skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turner obviously understands his tools, and exercised a lot of discipline with them to write pong within a resource budget.

The systems that I have encountered professionally have been uniformly more complicated, and written with less discipline, than Jason Turner's pong.

And that is not to say that the people who wrote the original programs were bad programmers. In business, you're trying to beat the other companies to the finish line, so a lot of siegeworks engineering happens out of necessity. Turner had the luxury of taking his time.
You look at the list of most efficient health care systems across the globe and they are not nearly as large as the US. They are typically small and homogeneous. I like the concept of single payor in the US but I do see big hurdles even if we get through the politics which is a big if. I'd point to heterogeneous population and a very wide range of care quality across the country and sometimes even within MSAs.
They are pulling the same tricks with the iOS apps, if you use Google Maps not logged in and you login to one of the Google Docs apps your Maps activity is now associated with your account once again. It’s sleazy and it’s a shame Apple doesn’t allow you to block it (this developer is not allowed to share information between apps and websites)
I love https://www.uniboxapp.com/, mainly for the way it treats mail as a continuing conversation like iMessage. It hasn't been updated in a while, but works well. I can't go back to the dreaded thread layout of most mail clients at this point.
Seconded. I've never had the desire to use a different native client.
I used to work in Boston Public Schools, so I have some context that may or may not address your point. One issue is that for the most part, Boston does not do "neighborhood schools" anymore. So a kid could easily have a 1.5 hour* walk to get to school. However, your point about busses largely stands because, at least for high school kids, the district mostly partners with public transit to bus the kids around.

* Downtown Boston is tiny. But the actual official city is pretty big, and dips much further south than many people realize.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It works for a lot of people I know, is modular, stable, open-source and works across the Unixen.

The obvious tradeoff the relative lack of polish and overhead during initial setup, but if you're willing to put up with that it's a fine choice.
+1 for Spark. I know there are other clients that have snooze and ‘send later’ functions, but I’ve been using Spark for a couple of years and haven’t really had any complaints.
Looking for a Wifi connection will drain the Nest's battery faster than it can recharge. It trickle charges from the "power on" thermostat lines.

But mine has not outright crashed when its Internet connection was interrupted.
LastPass Support for New YubiKey 5 Series
for example try to find a symbol and it pops up a modal dialog

Which one is that? Ctrl-T ('Go To All') isn't modal. And it goes to symbols only by prefixing the search with #. So it might be a better fit than whatever you're using?
That's the top Wikipedia link in the search results when searching for "gun rights"

I don't see the issue.
catchalls are great. In addition to allowing the use of arbitrary custom addresses on a whim they make it really easy to identify spam and train spam filters. Anything that arrives on multiple random/unused addresses at your domain is spam.
Some of it is different reporting requirements, but some of it is clustered in at-risk groups that are underserved.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w20525

Big recent declines are due to safer sleeping practices reducing SIDS / asphyxiation.

Education about safe sleeping is a factor, and also if you are in a household that can't afford a crib, that's going to have an impact too.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/01/04/health/infant-mortality-by-...
Gun control = gun rights. Just a different, and more popular and common, way of looking at it.
Apple’s decision a bit silly, author’s reaction embarrassing.
Having worked in big Azure customer I wouldn't say resources equals stability. The reality is more resources + quality engineering + failure testing.

As this case tells, Azure, isn't spending a lot on failure testing. Also, having experience with being an big Azure customer, I can tell you that things look better than they are.
Oh wow, I did not know that. I guess that's one way to give a few million Gmail users a reason to install Chrome...
Some designer wrote (Russian, of course, we're all into this stuff) something along the lines of "If you feel an area is great — you're just not familiar with it". Tried not to get carried out there, I'm already sad enough)

I guess (hope) avionic / nuclear software is generally of higher quality, but must it really be so hard and expensive to develop well?
Survivorship bias/fooled by randomness. If a system can be abstracted to a model that can account for the bizarre stuff that the business throws at it, then the domain you are operating in is either Simple or slightly Complicated (as defined by the Cynefin framework). The real problem lies in Complex/Chaotic.
Do yourself and the community a favor and when you see a website that doesn't work well make the Firefox Team aware of it[1].
They have a dedicated Team to check those issues.

1- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility#Contact_Us
Some actors doing unsafe things should not preclude us from building safe things in the mean while. Google/GSuite accounts matter. GitHub accounts matter.
I started using spark since google announced discontinuing inbox. Works really well between iOS and macOS.
I had the same thought. The only thing I could come up with is that it wasn't a failure of power supply, but that a surge took down enough cooling systems that they couldn't maintain temperature. A lot of DC's I've seen are N+1 with cooling (or even 2N), but they all run at the same time and are the same units. Or the control system went down, and they weren't able to get it back up and running, although I would think they would have redundancy in that case.
The funny part is: I watch a fair sum of video game content. I used to be part of that industry. The reason the content triggers me is less because of Fortnite Battle Royale (although I think the format is boring, it's less boring than predecessors) is inherently bad but because the people I see there are like... frightening people.

> The trending page isn't algorithmically created. It's curated by google employees.

It's a hybrid.

> Isn't that the point of youtube. You watch what you are interested in? Do you think we should all be forced to watch what you want?

No, wasn't this the entire premise of my joke explained back to me? If so... I mean... thanks for the review, "liftbigweights."
mailplane. I just want inbox but I don't want to waste a pinned tab on it.
Security experts say Chrome 69’s ‘forced login’ feature violates user privacy
Yes, I said I didn't really like the answer and the slow updates are a big part of that.

The "Google warnings" aspect, I'm pretty ambivalent about. They probably have saved some people some trouble, but on the other hand the gatekeeping power that feature hands to Google doesn't fill be with delight.
Hacker News is the best parody of itself.
I'm currently writing a hobby project in c++ for esp8266. I'm using about 35% DATA and 40% PROGRAM according to the compiler... seems to be ok so far (though my application does not need to allocate arbitrary memory right now, almost all is determined by initialisation).

On the other hand I'm trying to export some data at work from a web app... Firefox grows to 8.9GB ram usage then reports "uncaught exception: out of memory" :(
This is the tech news I come here for. Wait, no it's not.
How does keyboard input work? Does it track the position of the keyboard and then show a digital equivalent in VR? Because I think most people can’t touch type essentially blindfolded.
I also noticed this weekend that the iOS Youtube app now asks if links should be opened in Safari or Chrome. If Chrome isn't installed on the device the button says "Install" instead of "Open." I don't know how new this is, but it's pretty sleezy.
I've found that writing (pseudo-)code is absolutely necessary to find problems in the requirements. Often enough the requirements are self contradictory or just contain too many unnecessary corner cases. I've seen requirements that sounded really simple in the requirement doc, but turned out to be extremely hard to test because they implicitly defined a state machine with dozens of transitions.
Rough waters for California's not so public beaches
Apple Will Start Tracking Your Calls and Emails
It tries to detect when you are home/out and adapt the temperature settings. Only when it's in ECO mode will it not change the settings.
You Gotta Own It (2005)
I care deeply about the user. If I cared less this wouldn't be a problem. :-) The differences are subtle and to someone who can't "see" the issues, they are for all intents, invisible.

It's a little like trying to tell the client that adding Corinthian style columns to the front of Craftsman style house isn't a great idea. The client literally can not see why that would be a bad idea.
"billing practices of most hospitals are very dishonest and intentionally confusing and opaque."

Is that even true? Personally I have my doubts.
Monad Error for the Rest of Us – Codacy Blog
Seems to me you could make a pretty neat commercial product out of that. Add some LEDs to each surface, plus a speaker and you could have a Rubik's cube that tutors you on how to solve it.
I was searching for an exact phrase in quotes the other day, which happened to be close - but not the same - as a popularly monetisable phrase.

The entire results were full of the other phrase and not the one I searched for.

I kinda hate AI.

(Because it's dumb. Do what I told you, not what you think I want)
I also use Mutt.
Hey there! The point I was trying to make in the first place was "must it really be so hard to make systems that work?" but I'm afraid it got a little lost) Should try better next time
Using FastMail on my own domains. One account covers all the domains. Having more domains costs the same as one. They support several different kinds of address aliasing/wildcarding (including Gmail style '+' wildcards and multiple recipient). Their DNS is absolutely great with useful defaults.

Never looked back.
I don't know about vendor stance, but Elixir feels fairly elegant (better descriptive word than beautiful, I think.)
In-depth introduction to Kubernetes admission webhooks
Modularity vs Compositionality: A history of misunderstandings
Online shopping in retail. How to keep brick and mortar alive?
If you are looking for an email powerhouse that requires some time to set it up in order to use its full potential, then I recommend to take a look at MailMate: https://freron.com/
SiriusXM acquires Pandora for $3.5B
> For Medicaid, hospitals received payment of only 88 cents for every dollar spent by hospitals caring for Medicaid patients in 2016.

Is that the actual cost of the item or the obscene markup? Is medicare only paying $2.20 for the $2.50 saline bag, or are they only paying $176 of the $200 charge?
Side track, since there seem to be some russians here. Do you have any good tech blogs in russian I should follow? (thoughtspile thank you for your recommendation of Nikita Prokopov)
That's a lie. You are still shown Pocket ads and AMO still uses Google Analytics which cannot be blocked (extensions cannot run on addons.mozilla.org).

About the rest: true, it's in the recent past, but Mozilla love to shoot themselves in the foot, so they will keep doing that kind of stuff.
People will sacrifice well-being in one area (ex.: mental health) for well-being in an other area (ex.: money for housing/food). That doesn't mean it isn't a problem. You seem to be assuming a perfectly rational world...
I get this too.

It's bizarre to see "video you watched 4 times 5 years ago" on your homepage. Every day.
>"Organizations like EFF have been historically anti-government ..."

Can you provide a citation or examples of this? Being pro-civil liberties does not imply anti-government. Those aren't mutually exclusive.

In the US civil liberties are basic freedoms identified in the Bill or Rights and the Constitution. And the Constitution is what established the government in the first place. How is it possible to be pro-civil liberties and anti-government?
Does any integrate with Microsoft Exchange and their encryption of emails? It has made my use of Thunderbird less and less an option because of this.
Machine learning for news: the NLP engine behind Parse.ly Currents
I might be a "Gmail is weird" issue but I've always had trouble going through my inbox and deleting a lot of email one by one. They disappear, then they come back and then disappear again. Hitting undo after deleting something by mistake is also a recipe for disaster for email that kind of disappears but still shows up in search.

It can also be pretty laggy (e.g. selecting multiple messages), but this has gotten a lot better in High Sierra.

I still use it though since I have yet to find an alternative that I prefer (I've only tried a few though)
Not something that is wrong per se, but I moved away from the Mail.app because I switched to Inbox a few years ago because of it's productivity features. The way Inbox handled 'snoozing' mails (mails returing from snooze would appear at the top of the inbox) is not supported by Mail.app (or any other standard mail app for that matter, even Gmail at the time). So I switched to Inbox web app on the desktop as well.

I believe there are some plugins that support similar features, but I have not yet found a Mail.app snoozing that is portable as well (eg: Android/webapp support).
You look at any list of anything across the globe relating to countries and they are not nearly as large as the US.

For the very simple reason that most countries are smaller and more homogeneous than the US, so I don't think it really proves a lot. Unless you're suggesting US only compare itself to Russia and China in future?
I wonder if you're in your own filter bubble.

As in, if some full blown NRA guy searched gun rights, what would he get?
are you using mutt's built-in imap functionality, or something like offlineimap?
> Clearly the developer(s) didn't have a clear idea of how to design software and abstract it into pieces that are independent and reusable.

Is this not often the case because you have people that are not actual developers involved in the process of software creation? In the sense of, you don't get budget to fix/refactor something because business says so; you have to make your app comply with some shitty legacy standard because business wants to have your software work with some stuff from 20 years ago - and so on, the list is basically endless.

Don't get me wrong, developers (myself included) are probably more than enough at fault themselves, but if 'creating software' was only about making nice, clean, awesome code that really does what it's supposed to do, devs in general would probably make a better work out of it compared to what is happening in the real world - where non-dev people also have a say in what/how you create software.
It gets quite slow with large mailboxes.
Is also nicer than plus-notation like dave+hn@mp.com, which from time to time gets rejected by some overly zealous (but wrong) adress checking tool.
That strikes me as an overly simplistic view, largely because it implies a unity of motivation across the various persons involved in U.S. healthcare policy-making and delivery.

If you're sure of your statement, it would be helpful to cite some supporting evidence.
I have a miniature version of this, as I'm in charge of the duty schedule at my flying club and I wrote a program to generate the schedules for me.

There's a function which takes a schedule and generates a score. Leaving a spot unfilled or scheduling someone who isn't available subtracts lots of points. Scheduling someone much more or less often than the median subtracts points based on how much of a difference there is. Scheduling someone on a day they prefer adds points, and so forth.

Then it's a simple hill-climbing algorithm starting from an empty schedule. I get people's availability and preferences into the program, hit run, and out pops a schedule.

I learned early on that I must check the result before publishing it. The algorithm itself works fine. Hill climbing probably isn't finding the absolute optimal schedule, but it does a good job. The problem, of course, is the scoring function. Sometimes it turns out to be missing some important constraint. Much more often, I need to tinker with the weights assigned to various conditions.

People assign too much agency and intelligence to computers. They are, of course, just tools. A nail gun will put a nail into whatever you point it at, whether it's drywall or flooring or feet. Likewise, a computer optimization system will optimize whatever function you tell it to, and will probably do an excellent job, but it's up to you to make sure the function accurately describes what the humans want.
You seem to be assuming that you know what's best for other people. Why not leave it up to them?

If you were to shut down MTurk I don't think the people who rely on it for money would thank you.
Being able to use it with my phone?
SiriusXM to acquire Pandora for $3.5B
Totally agree about price transparency. Everybody but the people in the medical system who benefit from opaque pricing should be able to agree with this.

I don't think my comment was partisan but it was a description of the last 10 years. Republicans voted to repeal Obamacare several times a year but never introduced anything for improving it. And now that they are in power they seem have no idea how to proceed.

I am not saying that Obamacare was a good law. Actually it was pretty half assed but it could probably be made to work with some changes. I would have loved it opponents of it would have introduced steps for improvement but they never did.
Mentioned in the article: http://time.com/4793315/donald-trump-budget-appalachian-regi...
The website has a list of features that differentiate it.
I guess I was not clear in my point. It's weird to me that the young Earth is widely associated with Christianity, not that some believe is weird or not by itself.

Also I never said Christianity is not weird, at least not from a non mystical point of view.

Chesterton mentions it:

"Now the first thing to note is that if we take it merely as a human story, it is in some ways a very strange story...

...Relatively speaking, it is the Gospel that has the mysticism and the Church that has the rationalism. As I should put it, of course, it is the Gospel that is the riddle and the Church that is the answer. But whatever be the answer, the Gospel as it stands is almost a book of riddles..."

I really recommend reading The Everlasting Man from Chesterton, if you are interested on understanding (not trying to change your beliefs or anything, you can read it just to get a better understanding of Christians beliefs).
I like the rescramble idea. You could maybe go one step further by varying the difficulty of the rescrambling - I'm not sure if there's an established distance metric between rc states (something like a levenshtein distance, "minimum-number-of-changes-needed"), but the program could shuffle the cube out to some threshold on that metric to get easy, medium, hard, etc.
If you're looking for a more traditional email client, I'd recommend MailMate[1]. It's a no-fuss email client designed for power user (GPG support, Markdown support, advanced filtering, text-only mode, etc.) I've been using it for half a year with Fastmail (personal) and Gmail (work) and pretty happy with it.

The author also maintains a blog[2] where he post quirks about several IMAP implementations. For example, Yahoo IMAP[3] or Gmail labels[4]. The app itself also handled all these edge cases very well.

[1]: https://freron.com

[2]: https://blog.freron.com

[3]: https://blog.freron.com/2017/slow-descent-into-madness-yahoo...

[4]: https://blog.freron.com/2013/mavericks-gmail-apple-mail-and-...
Why doesn't anyone here like using Chrome? I like how all of my info is in one place and always synced across all of my devices. Passwords, addresses, payment info, etc.
Points 1 - 3 are all public health issues. When you talk about healthcare you can't neglect that part.

By the way, physicians will say the proper measure for healthcare efficiency is disability-adjusted life years. The point is not to be alive but to live well. Getting shot in adolescence is a public health problem. Hanging around for 10 more years with full-strength Alzheimers is no advance.
I don't believe Airmail requires any 3rd party server. I have been using Airmail for a few years now and really like it.
And it’s freaking fast. After trying out other mail clients, Mail app is the fastest in term of new mail sync speed.
Not only is it unlikely that people will go out and buy a satellite phone, as soon as that becomes problematic the government will just outlaw the unlicensed sale of satellite phones to the public.
That might be, but I wouldn't use the word "dangerous" to describe the effects of a thermostat not working. It's the same as when the power goes out. Obviously, no one is leaving their baby alone for hours and hours and hours while the temp actually gets to freezing level such that it would harm the baby, so what is so dangerous about it?

I can see the harm in frozen pipes and whatnot, but you take the same risk when dealing with other systems, such as other thermostats or power or the furnace itself. However, if it is known that Nest devices fail when the internet fails, then that is Nest's responsibility to advertise that to users.
The conversation here is not just about why they were founded, but their current purpose as a company. Why they were founded is, of course, a major driver of that. The BFR's design confirms that this purpose continues.
Depends on where you live, google has country-based pricing. I pay half of what i would be paying fastmail.
The Riemann Hypothesis, Michael Atiyah
Not really. A person addicted to food, alcohol, porn, etc. is perfectly capable of keeping these addictions at bay in public, but lose control while in private.
The above commenter mentioned demographic and lifestyle discrepancies not adequately accounted for in this comparison of outcomes among countries... not health care problems, as you're implying.
GM stands for Gold Master I believe. Apple's concern therefore isn't that the device isn't out yet, it's that it's not finalized, and they don't want an app update to say that it supports something which isn't finalized yet because it could change tomorrow (even if that's unlikely).
BIG U – proposed sea wall around Lower Manhattan
You can pry Eudora from my cold dead hands…
China is number twenty and climbing. People in China could say it is not fair to compare health care in China to the US because the China is four times as big, but I have never heard that.
It is safe, everyone here seems to hate on Google products and Microsoft's Windows 10
As someone into both techno and startups, i’d like to hear more!
'Netflix for Open Source' Wants Developers to Get Paid
Serverless Webhooks with Extend
If you take Socrates at his word, I think he is sincerely trying to find answers. He asks a question that he really wants to know the answer to, but then sees potential flaws in the answer, so he asks more questions to test the strength of the answer. Even though he ends of "knocking out" his interlocutor, I think he would prefer to get an answer that holds up to scrutiny.

I think the value of good Socratic questioning is to get the student to examine his assumptions and to learn to think more deeply. However, it can easily become an intimidating bullying session if done incorrectly.