skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make it personal, consider that the general practitioner that you see has likely been bribed by the pharmaceutical industry throughout their career. Starting in med school, with free food and toys. But if pressed, they'd all say that gifts don't affect their professional judgment. But in fact, studies have shown that they do. For example:[0]

> For years, the evidence has suggested that even small gifts can influence physicians’ behavior, create a mindset of entitlement, and help to promote allegiance to companies and their products. Recently, with the availability of Open Payments data and research made possible by these data, the evidence has become stronger. Using Open Payments data, a 2016 study found that receipt of industry-sponsored meals, even just a single meal, was associated with an increase in the rate of prescribing the brand-name drug that was being promoted.

0) Steinbrook (2017) Physicians, Industry Payments for Food
and Beverages, and Drug Prescribing. https://sci-hub.tw/10.1001/jama.2017.2477
I tend not to install browsers and other important software from the internet. Is this packaged by any major distro ? What are the blockers ? Non-free bits, analytics etc. ? Honestly, I wouldn't pick a browswer unless it's packaged by fedora/debian.
Another way to prototype UIs for the majority of typical web applications is just to use a CMS.

Most of them still rely on server side rendering instead of SPAs.
Being self-hosted and open-source?
I use my Gmail account as my secondary e-mail address and can confirm IMAP still works. I even use Office 365 e-mail as my tertiary e-mail address in an IMAP client. I have no idea which specific features I'm missing out; from my PoV IMAP4 is the standard and the rest is missing out on that with these proprietary web portals.
Probably the same people who fluoridate our water to make the frogs gay. /s
How do I opt out, I don't expect such an invasion of my privacy from posting on HN.
Allow to customize your scrollbars in Vuepress
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Respectfully, I think you might be conflating your own class perspective with those of these workers. Most people in low-wage jobs aren’t giving much thought to whether they enjoy them. They’re meanial and unfulfilling, the people working them are aware of this. They’re generally focused on whether or not they can get through the day without too much abuse and make enough to survive. If they seem consistently unhappy, the answer to that is probably no.
You can also make the argument just as easily if not easier that women are becoming more manly. Seems like these trends would be dominated by social change and it's silly to assume any kind of physiological difference without a solid study.
> Working at one of these big banks, there are 10 000 employees for each building in canary wharf. It's delusional to think that they can be moved.

They're already being moved. The question is how many and how fast, not whether it can happen at all.
Why Russia and China’s joint military exercises should worry the West
I'm on this side, really. I'm building software that is balkanized-internet-ready.

You plug a machine into a global network, you give access to information, you should stand by that information.

The ISP's should be common carrier - they are the wires. But the hosts - the hosts should be responsible.

Google Facebook Reddit et al want to have it both ways: editorial control (kick off untoward content) and immunity from responsibility. Pick One!
No, sorry. The site had mainly focused on meta-policing stuff. Stories behind crime reporting. Almost police fandom. And then they started hosting FOIA data about financial reporting by judges. And investigative stories about conferences for judges, speaking fees, and so on. Basically the same stuff that's well known for the medical sector.

And then the site just disappeared.

Edit: Maybe https://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-financial-disclosure/ is a descendant. But damn, they seem rather on the right-wing fringe.

Edit: Found it! It was APBnews.com.[0] And it seems that I was wrong. It apparently just disappeared during 2003-2004.[1] I don't have the patience to trawl through all that, to see what they actually said on their site.

Also, it seems that the National Law Journal has been publishing redacted disclosure data.[2]

0) https://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-l...

1) https://web.archive.org/web/20000101000000*/APBnews.com

2) https://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news/legal-s...
Looking at the tools and libraries I get to use with Java, .NET, OS X/iOS, Android, Qt and the ones I get with the free alternatives, I rather stay with the former.
Great article. I totally agree, but I see alot of Stripe developers seem to forget that 99% of software is maintained in large companies and outside of their "startup" mindset where code doesn't always live that long
Refresh stale DNS records on 1.1.1.1
It appears to work fine even without extensions (Ubuntu 16.04, Firefox 62), but I have some garbage-blocking extensions installed.

In my main Firefox profile, I use umatrix[1] to browse the WWW with all CSS and JS turned off by default, enabling them only when needed. Reader mode makes most articles readable with a single click.

Firefox's built-in privacy protection is also enabled.

If a website doesn't work with my settings, it takes about the same time to override the CSS/JS settings than the difference between an unblocked page load and a blocked page load. Pages load much faster in general, so it's a net gain in free time.

I also use Stylus[2] to turn off all CSS animation and add custom styling to websites.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
Type 1 diabetes can't be cured nor avoided by lifestyle changes.
> One difference is that the amount of starting capital matters.

Well, yes and no. If you're incommunicado in some kind of locked room with a timebombed offer, sure, if you can't afford to lose the money you say no. But if someone actually offered you a 1% chance at a trillion dollars for a million dollars, you take the offer and then immediately sell the company that owns the contract for ten billion dollars and pocket the ten billion dollars.

Or sell half of it for five billion dollars and keep the other half.
What is the operation that you need? Can you send a PR?
It's rather problematic that they decide to end the updates at the same time they decided to make updating windows 10 not free and windows 8 no longer available. They're essentially forcing people to upgrade, and of course, customers are forced to buy a product or be subjected to security risk. And of course, there is no competition that can take advantage of this decision.

That tidbit was at the end of the article, but I don't expect employees of microsoft to care.
> Ma will remain executive chairman while the plan is carried out. A New York Times report that said he was “stepping down” to “retire” was out of context, and factually wrong, an Alibaba spokesman said

https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2163376/jack...
Yes he did. And it’s funny to see someone repeat an oppinion they’ve obviously just read but didn’t understand the contents of eg “Jobs was a visionary, Cook is a great manager” and then just assume that Ives is Cook because someone mentions him as Apples visionary.
Amazing advice. Good to know someone with a family has made it work.
> After the claims Oracle made during the Google trial (such as APIs and method signatures being patent-able),

Copyrightable.

> it is clear that one can't work on the Java platform without infringing Oracle's IP.

That's not at all clear. After the third time Oracle v. Google gets ruled on by the trial court, it will undoubtedly be appealed to the Federal Circuit again. Whatever happens there, it is likely at least Google (given how the Federal Circuit has constrained what must happen at the District Court in the prior Appeal) and possibly Oracle will attempt an appeal to the Supreme Court. After that (whether the Supreme Court hears the case or not, but especially if they do), then what the law is in this area may be clear. Until then, all that is clear is what the Federal Circuit’s view of Ninth Circuit case law is, which as precedent is binding on no other court (any court bound by Ninth Circuit case law is bound by the actual case law of the Circuit, not the Federal Circuit’s interpretation of it) and, for litigants, has predictive power only for cases with patent claims that also raise similar copyright issues, and which arise out of districts in the Ninth Circuit.
Does constitution of Tesla lack rule of exclusion for board elections? Musk should not have been able to vote for himself.
Ever since it came out I started using Firefox' Containers for that purpose and they work like a charm.

Maybe something similar exists for Chrome?
Pick Clojure, Scala or JRuby instead of Java if you need to start off on the JVM, to hedge against this risk.
That wasn’t clear at all. None of that was public before they launched. And when they did launch the entire industry was saying “touchscreens suck, who cares about desktop browser pages aren’t designed for that, we have WAP for that!”

So no, it wasn’t clear for any outsiders that he iPhone was even going to be a success. And like plenty times before people where predicting the death of Apple due to their stupidity of going into a different market.
There is strong evidence fertility decreases if there is a lack of vitamin D, which would correlate with the thesis that fertility decreases for human kind in general (as we expose ourselves less and less to the sun):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28667465
re: "# channels < # goroutines"

func doSomethingTwice() error {
// Issue occurs below
errc := make(chan error)

go func() {
defer fmt.Println("done wth a")
errc <- doSomething("a")
}()
go func() {
defer fmt.Println("done with b")
errc <- doSomething("b")
}()
err := <-errc
return err
}

> When one routine writes to the channel, the program exits and the other goroutine is lost, building up memory use as a results

I'm not very familiar with go, but my guess would be that since the two goroutines send to an unbuffered channel that is read at most once, the "slower" of the two goroutines will sit there blocking attempting to send to a channel that will never be read. So this would "leak" a goroutine that would consume resources while the process was still running, but it doesn't have anything to do with the program exiting.

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Channel_types

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Send_statements

> How do we fix this? We simply increase the number of channels to 2

The fix is okay but the language is a bit hazy, there's still only one channel, but now it's a buffered channel with capacity to hold up to 2 messages, so the two goroutines don't need to block waiting for a receiver to be ready to synchronously receive the message they are sending.
I thought infinite scrolling is universally hated feature (at least on hn)
Yes, I agree with you. It seems to be a social thing. But it seems to be the case worldwide so maybe there is a physiological component; would like to see studied.

I see that young people today are absolutely behaving different than my generation but also than my parents and grandparents and great grandparents. I mean to say that my father, grandfathers and great grandfathers were all rather similar while they are all really different than the current generation. I think I like the current situation better. But yes, this needs solid studies if someone someone would be interested in finding the cause; not guessing or speculation.
There aren't really any good evolutionary explanations for the decrease in sperm count. Changes in the distribution and frequency of any given genotype/phenotype literally takes generations to occur, and would require some kind of selective pressure (as you say, competition and medically induced fertility are possibilities). This is happening too fast and too uniformly.
Wells and drain fields are common here. It’s rediculously cheap.
Your argument is an appeal for more personal liberty. And that's an honorable argument to make.

If, however, crime reduces your personal liberty to the point where you are uncomfortable walking outside, then cameras (and facial recognition software) will seem to add more liberty than it takes away. People buy products like Ring and security cameras for this very reason, they want to feel safe.

You might say, "Okay, but that's security theater. The real issue is because Donald J Trump, or an unchecked NSA might use them for more nefarious reasons. And it's not even clear they work to reduce crime..."

At which point the average person says, "I just want to feel safe at night when I walk the dog. And frankly, the investment in cameras are worth it if they help catch Russian spies..."
> There can be a big difference between doing something you’re not supposed to and FLONTING that you’re doing it.

Flaunting it actually makes it less of a security risk in some ways; for one things no one is going to blackmail him with the threat of exposing it.
To Restore Civil Society, Start with the Library
Doesn't Nim compile to C? Not really the same as being "fast as C"
Not really, most of the standard library and basic stuff is incompatible on Windows. So sockets, file system calls, event loops, file configuration & default folders... It's never THAT different but different enough that just compiling your code won't work.
It saddens me that people are more comfortable watching videos of gore than a person suffering from a mental illness.

It saddens me that America lacks mental health awareness.

> I can't believe this is real.

About 1% of Americans suffer from schizophrenia [0] and for many of those, this video shows what they and their family face on a daily basis. You and the people around you probably don't ever experience what happens in those gore videos, but we are surrounded by people who suffer from schizophrenia and other mental disorders.

There is currently no cure for schizophrenia and the best treatment is therapy and antipsychotic medication. If the person who is suffering from schizophrenia decides to pass on the medication and therapy (for reasons related to the disorder or because the side effects are worse than the benefits), it can be difficult to prevent situations like the one in the video of Terry from happening.

Imagine you are in a room with 100 other people. It is likely that someone in that room has experienced paranoia or groundless thinking similar to what you saw in the video. Both them and their family have to learn how to deal with the symptoms and often do not get enough support. I encourage everyone to educate themselves on mental health and consider donating to an organization that supports people with mental illness [1].

Terry uploaded a video the day before he died [2] and also removed all of his previously uploaded videos from YouTube. That leads me to believe that he committed suicide. I don't know much about his situation, but I can't help to wonder if he would still be with us if he was given more support and resources to help him deal with his illness.

Thankfully Archive.org [3] has saved a great amount of videos and links related to Terry's life if anyone would like to learn more.

[0] https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Sch...

[1] https://www.nami.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH41gGBVpkE

[3] http://ia800600.us.archive.org/31/items/TerryADavis_TempleOS...
Well there is the windows app store these days. Probably no cli software offered, and no third party repositories, though. And there's chocolatey, which may be of use
He took one puff of weed on a casual podcast at ~11 p.m. local time. Not certain this is the canary in the coal mine some people are making it out to be... but I guess volatile stocks will find reasons to be volatile?
Using disposable SMS service for what will be used to verify account owner in the future sounds unreasonable.
I think it has python 3, but not python 2
The number-one-most-powerful tool that I can recommend in teacher development is getting mentored by a Master Teacher once you are in your own classroom (ie, not student teaching). The good news is that you will likely get exposure to many/most of the big ideas in any graduate program.
However, it's very difficult to integrate those big ideas into your own classroom without a guide. Having somebody regularly observe your work and hold you accountable for your choices can make an enormous difference in outcomes (and often very rapidly). If a formal mentorship program is not available, then I would recommend seeking out an informal one.
Talk about missing the forest for the trees. The main subject of the Foundation Series was an imaginary science that could predict future developments in human society. The technology items you discuss are just filler, secondary details that serve to flesh out the world of the novels. Just like "psychohistory" itself, they're not supposed to be accurate predictions of future tech.

I don't know why we're supposed to find them laughable. Is it because we are so much smarter than Asimov so we can all have a good laugh at his naive imaginings of then-future technology (never mind our ~50 years of hindsight)?
You cannot create a Google Voice number without providing an existing, working, real number.
How can you compare nodejs runtime and java runtime? When you take into account traditional Java uses
Ah, really? Not just for presentation but for interactivity? Can you name an example?
My, very shallow, understanding is, people can’t follow rules. There are a few rare individuals that can, but not the tens of thousands that are required.
Is man is even needed is my take.

Only those deliver are important and only woman by definition reproduce. For diversity, one day the female as a race can get each other X genes ... why need Y ...

The question is why we need male? Not totally sure actually even though I am male.
That's talking about "mini cars" like Smart that are so tiny they actually are compromising safety for weight, not normal sized sedans.

For example:

> The second factor is vehicle size, specifically the distance from the front of a vehicle to its occupant compartment. The longer this is, the lower the forces on the occupants.

A compact car and a crossover are typically about the same length. A "mini car" is shorter than that, which is what compromises its safety. And unlike making the vehicle heavier, making the nose longer doesn't harm the occupants of the other vehicle in a two party collision, and does actually help you in a collision with a massive stationary object (e.g. overpass) whereas weight in that case does almost nothing.
Apple used to make computers in the USA. But all the current iPhone parts are not made in the USA. You'd have to import them then assemble them in the USA. Didn't Trump have tarrifs on imports?
Is there a business intention with this plugin, or is it just a cool thing that you did? Who is "we"?

Does it impact only Google or will it attempt to auto-load other sites as well?

I'm curious who you see as your target user, and what problem you're solving for them. I don't mean that to sound negative; another way of asking is "what existing behaviour are you replacing"? (Given that most users apparently never read past the first few results...)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17940636

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I wonder how this will work out. GCC had checked fat pointers for years, used by almost nobody. Microsoft can make it stick on their platform, because they own the libraries and can make them use fat pointers.

I hope this works out better than Microsoft Managed C++.
For big companies the real cost of an upgrade is not the new license.
There is miller. But it's a CLI tool, not s library. Maybe it comes bundled with a library?

https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
Curious that there's a lot of downvoting of reasonable comments in this thread.
"any company not dedicating at least 5%, preferably 10% of their hiring budget to finding and training entry level talent is something of a parasite on the economy"
Most of startups?
The biggest feature holding me back from using Firefox is the inability to drag multiple tabs at once. I often "split" a chrome browser window into two this way, or combine two chrome windows into one.
But the people hit by the huge botnets of unpatched Win 7 machines care.
Google is getting really pushy about logging in. Can you read any Google Doc file now without being logged in?
for goroutine leaks, I have been using the leaktest package made by fortytw2 [1] in all my tests, pretty useful for my day-to-day dev work.

the article is pretty cool, especially when the author actually has a family name Check. :)

[1] https://github.com/fortytw2/leaktest
I have used the simple and beautiful tool

https://github.com/Clever/csvlint

It is in golang.
He didn't even call for any harassment of these alleged "crisis actors" let alone call for their murder. If you are going to blame mass shootings on ungrounded speculation then we've got to censor half of the internet.

Your line of reasoning is no different from blaming video games for mass shootings.
This article was a big impetus for me to learn web development: the shear madness of waiting several seconds to read a 140 byte tweet!

The megabytes of ad and tracking javascript loaded for text articles of a few kilobytes - working in advertising exposed me to the magnitude of internet traffic that is dedicated to auctioning advertisements and tracking users thereafter. The weight of mass surveillance is stifling our networks. I really can't wait to move on from this era.
Had Microsoft owned Java it probably would have acted in the same way towards Google.

The versions mentioned here are strict Java compatible in that they follow a well-defined standard and an elaborate test suite. Quite different from Java Android.
So why one should try Lanka instead of brew again? Thank for clarification
Looks like a fun project!

Imagine a version of this with forward-facing and bottom-facing cameras which transmit back in real-time.

Seems like it'd be a sort of holy grail for the vehicle class.
Is this even an issue? Just look at games. They use various ports all the time. It still works. Don't optimize for crappy networks, it's not worth it.
And people still wonder why it is taking so long to find a "cure". Everyone invovled is incentivized to never actually get to a point where "cancer" is a solved problem.

Of course, that is beside the point. One of the most effective treatments remains a series of prolonged dry or water fasts. ~10 and ~40 days respectively. But because no one can patent it or make $3M a year in kickbacks, I doubt it will ever be known to the mainstream in my lifetime.
This extension lets you split multiple tabs from a window to a new one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-...

It's not as pretty or intuitive as Chrome's “shift-click and drag” approach, but it works well enough.
Americans use the Internet to abandon children adopted from overseas (2013)
There is no one “cure” to cancer. Each cancer requires its own set of treatments.
Personally I drop Chrome few months ago, tired by it's INVOLUTION. I also drop GMail about an year ago for a personal mail (which cost around 20 euros/year) and features standard IMAP and Roundcube instead of the monster WebUI that GMail have since few months.

Also I'm in process to ditch Google contacts on Android (actually sync-ed one-way via Goobook/XML files since vdirsyncer seems unable to sync many contacts) switching to Radicale on home server and DAVDroid on mobile.

For years I say to many ditching GMail&Google in general: you drop a working solution for another equally held by another company with a mission of making money. Now I have to say they were wright, I still drop a company for another but some others are less parasite than Google.

Sorry for my poor English, not my mother-tongue...