jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Did not ship for me, product page is gone, home use kit is gone, only the 25-piece-set is still available in the shop.

They are just resellers for Chinese made tests that a bunch of other companies are offering too, but I don't think any got permission to sell to end customers at all. Governments are now bulk buying these kits in the millions.

All in all, wrt Pinnacle Biolabs, it's a scam at worst, a mistake at best.
You really want to rely on a single third party instead of a curation by democratic process?
Name one market where Taxi Regulation ensure fair prices. Please, entertain me.

You're conflating how Uber works in certain countries to how it works in London. The relationship between Uber and the driver can vary so much depending on what market you are talking about.
> at least until 2024

That’s barely over 4 years away.
While that's on point, the US school grades are even more obscure and meaningless than the taxi rating to the rest of the world. Many countries are using numbers like out of 10 or 100 and doing an average job on the homework will land you the average like 5 or 50.

It's kinda funny how everything is connected: school grades, restaurant tips, taxi ratings.
there's a network of national forests that sprawl the east coast where I've never had an issue finding a mostly secluded campsites close to water and beautiful terrain.
firefox send

https://send.firefox.com/

Encrypt it at your end, password protect it. Send the link to your recipient. They download it and use the pre-agreed password (agreed over the phone with a known entity at the recipient - not over email).
> I can't recall any ex-porn worker having anything good to say about their previous profession,

Thats just due to ignorance. Watch the two documentaries of After Sex ends.
As far as I'm aware solipsism only has a core tenet that nothing but you exists. That is certainly how I was introduced to it when I studied it in class and the only real overarching principle I could find when reading different viewpoints on it.

That said, unless you believe your mind can evaluate what is true it has to be (as far as I can tell) a faith-based stance. That isn't much different from a religious world-view, except there's not a higher power. There's only you.
> Because the ISM bands were basically reserved to be a no-man's land that non-communications devices could freely emit into, there are no licensing requirements for ISM emissions.

Just because there are no formal licensing requirements does not mean that an implied license doesn't exist, nor does it mean that there are no rules. The ISM bands have for a very long time had both transmitter and antenna power limits attached to them.

What I think is missing in this article is an understanding that all RF spectrum belongs to the public. The FCC does not own it, it licenses parts of it for coordination so that the spectrum is _usable_ by the public at large. They operate the spectrum on _behalf_ of the public, and their decisions and procedures are based entirely around this concept.
How is insurance a scam?

And no one goes to jail for failure to pay property tax, unless there is some kind of egregious fraud involved. The tax authorities just put a lien on the property, and then seize it to sell at auction.
FireDM (https://pypi.org/project/FireDM) is an awesome front end for ytdlp for those interested.
Definitely real and definitely awesome. Give it a try - it's very quick to compile from source (git clone; make - all in roughly under a few seconds).
> I'm not dictating anything, or being dogmatic

You literally dictated that explanatory code docs shouldn’t talk about rationale for constants. And your evidence for this is that apparently Clean Code says so.

> condescending

Well you can claim not to be condescending all you want but that’s how I interpreted your explanation that the only reason I disagree is that you “understand it better,” and I’d imagine that’s how most people would read it.
Don't expect too many comments here — everyone's busy drafting letters to HR.
90% less office birthday parties this year, brace yourself…
The point of search of search engines is to have bias. Without bias how could they possibly separate spam from legitimate websites?
Gee, why not just go straight to step 3 via fork/exec? Bound to shave off a few milliseconds beyond that 10x. And no firecracker required.
I think the link is bad evidence, but they mentioned the "global population," which makes the claim more reasonable.
This makes me think : what are good ways to try and protect myself against this? How can I, as a software developer and entrepreneur leverage this to my advantage? What does this tell me about where the big opportunities will be in 3,5 and 10 years so I can begin positioning myself there?
No doubt, I'm sure the IRS would love to know how he lives in NYC on $2k gross...
rdio is using the xamarin tools for ios and android.

mvc + mono website on linux success story - i haven't seen one.
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This submission demonstrates why you should just stick to the original article title you're linking, instead of coming up with your own flamebait/trolly title.

The issue appears to be a SunSpider bug, not an IE9 bug or "cheat". See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913368 for more information.

lordgilman, I hope you now realize it would've been wise to wait before passing judgment (especially in a public forum).

Edit: I don't know what's with the downvotes. I'm just going by the HN Guidelines, posted at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? If you have a problem, don't downvote me, take it up with pg.
OpenCL is different from CUDA in two important points:

1) OpenCL is an industry standard supported by many vendors (although not all support it fully currently, since it's a relatively new standard). OTOH, CUDA is a proprietary system developed by NVIDIA for its GPUs. CUDA is much more mature since it has been in use for quite some time now.

2) While CUDA addresses GPUs, the aim of OpenCL is more general. It's a "heterogeneous" language/platform, aimed by design at various computing devices: CPUs, GPUs, special CPUs like Cell, accelerators (FPGA, etc.), DSPs and so on
Learn to Program.

More specifically, learn HTML5 and CSS3. You need to know enough to be able to prototype your concept.

Once you know enough to prototype the visual design, learn just enough javascript to make the front end behave the way it would for the end user.

My suggestion is to start with "Designing with Web Standards, 3rd Edition" by Jeffrey Zeldman, then move on to a more complete HTML/CSS book like the Head First book on the topic. Finally, pick up the book DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith.

Ideas are worthless without execution. Being able to prototype and model how the app will work in the hands of users is the kind of execution you should be capable of to create a minimum viable product.

If you can do that and you can sell your vision, you should be able to attract a decent technical co-founder or at least one who can create your MVP.
The difference with Nokia and others is that with Nokia you don't have to use the crappy Ovi store if you don't want to. N900 has relatively huge open-source community distributing their software via so called extras repository, which allows easy distribution of software, without any filtering (it basically has two levels, -devel and -testing. To get into testing you need certain number of upvotes from community.)
If you don't consider the iPod and iPhone radically hacking up their markets, he has a point.

It is not all-is-acceptable hacking. Jobs, nonetheless, is hacking and innovating.
This is the most recent chapter from my book: Speak Human. I'm releasing it online (for free) one chapter at a time. (Currently, about three-quarters of the book is available on the site.)

For some of you, the contents of the book will be less useful than others. That being said, we really worked hard to pack a lot of useful information into it. As a result, a number of folks have found it useful. Some reviews on Amazon: http://gu.nu/sKY

We're not making loads of cash off of the book, and giving it away doesn't help that out either. We do like the idea of others gaining insight from it, though. If you have a moment, check it out, and if you like it, please share with fellow entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Cheers!
I claim that the daily stand-up is the single most beneficial agile practice, and also the simplest one to implement on any project. It's absolutely worth to spend 15 minutes each day to learn what others are working on, what problems did they encounter, how does it overlap with your tasks and what is the overall progress. Noticing only the perceived time expense without taking into account the big picture is very short-sighted.

Of course all of this makes sense only when you work as a team, not on your own (although the iterative approach is desired even in such case).
Earlier WikiLeaks releases seemed to expose atrocities and human rights abuses by the US military and government, which represents at least a partial justification. What end does this release serve?
Especially with this no knock raid trend.
Observation: I see JavaScript web component frameworks following what JSF invented some 10 years back, xhtml templates & Expression language for processing context.

Is the '{}' syntax configurable ? like jinja2 ? I would love to change it to '#{}' for making it consistent with EL.
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Another issue is that forms don't work.
you can only speak for yourself.
One of the cooler exp in my career was Theodore Ts'o responding to a (in retrospect dumb) query about some latency issues we were witnessing with fsync. I feel like twitter enables more of those interactions
I'm sure having 400,000 twitter followers and being known as the creator of Basecamp/Ruby on Rails definitely helps. https://twitter.com/dhh
My argument is that a broad range of constraints is inherently impossible to satisfy within a single fungible, fully interoperable money system - I agree that "ideal technology should allow the broadest possible range of configurations", however, even with such an ideal technology designed by $perfect_deity the "environments" with certain incompatible configurations need to be kept distinct and separate enough so they de facto form separate payment systems; and the users and society can choose to use system A for purpose X and system B (perhaps sharing all of the technology except a configuration flag) for purpose Y, but the society can't have a single system for both these purpuses, because if they are substantially different, then money can't be allowed to flow freely between the systems as that option would break one or the other use case.

The society can freely choose between different systems and properties/configurations of systems; but certain emergent properties of a payment system that a society might want to choose require that some other options are closed off, that the configuration is set to ensure that no transactions in that system can use that option.

For example, if some uses need an strictly anonymous system and others need an strictly unanonymous system, then these systems can interact only through some gateway that enforces breaking anonymity in the latter; if some uses need a reversible system and others need an irreversible system, then interaction needs to happen through some gateway that will reverse a transaction even if the other leg can't be reversed, taking on financial risk to cover the costs of such a scenario. And, crucially, it seems plausible that in many cases such gateways on the boundary between different configurations are socially impractical to operate as they would have to take on risks they can't protect from, and there would be financial motivation to target them to abuse that configuration difference.

For example, we're seeing a bunch of barriers between physical cash USD and USD in bank accounts; and we're seeing a bunch of barriers between USD payments via cheques and USD Fedwire transfers. They are almost interchangeable, but the boundary between different "configurations" requires treating them as distinct and anyone offering a service for unrestricted exchange of one of those into the other is in for a world of hurt.
But it's not. Not really.

That's the same as claiming that the "market cap" of a cryptocurrency has some meaning. It really doesn't.

Both of those statements assume that somehow every ETH coin ever minted can be sold for the asking price right now. That's an obviously laughable assumption.
Isn't the API the filesystem?

What happens if you set up OneDrive and Dropbox (and Google and Apple) to sync the same folder.
See the "I don't want my family to get in trouble, they're gonna kill me if they find out that I did something at the airport.” comment later? Think it’s a hyperbole? Well, it’s not.
Well, if a security service decides it needs to blackmail someone, they're hardly going to send them a letter on official letterhead. In this case I imagine they'd pretend to be something like a small hacking group, infiltrating individual webcams arbitrarily/opportunistically. Something like that.
Yeah, there'd almost certainly be opposition. A few years ago I wrote a data recovery tool for Bitcoin private keys, and even that was enough for some Bitcoin users to start complaining to me about how people who couldn't look after their wallets deserved to lose their coins.
FBI has already done that for years in US. This is how they "protected us" - by not telling anyone about such bugs for years. How can you then trust anything they say about "cyber security"? They don't care about cyber security, only cyber offense.

http://nypost.com/2013/12/08/fbi-can-turn-on-your-web-cam/
I don't really want money just for its own sake. The freedom, the possibilities are what I'm really after. And I think money makes that a lot easier.
Here's hoping the recent attention regarding gaming on OSX will lead apple to reintroduce the Macintosh. Not a mini, not an all-in-one iMac, not a Xeon-powered Mac Pro.

Just a Mac.
Step 1: Give the problem a name. In the war of art that name is resistance. You have to grapple with it every day. Attack it - make it your enemy.
Can they? The BED is radioaction from an ingested banana. I can tell 4 bananas eaten isn't very worrisome, but I've never really seen anyone go above it. I have very little understanding of the effects of eating 200 bananas, besides probably dangerous bloat.

200 BED is just a large number. The BED is great for putting small doses into perspective, but for slightly larger ones I'd need a different frame of reference, such as first lethal dose.
Apple doesn't censor comics that are purchased through iVerse.

They censor the content being sold directly through the iTunes app store.
You're correct. I should have used the words "state security apparatus" to represent the various organs of empire instead of "military".
I demand that Apple immediately censor all apps that give access to art from the world's greatest museums. As it stands, innocent children can be exposed to trash such as this gay-kissing piece in the Louvre:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kiss_Briseis_Painter_Louvr...
You have a good point that applies in a lot of places, but here you're aiming it at a straw man. Linus advocates reference counting and even suggests building it into the language would be a good idea. That's hardly hand coding anything- it's just a different strategy for GC (which is actually done).

It is getting harder and harder to beat compilers with hand-coded assembly without an enormous amount of effort, though.
Can we be sure it's not Chinese hacktivists seeking justice via a digital sit-in?
As a paying customer of Github I want them to know they have my undivided support in staying strong against "the bullies".
You’re simplifying this thing beyond reasonable.

Several counterpoints:

(1) “profit” is just another way of saying “effort”. Would you try and work hard and risk your own money if you knew you weren’t getting paid for it? If you say “yes”, do you actually do that?

(2) they’re probably used to it in this industry, but these pharma companies are really getting more hate than praise these days. “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” Except that they’re not actually damned if they don’t, they wouldn’t be in the news at all!

(3) same argument as above, except r/pharma/West. People here developed an amazing technological post-industrial civilisation over centuries, and now we can use this technology to rapidly produce vaccines... yet we’re getting all the hate for not producing, manufacturing, distributing it fast enough.

A bit unfair, don’t you think?
After 20 years of working with frontends mostly I consider that there are three causes of problems with GUI:

- it is badly designed. If state is too hard to manage it means often that the design is bad

- state is not the most important part of the UI. Interaction and being elastic to changes are the most important things

- frontend is often overengineered in a bad way. When you use bad solutions like React or Redux there is no change there won't be any problems.
If you exist in the 20th century.

Say hi to Doc Brown for me, thanks.
Define HTTPS. SSL? TLS? Which version?

The oldest "safe" version is TLS 1.2, which only gained browser support late 2013, so 7 years ago.

The article recommends not using the older unsafe versions for the sake of older browsers.
Honestly, after seeing how poorly scientists botched modeling covid-19 infection/death rates, I just get how it's possible to model something like this which is several decades in the future and have confidence in your prediction.
Most studies are flawed. We don't know that Vitamin D works. We also don't know that it doesn't work.

Therefore, we need to consider either possibilities. Given that it is such a low-risk intervention, even a 99% chance that Vitamin D doesn't work would make supplementing worthwhile.
Or, they were encouraged to believe so by propaganda. And that led to the deaths of several people due to their insurrection, as most people not divorced from reality could have predicted several years before.

Just saying, there was little surprising yesterday to anyone who has taken time to talk to these conspiracy theorists and seen the level of fear they choose to live in and surround themselves with, though it is deeply sad.
Schedule matters, especially in long lead items. The problem becomes when schedule overrides good judgement regarding safety. My personal opinion is this is largely rooted in human cognitive biases that make us bad at objectively assessing risk. We just aren’t wired to think statistically and then we have multitudes of biases that undermine our ability to make judgement, especially about low probability events.
Backed out.. as in, Bancorp dumped you? I had the completely wrong idea about that, then.
Did you measure fuel consumption per km? Difference of gas usage by going 130 or 95 sounds way to high for me.
And presumably will be in court at some point in the future.
It's heartwarming to see he skipped d20p2.
Do you vote? Because that's your answer.
No, that's not where I am coming from. I come from major banks and financial industries behemoths who run trading books handling billions of dollars on excel spreadsheets.

Are they stupid? God, no! They do it, cause there's no better alternative. They just don't have the time to use anything fancier.

There is a European Research group that is funded to tackle what they call "spreadsheet risk", cause at some point, yes Excel becomes a problem.

EDIT: btw, auditing here means that you can't easily know what changed between 2 versions of a spreadsheet, unless you're extremely careful about how you write your sheet.
I wish I didn't have to be so meme'ey, but to answer your question;

By reading more Hacker News ;-)
Absolutely, that would be a fine solution. It is also mentioned in the article. I really don't know why web application developers are not doing it. Especially when you could be the first to do it and have a real edge over your competitors.
SaaS is a good example of the difference between free software and open source. If some software is freely licensed but still a closed platform dependent on a particular client implementation and server provider (e.g. the web apps the article describes, Signal/Telegram/etc), that thing is nonfree despite being open source.
If you are a developer, don’t build another developer tool please. If you decide to build a developer tool, ask yourself when was last time you paid for a developer tool, what made you pay for it, did you switch to a free version later?

Without knowing your background, it is difficult to suggest any specific idea. You mentioned hosting costs and 3 months build time, so I assume you want to build a hosted solution that can be built in 3 months most probably a MVP.

I will suggest you build a blog. For first 2 months read books on how to discover and develop innovative ideas, customer discovery, identifying customer needs, user flow and stories, everything a good product manager does before a product specification is written.

For first two months, Write blog posts summarizing what you learnt from each book, and implementation worksheets/mindmaps that can be used to execute what you learnt in that book. By the 3rd month, you might have good idea how you may want to build something and a bunch of mindmaps and worksheets to use for any idea that comes to your mind.

In third month, go to Show HN tab or product hunt, take the first idea that you find attractive and apply your worksheets and mindmaps to that idea. Contact the original poster and offer to collaborate and if you think you can do better alone, go for it.
I feel like since people in UK pride themselves on living in a house and not an apartment building, you end up with a similar segregation like in US along social strata.

I grew up in a concrete panel building in then Czechoslovakia and since the population was mixed, it was all fine. These days, some of these buildings have turned into ghettos due to failed/racist social policies[1].

[1] https://www.google.ca/search?q=sidliste+chanov&tbm=isch
I'm only using the Google Docs as an example, but it's written like you're trying to convince your mom.

RMS wrote fucking emacs, dude. Do you know what emacs is? I've never used it and I probably know more about it than I do vi, which I do use every day, and have for the past 15 years! I'm not arguing from authority with that, btw, just an illustration about how much I don't use emacs. That said, let's not even countenance gcc and gdb.

There are myriad issues I could take issue with RMS over, but his need for advice on word processors is not one of them. He already has one. Everybody knows this. He wrote it. 35 years ago. A zillion other people use it too.

"Talking out of turn" was the wrong way to articulate that, so sorry about that. Ask anybody who knows me and they'll tell you I'm not much for hierarchies and authority (I'm certainly not afraid of being negged on HN), and I don't put RMS on a pedestal, but he has several important, long-standing, and long-recognized accomplishments in the history of personal computing, and computing in general (cf. his AI algo he wrote before emacs, still in use). This is undeniable. Google Docs! Sorry dude, I just can't get over it!

Thing is, I bet all of this was already spelled out in the HN thread for the original letter post, which I didn't read. Did you?
The author misses the most important point: session query params make session hijacking stupefyingly easy (especially by accident when people copy-paste URLs into emails etc.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_hijacking