skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're missing a specification of the protocol (and the Libre software sympathizer in me wants a Libre implementation of said protocol).

I'm not saying it doesn't work (to be fair I haven't tried it, but have only heard good things about it). It's just that it works in its own world.
Because they are asking you to police the comments of a third party who posts an opinion you may not have and you may not be able to convince to remove the post?
This comes up almost every time someone questions the need for full medical or law school. There is a middle ground. I personally would support multiple paths to the bar (and to medical practice). I read (and kind of enjoyed) Milton Friedman's "abolish the AMA", but I wouldn't really go that far. I do, however, think that the AMA and ABA exercise far too much power to deny others there right to practice, and I think it's healthy to have more than one path.

For instance, I recently read about a seismic engineer who attended an on-line law school (Kaplan - the article was in us news). He will take over as corporate council for his engineering firm, but he will have to take the bar in California. All other states (minor hand waving here) ban pure online law degrees. It sounds like a reasonably rigorous degree (4 years, many hours of study, interaction with students and professors), and he had to pass the bar. How could the public interest possibly be served by preventing this guy from practice? What 25 year old history major from a 4th tier law school is denied a job because a mid career seismic engineer was allowed to join the bar?

I also think that law is particularly unique in that it regulates almost every element of society. People talk about "broad liberal arts educations", but I think most pre-law students are pretty narrowly educated (they tend to avoid math heavy majors, and go straight to law school, never really understanding how other fields work). I think that the ban on on-line learning, combined with an unnecessarily long degree may actually prevent the best people from becoming lawyers - in short, rather than ensuring quality, it may simply ensure a myopic profession that still goes out and regulates everybody else.

Would someone with a grad degree from a strong program in engineering or CS and accelerated one year law degree who passed the bar be a threat to the public? Personally, I'd much rather hire someone who majored in a very rigorous undergrad field (with humanities coursework as well) and got a grad degree from a top school plus an accelerated law degree than a b- history major who partied his way through a mediocre 3 year jd and barely passed the bar. I also don't think that these two groups would compete for the same jobs. At the very least, I'd say people should have the option of pursing (and hiring people who pursued) other paths.
Great idea, right up till the point they announced it and later tried to enforce it.
"rather treat than cure" is falsified by the fact that if you have a cure, you corner the market, raking in cash and hurting your competitors' mere treatments.

..and that pharamceutical companies aren't run by complete monsters.
More cons:
- cheating for benchmark's sake (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4735670)
In the US one way to help mitigate this problem is to start shifting some of the risk from the insurance plans on to the provider networks. As mentioned people can change insurance plans frequently so investing in their health can be difficult. While they change plans frequently, the providers they see would be slower change. There are times when a change in plans will cause in change in PCPs. But that should still be less frequent then the change in insurance.

But we would need to reward provider networks for keeping people healthy, not just treating them when sick.
"Quick response and delivery. Decrypted as listed in the instructions. Would do business again! 5-stars! Best hackers on eHack."
Unfortunately after a denial it is much harder to apply again as they'll check your previous application and look for alterations (i.e. lies or additions).

A business accelerator doesn't really fall into any one visa category well. Is it a 2-3 month "business meeting" (i.e. B-1), is it educational (i.e. F-1), or even a "short course" eligible under a travel visa (B-2)? All of the above?

The reason you got denied is as it says, and while you can re-apply providing more evidence it will be an uphill battle. You just have to show WHY you'll be returning home (e.g. family, a job, other obligations)? By any chance did you list yourself as self-employed, rather than an employee of your own company? They hate self-employed people and often treat them as "unemployed."
I enjoyed this review from 2012, but in 2014 we are past a 2013 "MOOC backlash" and live in an era where lines are well drawn. There are still some educators committed to true distance learning, but some also who have circled the wagons and who decry such "solutionist" thinking.

The really sad thing is that the current battle isn't just about this or that "poor" offering in the present, it is against the whole effort. Do you have an idea for a better way to run distance learning? You too are a "solutionist" and have enemies in place.
If I'm spending hundreds of dollars on a fashion piece, then yes, I obviously care what other people will think about it. On the other hand, if I'm buying something timeless, it will never be out of fashion.
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"The solution is actually quite simple: do what you love and is important to you regularly."

Of course I agree - this is near impossible to argue. It's what pushed me into entrepreneurship after realizing I wanted to shape my own work reality if it was something I was going to be spending 40+ hours a week doing.

That said, a reality I feel like I'm coming to grips with is that most of my friends working traditional/conventional career paths really don't give a damn about their work.

I'm a little skeptical about the idea that this is practical information most people working normal jobs will follow through with (that basically means, quit).
facilities to produce the medicine don't come cheap, they are not cheap to maintain, so this odd dismissive stance so many make with regards to medicine always annoys me.

the marketing of many drugs is done to convince consumers to pick a named brand over a generic. frankly the small print warnings they have to carry are more frightening than what is on a pack of smokes.
How is this different from the "gift card network" that I can use to indirectly pay for a VPN? When I saw that I screamed "money laundering!"
Okay.

The reuse of output from functional units was done in TTA CPUs (Transport Triggered Architectures). Guess how they fare if you probable never heard of them?

Guess also how fast or slow they are compared to regular OOO CPUs.

You will be right if you guess that they are not that good in terms of raw performance and they are not that fast in terms of operating frequency.

They are not fast in either way precisely because they use crossbar as a operand delivery network. They also can have FIFOs as the switching network or as an another functional unit dedicated to spreading information, but most often it is not used.
If this thing beeped rather than having a second unit it would be better in two ways: first it wouldn't force you to look at something; second it wouldn't need two pieces and bluetooth, and I guess the price could be sliced in half.
It looks like land owners do have some rights to their properties airspace:

At the same time, the law, and the Supreme Court, recognized that a landowner had property rights in the lower reaches of the airspace above their property. The law, in balancing the public interest in using the airspace for air navigation against the landowner's rights, declared that a landowner owns only so much of the airspace above their property as they may reasonably use in connection with their enjoyment of the underlying land.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_rights

[Edit] Completely missed your last sentence when commenting! I couldn't find any cases where someone went to court over someone violating their airspace besides people arguing over airport flight paths.
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I don't think this article really says anything that isn't obvious. We all know that serious cases of burnout happen because you don't like what you're doing. We all only have so much patience and tolerance for things we dislike. The answer is to stop doing things you don't like doing so much, and do things you do like doing more, and make this a permanent change, not just a two week break before you jump back into the things you hate; that may prolong your tolerance, but you'll eventually run out again. We have to find an equilibrium between the enjoyable and the necessary that allows us to be productive but doesn't make us hate our lives. That's no secret.

The problem is that most people don't have many options to change their situation in a significant way -- all they can do, if they're lucky, is take a short vacation and hope that re-energizes them enough to go into another grueling year without having a breakdown. Some of us have to try to manage a constantly ongoing breakdown without disrupting the work that brings in the bacon.

If your version of "burnout" is completely resolved by taking a vacation, you weren't burning out, you just needed a short break. In my mind, burnout refers to a larger state of mental exhaustion.
Yeah, and that's the point I am still making about the original example. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
The argument here is that the response that Solvadi is receiving now is the reason why that research isn't there - if you're afraid that the market may reject your pricing it's going to be very hard to justify doing the research in the first place, because you have no idea what the final value of it will be.
Anyway, almost nobody is actually making backups and keeping them around in obsolescing file formats on rotting media.

They are uploading everything to facebook or google or apple, leaving all the details of long-term storage and display to them. Where will those services and that user content be in 20 or 100 years?
Why does the location of the product matter? The crime is the fraudulent credit card use, which is well documented by Amazon, not receiving the camera.

Oh, you mean because there is no evidence pointing to the physical location or identity of the carded.
I agree with what you're saying but as someone who has had this issue recently but also already works a relaxed 36 hours a week I think the article was pretty much spot-on.
I find it better because while it is louder, I can just tune it out, whereas I can't tune out people I know.

If they stand behind me I get the nagging feeling that they might want something even if they don't, and that's way more distracting than a cafe. Even if they're quiet.

Also, the lack of wifi helps aid concentration.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096808
If your target market is twenty-something trendy men with disposable income who want something made in the USA, $220 is nothing to them. Pricing it cheaper would just be giving money away.

(The next step up is aspirational leather bags aimed at thirty-somethings, like Saddleback Leather: http://www.saddlebackleather.com/messenger )
Indeed: The typical examples are cancer drugs for a specific cancer, which give a few extra months of good-quality life. The cost/benefit on these is not clear-cut.
my public library does not allow coffee inside :(
No its not directly comparable at all.

The softcore is pretty small, takes up roughly a tenth of a small cheap (by fpga standards) dev board. There are bigger, and smaller, soft cores.

To compare, you could be running benchmarks on about ten simultaneous systems vs one FPGA if you insist on "one chip" vs "one chip" comparisons so obviously the fpga is ten times faster than it appears. The advantage a FPGA provides is really smart custom peripherals. So if for whatever reason you need to do lots of floating point divides in your app, or perhaps in your benchmark, you stick 100 hardware FP dividers on the chip and suddenly your division benchmark absolutely smokes the ARM which I believe has only one hardware FP division unit (or was it two?)
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In fairness, I'm guessing a lot of the people virtually stomping on this hotel are doing so in an attempt to nip a potential Overton window shift in the bud. If this hotel were to get away with such a policy, other hotels and perhaps other types of businesses would likely follow suit; that's how changes in what's considered normal behavior come about. Punishing the first defector can be an effective way to forestall that.
Nice! Simple tactics I found so far:

1. Place an http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/R-pentomino wherever there is lots of space and you have 5 to spare. Or another http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/List_of_long-lived_methuselah... (sort by initial population).

2. Free-ride on others' cells to create some fertile configuration with less than 5 investment. In most cases this benefits the original owner more than me.

- Add a 3-line to a block (or anything with a 2-cell side):

xx
xx
OOO <- my 3 cells

This resembles one of the predecessors of an r-pentamino and grows nicely.

- Add 2 "ears" to a blinker — a complete takeover!:

OxO
x
x

- Add 2 onto some diagonal edge, e.g. beehive:

xx
x x
xxO
O

This is very sensitive to what I attach to, e.g. in this variation my cells die out:

xx
x xO
xxO
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8125039

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128951

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131341

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131407
Yeah, the bulky front pockets kill that Jansport for me. And it's not that much cheaper anyways.
Likely exclusively due to this guy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8033600

Who runs a bot that makes millions of shitty stub articles.
You obviously set up a strawman by saying that the pills "aren't free." Most countries use their ability to violate patents as a threat to squeeze drug companies down to a price that exceeds their costs on a marginal unit, but less than their costs on an average unit. It makes sense for the companies to go along because something is better than nothing and they still have the US paying full fare.

The US cannot get in on this, too, without destroying the drug industry, which depends on revenue from the American customer base. Other systems are possible, but one should demonstrate their effectiveness before destroying the old system.

So, yeah, like the grandparent said, the US is "unfairly" subsidizing the rest of the world. It would be nice if other countries shared the load, but the US can't force them.
Microsoft tried to sell WinRT based ARM tablets at $300, and still couldn't sell any. In comparison, the $1000+ Surface Pro (once you get the keyboard attachment and everything, it breaks $1000 easy) has been getting pretty decent reviews and has fallen into a solid niche.

Why would an ARM-based Mac do any better than WinRT?
Another way to approach this is to ask what they consider a day to be? Is it sitting in the chair from 9 to 5? Is it just doing a certain number of features in a day? Does it involve doing support after hours? Considering that they are asking for a 'day' rate I'm assuming this is their way of asking if they can retain you for full time work the extent of the contract.

In these situations I make it clear that while I'm willing to make them my primary client my business does require me to attend to other matters such as administration, taxes, billing, lead generation, etc.

I never say they can expect X hours out of me a week because quite frankly I've never been good at maintaining a consistent hourly pace per week. When I was doing hourly I averaged about 20 hours a week of programming (I was pretty fanatical about starting/stopping the clock). When I would get closer to 30 that was when I would be pushing a deadline or getting close to burnout.

What I do now is get a sense of what they expect out of me in terms of reliability and production. This tends to be a lot of work up front because I'm building trust with the client. Such as meeting with them more frequently to get on the same page as them. But that up front work pays off dividends later on when I have to bail to attend to family or business matters. Eventually this settles down to weekly communication to see if you're actually meeting/exceeding the client's expectations.

Again I'd emphasize asking more questions about what they consider a day to be? Who knows it might just mean you working on their stuff for 5 hours a day :)
We don't have discrete life stages like butterflies, but my understanding of developmental psychology is that we very much do have mental-ability life stages. Part of that understanding is that we don't fully mentally mature until around 25. If that is true, then it does call into question using mostly 20-year-olds to conduct psychology experiments.
> This is more difficult with American states (because people move between them much more- the payment comes from one state, but the benefit is spread out)

Simple: make it federal. Scale it up until you get controlled borders.
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Which is most of what this article is about...
10 negative Yelp reviews have been posted today (so far), ouch...

What's Yelps policy towards such fake reviews? Obviously most of those people have never been to that place.
And that is why multicopter enthusiasts, including myself, absolutely hate DJI phantoms. They are marketed as toys but they are powerful enough to do major damage and people who buy them don't even realize it. I've personally witnessed a DJI owner try to stop running propellers with his hands and another who thought it was a good idea to fly dangerously close to the heads of some girls who were sunbathing. It's gotten to the point where I seriously believe you should have to take a safety course and get a license in order to fly these things.
It has an open API which could be really useful on mobile apps, especially as smart watches and glass (potentially) begin to become more popular. So removing Bluetooth doesn't seem like a huge win. And the beep idea was probably considered (?), but it looks like one of their goals was to remove dependence on hearing.
This is inherent in BTC. How can you have anonymous transactions and still avoid fraud?
Great articles make HN top, I don't care about the source.
It's largely the same argument for why it would be bad to nationalize other huge industries.
> But a review would happen after the wedding has taken place, yes?

Some people would review on first opportunity - perhaps before having slept the night.
could you just your favorites here ? i was in germany in 2007 and 2010 for a total of 5 weeks and didn't find a single coffee shop that was conducive to working. thinking it's time to go visit friends again ...
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Perhaps they could have sent a gift voucher to the wedding couple for every negative review, including a message that you wanted a "vintage" inn and we provided the best service we could, but your guests weren't happy. It could probably guilt the wedding couple to request the guests to take the reviews down. And, perhaps led to a positive story on HN instead.
Call me old fashioned but surge pricing seems like another term for price gouging.
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Is there any proof that diarrhea is due to the lack of toilets? Although septic toilet is still a toilet, I don't think it's orders of magnitude more hygienic solution for a densely populated area. It requires maintenance and cleaning, and in an area with heavy rains, it could be a disaster (according the article, it's concrete one that can easily overflow). I think they should address the running water and soap before tackling the toilet issue!
Are fish more intelligent than we realize?
My take was that the author was talking about situations where people say "I _need_ to take a holiday" with the implication that work is too much for them right now. E.g. a holiday for the sake of getting away from a burnout work situation as opposed to a holiday for the sake of experiencing different cultures, seeing new things etc. The former is good and healthy, but in the former you are running away from something.
> And a lot of it comes down to native English speakers who fear losing the intended nuances of the original and so do a rigidly literal translation, because they think that's the "most accurate."

Agree with you.

One of the key issues is that, to be a good translator you need to have a good command of BOTH languages. I can tell you I see piss poor French translations (from English or other languages) every day as well, and it's not nitpicking, it's just people doing an awful job at what they are being paid for. Most people who do translations are barely even literate in their own language in the first place (you can see that in their obvious lack of vocabulary).

On the other hand, I'd say the best translations I have seen go way beyond the original work, making the translated work even better, more rich, more nuanced than what it was before. It's not just "translation", it's rather close to versioning.
http://www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowUserReviews-g47931-d490934-r13...

Ice is of obvious importance, but it sounds like they did get ice, and the complaint was about the attitude concerning it.
"and took a look at the MSP430's instruction set."

I wonder in a general sense if there are many VMs that explicitly copy good older CPUs. I've always thought the 6809 would make an awesome VM. After all, it was pretty awesome to code on in the real world. Or a VM based on the classic 1802, 6502, or Z80 with some minor mods.

If you really want to warp peoples minds give them a VM based on IBM HAL assembler, basically turn Hercules and VM into a hypervisor rather than an application.

A PDP-11 inspired/based virtual machine. Hmm.
More specifically, there's a FOIA exemption for this very situation. It's exemption 4, the business/financial secret exemption.

A quote from justice.gov's FOIA guide[1]:

Exemption 4 of the FOIA protects "trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person [that is] privileged or confidential." (1) This exemption is intended to protect the interests of both the government and submitters of information. Its very existence encourages submitters to voluntarily furnish useful commercial or financial information to the government and it correspondingly provides the government with an assurance that such information will be reliable. The exemption also affords protection to those submitters who are required to furnish commercial or financial information to the government by safeguarding them from the competitive disadvantages that could result from disclosure. (2) The exemption covers two broad categories of information in federal agency records: (1) trade secrets; and (2) information that is (a) commercial or financial, and (b) obtained from a person, and (c) privileged or confidential.

1: http://www.justice.gov/oip/exemption4.htm#N_1_
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Thanks – looks like that was added about a year ago and I obviously haven't needed it in awhile:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=135489