skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really want a way to get a generated voice recognition transcript for all that content people really think needs to be in video form. 2x playback is still 14:45 too long in this instance.
Medical expenses are going up much faster than inflation. At least 4% annually I think. Maybe as much as 6-8% on average since 2013? I see varying figures, but definitely not 0-2%.
2. there’s actually no such thing as “read-only” from our memory. it’s closer to “read and then rewrite.” so, it can change over time and often become less accurate the more you access memories.
Ask HN: What's up with this spam email? Could it be Efail?
I got a strange message yesterday. It makes me wonder about Efail. I don't decode HTML, and fetch no external content, by the way.

In Thunderbird text mode, "----DMMAwGuf 1hTVhVG5 OI0QBVgA ... cROBNJ3k q9IZYLZM rP0GExKW RS----" appears as the message header. Where an image might normally be.

The body requests a quote for storage tanks, and refers to an attached image. But there are no attachments.

Interesting HTML snippets are:

<div style=3D"display:none;"><span style=3D"font-size:0px;line-height:0px;color:white;background-color:white;">----DMMAwGuf 1hTVhVG5 OI0QBVgA ... cROBNJ3k q9IZYLZM rP0GExKW RS----=0A=0A<br><br></span>

<div style=3D"display:none;"><span style=3D"font-size:0px;line-height:0px;color:white;background-color:white;">----iAmobekE x8fPP99r k7BqbiXj ... 3zlX0bTK oPoV8ioK 6J5dAT----</span>

It might just be screwed-up text-encoded images. But then why would they do "display:none;" and "font-size:0px;line-height:0px;color:white;background-color:white;" to attempt hiding the text?
while smoking and lottery-ticket buying are categorized as necessities.

I gave up smoking a couple of months ago after 30 odd years - I now feel rather stupid, given how clever I really am. I have never been a gambler but the parallels are very clear to me and I have a couple of friends who are gamblers and display the same stupidity. I keep my gob shut.

I do not agree with the definition of necessity implied above. Gambling and drug taking (smoking int al) are not basic requirements for life. Eating is. Eating at McDs is simply buying calories and possibly a few other basic life sustaining requirements and consuming the same. McDs may not provide you with all the nutritional requirements for a healthy life but you will get a lot of calories in. Until embarrassingly recently, the sole stated purpose of eating was calories. Brits are still not known as Limeys for nothing.

Fags and bandits can go and *////~~~~ bbbbzzzzt OFF!!!!
Elfeed, if you are using Emacs. You can view most blogs and lighter websites w/ no problems with Emacs's web browser, EWW. Or you can tell Emacs w/ one variable to open links with an external browser.
Yeah, that definitely has to be factored into the salary. I choose to pay for an individual insurance plan for these things, including disability insurance which should be accounted for as well.

I don't have any dependents, but that would certainly change things as well.
All of you couldn't do a better job to make me very very glad of the taxes and other money I pay to the state and public health insurance here in Germany. As long as we can protect this system this will never happen to me or my neighbours.
And once you've enrolled in that for-profit college, surprise! You can choose to keep your student status to keep your loans in deferment but now you're not eligible for food stamps while an enrolled student unless you work a minimum of 20 hours a week/earn ~$680 a month.
Because Preact and Hyperapp are solving slightly different problems.

Hyperapp is Elm-like state management (and soon effects and subscriptions in 2.0) on top of an ultra-lightweight virtual DOM diff engine.

Preact is a React 15 clone at best. Check out also https://github.com/NervJS/nerv for another React clone that is closer to React 16 (but still no fiber).
doesnt this look like the chart of CPI https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/DBC

https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
> The scariest threat model is phishing, and the disadvantage of a TOTP app on your phone is that you type in the one-time code by hand. Anything you type in by hand can be phished.

I can be fooled into reading a 6-digit PIN to Evil Mallory, a MITM attack.

I can be fooled into tapping my NFC auth token on Mallory's Evil Website, and the auth handshake would fail. Or not. It depends on the protocol, I suppose.

Is that what you mean?
That's the claim, but not an explanation. HN isn't multi-color.
"Selling something to cover your expenses might be a blessing in disguise if the thing you sell is a liability in the first place (ex: a car you cant really afford)."

In that specific case, no. In the US today, a car is damn near mandatory. Otherwise you'll be spending hours commuting on a bus, and that's if you're lucky enough to be somewhere with decent bus service. And that's assuming you have the type of job schedule where you can have that kind of time.

Many times, not being able to keep your car, even if it's expensive in maintenance costs, means you could lose your job.
> Why do I have the feeling that most posters on HN who consider themselves the "middle class", actually fall well above of the middle quintile of household income and most are in the 5th quintile.

Because middle class in a capitalist society is an economic relationship between the captialist and working class (characterized by mixed dependence on capital and labor, most archetypically the independent operator who supports themselves by applying their own labor to their own capital rather than primarily by renting labor to apply to capital or selling labor to capitalists), and its members are usually well above middle income (though, on average, far below that of the capitalist class.)

The middle income quintile is largely members of the proletariat, not the petit bourgeoisie.
An outage at any one of five services will stop your thing from working, and it won't necessarily be obvious what happened. Now you need to monitor five services, plus the one you actually built. Oh, and the free plans will stop being free once you cross a threshold of use, which is probably about when it becomes important to you.

If each of those services has an outage once a year, you'll get to feel all of them.

Compare to tt-rss: if your own web server and database are running (and there's an internet connection), it's working.
> While this doesn't surprise me, I do wonder if it misses (to some extent) the point. My guess is that a mass produced, relatively inexpensive violin could very well be as "good" as a more expensive, unique one.

The high end violins people are talking about are made pretty much the same way as they've been made for centuries. The Chinese have factories turning out student instruments of very solid quality, but that's not what people are talking about when they compare with Guarnaris or Stradivarii.

> It's not that the more expensive one is better in a blind test, it's that it produces a tone that is hard to find in most instruments, and because it's fairly unique, you'll only find it in an older instrument or a hand crafted one.

Not really. While there are characteristic overtone series for a given instrument, or even a given maker or school of makers, that is a question of preference. There are real qualities that you're after. First, versatility. What makes a violin a student instrument is that its sound is quite fixed. It's like playing in a box. That's handy when you're trying to get control of your technique, but once you have that, an instrument that will alter its timbre depending on how you play it becomes desirable. Second, uniformity. Does the violin ring well and consistently over its range? Are there places where you have to baby it to avoid having one note ring out harshly over the rest? Finally, response. How smoothly and quickly does the violin change pitch or timbre? Do you have to stop the sound and restart it to get it to drop an octave on one string, or will it go as soon as you move your finger?

> One thing I really like about Irish music is the airs - slower pieces with long, often open notes, that often aren't played with vibrato (sometimes they can't be directly played with vibrato, since there is extensive use of open strings). I don't want to get into a big debate about whether vibrato "should" be used in Irish airs on fiddle, cause my opinion is go ahead, if you like it. But to me, there's something about the way a note can ring, almost like a bell, that you can achieve when you draw the bow properly across the string at a particular harmonic, but don't add any additional vibrato.

You can always replace the open string with a fingered note on the next string down (aside from open G). But yes, most of this music wasn't intended for the continuous vibrato that became popular among classical violinists in the 20th century. Irish and Scottish folk music is descended from Baroque dance music, and its use of tone and vibrato is very close to what musicological evidence shows Baroque musicians to have used. There's a variation called finger vibrato where increase and decrease the pressure on the string instead of moving the hand to produce a slight vibration. Typically it is used as a decoration as a long note extends. That's what Geminiani (who is mentioned in the article) describes as vibrato, and it was classified as an ornament like a mordent or a trill.
A number of funded charities are setup that way. Carnegie made many of them. Bill Gates is actually a bit unusual in terms of the ultra rich setting up foundations - most wanted their institutions to carry on indefinitely. However BillG is adament the money is spent completely shortly after his death as he doesn't feel the dead should control the future.

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

http://carnegieendowment.org/about/pdfs/carnegie_trusts.pdf
I guess look? :)

There's a book though: https://booth.pm/ja/items/825889 (Japanese)
AFAIK, the point of the DoD Root CA is to avoid trusting an external entity not to intercept military traffic. Most .mil HTTPS sites that are intended to be accessed by the public (like https://www.army.mil/) are signed by a regular Root CA, while internal sites use the DoD Root CA.
America or more specifically California has tried local responsibility for zoning of housing and it has created a crippling housing shortage. Local or centralized, sustainability comes from the right incentive structures.
I use http://feed43.com for this. Its nice because you can create your own standard for the output.
The examples I see are what I'd call "lab puzzles" and not practical real-world enough. I invite you to point out a specific example that's highly practical/realistic.
As long as we acknowledge that large classes with large methods can also cause problems. Dealt with that before and it is not fun by any means. The worst offenders, though, are the projects that have a LOT of large classes with large methods, plus some crazy abstraction thrown in like a dash of pepper.
The inflation of medical expenses in the US significantly outpaces the standard measures of inflation that you're quoting, generally by at least 3%. The OPs estimate of $500 is much closer to reality than yours.
For people under 40: "Perl" refers to a script interpreter that used to be popular in the 90's.
Why does it seem unlikely? I don't know the shape of the distribution but it doesn't seem implausible to me that a 7.5% change in the threshold amount would correspond to a 10% change in the population quantile.
A rational actor defers maintenance when money is scarce. That doesn't make maintenance discretionary, just deferrable and indefinitely deferred maintenance eventually causes unavoidable, huge spending.
...well don't go to China lol!

can't read the article due to paywall but can grok the content based on the title. When you break it all down it's pretty much a supply/demand type issue where supply is constantly limited, or in reality decreasing, and demand is increasing rapidly. The only thing that can adjust the speed of the above is pricing and regulations. Unfortunately, many "destinations" are hungry for the tourist dollars and don't think about (or know how to) building a sustainable industry.

Regulations can help; some examples:
--Antarctica treaty limits size of boats that can make landings, number of people that can be on land at once and the minimum ratio of guides/tourists.
--Bhutan limits the number of tourists allowed in the country annually, requires they tour with a guided company, and mandates a minimum spending amount per day.
--Ecuador limits boats in Galapagos to maximum of 100 passengers, limits the port of calls allowed based on boat size and has consistently increased entry fees to balance demand
--Even in San Francisco they passed an ordinance banning tour buses in certain neighborhoods as they were a constant nuisance of noise and pollution.

Beyond regulation, its just a matter of price and accessibility. There's tons of wilderness still throughout the world but very little is easily accessible or of interest to typical tourist. If there's only one or two flights in/out per week to a remote destination you know tourists numbers will be limited. Anyone with 30-60k can visit the north pole. Ive seen pictures and it looks boring AF but at least it's exclusive. Even climbing Everest now is described as an escalator up the world's highest garbage dump. Comparatively, Venice is a city of 50-60k ppl but sees 20M tourists a year! They are starting to put some things in place to control the insanity but it's probably too little too late.

Unfortunately, at the risk of sounding racist, a big part of the problem for more typical destinations is newly rich asian middle class hungry for luxury but completely unaware of local culture/customs, uneducated on the sensitivity of ecosystems, etc. Seems like everyone agrees that the Chinese have taken the lead position as world's worst tourists... and they've already reached 2x the size of Americans (which are admittedly also pretty terrible) int'l annual travel volume.

Also, the internet must share some of the blame! you used to have to work hard to discover a new place, research a desination, meet locals to find out the best secrets... now the Internet lays all to bare and its simply a competition of who has the most impressive instagram roll. Even, the park next to my house used to be a relative deadzone but now gets all sorts of tourist traffic because it was featured on some hidden gems of SF type website.
Yes: https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html/issues/191
I don't think so.

Personally, I'm prone to taking on technical debt when under time pressure or feature pressure. I think of it like my house: if I'm too busy, I get sloppy and leave messes. If I stay busy for too long, the messes stack up.

One complicating factor, though, is the age of the code base is a factor, too. Keeping up with new runtimes, new frameworks, and new ways of doing thing takes time. This is especially a problem with things built in the new hotness, because there the culture is one of rapid iteration. So if we really want side projects to last, I think we have to choose boring technology: http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
I've noticed New York Times does this too.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nyt_diff
Average increases in nationwide medical expenses and inflations' effect on the average household are completely separate issues because the sickest 5 percent of the population consume 50 percent of total health care costs. The healthiest 50 percent only consume 3 percent of the nation's health care costs.

Source: https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs...
I would posit that set of people able to be phished and the set of people willing & able to use a Yubikey are disjoint, or nearly indistinguishably so.
Fitbit reportedly shocks users
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17130287
It is good they are going to improve but as a consumer I never had an issue when I tried to stop the car when the freeway traffic abruptly stopped once.
Having dug through the original PNAS article this is about, there's nothing particularly interesting here. Different makers produced distinct instruments. They neglect the other major schools of violin making, such as that based around Steiner in Germany or the French makers, and show that they can find some spectrograms of singers that look like the spectrograms of the different instruments.

Historically this is uninteresting, as we have no reason to think that the makers were consciously trying to imitate a particular kind of voice. It's not interesting physics (and the physics of violin acoustics have been done about to death). It's not interesting mathematics or statistics. And it has no implications for violin making.
I think this is neat, are you the creator?
Or just loss that doesn't manifest as spending. E.g., deferred health maintenance eventually causes death.
I don't understand why you would ever want this to be a desktop app. Try FreshRSS[1], it's awesome. It works well on shared hosting and it runs on SQLite.

TTRSS only gave me trouble. Threw all kinds of strange errors at unexpected times. I don't know how many times it died on me after an upgrade. I eventually gave up and found FreshRSS. Been running (and updating) it over a year, without a single problem.

One of the best things about it is escaping the algorithmically curated feeds.

Every and service that I use has an RSS feed, except for Twitter. I use https://twitrss.me/ to follow users. If you don't find a feed, sometimes you just have to dig a little. You learn at which URIs the most commons CMSes presents their Atom/RSS feeds (hello /feed/).

[1] https://freshrss.org
The ads do not look at what you have purchased at all. I used Google Admob to help cover cost but these are generic ads and not based on what you have sent to your recbox email address.
It's a definition that works for how economists talk about things, but is extremely out of phase with the colloquial definition. Hence the stated outrage from the parent on how the poor spend so much of their income on "luxuries", when that refers to different things than what most non-economists would define as "luxuries".
Aggressively descope your projects. That helps. Try to keep as much of your logic outside of any specific framework. Most of my projects that accrue tech debt aren't necessarily because I cut corners (though that happens too :P) just that times changed and I needed to shift my projects into more modern stacks (i.e. for security updates, or because the tech was no longer maintained, hard to use anymore, hard to push updates to).

Rewriting software is somewhat of an inevitability it seems like, but the more small reusable pieces you have, the easier that is. Think UNIX philosophy: small units that do a small amount of things well that you can generally depend on once they become stable.

It varies depending on your project of course. A lot of the tech debt you take on (fun new tech, getting something out fast) is half the fun.
Can you explain use case further
Writing crypto trading bot in Python with Telegram and ccxt
No, it does not share your info
It's easier to look up by player. Go to Wikipedia, get a list of the instruments, look up the players over the last fifty years for the various instruments, and look them up on YouTube.

But anything you think you hear from making this comparison is fooling yourself. What you're hearing is the player. Heifitz famously got tired of people raving about the tone of the Stradivarius he played and played a concert on a student instrument.
Hyperapp is Elm for the rest of us. I wouldn't compare it to React as they are solving slightly different problems. Hyperapp's state management is built-into the framework. In this way, Hyperapp is a tad more "high-level" (abstract) than React.
I've visited around summer solstice few years back and didn't find it too bad really. Of course, we rented our own car and did the ring road so we were only around Reykjavik a day or two. Certainly, outside of the golden circle you won't see many any other tourists at all. Hard part is finding places to stay though as there isn't much out there!
I agree with your whole list except for the fact that I have not read neither "His Dark Materials" nor "Illuminatus!", so thank you for that :)

What I want to add is that while "Gödel, Escher, Bach" is great, I found "I am a strange loop" makes a better point. I'd say that the two books from Pirsig, plus "I am a strange loop" helped me form a lot of my personal philosophy.
The piece you're missing is that none of this is a mistake, the entire economy is designed to do this. Apathy and hoping it'll get better will if anything make it worse (not that I'm implying that's your position).

The only thing that will make it better is demanding that things change. This means mass unionization, strikes, worker owned businesses, protests, leftist politicians like Sanders and Corbyn, and a whole program of fundamental goods provided free at the point of service like healthcare, education, and child care. We have a lot of work ahead of us.
You might be surprised at how many folks under 30, such as yours truly, use Perl day in and out. I know about twenty others through my work and there are folks who float in and out of YAPCs.
What is the BMV?
> all these great products and features Google has

My post wasn't meant to dissuade anyone who's happy with being tracked from using google.

I was merely pointing out that the post I was responding to tone of "google is tracking me for my sake" is in most instances based on nothing but faith, and in other cases known counter-examples exist.
Sorry for jumping to a conclusion. See my update to the GP.
Hyperapp and Web Components are a great pair.
This isn't particularly relevant to the article, but I'm a luthier (15 years repairing and restoring violins and violas, and 28yrs as a player) and I really love and appreciate the HN community for it's interest in things like this. Thanks everyone!
That's exactly what newsblur.com is. That RSS aggregator is awesome!
Hyperapp is based on virtual DOM and yes, I guess you could say it's inspired by Hyperscript in the same way as all virtual DOM based libraries or frameworks.
Great Kid gets 50 dollar tip in this positive prank
akharris --

Any pointers on the most polite but firm way to defer speaking with investors when you're not ready to raise?

We just raised Seed, and get 5-10 inbounds per week asking about Series A. I usually write something like:

"Thanks for the note. We recently closed our seed round and are not looking to raise at the moment. But we will definitely reach out when that changes."

Hopefully that's not too curt/dismissive? Thanks in advance for any tips.
> they need to be taught delayed gratification and to not be consumerists.

Except the American economy essentially banks on this fact, so you'd actually likely do more harm than good if people decided not to spend so much
That’d impose a cost on the server, remembering an ID map. Instead make the client send back a value given by the server last time.
Yeah, even in 2018, sites I encounter without RSS are few and far between.
"If you make it $1000/month, now it's enough money to actually help people. But it also costs $3 trillion a year. That's twice the current Federal budget."

The 2015 Federal Budget (I guess the last time we actually had and official one) was about $3.8 trillion dollars. The budget President Obama submitted on 2016 for fiscal year 2017 was about $4.2 trillion.
Living in poverty creates a lot of terrible spending habits that people struggle to break even if their income rises above poverty levels.
I think there are strong headwinds to this, but there are some things that the government can do. For example, insuring that high-speed internet access is available in rural and small-town areas, similar to how they have in the past made sure that affordable postal delivery and phone service were not for big cities only. High-speed internet access makes it easier for certain kinds of jobs to be done from almost anywhere, and small towns tend to be more affordable.