skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a website, but I miss IRC from the early/mid 90's. I managed to discover it via mIRC and spent a lot of time chatting with other kids from around the world (in lieu of face to face communication of course). It exposed me to a lot of things, from programming to the hacker mentality (both white hat and black hat) to just talking to people from different cultures. Well, and seedier things like stolen credit cards, pornography and warez, of course.

It was an interesting place then, as hardly anyone in real life was aware what IRC was and online communication was virtually non-existent, but here was this place where people from all over the world could meet in one place and form groups in channels.

It still exists now, but I haven't found a channel that has the same stable group feel of like-minded individuals since the mid-2000's. I have less time, there's more distractions on the internet in general and people tend to communicate with those they already know.
This is a showstopper for me.

All our best clients are on a 12 or 24 month upgrade cycles. I need to be confident I can deliver them the latest version of their project knowing there's only regular security updates required over then next 1-2 years.

While I'd love to be doing continuous deployment and multiple production feature deliveries a day - that's not how the business I work at makes their money.

I can live with Ubuntu's 5 year LTS policy, I can't work with a "you might have to do significant rework after just 9 months" platform.
On a somewhat related note: http://www.alwaysrightinstitute.com/microexpress/
Adyen is an "interchange-plus" payment processor, which means they pass on the interchange fee charged to them by the payment processing networks, plus a fixed markup.

Stripe is a flat-rate payment processor: 2.9% + $0.30 on everything.

Interchange fees range from 0.05% to 3.2%, more or less. Most consumer cards are going to be significantly cheaper than 2.9% to process. Many people use "check cards" from their bank which are in that 0.05% category, for example. American Express and the top tier Visa and MasterCard rewards/business cards are the ones where interchange can exceed 2.9%.

There are many "interchange-plus" merchant account providers now. I get better rates than Adyen is advertising on their website right now.
If there is one thing I despise about tech companies nowadays it is how everything always reduces down to advertising or marketing analytics. They are turning marketing people into some of the most obnoxiously demanding folks out there
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Seems like it would be best in this case to offer a fixed rate?
Meh. Their P/E ratio is roughly 100x the average of the S&P500, which means a growth of 100x in earnings would bring them in line. That is roughly 12 years of their current growth rate, which isn't actually that crazy.
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Who would have thunk? A businessman at the helm and the economy grows at its real potential. A stronger economy trickles down everywhere.
Both. Unless you are trying to insinuate that having protection against obvious scams is a bad and selfish thing.
I'm not "attacking" their parents who chose the name or anything like that, and any spelling is fine for a name, but there is a clear etymology to the name "Philip" that comes from "philos" and "hippos", someone who loves horses, and an indisputably historically correct way to spell it.

That a misspelling has become particularly common (or like for my own name, much more common than the historically correct spelling) doesn't make it anymore correctly spelt than "referer" in my opinion.

But if you disagree with the term "misspelling", I can formulate it another way: let's say that it's funny how the creative modern spelling "referer" instead of the historical "referrer" comes from someone who has a creatively spelt name "Phillip" where "Philip" was historically more common, and that both differ from the historical spelling on a double consonant. It's a much more awkward sentence though for such a trivial, passing remark.
Huh, interesting. I wonder what happened, after reading this: https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-gr... (Steve Yegge talking about joining Grab, and the meal-delivery boom)
Not a bad idea. Like GroupOn without the discounts.
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Show HN: Veros, a high-performance ocean simulator in pure Python
Haha, really? I half assumed you pulled a Knuth: the name came first, and then you had to come up with ideas worthy of it.
> [It] breaks a lot of things that do hotlink checks.

The majority of hotlink checking is to disable cross-domain hotlinking, which is not affected by this change.

This change could only negatively affect hotlinking that is permitted.

A site that wishes to hotlink to another may need to set a Referrer-Policy sso that the referer is passed through for images at all times.
Pardon my blunt question, but who is the heck is this for? Is this a sideways method of pushing React.js? Or is this for assembly programmers as well, and I just don't get it?
Veros is a port of a traditional, MPI-parallelized, Fortran ocean model to Python / NumPy. All parallelism is handled implicitly by Bohrium (https://github.com/bh107/bohrium), so all core routines just consist of basic NumPy-like array operations. The best part: Turns out we actually perform half as good as the Fortran reference on 24 CPUs, and as good on a GPU.
On a whiteboard solving classic algorithm puzzle problems that have nothing to do with the work I do... oh wait, wrong thread.
R&D and infrastructure are still expenses and lower your earnings- it is still cash going out that you can't return to shareholders.
I disagree on Go.

Go is well designed and takes upgrading into consideration. Upgrades very rarely break anything. You should just be able to recompile that 1.3 code on 1.8, etc.
Full disclosure: I do a lot of work with cloud providers and GCloud is one of my partners.

I think the article covers a very real issue with the pace of k8s. GKE is particularly good at staying updated. There are other providers that are good like Stackpoint Cloud.

If I were going to make an ad for GKE I'd point out that they probably have the most robust internal fiber network of any cloud. AWS tries to push packets onto the public internet as fast as possible.

The load balancer you get with GKE is seriously overpowered and under priced (which makes me love it).

Maybe EKS will be amazing (but we don't have evidence yet). Azure is getting pretty good but they're a bit late to the party. IBM isn't bad but they've struggled the most with staying up-to-date.
I wish them the best! I really enjoy Swift, as it takes the best of concise, "dynamic" languages like Python and adds a static type system and a smart compiler that catches lots of errors. Really a much better choice than Ruby in a lot of ways. Now if only the machine learning community would take notes...
I'm excited about server-side Swift (nice language, nice memory management model). But it would have helped to mention the other frameworks like Perfect or Kitura and compare/contrast the motivating principles here. Unless I missed them?
Related context: https://blog.josephine.com/the-2017-california-homemade-food...
Google "payment routing". There definitely is middleware you can buy to route payments to different processors. I've built my own for my business on top of Spreedly. I'm not sure what you think the issue would be with margins; the routing service doesn't have any direct costs other than servers.
Telegram also requires a phone number so it is not any better than Signal. Regarding cryptography, anything is good as long as three-letter agencies cannot break it.
"My takeaway is that teeth are very stubborn and don't like to be moved quickly. And that once moved, they really want to go back to the way they were. There is a lot of new tech, but you've gotta find the right ortho. I shopped around until I found a forward-thinking one who was willing to try new things, and got spectacular results within a reasonable timeframe."

That's my belief too. I had my metal braces removed a year ago, I have to wear retainers overnight, and I'm still finding the retainers quite a tight fit when I first put them in, especially if it's later in the evening than normal. My orthodontist says this indicates there's still some movement of the teeth.
I've also been interviewee recently in this space. I'm lucky in that in each one the interviewer showed a healthy scepticism or lower enthusiasm for K8s and similar products.

Maybe I'm doing my self a dis-service by not shooting for the moon. But I don't think so. I'd rather do real work than spend days reading upgrade notes. On-premises K8s time will come but for most that time is not now.
How would adding options to hide important features (iMessage apps) improve ease of use? More settings and hidden features are generally considered contrary to simplistic design...
I know you can do remote debugging. I mean the case where you have a breakpoint in one service, and it calls to another service. You can't really "step into" that. Best you can do is connect to both services and have cooperating breakpoints.

But, really, this is something I've never actually done. Reasoning about how the system should behave has been enough to get me by.
I still get caught on the UI/UX of my iphone X. FaceID is great but the whole swiping up from the bottom etc., is still hard on my muscle memory. Also, not a lot of apps gracefully deal with with being in wide mode. It's super annoying, and this cycle I am more and more willing to go to a Pixel phone than ever before. I won't, but I am not absolutely certain I won't jump ship the next round.

I guess what I am getting at is how long can they keep milking mobile? iPhones and iPads... are meh now. Now what?
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Here's what puzzles me. I have looked into Stripe, and just browsed the Adyen webpage. Both of those services seem to require you to maintain your own "active" server that can run server side code.

PayPal seems to be unique in being able to take payments from a passive web page, because the customer conducts their transaction at PP's website.

This is why I continue to use PP for my tiny little business (without eBay). Even though I consider myself reasonably tech savvy, I don't trust myself to maintain a website that is compatible with everybody's browser, phone, etc., and that guarantees the security of their personal data. Moving to another payment processor requires a quantum leap in technology that I'd rather not keep up with. I'd rather design another gizmo.

From time to time I look around for an alternative to PP, and haven't found one yet. I suspect that many small-time eBay sellers may be in the same boat.
Github is already littered with the dead carcasses of software using shiny new obsolete tools like gulp, grunt, and browserify to name just a tiny few.

You have to have a strong nose for bitrot and ruthlessly filter garbage out of the firehose, to work in web development today. If that package or tool hasn't been updated in 8 months, do you really want to learn it (and force your team to learn it), since it's practically abandonware already?

It's a self-reinforcing cycle. You don't want to put your organization at existential risk by betting on the wrong horse. But there is no choice. Unless you want to get stuck having to hire Perl guys in an ocean of node ninja rockstars. Your company will be the ugly girl that didn't get asked to prom night. The pariah of Silicon Valley.
I got a touchbar (2016) because that's what was offered at work. The build quality (especially the keyboard) is noticeably worse than previous Apple notebooks I've used.
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I've never heard of Adyen here in Australia before this. I assume they are far more Europe/US oriented? I assume they will be rolling out the new integration world wide, so that it will become more ubiquitous? I believe Paypal has a local office in Aus, so I presume Adyen will be setting up local offices in most countries?

(I also noticed on the video that it is pronounced "Adi-an" where I first thought "Ad-yen" which makes them sound more like an ad wholesaler than a payment processor.)
The list seems incomplete since it might have been written from a management perspective: what buttons to press to motivate someone to work?

Still I think work-life balance and iterative problem solving are part vision, part perks, in the sense that I have a larger vision of how I want to work, and this job has the perk of letting me do that.
Just not invoking any trope of stupidity (like "tourists who have been there for a week") would get you a fair way toward not being disrespectful.
That page is quite outdated (2007), a better reference for about:config referrer options is https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer (which is linked to at the bottom of the blog post about FF59 being discussed).

It seems that Firefox 59 will effectively force about:config's network.http.referer.XOriginTrimmingPolicy to 2 (default is 0) when in private browsing.
> Humans are terrible at driving cars: that’s why 35,000 people were killed by them in the US alone in 2015.

Ahg misleading numbers. People are actually surprisingly good at driving. Wikipedia says that the US driving fatality rate (which is worse than most other countries) is "7.1 road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km". You can tell it's low because it's measured in "per billion vehicle-km".

EDIT: When I said "misleading numbers", I should have said "misleading units". The number 35k people killed in 2015 measures part of the toll that driving takes on the human race, and it is terrible. However, the units of deaths/year is not a measurement of how good or bad people are at driving. Deaths/mile-driven is such a measurement.
I need further explanation before this makes sense to me. How can M->H have greater than 100% efficiency?

You mentioned getting heat from the ground, but that only happens when the ground heat is greater than T_h, right? At which point it just sounds like geothermal but with extra steps.
To everyone requesting more, different studies: Okay, you're correct in the philosophy-of-science sense. No doubt that feels good.

But, current understanding of biology is that:

- Literally no biological process is not affected by sleep

- Disrupting sleep disrupts whichever process is being studied

- Literally every type of organism sleeps[0]

It's a huge waste of time further proving that sleep is really, really, important, and this waste of time is actively harmful to everyone. What's maybe not a waste of time is researching

- How to actually get things into a shape where sleep is a priority on a population level

- Therapeutic interventions targeting poor sleep

- Otherwise preventing or mitigating poor sleep

[0] Sleep:

- Periodic

- Quiescent (less activity, less response to environmental stimuli)

- Homeostatic, e.g. sleep less now -> sleep more later
Gosh that page has infuriating scroll behavior. Maybe it's supposed to implement smooth scrolling, but it somehow gets confused as to where the scroll actually is, which means any scroll attempt including using the keyboard flickers up and down very rapidly for about a second before finally settling down.

Thank goodness for Firefox's "Reader" mode.
IIRC, Grab would/will facilitate homemade food service by facilitating cheap delivery, whereas Josephine focused on the meal creation. Both businesses would presumably have symbiotic relationship.
Wonder why they didn’t go with Stripe, but with an European competitor? This is great for the European tech scene.
EKS = Amazon Kubernetes.

(I had to look it up)
Yeah I think we hit a nerve here lol.
If you use negatively charged language about the person you're talking to, you're taking a big step away from factual exchange. On an internet forum, where we have precious little context to convey intent, that's almost always a destructive thing to do—and since it's both unnecessary and easy to avoid, we ask people to just not do it.

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Can confirm. I didn't bother going to a dentist for about 3 years in my late teens / early twenties (due to complacency as my childhood dentist in the UK was the laziest man alive & just sent me home every year saying "your teeth are great"). On my first visit to a dentist after moving to Australia I needed 8 fillings and had periodontitis, which has resulted in painful & expensive treatment every 6 months for the last 20 years.
I was somewhat shocked that healthcare.gov would have any ads on it. I missed that scandal I guess.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/healthcare.gov-sends-p...

Anyone know if this is still the case? I looked at a couple of pages and only saw tiqcdn.com being blocked by uBlock.
Ask HN: Is AI overcrowded? Where should one look to be useful
I'm thinking about what to major in college and ultimately what to do with my life and have concluded that AI is one of the most important things one could work on and I also have quite an interest in it, I also find robotics fascinating. The only thing I'm concerned about is that it is extremely popular at the moment and possibly oversaturated. This brings up issues such as marginal effort. If the field really is overcrowded, then what difference am I really making by just joining in? Looking at the future and trying to predict anything with great success is incredibly hard, but it seems like the most important things for this century are AI, aging/bio/health, energy and development of space.

Now I could be completely wrong on this, but it seems like energy is being taken care of. Simple economics will create a demand for renewables and there does't seem to be a shortage of people working on solar, wind, water, storage, fission. Maybe fusion is worth looking at but I feel like the energy crisis will be solved by the others and fusion would be an added benefit. Biotech is an interesting area which I haven't considered, but it seems like computers / AI will be the major useful tool in this area also (this could be wrong, I've just read that biology is really data heavy). Space development is pretty broad, chemical rockets have been maxed out and the main differentiating factor between companies now is software (raptor engines pretty much hit the limit for chemical engines). And really any of the other fields mentioned (AI, biotech, energy) would be useful to work on if one was interested in space development.

Basically, I'm at a crossroads and really just want to be useful. As an experiment, if you could decide the trajectory of a freshmen interested in these things and wanting to have a positive impact, where would you suggest they go?
AFAIR transactions were implemented in Version 3.
uMatrix also has a similar feature, among many others (request blocking by type, cookie and cache management, etc...)

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
From what I've read I don't get the feeling that he has considered that more often than not, illustration in products often serves as an affordance. As such it needs to be highly legible and brief. Sometimes similar to editorial artwork, but usually with entirely different needs.
Tell that to Larry Page (in regards to having a cold); not trying to be snide, just never been a fan of the "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" argument
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Y'all could just use a previous password.
> why would you not want this on non-private sessions

Information leaks. You click a link from your email to a news article. The URL for the news article has your email in it. Then you click an ad on the news article. The ad just got your email address.

Worse still - instead of an email address, it's a token that auto signs you in to your account with the news site.

Sites are pretty bad at sanitizing their outgoing referers.
Are there many therapeutics startups in Australia? I remember seeing a decent amount of diagnostics / device pitches from australian companies (or device firms that listed on ASX) but don't remember seeing many drug developers (not that I have a large sample size to draw from). If there are interesting therapeutics startups in Australia I am sure that US biotech VCs would take a look, as there is a bit of a crowded series a market here (lots of VC money but not many good seed-stage startups) and many VCs are looking to europe for science or startups
It has nothing to do with React (in fact, React, despite its name, does not represent the paradigm of reactive programming).

This is for javascript programmers who enjoy functional programming and want an introduction into Rx.js library. It may also be of interest for programmers in other languages (because rx has been implemented in many of them).