skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like Hacker News is one of the only online communities I've participated in where the score is handled appropriately. It's a good personal measure of how well my posts and comments were received by the community, but it's not bragging rights. No one else can see my vote tallies here, so I have no real incentive to increase it.

I've seen this affect sites like Stack Overflow as well. At the bottom of any popular question are usually very low-effort answers from posters who really shouldn't have answered at all. I wonder if it's an example of their otherwise well-executed reputation system creating noise that might have been avoided.
Your comment highlights the notable problem with democracies. Unfortunately, there isn't much better.
Likely because he could claim that he "also has a 5 figure salary"
There's a bar nearby that has a "People Hate Us On Yelp!" sticker. I ran into the owner there one day and I asked him about it and he claimed that he immediately got it after the third or fourth call from the Yelp sales reps about cleaning up their reviews.

From then on, he started telling people to give bad reviews of the bar. It's not like it matters, it's a very popular bar.
My view has always been that after a day of work or school, the last thing most people want to do is engage in a deep discussion. Instead they want to scroll down funny content (I do this myself or just play video games, just in case I sound like a snob).
Does "hominin" not suffice, or do you seek something more specific?
"Current image formats have integrated compression, making it complicated to read the image data. One is forced to use complex libraries like libpng, libjpeg, libjpeg-turbo, giflib and others, read the documentation and write a lot of boilerplate in order to get started.

Farbfeld leaves this behind and is designed to be as simple as possible, leaving the task of compression to external tools. The simple design, which was the primary objective, implicitly leads to the very good compression characteristics, as it often happens when you go with the UNIX philosophy. Reading farbfeld images doesn’t require any special libraries. The tools are just a toolbox to make it easy to convert between common image formats and farbfeld."

Using standard external tools (e.g., bzip2) to compress an easy-to-process image format is such a simple and elegant idea that I'm surprised nobody has thought of it before. This allows you to easily write a bunch of filters (see "farbfeld utilities") that you can apply to images using a simple Unix pipeline.
I've been doing a lot of self-study online, and two things jump to mind:

1) There should be many more interactive exercises during and after instruction, and not just multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank. There's a lot of potential for automated interaction that courses simply don't take advantage of, probably because it's time intensive for each course to do.

Khan is perhaps the best at this, but they still don't have as much as they could, and (understandably) don't have the depth and variety of courses of Coursera, etc.

2) Lack of social interaction. At university, I learned a lot of subjects very well simply by teaching others in them (tutoring students who were lagging, and later paid tutoring). I miss this interaction a lot. I should take the initiative and make YouTube videos and blog posts teaching others about material I have learned, but I often forget as I get lost in textbook readings and online lectures.
Piggybacking on this - basic mobility exercises can free up a lot of your muscles from regular pain. You end up doing this a lot when you go see a physical therapist.

This was part of the reason we bootstrapped our app - MoveWellApp.com - to give people easy-to-understand routines to stay mobile and pain free at home.

It's a free download at http://MoveWellApp.com/download for iOS, so if you have any specific feedback, I'd love to hear it.

/blatant-self-promotion
> desktop application: the software is on your PC, the files are on your PC, you can use it forever

Not really, creative DRM is common in desktop applications.

> does not interoperate with the native environment at all. you can't even read/write to files

Not true with new web APIs that expose traditionally native functionality like Bluetooth and the FileSystem.

> cloud-service, eternally rented, may go out of service at any time

Lots of web apps are being built for offline usage with new offline-oriented web APIs. Web apps can also be packaged as offline Chrome Apps or "native" apps with Electron.

> p2p networks are impossible in browsers, everything is centralized

Not true, WebRTC was designed to address this and is already supported in all major browsers.
A darker one I heard recently is "boondocks", it's a Tagalog/Philipino word that came into English to basically mean everywhere outside the US concentration camps in the Philippines.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=boondocks
Fractal: An Execution Model for Fine-Grain Nested Speculative Parallelism [pdf]
You're describing me and it pretty much comes down to trust. I trust Google a lot more than I ever trusted Microsoft back when they were the bully.
Advice on back pain based on personal evidence (single data point).

- Did squats and deadlifts for the first time at age 33. Did them for 1 year. At age 36, again did them for 3 months. (I'll get back into it again once I'm done with my current hectic schedule. Planning on doing at least 3-6 months every year).

- Here's how I sleep: No mattress. I create layers out of (bottom to top):

- Solid floor,
- Carpet or rug,
- Gym mat,
- Thick korean type blanket (mink blanket?), folded twice or thrice,
- a comforter folded twice,
- Regular bed sheet

This makes a layer soft enough so I can sleep, but still stiff enough that I can feel the floor.

In addition, I take two large towels, each twisted into a thick rope, then rolled into something resembling a cinnamon roll. One supports my back, one my tummy/abs area. When I lie upright, they're on my left and right. When I lie on the side, one is next to my back and one in the front next to my abs. Every time I twist or turn while sleeping, I've developed a habit of pulling both in to keep them packed tight next to my body.

I'm 39 now. Have been sitting in front of a computer all day for the last 20 years. Never experienced back pain.

Disclaimer: try this at your own risk.
Oh good, it's not just me. I've set it as my default font for emacs, terminal and window manager, and it's really great watching people get all nostalgic when they visit my desk.

(Though I'm on PxPlus VGA9.)
"appear to be doing something about a very public problem"

Well, that's what authoritarian governments do. They also use raids to project their power and get loyalty from the police in return for ignoring all the corruption and extortion.
> However, I don't support that

No company cares because that's not how it works. Companies pay what the job is worth, then increase as needed if talent isn't available. Minimum wage work that anyone can do is not worth anything beyond that wage, regardless of where someone lives.

> she's asking for the bare minimums

No she's not. The job is worth a certain amount and deciding to accept and live with that is up to you. She was completely irresponsible by moving to an expensive area, getting a min. wage job and living beyond her means. 100% her fault. Then writing a strange article playing victim and calling out the CEO while including links to donate to her paypal account is about as ridiculous as it gets.
"Yelp" is generic for "customer reviews"!

... half serious?
The problem with doing exercises is it's not as simple as a pill or a surgery - it's a lifestyle change.

Don't want to spam HN with this as I mentioned it earlier, but this is one of the issues we're trying to address with http://MoveWellApp.com - which is basically a personal mobility coach.
It's funny that we have billions poured into cancer research yet we still can't find that cure.

I guess we need another cure cancer walkathon with pink ribbons cause those smart scientists almost have that cure...

Perhaps there is a cure (or at least the causes are well-known), but it's being withheld from the public. Why would we ever want to fix problems that employ so many people & give them nice houses & yachts?
You've been consistently a bad actor here, regarding Yelp. So, I searched google with "keymone yelp" (keymone is the HN username), and found the following:

https://github.com/keymone

[Name Removed]
Yelp
Hamburg, Germany
http://www.yelp.com

Organizations
@Yelp

Hmm...... Uusally people with direct interests (like yourself), will properly disclaim (I WORK FOR X, BUT NOT THEIR OPINIONS).

_________________________________

https://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=1zHW3SSTF3RFjHkgHzR...

Same pic as the Github profile. Certainly not a coincidence.

_________________________________

https://twitter.com/keymone

Again, this says "happy developer" at Yelp.com

_________________________________

Yeah, I'd suggest if you were to play the devil's advocate, I would properly disclaim that "[You] work at Yelp as a developer" instead of me playing guessing games and finally google your name and see dozens of profiles with the same Skiing pic.

Frankly, you prove more of what I'm saying. So, tell me. How many proxies do you use when you seed bad reviews for companies that don't pay up? Because already, what you're doing is SHADY SHIT.
Walled gardens and a "protectionist web" are the natural outcome of the legal structure we've chosen to put up around the internet. It's not a technical limitation, and technical solutions can not really affect it.

Just this week there was a "Show HN" that combined data from Twitter et al in interesting ways. It was offline less than 24 hours later as all the comments indicated that it was a clear violation of the policies of various content providers.

Why should we care about those policies? Well, because under the CFAA, we've made it a federal crime to send packets to a server in a way that displeases the server's owner.

There is no technical limitation stopping people from collecting and curating data from many sources and combining/filtering them according to their own interest. The internet is already open in principle (cue Schneier: "trying to make digital bits not copiable is like trying to make water not wet"). The issue is that we've given the Facebooks and Googles of the world the right to hold our data and our personal networks hostage.

Start a decentralized, standardized protocol like email or IRC and companies will cooperate insofar as they must to ride the wave, and then they will work aggressively to corner things off into their own little world.

Understand, all software companies want one thing: lock-in. They want to make it so that there is as much pressure as possible to remain on their platform. It's the age-old story of someone who can't move to Mac, even though they greatly envy it, because their greeting card program from 1997 won't work on it. Instead of importable programs, it's importable personal networks -- but now, with everything server-side, it's usually illegal to try to bridge that gap on the user's behalf (insofar as doing so involves contacting the server of a competitor).

The situation with potential copyright and patent violations was precarious enough when it was all occurring on the user's local machine (WINE is in a big legal grey area, for example; my instinct is WINE would lose if MS ever decided to seriously try to squash them), but once you cross the line into some company's IP space, all bets are off. The CFAA allows them to define "authorized access" to their servers on their own terms, including "people trying to access our server to provide data portability". This has already been litigated with specific regard to Facebook in Facebook v. Power Ventures.

As long as we give companies the legal tools to exert effective ownership over user-generated data, we are destined to see well-designed, decentralized protocols that maximize availability, resiliency, and portability get whittled away by the overriding corporate interest in establishing some element that can be used to keep users locked in.

The Halloween memos may have caused a stir in the late 90s, and they're all but forgotten now, but their sentiment is more alive than ever.
The phrase "bad at math" should be banned.
Sure it does, if not for most, for a lot of people anyway, even if it is hard to explain how.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_acupuncture_trials

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/acupuncture-provid...

The site you provided is run by a small group of doctors who seem to have beef with acupuncture, judging by their tone. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/category/acupuncture/

A lot of western folks who get acupuncture treatment do so with great deal of skepticism. Despite that, it's gaining traction in the West. Why? Because it works pretty well for some people.

I wouldn't dismiss it as a sham.
Are there any practical uses for something like this?
For non-FreeBSD people, what do the r commands do?
I wrote ,,as well''. It's about not having sex of the other person as the deciding factor for a business connection (or any non-sexual connection)
Perhaps your tone got you downvotes. You are correct about delays, if you compare the "scramble" to a concurrently signalled intersection where pedestrians and vehicles move simultaneously in a given direction on green.

Put another way, the maximum latency of a scramble to get to any corner is the sum of duration of both vehicle moves. For concurrent signals, it is more complicated, but non-diagonal latency is no worse than the maximum single vehicle move, and travel on the diagonal has better latency as well.

Scrambles reduce geometric distance to travel, but reliew on "all stop" exclusive signalling that increases pedestrian delay, which has been shown to reduce compliance. Scramble is better than exclusive signaling without scramble of pedestrians, but it precludes turn on red (which is also better for pedestrians, but constrains traffic flow).

There are various safety arguments for concurrent vs exclusive signalization, but the argument isn't clear cut, particularly in the presence of turn on red.
Not work? But except for the parent and a lot of other people.
I came here looking for claims like these. It always has baffled me the number of first hand accounts of Yelp salesperson shenanigans with no documented examples.

What do you think is the root of the accusations? Do yelp salespeople promise things they can't deliver?
Apple kickstarted the smartphone market with one good product and went downhill from there in terms of making anything worth buying. Otherwise the only problem they're best at solving is marketing.

Apple actually supports the argument. Why innovate when you can make more profit removing functionality and releasing new colors while coasting on brand recognition?
(This post is copied so others can see this. Tl;Dr. User [keymone] is a developer at YELP. )

You've been consistently a bad actor here, regarding Yelp. So, I searched google with "keymone yelp" (keymone is the HN username), and found the following:

https://github.com/keymone
[Name Removed]
Yelp
Hamburg, Germany
http://www.yelp.com

Organizations
@Yelp

Hmm...... Uusally people with direct interests (like yourself), will properly disclaim (I WORK FOR X, BUT NOT THEIR OPINIONS).

_________________________________

https://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=1zHW3SSTF3RFjHkgHzR...

Same pic as the Github profile. Certainly not a coincidence.

_________________________________

https://twitter.com/keymone

Again, this says "happy developer" at Yelp.com

_________________________________

Yeah, I'd suggest if you were to play the devil's advocate, I would properly disclaim that "[You] work at Yelp as a developer" instead of me playing guessing games and finally google your name and see dozens of profiles with the same Skiing pic.

Frankly, you prove more of what I'm saying. So, tell me. How many proxies do you use when you seed bad reviews for companies that don't pay up? Because already, what you're doing is SHADY SHIT.
It seems to be a sales tactic though.
Some personal evidence: I obtained relief by installing a traction bar high enough my feet don't touch the ground, and remaining suspended for some time, a few times a day every day. It took me a couple of years to develop forearm muscles strong enough to withstand more than 30 sec, and to learn to fully relax the back so it stretches freely. Particularly effective when coupled with a warming up (at the beginning, from simply walking a few miles, couldn't do much else). Can now even do that when crises arise (even when cannot easily walk). Works also in the morning on cold muscles, but some small tendinitis In elbows can follow.

In this part of the world, insurance-covered doctors are very sceptical when you turn in with the back pain, and physio offer very basic things, no real relief.

I did take a scanner and other tests, to evaluate the situation.

Disclaimer: this is not a medical advice, I am not a doctor, "back pain" is a very broad definition.
Indeed, and it is surely for the same reason that there isn't yet a pill I can take to make me 7'5" tall.

But of course we're left with the same conundrum: why has the modern pharmaceutical industry cured any disease? Every time they do, they kill another cash cow.
I'd argue it was only "meh" in the same way the average verbal conversation is to a dispassionate listener. For those now able to exchange ideas on a favorite topic with people who were previously inaccessible, it was great. And not because it was emerging, but for the experience and capability itself.
> Chinese media and technology giant Tencent suffered a dramatic loss of $14 billion on the Hong Kong stock exchange

Should've been shares or shareholders of Tencent; public companies rarely hold significant stock of their own on the balance sheets in comparison to public float. It wasn't Tencent that suffered the loss but the shareholders.

Mentioning the stock exchange makes no clarification whatsoever, could've been a follow on offering that lost $14B due to investor concerns or a corporate debt/bond issuance that went awry.

No it isn't. Would love some citation on that.
My brother is a cardiologist, making +300K euros/y in France.
First, you're taking a god-of-the-gaps approach to acupuncture. "It hasn't been proven to be ineffective for condition X, so keep your mind open!"

Second, they have run good trials on many of the conditions acupuncture claims to cure. You picked the one paragraph that might be interpreted to support your claim:

> It's a shame that Western science seems so intent on dismissing non-western treatments and techniques, rather than committing to running the same detailed trials that they do on profitable drugs.

So here's a few quotes that contradict you, all from the same article:

> after decades of research and more than 3000 trials, acupuncture researchers have failed to reject the null hypothesis, and any remaining possible specific effect from acupuncture is so tiny as to be clinically insignificant.

> Large multicenter clinical trials conducted in Germany7–10 and the United States11 consistently revealed that verum (or true) acupuncture and sham acupuncture treatments are no different in decreasing pain levels across multiple chronic pain disorders: migraine, tension headache, low back pain, and osteoarthritis of the knee.

> Vickers et al.14 did a meta-analysis for 29 randomized controlled trials, with 17,922 patients. The patients were being treated for a variety of chronic pain conditions. The results were very similar to those of Madsen et al.12Real acupuncture was better than sham but by a tiny amount that lacked any clinical significance.

There's no reason to not try acupuncture, if you've got the money for it, I guess. It's not likely to hurt you. But don't disregard other treatments.

And bitch all you want about "western medicine", but if you have a heart attack, or need a kidney transplant, or break a bone - you're probably going to choose the western system.
Tried to fill out form several questions gave me fits
How many employees I put in 135 and for some reason the form would not let me leave or Submit
Is your company currently using any of these products?
There is no NONE, so I just put in DropBox, because i use it, eventhough the Company expressly FORBIDS it's use
I've had back pain on and off over the years. Usually due to muscle cramping from poor posture. I had to make a conscious effort not to slouch at my desk.

What I've found helps with back pain, sciatica, knee pain, are stretches, and free weights. Then again, I've been lifting for about 41 years, so its not a surprise to me that changing my regimen provides positive outcomes.

Specifically, for me, dead lifts for lower back, squats and leg presses for legs and knees.

Speak to your physician first about whether you can do this. Speak to a PT person about what stretches/weights you should do, and what you should avoid.
I appreciate the clarification, but I'm sure you understand how I understood "It was a reasonable decision by Eastlink." as supporting all of their actions.
Take "ssh" and replace the "s" for "secure" with "r" for "remote".
OKCash – sleeping #1 IoT Gaming Giant
Remote. They've all basically been superseded by ssh-based tools.
Consider your shoes, more supportive shoes may help on long walks. I over pronate, and when my sneakers are at all worn down, I start to have back pain.

Also, jogging or running would often make things much worse for me.
They already nationalized it once... They'll surely nationalize it again when they go broke.
"r" stands for "remote". They predated ssh and were how things were done remotely in the (distant) past. You can pretty much just replace the "r" with an "s" and that's what they did, only without the "secure" provided by ssh/scp/etc.

They were/are not exclusive to FreeBSD.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply! And thanks for not using an affiliate link, unlike some commenters below.

"add a way to monetise it" - do you mean Google ads? Affiliate links? The same thing we just said is "noise"?

"don't want to pay on principle" is part of it. I have a maximum wage - my visa and work contract do not allow me to do other paid work. I'm not allowed to have any revenue, so I want to minimise my costs. My "portfolio" feels useless if I can't find anyone else to use it though, so I know I need to do marketing, I just don't know how.
Think of them as wildly insecure versions of SCP / SSH. Trusted LAN only, trusted users only, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rlogin has more background information.
For old macintosh fonts, look here: https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/ClassicMacintoshFonts
I believe the principle of the expectation of privacy forced them to blur the faces.
Just what the world needs right now, an IPO that will generate a lot of funds back to SA to cover their deficits/debts - some of which inevitably goes to financing terrorism.
Basically unencrypted straight remote connections, the predecessor of telnet, scp, etc. I always wondered back when FreeBSD was main daily why it was still there.
Isn't it cached from any website I visit that uses it though? Almost for sure by the time I land on this particular page I've picked up the JS like some virus.
Despite using FreeBSD I had the same question as I had never really touched them. From reading up on it, it looks like they're old remote versions of various commands for interacting with a server/mainframe from a thin client. For example, rcp copies to a remote host, rlogin starts a terminal session on a remote host, etc.

I could well be missing nuance though. My experience with FreeBSD is using it for my server for ZFS' gloriousness.