skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of great tools to solve the single source of truth problem. foe example, I've used Looker (which is connected to our data warehouse) to spit out JSON feeds or CSVs which excell and google sheets can live-import.

Doing this gives us the best of both worlds
How to optimize your workspace for winning
Facebook was never a good source of local events for me.
https://www.voidtools.com

You might also like http://www.getwox.com (basically Alfred for Windows) which can also search the Everything DB.

There’s also stuff like https://mobile.jam-software.de/ultrasearch/?language=EN and https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/

Yeah, Cortana is awful and if you totally remove it, you break the start menu (just like removing IE back in the day...sigh). Blackbird can stop the Cortana stuff from loading, though: http://www.getblackbird.net/documentation/

I highly recommend Blackbird for stopping Cortana and the other stuff it does (telemetry / tracking blocking + stopping W10 mandatory updates). I basically run this + https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 on new W10 installs at minimum. https://chocolatey.org is also a big improvement for Windows if you don’t already know about it.
How much energy is expended annually in mining, refining, storing, and allocating gold/precious metals?
Why do you have to pay for road maintenance in your whole town, if the only streets you drive on go to your job and the mall? Because roads aren't a bunch of separate things you pay for and benefit from individually, they are one thing ("the roads") that you pay for collectively and benefit from as a whole. Living in a town with good roads improves your life in all sorts of subtle ways that more than offset the short-sighted savings you'd see from refusing to fix potholes on streets you never visit.

Same deal with the internet. When you pay your broadband bill, you're not just paying for the cables and routers between your house and Facebook, you're paying for the maintenance of "the internet", a collective thing which benefits you indirectly even if you don't visit most of it. And using an internet that prioritizes the routes to Facebook and Youtube would be a lot like living in a town where the only good roads lead to your job and the mall.
Man, reddit's frontpage was almost 100% links to battleforthenet.com today.

I'd like to point out something not widely mentioned: battleforthenet is ran by org called 'Fight for the Future'; they are funded by Open Society Initiative, which is George Soros's organization.

As soon as I see his name involved, I assume that a) the appearance of a 'grassroot movement' is completely fake and just part of his playbook, and b) the end result will not benefit the common man, it will just negatively affect the economy and make more money for him. We are talking about a man that was literally willing to destroy economies of whole countries just to make a quick buck.
Just because it's not for you doesn't mean it's not for everyone.

My brother has been living in a van for years and he loves it. Yes, there are tradeoffs, but when you are saving the cost of renting, and gaining a lot of freedom WRT your location, some people are willing to give up a lot of comforts.

It's not for me, but I think it's great for people who can tolerate it.
Where I live, Nextdoor is pretty much just old people complaining about things.
Bitcoin has captured mainstream attention solely because it was the first mover.

It doesn't help that one of the most prominent energy consumption estimate is flawed: http://blog.zorinaq.com/serious-faults-in-beci/
Surely there is also a lot that banks do that isn’t important, or that is even harmful to society.
The crucial difference between TMPL in C++ and Rust macros is that TMPL is unavoidable because it provides so many features of the language, whereas Rust macros are only good for DSLs. For example, parametric polymorphism in C++ must be done via templates, but Rust just has generics, full-stop, and debugging those is no problem. I'm in agreement with the grandparent comment that praises Rust macros for having gross syntax; whether or not it was intentional, it discourages people from using them except in extreme circumstances, which in my mind is a feature. :)
https://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/latest/mitmproxy.html
Nice TLS work
The telecoms' relationship with Facebook with likely be more a symbiotic mob relationship. "You pay us protection money, and we rough up anyone who tries to get in your turf."
It's probably no good for your use case, I live in a boring suburban neighborhood and most of the news is about stuff happening on my block and across the street where downtown is in my small town. Where do the bands otherwise advertise? It seems like this is a missed (but small market) opportunity.
They could make GO-JIRA ticket and project management system.
Careful planning is a hell of a variety of procrastination. Do enough careful planning, and really figure out what it will take to get things done, and more often than not the powers that be won't think they can pull it off with the resources available, and you then won't have to dive in and try.
Malware Detection in Executables Using Neural Networks
My pain point is that I don't know if my command was accepted or not. Also I think that mapping of voice commands to what you can do on the Xbox got reduced and is more confusing. Even on the Xbox One X the latency is still bad.
People have different lifestyle preferences and there’s no reason to put someone down because they’ve made different trade-offs than you would.
"Should one actually hope for a massive crash, just so the planet can be saved?"

Yes, and for many other reasons, rooted in the fact that especially since BTC is not really used as a currency, the effort is de-facto wasted and that we should likely be putting the energy to better use.

You know the about the Pacific Island, similar to Easter Island, that depleted all of their resources building massive stone heads?
Use `mdfind foo` in the terminal on mac. I hate Spotlight and use Alfred instead.
China is not a democracy so it is fundamentally irrelevant how they legislate their internet policies, correct.
Plastics is my guess, even though quite a bit has come out.

But then, maybe, that's the price we pay for convenience.
why ZT tho? like, you could accomplish the same type of overlay system using i2p. there's performance issues to work out to be sure, but if its literally impossible to tell who is talking to who it gets a lot harder for isps to control anything.
I agree. I could just as easily write up an emotional medium post talking about how Cortana is amazing because I can simply add calendar events using my voice. I could then say, "The pm in charge should be the CEO!!!1!!111".
ISPs actually serve two distinct functions that we should separate to get the best mixture of public private. Net neutrality laws are only necessary because we conflate these two functions, but there's no reason that both functions need to be served by the same company.

If we mandated separate ownership for last-mile infrastructure and heavily regulate that to ensure open access to all ISPs, then we can have a market with healthy competition and let consumers decide whether they care about neutral networks. Ideally, that last mile infrastructure would be owned by communities/municipalities who'd contract out maintenance and pay for it with open access fees added to ISP bills. Then any ISP could connect to the municipal network and serve any customer without ever having to install anything at the customer location.

Free market competition works well in an environment where its hard to build a durable advantage and customers can easily switch to competitors with a more compelling offering. Separating the part of an ISP that gives a durable advantage from the part that doesn't would allow us to lean on the free market to handle the rest.
Exactly that - thank you.
> “We went to the museum immediately and reported it. Their response was, ‘This happens all the time.’ They didn’t even come down to look, nothing,” Donoghue said.

Why would they expect museum staff to look at the scene of a crime?
Proof-of-stake is not a replacement for proof-of-work, because PoS doesn’t solve the problem of which valid chain is the canonical one. That is, when given 50 different, valid chains, which is the right one?

With PoS, the only way to agree on this is through voting (how many nodes present the various different chains — which is fragile, since bringing up additional nodes is cheap), and through centralization (central coordinator telling you which chain to choose — which adds nothing, since the double spend problem is easily solved using a central party).

Fundamentally, PoS solves the wrong problem: the difficult problem is not who gets to extend the chain, it’s deciding which chain to extend in the first place.
AWS computer vision gets real-time face recognition
Regulatory capture by major financial players is a much larger existential risk to the planet than Bitcoin's energy consumption.
What I’m most worried - as an EU citizen - is that shit happening on the western shore of the Atlantic eventually blows over this side.

Thankfully TTIP was thrown under the bus - for now, tomorrow who can tell? - so it won’t be easy but I’m not feeling that safe. The same greedy multinational corporations sponsoring this public spoliation in the USA are massively present in EU and I don’t think Chinese Walls are a meaningful property of their structures...
That's a really brave man. He will most likely hit his head on the blue heaven and loose consciousness up when hitting the top. Maybe he will even hit a cloud. I hope he is prepared with a parachute.
But you get the order's confirmation/shipping email on your Gmail account, do you?

Now what tells you this doesn't work with emails received in your outlook.com mailbox?

Or do you expect Windows to read all your Gmail's email somehow?
May be God's plans goes like...

2020 should be the most awesome year of humanity ever.

And he was piling up many good things for 2020.

But then he felt like there can be more good things for 2020.

So some angel suggested he will create some bad thing in few years before it and then solve those bad things in 2020 that way the awesomeness of 2020 will increase.

And God was like great idea, lets go for it.
Maybe Google, Amazon, FB could sponsor municipal broadband projects.
Digital Identity – How Does EID-Me Differ from Blockchain Identity?
>> The typical doctor would not qualify to work at Google.

>The top ones absolutely would.

I was referring to the typical one.

>Medical schools could accept someone straight out of high school. Except they don't, because the top-performing matriculants are those with a degree in the humanities, followed by those with a degree in the social sciences. Pre-med, amusingly, comes in dead last.

But they're not even considering those without a four-year -- that's another cause of low supply.

>This may be the funniest thing I've read in this thread. No, compared to the other options available for a bright, qualified college student, going into medicine is probably the worst option if you want to optimize for either wealth or social status.

You're saying the typical doctor has lower social status than the typical CS job or finance?

>But sure, if you want to propose an incredibly convoluted process for filtering away the top prospective doctors (incentivizing them towards finance and STEM instead, for the better pay and respect), replacing them instead with less-qualified, middle-of-the-pack, independently-wealthy people who are willing to take on an extremely large and risky debt load because they can afford to and they don't have any other well-paying options...

That's a strawman -- the comparison was to doing e.g. 10% more residencies by having them 10% less funded. Still no requirement for independent wealth.

>But then please stop derailing these conversations by talking about lifting non-existent requirements, or making rather pedantic quibbles about terminology. When we're talking institutional policy, it's perfectly fine to say that an existing subsidy is "the bottleneck", in the sense that, ceteris paribus, increasing it would alleviate the problem and decreasing it would exacerbate it.

When you talk about "the bottleneck", has a precise meaning: "this is the limiting factor that must be relaxed for any growth". If that criterion doesn't hold, it's just one of many factors and one of many options to consider.

When you say that Medicare subsides are "the" bottleneck, you're claiming it's literally impossible to have more doctors unless a government agency spends more tax money on it. That's every bit as false as the equivalent claim about Hamilton in LA and the TSA: if the private market is already willing to pay, and to be paid, enough for it to happen, the problem can't be insufficient subsidies, but a refusal to implement well-trod solutions (or the regulations that prevent that well-trod solution).

That is definitely not a pedantic quibble, but the difference between "this needs more money" and "this only needs more money because they're adhering to harmful practices" (like rejecting qualified students who don't yet have a four year degree, which they're apparently doing even if not required).
> One of the discoveries the report mentions is that an analysis of around 433,000 sites found that 77% of them use at least one front-end JavaScript library with a known security vulnerability.

Does that even matter? No Front-End JS Library should actually make your backend vulnerable.
> They dont have to do fuck all for public comments

That's not true. As a nonpartisan federal agency, the must show how they accounted for public comment and why the choice they made is either in line with the public comments or why it is justified to not be in line.

They have to do more than just accept the comments.

But by allowing all the fake comments, they were able to say "see everyone wants this, what we are doing is in line with the public comments".
Does anyone know which countries most of the electricity is used?
Nextdoor is popular. It reminded me of a Sewing Circle though. A lot of gossip, and griping.

That said, they take membership at bit too serious for my tastes.

There's no way I'm going to give them my phone number.

FB is so big, it's easy to join under a pseudonym.
>The number of bugs are proportional to the lines of code, this is undeniable from empirical data. Ergo, fewer lines of code will tend to yield fewer bugs.

The first part is obvious (more code of course brings the potential for more bugs).

The deduction (hence more code = more bugs) is only valid if the studies controlled for the similarity of the code, cyclomatic complexity and other such factors.

Just because more code has impact in the number bugs, doesn't mean more code by itself means more bugs. Correlation != causation.

Program A having more code than program B could mean e.g.:

(1) A is inherently more complex (and really needs more lines, the same way an IDE needs more lines than an simple text editor), and thus will naturally be more prone to bugs.

(2) A and B has similar functionality as programs, but B is written by people who meander and write bloated code and needless abstractions (turning a 100 line program into a 1000 line hell of "design patterns" and factorySingletonProxy "flexibility"). Which will again bring in more bugs.

But that's not necessarily the case if A is bigger than B due to simple repetition that doesn't introduce complexity. Which is exactly what we're discussing in this thread.

For a trivial example, 10.000 lines of "print 'hello world'" repeated won't have more bugs than a 1000 line complex C program.
Yeah, and given that the study was specifically about the metabolic output of the gut bacteria of mice, I am very suspicious of anyone jumping to the conclusion that this has even a decent chance of having any relevance to humans. Overall, of course sugar increases likelihood of cancer. Everything which provides energy to the body is because it might provide that energy to dividing cancerous cells. Anything which increases cellular activity increases the risk of cancer, whether it be heat, friction, calories, whatever. Reducing caloric intake is the only proven reliable means of life extension for a reason. But beyond that basic contribution it would be very hard to see how such basic molecules could contribute significantly.
Ask HN: How do you triage issues from log dumps?
Given a dump of several logs files spanning across different components of your server side stack (like proxy, application server) what is the fastest technique/tool to determine what caused an error?

I have a bunch of services running on AWS EC2 instances (with nginx and docker) managed with Elastic Beanstalk. Whenever someone reports an issue, we need to take a look at the logs for finding errors.
By first step, Linus just means "for a year or two". Yes it would be nice to put super high security on today, but instead we slowly turn up the setting, from opt in to opt out to forced on, to ensure we don't break anything.
> to gain a holistic understanding of patient recovery during various phases of the day.

Define "holistic understanding."

Is the doctor actually sitting bedside with the patient for the entire shift? Of course not. More realistically, the doctor is coming in, making some observations, and then moves on to the next patient.

So here's an idea - couldn't you shoot video of the observation, and shoot a time-lapse video of the otherwise-lacking-direct-observation periods, and show those to the physician in the next shift? All that the attending physician has to do is vocalize his observations (of course a camera by itself can't sufficiently observe), and the hand-off physician can watch the clips just like he could read the chart. Such clips may also be accompanied by speech-to-text to produce quick summaries.

There's simply no doctor in the world who isn't privately treating a single patient who can compete with the number of experiential data-points which a computer can provide.
I've conducted the most detailed and precise energy estimate of Bitcoin miners and bounded it to 5.61-10.93 TWh/year as of 28 Jul 2017: http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/ Today it's probably closer to ~15 TWh/year which represents ~0.01% of the world's energy consumption.

However this article claims 29.05 TWh/year, basing it on Digiconomist which is the work of an amateur and known to overestimate by ~2×: http://blog.zorinaq.com/serious-faults-in-beci/
It was apparently part of a pre-existing plan, but to your point Facebook is way ahead on taking advantage of whatever we are calling the opposite of net-neutrality. Their zero-rating deals with mobile operators in India are a prime example, as is the whole internet.org project.
Who said we have a free market? It is capitalism, because ISPs are using their financial leverage to their best interests.
I imagine the main potential source of expense would be covered by them still being considered DMCA safe harbors. So long as they're still considered a "mere conduit" the most you can compel them to do is stop providing service to an infringer (see three strikes systems some ISPs use today).
Protip: Use uMatrix with

* * * block
* * css allow
* 1st-party image allow

and get https://i.imgur.com/C7qyX4Y.png
My town's Facebook group is the same way.
I feel like the most obvious explanation here (one which the article doesn't really cover all that well) is that college tuition is disproportionately high in the US. This means doctors (and other professionals) have to be paid more just to be able to pay off student loans.
Fruit & vegetables full of sucrose? That seems a little exaggerated. An onion, for instance, is 90% water, 4% sugars, 3% other carbs and 2% fibre. A coke, on the other hand, is 90% water, 10% sugar (either HFCS or sucrose, depending on your locale) and not an iota of fibre.
If you mean responsive as in design-when-used-from-a-mobile-phone, you are right.

I haven't spent too much time on it yet, but I will.
Friends. If friends are on Facebook then FB works, but if friends leave then FB may become a pretty expensive board.
I was trying to provide helpful feedback. One of my favorite things about "Show HN" is when creators address feedback in real time.
So you think that MS is unwilling to pay enough bribes to talented people to keep this product alive? They could certainly afford it.
How does $525.34B market cap translate to being more powerful than most countries?
Those people and that scenario have nothing to do with what I'm talking about.

An unrelated end user of a product should have no power over a persons work status just because they don't like the product.

> the greater good

subjectivity at its finest
#cough# JavaScript cryptocurrency miners in adverts, #cough# cloud computing with stolen resources, #cough# anticipation of future bitcoin value when estimating cost effectiveness
https://bluink.ca/eid-me

eID-Me is a project being developed for the Government of Ontario (Canada). See our press release announcing it here: https://bluink.ca/blog/posts/press-release-bluinks-eid-me-br...
The death of the MBA
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/7e6603/dail...

If Bitcoin continues growing at the rate is has for the past 60 days, each coin will be worth over $1M by 2019-01-07.

(Obviously extremely unlikely, but interesting to think about)
They aren't mutually exclusive of course.

Obviously both parties are going to fight at all levels but in recent history GOP controls far more of state governments than Democrats so they strategically favor states rights. My original point is still that they haven't shifted away from that strategic view of states rights since the election because they still hold those advantages.

When Democrats dominate at state level I'd expect the poles to shift but that has not happened yet.
Peter is a smart guy, and this does suggest Facebook is not worth holding long term. Sean Parker's comments a few days ago were not positive either. Anecdata-wise, things are not looking too rosy; many of my more intellectual and interesting friends have abandoned the platform, barring the occasional message (e.g. if they lost their phone and had to change numbers) - the less interesting people I know (not friends, but acquaintances) seem to be fully immersed in Facebook still. Not sure Facebook can even hold the attention of those people much longer, as the platform is simply feels noisy, boring and out of date!
Here's the crazy thing:

Type out "clipping tool" and watch.

It matches all the way to "clipping t". Then it stops matching, then matches again at "clipping tool".

So even if you know a phrase which it matches on, you might or might not get a patch from an exact partial of that matching phrase.
I sometimes wonder which materials I directly interact with on a regular basis that people in a few decades wouldn't touch for anything short of large amounts of money. History tells us there are probably a few. Guessing at least a couple are plastics or plastic additives/coatings of some kind. Maybe whatever they replaced BPA with. Possibly gasoline will qualify. Probably one or two things currently on/in our food.