skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really funny. I teach a class of students who would never give the time of day to thinking deeply about things ("yee-yees", as they even call themselves), but it came out that a former teacher/assistant coach at our school had committed suicide. They went into a well-thought out discussion about whether suicide was selfish or not.

I think, in the end, they decided that it both was and was not selfish. It was selfish, in the regard that you're putting yourself ahead of others in terms of you being at peace while knowing others are going to hurt (and this person was found by their child-age daughters...), but they also said we can't really know it's truly selfishness because we have no clue what they're going through. We literally can't put ourselves in their shoes to see if there might have been another way out, etc. It was quite an insightful discussion, one I would've never expected from these kids.
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> Update, 11/15/18, 6:45pm : NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that the data received by the Deep Space Network was not from the Opportunity rover.
I'm amused every time i see Android phone in hands of my tech-literate friends :)
How do they plan to get him out of the embassy without violating the Vienna Convention? He's been amazingly... immature and disruptive... in the embassy, but has there ever in history been a case of a refugee being remanded to their oppressor because of how annoying they are? To be fair, Assange seems to be really annoying.
> Canada is not captured by a huge pharma/medical industry like the US is

I think you are making the case for single payer. The government has much more power to reign in the pharma/medical industry. See the linked article on Doctor salaries.
Yes. The Iridium (the closest analogue) already can do this. It's not very good, though. Worse than cell tower triangulation, I think.
I'm not asking you to only have opinions that are commonly held by everybody you know. I'm asking you whether you've talked to your family/roommates about your opinions.

If you haven't, then that means that you've ignored an opportunity to discover a different viewpoint. It means that you'd make a unilateral decision without even thinking about the other people it will affect. It means you didn't give them even an opportunity to change your mind or change their living situation beforehand. It means you're marginalizing their opinion or viewpoint and perpetuating the aloneness that people can feel despite living together.
I don’t think they predict that based on photos though. Facebook might indeed be the first company to do this particular analysis since they have the data to do so. That doesn’t make it patentable, though. I doubt they invented any new math or techniques; just different inputs and outputs to a CNN. But that also doesn’t mean they won’t be awarded a patent.
Kansas is surprisingly much cooler than Oklahoma
My point was that diversity is more than race - it can be language, religion, politics, gender, and yes even cuisine.

Case in point the old joke about the biggest divide between Israelis and Palestinians being the way they pronounce “hummus.”
I've pretty much been running in that mode for a while now (though maybe more on average once per week). It's fine. As long as you don't engage in any commentary on other people's stuff, you naturally gravitate away from checking. The content is usually not that interesting. The moment you write anything there, you get an emotional stake in checking its progress.
For every One person who says they dont want to work for FB or GOOG or whatever other "evil" Co. there are millions who do. GooG last year received 1.1mil resumes. There is no shortage of people who will gladly take away your paycheck if you dont want it. This was always the case and will always be (until we progress to a new level humanity as a whole).
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> Look at the other things the government bids on. Are they getting a good deal?

New Zealand has been under a lot of pressure to weaken Pharmac, the national drug purchasing agency, as part of the TPP agreement. It hasn’t happened yet and hopefully never will. The current system is far from perfect but we pay a lot less for funded drugs here in NZ due to Pharmacs bargaining power.
I'm not American, but.. I'm very confused.

By "DWS scandal" do you mean the Debbie Wasserman Schultz issues[1]? I've read about that reasonable extensively, and they don't seem a huge deal to me at all. I mean it's good she resigned, but to me it looks more like a "perception of bias is as bad as bias itself" thing.

She probably did some things that benefited Clinton in the primary, but these don't seem that big a deal in the scheme of things.

The Wikipedia link I posted seems a reasonable summary. Which of them exactly is this big threat to democracy? For example, I thought the "removal of Sanders access to database" was a big deal until it became apparent that Sanders staffers had accessed private Clinton campaign information and it was restored in less than 24 hours[2].

What am I missing?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz#2016_...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2015/12/19/460361192/dnc-restores-sander...
How do people obtain regulated medical devices like CPAP without a prescription? I assume a sleep study is required to get a prescription from a doctor.
Mission statements are always bullshit. The reason being that I have never seen a case where, when push comes to shove, that a company would forgo needed revenue if it contradicted their mission statement. Instead what happens is that leaders go through mental gymnastics trying to show "No, it still aligns with our mission statement, you just have to twist the meaning of the words in the mission statement beyond any reasonable recognition."
The doctor and his staff know how the game is played.
Check out Ace Editor too:
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The reverse is also an issue. You go to the in-network doctor's office for a routine visit and then get a multi-hundred-dollar bill from their affiliated hospital. So, doctors can't pay their own rent?
And whose attack dog is the NYTimes? This is the 2nd hitpiece on facebook by the nytimes on the frontpage as of this moment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18462671
Going to Australia and NZ earlier this year was when I finally had to admit that there is absolutely no justifiable reason why we have such a shitty system in the US. I paid out of pocket for an MRI because it was cheaper than anything I would have gotten in the US with insurance. The end-to-end experience was great.

I returned to find that I couldn't enroll in health insurance until 2019 unless I joined a company as a fulltime employee, resulting in a terrifying 6-month coverage gap where the only option was BOTH paying the lack-of-coverage penalty AND paying for shit "no way they're reimbursing anything" temporary coverage from an agency that didn't even send an insurance card. Our system is undeniably and unjustifiably fucked.
You do not need tidal heating to have a liquid ocean. A thick enough crust will insulate the primordial and decay heat below.
Hospitals != private practice.
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> There is no coordination between the 5 or 6 or however many media outlets

What evidence do you have for that claim?
Gravity is quite the barrier!
Patagonia isn’t that large, and it’s famous as an exception to the rule. There are so few truly ethical companies that it’s hard to come up with any that have no asterisk next to the name.
I'm a bit confused by the city/town split. I'd definitely describe Tulsa as a city, but then again I'm coming from a 150k people city and living in a 20k people town at the moment. The website seems to use them interchangeably, and I remember an article some time ago describing Austin as a "town" people move to.

What are the thresholds in the US before people start saying something's a city?
People don't file for bankruptcy to stick it to their hospital, and their hospital isn't putting 7 administrators and clerical workers per 10 physicians on payroll to negotiate repayment and answer questions w/ people who could easily pay their full bill. Let me clarify that I'm not siding w/ the hospitals: you are getting screwed, there's no question about that.

My problem w/ the discourse here is people who treat this like some econ 101 practice problem, when there's no evidence that "price transparency" does anything to address healthcare costs [1].

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/upshot/price-transparency...
Lazarus is very similar to Delphi and is Open Source (L/GPL)

If you're looking for the '90s GUI experience, you likely cannot find better. It works on Windows, Linux and Mac and possibly the BSDs.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
The Times has been on an anti-tech crusade for months now.
It's not about piggybacking on customer launches - these will mostly be launched on dedicated launches.

Rather, it's about using spare capacity freed up by the long-foreseen slowdown in the geostationary launch business that has historically been SpaceX's (and everyone else's) bread and butter, without crashing market launch prices.
>Draw a small circle around yourself on the ocean floor.

That circle encloses two areas. One roughly a square metre, and the other one roughly 5e8 km². In geology only the smaller area is used, and the smaller area does not contain the peak of the Everest and thus is not considered a valid base contour line of the Everest.
I’m in Kansas. Let’s argue.
I've seen the American justice system in action, "due process" is a joke.
You’re right. I don’t agree with them using consenting users as a gateway for information on non-consenting friends and family.
>My sort of crazy theory is that there is a behind the scenes lobbying / media battle between pharma, the hospital lobby, and the insurance lobby and that this dictates a lot of the national conversation around healthcare.

Of course pharma, hospitals, and insurance are a major force on the right. But there's another culprit exerting force on the left that I rarely see discussed.

The nurses' union (National Nurses United) is TREMENDOUSLY powerful. I've been personally involved in several political races where their political machine was a decisive factor in delivering turnout, possibly more than any other union. Another advantage is that it tends to fly way under the radar of most union critics -- no one wants to criticize nurses, of all people. This, without a doubt, causes a chilling effect on Democratic politicians' willingness to write legislation that will threaten hospitals.
Hmm, Facebook pays firm to dig up dirt on politicians in order to expose them as hypocrites.

NY Times then digs up this fact and uses it to expose Facebook as hypocrites.

It's hypocrites all the way down, folks.
I feel like the suggested remedies are rather thin on details. It would be nice if the author provided some citations for further reading.
You probably meant 101x110 =11,110
> Any "recipe" you're getting

Not necessarily. Distro package maintainers use and construct recipes that are not web pages, in order to allow folks to install complex software with, in many cases, one click.
I didn't see too many uses listed. Here is one:

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

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

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00422...
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There is absolutely no evidence of this, either that Clinton was "ready to send a drone" or that Wikileaks actually believed she was. Taking at face value the statements of the organization regarding this would be extremely naive.
Hemingway Knocked Wallace Stevens into a Puddle and Bragged About It (2008)
Yes. That's a very reasonable choice.
>The satellites will pass the signal between each other using lasers

I thought there were regulatory barriers to doing that
I agree, I'm surprised you're being downvoted for this opinion. Kangaroo courts happen and even when the person facing the verdict is high profile. It shows how power with the agenda of whomever is what crafts law. Logic is the thing rational people cling to and logic is not part of foundation making justice in prosecutions. The wild thing to me is how much hate assange has gathered recently online. People seem to prefer writing just throw him in jail than take the undecided stance. Makes me think things are getting worse if you're on the not happy side with how things are run.
Quite.

I think it comes down to having founders who define changing the world as "better for all" rather than simply "obscene amounts of money for us". Even if they sell up later the hollowing of a formerly ethical brand under a multi-national often means it stops performing.

We seem to be in a gilded age of no consequences currently. Money, and absurd amounts of it, seems to be the be all and end all of everything. There have been times where philanthropic founders and industrialists have thrived. There can easily be another. Hopefully we can get it without need of pitchforks, but that seems like an evens bet right now.
Spent 6 months on a project in Tulsa. I’m a big fan of the place. I was in the downtown area and ended up staying in the Mayo hotel most weeks. The incredible thing was that I was in a ~1500 square foot apartment style 2 bedroom with full kitchen and was paying on average 129/night. These rooms were 5-600 a night on weekends but the place was a ghost town during the work week. It was right next to the blue dome and bands like Pearl Jam, rob zombie, Katy perry all stayed in the place while I was there. Downtown becomes a ghost town at 5pm but there is a decent night life as well. I would totally live there.
I’m guessing he’s not talking about first order logic when he’s talking about defining ‘logic’ with a single axiom because it seems to me there are a whole hell of a lot of steps missing to go from his axiom to ‘proving’ anything at all.
This seems a non-sequitur.

Which part of that article seems to be political propaganda? It seems to be a decently piece of reporting on justice department thinking at the time?
> You seem to be arguing incredibly uncharitably.

Ironic. You've claimed multiple things. For each case, in the face of conflicting evidence, deflected to argue about another detail.
If the headline had been, “Utility Co. uses data to predict household size,” it wouldn’t have this much HN activity.

The problematic parts are that 1) Facebook was thinking about using personal photos in way that users don’t expect and don’t intend; 2) the data is photos, meaning it’s possible to ID the subjects with high accuracy; 3) Facebook is not using this to plan their costs, but rather to help advertisers get inside our heads.
Same concerns here. Always left feeling "why do I have to pay this I thought I was insured?". Seems everything has some papercut payment that is un covered
>It was too little too late for me, and too little too late for Assange. If the government wanted to take the deal he offered, it had the opportunity to immediately pardon Manning and call Assange out on it. Then we'd know if he was bluffing. This (less than) half measure doesn't cut.

What? Assange asked for clemency. "If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case". and I'm not sure how it was "too little too tale for Assange" since it was days after that that Obama granted clemency.

Also- you seem to care so much for Manning that you went the extra mile to avoid using her preferred pronouns by using "this person." Amazing.
This is not really a thing.
Sounds like you are a recruiter.
I think you missed his point, he wants to be able to compose html without having to resort to a programming language.
I think if any company will reach that of The Circle, it will be Facebook.
It's called Patreon. You've got to be established, though: can't come out of nowhere with a thing and expect to see much traction.

I literally went from using Kagi for ten years, to using Patreon. At first it's a decimating change because you're going from 'sale of a product' to 'literally giving product away free and telling people they can support you if they like'.

However, if your cashflow isn't too tough, one benefit is that Patreon is a LOT more stable and predictable than shareware ever was. You stop having boom and bust product releases and instead have months where you grow kinda briskly and months where you grow not so briskly.

You're not making revenue off the product, you're making revenue off 'I am the one who makes products such as this'. I've got suggestions for what people should pledge if they would've bought my stuff commercially, but it's entirely voluntary and I'm also MIT-licensing it all. I'm airwindows on github, and as a website.
Hey I'm not familiar with this way of comparing classical and quantum computation. Can you point me to some more details? I have Nielson's book but don't remember seeing this analogy before!
"Smart" had nothing to do with any of this, other than to flatter the reader.
Anecdotally, it does seem like most of the big tech companies do this. It’s a side effect of the “first to file” rather than “first to invent” system in the US.

That doesn’t make it better, though.
Thank you for clarifying. Indeed, Europe has more privacy rights/laws than most, but that's still only about 512M/7.7B people (~1/15th).
Facebook can stop hitpieces when they learn to not make terrible decisions.
shareware...even better with SALTO (selling digital secured locks): you can "try" their web based control software for 90 days...but you have to pay $150 for it.
Government's have power to reign in industries until those industries get too large and entrench themselves within the government.

Look at the biggest industries in any free country and you can see it replay over and over again around the world.

Our problem unlike the rest of the world is that pharma and medical is our industry. That is the main reason our prices are crazy compared to everyone else.
Two patterns to lowest tier customers:

1. They still submit support tickets. Sometimes more often than people on higher tiers.

2. They’re hard to convert to higher paid plans.

Also, the market for note taking and web hosting is bigger than Zapier. It’s not quite as horizontal.

In the end, sometimes it just isn’t worth it to offer a lower price.
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How often do companies patent things just so that they don't go to market?

For example even if they have no intentions to use it, they know that their competitors might, so they patent it so that their competitors can't, and thus no one can?

Does this happen? I see patents all the time that never made it to market, so I guess it's plausible. But is it even legal to patent something without intent to bring it to market?
america destroying its own tech companies. these ppl really are 'enemy of the ppl'.
These days it would probably make more sense to just require a small cryptocurrency payment in place of hashcash. There are some obvious adoption and scalability issues with that but it may be workable as a prioritization mechanism.
If I remember right from when I worked there (years ago), the wording is "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." I can definitely see interpretations of that which require direct and open access to the raw data and others which just require universal and useful access to an assistive/suggestive product or service that leverages the data.

To be clear, I prefer the first interpretation, but I realize open data geeks (and those who would use the raw data if granted access) are far fewer than ML geeks (and those who enjoy the automagic suggestions) and the gap is only widening.
Imagine Larry Ellison running Facebook. The mind recoils at the thought.
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How about allowing teenagers to tag photos of each other drunk or high or doing something regrettable?

How about not actually deleting those photos from your servers when the kids request them to be deleted?
Talk to ten potential customers who you know would like to use the product. Ask them about various ways of paying for it, how much they'd be wiling to pay, and then turn them into your first customers.
Real news organizations have actual reporters and have built up a reputation for getting things right. They have earned trust over years. They do get things wrong, but they issue corrections.

Truepundit.com is not a news organization. It popped up in 2016 and was dedicated to publishing "articles" attacking Democrats. It makes no pretense to being an objective news source. None of its "scoops" were ever confirmed by a real news source.

The article "Comey Mandates All FBI Agents Report to D.C. Offices; Prep for Raids, Possible Arrests in Clinton Probes" was published days before the 2016 presidential election.

It was not a mistake. It was a deliberate, politically-motivated hoax.
I'm not sure I buy that. The idea behind a public company is (in theory) much more democratic than a closely held company, and it used to be that public companies were viewed and regulated that way. But, when the vast majority of shares are held by a few, and when regulatory authority has been decimated, it loses any sense of democratic responsibility. We kinda have the worst of both worlds.
Given the depth of the crust relative to the radius of the earth, I'm going to guess that to a first or even a second approximation, the center of the earth is pretty much the center of the earth whatever type of center you care to choose.
Acting as an undeclared agent of a foreign government is absolutely a crime.
A draft/publish workflow for updating existing zaps would be amazing, particularly for those that use webhooks (easily half of my zaps). Or something more specific, like using a single webhook to trigger more than one zap.
I highly recommend Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There. https://www.marshallgoldsmith.com/product/book-2/

Great book on overcoming smart people faults.
If they continue keep doing these kind of creepy things, one day, it will become Myspace.

It's already a ghost town for most part where middle aged people are adding random political articles.
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I think there's a loophole in that you can buy CPAP machines without a prescription from second-hand sellers. Last I checked it looked pretty inexpensive, too. So, really, you don't need a prescription to try one if you really wanted to.

There's probably some safety concerns, but I've become cynical about a lot of it. Doctors of course want everyone to go to the doctor first, but is it really that dangerous to use a CPAP machine if you didn't need one?
This type of nasty conspiracy story has real world consequences (case in point: https://abcnews.go.com/US/billionaire-philanthropist-george-...) and puts innocent people at risk (case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting) While causation is obviously multi-factor, Sheryl Sandberg should be put on the hot-seat for fomenting such hatred.

The really shameful thing about Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg trying to malign Soros is that both Sandberg and Zuckerberg are Jewish. Anything for a buck these days I suppose.
This is a strong claim. Please provide evidence.
Another interesting watch is the TED talk by SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell earlier this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dar8P3r7GYA

Say what you will about Musk, but the guy is truly ambitious and willing to shoot for the stars ( or mars at the moment ).