skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a website that broke past the 'no-one cares' blogging stage.

The most important thing was being unique with quality.

While other people parrot the best credit card rewards, we did serious research into finding the best Calories Per Dollar, Protein Per Dollar, Vitamin A per dollar, etc...

But like the other person mentioned, I dont like shoving it in people's faces. I'm finally at the point that I get hundreds of googles a day and Ive meet people IRL that have been on my website.

The biggest deal is to provide value that no one else is. Most people are wayy to lazy. They would rather spend 4 hours on a blog post instead of 20.
I think he understates the cost of putting a toilet in a car, as it takes up space that could accommodate fare-paying passengers.
Just look at Concur, Fieldglass, SuccessFactors, BusinessObjects, etc

All were acquired by SAP because SAP can't do SaaS right and filled specific product areas of ERP.

SalesForce is also the greatest example of someone who started fairly small scope (small team CRM) and moved into bigger scope (enterprise CRM + enterprise application platform development).
I think it's worth noting that the herpes simplex patients were seeking treatment for severe symptoms and were diagnosed using an antibody test. That seems very unusual.

It wouldn't occur to me to see a doctor over a cold sore and if I did my GP would probably laugh me out of the office.

So maybe (here's me grasping at straws) these people had herpes of a severity completely unlike the millions that buy cold sore cream at the supermarket. Or they had symptoms for the very first time, which would be extremely unsual as well considering they were all over 50.

None of that takes away from the surprising effect of the anti-viral treatment on Alzheimer's, but I think the size of the effect may be related to the unusual severity of these particular herpes outbreaks.
Have you considered algebraic effects and handlers? If you add a linearity restriction on the return continuations (easily doable with the existing type system of Rust) their implementation is no harder than async/await, yet they can express many useful monadic abstractions.

...I saw this thread too late, hopefully you will still see this comment. I'm genuinely curious.
My personal experience is that the SAP software is ok but it suffers from it’s old outdated architecture.

The main problem is not the actual software it is the people who implement it.

Sap as a company has no control over the implementors.
The implementors don’t understand how the software is intended to work.

I can compare it to Samsung Android vs Google Android.
Give me 80%, keep 20%, I'll make it work.
The profit is in having the ability to upgrade on a whim, to refer to the masses of documentation and expertise without having to translate it into your own lingo and to use off the shelf components without needing to customise them too.
Regarding your fraction example there:

=RAWSUBTRACT(0.1,-0.2,1/3) => -0.033333333333333

=RAWSUBTRACT(0.1,-0.2,2/7) => 0.014285714285714

So which one is closer to 0.3?
>Bugs don't magically "shift".

It depends... You can’t have dangling pointers in Java - instead, you can “leak” memory by holding onto your objects even when they’re not needed anymore.
Behind the scenes of live streaming the FIFA World Cup 2018
As a former consultant in SAP - Most companies aren't that unique in how they execute most processes. For instance, AP payments generally looks the same at a high level. For the variations of business processes, SAP gives you lots of room to modify configuration to fit your process. If you're in a specialized industry like Aerospace or Oil and Gas, they have unique industry specific solutions.

I've seen the flip side where people custom code the heck out of the system. That becomes impossible to upgrade and impossible to take advantage of new features.

I've also seen lots of bad processes continued that could have been re-engineered to be good processes if the implementer and business had an honest conversation. SAP for better or worse forces these conversations by limiting the ways that you can implement the solution.

SAP failed implementations are not unique from other software failed implementations. It doesn't fail because of the product; it fails because of the people and politics of the organization. SAP tends to make the headlines because of the size of the implementations and the eye watering costs.
sad isn't it ?

ps: when it comes to selling, there's no forbidden strategy unless it's illegal
I wasn't offended! It's all good. I certainly hope the posted article didn't have any hidden objectives.

The linked papers however seem to point to the true hero of this story, a scientist who has apparently been taking shit for decades for her theories. Looks like she was right after all : https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/herpes-v...

Ruth Itzhaki from the University of Manchester notes that “hostility or derision occurred with most of my papers on this topic, and many people simply ignored them.”

I predict she will be a Nobel recipient
Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B
I am currently doing some literature research for my phd thesis and all I have to say is : "fuck pdfs in the face"
There's a sibling subthread about this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17538191
At least China's Gini coefficient is going in the correct direction. The US's Gini has been getting worse all while we still have third-world conditions festering for far too long.
Yeah I will tell people I made 3000 dollars on cookbook sales.

Sounds great? Well if it takes 30 hours a week for 3 years, it really isnt great. (And I've probably spent 15,000 USD on interns and editors in 3 years)

Lucky I'm an engineer and my website is fun and I appreciate the traffic/comments more than anything.
Relevant HN post from yesterday[0]. I'm sure the same is true for eSports (if not more so!)

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17535995
^ this.

Coca Cola does their financials the same way Pepsico does. Yet both companies have tried to implement them in unique ways and subsequently have cost them a great deal in terms of IT implementation costs that offer little to no competitive advantage.
>Similarly, if you're still living in the past and / or want to maintain your own server instead of pass it through a 3rd party like that or a CDN

You acnkolgege some people want to "maintain there own server", but its worth pointing out for high-traffic orgs there are some good reasons for doing so. Maybe you want to be an organization that does this at the CDN origin rather as CDN as to be CDN agnostic / have a multi-CDN strategy. This doesn't mean you are living in the past. It means you want CDNs to compete for your traffic and not have you locked in with crazy price leverage over you.
I am using 'X' to represent a conviction for a crime. I am using 'X' because I don't want anyone to think that I am condoning or justifying any particular crime.

1. How would someone else know that the person did X?

2. What if that crime had nothing had bearing on the position?

3. What about the concept of a sentence representing the 'complete payment to society'? Denying someone the ability to make a living turns a finite sentence into an indefinite sentence.

For me,

1. If someone was guilty of embezzlement, this would be relevant (positive or negative) if the position involving money handling (cashier, or accounting) - but not relevant if the position was social work.

2. If the person was guilty of stalking, a position that would allow access to customers' PII would be problematic.
Always the same vastly simplified discussion.

Obviously, having a deep interest in your work, something you may feel "passionate" about is a good thing.

Obviously, the opposite, hating your work or what it represents is not good for you.

Obviously, every work, no matter what, has boring parts.

Obviously, if you like chocolate cake and eat it every day you gonna hate it.

Obviously, waiting to find your "passion" is not gonna help you. It is just an excuse to procrastinate or avoid work.

So the truth is somewhere in the middle. Obviously.
Me too, especially with books. I kept getting the feeling it was a waste to read all this great stuff and not use it. Even when I took notes, I never went back to them.

So I started doing this:

- Create 1 file per book (I keep it all in Google Drive)

- The problem is my notes are huge, so at the top of the file I include a TL;DR

- Include in the TL;DR a list of actions: things I can put to use straight away. I copy stuff onto a personal Trello too, so I don't forget

- Also when I'm working on something relevant I can go back to the TL;DR (instead of searching through all the notes)

On top of this, I try to read books that are relevant to what I'm currently working on. I have a huge backlog of books I'd like to read on all sorts of things, but I'll hold back if I think it'll make more sense to read them later on.
Maybe it was a bad example. What I mean is that GNU and BSD are implementation of similar things in different ecosystems. The same is often true of tooling and libraries for different programming languages.

I don't think it is really possible describe the difference in a few paragraphs. In open source, as was said, "forking is not a bug". But what is forked is only the source code, not the project. You are still dependent on whoever has the most mind share in that project. Things like Shanzhai is about forking the project and making it on your own terms.

You can argue that open source encourages mindless copying. If you fork a large project you are using their chosen language, build system, code design, project structure, maintenance schedule etc. Yes, you can have your own project, but it is hard to compete in the sense of actually having control. Especially if the project is being run by people who get paid by companies to work and you can't really make money on the activity yourself.

That is my point on the hacker spirit vs. open source. If the homebrew computer club would have been happy with getting schematics to some mainframe and making plug-in cards, history would probably look a lot different. And yes, I think the hacker spirit and open source overlaps. It just isn't necessarily the same thing.
> Now all laptops practically look identical

No, they don't. Most of the options you point to from “not long ago" (and many more) are still available. Okay, I don't see liquid cooled or fold-out legs much, and swivel screens seem to have been displaced with the 360-degree hinges.
To echo you, that's also one of the things you painfully learn when working with real software systems: there will always be failure cases you didn't think of. Better to catch as many as possible early. Just because it's working now doesn't mean it will keep working tomorrow.
I feel like you're essentially saying the same thing I did, just worded differently?
Micron Technology: Things Are Pretty Sunny in Memory Land
Even despite the false positives as pointed out in other comments, I'm delightfully surprised that the worst it gets is around <15% negative comments. Sometimes, HN seems to cynical to me, at least the comments that float up to the top do. What would be interesting is negative comments weighted by the place in the comment section (since you can't see upvoted scores).
What’s this “UNIX”? A Linux distribution?
Honestly, I do it because I'm afraid of the dark.

When my SO is out of town, my brain generates all sorts of horrible possibilities of things that could happen to my while laying in bed, from simple home invasions to black holes suddenly appearing and consuming my right arm. Watching Futurama (I had no idea there was a whole community around it) distracts me from those invasive thoughts.
I'd love to meet you next time I am in SF :D
"ISPs that don't want to give up spying obviously are monopolies, have enough power and can block DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS and all 3rd party resolvers."

Too many big players are behind it for ISPs to be able to get away with that strategy. If a battle started then Google, Cloudflare, and others could simply start hosting DNSoHTTPS directly alongside all of their major services. To most customers 90% of "the internet" is the services from these providers.

"So can censors. State actors..."
There is never going to be surefire way to subvert a large government that controls the infrastructure you are trying to sneak through. Even if there was the government would still be in control of data at any companies that operate inside the country. It's not "outsmart China or bust".

Rather than dismissing the solution as useless because it doesn't provide the ultimate privacy maybe it's more worthwhile to look at what it can do and how other changes to TLS and other protocols can continue to make things harder to snoop.
FYI: the name of this project collides with the City of Toronto's own food safety program:

https://www.toronto.ca/health/dinesafe/index.htm?show=detail...

> DineSafe is Toronto Public Health's food safety program that inspects all establishments serving and preparing food. Each inspection results in a pass, a conditional pass or a closed notice. Find out more about the inspection system.
> Ask I dunno, anyone if they'd think that

LOL, talk about weak. So now your argument is "everyone agrees with ME". That is not an argument and is a logical fallacy.

>This is not what socialism is. Please stop referencing history if you flatly refuse to engage with any of my references to history

I think you know this is exactly what socialism is but you refuse to admit it. It is impossible to have a discussion in a vacuum without any reference to history, that is a strawman representation of my position. My position, and my original post comment, was that the Capitalism -vs- Socialism debate can't be resolved with discussions about politics, economics or technology and that it is essentially an ethical debate not that history in these fields is irrelevant. Moreover, the fact is (and you are proof of this) that one cannot even comprehend historical facts or even economic systems without first identifying the ethical system that underlie them. Your ignorance on these issues is a direct result of your ignorance of the ethical issues.

Like Weinstein, you need to get out of politics and economics and study ethics if you are sincere about understanding Capitalism -vs- Socialism debate. If you disagree with me on that point then feel free to move on.
It prevents computer-based application filtering.
> to verify that there wasn't a price hike before the drop.

I think it would be more useful to have an extension that just hid all the bogus discount claims.
Berkeley mayor on housing bill: 'A declaration of war against our neighborhoods'
I would imagine it was still cleaned up before putting up for sale, even if there weren't any repairs done
> Right click, save page as... Am I missing something?

The success of this depends on how the page is written. If it fetches some content dynamically you may not get a full and accurate picture of the contents of the page as viewed at the time the article was available live.
You can do that with tracks and switches - in fact, you can also reverse rolling stock with a 'Wye'. I believe turntables were mostly used to reverse steam locomotive - tender sets, and to build engine sheds in constricted urban areas where there wasn't a lot of room for a switch network.
> Universal Income yields some results in two types of countries: ultra-poor nations when it lifts entire families from the street, or in affluent ones like Finland who already have a generous social safety net, free healthcare, a good education system and a low unemployment rate.

So, the author says that it works when the country has almost nothing (and then any money will make a huge difference) and in countries where the population already has a good return for their taxes, and then receiving that money can provide some incentive to do other things.
Read the numbers! The point is not who is "to blame" for everything, but to measure how the emission-generating supply chains are coupled to consumer demands. The point is that while we only regulate CO2 emissions at the nation-state level, we only generate an incentive to outsource your heavy industries elsewhere (generating the same or greater emissions) and then ship the resulting finished goods over longer distances, adding more carbon.

We need to decrease net global CO2 emissions to zero, and then further into the negatives. Period. Do-or-die. Everything else is a plutocrat's distraction.
It is funny how polite mentions of crashes are regarded so negatively by it compared to messages. Now I wonder what can be said to get an overwhelmingly positive sentiment while being not just rude but downright horrifying messages. Say "I hope you enjoy eating your family."

Reminds me of the one account of an essay question grading program's unique flaw where it scored higher with every mention of orangutans with no regard to relevance or possibily even grammar.
Antibody tests aren't unusual at all. In terms of why they were tested, some of the articles in the press lately seem to indicate that its in response to a shingles infection. Thats when the chickenpox virus (a herpesvirus) becomes reactivated later in life and specifically infects a nerve.

We all get exposed to chickenpox and most of us are latently harboring it.

I wish I understood all of the herpes isoforms better.
Quick, shut down the wrongthink! Anybody who agrees with this should be doxxed, fired, de-platformed, harassed at restaurants and whatever else we can do!
I was a hardcore Instapaper premium user from the early beginnings. Nothing stopped me for continuing using the app, BUT the GDPR.

When you have duties of protect user's data and you don't comply with it, I'm done. Months ago I changed to Pocket (Mozilla owned) and I'm ok with that. I missed little stuff like the text render and other minimum things.

Just wanted to say that because protecting user's privacy is also a business model.
This sounds like the twitter Financial Independence blogging community.

People with 0 new advice, rehashing the same old credit card rewards and budgeting advice.

Its so terrible that there are people claiming 'frugal ways to eat' and claim 50$/week per person for food is frugal. A single google search would tell you that under 30$/week is a good goal.

This drives me crazy because we are eating for 20$/week and actually put hundreds of hours into studying this.

In the end, my website gets hundreds of viewers a day, their blogs arent ranked on alexa.
> One could make a decent case that as long as a country is below 100%, it is OK for it to choose growth and development even though that increases emissions.

No, one can't make a decent case of that. China and India have access to radically better renewable energy technology and coal alternatives including very safe nuclear and natural gas.

The US didn't have access to any of that in 1920. Today is not the same as 70 or 100 years ago. The excuse for burning so much coal is considerably debased now.

It'd be like claiming that the USSR/Britain/France/Rome got to wage massive wars of annexation in the past, why doesn't the new superpower - China - also get to do that across all of Asia? Just because X bad thing happened in the past, it doesn't mean countries in the future should get to replicate the mistakes of the past and that it should be acceptable practice (so that they too get their fair share of doing horrible things).

The whole idea of investing hundreds of billions of dollars into renewable energy technology over decades is so we don't replicate the mistakes of the past.

Besides the obviousness of that, China and India should desperately want to avoid those past mistakes, both for strategic reasons and for the basic health of their people. Strategically China has to import huge quantities of coal, it'd be better from a security standpoint if they fulfill their energy demands via domestic renewables and nuclear.

There is no good case to be made that China and India should get to repeat the pollution mistakes of the past, that premise falls apart on every challenge.
This was discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552

A number of people made this point, but this doesn't address one of the key advantages of Lynx at all: what if I need to use it while ssh'ed to a server that doesn't have X, doesn't have a browser (headless or otherwise) and I cannot or do not want to install those on it? And I have to trust your package integrity, quality of your secure coding practices, and judgement/diligence in your use of dependencies and tracking CVEs.

This barely has any advantages for me over port-forwarding to the x server and using a local client, functionally, and it introduces a large potential liability.

It's a cool project and you have my admiration, but making grandiose claims like this is counterproductive for (at least a good part of your target demographic) increasing Browsh adoption.
Seems like there is still a lot to learn about the underlying biology, though very provocative findings thus far. I may be misunderstanding but I'd think that if beta amyloid traps herpes, then higher levels of beta amyloid would correlate with lower levels of virus, but it seems that isn't the case?

Would antiviral therapy be more effective that blocking capsid-APOE interaction? It's my understanding that blocking protein protein interactions is challenging, although inhibiting that interaction would be a nice specific way to block the mechanism
I don't get why this was killed.
Yes we are :) It's rare enough to be notable though. We enjoyed our time with Opera (especially me: I got to live in Oslo for 2 years), but there are definitely nice things about being independent and choose your own destiny.

That and Opera was turning more into an advertising company, which wasn't a close fit with our existing user base. It's great to be in a position where we don't have split loyalties and "shadow customers" - leaving us able to focus on what's best for the people paying us for the service we provide.
> SAP failed implementations are unique from other software failed implementations.

No, they aren't.

> It doesn't fail because of the product; it fails because of the people and politics of the organization.

Essentially all project failure are for that reason. (Including ones where one intermediary step on the route to failure was that the people and politics in the organization ended up selecting a solution that was a poor fit for the problem.)
I never saw the amount of the donations as a limitation in the platform. Maybe the fact that it is so easy to setup many donations push donors to spread out their money too much? The amount of the donations was always the number one complaint I saw against getting donations through this platform...

Personally I don't think I want to use them anymore if they move away from recurring donations to giving it all at once, like the blog post suggests.
This is not completely accurate, the FTC has rules against deceptive pricing practices [1]. I'm not sure how often these rules are enforced and what the penalties are though. They specifically give an example where raising a price before a sale is not allowed:

> The following is an example of a price comparison based on a fictitious former price. John Doe is a retailer of Brand X fountain pens, which cost him $5 each. His usual markup is 50 percent over cost; that is, his regular retail price is $7.50. In order subsequently to offer an unusual “bargain”, Doe begins offering Brand X at $10 per pen. He realizes that he will be able to sell no, or very few, pens at this inflated price. But he doesn't care, for he maintains that price for only a few days. Then he “cuts” the price to its usual level—$7.50—and advertises: “Terrific Bargain: X Pens, Were $10, Now Only $7.50!” This is obviously a false claim. The advertised “bargain” is not genuine.

[1]: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=f8c45f090a32596673...