skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, yes. Sometimes I'm amused by the expectation of HN readers that anyone commenting will have kept an exhaustive bibliography of everything they've ever read.
Hey, thanks for your feedback. I'm the guy that created the site. I agree that more information needs to be listed on the site about how the process works and also agree that the code needs some work. I'm a self-taught programmer and created this to put on my cv and thought it would just be cool to share what I created. I plan to add much more features and pages but just wanted to test what I've already created.

To those that are interested in understand out how the website works, the process goes as follows: the files are uploaded to the server and then uploaded to a private s3 bucket where the user will have an hour to download the converted content via a presigned url after which it will be permanently deleted. Furthermore, as soon as the file is converted, the original file is deleted from the server. In hindsight, I should have shipped an "about" page explaining this process.
For Gmail, you can add a plus to the left side of your email address and then append an arbitrary string. For example, email@gmail.com and email+foo@gmail.com are the same address.
Alright good, so we agree on your premise that Venezuela as a nation is dead. Now what? We still live in a world that accepts the Westfälischen concept of a nation, so what do we do with Venezuela?
No one's saying that they aren't spec compliant, the writer is complaining that google doesn't tell its users that their inbox will include emails for more than 1 address.
The last time I saw my grandmother was the last time I saw 2001. It was a few years ago. She was bedridden but living at home with a full-time caregiver. Hospice care had been initiated. Her bed, a full-size hospital bed, was located in the room that used to be the den. There was a large TV in the room that she spent most the day watching. It was early afternoon.

When I walked in, for reasons both mysterious and comical to me, the TV was tuned to a cable channel showing 2001. It was the start of the psychedelic wormhole scene.

The room was decorated, as it had been since I was a kid, in a style I'll call organic American kitsch. Her caregiver and my aunt were in the room. My grandmother was half-sleeping. She smiled when she saw me. Then she fell back to sleep. The others left the room. Standing next to her bed, I watched the movie to the end as my grandmother snored lightly beside me. I don't remember if there were commercial breaks. When it was over, I said goodbye to my grandmother and left her sleeping.

I still can't figure out who turned on 2001. The caregiver usually turned the channel to Fox News. I think my aunt preferred to turn the TV off. If my dad had been there, it might have made sense. He hadn't. It was a very uncanny experience.
Right. The +-suffix suffers from the same problem as the dots-don't-matter-policy: While some implementations use + as a separator between a mailbox name and a suffix, there is nothing in the RFC that encodes that, so different server implementations could just as well see + as a regular letter of the local part. Netflix has no choice but to treat james.h.fisher@gmail.com, jameshfisher@gmail.com and jameshfisher+netflix@gmail com as different email addresses. Really, to the left of the @, almost anything goes, and how an MDA maps the local part to a specific mailbox is completely up to the implementer.

As you point out, the only way around this email verification.
When I think of Microsoft, I think of "Windows", "Office" and "Enterprise". They essentially have a corporate image and beside a small group of people, the general public is not passionate about Microsoft. Satya Nadellla was right to focus the company on productivity.

So, in my opinion, they dropped the ball on those products because the market did not respond to them for the reasons I mentioned (perception). Xbox is the only exception because MS pumped billions into the division and attracted enough devs to make the product interesting to a significant number of people.
App developers have options - iOS is a small chunk of the market. Handset makers don’t, because of broken ip laws.
Panic attacks from psychedelics (bad trips) are much different from regular panic attacks
I understand the need for identification - ID documents long predate these systems and include basic biometric data: photograph, eye and hair color, and sometimes even a finger imprint. In the digital era, ID cards can be made unforgeable and the biometric data can be encrypted and made available only to pre-authorized entities (I.e airport biometric gates)

What I don't understand is why they aim to replace the ID card, a smart, cheap hardware token that can be interfaced with very simple hardware, with a monstruos system where the fingerprint itself is the authentication device.

Now you need complex, finicky machines to read fingerprints and irises/faces whenever you want to do authentication and also require internet connectivity all the time; it's no longer possible to do the low tech, offline validation "ID is present, appears not forged on visual inspection and photograph matches holder". This was usually suficient in 95% of the usecases. You also lose on end to end security: if fingerprint data is duplicated, a rogue acces point can fake authentication, despite the fact that neither the govt nor the person wants that. And once the fingerprint is compromised, it stays that way forever, maybe even putting the original owner on various blacklists.

So instead of going for the low hanging fruit and build a solid electronic ID system where optional biometrics can add some value and also be protected, they overextended to a snake oil system that is actually worse in every way. A cautionary tale for government security purchases and probably the very corruption it purports to address.
1) Just page-id/posts.

2) Our CTO was originally testing with an old token he had from a previous pet project. Our company's API access was submitted for approval sometime in the last couple weeks.

3) Low volume, thousands a day at max but hundreds is more likely.
It seems like overly optimistic interpretations of crappy/noisy neural network output. I could be wrong though.
I call bullshit.

It's a nice story, and I don't doubt that some Venezuelans benefit from bitcoin somehow. But for BTC to be considered a "lifeline" for the population would require people to actually do day-to-day transactions with it. That's not happening.
Pro glossy screen arguments: Can retrofit a touchscreen
Anti: everything else
I have a recycled SIM which I legally own, which is linked to the prior owner's Aadhaar.

It will remain linked even if I link my SIM with my Aadhaar. (The Aadhaar->SIM mapping which the government uses is maintained by UIDAI and is not given out, the SIM->Aadhaar mapping which is mandated by DoT is maintained by KYC-regulations of my telecom provider at the telco level)
We still use it, though we are phasing it out.

In general, its solid for its use cases, but you need to understand what its good at. Its pretty great for small apps, prototyping, hobby projects, etc.

There are a few things we learned that I'd share:

Use React. Should be obvious. Meteor's react support is pretty great.

Stay away from Meteor packages as much as possible. Its better to look for a similar NPM package and do the integration work yourself then to rely on the "magic sauce" that many Meteor packages use. The only ones I can really suggest using are the official MDG ones.

You don't have to use pub/sub to fetch data. You can absolutely fetch data through Meteor Methods in situations where real-time isn't important. Meteor methods are just simple request/response RPC. Pub/sub can become stupidly hard to reason about, though in simple applications can make your app seem really fast and responsive.

That being said, its got great integration with Apollo. If you start with Meteor, ignore all of the DDP stuff (pub/sub, methods, etc) and just build the API with Apollo, you wont regret it.

If you think you'll want to deploy a mobile app, maybe don't do Meteor. You still definitely can, but Meteor's semantics around the always-on websocket connection tend to severely hurt a mobile-first experience.

Today, I'm not sure I can recommend new projects go with it. That being said, I also feel like a normal GraphQL server on Node isn't "far enough" down the path that Meteor set. The JS backend world is still really far away from an AIO framework like Rails/Phoenix; Meteor is the closest we got, but its not the answer.
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The parts that sounded reasonable sound less so given this context.
All the major meta-analyses come to roughly the same conclusion, which is that anti-depressants have modest positive effects. The paper you linked to finds exactly this, but argues that the effect size they found is insignificant because of the high risk of bias. Other studies have gone to extraordinary lengths to control for potential biases and come up with a very similar effect size. Reasoning about the data is quite challenging, because we're talking about relatively small shifts in a relatively broad statistical distribution.

"Number needed to treat" is a useful epidemiological concept in this case. A perfect drug that cures every single patient has an NNT of one - for each patient you treat, one patient is successfully treated. When you translate the results of SSRI meta-analyses, you get an NNT of about seven - for every seven patients who take SSRIs, one more patient will recover than if those patients were given a placebo.

It's hard to know what to do with that information. Is it worth prescribing antidepressants to 1,000,000 people to treat 142,000 of them? On a pure cost-benefit analysis, the answer is a resounding yes. Antidepressants are relatively cheap and safe. Are you willing to take a pill every day to get a one-in-seven chance of an effective treatment? Maybe. If you're in the throes of a deep depression, you might be willing to give anything a try. If you're just feeling a bit blue, maybe not. By the same token, if you're taking antidepressants and you don't think that they're helping, you're probably right.
Shocking news that a company aiming to put a microphone in every house is also working on how to analyze all the voice information it can gather.
> the worst side effects I've ever faced from stopping have been screwed up sleep/wake cycles, irritability, and a few days of headache

I wonder if that's worse than a newborn.
I never claimed to have a way to fix or save Venezuela, in the same way that I can’t bring the dead back to life. I’d still feel comfortable telling someone to stop fiddling with a day old corpse in the hopes of restoring life to it, and I’d question their motives. Especially if it seemed like there was profit or ideology at stake.

I asked how this article survives the weight of its own lofty claims for a cryptocurrency. Do you have an answer?

Wait, did you sign up for Hacker News a few minutes ago just for that post?
Looks like a small town stadium in Brazil. What makes this particular stadium newsworthy?
Having more Cordova crap on the Windows Phone app store wouldn’t have made a difference. There was no shortage of lesser known apps on Windows Phone, and enabling even more webview junk would have made the problem worse.

Microsoft spent a lot of money on initiatives that got unknown developers to flood the platform with apps of dubious quality. All along the real app problem they had was the lack of top 20 apps, everything from YouTube to Snapchat to Instagram to Uber.
It sometimes feels as if I've entered into a strange simulacrum of reality when I end up on websites like that. It has the logo of a known (albeit pretty trashy) newspaper business at the top, but it is being entirely staffed by aliens.

These aliens don't know how tumors are extracted... because you don't cut perfect rounds out of the patient's body and fill it with bio-compatible spackle. Neither do the aliens think it odd to describe a concept in the same terms as actually physically instantiated concepts, what we would normally call "inventions." Finally, the aliens draw a nonsensical relationship between this non-existent invention and my business and the lessons that I can learn from it.

I understand conceptually how we have ended up in this world, but every once in a while I am again surprised.
Lithium sucks, or so I've heard.

Modafinil (antinarcoleptic, originally) plus lamotrigine (anticonvulsant, originally) works well for me. It's easy to tweak the ratio as circumstances warrant.

Edit: About sex. My wife at the time did like that I took longer to reach orgasm. However, after we separated, I discovered that wearing a condom made orgasm unreachable. And that did become a problem. Albeit an amusing one, in retrospect.
> If there were substantial long-term risks associated with antidepressants, we would have seen them

Drug makers have no incentive to see them. I can say from experience that I have seen them. I spent two months out of work when I had to discontinue Effexor. Other people complained about “brain zaps” and were largely ignored. My doctor never warned me. The evidence is there but there if you look, but there is no one with an economic incentive to pay attention. Just because there are few studies documenting these symptoms doesn’t mean they’re not. This is a wake up call that more studies need to be done.
Amazon’s Next Mission: Using Alexa to Help You Pay Friends
most people just use default apps on their phones for email, the web, and text messaging

The email client was fine IIRC, particularly if you were connecting to Exchange for work since it's Outlook. For Gmail on the other hand, well, it was IMAP. I'm pretty sure that's improved a lot over the years, but for a long time I think there was a lot that was broken about using Gmail with IMAP - little things like IMAP not being so great for handling tags.

The web browser situation was pretty poor. Edge for a long time was what you'd expect from a brand-new written-from-scratch browser - immature and not really ready for prime time. Unfortunately there weren't any other options that were really great either (Squirrel Browser? Monument? I think that's it) and nothing with a significant development team behind it.

Text messaging was interesting - IIRC, it was a "Model T color choice" situation. You used the built-in messaging app, because security features meant that there not only were not any others but that there could not be any others. I'm not sure about iOS, but on Android there are some very successful alternative messaging apps (Textra, Handcent, Go, maybe some others).
I had no problems stopping Wellbutrin after 3.5 years. More or less went cold turkey when I ran out of prescription.
All of my past couple laptops have been touchscreens. I never find it that useful honestly. It just ends up leaving fingerprints all over the screen.
Thanks, that clarifies and greatly improves your initial quip.

I've been changing numerous of my fundamental beliefs and can report that perssonally it's been difficult, painful, and disconcerting as hell. There's a quote on enlightenment by a recent Cupertino mystic I ran across a few years back:

"Make no mistake about it -- enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or becoming happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true."

Slightly more: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/78lr8h/enlight...

As for human frames, world mental models, and ideologies, they seem profoundly tended to be highly self-serving, particularly of the powerful.

As to the relationship of wealth and power: "Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power." Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
The article states:

"According to a recent report by The Economist, Venezuela is the cheapest region on earth to mine bitcoin, because of its cheap electricity and the worthless Bolivar."

How does that relate to USD? There are hundreds of stable currencies that could replace the Bolivar but due to extremely cheap electricity, Bitcoin is in a unique position to help Venezuelans.
There are KYC regulations for telcos? Found the Orwellian part.
Your summary does not accurately reflect what the license states.

You can use Visual Studio Community Edition for commercial programs, so long as:

* You're not doing so for an organization that has more than 250 PCs or 1 million USD in annual revenue

* No more then 5 users in the organization that you are using it for are using it for things other than open source, academic research, and classroom learning
There are side effects to the anti-depressants that might be unpleasant. There are several types of anti-depressants that kill your libido, for example, which can have a fairly large impact on your relationship with your partner.

On top of that, some people aren't comfortable needing to take a daily dose of medication where the withdrawal symptoms are so disruptive. What happens if you forget to take your meds one morning? What if you lose your insurance coverage and can no longer afford the pills? What happens if you're traveling abroad and the bad with your medications gets stolen?
Survival isn't the only factor in evolution. You also have sexual selection (more people want to mate with you).
I’m not going to be able to debate the validity of your experiences of course, and I won’t try to. I can say with confidence however that for most people, psychosis is strongly correlated with poor outcomes including homelessness and suicide. Early intervention and prevention leads to the best outcomes, and the more psychotic events in a persons life, the worse the outcomes are on average.
By authenticate I mean Aadhaar transaction authentication. Say you are filing your tax returns. There are currently three ways to authenticate that the tax return was indeed filed by you:

1. You take a print out of the acknowledgement, sign it and send it to a centralised tax processing unit.

2. You purchase a digital signature and sign it using the same (requires you to be slightly tech savvy). Not to mention the cost of acquiring the digital signature and the fact that you need to keep renewing it every few years.

3. Just authenticate using your Aadhaar number. An OTP will be sent to your mobile number and you just need to enter the same on screen. Once verified, you have digitally signed and submitted your tax return.

I find option 3 really appealing. This is just one practical example of where one can use Aadhaar and OTP for authentication.
I think he missed one detail...

Eve in this scenario wouldn't be able to get back into the account once James had reset the password.
This is exciting. That said, it's important to note that this is unlikely to help much with most OLTP queries just looking up information quickly via indexed data. Where this could really shine is CPU-bound queries that are performing complex operations, where the SQL interpreter is actually a bottleneck.

I wonder if AWS will incorporate these improvements into Redshift, which is Postgres forked for OLAP use cases where this is far more prevalent. In the past, they haven't done a great job at this (ran into a float bug fixed upstream 5+ years ago), but this may be a big enough value proposition to justify the effort.
Actually Locke here just agrees without providing more justifications. It would have been more interesting if he had provided a counter-argument instead. For instance, "while it's true that this man hasn't learned how what he felt looks, he can to some extend apply logic; he knows that the sphere feels the same from every direction of touch and he can observe that one of the objects looks the same from every direction; so he can conclude that this object is the sphere".

But I guess someone actually gaining sight just wants to be done ASAP with those silly experiments and go to the theater ;-)
The implementations are completely different.

Microsoft shared the password implicitly to "friends" without making the security implications clear to the user.

It seems like Apple have made the security implications clear to the user: an explicit choice to share the password to one person, and the prompt mentions that a password is being shared.

The Microsoft implementation is rightly lambasted.
Its a recurring fee. Of course, its dependent on members feeling they are getting value for money and continuing each year. The platinum level was only recently created.

I don't know what it means that there is not later reports. The consortium is definitely active. It arose because open source software is about people scratching an itch, and often the focus is on the fun stuff and not on the boring, difficult, dirty engineering required to make a product reliable and successful (e.g. operating a CI infrastructure). Pharo arose out of INRIA[1], one of France's publicly funded national research institutes. But their mission and governance structure is not suited to managing non-research engineers dedicated to working on Pharo. So InriaSoft[2] was created to fork off its successful software into consortiums funding pure engineering work on the software as an ongoing concern. At the moment the consortium has one full-time engineer, but hope to get another in the next couple of years if the consortium continues the current growth rate.

AFAIK (I am not directly involved), the main efforts decided by consortium members were:

* Stabilizing 32-bit to 64-bit conversion for Pharo, utilizing and contributing to the OpenSmalltalk-VM project.

* Stablizing Iceberg as our Git/GUI interface

* Maintaining CI infrastructure

btw, There is also the Pharo Association with 82 individual members. [3]

[1] https://www.inria.fr/en/institute/inria-in-brief/inria-in-a-...
[2] https://www.inria.fr/en/news/news-from-inria/launch-of-inria...
[3] https://association.pharo.org/
"Landing a feature" is common way of phrasing that a feature has been added. For example, one might say that "C++17 support has landed in master", referring to the master branch for LLVM.
Venezuelan here, bitcoin is only used as a fast bridge between VEF and USD* mostly money laundering.

That's it.

So how it works is that people have tons of VEF from different sources, go to localbitcoins and get some btc and sell as soon as possible for usd in other places.

The thing got so crazy that USD:VEF black market rate was stable at 1USD:200,000 VEF for like 2 weeks but the "bitcoin dollar" was trading at 1USD:350,000VEF

Besides that, bitcoin has absolutely no use.

And for the people saying that "mining" bitcoin is good in venezuela, they are totally wrong, mining bitcoin is a business you wouldn't want to go in, there is alot of mafia (because of what i said above) and alot of weird things happening, only those who are related to mafia/gov/drugs/illegal gold mining/corruption in general are the ones who can mine without the risks, if you are the average techie guy you are in huge risk, from like getting all your hardware stolen [1][2][3] to even be jailed and charged as terrorist [4]

[1] https://losbenjamins.com/2018/01/vea-regimen-roba-maquinas-b...

[2] https://www.criptonoticias.com/sucesos/desmantelan-centro-mi...

[3] https://www.el-carabobeno.com/pareja-detenida-por-comercio-i...

[4] http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/sucesos/incautaron-compu...