skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even a cost, I have free healthcare through the military and I hesitate to visit doctors. First off, 99% of the time whatever it is fixes itself with time. Going to the doctor requires lots of time and effort, outside urgent care or the ER you're going to have to be going during the workday. Then they might refer you to other doctors and each one wants more and more of your time. I know a guy who goes to the doctor every time he has a viral infection to get antibiotics. Then he has to go back for different antibiotics because he doesn't feel better right away. That seems like a lot of effort when the alternative is doing nothing for the same outcome.

The other big issue I have with doctors, I don't know if they are going to prescribe me some bullshit because the real treatment is "you'll get better with time" or the real answer is "there's nothing we can do about that." Or, much worse, something that they believe will help you but is not evidence based. Before you get upset - I once had an MD refer me to a (licensed) physical therapist for craniosacral therapy (complete woo) which billed it to my insurance as something like "physical manipulations."

It's also just how I was raised, when I grew up, my parents would say "we'll see if it gets better," and it always did. When I grew up and starting visiting the doctor for things at the advice of others it didn't improve my health outcomes yet significantly increased my annoyance level.
I recommend blogtrottr for sending rss to your email.
If you set a Gmail filter you get pretty much the same experience you had with Google Reader.
Agreed. Although we all hate it, if my mom searches for hard sided luggage on amazon and ads for it follow her to all manner of other sites - that’s the best way for non-tech types to get some of the idea here.

The truth is WAY worse of course, but she immediately knows the ads she saw won’t show for me as well.
Could you elaborate on this, please?
I've tried Shure (and other) earphones like this before, but could never stand the rustling of cable noise. Does that bother you at all, or do you have any recommendations for stopping it? I've tried shirt clips and cable loops, but nothing ever worked. For now, I use either over-ear noise canceling headphones or just AirPods.
I very recently thought I might have permanently damaged my eyesight.

I was working from a library, and stood to start closing up for the day. As I started to close my laptop, the screen (hi, glossy MacBook Pro) directly reflected the sun behind me.

For the next 15-20 minutes a significant portion of my vision in both eyes was wavy. I could still safely drive home, thankfully, but it was a severe distraction.

While I expected it to eventually clear up, it struck home how fragile my career is. (I know it's possible to be a blind software developer, but I'm not sure I could afford to take the short-term hit, assuming my employer wouldn't pay me to spend months relearning how to live and work.)
Japan has a nice system: when you're not sure your issue is bad enough to call 119 (Japanese version of 911), you can call 7119 which will tell you if it's really an emergency and you need an ambulance or if you should just rest and see a doctor in the morning.
That survey was written over 10 years ago. The field of quantum computation has grown by leaps and bounds since then. Modern quantum programming languages like pyQuil [0], Qiskit [1], and Q# [2] are designed to address the progress of quantum computing; like the fact that we now have small devices with 10s of qubits.

[0]: http://pyquil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[1]: https://www.qiskit.org/

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/quantum-qr-intro?vi...
As well as the string templates almost nobody knows about (https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/string.html#template-str...):

Template('$foo bar').substitute(foo='foo')
So what can we gleam from this?

OVH aren't about to start selling books or buy supermarket chains? Quelle surprise.

Having AWS in the hosting market means that right now, it's become a cottage industry for anyone else other than the big names in tech. Meanwhile these big names in tech know that they can make money from their platforms.

They simply can't compete on the same level and now they've decided that's what makes them unique in the industry...

What should a hosting business to do in 2018?
In some countries in europe (e.g.: Germany) they are pretty strict against maintaining logs that associate employee web traffic with the employee. Plus,GDPR will introduce some concerns like you mentioned.

For that law you referenced,I am not sure it would apply for a network provider as it would for a site-owner (e.g.: VPN or CDN provider vs a website)
Shipbob seems to be alive and kicking. They switched their focus to businesses early on.

I don't know if they operate in wherever you're located.
In the US, owning a bank changes the regulatory status of the entire legal entity structure. This cannot be evaded with shell companies, etc. Specifically, “any company that controls a bank” is a Bank Holding Company and is regulated by the Federal Reserve (regardless of where the controlled bank is chartered). Being regulated by the Fed is a big deal and they can and will poke around in your non-bank subsidiaries (which are, after all, assets of the Bank holding company).
Most times I see Descartes quoted it is with the paraphrase: "I think therefore I am" which is a really poor abstraction of his 6 Meditations.
When Google started doing it, there weren't a lot of good options to solve the problems it has.
As that has changed, so has Google (but like any large company, it changes slowly)
Good investigative thread. If eu does decide to break Google up (and I hope they do), hopefully it will be the data collection and advertising in one completely separate firm. Preferably android in another and rest of Google another
I tried to delete my account back in 2012 or so and back then they were asking me to send a letter to their lawyers for that. OVH has left an atrocious taste in my mouth since.
Like they said about Wernher von Braun: "I aim at the stars, but sometimes I hit London".
Eh, you can't cherry pick specific (model, year) combinations after the fact without overfitting. You expect some variation in deaths per (model, year) and by searching for the least deadly ones, you'll dramatically influence your estimate simply because you used a maximizing search instead of a broad survey of a-priori safe models.
Lets say it did happen. And now they keep it quiet.

This DB would end up on a darknet auction somewhere, and that's where things get "fun". Now, people can talk about this auction and all the really bad ramifications of both parties hiding it.

Worse yet, I could see someone waiting a month, and them leaking a DB that's fake and encrypting and dumping on the Darknet. The goal there is slander.. It doesn't have to happen for the damage to be done.
Postfix with Dovecot or Cyrus IMAP, along with a good sysadmin.
I've memorized multiple long passwords, and routinely memorize new ones. Also phone numbers, poems, mailing addresses, digits of pi, etc. It's not really that challenging. Especially if you do it often.
I would hope the serious players are already doing this.
Which ones? I have these (https://www.amazon.com/Etymotic-Fidelity-Earplugs-ETY-Plugs-...) and to be frank, I dislike wearing them -- it just sounds worse.

That said, clubs/shows play music way too loud, and I occasionally hear the beginning of tinnitus, so I 100% agree that people should get a pair.
Fixing a toilet is dead simple, as are most household tasks. Either you'd have to be very rich to not have it be worth 1 hour of your time, since a plumber will surely be $100 at least, or you can't be bothered to watch a couple short videos on youtube.
It's about damn time the Japanese get back into entrepreneurialism.

I walked around Tokyo seeing waves of people going to work and thinking, "there's way too much group think here" which I later learned is part of asian culture.

It's about time they get back into building solutions instead of slaving away as salarymen.
It's worth mentioning that the Whole Earth Catalogue was not just a creation of Brand and his colleagues. It was often based on reviews submitted by readers.

For my generation it was OUR Whole Earth Catalogue. That was hugely important in making a sense of community that supported the book.
I've been able to find courses on everything touched on here. One area that I haven't been able to find anything is how to design in 2018 for backend developers. Not nessarily picking the right colors but how to take a photoshop design and put it into a modern framework. Back in 2004 we sliced everything into tables and made the width 100% and used the image as a repeating background. We pick certain repeatable images and life was simple. How is this done in 2018?
Not being depended on craftsman for small things like fixing your toilet safes you a lot of stress in my experience. Not problems with appointments, no waiting, no arguing in case if improper work, no other people in your home.
Show HN: Why should SMBs miss out on the fun?
“We are too small a business for Marketing Automation”. ” We do not have enough money to spend on fancy tools”. “Marketing Automation is a next level marketing concept and we do not need it at this stage” are some of the apprehensions small businesses have related to Marketing Automation.

In this article, we are going to break some Marketing Automation related myths. We will also mention 5 compelling reasons why small businesses should install Marketing Automation.

https://www.engagebay.com/blog/5-reasons-small-businesses-ne...
The key thing to know about RSS is that most of the real news sources, those that have actual reporters who go out and find news, have RSS feeds. Reuters, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the BBC...

Here's Reuters Top News.[1] Just the news, no ads, no clickbait. Reuters is useful because their RSS feed contains a readable story summary. Many RSS feeds just have a truncated sentence and a link. Both CNN [2] and Fox News [3] are like that. Voice of America is at the other extreme - the whole story is on RSS.[4]

[1] http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews
[2] http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss
[3] http://www.foxnews.com/about/rss/
[4] https://www.voanews.com/rssfeeds
At best this article smacks of resentment and envy at worst this article cites no facts or reputable opinion pieces and seems wishy-washy in making its point.
Building a new deployment tool
One that is worth using? No.
Really? I don't think so. It's not like a "confession".

Can't people sue them even without their admission of any responsibility whatsoever? I think so.

And that they simply say: "We are sorry, we take full responsibility." does not open them up to lawsuits -- the courts still have to hear the arguments to back up "actual legal liability" and then adjudicate / elaborate a verdict / judgement, right?

Comments from lawyers, please. Very interesting.
That's not true. You just need more examples of leaders who are engineering focused but can also get business stuff done.

Unfortunately, the US has been taking Japanese talent to big companies and startups over here. Hopefully some of that talent stays there to BUILD and sell stuff.
AMD and Nvidia Downgrades Are Unwarranted
Plants are not efficient. They dont scale. Nor do they even trap carbon. Plants turn carbon into plant matter ... which eventually rots or otherwise breaks down and releases that carbon. Only in special places like bogs or permafrost does the carbon remain for an extended time. Plants dont turn carbon into something inert and storable like coal.

Solar panels can reduce carbon emmissions, but to actually take the carbon out of the air and keep it out means converting it into something akin to coal. This takes massive power, which must in turn come from a green source.
If you have urgent care near you, that is a good situation for it.
Things to check while learning a new Programming Language
SpotMini attends class at MIT, can't find a seat
I think the regulations will come soon enough. Tesla, Uber, etc are trying to get as many miles booked as possible before this happens.
The Post-Capitalism Manifesto
I'm currently working with Ant and it's designed more for enterprise applications. It has a huge component library and great documentation, even though some of it has to be translated from Chinese. The components really cover a lot of use cases. There are some great chart libraries as well.

Material is mostly optimized for mobile applications and interactions. It requires a lot more space which starts to fall apart with the needs of a more complex application.
I was planning to ditch my android for iPhone but reports like this make me worried.

Can we have a reasonable discussion without fanboy ism about what is the most secure phone right now?

(reply only if you have a security background)
It’s plain text, how do you get to 8TB per month! Congrats on your site!
To be fair, it does represent a concept where I don't know any other word that can take its place.

We sell incredibly complicated systems that necessarily interact with many other complicated systems. We don't work natively with all of them, and sometimes we need to do custom work. Not to mention that we need hardware in many geographical areas, yet still need to work when the virtual space doesn't line up with the physical space.

It's not as easy as "am I buying the small, medium, or large solution". Before you invest tens of millions of dollars into this one product, you need someone from the vendor to analyze your infrastructure and tell you if our product will work, and then how many you need to buy and where you need to put them geographically, and then how many hours of custom programming it will take to get everything working with the other systems.

That's far outside any definition of "salesman" I've ever heard. These people are project architects and their speciality is solution design. It's not a three-tier SaaS solution.
Before we just jump on Apple we should probably see if we can recreate the issue.

The article stated that another user could not replicate this issue and the original researcher was also unable to replicate after a possible stealth update.
Check out online.net. It's what I am using since a few months and I have a lot of OVH flashbacks when using their website. However, their support and their interface are good.
The NTSB doesn't split aircraft incidents into "accidents" and "crashes." Note that the report specifically mentions TWA Flight 800 as an accident, though the loss of life on that flight was 100%.
2M hits per hour, 1M uniques. It's crazy!
The linked paper says in the abstract:

The calculus turns out to be closely related to the linear lambda calculi used in the study of Linear Logic. We set up a computational model and an equational proof system for this calculus, and we argue that it is equivalent to the quantum Turing machine.
> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Postfix + Dovecot
We run a chunk on OVH too. It is over 100X cheaper than AWS.

We have had some issues though. OVH had two major outages in the last two years. Our strategy has been to build a more robust distributed architecture and use these issues to be "antifragile," which improves our product while as still saving money.

Over time I expect OVH to become more solid as they mature.
What kind of models are you training? Why do you need distributed TF? I was under impression that it's pretty rare to need it for training (e.g. large scale evolutionary hyperparam search on 256 GPUs, or things like that).
This exactly. Wear earplugs to shows. The levels are generally WAY TOO LOUD to begin with, and in my experience I actually hear/enjoy shows better with halfway decent earplugs.

I can also leave shows, take them out, and hear normally immediately after. No more laying in bed that night being annoyed by minor hearing damage.

You don't even have to be self conscious about it, they're barely visible when they're in.
A rubber gasket on the tank lid would be nice. Quieter when placing it, and probably quieter when the tank is filling.
Thanks for your feedback! :)

The main downside I see to branching on the next token within the parse_statement function itself is that doing so would split logic between the parse_* functions called by parse_statement (parse_if_statement, parse_while_statement, etc) and the parse_statement function itself.

For example, suppose parse_statement was modified to only calling `parse_if_statement` if the next token was an `if`, thus avoiding the try-except pattern. Then, while parse_statement would be responsible for checking if the next token is `if`, parse_if_statement would be responsible for parsing the `(` token, the expression that follows, the closing `)`, and so on. I figured it was easier to keep the entire identity of an if-statement within the parse_if_statement function itself rather than splitting it between the parse_statement and parse_if_statement functions.
The way you do this is with an RFQ. Send them a notice of exactly what you want and ask for a quote. Be clear that it is a competitive bid situation and you are going to buy from the lowest bidder.

The problem is if you only need one or two servers that's too small for most vendors to bother responding. If you're buying 10 or more it can work well.
Author here: All of these are warnings, they shouldn't block the script. Check the current directory for person_blocked.jpg and person_blocked.gif.
Python Insider: Beta release of pip version 10
I was recently thinking about this problem. Why not beam energy to planes (as also mentioned in comments). We could create a network of zeppelins that use/store wind and solar energy and beam them towards planes. As an extra bonus these zeppelins can be used for a multitude of things like internet and weather stations.
AWS bandwidth costs are obscene. They compete on price so well on most other fronts, but for some reason they just completely overcharge on bandwidth. It makes using them without a CDN cost prohibitive and drives a lot of use cases away from them.
Heat tolerant wheat: the 'crazy idea' that could combat food insecurity
Important notes about OVH:

-I'm a customer for about ~2 years.

-I was "just" using OVH object storage, and was considering other OVH services.

-I'm all about "cheap,cheap,cheap"

-OVH is super-cheap, which is good.

-I want OVH to "win". OVH doesn't want to "win". Because..

-OVH is super-confusing. Interface, website, billing, everything.

-website uses esoteric design conventions. A European thing? I don't know.

-feels as if they went the extra mile to make it confusing. Defies belief!

-they have separate websites for different countries, which use different login credentials.

-they have "OVH credits". Why???

-they use OpenStack (Yay!). Unforuntely, they have a confusing implementation of OpenStack dashboard, AND on a separate site, with separate credentials.

Bottom line: I'm a tech-savvy guy who can absorb some pretty bad UX, but OVH made me cringe. Seriously, I do not exaggerate. Anytime I need to log on to OVH, I get an uneasy feeling. So, I gladly paid extra and switched. I use DigitalOcean now. It's not as cheap. Digital Oceans's UX is good, but not amazing. But believe you me, it is BREATHE OF FRESH AIR compared to OVH. Update: may post a video if you guys want me to. Let me know!
The iPhone was so successful it ate the company. Everything else is an afterthought to "sell more phones." Security takes a back seat to animojis and better cameras.

The mobile market has plateaued, so this will harm the company long term. Success defines and then limits you.
How many people died in non-autopilot car accidents while you typed that?

This is news because it's not common enough to be a statistic.
The Game-Playing Society
Have you got data to support that?
if i understand correctly, the noise is caused by physical vibrations (as opposed to electrical waves) propagating up the cables. i think it's basically insoluble for earbuds/iems.
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16721197
Reminds me of:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
We have similar in the UK (NHS 111) - but because they're rather err on the side of caution, they usually refer you to A&E anyway.

They do seem to have some sway over the GPs though - Rather than A&E, they've refereed me to the Doctors instead. When I said it's impossible to get an appointment 111 told me to tell the Doctors they've referred me. At that point the Doctors seem to _have_ to see you the same day.
Indeed. I just tried Feedly on Android and it just gets in the way. It's awful. Suggestions are disgustingly location aware (why am I getting only feeds from my mother language?).

I need folders and a panel to read my rss feeds, everything else is fancy SPAM.
My biggest fear right now as a developer is losing the ability to work due to an injury. I recently bought long-term disability insurance, which is expensive for sure, but makes me feel so much safer. (what I got - after 6 months of self-covered disability, it'd pay a significant amount every month until age 65)

My main worry is falling while biking or skiing, and knocking my head. But now I'm worried about eyesight, and my hands, and everything else around the modern world.
Ask HN: How is theory of computation being used in the comp sci industry?
I am an undergraduate freshman at an Indian University. I am currently studying Theory of Computation and I wanted to know how it is being applied in the industry or the RD labs?
Also less likely to shatter when placing it, which is the primary cause of needing a whole new toilet.
I can’t help but feel that Tesla, Uber and others are being crazy reckless with their self driving technology, maybe even criminally so. Google have put massively more effort into their self-driving tech, AFAIK massively more engineering and QA hours (by probably better engineers and ML people), and they still don’t consider their tech ready for sale to the general public. Tesla seem to be shipping an MVP, which is insane for safety critical software.

Tesla claim “Tesla’s equipped with autopilot have a 3.7x lower fatality rate compared to the average car,” but that’s a very weak claim. It doesn’t say anything about the safety of the autopilot tech itself, as it’s lumping in “normal driver” stats. Also, do new, expensive cars simply have lower than average fatality rates in general?

I think self-driving cars will be great for society, but we need to be super cautious about shipping them. Google seem to be very cautious, Tesla seem to be very reckless. If it’s found they shipped autopilot without strong evidence that it’s much safer than human drivers, and it’s out there killing people, IMO Tesla execs should go to jail.
I already thought the leg press machine was a death trap, but you managed to give me another reason to dislike it. I think I'll stick to squatting.
I also dislike how Musk is synonymous with Tesla, except in cases like this.
It's weird because in every article I see about DigitalOcean, there's people saying "DO is stupid, they're overpriced, everyone should use OVH", yet in every article I see about OVH there are people complaining that OVH has some serious customer support and UX problems.
Looks like it's $36/year now.
The author is using Markdeep [1] to render the plain text content of that page as HTML.

Disabling JavaScript will leave the entire page in plain text again, which should still work.

[1] http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
Minifying and transpiling are different things. Minifying server side code could make sense to get you wthin the filesize limits of aws. One downside to transpiling to older versions of ecmascript is it slows your code and complicates debugging. Newer JavaScript runtimes optimize for newer JavaScript features