skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel like its sort of a blunt instrument in solving a very common and widespread problem people have.

Well, I think it's the only way to fix it. I've never heard any pill or exercise could fix your nasal septum or soft palate. Surgery is never nice nor safe, but what else can we do?

> It can do more damage than good

Each surgery may cause problems, especially when you need anesthesia. I heard that after badly treated palate you may have problem with swallowing - that your food and liquid may go through your nose, but doctor said that it's very rare and even those cases are temporary.

The decision for me was quite easy considering where I was before it. Practically I wasn't able to function normally so I didn't have much choice. Constant infections, bad sleep, always tired, headaches... continuing that could do only worse. And when you're in worse condition, the more risky is any surgery. So I really needed to remove root of the problem. I didn't want to waist any day longer having cold (again), not being able to go skiing, losing energy every year. I'm glad I've done it.

That's my story but you have to think about you. Take all the good and especially bad sides of having surgery and decide - have it now, some other day, or maybe never? Good luck!
NIST recommended in 2016 that 2FA via SMS be deprecated (though they backed off of that a bit in 2017)
Yes, I've lived in Paris for 3 years and it's the worst city I've ever lived in.
He would have a hard time justifying that in the face of historical fact. Historically speaking, people who have gained power have used that power to limit the freedom of others. I think history is pretty clear that optimizing for "most freedom" means "allow people lucky enough to gain power the freedom to exercise it over others."

Maximizing for freedom is great if you're part of a group that tends to hold power. It's not so great if you're part of a group that tends to not.
Democracy is not a system, it's a principle. The principle that the people rules. Today's representative democracies apply that principle very imperfectly.

The rulers don't have to be particularily benevolent to promote the people's interests if their interests and the people's interests are the same.
> ... Amazon....

Eh, according to one interviewee, they did this as recently as last year [0]. They certainly did it 2 years ago [1].

[0]: https://www.teamblind.com/article/Amazon-online-test-qtKOvsu...

[1]: https://qz.com/859486/the-ridiculously-invasive-virtual-inte...
"because they screwed the pooch with that in the 1980s and still have the same COBOL patches running today."

What?
I know it's not really the subject here but I've faced a weird case of "what why ?!?" about a windows driver thingy and it's been on my mind to share it for a couple weeks now

For some weird reason, the package to handle the very generic Synaptics touchpad on both my Asus and MSI laptop was moved out of the driver (+ included config panel to configure it), to a combination of a driver that does stuff but you can't configure, and an obscure windows store app that isn't installed with the driver, and is now the only way to configure it.

Want to disable your touchpad when an usb mouse is connected, remove tapping (quick tap on touch pad = left clic), set up multi touch gesture and whatnot ? Well then you better know that you need that, because there was no indication whatsoever that they removed it from the driver, the panel just disappeared over night (oh and it doesn't keep your old settings either, although in my case it was a plus since that's how I knew something changed).

And windows store search is so miserable that searching for "synaptics" does not bring up the app, and it doesn't show in the windows store "my library" listing.

If anyone is involved in that, I would buy you a beer or three just for the chance to sit in front of you and listen to how that happened (this offer of course extends to anyone on the skype team who can tell me the story of how skype continually gets worse at being a chat app)
Indeed there are probably a few loons who hold this view explicitly. But there are large numbers that hold this view implicitly - ie, they would never say they want fewer people, but if you actually followed their their preferred course of action, fewer people would be required.

I should note that I'm not a conservative and I also find their lack of concern for the environment to be at odds with their own interests and ideology, but what I'm talking about is slightly different. To be an environmentalist doesn't mean sharing some goals, it means having to sign up to a very specific set of views, which ostensibly lead to that goal. Being anti-nuclear power is one of those specific views you have to hold, so being pro-nuclear puts you at odds with most environmentalists, even if both sides of the view lead to the same goal (less CO2 in the atmosphere).
That doesn't have anything to do with what I said.
Because now you’ll just have two problems.
Thanks to the great folks at PARAGONIE our open source platform (ie you can actually tell the code is always the same and you can host it yourself) also just passed an independent security audit:

https://paragonie.com/audit/L7TtZbFoJBxR91Xg

I didn’t think it was worth it to post to HN as news, though. Perhaps I should start posting our achievements a bit more.

Like for example our Group Rides feature:

https://youtu.be/PHuYV7q7NeM
That was my literal question, yes :-) I'll reword it to be match what I was trying to say.
I'm a Windows user and so I've never really got into emacs. It's one of those pieces of software that like vim (beyond the ultra-basics) seems too daunting to get started with.
What kind of answer do you expect? "No I do not mean what I say, I'm just a markov chain."?
> AT&T would be at most 50% responsible

You could reduce that further by arguing AT&T aren't at fault because third-parties built authentication and identity protocols ontop of what was never guaranteed to be a secure or authenticated channel
Ask HN: How would you (as a developer) fight misinformation?
Misinformation is quite a sexy topic today. I was curious what the HN community would do to fight it. I'm curious in software-driven yet not moonshots solutions.

To make things more interesting suppose you have a government/state eager to support you.
I love this perspective. Do you have data to support it?
Now this is where things get interesting. There's a decent argument to be made that internet communication is becoming dominated by a handful of platforms. There may be a point at which you are practically unable to speak on the internet if a half-dozen Silicon Valley companies do not like your opinion. I do not say that we are at this point yet. It is a possible and visible future, though. I think we can consider how we would determine when that domination of internet discussion constitutes a monopoly, and what should be done about it in that case.

We don't allow companies that are monopolies in critical industries to do as they please, in many areas and for many reasons. If there is effectively widespread censorship of speech, who elected Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, et all to be the deciders of what gets censored and what does not? If the ability or potential for that is out there, shouldn't it be the democratically elected government that determines what does and does not get censored and not a cabal of private corporations?
Binney is a complete crank.. I'd be very cautious of any first person narratives that he tells, especially when he paints himself as the hero.
The goal of embeddin the employees is to build relationships with the people working there. That's an obvious vector for non-public information to get disseminated informally.

I doubt they'd regularly be getting material information from which they could profit though
Bear tattoos
A better approach would be to allow websites to implement their own render engine. If they don't supply a render engine, then the browser picks the default one (which, at some point, will stop being updated).
I think we may already be past that point. Within the past few years we’ve had Brexit, Donald Trump, and a series of populist candidates winning throughout Europe.

For the sake of keeping things civil, I’ll refrain from stating my opinions on whether these are good or bad events, but these elections indicate that people want big changes. The Western world as a whole seems desperate for a radical reworking of the way we do things.

Whether the new system will be better or worse is anyone’s guess. We live in interesting times.
Yes, and the essay missed a related point that I've found to be really valuable: reducing the scope of the project is a great way to reduce the starting friction.

So, if I need to build a new application or work on a home improvement project, and I plan in advance the entire scope of the project, all the way out to the end some number of weeks or months from now, starting it requires more commitment and becomes more daunting.

But if instead I chunk it down into smaller, self-contained tasks, those tasks are maybe a day's worth of work individually and not so bad. I can start one in the morning and feel better about the state of things by the afternoon.
> Our idea was that if each extensible application supported Scheme, you could write an implementation of TCL or Python or Perl in Scheme that translates that program into Scheme.

A perl-to-scheme transpiler would be quite an accomplishment!
Show HN: Group Rides
Given that the NIST published guidance in 2016 recommending it not be used for 2FA, I agree with you.

That's why I said "at most" :-)
Well, why can't you just make the food less spicy, but advertise it as more? I don't mean you should lie- just slide your spiciness scale down a bit so that what you call "hot" is actually mild and what you call extra super hot is just sorta-hot, for you, but not for the customers.

I don't reckon anyone has ever requested a refund because they could actually eat what they ordered.

As to those customers who only order hot food to brag to their friends, they can pretend their food is really hot and nobody has to know the truth.
Drama as boffins claim to reach the Holy Grail of superconductivity
But how many employees do those 350 CEOs represent?
This kind-of comment would have been clever in elementary school.

Here, you're just being a dick.
They reject them by not having a code path that successfully decodes them.
6 reasons to love this Linux desktop
It's related, I think. You're working on something that will take a while, and even though you're doing the work, it's still delayed gratification. Worse, it's often the schlep, as pg puts it - that unenjoyable middle ground of work work work with no tangible reward. But the new thing... it's shiny. It's immediately gratifying to say "I'm going to start on this new thing that won't suck like the old thing sucks."
Test-driven development: What it is and what are its benefits
....from the Federal Reserve...?
Milton Friedman was one of a few economists responsible for what would become the neoliberal economic policies that free markets are infallible that we have today.

Policies that have benefitted primarily the already wealthy amassers of capital and which are in large part responsible for the massive income inequality and erosion of labour rights that is present for the first time since the Gilded Age.

His idea of human beings as rational, self-interested economic actors that is a ludicrously narrow model of the human being and has been disastrous for the working and middle classes all over the developed world.

Quotes from Friedman are worth nothing to me, personally.
I agree. It's a spectrum and my Python example is showing one extreme of obviously unimpressive. I was just trying to answer the comment I was responding to.
*Konqueror
Isn't it effectively plaintext?

I don't know too much about the SMS protocol. But I do know that most protocols do start out plaintext because programmers are lazy and optimistic.
He's partly responsible for our current system.
In case you haven't found it yet, the "please draw a frame" event you get from the compositor is wl_surface.frame: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/apa.html#protocol-...
There is nothing wrong with data mining itself. It's completely neutral technology. You are just thrwoing shade with link flooding (those who read the links find out that they don't credibly confirm what you say).

Tesonet provides all kinds of services, like hosting, software development and cybersecurity for it's customers.
> There might be truth to this article but its bias and demeaning tone are off-putting. It makes it hard to take the author seriously.

What exactly about this article was "demeaning"?

The author does seem to feel that Trump is handling China well, which I'm sure brings cognitive dissonance to some...
It almost seems like you didn’t read the paper.

It shows that the vast majority of the trend is attributable to drug overdoses, and then suicide and alcohol related liver disease are also significantly increased. Other diseases have also increased but are dwarfed by these factors.

So your conclusion seems like it throws away the actual insights provided by the research.
This is why people can't have calm, reasoned discord in 2018.

"obviously the movement for intersectional social and economic equality would arise from some group other than rich white men?"

I'm not rich. I never said I was white (as it happens I am, but that's neither here nor there - why are you trying to start a racial argument?)

And why is your statement obviously correct as you put it?

"stop demanding other folks conform to your private nomenclature"

I didn't demand anything at all. Did you even read what I wrote? My point was the term is applied ambiguously, making the meaning unclear.

"this is a fig leaf to push back against what you see as the loss of privileges held by white men in society? Too bad: you're assuredly losing these, as they come at a high cost to everyone else."

This is a dramatic, well-crafted response.. to something that was never said in the first place.

None of this is even the most ridiculous part of your comment, which is surely the over-arching notion that any opinions you feel over your own privileges and how you've arrived at them are shared by everyone else on the internet who you assume is of the same skin colour and gender.

I believe very strongly in actual equality, as do most people describing themselves as feminists that I've spoken to, as I stated.

In short - please don't misconstrue my statements in an effort to make me look intolerant and bigotted. It debases a valid discussion, and I personally find it deeply offensive.

Now as I don't like to be confrontational about something so serious I would like to end by saying something kind; I'm proud of you that you used the words intersectional, ephemeral and nomenclature correctly in your post.
Computerless Coding
Malicious Management Unit: Why Stopping Cache Attacks in Software Is Harder…
I hope we see more of this. A lot more. These fuckers need to hurt.
Your bank app example is a convenience for the customer. The video interview is just dehumanizing.
Pretty much any drug can be extremely dangerous. I see this response often (and I’m not critzizing you here) but look: painkillers, right? Given all the time. Can be EXTREMELY dangerous. Alcohol: CAN BE extremely dangerous. Millions of people die a year in alcohol related death. Nicotine: dangerous. Blood pressure medication: can be dangerous. Birth control pills...also dangerous. Drugs are freaking dangerous. Anything you take, could be dangerous yes. But that does not mean drugs should not be approved. Every drug is dangerous. So I am really sick and tired of people pointing out that “this could be dangerous”. Yes it could. It could also save lives. Might it kill some people due to complications? Yes it might. Lots of drugs have complications that could potentially end in death. Just watch any damn tv ad for a drug in the US!!
You probably have forgotten about some past things that you wished you had done that would make your job easier. So keep a personal, easy-to-access log of some sort that you can quickly add notes to while you're busy with other tasks. During downtime, come back to your log and knock a few things off the list.

A good task for right now would be to find whatever log you think would work best for you, and then try to think of something to add to it.
> The median pay for CEOs per the government

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes111011.htm
Based on the link you provided it looks like it's Opt-Out not Opt-In, so it's not really a bug so much as a "feature" that open source software shouldn't have but google wanted to sneak in. based on this link [0] it's pretty clear that they did this intentionally and only changed things after user outcry. I wouldn't call that a bug.

[0]https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435
Though reader has to know or assume that yuan converts into the same order of magnitude in USD which is just bad writing.

Similar to when people use 2-800 instead of 200-800: Best to just be clear.
NES and the subsequent revival of the console was on account Nintendo being bold enough to invest when the conventional wisdom was that video games were a fad whose time had passed--that combined with a leap in AV quality over the Atari 2600 (the last mainstream console). 70s/80s culture seemed to churn every few years, it was riddled with fads, so the feeling was grounded in reality.

Outside of the console market, between the 2600 and the NES, there was growth in gaming on personal computers, but it was driven by floppy pirating. I'm not sure there was a lot of profit there.
What the West Is Becoming
What I'm describing is not a committee review any more than having Linus Torvalds review Linux kernel changes or Ben Pfaff review Open vSwitch changes. I can write code just fine myself, but it's more effective to focus on making others productive because the whole project gets more work done that way.

Module decomposition is usually something I try to pick off in design, but when accepting pull requests from outside it's a critical consideration. We're not blocking creativity but trying to ensure that the code base not only remains high quality and that the design morphs appropriately over time as we meet new requirements. By making this a review point you can help create a culture where engineers think about it before submitting. That in turn makes it easier to justify dates to managers.
MTA's subway turnaround plan to cost $40B
> I also still have a copy of the Liverpool Software Gazette which had "Stargate: A 3D Planetarium", (from around 1980).

Tidying up and I just found it. It's May 1980. I was sure I had lots of them but only found three (Nov. 1979, May 1980, Feb./Apr. 1981). Also found my Leasco Basic manual from 1969.

I'll put the LSGs up on kwhitefoot.neocities.org over the next few weeks. Might even try to see if any of programs can be made to work.
There's nothing wrong with forking a new browser off an existing one.

There's plenty wrong with taking money on the promise that you're developing a browser from scratch, then doing the above.
25 mins is too short for certain types of work. I find 45-50 mins of work with 10-15 min breaks works the best for me. Starting with 25 minutes is mentally easier when you are first starting a task and then once you get the hang of it you can adjust. Sometimes I would go longer because I was really in the zone.
You should also consider:

1) The percent of income that those 350 CEOs have of the whole employee's income.

And more importantly:

2) The percent of wealth that those 350 CEOs have, compared to the whole US population.

And even more importantly:

3) How is wealth distributed in the US? Those CEOs are probably outclassed by other categories.

All this to say that trickle down does not work, at all.
Methamphetamine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine#Addiction

The addictive quality of meth lies in the physical adjustment of neuron pathways in the brain. While the specific gene triggers associated with meth are known and likely specific to this drug the physically addictive pattern is not radically different from other stimulants. Essentially meth stimulates certain specific neuron pathways in the brain. The brain becomes reliant upon the drug for a greater than normal performance in the adjusted neurons. While there are behavioral results from this adjust the changes are to the physiology of the brain. Withdrawal is present when the patient is removed from the drug in a pattern similar to all other stimulants.

Even regular caffeine intake results in physiologic symptoms when consumption is halted.

As for cocaine there are very many reports and research that describe the physiological addition attributed to the drug. This is about as well accepted scientifically as climate change and evolution. There are numerous research examples of red blood cells choosing cocaine attachment over oxygen studied from blood of addicts.

> You may want to do 5 minutes of quick research before writing posts about subjects you are unfamiliar with in such an authoritative tone.

Perhaps instead of attacking people with baseless claims you could point me in the proper direction with research.
honest question, why does this get downvoted?
It’s a problem of motivation, alright? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime, so where’s the motivation? And here’s another thing, I have eight different bosses right now.
yes, long-term effects of alcohol are much worse, mostly because it damages the body as well as the brain, is used in larger amounts and through longer periods. Meanwhile people who have used MDMA at parties when young (and then stop using it, as most will) will have mostly no noticeable adverse long-term effects.

Now of course if you consumed alcohol at anywhere near the frequency you consume water that wouldn't be good either, but why would that be a fair comparison?
Kubernetes is Google
Fair point. Several of my friends went through their process recently and had no webcam component, but apparently they do this in some cases.

Not something I would agree with.
America Is Committing War Crimes and Doesn’t Even Know Why – Foreign Policy
Contrariwise, I just read and loved Deep Work: it's made me more purposeful about directing my attention, and aware of how my environment and lower desires work against this focus.

The journalistic model of doing deep work does seems different than the others, but he's not recommending it, just pointing out that there are outliers who can train themselves to reach intense focus states quickly and do deep work in short periods of time. Not sure why this would bother you -- if it doesn't apply to you, ignore it!

I felt like there was a ton of value here. Recommended for all!
Why Recycling Doesn't Work
I'm not following the connection between how IPv6 would accelerate in the absence of SNI. Could you elaborate?
Unions are good at providing collective benefits but not so good at individual ones. If you want a retirement package - something that everyone gets without regard to performance. Or vacation days. Unions are the way to go. If you want a raise... this is an unpolitic opinion but unions are not so good at that. They will try to give everyone a raise. This leaves almost everyone unhappy because almost everyone feels they're doing a good job and then slacker they work with is a layabout who should be happy they're not getting fired. And everyone intuitively understands that there's a limited pot of money for salaries - it's a zero sum game. In truth retirement benefits aren't really much different but they aren't viewed that way. Same with vacation.