skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not defending Uber/Lift here, I completely agree that there is a mismatch between the perception of being an Uber driver and reality, but I don't fully understand this argument. If they have "literally no other choice" were they starving before Uber/Lift existed? These companies haven't existed that long, and the majority of Uber/Lift drivers are not former/current taxi driver that now need to use these apps because the market has shifted. These are people who <5-10 years ago would not have been Uber or Taxi drivers. For these people this market opened up where it had not existed before, an income source that did not exist.

Is it better for a space like this to not exist if it can't supply the 7/10/15$/hour that would be deemed acceptable? I genuinely don't know.
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Regular insurance doesn't cover Uber driving. You need an additional policy, which costs more.
I can't reproduce your issues, but perhaps resolving the DOI works better: http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.16240.97287
Be greedy when others are cautious.

Youth really is wasted on the young.
Both of those people needed a college education, just not a diploma.

Steve Jobs credited Apple's phenomenal success to what he learned at liberal arts college.

http://www.reed.edu/steve-jobs

Bill Gates attended an elite high school and some elite college -- he was at least as formally educated as the average college grad.
In fact, by turning it into plastics, aren't they effectively preventing the carbon from being oxidized and released into the atmosphere?
I'm having difficulties interpreting this. By high level, you mean game design? I read Masters of Doom too and it was a fantastic read. But for me what I really found interesting was how the "two Johns" were able to leverage their different personalities, skill sets and areas of focus in a way that allowed Id Software to become a world famous studio. Since I'm more of a technical guy, I found the glimpses into the business side of software / game development to be illuminating. In particular, I really got a kick out of learning about the "shareware" model of selling games - it's incredible the sums of money they were able to get just from that alone. Also it was interesting to see how once you've established a reputation for yourself in the industry it's easy to acquire capital for future ventures, even though the fundamentals of these new ventures may not be obvious. Perhaps it had something to do with the climate at the time (dot com mania) but the amount of venture funding John Romero and Tom Hall were able to secure for Ion Storm and how that capital was subsequently (wasted) is utterly mind boggling to me.

If you ask me John Romero made Eidos his b*h, not his fans!
"Godel, Escher, Bach" by D. R. Hofstadter.
This is a great museum, and the price is not that high.

My family and I were in NYC in December. We visited the American Museum of Natural History, which have the same policy of "pay what you want".

We were there at the opening, because, as the Met, it's a pretty big museum and you (really) need the day if you want to make a full tour of it.

We then had 2 solutions. Waiting who know how long behind around 30-40 persons to have tickets, or go to the paying kiosk.

Well, in that paying kiosk, you cannot "pay as you want". But I still choosed to pay full price instead of waisting my time in a line with my 7yo kids.

We went on the Met on our last day in NYC, purely randomly. And, of course, I was happy not to pay a hundred bucks for the 4 of us (admitting that it's also the price for kids ?).

But due to the quality of the exhibitions, it's a normal price. Perhaps 20$ might have been better.

Disclaimer : I'm not american, so I don't know the "normal" policy for museum entrance. Here in France, you usually have to pay for museum, except a few days per years. For example, the Louvre museum in Paris is around 20$.
Yeah we use a Medtronic MySentry (basically think of a baby monitor with a screen that displays his BG level...and relays CGM/pump alarms, loud enough to wake the dead.)

xDrip / parakeet looks awesome, but that looks to be Dexcom-only as far as I can tell.

Our son carries a medtronic Minimed Connect (pump<->bluetooth adapter) and an iPhone (yeah a kindergartener with an iPhone) so it can relay his BG when he's in school using Nightscout.

Unfortunately neither the MySentry, nor the Minimed Connect are supported with the 670g so we're a little concerned that we won't be able to monitor him remotely (while he's sleeping or when he's at school...the two times he's most vulnerable.)

I'd love to switch him to a Dexcom, but there are currently no pumps that support predictive / suspend functionality at this time (though the T:Slim X2 is getting close to getting this type of update.)

Thanks for the heads up on xDrip!
This article is about aiming ground based satellite dishes at foreign satellites and decoding the signals they see.
I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying, but for my child they see the Swedish version as the real version, firstly because it's the only version they've seen, and that often most of the shows are actually only available in Swedish.
> "No mere coincidence that the same governments think they can educate people by printing and handing out degree certificates."

However much disdain you have for college, it's not even close to the same as printing money. Decent, accredited institutions are still mind-expanding.

I think you're also making a different argument. The argument OP and others are making is that education doesn't create wealth. You seem to be arguing that education doesn't create educated people.
> Grow a lumberjack beard. Or, only shop at comme des garcons. Or thrift-store jeans and a white T, for all occasions.

This is because you need everyone who meets you or sees you to say "oh, that guy with the lumberjack beard, that's so-and-so."

I know a couple artists who have been doing this successfully for 20-odd years. One has a funky haircut and always wears a bright yellow jacket.[0] Great artist though.

You can also do it with things other than your hair and wardrobe. A certain German artist made it big and for the first 10 years or so had:

A) only one size of painting

B) a reputation as "painfully shy"

C) uh, Germanness (German painting was and is A Thing)

[0]: http://www.koronczi.hu
While the best programmers definitely have that knowledge, most programming jobs don't require that anymore. It's like saying that in order to be a secretary you need to know how to replace a typewriter ribbon.

Most applications aren't written on the machine level, nor do they have the complexity that requires machine level knowledge. Embedded systems programming is, at this point, a separate disciple than generic software engineering.

The only regular exception I see to this is the poor curriculum around most Java oriented BS programs. I've seen many candidates come from a Java focused school that couldn't even write their own code without a full hand-holding IDE.
I don't think OP made that claim - merely that if that is how they were operating with the dragnet, it would not be illegal.
Exactly -- and companies would not want to hire contractors because it's impossible for them to know if someone is going to be treated as an employee all of a sudden (say they hired them part-time but their other p/t gig ended). I don't know how Australia deals with this.
Relevant to the impact of stock based compensation in real terms for CEO's:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-blackstone-schwarzma...
> Find a PCP who is part of a hospital system with specialists using the same computer system.

I really can't comprehend how these people don't feel a critical need for compatible open formats, and think they are fine using incompatible proprietary ones. How is sharing information seen as a negative in this scenario?
I think this is the answer. I did do a driver update and now, after restart, it works fine! Ugh, what an annoying bug!
college (n.)

late 14c., "organized association of persons invested with certain powers and rights or engaged in some common duty or pursuit,"

From where expressions like "electoral college" come from

I wonder if there's a linguistic term for having a broad term become a more specific one (in some occasions like this)

Another interesting term is Faculty, which meant "branch of knowledge" then finally became "the group of teachers/professors in an educational institution" https://www.etymonline.com/word/faculty
I wouldn't say the issue is that governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education, I would say the issue is that companies have collectively underestimated the value of apprenticeships.

If the strongest possible economy is the one where the highest proportion of citizens are making the most of their individual talents, apprenticeships seem like a better fit than university for many professions, as they let the apprentices learn a trade directly, which either results in them finding a job they're good at or in finding out early that it isn't the path for them. Studying at a university has other benefits outside the job market, and I would still want anyone who wanted to go to have the opportunity to do so (by making it more affordable), but if the only reason that some people (not all) are going to university is to land a decently paid job, then let's just cut out the middle man and let people learn whilst they work.

This has benefits for companies too, as they get a larger pool of potential employees to work with, which ultimately keeps wages lower in the long run, and I'd also suggest that apprentice schemes help build loyalty, which should result in reduced disruption to business operations (compared to companies that struggle to retain their staff).
Go to any LEGO store and they have bins where you can pick and choose single pieces.
I remember playing and enjoying Wing Commander (and possibly Wing Commander II) back in the day. But just a few short years later, X-Wing came out and blew Wing Commander out of the water. True 3D (flat shaded, but still infinitely better than sprites), and of course, set in the Star Wars universe :) Followed shortly afterwards by Tie Fighter, which introduced Gouraud shading IIRC.

Then X-Wing vs Tie Fighter came out, it was the first to use a 3D accelerator so the graphics were better, but it wasn't that good compared with the previous one. The series kind of recovered a bit with X-Wing Alliance (back to a mission- and story-driven campaign, and with much better art). And then it stopped.

TLDR: I miss X-Wing and Tie Fighter and wish there were new games like that with 2018 technology :(
Today education is an industry. They influence and market themselves into the government that they are the authority for knowledge. Ultimately most of what I learnt in College is crap and useless. Just got a degree certificate which is useful to provide to governments.

Knowledge has nothing to do with colleges/schools/universities.
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After having a glance at the submission title, I directly CTRL-Fed, and wasn't disappointed to see the mention of stressor avoidance from the Lebanese philosopher and twitter sophist.
Downvotes? I merely meant to ask if linux implemented C11 atomics or not...
But it is a race and gender issue. I'm not trying to divide people, just stating facts.

Attaining wealth is much easier if you're born into a specific race, thus your chances of being born wealthy are directly correlated with your chances of being white.

Attaining wealth is much easier if you're male. Among the many reasons are increased career opportunities in general, less chance of a stalled career because of child rearing, greater status in negotiations, etc.

All I'm saying is it is incredibly lucky to be born a white male in a society which so highly values them, and try as hard you might, you can't position yourself to get that advantage if you weren't born with it.
While this is real and my company is being impacted by it, I'm a little less than thrilled that this guy's standard for journalism is "My Alexa timed out ergo AWS is down".
Those costs go up with the additional wear and tear of driving for Uber/Lyft.
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Uber has a lot of cash by taxi standards, but nothing compared to car manufacturer standards.
Also, github traffic-stats page is also down (for me at least) and their status page has updates
Well, economic returns have to originate from somewhere. Either your additional education allows you to take something away from someone else our it allows you to increase productivity and reap its benefits. Also if you spend five additional years at university out of say fifty working years, then you already have to increase productivity by ten percent only to match your economic output without spending this additional five years studying. And in highly competitive markets, that are already optimized to death, ten percent is a lot and even then you just broke even.
It almost feels as if more universities should have two different "introductory" CS courses: one for non-majors, and another for majors. I would however express that in my CS curriculum (only 6 years ago) we did not start using C++ until my junior/senior year, and instead stuck with Java.
Well, the whole reason this is an issue in Norway is because we're a few people that like to keep our country something other than a dictatorship...
I think `fmt.Printf` is a typo. Immediately preceding this is a code sample referencing `fmt.Fprintf` (which is correct).
They aren't substituting for ABS. ABS continues.

This is a substitute for the existing non-ABS, non-rubber parts. (You probably know that LEGO makes more tires than anyone else in the world.) Certain small parts are molded in a softer, non-ABS plastic, and PE is the replacement for that. Look for rubbery-feeling parts in existing sets.
moving the goalposts. r/poltitics is certainly tilted left, but is not filled with false left-wing propaganda illegally created by a foreign enemy.

ShareBlue is not a propaganda arm of a foreign enemy, it is a US-based partisan blog, and additionally the accusation here is that they commented without disclosure of their affiliation. that is nothing like the coordinated propaganda, false/stolen US identities, wire fraud, and other scam operations sponsored by the Russian government. There is no criminal indictment against ShareBlue.
> How expensive/difficult/limiting is it if you need a visa for a lot of locations?

Overlanders crossing Africa can spend up to 2000€ in visas alone. (And that’s with an EU passport.) Plus, not only is visiting consulate after consulate a hassle, but the visa application and issuing process is slow enough that it can sometimes take a week or two just before you are able to move on from one country to the neighbouring one.
I think I was one of three people that enjoyed the Wing Commander movie, even though it had very little relation to the game canon.
I think I'm seeing some confusion on this thread about the term "specialist". Basically, if you're anything other than a subsistence farmer, aren't you some kind of specialist? Teachers, doctors, grocers, car salesman, lawyers, bankers, mechanics, all these professions are limited in scope not just to one economic area but to a small portion of that economic area. It's not college that makes you a specialist. It's modern economies that demand you specialize. Even if that specialty isn't considered "professional".
I would share this article but I've been living on a resident/fellow salary for way too long and need at least a few years to milk that cash cow first.
They should block stack overflow as well to make absolutely certain nobody can do any work.

What's it like being a software dev in North Korea?
My highly-ranked school was also trivially easy. I still learned a lot and was forced out of my intellectual comfort zone on many occasions. "Easy" hurts the goal of credentialing, but it doesn't really mean the education is poor.

I also wasn't a STEM major. I know many STEM grads who had a hellish time getting good grades.
Try to get resources -> (luck roll) -> fail

Try to get resources -> (luck roll) -> fail

Try to get resources -> (luck roll) -> starve to death

You see this with people who always have some scheme in the pipeline and may have even had some modest success (and notoriety) with one of the schemes, but ends up dying alone and penniless anyway. They do the work, but never get the break. The world is just unfair sometimes.
That's not a valid argument. Technically no one is forced into prostitution either.
Jersey Dutch died out completely in the US, without any suppression by the government. Cajun French is on its last legs despite government support.

And it was purely the result of broadcast radio.
It's important to not use the IRS Mileage Rate to calculate real cost. (The linked study does not.) The IRS rate is designed for the worst case scenario for the purpose of tax filing (coz you don't want to penalize someone who has to drive a F-150 in a high-gas-price state in a year where gas price spikes to $5/gallon). Even if we don't consider the fact that the cost of vehicle depreciation, maintenance and insurance is an "almost-fixed" or marginal cost because you are going to own the vehicle and pay for the insurance any way, and let's be generous about estimating the cost here:

At IRS rate of $0.54 a mile, let's say we buy a Prius (which is the most popular car used for ridesharing), for $23,000, and drive it for 100,000 miles and throw it away.

At IRS rate, that's a cost of $54,000.

Gas cost is about $8,000 (50MPG [1], $4/gallon). Insurance $1500 x 5 years ($1200 base insurance + $300 extra for rideshare add-on [2]). That still leaves us $15,500 (28.7% of estimated cost) to cover repair deductible etc. That's almost enough to buy another Prius.

Edits: I mistakenly said the study used IRS Mileage Rate. It does not.

[1] http://mikes-review.com/does-a-toyota-prius-really-get-50-mi...

[2] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/insurance/best-ridesharing-i...
Harvard has both! They have elite departments in many fields, such as math and computer science, attended by students on scholarships, and also they have wealthy elites paying exorbitant tuition and donations for a do-nothing political science degree to round out the bottom of the class.
I like to summarize a particular coastal elitist view as, "Let them eat college."
> Modern day big-pharma

the polio vaccine was released in 1955. My thought experiment literally cannot be "error, wrong, incorrect."

I'll solidify my thought experiment to Valeant. Valeant would have bought the polio vaccine, hiked the price, and reported significant growth in returns while the disease was not being eliminated.

Not to mention your assumption a pharma company created the first polio vaccine is false - it was developed at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine with heavy backing by the U.S. government.
> Estimates of the economic returns to higher education tend to assume that all students will graduate. In practice, around 30% of students in Europe and 40% of students in America will drop out before earning their degrees.

This leads to a dangerous debt situation. I saw this up close in New Mexico. The state gave everyone a "bridge" scholarship which covered the first semester of college. Students who had no business going to college would go anyway and get a loan to cover the second semester. They would fail out and be stuck with a nasty loan for no good reason.
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I don't know if I should feel good about this. I graduated from UMich back in 2015, and we tend to do a lot of the core CS courses in C++. After working full time for ~2 years, learning to code on a lower level helped me understand computers better and write better code.

There are kids around my age group who don't do as much C/C++ and dislike it because of the "pointer" concepts. They find them hard, but these guys also don't know other CS concepts like how a GC works or pass by value vs. pass by reference.

Our professors have good reasoning for why the school does this: "By teaching you everything in C++ first, you'll find it much easier to pick up any other programming language".
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It'd also be easier if everyone painted all their houses the same color, ate the same foods all the time, and lived in a universally cookie cutter world, but that'd be terribly boring.

Culture is embedded into language, and suggesting that we should standardize on a handful of languages for the sake of convenience places very low (or maybe no) value on cultural preservation.

As someone who's been working very hard for the last two years to become bi-lingual, I had no idea how much I'd learn about my own native language from studying a different language, and incidentally, I've learned a ton about the underlying culture of the target language I'm learning. Every time a language dies, we lose a another piece of our global cultural tapestry, and I think that's a loss that's hard to quantify.
Some classes were easy, some weren't.

I enjoyed my history classes, the professor was amazing. All the tests were essay style, failing was hard, the only requirement was being able to demonstrate an understanding of the course material and being able to put together a well reasoned argument about different historical events. Often times we would be asked to explain our understanding of some major player's reasoning.

Was the course "hard" in terms of drop out rate? No. Was it rigorous and thorough? That it was.