skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously you never tried getting private insurance that covers pregnancy pre-ACA. Always a separate rider, always expensive. Whoopsie if you didn't catch that fact, failed to get a separate rider, then went on to have pregnancy complication. Hello bankruptcy! Hell, even with the pregnancy rider, a complicated pregnancy put a lot of insured people into the poorhouse.
Generally it is. It's "become a manager or get out".

Like everything there are exceptions but you and I are probably not the exception.
There are also optimistic results for batteries, because li-ion batteries do not and never have used rare earth elements. Cobalt and nickel are not rare earth elements and as other people have pointed out the global resources of both are far higher than the article suggests.

You probably have difficulty looking up alternatives to batteries with rare earth elements because the only sites that say they have rare earth elements have negative knowledge about the subject.
Weaponizing customer data like that would literally be illegal in the EU, so doesn't seem like the best plan...

Other ideas might work!
No, because it's far cheaper to mine it. As mentioned above, you've been fooled by the name of the technology and are looking at the wrong part of the periodic table.
Were you running any of their cloud servers? If so what were you doing on there?

Were you storing files? If so what kind of files.

You might find there's some kind of activity you've been doing but thought was ok, or you were storing files which got flagged for porn or copyright.
Thanks, Evi. You were kind to me when I was very young and very stupid.
I confess to having a certain fondness for reading into the secretive nature of Chinese perception operations.

How does one efficiently solve this problem however? If we, in a case like the pro-china counterprotest described in the article, decide to nab the guys off the street on counts of suspected espionage what is the repercussion we should all fear? Bad press? Chinese students and engineers pulling out of the US tech sector? While I feel terribly conflicted about a government that exerts such fear on their people as someone who wants to believe in the individuality of a person, surely the repercussions of countering Chinese espionage aren't any worse than say...investigating Russian social media influence?
I would like to see a library drone delivery program. I can already order a book from almost any library in the state and have it delivered to the local one. Having a drone take it the rest of the way is the next logical step. That would also help with accessibility for people who can't get to the library.
Thank you, very much! I used to be absurdly terrible at this and get into absurd internet arguments, so I've been trying to speak more like my neuro adviser when I have to discuss the subject. She says she still gets heaps of pushback when she tries to speak against "brains are made of modular blobs" theories, in no small part thanks to plain sexism.
Also, where does that sudden inspiration come from? It must be a function of the brain state just before it, unless you subscribe to some sort of magical Cartesian duality.
Exactly. These giant companies should really only be used as interchangeable infrastructure. I have my own personal domain. At the moment, I use Google to handle my mail. If they no longer want me as a customer, I'll update my domain's MX records and move to another company.
Is it really Silicon Valley disruption? It was just a Forbes writer who suggested it.
You have any proof to back up this claim? My hunch is that the heaviest movie pass users were already heavy movie goers.
But it's clickbait, and that's against HN guidelines.

I wasn't a sysadmin in the 90s, and I remember this stuff. Are we _really_ supposed to believe that _only_ 90s sysadmins remember the items on this listicle? That makes it an inaccurate headline, and clickbait. Titles are frequently changed here by the admins, and I don't see why this one wouldn't be changed.

It doesn't matter if this is intended to emulate a Buzzfeed-style headline; that's not clever, and makes the submission inaccurate.
although I can see how this can be abused. Imagine if I create 10000+ spam Facebook accounts and they all get disabled, am I entitled to a written explanation for why each account got disabled?
The thesis of this article (that the brain can't multiprocess because neurons are all interconnected) is presented without evidence or any elaboration. It's not hard to imagine that brain has a way to maintain the integrity of multiple distinct thoughts at once, even though they're all running on the same hardware network.
Anecdata: I don't use Twitter much, but people do send links to me occasionally. Ones from my conservative friends often go to "You are rate limited, please try again" or fail to load. Ones from my liberal friends almost never do.
> "help, I'm being detained in Paris!" "I was mugged and need a passport!"

And they conveniently let you keep your 1000$ iPhone ;). But these are all situations where I could just make a regular call with my dumb phone as well. Sure roaming costs will kick in, but that's even worse for data. My current provider charges 2€/min for calls outside the EU and 1€ per 50kb (yes that's not a typo). In all seriousness though, sure, there's always situations where having a smartphone is beneficial, I won't deny that. Especially working in tech it might even be that suddenly shit hits the fan at your company and you'd desperately take a wonky ssh connection on a bus ride since every seconds counts.

And if you really have that level of self control, as the OP of this discussion suggests, that you won't distract yourself more than you actually benefit than that's fine. I found myself barely managing to do that and switched to a dumb phone again in 2015ish. On trains and buses I'd mindlessly skim through HN or reddit or random tech sites, I eventually configured my work mail on my phone since sometimes it's more convenient, but then found myself reading mails in the evening during family time etc. Most colleagues confirm that they have similar patterns, but they're almost all single or childless so they probably don't care that much.

I still use it occasionally on the go and frequently at home as a laptop replacement when I'm just about to catch up on the news or post on HN. But I pretty much wiped all apps except the browser. I could not manage to do that when I used it as my main phone for almost 2 years.
I'm a HUGE fan of libraries, but it seems this article is really underscoring a need for better homeless shelters and community centers. Personally, I'm in favor of my tax money going towards both.

Libraries, on the surface, are about providing access to knowledge and tools. But by their nature they also provide sanctuary – in a similar way to a church or temple. They're quiet, often beautiful, inviting... Those qualities are why you can't just digitize the experience.
In my mind moviepass is proof that the current pricing of tickets is too high. 5M people were willing to fork over $300M a year in subscription fees to go pay likely $20+/visit in concessions ($1.2B if they only go 1x a month).

Moviepass plan was to control as much leverage as they could in relation to the movie industry as quickly as possible. Betting they could borrow against this growth. They started producing their own films and doing all sorts of things to own that chunk of the ecosystem.
Those scanners made Level3 Systems and other government contractors billions of dollars, so you just pipe down, citizen!
Not saying it’s a good strategy but amazon seems to have done/is doing something similar. Each purchase is a loss when shipping is taken into account. But if the bleeding is slow enough the created ingress can be enough to shift the landscape so that there are new opportunities. Cultural lockin followed by price increases is a typical one.

Like the hub and spoke model of pizza shops. Basically bet that spoke opportunities will appear if the hub is engaging enough.
The vanilla equivalent of:

$(document).on("click", "#foo", function(){...});

is:

document.addEventListener('click', function (ev) {
if (ev.target.matches('#foo')) {

}
});

The advantage is that #foo can come and go (after page load be injected and removed and injected again, but the event listener must be registered just once.

Since the example is an ID (#foo) the advantage is less obvious. Something like a class (.foo) makes it clearer that there could be many, and it could get expensive to attach an event handler to each one --- though I'm guessing it takes hundreds before it becomes a big deal. But again, .foo's can come and go without having to worry about reattaching the event handler.

P. S. My library, https://github.com/combatentropy/listenup.js (31 lines)
http://www.sediment.uni-goettingen.de/staff/dunkl/zips/The-M... The Murderer, by Ray Bradbury.

It's one of those talking, singing, humming, weather-reporting, poetry-reading, novel-reciting, jingle-jangling, rockaby-crooning-when-you-go-to-bed houses... With stoves that say, 'I'm apricot pie, and I'm done,' or 'I'm prime roast beef, so baste me!' and other nursery gibberish like that... A house that barely tolerates humans, I tell you.
Do you have any recommendations for tools for this?
I'd add "...and know how to use it."

Immersed as we are in it, I think people forget that the internet is a skill. Finding things and filtering the results is the result of experience.
I honestly disagree. When Bjarne writes a paper [0] saying how C++ is going the crumble under the weight of disparate and incoherent features then the language and its wider community has a problem.

To quote:

The foundation begun in C++11 is not yet complete, and C++17 did little
to make our foundation more solid, regular, and complete. Instead, it added
significant surface complexity and increased the number of features people
need to learn. C++ could crumble under the weight of these – mostly not
quite fully-baked – proposals.

[0] http://www.stroustrup.com/P0977-remember-the-vasa.pdf
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What garbage. I can't even make sense of the author's point, it's so diluted with random asides and free-association tangents (poincare, etc).

Perhaps we should start by defining terms. What is "unconscious," and what is "thought." Depending on how you define that, visual processing, dreaming, operant-conditioning, all fall into that category.

There is also strong peer-reviewed evidence that our mind is constantly reviewing what we have just learned, and interrupting this will inhibit our learning. Perhaps the author should discuss that [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference_theory#Retroactiv...
Yeah, this is like saying that CPUs can’t truly multiprocess because cores can share memory
Someone who has a) been committing financial crimes and b) finds their funds frozen will probably be able to connect the dots.

If they're barred by law from saying why, fine. If not, they should have to provide at least some reason, and a way to appeal.
It is an anecdotal response to your first point, but since you didn't place a threshold I'll say it anyway.

I have two friends who I'd describe as average theatre goers. Maybe a movie every 2 - 3 months. Since using MoviePass they both average about two movies a month during 2018. I am not sure how sustained that behavior will be, but at atleast in this early stage it is lasting.

As for the second point, he is arguing they never sell the ticket once. AMC does not get the money if the subscriber does not attend the film. So by fighting with MoviePass (as they have been), they never sell the ticket once.
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I sympathize with the author. My nonprofit is working with our local library to provide coding bootcamp for anyone who wants to learn (for free). We've been piloting for 3 months in San Jose and the whole experience has been very eyeopening to me.

One of our students, Mani, couldn't afford a laptop. He would go to the library when it opens to work on a website and hopes that he could one day make ad revenue. He was able to find books, borrow a laptop, and learn by himself. There are many people like him who finds solace in the library because it is one of the few places left that doesn't try to sell you something. At the library, they feel welcome.

In the past 3 months I've seen more diversity than I have ever seen in my career at Silicon Valley. People of all races and all walks of life come to learn and it was an amazing sight watching college students learn and teach alongside with adults making a career switch.

I love the library and what it represents: A non judgemental place that welcomes everybody to come learn. It would break my heart to see it become part of an organization that optimizes for profit margins. Here's the webarchive link to the original Forbes article: https://web.archive.org/web/20180722160053/https://www.forbe...
Poincaré and Hindemith cannot possibly be right. If they are spending their days actively thinking about other things, their brains are not unobtrusively solving deep mathematical problems or composing complex pieces of music, perhaps over days or weeks, only to reveal the results in a sudden flash.

No, the brain is reconfiguring itself during REM sleep to be more able to solve the sort of problem that you had been working on. It doesn't happen when you're thinking about other things, particularly. There's a ton of research relating REM sleep to improved skill at problem solving and Poincaré was certainly sleeping on the problems he was trying to solve.
Some libraries do in fact employ social workers (if memory serves San Francisco’s library is one). The primary purpose of libraries is not to serve as a community center, but we often end up as magnets for chronic homeless and addict populations because we are in many communities the only place where you can go and not have to buy something to be there.
But I did not make an "overarching indictment" based on a requirements-feature misalignment. That was just the starting point for taking a closer look.

Do your analysis of the users permissions design of that software and ask yourself how would you do that or compare to other systems and you will understand what I mean.

Also I was writing about unnecessary limitations possibly introduced by framework usage - and this was just a friday afternoon virtual water cooler talk, certainly not a scientific thesis. And certainly I do not want to go for war about it with anyone, that was just a little reminder for younger programmers to never stop asking questions about the tools they use.

Have a nice weekend!
Not sure why you would think that, it also works the same in C/C++ world.
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Not in the United States - but it is my understanding that AIDS is common in heterosexual people in areas hardest hit, like sub-Saharan Africa. Some countries have infections as high as 20%, which seems very likely to include more straight people than gay people.

The United States only has a fraction of the world's HIV or AIDS cases, so it seems plausible that worldwide straight people could still represent the majority of cases.

It does seem difficult to get reliable estimates outside the US & Europe, though.
Yes. I refuse to go to Windows 10 because of that sort of thing, but some day, Windows 7 will no longer be usable. Running my Android phone without a Google account keeps getting tougher with each update. The jaws are closing.

Of course, Linux has a different set of problems. I just spent most of a day getting audio to work again on Linux after accidentally turning on HDMI audio. This is the 16-step procedure for fixing "no sound" problems in Ubuntu Linux.[1] It's a cut and paste of ten years of hacks for fixing sound problems.

(I took a stab at writing a sane audio troubleshooting procedure.[2] It doesn't have to be that awful.)

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProced...

[2] https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2397280
Sure, why not? An automated form reply stating "Your account was blocked for the following spam posts" with a way to appeal false positives.

You might even require a $5 bond to appeal or something, to prevent spurious appeals.
But since we have progressive taxation, does the moral duty still exist?

Personally, I don't think it's just the super rich that have a moral imperative to give to philanthropic causes; it's everyone, though the amounts increase as your income does, much like progressive taxation.
My wife's father has been checking out audiobooks from the library to keep his mind sharp even though his eyesight isn't what it used to be.
Did you have pirated material in OneDrive? Did you pirate Windows, Office, or any other Microsoft software?

I'm thinking content scanning or Microsoft Account telemetry.
Sorry to hear that your Canary experience is not great :( Have you tried our stable Discord release? Canary will always have instability to it. If stable Discord still jitters for you please contact us (https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us) and we can diagnose better.
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At risk of "+1, yes, this," I was naively but genuinely surprised at how valuable library sales can be to books when I was researching that a couple years ago. For indie/small press, even a few hundred extra copies sold could be a substantial revenue bump -- and only a small fraction of libraries in the country buying just one copy of a book could do it.

(Also, I'm pretty sure publishers know this, and I don't think anyone of them have made serious arguments against libraries. It's digital media and its zero-cost reproduction that gives everyone fits.)
Planning and Scheduling is a domain where Lisp has historically seen a lot of applications. For example the planner for the use of the Hubble Space Telescope (and many other telescopes in space and on earth) was originally developed on TI Lisp Machines and later ported to Common Lisp on other platforms. Generally there were a bunch of Lisp-based planners for space operations (like payload planning for Space Shuttles or planner for mars operations). There were a bunch of Lisp-based planner application in military - with the most famous being the DART system - which was used for planning the logistics for the first gulf war and saved more money that the US had ever invested in AI research up to that point in the past 30 years. With field-deployed Common Lisp applications in the middle-east, talking to remote servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replannin...
I wonder if the proliferation of high definition and TVs with screens 2 or 3 times the size of TVs in the 90's for the same price will make a difference this time around. Back then, theaters were still the best way to see a new movie. Now though, I know a few people who's living rooms are far superior to a movie theater in every way, from the screen, to the sound, to the seats and honestly company and environment. Going to a theater used to be worth it even if the movie wasn't very good, just to get to see a movie on something different than a tiny 20" crt TV. Now it's really only worth it for great movies.
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Good questions. Maybe something like a cooperative¹ that is independed of the states? Such a project could probably even be refinanced by users who pay for consulting.

How to organize this in such a way that it will be successfull and efficient? Let's start researching it now.

It's such a shame how European universities and every other part of the state is switching to Microsoft because the on-premise alternatives mostly suck.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
Please keep generic flamebait well away from HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17625830 and marked it off-topic.
This is similar to the thesis of Antonio Damasio's "Descartes' Error", which argues that all our decisions are ultimately taken by an unconscious emotional part of the brain, and that the conscious reasoning part is merely one of many inputs to the unconscious decision-making part.

Which means we literally can never explain the "why" behind any decision we make, because we never know it -- yet that is our true "self", our free will if you choose to interpret it that way.

It's why we can have every rational reason to not eat the cookie, and zero rational reason to eat it (we're not hungry and we rationally know it's in our best interest to lose weight)... and then we eat it anyways. We can't give any rational explanation for why we ate it... it just comes down to, in the end, I wanted to due to emotional factors I can only hypothesize in hindsight.

It's a pretty powerful thesis.
As a programmer turned musical theatre composer, I recommend these books on the craft of writing musicals:

Stephen Sondheim - Finishing the Hat / Look, I Made a Hat

Sondheim (Sweeney Todd, Company etc) breaks down his own lyrics and explains how they work and why. He has a very analytical mind and thinks so lucidly and mathematically about his work, a true engineer and artist. Highly recommended.

http://amzn.eu/8p4E1LC
http://amzn.eu/jhRmjFA

Aaron Frankel - Writing the Broadway Musical

A great overview of the process of writing for musical theatre, how musicals work and pitfalls to avoid

http://amzn.eu/8SAea4c

Jack Viertel - The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows are Built

I haven't read this book fully, but I'm looking forward to finishing it. A great breakdown of musicals and how they are put together.

http://amzn.eu/enr9dHe
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> Information is available “almost literally for free and instantly” to people who can afford a device that connects to the internet.

... and who have a sufficient working knowledge of how computers and the internet work in order to take advantage of that information.

In line with what you and others have said, what I've observed at the libraries I've been to is that the people who get the most value out of libraries are the people that would otherwise be left behind by technology. I don't think that's something we can or should dismiss out of hand just because I/we don't personally get a lot of value from them. That is, unless we want to develop an underclass of people shut out from the rest of society.
Where's the source? nayego.net doesn't have any links.
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The big challenge for publishers right now is censorship. Platform censorship happens in many ways:

- Visibility hidden because an algorithm in a non-chronological news feed thinks your content won't get enough engagement

- Visibility hidden because you aren't buying advertising

- Account banning or throttling because of grey area content (everything from nipples to politics)

- "De-monetization" (Youtube specific)

Most people using the internet are now aware of these problems. It used to be a fringe issue that like people doing SEO and spammers thought about.

Will it be easy for a platform to convince content publishers to return after it has chased them off the platform?

Facebook's usage exploded just as Myspace's was struggling to keep their servers up and was users were being hammered by very invasive ads. Once those users started logging on to Facebook instead, they never looked back. May be it was inevitable, but there was a very clear value proposition to users and it benefited Facebook immensely. The users were literally chased off of Myspace, by Myspace, and went to Facebook.

My hope is that we will get open protocol adaptation instead of startups building another walled garden to replace Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Youtube. Open protocols are better for everyone, including startups.

(and few things scare me more than a startup that is going to "fix email" by creating a new walled platform.)
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"...one of the few places left that doesn't try to sell you something."

I think this is hugely important. The library is a third space that doesn't require spending money.