skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You are welcome to cut my social security and medicate "entitlements" but I've been paying into them for 20 years so be prepared to write me a check for every penny taken from me. Its not an "entitlement" if I've been forced to pay into it for decades.

Yeah, that's not how it works. Your money is gone and isn't coming back, and the Supreme Court ruled that you have literally zero right to anything. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_v._Nestor )
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Isn't there something in common there: drug dealers make money pushing heroin etc. and (some) doctors make money pushing Oxycontin?

Maybe if all these drugs were freely available at least some of the violence would go away and the incentives to push them would go away too ...
Snap Tumbles Below IPO Opening Price as Analysts Say Sell
Why bother? You still fail to detect candidates who memorized the answer.

My standard coding question is a funny-looking prime sieve. If someone isn't familiar with one, we can work it through together and I'll have a much better idea of their learning potential & what they'll be like to work with than the intern straight out of their Algorithms final.
If the app is very simple and you don't want to maintain your own servers, i would go with Google sheets, forms and app script.
> we don't have a competitive market in smart phone software or hardware at all

Wait what? The smartphone market has plenty of competition. If being user-repairable was an important feature to consumers there would be lots of phones that delivered it.

> I'd also argue culture has made owning a mobile device a function of being socially acceptable.

I'm not sure what you're arguing against.

> the U.S. is a liberal democracy, a constitutional democracy, ... the power of the people to define an economic system and the means to regulate it ... You can dislike it all you want,

Now you're really straw manning me as some sort of libertarian utopian who's against democracy (both false), Here is what I said:

"I think companies should have the right to do X."

That is quite clearly not a statement about legal or constitutional realities, it was a response to grandparents own made up right (to repair). The constitution allows for all sorts of things that are bad ideas. At one time it allowed the owning of humans as chattel slaves. More recently and relevantly it can compel companies like Apple to compromise the security of their devices in various ways. The Nebraska bill touches on this in a smaller but not insignificant way as part of the world class chain of security in current iphones is the touch sensor and third party replacement of the sensor breaks this chain. So yes the government has the right to force Apple to provide parts/specs/whatever. Is that a good idea? I don't think that's clear at all.

You've also invoked market failure in this case with zero evidence that it exists in the smartphone market. I'd bet that repair revenue is a rounding error to Apple and they likely take a loss overall. And if market failure does exist (and it might well for tractors which are 90% of the article's focus) there are also other avenues for correcting that failure.
Link to zero-f, if it exists would help.
It's a "national health crisis" because of the ethnicity and locations of the people it's affecting. Today, politicians are proposing more treatments and going after the pharmaceutical companies[1]. Back in the 80's and 90's, the response to the crack epidemic was harsher prison sentences for users and sellers because it was largely minorities who were affected[2].

Not arguing that treatments shouldn't be made available but it's important to keep all this in mind if someone ever suggests that all are equal in the eyes of the law when it comes to drug offenses.

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/us/heroin-war-on-drugs-pa...

2 -http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/02/heroin_vs_cr...
We agree! We maintain the official plugins (which we call "build steps" or "builders") here: https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/cloud-builders

Support is limited, more or less, to what I am really familiar with. If you have other use cases that we could support with other builders, I'd love to see a FR on that GitHub repo.

Also, you can use literally any container image as a build step. Details about how to make that happen are here: https://cloud.google.com/container-builder/docs/api/custom-b...
Isn't that what a Mac Pro is? Screenless and upgradable hardware.
Yes, I thought about this by it seems slightly removed from my core point. They could force you to put whatever fingers they wanted on the sensor. Of course if you can touch the wrong finger enough times before they get the phone they are still out of luck.

My argument is that they can make you touch the sensor because that isn't something you can prentend to not be able to do. It is somewhat immerterial if it actually unlocks the phone or not.
The book sales created enough profits to bootstrap the email business.

To stretch the analogy it like the Power Supply bootstrapping the BIOS bootstraping the Operating System loader.
> The only way a sender can tell for sure their e-mail was delivered is to have tracking links

Thats not true. Both spammers and legitimate email delivery services have hundreds if not thousands of accounts at the major email providers that they seed into their lists. As they are delivering email they periodically check their own accounts to see if mail is ending up in the inbox or the spam folder.

You can also request a "Feedback Loop" from major email providers that will forward spam complaints from your network back to you.
Thanks. I'm going to take a while to process that. :-)
author here! i think putting the unit in the header also works just fine. it's the same "ink" either way, so it comes down to particular usage.

color-wise, one of the strongest reasons to not use color is the exact situation you mentioned; in some countries (namely, china), green values are negative and red are positive.
>There also needs to be much stricter control of new prescriptions for opioids

Like the extremely strict controls in place? Like the prosecution of doctors who run pill mills? Like the rescheduling of hydrocodone formulations?

In my local ER there is an entire framed info-poster explaining why you aren't getting your meds refilled at the ER, you won't be getting fentanyl, dilaudid or oxycodone prescribed to you no matter what. ED's work with your primary care doctor and relay info to them. States have implemented pharmacy tech that allows them to track prescriptions state-wide. (a former massive problem)

Hospitals are already doing this. Pharmacies, already doing this. Doctors are terrified of the laymen telling them they know better in the court of law. Pain is being undertreated now more than ever, which is the flipside to the crackdown you don't seem aware of, which has been happening for years now.

There will always be abusers. It's inevitable. The people who really suffer from this kind of over-reach are people like my grandparents who are nearing life's end. People dependent on pain medication for their quality of life. Non-abusers.

Maybe quality of life means nothing to you, but to them it's all they have left keeping them going. It's the only reason they can continue to live through the constant pain, the enduring misery old age and lives of very hard work has wrought upon them.
'League of Legends' creator wins $10M in cheating lawsuit
As someone that does Java and .NET consulting, with an ocasional use of C++ on the projects, I would say outside the SV darlings (Google, FB, Microsoft, Apple, ...), sadly very few people do.

While I do try to keep up with the standard, the majority of the code I bump into, on those projects, is still the typical pre-C++98 style and most devs aren't that keen in moving forward.

Specially in projects that are mostly driven by changing consulting company every few budget rounds.
I don't think anyone is pretending that Go is a decades-old language. What is the standard term for this kind of inlining which would distinguish it from the inlining already present in the compiler?
Discussing what you "need" isn't remotely interesting in the context of programming languages. You don't need anything more than assembly language to get anything done.
"30-40% of these will be recorded advice sessions with startups—we’ve always heard from entrepreneurs that this is some of our most helpful content."

Excellent. Learning online is best served by using video. Following the model of getting the best on tape, distributing to a mass audience. cf: MIT online 6.001 lectures. I'm thinking the Hal Abelson lectures from '85)

"We’ll have an online community via Slack and email where you can connect with other entrepreneurs in the class."

Expedience. Not a fan of slack. Is a YC discussion/mooc platform being planned?

"4) At the end of the class, participants will have a chance to share what they’ve built with a wide audience."

How is this happening? Slack?
> let's say a billionaire puts his 1B$ into a new venture, would you call that "boostrapping" as well?

Depending on how he got the billion and whether or not there is outside investment involved, possibly yes, but the term is usually used for small amounts of money (say < $100k or so). But that's a technicality.

But truth be told very few people are in that luxurious position and those that are will almost never risk all (or even a substantial part) of their private capital on an entirely new venture. So that's highly hypothetical and would take the better part of several decades before you'd be in a position to execute that phase of your bootstrap. Elon Musk comes close but even he routinely uses outside capital and so is not really bootstrapping (though I'm not aware of anybody else that is so willing to put most or all of his own money into new ventures).

Bootstrapping comes from the imagery of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

You come into the world naked, without substantial inherited money, you become employed somewhere, you save some money, maybe do some side jobs, one day you jump ship and go full time into your own business and your savings provide your runway. That's the textbook definition of a bootstrapped business.

It tends to produce small to mid-sized companies ($100K to $10M) in revenues and anywhere from one to 50 or so employees. It's the most sure-fire path to any kind of independence for skilled workers and has a totally different risk profile from a business that takes on outside investment. (Larger risks of failure, potentially larger returns)
I've heard Drew Pinsky rail against physicians for their role in the epidemic. But he also mentions an assist from the legal community in that they've taught patients they are entitled to lengthy doses of opioids.

Despite the evidence showing only short term benefits to opioid treatment physicians fear being sued by patients for refusing to continue prescriptions. I believe the argument is "Pain is the fifth vital sign."
I think it's sort of container building as a service. It moves the burden of building Docker container from your laptop (or from your CI tool) to the GCE. It takes away the docker push, as it goes straight to the GCE registry (I guess).

So if you need to do docker build too often, or maybe your container-release process feels a bit quirky, you might want to do it with the container builder.

It doesn't seem too ground-breaking, people probably already have it automated somehow, or they use sth from Docker hub (https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/builds/#remote-build-trig...), or quay.
From the Elders to the Kids: What I Wish I’d Known
Seems like pathology is a white collar job that could be replaced by AI. But the pathologists I know are not worried about their jobs, (honestly, they are worried about it, but for other reasons - mostly changes in the US healthcare system).

Its hard to imagine no human in the loop. My guess is that in the future, there might be fewer pathologists, or may be the same number, just spending time doing different things (perhaps reviewing results for tests we haven't heard of yet) or just validating what the machine thinks. This being one of the tools that makes them more productive.

Between the growth of medical technology and the aging population I don't think they will every worry about finding work.
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They downplayed the issue repeatedly. If you read the original Google report Cloudflare did not work with the team all that well. The Google team complained that Cloudflare was not working with them on the message and was downplaying the risk.

> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=11...

According to the Google team the draft Cloudflare sent "contains an excellent postmortem, but severely downplays the risk to customers." There was also a ton of conversation here on this site about the fact that they were downplaying the severity.

As for web caches- look, it's great that they were proactively working to get things cleaned up. However, despite the fact that Google called in engineers who cancelled their weekend plans to deal with this, and despite the fact that Google is the one who did Cloudflare's job by finding the exploit, this is what Matt Prince had to say-

> I agree it's troubling that Google is taking so long. We were working with them to coordinate disclosure after their caches were cleared. While I am thankful to the Project Zero team for their informing us of the issue quickly, I'm troubled that they went ahead with disclosure before Google crawl team could complete the refresh of their own cache. We have continued to escalate this within Google to get the crawl team to prioritize the clearing of their caches as that is the highest priority remaining remediation step.

He essentially through the Google team under the bus. It was completely unprofessional.

Finally, the Ragel team themselves had to reach out to Cloudflare to get them to change the language on their announcement because it appeared to many people that the Cloudflare discussion was shifting the blame to Ragel. If you really need more information about this just read the OP this thread is part of.
My First 8 Weeks as a Junior Engineer
I second this. Django with its Rest framework is an awesome combo.
Ask a simple, standard question that the candidate could reasonably answer in 10 or so minutes, confirm it works with them, and then change the parameters to invalidate their solution?

This is the closest I can get to actual project work in 45 minutes.
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We haven't had many projects exceed their daily free tier so far, and we've been backing all App Engine Flexible deployments for a while.

If you do exceed your daily free tier, you're only billed $0.0034/minute, on a per-second basis, so we expect the cost of using this product to be very low.

(disclaimer: I work on this product)
Clef two-factor authentication service shutting down
If a candidate can't construct a simple Boolean predicate to characterize a well-defined condition in an interview situation, do you really think that they're going to be able to do much more complicated work later if we hire them?

Be serious.
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https://zero-f.co/
I am absolutely not claiming he didn't work very hard to start his company or earning his money.

I am neither claiming he's bad or wrong or anything like that. Like jacquesm said it's probably more of a problem of definition between a dominant one and mine (in other words, looks like I am wrong). I have seen people starting companies with nothing, not even a roof on their heads. I started a company with the amazing comfort of 50k€. I am working hard to make my company a success, but I command the efforts of the guys I have seen eating noodles for years before their company finally took off.
We are talking living way below the poverty line here, which is not what I lived when I started a company with 50k€
They will just move to CloudFlare, where they (and all the other bad guys on the internet) get a free pass.
I am naughty.

You are up to shenanigans.

They are criminally corrupt.
They're down barely double-digit percentages from all-time highs. It's a hopeful trend, but not one that rebuts the role of pharmaceutical opioids in the epidemic.
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Addicts in The Netherlands get free heroin. Without the daily hustle to find the next high people have time to think instead. A lot of them find the peace to actually quit.

Actually it's really hard to keep the program going as the government doesn't like to be associated with free heroin.
No hiding or sneaking is necessary to explain anything here. They needed to come up with a way to describe the difference between how it is currently implemented and how they are changing it. That's all.
> Most if not all e-mail clients block images

Gmail auto preloads (via their servers) all images in emails. You can turn it off though.

(lots of sources on internet about this, http://www.guidingtech.com/13461/gmail-always-display-images... for example)
The means you use determine the ends you get.
> I'm even surprised when I look over at my girlfriend's gmail how many promotions she has (not in a separate tab).

That sample gives you a potential of 50% of the market, and in my experience you are the exception and she is the rule, adjust accordingly.
ConvertKit targets professional bloggers, podcasters, and other content creators. Generally, people who subscribe to these types of newsletters are there for the content. Getting it automatically via email is a huge perk compared to having to remember on your own and then proactively go out and find it.

For example, Indie Hackers (the site that hosts this interview) has grown to about 8000 email subscribers in the past 6 months. My newsletter has 52% open rates and very low unsubscribe rates.

Even more extreme, Ben Thompson at Stratechery has upwards of 2000 people paying him $10/month to get his private newsletter.
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Zero Fucks?
The only thing that is good about this epidemic is that it seems to have moved harm reduction onto the agenda after decades of militarized and/or "lock 'em up and throw away the key" responses. Hopefully the result will be a more rational response for all of America's drug problems regardless of the color of the users.
"Isn't the counterargument to this to point out the Oxycontin abuse epidemic?"

No because that's not even an argument.
Checkout Denmark. They had a huge problem with robberies and started giving legal pure Heroin shots to users. They also helped them find jobs. No more deaths and no more black market for Heroin. Hence burglaries also went away.

It looks like our current President is looking at cracking down on pot again though so, I don't imagine we'll have a sensible drug policy anytime soon. Only one motivated by profits.
Justin,
I love the concept of Whale, but many of us don't have iOs phones. Could you run a more traditional AMA at some point?When will there be a web player or an Android app for Whale? I feel that many people in the early user base for Whale are being alienated here.
So the Federal Government should Legalize Cannabis and allow research into it's painkiller effects?
Seems like getting mail you forgot to forward would outweigh this
A potential solution:

>Legal Heroin Prescriptions: The ‘British System’ You Never Knew Existed

Basically prescribe heroin for the addicts so they don't need to deal / steal and the thing dies out. You could link getting the prescription to doing something useful work wise if you want to be moralistic. Been done since the 1920s - tried and tested.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/heroin-prescription-di...
The problem is you have a large addicted population. Helping them get off opiates is expensive and time consuming (although orders of magnitude less than the war on drugs).

Also, depending on the level of addiction that may just be no hope for some. As another commenter said, in Holland they have had legal heroin dispensaries for 30 years, with medical staff and clean rooms for injecting. The addicts can be monitored, I believe they have general health and mental health workers available as well.

The addicts get live a "normal" as possible, knowing when and where they can get their fix. The whole day is not spent worrying where the money will come from Due to this, the average age of addict has steadily rose for years and years and, as the other commenter also stated, they die off
A related-ish thing I remember reading about is how doctors would ask folks complaining about back pain what career they were in. The goal is that folks who complain about back pain who are unemployed due to the local mill closing would get shunted into disability, while knowledge workers wouldn't.

So there's likely a pretty big effect of society telling folks that they have to be "disabled" in order for us to support them, and one way to be "disabled" is to have debilitating pain, and so you wind up with a bunch of folks who can't work and have a pain pill prescription.
I'm very out of the VC funding route-loop. Is the time between funding rounds really measured in days, these days?
Dropbox was hacked as well.
I'm interested in this guy's stuff, he's got an AMA for this, but everything he posts is through his Whale app which is Apple only and it's been like that for awhile, so is everyone on Android just fucked? Not even web versions available? Frustrating :/
Other than the latest MISRA, I really enjoyed "Better Embedded System Software" by Phil Koopman.

Ideally you should read it before starting your project, since it deal with the product specification/gathering requirements phase, which is your starting point in safety critical systems.

[1] https://betterembsw.blogspot.com.br/2010/05/test-post.html
I like how Codeship approaches the problem - see here for inspiration https://documentation.codeship.com/pro/getting-started/steps... Still, they're super expensive and not very performant, so I welcome competition.

What I'm missing here is an easy way to link a container being tested with external containers (eg DB).
Testing Dossier Reports in Rails
Ask HN: How to sync virtual machine (virtualbox) image accross two computers
If I have a virtualbox image on my desktop, and I want to travel and take my laptop with me, how can I sync the virtualbox image from desktop to laptop

I can do rsync, but it would cause an issue of "virtual machine moved copied issue"

I'm looking for some simple solution, and something tried and proven
We'll be sure to write up details of things we have changed. It's ongoing.
https://askwhale.com
Can you please share a bit more details what exactly Marco did? I'm about to hire our first sales/marketing person so anything that helps understand what such people do is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Tax deductions and possibly accounting fraud.
Does this limit who can connect to it anywhere? It looks like it results in an open proxy, albeit with limited destinations. Or maybe there's some "verify peer" type functionality such that clients without the right cert are dropped?
I believe most of the deaths are a result of the prescription decline. As the DEA and Florida shut down Oxycontin users were forced to turn to the cheaper more available heroin. Evil cartel members mix Fentanyl in Heroin to make profit and they are killing users (their customers) left and right.
Sounds reasonable. There's no need for HSTS then. But other than that, providing secure connection shouldn't influence plain HTTP usage in any way.