentially nobody does repeat experiments because they're all busy racing for original research? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis) What about the fact that people often select studies based on what will attraction attention, rather than what will actually best advance the field. Boring and uninteresting but extremely important research topics get ignored because they don't result in glory for the university or researcher. We're emphasizing the importance of breakthroughs over incremental research while simultaneously not reproducing those studies to confirm their findings!

That is how a culture of competition over cooperation in research and science harms our ability to solve problems and conduct research.
FWIW, 'cargo install' is designed to be for distributing dev-tools, rather than for end-user tools. I believe https://github.com/japaric/trust is designed to make it very easy to publish Github Releases from CI systems.
I thought the same about Tolkien. Tolkien breaks almost every suggestion from the list: he is verbose, his writing is intrusive -- he's constantly reminding you there's an author, with weird phrasings and lots of "and lo!" -- his descriptions of weather and geography go on forever, as do his prologues.

BUT I don't think Leonard is saying Tolkien is wrong. He's just saying you aren't Tolkien, and that most writers should take heed of his suggestions, not that every writer must.
I'm not sure what the point of this article is? Am I supposed to be enraged that there exists a job-site that is cutting every corner, a casino is being used for money laundering by the Chinese elite and politicians are probably making money in unethical ways as a result?

>several businesses offer Asian tourists access to American eccentricities, like assault rifles. “Experience the thrill of firing a real gun,” reads an advertisement for a local shooting range. “In Saipan, it’s legal and is guaranteed by the United States Constitutions 3rd Amendment.”

Is the typo in the sign or from the author? I hope it's the sign but stuff like this[1] doesn't come from nowhere

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/blog/corner/journalists-guide...
Putting a damper on the feeling of immediacy the writer seems to have built into the piece, that star flamed out some 80 million years ago during our Cretaceous Period when T Rex, Triceratops et al roamed the earth!
Maybe, my point is that isn't not a 'win' for the laborer like you seem to suggest, that maybe 50% of the people losing their jobs get to work better jobs. The people losing their jobs that are lucky enough to not be laid off are more likely be relegated to lower paying and lower skill inspection jobs rather than the higher skilled machine maintenance/development.

IMO, the most likely outcome of your scenario is: 19/100 of the workers become visual inspection team, (maybe) 1/100 of the workers becomes a manager for visual inspection team, 5 external machine specialists get hired, 80/100 of the workers get laid off and 75/80 of those will continue same line of work for even less pay (supply/demand) and 5/80 will burn through any personal savings/credit to retrain themselves with the hopes of becoming one of the '5 external machine specialists' hired somewhere else.

These numbers are definitely made up by me based on my own world view. From the original 100 laborers, 94/100 of the original people are worse off than before and in exchange we have 5 (maybe 6) new skilled positions.

I'm not against automation or productivity or higher skilled work, I'm personally invested in all three, I just think that if we aren't aware of all the consequences that we are likely to be blind-sided by a resurgence of Luddite riots.
> The fact that so many death row convicts appeal their death sentence until the bitter end would imply that they themselves don't agree with your belief.

it doesn't necessarily imply that. at each point in the appeal process, there remains the possibility of having one's case thrown out altogether or reducing the sentence even further than natural life. even if you prefer death to life in prison, it would still be rational to pursue any chance of getting out entirely or getting a substantially reduced sentence.

that said, if I could implement any policy I wanted, I would choose for life to be the most severe sentence but give the inmate the ability to choose death if they prefer.
Just a heads up, namecheap also support .ai domains now
I could maybe buy a tooth slowly repairing, especially with fluoride or something, but regrowing whole teeth? I don't buy that for a second.
Godoc does this too
Meet Coldroot, a nasty Mac trojan that went undetected for years
I have no doubts that the minerals/chemicals in the saliva that repair teeth rely on good nutrition. Or in some cases teeth may be weak or compromised simply because they didn't grow well because of poor nutrition as a child.

Interesting article, thanks for sharing that.

Edit: Quote from article you linked that is relevant:

>"...I would recommend daily tooth brushing and flossing, avoiding sugar, and rinsing the mouth with water after each meal. This diet is capable of reversing early stage tooth decay."

I'd argue that preventing tooth decay with diet is just as, or more, important as being able to repair decay.

Also, CDC or ADA (I can't recall which) said that 80-90% of dental carries (cavities) form in the crowns of teeth, in the grooves. And elsewhere on their site state clearly that tooth brush bristles aren't small enough to even clean out these cracks.

This means that brushing and flossing can't help with 80-90% of all tooth decay. Though I think they are still good, they aren't near enough.
A bigger issue is blindly executing "curl ... | sh -" for something you are going to use to generate passwords (though it's bad in general).
The Rise of Bitcoin Factories: Mining for the Masses
The closest I got to definition of "healthy low X" was a general description
of the approach in the paper:

"Briefly, the main goals were to achieve maximal differentiation in intake of
fats and carbohydrates between the 2 diet groups while otherwise maintaining
equal treatment intensity and an emphasis on high-quality foods and beverages.

Thus, participants were instructed to reduce intake of total fat or digestible
carbohydrates to 20 g/d during the first 8 weeks. Higher priorities for
reduction were given to specific foods and food groups that derived their
energy content pri- marily from fats or carbohydrates. For example, the
reduction of edible oils, fatty meats, whole-fat dairy, and nuts was
prioritized for the healthy low-fat group, whereas the reduction of cereals,
grains, rice, starchy vegetables, and legumes was prioritized for the healthy
low-carbohydrate group.

Then individuals slowly added fats or carbohydrates back to their diets in
increments of 5 to 15 g/d per week until they reached the lowest level of
intake they believed could be maintained indefinitely. No explicit instructions
for energy (kilocalories) restriction were given. Both diet groups were
instructed to (1) maximize vegetable intake; (2) minimize intake of added
sugars, refined flours, and trans fats; and (3) focus on whole foods that were
minimally processed, nutrient dense, and prepared at home whenever possible."

I find the last sentence interesting, reminds me of
Michael Pollan's quip: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
Looking at the federal income tax rate is only a small part of the picture. There are a lot of other taxes everyone pays, payroll taxes / fica, sales taxes, etc.; most of which are highly regressive. You could cut those for lower income brackets.

When you include these tax categories you will also note that there was a shift to these regressive taxes at the same time the highest income tax rates were cut. And to further reinforce this feedback loop there was also a move to reclassify income to long term capital gains profit which is taxed even lower than the highest income tax.

All of these policy shifts combined to create greater wealth inequality, and wage stagnation.
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The mindset I believe we should have when trying to answer a question like "is anonymity on the internet a good thing for society?" should not just be thinking up situations where it might empower people but also to consider "how well is society equipped to deal with this kind of change?" does humanity have a lot of cultural experience dealing with technology that enables this type of situation? I think the answer in this case is no. There is not a lot of historical or cultural precedent for how we interact with each other anonymously. New systems with new rules enabled by new technologies take time for culture to incorporate in good ways. Therefore it would have been better imo to separate the introduction of being able to communicate digitally from the introduction of being able to communicate anonymously. Conflating the two makes the situation more complicated and harder for us as a society to ensure these technologies are being used in beneficial ways.
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Scraping IMDb and visualizing it’s data as interactive website
The actual scientific article is January 2017:

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39654
>The ecosystem is certainly still rapidly evolving and good documentation and libraries may not exist in all areas.

Hmm, that's what people have been telling me since I first learned Haskell in 2002. Your brush this off as if it's a minor point ("some bad experiences with Haskell's libraries and tooling"), but libraries, tooling and compile times are a major, major influence on productivity. If you're at leisure to wait for decent libraries and tools to become available, then good for you! I was kind of hoping to get stuff done now, though.

Abstractions have both positive and negative payoffs. Take MTL as an example. It certainly increases code reuse and makes code more concise. On the other hand, it's also partly responsible for Haskell having a gazillion different techniques for handling errors, with little community consensus on what the best techniques are (see e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/5bkqf1/exceptions_...). I spend at least some time thinking about this stuff when I write Haskell code. I spend no time thinking about it when I write go code -- I just write the same error handling boilerplate that every go programmer uses. It's not pretty, and I don't get to pat myself on the back for understanding something complicated. But does it make me less productive? Not sure.

Response to edits: I think you're misunderstanding my comment. I use these features and know what they are. I'm telling you that I do not see any clear productivity benefit from them in practice. Haskell advocates do have a maddening habit of assuming that anyone who criticises any aspect of the language must be a complete novice.
Why does IPFS get all the HN attention?

In my ignorance I'm not really aware of the landscape for these types of technologies; does anyone have time to share a brief summary or link to further info?
Really? Downvotes for asking a question? Wow, ok.
Substack is an up and coming one if a newsletter-focus is suitable. I've spoken to the founders, seem like nice guys. SitePoint just switched a newsletter to them. http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/with-an-increased-focus-on-...
This is absolutely insane, especially in USA. Courts here are supposed to be impartial and just. If you increase your chances by x in a certain court--and you can file there--what justice is it? Shocked that this travesty lasted this long.
I've tried to get my mom to use KeePass with limited success. To her having her easily guessable passwords written in a little notebook next to the computer is fine.

I think a prerequisite is getting buy in on the idea that passwords need to be treated like the keys to your house or your bank account numbers.
(Mux founder) The Vimeo API is an API to the full Vimeo platform, which is an incredible platform all together, but requires using their player, at least according this comment from a Vimeo employee on stack overflow.

> Video files are not available for basic or Plus users, and are not available for users beyond the one making the request. For those videos you should use the embed codes we provide in the API request (under the key response.embed.html, or through oEmbed.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31384129/is-it-possible-...

We want people to build new Vimeos on top of Mux, and new interesting uses of video.

With Vimeo you would start to run into limitations when you want to build custom experiences around the video, new player features, tracking specific analytics, advertising. Really any customizing of the player outside of what Vimeo feels is important for the Vimeo platform. The Vimeo player is also very recognizable. If you're hoping to brand the player as your own, that would be difficult. We have one customer switching off of YouTube because they currently serve premium (paid for) content from a private youtube playlist, and their customers assume that because it's the YouTube player, it must be free online somewhere. I'm not sure if you'd get the same issue on Vimeo but I thought it was an interesting detail.
The DMCA has explicit exceptions very clearly spelled out for service providers that do not store content and/or do not choose which content gets cached...

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#512

As long as everything is automatic and the "provider" doesn't pick and choose what gets cached you're in the clear.