skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this a general argument against ever using red as a warning? Seems to prove too much.

Especially in this case, where there is unlikely to be a specialized class of scammers who go phishing only for people with red-green colorblindness. So long as browsers implement a feature that stops the phishing in 99% of cases, the scammers will try something else.
For meat and fish: Supermarkets tend to have a pound or two of chicken and other meats at reasonable prices which equates to 1-3 meals. A chicken breast (or a few thighs) easily holds up for a week or so in the fridge as long as you put it in a sealed container.

And you can save a lot more money if you buy a larger pack, break it up into "meals", bag them, and freeze them. I am lazy and just do plastic-wrap -> freezer bag and give it the sniff test before cooking but smarter people use a more rigorous system.
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Many people don't listen because their stuff works good enough on wireless. If wiring is already in place, or trivial to set up (e.g. because the PC is next to the router) they'll do it, but I can understand that they don't care about the effort if they don't see a benefit. In my experience, people that actually have issues with their WiFi are easily sold on cabling, as are those that really want performance. If stuff doesn't work, tolerance to spending money or ugly cables laying around goes up a lot.
I'm not sure how feasible this is, but wouldn't it make sense for .com/.net/etc to be latin alphabet only and allow other domains to be localized with unicode? I wouldn't really have a problem with 新浪首页.cn, and I doubt I would confuse ɢoogle.ru or whatever with google.com
Do you do laundry every 5 days? Maybe buy 5 more and stretch that to every 10 days.
E-mail I can self-host... But what should I do about calendaring (specifically calendar sharing within the family - currently we're using google apps)
I keep on seeing this term "fake news" lately, but am having trouble defining what it actually means.

Does this mean news outlets with bias? Because this encompasses pretty much all of them.

Or is it the news entities that were telling people that it's illegal to read Wikileaks, or the news entities that were colluding with certain corporate favored political campaigns?
Tiny Hands, Huge Ego
> that it's just a html and a JS file with some styles

And jquery. And jqueryui. And handlebars. Would angularjs been that much heavier?
Nope. Pre-acceptance of the terms and conditions is different from being victimized, assuming you mean that I didn't know about the videos in your example.

In both cases I can somewhat make the embarrassment minimal by just being upfront with folks.

In the case of debt, however, the reason for the pictures is because I didn't pay the debt. It doesn't matter if it was preventable or accidental, i'm still the guilty party. Not only do you have the photos, but you have outsiders knowing your financial affairs. Nothing can be done if you don't have money.

In your example, someone had to install that camera without permission then come forward to try to get money. I could call the police. I could forewarn folks about getting such an email. I have options. Not only that, but people are more likely to see that I've been victimized in some respect.

Granted, I'm not for the naked photo bribery method of collecting debt, but it still is different situations.
If you are happy with your system don't change it. If you're in a small apartment in a building that has a lot of metal in it, you are fine. If you are in a bigger house or an apartment building which is transparent to radio waves you are not so fine.

Lots of people are complaining about their WiFi and many are discovering that a $200 consumer router doesn't help. What does work is to accept the physics, get a wired router and a $80 ubiquiti access point and run a wire so the access point is in the center of your house.

Let's put it this way: the inverse square law means that if you put the router at the edge of your house, relative to the center, you are going to have a minimum signal strength dropped by a factor of 4; this is on top of any attenuation that you get from going through multiple walls.

Accept the laws of physics or you'll find that no amount of spending on your access point will make your system completely reliable for a wide range of devices.

This is why all attempts to sell differentiated WiFi routers have failed -- the one way you can differentiate yourself in terms of reliablity, never mind performance, is to site your access point correctly.

Everybody thinks the mesh network fairy will save them, but there is a name for mesh networks, and it is "radio interference".
This is lampshaded pretty hard in Consider Phlebas, I think, where Horza basically hates the Culture for that reason (among others). I also consider Star Trek's Federation boring as well, but worse: at least The Culture meddles in the affairs of other groups (for better or worse!).
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I experimented with the MediaRecorder too but couldn't get anything to work. In the end, I used this: https://github.com/mattdiamond/Recorderjs - It has been abandoned by the author and the forceDownload function does not work anymore so I had to replace that. I'll send you a copy of my version if you like?
At the other end of the price spectrum, albeit at a much smaller scale, Andy Warhol used this business model quite successfully. He even called his studio the Factory.

And in Damien Hirst's studio, his "assistants" (i.e. artists) churn out countless spin and dot paintings which are sold as original artworks for thousands of pounds.
Are you in your own house with some distance between you and your neighbors? In most apartment complexes you'll have about 30 overlapping wifi networks visible from your computer, so wifi reliability is very much not what you get in a less dense area.

I keep what devices I can on wired, but it's really not feasible for everyone or for all devices. I sometimes have to switch my phone over to LTE because the wireless sucks too much. There's obviously no ethernet port on that.
Why not just make colleges cheaper?

I would argue that kids in America have a much better life than say kids in Japan or South Korea, with all night cram schools.

And in the end, the innovation in the world is coming out of America not Japan and South Korea, so at least to some extent it must be working.
How (not) to forecast an election
They will, however, acquire an SSL cert in your name for themselves when you use their DNS service.
Hate to pile on, but the admin portal redesign was incredibly bad. So many things that were logically organized together in the old design are now spread across N > 3 pages that are no longer linked from one to another. Hate to impute motives but after I found that I "accidentally" bought the same product multiple times because I simply couldn't trivially figure out WHAT I'd bought and hadn't yet configured I realized it was probably a revenue maximization exercise. Still use them because I like their service, but very dark.
I love the reassuring sound of my hard drive in my Airport Timecapsule spinning up when I got back to my desk at home.

The Timecapsule was pretty much plug and forget, easy to use. Now when it comes time to retire the Timecapsule I'll have to look outwith the Apple ecosystem and find something else, tinker with its configuration (more than likely for hours) and hope it continues to support my devices with firmware updates.

I'm sure my QNAP NAS has Timecapsule functionality but I'm new to the NAS world and I don't think my onsite backup is something that I feel comfortable trusting with it yet.
Still waiting for it to run on any Android device.
The funniest part here is that the proposed solution actually IS the semantic WEB. Schema.org is based on semantic web technologies. Check out wikipedia example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web#Example and note they use Schema.org as vocabulary
Of course a lot of food innovation has occurred. Clearly, the silent majority are demanding convenience over health. But there is a strongly vocal segment of the population who think it should not have been - and they are very critical, and often demeaning toward those who have made different choices than themselves.

At risk of constructing a straw man, it does appear to be a widely aired view that we ought to go back to "all-natural" meals cooked from raw fresh, organic, non-GM ingredients. In my experience, vanishingly few people actually do this, because it actually is a hassle and doesn't fit well within our modern busy two working parent lifestyles. Indeed, within your own reply you treat the innovation within the food industry with disdain.

I agree that, often, food innovation has optimised for the wrong goals: strictly prioritising convenience over health, for example. But whether you like Soylent-related products or other innovations in food, it's astounding the number of people who are willing to publicly attack engineered food products simply because it's not natural enough for their preferences and lifestyle. But those same people do not care about the naturalness of all the other technology they use.

With convenience food, I believe the proverbial cat is out of the bag and there's no putting it back in. Short of a massive economic/technological disruption that gives adults in families as much free time as they used to have, it's quite unlikely we'll see a revolution in home cooking. Maybe Soylent and other engineered foods are actually healthier than living off takeouts and microwave meals - as many people do - and are worth investigating further, without overly harshly judging those who currently find themselves in situations where they can't find time to prepare home cooked meals every day.
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Kalliope: Voice controlled personal assistant designed for home automation
There's a big difference between grocery shopping (where even within one store - let alone multiple stores - you have access to a mind-boggling variety of foods, brands, etc.) and a pre-packaged service like Soylent or Hello Fresh / Blue Apron / whatever else is out there. Not only is the number of available options significantly greater, but the price is significantly lower.

I'd wager that if your answer to the future human diet in that timescale relies primarily upon such pre-packaged subscription services, then you're even more mistaken.
Yes, but if your inventory is over a billion units worldwide, you don't even notice a few thousand a year disappearing from the shelves.
Inspired by other Oracle-bought products, perhaps they can make it so you can only update your DNS if you use their proprietary Java client, which uses an out-of-support version of Java even though Oracle own Java, and which tries to install adware every time you install/update it.

(An out-of-date Java being a requirement of a recentish version of Oracle Financials, and Java on Windows defaults to installing browser toolbars every time. Because Oracle need those extra few cents from tricking users.)
Exactly, the gains from proper engineering are vastly greater than from buying expensive consumer routers, particularly when you consider reliability.
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Longer Legs and Greater Gravitas

Twinkly-Eyed Gravitas

Gravitas is a Simulation

Gravitas or Gravity

Gravitas has Disappeared Elsewhere

More Teeth and Gravitas
yeah Jekyll is really good for what it does. I think markdownsites offers something that jekyll doesn't - almost non-existent setup worries.

Also one of my goals is that my non-coder friends could get their websites up with little effort. So Jekyll is great, but for IT savvy people.
Being a little self-sufficient is better than not being self-sufficient.

You've read one article with one suggestion and made a massive sweeping assumption about the authors intentions, good job.
You know that if you look for a bread recipe on-line, you'll find sugar as one of the ingredients? It's kind of used to make a normal bread.

I know "bread" is a broad term and some people swear by the dark "tastes like dried grain with glue" varieties. But others don't. Personally, I prefer "ISO standard" white bread. Not all food choices are made to optimize for perceived health value. Some are also made for taste.
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Appears to be written in Python. Here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4J42yO2rkM
I've met some people in college who clearly didn't care about their finances and AFAICT were there just to get the loans for spending money.

I would guess somewhere around 1 in 1000; not widespread, but every institution will have a few.
Beautiful idea, you are heading in a crowded market and at the moment the app is not too differentiated, I hope you the best.
I'm sure we all understand what you're trying to say here, but this is the classic "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" and doesn't quite roll with everyone's use-case.

I have a work phone that I take with me when I am on-call or on a customer site. Slack (or whatever we decide to use) absolutely has to work here.
That defeats the purpose of an internationalized dns system.

The whole point of getting unicode into domain names is so we can have 新浪首页.com so that it's no longer a latin alphabet centric system.
Yes, its a Set.
"one of my girlfrieds"

How many girlfriends do you have? ;)
Because what we don't know can't hurt us, silly.
any adult who talks about jesus or god in a serious manner should be embarrassed with themselves
Without any border controls people would be forced to assume that anyone from outside their country was a thief or con-man looking to find some quick victims and head home.

That wouldn't be pleasant for either side.
You're fixated on SARs being comparable to CTRs and they just aren't. First, a SAR is only for suspicious activity and it's relatively uncommon, a CTR is not optional and very common. If a SAR is being filled out, it's after trying to get in touch with the person to better understand their business and why various transactions look suspicious. It's not undertaken lightly. It's not a routine filing whereas CTR's are.
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I can't help but interpret that as saying what humanity came from. And by golly dammit, we haven't gotten too far from that, have we :)
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Captive markets are the best markets!

I had similar requirements for school. Meals ended up costing me ~$10 per. I could get much cheaper food on my own, but that wasn't going to make the university any money.
Women's healthcare costs several times more than mens over their lifetime (and that's before factoring in pregnancy). Countries are just fine "equalizing" that even though that means that men pay way more for their health insurance than they should have to. How many people complain about this happening?

Collectivism is just fine when you are the one on the receiving end. Either we set absolute lines of discrimination across all industries or we disallow it entirely.
Migros has an extensive api they use internally for everything. There was an article about as it uses a php symfony stack.

It may be possible to get access to it so I would definitely ask if you are interested in creating an app around it.
I don't listen because I don't want to drill holes in my nice hardwood floors, my house is 2 story so running a cable up the wall isn't feasible, and cutting holes in my wall every few feet doesn't seem so smart either.

What's wrong with expecting WIFI to work well enough to enjoy low latency high definition/4k content?
No, I live in the 99% of America where ordinary people can afford more than 500 square feet of living space.

Also, my phone company refuses to upgrade so I am on high-latency DSL. When a packet gets dropped in my local network, it takes a long time to get a replacement from internet based services.

You don't need high bandwidth to use the internet reliably, but you do need low packet loss, and the effects of packet loss and high latency multiply with each other -- local packet loss is much more painful if your internet is slow than if it is fast. Thus having a reliable local network helps experienced performance, even if you have a 2Mbps internet connection.
The (seemingly obstinate) answer is that they are different characters. The Russian H sounds like an N in English.

If you're transcribing a conversation at the UN and there is a mix of different languages the fact that "Het" is transcribed as a latin character set is information. Het may be a southern American group of people, or it could just be a Russian dude saying "no", even if it looks the same.

I understand that we're still burdened by intralanguage homonyms, but I appreciate the fact that it isn't complicated further.
just a heads up, the site was marked by my company's net filter as containing malware.
> But I have learned the hard truth over last two years: API catalogs aren't scalable solutions for API discovery. That's why I'm pushing this.

Minor critique but the word "discovery" particularly in terms of service oriented is heavily overloaded. It took me a little while to understand what the article meant by discovery and I'm still not entirely sure I do.

Do you mean this discovery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_discovery or do you mean a discovery more in the human sense (ie a consumer search directory listing API services)?
> The thing is, if you're using an ad blocker on all the time, how can you argue that your blocking something for a reason, if you haven't seen any ads yet ?

A few weeks ago, I was reading a long-form Guardian article (pretty sure it was linked from here) and it struck me that the page layout was super clean and readable. I wondered what it would look in its full ad-laden glory, so I disabled uBlock and refreshed the page. I was immediately redirected to a "Firefox needs an urgent security update!!" page that would have installed malware if I had run the script it was pushing. I hope they got paid handsomely for that first impression, because it was also the last.

If a site wants to advertise to me, they can embed a static image, hosted on their own server, and I may or may not click the link. "Ad networks" can go sit on a sharp stick. Maybe it can be leveraged to pry their head out.
Maybe entrepreneurial HN isn't the place to criticise projects which aim to bring free metadata to important consumer markets.

Checking what ingredients a product has (or how many calories it contains) seem like necessities only if you are dealing with mysterious processed food. I'll go out on limb here and assert that these problems don't really arise with traditional ingredients or preparations.

Seems like a likely losing strategy with this audience.
Life hack: grab the important bits from the comments and skimming the post here.
Kostabi too: http://juddtully.net/articles/painting-by-the-numberspaintin...
If they only want regional markets, sure, but they can forget a global market at that point.
Seems to be missing C# (https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn) with 6550 stars and Typescript (https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript) with 16876 stars.
Why do you assume others think there is an "evil conspiracy"? Of course there isn't. Food is a business and profits will be put ahead of nutrition.

Look, I like the fact that people don't starve. That poor people can get the nutrients and vitamins they need. Everything in the industrial food revolution was designed to make food cheaper for consumers. But there's a cost to that too. And early onset diabetes, heart failure for people in their 40's and other health issues are only part of the price.

It's not chemophobia - at least not for me. It's the breaking of the marketing we've been sold that cooking is hard, that cooking is very time consuming and that prepared industrialized food is just as good for you. As for the bread example, it isn't bread. And it could only be labeled bread after these manufactured lobbied government and the FDA in the 1940's to allow it to be called bread.

Yeah, there's a lot of snobbery around slow food and natural food. A lot of that is class distinction I assume and it's annoying. But I don't think you need to buy that kind of stuff. Get the vegetables that aren't organic. Buy meat that isn't "free range". But by all means buy quality ingredients and learn to cook for yourself a couple meals a week.

>People used to be very happy about those additions in the past, when they could relate to more "natural" food and its problems.

This makes no sense at all. People were happy for the convenience and sold the lie that cooking is hard and a waste of time when you can just buy this processed food and eat it right now.
Yeah, this is why I still prefer IRC over Slack and most other team chat systems. I hear a lot of people suggest them because of missing messages with IRC, but I actually think the missing messages is a feature. A ping on IRC to someone that isn't there is a bit like walking by someone's office and noticing that they aren't there.

I don't want my phone to notify me immediately every time a team chat message goes through. Direct hangouts messages have a higher "weight" and are useful sometimes, too, though.

Basically, this is just a cultural problem that needs to be worked out. Sort of like the (usually) understood idea that you shouldn't disturb a person wearing headphones and working.
They can be an income source if you mine, too.

Even more fun, if you mine back in the old days when difficulty was 3-digits, and then sell years later, they can be a long term capital gain.
I agree with you completely. Cultural sensitivity is a difficult thing when you have a global audience for your product or service.

Maybe as part of the locale configuration, in addition to number and date format, people should pick a friendly and an offensive color! :)
The news articles are written by people who are increasingly detached from reality, more and more biased and more and more paid and monitored by the government.
There is no easy fix to this, obviously the education has to be increased but more realistically you simply have to start following alternative media and stop relying so much on your single source(s) of truth that you implictly trust.
If there is an international event regarding Russia, read both rt, cnn, drudgereport and follow and participate in discussions about it on your favorite forums.
When there is a refugee crisis you can nowadays get livestreams, you dont need to read an article much later which will distort the truth for you. I remember reading about how the evil hungarian police were mistreating the refugees and then when watching the recorded livestream and reading up on some fringe websites, I saw with my own eyes how these refugees ran down barricades and threw rocks at police.
There simply is no substitute to this and frankly there never was, we are fortunate to live in a time where you can do all this yourself. You used to have no other choice than to trust your newspaper when it told you about events overseas.
I prefer wired connections as well, but surely you understand that many people want network connectivity in places in which they're not at liberty to physically modify the premises in order to run ethernet cable to their computer?
Interesting. So, out of interest, why is the same not being applied for ɢ? (When I ran it through Python's unidecode I got the roman symbol all the same).