skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One piece that's missing from this post is -- what did the email containing the tracking number look like?

GMail, for example, only parses out package numbers if the retailer sends schema.org markup for it. (https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference/parcel-...)
The location filter provides options that are not in scope.

Why suggest I filter on Durham, NC when I type "Durham" into that location filter when there aren't actually results in Durham, NC?

In fact, why not use a map for this instead? You're talking about locations.
This is the R-libertarian aspect that uses the refrain of "You cant make me".

And I agree and disagree with you. Yes, we can make you, governmentally speaking. However there is a different way out: automation and robotics.

We could live in a society that we strive to make more and more automated solutions so that all can benefit. Solar means effectively free power. Food generation allows food to be made so cheaply that the cost is inconsequential. Transportation, same thing. (Yeah, you might not "have" a car, but you can summon one whenever you need.)

If you want to rehash old failure modes of capitalism, so be it. It's a 300 year old system that's bursting at the seams with failure modes everywhere. Communism isn't exactly much better - in that system you trade one master for another.

A mix of socialism, capitalism, and a healthy amount of automation would work. And the machines that produce essentials should be owned by all of us, with the benefits from these going to all of us.

That would maintain no forced working by people, maintaining freedom, AND cover the essentials of all citizens. No?
No, 2FA would not have prevented disclosure of credentials in GitHub. The fix for that is to not check credentials in to GitHub. Nothing else.
They already control the internet. The end of ISP net neutrality isn't about displacing the incumbents, it's about charging the incumbents rent to help maintain their position. This, along with anything else that they can afford that startups can't, helps them massively.
Yes, a 3-6 mo ED rotation is quite common for medicine docs (so is an ICU rotation for surgeons), but that's wildly different from an actual emergency medicine residency.
There is no verification on the volume. They could say any number they like. That's how it usually play out.

Source: I ran exchanges before. That's one of the first trick you learn.
Meh. The sons of bitches will do whatever they want. Bend over, America!
AltSchool, funded by tech execs, is closing schools, losing students
Gun laws, abortion, the trans bathroom thing in NC...all recent issues that the GOP sided on states rights vs. federal regs

On healthcare policy in particular the state specific policies continue to be enforced by the GOP. These aren’t positions I agree with btw I’m just pointing out recent examples.

I think it’s fair to say Democrats would rather have centralized healthcare, gun laws, lgbt policies, and abortion access, rather than leaving it to the states to decide.
Love it. Every few years, a site like this gets posted, detailing somebody's transition from rooted to nomadic. If you work remotely, this can be an exciting idea.
I agree with you that it should be implemented better, though I've honestly come to expect this from Windows.

It's just a bit extreme considering you submitted it to HN, where the people directly involved actually have a chance of seeing it.
This sounds like unums, a proposed alternative to IEEE floats, where roughly speaking the significand can have variable size thus only boasting as much precision as the accuracy warrants.
There's nothing inherently wrong with working at a telco after his tenure. What's wrong is he is making decisions at the expense of the American people to secure that position.
Cool, anything that differentiates you from https://cryptowat.ch/ ?
I think there are times when a firing is appropriate, as sometimes folks end up in a position for which they are obviously not well-suited. Let’s take as an example the PM that broke party chat on the Xbone when it was released. IMO, assuming the design matched the implementation, it is reasonable to question whether the PM had ever used the previous Xbox 360 or had ever played games on a console at all. I’m not saying Microsoft should boot them out of the company, but they sure as hell shouldn’t be writing specs for games consoles anymore. So “fire” them from the Xbox team, let ‘em go back from whence they sprang, be it another division within MS or some other company.

Now whether it is warranted in case, I cannot judge as I don’t use the product.
I'm confident in saying there's zero chance that self-driving cars, on their own, could replace the London Underground. Zero.

The Underground (and commuter rail that feeds into it) carries a vast number of people every day. There's just not enough road space to get that many cars in and out, even if they were 2x or 4x more efficient.

If you want to fix the Underground (although it works fairly well so it's not clear why drastic changes are needed) you need to start thinking about buses and bicycles, staggering working times to avoid rush hours, moving jobs outside the city so people don't have to commute in at all, that sort of thing. None of those actually needs AI.

Self-driving cars (and especially self-driving buses and minibuses) can certainly be part of the solution, but they're not the solution.
Great tool. Perhaps it would be great if you could also add details about how to interpret the real-time charts for new visitors.
I'm one of the people who has had part of their identity used to submit false comments. Found out when a journalist emailed me asking me to do a survey and some additional comments months ago. I proceeded to sign up for an API key[1] to confirm what was being claimed and turns out, it was true. The API is a bit limited, but I was also able to do searches using the falsely submitted comment to find others like it as well as what looked like a lot of fake submissions.

I already contacted all of my representatives to investigate this, but with the approaching FCC vote and now this AG Open Letter, I fear that nothing will happen until it's too late. What is a citizen to do when they try to do everything in their power and play by the rules - vote, submit comments, call representatives, contact press for help, and repeat - results in nothing?

The FCC has effectively ignored the rules and stalled their way to victory. I'm not even sure how to describe our government anymore...

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/public-api-docs.html
Great point about how it isn't a question of the same service at a different price but of avoiding poor service which would otherwise have to be accepted because of the distorted market for health care that makes it hard to effectively punish poor service.
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I didn't write either of the quotes you're replying to, so I'm not sure why you're replying on this thread.
That's igNobel worthy research, that's all I have to say. (https://www.improbable.com/ig/)
What is intrinsic? Is being poor intrinsic? Can I spew hate against the poor and the homeless then? The problem is these definitions are unclear, and policing hate against black people obliges you to police hate against the homeless, and pretty soon everything else. I have seen far more examples of slippery slopes happening than not, so forgive me if I'm skeptical.
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This is why I recently dumped Comcast for a local provider (Common.net). I'm fortunate enough to be in the Bay Area, so I do have a choice. So I feel it's incumbent on me to vote with my dollars. I encourage all of you who are able to do likewise.

A loud message needs to be sent to Comcast. Now. And tell them why you are canceling service.
Do we have any idea what position on net neutrality these fake comments were taking?
Because... you are less likely to bite the hand that feeds you??? Are you for real?
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Well, it is certainly a lot harder to do than plastic, and of course, pex is like k-nex compared to welded copper.
> As a QA, I frequently have the following experience:

thank you for that impartial, completely balanced anecdote...
If you have a terminal that needs to run just 1 app then why use Gnome or other DE? you would need to run a minimal display server and start that only application.
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And how many waivers were given out for that? I'm sorry, but nothing in this administration has given me any reason to believe this will actually be followed up on.
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To be fair, no I wasn't working in managerial accounting in the 1980s.

Maybe what would help is if you could explain what metric a reasonable manager would measure that would get worse under JIT versus better.

I guess maybe if your assets go down you could look more highly levered, but financial leverage isn't really something that a manager can affect anyway (more of a CFO level metric).

All of the asset-oriented measures I can think of -- like asset turnover, working capital as % of sales, working capital as % of assets, WIP inventory as a % of total inventory, etc. -- would all improve.
The interstate highway analogy isn't really excellent either. "Slow lanes." So bandwidth = speed limit. Now instead of ISPs dictating your speed, it's the government. The interstate has speed limits. Drat, foiled again!

The argument here is against capitalism. The owner of the network dictates what happens on that network. To take a argument directly from HN, if you want (Net Neutrality | free speech), go build your own (network | Facebook).

The author even makes that argument. "The clear solution is to appropriate the means of distribution, the cables and airwaves, and develop mesh internets."

Guess what, now you're an "evil ISP" who is traffic shaping on your own equipment.

Are we going to have Net Neutrality for Facebook and Twitter too? Do we limit what they can do on their services? Classify them as a public utility?
Well then the entire world should rejoice that people like yourself and OP are not in control of other peoples livelihood.
Every time the topic comes up, you bring up the Medicare funding issue. Every time I explain why that doesn't seem to make sense:

If there are more aspiring doctors than can fill the subsidized slots (there are), you can balance demand and supply by passing some of the costs on to the resident[1]; many will still gladly accept this because of the extreme returns to becoming a doctor.

The fact that they don't allow that happen is not a funding issue.

You can further massively increase the supply at little cost to doctor quality by getting rid of the pointless four-year degree pre-requisite. (vindicating the blame placed on the AMA)

More generally, if demand vastly exceeds supply (as it does here), subsidies can't be the bottleneck. To reiterate the analogy (from the past copies of this exchange), it would be like saying the musical Hamilton can't come to LA because the TSA won't pay for the plane tickets to get the cast down there. No: there is enough demand to cover the cost of airfare. And there is enough demand to cover the shortfalls in resident subsides.

[1] Concretely: instead of funding 100,000 slots at 100%, fund 120,000 at 80% or something like that.
I heard the warnings in 2000 at Defcon, though I had no direct contact with him.
Because accepting a job at a firm immediately after shifting government rules in its favour is corruption. Its absurd to claim that the government work was impartial when so many regulators end up taking advantage of the revolving door between government and industry.
Seriously ??? What is coding if not directing and requesting ? Take it from someone who's been doing it for the past 25 years, languages and techniques will change like they have been changing from the inception of the computer but learning to code is not the same as learning a computer language. It's much more than that, it's understanding real world problems and translating it into processes, algorithms, data models. Coding will never be ancient greek. Coding in XYZ language might, though.
You’re making a huge generalization (all OSS is clean code, no internal projects are clean code).

Ignoring that, let’s hypothesize a reason why you might find higher quality code in OSS. Perhaps it’s because company code has deadlines and pressures unrelated to the code quality, whereas OSS is solely about code quality. For company projects, the customers are the users. For OSS projects, developers are the users. Requirements for companies revolve around customers, who never see the code (other than companies building products for developers). Requirements for OSS revolve around developers who will be using the code. Given this, and the fact that OSS is a much lower pressure environment, it’s not surprising you might see cleaner code in OSS software than internal company software.

tl;dr OSS focuses on code, companies focus on customers.
Amateur mistake!

Bitcoin cannot crash because you cannot sell and cash out in timely manner.
I don't buy that it isn't be there problem. The UX will be broke. What good is a search engine if I can't get anywhere.

Just because you're sure of your opinion, it doesn't mean it's correct Yet you assert ... :)
From "Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing":

I – Obeys operator

The operator shall retain full control of the machine at all times. In particular, the handling of the keyboard, mouse, and other human interface devices must take absolute priority over all other processing. The operator shall have the ability to issue commands and receive immediate confirmation of said commands at all times, regardless of system load.

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284
getform.org for form processing is a good deal, it has %50 of for annual subscriptions.
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I'm curious, where would you expect someone with years of experience in a specific industry to go after public office? Besides public office, of course.
There was a startup called Resolver Sytems pursuing this.
They meanwhile abandoned it in favor of a different project but did open-source it: https://github.com/pythonanywhere/dirigible-spreadsheet
And yet Cortana is still better than Siri.
Bribes are the greatest investment in third world countries, or almost as profitable as lobbying in USA :).

The corrupt PM that demands $50 million for that wireless license or $1 Billion road doesn't care much about the equipment or prices, after all you paid him and he knows you have to make it back. He will remove all your troubles.
You can hear Pai defend his position here:

http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/21/ajit-pai-net-neutrality-po...

He claims that 80% of smaller ISPs have said that they delayed investment in infrastructure due to the costs associated with the net neutrality regs, and also that there was a reduction in overall broadband investment in the last two years and that has never happened before, outside of a recession. He thinks that this has hurt efforts to bring connectivity to rural and underserved areas.

Personally, I think the argument for net neutrality is strong in the present situation where we have less competition, but he believes that the FTC governance previous to title 2 puting ISPs under the purview of th FCC was already protecting consumers adequately. The new proposal also enforces a transparency requirement on any traffic shaping, or filtering.
Fact check: False. That figure is comparing the total number of applicants to the match with (first year) residency spots. But the total number of applicants to the match is not the same things as students accepted to (U.S.) medical schools. Foreign medical grads are dying to get trained in the States.

If you read on in your link, you'll see that "[t]he PGY-1 match rate for U.S. seniors was 94.3 percent", while the match rate for non-U.S. medical school graduates is slightly above 50%.

Again from your link:

"This year, 35,969 active applicants vied for 28,849 first-year and
2,908 second-year (including physician (R)) residency positions.
U.S. allopathic medical school senior students comprised 18,539 of
the active applicants, 352 more than in 2016. "

US medical school graduates have no problems matching, the ~5% who don't usually do so because of their match application strategy, and have the opportunity to scramble at unfilled positions (of which there are ~1300).
> There are products that attempt to solve this problem by adding the ability to write modified data back to the database.

Another company/product that I know about (though it's been over a decade since I last touched it) that attempted to fix this issue was Actuate:

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

Hmm - and now that I've started digging into it, I see that this company has radically changed from what I knew of it. I had known it as a company which created software for designing and running reports from various data sources (whatever could feed it, honestly - excel, odbc, csv files, etc), which internally could be configured for more advanced usage using a language that had similarities to Visual Basic (it was OO long before VB, and geared for the reporting system, not general purpose usage). Before I left my employer who used it, they had just announced a Java-based system of "business objects" and some kind of tool to interact with data in an Excel-like manner (the tool essentially had all of the functionality of Excel at the time - including pivot tables), where changes would propagate thru the system. Plus interaction could only be done thru those objects, which were defined as "views" into the dataset.

So - after research this (just now!) - imagine my surprise at finding that this company now is named:

https://www.opentext.com/

...and they also did something called "BIRT" - which was open source and part of Eclipse:

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

Apparently this started in 2004 (not long after I left my employer - and that it is Java-based also fits).

I'm not sure what is what with the company any longer? If I had to guess (probably wrongly), they spun off their Actuate reporting stuff and the other tools as open source (?), and are now concentrating on other things, possibly in the same vein?

Weird. But very interesting.
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Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libraries
They are no removing a Mir component and add a Wayland component, they implement the Wayland protocol on top of existing code, maybe refactoring where it is needed, so Mir could talk wayland and still do the Mir stuff that is needed for IoT.
> The 91 residents that are trained within the hospital system without medicaid funding speaks to the fact that residents are in fact employees

...nobody ever said that residents weren't employees? The point is that they are and hospitals aren't going to go out and hire more unless it's profitable for them to do so. (Which it isn't, or else they would have done so, and that article even says as much).
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The only one I've seen that really works at all in my mind is a kind of "it's got to get worse before it gets better" argument. Basically the idea is that if we let ISPs do what they want they will pave their own road to ruin and open the door to more competition from things like planned LEO satellite Internet, mesh networks, etc.

I'm not sure I buy that as I think it under-estimates the barrier to entry.
There is no hacker, the CTO (or somebody else) invented him to scam the company.
Listen to the latest "Fifth Column" podcast where they interview this "evil" Ajit Pai guy. I think he makes a strong case that regulating monopolies is the role of the FTC or state's attorney generals and not the FCC and there is no real market failure here.

http://wethefifth.com/
https://play.radiopublic.com/the-fifth-column-analysis-comme...
It should align, and I'm surprised it doesn't seem to be aligned, or they see it as an opportunity to be an ISP themselves.
Sorry to go OT, but ten years ago we needed five guys and a truck to move my friend's $2000 55" rear-projection TV. It weighed as much as a small piano and we almost dropped it off the deck. I just got a 55" 4k LED TV for $400 and it weighs as much as my dog. The mind reels.
The port probably makes a difference. Ships stopping in Miami may be on a mulitpojt route and not have as many containers to unload and load than in long beach where it's more likely to be a back and forth route between US and (pick an Asian country), in which case essentially all containers on board will be unloaded and others would be loaded.
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Pretty sure that's not what he's saying though.
I wonder what it would take to really create ISP competition in the US?

I thought I remembered seeing somewhere that the big ISP's use the legal system to essentially drive up entrance costs for smaller players. Would the EFF be able to help with something like that?

The only real long term solution to stuff like this is more competition, because without it you never have the option to "vote with your wallet."
Congress could still take action to keep this from happening. It's a long shot, but the folks in Congress still don't really want to be tossed out next time they're up. They're hoping people will not notice this is happening or will not realize its effect until much later, and on not being blamed for it by the folks that do notice and care. We should all be making it clear that not only do we know and care about this, we also don't buy that Congress is powerless.
> Gun laws, abortion, the trans bathroom thing in NC...all recent issues that the GOP sided on states rights vs. federal regs

Nope, they aren't. They are all areas where the GOP has pushed at both the federal and state level in the same direction, caring about policy (excluding transgendered persons from general society, blocking abortion, and protecting individual firearms rights) not the relative balance of state/federal power.

* Republicans vigorously oppose gun control and the state level, even suing state governments in federal court to overturn regulations.

* Republicans fight for LGBT discrimination in law and regulation at all levels, not for freedom of states to set inclusive or exclusive policies.

* And, abortion, well:

https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/policy/healthcare/353...
Because that would not be "internet" access, it would be Facebook access. If it were marketed as such, I can see your point. But it should not be labeled "internet" access, and should not receive the subsidies that the FCC provides for Internet access.
These days I prefer SPOT (single point of truth) over DRY. I find DRY tends to encourage people to use hideously complicated abstractions to avoid code that even looks similar. It's also way easier to refactor some duplicated code than to try and untangle complicated abstractions.

SPOT more accurately identifies the pain point of duplicated code - if there is an algorithm or configuration value that needs to be specified, than that should just be in a single place, everything consistent and easy to change.
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>>>It is important that people understand how foreign actors tried to sow division and mistrust using Facebook before and after the 2016 US election.

How is this not fluff PR? Build the damn tool and lets see how it pans out. Seeking coddles when your advertising policy was inimically instep with all the way for profit.

How about Cambridge Analytica, are they foreign actors?
One thing we could do is have everyone go in on a lobbyist. haha
It's relevant as I'm applying to YC18 with Bribely, a bribery-as-a-service app that uses machine learning to discover which official to bribe, then properly launder the sum to avoid regulatory interference.

/s