skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things my team announced on Show HN appeared on the home page for a day or so.

MindMup (https://www.mindmup.com), an online mind mapping tool appeared in 2013, and got a nice traffic bump that day, it took about two years to reach that level of regular traffic. the site now gets between 400 and 500k visits monthly during busy school periods (seems to be mostly used by educational users), and grows around 5% per month.

ClaudiaJS (https://claudiajs.com) is an open source tool that helps deploy Node.js projects to AWS Lambda and API Gateway easily. Originally built for MindMup, we decided to spin it off as a separate open source tool. It appeared on HN about a year ago, and according to NPM stats now has roughly 85K downloads.
An unarmed human is dead against pretty much any motivated predator that is larger than 120lbs. It really doesn't matter how strong the human is or how high they can jump.

But being stronger, and, thus, bigger, is a good way to remove a predator's motivation. And, speaking of survival: being bigger will also give your body more food to eat if you're in a starvation situation.
More information on the situation here: https://www.poynter.org/2017/snopes-is-locked-in-a-legal-bat...
Not sure if you're not going to use it with Apollo/Relay. These clients help you format queries in JS with Babel transforms. These transforms also are what help couple your front end to your back end by validating queries at front end compile time webpack bundling), which is a huge element of the charm imo.
Not to mention the historical "lifetime limits", which only since the ACA have been lifted. You could have an unimaginable great plan with a huge network and no deductible, but an extended hospital would still bankrupt you.
And this is why it's an excellent idea to always scrape behind proxies. Never scrape from your own IP, or one easily traced to you.
Fellow European (UK) here. 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. By making their own choice (even if all that actually means is picking from 1 or 2 options given to them by their employer) - they feel empowered and in control of it. There is a general feeling of "if you want it, pay for it".

This StackExchange answer sums up it up succinctly: https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/16372. I find it immensely saddening; the same goes with the general population's attitude to education (in many countries) or providing housing.

For what it's worth I know a lot of people with private healthcare in the UK with the attitude that the NHS is complete trash (something I very much disagree with) - I fear this sort of mindset is spreading. "Pull the ladder up jack" as they say.
> I've seen families just as big as theirs, getting by in San Francisco, with half their salary.

It's hard for me to judge individual budgets out of context. Some people are in financial holes in various ways: healthcare debt, personal debt, usurious lones, bad credit, bad investment choices, support payments, victims of investment fraud, etc. Sometimes we can say it's their fault, but it's not fair to assume it is.

It's also worth pointing out that "getting by" in the short term does not mean living a net-wealth-building lifestyle in the long term.
U.S. Inflation Remains Low, and That’s a Problem
Author here.

For the past couple years I have been using writing as a means to explore what an automated industrial society might look like. I work in robotics in Silicon Valley and my long term goal is to create a system that can provide for human survival at zero marginal cost. I like to say that if providing for people has zero marginal cost we can have socialism for free.

I'd be curious to know what you all think of my latest essay/story, and of the idea in general.
Internally almost all are. While there might be some internal rivalry between groups in a company, they generally don't have an internal market for goods and services but simply work together for a common goal -- that's communism in a nutshell.
I have feeling that dithered fills have nothing to do with Paint itself but were feature of GDI, even one pixel wide lines and such things were dithered when drawn with dithered color.

It probably got removed in Windows 2000, when GDI gained alpha channel support, as the dithering mode was specified in upper byte of 32b COLORREF, which probably got at least internally repurposed as alpha (also, alphablending dithered surfaces is not exactly sane thing to do).
The low income limit in the Santa Clara County is 75K for a family of 4. Which should trigger a lot of program eligibility, especially for housing through HUD. I would guess that availability of Section 8/HUD subsidized housing is a critical factor with regards to this county though. Most section 8 properties seem to be on long waiting list.

The exceptional property values would most likely limit the participation of developers in any of the Section 8 lending or construction programs.

Only mentioning this because there are programs in place to support families in this scenario, but local governance and investor behavior can directly negate the effectiveness and availability of these programs.

https://www.wetakesection8.com/search/CA/palo-alto/
http://section-8-housing-income-limits.credio.com/l/227/San-...
How do people solve performance problems with GraphQL?

I can imagine that it can be quite slow internally with multiple joins/subqueries in the datastore.
Yeah that be a great addition
Show HN: Quantra.io, a quantitative finance API made with Quantlib
Your absolutely right. I hope the progressives who prevent housing supply from increasing learn something from this - otherwise the rest of the bay area will be heading the same direction.

But, I think Facebook can also play a role in the solution by moving half the company out of the bay area, or at least off the peninsula.
Could we just setup a mirror on another domain and send all traffic there?
Good question. The link goes to a blog post, which has a hard-to-spot link to their Go Fund Me page.
There is more to this than just "Save Snopes". From a linked article:

> "The legal fracas between Bardav [Snopes parent company] and Proper Media [hosting company] is complicated by the fact that Mikkelson's ex-wife, Barbara, sold her 50 percent interest equity in the company to Proper Media in July 2016, according to the original complaint. The deal was structured as a sale to the media company's five individual shareholders." [1]

I would have been inclined to donate, but there's obviously something more going on that indicates problematic life or business choices by multiple parties, which makes me feel less sympathetic.

[1] https://www.poynter.org/2017/snopes-is-locked-in-a-legal-bat...
Plan launched to bring smart energy technology into homes and businesses
Project: https://haskell-miso.org, https://github.com/dmjio/miso

Synopsis: Elm arch. in Haskell, but supports isomorphic js

Show HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14685677

Status: Still kickin', ~17k views, top 15 repo globally on GH (for a day)
Wait what...Fedora dropped "ls" and "grep"? Why?
You should check out Stow, its an already established project that does what you need.
Specially having XNA to play with.
Another approach would be that a hospital actually has to take responsibility for the doctors and all other care teams working inside. Legislation to this effect would work, but in some cities there is enough competition that a marketing campaign along the lines of "guaranteed no out of network bills!" would catch my attention. I'd happily drive an extra hour for that piece of mind. And the reality is that a large number of ER visits are not true time-critical emergencies. Many times the standard admission procedure starts with reporting to the ER.

I spent 4+ hours before a small outpatient procedure at a local hospital trying to find out if the anesthesia group and surgeons were in-network. I never got a straight answer -- no one knew the answer and I was forced to roll the dice.

Hospitals are currently more like co-working spaces where each room (ORs, radiology, etc.) is rented out. The support staff is included, but everyone else is their own small business.
Can anyone unmask this vendor? If their side of the story is correct, it would be enough for any other potential clients to blacklist them unless this is resolved immediately. I'm guessing the situation is more complex?
Bouncing is a bad idea as it can be abused for spam:

1. Fake the origin to actual destination of choice

2. Your server bounces the original message wrapped by the SMTP error report.

3. Actual destination receives error report containing spam content from YOUR server

A proper solution would be to REJECT the message before it is accepted. However, Dovecot Pigenhole doesn't support that (yet).
Create a new website and have Google and Facebook do redirects to it for most of their direct links. Therealsnopes.com?
I don't understand how you can have the gumption to post some bullshit like this when it's been disproven so many times: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of MacOS High Sierra to Developers
What company is holding them hostage?
Please don't do the internet psychiatric diagnosis trope on HN. Casually invoking a category like 'psychopath' significantly lowers the signal/noise ratio in a thread, and even if you don't direct it at a specific person, someone else will. Moreover the frame of this article means your comment is insinuating something about someone whether you mean it to or not, and that's beyond gross and into hideous.

Internet threads are like tag-team wrestling: the first guy drags a metal chair into the ring and then the second guy bashes a third guy over the head with it. Keep the chair out of the ring.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837253 and marked it off-topic.
Apparently this drama has been going on for a couple of years, and involves a claim of embezzlement. I believe Proper Media gained a significant share of Snopes due to the fact that Snopes' creator/owner was a co-creator; his ex-wife was also a creator and she sold her half to Proper Media in 2016.

https://www.courthousenews.com/fact-checker-snopes-owners-ac...

https://www.poynter.org/2017/snopes-is-locked-in-a-legal-bat...
>Also is there any protection against pathological requests? (e.g. if there are loops in the object graph, can I build an arbitrarily deep GraphQL query that will take an arbitrarily long time to complete?)

I've seen some GraphQL servers in the wild that will respond to any query, so it's entirely possible to make abusive queries to bring a server down.

Some attempt to estimate the query complexity, and deny requests based on how long the server thinks it might take. Others, such as Facebook themselves, whitelist which queries are allowed (I have no affiliation with Facebook, this is just what I've heard).
You know, if you code your machine right, and give it the real information it wants (income level), an inference machine will detect that race is a worst proxy than the direct value and will not become racist.

It's when you start to deny proper information into decision making that those bad proxies start to look good.
Please, never give that site traffic!
It's too sloppy even if I could draw that well with my mouse or highlight in a somewhat straight line. Nevermind the regular employee, sometimes I'm sending it to Directors and C-levels, etc.
Yeah come on now seriously.

Also XML is cool. Not so sure about JSON.
You are absolutely right, trials are difficult when there is a integration step that might take a week. We consider the trial to start once you are fully integrated, not when you sign up.

A Freemium model is something we are interested in! We wanna support smaller projects with a free tier in the future.
I've just started building a server/client seed that I can use in the future for my personal projects.

The concerns you have with the front-end are founded. However, you can send a request to a GraphQL endpoint in a very REST-like manner. If you can build a wrapper to create the query as explained in the Stack Overflow post, you can essentially negate the need for Relay/Apollo. (At least until you need any of the helpful tools they provide.)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42520663/how-send-graphq...
I honestly don't think I've ever heard anyone accuse Snopes of bias. Are you confusing them with Politifact?
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.
It could be done. The problem is that it wouldn't add up to much unless Google & Facebook signed on to the redirect premise (which they will not).
Not really. You can join most cooperative NICs (such as DENIC), and you can colo or run your own datacenters, and own your own IP blocks.
See maaksool's reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835138

As he points out, if vertical jump was really trainable, every basketball player in the NBA would have a 48" vertical. But, I assure you, they do not. Only genetic freaks have 48" verticals.
That said, Symbian didn't just have Nokia's S60 UI.

There was also UIQ. Used by Sony Ericsson on their P series, and Motorola in various models.
... seamlessly integrated via blockchain into ...
> Taking control of a command and control server, however, had another unexpected outcome: Around 400 victims infected with FruitFly started connecting to it.

"Unexpected"? How? This would have been obvious to Wardle. Maybe the journalist added this to "inject some suspense"? Thanks but no thanks, I won't bother reading the rest of this article.
If you really want an open software and platform (statement 1) you care about the principles of FOSS (a contradiction to statement 2), since if you only want some specific side benefits that FOSS provides, there exist "better" (quotes because as an FOSS fan these are note better) options.
Like others have stated, I'd like some examples of this. I was first introduced to Snopes by a conservative coworker of mine. From everything I've seen of the site, they're pretty good at trying to be neutral.
Allegedly, Proper Media. It's complicated https://www.poynter.org/2017/snopes-is-locked-in-a-legal-bat...
It will not be the first nor last time an ex screws over an ex.
I'm amazed just how few people in the comments here actually read past the clickbait headline. Paint is deprecated. It isn't being removed for the time being. Beyond adding a ribbon menu and some brushes Paint hasn't received meaningful updates since XP so it should really come as no surprise that it would be deprecated.

If Microsoft's history is any indication Paint will be around for another decade, and continue to work if you just download it from some MS Paint nostalgia fansite for decades later.
Thanks for all your help with suggestions everyone!

I'm more inclined to use Apache Lucene.

Both because of the abundance of people doing similar extraction from comparable data stores, but also because Lucene is a part of the Hitachi data suites which are my business choice.. Allowing I ever return to business.

I mention Hitachi only because by anointing Lucene in a Tier 1 product, if I encounter the need to provide a audit that is relied upon to attest any sensitive data is purged from the cache, I'm sure that it will be acceptable in the format of such a high end system report.

Of course that's window dressing,but my aim is to get big businesses to contribute more old data... just who might aggressively retain data for their own reasons, compliance and security the usual needs,

Well those donors are who need the reassurance of a more vendor.

I wrote above the delightful ideas this prompted me to forget about dinner last night, so I will stop here.

But I cannot help but feel in my gut this is a real and viable project that can snowball and be a huge thing.

Oh, sorry, I misled you, I have to add what just now came to my mind : anything that encourages big companies to give into really old data archives, is just when they are ripe for selling new bulk capacity. The need for refreshing the media is so overlooked by businesses that otherwise have great practices. So you can nudge even the least hungry prospect customers towards your sales team.

Can't a vendor jump on this one?

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Yeah, but if you can use ML to pick out the differences between real users and bots then you can also use ML to mimic real user behavior. Both sides spend a lot of time and money trying to overcome each other, and end state is the same it was at the beginning: near total access to the data, at least for those sophisticated enough.
It's sort of like saying fake news. It's easier than changing your position when confronted with inconvenient facts.
KKR said to be in talks to buy WebMD
I actually think this is a great analogy, although not sure your conclusion follows. What happened after people added JavaScript to the web?
Cost control right now in the medical industry is all up to your insurance provider, from the article it looks like EmCare is skirting this by simply not participating in any (or very few) provider networks.

I work for a medical billing company owned by a competitor to EmCare, we participate it a large number of insurance networks at each site we staff because it's the best way to get reimbursed - I'm rather shocked the hospital didn't investigate how their contracted providers handled insurance contracts and billing.

The problem with trying to provide quotes for emergency services is you don't know ahead of time what E&M code will apply to the visit, what labs will be run, what procedures may be required for treatment, and since physician and facility billing are separate the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing.

I also have some suspicions about the jump from 6% to 28% rates for billing what I assume is a 99285 (highest level non-trauma ED E&M code) and why it may explain the lack of their participation in insurance networks, but I don't want to tread into libel territory so I'll keep my mouth shut.

Disclaimer: I work for MedAmerica Billing Services, Inc. a subsidiary of CEP America - these views, opinions and statements are my own and don't necessarily reflect those of my employer.
I have a similar issue with AT&T fiber. YouTube is terrible and streams at sub 480 but if I jump on my VPN it streams at 1080p within a second.
... cyberspace with optional IoT interfacing ...

(I had completely forgotten IoT)
My quick and dirty tl;dr:
https://gist.github.com/pathikrit/a7845f72645159646fdb632bc3...

Let C<A> be a higher-kinded type e.g. in List<Animal>, List is C and Animal is A.

Let S be a subtype of T e.g. in class Cat extends Animal, Cat is S and Animal is T

If C<S> is a subtype of C<T>, then C is covaraint on T e.g. List<Cat> is a subtype of List<Animal>

If C<T> is a subtype of C<S>, then C is contravariant on T e.g. Predicate<Animal> is a subtype of Predicate<Cat>

If neither C<T> and nor C<S> are subtypes of the other, thenC is invariant on T
That $800 is cheap. I have a high deductible plan, and a recent visit will easily wipe out $4,500 of the $6,000 I had saved in my HSA. For a family of 4, I have been trying to save $8,500 (my OOP family maximum) for 3 years, but the HSA max contribution caps me at $6,750. Can't get there.
A mix of a public payer and private payers, as was proposed in the US in the original draft of the ACA.

Edit: a common thread among these systems is that the private payers are not for profit and highly regulated.
> In reality, the tax burden would be progressive, and upper middle class people would rightly ask why they're paying extra taxes for this.

Will they ask? Sure. Will they rightly ask? Absolutely not.

I didn't mean to imply that eliminating (or as someone pointed out a gradual ramping down) means testing would save us money. That gets us to basic income territory and there are a lot of unknowns especially with whether "people with vulnerabilities" will be better off with a small amount of cash and a salute every month. I'm not saying most people will have trouble (I love basic income) but that it is not a one size fits all solution.

Back to the topic at hand, if we want to expand entitlements to cover more people then we absolutely need to either: 1. reduce what we cover 2. increase taxes on the wealthy. We have the most generous poor people in the entire world. The poor (yes, if a family makes say under $60k a year with two adults working full time I consider them poor) oppose tax increase on the wealthy.
GraphQL only solves half the problem, how do you update resources with GraphQL?
>only to find out later it uploaded all of the source code on my computer

It didn't ask? Sounds like malware, and meets the definition of theft. Inviting someone into your house does not give them permission to steal things in your home, and leave with them.
Not providing an example but Snopes is apparently biased in every single direction -- left, right, up, down, etc.

http://www.snopes.com/info/notes/politics.asp
This is entirely incorrect.

GraphQL is a wrapper around your service layer, or worse, around a number of ad hoc data sources. That service layer or those data sources may query SPARQL services.
I don't even know where to begin... But, I guess I've got time to mention just one... With the number of somewhat mysterious deaths now over 100, this article looks like they gave up trying to debunk all these deaths about ten years ago. I guess the body count has simply become too much for them to keep up with.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp
First, hope you're feeling better.

This is exactly why Congress should not be exempt from any health care legislation. They need to go through this also, so it can be fixed.
This sounds like fraud to me. Fight it legally!
A co-worker told me that this happened to her, and that made me not take the in-network only plan, but I got the PPO instead. I still think it's illegal or morally not right what they are doing, so we should all fight this practice!!!
It's more complex: https://www.poynter.org/2017/snopes-is-locked-in-a-legal-bat...
Does anyone know of a good way to check whether my Mac is infected with this (or any other) malware programs? I rarely, if ever, download unknown programs, and my OS is always up-to-date, but still...

Would appreciate for any pointers.