skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome's primary competition wasn't FireFox as they've never been anything close to a market leader. My post was about what features led to Chrome gaining such high market share, and their default privacy settings were superior to some other browsers.
Why are only responses from “Individuals” listed?
Sounds like the plot for Spin:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910863.Spin
Hi,

My thoughts are more along the lines of a 5 or 6 electric prop motor drone along the lines of Griff Aviation drones.

Applications would be:

Military: 200kg, 200km range/100km radius would provide low cost rapid vertical logistics and CASEVAC to sub units that is desperately needed.

Commercial: regional city pair rapid logistics for critical 1 hour delivery.
First-class air travel in American is in decline because American corporations can deduct business class airfare more easily than first class airfare.

IIRC, the only domestic airline in America with first-class is American Airlines. The other legacy carriers have gotten rid of it, premium economy is one of the fastest growing classes of air fare.
I know ads are already kind of doing this, but I look forward to google definitively knowing you have chlamydia before you do, or the first "Experiencing Heart Failure? This stay at home mom beat it in these 3 simple steps" banner ads.
I don’t see how Amazon is such an threat to consumers?

Genuine question, can someone explain how they are bad? I might give pushback to help get to understanding other people, but I’m not trying to start a war on here:)
And now you have to keep all of your lies straight.
I lived on the streets for a time as a teen. When I got off and had my first real place to live, I couldn't afford much. I had potatoes, butter (was like heaven) soy sauce and mustard. So that was my dinner for months.

My co-workers thought I was crazy when I microwaved a potato and put soy sauce and mustard on it. I simply didn't have anything else.

Later I got pickles and cheese (the greatest thing I had ever had up till then). But I was so grateful for having something the thought of feel anything negative about it didn't even cross my mind. I couldn't afford snacks, so that was my meal, my only food for hours before and after.

I think so many "problems" society has today is because we are all a bunch of rich snobs. And I have to remind myself to remember how grateful I was when I was really poor. I never want to lose that gratitude, it's protection against all kinds of mental/emotional problems.
Implementing Parallel External Sorting in Scala
password policy for my.equifax.com is ... not best practice. at least they allow up to 20 characters. must include one special character from a set of ... FIVE. and those are the only allowed special characters.
There's an abundance of CPU power. Access to those CPU's is one problem but essentially why two-sided marketplaces exist. They've emerged for this exact problem in other categories (as pointed out in other comments) such as AirBNB/VRBO (housing), Turo/GetAround (cars), liquidspace (offices), boatsetter (boats).

I wonder if access was democratized, would demand increase? Jevon's Paradox in action?
Now up to 10 comments and still they are all identical.
Who is paying for the cost of the car up front? That is the person who is carrying the capex and credit risk of this operation.

Even with leases, the lease holder is paying with debt up front and is on the hook to fulfill payments, otherwise they're legally liable and their credit suffers. A rideshare rev split (or affiliate model) doesn't ensure the driver will cover the cost of the car and the manufacturer is on the hook with the risk of a depreciating asset not making money. If you do tie this to credit: - i.e. the driver pays in debt and loses if they don't fulfill rideshare payments - then you're just creating a lease with more strings attached.
Makes sense on their domain, but if I’m pointing my $1.95/year .info domain at them, I don’t understand the limits.
Equifax Neglected Cybersecurity and Suffered a Data Breach (U.S. Senate Rpt) [pdf]
Not everyone on the road can afford to do it. Maybe a small segment of the population will do it.
I think it was Stigler, the nobel laureate, that had done quite a bit or research on monopolys and the effect of mergers and acquisitions on jobs.

https://promarket.org/stigler-monopolies-competition-tough-w...

It was back in 2001 that I remember reading a newspaper article on this
Apparently they train humans to hunt for them:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_New_S...
The United States is one of the few places with large reserves that pay oilfield workers livable wages and have decent regulations for worker safety. If it's a choice between enriching ARAMCO who pays peasant wages vs an independent US operator who can pay a middle class salary to someone without a degree, I would rather see the latter
I think if it were the case that you and the doctor were already apart -- e.g. you were at home -- then you would be fine with a remote discussion because you implicitly know that the doctor is not actually in your home.

The OP article describes a situation where the patient is waiting in the intensive care unit.
Safety for lenders... by allowing fraud to be cheaper than lending to real people?

I'm afraid I don't understand your logic.
45, certain "trap music" is a typo
Boring pays the bills all too often in life.

In my limited experience with drones, 5/6 rotor drones appear to be more survivable/recoverable if the drone suffers a single rotor failure.
Who would you prefer to be on the jury?
Isn't this identical to Bit.ly's business model?
Seems like Democratic candidates are clamoring over each other to be further left, and I don't quite understand it. I supported Bernie in 2016, and even he is now too far left for my tastes.

Democrats lost the centrist vote in 2016, not the left, and if they don't take a hard right turn after the nomination we'll have 4 more years of Trump.
That's an interesting bet. It would also be interesting to see how UK fares compared to Euro zone in the next 10 years after the breakaway with Bexit. Some economists should do a bet on it. Nothing invigorating academic debates more than when money is on the line.
I've been outside when it was 120 and as long as I stayed hydrated I wasn't too bad. Sweat tended to evaporate quickly. I've also been outside when it was 90 and humid. That was sweaty hell.
Applied Monotonicity: A Brief History of CRDTs in Riak
Indeed. But this is an addressable problem. The new GPS satellites (GPS III) have just started launching (on a SpaceX rocket in December 2018), and they should triple the accuracy: https://www.geospatialworld.net/blogs/what-is-gps-iii-and-ho...

But even before that's complete: High precision GPS (i.e. with compensation for atmospheric effects) can get better than 10cm accuracy by tracking the carrier wave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_kinematic

Single-digit-centimeter-accuracy is possible near GPS signal compensating base stations (~20km). This level of precision is regularly used by surveyors.

There are several options for improving geolocation beyond inside-out (i.e. vision or lidar) tracking.
> First, he never refers to anyone with a contrary opinion in any way other than "apologist".

What's wrong with the term "apologist"? It simply means one who defends a particular viewpoint or belief. (It comes from the Greek ἀπολογία, which means a "formal oratory defense" of a position.)
This advice is how you end up like my friend: he's got thousands of dollars in high interest credit card debt and a porfolio full of stocks. Like, dude, you're paying 30% interest to gamble on stocks and he thinks he's being prudent because "investing."

When people say "save" or "invest" without context, people end up borrowing at high interest in order to do so. I saw a guy on Reddit with like $30,000 in credit card debt and $20,000 in a savings account.
I recently told my friend I need to stop chasing new shiny things
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Yea. I recently had two run ins with this exact same KBA system. One for a bank and one for a health insurance type thing. Both asked a question of which hospital was closest to me. How is it "KnowledgE" when I had to google map 4 different hospitals to figure out where they even were? One of two variations also listed two 'different' hospitals that were less than 2 blocks apart, leaving the 'closest' question up to a flip of the coin.
Autopilot in planes can be used, and often is used, in cases of VFR flight in which see-and-avoid is a requirement. Constant surveillance of the aircraft's surroundings is important. When it isn't done, midairs happen.
It's almost like cabs were already charging as low as the business model would allow...
Looks like a submarine article for a product called MySky?
I didn't mean that, but that's also an interesting idea.
I'm not proposing that such life forms would choose to act the same, but rather that they would be adapted to the constraints of their environment (the speed of c). (There are countless ways to adapt to the conditions of the deep ocean, but none of them are going to be jogging or flight.)

That said, you're right that it's not a given that electronic life would be uninterested in us, even indirectly, such as long-distance observational probes. Strictly speaking, we don't know for sure that that isn't the case. ;)

It's also worth considering that a particular long-lived culture or life form might achieve long-term stable hegemony and/or territoriality, resulting in a consistent policy with regard to either our planet, or planets with organic life in general.

All just speculation, at any rate. I don't claim the model is necessarily correct, just that it's my favorite. :)
"The dual class structure of our common stock has the effect of concentrating voting power with our Co-Founders, which will limit your ability to influence the outcome of important transactions, including a change in control. Our Class B common stock has 20 votes per share, and our Class A common stock, which is the stock we are offering by means of this prospectus, has one vote per share."

No-voting-power stock for a company that's losing money? No. Companies that have done that before, such as Google and Facebook, were profitable before the IPO. That's when you want to keep the management team. With Lyft's numbers, firing the current management might not be a bad idea. They've had their growth phase; now they need to move to profitability.

If you haven't read an S-1 before, you skip all the happy talk and go directly to "Consolidated Statements of Operations".
...poorly? The ICD-10 has been criticized quite a lot for where it splits categories; arcane problems get specific codes, while common issues are both fuzzily spread across buckets and conflated within overlarge buckets.

That said, I think the specific rationale is that X44 is meant to hold all types of low-frequency poisoning by drugs, and 'unknown drug' usually means "not one of the notable drugs that gets its own code and is tested for". This usually works alright. X45-X49 handle cases like "alcohol poisoning", "tainted food", "inhaled chlorine fumes", and "other/unspecified chemicals", so X44 is only representing drugs. And "poisoning" is separate from "adverse effects" (Y40-Y84), so an allergic reaction or a standard risk like bleeding from warfarin won't get mixed in here. Given that, X44 is just a reasonably narrow category to assign a group of T## codes to. Those go into enormous detail, and have secondary "unknown" categories to handle the case where you know the class of drug but not the specific drug. Totally unknown poisonings are restricted to X44/T50.9 and should be extremely rare.

But this was all designed by 1990; it looked reasonable to divide both X and T categories by "non-opioid analgesic", "anesthetics", and "narcotics". It wasn't until we started widely prescribing strong opioids for pain that "painkillers plus heroin" became a key grouping you'd want to research. That, plus the international nature of the system, also left us with "heroin", "opium", and "other opioids" as the only 3 T codes for this topic. The listed examples for 'other' are morphine and its prodrug codeine; as a result we've got fentanyl and morphine in the same category despite a 100x difference in strength.

Compounding that, the narcotic poisoning (X42/T40) grouping was basically doomed from the beginning through no fault of the designers. It tries to replicate the legal/treaty category of narcotics, which has no biological coherence; what on earth do cocaine and morphine overdose have in common? Why is "cannabis derivative poisoning" singled out in the 'narcotics' section of a document created when the only synthetic cannabinoid in use was a rare antiemetic no one abused?

tl;dr: It was supposed to be a low-frequency grouping with subcategories clarifying about specific drugs, but that fell apart for opioids.
If you want a simple (but bare-bones) self-hosted version of this service, check out the open source version I made a couple years back:

https://github.com/Detry322/redisred

Here’s a hubot plugin for slack:

https://github.com/Detry322/hubot-redisred

We use this extensively at MIT for HackMIT and the MIT Pokerbots competition, and best of all, it’s free.

The deploy to Heroku button should “just work”.
Here's a Video of Brendan Gregg and Bryan Cantrill giving a demonstration of the effect

> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Just for comparison, where I am (Massachusetts) it's $0.23/kWh or so for residential service.
This is key. It’s a lot easier to lose/maintain weight if you eat the same things.

I care a lot more about being a healthy weight than eating a variety of foods.
The Foursquare of today is a location data giant
It's working terribly in France. France has some of the slowest broadband in the OECD: https://www.akamai.com/fr/fr/multimedia/documents/state-of-t.... Just 18% of French households have connections faster than 15 mbps, versus 48% of American households.
Did you know if you only ate McDonalds for every meal of every day... you'd be underweight?

A burger, medium fries and diet drink is 588 calories apparently. So three of those a day is only 1764 calories! A massive deficit for almost everyone.
> They don't want to make it hard to use your credit report. The worse job they do with security theater the more money they make, and the easier it is for you to obtain credit products.

This is why we need to legislate these companies now, and re-incentivize them to do the right thing.
(Not creator, but have a similar chrome extension for personal use [0])

I think you might be confusing this product with shorteners like bit.ly. The format should actually be more semantic such as `m/roadmap/q2` rather than `bit.ly/Fa2ca`

That being said I agree the long term durability of the business would be a concern (as with any SaaS) for people. But that hasn't stopped the growth of other SaaS cos (and I'm sure there can be workarounds for ensuring usability even if they fold).

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shortlink/apgeoooc...
Roche fought through a bidding war for $4.8B gene therapy buyout
Ditto here. Been overseas for a while, but foun a rice and beans that taste like ours, plus steak/chicken/mistura.

I wish I could have pingado (espresso with milk) and pão francês na chapa (a grilled bread with margarine or cream cheese). Dinner would be the left overs of lunch, of just some salad, bread, turkey... never get tired of it.
The point is that they're caused by different processes, and the steps to ensure that it doesn't happen again after you break them up are also very different because of that.
Concur, lived in Texas and NYC both, Austin is hotter for sure, but air conditioning is on blast everywhere and the driving helps. Just walking a couple of blocks on a 90 degree day in NYC is enough to get you soaked.

On top of that you can wear shorts most workplaces in Austin and not have a problem. Shorts in NYC is frowned upon in the cosmopolitan set and professional industries.
While that might seem like a lot, if you estimate the money is invested to just keep up with inflation and no real growth (very conservative assumption, but still possible), for $1.5M to last you 60 years (i.e. from 35yo to 95yo, completely depleting the capital at the end of your life essentially) you could just withdraw $25k inflation-adjusted pre-tax every year. I'm not sure you could necessarily live that well in Spain or Italy with that, without working. I happen to be originally from a cheap European country, and it's not that obvious.

So it's really not that much, most people who get private or state pensions get a better deal than that from a cash-flow perspective.
An evolutionary advantage: having multiple, varied food sources is a protection against one of them going extinct. If the apple snails die out, so do the apple snail kites.

Humans are indeed pretty unique in that there are so many things we can eat. It has likely helped us as a species through various natural disasters.
> Their share structure prevents them from ending up in ETFs

I've seen several people say this but I don't understand why, can you explain a bit further?
> "Default trust" actually works in our economy. And because of that, friction can be low and things Just Work.

Does it though? I think there's a reason we've stopped accepting cheques - cheques were the best "easy" way to transfer relatively large sums of money at once, now that we're past that and have more secure credit and debit cards cheques are becoming banned. I don't think it was optimized for "happy path" per say, but just for convenience and was the only technology we could manage at the time.
Charges Against Leaders of “OneCoin,” a Multibillion-Dollar Pyramid Scheme
I think it's reasonable for people who aren't living in Romania to expect conditions that are different than Romania's.
Upvoted, seriously this, all the talk about Google, Amazon, Facebook hides many of the real problems and monopolies. These 3 don't even make it to a top 100 list of problematic companies.
If I want to adopt a new technology, I have to first learn how to handle problems I ALREADY KNOW HOW TO SOLVE with my current technologies.

So much this. I’m in my 40s and I am on my third pivot. The first was a C++ bit twiddler for 12 years. The second was an MS stack “enterprise developer” and now a third - JavaScript everywhere, $cool_kids front end stack, AWS, and the Docker ecosystem. It’s been about a year and it’s going to realistically take 2 to 3 more.
> Even if the excons are model, PERFECT employees, the conviction could prevent them from getting a job. I appreciate the author making such clear and well-stated points, that makes it easy to use to simple facts to refute his/her argument.

It's pretty clear in context that this isn't actually what they're talking about at all.

Caplan is responding to Quiggin's claim that mass incarceration has a measurable effect of targeting people who would otherwise have been unemployed if they had never been arrested and incarcerated in the first place. He's not literally arguing that releasing those people from prison overnight would result in them getting a job.
The U1-U6 measures of unemployment are all published. I'm sure we can match up to the closest measure in the EU. The article mentioned a harmonized unemployment rate so maybe there is something comparable.
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Prisoners aren't counted at all---not even as "not in the labor force" [0]. The employment statistics are based on the civilian non-institutional population, and prisoners are institutionalized.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#concepts
I love that New York still runs so heavily on cash.
Cash is an absolute necessity for a free society. It represents every person's freedom to voluntarily exchange goods and services without (easily) being tracked, monitored or mediated. It's a bit shocking to me how so many tech types underestimate or fail to see this.
Nice reply. I myself do not find it harder to find jobs, and I'm even older than you.

My post above didn't mention it, but I also learn new stuff. And some of it is really useful.

I don't insist the client use my preferred technologies. I may recommend them, sure, but in the end I'll learn what I have to do get the job done.

This whole thread reminds me of a story:

A small town barber has been cutting hair for decades, and charging his customers a fair price.

One day a national chain opens a salon just across the street and advertises $10 haircuts.

A customer asks, "Aren't you worried they'll drive you out of business?"

The barber grabs a piece of cardboard, scribbles something on it quickly, and props it up in the window.

The sign reads: "We fix $10 haircuts."

I think the best business model for an older developer is to fix $10 haircuts. Seek out those kind of jobs that capitalize on your experience.

There are so many messes out there that if you can bill yourself as a cleanup guy, you'll never run out of clients.
That's likely how investors think of the chumps who drive for them, but that doesn't mean that workers shouldn't get an equity stake.
I was thinking exactly the same. Keystroke noises on a computer keyboard as well as when entering security pins on ATM's.
Why would you wanna work for Amazon? U forgot there was a post here on HN comparing Bezoz to Hitler
Minnesota drivers are not very good in my experience. They are so passive aggressive that they made a law that said you had to zipper merge, but no one does it and you end up with ridiculous one-lane backups that go on forever because of said passive aggressiveness.
@turtlegrids - genuinely curious about the secret behind multiple submissions from a new account making it to the top 60, and racking up ~500 karma points in 10 days.
That's just being deliberately obtuse. I don't believe I've ever in my life heard "apologist" used in a non-pejorative sense. Etymology is irrelevant here.
>I hope this civilization keeps developing and our successors would laugh at our current scientific state-of-art, comparing us to chimpanzees.

This pseudo-scientific rant was to imply that future science will rediscover the irreducible to matter and evolutionary mechanisms soul, sorry I mean't "universe's special consciousness layer"?
There's a lot to be said for putting your money where your mouth is. People who aren't willing to risk being wrong can't be trusted to be right.
What difference does that make? They aren't being asked for their opinions about the job market in the '80s. They're giving their opinion of this stuff as it exists today. But they also haven't had to look for a job in a quarter of a century and don't personally vet hires unless they're at the senior mgmt level.
It is no surprise that ex-cons have a high unemployment rate compared to the average member of society.

A full refutation of his argument would give an analysis of the number of ex-cons, their unemployment rate, the hypothetical unemployment rate based on the assumption that the US's current prison stock were diminished to that of Europe, and demonstration that US unemployment numbers would be higher than Europe's in this case.

You have made the motions of charitably interpreting the author's argument without actually doing so.
I've got to try harder if it was only a bit snarky. :)
IMO, that is not the point. Lobby spending can be more indicative of a looming regulatory threat than to protect monopolies that harm consumers.

I also think that Warren is dead wrong. The internet/FB/GOOGL allow smaller businesses to flourish. 15 years ago, only major brands could afford to advertise or reach an audience, now niche companies can exist with a national or international presence.

If anything, these tech monopolies hurt the previously established, Coke/Kraft/Sears and they hurt VC's who can't find a way to scale a niche brand with smaller TAM's or compete directly with Amazon, etc.
Where Is the Successor to Visual Basic? (2014)
Additionally, I do not consider the federal treasury a part of the national economy.