skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently had a communique with a domain squatter who held myname.com, wanted $100k for it. I actually asked if he was on drugs.

According to the wayback machine that domain has been parked since 2002. 15 years of annual renewals, never been sold apparently, never actually held a website (or seemingly any services) yet somehow that equals $100k.

Domain parkers should be booted from the Internet. It's the most useless, scummy form of business.
>Nicole watches large amounts of leftover food go into the compost – food she’s not allowed to take home

Why is she not allowed to take it home? It would be free for whoever her employer is, it would help her and her family.

Also I really dislike wasting food.
> I'm unfamiliar with how the US stats get collected - is that 90% of "everyone who had prostate cancer" survives 5+ years; or is that "everyone who had prostate cancer and private medical insurance"? If so then that is rather shocking.

It's looking at people with prostate cancer, regardless of insurance status.

> Prostate cancer may be something of an outlier given the hesitation people have in discussing it.

It's not limited to prostate cancer; for survival rates, the NHS does pretty terribly on almost every form of cancer compared to the US. I picked prostate cancer because it's something that's very treatable - the upper limit is close to 100% for five-year survival, which makes the UK's outcomes that much more unacceptable. But the story is the same for all other common cancers (let alone rare cancers, which the NHS is not optimized as a system to treat).
Speedify Channel Bonding
> For what it's worth, a lot of people like myself consider Snopes a source of leftist propo, not truth.

Is this more "reality has a known liberal bias" sarcasm? Or as you saying the entire concept of objective truth is leftist propaganda?
I'm grateful to OpenMoko every time I fire up dfu-util to flash something over USB.
The insurance model is at the heart of the medical system's issues; it distorts the market by disconnecting prices from providers and consumers and severely disaligns their interests.

The provider must set a high sticker price so that they can give the insurer the expected 60-80% discount to get in-network (and still tolerate underpayment and other shenanigans). The consumer is either intentionally misled or confused (usually both) about basically everything cost-related, and often won't learn the true out-of-pocket cost of a service until ~1 year after receiving it, when the billing process has (mostly) finished.

Example: just yesterday I got a new bill for a routine lab test I received in December. It says that the insurance discount applied, but they never sent a payment, and thus I owe a balance of over $200 to the lab company. Now I have to call the insurer to figure out why they denied payment, which is sometimes due to an administrative error, sometimes a paperwork thing like signing a document that verifies there is no other possible insurance carrier whom may have been responsible for the bill, etc.

Obamacare is thus anything but up front, because honestly working to fix the American medical system would involve excising market-breaking, paper-pushing leeches from the marketplace, but Obamacare props up this destructive apparatus by forcing every American to pay in or get fined.
Are you in the same space as Tcell.io? I think they have been doing this for a few years now.
Nice work, both with the music and the video.
Bosch and Daimler demonstrate driverless parking in real-life traffic
Essentially, poor white Americans oppose any kind of social service that might benefit black Americans. Virtually every problem that America faces is complicated by this one simple fact, which is an echo of the fact that half the country literally went to war over their preference to enslave black people. Despite this glaring and obvious reality, most commentators are afraid to mention it.
I'm not sure why that follows- if anything, in my experience pandering propaganda tends to increase profits - just look at Breitbart on the right and Huffington post on the left. It drives clicks just as well and seems to be cheaper to produce than real investigative journalism.
The Moon has more water than we thought – The Verge
>that's about $20 per user to support Netflix's business model that people seem to think it's Comcast's responsibility to pay.

So what is my $80/mo Comcast Internet Service supposed to be buying me?
If a blog network were driven by a contract that took away credibility tokens when enough fake-news tokens are amassed the token would have actual heft.

Currently even a billion dislikes has no heft ad they can be ignored. Initial credibility can be gained via proof of stake like how banks used to be so luxurious. The stake that is most valuable is that which is most flexible and can be converted into other tokens with least hops. That would be USD currently but with other countries growing in power a distributed token recognized by all countries maytaje its place. (It may be adopted rather than designed just like may tourist industries have adopted the dollar)

Dollars fundamentally express a combination of values but because it is one token, the resolution of the values blur together. Tokens increase the resolution to kaleidiscope levels at the cost of confusion. Instead of being able to hold onto one type of token with consistent power holders need to constantly evaluate what combination of tokens allows them to trade for what they want with least hops.

The USD lost a lot of trust via bailouts and inflation that reduced wealth for the token holders. Fundamentally there was loss of trust in competence. (which can be made up with increased confidence in military ability!)

Ethereum is driven by trust in geniuses. Bitcoin is driven by trust in age. Many altcoins are driven by trust in their respective ideas. Interestingly I think the success of coins is all about building trust rather than technicals (though it's so early that the technical implementation is still very important!) The drum of marketing needs to be consistent for a long time but builds exponentially. Bitcoin currently has the most leverage from this perspective but as the earliest coin it may be saddled with too much baggage to get over the core necessary technical hurdles without splintering. (splintering causes it to become new, destroying the built up age trust!)
> And yet the UK life expectancy is 81.2 vs 79.3 in the US.

I don't understand the point you're trying to make. [Treatable] cancer isn't the leading cause of death in any country[0], so no matter how good (or bad) a country is at treating cancer, you wouldn't expect that to be visible in the overall life expectancy rates.

[0] Ordinally, cancer is #2, but that includes untreatable cancers, and the tail is very long, so getting better at improving five-year survival rates for cancers won't budge your life expectancy at all, outside of the margin-of-error.
Throwing things away is still wasteful. Clearly the right thing to do here is to allow taking some merchandise home, but tie it to following rules and minimizing gratuitous loss in other ways.

One of the remarkable innovations introduced by the Patrician was to make the Thieves’ Guild responsible for theft, with annual budgets, forward planning and, above all, rigid job protection. Thus, in return for an agreed average level of crime per annum, the thieves themselves saw to it that unauthorised crime was met with the full force of Injustice, which was generally a stick with nails in it.
> Do not take what the hospital/insurance Co say at face value. Call an attorney.

What a terrible industry.
The first thing I did after reading this was go to Snopes to see if it was a hoax.
How stable is ReactOS, and does it have a fairly good set of features for a desktop OS? Had read about it earlier, never tried it out.
> Dude, you're leaving O(n^2) landmines in your code

O(n^2) I do not dispute. "Landmines," however, I take offense at: my naive implementation can still check 10,000 items in less than three seconds; should this ever become a bottleneck I assure you that I will adjust the implementation accordingly. Considering that hitting this number would require expanding the entire company at least tenfold, and knowing how other portions of the code work, I feel justified in saying that this is likely to be the least of their problems.

> you're now justifying them by linecount and readability (actually more like familiarity with using sets and mappings).

The entire point of this thread was justifying by readability, so yes, I am. I'm well familiar with sets and mappings, I just don't think that they're the best solution for this particular task.

> In what way you think mappings are different in implementation than sets that makes them slower?

I don't know the internal implementation details, but having just benchmarked it I can tell you that Dictionary<string, Item> is roughly 8% slower than HashSet<string> for two otherwise identical implementations of this method.

> You have just proved my intuition about your abilities.

Likewise. From the preceding conversation, I conclude that you are inclined to prematurely optimize at the cost of maintainability and that you tend to look down on and make fun of anyone who you believe knows less about a topic than you, without taking the time to consider their point of view, or even basic politeness. You may not think that this description accurately depicts you; but then I don't think your opinion of me seems to be correct either.

Considering that I have now spent far more time than this code will ever run for arguing the point, I'm going to step away from this discussion now. I feel that I have made my point; increasingly heated argument seems unlikely to affect the outcome of the debate.
I looked for it and didn't see it. I'm either blind or it's really hard-to-spot.
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but how would the ISP take a 1080p stream and downsample it to 480 on the fly, without man-in-the-middling HTTPS?
Most Americans repeat "socialism is bad" while driving down their toll-free interstate highways.
> For what it's worth, a lot of people like myself consider Snopes a source of leftist propo, not truth.

That's much more a reflection of your biases than theirs.
It's average as determined by the statistics from my own algorithm's licensees, and from my competitors. I'm sure there are plenty out there that don't fit that mold, but all I can report on is what I see - and those statistics are what I see day in and day out.

Another disclaimer, the markets I'm quoting these averages from are the ES and ZB.
Hi Gregory

I've really been interested in ReadMe because it fills such a simply yet extremely important need for developers. Would you be willing to ever do one of those Indie Hacker posts [0]?

Also, question: is ReadMe no longer free to Open Source projects? I see reference in your docs that say that ReadMe is free for Open Source projects [1] but on your current pricing page [2] I don't see any reference to the free-open source version.

[0] https://www.indiehackers.com/

[1] https://readme.readme.io/v2.0/docs/open-source

[2] http://readme.io/pricing/
Google’s Sundar Pichai to Join Alphabet’s Board
Your definition is not the common one, I don't think.
> Wow. Just wow. For some people, marriage is more than a financial arrangement.

Marriage in the legal sense and marriage in the religious/personal/emotional commitment sense are not the same thing. I don't think you're necessarily _always_ wrong, but I also don't see why you think it's so universal that people should load a specific legal status with so much emotional weight and be unable to separate it from the actual commitment, in the context of meaningfulness.

If I have a religious ceremony during which I get married to someone, I would consider myself married even if I didn't file the papers at the courthouse. The latter is just paperwork. I can't say I relate to the notion that a relationship between two people doesn't have meaning until you get the government to approve it.
If you are friends with a registrar 15 years of renewals is less than $150. So $100,000 against $150? I expect that if you offered them $10,000 for it they would take it, but they want to 'set the bar' high so that you'll not waste their time offering them a few hundred dollars for it.

And to put that in context, if you said "Invest this $150 and 15 years from now it will be worth $10,000!" you would jump on that right? Even if it were only worth $1,500 it would be 10x on your money in 15 years.
It provides a valuable service - if you want it to stick around, you might consider donating.

If it provides a valuable service why can't it establish cash flow with media partners? Passing the hat is not a business model

To he honest, compared to an organisation like Wikipedia, which seems to spend a crazy amount of money constantly

I imagine running the infrastructure for Wikipedia is pretty expensive. Also, I've gotta say that WP is an order of magnitude more impressive than Snopes. And I've been a supporter of snopes since it was just the two Mikkelsons on Usenet.
Every time I read a story about ER-billing I have to fight the urge to spend a few hundred bucks on the materials and equipment required to produce "official enough looking" forms of ID.

Seems like getting a hospital to think they treated someone who doesn't exist is a better bet and no more stressful than getting your insurance to cover things to the extent you are lead to believe they would be covered
Did you check Snopes? According to them, they are all over the map :)

http://www.snopes.com/info/notes/politics.asp
Launch HN: Spendwith – A shopping app for buying and selling, by culture
Hello all, I'm the founder of Spendwith (https://spendwith.in) a social impact company and peer-to-peer shopping app that allows users to buy goods or services from specific cultural groups. Users can shop products or services specifically from Black, Asian, Latinix, Muslim, Jewish, Women, LGBT or Veteran sellers, with more groups to come.

People want to target their spending in this manner, but there's no platform that allows this to happen. We're targeting the markets Craigslist, Ebay, Letgo and Offerup dominate. Even though these are big competitors, they wouldn't dare provide this type of value on their shopping platforms.

We're happy to have Jesus Martinez (A YC Investor) as an advisor. =>
https://spendwith.in/invest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzUY5_dBaYE

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/spendwith

Jibril Sulaiman
@datdudejibril
I wonder if you could get into legal trouble if you start to re-distribute calc.exe from older Windows version, as a free download. Probably yes, but it would look so ridiculous if MS lawyers would go after a random person doing that.
If you don't have a house that has more than 120k in equity, or a bucnch of expensive personal items; declare a chapter 7.
(I believe 120,000 of the personal home is safe in a bankruptcy in California. Texas has has am unlimited homestead exemption. Meaning you can own a mansion, and keep it in a bankruptcy.)

Don't pay the paracites a penny.

Look into doing a straight chapter 7 yourself. I'm planning on doing mine. You'll save $3000 by doing it yourself.

I'm glad you feeling better. They have become weasels. And to those that think hospitals, and doctors don't come after payment; they do. They can be very aggressive.

Good luck!
Africa poised to become digital insurance leader
IIRC, you're free to resubmit if you feel the content deserves another chance.
I read that too and assumed the author was confining that to the type of development they do. Either way it comes off a ignorant and even a little rude.
Notepad++ is pretty good, I've used it, both for programming and general text editing.

See my comment about Metapad in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840791

It supports both Unix and DOS/Windows line endings (LF and CR+LF). Also a few other options.
The US is larger than 50 developed nations combined, so yes, we are Totally Special.
And heaven forbid you have to take an ambulance to the hospital - ambulances might not be in network, in which case you're looking at a $800 charge for a ten minute drive (that you can't make yourself due to a variety of reasons). I wasn't even in bad enough health that they would turn on the lights, so I didn't even get that small silver lining.

Then you get to sit in an "emergency room" for hours, when you're physically unable to move, and with your phone dead so you can't even let anyone know where you are. When you're finally wheeled to where you need to be, you're basically dumped in a hallway facing a wall for half an hour, and you're in a wheelchair and so weak that you can't even turn to face anything interesting. I paid about $1000 for that luxury. At that price I'd expect a decent waiting room...

Yes I just needed to vent about that situation. It sucked, especially for a college student. I was hounded for months afterward to pay those bills, because of course when you're throwing up you can pick which ambulance gives you a ride.
Most of the Show HNs on HN's front page get there organically. Sometimes we see ones that fell through the cracks and put them in the second-chance queue (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there) or email repost invites.

As lwansbrough said, a small number of reposts is explicitly ok (this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Reposts aren't a good thing per se (and can drive the, shall we say, detail-oriented segment of the community crazy sometimes), but it's worse for good submissions to fall through the cracks, so we make the tradeoff that way.

Edit: Taking a quick look at your post, I think you may be falling into some of the traps that prevent a project from attracting attention here: for example, the "I can't tell what this does" problem, and the fact that the intellectually interesting details aren't up front, so curiosity isn't engaged in the first couple seconds. Take a look at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14841231, which are some tips that we send to YC startups and HN users who email us.
I was a "fudgie." I spent 90% of my summers growing up in Petoskey.
They fail to completely adhere to the right-wing Fox News counter-narrative. People caught up in that consider everything else "leftist propo."
Alphabet Appoints Sundar Pichai to Its Board of Directors
My complete guess:

Netflix mass-negotiates content contracts with distributors for lump sums. The distributor then pays out one-time royalties from that lump sum.
That's bad advice for the HN crowd because as much as they all say they love the valley they all have their eyes on home ownership and GTFOing in about that timeline.
Getting an introduction to the right one. Being bootstrapped and profitable has meant we're not burning a runway -- but I could be growing faster.

My ideal investor would also be a mentor to me, preferably in the B2B or AI space, I would value help with strategic direction more than the $ right now
>Naive-hashcat uses various dictionary, rule, combination, and mask attacks and it can take days or even months to run against strong passwords. The cracked password will be saved to hackme.pot, so check this file periodically.
If you are writing RDBMS centric apps, the way your app interact with your DB matters a lot, maybe even more than choice of a programming language. This is where ruby has real superstars, Sequel and ActiveRecord. Nothing I've seen in other languages comes close to Sequel's power, expressiveness and flexibility to query databases. This is the main reason I use ruby. On top of that, ruby is so elegant, it often puts a smile on your face, when you realize how elegantly you have solved a particular problem.
Engineering Uber Predictions in Real Time with ELK
Not exactly the home page, but PullToRefresh.js[1] was on HN's front page last december and since we've basically doubled our traffic, altough sales haven't been affected by it, since we are offering a product only for Mexico.

Besides the traffic increase, the repo trended on Github and now we have +1,400 stars.

1: https://www.boxfactura.com/pulltorefresh.js/
Some context for the unfamiliar:

H2O arose out of a law school, where the textbooks are basically just very expensive compilations of prior case law. Some publishers add additional comments and other materials to the casebooks, but for the most part, you're just paying for someone else to print out and excerpt public public domain material for you. Makes it a particularly good target for remixing.
It's a feature, not a bug
I speak a bit of Danish and can't help but to giggle at the name.

(Yes, it means dick)
Setting a CSP header can be simple but managing changes to it can get difficult. Especially as team members add or remove services from the app (Intercom, Google Analytics, etc.)

We also provide a reporting endpoint that captures all violations. Do you currently use a CSP header with a report-uri setting?
I grew up in the Pittsburgh area so I'm definitely biased, but I think Pittsburgh has a higher general sports literacy (especially for football) than other places I lived. Football is huge from peewee to the NFL and high school games receive significant coverage. The sportswriters seem to have more leeway to talk X and O's without losing their audience.

>As an aside, some of the highest quality stuff I see is from bloggers/amateurs who follow sports and write about it as a hobby. There are people who write a dozen or two articles a year with incredible breakdowns containing numbers, vidoes, strategy, etc and it is incredible.

I agree with this. There's some really good stuff out there. I also think it's worth mentioning Jon Gruden. He does a great job of breaking down game tape while still reaching a wide audience. I'd love to see more like him. My ultimate hope is that Peyton Manning gets his own show breaking down film (of both NFL games and his commercials).
5 Point Survival Guide to AWS DR Automation
Not him, but I would have stayed on 8.1 too if it weren't for processor support. The only annoying thing about it is the start menu, which i only use for maybe 10sec/month. It's faster than win7 and has a bunch of features I would miss, and compared to 10 it's not as bloated with non-win32 apps with less functionality for everything, tracking that you can turn off, and all the other win10 stuff you've heard already.
It's a value add for those executives. Think about who's calling the shots.
> Why is she not allowed to take it home?

Liability. If her kids get sick she could sue. On one hand, I feel like this should be something a waiver solves. On the other hand, that opens the door for handing rotting food to employees
OK, there's now a PR in the queue to allow hobbes to build with LLVM 4.0+. Pending review, it will likely be merged to master soon.
>I have to travel to Facebook HQ once a month, unless I'm traveling to some other FB facility.

I'm curious, is this because of your role or do all FB employees do this if they work outside of MPK?
You mean a matrix multiplication processor?
It's just people fact-checking information with research. Take it or leave it. But that's not a bad thing.

I wish more websites would at least attempt to validate the info they're flinging around.
Analyzing Buckminster Fuller' Everything I Know
Intelligent Topic Detection with Unsupervised Learning
Switzerland also regulates drug prices... and has much tighter governmental oversight over their insurance industries. But is also the most costly by percent GDP of european nations... still much much cheaper than the US though.
"Mikkelson was unhappy that Barbara maintained ownership of half of what he always considered to be his company after the divorce," the complaint reads. "Thus, after Proper Media’s purchase of Barbara’s share, Mikkelson sought to finally gain control of Bardav by aligning and conspiring with (Vincent) Green."

So it's a divorce fight. Yuck.
Good for porn images.
sinks the whole 'the free market will self-police' fallacy. esp re: health and environment, finance, and worker safety, corporations need regulation, badly.