skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great project which attempts to consider many of the possible things that people with a terrible illness think of trying to fix it is ALS Untangled, http://http://alsuntangled.com

A group of experts on ALS (aka Motor Neurone Disease or MND) evaluates various alternative therapies for the condition, considering factors including scientific plausibility, risks, etc. Some of the proposed treatments are totally implausible, like injecting something into a place where there's no reason to expect it would have any effect. Others are obviously scams. Others are conceived and sold by well-meaning people who make sick people feel some hope thanks to a positive and helpful demeanor, but who unfortunately don't have anything medically useful to offer.
GP comment is likely writing fictionally, as a hypothetical counter to the GGP.
The US did have NN up until two years ago, it was the default the internet was designed upon.
I think I had a slightly stiff neck after 9 hours of sleeping, then jumping into the cold water made me jerk unnaturally, giving me neck spasms.
Do software engineers want to work on these problems though? IME, we all love to work on problems one step higher than our current level.
Thirty years later, “Max Headroom” TV pirate remains at large
The Motherboard Guide to Sexting Securely
Yup, walls of ice, that's it.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Orlando-...
Television's Most Infamous Hack Is Still a Mystery 30 Years Later
How could we be more comprehensively monitored than what ISP’s and the NSA are willing and able to do?
This man is obviously compromised by the government and not a true flat earth believer (sarcasm)
The Blob
You gain more from the process than the result. It's not "wrong", although you DO build up a frustrating pile of half-done projects.
'As a comedian, she often uses Facebook to promote her performances by showing her irreverent, misandrist brand of wit.'

Replace the anti-male part of this with any other group and she would be a pariah.
Protip : Wait even a little bit after it's too late and you might not even have anything to do at all.
I wonder how MVNOs for cell phone services came to be. There you have multiple companies competing while using the bigger networks. I would like to see the same for ISPs where Comcast would rent their infrastructure to other companies that then can compete with different plans. 1
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China can take console of all of their miners in the country which would all for a 51% attack to be profitable ignoring opportunity costs.

In this case forking does not help as they maintain control of the equipment and have access to massive CPU and GPU resources to swap to alternative architectures.

Now, if you think bitcoin maintains value if there are zero transactions for ~6+ months you are clearly mistaken.
Google, Netflix, etc. have leverage in a negotiation with Comcast: if Comcast tries to shake them down, they can say "no," then advertise that Comcast subscribers can't use Google, Netflix, etc., and people will leave Comcast in droves. Joe's Random Video Streaming Service has absolutely no leverage against Comcast, so Comcast can charge JRVSS whatever it wants, creating a nice moat for Google, Netflix, etc.
Why are we still making appeals to corrupt politicians? We might not control the cables but we do control the content. Why don't we shut it down until we get what is right? Why not another SOPA blackout and this time it doesn't stop until net neutrality is safe?
Selection bias.
Right. See if you can disable SMS-based 2fa and only use the app.
I found one that I really liked. So I clicked "I like it", but now it is gone!

I would really like a way to go back, so I could actually download, or screenshot my favorite.
Anticipating Chatbot Failure
It appears that there's a Black Friday deal right now to get the $900 VIP Package (professionally designed, etc) for $5.80.

Or it's an error.
It is an incredible tool and thats exactly how I raised my kids to use it. For everyone else, you can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink.
> It's probably part of their agreement with the bank(s)

The point is that Tether and Bitfinex have the power to publish their bank balances, and they could authorize their banks to confirm the deposits if they wanted to.

Why would they refuse to do this, even while under intense suspicion of actually not controlling 1:1 reserves, unless the accusations were true?

The question of interest is a distraction. Businesses usually hold cash in money market accounts or do short-term repo agreements to get a little yield with very low risk. But that yield would be at most 2% a year, so not relevant to the real question.
> If residents are just cheaper doctors

Residents are cheaper doctors, but they are cheaper because they are less trained, less experienced doctors. They aren't equally-capable doctors with lower salary demands.
A book explaining how to contact amazon customer service
Do you believe in Free Speech as a principle, or only as the embodied in the First Amendment as restricting what the government can do? Because an argument for Net Neutrality, requires the principle of free speech. Now, if you think private companies should be required to permit all speech if they have a dominant position, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and CloudFlare would like to have a word with you.
Very interesting list.

I think the items that really have potential to address pain-points & be killer-features that motivate people to move beyond git will are (3) and (7) (big files and big trees).

The rest are probably nice, but are more incremental improvements than something that's going to justify the huge leaving-the-standard-platform cost.

Side note:

Regarding good UX, I very much agree that git's command line is insane, and makes it unnecessarily hard for people to understand.

However, I would disagree that the staging area is a bad idea! It's one of my favorite git features. I think it's just git's extremely confusing command-line terminology and shitty information display that it seem confusing.

As a small piece of evidence in favor of this view, I'll say that I recently introduced a tech artist to git using the (extremely good!) GitUp app. He had no problem picking it up right away, including staging, committing, pushing, making branches & merging.

I think this is because the excellent GitUp UI represents the concepts in such a nice visual way that they become very clear.
If you'd like someone to chat with, my email is in my profile.
They were the first ones to offer a three points safety belt. That was the real breakthrough for consumer cars ;)

They also offered the patent for free.
> Webpass specifically targets dense population centers.

The solution nobody needs, effectively. It's already economically sound to run cable/fiber in dense population centers, because the number of customers you reach with every mile of new cabling is huge.

Don't get me wrong, Webpass is very cool. But it's point-to-point and requires you to build a lot of infrastructure on the top of buildings, which requires a lot of permissions, which isn't always easy to get. The wireless ISPs that do exist outside of urban areas have to use cellphone networks, and they are not ready for the amount of data transfer required. Yet.
Love the simple interface and speed. Is there a mobile app available?
how do you convince the midwest to use self driving tech? maybe start with nascar?
It's actually my initials: Adam Paul Ierymenko

First and last initials are AI.
Most Americans need cars.

America is a vast land compared to European countries. Public transportation can only go so far. Some American suburbs stretch more than 80 miles out of major urban centers.
Too often frameworks end up also changing the grammar, but doing it in a clunky unnatural way, shoehorning it into the language with tons of boilerplate code that could have been eliminated with a few simple macros.
Is that such a bad thing though?

Having tickets in JIRA is for the team to track and plan work that needs to be done, not for storing personal garbage.
Find me a cloud database with a good GUI for read/write and I'll get off excel.

Databases are meant for tech stacks, not working with lists.
For me, I have a hard time starting mundane tasks that I think are going to run for days or weeks. It's hard enough for me to muster up enough motivation to start today. The prospect of having to do that day after day or month after month is depressing. I've found this is much less an issue it teams that do Kanban or Scrum well.
Wow, that thread is absolutely disgusting.
The assumption that they won't simply block VPNs "because China does that" seems naive. "VPNs are only used by {pirates|terrorists|pedophiles|etc}!" could easily be deployed as a smokescreen for this change.

And, if you have a valid work use case, simply get the "Enterprise" package for your home network, where the exorbitant cost is covered by your employer!
Hm. Spin it up under a non-profit, create or build upon an open protocol. Appeal to the folks who think the Internet would be better off with something twitter-like but as kind-of a public service, and more open.

If you do allow responses/conversations, allow it only between users who follow one another. But maybe just don't allow it at all.

[EDIT] actually, if anyone's thinking about doing this and wants to chat... email's in my profile.
Why employee engagement is the most critical problem for your team
There may be a bit of both at work here, because I remember seeing a lot of issues with hacking the Prius at Defcon[0], but I vaguely recall the SUA incidents being mostly related to as pedal misapplication.

I know Wikipedia isn't exactly a great primary source here, but:

> From 2002 to 2009 there were many defect petitions made to the NHTSA regarding unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus vehicles, but many of them were determined to be caused by pedal misapplication, and the NHTSA noted that there was no statistical significance showing that Toyota vehicles had more SUA incidents than other manufacturers.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration...

In any case, I believe companies can definitely be guilty of criminal negligence (and Toyota did a lot of bad things during their SUA crisis). But I think the use of SUA in the comment I originally responded to sort of misrepresents the situation and mostly spreads a lot of FUD around self-driving cars.

[0]: https://www.engadget.com/2013/07/28/auto-hacked-ford-toyota-...
I'm quite annoyed that it thinks it knows the first letter is always capitalized.
I would request $1,000.
If you want a guarantee, use something like gmp that'll do them in software.
> This problem is never going to go away as long as ISP are private companies.

What would be wrong with an ISP co-op?
I figured that would be the case so I tried to middle click the pricing page and found that that wouldn't work either
Jupyter notebooks are the new Excel
You don't know how many times I've been tempted to become a monk (not hermit) in a cloistered community and just forget the world entirely. The world is ugly, complex and full of things designed to drive you nuts. But I would have give up programming, so I soldier on. Simplifying your life is very difficult if you have to participate in a world that expects so much of everyone. I have no desire to be alone all the time though which is one reason I refuse to work remotely. If I did ditch everything it would only work if I truly left everything behind.
Be careful using mvno as the model. In the US, many of the mvnos have shaky financials and often end up as a subsidiary of the carrier (Virgin Mobile USA, Boost, Cricket)
You Don't Know What a Crappy Day Is Until Firemen Save You from Your Toilet
The thing that goes through my mind when I hear people talk about delegating more procedures to less qualified staff is... What happens when the dental nurse slips up and causes bleeding or hits a nerve and causes loss of feeling / facial paralysis. Does she run and grab a suitably qualified dentist and pull him away from the procedure they are currently performing?

People don't seem to realise that the reason we entrust certain people with certain jobs is not because that highly qualified person has done x procedure x numbers of times, it's because they have a very deep and thorough understanding of any complications and what to do when things go wrong.
Not just in medicine but in engineering and many other critical professions where decisions cost lives.
What you're talking about when you say deregulating is vastly increasing risk. There's a reason why current regulations exist and were created in the first place, because at one time they didn't exist and people died or became seriously ill.

I'd be genuinely interested to know what medical procedures people here would be happy to have a nurse perform rather than a doctor.
> I am still allowed to drive.

Are you certain about that? Most jurisdictions I know have laws that make it illegal to drive in when your ability to drive is impaired - even if it's cough medicine that could make you drowsy - let alone blackout.

edit: you are most likely breaking the law, that you haven't been caught yet isn't being "allowed to drive". Since we share the road with you, I'll repeat parent's appeal but directed to you: "help me, big government!"
I 100% agree with Linus here, buuuut Linus doesn't have to make money for his company, and isn't personally responsible for the salaries of people in the company. He doesn't have to sit in meetings and explain why sales are down 10% this quarter, or keep assuring investors that their money is safe. Those upper-management people do solve problems, its just that they're solving problems in an environment that isn't based on logic, and is fundamentally unfair.
Not really. With care, you can usually get the format right temporarily, but it often changes for non-obvious reasons and there's no way to see that the format is wrong until it mangles your data.

In general, one of the worst things about Excel is there's no obvious way to lock anything to keep it from getting changed by accident.
Thanks! Mobile apps are currently under development, stay tuned!
You are not supposed to mix uppers and downers.

This is because it increases the danger of drug use and could cause death. But no one has ever said not to mix uppers and downers because it wasn't fun.
Yea, I'm 37 and have about $2,500 of student loan debt left. I could pretty much pay off the balance whenever, but the interest is low, the monthly payment is low, so meh.
This man was not alone on an island for 28 years. He may have lived by himself but that's no real feat, especially considering he was not alone. People live in big cities "alone for 28 years" or even longer.

People live like this without being in a tropical paradise, why is this getting attention? People are fascinated with the idea that they too could live on a deserted island (but of course this island wasn't deserted when he landed).
Third party resources? The problem isn't the stock images or shapes the generator uses, the problem is you could create a logo for "Disney" here or accidentally make something too close to Blogspot's logo because your company name has the same initials and you like the rounded square shape that gets generated.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/GnomeShell/GnomeS...
What I see here is someone who is advocating for the government to further regulate who can and can't operate a vehicle. Correct?
Evil mode itself allows for keyboard macros. I do believe there are ex-mode things that won't work but most users never even touch this stuff (i.e. if you press Q in vi/vim).

Spacemacs by extension integrates evil mode entirely, so keyboard macros are available.
Typesafety 102: How safe, type-safe you want (your code) to be?
Google Sheets and other similar web apps replicate most if not all of the Excel features you just listed, and it's centralized and more than one person can work on it simultaneously.
Most Americans need cars because American urban planning has been for many decades built around cars.

This, of course, is a solvable problem.

(It has nothing to be with how big the US is, it has to do with how US communities are deliberately engineered.)
Uber Hacks and Bitcoin Futures
Serious question: can you point me to the unorthogonal features of git? I personally never had an issue with it but maybe I only need some hints to see them.
I use both fossil and github.

I find fossil's history graph more useful than github's commits view which is basically just a git log and only lists one branch at once. In fossil I can see all checkins on all branches simultaneously. If I want to see a signle branch I click on it. If I want to see a diff, I click on the checkin link.
I believe the x87 uses 80 bits internally, but it only runs operations until it has sufficient precision to do the rounding (which is hard to do in general, see: http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/jean-michel.muller/Intro-to-TMD.htm)
There's a MUCH bigger problem to talk about.

Air, it's time to end your anything-goes paradise. Your medium allows murderers, rapists and my crotchety old neighbor to create vibrations that will reach the ears of others.

Why are we allowing these criminals to vibrate molecules of air? We should be ashamed of ourselves.

I'm happy to announce Airfilter. A new device that uses machine learning-based active noise cancellation (and a blockchain reputation system) to selectively remove offensive vibrations from the entire atmosphere of the earth.

We're hiring!
Cortana is really bad
Having read the article, I feel as if the headline is a bit misleading and clickbaity.

A more accurate headline in terms of the article's contents would be something like, "Stop Using Excel For ERP, CRM, And Workflow-Based Use Cases, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs". Or to be extra snarky, "Follow Known Best Practices, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs".

Not that attention should not be paid to the article's subject matter -- there is SO MUCH wood to chop in terms of helping enterprise customers run their companies better and/or get rid of inefficiency and general jankiness.
Only if your contract specifically states that the artist will check your logo against registered trademarks for potential infringement. Usually that requires two people, an IP lawyer and a logo designer.
Usually repeating columns in newspapers have names next to the byline. So this one is attributed to Farhad Manjoo - STATE OF THE ART which is explained as "A column from Farhad Manjoo that examines how technology is changing business and society."

Columns are very much opinion pieces. Editorials are opinion pieces written by the editorial staff and usually are looked at as having the support of the paper (like endorsing a candidate). It definitely be more clear though.
The way to make it clearer would be to discuss specifically why the services rendered by residents are not valuable enough to cover their costs.

A concrete example: I've had a resident do a checkup while I was in the hospital. If they hadn't done it, a fully trained doctor making a lot more per hour would have needed to. Did the hospital lose money on that checkup? If so, wouldn't they have lost more money if the fully trained doctor would have done it? If they make money on that sort of thing, what kinds of things are the opposite?

I don't know how it works, I've only ever been a patient. It seems like you might know, so I'm asking you how it works. Do you see how "they don't make money" is really not an answer?
Completely unrelated to article content—I very much hope that standardnotes’ publishing feature becomes a real medium competitor. They’ve made a great product so far and I’d love to see it take off.
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I would love to see the numbers you pulled out of thin air for your statement on deaths caused by software. I've met at least one developer who quit the profession because they were writing code that "would probably lead to someone's death."
That's not true. Like newer versions of Excel, you can use Javascript on Google Sheets now https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/sheets It's better than Excel's VBA.

Also Google Sheets has an API for stuff like Python.
I'm glad that people are open minded here and willing to engage in rational discussion despite holding differing viewpoints. Lots of communities on the web seem to be echo chambers on this topic - makes me thankful for sites like HN.
The YouTube celebrity taking the H-1B fight public
Giving the government near-total control over our internet access is going to introduce more problems that it would solve.

We're already seeing that Western countries too can be just as censorship happy (e.g. the UK where the government pressures ISPs, and is seeking to enshrine in law, the blocking of a huge assortment of content including such ridiculous things to block as female ejaculation)

Just imagine how easy and unescapable that censorship will be if the government is the ISP itself. We've seen repeated attempts in congress to illegalize encryption the government cannot easily break. District Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hinted just this very month that in wake of the Texas shooting the Trump administration will take a harder line against "unbreakable encryption."

Just imagine how stronger their effort against encryption will be once it's the only thing standing between them and completely blocking your access to information they'd rather you not have?

Let's just settle for net neutrality and incentivizing new cable lines and ISPs, rather than open the "nationalize the web" can of worms.
"You can recognize emacs by the 'mode line' near the bottom of the screen. If you see anybody using it, fire them immediately - they may be a good programmer but they're going to cause more trouble than they are worth."
What if you are being yelled at/under pressure?
It doesn't for me...
>yfw this comment is unearthed during discovery and you are f*ed in court
I liked the idea that cities/towns should own their own last-mile infrastructure, then you get the choice of ISP you wish that plugs into your area instead of me being forced to use X ISP because they're the only monopoly that could afford (or had enough influence) to lay fiber. Since it's local you retain some level of control over it as well instead of a nationalized abstraction.
HP is pretty much three brands. Business HP, “Prosumer” HP and Consumer HP.

The first too are quite good, the last has never been great. (The Spectre x360 is great, the Envy x360... not so much)
I think many people don't realize this, but the majority of the leadership team from like a year or two ago is now gone, including Travis.

Also, Uber has been hiring a lot of new people - the ratio of new people vs old timers is really high. I'm obviously just one anecdata point, but I believe new hires (and a lot of old timers) want Uber to be an ethical company, and many have joined the company specifically to tackle that challenge. One great example that comes to mind was when one board member made a sexist remark on an all-hands meeting a few months ago and by the end of that same day, Liane Hornsey (who had just joined as the new head of HR) had him give up his seat.

There's a big push towards trying to make things right, with the holden report, the 180 days of change campaign, the implementation of new training courses, anonymous complaint hotline for employees, etc. And the unspoken message right now is pretty clear: inappropriate conduct _will_ get you fired, even if you are the head of your org.

Obviously there's still a lot of work to be done, but I think we're at least in the right track now.
I currently use Sublime Text 3, but I used to use Vim and NeoVim. One complaint I have with Sublime Text 3 is that many of the keybindings are "chords," and I seem to be developing pains in my wrists and elbows from frequently typing the more awkward ones. I've heard Emacs uses similar, chorded keybindings, only to the extreme. I think the problem with ST3 is that many of the chords are awkward to type. How is Emacs? Are the chords more natural, or would I be facing similar issues with chording?