skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but people with good insurance in the US (read - middle class job) have access to better healthcare in the US.

Careful. If you read the article, the threshold for middle income in the US in 2014 for a couple is under $35K/yr (household). I doubt most people with that salary get a pretty good insurance policy through work. To give you an idea of what that can cost, see my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17676365
I'm curious how that connection to a sat net works with a normal consumer laptop. Or do you have some fancy General Dyn laptop?
Thanks! I'm glad to hear people outside my existing fans like how Parallax looks; it's been brewing out of view for a couple years now.

(The site's a repository for about seventeen years of my creative output. You, too, can have something that mind-blowingly complex if you just keep at it for a significant part of a lifetime. :) )
Waymo is very close to wide availability of self driving hire cars in Phoenix: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-31/inside-th...
There's also a difference between "we have a dependency on this versioned library that we have archived and deployed" and "we have a dependency on this library which we refer to dynamically at run-time".

But the second one gets you closer to the mythical perfection called "serverless" because it uses so many different servers you can't keep track of them all.
> But writing out own shell is a mistake (well, I'm thinking about that, too ...). Better to use an existing shell - possibly fish as it has builtin auto-completion.

Maybe consider xonsh shell [1].

» Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt. The language is a superset of Python 3.4+ with additional shell primitives that you are used to from Bash and IPython. It works on all major systems including Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. Xonsh is meant for the daily use of experts and novices alike. «

[1] http://xon.sh/
Ordered a RPi Zero W from Adafruit on a Saturday, got it on a Wednesday. Took about two hours to get through a headless install of Raspbian [1], most of which was fighting with my Mac's Disk Utility.

Not knocking the BASIC Engine, I think it's cool as heck, just pointing out that getting started on RPi is not really as painful as it once was. You can even purchase an SD card preloaded with Raspbian!

1. https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-zero-creation/overvi...
Look up FedEx SmartPost, UPS Mail Innovations, DHL eConmerce, etc. these are all companies who “work share” with USPS. They deliver the package to the post office and USPS leverages their existing network of mail carriers to do the “last mile” delivery.

The problem with these services is that they are very slow. The hand-off at the post office adds a day. Additionally these are considered economy services without a delivery guarantee by the carriers so they will wait until they have a full trucks worth of these before sending them on a leg.

Wal-Mart is trying to get to same day delivery and bringing everything to the local post office for them to deliver would add at least a day.

Furthermore those USPS economies suffer a bit once packages exceed 1 lb. it’s often too big for a letter carrier to take on their route - so they’d be delivered through the priority mail network which is often a different driver than your daily mail man and does not deliver to every house every day.
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That is just bullshit though. I don't find value in anything that agile offers, can I just throw it out entirely by your argument?

Standups - You can simply claim that, hey you don't want to do standups, don't do standups but if you take a concrete implementation of Agile, say scrum for instance, it specifically asks each person in the team to answer:

"What did I do yesterday that helped the development team meet the sprint goal?
What will I do today to help the development team meet the sprint goal?
Do I see any impediment that prevents me or the development team from meeting the sprint goal?"

These questions are effectively a way lay out a very clear path for management to basically micro-manage developers and they add pressure on developers to come up with some contrived explanation to make it sound like their day was productive. Hardly builds any trust when your work is being supervised and judged by a team every single day even if the goal of the meeting is not to do so specifically.

I can go deeper into each individual process that agile variants impose and take each of them apart. I have nothing but spite for this godforsaken process, the only thing it's good for is to give management an illusion of control on software development process.
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For technical or non-technical teams, this is usually all that's needed. If there are any questions, they can be addressed below in a reply thread or via a call or face-to-face.

It's amazing how much of a time saver and efficiency builder that can be. It's equally amazing how many managers prefer time wasting group meetings where people essentially read written reports...
I like the small "highlights I’m proud of" section. It's a nice approach. To me it feels more, genuine, I guess? I always feel uncomfortable talking about what I'm good at. I really like how you frame accomplishments as something you are proud of without it coming off like a big marketing pitch.
I find galculator quite nice. And Free42 on my phone.

One day I will buy the DM42.

I don't really need it. But I _need_ it.
Very nice! Like the lazy loading of images etc.
If Wallmart had an easy delivery option, their e-commerce would be higher, and I suggest there is very high 'density' in the environs directly around a wallmart.

The other advantage is that Wallmart sells the stuff we use a lot: cleaning things, toothpaste, diapers.

If Wallmart coupled delivery with the gangbuster of all 'monthly box of stuff' type business plans (whereby the 'stuff' is not a tester box of perfume, but literally the stuff you buy most often in a household) - they could win.

But the notion of getting employees to do this after shift is utterly beyond crazy.

Just hire people for this, focus hard on selling the feature in a region, get people to sign up to 'toothpaste every month' and 'milk and eggs every monday',
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> Honestly at this point I've been waiting for the inevitable article about how GPG has been maintained by one starving guy in his basement for the past 20 years ...

Perhaps you missed it in 2015:

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti...

The current funding page is at https://gnupg.org/donate/
Sounds like there needs to be a solution to this problem.

Remember those 'bufferbox' startups that got bought up by Google and then dissapeared ...
Do you believe asians Americans face less racism than white Americans?
But the vast majority of internet users do use Google search and other Google products like Gmail. That's how Chrome became popular — because Google will spam you with ads for Chrome at every available opportunity.
I’m a bit skeptical of the author’s claim. It seems like things are still that way. There are lots of recent critically-acclaimed horror movies. The genre seems to be a great way for smaller indie studios and filmmakers to experiment. I suppose it’s true that there aren’t many big horror blockbusters on par with Hitchcock or Rosemary’s Baby, but I’m not convinced there were ever a lot of those.
Maybe encouraging riskier bets is a feature not a bug. With a lot of ‘free’ capital floating around, we’ve got people building rockets and AI, people researching how to bring the material resources on an asteroid back to earth. Really ridiculous shit, tbh. But maybe that’s the intent - encouraging risk-taking in search of the next big thing.

I could be talking out of my ass though, or I could be completely right and those bets fail anyways.
you are being downvoted even though you are saying it the way it is.

I always find it interesting to see how people that want to use affirmative actions are in denials on the actual mechanics that are used in order to make it work.
I've been beating this drum as it's one of the more frequently cargoculted items about agile.

A standup has 3 questions to report on:

1. What did you make progress on yesterday?

2. What are you planning on making progress on today?

3. Do you have any blockers?

Taking this pulse once every 24 hours is artificially constraining. Relevant stakeholders (product people, other engineers, project managers, etc.) should have perfect, frictionless visibility in to what people recently worked on, and what they are planning to work on at any given time, as self-reported by the team. Additionally, if you have a blocker, you should not wait until the next standup. Unless the blocker was discovered immediately preceding the standup, it should be well known to all who need to know with the same perfect, frictionless visibility. At the time of the standup, blockers should be well-known. I've specifically seen standups backfire as individuals use reserve their blockers until the next morning. It's a great reason to call it an early day when you hit a blocker and get the opportunity to report something of substance at the next day's standup.

Perhaps I just described an unattainable utopia, but I think it's important to start with process idealism and make considered compromises rather than acculturating the status quo.

I lead an entirely remote-first development team, and am adamant that standups often are a crutch at best, and inhibit progress at worst.
Lab-Grown Lungs
Are these mostly sales type of emails? If yes most CRMs like SalesForce will support email queues with different assignment options.

Alternatively, you can check out www.conversica.com which will go a little beyond what you are asking for.

You can also check out www.loomi.ai which is in BETA right now but will do exactly what you describe.
They didn't write a whole new calculator engine, just a new UI and app wrapper for the old one.
For me one of my updates had failed, so I was still getting security patches but not major version upgrades. Had to figure out the problem (media feature pack) and then update.
Chirikjian's book looks really cool! Its website says that in volume 1 "The author reviews stochastic processes and basic differential geometry in an accessible way for applied mathematicians, scientists, and engineers." And I can't tell if that means 'brief review because this is a prereq to the book' or if this is a good first take on it. Do you know which it is?
If these are directed graphs, then the problem/algorithm described is equivalent (unless i'm misunderstanding this explanation) to incremental 2-edge-connectivity and various queries about it.

The best known algorithms are O(mn), and they are very experimental.

See, e.g., various papers you'll find here: https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/g/Georgiadis:Loukas

For undirected graphs, this is also very well studied problem
, and much easier (O(m+n)).
> Blockbuster's failure will be an important example for Walmart just as soon as people can download groceries

Was Blockbuster killed by streaming? Or Netflix swapping rental from an ad hoc retail to a delivery subscription model?
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> These questions are effectively a way lay out a very clear path for management to basically micro-manage developers

Well, they would if there was manager in the daily scrum.

Which is why there isn't.

(Not that I think the scrum formula here is ideal; if you've got a shared status display—kanban-like—the only question you should really need in the standup is the barriers one; the standup shouldn't be a status/progress check, it should be a venue for shared progress on breaking barriers.)
Tesla short sellers are sitting on a paper loss of nearly $2B after rally
Somehow I doubt that this medical school has already implemented or tried every robust maternity leave, childcare, or other family support policy that would address their concerns about female doctors being forced to choose between quitting or having a family, and so the school simply has no other options left but to secretly deduct points from female applicants.
Looking forward to it!

Just to be clear though - I think your current design already does a good job at this :)
Just as a notice to everyone here, I am going to make a nice directory of these links at http://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/. My previous "hunt" is there - but I'll make a new page there over the next day, archiving my old one.

Thank you for being generous with your links. I think there is a kind of resistance toward self-promotion of your personal pages these days. Or perhaps you feel like no one wants to see your page. Well, I do. I want to find pages that can't be found by Googling. One also has to look through every page to find the obscure pages that can be loved.

I would encourage all of you too to be curious about what is out there. There is still much to do on the web - it has just become very orderly in general.
If your assets will be over 5.4 million (the current exempt amount from estate taxes) for a couple you should have a trust, if you're no where near that, then yes, a trust for your home alone is pointless. The business write-off part still stands.
Regular saunas are common in Sweden and Finland but rare in Scotland. It is quite possible that who uses saunas regularly and how they live is what matters and not the sauna at all.
I prefer Microsoft Calculator Plus:

http://web.archive.org/web/20111213184700/http://download.mi...

(No, not the new abomination of the same name that comes up when you search for "Calculator Plus", but the original XP-era one that is now only available from archive.org. Irritatingly enough, MS removed the old --- and better --- one when they introduced the new one.)

The one from 7 up to 8.1 has its own problems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791667
Ask HN: Why is my post not visible when not logged in?
I recently posted a Show HN link, which I can see when going to my submissions page: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ioninja14

However, when not logged in (i.e. viewing that page from an Incognito window), the post is not visible. I also couldn't find it on the newest Show HNs page shortly after posting. It would explain why the link has no upvotes or comments at all.

I'm just wondering why this is happening? Is it a bug, or has my post been deleted? Thanks for being patient and helping me with this issue.
Amazon Removes Products Featuring Nazi Symbols
It's seen as facile within the industry. Hence the reputation and lack of prestigious awards recognition. Easy to write, cheap to produce, and now in the digital era, the jump cut scare tricks and camera effects can be inserted by the dozen. See the trailer for Blumhouse's The Nun to get a sense.

But with the blockbuster success of films like It, Get Out, and A Quiet Place we will see something never witnessed before in cinema history: the coming of the big budget horror flick. I think The Conjuring 2 budget was upwards of $40M. And it looked terrific. The upcoming Venom and Shane Black's The Predator are no doubt deeply influenced by classic horror tropes.

But for the real deal. Still nothing compares to the classics. I finally got to screen David Cronenberg's Videodrome the other night. Holy Guacamole. They don't make anything quite like that anymore ;)
> Was Blockbuster killed by streaming? Or Netflix swapping rental from an ad hoc retail to a delivery subscription model?

Both, together.
No, you're missing a level of subtlety. The author made it sound like there was no relationship between cuprates and copper, but in fact cuprate molecules include copper atoms. In fact, cuprates are a new family of superconductors because of their copper content.

Your metaphor doesn't add any information, since water is less flammable than hydrogen.
Wouldn't that result in a path quite weighted to the shortest real world actual distance?
Looking at the SR-71, despite all its engineering "flaws" (documented excellently in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17675996), I wonder...

Have we really progressed technologically, as in, doing the impossible, since the late 1960s?

The Blackbird is still the fastest jet in the world more than fifty years later.

I'm not even sure we could return to the Moon successfully on the first try if we tried.
Out of curiosity, how would you say you "learned how to learn", so to speak? Did it just come naturally to you? Was it a parent who taught you?
\infty = \lim _ { 0 \to \infty } x

that's how
Except that you make a HUGE generalization based on the gender and the race. You expect Everyone in that group to have to work harder, and you expect that everyone not in that group to have it easy.

Stereotyping people based on their race//gender is exactly what we should not do, but exactly what most simple affirmative actions are aiming at.

What really matters is socio-economic background.
A better comparison would be to net worth of all Canadians which is probably around $10 trillion.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadians-record-debt-levels-h...
Blockbuster's problem was that I probably want a different movie every week. Walmart only carries n brands of pet food and they can buy extra knowing it'll sell sooner or later.
Thanks so much, I actually wrote about how I achieved that as my first blog post:

https://benjamintaylorportfolio.netlify.com/#/post/lazy-load...

Instead of reaching for an external library I decided to go with my own solution and I like to think that it made me more appreciative of Vue.js in general.
Thank you :) I worked hard on it!
The real site doesn't know this is Mallory, after all Mallory has the victim's credentials. It stands to reason it will offer Duo Push. And the victim is expecting Duo Push so they'll hit OK.

You insist this "has been solved securely many times over" but it famously hasn't, which is why I asked if Duo had some secret sauce. They evidently don't.

People keep building things that are very clever but don't actually respond to the threats in the real world, MITM is a real world threat, and one Duo shouldn't be pretending they're defending against with this Push technology.
The Most Senseless Environmental Crime of the 20th Century (2013)
...except the technology came anyway, and that didn't happen.
That interaction reads like some pretty good British comedy.
If the new one just wraps the old one, but the new one breaks on certain inputs, how is it breaking? Maybe the outer "new" layer uses a new string to number parser than the inner "old" layer used to use, and that's where the bugs are being introduced?
I have noticed a trend of entrepreneurship amongst women I know that have babies and young kids.
They are essentially creating jobs for themselves that work around these constraints you mention. They seem fulfilled and happy with this because it works best for the work/life balance. But most of them had a safety net that allowed them to start these endeavours in the first place.

Perhaps one solution is to offer a safety net i.e. grant, incubator, accelerator etc. for women in this position that allows them to create the job that works best for them? I suppose not everyone is cut out for it but this will at least encourage some.
I don't think it's really relevant to my point above, but no, I think on average asian americans face more racism than white americans.
> [Cuban medical schools] graduate loads more doctors than the US

I'm guessing you mean per capita...?

> A doctor must have a Batchelor's because it was decided that nurses should have one

I'm not sure where you got that from. Nursing going to the BS model is extremely new compared to physicians doing so.

> open a few more medical schools to allow more doctors to be trained

The hold-up here is on training positions. New schools are opening every year, but that's just exacerbating the problem on graduation - we're getting to having (we might already be there, I'd have to check the numbers again) more graduates than we have training positions.
Even from a strictly business standpoint it certainly makes sense to open-source things like the calculator, since I doubt the source contains any proprietary IP that gives it any particular competitive advantage --- and in the "basic calculator app" space, there is certainly a lot of competition.

Then again, the fact that they managed to break one of the most conceptually simple applications that comes with Windows --- for seemingly no good reason at all --- speaks volumes about the quality of MS products these days...
Are Research Ethics Obsolete in the Era of Big Data?
Are you referencing American doctors? With the context here being Japanese doctors?
I recall buying DVDs from kozmo in 1999 and having them delivered by bike messenger to my office.

I was on a flight with the founder in 2000 one time telling them how much I loved it and making suggestions about what is love to see, but also expressing how surprised I was that they could make a profit... They folded soon after...

I still remember the last time I bought from them: Ran on DVD
Get a sheet of graph paper. Imagine that it goes on forever in 2 of the 4 directions. Name the intersection points in order -- left to right, top to bottom.

What's the name of the first point in the first row? 0

What's the name of the first point in the second row? \omega

How is that more complicated or less interesting than cardinals?
What is new in ES2018?
That's interesting, and I don't doubt that you have seen a system like that, but it sounds more like what could be expected in an industrial setting with 3-phase power.

The few houses that I was involved in wiring of in the states were definitely "split phase" systems, which work like the GP describes. In those, three current-carrying wires come from the transformer - two ends and a centre tap from one winding. Those are wired in the breaker box so that the house has two circuits that are 180* off from each other, giving 110V on either circuit, or 220V between the two "hot" legs. There's a better description at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-phase_electric_power.
When my daughter was learning fractions, it was fun to use the infinity to discuss the real numbers between 0 to 1 by squeezing 1/<whatever number she named> into them.
Ask HN: How do you make learning fun?
This could be answered in two ways: either how do you personally make learning new things fun for yourself OR if you were designing something that teaches, how would you make it fun?
If you read the various sources linked, they don't have any reliable data showing this is happening, just "a strong sense" that it is the case. Without basing the decision on evidence, it's just another example in a long list of things medical professionals had a "strong sense" women can't handle.
How can I build a fulfilling, less stressful business/career?
Seems a number of these questions pop up every few weeks, so maybe I can get some perspective.
I’m 37 and live in Europe. I fell out of society in my teens due to abuse and never managed to get a grip on the working world. After sporadic manual jobs in my late teens I had a breakdown, and I haven’t worked since.

I’ve taken courses over the years on various subjects, and even got part way through a degree from the OPen University. I read for hours a day, and have taught myself basic coding.

I’m thinking that finding work as a developer or any type of IT role after 17 years of not working will be....tough. I do have some hope remaining, or I wouldn’t be making this post.

In my situation what would you do? I have a small amount of money to live on each month, but it only covers the basics. I’ve had to summon the courage to post this, so please have some empathy when replying.
How does Arabic compare to Indic, Latin and Chinese scripts?
Nice site! I'm biased because I use my phone so much, but if you add in a viewport tag it'll look better on mobile. I just added one in the console and I think it still looks pretty good