skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't do it. You have to install their app and use a special credit card they send you in conjunction with the app. That's how they ensure you are not cheating/sharing.

I had it for a month and then tried to cancel before my renewal; it took 3 full weeks (21 days!) of pestering their support over email every 3-5 days to escalate my refund case, and I had to threaten a BBB case before my ticket actually got escalated, and I finally got refunded 4 days after the threat. They do not have phone support at all.
How tihs digital nomad launched an app while traveling through 20 countries
I'm with you on MoviePass, but I'm unconvinced there's any problem with WeWork's business model. Lacking any assets or output of their own hasn't stopped middlemen from making a mint since the invention of trade.
Often, but not always? I might read `(a, b, c)` as "a b c" rather than "a comma b comma c" and unless I was dictating I would not say "left paren", etc. On the other hand, I would read "foo.bar()" as "foo dot bar".

The specifics of this subvocalization habit, I don't think are salient. What's interesting (to me at least) is that I have to have some verbalization and when something doesn't fit into the model it is disturbing. I imagine that other people with this habit have different specific pronunciations, but the way they experience code is similar.

For what it's worth, I pronounce `fn` as "effin". Which may or may not be an editorial comment on the spelling, depending on my mood. :)
So you are suggesting punishing grade A students instead?

Rich parents will find a way to get their smart kids proper schooling one way or another. It’s poor-but-smart kids that gets the short end of the stick. I’d rather treat kids by their ability. Than let parents wealth be the deciding factor.
I guess technically the end hasn't been written yet, but doesn't the fate of MoviePass validate your Kellogg MBA's fears?
That probably feels pretty good but it's not how to treat a hiatal hernia. It's probably making it worse.

To treat a hiatal hernia stand with your back against a wall, bend over slightly, and relax your stomach muscles. Then with both your thumbs press in on your solar plexus like you are trying to touch your spine with your thumbs. Then slowly slide your thumbs down towards your navel. As you approach the navel push down to the left. Repeat two or three times.

You should feel immediate relief. Eventually you will be able to tell when you need to do it.
Americans love cars and the roads are heavily subsidized, a 40mi drive will cost a few dollars and you can take 3-6 people.
South Florida (area between Jupiter and Homestead) is roughly 100 miles north to south and about 15 miles east (Atlantic Ocean) to west (Everglades swamp) so it's a narrow stip of land. Tri-Rail runs mostly (but not entirely) along I-95 (about 2 to 4 miles from the Atlantic Ocean). Nice if you live near a Tri-Rail station, or work near a Tri-Tail station, but that's not the majority of people, who have to travel a significant portion east/west. Again, nice if you have a car. Less so if you don't [1].

[1] Years ago, some friends and I took public transportation from Boca Raton to the Miami Zoo. One way took over three hours and involved several transfers between rail and bus systems.
I read an article a few years ago, the name of which escapes me. It was something like “Idiomatic Vim” or “Linguistic Vim”. I would love to find that article again, if anyone happens to know based on the sparse info I’ve just provided, I would greatly appreciate it.

One of the things I learned was that you can do things like yank to a character. In other words, if your cursor is at the beginning of “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” you can type ‘ytx’ (Yank To to the “x” next “x” character) and it’ll yank “The quick brown fo”. That’s really handy with code, I find.
That's interesting, thanks for the links. I have mucked around with program induction using expression trees but had not come across MIL before.

It looks like MIL would generalize quite well to bayesian networks, a perfect bridge between his past research and what he's depicting as the future of ML research.
She is based in Kazakhstan, and they don't exactly have a domestic science publishing industry, no.
Sure. But WeWork isn't making any money as a middleman. And their debt is already down to junk.
yeah, not in my back yard!
Rich parents will find a way one way or another. This would punish smart-but-poor kids only.

Should we have universities take students by lottery, god forbid they will enforce correlation with socioeconomic rank? Should we make companies hire by lotterry? We have to start treating people by their abilities at one point or another.
“How Bloomberg Blamed 2M People for MoviePass Permitting 2M Signups It Couldn’t Afford”
Repo Men (2010) is even better.

In the future, beyond repossessing cars, why not also repossess artificial organ replacements?
I still think private ownership for something that is 7.5 - 12kgs makes more sense. Always with you, charge yourself, not cost prohibitive. The market for transient ownership and use still doesn't make that much sense to me, but I guess it works.
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It defeats the purpose of "high speed" if you can't actually get to "high speed" due to stops.

Also, this I think is more geared for tourist traffic than daily commute traffic. Orlando for the parks, West Palm Beach for the shopping (my guess), Ft. Lauderdale and Miami for the cruise ships.
So now I'm curious--

What happens if you take the intersection of Wikipedia references with Sci-Hub content? Is it substantially less than the total 54Tb content on Sci-Hub?

Also, has anyone made a browser extension that hyperlinks Wikipedia references with articles available over Sci-Hub?
Sure but if cinemas aren't full (and they rarely are except for opening weekend) the actual cost of having someone in the theatre is nothing. If the target customer sees 2 movies @$12 each a month it doesn't matter if they see 10 at $30 total as long as they aren't filling the cinema - the cinema is still making $6 more off them, plus any snacks they buy.

Maybe it's a matter of just not allowing subscription passes for opening weekend (or only at the door if it's undersold rather than in advance). Maybe you get your seat allocated at ticket pick up rather than in advance so full-fare paying customers get the best seats. There's obviously going to be a compromise somewhere, but it doesn't have to be unworkable.
> A CEO of tech company

I worry we are approaching peak hubris
MoviePass is just an experiment. An important thing they have proved is that there are a lot of people still interested in going to theater and reason they are not doing so is because of lack of flexibility in current business model. I don't see any theater chain learning from this even while they are still going on the same path as RadioShack and Blockbuster. I think eventually MoviePass or some other startup will come around and they will start their own popup-theaters to implement business model such as this.
Sucks you can’t index torrents?
If someone is making minimum wage, I doubt they are commuting from Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale in the first place.
Auto journalism about self driving cars is weak. There are car writers who know what questions to ask about suspension and drivetrain, but have no clue how to evaluate a self-driving car. They don't even ask the basic questions - what's the sensor suite, how does it detect an obstacle, what does it do if a sensor becomes obscured, how does it handle a car blocking a lane? They could follow a Cruise self-driving car around SF and get pictures of how it behaves. (Not a company-controlled demo.) We're not seeing that in Motor Trend, and we should.

Uninformed punditry is not helping.
I've seen some Plex servers hosting in the amount of petabytes of content, it's crazy.
Saying "You can do the same" is extremely condescending and frustrating for people who have repeatedly tried to solve a problem and failed. It's like some people tell depressed people "Just go out there and have fun". It's not helpful.
Yes!

I know it is astounding, but sometimes people with lots of money can make stupid decisions with that money.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/01/juicero-s...

[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/betsy-devoss-family-lost-1...
I’d much rather get an MLM pitch than a “build my app” idea pitch. Either one is not offensive though. Slow phones with slow gps leading to missed directions, and dumb passengers who don’t know how to use pool are much bigger problems.
Can't you just attach it to the email?
So, first, most of the patents issued today, lack novelty or failed to mention prior art. If you can find prior art before the patent in question, it basically cleans the field.

Second, you might want to lunch in any country where the filer did not register a patent. For example Japan. After establishing the company and the idea, try to penetrate the US with more money for legal battle (or not at all if you do not see traction).
Tonight Aaron Swartz is finally at peace.
I find I'm much more productive outside of the home. At home it's too easy to interrupt yourself with non-work related chores. In the same respect I don't exercise at home, I go to the gym and get the workout done without distraction.

Since I don't work for a company per-se, everyday of the week I go to a different place to work -- libraries, cafes, and coworking spaces. Occasionally I meet with a friend who has the ability to work remotely -- we work together at cafes with wifi. Luckily, he's a programmer and we can share ideas like this article suggests.

At a regular office your forced to be with certain coworkers regardless of how valuable their ideas might be to you, or how pleasant they are to be around. I feel fortunate to be a part of the remote workforce in this way and feel it provides worthwhile benefits over the traditional workplace.
I grew up in a small town in Florida next to the railroad tracks. I could hear trains passing by at night from my bedroom. There are trains coming through many times a day carrying freight. I don't understand why people would be any worse.
Is there a way to see which are in the direst need of seeders?

I am currently participating in some of them at random, as I have nowhere near 50 TiB of free space but who love to do it more efficiently.
Oh shit, you're right. My mistake, I just assumed they were profitable given the seemingly solid revenue model and fairly high rents.
It's not about benefiting more but about benefiting at all.
Here's a demo of it running against 190,000 trees in San Francisco, using my datasette-cluster-map plugin to include a map visualization: https://san-francisco.datasettes.com/sf-trees-ebc2ad9/Street...

More about that plugin: https://simonwillison.net/2018/Apr/20/datasette-plugins/
> their debt is already down to junk

For those unaware, this is not a metaphor.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/weworks-debt-receives-junk-rati...

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-04-25/wework-...
RISC V State of the Union
Also reminds me of this article by Jack Smith (Vungle co-founder) where he used LinkedIn to do something similar: https://thehustle.co/the-linkedin-hack-that-made-me-120000
The Truth is you don't know how you might have turned out in a different system. Perhaps you excelled because of the system, and not in spite of it.
How exactly is this passenger train worse than any current freight trains? I grew up less than 1km from a freight train track in rural America and I knew well enough to avoid freight trains even as a kid.

I really feel like this attitude really hurts the US in catching up with the rest of the world in good, affordable public transportation (which we are decades behind in). Australia has fewer people and is less densely populated than the US and most of their capital cities have really good train+bus systems.

I think to that Ben Sollee song, "In America, in America, they bury us, with our cars."
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I agree, I love thinking about the journeys that these objects made, like the Roman coins that ended up in a 12th century Japanese castle. [1]

There were a handful of individuals who made similar trips though - aside from the famous ones like Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta, there's also a few envoys sent on behalf of the Franco-Mongol alliance.[2]

Or the Spaniards who went to the court of Timur: “Timour Beg turned to the knights who had seated around him… and said, ‘Behold! here are the ambassadors sent by my son the king of Spain, who is the greatest king of the Franks, and lives at the end of the world.’” [3]

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/28/495821834...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Mongol_alliance

[3] https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-spaniard-in-samark...
There's probably a profitable business model in selling a cheap movie pass that lets you watch all you want Monday through Wednesday. Movie theaters would go for a bulk buy for their dead days.
How does a train that has 3 stops in south Florida going to solve the problem? People will still need to move east/west. At least tri rail has more stops, so you don't need to move north/south as much. Additionally Brightline schedule is showing a train every 2 hours. I don't believe their target audience is commuters, but people flying into MIA and stopping in Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach or Orlando - or vice versa, from Orlando to down south.
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Congress' latest move to extend copyright protection is misguided
Definitely a great resource, but (thankfully) it's almost completely redundant in a lot of fields. I'm willing to bet almost no one in my department has ever actually used it, or even heard of it, thanks to preprint servers like arXiv where almost everyone publishes their work for free on their own (usually either before or after publishing in a real journal, but some subfields have taken to exclusively publishing there).

I think fields outside of physics and math have caught on recently; there's now a bioRXiv, PsyArXiv, and ChemRxiv. That last one, kind of surprisingly, is actually co-owned and run by ACS and RSC, two of the largest chemistry publishing companies (who, iirc, had some weird terms that initially made some people weary about using preprints at all when publishing in their journals). Hopefully more publishers can follow suit and support open access across more fields.
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Perhaps it helps that there’s a lot of undeveloped land in Florida: this is also roughly the model that The Villages (massive retirement community in north-central Florida) uses.

The developer builds and sells the homes but retains the town centers and thus makes money on leasing retail and restaurants.
I really hope they succeeded. Imagine if one day we had rail from Orlando up to Atlanta, and then on to Chattanooga, Nashville? ... I think once we saw really good high speed systems, Americans would demand more.

Florida and California are the two hot spots right now that really need to succeed. I don't think I'll see real high speed rail expansion in the US before (if) I reach retirement age, but I think it will greatly benefit the next generation. But for that to happen, it needs a lot of support to expand now.
Were they to help you, would that person not be opening themselves up to >avg legal harm?
Paywalls are a totally evil thing. It hinders human progress will providing benefits only to a small amount of parasites.
Thanks! Uploaded as binary to https://lab.brainonfire.net/drop/delete-after/20180630/scihu... and currently seeding.
I don't think the idea of selling advertising is very good for MoviePass, as in suggestions on what to watch or where to eat, etc. They could have some success with different tiers of service and letting the studios pay to have their movie in a cheaper tier - like a Bronze package at $10/mo that only gives access to movies where studios have paid them X and people have to play a higher rate for Silver, etc. to recoup the cost of seeing movies they would take a loss on. That could make some sense since studios have turned many movies into advertisements for merchandise.
The US Needs an Artificial Intelligence Strategy
Why are people breaking copyright law, instead of questioning the researchers who voluntarily approach the journals? Why not ask the researchers if they'd consider sharing their work? Or convince them of an alternative means of publication.

There is no one-handed clap.
RF SOI Wars Begin
This is my experience in political science as well.

Poli sci is starting to get some really good repositories of data (replication is something we actually care about), but for a long time common practice has been to post your paper on your own site. Nobody is going to stop you.

Ex.

https://sites.google.com/site/brynrosenfeld/research

These are a number of articles in major journals which if you go through Wiley are closed access, but a quick search will bring it up. The only reason that doesn't happen is the author doesn't want to do it, which is detrimental to them because their research isn't promulgated as easily.

This stuff tends to be working itself out outside of SciHub, it's just the most visible route (probably because the approach is so newsworthy, being illegal and taking on big interests).
I buy a soda, and bring a friend with my extra pass and they usually get a large popcorn. Very happy with it. I've seen tons of good movies I wouldn't have seen with friends that I wouldn't have seen.
These stories pop up on a regular basis. Someone from Google eventually reaches out and fixes it because of all the publicity. Meanwhile, the policy (which is insane, and compounded by the difficulty of reaching a human at Google support) never changes.
The Elm compiler is written in Haskell.
The problem isn't the lack of assets, it's being heavily dependent financially on other risky companies. This is part of what happened in the dot-com bust -- lots of media properties went under because their advertising portfolio depended heavily on splashy advertising buys from well-funded startups, so when the startups failed and the ads suddenly stopped coming, those publications' balance sheets rather suddenly went from boom to bankruptcy.

To apply to this case: WeWork's services are aimed very heavily at startups, small design/creative operations and solo operators, all of whom could easily be floating at the moment upon the same bubble. If that bubble were to burst, those customers would vanish and WeWork would be in a heap of trouble.
Sorry for the late reply, but I agree the idea is interesting, but for me it comes off the same way intelligent design or creationism comes off, almost as a God of the gaps type mentality. Because if life is seeded from elsewhere, it's essentially placing it's origin into infinity, and kind of hand waving away the need to dig further.
Not that I'm saying we should philosophically determine where we want the evidence to go, but usually the idea is based on so much conjecture and leads to the same result practically that it just seems like a secular way of dismissing the search based on the evidence we do have.

Granted, we have no idea what discoveries and scientific advancements are going to come in the near to distant future, but while I think the question is worth considering, it seems pretty weird for some scientists to accept this conjecture, but randomly eliminate others.

To each his own I guess, but this probably is more about my own distaste for the line of thinking (that, and the whole "we're in a simulation" hypothesis), where it kicks the question off into a place where we'll probably never be able to answer it.
Though as far as fun discussion and speculating as entertainment, that is where I find the ideas most enjoyable, personally :)
Get Sinemia. It's MoviePass but better (you can buy tickets online with it.)

But probably even closer to insolvency. I love it though.
Are there a lot of private trains in Sydney? Melbourne has the regional V-lines, but other than that, I think it's the iter-city touristy rail lines (i.e. The Overland to Adelaide).

Sydney to Melbourne was the most traveled air route in the world at one point. There really needs to be a high speed line between the through via the ACT. They could have probably built one with the money the wasted on Myki.
Historical note: Miami owes its founding to Julia Tuttle's successful sales pitch to a railroad company.

> Julia Tuttle, a local landowner, convinced Henry Flagler, a railroad tycoon, to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami. On July 28, 1896, Miami was officially incorporated as a city with a population of just over 300.

> Julia DeForest Tuttle was an American businesswoman who was largely responsible for, and the original owner of, the land upon which Miami, Florida, was built. For this reason, she is called the "Mother of Miami".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Miami

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Tuttle
I turned to Erlang a few years ago as I wanted to experiment with more exotic languages. Then I discovered Elixir and never looked back. It’s a truly enjoyable, expressive and productive language. I highly recommend it.
My point is that you can achieve many of the same benefits of microservices within a single app (or "vm" in erlang terms).

So you get isolation (beam processes), decoupling (message passing) and resilience (supervisors) without having to deploy and maintain N different apps and the pain points that come with that (monitoring, discovery, integration testing, debugging, ...)

Our company has other systems, in other languages, and a pretty involved deployment process (docker+nomad) so our deploys are pretty specific to that. But, I can tell you that as a developer, having only a few "apps" that internally have hundreds of services, has more or less freed us up of having to worry about any of that cognitive (and performance) overhead.
But are they feeling threatened? On a luxury and quality scale there is absolutely no comparison between even a fully loaded Model S and an entry-level German car from a luxury brand. Tesla can do very well with people who think they are "better for the planet" but they have ways to go before they can compete with a proper car in Model S' price range. And it is not exactly a given that Tesla can figure out how to make a car, on scale, with a better build quality than a Yugo, before Daimler/BMW/VW can figure out how to build a fully electric vehicle that can actually be sold at profit.
Would you mind detailing how they have oppressed you? AFAICT they haven't forced anyone at gunpoint to do anything..
Top speed on i95 also hits 80mph-95mph, not during rush hour
It seems that you, and most of the people who have replied to you, would rather live in a world where people don’t spend capital on taking risks that potentially move the world forward.

What are you doing on Y Combinator’s news site? And how have these sort of opinions become popular, the norm on here? I’m so confused.
Value Type Hygiene
There is a very very simple fix for this. Convince the researchers to either self-publish or use a non-paywalled publication/journal.
My biggest reason for not using 1Password, Lastpass, etc, is that they are all walled gardens. If any go under, you lose the service and everything locked away in it. Since they're based on proprietary shit, it is lost for good.

That's way bigger (and simpler to understand), to me, than the corporate drama that the author drums up to justify ditching it.
One bad support rep interaction doesn't sink the security model of the company.

If they were lying in their documentation, or the software itself, that would be a different story.
Do product PMs get paid lesser than senior engineers?
Agreed. This just reads like a bad rant.