skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it does.

The issue at hand here seems to be Redbox selling the access codes separately from the DVDs, whereas Disney wants them to be bundled together.

I don't think people buying a new textbook and reselling the bundled access code is a big concern for the publishers - the online content is supplemental to, not duplicative of, the textbook content.

Access codes are really what publishers are banking on for lock-in, and they will happily sell students one sans textbook. It ensures the publisher gets a piece of the pie, regardless of the used and rental markets, or piracy.
> Moreover, why would Tesla be interested in doing so? They gain nothing, reduce a customer's desire to upgrade to the latest model, and put themselves into major extra liability if the system ever fucks up.

This keeps the vehicle resale value high, which constrains demand, which keeps their margins higher than all other auto manufacturers.
It is usually because the design is some PM's means of getting promoted. It wouldn't look good if your work gets trashed. So it gets pushed all the way through and then they leave for greener pastures by touting the work they have done.

Someone else gets to reap the damage they have sown. But engineers do the same thing.

In this case, Snapchat just seems to be copying feeds to make money. And Wall Street is breathing down their necks.
Ford F-150 wheel hub / brake disk combinations, for example.
>SpaceX wants to go to Mars. Why haven't they yet? Do you consider them uninnovative?

The proper analogy is "SpaceX wants to go to Mars, and is pushing aggressively to do so" while a "Competitor sees SpaceX's cost cutting for LEO, and is aggressively copying that feature while completlely ignoring Mars"

In this case, Tesla is shooting for Mars (Complete autonomy in all situations) and is rolling out each phase.

GM, on the other hand, noticed that Tesla's phase 1 autonomy was marketable, so they copy pasted a profitable feature without copying the overall goal of getting to mars (of making an autonomous car).

Every single GE car with this feature will have THIS feature and nothing else.

Every single new Tesla will have todays features, AND tomorrows features, through software updates, because Tesla is attempting to achieve FAR FAR MORE than GM, and is willing to backport those enhancements.

Today GM looks better. In five years, it might look archaic.
Nice List. You missed Itiviti which has its office in the same building as Cinnober.
Disney is upset because it "cheapens" the Disney movies. Why buy the expensive codes elsewhere (bundled with physical copies you may or may not want) when you can get them from Redbox on the cheap?
1 - Company makes innovative product with crappy UI (Vine/Snapchat)

2 - Instagram copies the idea and improved the interface

3 - Company becomes irrelevant

4 - Rinse/repeat
No but they're also flying in much closer tighter quarters.
Good point, thank you. I don't do much on Windows anymore. But a little search of VS Studio (I know there are some core envelopers working for MSFT) yields this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15185827/can-pip-be-used...

Probably exciting for VS users.
Curiously, if you have read Mechanics from cover to cover and solved all the exercices, you also have not lived.
Just in case you wish to retain anaconda, you could simply remove anaconda path from your PATH variable in .bashrc file (Assuming you are on Linux). If you need anaconda again, you could add the path to the variable, or run `source ~/anaconda3/bin/activate`
If we want to talk about a geological era defined by human influence on the environment, it isn't _political_ to use environmental radioactivity signals. They'll be easy to notice in 100M years. Extinction rate change will be harder to notice with the level of accuracy you want.
It seems they've deleted the video and rereleased an identical version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233RzfqYExI

My cynical side says it's specifically to divert attention away from this comment.
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It'll be a keyword in titles until the clickthrough falls off and it'll disappear again. Enh.
Thiel Executing Exit from Silicon Valley, Moving to Los Angeles
I certainly think it's possible to clear 500 karma by playing to the echo chamber, but I don't remember having had much difficulty doing getting 500 and most of my comments have either been technical or about niche policy-ish stuff like urban planning or energy. I think my personal views on particularly echo-chamber-y things are probably at least somewhat different from any normative HN values that may exist, and that hasn't really been a barrier.

(That said, I almost never downvote.)
i think it's fine in principle but in this case the implementation was poor. mostly i don't understand why non-reusable paper bags were banned. they're recyclable, biodegradable, and made from a renewable resource. the regulation requires paper bags to have handles and be at least a certain thickness so that they're "reusable". we'd be better off if the people that buy the 25 cent plastic bags and throw them away were getting disposable paper bags. probably need to charge them a fee on top for being wasteful.

in my opinion the second biggest problem with regulation is that often regulators don't properly account for human nature and some percentage of people being shitty. the biggest problem with regulation is corruption and money in politics. i think regulation is necessary in lots of cases. not sure that my views are representative of most americans though.
It costs $2.50 to have your transaction go through in the next 10 minutes. It costs 50c to have it go through in the next HOUR. Bitcoins fee structure is wholly antithetical to its use as currency but TPTB in the mining ecosystem are making fantastic profits milking the fee rates.

Nobody is really using it as a currency when having any amount change hands costs on average a fancy coffee drink from a fast food joint.
That's definitely my secret to UI/UX in startup-sans-designer world :)
If you spend as much time learning Python as you spent learning english, it would likely be much more understandable than english.

On the other hand, maybe there is some upper limit as to how well can humans internalize programming concepts.
We need to create a more inclusive web for developers
The same can be made with paper or cardboard.
> but the vehicle won’t be attempting a landing after takeoff. (SpaceX has not given a reason for that.)

From watching the stream of the launch it seems it was an old model rocket that they don't need any more. I guess there is a cost to recovery
Google didn't start advertising until a couple of years after it was released. Advertising is very much its core now but it wasn't always that way.
On the first day after I had my tonsils removed, I thought that maybe using oral rehydration solution at lukewarm temperatures would be less painful than water.

It worked so well that I barely needed any painkillerss during my recovery after that. Quite surprised my doctor didn't suggest it to me though.
As long as she's not employed/paid by snapchat and trades on her account - no, not illegal at all - she's a private citizen making a public statement with no insider knowledge -- her ability to _affect_ the security is not material (the board or auditors of SNAP _might_ be on the hook if "celebrity disinterest" wasn't listed in the known risks of their last quarterly -- I mean, that seems like a reach, but I'm not a lawyer, judge, securities expert, or fully functioning human being...).

Ethically, it might be nice if she disclosed a position, but she's [presumably] not a financial analyst or advisor, so she's got no duty to disclose.

I mean, if you were president, you could make good money for yourself and your friends just telling them which way you were going to tweet about a company a few minutes before you do -- if you didn't care about the appearance or ethics of it...
There is a major difference between Gatorade and Powerade, which is the type of sugar.

Gatorade has glucose (aka dextrose, the same sugar as an IV bag) while Powerade has high fructose corn syrup.

Glucose can be used directly by your cells while fructose is metabolized in the liver first. So for quick relief from dehydration I choose Gatorade.

* Glucose = 100% dextrose

* table sugar / sucrose = 50% dextrose

* high fructose corn syrup = ~40% dextrose
Most companies will adopt permissioned blockchains if they decide to use blockchain technology. It's just not common to expose your data and logic to people outside your organization even if encryption is involved. Right or wrong it's a culture thing. Because of that it's just another technology option like an API server backed by a relational database.

Blockchains and smart contracts are complicated. There have already been a large number of security issues. There is also a lot of research into making the technology performant. Picking a centralized authority is much less risky because the organization is betting on proven technology.
I use them in cups when I drive or watch media. I don't have to tip up the cup and block my field of view. I'm a fan of the plastic disposables. I used to use permanent straws, but I got tired of having to wonder what was in my biofilms. Now I reuse a disposable straw until I manage to buy a refill at a gas station and get a new one.
I think you could probably use both, side-by-side (but not at the same time/for the same project).

Anaconda might be nicer if the packages you need are C-based and would need compiling on your platform. Depends on your use-case. For experimentation/playing around, stick with what works for you. But if a project required me to install Anaconda, I wouldn’t take it seriously. And pipenv is pretty easy to use, too. So if you plan on distributing it or open-sourcing it, understanding how most other people manage dependencies ouside of conda is going to be useful.
Angry Birds creator Rovio stock loses over half of it's value in a single day
Last week I paid two online orders (not drugs, thanks for asking) with Bitcoin. I do that occasionally. Others do it too. Mostly people don't go around shouting "I bought something with Bitcoin" because, well, what's the point. Doesn't mean that it's not happening.
The Life and Death of Twitter for Mac [video]
Barbara Liskov of MIT: IEEE Computer Society’s 2018 Computer Pioneer Award
I wonder if a proxy device with some smarts regarding data transmission patterns (learned from when a device is newly added to the network) could provide some security.

Get a new device, plug it in to a locked-down network that passes all packets through a deep packet inspector connected to some ML. Add in proxy features so if the vendor turns off their service, your personal network MitM can mimic the server on the other side.

I doubt this is feasible due to the fact that consumers clearly value "it just works" (implying simplicity/less security) over secure/private. (And probably a bunch of other factors I'm not thinking of.)
My point of view is that if it is to be done with the Web stack, then by all means it should be delivered to whatever browser the user likes to use on their platform.

Anything else should take advantage of the native UI/UX tooling.
>A plastic shopping bag weighs about 5 grams. Plastic product packaging does not weigh 1kg, not even close.

No, but can easily weight 40 to 200 grams. And accumulated over your grocery purchases can easily be 1kg or more.
The doc uses x to refer to the new point, and x_i for the ith previously evaluated point. To reduce ambiguity, i'll use a capital X to refer to the new point.

The equation says that U(X) is equal to the minimum value of the expression f(x_i) + k * (Euclidean distance from x to x_i), where i ranges over integers 1 to t.

In Go pseudo-code:

func U(X []float64, x [][]float64, f func([]float64) float64, k float64) float64 {
min := math.Inf(1)
for _, x_i := range x {
e := f(x_i) + k * EuclideanDistance(X, x_i)
if e < min {
min := e
}
}
return min
}
I'm not usually one to defend the parent in this kind of argument, but I think there's room for both. Social reform can take years or even decades. If Bitcoin acts as a band-aid while those reforms take their time to progress, it could be a net positive there. But I do remain skeptical that it's actually making much of a difference.
What do you think you'll get from any if these tools that you do not get from {ana,mini}conda?

I must be missing something, but all these use cases (and more) seem to have been covered by miniconda ages ago.

conda works with perfectly well with pip, and creates virtual environments that are at least (in my experience) as good as virtualenv does.
I espouse a lot of views that the community does not support. I am also the first woman to make the leaderboard (under a different handle -- my retired handle has 25k karma).

I don't think it works exactly the way you think it does.
A lot of people don't do the distinction between a washing machine and a drying machine. I'd be surprised if the places you visit did not have a washing machine at all.
It's on par, as long as you don't do too many refactors on nasty codebases. Now, PyCharm chokes on those nasty refactors too, guessing the right stuff only 70% the stuff in a way that sometimes feels purely random, but at least its find and refactor preview UIs save the day sort of...

One thing that annoys me on VSC is that some operations (jump to defnition etc.) have delays on larger projects, because it does not create an "index db" of your code behind the scenes like PyCharm does, so it can show you usage and search for stuff practically instantly.

Overall VSC is great for developing Python on not-huge and well-behaved projects. For degenerated overgrown messes it's not a good solution :)
All yeast strains produce some amount of hydrogen sulfide during fermentation as a by-product of sulfate processing. [1]

You can barely call that biogas "burns extremely clean" with hydrogen sulfide in them, can you?

[1]: https://beerandbrewing.com/off-flavor-of-the-week-sulfur/
I think we gave up trying to be quiet around our baby after the first few weeks. Sooner or later a postal delivery will drop heavy-items through the door, just as the baby is trying to sleep, or some other random noise will occur.

I know all babies are somewhat different, but at least ours seems to be happy to sleep through most noises - up to and including using a vacuum-cleaner in the next room.

I try to keep things a little quieter than usual around bed/nap-times, but otherwise the family life must go on. If the baby wakes up sometimes because you boiled a kettle, dropped a book, or turned on the laundry then that's just something you have to deal with at the time.
How much of AirBnB's current valuation is predicated on the assumption that they'll eventually capture a hearty share of the business and high-end/luxury traveller segments (i.e., the high-margin profit drivers)?

I see moves like Plus as AirBnB trying to "professionalize" aspects of their product, but they'll never be able to provide the "guarantee (or recourse)" of an established hotel chain.

Outside of those who are cost-conscious, or those with unique accommodation needs (large groups, etc.), it's hard to imagine why any discerning traveller would opt for an AirBnB over a traditional hotel, all things being equal.
I actually prefer to use Docker, especially on projects with multiple people. The amount of times people shipped code without adding dependencies, or on-boarding new people who wouldn't read the docs to install system dependencies was astounding. Now it's as easy as install Docker, and running `docker-compose up` and since our CI and servers use the same images it's virtually guaranteed to work. I've also noticed a huge productivity leap being able to use sql serves as containers rather than installing them on the system! so much easier to manage!
Hosts (or anyone) can look at your profile to see the reviews about you, but not the reviews you've written. They would have to know the places you've stayed and then search through those reviews to find yours. So I don't think you should be worried about leaving honest reviews.
It's more subtle than that.

A significant number of people will complain at first even if the change doesn't hurt them. People just like the familiar - but then, they also eventually get bored with it! So damned if you do, damned if you don't...

So the takeaway isn't "ignore them" it's "listen closely enough to be able to tell 'is this just a reflex or did I unintentionally hamper their use of the app in a way I didn't anticipate?'" Can they still get their stuff done easily, once they get accustomed to the new way, or are there things we actually made unnecessarily worse?
If you read more closely, you'll find out that this already is my argument.

But I'd take it even further because even that is BS theater: industrial production of tons of crap in general should slow down. The packaging is an insignificant part of it. It just makes for nice headlines because dolphins and co get caught in it.

http://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/
I have added PyInstaller (http://www.pyinstaller.org/) to my toolchain recently for working with Python app distribution. It gets me pretty close to the Golang single distributable executable ideal... the main issue is needing to build on each target OS, which kind of sucks but I can deal with.
I’m just writing with respect to personal experience, but I would rather book a hotel even over an Airbnb Plus. The reasons? Rewards are harmonized, reliable rooms, cleaning, 24-hour person on site should there be a problem. With an Airbnb, I might get a few of the qualities listed above, but never all of them. And Airbnb pricing often is the same as comparable (if not better) hotels.
This, me too.

I never understood the need for virtualenv and similar. Do people really encounter trouble with conflicting packages that often? I try to write scripts so they run on different versions of python anyway, unless there is a very specific reason why that is not possible; and even then you can run python versions in parallel on a Debian/Ubuntu box, with different pip installs for each of them.

As for production, I usually ship things in a Docker container anyway, so there is no chance of mismatched libraries.

I guess I just never saw a problem that virtualenv solves.
I think we're talking past each other. I understand your position, I was just trying to help you communicate in the language of your target audience.
there's this too: https://github.com/brendonboshell/supercrawler
I rode my push bike from Portland to Cheyenne, WY. I figure I burnt 10,000 calories a day.The environmental cost of logistics of growing and shipping that many human consumable calories probably drastically out weighs that of burning gas in a car to travel that distance. Maybe someone can do the math.
Article probably didn't have a dent on price; the whole market dropped.
This is actually why I like working with C and Go. The compilers are on the build server and I just publish the resulting binary on a barebones production server after the build passes. In the past, working with Django, people always gave me shit for vendoring python package as part of the build, but it's to avoid having needlessly complex production environments and to remove the need for package managers.
>> It was a major change, and many power users (people managing multiple accounts or brand accounts) pointed out that it made their work a lot harder and more prone to error.

> hard to take any particular moment of outrage too seriously.

Apparently 'outrage' is when dedicated users mention their work was made more difficult and prone to error.

The HN community can listen to customer feedback better than this.
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I see how paper/cardboard containers would work, but how does a cardboard straw or fork work? Wooden chopsticks are mainstream but a certain thickness is required for strength, which you can't get in a straw or fork. Plus they lose strength when they get wet, so now you need to add some coating to protect them. But then that destroys recyclability which destroys the point of using such a material.
Can't tell if sarcastic or not..
And would be a better use of the money than most other things the government does already.
A trend is more than one person, and as the article states her situation has recently changed. This is all a sign of pure laziness/hype/greed, instead of doing some actual market research before you make investment decisions. In any case, I’m not sure how much of her “thought” went into that tweet.
FCC hopes opening up communication airwaves will boost innovation
Anecdotally I find the largest factors affecting number of upvotes are time of day and how recently the thread has been on the front page.
This is typical infosec handwaving nonsense.

People who have covert spy teams entering their home hacking serial interfaces on baby monitors probably shouldn't be buying this thing. The vendor in this case seems to have build a pretty decent solution considering the pricepoint and purpose.

The only vulnerability here is the consumer vulnerability for buying something as trivial as a baby monitor that is dependent on some random consumer company's cloud service for a core function. It would be better to have a fallback to a multicast DNS service so it could function on the local network.
More than 5: I recently listed all programs for managing virtual environments I could find in a blog post [1] because I find it pretty confusing how many there are.

[1]: https://meribold.github.io/virtual-environments-9487
>> The disturbing thing about this paper to me - flashy though it may be - is what they left out rather than what they kept in.

I agree 100%

I would feel a lot more comfortable if we had an objective think tank like organization doing the research instead of the actual companies who are developing AI and have a vested financial interest in steering the public in the direction they want in order to lower people's concerns.

I've had concerns about this for a long time. Many people simply discounted me as a conspiracy buff when I brought up the dangers of AI. Now? Not so much.
Do you get the option to vouch? I'm at >26k karma and still don't have the vouch option, which leads me to believe it's been turned off for my user.
>would nitpick slightly. Google core DNA is advertising. Search is a huge component to driving their advertising business, but let's not pretend that they are driven by anything other than ad revenue.

How quick people are to forget the 20 page research paper by Larry Wall and Sergey Brin that started all this: "anatomy of an ad engine", I think it was called.[1]

Google could exist even if it was just an empty page with banner ads, as long as it could get people to visit it, for example if it paid Firefox to set it as the default startup ad page. It doesn't really need to offer any services and has never been about that.

/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/ssssss in case you need it

[1] http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
maybe with this? https://Browserless.io
I appreciate your detailed response (and candor)! Sounds like a great idea on paper -- I would think a "built-in" legal team and infrastructure support would have attracted more interest. Sorry to hear it didn't pan out.

Sounds like some shady circumstances around the state-sponsored incubator, on the other hand...
This is relevant to the information I posted in my comment here how?

It is not.