skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> edit: for those who are downvoting, you might not be aware that the 'nobel' for economics is not issued by the nobel committee but rather the swedish central bank, using the nobel name to appropriate prestige from the better-known prize presented by the norwegian nobel committee. it is not affiliated with the nobel peace prize.

There are more Nobel prizes than just the economics and peace prizes, only the peace prize comes from Norway.
Ruby vs Elixir – Panel discussion at Wroc_love.rb [video]
145 years old, 39 billion in revenue, 212000 employees. Quite the scam :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_AG
Agreed. I was already trying to click on it. Eventually found this topic via the search.
For me it was writing a program to balance my mums household accounts on a ZX Spectrum and figuring out how to load/save data to a tape.

Bless her she actually used it even though it was about as much work as doing it by hand.

I think she was just trying to keep an excited 9yo happy.

It ended up been rather more sophisticated than the original plan.
You seem to be forgetting the Moto ROKR, when Apple extracted a lot of cell phone expertize from Motorola with "iTunes collaboration" as a cover.
Yes, why should people from outside of a narrow few countries be able to use the web in their native language?

Everyone should learn to speak English like normal people, is that what you're trying to say?
The primary reason I have left healthcare providers has been the poor quality of their administrative staff.

There are too many qualified doctors in the major metro area I live in to put up with ones where I can't quickly and efficiently make an appointment, can't get an appointment in a timeframe that is useful to me, and where their staff can't seem to successfully process routine insurance claims with major insurance providers.

Also, randomly billing me for stuff weeks or months after an appointment with cryptic explanations thoroughly pisses me off -- even it if is only $15.00 (going to get a new podiatrist over that one...).

As for actual "doctor specific" reasons for leaving a doctor, not explaining the reasoning behind his/her recommendations for me to get certain medical tests or procedures done will get me to look for another doctor. I don't actually need to fully understand the reasoning (I'm not, afterall, a doctor), but I need to know there is a reason beyond "hey, you said your elbow hurt and I think I can get the insurance company to pay for an MRI!".
Another alternative that I've run into. Visiting a doctor friend of mine. She needed to deliver some papers to another room and summoned the nurse for that. I joked that why you can't do that yourself (omg) and she replied that the nurses start to complain if you do stuff that's earmarked to them. It might be that it's because they're in a union or it's a company policy. Who knows, I never asked. But the point was that the nurses wouldn't appreciate it if she did it herself.
> However, if I am visiting somewhere and the machines available nearby happen to contain non-free software, through no doing of mine, I don't refuse to touch them. [0]

He only applies his method of computing to himself. You watching him talk on YouTube falls outside of his bubble of concern. I think he'd rather have his message heard than care it was shared via something non-free, so long as he doesn't have to put it there or see it there.

0. https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
Someone in NZ should start a spray foam insulating business. It's not insanely expensive and you can finance people.
A Powerline-style shell prompt written in pure Bash
Did you try searching for "black bar" in the search box at the bottom of almost every page?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=black%20bar&sort=byDate&prefix...
Until I see it on my bill, it's pure speculation.
Very few people are too smart to write compilers. Very very few people make huge personal sacrifice to dedicate their entire lives to the ideology they believe in for the good of the world. RMS is both which is very rare.
Profitable = Apple wouldn't keep it around if it wasn't.

Revenue = Asymco estimate. Apple lumps it into the "Other" category in its reporting. Horace estimated that it was doing $3bn of revenue a year in 2015. Maybe it's still just a $3bn a year business and not a $4bn a year business, but the point remains that calling it a "loser" is nuts.
Pro Surfer's Surfboards Destroyed by American Airlines
Powerful statement from one who, while part of a giant centralized organization initiated the most important decentralized system we will likely ever know.
the problem is not really Windows, but hardware abandoned by manufacturers, my mother has perfectly good/sufficient computer for her needs running Win7, which can't be upgraded any further (wanted to upgrade from Vista to W10 or W8, to find the most recent I can get is W7) because of video drivers not supported anymore and there is not really workaround, so it would require buying new video card, which in the end means I might as well just buy for her new Android tablet an get rid off PC or might as well, just install there Linux in the end
Anti-ad-blocking laws sound likely to be as effective as anti-piracy laws.
> in case the AI does a mistake

such as using tabs for indentation
As a non-native English speaker: Yes (English is my 3rd language).

There is a set of simple, clearly defined symbols (ASCII) that make up the URL. It must be like that for URLs to be ever secure. If the URL can be made of tens of thousands of symbols, some of which are completely identical, the URL will never be secure.
Nice. I've been looking for a low-power "bring-your-own Linux" board for a while. Classic DIY NAS builds consume outrageous amounts of power (35W to >100W) compared to commercial NAS (~10W), and existing single board computers lack GigE and/or >=2 SATA ports.

I just wish they'd have gone for a standard uATX form factor for compatibility with a professional case (and 3.5" disks). It's ironical that the "open hardware" project has to come up with a proprietary form factor :/

I also wish they had ECC RAM and enough of it for ZFS, but I know that is technically impossible with the price and power constraints.
Sorry this is so long, I didn't have time to write a shorter version.

> Why? Credit cards are faster

No. There's no electronic lookup to verify cash is valid. No swipe, no chip with cash.

> safer

Nope. Thanks to Target and Home Depot breaches, plus some other hacks, I've had to replace cards 4 times in the last 18 months (3 in 6 months). Those last 3 all had chips too, so much for being safer or more secure. To say nothing of skimmers or card cloning. Fortunately they don't use RFID in credit cards or else it would be double.

I will note that I was never on the hook for fraudulent charges, so protection is a definite advantage to credit. Amex has also been secure for me throughout my history with them.

> easier and simpler

Open wallet. Hand cash over. Get change, if any. This is the same effort as taking out a card, swiping/inserting it, and putting it back in my wallet. The only advantage to credit is online purchasing, which excludes cash transactions by its very nature.

> and come from with benefits and service

Very true. Except for purchase protection however, these always require a membership fee, and not all services offered are useful. I've seen high-end card services that "book your travel, hotel, everything" for you, but are still subject to blackout dates. So what am I paying $450/year for if you can't overcome that? (Takes me 15-30 minutes online to figure out) Also a lot of travel services are pegged to a single airline or hotel chain, e.g. Chase Sapphire and United Airlines. (that's working out well recently)

>How is cash really better outside of anonymity and quick transactions these days?

You said credit was "faster" and then later said cash is better from "quick" transactions? Typo?

Regarding anonymity, that's crucial. Credit card breaches risk revealing all kinds of other personal information, and can be used for credit history gaming, loan applications, identity theft, etc. There is no convenience in having your credit score wrecked by some hacker just because you bought a greeting card at Target, and then only because their HVAC vendor was lazy/stupid.

Even if that didn't happen, every company is sharing purchase and customer information. Once they link it to Facebook, they can find out what all your friends are buying as well, and then target ads or sell info to spammers. Cash prevents that, at least for now.
I don't think smart wealthy people pay a dime in service fees.

I suppose it depends on definitions.

I like to think I'm smart, but I'm unsure whether I'd meet your definition of wealthy. However, I do have experience of widely disparate income brackets. Growing up, and during my first few years on my own as an adult, I've had experience of living at or below the poverty line. Now, I'm above the 95th percentile for income in the US.

And the single biggest difference is in how I view tradeoffs of time/effort versus money. For example, I pay my utility bills online with a credit card, and the company charges me a "convenience fee" to do that. When I was younger, I had to count every penny in order to be sure I could make ends meet. Now? Avoiding the fee would be a net loss. I can estimate how many minutes of time it would take me to go dig out my checkbook, write a check, put it in an envelope, find a stamp, go to a mailbox and drop it in. And I can work out, given my salary, how much those minutes are worth: they're worth more than the "convenience fee".

The same is true of many of the "service fees" you're deriding here. I've been in a position where avoiding the fees was of extreme importance, but now I'm in a position where avoiding the fees is literally a money-losing proposition in many cases. The result is that I simply don't bother below a certain dollar amount (and that dollar amount would frighten my younger self).

And to be honest, it's a guilty pleasure to not care about those fees. When I was younger, I didn't realize what a sense of freedom there was in being able to just not care about a few dollars here and there.
I would still question the legality of that. It's akin to running a port scan on the top x number of ports.
OK, but there must be barriers to entry, because no mainstream credible alternatives have arisen. A few have leeched off Google. DDG is good, but in my experience, rarely as good as Google. I don't know what the barriers are. One is clearly technological lead. The other is probably some sort of market inertia.
Yeah, that's why I won't use Android.
AWS vs. Microsoft Azure: How to Opt Right Cloud Platform?
This is awesome - the file/folder metaphor for data has always been pretty boring
When I have disputed, I'm asked if I tried resolution with the merchant first. I've never had the impression that dispute is a first resort solution. Many merchants actually want to please their customers.
> Also, randomly billing me for stuff weeks or months after an appointment with cryptic explanations thoroughly pisses me off -- even it if is only $15.00 (going to get a new podiatrist over that one...).

This part gets me a lot as well, and having experienced other pay-for healthcare systems, it's extremely frustrating remembering just how much I would pay in the US even when I had fair insurance through my employer. Getting a simple biopsy done on my leg resulted in a $250 upfront new patient fee, $2300 for the biopsy, then an additional $400 for lab fees some months later. Aside from the new patient fee, I had no idea or indication about any of the other fees until a bill arrived in the mail, despite asking and persisting about it throughout the visit, and since I had to take time off of work to get an appointment, I was at a loss as to how to "make a stand" to get such information.

Compared to where I've been abroad where it's been an upfront fee for walk-in visits. Appointments were needed, but it was a day or two in advance. And when I got insurance through my workplace, it was equally simple.
I'm in the market for a new NAS, but I don't think this would have enough oomph to be very useful.

I understand that it's by design, and that I'm probably not the target demographic, as others have pointed out, the 512MB of RAM, lackluster CPU and 2.5" drives are all pretty disappointing.

This is estimated to cost $168. For $250, you can get an HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 Entry, which comes with 4GB of ECC RAM, a 2.3Ghz dual core x86-64 CPU, dual gigabit that supports line-speed link aggregation, and takes 4 3.5" HDDs. It's upgradable to an i3 or Xeon CPU, 16GB of RAM, and can be modded to take another 2 or 3 2.5" drives.

I appreciate that it's fully open, which is definitely a massive appeal, but if I need to run another machine (with blobs) next to it to actually operate on the data, what's the point?
I use umatrix for not loading ads and for tracking protection. It is a tool to define from which domains a certain website may fetch resources. It is a bit less convenient than a adblocker, because for every new site you have to configure it, but I think it is great. It's really eye opening how many things some websites load that they do not actually need to show the content I am interested in.
Interpretation of a malady
Some of the sources quoted in the article are actually good and worth the read. But the article itself is, ironically, convoluted. Based on the content of the article it feels as if the author is mostly a self-proclaimed expert on the topic. A quick LinkedIn check shows no meaningful credentials to substantiate any credibility to her as an authority on the matter.
Startup using blockchain tech to pay coffee farmers in emerging markets fairly
A Transparent StatusBar and ToolBar Demo in Ionic2
China’s WeChat Is a Censorship Juggernaut
Then you must either have NASA level QA or never ship a product. Most software companies can't afford either of those.
Ah yes, because the "market" for healthcare operates so well...
> Just look at how many doctors no longer will prescribe medicine for pain due to the war on drugs. They're scared of losing their license. The collateral damage is the poor people who need strong pain management but find it increasingly hard to get it.

Doctors haven't stopped prescribing opioids because of the war on drugs. They've changed prescribing because opioid meds are not effective to treat long term pain, and certainly not effective in the way they were being prescribed.

People with long term pain given opioids will quickly develop tolerance to those meds, and need to increase the dose. They quickly reach dangerous levels of opioid use, often with multiple meds, and they're still not getting relief from their pain. So now they're still in pain, and they have an opioid addiction.

People with long term pain need rapid access to specialist pain clinics, with a full range of treatment including physiotherapy and prescribing, and -if needed- carefully prescribed opioids.
Isn't that what we have currently? Quality journalism seems hard to pull off with only online ads. Most of it nowadays is supported by subscriptions and/or print editions. They help subsidize free access to some of the content.
Why can't you take a hint from the overwhelming down-voting and flagging? Nobody cares you don't like the black bar. I like the black bar. This isn't your site. Go make your own site with the amazing innovation of not having a black bar for dead people. It would be well worth your time. Heck, you could even spend an hour making a script or browser extension, so that you and the other obsessive killjoys can have the HN sans black bar that you've always dreamed of!
Is there any name servers that would allow me to block / redirect any non-ASCII domain names? At this point, the value of Unicode domain names is a lot less than local safety.

We currently use unbound for users.
two points of anecdotal evidence: i bought a special edition to preserve and a retail version that i'm playing. my brother-in-law bought a switch retail version but is playing a wii u digital download.
It has and always be the individual's choice, unless they are unconscious or unable to make a reasonable decision on their own. Vaccination has always been opt out, and it's a right to choose whether or not to accept medical treatment.
> Why? Credit cards are faster, safer, easier and simpler than using cash

But less anonymous.
People looking for alternatives for cancer care tend to look for things which literally do nothing (high profile example: Steve Jobs), or get fixated on experimental drugs which have a high likelihood of being ineffective or much more immediately fatal.
Something that is optional doesn't exceed what are standard safety features in programming languages since Algol and its derived languages exist.

Having external tools to track out of bonds errors, use after free, double free, free bad pointers, implicit conversions and UB, errors that don't happen in another languages is band aid.

Other languages just don't need them thanks to being designed with safety first.
We must give credit to Hollywood for making us look like saviors throughout the world. I was amazed that an educated Vietnamese engineer actually thought Rambo was based on a real life story. I didn't have the heart to tell him about the My Lai massacre so I just smiled and let it pass. But I regret it because I feel that once that engineer and perhaps even the rest of the world learn the reality of history, they may hate us more because we tried to push this savior facade. I fear the blowback that I'm pretty sure will eventually come.
I forbid it.
The NSA can't just request information about Americans
Chip and pin has been a standard and pretty thin in the rest of the world before it came to the us. You were pretty late to the game, so its not like this is an early artifact with major leaps since
Please go fuck yourself. :)
Not at all.

These tools exist since 1979, it hasn't changed anything.

C doesn't deserve a place on any security conscious developer toolbox.
So not C at all, that was a common practice in Basic and Pascal as well.

Those languages were the "Unity" of the 80 and 90's.

Real games were 100% Assembly.

This only started to change with the adoption of Watcom C, as it could generate relatively good code and use a DOS 32 bit Extender.
I get this with my Navy Federal card. I dont have any "prestige" cards but I'd be surprised if anyone got more attention for them than I get for my standard issue NF debit.
People interested in this might also like the "Friends and Family test", which is used extensively in the English NHS.

http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/Pages/nhs-frie...

https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/fft/
You're right that the budget is tighter, however the healthcare budget is separate from the main state budget, and you can't have a situation where for example you'd allocate less to health to pay for schools or army or something like that. The money still comes from taxes though and there is enormous pressure currently due to the economic situation in Europe, especially from businesses, to lower those taxes. It can be sometimes hard to get people to defend this system when they have never had a big health concern before.

However when you switch to a for-profit healthcare then the interests of the operators stop being aligned with those of the population. Even if there is more money, like in the US where the budget per person is about double that of France, it is not necessarily spent in a way that benefits the patients. State-run health avoids multiple administrative costs due to multiple actors, it avoids having to pay dividends to share holders, and as a single payer it has much more power over the pharmaceutical industry to lower costs. Overall it is a more efficient use of people's money.
Much of the US has certificates of need which impose limits on who can operate certain machines or have a hospital.

And Medicare makes funding decisions based on what sort of care hospitals provide to patients. Critical access hospitals get higher reimbursement; maintaining that certification means a short average for length of inpatient stays and not growing to meet demand.
This reminds me a bit of auto-sklearn[1] for automatically select the machine learning algorithm to use and its parameters (and so isn't quite doing it at code level like this one).

[1] https://github.com/automl/auto-sklearn
This is why they sue the patent holder too I guess.
You could probably block the `xn--` prefix, which is how it appears over the wire.
United Airlines’ bad week won’t matter
> But the US government lets you apply many more deductions after taking either of these and that is where the complexity comes.

I feel you've missed my point. Most countries offer the ability to consolidate some deductions into a standard deduction.

But in Taiwan they consolidate ALL the deductions, as far as memory serves; and the way they do it isn't a fixed amount (e.g. 5%) but the sum of what the other people achieve who go the long route, plus a bonus.

So literally it's 1-page 'sign here', or a complex form.

And it's literally a statistically 'guaranteed' win if you make things easy on everyone (average + 10%).

The US doesn't offer anything like that.
They could probably start a war...
boinc? https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
> and thus has budgets that are politically mandated not determined by market demand at least not directly.

Why is market demand a good thing?

In the US the government spends more per capita than France, but gets worse health outcomes.
You should absolutely vet NYT articles for quality. I canceled my subscription to NYT because they are not putting out journalism worth paying $35 a month for.
I think the TI chip used in the beaglebone has support for multiple /ports/ via an RGMII switch or so.

It's been a while since I messed with that though.
What should Wikipedia look like in 2030?
I use an Apple TV, but 90% of the time it's just being an AirPlay receiver - the same functionality that Chromecast provides.
Facebook to Put Spotlight on Virtual Reality at F8 Conference
How effective would a hashing solution be? Possibly with a colour code. Lastly, what about showing the number of Unicode and ascii characters in the URL so as not to get confused?
The firewall will protect you if it isn't compromised. From the article: "Some of the previous weapons-grade leaks, for instance, exploited unpatched vulnerabilities in Cisco Systems firewalls."
Yes there is you should have HDMI CEC settings somewhere depends on the TV you can set what exactly is passed and is it bi-directional or not.
At the least CEC power is available on virtually every appliance I've seen.
The problems with bugs is that they can be exploited by the bad guys. A door with a public private key can only be exploited by you.
So is that a new change since the massive data collection about Americans that Snowden initially revealed? I don't recall any reforms being all that significant.
Node.js is not magical
It also really changes how naming goes though for a lot of sites and limits the non-English speaking world to have to compete for website names in English when perfectly equivalent words exist in the native language. If a Russian upstart wants to have a simple site like зоомагазин.com or .рф they shouldn't have to compete for the name petstore.com, competing for a name that they don't use, isn't in their country even, and can't possibly be competition. Plenty of shops and and businesses here use .рф addresses alongside those that transliterate Russian to English. Limiting to just ascii characters removes options and artificially inflates the value of common and simple domain names, forcing a bidding war where there doesn't have to be one. Simple sanity checks for mixed character urls by the browser easily remedies this.