skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is worth 4 times Intel's value ([1], [2]), and also, has 4x more sales. In my opinion, Apple buying TSMC (much smaller than Intel [3]), Panasonic (quite small in comparison, too [4]), and Sharp (tiny [5]), could mean almost complete vertical integration, including CPU, RAM, battery, and display. After that, not only Apple could avoid relying on Intel for desktop processors, but able to drive its margins higher than ever (replacing $300-1000 CPUs with $50-200 own CPUs, controlling even more cutting-edge litography planning, etc.).

[1] http://www.forbes.com/companies/apple/

[2] http://www.forbes.com/companies/intel/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC

[4] http://www.forbes.com/companies/panasonic/
As a devops guy, I sort of think ipfs seems more useful as a private, backend sort of solution where you trust all the nodes. I'm sort of vaguely imagining it running as a shared file system in AWS, running on docker containers.
According to the comment above, they only just got permission to start flying in China air space.
While this sounds like it "should" be true. I think managing that will turn into something of a nightmare. IPFS is making awesome inroads into achieving that, but its not clear of the benefit over something like say freenet (other than freenet is very slow because it prefers privacy and resilience over speed).

I can see it being "really" useful as a backbone for something like Open Cobalt - http://www.opencobalt.net/ And I'm really looking forward to seeing that mature.

But the last time Open Cobalt seems to have been updated is 2010 - that's quite some time ago.

I wonder if it's being held up by patent trolls, but really all of them feels like more like a solution looking for a problem. That can take a very very long time to mature. Which is a shame.
A thing called UNIX where the source code was available for free happened, but lets forget that fact.

GC bashers would be surprised how much their lifes actually depends on embedded systems running real time Java deployments.
A few questions:

1. Is there a metric similar to deaths per passenger mile in automobiles? That is, is it possible that more people go and stay at the hospital, more new kinds of diseases (which were considered incurable previously) are now being treated, even if people know it is some what futile? How much of the jump would it explain? How about the increase in the population itself?

2. From the word "now", we could infer a couple of things. It is possible that medical error itself has risen drastically (or not, depending on whether we have a good answer for 1), or just that treatment for whatever used to be number 3 previously - respiratory disease - has improved in recent times? It is entirely possible that medical error could climb further up and top this chart and still allow the possibility that medical care is actually improving.

3. From the article:

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Although all providers extol patient safety and highlight the various safety committees and protocols they have in place, few provide the public with specifics on actual cases of harm due to mistakes. Moreover, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t require reporting of errors in the data it collects about deaths through billing codes, making it hard to see what’s going on at the national level.

"The CDC should update its vital statistics reporting requirements so that physicians must report whether there was any error that led to a preventable death, Makary said.

“We all know how common it is,” he said. “We also know how infrequently it’s openly discussed.”

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There was a similar discussion a while back, about the topic of the coding of the cause of disease not being consistent and that it could be misreported. Before that situation is improved, shouldn't we be considering these kinds of articles from a more skeptical viewpoint?
They are suggesting it for a security answer, especially one you give over the phone to tech support, NOT a password.
The problem goes much deeper than just HTML fields - sometimes the punycode will be converted to Unicode and then get rejected further down the chain. For example, Google accepts punycode domains for custom email domains but will convert it to a Unicode domain name when receiving it. It handles most IDN domains fine, but it fails at domains with Emoji within it (my domain which fails is http://xn--p38h.ws).

The real problem here is all the systems we use are more complex than people realize. Things like names (http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...) & time (http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...) just cause issues that most developers will end up just ignoring, because in the end its just edge cases that will happen maybe once or twice, ever. Why put in the effort?
If they are new, they are neither proven great or shit. Like a new novel or work of art, or any IP.

The author is proposing that people read those papers becaus he is proud of them. Nothing wrong with that.
> This is pretty much why I use HN at all: it doesn't make me feel smart, but I learn new, exciting things constantly.

Thanks for articulating it so well.
Cool. And sad.

But re old accounts: I've recently seen a few cases where old accounts with high karma dismissed Wikipedia -- without any references of their own. That is a "quality smell", if anything is.

(One particularly shameless fellow just copied the primary link Wikipedia used -- and lied about the content. :-( )

EDIT: I wrote without any references of their own -- i.e. dismissed with hand waving. Wikipedia won't always be correct, but it has references and is whetted by quite a lot of people.
Nothing you wrote addressed what you quoted. They defended neither their country nor their freedom. Your platitudes can be applied unchanged to any set of war criminals throughout history.
I don't understand what's dislikeable about opinions from people who are white with money.
If someone comes up with a clever alternative it'll be gone really quickly. Look at how quickly json caught on.

CSV is easy to write and easy to parse if you only care about 90% of the use cases. If you need to do the other 10% it's much harder and you get a lot of interoperability problems. And that 10% is only becoming more important due to internationalization.
By quick glance at their repository branches, it doesn't seem like they're using any kind of dev/el/op branch what makes me think that their development might have been happening in master branch (mind, this is me guessing without any knowledge about NPM's development process, so I might be totally and utterly wrong) and this could lead to some issues from people, who would expect master to be always-correct-and-working branch with all the newest and possibly breaking changes happening somewhere else.
Linux.BackDoor.FakeFile.1, a new Linux backdoor in the wild
So you know more than anyone else what is going on Apple walls?

I don't, so it makes sense to speculate.

Nothing prevents Apple to make the MAS a requirement for thr desktop as well.
KNX would be definitely a choice but you have to be careful and shop around as many KNX manufactures are known to be incredibly greedy. The situation has improved a lot in recent years though.

Also the term open is very relative here (you have to pay a fee (1000 euro + VAT last time I checked) to access the standard, naturally there are no redistribution rights, KNX certification process is order of magnitude more expensive.

You need a closed source configuration software to be able to configure the devices. Runs only on Windows (XP did it last time but things may have been changed). A single licence costs 1000 euro + VAT, unless you use limited version that works up to 20 devices and costs 100 euro + VAT (in many small cases that would be enough as the limitation is project based).

PS. It is rather an attempt to put things into a contexts than a criticism.

Minimum setup:

1) KNX power supply (provides power for the KNX bus),

2) KNX actuator (relay or dimmer or special (say LED stripe)),

3) KNX switch (or an input device (can use standard wall spring switches)),

4) KNX bus connector for programming (USB tongle, KNX/IP router, there are many options),

5) KNX configuration software,

6) Windows machine (VM works too).

This setup allows to map the actuator and switch in the configuration software and upload the configuration into the devices.

Please also note that encrypted communication between KNX devices is commonly not supported (but so is it also for a simple pulse signal from the wall switch to the relay).
Depends how serious is Apple about closing down the desktop.
Oh, of course, right. Misinterpreted that bit.
Indeed. When my comments or articles hit the frontpage/top of the thread, I don't really care. What excites me is when I get a ton of responses from more experienced people. Because that gives me an opportunity to learn something.
Another thing I've noticed about HN comments is that everything is hyped beyond what it deserves.

For example, the recent DDoS attacks were just a bunch of skids with Mirai, but it was discussed as if it was the end of the internet.

There's also the issue of self-censorship, where users will refrain from posting their opinion in case they get downvotes and negative karma.

The things people post here are fascinating, but the comments, in my honest opinion, aren't.
I love articles like this. I get so frustrated when I see colleagues hire a financial advisor that sells them a "managed portfolio" that is on-par with it's market comparable index and/or sell them on products like annuities that make no financial sense whatsoever. And they charge 1%-1.5% of assets under management which can be 10x what something like Vanguard would charge you.

Personally, I use Betterment (a competitor to WealthFront) simply becasue I can set a target asset allocation, and they will balance my portfolio accordingly. The tax loss harvesting capabilities that both companies offer are really interesting, theoretically, but there is no empirical evidence either way as to whether it actually will save you money in the long-run. Before betterment, I invested in mid-large cap index funds from Vanguard.
I apologise for my drunken and incorrect silliness.

Aside from that, would you please enlighten as to what you meant by "that's not how math works"?
This is approximately correct.

I think it is worth noting the subtleties around "they", though. Some people thought it was unsustainable. Others were dumb and didn't. Many didn't care and just wanted to be paid, now.
This is an attack over UDP. The source address is likely spoofed. Simply blocking an IP will do nothing but banning somebody not related to the attack at all.
> There is a strong positive correlation between wealth and assholeness.

Then what's in it for me, rich person (In the hundreds of thousands of savings at 35, starting from $500 at 22), to give back or be kind?

Nothing, since you'll keep assuming I'm an asshole by default. That's the experience I give above: People who defend poor people are real assholes to richer ones, independently of their generosity or personal values. The only way you like a rich person is when they're not rich (even then you'll keep beating them until they're dead, because of their background).

It's the same mechanics at play that skews incentives when people live under prejudices, as when a racist says "All black people are thieves". Then all blacks are incentivized to steal, because the good person won't be recognized. Even if, in a parallel world, thieve proportions were true in statistics, it would still be wrong, because we can't afford leaving aside the hundreds of thousands of honest black people. We must give everyone a chance and treat them with equality.

Saying "all black people are thieves, there are exceptions but there's a strong correlation" is an unfair generalization, just as saying "There is a strong positive correlation between wealth and assholeness [...] there are of course exceptions, but there is little doubt that the correlation is real". Which are... the exact words you've said.
This reminds me of another HTML input type that's really poorly implemented across browsers. Namely, date and time input fields.

In that case, it varies so much across browsers to be almost unusable. Some (like Firefox) don't seem to support the calendar aspect, some have a terrible calendar UI, some fallback to the device calendar UI, some let you select invalid dates despite greying them out and that's before you get to the actual data, how it's formatted or the lack of any events associated with the fields.

Honestly, it seems like today's browsers just can't seem to handle any of the newer input types in any reasonable way.
You post a list of the best comments on HN without putting The Wisdom of Bane on the list?

Seriously, how did The Wisdom of Bane not make it one here? That is one of the best comments on all of HN.

For the uninitiated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739
CDN providers has a highly volatile infrastructure setup, short TTL helps them to dynamically reallocate resources. Just as an example, cache invalidation could be implemented with a switch of DNS records.
I imagine you could have got the same results with inspect element and deleting the form fields, rather than using a proxy.
You don't need any timer but self-discipline.

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I tried setting up a Linux server on a Linksys WRT router a dozen or so years ago, but back then I did notice the open-source ARM binaries weren't widespread. I can't remember exactly for what but I believe I gave up compiling some downloaded code after a while for what I wanted to do.
Me too. I also setup a crontab to capture DNS entries for all services I depend on.
First off, putting a negative spin to competition already tells me you have either a very narrow view or see something I dont. When iojs forked from nodejs, it was a competitor. Linux is a competitive landscape. Browsers are a competitive landscape. The idea that cooperation and consistancy leads to the best possible product is only as accurate as who is trusted to be the leader. There are some pretty dumb leaders out there but convincing enough to be trusted with millions of dollars.

Second off, the government didnt force all devices to be vulnerable. "Agile" development practices which we trust so much are what led us here. Build first, worry about security later. The fact that a persons information is valuable to the creator of these devices and they provide a direct gateway so they could be accessed by a third party. And the fact that consumers ignore any possible issues that may arise because they see the benefits.

You talk about logic, well logically we wouldnt have computers or any of this if it wasnt for competition abd the desire to evolve. And logically trust and freedom allowed these vulnerabilities to ho unchecked because the software is not open source and companies are free to do whatever they want since its up to the consumer to judge whether its worth it or not.

I understand why you want to make this political and pro-love because arguably any problem can be answered by pro-love. But logically, you should think before you dpeak and attempt to frame your argument with a consistant locigal tree than start blaring out hatred for the capitalist system
If you spend anytime with the medical industry you soon realize the issue.

I helped launched (the now deadpooled) Theil backed MetaMed a few years -- essentially a private research team for medicine, and what the founders taught me was astounding.

That things like amputating the wrong limbs, doctors not washing their hands and killing you by infection and a horror of other preventable errors are shocking common.

This didn't even take into consideration that things discovered in labs that might cure you take at least 30 years to reach the doctors who might implement them, if they ever do.

The distortion of hubris from doctors, economic incentives and other systemic issues results in a "health care system" that doesn't realily seem to do what it sets out to do -- we spend 10x what some developing countries do per year per person with no better outcomes.

Accute care seems to be reasonably good, fixing a broken arm, etc. (assuming they don't accidentally remove it); but chronic care is often just a pipeline for the recurring revenue model of big pharma (at best).

The examples are never ending but for fun, take a google to discover how many pap smears are performed annually on women who have already had their uterus removed - then consider the cost to insurance and tax payers.
I only post a 927 when there are >6 different standards in the field, and there's no way a new one will catch on. As for the effort better spent posts, those are awful. Never post those. Instead post about how great emacs is compared to vim: you're more likely to spawn useful discussion.
I only use type=text inputs and implement custom logic on top of it; the others are crap, implemented in a rush and very inconsistently across browsers.
IP spoofing is still a thing. Could take whole customer blocks of an ISP offline. New kind of attack I guess.
Last modified headers reveal it to be from: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:39:47 GMT
> Nothing prevents Apple to make the MAS a requirement for thr desktop as well.

Except they haven't because the market and plenty of other realities prevent them from doing this.
...okay. You're welcome, I guess, but I'm not sure what's so hard about articulating it that makes doing so praiseworthy.

Or were you just being nice? If so, that's totally fine, never mind.
>I'll find out rapidly, and bluntly with citations, when I'm wrong (and, yes I'm often wrong on the Internet!), usually learn something new on the topic

If you stay off the default subreddits and only go on the intellectual/debate subreddits, then I honestly think reddit is better for this. The amount of expertise on reddit is astounding. It's very easy to find someone to rigorously challenge any view I have. I'd go so far as to say that it's the smartest place on the internet (except for maybe places like MathOverflow and some other specialty blogs/forums). They do have a natural advantage because of their huge userbase.
Demand outstrips supply.

I think has not improved service any is also at least overly simplified. There's all sorts of treatments available now that were unheard of 10 years ago, never mind further into the past than that.
I have an ansible script that ships all my zone files around. Functionally equivalent, I suppose.
Do CSV files on really mainly use CRLF line endings?
Why I won’t be attending Systems We Love
The article points at the regexp but fails to point at what the standard says about how that's supposed to be used.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#e-mail-state-(type=em...

User agents may transform the value for display
and editing; in particular, user agents should
convert punycode in the value to IDN in the
display and vice versa.

ie you're supposed to be able to type human-readable addresses but they're converted to punycode for submission, because that's what the server will need in order to use the address. The regexp is used to validate the punycode not what the user types.

Which isn't to say this isn't a thorny problem; more discussion of the issue here
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15489
Show HN: Beautiful 'Recently Purchased' Notifications for WooCommerce
Alpha 22 was actually released just last year, and it's still actively being worked on AFAIK. It's just that the website hasn't been updated, save for the downloads.
I did say tendency!

I still get surprised the way opinion goes for some posts. I won't be betting on the likely sentiment any time soon! Whichever way opinion leans it rarely stifles discussion.
Open-Source Large Vocabulary CSR Engine Julius
The Nine Dots Prize – Are digital technologies making politics impossible?
Exactly. Price level of our system is incomparable with same solution based on KNX.

Future modifications and changes will be easy even with support discontinuation from our side. Every part of the system is modular - you can pull out RPi with custom modules and place any PLC instead.
I think HN needs a way to easily find the top comments. There are absolute gems deep in discussion threads, but you'll need to spend a lot of time reading to find them. Hence, it's very nice of Dan Luu to list some of his favorites.

The top root-level comment for each comment page is obviously easy to see, but good comments deeper in the comment tree are easily lost. Would be great if e.g. the top 5% voted comments on a page were highlighted in some way.

Perhaps a workable solution would be to just follow the comments listing of smart people. Guess I'll at least try that.
I am denying importance of compliments but they lose their lustre if the whole culture of forum is to "appear too nice"; it just gives an impression of everyone making comments for the sake of it. Besides that, the entire point of a forum doesn't bode well if there aren't any strong comments touching the subject, even if they are cynical or scornful. Take a look at OP's example of the "Should you leave a bad job?" thread [1].

The first comment is surely harsh and questions the entire thought process of hating a mundane job. Some people would disagree with it; some would not but I would be disappointed if the comment didn't exist.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789014
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Nobody has comment on the ridiculous amount of hours doctors have to work on emergency rooms.
7 hours with 3 hours of sleep between going to class and being into the ER again. This is actually illegal but every student I talk to is afraid of complaining and risk their careers.
> The settlement requires the company to obtain users’ consent before sharing their information with third parties if Google changes its products or services in a way that results in information sharing that is contrary to any privacy promises made when the user’s information was collected.

This seems like an awfully convenient explanation for why Google has started to demand affirmation of their terms of use every few weeks, if not for the date of 2011. I don't remember when they started with the demands, but it was 2014 or 2015.
This is a good thing.

Just looking at the cause of death percentages misses the point. Imagine your dream scenario has been achieved and all deaths are caused by errors. 2 hospitals that treat the same number of patients (with similar complexity across the patient populations) are performing similarly on the death metric, 100% of deaths are caused by errors. Never mind that Hospital B kills 100 times as many people.

Putting it another way, without some information about what good performance is, you'd better not make any conclusions about whether this is a good thing or not.
? Private torrent trackers do this very well.
Submission Statement

I found this on r/books. It seems to have been announced a couple of days ago. I wanted to find out what HNers think about the question and the competition, but for some reason nobody seems to have submitted it yet.

The question sounds odd at first -- one could easily say "No wai!" and that would be the end of it -- but surely there are more interesting things to say about it if we don't take it as a strictly binary question.
> 1838 days ago

Trivial improvement to HN: after more than 30 days, render time in number of years and months instead of just days.
I think that at least ten poor little rabbits die when someone excuse himself for the pun.
Hi this is very interesting. Can you elaborate on your concept of plugin development ?

You clearly state that your ideal model is to develop plugins that are embedded in the DB to execute core business functionalities. However, in the website there is only tutorial documentation about the SQL interface.

Is the only guide the code for now ?

Thanks !