skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The speed will decrease during periods you'd think there would be heavy usage (mid morning/late afternoon, even slower in early evening). Then speed up dramatically in the late evening when most have gone to bed.
To market, to market: Bringing a retail food product to life with Slack
> From what I understand one argument often given, is that there's a mistrust of the government for anything like this and people prefer to "shop" for it themselves

As a data point: the patient satisfaction scores for Original Medicare (government-run) are drastically lower than every single major provider of Medicare Advantage (privately-run).

As much as people dislike insurance companies, people in the US are even less happy with the government-run programs, compared to their private counterparts.
You need to give ipython a go.
Companies Rush to Develop ‘Utterly Transformative’ Gene Therapies
Are you aware of MikuMikuDance? There's a big community doing 3D-rendered music videos from drawn characters there, though with somewhat different emphasis.
> They earn too much to qualify for state healthcare, but not enough to afford the health insurance offered by their employer. They frequently struggle to find enough money for basics like food and clothes for their children. Victor recently borrowed money from his mother to hold a birthday party for one of his daughters, and from a friend to pay for a dentist appointment.

They might want to look into not being married. A single mother with three children would qualify for quite a few benefits. The lower income (single parent) would also qualify her for Medicaid. Separately, the husband could continue to work and pool his income with her, though not on paper.

It's pretty sad that the combination of the tax code, income based benefit eligibility, and a high local cost of living make something like "Divorce for the sake of the children" a real option.
So you're saying we need a snopes article about snopes' request for help?
They are one of many lower wage workers you might see at a place like Facebook that aren't Facebook employees. They probably contract out for janitorial services, landscaping, security guards, etc. All at probably similar wages.
> Props go to the hospital system for taking back their coding after they realized what the third party was doing, but the reality is, it was probably financially benefiting the hospital system too.

I doubt the hospital system got anything from it, physician groups usually keep all their revenue from professional services claims - the hospital gets paid whatever they do for their facility claim regardless of what the professional claim pays.
Sigh, from that article "Bardav signed over a share of Snopes’ revenue to Proper Media in exchange for web services such as management of its back-end advertising platform, according to the cross-complaint." which explains a lot.

Basically Bardav didn't want to deal with the sleazebags that infest "internet advertising" and gave the keys to Proper. That is sort of like letting the local street gang provide valet parking for your restaurant.

The following is entirely speculation based on the above article and the complaints as written.

Since Snopes has high link and host authority in many search engines, one possible explanation here is that Bardav (who hadn't been getting that much from advertising) thought they were getting a "good deal" by having Proper pay their hosting/network fees for half the advertising revenue. But when Proper got things really going (recommendation, don't visit snopes without an ad blocker) Bardav saw that 'half' the revenue was way more than it cost them to host the service. Bardav asked for more of the Ad revenue, Proper refused, Snopes notified them they were going to end the contract, and Proper retaliated by holding the site hostage (they are no doubt the 'owning' user according to the web site provider after all as part of the contract).

I wonder if this will kill Snopes as we know it.
I'm skeptical that you actually learn more by using the command line vs. a GUI. Yes, if you need to do something subtle, you might have to learn something, and you might need to use the command line to do it. But you learn more because you need to, so you go out and learn it, not because the command line teaches you something.
Readily available packages in most languages can parse graphql queries for you.
The cost of living in the Bay Area is -- and I say this with no figuration -- frightening. It provokes genuine fear in me.
JavaScript Closures Explained in 3 Minutes
One of the best Enterprise uses I've heard for hololens is measuring spaces. The voices of VR podcast described a company that installs stair lift. Before theyd have to have multiple people come and take lots of measurements before the install. Now it's just one person who can get all measurements in less than 15 minutes.
Sure, my point was companies do do that checking and Debian doesn't do that checking, so from the perspective of this risk, it would be harder for an attacker to do this to a large corporate like Microsoft than it would to do it to an open source project like debian.
That place makes me feel like there's some hope in this industry.
Despite what happened to his software, which is clearly unfortunate, it's a shame to see it turn closed source. I would have thought that projects would be hopefully moving toward more free licenses.
> sub part of the network may be quite safe

true, seems like the more something in finance resembles a utility (like a pure conduit or short term store of cash / tokens) the safer it seems to be. altho i guess even those types of agents can get infected if enuf shennanigans are going on around them (e.g. money market's breaking the buck in 2008-2009)

> BTC wallet users to pay on Stripe merchants with one hop through gdax or any other exchange

thats pretty cool. so thats how stripe's btc processing works? dump the btc for usd (for example) at market via some exchange routing algo? then forward the fiat so the merch never has to handle any cryptocurrency?
NASA seeks to build a quieter supersonic plane for passenger flight
Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Aircrack-Ng and Hashcat
Things Every Designer Hates to Hear
Human liver cells seeded in mouse expands 50-fold to functional organoid
You can also invest in improving public transit and shoring up what you already have - for example, BART and systems like it could be used to link areas more effectively/reliably.

In talking with some friends in the Bay Area, all feel that East Bay is just too risky with problems BART has been facing in reliability, but all love the less congested feel of say Moraga or Walnut Creek.

The article focuses on the fact that the family cannot afford Menlo Park. There are surrounding communities that would allow them at least a 2br for what they earn, yet I suspect they cannot do this because of commute difficulties and schools for kids. Both parents can't really be expected to endure 2 hour commutes, as things come up with kids and you need to be there for them quickly.

Schools deserve a separate discussion though.

Menlo Park is great and super expensive, but I don't think it's fair to demand that everyone be able to afford it. I can't and that's ok with me. However, the cost of not being able to afford it should not be not seeing your kids grow up. That's a solvable problem and not a class struggle.
> but not enough to afford the health insurance offered by their employer.

This is what is wrong with health care in the US. How can this not be considered a serious flaw in the way the system is currently structured?
Feature, not a bug, imho. I don't know about other folks, but I've used drag-and-drop accidentally and had to undo it many many more times than I've used it deliberately.

if we're going to pick on a standard UI thing that it fails at, I'd say multiple undo.
I've often wondered about this example:
1) Relational databases already had network interfaces
2) SQL isn't perfect, but it has been reliable for a long time
3) Why we didn't increase the performance and security of SQL interfaces, relational databases and just expose those to client applications, including in the browser, directly?

Ok, there are a lot of reasons.

I worked on a project once that was essentially a "data platform", kind of a SQL firewall to "any data" (a bit of a stretch, but that was the concept). You could put any data system (relational, non-relational, web services, etc.) behind it, but then join across heterogeneous systems using plain old SQL. You had a query language and a network interface, and since it was separate from the actual databases themselves, you could do some interesting things with security, caching and scalability in a different layer.

GraphQL has always seemed like the same kind of query abstraction over data, with a network interface. Props to Facebook for making the tech and releasing it open source.

This also makes me think about the command query responsibility separation (CQRS) pattern, a similar discussion.

EDIT: Also, lest we forget OData... which never really took off, but offers similar functionality.
They have been priced out of their own neighborhood and that is really unfortunate. Theoretically they should move to a place with a cheaper cost of living. People move all the time for wages and cost of living; I would guess its the number one reason people move. They don't work for Facebook they work for a contractor; I would say they need to find a better job or a less expensive place to live (cost of living).
Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW: possible collusion among auto manufacturers
I agree, but this is a symptom of a larger problem.

Really I'm disappointed that people don't build their computers from scratch these days. You don't know what's going on when you have so many components joined together with random blobs of firmware.

Give me a bare Z80, a bunch of RAM, and anybody could understand it. Plus if you're writing your code in assembly you can optimize better than any compiler - they wouldn't know enough to use your opcodes as constants when you need to.

/s
Your text is grey and you may be getting downvoted and I'm not sure why. You are absolutely right and anyone who has ever been to ER will agree. I was in ER a couple of months ago, and it wasn't even a life-threatening issue, but I felt terrible. I went to the closest hospital with ER department (thankfully, it was in-network), and I was going to get their treatment no matter what price quote they hand me (not that I asked). When you're deeply, physically unwell, nothing else matters to your mind.

I think you may be getting downvoted for your last sentence, but the points you're making are very real.
and so it begins.
You're correct. The photon and the Z boson are each their own anti-particle. The rest of the force-carriers have distinct anti-particles.
> Luckily I have friends in the industry and it turns out if they fail to inform you within 48 hours that you're not in network you don't have to pay the out of network cost.

Curious, can you perhaps provide evidence of this? Seems like a good thing to know.

> Call an attorney.

This is itself a cost, and maybe only makes sense if you owe ≥ $10k but for procedures billed as $1k when they should be $400 I don't think warrants the cost and time of an attorney; what other recourse is there except to pay?
I submitted 4 which all got on the frontpage.

Ghostnote
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9145007

I still make good money on Ghostnote and is working on new features plus a new SAAS service.

Weekendhacker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2563718

This one is alive but not really active. Around 8K users on a mailing list. If anyone want to take over this project pm me.

PinView
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3862889

FinalTouch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991206

This was fun to do but just a project we did for fun.
Will donating help Snopes resolve it's ownership & legal issues? The call for donations doesn't seem to suggest that. Will Snopes need ongoing donations forever to stay in operation? Donating to replace ad revenue seems like a temporary measure at best that doesn't address the root problem, from what I'm reading in the comments here. Why might I want to donate to keep Snopes alive for a few months if the legal problem looms and the site could shut down anyway?
Quotes about C++
Kim LaCapria I think.
That would seem implied, otherwise why would this be an interesting story?
Do you want a situation where the guy who reads the whole README shouldn't use the library?
meh, I'll just block most scrapers and save 99% of my litigation costs to achieve the same result
"who in their right mind would use XML over JSON today?"

Lost me already... there are lots of reasons to still use XML today. And since someone is going to ask, here are some:

* you want to use xpath

* you want to communicate with an enterprise app (salesforce, magento, etc)

* you need strongly-typed message-passing in a human-readable well-understood format (rules out messagepack, etc)

* nobody actually documented the API, but they might have a WSDL
That's actually awesome, thanks for pointing that out!
I agree so much. At $75k/yr in my area, you would be able to live in a top 15 school district and go on a family vacation anually. I literally cannot conceptualize scraping by on $75k a year. That is just unfathomably expensive!
The key is that Proper Media is withholding revenue as a bargaining chip. Pretty shitty.
I tend to use Google to calculate, if posed correctly it will even infer formulas and give you the result. But when I needed math done for me I was also waist deep in Excel all day long and could figure anything I needed.
> luckily my wife doesn't work so I didn't have to take time off for all the phone calls and following up that was required

This.

This is so horrifically true, it takes call after call after call (and emails, and faxes, and snail-mail claims forms that take "30 days" to "process") to get anything changed, and by then you have collections companies harassing you and your credit goes down the drain. Meanwhile you must keep working and taking care of family and dealing with the actual illness/issue that led to the medical visit in the first place. It is insane.
Anything Snopes like (aka used as an authority for truth) has a large chance of someday descending into a various parties squabbling for control situation. Not surprised if that is more or less the case.
Forbes, the site that served malware in their ads(you can't view their page with an adblocker on either).
I've grown weary of websites posing as bastions of truth that will determine whether it's true or false. It's a fun concept when it covers things like subliminal messages in Disney movies, but when it starts becoming the go-to destination for un-answerable or hotly debated political issues, it gets ugly and I'd rather not support it.

The CEO of Snopes himself ended up in a scandal last year https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai.... Who can we trust to fact-check those claims? Who's fact-checking the fact-checkers?
If I understand GraphQL correctly, it sounds like I will be re-writing queries multiple times across different clients (android/ios/web). For the majority of (simple) read operations this doesn't seem like such a big deal. But for write operations, wouldn't this mean having business logic repeated across clients? If so, I don't like that.
SLocker source code leaked online for free, a gift for crooks and hackers
Right, and the big industrial system I'm referring to is the flow battery described in this article. Which I'm sure you read.
A good example of why relying on vision alone rather than also using sensors like LIDAR is silly.

Selfdriving is already going to be a hugely valuable technology even if it requires an extra few thousand dollars per vehicle for hardware. Why get greedy?
#1 -- No, this is the "obvious but wrong" solution. It doesn't work for parallel builds.

https://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/rules-multiple-outputs-...

All his criticisms are correct except maybe #3 which I don't understand.

Another problem I've found is that Make doesn't consider the absence of a prequisite to mean the target is out of date. So if foo.html depends on foo.intermediate, and then you delete foo.intermediate, then "make foo.html", foo.html will be considered up to date. I guess this is part of the odd feature where Make deletes intermediaries, but even if you have .SECONDARY on, which I do, it still behaves this way.

The bottom line is that it's extraordinarily easy to write incorrect Makefiles -- either underspecifying or overspecifying dependencies -- and it's very difficult to debug those problems. My Makefile is still full of bugs, so I "make clean" when something goes wrong.

One thing that would go a long way is if it had a shorthand for referring to the prequisites in commands, like $P1 $P2 $P3, and if it actually enforced that you use those in the command lines! I don't want to create variables for every single file, and when I rename files, rules can grow invisible bugs easily.

Some details here: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/05/31.html
That's assuming that we're talking a connection streaming a video from Netflix's CDN to the customer's device. When in reality, Netflix offered to put a CDN cache box in Comcast's DC which would largely reduce the problem, Comcast turned them down.

That, alone, tells me that this is not a congestion or a cost problem, it is a bull-headedness for the purpose of rent seeking problem.

And as to the "last mile" costs, those are what Comcast subscribers are paying Comcast for. They act like this traffic is unsolicited noise, when in reality it's why they're being paid anything by anyone. I say don't charge people for x megabits down if you don't intend on them using it.
They are objecting to wealth transfer, I doubt making it more effective matters to them.
I had never heard of this before, thank you so much for connecting this to a name.

Aha, you've only bothered to refute 48 of my 100 bullshit claims, clear evidence liberal bias!
Maybe We Just Suck at Meeting Aliens
Lots of people do it, usually after someone posts a Snopes article proving that the thing the complainer posted is BS.
Unfortunately the NHS is, in many ways, pretty bad. They're pretty good at dealing with pregnancies, cancers, and emergencies but try getting seen for a chronic pain and you'll follow this rough timeline:

- Try see your GP. Wait 2 weeks until your appointment.

- GP will give a cursory examination and recommend a dietary change, taking ibuprofen/paracetamol, and to come back if problem persists.

- Problem persists. Book in with your GP and wait another 2 weeks.

- GP will actually examine you this time. They may then refer you to the local hospital, and so you should await a letter.

- about 2 weeks later, the a will arrive saying that you should phone up to make an appointment.

- within 8 weeks you should get another letter telling you when your appointment is, which will be within 4 weeks.

At this point you have spent 20 weeks just to get seen by a specialist. And that's assuming everything goes ok. Admin may not update your details, so the letters go to an old (or wrong) address. They may just entirely forget to make an appointment for you. Probably if you try phone them they just won't pick up the phone.

There's a fetishisation of the NHS in this country that protects it from a lot of criticism. Some will say "well you should put up with that because it's free" or some similar rubbish, ignoring that it costs £2200 per person.

None of these issues are restricted to the NHS. Any large organisation will have such issues. But it's utterly frustrating stuff like this that makes me consider going private - I shouldn't have to spend hours on the phone figuring out why I haven't been assigned an appointment despite being referred 3 months ago.
It is meritocratic, the problem is with the score system.
I am curious what others think of this use of technology.

I personally would have no qualms in having an RFID chip implanted to open doors, etc at my workplace if I was the owner or executive level. I am not certain I would agree if it was "just a job" as many people probably see their employment. Given that this is offered and only I planted in volunteers I do not see a problem with it, if it were mandatory that is another story altogether.

What do you in the HN community think of this?
I think the main reason it was running under the radar is that the script itself did not contain an exploit that bypassed any security mechanisms. The only difference between a remote desktop app and a new command and control malware is the way it is installed.

It is not all that surprising to me that any targeted malware could operate unnoticed for years. The odds of discovery are directly proportional to the volume of distribution and inversely proportional to the importance of the targets. This malware apparently infected a small number of low profile targets.
> Which is ridiculous. We're at the point where the insurance is just covering the cost of the overhead that necessitates having insurance in the first place. There's no way the real charge should be $800, let alone co-pay.

You're right. Of course the private insurance premiums have a negative expected value. Aside from insurance always having a negative expected cash value by definition, private insurance premiums are literally used to subsidize care of Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured patients.
Just out of interest, how many consecutive 60 hour weeks have you worked?

If I recall correctly, the longest stretch I've done of 60+ hour weeks in a metal fabrication workshop is 12.

The longest stretch of 50+ hr weeks I've done is in my current job in a metal fabrication workshop is about 5 months.

I genuinely cannot understand your argument in favour of 60 hour weeks.
For an explanation of how the bizarre US system came to be I would recommend the following episode of EconTalk:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/06/christy_ford_ch.htm...

The guest is an economic historian who details the historical forces which led us to where we are right now. She also describes a few different, more effective and rational models (not just single payer) which could potentially have existed, but which sadly are, for all practical purposes, impossible to get to now.
Excited for your launch - Congrats!
Go to the public library and use a pc there? Or a free wifi in a mall?
My Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857137) HexoPress earned 200 signups in a span of couple of days.

The traffic spike, remained a spike and didn't continue long. But it gained a few regular users. I run my own blog with HexoPress (http://hexopress.com).
I think that is exactly correct, it is also why Facebook and Google have built more data centers in the last 10 years than any of the "established" internet service providers. They operate on a different evaluation strategy, and establishing a source of energy that they controlled and was 'green and unencumbered' has been high on Google's list for a while. They helped build a very large solar farm in the Mohave desert for just that reason.

And they are sitting on billions of dollars of cash that is returning maybe 1.2% in returns.
A physician relative pointed out the Dutch healthcare system as a compelling, hybrid public/private alternative to strict single-payer schemes. Gist of his recommendation was that single-payer systems may not be the silver bullet they're touted to be, and that alternative models are being tried out. I.e., viable solutions may turn out to be hybrid healthcare systems, where negative effects can really only be minimized rather than eliminated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherlands
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832991
How does this compare to NEC2?