skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks!

You make a really good point on privacy - insurance is a trust business and managing this right is really important. We delete Dec pages w/in 30 days (we don't need to keep them past giving you the advice), so that's a start and something we don't mention on the site but should. We also never expose user data, or show you what you've uploaded.

Unfortunately though to get insurance advice, property details are pretty important, and if you are concerned with your Liability coverage net worth is pretty important for a service to know too. What we don't need are names - actually people could black out that personal info (even address) and it would be fine!
The liquid ocean of Ganymede is separated from the rocky core by a thick layer of ice which makes it less likely that there is the necessary chemistry to support life.
I think that social media must necessarily follow
the forest fire model,

I think that's partly a function of how the business is financed.

Most social media sites can't do a good job about harassment because anyone banned or blocked can trivially open a new account. And the sites feel they _have_ to make it trivially easy to open an account, because user growth is king if you want funding.

A site where you could only create an account with a $5 donation and an original 300-word essay on how you'd contribute positively to the community would be much less likely to be raided by griefers.
The book.

Apologies, you are right, should have been clearer. I think the other comments at the time were also about the book, not the article.
At the scale of Alphabet, $1.25B about 1% of of 2017 revenue and about 5% of operating income. [1] Alphabet isn't betting the future on it. Relative to the automotive industry sixty thousand vehicles in 2018 compares to about 100,000,000 vehicles worldwide per year. [2] Compared to the number of cars in my driveway and the balance of my checking account, the numbers are big. At industrial scale, they are small. If all 60k vehicles were registered in California, it would look like rounding error on the 36,000,000 vehicles registered there. [3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry#By_year

[3] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/5aa16cd3-39a5-402f...
You bought a network enabled sous-vide machine?
Actually I think I apologised too soon, looking at @ritchiea's posts and web site I reckon I was right on the mark.
I think the terminology you are looking for (or at least that you could use that might trigger people to accurately infer what you are trying to express), is that search and crawling are the foundation of everything google has built, in multiple aspects.

In one aspect, it was literally their beginning, from which they were able to build a business and expand.

In another, much more on point aspect, it underlies the majority of their services, either directly of a few steps removed.

Like the foundation of a house, it may not always be the most visible aspect, and it may be taken for granted, but its contribution to the integrity of the whole can't be underestimated.
The Not-So-Dark Art of Designing Database Indexes: Reflections from an Engineer
To be honest you're not missing out on many good stories by not playing video games. Video games are generally a terrible way to tell a story.
I didn't think it was rude.
That's how it was always going to end up. You can't reduce the money going into TV from ~$60 a customer to $10 a customer and expect the same content quality.

Netflix had a relatively brief moment in the sun where they could buy lots of content cheap because streaming was add on revenue to the production companies. That's not going to keep happening for much longer.

IMHO, I think we will end up back to a cable like situation. It doesn't make sense to pay two middlemen for access to content. In other words, I don't want to pay Comcast and Netflix to deliver Disney's content. Eventually, we will end up with ISPs providing access to a handful of streaming services each with their own exclusive content.

Packages will also come back because they make economic sense. Ultimately, the NBA, NFL, MLB, NCAA, et al will get more money from a streaming sports package than trying to sell individual streaming services.
But that's not the case (at least not on iOS). Even if CoolApp has been removed from sale, you can download it on your new phone from your purchase history. The only exceptions to this are technical limitations on the old app that render it incompatible with the new phone such as 32 vs 64 bit, deprecated APIs, etc.
"Also, as someone who used to be heavily into protein, I don't buy the notion that people need more protein than what they are currently getting. A human body really doesn't need that much protein, and even body builders don't need as much protein as they often consume. If someone is telling you that you need to consume protein, it's probably because they're trying to sell you something. Even more so if they are calling it a "super-food"."

Totally agree. Most people need more exercise, not more protein. Maybe once they exercise 6x a week for 2 hours we should think about getting more protein.
I assume you are trolling, but in case someone misses your user name: To say that the director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab for ten years and the founder of the a successful AI workstation company and the most successful robotics company in the world "has a history of skepticism about AI" is idiotic.
Just wanted to thank the VSCode team for this fantastic editor, recently discovered it and has become my daily driver.
Keep up the excellent work!
If CoolApp was a 32 bit app. You wouldn't be able to use it post iOS 10.
Re "It seems unlikely that they are just that stupid to spend that much money without being confident that their plan will work."

Motorola?
restore purchase is actually required in all apps which have in-app purchases.
These are great!

I'm impressed with the testing approach.

Is anyone aware of similar articles/explanations of the JVM runtime and JIT?
Man, I bet it's even higher than 70%.

I was in the hospital in February, and I asked the nurse how much it would cost to drain a subungual hematoma. Nobody knew!

Maybe it would've been free; maybe it would've cost $1,000 - it definitely doesn't feel good to decline a procedure because you have no idea how much it'll cost.
>Having worked at a YC-backed alternative to payday lender (https://www.//lendup.com) and having spent a lot of the time in the call center listening to our customers, I'd suggest that a lender to folks without access to credit can have much more impact than you could possibly imagine. Being able to instantly inject $500 into the bank account of someone that needed it for a car repair or they'd lose their job when they couldn't get it elsewhere was only one of the many, many examples. Now multiply that by hundreds of thousands of customers, and the impact is not trivial by any measure.

This is exactly the mindless "head-in-ass" crap the OP was talking about. You're not helping that person by lending them $500 at 400%+ APR [0]. You are trapping them into a debt cycle they will most likely never recover from until default. Subprime lending is a predatory practice which has been around forever, no matter how you flip it. It is legal under our system though, so you're more than welcome to do it and profit from people's financial ignorance. Just don't try to pretend like you're helping anybody.

[0] https://www.lendup.com/rates-and-notices
Edit: Oh ho ho. I missed that "Next Generation of Programmers" is in the title. I think it's a pretty misleading title. I think Kotlin just makes places where java is required less painful.

You mean like Rust, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, etc?

I don't think Kotlin is aimed at the Next Generation of programmers. I think it's squarely aimed at "We Have A Big App In Java" or "It's This Or Java" programmers. The other bits that don't seem related (the typescript support, the native support), support that because it reduces code duplication. Why write things twice (once in Kotlin, once it java), when you could just write things once, in Kotlin.

Don't get me wrong, they are sanding down a lot of rough corners; but ultimately their explicit goal of really nice java interop limits them. But their goals isn't to be for the Next Generation of programmers, it's to be for java programers.
Our projects put all one off scripts in a ./sbin directory (organized as one sees fit, task-sub-dir, user-sub-dir).
And each script follows a specific header. It's discovered by both Doxygen and when we grep the code base.
Something about functions in Bash (2017)
I not only climbed trees as a kid, I opened doors with my feet well into my teens. I miss being in the kind of shape that would allow me to use a foot as a third hand while my arms are full or whatever. Sadly, I'm old, fat and ugly.

(I mean...um, old, fat, and less spry?)
Sorry, but the title says "Open distributed protocol for pub sub communication", the only buzzword missing is "federation", which is by the way not used in the proposal.

The difference between a proposal like ActivityPub and something like WebSub is that ActivityPub solves an actual problem of social network monopoly.

The first products that come up with ActivityPub are free (Mastodon), while the products presented in this thread makes money from that protocol. In my opinion, it's sketchy.
> What I’d do is just get a pihole and get a tv ad blocklist and you should be fine.

But that's still giving money to the dirtbag company...
This idea is terrible. Chitin, the sugar in bug exoskeletons, activates the innate human immune system. Switching out our proteins with bugs would surely cause a rise in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitin#Humans_and_other_mammal...
> But having good social skills confers life-long benefits. So, don't write them off. Get good at making a good first impression, being funny (if possible... this author still working on it...), speaking publicly.

I would be careful with this point. Young people who don't have great social skills already tend to feel that they are somehow missing out on something important. But those who have good social skills in our culture will have a hard time forming new and unique ideas, and will often get talked into believing big, fundamental ideas that are wrong or crazy. I'd compare it to being a smoker in the 1960s. In exchange for being cooler, you suffer irreducible risk, that is made more dangerous by the fact that few people realize it's there. Until our culture changes, it's probably better to encourage people to learn about human nature than about "social skills".
The New York Times Comes Out Against Free Speech
IIRC this book was difficult/boring so I haven't read it yet, but I remember that I bought it because this article that mentioned it was quite exciting:

You do realize that John von Neumann spent the last 10 years of his life singlehandedly developing a theory of computing based on cellular automata? The computer you're reading this blog rant on was his frigging prototype! He was going to throw it out and make a better one! And then he died of cancer, just like my brother Dave did, just like so many people with so much more to give and so much more life to live. And we're not making headway on cancer, either, because our computers and languages are such miserable crap.

Source: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/moores-law-is-crap.h...
> Simple teleology defeats it, in the sense that everyone who holds this view will probably die childless, and will not be very successful at spreading their views generationally.

This is very silly, it plainly conflates truth and popularity.

> As for the animals - hey, I said I want them treated decently.

Suggests "decent" treatment of animals is preferable to "indecent" treatment; this is broadly accepted.

> I don't extend them the same courtesies as I extend to humans because they're not human

Suggests animals/animal suffering are/is of less moral importance than humans/human suffering. This is also broadly accepted.

> I don't shed a tear for their deaths because to do so is to anthropomorphize them, a quintessentially childish way of viewing the world.

Suggests anthropomorphisation of animals is undesirable because it is stereotypically childish; childishness is bad. Seems like quite a silly argument, kids are also fond of breathing etc.

> Said animal wouldn't exist otherwise, and could not benefit from not existing, so the potential for benefit is always higher on the existence side, even if the probability is very low - it's still higher than a guaranteed 0.

You care about the expectation, not the "potential for benefit".

In any case, the way in which you've presented these ideas suggests that you're a consequentialist maximiser (eg think that it's the outcomes of actions/choices/rules that matter, and that there exists some partial order of the desirability of possible worlds). I'd suggest that if you keep thinking about animal welfare and how to balance the lives and living conditions of animals against your own social and dietary needs, you may well decide that you want to reduce your meat intake. Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation" is fairly classic, "The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe
"[0] is much more general but pretty great.

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10677-015-9567-7
Beijing subway is awful!?...
> MegaUpload did seem like it was brazenly profiting off of other people's intellectual property.

As much as US propaganda would like us to see it as a lame technicality, there is a very important distinction here: Megaupload was not directly profiting from copyright infringement, they were profiting by being a place for copyright infringement.

The reason they were so successful is that there wasn't a competing service in that niche other than BitTorrent.

Megaupload just hosted files. They are seen as some evil copyright-infringing business simply because they didn't actively filter those files. They considered the content of their users' data to be none of their business. I think it's ludicrous to prosecute them for such reasonable behavior.
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California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online
wordperfect
To some extent for Big Tobacco this might be like BP hedging on solar power. Nicotine is still best extracted from the tobacco plant. I doubt they'll fight vaping forever.

What I see is people foolishly fighting the last war. Today's adults have been trained since early life on the evils of smoking and nicotine addiction and vice. We have this narrative of Big Tobacco pushing a product they claimed was safe and which was not. There are all these programmed mental circuits saying "if you don't like smoking, you should be suspicious of vaping."

And so at the beginning of vaping there was a lot of FUD about popcorn lung. Now there's FUD about kids getting hooked on Juul. Everybody's looking for the catch because last time there was a catch.

A future in which 20% of the population is forever hooked on vaping nicotine and no cigarettes are sold is a utopia compared to what we have now. Instead of embracing that future we have the anti-tobacco activists spreading alarm about vaping and all the old smoking laws being expanded to cover an activity that doesn't justify the ostracism.

I've never smoked or vaped and the laws have no effect on me. For a brief period I saw smokers switching when they could vape indoors. That advantage is disappearing.

We're missing a chance to kill cigarettes in the developed world. We should embrace the viral appeal of the vape fad before they become just another nicotine delivery device. We could save millions of lives.
Many Native American tribes practiced land fishing, where long nets were strung out and left for a day to catch grasshoppers and whatever else got stuck in them. I'm having trouble finding links though:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-eating-bugs...

http://www.hollowtop.com/finl_html/amerindians.htm

http://labs.russell.wisc.edu/insectsasfood/files/2012/09/Boo... <- warning PDF

"En'neh, or grasshoppers, are eaten by the Konkau. They catch them with nets, or by driving them into pits, then roast them and reduce them to powder for preservation."

You can live very well off the land (even in deserts) if you are willing to eat insects, because their combined mass can be higher than the visible wildlife. Ethically if I had to choose between hunting and butchering animals or having more food than I could handle from passively-caught grasshoppers, I might choose the latter!
>There's a discussion in GEB about mystery/detective novels, and how the physical fact of seeing that you're near the end of the book leaks information about the state of the plot to you.

I noticed this when watching mystery tv shows. When I find myself wondering "wait is this the real culprit?" I just look at how much time is left till the ending...
Journalism Is Not Activism
All software can compile down into mathematical expressions, logical branches and conditionals. That doesn't mean AI is limited to "Hello World" and FizzBuzz.
A bit more about the company behind this:

LiquidChain was founded last year in Zurich. It's a licensed financial intermediary, and a member of the Financial Services Standards Association (VQF) in Switzerland. Its main focus is making cryptocurrency microtransactions a feasible reality.
It's this kind of bland ubiquity that is what the Soviet Union was all about.

I'm not saying the Soviet experience was great, but that the modern American experience of the same shit, the same stores, the same everything everywhere you go is bordering on absurd.

America is a handful of mergers away from having one cable company, one telephone company, one media company, one film production company.

That's not a good look.
That is an incredibly disempowering opinion. Is there any practical value to leading one's life in accordance with such a philosophy?

>The answer: Get incredibly lucky;

Does a human have no agency in which to improve their odds?

>Douglass learned to read with help from his master's wife when such was significantly frowned on and (IIRC) illegal.

Indeed today educating oneself is frowned upon by many in the black community, those who do are often referred to as "white" or "uncle toms". Does that mean one should refrain from it?

>Respond to disagreeable situations violently ("After Douglass won a physical confrontation, Covey [a poor farmer who had a reputation as a "slave-breaker"] never tried to beat him again"). Commit crimes; Douglass attempted to escape repeatedly.

"Disagreeable" is incredibly euphemistic and dishonest characterization of slave-breaking camps. Should human beings not rebel when being tortured and enslaved?

"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all." -MLK
So a summary of general tips for learning would be:

- Spaced learning (shorter learning sessions with breaks)

- Interleaved learning (mixing different to-be-learned materials, instead of focusing on a single topic or subject for longer periods)

- Trying to organize the learning material in such a way that the new material builds on the earlier acquired knowledge, which forces recalling and reinforces the earlier acquired knowledge

Anything else?

EDIT: format
Are you saying it was worse when Indians scalped settlers than when settlers scalped Indians?
"(even address)"

I thought geography factored into deciding premiums since different areas had different risks of specific events that would lead to an insurance payout. Does what you all are doing simply not need that? Or are you saying that analysis can be left off if they desire for privacy?

Edit: Thanks for the info!
Thanks - and good luck with your renters insurance search. You're right we don't currently give advice for comparing through the tool - but I've written about it on our blog, and have a even more low tech comparison tool there (google sheet!). https://blog.goodcover.com/save-time-and-buy-home-condo-rent...

Hopefully that could help you out in the mean time.

Regarding returning unclaimed premium - good question. The way insurers make money is by 1) collecting premiums and holding on to them, generating some interest, and 2) keeping more premium than they need to pay out in losses and expenses, which is called "Underwriting Profit."

Typically Home/Renters insurance is written in such a way that a company tries to keep 5-15% of premiums as Underwriting Profit.

We think that the conflict over underwriting profit is at the heart of why the insurance experience is bad - there's not much incentive in improving a user experience that you don't want users to use... So we want to give that 5-15% back in the good years where we don't need it to pay claims. So, what you would see is a dividend at the end of the insurance year. It's not going to be much, but it is "putting our money where our mouth is" on our commitment to policyholders.

Turns out that's really hard to do legally and financially - mutual insurers would technically do this, but starting one is a hugely capital intensive process. We're on the path, and hope to be able to share more about the process soon!
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/086.pdf
yeah, a tram for one or a few passengers that can go off the rails for the final quarter mile
On HN we judge things by the article, not by the outlet, and certainly not by the lousiest thing an outlet published. Our cupboards would be pretty bare if we did that.
Heh... see, it was the distant past, fading from my memory. You're absolutely right. The machine in question was an early pentium box as I recall, and the fastest machine I'd ever used at the time.
So basically, this is IRC, but the initial authors were removed, and the whole thing is less efficient because it runs over HTTP.

At some point you have to go outside of the HTTP world and look for what already exists rather than reinventing the wheel.

Does it solve news delivery ? RSS do that already.

Does it solve instant notification and presence notification? Lower protocols already do that with lower overhead.
Massachusetts man develops oil burner that runs on vegetable oil
Wow! I had to implement a small 3 layer network in C for a class, and it was interesting. It was a ton of work though, but I learnt a lot.

Will go through the source code for the kicks. Thanks!
Geography is important, but your specific street address isn't required for this tool. And really, most insurance pricing is done at a higher level than street address (zip, or insurer-defined territories) so actually it is one of the last bits of info needed. For rough advice as this gives, we don't need it.
We[0] are currently raising Series A and are based in China. Notes from our experience to date:

(1) Very few VCs here speak fluent English. I have had to pitch in Mandarin many times, even to partners at local branches of leading international firms.

(2) Many mainland VC firms now run USD denominated funds, some are explicitly looking out of China, especially to Southeast Asia.

(3) A great place to be for VC next week is RISE in Hong Kong, http://riseconf.com/ ... please reach out with an email if you are attending.

(4) Many companies here seem open to partnership deals. I suspect that non-equity sources of funding may have a greater influence here than elsewhere.

(5) An environment of extreme capital availability combined with a huge largely homogeneously regulated market definitely affects business model and growth strategy. It would be interesting to see aggregate research in this space.

[0] http://infinite-food.com