skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty decent idea. I struggle to think how it would apply to non english language browsers as they use so many Latin-character domains anyway.

Maybe someone could make this as a chrome extension?
In Singapore, you can also book taxi via Grab, we did so on our recent trip, meter/payment is still app based.
> the free market.

The only libertarians on the senate was two republicans and they both voted to sell online privacy. I guess that's real free market there.
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> There are many languages with excellent C ABI compatibility with nearly the same portability

Which ones?
It depends on your business model. If you depend on repeat business, extorting the highest possible cheque every time isn't an optimal strategy.

I live in a small quiet town, and I have a couple of neighbourhood cafes and restoraunts where I go several times a week, and most of the customers live nearby, too. Difference in attitude with typical tourist traps is immense. Different business models, different behaviour.
This is a growing and very important aspect of value-based care, and really factors into the discussion of quality that will be more a part of reimbursement than it ever has been. The article focused mostly on the provider him or herself, but patients also take into account the entire experience, including office staff, scheduling and billing procedures, etc.

Shameless self promotion: this is the exact problem my co-founder and I are working to address: https://www.perspexilabs.com/ (site currently looks broadly-focused, but we're targeting medical).

We're finding patients are actually very happy to give feedback, especially when given a neutral medium to discuss their experiences and when doing so very quickly after an interaction. The super-tight feedback loop not only makes everyone more satisfied, but it also has the chance to improve quality of care too.
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wdd: The deterministic debugger for Windows
The Sapphire Reserve isn't their first card to be physically made of metal.

The first one was the Sapphire Preferred, which is presumably what the person you replied to was talking about; the Sapphire Preferred appears to have a $95 annual fee (compared to $450 on the Sapphire Reserve), lower minimum limit, and lower requirements for approval.
This is one of those stories that has distorted over time. "Dealer" was a weekly meeting for many purposes, the main one was to provide a vehicle for coordination, planning, communication without having to set up a management structure for brilliant researchers who had some "lone wolves" tendencies.

Part of these meetings were presentations by PARC researchers. However, it was not a gantlet to be run, and it was not to train people to argue in a constructive way (most of the computer researchers at PARC were from ARPA community research centers, and learning how to argue reasonably was already part of that culture).

Visitors from Xerox frequently were horrified by the level of argument and the idea that no personal attacks were allowed had to be explained, along with the idea that the aim was not to win an argument but to illuminate. Almost never did the participants have to be reminded about "Class 1" and "Class 2", etc. The audience was -not- determined to prove the speaker wrong. That is not the way things were done.
being good at physics doesnt help you jump higher. its good to know theory, but to be good at something you need practice.
Agree 100%. We definitely "need him on the wall", no matter how much I might disagree with him sonetimes.
Ask HN: Does anyone else see the black line?
There's a black line at the top of Hacker News. Does everyone else see this or know what is it for?
You could allow (trusted) players to customize rooms and objects with an in-world accessible Lua layer similar to how LPMUDs used LPC. That would be pretty cool. MUDs taught me how to write creatively, but not how to code; in the future they could do both.
You're forgetting Uber's intent to be a major player in on-demand delivery, local shipping/haulage, and long distance shipping.

My point as ever remains this: people are looking at Uber's current model (where it loses 15% on each fare), its revenue, and its losses, and shitting themselves. They are correctly observing that to raise fares they would have to suffer a loss of customers. Those people are missing several points:

1. The bet on autonomous cars reducing Uber's fares further whilst simultaneously driving them to profitability

2. Uber's intent to spread beyond just passenger carrying

3. The fact that Uber could cut its expensive R&D and autonomous car team today and likely be profitable.

4. The fact that these numbers are simply the same numbers as most/many/all startups raising venture capital, simply orders of magnitude higher. They raised $15bn at a $100bn valuation? Great. There are companies who have raised $15m at $100m.

> I can only justify Uber's recent valuations if I entirely discount regulatory risk, assume huge GDP growth in the developing economies + Uber establishing dominance there and that Uber goes completely driverless in the next 10 years, without any legal/licencing costs.

A more interesting discussion (although irrelevant to my argument), and one we'd struggle to make without, y'know, actually having the data we need to value the business. Which is to say that we're sitting on the sidelines trying to guess the strategy and numbers. Parts of it are clear but I'd expect that a VC investor in Uber probably knows a bit more about what they want to do than us.
I don't think that works, "cccp" could look identical in latin and cyrillic but represents 2 different acronyms.
Probably "mileage redemption", as in either exchanging points from the card for frequent-flyer miles to redeem for flights, or directly redeeming the points for flights through whatever interface it provides.
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And of most of the participants at ARPA-IPTO and PARC. "Dealers of Lightning" was too much of the "hero's journey" trope, and also very confusing in sequence (even to those of us who were there). Both books missed how and why researchers cooperated and coordinated across projects, but "Dream Machine" is much more clear and generally more accurate.
Ask HN: How to get a developer job anywhere in Europe
tl;dr:

Indian developer trying to get a job in Europe. Decent resume, though not stellar. Does not want to get a master's degree from Europe inorder to have access to the job market. Any chance?

The looong version:

24 year old Indian developer who wants to see the world here. Financing an extended trip across Europe on Indian income is difficult, if not impossible. So I thought, hey, if there is such a high demand for quality developers, why not move to Europe?

questions:

1. Is it even possible to get a job in a EU country without getting a degree there? I do not want to spend 2 years of my life trying to get a master's degree that I do not need just to have access to a job market. In other words, can I get a work visa anywhere in Europe without having an offer in hand?

2. Assuming that a degree in the target country is not required, what would be the best approach to applying for jobs? Apply online? Board a plane, rent an apartment in say Berlin and THEN start applying online?

3. I think applying from India will hurt my chances, since potential employers might look at me as just another Indian trying to escape the country into greener pastures. Any 'hacks' to get around this? (apart from a very impressive portfolio - which i do not have. I'm alright, maybe even good, but not stellar/rockstar)

background:

1. 2 years experience in javascript and java with a US based enterprise data management company that makes backup software. Not another Indian outsourcing shop. Working from India.

2. GSoC 2014.

3. A few small side projects

P.S: Getting ANY developer job anywhere geographically close to Europe would suffice. I should earn enough to afford roaming around europe on weekends, that's it.
"An important part of how this funding was carried out was not just to find the best scientists, but to create them."

Is anyone doing this today?

Bell Labs had this practice in the early 20th century, ARPA, Xerox PARC, and DEC it seems in the latter thanks to Bob.

"Create/develop the best" isn't a mentality or practice that I see in the tech world today. Unfortunately it's an idea and practice that also seems lost in my own field of education.
Yet somehow Elon Musk went from internet payments to building rockets and cars. Musk had zero background in rockets or cars. Remember Apple is a company that has more cash in the bank than the entire value of Tesla. It's foolish to think that Apple can't execute. Remember Apple has a long history of the last mover advantage: they take promising but cumbersomely executed tech and expand on it.
The Volvos drive themselves on public roads. OK level 4 not 5 and not quite launched on the public yet but not bad.
I hadn't even heard of Fawcett before I read Lost City of Z, which was a highly recommended book. Personally I thought the book was only 'okay', that the heroics felt...exaggerated? Now I guess I know why.
It's a sign of the coming techpocalypse.
A simple tool to get an idea to a stage where products like Slack/JIRA do good
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Punycode has been there for over 10 years and it's almost unused. If it hasn't been a success yet, it will arguably never be a success. It's not worth it to let it live, given the hazard that phishing poses.
The Unicode consortium maintains a list of “confusable” strings[0], that is supposed to be used to prevent domains being registered that are visually identical or near-identical to already-registered domains.

As far as I can see, the characters used in this attack are indeed on the list. So presumably the problem is that not all domain registrars are checking this.

I don't understand why ICANN or Verisign don't enforce this. This is hardly a new problem. Does anyone know the background to why this is possible?

[0] http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/revision-03/confusabl...
Well, I've been plunged into this very issue. Even for cancer care, I found no trace of collaboration. It was bureaucratic, sometimes cold, out of sync (no news, contradictory news). No team work possible. Also if you ever try to mention alternate ideas, you get dismissed right away. And for fallacious reasons. Mostly statistical and experience driven, which looked like myopia to me. I'm actually collecting evidence to back my ideas right now. I understand they're humans, have limits, budgets. But the overall "this (comfy death) or nothing" is maddenning to me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14118290

They should really make the bar link to the discussion page or even just add a sticky link to the top of the results because this happens every time they add the bar.
What were Tesla people doing before they made cars? We could have made this argument comparing Tesla to GM a few years ago.
In those days you had to have a second source for your chips, in case something happens to you. AMD was Intel's seconds source, Motorola had none.
11:30 of noise before the interview, link to the start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0y0oXU8YNk&t=688

I find it kind of shocking that archive.org mirror requires registration to view this content, and youtube is wide-open..
Well, since that's how it ended up anyway it would not have made any difference now, would it? The water in NL is safe to drink from the tap.

Also, I love it how I relate something where I was present and observing the whole thing and then you come along and tell me what really happened.

No, he definitely was not on a tight schedule, in fact he waited around for the nurse to come and hand me my cup with water from that very same tap before we continued our conversation which indicates the opposite. I'd had a tube down my throat for 6 hours or so and the irritation was such that I couldn't speak otherwise, but I was still too unsteady to get it myself or I would have happily done so. A few minutes would have made a big difference to me.
How much do incarcerated people earn in each state?
The store, yes, the app, no.
OTOH, I think small businesses using Square has actually made it a lot less of a problem. The business just takes everything without having to make a decision about it.
Measuring computational complexity with dollars is a time dependent expression of complexity, since that value will change in the future due to cheaper and better hardware.

An expression line number of operations or expression via Landau symbols is timeless and can be individually mapped to costs.
Which is to say, yes, you are not seeing things.
>The patient is always right.

No he is not.
It could have been but it wasn't. He wasn't in scrub and besides doctors are required to wash their hands between patients anyway and he'd touched other objects in the room already.
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Not sure the patient is always right but the docs are often wrong. Collaboration probably works best. The docs have more medical knowledge but the patient may know more about their particular condition. I recently went to a dentist with a broken tooth and he wanted to do a root canal not because their was any evidence it was infected but because he thought it might be and why not from his point of view. From mine I'd rather wait and see if it was - it wasn't. That kind of stuff seems quite common.
I'd advise you to checkout codescho ol. They have tracks that cover a topic in about a weekend, often in an entertaining way.

I don't belong to them now but I really enjoyed them in the past
A good doctor should always tell the patient how his disease could have been prevented.
Regarding your first point, that's especially striking in the USA. There seems to be at least 4-5 assistants (nurses, secretaries...) for each doctor. Assistants check you in; you're left waiting in a room; after a seemingly random period of time, the doctor suddenly barges in, diagnoses you faster than the Flash, and leaves just as suddenly; assistants check you out.

I get that it's very efficient to work this way, but I'm not sure I'll ever get used to it. My father, now long retired, used to be a family doctor back in France. He shared his office with 4 other family doctors + 1 secretary that they paid with their combined income to take care of their appointments. He used to spend 20 minutes in average with each client. One of his colleagues routinely spent 30 minutes.

I should ask him about his churn. :)
It looks like your model uses immediate or nearly so text messaging after an interaction. Since a phone number is protected health information as per HIPAA, I'd be interested in how it's been setting a business associate contract? I imagine there is quite a bit of red tape. Are you able to set up one and use it for each clinical entity or does it require a bit of individualization?
Yup, stuff works great now. I just ordered a BT 4.0 USB a couple of days ago actually, looking forward to it arriving.
I looked it up, and seems the lounge in SFO is the KLM/AF one. Which is weird because I've been in there at a "peak" time (I was on the daily KLM to AMS) and it didn't seem particularly crowded.

Though in general lounge benefits -- unless you're getting a dedicated lounge operated by the program giving you access -- are not something worth going for. Back when I had status on American Airlines, I and many other people learned how worthless the alliance-partner lounge benefits can be: in theory, as an AA Executive Platinum, I'd have access to a rather nice British Airways lounge when connecting to an AA transatlantic flight in Philadelphia, but BA's policy was basically "all times are peak times (so we can turn you away), if there's anyone in here it's at capacity (so we can turn you away), and if there's nobody in here we'll close (so we can turn you away)".
No, it was designed to look and feel expensive.
I would be 100% in on this if I could slot my existing 3.5" drives in.
Tjena! Thanks for the bug report. We already detect a non-default WP_CONTENT_DIR (berghs is using assets instead of wp-content). But in this case it was our WordPress detection code that failed.

It has been fixed now:
http://wpdetective.io/www.berghs.se
France has some of the best healthcare in the world. A family member was involved in a horrific truck/passenger bus accident in France near Metz and I spent the better part of a week in and out of their intensive care department visiting. I've never seen a hospital that I liked better.

Everybody was so unbelievably nice and caring it was a huge improvement over what I'd seen elsewhere.

http://krant.telegraaf.nl/krant/archief/20020319/fotos/bin.v...

It was a pretty bad accident (5 dead, 55 wounded of which 3 critical one of those criticals was my family) with lots of beds suddenly occupied by people not speaking French and a large multiple of that in foreigners roaming the corridors and yet they dealt with all that with grace and understanding.
That list is pretty ad-hoc, and	doesn't	seem to	be carefully
curated. Fair enough, one has to start somewhere, but ...

There is clearly a great deal of overlap, e.g. Minimum
Description Length, algorithmic complexity and information theoretic
entropy.

There are also many well-understood relationships between different forms of complexity, e.g. between space and time complexity.

Some appear to be less formal than others, e.g. what is "cost" what is
"crypticity"?

Finally, regarding the broad distinctions, in what sense are the "difficulty of description" and
the "degree of organization" even different?
lived years in China, not a single time I saw advertised IDN domain, they always use regular latin domains, number domains are particularly popular, so don't really understand what's point of this option...
Even when "wrong" the patient is right. It is their life and it is for them to decide what to do.
And probably don't want to bother with dealers and such.
Random ideas to solve this:

Get phishing sites on Chrome/Firefox's red-flag lists (presumably this already happens?)

Show a country flag in the URL bar based on the language/alphabet of the URL

Change the URL bar colour for punycode domains

Show a big banner the first time you visit a site that you've not visited before.

Have the browser detect and warn about possible homographs based on history.

Having said all that, is this really such a large problem that no browser has needed to solve it? I suspect the centralised malware lists are good enough, but scary demo URLs will never get onto one.
This doesn't seem powerful enough for media centers that transcode-as-you-watch like plex/kodi, but would work fantastically well with the ahead-of-time-transcoding media server I created: splinter.com.au/gondola ha - shameless plug

Edit: No, it wouldn't run Gondola - not enough RAM, unfortunately.
I probably touched a few between 2006 and 2010 but not sure. Also since these were Macs Im not sure I wasnt ignoring it because it's the level I expect from Apple. Unlike Windows machines.
Agreed, 2017 MS is vastly almost inestimably better than 1997 Microsoft.

I don't use their products (except vscode/typescript) but I appreciate the work they do anyway since windows botnets etc are an ever present threat to the fabric of services running on the internet.
I don't bother explaining to doctors why I switched.

Every time I did in the past they got personally offended and refused to address their flaws, so why bother?

Also I am almost convinced good medics in certain fields (endocrinology for example) are almost nonexistent.
i love solving problems. but hate solving programming riddles with artificial rules. it feels much more like work then actually real work does.
When your friend orders food that looks better than yours
Thats actually a very efficient way of doing things and they get through way more patients a day.
Research integrity revisited
Agreed. Only accomodating 2.5" drives makes this significantly less useful as a NAS. I get that their target comparison is the ds416slim, but imo the current sweet target would have been the ds416play or even the ds916+. :\

They say that they plan to do a 3.5" version nebulously in the future, but, my god, that's such a backwards decision. There is much more market for the larger model.
Idea for HN: Ideas for HN
Given the userbase of HN, I'm surprised that this isn't already a thing:

Pitching ideas for things and services that you've identified a necessity for, or would just like to see in the world, but do not have the time, resources or motivation to build yourself.

It could become a tradition like Ask HN, Show HN.
The least-impact visualisation could be using colors: group the characters in the domain name by script family, then use regular colors for the largest group (so that e.g. an all-Korean domain name would look just fine) and highlight those exotic relative to the rest.
Indeed, you're right. It follows a similar model to services that do appointment reminders via text message, which is becoming very common.

The permission check becomes vital: it's part of the patient authorization at, for example, a first visit, and is best when also followed by a verbal authorization upon checkout. It's one of the big hurdles we're trying to overcome obviously, but we believe there are proper ways to do it and make it work within the boundaries of regulation and privacy. No good problem worth solving is without difficulties, right? :)
Also, use-after-free is UB. I have yet to hear the argument that "unoptimized C" means using a conservative garbage collector, and a free(3) that isn't a no-op is an "optimization".
If the Chinese miners are shutdown, the protocol allows for other global miners to replace them.
In the same vein, any one know of a cheap (around 30-50$) dual NIC SOC?
I think when undefined behaviour is used for optimizations the programmer does not want it is more of a misunderstanding than one party (programmer or compiler) necessarily being “wrong”, as a compiler assumes that a program should make sense (i.e. is not undefined) and infers things from that. To clarify, would you say that assumption is problematic?
You can still get into a Delta lounge as an Amex cardholder, but Delta has been tightening up its lounge access generally for a while. The biggest change was introducing two-tier membership; Amex cardholders, and even Delta's own top-level frequent flyers, now only get the base lounge membership (or equivalent). This shows up in things like being charged $29/person to bring guests with you, where previously you got two guests for free.
Collaboration would work best, but it is rarely used by medical doctors. It is amazingly hard to establish a collaborative relationship in medicine, despite it being the norm outside of medicine.

As a general rule delaying treatment is almost always the best option. I am glad you avoided an unneeded root canal.
That's terrible. Really enjoying using Monzo abroad which gives pretty much the interbank rate with no fees. YC alumni run startups for the win.
I'm sure som brexiters have. Those I know, and pro exit folks in various other EU countries, my humble self not excluded, are very well aware of potential costs and downsides. We are not idiots and escatologists, however much remainers may wish to paint us that way.
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I'm surprised by the downvotes. Would anyone honestly be surprised had he said that? He claims not even to use a regular web browser...

I say this with a lot of respect for the man. But you can't pretend this would be out of character for him.
Sure you could try it, but it is very hit and miss.

Typically you will be bounced around from hotline to hotline until you are worn out, or they tell you yes/no refund.

With a credit card company that has a decent level of respect for you as a customer, you call them, dispute the payment, and the credit card company handles the rest, ESPECIALLY under $25.