skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be more correct to say that American liberals tend to dismiss the power of the market to produce the optimal result across all concerns not just GDP. Markets do a poor job at things like protecting the environment, and egalitarianism. Also, markets in practice tend to obstruct the sharing of information that is needed by theoretically ideal markets. Also, as capital accumulates free markets tend towards forming monopolies.
It seems the best option would be for each municipality to buy the coax cable infrastructure and lease it back to the cable company, while allowing for other companies to lease the same infrastructure.
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Ask HN: What personal subscription services do use use?
I'm trying to cut down on expenses and realized that I'm paying close to $500 annually for subscription services that I use for my personal life/leisure.

On top of my head, these are the services that I pay for, amounts are annual fees in USD:

[Music] Spotify Premium - $119.88

[Email] FastMail Premier - $120

[Shipping + Movies] Amazon Prime - $99

[Personal Repo] Github Small - $144

It would be interesting to see what subscription services the HN community uses. Please don't add services that you use for work or services that are paid for by your company or start-up.
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With babies, this is a recommended method (cradling them upside down, letting gravity work, while also giving minor back blows). However, this method would be entirely impossible with a fully grown adult. The problem is also that the object can get lodged wanting to neither move up OR down, so getting them upside down only, probably wouldn't dislodge it. That's why it becomes necessary to push it out with what little air is below the object.
The first aid for toddlers I learnt many uears ago recommended picking them up by the legs and whacking their backs.

This is impractical on adults.
> Now with LED and LCD displays they do

More precisely: now there is somewhat a more common case where they do. Certainly in many contexts it is still helpful to think of pixels as points (images are very often transformed before display). But if you're talking about what gets pushed to the screen, it probably will be helpful to think of them as squares. Doing so lets you do cool tricks like sub-pixel antialiasing.

And sure, you could still deal with subpixels in a "pixels are samples" model, but it would be a lot more awkward.
A better analogy (to me) is that the internet infrastructure is part of the commons (like roads, bridges, canals etc) and the internet data is the free exchange of ideas (like phone calls and ham radio broadcasts). Internet technology may be so ubiquitous now that I don't think we can trust control of it to private interests. Arguing in terms of corporations frames it in the wrong light and reminds me of Ma Bell.
Ooh, and http://vim.sexy!
I think we have a mismatch of "zoom" levels where you appear to be arguing both "Everyone in the same grade took the same classes" and the opposite of that scheduling. I suppose from an extremely high level perspective we also all took some of the same classes, sort of. I think drivers ed was universal as was gym/phy ed, and health class (which was a dumbed down human oriented biology/anatomy class, rather than having anything direct to do with health)

Based on further detail our experiences were not all that different.

"college prep" this was more of a tag on the depth of study in the classroom than a specific class. They generally separated and tracked and labeled the classes by "intensive" "college prep" "unlabeled" and "basic" from top to bottom. I was in "intensive" math so in my last year I took college calculus. I was merely in "college prep" english lit with the primary effect that I got better letter grades than my friends in "intensive" english lit, also my reading assignments were shorter as were my essay requirements. It was explained you'd never be able to do college level work unless you took the "college prep" level classes. It was explained to us that for the rest of our lives our industrial corporate employers would care very deeply about who took Int English Lit 11 vs College Prep English Lit 11, not to mention how much they'd care about our middle school grades (LOL). There is something of a fad in the usa to mainstream absolutely all students into the "college prep" classes, to maximize revenue. I suppose it minimizes expense, at least as long as you can pretend there's no difference between students. Conformity at all costs!

As I think back, pretty much everyone in the "intensive math" class was together from 7th grade until 12th grade, plus or minus people moving, etc. Thru attrition we were down to about 15 kids by senior year.
Will there be a movement to go back to constrained system to bring back the fun ? I got more 'wow' from this than from Assassin's Creed Unity. Weird.
> Dr. Nick testified that if he had not given Elvis a large proportion of the drugs he demanded, other doctors would have... His defense was weakened substantially by evidence that he had prescribed an excessive amount of drugs to at least ten other patients, including rock star Jerry Lee Lewis and his own teenage daughter, Chrissy.

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APIs are something a service offers when it needs help to grow. Once the service gets big, the API goes away, or becomes a pay service.

Google once allowed search queries via a SOAP interface. That's gone. They also dropped RSS feeds. But the API for submitting paid ads, that works. The paid cloud services are fine.

Twitter doesn't like third party Twitter clients any more and will pull the API key of anyone who writes one. A third party client might have a spam ("sponsored tweet") filter.
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Thou shall not worship idols.
They announced the retirement 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7891171
Fair enough. Consider my problem statement (rent extraction) rather than my poor solutions.
He's probably making the common mistake of confusing the Web with the Internet.
In that particular case, there was a shortage - it was extremely difficult for even large businesses to get hard drives. The issue was that hard drive manufacturers were (are?) clustered around an area that got flooded.
Zone banks to second floors (external stairway?)
I did some Adwords ads - spent about $5k. The plan was to get some sense of ROI (positive or negative) and then try raising money with proof of concept and estimated budget in-hand. I tried targeting consumers, thinking that at first if I got even a few leads we could have a call center call the relevant businesses. When no one submitted their videos (despite a dead-simple, two tap submission process) I tried to pivot. I started pitching businesses on a cloud-based service to receive, review, and reply to video from their customers (including automated appointment scheduling etc) through their existing websites/apps. Out of hundreds of businesses I contacted, not a single one expressed even the slightest interest.

It seemed like it would be a great business, but the market told me otherwise. That's why I said these marketplaces sound like better businesses than they are.
You sir (the author) are a gentleman.

This is really enabling and a generous act of open-sourcing.

Thank you!
Could you explain how it is possible to maintain good battery life while firing up the GPS every 10 minutes? Thanks.
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And how would this apply to hacking? Or entrepreneurship?
That's a bit like asking what connections Comcast has to the Russian mafia because botnet traffic comes from their IP space.

Cogent is a low cost supplier of wholesale bandwidth and had reasonably priced colocation in some places.

Level3 and AT&T seem to be the provider of choice for US Government.
??? Certainly not
> I wish people would stop saying that.

Really? I thought I had an original thought there for a second. So, someone, somewhere, agrees with me out there.
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The change in sleep schedule is killer. You forgot to mention that the same trend (earlier start, further away) also applies to the transition to High School. I remember having to wake up around 6 AM and getting on the bus around 6:45 to get to school before classes started at 7:10. Immediately after graduating high school I reverted back to much more "normal" sleep schedule (go to sleep ~1 AM, wake up ~9 AM).
This is actually the reason I believe CRTs look better for a given resolution. The square reconstruction filter has a quite poor frequency response. If you look at a far enough distance (or good enough resolution), the cognitive low pass filter when you see the image is going to mitigate the problem, but up close it's quite bad. The smooth fall-off of CRT's pixel "point spread function" actually resembles a bit more the ideal sinc filter for reconstruction of bandlimtied signals. The square window has nasty zeros and decays very slowly in frequency.

I think manufacturers don't have a solution to this because the light producing elements inherently produce light across a small surface. They can't make this surface much smaller (and then apply a good blurring filter) since that would incur directly less brightness. Also, if they could, it would probably be more costly then simply making a larger number of smaller pixels (which also raises resolution).

I'm sure a lot of manufactures are not even mindful of these issues though, and I ssupect a compromise would be possible with some R&D.

EDIT: It's interesting this phenomenon is about the same across time. Some high-end monitor manufacturers are starting to offer strobed high frequency displays that don't exhibit the poor response of a window reconstruction. With a high enough refresh rate the temporal time constant of our visual system is enough to provide a good reconstruction. The difference can be seen in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjTgz9byxuo
I used IMDB several years ago, but now see that their usage policy is restricted to "personal" use. Who is going to download 1.11 GB of compressed text for personal use?

http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
Their condusion-avoidance example is table-chair-lamp vs. table-chair-lamps.

Let's look at more singular/plural combinations.

http://what3words.com/tables.chair.lamp is close to Minneapolis

http://what3words.com/table.chairs.lamp pretty close to http://what3words.com/tables.chairs.lamp are on the east coast of the USA.

West coast: http://what3words.com/tables.chairs.lamps is close to
http://what3words.com/table.chair.lamps, both are on the opposite side of the continent to http://what3words.com/table.chairs.lamps which is pretty close to
http://what3words.com/tables.chair.lamps

Very confusing!
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What is it about LCDs and LED displays that map 1-to-1 to pixels? I know very little about these technologies, but a fair bit about CRT displays, so take this as an honest, if somewhat suspicious question.
Or the shortage was caused by the NSA filling their new data-center with as much capacity as it could get its hands on, covertly, and the flood was used as a convenient cover-story for the shortage.
Our middle and high schools had nearly identical recruitment areas, so socially the transition was irrelevant. Almost exactly one quarter of my middle school class came from my elementary school. Everyone I went to Kindergarten with, graduated as a senior with me 13 years later, minus obvious attrition due to moving, etc. From observation of other posts this is apparently highly unusual. Perhaps you all draw lots and are randomly assigned to any school in the district? This is kinda interesting.

I live in the same city in 2014 as we lived in the 80s when I was going to school, and the district still does things the same way... assuming I don't move, my kids will graduate high school with the kids from their Kindergarten class. So if its a fad, its long lived.

I would propose the transition can't be any more "awful" than moving to a new school. My parents never moved during my entire K-12 experience, which is apparently also an outlier. I am told that other kids have survived moving to a new school one or twice; going thru the experience with 250 of their closest friends can't be nearly as bad.
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I think its currently true in our industry, although its hard to measure. The difference between "rock-star" and avg developer (even the ones without CS degrees) isn't no were near 10x. Could be because the tech changes so frequently, so everyone starts at zero every 5 years. Another things is that everything is open, open-sourced, books, talks, videos its easy to become a avg developer. I always thought software engineers have a lot in common with athletes; limited shelf-life, make good money (although not as much but within 2-3x over avg career), can retire young (if successful).
Yeah I should have said "up to" 70 - 99%. The 70% stuff from Lindt is somewhere around my preference level. Funny you should mention 35%... Bournville (famous UK brand, now owned by Cadbury Kraft) is 36%. I still find it far too sweet.
Agave is still in short supply, that's why most "tequila" is cut with other liquors.
> an on-going crowd-control/rioting incident means this is an unusual situation

You mean like Budapest in 1956? Prague in 1968? Riots like those? Or are those rioters worthy of their aspirations, while the rioters in Ferguson are unworthy of their aspirations?

> Try looking at photographs of city streets taken during a normal working day, and note the absence of APCs and riot police.

There weren't many riot police regularly tromping around Moscow or Bucharest or Kiev or Sofia during the 1970s either.
I knew the name was familiar http://alvyray.com/Pixar/PixarHistoryRevisited.htm
The problem with your proposal is that consumers already pay far more than $1/mbit/s to Comcast unless they are still in the introductory pricing period, or are lucky enough to live where Comcast has competition. What's worse, if the consumer actually uses all of that bandwidth (or even their proportional share of a shared last mile link), they will reach their download cap before the end of the month.

The exact thing I pay an ISP to do is to provide unlimited (up to my bandwidth plan) transit to the peering points of the services I want to use. They have no ethical or moral right to turn around and charge Netflix, Google, Crunchyroll, Vimeo, or anybody else for the thing I'm already paying for.
The city itself is home to 35 colleges and universities enrolling about 152,000 students.

The Redevelopment Authority is complaining that, after graduating, 4 out of 5 students leave. After 20 pages, they conclude that's what's supposed to happen.
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> Sure running cable is expensive

It's not just expensive, it's fucking hard. Speaking as a guy who occasionally does this for a living.

The revenue you can make on a single phone wire these days just doesn't pay off in five years. Not in ten. Maybe in twenty years, but this break-even delay is too much for any investor who is not at government level!

And this is why speedy stuff like FTTH is deployed in cities and not in rural areas: digging costs approximately the same in rural as in city areas... and if it costs me as provider 50 k€ to wire up 100m of city street with 500 customers, that's paying off in a year. Wiring up a rural area with (if you're lucky, and I'm already leaving out real rural areas!) 50 customers takes 10 years to break even...

And this difference is why it is imperative that last-mile infrastructure building is done by a government entity charging the same amount of money for providing a bitstream Internet uplink to the customer - at a price point where the city customers subsidize the rural customers and the utility provider breaks even.

The added value by telecom providers renting the wires from utility can be e.g. faster peering to Netflix, Facebook caching servers in the next major city, etc.
It's not like that's going to disappear. It may shift or even shrink, but the possibility of these plants going entirely extinct is roughly zero.

The article is written in a fantasy world where neither supply nor demand can be altered. Amusingly, while discussing the problem (farmers are switching to more profitable crops) it also discusses the automatic solution (decreased supply will increase prices which will decrease consumption and increase production).
That's definitely not anti aliasing and definitely the idea that the paper was railing against.
If by "sexism" you mean women and men being treated differently, of course it exists - because women and men are different. Women have intrinsic value, so wars are being fought over them (not only in the Iliad, but also in "primitive societies").

Talking about the past is also not so straightforward. The world was very different, for example I wouldn't be surprised if many jobs simply didn't make sense for women. Like if they required a lot of physical labor (which presumably was most jobs). So women being excluded from such jobs might not have been active discrimination but simply common sense (as in "not worth considering"). For the other subjects there also were or might have been reasons that simply don't exist anymore today. For example it seems likely that marriage and women taking care of the household was about the only way to survive. Today our survival is much easier than it used to be, because there are many more amenities and things provided for.
Bozhidar Batsov's Emacs Prelude is also worthy of study:

https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

That is, even if you didn't want to use it outright for your config, prelude's init.el and modules are a good resource for learning how to wire things together with Emacs Lisp.
Eurosport (2 streaming sports channels) £3.99 per month

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Not to rain on your parade, but as someone who grew up near Switzerland, thats where the good stuff comes from. Cadbury is decent though.

On a related note, I have always wondered why food quality is so different by region. For example, these are some categories where the good variety is hard to get in other countries:

- belgian beer
- swiss chocolate
- italian mozzarella

In this day and age where goods are shipped for almost nothing around the world, why do they still manage to sell inferior products without having a foreign competitor out-competing them with the better product? Is the foods market simply too price sensitive? Barriers to market entry too high?
wow, hostile attitude.

Give your money to whoever you want; scientists, charities, ISIS...

> government act as a mediary and psychic as to what the public wants

A lot of that funding allocation is vetted by other academics, as in professors and researchers who are experts in their field (e.g. NSF has a panel of said experts that take time out of their schedule to go to D.C. to read and discuss proposals).
Twitter is back to trying to lure developers in; there will be another batch of whiny posts in 2 years when they pull the rug out from this new set. Devs should stop playing charlie brown.
Is there any place where I can find a programming coach ?
Its not critical that we get GPS at that interval, just preferable. So we turn on GPS but we don't necessarily wait for a good location to be returned. After a few seconds we either fall back to a network location or the most recent GPS location if that's better than network.

It's not perfect, which is unfortunate and may be a blocker for other use cases. But for us it's a good balance of quality location and battery usage.
Multinationals that give preference to one nation's TLAs have no right to complain when they're penalized for being preferential.
Back blows are the proper first-aid measure for dislodging an object that blocks the airway.

The problem with the Heimlich manoeuvre isn't so much that it's ineffective but that in order for it to be effective you have to exert an enormous amount of pressure on the abdomen, which in turn can cause severe injuries. That potential trade-off might still be worth it if the person otherwise would choke to death and there's no other help available but it makes it something of a measure of last resort.
I strongly suspect that at this point most people will in fact have one of the several tools that preceded kmscon by some years and are still around: zhcon (http://zhcon.sourceforge.net/), jfbterm (http://jfbterm.sourceforge.jp/), fbterm (https://code.google.com/p/fbterm/), yaft (https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft), fbpad (http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpad.git), and so forth.
Hipsters don't have any priority claims on cooking with good methods or ingredients, simple or not, healthy or not.

The type of pan you use has no bearing on this.

Its foolish to use something that performs worse than something that also cheap and readily available.

Thats just called ignorance.

Try a de buyer or a mafter and then come back and update your post.
> 5) Elementary begins at 9:00 a.m. Middle begins at 8:00am.

Wait, what? What places have older kids start school earlier? Why would you do that?

Almost every 7 year old I've ever known naturally woke up at the crack of dawn. Almost every 16 year old I've ever known would sleep till noon if you let them.

My school district had older kids start school later (7:45 for elementary, 8:30 for middle, 9:15 for high), and that seems fairly sensible.
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> One is that end-to-end system semantics matter much more than the semantics of an individual building block, and sometimes what seems like a very desirable semantic for a building block may end up making the end-to-end problem harder.

This is a wisdom whispered 3 decades ago. The end-to-end argument haunts us again [1]!

[1] END-TO-END ARGUMENTS IN SYSTEM DESIGN http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...
What's up with Americans and Julia Roberts? I don't even find her attractive.
If the very existence of chocolate were actually threatened, the resources that will be made available to save it would be almost incomprehensible. People really like the stuff, and there is no real substitute.

Bananas aren't that big of a deal for most people, especially if you're looking at going from two popular varieties to one. If the Cavendish gets wiped out too, I'd say that would just be due to people not caring all that much about bananas. I can't imagine the same happening for chocolate.
Uh people threatening Sarkeezian are not #GamerGate. That's what #GamerGate is all about - it's silly to generalize from some anonymous psychopaths to millions of gamers.
Hmm.. I think in the case of a fractal its actually easier, since you'd typically not resample, but instead recompute the fractal iteration count. Consider the case of zooming in on a region of the fractal. Do you:

a) only zoom by fixed integer scalings?

or

b) have an arbitrary scale represented by a float?

In the case of b, this means you need to re-compute what the (fractional) pixel locations are that would correspond to the fixed image size of your viewport. We can regenerate the fractal given these new sampling locations.
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A nice simple alternative to the pain of setting up and running your own mail server (and yes, this is painful to monitor, patch, maintain, protect) is to use a simple email encryption product like Jumble email encryption (https://jumble.io) which integrates on top of the Gmail UI providing end to end encryption
For those who are wondering what "GNU hello" is:

https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/
Didn't the Bush vs Gore election prove this tragically wrong? Each vote counts. Outcomes _are_ different. I thought this was a hard learned lesson for our generation.

I'm not a US citizen, though.