skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the quote you're looking for is

> The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads ... that sucks.
Sure! At the moment we integrate with the Twilio API for our numbers, although we have a few more providers on the way. We don't offer all countries that Twilio does because we test the numbers out to make sure they work with most services before whitelisting a country to appear on our service. Our software is written in Rust and uses the Iron framework for the webapp. PostgreSQL keeps the records. nginx sits in front.
As a parent of a daughter with Fragile X Syndrome, I'm glad she has two X chromosomes. The "good" one in her case helps reduce the severity of her symptoms. Males with the Syndrome face far more difficulties as their lone X chromosome is the one with the mutations.
Some of these are solved by setting up their own repo (though you can't force users to update in F-droid). Some of the tracking things can be handled, I believe, if they were built out and opt-in.

https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Setup_an_FDroid_App_Repo
The execution of this is super weak.

There's nothing about the site that really conveys the magnitude of items besides page __ of 12, and you can't even browse by category as if it were an online shopping site, or see original purchase price. He's not utilising the chosen medium of an online shopping cart, so why even use Shopify in this case? It's a minimalistic image gallery with captions.

Sometimes the message is bland or the artist does a bad job of communicating their intentions. And this is one of those situations where I wouldn't fault the viewer as much as the artist for "not getting it."
>A 50mm 1.2 lens on a Canon APS-C body has a full frame equivalent focal length of 80mm and a full frame equivalent aperture of f/1.9 — giving it the characteristics of a comparatively inexpensive lens.

Only as it pertains to DOF. On the other hand, it will still be a 1.2 lens as far as light gathering is concerned.

And you can get a 35mm 1.2 for your 50mm equivalent on APS-C.

The loss of DOF we know, but you still so much DOF latitude on APS-C that you can do pretty much anything. Besides, that 50mm will become a quite handy portrait lens on APS-C.
Pivotal Tracker.

First, it's slow and bloated. According to Firefox's dev tools, the main project's page takes 15 seconds to load, transferring 3.6MB of data in 62 HTTP requests. This is with a 2015 MacBook on a 150Mbit connection.

Second, it's a UI nightmare. The most common action for a story (expand details) is a 6x9px light-gray triangle with a 17x24px hitbox—not exactly the easiest target to click on. And Pivotal Labs must offer free LASIK to employees, because the default text size is absurdly small. On a non-retina screen, one is forced to use the "Projector" view. The UI offers few affordances, and many are misleading. eg: Each story's "Close" button doesn't modify the story in any way. It simply navigates back to the project overview page. The whole product is fraught with these sorts of issues.

It's telling that Pivotal Tracker is usually imposed upon dev teams. Few devs freely decide to use it; they're fine with a simple issue tracker. It's management and product teams that want the categorization, time estimates, and hierarchical organization of the borderline-chaos that is software development.
Maybe schadenfreude. More likely, I think you can learn more from a post-mortem article than a startup one. I run a startup, so I'm always keen to lean the lessons other founders are generous enough to share.
Sweet, thanks for the sources. I still find myself doubting that Saddam actually eliminated all of his weapons that, as you demonstrate, there's proof that he had at one point. There's known corruption scandals at the UN involving Iraq, and the IAEA officials require cooperation with the government.

However, it seems to me that for the most part very few people would switch from anti-war to pro-war based on this issue.

It is mostly, but not entirely, irrelevant to the moral questions surrounding foreign interventionism.

But it is important for the historical record.
Hunter-gatherers generally didn't store meat. Therefore, when the best hunter in the group brought home a large animal, he shared it with all. Likewise, there were few physical possessions or need for such, and so these were shared too.

But egalitarian? Not a chance. Studies show that even modern hunters expend enormous energy and risk their lives hunting over the real prize: access to mates.
You do sound bitter.
The difference between the printing press and the internet is that you and me could make a whole new Internet happen with just two $70 handheld computing devices.

The printing press needed a newsroom with typists and ad salesmen and a team of people wrestling with an ink belching mechanical beast. The minimum corporate interest required to feed such a beast is substantially more than the Internet business, the physical plant of which costs pennies a day in overhead to maintain (i.e. your cell phone and a few gigs of bandwidth.)
"Or maybe midgets?"
It depends on the country the number belongs to, and sometimes on the specific number, but we only list countries where we've tested a few numbers from that country and found they work with most services. We can't guarantee anything about which services will or won't accept our numbers, but we only bill by the minute so it's very cheap to try it out and cancel after a minute or two if it doesn't work out.
Doesn't exactly pass the "more subtle" requirement...

(Perhaps if you arrange to buy your burner from the convenience store next door to a goth club...)
So you don't think the name or time is content, but you do think where the comment is, is content? Do you feel like if you make a comment in one situation, and then make the exact same comment in another situation, that the content of the comment has changed? Keep in mind that the time or name used on the comment may have changed - you've ruled those out.

Your line of argument earlier was that you thought I was against complaints about pitchforking. Have you abandoned that line of reasoning? I personally don't think the content of most arguments against pitchforking is objectionable.
I'm unable to read the article due to a paywall.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll see if I can find one and try it out.
Thanks! It's a work in progress, updating the TOS and Privacy pages now.
Not only is it wrong, it's also incorrect. I used to work in healthcare IT so a "few doctors" to me is different than other people. But I got his point, I didn't see the need to get too technical.
+1 for your Anya/Buffy reference alone.
This was the #1 thing I was hoping this would provide when I clicked on the link. Basically stops me from even bothering to use virtual desktops on Windows, I got so used to having my laptop screen as a "persistent" desktop with stuff I always wanted to see on it.
Fully agree on this. My dear old employer used to switch to SAP. I just needed it to file my working schedules. However, it took me thousands of clicks and shortcuts just to open up the window presenting the right form. Besides, I filed my hole schedules just once a monce, thus I always needed a windows VM and a tutorial all the time.
There are dozens out there. Dozens.
No, this only works in the positive direction (making pixels bigger so vision-impaired people can read text, for example).

What I need is this setup, but be able to go lower than 100%. So if I chose 50% for example, my 1366x768 LCD actually looks like a 2732x1536 desktop to Windows.

Win10 won't go lower than 100%.
At the moment, we only plan to offer Bitcoin and Monero payment. There's a lot of other improvements I'd like to spend time on first before getting into fiat currency payment.
>>rubbing something in his face

Isn't this the premise of the Interview? Didn't know that kind of thing was possible.
Chicken Scheme 4.12.0 has been released
I just recently, finally, began annotating my books and dog-earing pages after having run the gamut of other annotative methods--taking notes on my phone, taking notes in a corresponding notebook for the text, using index markers/sticky flags, etc. etc. Direct annotation is by far the best and most effective method I've found unless I intend on conducting an ultra close reading of a text, in which case I will take detailed notes in a notebook, in addition to annotating the pages directly.

A sort of paranoid fear of distorting my subsequent readings of a book has always made me hesitate marking them directly--a second reading is often a chance to catch subtitles you missed the first time around--I've always feared that having my annotations screaming at me while reading would render finding these subtitles impossible, those slippery nuggets making their escape under rivers of pen ink.

Ultimately, I couldn't deny myself the inherent use-value of direct annotation--so it won out over my fear. Yes, it's true that my annotations will perhaps make me miss things I otherwise might've noticed on a second read, but they'll also remind me of ideas I'd previously had which might've otherwise been lost to time, or are more difficult to parse out and re-associate with a given piece of text using the other methods.

So I accede to the wisdom of DFW, a great lot of famous scribblers, and Tim Parks; I read with pen in hand and ink on page.
Are you talking about Video and not Voice? I didn't have to enable anything for Signal Voice calls.
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Linked Lists are terrible.
They're one of the reasons why early 2000's natd in FreeBSD was terrible. Ask me how I know!

Here's a hint - I trussed natd while it was running. Ooops.
Scares the hell out of me too. I think the ageism problem will eventually get solved. But my concern is will it get solved in time for me?

In the meantime, I try to think up things I can do to combat it and I pretty much completely draw blanks. I'm seriously considering exploring small bootstrapped start ups in my free time for no other reason than to hopefully have an income stream I can use should I find myself out of a job due to age.
It's a piece of crap Dell with an Intel video deck, so no good.
Of course the scale of the problem makes a difference. People are also being murdered on a daily basis, but we don't claim it affects the labor force at scale (like "there is a shortage of women in STEM because they have all been murdered"). Just like murders should be prevented, sexual harassment should be prevented. But that doesn't necessarily make it a large scale problem.

As for the linked problem, I criticize that it doesn't properly define sexual harassment. The comparison here is to a guy who proposed sex on a first work day and threatened a stunted career. Is that really what women experience all the time. Or is it mostly that an unwanted colleague is attracted to them? The methodology is also not clear (very likely they only asked women, which seems rather one-sided. For "real" crime there is a reason for there being courts and judges).
I am confused about one thing in the interview. He implied that when they launched they didnt have a backend integration with a merchant account (assuming that is how all this stuff works) ... so you would eventually get your money. (implying there was a manual step that required human intervention)

It sounds like the beta was only half built, but I am surprised that it didnt need to be 100% there for it to process payments.

I'm just confused.
This story, and the UFO stories from the 50s and 60s, demonstrate the enduring power of a well-crafted cover story.

Long after the real secret information is widely known (radar and experimental aircraft), the cover stories are still widely believed.
Reminds me of how when you say you dont know everything about XYZ language/framework to an hr person or recruiter they look at you like incompetent. Meanwhile saying that you knew everything about XYZ language/framework to a technical person would have them thinking you're incompetent.
I immediately guessed that this would be the explanation before reading the article. An important corollary hypothesis (that would exclude things like androgen effects) would be to do a statistical analysis on XY-women and see if they have similar cancer rates as men.
I don't understand this style of, minimalism? Isn't the point to remove the power your possessions have over you? Not obsess over minifying the amount of possessions you own?
Creating a booking system that integrates with individual Google docs sheets
Ask HN: Do you use cloud.docker.com in production?
Is anyone using cloud.docker.com in production? I never see any mentions of it anywhere. It seems to me easier to use than Kubernetes but I've never seen anyone discussing cloud.docker anywhere.

Is anyone actually using it? If not what do you suggest as an easy to use alternative?
> It all seems so impractical while also oozing of privilege. Must be nice to not have to repair anything or ever cook for yourself.

Actually eating at cafeteria is what least wealthy people, e.g. students, do. Buying food cooked in batch and sharing instruments is cheaper than maintaining your own kitchen and possessions.
derive_more 0.6.0: Derive common Rust traits to avoid boilerplate
As a child my parents would tell me to not sit so close to the TV as it'd ruin my eyesight. I concocted some sort of wacky formula for how many carrots I needed per unit of time sitting close to the TV.

It turns out that I have excellent eyesight, the only one in the family who doesn't wear glasses. If it weren't so ridiculous I'd actually wonder a bit about the effect my formula had.
My experience suggests the opposite - I've successfully effected change of my personal conditions several times, without help of any unions. So did many other people I know personally.

Of course, it is natural for union officials to see themselves as benevolent godlike figures distributing goods to the plebes. But this particular plebe is doing just fine without you and would like to continue as long as possible without any unions.

And BTW guess what I found as looking up BT pensions on Google?

https://www.ft.com/content/5505d45e-ac29-11e6-ba7d-76378e4fe...
BT has second-worst funded pension scheme in the world

Are you sure you've told the members of your union about that? Who would be left holding the bag when this thing blows up? Would it be you, or would it be those thousands of people who got unfunded pension promises? Or would it be UK taxpayers who would be forced to pay for it?
How are your freedoms being reduced by DRM?
I wish every app would be possible to use without Google Spy Services.
My phone is way more battery light since getting off Google Services completely. Conversations uses a similar solution, I think, and I have way more battery at the end of the day than when my phone was stock Google Android.
The main stream media caters its reporting to maintain access. Alternative media tends to do likewise. A reporter whose beat is Silicon Valley tech companies has to maintain access to those companies so that they can get an email from the CEO when the story breaks. If the reporter spent significant time muck raking the employment practices of the tech industry, the reporter would be frozen out. The Anti-Trust collusion case wasn't based on a story that some reporter broke or news outlet broke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Read history outside of school, might learn a thing or two.
The thing that can't be overstated with Nim is how fast it is. We're talking C/C++ level performance - and that's on "normal" code, not some abomination with tons of annotations or other cheats.

It's also very unlike Rust in that it's a very low ceremony language. Simple scripts are no more verbose than they would be in Python or Ruby.
You seem very reasonable.

Please try your own thought experiment: would requests for evidence in your scenario get silenced by assumptions and accusations of bad faith and sexism?

These are some of the same tools used by dictators, despots, and criminals to chill rational discourse.

Your thought experiment is lacking a critical component: the hearsay accusation of a criminal act. You've unwittingly created a straw man argument.

This is a risk when you don't engage with the world in a rational evidence-driven format. You mislead even yourself.

Try this thought experiment: Assume I'm a very supportive professional married to a woman who works in technology, intimately familiar with the pressures and difficulties that come with that. You can explore my comment history if you like.

Seriously re-read what you've written and consider it from my perspective. What does it say about you, your prejudices, values, beliefs, and open mind? What is the impact if everyone behaves the same way?

Can you see why I'm concerned that ycombinator contributors behave this way?

Or: view it from the perspective of a misogynist that you seek to shame and silence. Few of them will be converted through bullying. You're trying to stop terrorism by bombing Iraq. Attacking the wrong people for the wrong reasons while sacrificing your values quickly destroys your reputation, highlights your hypocrisy, and creates new opponents.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that your behavior here doesn't match how you see yourself or how you want to be. That you have a love of democracy, freedom, and the pillars that support them. We desperately need people like that, and we have no shortage of ignorant bigots.
Would you recommend this for people with established short-sightedness? I'm always worried about my eyes getting worse, and they have been, year after year.
Enterprise Single Sign on for all
Yes, it's the same setting for both video and voice, which uses the newer webrtc stuff. The old voice support is being phased out, which is probably what you've used in the past.
Millions of lines of code
No, we don't. The Brand X decision killed unbundling for DSL.
<cynical thought>Which puts them one step up in global opinion over the US right now...
Until you need to replace literally anything in them. When their design suddenly looks massively hopeless compared to a thinkpad.
Even simpler: Panasonic and Amana each sell a commercial microwave oven that has one knob – and that's it. Turn the knob to the time you want to cook, and it starts cooking – on "high", its only power setting. Open the door, and it stops and cancels the timer.
That is wonderful.

I always dread dealing with build systems, mostly in the C land.

Deterministic behaviour, especially in this rigorous fashion, is probably very helpful for much more cases than just trust.

This looming assumption that make executes pure functions to produce output could actually become true. Now it really suffices if make triggers a target if one of the inputs changed.
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Nim always looked to me as a modern version of OCaml made by someone who has no idea how to do static type systems properly. The language as a whole might have a nice feeling and convenient features, but the type system is really not good ...
D's type system, at least, is better designed.

On the other hand, I always considered Rust as the result of an ML programmer looking at C++ and thinking "this is bullshit, I can do it cleaner".

I might have a very ML view of the programming world, but that's ok, most other people have an ALGOL/C view of it. ;)
A lot of sites accused of being fake news are not. Be prepared to be sued for defamation, quite possibly with good reason.
I'd point only two _major_ errors. There are too many minor errors though.

> decades-long Iran/Iraq war was a proxy war fought between the US and the Soviet Union with both sides having the goal of creating a dominant footprint in the middle east

No. Last Soviet attempt to gain a foothold in Middle East was a failed relationship with Egypt. Hint: War of Attrition followed by Yom Kippur War.

There was no major influx of military advisers or green men during Iran-Iraq war.

> The Soviet Union was too big and plagued by infrastructure problems, but Russia itself is well placed geopolitically and has historically been a seat of wealth, culture, and regional ambitions.

I have a bad news for you - Russia is about the same size as USSR and it's still plagued with infrastructure problems. And as for the culture - everybody can see the decline in post-Soviet cultural scene, especially in Russia.
Seems to me you're playing hide the ball a bit here. If it's the case that society conditions men to display confidence, then aren't we left to explain why _that_ might be the case? Why doesn't society condition women to be the more confident? How did we get here? The null hypothesis would probably be that innate gender differences created the current sociological environment, creating a chicken and egg problem.

This reminds me of the argument that women's under-representation in STEM fields begins during childhood when we condition them with toys that don't encourage spatial reasoning. This claim leaves a gigantic dangling question of "Why are toy companies and parents so damn bad at understanding what little girls want to play with?" The literature supports the intuitive truth of the matter: girls and boys find their toy affinities on their own without much input from society.

Incidentally, I think most people are morally taking the wrong tack when it comes to this kind of stuff. If you make a value judgment that having an affinity for leadership or spatial reasoning is Good, then you are no longer free to interpret the actual world without worrying that the data will show men are Better (or Worse). Why can't we accept men and women as they are, and stop pre-supposing equality of all measurements that we might consider desirable? If it turns out that men are naturally suited to taking leadership roles, who cares? It takes all kinds to make a functional society, and in the scheme of things, leaders are a tiny thread in that tapestry. I find the role of leader or mathematician to be equally valuable to artist, baker, carpenter, fashion designer, grocer, mother or father. Each of them is a valuable member of society that should earn a fundamental human dignity. In my view, admonishing women to pursue engineering is equally repugnant to demanding they avoid it! Let's encourage all of the women who find engineering or mathematics irresistible, but avoid fretting about the many who don't!
175% on rMBP 13in (2560x1600), simulated 1680x1050.
I found the same, I've done numerous week long fasts, I think the longest was 10 days, and the first 1 or 2 days are the toughest. After that my body would stop craving, and I'd stop thinking about food altogether.

I've heard that when you get to the "other side" of a fast, that is, you actually begin starving, that hunger returns with an intensity that is incredibly hard to ignore.

The other thing I realised by fasting is how incredibly social the act of eating is.
FYI I don't think it's beta anymore :)
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If there was some existing anecdotal reports of carrots/vitamin A giving you better night vision, I'd think it'd make an even better cover story than something more outlandish.

Maybe in this case they just happened to accidentally cook up a cover story with a grain of truth to it?
Did you know that Netflix only supports up to 720p on Chrome and Firefox? Because the DRM in those is easy to circumvent. People want higher than 720p, so browsers implement better DRM.
I use Twilio when I need to verify phone numbers for stupid apps. Mainly because a great deal of the time don't actually carry a phone around (especially if I am carrying something more computationally powerful than a phone). And I can verify my Twilio phone numbers from anywhere in any country.

Can't we kill phones already, please? Identify people by e-mail addresses, which are easier to remember and not tied to countries.