skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grady Booch • 2016 Computer Pioneer Award Recipient
Same problem for me. I don't know why LinkedIn shows me login pages too. Someone else fetched the story for me:

http://www.lick.moe/paste/2f6bbfa63965f2c539e4436a028cf90d
Save for the fact the Dropbox client wouldn't work for this user, as it maxes out at ~300k files while this user has more than double that. This user would have similar issues with the Dropbox sync client as they're having with the Drive client.
Registered mail is better though. Even though its "expensive" (~7 EUR here), I think it's worth the price when transferring a domain.
Ebook Is a Digital Technologies for Teaching, Learning and Research
External capital(the current VC kind) is not essential to entrepreneurship, it is a tool for defining/researching market capacity more quickly. The catch is that market capacity is something that both investors and entrepreneurs are pretty poor at predicting, especially at scale.

That detail can be seen in the difference between lenders and investors, amount wise. In that lenders are more risk averse, generally, with regards to market capacity.
Elasticsearch – Common maintenance tasks
There are lots of good ideas for reducing or eliminating the harm of climate change. But they're sacrilegious because people worry they might lull others into not trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I'm pretty confident we'll do something like this to fix it when it comes.
> If you're concerned that scientists are now talking about the low single-digit years we have to change.

This type of alarmism does not help anyone. The "authorities" have been saying "single digit years" for decades, not "just now". The average person has seen very little change causing more denialism to spread.

Please stop.
On the circle from RAII to crazy-town back to RAII: Emulating C#’s using in C++
The end of working from home
"Varied" or "widely distributed" seem like better terms. To my mind, "skew" is what we have in the original problem (with a zero-bound) - it only describes asymmetric distributions.
In the Memory Ward: The Warburg is Britain’s most eccentric and original library
It is satirical, but the point stands.

The article points out that the right wing - prominently the Conservative Party and elements of the press - accuse the BBC of having a socialist bias to the point of misrepresenting conservative viewpoints.

(Example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32537024)

Likewise, the left wing - notably papers such as the Guardian and the Independent - accuse the BBC of giving too much exposure to right win parties.

(More farage examples:https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/30/bbc-complaints...

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/06/why-nigel-farag...)

The comment you are replying to is responding to criticism that the UK courts are 'not to be trusted' when it comes to human rights. The response is that the UK courts aren't trying to dismantle human rights - more that they are trying to find the best compromise and reach a fair middle ground.

Human rights and, in this case, anti-arms trade activists will see this as being sympathetic to the arms trade. In other cases, the courts will frustrate those in the arms trade for being too restrictive. For example, it took 15+ years to be able to deport Abu Qatadar, a known hate preacher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Qatada#Persona_non_grata
It's a very important distinction though. Arguably Datomic is missing the point here, which is that t_truth and t_recorded are often different. My classic example of this is an accounting system. Sometimes you want to know "what was the P&L on Dec 2016?" sometimes you want to know "what was the P&L on Dec 2016 believed to be on Dec 2016"? And sometimes you want to do differences between the two: e.g. Dec2016 using Dec2016 facts vs Dec2015 using Dec2016 facts.

Both are equally important, but Datomic blesses one and not the other.
What all are you lumping into dev environment setup? For many years most projects have only needed two steps (CLI toolchain install, Homebrew) plus the project specific setup.
To me hospitals are basically scam operations. My girlfriend has had several surgeries in the last two years. In addition to already outrageous standard prices ($40000 surgical center cost for a surgery where we spent in total five hours at the center) pretty much every bill had mistakes. Then after a few months a collection agency will try to collect for something that never got billed and never has happened. I can accept a mistake from time to time but this seems to be pervasive.
We need to use better photos in business
Please share some examples of these VERY professional looking invoices. I'll look at the ROI to see if I'd like to do the same.

Also, if clients don't pay (and it's not contractual, i.e. 30 days, 90 days) then stop serving them.
I know this will attract a lot of people who have suggestions for healthcare.

Let me add my big one: price transparency.

I had a simple test the other day. I could not get a price. I could not get a price with my insurance, or without it. I called at least 9 times. I got 5 call backs from people who asked me to schedule the procedure but no price.

On the 10th call, I finally got someone to tell me what the out-of-pocket price would be without insurance. She told me a range! It was $96-$115. This was close to the range that google says was about average for the procedure.

So this was not a case of over-charging, or unfair pricing. I really did not know if the test was $10,000 or $100 till this call.

If they just made the pricing transparent, I think a lot of the problems would evaporate.

(Although I think the profit centers would suddenly become the emergency medicine section of the hospital.)

I know this article focuses on fraud, but the non-fraud part of the healthcare is just as broken, and probably costs more.
> "It's not the handful of climate change deniers that's the problem. It's the overwhelming number of people who want to say they're green."

We see time and time again that laws are required to achieve massive rapid change and reduce the economic impact of that change.

In 1974 one could have spent thousands on a custom installed catalytic converter. That "green" person would have experienced a great financial burden and see no measurable impact on air quality. It would have been a foolish decision. That's why we need laws and that is why the handful of climate change deniers, that have a disproportionate influence on policy, are so dangerous.

How one votes is what matters (mattered) most.
the web was a mistake. not as a concept, but as an application platform. the question i ask myself is: how do we take the Good Parts of the web and bring them to the native application side? how do we create an ecosystem as free as the web, that doesn't erode user trust with spam, malware, and so on?
That would correspond to HP's ZBook or EliteBook lines. They do have genuine 2x2 multi-antenna setups. There's nothing "Pro" about a $775 "ProBook".

Lenovo makes more business-oriented laptops in general, but the Ideapads are definitely their low-end (and come with 1x1 antennas - found at least one with a single antenna and dual-band wireless chip [1]). The Thinkpad T-series portables or W- (now P-series) workstations are definitely the way you want to go. And they do have genuine multi-channel Wifi solutions.

[1] - http://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Export/20170710/110449747/id...
I wonder if this is true of the hardware wearable market on general. There's a solid set of niches but none are going to be hugely profitable on their own in the near to medium term due to a small market size. Apple is beyond "over funded", both in terms of equity and investor perceptions, so it can stay in on the hopes it eventually pans out.
For anyone who's actually going there: you have to book the tour 2 weeks ahead because the company that will be taking you there needs to get an entry permission for each visitor.
Looks like placing perls before quine to me.
Like trying to rebuild a tool while using it.
Yeah, the article would be much more effective and useful if the advice was "if you hear these phrases, don't assume the developers are lying/bad at their jobs/etc. but do take it as a cue to ask about the business/customer value of doing ____".

Being technical or nontechnical is orthogonal to being able to ask the right questions about customer value. Nontechnical managers will go "framework? well if you say so" because they don't understand the tech. Technical managers will go "new framework? well if you say so" if the plan is technically well thought out, ignoring whether or not it actually creates business value.
These are not very good gen-engineering ideas but we may be compelled to engage in gen-engineering of some kind. It will be risky, with side effects that we'll know but more worrying will be the unintended effects that we didn't predict. They more we can do to reduce our negative output, the less ham-fisted tinkering with the planet's systems we'll have to do.
MGrundig
A curious guy :)
That might sound nice, but smartphone producers can’t support any untrained idiot without a cleanroom opening devices and getting dust inside the screen assemblies and ruining the waterproofing.

Like it or not, at the level of miniturisation we’re at, you need skilled technicians with proper equipment, and the easiest way to guarantee that, is for producers to do the service themselves.

Otherwise, you’ll end up with lots of consumers with broken phones, because they chose the wrong repair-option.
I disagree with the conclusion that we're in this position because of anything designers or developers did. Of the examples the author listed, most are the result of business meddling making things worse - see Reddit and Facebook in particular. I think this is "all you," not "mostly you," or if it is mostly, it's "mostly almost to the point of nothing else."
With Buckeyes (Ohio) being a similarly strange demonym, but a bit less mysterious, as a Kentuckian my favorite simple explanation from Kentucky civics courses for the fact that both the Hoosier and Buckeye demonyms are so strange is that they both started as Kentucky insults that both northern neighbors were crazy enough to adopt as their own. :)
So talk about that divide. Clearly a lot of people care a lot about Sysemd and want to talk about it. It's even the title of the post.

Complaining that people aren't having the conversation you want to have is just weird. Start the conversation you want instead of complaining that others are failing to have it. No one is obliged to hold the conversation you want.
Hehe, that looks like a lot of fun!

I know what I'll be doing next weekend! :)
My phone is doing just fine. Dropped it multiple times. Didn't submerge it in liquid yet but I doubt that an iPhone would survive that. If you have evidence showing that the Fairphone is less robust than other phones, please share.

The laws of scale will make the Fairphone actually better and cheaper when more are produced (as they always do).
I've seen this too, I have two very similar specced workstations, one has consumer level SSD and the other has an older Intel S3500. Whenever I do heavy IO, the system with the consumer level SSD will start freezing.
A lot of people still wear watches.

And I do like getting notifications on my Garmin watch as well as using the GPS for some activities. But, in a world where so many people also carry their smartphone with them almost everywhere, people aren't going to fiddle too much with the small device on their wrist when they can pull a phone out of their pocket.
It's a term of art -- one defined by Linus and the kernel team over the past 25+ years. People who have been involved in one way or another with kernel development know what it means, and it makes little sense to redefine it here.
> They only have $80M in revenue but they're valued at $1B?

10x ARR + a bit for brand and goodwill.
Its a stretch but the valuation seems about right.
I have heard from a trusted source that people in Russia are buying graphics cards by the truckload and building mining farms, and getting free electricity by bribing utilities / government officials. So keep in mind that you are likely competing with Chinese and Russian miners who don't have the same costs.
Evolution of Nintendo Consoles
Oh my, yes! I went there to look up one term, and before I knew it the entire afternoon had gone by.

OTOH, I learned a lot that afternoon. Watching TV programs has never been the same.
Not it won't, your SO will notice the smell after a session, but with proper ventilation it will be quickly gone.

But the coating of the weight may smell very bad, it depends on the material :

un-coated plates won't smell, but will make lot of noise when stacked together and will easily put a dent in a wooden floor

rubber coated plates are silent, but will smell horrible for months, depending on the storage where you brought it, I had to clean mine 3 times with lots of recipes, and put it on the balcony for weeks, and even now I still notice a smell in the room.

I would go for urethane plates, won't smell and are silent.
The argument to me reads as "if the security isn't perfect, it means they are not even trying, which makes it obvious that security is not the goal." but the not-perfect->not-trying jump doesn't seem to be fair.
iPhone 2G did not have any heart rate monitoring...
I think it should at least know which thread handles mouse movement.
But there needs to be a scalable way to let users reset passwords. Users will forget passwords, as anyone who has ever worked tier one support can verify.

Requiring a physical, government-issued ID to be presented at an office can work for some scenarios, but not for the vast majority of online services.
I submitted this when it first came out but it didn't get much attention at the time. Today I happen to be sitting in the Warburg Library and remembered how good this article was. For anyone on HN who happens to live in London or visit it often, and is interested in the history of science or technology - this place is incredible. It's the only open-shelf rare books library I've ever seen. What this means is that you can just browse through shelves and shelves that contain not only secondary sources (the standard types of academic texts you find in a specialist library) but also original printings of primary sources (rare, historical works, which usually require a formal request to a librarian to look at).

So for instance when I browsing the section on early chemistry and alchemy, I found a German alchemical text from the 1530s just sitting there next to the 20th century stuff. It's remarkable.
No argument here that the jobs are more lucrative, on paper, South of the border. Just trying to point out that there are lots of aspects to consider when you're looking at compensation. Being young, healthy, and single in the US can net you a lot, but I suspect that other bills would quickly eat up the difference if you aren't all 3 of those things.
Soon this will become an offline app in electron which can be used as offline reference. Instead of a readme or html help. (Sometimes progress isn't a feature but a lack of)
Malthusians have been making and being embarrassed by that argument for hundreds of years. Meanwhile, the standard of living for all people on the planet increases, and the link between that increase and resource consumption is not linear.

Given the history of the argument, it seems forgivable to assume that the people who make it in the context of space travel are simply besotted by the romance of space travel.
Doesn't help that major organizations that use 2FA (facebook / instagram) have had their iterations completely broken (and documented by many, many people) and they still won't fix it.

https://medium.com/@joelrunyon/instagrams-security-features-...
Statement from Ushahidi Board on alleged sexual harassment claim
The premise of mining bitcoin is not really about being cost effective today, but taking a long position on its value, and what you perceive the value will be, for totally anonymous money at some point in the future. Because the profit earned from mining is pretty close to the definition of untrackable in a crypto.
I once got fired that way...

I won't give too much details, but basically it was this:

Bigwig liked me.
Guy directly under bigwig, was my theoretically boss.
back then I didn't understood office politics, and kept communicating with bigwig directly, because project was his idea, and his coding style was similar to mine (when he used to code) so he understood what I was doing.

I made a genuine screwup due to mental illness (now treated), guy under bigwig fired me.

I complained to bigwig on the same day, he unfired me.

I still had screwed up though... so bigwig gives me some deadline to fix my stuff.

Some weeks later, about 3 days before deadline, bigwig had to take a business trip...

So guy under bigwig shows up, tell me to show him "now" the project, since I was counting on using all the days on the deadline, it wasn't ready, so he tells me I failed and I was fired.

I tried to argue, and find bigwig... but he didn't let me, instead he made me get escorted out of the building, I didn't even got to clean my desk (like 2 years later a co-worker that grabbed my stuff returned them to me when we went to the same event).

Of course I still tried to contact bigwig, but I just wanted to ask my stuff back. Found out that they deleted my e-mail, blocked my personal e-mail from their server, reception stonewalled me (kept giving me obvious excuses to not pass on my call to anyone), banned me from the building (that had other companies too but...) and so on.

And that is how I found out the hard way how office politics work...
> please don't confuse badly trained psychologists and the pharma industry trying to pump you full of drugs and nutritional supplements, with the science of psychiatry.

69% of psychiatrists defining mental illnesses and their treatments in the DSM-5 reported having financial ties to big pharma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5#Criticism
I had a calculator watch when I was 12-13. It was amazing tech, mind blowingly cool. I wore it for like a month. The utility and usability research for the smartwatch type niche was done in the 80s as far as I am concerned, and it was pretty conclusive.

Although trackers are an inherently different tool.
>Solis bought a Bitmain Antminer S9 on eBay for $2,400.
>As of this weekend, Solis has mined 1.01 BTC, worth a little more than $2,584 in his bitcoin wallet.
>Solis said:
>"When I bought the miner, the price per bitcoin was around $1,200. I thought I’d break even in one year, but actually it’s been about five months."

So he would have been much better off just spending that 1,200 on Bitcoin rather than on a mining rig.
> quite intrusive

No, it's not. It opens instantly, has no close timer, is very obvious about its intent (which is beneficial to the user), and closes instantly with a single click (and stays closed on subsequent visits). It's minimally intrusive at best, but the trade-off of the very relevant user notification negates even that.
try working in Southern Europe. If you don't smoke, you miss out on hourly breaks where everything social happens.
A few observations:

Trying to scare people into behavior does not work very well. The Catholic Church spent centuries threatening people with eternal hell if they had extra-marital sex, and people still had extra-marital sex. Studies have shown that abstinence only sex education results in more teen pregnancies. Thomas Malthus saw an impending famine and begged people to have fewer children. People did not listen.

What works is "magic science." A solution that allows people to behave the way hey do, and we come up with a solution that just works. Birth control has resulted in a decline in teen pregnancies and population stabilization where it is available. The green revolution is able to feed people, without most people having to do anything different in how they eat.

The other thing is that people don't really think this is a true emergency. An evidence for this is the quote "What if global warming is wrong and we made the planet better?" If it is a true emergency, we should be doing stuff that make the planet worse if it is wrong. We should be pushing nuclear power - even to the the point of reducing existing safety regulations. A Chernobyl every decade is preferable to global warming. Politically, we should be willing to trade existing environmental regulation for those which reduce CO2. For example, what if we traded the Endangered species act for a carbon tax?

Third, we should be pushing for research and funding for climate adaptation at his point. The focus has been on mitigation, but it should switch to adaptation. We should be working on scaling up and testing models of carbon sequestration and Geo engineering.

EDIT: Per cbennett's comment, changed prevention to mitigation and mitigation to adaptation to be more in line with official terminology.
Of course, but in the West, the flops are due to business failures. I'm referring to systemic risk, where you lose your money due to corruption and graft, often before it even gets into the hands of the venture.
> If the EU were to force Apple to make the iMac just an inch thicker to make it upgradeable, I'd take it

I wouldn't, and I hope Apple finds a way out of compromising its standards for the sake of random European regulations.
If you were offered the chance to become as intelligent as Feynman but only if you turn over a copy of all your future thoughts to the private business that made this possible, would you take it? Something non-invasive, like a computer that images your brain while you sleep.

If we are machines, then it seems reasonable that within a few millennia we might have this capability. I'm trying to think up some scenarios where it might be reasonable to turn over your brain to a business.

The ability to become "immortal" would probably be enough for most people. Is your disembodied mind still you? Do you feel an attachment to the idea of preserving it? What about modifying it?

Where it gets really strange is if you think of your wife or husband making a backup of their brain, then running a simulator on that backup. I.e. giving it "life" by letting the simulated neurons fire. Does that count as thinking? What if you can see those thoughts? What if you can communicate? Would you love them just as much as you love your SO?

Probably useless questions, but I can't help but wonder.

(I've expanded my comment since it was posted; the "no"'s are in response to the first question.)

Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E
I don't understand your complaint, especially given that your last two links are more discussion about problems with systemd instead of the divide you think is the interesting point.
> Imagine you see a squadron of fighter jets flying in above in the sky. Then, one of the jets inexplicably breaks formation and flies off by itself.

A clear-cut case of Paternal Conflict Syndrome.
However, they have just merged a feature called jumbo which squashes lots of compilation units together. The guy who developed it (Daniel Bratell from Opera) reckons an improvement of 70%-95% in per-file compilation time[1]. But, it's only for the core of Blink right now.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/ch...
but you have to also take into account that a lot of people don't pay (charity care)
Right. Usually the entire application is not performance critical. Only certain sections are. For that part of the application, profile and optimize.