skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For extra interest... 70 * 1000 / 3500 is 20, so assuming this person was to repeat their involvement and to replace any stolen cameras then they'd end up losing about 5% of their earnings through KitSplit to theft, that's a pretty atrocious rate and seems likely to be tied to why the company is so deadset against investing time into equipment recovery.
> Trading environment, there wasn't another solution with the lookup-and-matching performance they got out of Oracle, from what little was shared with me.

I've been maintaining trading backend databases for roughly a decade. What oracle does, db2, sql server, sybase can do. And postgresql, MySQL most probably too.

Most of the times the Oracle choice is dictated by a software editor whose devs are more familiar with Oracle and have an oracle first strategy.
Bitcoin uses proof of work [1] to verify transactions on the network. For someone to effectively rewrite the network they would need to control 51% of the total computing power (in hashes/sec) on the bitcoin network.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work
It isn't surprising. I think loss aversion kicks in here. The phone they stole doesn't rightfully belong to them, but they possessed it, so to lose it, not only does the total worth of their possessions decrease, they also have to deal with the blow of a loss, psychologically. So their anger is in full force and they're willing to go beyond how far they usually go, which is pretty far, given that they're stealing iPhones.

Here's a story I found. I remember reading it. Tragic. :( https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/18/8809741/teenager-murdered...
I wrote about this on here once before, but for a while I was working on a short story about a fictional dystopia in which crowdfunded healthcare devolves into a televised game show where people pitch their sob story to viewers. Whomever ends up with the most votes (a la The Voice), moves onto the next round, until finally one person is crowned the winner and has all of their needs taken care of. What was supposed to be a silly story turned super cynical and depressing, so I stopped working on it.

When I last talked about it, someone pointed out that this was already a thing, back in the 1950s, called "Queen for a Day" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_for_a_Day

Each contestant was asked to talk about the recent financial and emotional hard times she had been through. The interview would climax with Bailey asking the contestant what she needed most and why she wanted to win the title of Queen for a Day. Often the request was for medical care or therapeutic equipment to help a chronically ill child, or might be for a hearing aid, a new washing machine, or a refrigerator. Many women broke down sobbing as they described their plights.
>>Why charge a fee if you're not actually going to cover the buyer or seller when your marketplace messes up?

I think we all know the answer here.

So many sites are just "hapless middle men who facilitate contact between individuals who want to engage in <activity>" when someone commits fraud/theft/terroristic threats/<crime> on their platform.
Better than the white button with white text!

When iOS 7 removed skeumorphism, they made it harder to see controls. Sometimes the controls were white on a white website. Like on Google Chrome address bar! And in YouTube also.
The way that I read what you wrote was that "charging too much for insulin is morally equivalent to murder". How much do you charge for insulin? Would they be less culpable if they stopped producing insulin completely? If another company (say GSK or TEVA) has the technical ability to produce insulin, but doesn't, are they murderers?
Does Tylenol in Canada have a small amount of codeine in it? It did when I lived there in the 90's.

Does that make a difference when it comes to advertising? If I recall correctly it was like 2 or maybe 5 mg of codeine which is a very small amount. Any dose over that needed a prescription so I wouldn't be surprised if Tylenol was considered just an OTC drug but knowing there is codeine in it made me unsure.
similar thing here -- I am in my mid 30s and I have just quit eating chocolates, junk food, sugary stuff, sodas, etc just 2-3 weeks back. It was painful, I still get headaches but I know its worth it. Next phase is exercising more frequently.

Everybody has a time they will go but how you go can be controlled to a degree and that is what I am striving for.

I am just glad that I am only few kilos (less than 10) overweight so can see light at the end of tunnel.
wow, great article! i work for a university and our admin group needs a "killer app" for tracking students, researchers, faculty, industry partners, events, and a bunch of other little things... i've been doing my best to try and explain to them what SF is capable of but it's been tricky as i don't have any first-hand experience w/it.

i've forwarded the article off to them and the entire group had a collective "ah-ha!" moment. thanks for putting this together. :)
As @Kadin suggested, the UBEC we purchased in bulk was, at the end of the day, a packaged product that had two things going for it. First, it had undergone some degree of QA and we found the results to be consistent, which was a huge deal for us. Second, it came with a 3-pin connector that could not have been more perfect for plugging directly onto the GPIO pins.

For anyone attempting something similar, here's my boy scout good deed for the day: http://www.banggood.com/External-Brushless-BEC-UBEC-3A-5V2-5...

It's entirely possible that you could get a cheaper buck converter, possibly for pennies. However, this was not where the money was being spent in our project... and if we had to do literally anything to it to prepare it for use (such as soldering on a pin socket) it would have destroyed any cost advantage.
Spare a few more, please!
It's unknown right now. I don't think this problem is something that can be resolved in one all encompassing change.

We can start with the medical facilities, who will literally lose nothing by having transparency in their pricing. Now you can compare hospital prices; great!

Next we can expose the insurance companies policies per code, and we can apply them to each hospital. I could imagine tools where you select your plan, then select what you'll need.

Yes, I know there are well over 10k codes, and this can get complicated. But that doesn't mean we should just give up.
Not only no compensation, I see no actual apology, and aside from a quick note about how they'll re-vet users after they change their profile info (they weren't doing this already?), there's a whole lot of text explaining how it will still be your fault if the equipment gets stolen.

In the end, there's not even a "contact me to get this sorted" link; it's just another call to engage with first-tier support some more.

Just use Craigslist if you're looking to make money off your high-end gear; at least then, you can know with a higher likelihood that you're being scammed.
>But maybe I’m a bit bias

everyone is biased this or that way, what irks me about the "I don't like legislation" comments is that I rarely see a proposed equivalent alternative.

Because just praying that the dark patterns are going away is probably not going to work.
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> There is overwhelming evidence that homeless is primarily a mental health problem, not a financial one.

https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...

> As of 2015, the state can just about declare victory: The population of chronically homeless people has dropped by 91 percent.

This by approaching housing access/payment before anything like mental health services.

Unfortunately, after over a decade, funding was withdrawn... and the homeless population spiked again.
Ope I misread your agency there. Sorry about that.

Taking a gander at your link before responding further.

Edit: Alright I’ve read the first half, because I’m at lunch and would like to take the time this evening to really sit and pour over it:

I concur with your assessment. This does seem to be well designed and thought out policy, and I could see myself actively supporting it versus my previous position of “no Federal involvement”.

Point, humbly conceded. Thank you for the point of view change.
The parent was suggesting to regulate first and fix broken regulations later. That's almost literally moving fast and breaking things.
> Slowly but surely I do believe American's are becoming more comfortable with the idea of free healthcare, in whatever form that comes in.

I perceive that Americans are primarily undecided on how it gets paid for. And if that comes from taxpayers directly, or government coffers directly, then the Americans turn on themselves and prefer a Machiavellian paradise, or the exact opposite where taxpayers and government drop helicopter money on the insurers who laugh all the way to the bank.

A smaller but growing group looks at the insurance companies and other structural issues, hoping to alleviate cost pressure, perhaps to make it more practical to subsidize healthcare after the costs are managed.
An early version of HN is bundled with http://arclanguage.org/install.

One of these years we'll release an update that incorporates how HN has evolved over the years. But we have several other projects to get out first. Also we wouldn't do it without pg's blessing.
I know it's fun to call people short-sighted and compare them to children, but grow up yourself. Sending something in this particular medium was a publicity stunt, and it worked. You think we're talking about it here for any other reason than Elon Musk was (tangentially) involved? Sending some sort of beacon or memorial into space is such a great idea we've done it many times before, with better-tested media. If we wanted to try something newer, a Rosetta Project disk would have been a much more obvious choice.

Practicality wasn't the point. Publicity was.
Retool is a great idea! Really love the concept and well done for spotting the common repetitive part of generating internal tools!
Sounds like a perfect pitch for a Black Mirror episode. Although "Fifteen Million Merits" gets kinda close.
On the one hand I feel the desire to drop a sighing Jesus as to how stupid this is (how many companies/ideas were thought to be just ridiculous). On the other hand I can't help but see the similarity with plain old advertising, where someone gets paid to read lines to a camera and fake feelings on how awesome/cool something is. We know ice cream doesn't provoke orgasm like facial expressions in most people, but somehow the spots still get made and sold. This could turn out to be huge.

For instance, there are night establishments that have entertainers (singers, mainly) who get requests from the audience to say something, in exchange for money. It gets pretty ridiculous like things that go like "Let those who come from neighborhood X know that we have plenty of money and we made it ages ago... Screw the new rich. Check out my {fancy_car} outside.. Die of jealousy".

These people are considered stupid by almost everyone, however we're talking about serious cash. Alcohol, women, drugs, and egos. Some individuals leave something like $200k on the table on a given night. They want to be remembered as badasses or something.

Then there's the give and take. The entertainer gets paid. Even poor people put in money for their 15 seconds.

Ads are about products, in general. Cameo seems to be about people, and people have egos. This could really turn out to be huge, despite the initial cheesiness.
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My current manager is leaving for greener pastures and I have an opportunity to be his replacement. I am currently the team lead and the team appears to be behind on this move.
Any tips or tricks on how to get the job and do the best I can at it?
I'm only familiar with the commerical ones (flightaware etc.). What are some of the open ones?
Innovations in Graph Representation Learning
I think it's bordering on conspiracy to commit theft honestly. "Setting up a marketplace" is this jargon that's thrown around and promotes all sorts of libretarian and free market connotations, but this company has clearly not done the ground work to actually establish a safe marketplace. It's like running a flea market but occasionally getting raided by a gang that steals everyone's stuff, if that happens three times and you continue to operate the market without addressing the issue... you're clearly not an honest operator.
You didn't stress the most important part well enough:

> But when you bolt on other apps and 3rd-party APIs, it gets close to programming without code: a new way to build software.

SFDC is worth $100B not because it's a CRM. It's worth that much because it's a CRM platform. The "what it does" is not nearly as important as the ecosystem/platform aspect of it.

"What it does" has no moat. Platforms have a moat. That's the value of SFDC in a nutshell.

You could help highlight this by drawing attention to it earlier, and also by boldfacing the sentence just before my quote where you say "platform".
I sometimes give to them, but I also make a donation to politicians or groups fighting for an actual fix for the health care system in this country.
isn't the issue the fact that said friend could afford to pay the bill?

This is not to detract from your comment about the system being broken
> And now you understand why the Etcher devs chose Electron.

No one is claiming that the choice to use electron is without merit or that it is a mysterious choice. It's just heavily disappointing that we've gotten to the point where 300mb and 4 processes is acceptable for the cruft developed with it.
How do you make big projects?
Yes, major desktop GUIs 20 yrs ago had more in common with each other than they have with web apps. They also had more in common with each other than with iOS and Android phones. Yet today, most people in the more-developed economies use desktop apps, web apps on desktop, phone apps and web apps on phone every day. Some even have GUI apps in their cars and on their wrists. And among the new desktop apps, they have apps that work with touch UI or keyboard and/or mouse, that are available on multiple platforms with significant UI differences, and that have mobile versions.

The result for most users is that they use a whole medley of different UIs daily and are far more flexible about UIs than back in the day when you were either a Mac person or a Windows person exclusively and all of your apps were native apps on your one machine. As clients continue to diversify, as Web apps spread, as companies like Apple keep bumping the Mac UI to lower and lower priority and claim Mac (which mustn't have touch)/iPod/iPhone/AppleWatch all need different UIs and all must have some sort of web support, and Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon apps in their wide and ever-changing variety are used more and more...the demand for consistent UI in the fine details is not nearly as big an issue for most people as it used to be.
I was guessing it was a pre-paid card that just barely had the balance to cover the rental fee.
> Second as also noted, the migration is manually! You have to download a zone record and upload it, and that's after manually creating your account.

It is not manual, you don't have to do anything... other than pay consultants to do the migration for you, of course.
The search for life as we don't know it
What about the pharma companies that do not produce insulin (like GSK or TEVA). They have all the necessary expertise, ability, and equipment to manufacture insulin. Many people need insulin to survive. These companies could make insulin for relatively cheap and still be massively profitable, but they choose not to, and people suffer because many people who need insulin can't but it from them.

Of course it's corporate greed -- even if they sold insulin for relatively cheap and were massively profitable, they would only bother to produce it because of corporate greed.
I think LASIK is probably closer to cosmetic surgery than "healthcare", at least as far as most of this discussion is concerned. If your arm is broken you can't really shop around.
The problem is that word processors and word wrap make it too easy to move text, destroying the absolute and sometimes even relative position.

Much of human memory evolved to remember locations, and almost all of the top memory competitors use locality association ("Memory Palace"/loci) as their primary method.
I am not so sure. When she has the money to pay for it, but instead chooses to portrait like she doesn't and asks others to pay for it, I think it's at least immoral.

It goes without saying that the healthcare system is completely broken, but that doesn't justify above behavior.
The collapse has been happening for a long time as media fractured. And as Andrew Yang points out, the collapse of the middle class from automation has largely lead to a mindset of scarcity, of us vs them, that made it easy for political forces to manipulate people into scapegoating each other and hyperbolizing others.

No one who is living pay check to pay check wants to think about climate change or doing anything which doesn’t immediately benefit their economic situation in some quick fix way.

Our political system lacks any generosity now as well. Losers don’t accept their loss and do their jobs according to procedure. Mitch McConnell for example, or the Oregon example of denying a quorum instead of just voting no. The general strategy of just not allowing government to function if you know you’re going to lose is a bad precedent.
I'd say it's still a financial one, though highly complex. Not financial in the sense of "they're broke and homeless", but financial in the sense of America has terrible healthcare and within that terrible healthcare, mental healthcare is the bottom of the pile. And that's just financially - culturally we don't help each other seek mental health help either.

I imagine it's terribly complex, so I don't mean to simplify. I just have had the nagging feeling lately that we shouldn't have any homeless. It doesn't seem like a useful state of being. If you're mentally healthy but don't want to live a traditional life (job/etc), I'm not sure we should allow you to live under a bridge - go live in the woods, there's plenty left. I just can't see another way to look at the homeless problem.

It just seems that predominately people on the streets are suffering physically and mentally, and we're doing nothing.
Yeah, lawmaking has a way of sticking around whether anybody likes it or not. Look how long it's taking to clean up the messes left by the PATRIOT act, or the DMCA... it'll be literally decades, if ever, before all that damage can be undone. It takes so long that people just get used to it as the way things are, and adapt, and then it's even harder to change.
>implicit "trust" people and businesses have of "strangers", people and businesses they have never met before.

The US is a pretty big and diverse place. Where I'm from it's expected that everyone screws everyone as hard as possible in any business transaction and if you don't do your due diligence then you consent to whatever screwing you receive.

For example you call ten plumbers and all ten of them will give you a "screw you" price then you call up your cousin who calls his in-law who's a GC who gives you a plumber's contact info and a name to drop and then you get a reasonable price that the plumber would offer when they're not trying to screw the other party. Then you use this info to negotiate the other guys down to reasonable prices. And that's just one example.

The state can generally be trusted to not take advantage of you but you still have to be careful. They'll play plenty of tricks that push the limits of plausible deniability in order to get their money.

Even retail transactions are suspect. About the only places I can trust to not rip me off 50% of the time are the big national chains.

It's not quite as bad as some other parts of the world but you can't enter into any business transaction without doing your due diligence. If you do you'll get burned pretty often.

Even in random day to day interactions with other people you don't trust people unless you know them or there's some alignment of interests that keeps them from screwing you.

And no, I don't come from some "backwards" rural area. I'm speaking about a relatively well off part of the northeast.
I don't. I use Javascript instead of basic. I just use the concept of components and events and forms from Visual basic
Sort of, yeah. It would be 51% of verification nodes. If you bought 51% of all Bitcoin, but it was verified by everybody else in the network, you don't actually have any power to decide if your transactions were valid or not. If you controlled 51% of the nodes, you would have majority control over which transactions are valid.
I know it always feels like the mods must be against you when you get a moderation reply, but I'm moderately sure we're not doing that. There is probably some unconscious bias but given how much practice we have at staying neutral—e.g. making a point of moderating bad comments even if we agree with them—such bias is probably relatively subtle. We also have a lot of practice at reviewing our own decisions, since users aren't shy about pointing out what they feel was biased. In those cases the moderation calls are usually defensible. Also, if we were grossly biased, we'd get major pushback from the community, which is always on the lookout for moderator overreach. That doesn't happen very often.

The thing is, even if someone else was being unkind, you still have to follow the site guidelines in how you respond.
I guess it all depends on the revenue, which has to exist for that evaluation right?

It would be interesting how the founders justify for the novelty aspect when presenting to investors. I will say for a past birthday, I've ordered from c-list celebrities and athletes and its been a hit. But if everyone does it, it won't be nearly as funny.

> Are they betting that this society gets more enamored with influencers and celebrity?

Super sad, but has anything shown much to the contrary?
They’re lying
Well then for what it’s worth, I’ve proposed one below that suggests following the framework of the CFPB if Federal government is to be involved at all (I personally think it should not be).

I’m open to your response to that suggestion.
>but yeah other usage based services like s3 and network traffic that won’t work.

I think this is the major problem. It's conceptually easy to say 'Yeah no more spinning up ec2 instances' or whatever, but the only way to deal with hitting that cap for things like network traffic or storage services is just turning off network access or deleting the files. I can't imagine many businesses are going to go for "hey if you set a cap and you exceed it we fix it by deleting your stuff and taking down network availability." - that's going to be a total nonstarter in so many situations! But that's what would be required to actually set a spending cap on an account.

That sort of decision really needs to be made by a human as it's happening - is the spike in usage legitimate? Is it your customers driving the demand? Is it unwanted traffic? Is it an autoscaling group gone wrong? etc. etc. etc.

My suggestion is setting up CW billing alarms at several thresholds, to try and stay ahead of this before it reaches that point, with paging on the highest threshold where it's about at the point where you'd consider turning things off. Then you should hopefully be able to take care of unexpected expenses before they're problematic, but also ready to engage someone to make the tough decisions instead of just automatically taking yourself down.
I mean dismissed as in not being impressive. "Yeah, yeah, I should have seen that. It is obvious. No big deal."

And if you use the software as a backup, people don't respond well to their dumb mistakes being pointed out. And the result is that people put effort in to not making dumb mistakes...and therefore either slow down or have less time for what humans can do better than computers.

In theory it should work a lot better than it actually does.