skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree and disagree. I need ticketing, but I'd prefer Front add it as an option to specific email accounts.

sales@company.com - shared with sales team normal shared inbox

support@company.com - "add ticket option"

first.last@company.com - private email

@company - twitter account

A shared communication hub is a big win. If they could take over some of the internal chat as well - I'd gladly cut them a big fat check. Our helpdesk bill is not cheap. (not zendesk sadly).
Sidenote, is anyone else amused that boingboing became relevant again, if only briefly?
Outside of code, I don't think there is anything with making mistakes. It's a path towards progress, learning, and growth.

It is important that you figure out why the mistake was made, and how to not recreate it in the future.

I tell my employees that creating 1000 individual mistakes is fine, so long as none of them are repeats.
The less we patronize organizations that serve their own good as opposed to the general good, the better.

Medium took something wonderful -- elegant, self-service blog hosting -- and ruined it.
Largely, the baggage of having 20 years worth of conversation at my fingertips that is largely irrelevant.

I guess I could try and reconstruct my life with my emails, or of course, someone else could - say my account was hacked.
Over the years I have come to notice that programming languages are, most of the time, not important at all. However, tooling and ecosystem around a language is.

Turns out, yes, PHP is not a very elegant language and there is still quite a bit of phpclasses style gunk out there to be found. But, PHP has a fantastic mature ecosystem. Projects such as Symfony, Doctrine, Composer, The PHP League and PHP The Right Way, to name but a few, are all great examples of this.

To me, for building business type CRUD apps, PHP is still the most productive.
Apple will release three new iPhones models this year
What happens to the bioavailability of turmeric when you put it in your food for cooking purposes? I know turmeric is a common ingredient in Indian foods.
We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now
Then again copy that changes conversions by 0.0005% can mean a multimillion dollar difference for some companies. So it’s kinda important.
I buy bulk 95% powder, pop a piperine tablet, and dump 3/4 tsp of powder in my mouth - eating something with it to get it down. I experimented with mixing it with various things, but it's hydrophobic and stains everything bright yellow, so the quicker the better. I was mostly interested in the anti-inflammatory properties, my family is full of arthritis, and between climbing and typing, I started noticing some in my hands once I hit 40. I do think it helps with that, and any improvements to memory or mood are a plus.
One problem with that is Javascript. Users download and run dozens of untrusted programs a day. I have JS mostly disabled in my browser, but that leaves websites partially broken.
Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
As a non-US citizen, I trust Apple and Google far more than the US Government.
Buggy whip makers tell buggy mfgs "No motors, no batteries, no gasoline"

Seriously, do the teamsters not realize that if they cripple UPS's ability to compete that they'll just all be out of a job suddenly when UPS gets destroyed in the market? They need to figure out how humans can actually add value relative to the other options and implement those changes.
They need to figure out how to long-term keep humans relevant to the delivery industry. These sorts of short-term hacks by the parasite will just kill the host.
I generally find the videos from PyCon informative and the presenters are generally good at presenting.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJhliKNQ8g0qoE_zvL8eVg
not sure what you mean by a prism deconvoluting light.
Poster of the V2 message here. You describing the integration problem and that is the exact problem faced. As far as I understand it, isn't integration exactly what the format is for? It doesn’t do it well.
> The private part is optional and not widely used in many countries. And in some places it’s even illegal.

Going in descending order of population for EU countries:

* Germany: Mixture of private and public. Taxpayer funds cover about 75% of expenses. Private insurance can be used to cover the remainder.

* France: Mixture of private and public. Taxpayer funds only cover about 70% of expenses. Private insurance can be used to the remainder.

* UK: Arguably the most nationalized system, but still a heterogenous pool. NHS England ostensibly covers a little more than 90% of expenses, though it's complicated because the NHS sometimes subcontracts out to private management. NHS also has some of the worst ratings for specialized care (not routine care) among OECD countries, which is what other countries typically lean on private payments for.

* Italy: Mixture of private and public. The SSN doesn't cover 100% of expenses, and private insurance can be used to cover the remainder (or to pay for treatment in private practices). Similar to Medicare in the US, the SSN drives up reimbursements for private practices by setting minimum prices for private practices.

* Spain: Mixture of private and public. SNS doesn't cover all expenses, such as ambulances, dentists, pharmaceuticals, etc.

I could go on, but you get the idea. It's not really accurate to say that "the system in most developed countries has nothing to do with insurance", because most OECD countries require private payments for a non-trivial portion of care, and insurance is typically used to manage that portion of the costs.
Now I'm intrigued as to what that looked like. Was he using github.io or did you have to just click through the Github source code browser? Also was he really writing some of the posts in ReStructuredText, or was that a converted output?
Stripe is ending support for Bitcoin payments
Agreed -- I don't think blockchain introduces anything _entirely_ new to any type of application.

Blockchain in healthcare goes a lot further than user control/convenience though, and a "holy grail" success would mean complete interoperability across the industry in terms of security and data & knowledge sharing.

Also the whole "centralization" bit was already mentioned.
or http://danluu.com/
I'm also one of those people.

When it runs code to detect if it is a virus, you have to trust the sandboxing and frankly I've yet to see a sandbox that at some point hasn't been taken control of and exploited (this goes for web browsers too). So it's better to just not execute code than to trust the AV's VM to execute the code without being compromised.

I use programs on a whitelist basis and only update for security patches. This avoids issues like what happened with Transmission.

AV also detect have pitiful detection rates - something like <50% of exploits daily. It's "something" but once you're compromised you're compromised and using an AV just gives a false sense of security.

E: I imagine the downvotes are from my claims of pitiful detection rates or claims that AV is basically security fanfare. Don't take my word for it then.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/06/antivirus...

[1] http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-08/Feng-Xue/...

[2] http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-05/bh-us-05-whe...

[3] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1916708
I was on AOL, and its predecessor Quantum Link. I also did CompuServe before that.

About the only thing you could buy online were plane tickets. You could reserve a hotel online, but it still went through a travel agent's hands.
It seems a bit odd to me that this company grew out of X, as I was under the impression that projects in the "Moonshot Factory" were more ambitious. From what I gather, this sounds mostly like an analytics org for enterprise, not something that might change the world (e.g. Waymo, Loon, Project Ara).

Perhaps X is taking on less radical projects than I imagined. Would love to hear others' viewpoints on this as well, though.
There is an argument to be made though that we should be looking for causal connections rather than correlative when we think about what fairness looks like. Unfortunately, even with the many recent advances in causal network detection, we're not quite at a point where I would trust causal modeling for this.
I don't understand why anyone posts on Medium. If you are an individual, a github blog is easy to set up and completely free. If you are a business, I don't understand relinquishing control and diminishing your brand. Whenever I visit Medium it asks me to create an account, which is mildly annoying. Id' be worried Medium will increase the annoyances to a point you'd have no choice but to move elsewhere, which is a hassle.
Ursula K. Le Guin was an anarchist and Taoist not a socialist[0]; she translated the Tao Te Ching, after all[1]. She was anti-authoritarian, whether libertarian (remembering this term was hijacked), socialist or otherwise. She was pro collaboration.

The Dispossessed is an anarchist utopian novel.

"I'd put it this way: Dispossessed is an Anarchist utopian novel. Its ideas come from the Pacifist Anarchist tradition: Kropotkin, etc. So did some of the ideas of the so-called counterculture of the sixties and seventies."[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Anarchism_an...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin_bibliography...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/feb/09/sciencefiction...
> how would one go about killing Ethereum?

Arrest founders, freeze exchanges and seize their ether or cash proceeds of ether sales recently completed. Subpoena their records and trace ownership to natural persons; if they don’t surrender their ether or pay a fine they go to jail. Trace IP addresses to scare a few more people; rinse and repeat periodically. Bonus points if you do it only for ether, thereby giving people an exit to other cryptocurrencies and allow people to voluntarily surrender ether for a token, capped tax write-off.

The U.S. government has lots of experience thoughtlessly banning things in an overreaction, and with limited exceptions (e.g. the war on drugs) it’s more or less worked.
If you're interested in Go, JustforFunc is pretty interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_BzFbxG2za3bp5NRRRXJSw

The author covers some interesting and advanced details of Golang in an entertaining fashion.
and it only took 10 years to come up with the spec ! https://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/report.html
Monks got up to all kinds of naughty stuff.

Like becoming a painter, meeting an attractive nun, then going off and living with her.

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

There is a story about William Marshall, where he meets another monk who is up to the same thing, so William beats him up, robs him, and spends the couple's would-be nest egg in defense of Christian virtues.
>Unless you can scientifically prove that ethnicity causes crime to happen, its disgusting. This is obvious to us.

Whether or not ethnicity is a causal factor is irrelevant. Even if it is a causal factor, it is still an injustice to act on it.

And if you didn't care about justice and just wanted to achieve an optimal prediction, whether or not it's a causal factor doesn't actually matter. Probability theory does not require a causal link.

"If it is rainy then it is cloudy." Is a valid inference despite the fact that rain does not cause clouds.
How amazing is it that Tim Berners-Lee mother was one of the first programmers and one of the first freelance programmers. Amazing.
Why Twitter Let Noto Walk Away
https://etherscan.io/address/0xe3f64dc522a66405c51d96aae2342...

There's $9,047.32 worth of ETH in the contract already.
Price seems to be 0.08 ETH
Ask HN: DevOps engineer taking programming sabbatical
I've 10 years of experience with infrastructure, lately focusing on cloud and Kubernetes.

I'm doing well with all the configuration management knowledge but my programming skills aren't fluent enough for a SRE role, a-la Google. I discovered that in recent interview.

I can reduce my work week from 5 to 3 days, leaving me with 2 days plus weekends to focus exclusively on programming tasks. For one year.

What should I focus on, considering my target is 100% Backend Projects?
Read my last reply to the moderator and you will get an inkling as to why.
> It's a simple task to model a tax-funded healthcare system as an insured system (with monopsony), where the government is the insuror and the taxes that are directed to the are the premium

Unless you're proposing that taxes are based on risk levels, rather than realized income, then what. you are proposing is neither a simple task nor a true insurance model.

If that's what you're proposing, then it's an interesting thought experiment, but not one that applies to anything currently practiced anywhere in the world - and it's also something that would raise a lot of ethical objections.
I wouldn't call it a prank performance art piece. More like an attempt to help a friend break into show business that was unexpectedly successful.
What anarchists are really worried about is "nonconsensual hierarchies". They are definitely necessary sometimes and people will often choose to participate in a hierarchy when they see its usefulness. Anarchists have done this a lot historically, like in the Spanish civil war, there were military hierarchies among the anarchists.

The problem in most societies is that a lot of the hierarchies, particularly the very important ones for survival and day to day life, are completely forced upon us.
Very interesting to see this posted. In Japan its ingredients are used in an anti-hangover drink, this youtube video https://youtu.be/Ij_aJI5O9Rs goes somewhat deeper into it, where the poster tried a combination of it and pepper to strengthen the effect.
Sorry, I don't. It would need some dusting off to to compile on recent macOS (it depends on OpenSSL which they removed I think in 10.11, so I'd have to switch to SecureTransport or something). It also doesn't do any of the things that I think are table stakes for twitch streams these days like animated interactive overlays, webcam control, etc, all it did was stream the screen and the audio (i did mux system and mic audio).

My understanding is that like 99% of the traffic on twitch is basically the top 0.1% of channels, and all of those streamers mostly just use dedicated streaming boxes or have super beefy PCs. The market for a bare bones feature set twitch streamer for people playing games on Mac laptops has got to be pretty small. Maybe it's just you and I. :) So, that's why I kinda lost interest in it.
> the idiot who has no business writing code

> Everything he touches turn to shit

> he needs to be stopped.

You'll never take me alive.
I think that Countrywide Mortgage had a great deal more to do with Obama's election in 2008 than Facebook or any other such platform.
Not the down voter but having recently battled different line break methods, I disagree about universal vendor support. My use case has been entirely limited to radiology - a very small subset.
If you Google the letter n, Netflix is the #1 organic result, how?
He apparantly wrote a number of his novels in very short periods of time https://interestingliterature.com/2014/11/23/michael-moorcoc..., though I'm not sure that is an excuse really.
YouTube's Support for Musicians Comes with a Catch
> "If it is rainy then it is cloudy." Is a valid deduction

It is not, at least locally (because sunshowers happen.)
Managecore implements Syslink Xandria to reduce SAP downtime
Startup Annual Planning 1: What’s Your Top-Level Company Goal?
Ask HN: Finding your weak spots?
Just wondering if anyone has any advice on finding gaps in their programming skills?

My mind turns back to how musicians drill repeatedly on aspects they are weak at.

I'm wondering: how do you find those weak areas?
Why is that? Did someone won and took it all ? What happened?
For people or businesses that don't have enough reach Medium is a reasonable tradeoff to get more reach on their network.
From Turing to Mary Lee Berners-Lee to Tim Berners-Lee -- it only took three generations from establishing the theory all computers stand upon and get to the World Wide Web. Fascinating.
A toolkit for making services that schedule and execute tasks
No idea why you are being down-voted. Le Guin absolutely spoke of authoritarian socialism. These things are obviously not mutually exclusive.
I haven't read the article in detail, but it seems to look similar to:

http://digitalnature.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/2015/06/fairy-lights...

There's some cool videos on that link too.

Edit: It seems they function using different techniques though. The one in this HN post, seems to make use of airborne particles.
CSS Gridish
My favorite Ted Nelson interview: https://youtu.be/RVU62CQTXFI

It gives a great perspective on Ted's prophetic vision for computers as well as the intense skepticism it raised in many.
I have a programming channel of my own where I do live programming streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/KingHerring
I haven't seen anyone else do this. Check it out if you're into that sort of thing; I also plan on doing more tutorials when I have the time.

There's a lot of other good YouTubers I list on the channel's suggested channels sidebar.

EDIT: cbaggers is great for lisp weenies. He also does streams. https://www.youtube.com/user/CBaggers?app=desktop
Turmeric has been used in India since ancient times. There are many references to it in Ayurveda - the Indian/Hindu medical sciences. Ayurveda believes in using food as medicine to non only prevent a large majority of human diseases, but also to cure several of them — all with almost zero side effects. Turmeric is just one such extremely powerful & healthy food item that Western science seems to be playing catch up on. Many others like black pepper, honey, asafoetida (hing), coconut oil, copper utensils, cloves, cardamom, mustard seeds, neem (gold), milk, clarified butter (ghee). So, expect more things to come out from the research of Western labs, knowledge that is common to most grandmothers in India for ages. But the other aspect is that we are slowly losing all that because Indians try to mimic the West in almost everything they do & nowadays do not trust our own sciences like Ayurveda etc, even at the risk of debilitating side effects.

Side fact: An American company tried to patent turmeric & almost got away with it. This had to be fought by the Indian government to prevent (or nullify) the patent application.
How long will the rich be willing to share the roads with the poor?
A number of things at play on large organizations.

- They think in terms of projects not products.

- The structure of the organization ifself. Doesn't lend it self to small teams.

- A lot of dependencies. A lot of bottlenecks. You have to wait in line to get any of the resources that you need.

- A lot of people offering their opinions.

- Office politics.

- Ratio between employees that can use office (e.g.power point, excel, email) vs employees that can do real work. (devs, ops, testing ). Lots of chiefs, very few Indians.

- No one owns anything. Responsibilities are diluted.

- Teams lack autonomy.
I'd be elated to see healthcare companies forced to adopt this. Fax machines and paper records are a hazard to patient health.
You can see their vacation spreadsheet as it's public!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EhvYITqDk-vGzM9yy1uS...
I created MyPost in 2015... never advertised it, save for a few mentions on Twitter and Hacker News. Lets you create a web page in seconds.

4,000+ posts created and being used worldwide.. I've seen as far as Russia, South Africa, Philippines. Free to use.

So I feel that it has definitely stood the test of time if people are still using it.

https://mypost.io
Ex-CIA agents search for sunken cocaine submarine used by Pablo Escobar's cartel
Speaking of Japan, I recently saw an interesting video about why Japanese people are so thin, compared to say the US:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr4MmmWQtZM
Using the term thin air is misleading IMO.

I saw a slightly different version of this a few years ago [1]. It basically used pulsed laser to create plasma at certain x,y,z without any additional reflective medium added to the environment. However it's crazy loud [2].

From the Nature paper [3] it seems to work on similar principles with the drawback that you need "light scattering (or absorbing and generating) surfaces" instead of free air. In other words you still need some medium for projection/reflection, like a smoke cloud for example:

"it is unlikely that the display would function outdoors without an enclosure unless particles were much more strongly confined or steps were taken to refresh trapped particles regularly"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoWi10YVmfE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeqIZyUMDP4

[3] http://www.nature.com.https.sci-hub.hk/articles/nature25176
How is that "baggage"?
The point is that you need moving GC for bump-allocation to be possible. Traditional mark-and-sweep is non-moving while semispace collector is the simplest to describe moving GC. The practical takeaway from all that is that usual generational GC constructions with semispace minor collections and mark-and-sweep/compact major collections are in the complexity/efficiency sweet spot.

By the way it is possible and trivial, although somewhat non obvious, to construct non-moving generational GC. The general idea is that for simple M&S you have some list of live objects which you replace that with multiple per-generation lists (Claus Gittinger mentions this in his VM design talks, which probably means that at some point such GC was used by ST/X).
Both Medium and Tumblr are simple blogging sites the way the popular kids' table at the cafeteria is a simple table. Both have a secondary function as markets for whuffie among a certain crowd, and it's that function which distinguishes them from other blog platforms. That's what I was getting at.
Forget HTTPS: why doesn't apt support any form of threaded installation? On long updates it looks so wasteful to see one package installed at a time, probably when it doesn't always need to be that way.
That's a single engine on a test stand designed for full duration test fires (SpaceX also does full duration test fires of a complete booster (i.e. 9 engines)).

Launch pads are not test stands. They aren't designed to withstand the sustained thrust of a rocket being held down. SpaceX doesn't have a test stand capable of doing a full duration test fire of Falcon Heavy.
I'm finding with Vim that less is more, or maybe as I become more experience I'm not relying so much on the GUI aspect of text editors (creating new files, git integration, color pickers, etc) but instead just sticking to the command line for a variety of operations.
That logo is fantastic
Noise pollution forces Canadian songbirds to change their tunes
I always wanted something like this for video, rather than just audio:

http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/

Thank you. I'll give it a try.
We use Front and it's great. Mathilde Collin is a super-impressive founder. She spoke at one of the Tuesday night dinners when we were in YC.
Certainly. I guess my main objection was to the parent questioning whether modern systems are "too complex to simulate accurately in your head". Effective programming, as you note, requires acknowledging that you are approximating, and understanding the scopes and ramifications of those approximations.
How could they run a Ponzi scheme and lie about it being the first or sth. Outrage!
Eating a spoonful of powder sounds like a nightmare I sometimes have.
So basically what we've had[1] for ages in Sweden but an app shipping to one platform and vendor?

[1]: https://www.gemalto.com/govt/customer-cases/digital-doctors
Revoke the EU certification for the specific devices they manufacture
Thank you for the reply. That's helpful.
Because good luck getting your old doctor to talk to your new doctor, for example.