skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can be a successful and creative person if you are always at the whims of random internet commenters.
>"It may be worth mentioning that airlines are perhaps less-evil than is apparent from the outside. Most of their baffling behaviour is (IMHO) largely due to lack of capabilities rather than malevolence."

Just to recap the "Dr Dao United Airlines" incident mentioned in the article - United airlines had a passenger forcibly removed from a flight for not agreeing to give up his seat for off-duty United employees.[1]

The reason the doctor wasn't interested in giving up his seat was because he had patients to see. I think that meets most people's criteria of "malevolence."

https://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2018/04/david-dao-a...
You would be right if it did guess, but it doesn't. It's not magic, I'm not sure if it still has limitations, but I think the idea is that it eventually does not have limitations.

It's not magic when a compiler compiles your correct code.
Yes, it makes you realize this pop song from the seventies is not only incredibly cheesy but could be catastrophically dangerous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BrSVOOK610
It basically already has with Tuberculosis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensively_drug-resistant_tub...
Can you elaborate on the oppressed genders, plural, that were recognised and included due to WW1 and 2? Female I imagine is one. Which others? And even then it was only the Soviets having women fight.
Further discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16838010
Google and Netflix team up on Kayenta, for automated deployment monitoring
It matters in thinking about solutions. And, of course, in the ever-popular hobby of assigning blame. The title I see is "Schools Are Failing to Teach Kids How to Read". If rayiner is correct, then the actual title should be, "Schools Doing Fine, But Their Job Is Getting Harder".
This is why I prefer the title UI Developer. It abstracts away the particular technology of the moment, and recognizes the commonality of all human-computer interface development.
‘The Lion of the Punjab’ – Gama in England, 1910
WHOIS limits under GDPR will make pirates harder to catch, groups fear
No remote work allows you to outsource "bog standard" work you aint going to get to the c suite that way
To be fair?!

I was addressing the phrasing and lack of objectivity of the Typescript statement. At no point did I discuss the merits of anti MS sentiment.

Yes I agree with you that MS has burnt people in the past. At the same time it's not binary so 100% of MS != evil.
Duh. Meant to type TB. Will fix, thanks
"Yeah we should just Streisand effect our sitch to the HN community"

Heh /r/didntmeanto

Well played.
Pasteapp for Mac/iOS. All my snippets are in my clipboard history and pinned snips.
Scrolling doesn't make it very much more obvious.

A lot of places unwilling more than unable to summarize their product because it seems limiting. E.g. they could have just said "chat service"
Give Poor New Yorkers a Break on Subway and Bus Fares
I was using BoostNote, then Quiver, then settled on VimWiki using Markdown instead of the native format for my entries. It’s been invaluable and all of my notes are much more portable/transferable.. even as opposed to the cell-based JSON structures of the aforementioned.
"That's a pretty hard thing to explain."
Well, the vietnamese army say that they did it by leaving 10 000 vietcong in the south after the separation and rapidly subsumed all resistance movements as front organisations under direct northern control. The south was thoroughly corrupt, brutal and inept but having another state sponsoring and controlling a guerilla war in your country could not have helped.
https://www.amazon.com/Victory-Vietnam-Official-History-1954...
Is Type Coercion in JavaScript a Good Thing?
> Doesn't somebody have to work the brick pits?

Probably not. Whenever wages go up enough, companies find ways to automate manual jobs.

On Market St in SF, I just walked by a cafe featuring a robot barista. Doesn't somebody have to make my latte? Turns out the answer is no.
I only intended to mean females and that plural is an error.

Edit: The Soviets and resistance groups had women fight, but most countries had women in the armed forces and filling roles previously male only. Outside the military there was a pressing manpower shortage and women filled roles that were previously male only. Post war not everyone wanted to give up the positions they had filled and done excelled at.
That would imply that the G factor might have something to do with the gap in achievement though. And if that were the case we'd have very little justification for aiming to improve low income scores.

Since we have evidence that students do better as family income increases I'm thinking we are wondering why we can't close the gap called by other things.
I am quite happy with OneNote from Microsoft. It has decent enough Android, iOS and web versions as well and is free. Sadly I believe Microsoft are retiring the Win32 version in favour of UWP :(
My favourite talk group is the Chaos Computer Club Conferences, about security, privacy, and more.

https://m.youtube.com/user/mediacccde
Chiming in after seeing us get mentioned here (context: lead designer @ http://Fairpixels.pro)

Working with engineers of b2b saas companies every day, for more than a year and having analysed all the best SaaS companies who have 10+ internal designers, I found a couple of principles that anyone can apply to make their website look decent:

* Consistency - One practical example: If you use a 4px border-radius, use a 4px radius everywhere. It may sound small, but having a consistent experience across your application makes the product feel so much more polished to your users. Don't use multiple fonts, different navigation menus etc. Keep it consistent.

* Reduction - If anything, design isn't about adding more things to make it 'look nice'. Try to remove as many things as you can. If something doesn't serve a specific function, then remove it. Every pixel should make sense. The more you put in front of your users, the more brain power it'll require to process.

* Divide - This is mostly UX, but one thing I see so many get wrong. A lot of SaaS apps overwhelm their users. They present them with all the features upfront. Whether it's a long onboarding form, or a dashboard with 50 actions one could take. By splitting up things in different ways, you can guide the user through the experience. Your signup process for example (that might be a big block in conversion) might be made so much better if you ask for certain types of information later on in the process.
Heh - that's funny.

First: veganism does not protect against the vast majority of diseases. There's only a few. Furthermore, vegans are famous in medicine for developing weird diseases. How ? They forget, in their diet, something essential, which often first results in reduced immune response, which results in a weird infection, which results in severe symptoms. And to add a cherry on that cake: when you start being vegan there are many things you can do without for years, so you can't easily compensate for it: the actual problem occurs many months to years after going vegan, and occurs very suddenly.

Vegan patients are also famous for not believing the diagnosis, and after specific pills fix the problems, they get released, start the same vegan regimen again, and have the same problem again months later, only usually worse.

Also, about screwing ... you realize this means that in 10 years or so screwing, having sex with multiple partners, will be like Russian roulette, right ? Almost all diseases are sexually transmittable and if a few dozen of the easier to transmit ones become incurable ...
Even the first batch of YC was fairly successful - reddit made three millionaires, and Loopt made two or three.
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Not trying to be pedantic but the devil is in the details.

Bones are common, fossils are formed by a relatively rare geologic process. Fossilization supplants slow to rot organic material with stone, embedding it in the strata, in just the right conditions. It's unclear to me what (if any) industrial rememants would become fossilized and if they'd be recognizable as such.
Where I live, there are gifted schools for kids that speak Polish, Spanish and Russian. Their only goal for English is to make sure the child is proficient by the 6th grade.

The kids section at the local library branch (there is one in every neighborhood) will have half the books in English and the rest in whatever languages are common in that neighborhood.

Language barriers are only a problem if your local city makes them one.

My son is in 3rd grade and his NWEA MAP reading score put him at the 11/12 grade level, so he got put into an advanced reader class. In the fall, they read books about history, wrote about and discussed them in class. This spring, the teach chose a young adult novel that I guess is entirely appropriate from a reading-level point of view. But some of the subject matter goes way over the heads of the kids and other stuff in the book is disturbing to them. Our son simply refused to finish reading the book. The teacher wasn't going to switch books because a couple kids didn't like it, and the class depended on discussing what they read... What can you do but stop reading and/or drop out of the class?
What about bacteriophages?
Just kind of hoping they can get the look&feel and most importantly the thermals right on this one. If you go on notebookcheck you can see that every single thin machine that comes out has throttling problems and insufficient sizing of cooling parts, and Apple manages to dissipate 2x the heat in the same thin chassis.
notion.so is great: wiki, version control, nice UI
I do the same. A simple text file that's not in git, structured a bit like markdown. I keep it open in vim, so it's always there when I need it.

I've tried using more complex tools like vim outliner and evernote, but simple text files work better for me.
Saviano came out of hiding to give a talk and described the UK as the most corrupt country in the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/29/roberto-savian...
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Oftentimes, commenters are aimless cynics - this is especially common in things related to art (where nobody is really more right than anybody else) and business (where anybody who really knows what's going on would be better served by taking action themselves.) When it comes to centuries-old science you're either right or you're wrong, and there's no place for very convincing, very beautiful presentations that are wrong.
> The disturbing thing is that you're talking about giving a kindergartner a smartphone/tablet [...] their apps are designed to be so addictive.

The e-reader app is not that addictive. Maybe you meant giving a kid unfettered access? That's a completely different issue and has parallels in many forms of entertainment. But you shouldn't call giving a kid a smartphone/tablet as disturbing on its face.
>One of the most successful con jobs was conceptually linking war and manliness, so that 'pacifist' became a derisive label

Please. You're ignoring biology if you think the association between manliness and war is an engineered phenomenon.
And in the 1970s by Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night.
True.

But that's actually a common trend. When the company's brand gets bigger and stronger in people's mind, company position slowly switches from

1 Product attributes

2. Product benefits

3. Emotional benefits

4. Something bigger

This applies well to every type of product. SaaS included.

This is a great essay on the topic: https://medium.com/speroventures/branding-for-builders-19e10...
Those are viruses, and as a rule there are no generic drugs that directly act against large classes of viruses. In most cases, with viral infection symptomatic treatment is the only option available.
Exactly. At the same time igniting Israel using chemical weapons in Palestine.
>If it wasn't, why has it taken this long for someone to take ownership of that huge pile of risk-free money

Maybe because no one thought of it before?

The picture you're painting is fine if you're evaluating a handful of candidate molecules each with, you'd guess, a 5% chance of having the right PK profile or something.

But for major breakthroughs, there are "unknown unknowns" that make it impossible to estimate that likelihood. It's nice to think that, if you let the full value be captured, it would incentivize more people to pursue one-in-a-million "lottery ticket" cures, but it just doesn't work that way. They're not lottery tickets if they have incalculable odds.

For the most part, the difference between management and cures is in this latter category. I.e. we don't have a cure because we just don't know how to do it, not because we were too cheap to invest in the biochemical trench warfare to find the right molecule.
> “Good students are good at all things.”

If you're going by grades, then odds are what you're really selecting for is students who are good at the things they felt safe taking, not those who challenged themselves.
Move to Europe, and file a right to be forgotten request after May 25th, when the GDPR goes into effect.
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Why on earth would that be irrelavant?

Also I'm quite sure the numbers are there, maybe not as crisp as you like, but one could make some reasonable estimates based on immigration records from ellis island and the census through those periods.
I use regular Notational Velocity. Didn't know about this fork, will have to try it out.
I've seen pretty sizeable trailer parks without fresh water in Holland, too. Granted, nothing comparable to what you find in America, but finding regions of endemic poverty in Europe is not hard at all.
Confluence is where I put everything that isn’t in source control.
I search from within the text editor. I'm on a Mac so the files are searchable via Spotlight as well.

I usually have this sublime window open in a separate Desktop so it is easy to switch to it.
> Isn't it the caller further up the stack that knows best what to do?

Often yes (one of the exceptions being a simple die() routine that cleans up only global state). It's just pseudocode, and in real code you will often not call any functions in the exception handling block.
What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ulysses. Code snippets coming in new version (beta now)
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https://dnsimple.com

https://basecamp.com

https://sentry.io

https://semaphoreci.com

https://instapaper.com

Old Heroku :-(
I don't see much reason to use pip over pipenv. Pipenv calls pip internally, but it handles much more use cases.
I use notepad++

I have tried everything else. Believe me.
https://notein.com - open source, simple and powerful
Another quiver user here. I really wish it were cross platform. One of these days, I’m going to make a web app interface to it for when I have to use a pc.
Wolfram on teaching kids “coding” vs. “computational thinking”
I don't see the need for a network either. In fact I would assume a big network is way more important when you look for a good job.

People buy my things because I fill a need. I don't know a single person in real life who uses my products or has similar needs.
Quick feedback on fairpixels.co/pro: clicking "Get started" (blue button top right) breaks the site, nothing happens, scrolling is broken afterwards. Mac Safari Version 11.0.3 (13604.5.6)
"But when they do learn about “programming”, say in high school, what do they actually learn? There’s usually a lot of syntactic detail, but the top concepts tend to be conditionals, loops and variables. As someone who’s spent most of his life thinking about computation, this is really disappointing. Yes, these concepts are certainly part of low-level computer languages. But they’re not central to what we now broadly understand as computation—and in computational thinking in general they’re at best side shows."

Is our approach to teaching kids to code wrong? Do we put too much emphasis on what Wolfram calls the top concepts (loops, variables, etc) and language specific syntax - and not enough emphasis on how to think computationally?
What is Hadoop? Facts you must know about Apache Hadoop
They are talking about the use of antibiotics in livestock accelerating resistance.
I agree - it feels poorly-designed-2012

But thats not a knock on their offering - if their customers are happy and they are doing a good job, then more power to their servers.
Seconding simplenote. Works across platforms (macos and android for me) plus web. Doesn't do anything clever, other than markdown integration and basic tagging, but what it does works well.
https://tiddlywiki.com/ !!!
Tnx, pinging a teammate.
Aren't plastics hydrocarbons? Would the hydrogen be driven off (cracked) leaving something like coal.

I think that we might be more likely to find concentrations of metals left over from artifacts of civilization. If so, would these look different from naturally occuring metals?
Possibly, but there are numerous examples of minority (and majority in the case of women) groups agitating for the rights that they deserved, and in many cases having the dominant groups support them. I don’t think the social change would have happened at the same rate without the wars.
I use Microsoft OneNote. It has some great features, plays well with Outlook.
This is key: my wife is a teacher and hates these stories because the headline should be more like “Schools doing fine, fewer students are falling through the cracks”. It’s especially important when you see people obsessing about school test scores and paying huge premiums to live a neighborhood without poor people when the public data clearly shows that anyone from a stable household performs the same as at the school which has more rich kids.
Such absolute statements are a reflection of your personality as much as your world view. I'd take the opposite view of all of this. That your body is a society, and society is an organism. You think the gp is anthropomorphizing. I think you're exhibiting species chauvinism, setting prejudiced goalposts.
Good news: Facebook has UI for getting your personal data if you don't have an account.

Bad news: Apparently it only works if you have an account. Go figure...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16821437
Emacs Org mode in a git repo. Pull /push to sync. Export as needed. Lots of little files per task or document.

I've tried every other software system and this is the one I come back to. Invest in getting this the way you like, and it'll pay off better than anything else. Custom agendas, remember mode, Babel export, the benefits just keep adding up.

For meeting notes, or quick todos, sometimes paper makes sense. Treat that paper as queued input for org mode.

For when you have to sit down and really think a complex problem through, high quality pen (fountain for me) and paper that just makes it feel good to write. The tactile feeling really helps nudge more out of you. When you have it figured out, refer to that when planning in org mode.
What if you don’t have a Facebook account, Senator.
Yet another Programming-Language sort-of-spec
I got asked by FB to identify myself with my passport after 9 years of being on it with like 150+ RL friends and classmates etc. and I just thought "fuck that, show me the passport of the random strangers who didn't like my political posts", and haven't look back since. And by political I mean quotes by Noam Chomsky and Hannah Arendt and whatnot, not racist rants or whatever people primed with the notion of FB having some sort of liberal bias might dream up. So I took it as a compliment. FB had precious little to give me, and precious little use for what I had to offer. No worries, like reading a poem to a dog and only then realizing it's a dog. Still a good poem, but the dog wouldn't know.

Now if only HN required email addresses for accounts, then I could be real productive. Merely being shadowbanned is actually kinda neat, I can still speak my mind however I want and don't have to check for replies on a site that has zero notifications anyway.
I think they’re asking if bacteriophage therapy could replace antibiotic therapy? The answer is no, because you require a specific phage to treat a specific bacterial species, and since phases don’t tend to naturally infect us, it’s hard to get the phases to where the bacteria are. Phage therapy can work for something like strep throat, when you can literally rinse your throat with a solution containing phases, but basically useless for something like bone or blood infections.
Well there are many cases where you don’t have to handle them immediately but the key is that your set of exceptions has to be restricted. Some random filenotfound is not very helpful it has to be converted. This of course is because something like file open failure isn’t really long range throwing exceptionable by itself.

Python is special in that they took the simple approach all errors are exceptions which leads to a lot of try catch blocks. This keeps the design very simple which is good for python I think. For python this is really more a syntactic wart I would argue. Everything is an exception, fine I say (for python). It just sucks there isn’t a cleaner one line syntax for translating that typical example you gave.
The idea is to use them instead of antibiotics. Phage therapy.
I agree. But, I feel it is not as serious as in other areas because there are no true competitors to Facebook?
The title is misleading in another way too: the bulk of the article is really about how the standard approach to teaching reading has been contradicted by research. Since that's more interesting, we changed the title to a representative phrase from the article. Hopefully the discussion can get more specific, too.

(No doubt a hair-pulling America-is-falling-behind lament is better for clicks, since headline writers know what they're doing, but undoing their deeds is part of the job here.)
Would probably be India or Indonesia with the highest body count. That's 1.5 billion people! Didn't mean to imply I don't care about people with bad plumbing.

Yep I meant tuberculosis. Thanks for the correction. Time for bed..
Ask HN: How shall I use the concept of 'block-chain' in social networking
> Emails aren't tasks.

Your use of email must be vastly different from mine then. Corporate email is pretty much a way for other people to add stuff to one's TO-DO list.

> If the subject is no longer the same, one could provide an UI feature that allows them to be viewed separately.

Many times an email conversation forks into two topics, each of which is only relevant to some of the people in the recipient's list.
What worries me is that email chains (and WhatsApp in many cases) are significantly worst at keeping disinformation at bay:

- Hardly anyone writes back the recipients, often copied in the different layers of the email, so disinformation spreads without being corrected; but

- Spammers gladly collect the emails through those anyway.
Time is the only healing factor in these situations. No matter how you bring the news, it'll take some time for everything to settle.
I use Gollum (https://github.com/gollum/gollum) which is the engine for Github's wikis.

It used to be harder to stand it up for personal use, but now it's quite easy.

I write my notes in Markdown, and have fenced code blocks. It provides search. You can do diffs.
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