skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You underestimate how difficult it is to work with at least some software companies, how expensive it is, how difficult negotiation it takes to convince quite a few nerds that user actually has business case for that requirement. And many software companies produce poor quality and are very slower then necessary despite using all buzzwords and all nighters. Managing even outsourced projects takes learning and expensive failures are nor an exception. All in all, the software we all collectively produce is still very expensive and unreliable.

Even absent that, it is difficult to explain what users need to coders who have zero idea about the domain. Unless it turns out they are the kind that just know user is idiot the moment she has different opinion on her own job, in which case expect needed time to tripple.

The homegrown excel is awesome analysis once the company decides to move on. It is concrete, you can generate test cases from it, it has features.
Mitmproxy works pretty well for HTTPS - but it doesn't seem to generate HTTPS certs as well as Fiddler does
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In my enterprise, PowerBI, Flow, and Powerapps are the microsoft products helping to move data out of excel, or at least helping to make it visual and shareable.

If any of those products grows a more user friendly model for _thinking_ about how to do things (Flow is arguably the closest) they could revolutionise how things are done here. PowerBI has enormous power to express data as stories, but the technical hurdles are still high. It's not _harder_ than excel, but there's a competency cliff.
Actually that's pretty cool. Any serious attempt to utilize the scientific method will inevitable lead to something that resembles current scientific knowledge.
Shout out for Wox. https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox its what I went to when Launchy stagnated. Its one of the first things I install on new PC's
This is interesting. Do you know who holds the patent?
Well there was a ton more action happening on Hacker News in 2013 then present day.

Glad to hear Reddit isnt being passive!
True but there is a threshold. If the problem is small enough, you can't beat an Excel spreadsheet's flexibility and low startup cost.

Having worked with a number of finance teams, the biggest problem is not when Excel is used as an analytics tool but as a financial database. Excel as a source of truth for financial data is truly terrifying. Even financial audits are still often handled with custom data pulls exchanged over Excel spreadsheets.

Shameless plug: that's why we ended up developing one of those SaaS tools (http://modfin.io). It lets finance teams map their source data to a proper, easily auditable accounting ledger so that they don't need to do their "magic" in Excel.
Great! Sounds like the modern way of living in a cabin in the woods. I think it is impractical though unless you live by yourself
Crossing my fingers that this guy gets a Darwin Award.
>That’s a popular claim. I wonder how many failed projects could have it as their epitaph.

Way less than over-ambitious projects that died because of things that they didn't need, immortalized in lots of classic Comp-Sci literature. From Fred Brooks' books to Dreaming in Code:.

There's a reason it's a popular claim. In fact, popular means it's just repeated by many -- but this claim one can read repeated by the most experienced and revered programmers (or an analogous one, e.g. the KISS principle, "Do the simplest thing that could possible work", etc.), from the Bell Labs guys to the most celebrated programmers today.

>Have you ever worked on a project where the requirements changed so fundamentally from one day to the next that you truly, honestly had no idea where you were going next? I haven’t. I’m not aware that I’ve ever met anyone else who has, either.

Welcome to my life :-)

Not being snarky -- rapidly changing requirements is the number one complain in my kind of work.
Shudder

This reminds me of my 2 months working for a Big 4 accounting firm in, basically, SOX auditing.

We mapped out controls on our little 14" laptop screens using excel spreadsheets with tens of thousands of rows and hundreds if not thousands of columns.

I'd say we were writing novels in Excel but, to be honest, there were probably far more words than the average novel contained.

Talk about using the wrong tool for the job -- and using low-paid monkeys on inadequate equipment rather than developing a proper application for the task (or paying someone else to do the same).

I'll never look at excel the same way again.
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Pai won't get away with it - he will likely lose in court. The problem is, that this will shift to the Congress, which is plagued by the same corruption.
You sure it wasn't me? :-) From another one of my comments.

> Nashville is growing and expanding like crazy. I believe it is in the top 10 fastest growing US cities and it is VERY business friendly (no state income tax) and has favorable small business conditions. While Nashville is certainly a music city, the business environment continues to improve.

> Ready to settle and slow life down. I absolutely love music (played drums and piano) and really enjoy the amazing live music scene in Nashville. I also found that people are super friendly, charming, and ultra polite in Nashville. That southern charm is real.
Radio signals causing cancer, probably.
If we spend $3.2TR on medicine and roughly 50% of that is 'overspending', as the article suggests. Then we have roughly $1.6TR in systematic inefficiencies. If the misapplication of occupational licensing for doctors are $100BN of that or 1/16th. What, specifically, is the other 15/16?

I think that author makes a good effort to itemize at least one of the components, now we should be asking what the rest are.
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The vast majority of Americans have one or two ISP choices for broadband. Where I am in Denver, it is only Xfinity. Some friends can choose between Xfinity and Century Link.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15753157

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15751398
Reclassification from title-2 to title-1 is the only thing preventing ISP providers from ending Net Neutrality. I disagree with your statement. This change would have serious consequences.
Good work on the new release. As a long time Scrivener 2 user, I'm happy to see this.

However, I wanted a simpler and subjectively nicer looking tool for distraction-free writing and thus made my own. It's free, has a few social features built-in, tracks writing progress/goals/distractions, and can make good looking books.

Also, adding features to Singular Writer has been really easy, as evidenced by it being in existence for a few months. For the Windows crowd, we've had feature parity from day one.

Check it out if you want to write more [with friends].

http://www.singularwriterapp.com/
No, it's much worse than that; it's a variant of the conspiracism disease, the belief that everyone else is lying about it while being unable to confront evidence.
>So you're not ok with holding employees responsible for their work product failures, but you're ok with calling people with strong opinions about said failures "random idiots"? Hooray hypocrisy.

I fail to see the hypocrisy. A mis-implemented feature (which might not even have been considered or prioritized at all) doesn't mean a "product failure" -- whereas someone not only failing to understand that, but also recommending the firing of a person they don't know because some pet feature they were looking for wasn't implemented well, does imply a certain idiocy.

It's like someone asking for a waiter to be fired because they didn't like a particular part of their dining experience, and somebody calling said person an idiot. Even if they're not (which is more probably the case), they're being a jerk, and that's what the second person want to imply.

>*That's why companies don't base their decisions on random posts or comments.

"So companies shouldn't take customer feedback into account when making product decisions? That seem like a pretty bad plan."

It also sounds like a bad deduction from what I've wrote.
Linux users might be interested in this Emacs/Vim alternative: https://vimvalley.com/replacing-scrivener-with-emacs-and-vim...
Would use it if it showed more Crypto to GBP graphs.
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I have been using Everything for a long time and would gladly recommend it to anyone trying to search their files on windows. It even supports regex searches.
It is one of the very few softwares I miss when using linux. The search part of everything is lighting fast.
His website is pretty gear. The tagline "The Most Innovative Man in NASCAR History" has a nice ring to it.
http://www.madmikehughes.com/
Yeah, I didn't mean that you could find a much better deal. Just that the loan market itself is seriously broken with these kind of interest rates.
Thankfully, science works even if you don't believe in it, that's kind of the whole point.
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> Good, then don't get a self-driving car, why do you need regulations for that?

Self-driving cars are more dangerous to the other people sharing the road than the passengers in them.
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Stop appealing to Chairman Pai's humanity. He has none. You stop him the same way you stop corporations: legislation, and lawsuits.
Good name, it helps with distinguishing things that are meant to be the same (e.g a single implementation of an encryption algorithm, used in various places) and things that are distinct but accidentally identical (e.g. permutations in different stages of that algorithm).
I found this just the other day: A User-Centred Approach to Functions in Excel [PDF][2003]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
> Basically, your experience E (a headache, for example) has some physical properties attached to it (maybe being caused by blood vessels expanding and putting pressure on certain nerves), but also some phenomenal properties (the feeling of getting a headache). The instance of this feeling is a quale.

Hmm. Does the nature of this particular "headache quale" depend in any way on the totality of current conceptions the subject has built up over the years their life?

My understanding and intuition tells me such "quale" are nothing more than the current instantaneous sensations being filtered through the accumulated mental conceptions, associations, and patterns that the entity has acquired over time (caveat: there are likely some very basic "pre-installed" conceptions that new-borns have from their genetics).

What is the argument to differentiate "quale" from mere momentary, initial perceptions, the raw sensation + initial neural processing? E.g. the first actual conscious awareness of some stimuli, framed and grounded by some initial mental conception of the sensation?

At the risk of being redundant: I have trouble imagining what it would mean, or that it is possible, or makes any sense at all, for a sentient being to be aware of some raw stimuli without it being grounded in some pre-existing conceptual framework. To me, that sounds like trying to play a video game by looking at the raw bits, the 1s and 0s, of the game data.

I realize that my interpretation of qualia doesn't provide a way to distinguish between the initial perception and any immediately subsequent integration/contemplation/reflection that may happen in the first second or two after the perception. I would argue that it may never be possible to draw a clear line, at least when talking about anything that has reached the level of conscious awareness. My view of the fundamental nature of conscious awareness does not seem compatible with any clear line between conscious sensation and conscious perception. I haven't read Dennett, but maybe this is similar to what he is getting at.

Edit: Almost forgot. Memory, especially short-term, plays a critical role here. My most immediate perception should "fit" with all of the perceptions that occurred over the past few seconds. I imagine that the initial neural processing which attempts to ground the stimuli and integrate it with the brain's acquired conceptual framework is also seeking to preserve "continuity". I think we all have experienced the jarring and sometimes unpleasant effect of when that process goes astray.
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Get out of here with that both sides the same bullshit. Wheeler was an industry man, but the the Obama administration fought to preserve net neutrality and Obama supported classifying ISPs as utilities.

Campaign donations and lobbying are a systematic problem, but laying the blame there and only there ignores the fact that there there are degrees of complicitness within a corrupt system, as well as degrees of the impact imposed by the corruption itself. Ultimately only one side of the aisle seems so eager to get in bed with ISPs to destroy the internet, to deny climate change in support of their fossil fuel benefactors, and to dismantle the healthcare system for the benefit of the rich.

Also, ask yourself which party supports citizen United, and which party obstructed any progress on legislative efforts to address it?
I guess the fun here is if he's intellectually honest about his observations meeting his theory, or whether the cognitive dissonance will keep his beliefs on the rails he expects. Ideally he'll find himself being drawn back towards the evidence based solution.

Also, I believe it's hard for smoking craters to rationalize about their observations.
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> which means that even the operation of adding three floating point numbers has unbounded relative error in the general case.

Its not quite "in the general case".

In "any case with subtraction", there is unbounded relative error. And remember that addition with negative numbers can become subtraction.

Error-management is very important. But if you can GUARANTEE that your operations have the same sign, and that you're only using addition, multiplication, and division... then error is easier to track.

Its that subtraction (aka: cancellation error) that gets ya.
I don't even really know how to respond to this because I literally have no idea what you're trying to say, or how it addresses anything I said above.

I guess I'll just say this:

I never said I disagree with any specific point in the article, and what you quoted there was simply an example of how the author of TFA poses something (which might or might not be true) as "news", in a way that could blur the line between a "news piece" and an "opinion piece". I was just addressing an issue somebody else raised earlier about the blurring of news and opinion, by pointing out that the author directly contributes to this problem by the way he wrote his article.

Whether those statements are true or not isn't actually relevant to this specific point. They may be relevant to the broader issue of whether or not the "tech backlash" is real, but that isn't what I was commenting on there.
I use sublime, works pretty well on that too
> If there was a successful 51% attack against bitcoin, the hashrate would drop precipitously

Is this really true? There are a ton of factors that mitigate the value/importance of a 51% attack:

1. You still can't spend other people's money. You spend your money twice. Your damage is limited to people who you've transacted with.

2. You can't arbitrarily rewrite history, you can really only play with very recent history. You have to pick a point that you're going back to, and the further back you go the harder it will be to catch up to the original chain. The smaller your margin over 50% the slower the catch-up will be.

3. You're out in the open. Let's say you have 51% power, you still will need hours or days to catch up to the original chain. In that time, people will be able to very clearly see what you are doing and can decide to blacklist your chain. White hats can also bring more computing resources online to make it even harder for you to catch up.

4. During your catch-up period, you need to be able to get your assets out of the blockchain. That's a very specific constraint. If you are trying to buy two boats with the same money, you need to get the first boat off the lot during the time between your first transaction and the moment your fork catches up to the original chain. If the seller of the first boat is watching the blockchain closely, they might even be alerted right when you fork the chain, before you've even caught up. You also need to prevent the seller of the second boat from figuring out what you're up to before you get the second boat off the lot.

5. You're still subject to all existing law enforcement. You still stole a boat.

So who's really at risk? Basically, people doing huge transactions purely within the crypto realm, where the assets can be cleared instantaneously. That's a fairly narrow segment of the market, and those people can use escrow services and other techniques to mitigate their double-spend risk.

Frankly, I think a 51% attack would increase Bitcoin's value, because everyone would see how little value it really gives the attacker. And we'd see all the mitigation strategies we have, which are many. It'd be like the DAO and Parity attacks on ETC, which only seem to have increased confidence, by showing how firewalled those thefts are, and educating people on the choices available to the network for mitigation.
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Can you link to anyone at all on Hacker News claiming that cryptocurrencies should be based on proof of planting a tree, or were you making a strawman argument?
If the woman is staying in a shelter and panhandling, then she probably can't afford to just go back home, regardless of her want of taking a road trip and going back to school. It's also just as likely that she won't be able to visit her mother in Nebraska because she won't have the money for it and will just be on the street with her baby daughter (likely the only reason she was able to get into the shelter in the first place). If she can't physically go to Nebraska to being her daughter, how would you propose she get her daughter to Nebraska?

Beyond that, take a step back and realize that a good portion of the homeless people in SF have mental health and drug abuse issues and so, yes, it's not really possible to reason with them, but not because they are unreasonable, but because they often times aren't able to reason in the same way. It's better to direct your anger at a city that takes in high taxes through sales tax and property tax but can't seemingly help with this issue (through whatever means that would be, like affordable housing or better outreach).
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True, maybe we will see more content providers following the Netflix model. They basically are their own CDN and will give ISPs free caching appliances/settlement free peering.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

Unfortunately, ISPs such as Comcast have already perverted this model and demanded Netflix to pay up for access to their network despite throwing in free hardware and peering.

https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...
You can't, as far as I know. You can do this, though: https://www.skill-space.com/blog/2015/11/16/create-an-auto-i...
I'm willing to admit that I'm a bad person for blocking their ads if they're willing to admit they're bad people for potentially exposing their own readers to malware shoved through an ad network they've chosen to do business with.

But of course they won't do that. It is constitutionally impossible for anyone in their position to admit that malware comes through ad networks.
In many places there is no market to speak of that would provide pressure. In the building I live in I have exactly one reasonable way to get on the net, and that is through AT&T. Market solutions do not exist when monopolies are present.
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Indeed. I was thinking exactly the same thing.
That's actually a good thing for their long term outlook- a higher ceiling on their potential growth.
Perhaps. That's not what's being debated, though.

And it's not so much the wires, as the land the wires have to traverse. These areas are largely public rights-of-way already.
WTF token sale? Seriously?
More like expense of their feed^W clients.
I wrote this in another thread, but I think the next move should be to create an Excel-compatible spreadsheet program with a few additional constraints inspired by programming. Make primary keys required, each column needs a type, etc. These are concepts I’ve successfully explained to non-technical coworkers to great effect. By enforcing them in a tool, I think you would get about 80% of the benefits of true software without all of the overhead that entails.
Just wait until they go full 'treacherous computing' and turn on remote attestation using TPMs.
Remember the experiment from 2009 where net neutrality was thought to be implemented through competition in the EU? Horrible failure and definitely did not results in NN being maintained, EU had to intervene with legislation to stop the drift away from NN.
Update as I can't edit original.

This was not meant as a comment on the preference between MacOS and Windows, or the user experience.

What I am questioning was the assertion that UX was the major engineering driver for MS in building windows. i.e. "optimized for".

While I can buy the argument that apple's engineering was driven by UX (for good or for ill) it doesn't seem to me that this was true for Microsoft. Not that they never think of UX, but it is sometimes trumped by other concerns.
You’re talking about metered or tiered pricing, which is already allowed and has nothing to do with net neutrality.

Net neutrality means ISPs can’t favor some traffic over other traffic.
See my added comment - this had nothing to do with user preference or any judgement on which system was "better".
you'd be surprised. There's a long history of people trying and failing to do this and have it come out the way they expect. I lived for a while in an 1870s victorian house -- it's original owner tried to get it zoned as a "thiest house" in about 1900 so he could dodge property taxes. He didn't succeed, and the court case makes for some pretty amusing reading.
That calc example is the exact reason I uninstalled libre office. Google sheets is good enough for everything I need
You enjoy SF/Oakland because you have to worry about your things being stolen?
I only used Scrivener for my master thesis a few years ago but keep recommending it to everyone who is about to write a longer text. It's a great tool and helped me a lot to overcome writing procrastination. Very happy to see it's actively developed.
This is the VirnetX patent case which is still partly ongoing. It's kind of difficult to find but it involves patents 6,502,135, 7,418,504, 7,921,211 and 7,490,151.

https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/07/u-s-court-orders-apple-to-...
A quick google says about $900 / oz, with about $600 / oz being "direct mining costs" and the rest being things like "mine exploration and development".

If all 900$ were going to crude oil, that'd be about 15 barrels / oz and 25 MWh / oz. Given that we mine about 100M oz / year, that places the upper bound at about 2500 TWh / year. Given that global energy production was about 170,000 TWh, that's actually a possible figure, although I'd be surprised if the energy consumption was actually half that (there have to be some non-energy costs involved, right?).
Oh I see, yeah I agree. “Person responsible for X should be fired” is something I see all the time, but it never occurred to me that it might be a serious request.
There's no statistically useful data on that and there won't be for some time.
Can the iOS version import/export files for Windows/Mac without going through cloud storage like Dropbox?