skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the existence of a two-years old thread at https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/4i5o1h/osm_f... this prototype is at least two-years old.
> Cases that claim they don't help are just as unsupported?

Except there's a study looking at it, with 12 participants, that found it didn't help. That's the best data we have, and current data suggests it doesn't help.

If you can find a study about Dyslexic fonts which supports their usage that would be compelling. Until then, that's what we have.
Maybe this is a dumb idea, but why not change the laws so medical insurance is more like car insurance - the insurance company works for me?

If I get into an accident and it’s the other drivers fault, my insurance goes after them for the money.

Would be interesting if once a physician decides to perform services for you, he/she is bound by the insurance you have. If they don’t like it, then they work it out with the insurance company, not you. As a patient, you’d know up front what your responsibility is.

Would sure as hell speed things up in terms of physicians and insurance companies figuring shit out.
Serverless Still Requires Infrastructure Management
I like it, but I think the exclusion of U is unnecessary -- excluding Z2 or 5S similarities seems like it would be preferable.
I'm not the one who's dissatisfied with Mastodon.
Why would he not show the trend up untill 2008 on the graph "Permits per 1,000 new residents in previous 12 months"? That seems shady graphing.
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As web-development is not my primary trade, I found that MithrilJs was the right amount of abstraction to get into it.
Small API, modular, as close to Javascript as it could get and with the help of the folks in the Gitter channel and the invaluable pearls of wisdom in Leo's blog in the earlier days of the framework, my code became more functional and much more readable.
For me, it's kind of the swiss army knife of Frameworks.
“Accelerated Responsible Disclosure” – Daniel J. Bernstein
On Android 7.0 I can't get past the about screen. It says to click somewhere but I've clicked everywhere and nothing happens.
The Mass Grave Beneath a Texas Suburb
Not totally sure I understand your point, but I think that I don't agree with this at all.

In any particular country, each citizen, of course, plays their own tiny part, but ultimately, its truly a tiny part.

For the vast majority of people, they make better decisions thinking about the path of a country as an impersonal force that they can react and respond to, but have functionally no actual control over

when you aggregate the political will of 800 million people, it is largely an impersonal force
Haunting portraits of Vietnam’s disappearing tribes
The freedom to research would stay! If anything, researchers should have more freedom to research. An example.

Imagine a researcher invents cheap medication that obviates the need for some kind of eye surgery.

What would happen now? Surgeons don't like it, insurance companies don't like it. It might never catch on. The silly researcher certainly wouldn't get rewarded for his idiotic idea.

What would happen in an ideal scenario? Better health with less side effects for the patients. Cheaper for the community.
In that case, it's just reading the public data from GitHub on demand, there is no account, nothing stored.
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I hate paying with square so much that I've sometimes paid cash or just lowered a given business' standing in my preference hierarchy so I have to deal with the hassle less often. Everything about it is awkward, not just the tipping. There's no consistency. Every place has a slightly different variation, sometimes you swipe the card on the pad, sometimes insert it into a detached device, sometimes you hand it to the cashier. Writing your name on the pad with your finger is annoying as hell. Pads and screens make some tasks worse in general.

Paying used to be so simple, now between chips and square it's become a hassle.
Binaural beats / audio-based brainwave manipulation seems a much, much safer approach!
Go to a bathroom on the opposite side of the building. Bonus points if it's not on the same floor. It's the best way to get a forced walk. Hey, and you even get to chat with the other departments!
Yo listen up, here's the story
About a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue
Like him, inside and outside
Blue his house with a blue little window
And a blue Corvette
And everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen to
It's still not no-exposure, and it's still getting a developer in the mindset that just sending out files on a whim is okay.

I'm not wholly against this sort of stuff, I'm sure we've used similar links in the past for CI and coverage, but it seems to be the end of the slope, where we're handing out access to our stuff for something so frivolous. This is the same sort of mechanism that got everybody and their dog's copies of Windows XP infected with trojans in the early 2000s. "Sure, I'll install that toolbar, just let me see Britney naked".

This could be a local, auditable script that fetched a static list of projects seeking funding.
I think it started before the 5, we used to track failures and the 4 was worse than the 3. This wasn't unique though, it happened across the industry.
It seems like these charts are for single family homes only? So a new apartment building wouldn’t be included? If so, that would seem to tell part of the story?
Walmart completes its $16B acquisition of Flipkart
Creating a collaborative wiki video platform, to create high quality videos
Creating a revolutionary new; collaborative animated video platform, which has very similar experience to YouTube, however when one user is watching a video, and notices an incorrection, they can edit and correct the visual / audio / narrative. Would allow high quality works to be put together, and hyper linking of visual material inside videos.

Would love to hear from any interested parties, to help me make this a reality. I would really love for the community to have a say in the development for are looking for core team members to join me in building this (non-technical and technical, everyone is welcome).

Samuel Holt, https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-holt/ Email: vertokli74@gmail.com

Summarised in more detail in a short paper here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZTWNKzkeDlKYnm-E0sykmgzhNvfRNiJzjzg2WU988ME/edit?usp=sharing (Comments are very welcome, and encouraged)

Summarised in a complete white paper, here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ar3FsTltuQ--msNVgMHvHWHfOdDTInMxX5fbAN5QZSY/edit?usp=sharing (Again comments are encouraged)

Would absolutely love to hear from anyone who is interested, can provide advice, or wants to join the project and create the future with me.

Look forward to hearing from you :) Samuel Holt, https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-holt/ vertokli74@gmail.com
Let's say I write this:

def add_and_mult(a, b, c):
return a + b @ c

If a, b and c are numpy arrays then this function releases the GIL and so will run in multiple threads with no further work and with little overhead (if a, b and c are large). I would describe this as a function "written in Python", even though numpy uses C under the hood. It seems you describe this snippet as being "written in C instead of Python"; I find that odd, but OK.

But, if I understand you right, you are also suggesting that the other commenters here that talk about the GIL would also describe this as "written in C". They realise that this releases the GIL and will run on multiple threads, but the point of their comments is that proper pure Python function wouldn't. I disagree. I think that most others would describe this function as "written in Python", and when they say that functions written in Python can't be parallelised they do so because they don't realise that functions like this can be.
Life Is Short. That’s the Point
FileCoin – a decentralised market for storage
Greece’s Bailout Is Ending. The Pain Is Far from Over
Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial
I wouldn't hold the NHS up as a paragon of virtue. I got sick on a recent trip to London and tried to get in to see a GP under the NHS and it was impossible.

The clinics near my hotel only accepted same day bookings. I tried calling just after opening hours and the phone was engaged. I managed to get through 15 minutes after the clinic opened and the clinic was booked out for the day and I would have to call back the next day. I tried a number of clinics and they were all booked out. I was lucky that I wasn't that sick and got better. Otherwise, I was looking at an exorbitant fee to see a private doctor.

I was shocked, as I always assumed that the NHS was better than the system we have in Australia. I think that there are lots of perverse incentives involved in Medicine and Healthcare. Government intervention is required to balance out these incentives from profit takers and consumers (i.e. smokers, obesity, etc). I'm not sure that any model in the world right now gets the balance right.
GitMiner v2.0 – Tool for Advanced Mining for Content on GitHub
That's fine. If Congress illegalizes speech of this nature, then public disclosures of exploits and other code errors won't happen nearly as often.

So what would happen then? There's many, many organizations that are willing to pay for exploits, because they plan to use them. There's one such company in DC that is likely to sell to the defense industry. For a 0-day no click exploit, $500k .

So sure, make it illegal. You only push this into the illegal side of operations and exploits. And I would much rather have exploits well known, so I can make the determination to: do nothing, take service down until fixed, or try to patch if available.
I've used that style of font for ny terminals for over a decade and it becomes very easy and quick to read.

Looking at 'normal' terminal fonts now is jarring, they seem so spindly and don't form 'word shapes' as readily.
Second sphinx discovered in Luxor
>I still have it, and it's gathering dust.

You could have installed Android on it if you didn't liked Ubuntu.

edit: Read your article. Very well-written.
Reinforcement Learning Resources, Models and Code
Is it publicly available? Can you please share it?
Right I should have said parallel threads, not multithreading.
Speedups of that magnitude suggest the original Python approach was particularly inefficient...
Why would it matter whether the meat was beef or not with respect to motive? The crowd thought it was beef and beat him based on that belief; they didn't test the meat first.
> I have installed MicroG on OmniROM to get OsmAnd to work.

Why would they do that? I have run OsmAnd on a completely Google-less Android phone, and it worked fine. (Fairphone 1 with Fairphone OS, which is basically AOSP with a few tweaks.)
pomodoro technique?
Are you sure that it's the font and not the clearly non-native English making it harder to parse? For me the font is ugly but still just as readable, whereas the hallmark signs of an ESL writer were definitely noticable.

Also the abysmally loose kerning and undifferentiated leading make everything run together into a scattered wall of text, which probably doesn't help.
> Because of copy-on-write fork magic

Note that this works for big objects, but not for small objects. E.g. if you fork-share a large list of integers or dicts or something like that, then you don't get any memory usage benefits, because every access will cause a refcount-write and that will copy the whole page containing the object.

> * Technically it's O(N) for the size of data you have in memory at process pool start

It's not quite that simple; sharing n pages can take very little time or a bit more time; it depends on how the pages are mapped; sharing a large mapping doesn't take longer than a small mapping.
I think you're thinking of the multiprocessing module, which uses separate processes to bypass the GIL. That's why the arguments and results need to be pickleable: pickle is a serialisation procotol, so it allows you to communicate the contents of objects between different processes. If you use threads within a single process, you don't need to pickle the objects; you just pass the object directly.
Ready to ruin the security of Linux, you mean. The split between package vendor and package maintainer has classically been the primary reason for malware being rare on Linux. Getting maintainers out of the loop for auditing packages, ensuring security updates go out, etc - is an awful idea. Sandboxing applications is great, but it can be done without subverting the package manager.
So in the event of a catastrophe, the key holders will restart the hierarchy by using a system no one else has seen but Bruce Schneier guesses is most likely SSS.

I was looking for an example a bit more concrete and inspectable than that.
People vs. Companies
Gassée acknowledged the conventional wisdom, but says the problem started even earlier. Seems uncontroversial.
which when added up provides a viable market segment for a company that does not insist on DRM. Especially as the mobile device market continues to fragment.
I was always surprised they let Microsoft come in and commoditise their business, why wasn't there an HP operating system to compete with Windows?
I don’t find that people working in a professional capacity default to stereotypes. Do you conform to a sreotype?
GitHub Goes Off the “Rails” as Microsoft Closes In
Studies That Prove Domestic Violence Is an LGBT Issue
Churchill directly responsible?

1. The UK had a coalition government and a war cabinet of 9 not a dictatorship by Churchill, so "directly responsible" is pure hyperbole.

2. Burma fell in 42 from which point Bengal lost previous regular rice imports and was now on the front line with the Japanese.

3. Many of the Indian states under their respective Maharajas applied trade restrictions with Bengal after the fall of Burma, through 42 starting with Punjab. That significantly heightened food shortages and profiteering. It was the inability to internally import rice that was perhaps the largest single factor.

4. Bengal was inundated with half a million refugees fleeing Burma.

5. At that point in the war there was little could be done to prevent Japanese attacks in the Bay of Bengal. The War Cabinet did indeed decline Mountbatten's requests for shipping food due to expected losses.

6. A series of natural disasters in the region, including extensive crop disease and a cyclone that killed 15,000 and spread the disease spores widely.

Churchill personally could have prevented all that, at the height of the war?

Now had you pointed at Bengal's governor, who made some questionable decisions during the crisis, I think you'd have had more of a case.
Ask HN: Has anyone else experienced fraudulent billing from Hetzner recently?
To be clear, I'm not accusing Hetzner of anything. I've just experienced a suspicious series of events over the past few months and am curious if it's an isolated incident.

I was a customer with Hetzner for a period of 6 months roughly 2 years ago (2016). I settled the account and they disabled my login details.

In July of this year (2018) I started getting spammed with calls from intrum debt collection agency (the one based in Ireland). I only found this out after one of their representatives finally left a voicemail (every time I tried answering the call they just hung up; typical).
This was followed up by a letter stating that they were starting legal action against me on behalf of Hetzner, for the sum of around 1200 EUR.

Naturally I called both and got everything put on hold while they investigated. I also consulted with a solicitor (I'm based in the UK) and they advised to report it as possible fraud with the police.

Ordinarily that would be the end of it, and I wouldn't be posting here. However, recently my bank froze my credit card (the same one I used with Hetzner) as a precaution. Digging deeper, my bank informed me that the police had come into possession of my card details after a leak (they wouldn't elaborate further).

So yeh, has anyone else experienced anything similar, or was I just unlucky?
Firefox axes add-ons, developer pushes back
Perhaps data from large HR departments would be useful. Although that would limit it to people who stay at the same company.

Brings another question, is it possible to find out which two companies in the world have the most overlap between employees? To clarify, two companies which a majority of knowledge workers jump between.
"Would be interesting if once a physician decides to perform services for you, he/she is bound by the insurance you have."

That's not how the car insurance model works. You have an agreement with your insurance company to provide a certain amount of coverage, irrespective of what has actually happened. If, for example, there is $2,500 of damage, and insurance covers $2,000 of it, the mechanic isn't stuck eating $500. You get billed for that, and rightly so. The mechanic is specifically (and legally) bound to offer the same service/repair at the same price. The mechanic cannot quote you differently for a repair based on the insurance you have and is not bound to any agreement with your insurance company. The mechanic merely accepts the remittance made by the insurance company on your behalf as being towards the total repair cost.
All of a sudden I kind of want somebody to make a cover with your text instead.
I'd say, yes.

On the other hand if tipping is paying for service, why do you 'deserve' a bigger tip just because I ordered the more expensive thing? If the 'fair' price for you talking to me about wine for 2 minutes and then bringing me the the bottle I want is $15 then surly you deserve $15 no matter if I select the $50 or $500 bottle.
I still prefer to pipe through a compression program on principle. tar has no good reason to messing around with compression, per the Unix single-function philosophy.
I've had this conversation with people before on HN, but to take this philosophy even a step farther, I feel like I have an almost regressive view of most apps compared to a lot of people on here.

I honestly don't see the difference between an application like Google Maps and a document. Google Maps should be presentable in pure text without CSS, and the overlay is basically just styling on top of that. You have a list of points with information associated with them including Latitude and Longitude. XML is perfectly fine for that. Or you have a list of directions or reviews, which obviously should be presentable in pure text.

Same with Google Music. Google Music isn't an application. It's a search box that displays a list of links to audio files. It's fine that Google puts pretty interfaces on top of this stuff, and CSS is good for that, but I just still don't see what they're doing that requires native access.

Minus the absolutely horrible performance that would come out of using Electron and JS for everything, I really don't feel like it would be difficult to remake the majority of what people call native apps in HTML/CSS. A lot of the native apps on my computer are basically just fancy ways to present tree-like information.

Stuff like Gimp, or Blender, or a 3D game - okay, we can talk about applications. But Maps, or Youtube? I dunno, maybe I'm just old and cranky. Certainly Facebook and Reddit don't fit into those categories.
A couple of friends and I used to try to one-up each other in constructing asinine Swenglish idioms. I believe the ultimate winner was: "Who are you for one? I feel again you."
Open Sourcing ModSecurity for Envoy Proxy
This seems to perform better than the OP's link. Does anybody know why that is? Are there certain forms of data for which Markov chains perform better?
Venezuela crisis: Brazil deploys troops after migrant attacks
Neither had I. /English dude.
Use zsh.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/23630/how-do-you-share-histo...

It is possible to get similar effects by kludging around with bash, but it's a built-in feature in zsh.
I never understood how a country like Vietnam could afford nuclear powerplants when in Europe costs of building new ones skyrocket to 10 billion euro.
This only gives you parallelism in one specific situation though - where operations like '+' and '@' take a long time. If they were fine-grained operations, then this doesn't help you.

If instead of operating on a numerical matrix, you were instead operating on something like a graph of Python objects, something like a graph traversal would be hard to parallelise as you could not stay out of the GIL long enough to get anything done.
What's the trade-off when disabling CGO?
I wish I had a source, but I recall reading multiple studies that indicate your approach is preferable to writing tons of notes during the lecture. some keywords or doodles might work, but apparently furious note-taking is counter-productive.
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I've half joked about doing this for technical positions. I think to make it work you'd need:

1. A strong management system in place that's committed to helping folks succeed.
2. A willingness to honestly evaluate people and let them go if they aren't working out.

I've seen enough bad hires even in places that have well planned hiring processes that I'm having trouble believing this would be any worse.
Too shy to go into specifics, but it's a DSL for non-technical people to integrate dynamic data/queries into HTML.
As someone with severe dyslexia I hate this font so much. It's so damn ugly and it HARDLY works (for me it's < 10% better). If someone could design an elegant front weighed so that an internal drop shadow can help the mind render the character more easily and accurately in 3D space, that would be a god send.
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In this article, you will discover business growth opportunities by having a website. Also, I will help you understand why you need to look at your website as an investment and not as a requirement or expense of a business.

The example written here is based from a discovery session outcome with financial advisors who are aiming to improve their brand credibility and to have better sales process. Learn from the story and see how you can apply it on your business.

https://medium.com/@aesir32/600-revenue-increase-roi-of-havi...
That graph is pretty useless by only focusing on single family homes in metropolitan areas. Single family homes may hold nationwide as a housing growth indicator but one would expect mature and rising cities to have more multifamily residences even if they had a space boon from obsolete industrial jobs move elsewhere due to urban areas providing less of an advantage due to high numbers of workers being less needed with increased automation. Similarly sixteen high rise permits would do more for housing than one hundred sixty single family homes despite there technically being fewer new construction permits - evem though they would rightfully be more involved in making sure it wouldn't cause disaster. While I do not doubt that many urban areas have a housing shortage that isn't very good evidence given the caveats.
Custom deployment code vs. off the shelves solutions
I have come across various solution for deploying code across a farm of machines like chef, puppet etc. Recently while working on a project I created a custom deployment mechanism. This allowed us to generate config based on some logic per env, develop workflows which were a combination of lower level deployments, this also allowed us to manage secrets (like passwords and tokens) using a vault. I was curious how many people run have a custom deployment setup vs an off the shelve solution.
You think the US has wealth inequality! In India its common for upper middle class people to have several full-time servents. Not only that, they are a whole separate class of people. They are treated like servents, not like employees.