skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fine, we now have an engineer building GDPR features instead of features that benefit our customers.

I am not finding any shred of sympathy for your story. To me this sounds approximately as evil as saying you are a pipeline company having to comply with all of those pesky environmental and occupational regulations by spending money on worthless safety features for people working and living on or around the pipe, and that none of this benefits your customers: the oil companies.

Yes: you built a bunch of software around a specific set of assumptions about what you were allowed to do, and in the process you took advantage of cost savings by ignoring externalities such as information privacy, and now that this law exists you will be negatively affected. However, the point of this law is to say what you were doing was NOT OK and that future companies should not do this and existing ones had better figure out a way to stop doing this.

In a perfect world, everyone would have built these featurs in to their systems without this law, but they didn't, so now you all are going to get punished. If your business is still possible (and I have no particularly care if it isn't) and any of your competitors had spent the in your mind wasted effort making sure this was possible in the past, then I am not just OK with but extremely delighted that they will now have a competitive advantage over you as you scramble to retool.

You are essentially asking for sympathy here without first taking a step back and showing that any of what you were doing was not just expedient for you, and not just beneficial to you, but that it was also simultaneously what people other than you deserved: the presumption here is that you are the villain, and it is really hard to ask for sympathy from that position, and I can tell you all you are doing from my reading is digging yourself a deeper pit.
I agree with the suggestion that you analyze how much of your sales are to customers who prefer plain text and assess whether it covers the cost of maintaining it. However, the numbers might not tell the whole story because some people deliberately block or ignore html mail even though they could figure out how to read it if they really wanted to. You probably don't monitor the replies to your marketing emails so you'll miss the replies requesting plain text format. (Nobody's going to look through your html code in their plain text mail reader to look for the url they have to copy and paste into a browser to access your web app that lets them change their email preferences to read your future marketing emails. They probably consider their time at least as valuable as yours.)
Exactly, so if you are a median Canadian you're getting very shitty healthcare compared to the median American.

In Canada you still get really shitty outcomes for any chronic illness. Basically if any idiot can identify what problem you have heart failure, broken arm, profuse bleeding you get treated for free, and in a reasonably efficient manner.

If you have anything that requires tests, scans, diagnostics, a specialist, or isn't going to kill you in the next week plan on spending 5 to 10 years on a waiting list / various waiting lists. My friend has been waiting 4 years for knee surgery that prevents her from working.

One of the best things about having a private Dr in Canada is that they know how to work the system and will basically harass the list keepers to bump you up so that the keepers of the lists can go back to doing nothing. Also, most clinics have some sort of consult that you can opt for which makes the waiting list magically disappear. Get a out of pocket brain scan? Voila, brain specialist is available in 2 weeks instead of 2 years.
Wouldn't removing it break the "never break the user space" promise Linux has?
Just incredible... involves h/w, s/w, devices.. awesome!!
Oh man, this is a huge problem, and managing it is critical. I find the best way to deal with catching myself doing trivial work is to immediately stop coding at all, step away from the computer, and get a little exercise.

That way I can't use busyness as an excuse for just spinning my wheels. After a few minutes of not thinking too hard, I'll head back to the desk and verbally state my goals. After that, I tend to be orders of magnitude more productive.
No. I pay 900/month for a family of 4 with a 12,000 dollar deductible.
> The main source of savings in a single-payer system isn't simplified billing, but increased negotiating power on everything from drug prices to salaries.

You're agreeing with the parent's original point. Salaries in healthcare are far higher in the US than they are in eg the UK or Germany. The US median income is significantly higher than all but a few nations. In the US we don't ration care nearly to the extent that they do in eg Canada, wait times are lower and Americans over-use (abuse) their healthcare and always have.

In France a radiologist will make $150,000. In the US it's closer to $450,000. Nurses in the US will typically make 40%-50% more than nurses in Germany. Good luck hammering all of those pay scales back down without causing huge strikes.

You have to remove a trillion dollars in cost from the system. Only about $100b can be removed from big pharma's cost share. You have to destroy a million jobs (eg the health insurance industry), and slash the pay for hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers by at least 20% to 30%. Even if some of those lost jobs can eventually be reclaimed, the upheaval will be epic.
Yet another torrent searching application for your command line
they also support command line apps...and linux. its on github.
Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism
Sure because it is not like the information is not front and center on a ton of sites home pages? A picture of the phone was on the front page of Ars Technica a few days back IIRC.
Elastic Bunch Graph Matching
I have to thank you for your "Ph.D. Grind" memoir. There were many lessons in it, but the lesson I took from it, as I recall from reading it several years ago, was basically that you have to discard perfectionism to get anything done.

I'm not sure if that was even an intended message, but that's what I took from it, and I thought back to it during the dark hours of dissertation writing when I was repeatedly thinking "this isn't good enough". I also remembered the lesson that one should be willing to be flexible in the sense that the dissertation doesn't have to be exactly (or at all) what you originally intended it to be.
lmgtfy.com?q=levels+digital+nomad
Exactly, and mainline rail is not normally what people are referring to when they complain that the airports aren't connected to NYC's mass transit system.
In this specific case you call Lisk a terrible idea without substantiating why, other than the fact that's its related to a nascent technology (buzzword as you say).
Well, some microsd cards go already up to 300 MB/s.

Even cheapo (for size) 256 GB Samsung Evo+ does 90 MB/s+.

I think that's fast enough for large media files.
"... not some group of smart people who try to come to a consensus."

You mean like the IETF?
One notable exception: Farm land.
Second this! Anyone tried the trackpad? I have hopes it's not completely as terrible as most PC's. Between that, and this (cool) work on open boot processes, it might make my next laptop after my macbook pro ages some more.
>Does that mean you avoid services like facebook or google?

No. Can't. I can't do my job without Google and my social life wouldn't survive without Facebook (messenger, groups, events). Using these services is not voluntary at this point.
And looks like there's a docker-machine api for Vultr as well [1]. Thanks again for this!

[1] https://github.com/janeczku/docker-machine-vultr
>But seriously, screw ticks and fire ants.

Yes. Burn them with fire.
If you have crazy high performance stuff you can do it in native modules.
Wow, 36% of traffic seems pretty high. That's a huge chunk of mobile (79% apparently), with an almost doubled click-through rate.

As much as HN loves to bicker about Amp, in this case it was clearly a net positive.
Indeed, and the biscuit company may well have paid Google for the advertising.
Agreed, it really is a shared problem. It seems like a kind of "collective action problem" [1], where coordination between different parties is required - but they all have different interests and they're not all interested in splitting the costs.

Google is in a difficult position. In order for Android to catch up to the iPhone they needed to encourage a wide consortium of vendors to adopt and sell Android hardware. Part of the way they encourage vendors to sell Android phones is by being very permissive about how vendors install, update and use Android. This helps Android by growing market share.

Unfortunately, it leads to a lot of variation and fragmentation in devices, which in the long term can hurt the Android ecosystem. I guess there's a balance that Google is trying to strike between being too permissive and too restrictive in how they work with vendors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action#Collective_a...
Code monkey.
"Massive amounts of electronic litter" and "amazing how technology has advanced" into a mad rush to waste resources and energy reminded me of this fire, and all the obsolete PC's and GPU's and ASIC's and coal power plants littering the landscape due to Bitcoin mining:

https://www.coindesk.com/gallery-fire-destroys-thai-bitcoin-...

https://qz.com/1055126/photos-china-has-one-of-worlds-larges...

Bitcoin mining consumes enormous amounts of electricity, which is why miners seek out locations that offer cheap energy. The Ordos mine was set up in 2014, making it China’s oldest large-scale bitcoin mining facility. Bitmain acquired it in 2015. It’s powered by electricity mostly from coal-fired power plants. Its daily electricity bill amounts to $39,000. Bitmain also operates other mines in China’s remote areas, like the mountainous Yunnan province in the south and the autonomous region of Xinjiang in the west.

http://fortune.com/2016/11/28/china-build-unnecessary-coal-p...

Coal is a killer in China. Coal burning and the secondary effects of sulfate and nitrate contribute to almost half of the dangerous air pollutants in China's polluted cities, compared to 20% from car emissions.
Hacked TIs with "fake memory clear" and other clever tricks were/are pretty common too.

But the most impressive I've seen were some calculators I saw in Shenzhen a few years ago which looked like simple solar-powered 4-function ones, but were actually programmable and had several tens of KB of memory. Trying to use that functionality with a 8-digit 7-segment display, however, was quite challenging.
FCC accidentally leaks internal “joke” memo about Chairman Pai [pdf]
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"In the US we don't ration care nearly to the extent that they do in eg Canada"

Sure you do. Poor people don't get any health care, people with insurance get all the health care they want.

You ration based on income and geographic location, as opposed to making people queue for care.

But it's rationing both ways.
In the US, if you are insured, you end up paying about the same as an uninsured for health expenses (if you don't include the insurance costs)....
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Yep. I live in Japan and while I probably (...uh... probably...) don't spend $10 a day at the convenience store, it would be pretty easy. I also go at least once a day. $1 for coffee, 80 cents for daifuku (the best food in the world), $1.50 for yogurt, $2 for fruit... I notice he has a bag of beef jerky in his picture. That's particularly expensive (probably $3 or so).

I think the thing missing from the picture is that convenience stores in Japan are a lot more convenient than they are in many other places in the world. The 7-11 store near me sells vegetables, sliced meat, bacon, eggs, milk, etc, etc. So while it is common to buy months and months of food items from a grocery story (or possibly a yearly supply of mayonnaise from Costco) in NA, people tend to buy small amounts of things from smaller stores in Japan.
"The Center for Mindful Learning ... brings the power of education and business skills"

"modern project-based learning and leadership training"

I wonder what they are really trying to sell and how much this is compatible with Buddhism (given the pictures clearly hint at Zen).
The United States pays more than twice per capita than Canada for healthcare, but with worse outcomes.

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

The system in Canada isn't even close to the most efficient in the world. Many european countries manage to pay even less and produce even better outcomes.
Cool and strange finds on Google Maps
The authors inhabit the same floor of the lab where I work, so I may have a touch of bias. ;-) I think some data sources are linked with the examples, but I have not checked myself.
Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_sting_pain_index and walk away in disbelief.
THE 4 STEPS TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS ARTICLE

1) Set website to auto scroll at your preferred reading speed.

2) Begin to feel dizzy.

3) Throw up on your shoes.

4) Curl up in a ball in the corner, and wait for the horrible ride to be over.
We can see what happens in these circumstances based on when China blocked services.

People stop using it as much.

That seems particularly bad for Facebook, given the network effects it relies on.
Canada beats the US on infant mortality to such a degree because it's an anti-diversity nation that has historically been against allowing in poor, unskilled immigrants. Which is why Canada is only ~1.3% hispanic and only ~2.5% black.

Let Canada take in ten million poor people from Latin America over the next two decades and let's see what happens to their infant mortality numbers and let's see what happens to their healthcare system (both in terms of wait times / rationing and cost).

Right now people are getting upset in Canada about the tiny number of refugees trying to enter the nation across the US border. Now, multiply that by 30 or 50 fold for decades and watch the Canadian healthcare system implode.
Yes. Some old timers call them "whistle ants".

Because (as I was told) once they are all on and in position one of them blows a whistle to signal "start stinging".
https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/algorithmic-fit...

Nahh, nothing interesting to a bunch of hackers </sarc>
A Gentle Introduction to Compile-Time Computing (2017)
I wonder if this use case is what motivated the choice of a license that does not allow distribution of derivatives.
A lot of the noise of helicopters comes from the rotor, and there is little more that can be done about it. Electric rotorcraft are not likely to be as quiet as their promoters like to suggest (e.g. through animations with unrealistic sound tracks), regardless of the number of rotors.
"accidentally" This has to have been purposeful, or forged. Either way, can't argue with it.
I suppose something like an Instax Share printer could work. Not cheap though.
You are correct, and I apologize for not looking into this more deeply first.

For the specific case under discussion, ncoghlan added cache_info() on 30 Nov 2010 - https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/234515afe594e5f9ca1...

Previously, "Performance statistics stored in f.cache_hits and f.cache_misses." With the change "Significant statistics (maxsize, size, hits, misses) are available through the f.cache_info() named tuple."

There was no time when it was a tuple, much less in a tuple in a public release.

I'll look first at the namedtuples which have been present since at least 2.7.10.

The named tuples in "urllib/parse", "difflib", "inspect", "sched", and "doctest" were originally tuples. The decimal module's uses a DecimalTuple as a return value from to_tuple(), so I didn't check that history.

ssl uses a DefaultVerifyPaths added by tiran on 9 Jun 2013 - https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6d7ad13a458afdf2cbd... . It did not replace a tuple. I assume _ASN1Object is the same way.

Now for the namedtuples in recent version control:

dis.py:_Instruction was added in https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b39fd0c9b8dc6683924... . It did not replace a tuple.

aifc.py:_aifc_params replaces a tuple.

crypt.py:_Method replaced a class with a namedtuple in https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/daa5799cb8866785543... .

nntplib.py:GroupInfo and ArticleInfo added in https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/69ab95105f5105b8337... . It did not replace a tuple.

pkgutil.py:ModuleInfo replaces a tuple

platform.py:uname_result replaces a tuple

sndhdr.py:SndHeader replaces a tuple

sunau.py:_sunau_params replaces a tuple

tokenize.py:TokenInfo replaces a tuple

typing.py:nm_tpl ... is above my paygrade to understand. I believe it's required to be a namedtuple since that what it's trying to implement.

wave.py:_wave_params replaces a tuple.

Finally, urllib/robotparser.py appears to contain a bug in the following:

req_rate = collections.namedtuple('req_rate',
'requests seconds')
entry.req_rate = req_rate
entry.req_rate.requests = int(numbers[0])
entry.req_rate.seconds = int(numbers[1])

As I read it, this should fail as the req_rate is immutable. This appears to be written by someone who thinks that it's a lightweight object. The commit is https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/960e848f0d32399824d... . It did not replace a tuple.

In conclusion, 8 of the current uses of namedtuple are not to emulate a tuple. 13 of the current uses replace a tuple.
> Medical billing is ~1/3 of all heathcare costs in the US.

Citation needed. Just looking up health insurance profits ($13B) vs. total healthcare spend ($2T) shows that profit for insurance companies is only 0.65% of the total healthcare spend.
Every time you make one assumption when coding, you leave it in one place and never spread it to other code pieces. Everybody wants to do that, but it is all easier said than done with current tools.

Writeup comes in parts:

1: https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/a-gentle-introduction-to-...

2: https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/a-gentle-introduction-to-...

Part 3 finishing, soon.
I don't know what's worse, what the FCC is doing to destroy Net Neutrality or the fact that the word "cuck" has gone mainstream...
Isn't there latency problems if you render your game on the cloud? I mean, you need to move the frame from Amazon GPU to your GPU I suppose.
Good point. I just bought the $15 and changed the distribution a bit to give CfA more, Humble Bundles less.
Someone's losing their job today ....
Intel lost a lawsuit to Transmeta for similar nastiness [1] (of course the latter went out of business before the total could be collected).

Charlie holds many grudges; he pissed NVIDIA off enough that they denied him access after which his been dumping dirt on them whenever he can, justified or not.

"Semi-accurate" is an appropriate name. He's sometimes right.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta
Related: today only, Packt Pub's book, Getting Started With TensorFlow, is the free daily e-book:

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

(You need to set up an account on packtpub.com to participate; in addition to allowing downloads, books are available in one's account to be read online).

The book will be available through Thurs., Aug. 31 till 4PM PDT (i.e. midnight UTC), when the free daily e-book changes.
People who think compiling a language offers security know very little about it.
Can someone with some business savvy explain how the financial markets are OK with what's happening in DC these days?

Loose cannons and misguided missiles are not your friends. Ever. It doesn't matter what side you're on.
California is succeeding despite it's "stupid" government and policies. Not because of.

Add to that, shipping ports and the fact that both Hollywood and tech started there and a nice eternally warm climate and you have a recipe for a thriving economy. None of which have anything to do with political leanings.
WiMonitor: Wi-Fi Threat Monitoring Simplified
Probably a hack but a fairly entertaining one
Dolphins, whales, orcas, and porpoises all share a common ancestor before getting back to land animals, they are all cetaceans.
It's not just net neutrality - it's pretty much all sound policy governing telecommunications: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/one-b...

(Despite the broadband headline, this is regarding wholesale traffic on non-packetized networks. For convenience reasons, they do however occasionally do last mile internet delivery)
Is there a source for this? It looks like the document is hosted via the FCC's electronic comment filing system API, but I can't find a news source for this at all.
> Poor people don't get any health care, people with insurance get all the health care they want.

You just revealed that you don't know anything about the US healthcare system. Poor people have free healthcare in the US. It's the lower 20% to 40% income bracket that is getting particularly hammered. The top 50% have mostly good health coverage. The bottom 15%-20% is and has been covered by government healthcare for decades.

I'll repeat it again for emphasis: if you're at or below the poverty line, you get free healthcare in the US. See: Medicaid and several other connected programs that are built just for that and are very large. If you earn near minimum wage, you're going to qualify for free healthcare in pretty much every state. And it's actually decent healthcare.
Nationalization is probably too much, but indeed, these mega corporations lack accountability. Maybe we need a new kind of corporation, where users are voting stakeholders. It seems to me we, as users, gave up our personal information for too cheap. We underestimated (and still are underestimating) how much control over our lives we've given up in exchange for "free" services.
This is from the electronic comment filing system, where anyone can upload a PDF.
I may have missed this in the docs, but how are you verifying that someone owns the hostname they are trying to create a cert for? Do you need to cname the hostname to a fly domain first?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778353
Cadillac, After Years of Struggle, Has Found Its Sweet Spot: China
Someone pointed out in another thread that this calculator is intended to be usable in exams and has an "exam mode" (which presumably provides only a very specific set of functionality) that cannot be exited without plugging into a computer. I wonder if the choice of a "no derivatives" license was motivated by the need for a legal tool to prevent distribution of altered firmware that can break out of exam mode without a computer.

Funny side story: when I entered high school, the school recommended that everyone buy a Ti-83. Somehow my parents accidentally bought a Ti-89 instead. Unlike the Ti-83, the Ti-89 supports, out of the box: simplifying symbolic expressions (e.g. evaluating 2/4 to 1/2 instead of 0.5), solving arbitrary equations, solving systems of multiple equations and multiple unknowns, computing derivatives and definite/indefinite integrals of functions symbolically, and a lot more. I was never asked not to use the Ti-89 on any test, either in math class or on a standardized test. I don't think anyone administering the tests was aware that this calculator could basically do the entire test on its own if only it had something to write with. For what it's worth, I never cheated with it, not least because typing a complicated problem into the calculator generally took longer than just solving it by hand. I mostly used these fancy features just to see if the calculator knew how to solve whatever new problem we'd just learned in class. It almost always did.
Ancient whales did not filter feed with their teeth
Show HN: Health CSV Importer – Import any CSV file into Health.app
How much time did it take you to make this from start to finish?

The breadth of skills needed to do this all yourself is quite impressive!
Ford and Domino's are teaming up for autonomous pizza delivery
Critical Bench Program Review: The Truth You're yet to Know
Well there we go. Just fit it into a handheld printer.