skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I want a way to turn off the warning on my intranet because of all those printers, sensors, and control units on my intranet that are not going to get upgraded. I don't think I can find an HVAC or sensors with https, and I doubt anyone will authorize a 10's of thousand dollar replacement. I do not want a call anytime people have to deal with these devices and get a scary warning. Telling them to ignore it is not going to generate the right attitude when they go on the internet.
An ISP cannot inject their own certificate. That is decided by your OS or browser vendor.
There’s no good criteria for an unstable child. Nor for adults - that’s the “clinical gestalt” docs spend 80+ hours a week developing in training. That said, a few things to look out for (I steal the below list from Dr Tim Horeczko):

Appearance:

“TICLS”
Tone – the newborn should have a normal flexed tone; the 6 month old baby who sits up and controls her head; the toddler cruises around the room.

Interactiveness – Does the 2 month old have a social smile? Is the toddler interested in what is going on in the room?

Consolability – A child who cannot be consoled at some point by his mother is experiencing a medical emergency until proven otherwise.

Look/gaze – Does the child track or fix his gaze on you, or is there the “1000-yard stare”?

Speech/cry – A vigorously crying baby can be a good sign, when consolable – when the cry is high-pitched, blood-curling, or even a soft whimper, something is wrong.

If the child fails any of the TICLS, then his appearance is abnormal.

Work of Breathing:
Children are respiratory creatures – they are hypermetabolic – we need to key in on any respiratory embarrassment.

Look for nasal flaring. Uncover the chest and abdomen and look for retractions. Listen – even without a stethoscope – for abnormal airway sounds like grunting or stridor. Grunting is the child’s last-ditch effort to produce auto-PEEP.

Stridor is a sign of critical upper airway narrowing.

Look for abnormal positioning, like tripodding, or head bobbing

Circulation to skin:

Infants and children are vasospastic – they can change their vascular tone quickly, depending on their volume status or environment.

Without even having to touch the child, you can see signs of pallor, cyanosis, or mottling. If any of these is present, this is an abnormal circulation to the skin.

Failing any one of these is worth a serious doc visit. And, I’ll add one of my own: any infant that works so hard at sucking down milk that it makes them sweat gets a free trip to the ER.
My first thought was of the hive mind of rats from Planescape Torment
Even better: skins that let you relocate everything. It was super-awesome to have a little cartoon cat sitting on a spaceship on my desktop, and poke at various parts of it to control Audion.

(http://egypt.urnash.com/portfolio/contragravity/)
My cat has been trying to vocalize what sounds like: "Alexa, please ship Walter to the Kat Fud factory."

Should I be concerned?
Critics Attack Study That Rewrote Human Arrival in Americas
That is a really good idea. My first thought was basically start with the tree, a drone's natural enemy, and amplify the stuff that makes it so dangerous to a drone - tiny sticks that are hard to see. Fishing line would pretty much accomplish that.
The PHP version looks like it hasn't been touched since 2011 and the Python link is dead. Doesn't give much confidence that this is a viable and supported pathway to Db <-> Application communication.
The scariest thing I've seen in the past few years was that "artwork" with a culture (I think it was E. Coli but it might have been staph) growing on a large sheet of agar which had been doped with a gradient of various antibiotics, and showed the bacteria slowly adapting and working its way through them. A small change to this setup could easily be used to grow multi-antibiotic-resistant diseases in someone's back shed. I actually kind of don't want to post this comment in case it gives someone ideas.
> I think it's a pretty well known fact that YC tends to invest in companies that have the opportunity to be billion dollar ventures.

"Tends to" isn't the same as "always". I expect they'd rather invest in unicorns, but maybe they're willing to invest in a few more modest endeavors for various reasons.

> What sort of opportunities do you think a company like Buglife could focus on?

Beats me. I wouldn't have guessed that Amazon was going to become a cloud provider back when they were just an e-commerce site. I think Paul Graham has said that sometimes YCombinator will accept founders who have an uninteresting idea if they seem like the sort of people who are capable of generating new ideas and changing course as the situations demand.
The author does not understand the difference between weak vs strong typing and dynamic vs static typing.
up the bay and down the bay can also be towards/away from the ocean in some parts of Newfoundland
I'm overly excited about this. Winamp was a huge part of my early computer experience, even went so far as to (poorly) design my own. Can't wait to start using this!
“A Personal View of Average-Case Complexity”, Impagliazzo 1995
The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes' Steadfast Factual Adherence
Evidence of directional and stabilizing natural selection in contemporary humans [pdf]
The hell of it is they had some very good source material to work with in the novels, but seem to have made it all too high concept for anyone’s good.
Has anyone else applied to zapier over ten times with no luck?
What finally got you the interview?
The trends for education/intelligence are particularly interesting: https://www.gwern.net/images/genetics/2017-sanjak-dysgenics-... - apparently, directional selection against education/intelligence in the UK for women but slight selection for education/intelligence in men.
Those forms sit in an IFRAME and content is loaded via https. Example from http://seasportdivers.com/ :

<iframe src="https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/seasportdivers/?full-item...
Is your software racist?
5 AI Trends We Can Expect to See in 2017 and Beyond
I have nginx fronting around 15 different (very low traffic) websites (most static, a few python), all of which have Let's Encrypt certs. The required additions to the nginx conf were minimal and easy. Adding a new subdomain is trivial. Fetching the initial certificate from Let's Encrypt is a short, easy command line. And "sudo certbot renew; sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload" in a cron job keeps the certs up to date (the "renew" command is smart enough to go through the list of certs you have and renew them all).

It's really hard to imagine it getting much easier.
Finally, a semantic use for the marquee tag.
My only concern is that the end user can always control which Certificate Authorities his/her browser accepts, and that anyone can set up their own CA. It seems like both of these conditions are vital for the future of decentralized web.
I'm sure you'll find this fascinating -

Tom Scott - Why Jonathan Ross Can't Pronounce His Rs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld3A3QCpXd4
Fun Fact: active shooter incidents (often spree-killings, culminating in suicide, capital punshment or life in prison) are still sensationalized, despite an awareness of this general principle being readily acknowleged. Is the viewer response just too lucrative?
Coincidentally, I just recently signed a tiny private Firefox extension to improve the readability of the HN comments to my taste :-).
I think Robin's problem was that he wasn't loved by those that were supposed to love him, instead ruthlessly exploited. The onset of disease might have been the final click to pull the trigger (speculating).
As a website visitor this has always bothered me. HTTPS used to mean that I had an encrypted path between my browser and the server actually serving the webpage. With Cloudflare allowing this weird hybrid mode, I can never actually know if the connection is secured all the way end to end.
No, you're not wrong at all. Most equipment that's designed to hold up under CE immunity testing is not going to be affected by EMP from any source short of a nuke.
natural selection: the ones that don't eat will survive, and the ones that do will die
In another era, LibGin is a library about illicit alcoholic beverage production.
Apple's designers decided that looked tacky and stopped doing it; the rest of the industry soon followed suit. Now everything has to be floating in a screamingly bright white void, so that your phone ruins your night vision every time you pull it out.

(I may have opinions about this trend.)
Can't an ISP's DNS server tell you that https://www.google.com is at 10.10.10.10? And that is an internal server hosting whatever ISP wants.
Jeans and a nice blouse.
An inappropriate warning is still counterproductive, I agree, but it's in a different league to a solid block.

Not so long ago, I was dealing with the browsers vs. Java applets war, which had a similar effect on many devices as they became progressively harder and ultimately impossible to use. The attitude demonstrated by many defending those browser changes -- as if completely and permanently breaking useful, long-developed, working software on a private network was somehow a good thing -- was somewhere between smug, dismissive and arrogant, and actually quite offensive in some cases.
Is the government sharing your tax info?
> When I connect to my bank, I want my data to be secure not only against malicious activity, but negligence and incompetence.

What bank do you use that doesn't use https already? Maybe it's time to change your bank rather than force every website in the world to switch to https.
It's quarter one. Everything usually drops during this time.
The CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data
Not in one individual, but animals that die from eating them will self select themselves out of the gene pool (if done before they get a chance to mate), over time only leaving those that avoid it. The more generations that survive this the more it becomes an instinct.
The high performance parts of numpy and scipy aren't written in Python anyway so Go wouldn't be that much of an improvement. It's just that Go is a language better suited for professional software (imo).
Probably because it's better than "everyone that isn't rich gets screwed" which is the current situation.
In my view of the world "toys" and "MVP" are orthogonal. Imagine an actual toy that is a choking hazard. There are lots on the market, and they even usually say, "choking hazard" on the packaging. The choking hazard is a potential liability that you might have been able to fix with more design work upfront and is hard to fix now that you've made a product.

MVP is a kind of overloaded term because it can mean that it lacks user features, but it can also mean that it contains technical debt that is a potential liability in the future, just like the choking hazard on a toy.

A "toy" application can have a minimum set of user functionality, but be "complete" in terms that it doesn't contain any of that future potential liability. There are some really nice "toy" applications and services that fill a really small niche and do it extremely well, without trying to tackle bigger problems. However, I wouldn't consider them to be MVP because they actually have a considerable amount of design beyond the minimum necessary to get it out the door.

Or tl;dr: "Toys" are uncomplicated, but not necessarily minimal. MVP is generally incomplete and not necessarily uncomplicated (because reducing complexity requires effort).
Though I'm sure you're aware of this, I'll mention for others the theory that Shakespeare was actually Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford[1], and therefore there would be no mystery about how he could have access. The commonly accepted William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon allowed his children to grow up illiterate (this is not a disputed fact); for someone who valued the English language so much, that seems unimaginable. For many reasons, I find the Edward de Vere theory[2] much more plausible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Vere%2C_17th_Earl_of...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfordian_theory_of_Shakespear...
there are companies launching rockets.

there are some other companies making news by turning a like button into a thumb button, or changing 140 character limits to 280, or adding a downvote button...
No, the bill you get for an ultrasound is a tech or a PA to run it and a doc to properly interpret it.

It’s funny how popular the Wizard of Schenectady story is on HN when it’s about engineers, but somehow fails to be applied to non-engineers.
>Uber/Lyft can literally only control their worker's schedules and availability and hours using positive profit reinforcement.

This isn't an acceptable situation because the workers aren't employees. Uber and Lyft can offer below minimum wage to contractors who don't get their "positive profit reinforcement". The contractors will then self-enforce employee-like behaviours in order to get a better wage that still doesn't have to be above minimum wage.
HTTP codes as Valentine's Day comics
> As a lawyer, i can also tell you the professional duties you claim are either non-existent or not as absolute as you make them.

"under American law we have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders to account for things properly, so if we were, for example, to just arbitrarily decide to pay a different tax rate than we were required to, a more favourable one for example to a particular country, how would we account for that?" - Eric Schmidt on why Google paid "£3.4m in tax on £3.2bn of sales" (.1%)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/may/27/google-er...
My guess is that it was just a way to keep the message simple and not have too many numbers to distract the reader. The numbers for each pairing were probably conveniently close together, so combining them cut out two bullet points from an already very short blog post.
Not always the case, especially with columnstore indexes and batch mode, even traditionally, rownum/lead/lag/ordering functions are extremely handy along with aggregates. I can't actually think of many, result set/batch, scenarios that would be better replicated in code, not counting the speed on extra delivery (every row for a sum) and possible miscalculations. Add in the ability to index views and some other things for specific scenarios, then again, I'm mostly MSSQL and lack in other offerings, or knowing where they might lack.

Also, the site is blocked for me currently...
Ask HN: Would you use MongoDB in 2018?
Open access isn’t just about making papers available to the general public, it is also about making papers available to students and scholars in the developing world, whose institutions definitely don’t “make so much money nowadays” and often do not subscribe to a wide range of publications.
Definitely agree with the other comments: it sounds like you're looking to contribute to open source projects.
https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/ provides 'testimonials' from professionals who have contributed to open source projects - If you feel comfortable doing so, I'd encourage you to reach out to them for project recommendations, and pick something that matches your skill set + interests. Good luck!
While I take advantage of that flexibility you cite, after many years of seeing the inside of many clients, I have reluctantly concluded that state of employment is not a viable policy prescription for the American general population in the near future. To be really secure as a freelancer over the long-term (multiple decades), you ideally should have three years’ living expenses set aside. That lets you ride out big dips like the 2000 tech recession or 2008 Great Recession and still have enough left over to strategically pick your projects and rebuild your reserves at the same time.

From where we sit today, it is a very long road to getting most of the population saving even 6-12 months living expenses. To get there, we need to take many intermediate baby steps. Perhaps special tax treatment for savings accounts belonging to taxpayers below a certain income level, and the account balance meets some kind of latency metrics, or outright grants for hitting metrics in lieu of EITC.
I do agree with you - it is appalling how much power Google has. I think a bit of perspective is helpful, though.

There hasn't really been much of a span where there wasn't a de facto 900 Lb gorilla browser that threw its weight around. I think a lot of us watched this happen, but the various charts on this page are instructive:

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

It appears that somehow the browser market trends toward an unstable near-monopoly of sorts, at least so far.

So, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. At least https everywhere is a long-term public good that they're willing to take grief over forcing. It beats some of the other unilateral changes various once-dominant browsers forced.
They can, but you will get a certificate error, because the ISP doesn't has a valid certificate for the domain.
You seem to be conflating technical merit with widespread usage. The wishful thinking was about some big success game using such a technology. The technical merits were already presented by GP. And they are real.

Besides, flying cars are way better. We need to keep looking into the future, otherwise we'll be stuck with what shitty technology we currently have.
Not positive in PostGres, in MSSQL you still wind up copying the data and using additional resources, it's just handled for you. I'm a big fan of scripting in DBs becoming a thing (and a little scared) but it's not all roses (yet). You would also loose optimizer "fixes" right?
That was my life a few years ago when Java applets switched from being the best thing since sliced bread to being anathema. Or take ActiveX for another example. Trying to do business with consumer-grade browsers is just one pain point after another.
> Just not starchy or sweet ones, e.g. cauliflower, lettuce, broccoli, etc.

I dropped broccoli because of high carbs..
If you are still liable for a company you've left behind
I have a theory that ICANN did this too tell developers to use designated domains for internal uses.
Except that antibiotic resistance also goes away very quickly unless the bacteria are kept in an environment conducive to it. Antibiotic resistance is expensive evolutionarily.

Most of our resistant bacteria are coming from something that makes holding onto resistance a survival trait. Antibiotic overuse in factory farming or hospitals which obviously are continuously battling bacteria are two of the prime generators.
Ask HN: What was your severance package, if you recieved one?
Curious as to what's the range of severance packages within our industry.

I've been at my company (public) for 2+ years now and wonder what is acceptable as we're negotiating separation.
> Also, although there may be some China bashing in the background, I don't see anything about the US being better.

There is a surprising amount of people that think of China as the bad communist state and the US as the superior nation. Even here on HN where I usually would expect the average commenter to have even some basic education.

It is the same population, I suspect, that is totally oblivious of the state of surveillance in their country and how this actually is bad and won't stop crime of any sort.
The feature I use most is "hide." Because most of the news stories aren't interesting to me, and it really bugs me that it's not in the same position on the second line. Would love to have it be flush left on that line so I can consistently tap/click it or a swipe in an iOS app.
I think we could be friends. As an appdev turned database/BI dev, there are a lot of intricacies of databases that are just not intuitive and take a while to get down right.

We're getting away from it by either moving to new tech or the tech is improving (adaptive query processing, auto tuning indexes, writable columnstore).

Even when I was an app dev I said you live and die by your database, either it's data model or by not putting processing in the right place. It's an architecture thing and something that (generally) has to be addressed early on.
Right. Spending money on things you'll use everyday, that keep you warm, that make you feel comfortable, physically and mentally?

As long as you're done with your growth spurt, and have your personal style without need to look trendy every season, I see no need to try to buy the cheapest clothes. Affordable, sure, but without sacrificing quality.
I dislike examples of a concept when the made-up code is not properly using the language. You don’t write is_valid() calls in Python: you “try:” things that may fail.

As far as dynamic typing: for every unfortunate runtime surprise that dynamic typing can give you, I can find a multi-page compiler error in a statically-typed language that was frustratingly finicky about type precision. Neither is a clear win; yet I really like how dynamic systems naturally encourage good test infrastructures. Also, use linters.

The Python 2/3 divide is real though. I guess we’re still better off than Perl (6.x seems pretty unused).
Show HN: Introducing Milotic, a Sublime theme you will fall in love with
Unity tweak tool lets you do it in ubuntu
Pulsejets don't need rotors.

https://hackaday.com/2011/09/05/engine-hacks-a-pulse-jet-uav...
How to Recover Lost Mails with Mail Recovery Software
It wasn't meant for ad blocking, it was meant for the practice where ISPs were replacing ads on the site with their own and get the revenue.
One, you're replying to a guy with thousands of stars on his released github projects.

Two, there are tradeoffs in using electron, and it's not unreasonable to discuss those. This place would lose a lot of its value if we're not allowed to discuss the pros and cons of technical decisions that go into a project.
First it was music, then it was movies, Google took books off the table by accident, now journal articles. You can see where this is going: small subscriptions for millions of subscribers world-wide. Amazon Prime, YouTube Red, or Spotify for scientists. My questions: 1) can I as an author get 30% like musicians on iTunes?, 2) will this make science more attractive as a career?
Lol I just opened unity, and can't use null coalescing. I say unity script because it all compiles down to the same IL. Where did I say you can't use async/await. It's not "real" C# in the sense that you don't get the .Net runtime.
A dollar has value because dollars are in demand.

A bitcoin has value because bitcoins are in demand. Same thing.

Economically speaking it doesn't matter why people demand them (eg. to pay a merchant or to pay taxes). The demand in and of itself is what gives them value. I would then argue that technically Bitcoin is fiat currency.
If you have any js experience, or want to develop some, feel free to reach out. I can find you an issue that aligns with your interests.
Another +1 for Gitlab
Meh, I misunderstood who "let them die" refer to -- I thought it was the CRAs, not people. :\

I still feel like your analogy doesn't adequately capture the negative externality in the identity theft that the CRAs enable. In a healthy marketplace, the cost of that identity theft would be borne by the people who profit from it, not innocent third parties.

How do we get to a marketplace where that crushing cost falls upon the deserving party, dissuading them from their destructive course? We need to acknowledge that the quantitative change in the accessibility of personal credit information amounts to a qualitative change, justifying a rethink about who owns it.