skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really look forward when the premise of Theranos becomes technically viable.
Cheap continuous medical tests.

So much in medical diagnosis is just a very coarse decision tree and it is uneconomical to investigate every sickness.

Imagine doctors having more time per patient.
Imagine many diseases detected before there are symptoms.

I got carried away here, but medicine looks so much more promising then CS sometimes.
Just want to second, https://indiehackers.com is a great site!
For exotic niche products, incredibly. On Facebook, you can advertise to golfers who don't subscribe to a golf magazine. This is new and valuable (to everybody except the publishers of golf magazines, who suddenly have to face competition in golf-specific ad-spending). But if you are selling washing detergents, even the tiniest premium for targeted over untargeted would be a waste.
Torvalds' written communications are incredibly well-composed, full of information and get his point across well. On the basis of his emails alone, he's a "gifted communicator" in my view. Not everyone who is as logically brilliant as him can write like that.

Despite that, I'm sure that when he says he's "not a people person" there's something to it. Maybe a certain difficulty reading people or anticipating their responses?

That those two things live together side-by-side, that's what I personally meant by "interesting".
Presumably they had a brain scan machine (scanner?) nearby, ready to go. Everyone likes a joke with a prop.
Sometimes "constructive" requires more effort, which for an engineer could mean "overhead". Especially if communication is text based (email, chat, etc.), it's more difficult to express your emotions.

My imho of course.
And you didn’t have to pay continuing license fees for use or support. I worked for two companies that used Visual 2008 for years after newer versions came out because we had to support ruggedized Windows Mobile devices and that was the last version that supported it.

They just ended support for VS 2008 in April of this year.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/04/10/end...
How well do you (plan to) support the W3C annotation standards [1], and could one use this as a backend for hypothes.is [2]?

[1] https://www.w3.org/annotation/

[2] https://web.hypothes.is/
What is a "post-meritocracy manifesto"?

It sounds... opposite from everything I thought we've all been fighting for in the tech community, but I could be wrong? :-S
That person is confusing different things.

Apple is making it easier to use SMS 2FA in iOS 12 (automated copy paste)

However Apple itself doesn’t use SMS for 2FA.

As for Apple they had your phone number since the launch of the iPhone (!). Never needed 2FA to know it.

And no, Apple isn’t selling your phone number.
This is not a "Bug" but a "Feature"

Some things don't change:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.
There are edgecases though, where a currently percieved constant- is shown to be only the local galactic wether - or worser- easy influencable using the right tool.

If such a shaddy-bike-shed constant falls, new physics are possible, as in the underlying mechanism influences alot of old formulas and allows for boldly tweaking what no oman has tweaked before.
Nope, no barter - exchanged goods for currency, not for goods.

What would you mean by "settle" if you don't mean the point when the seller receives payment?
My brother and I built TinyTracker(https://tinytracker.co) after getting frustrated with Jira. We're not charging yet but we have a handful of businesses happily using it who (I hope) will come on as fully-paying customers once we get out of beta.
LIRR getting a leaf-melting laser to improve commute and protect trains
Actually, the funny part is the Chinese crying about unfairness.
Same thoughts as you, and it looks like we both went through the benefits line-by-line with a comment in this thread!

It sounds like the author wants Functional CSS to be the Ultimate CSS Solution™, when in most cases, you can write better CSS and/or stick to a design system and/or plan out and manage your components better.
Problem solving is a big one and how to investigate things. It has also helped me understand how people categorise things and why.
Because they rightly fear that someone will scoop them. The Nash equilibrium is to wait till you’re done to publish.
When you go to a website are your informed how much bandwdith will be ad only?

How about what is done with your personal information?

When you visit a website are you shown which tracking cookies will be left behind?

You cannot stop visiting the site, once you have visited the ads have been loaded, the cookies have been dropped and your info has been mined.
Of course, but I can guarantee Facebook has run the numbers. They are currently doing what makes them the most money. That happens to be ads.

The user data they sell to advertisers has a lot to do with your social network. Who you know, what their interests are, who they know, etc.

For Facebook to allow individuals to pay to opt out of their data being sold, it affects more than just that individual's data. I.e. it affects all their friends and friends-of-friends data.

I expect that the only way Facebook would be able to offer a pay-to-opt-out plan would be for everyone on Facebook to start doing, which would never work and they would never attempt.

I imagine the most we'll see in this direction is some sort of half-assed attempt where they offer to let you pay them money to stop some tracking, but still continue to most of it anyway.
I've found this is (usually) solved with soft skills. I just talk to the designer and explain we have all these very similar components already and it will help with the visual consistency if we follow an existing convention OR update the existing convention to use the new style (giving them the option to choose let's them stay in control of the design). They are usually very understanding as they don't always consider these things.
His quotes about political correctness are pretty interesting. Basically that neo-Nazis have tried to brand themselves as “just practical people against excessive political correctness,” but really that’s just a facade covering their true hate and racism. But now, if you’re ACTUALLY just someone who’s against excessive political correctness, you risk being associated with neo-Nazis.

I’d consider myself pretty left-wing - for compassion towards others, very strongly against racism, sexism and homophobia, very pro immigration and multiculturalism. Still, I do often find current levels of political correctness a bit much - like if someone uses he/she, they’re almost never intentionally being anti-trans, so who cares? Or simply many on the left flying into outrage too easily. But it’s hard to express these views now, because neo-Nazis have been putting up this facade of “just against political correctness,” when in fact there’s real hate behind it. And now many on the left take any deviance from political correctness to indicate a neo-Nazi. Not a great situation, and certainly not one that encourages people to have productive conversations/disagreements.
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You are confused.
Pirated Visual Studio is like pirated IntelliJ: an advanced and optional development tool, not what everybody but you is discussing.

The new commercial JDK is like Microsoft suddenly asking expensive license fees for using .Net "in production" (which they actually do indirectly, and with clear-cut boundaries, through expensive enterprise Windows SKUs)
Fronteers (Dutch association of front-end devs) wants to become a member of W3C
That means the investor agrees that at the time he buy stocks, the company is no longer worth $9 billion but it's worth ($20 billion - $245 million). Basically because they developped their business, their technologies, hired/trained people, they "created" value and the company is worth more than before.

The funding itself doesn't increase the company valuation, but it validates it. Before funding the board can declare that the company is worth $XX billion, but the fact that an investor agrees to put money on the basis of that valuation makes it real.
>yyyy-dd-mm

how, what, why? Who would do something like that? The best is for all to stop using outdated imperial systems and forget that there is another ton than the one that is 1000 kg
For exactly the reason alias_neo provided. It's madness to think that a chat program developed by a company of ~1 thousand employees valuated at 7.1 billion $, should take more memory, more disk space, and be less portable (Krita also works on FreeBSD and Haiku which Slack does not support) and be slower than a full-fledged art software developed at 100% by mostly unpaid open-source volunteers.
IMHO the premise is wrong. The capitalist isn't trying to gain freedom from capitalism, but from market.
The standard model is anything but shaky at the moment.
That is pretty cool.
>Because in the real world fiats are orders of magnitude more stable than cryptos.

Yes, but if you'll allow me a little latitude - the fiat currency is under centralized control. And in that case is remarkably stable - until it is not. And 2008 happens. Blockchain is decentralized and yes, volatile. But fiat currency is FALSELY stable - it is engineered to be stable by a centralized authority that does not understand what it is doing and the machinations are generating an increasingly problematic economic environment. I can't stress this enough - the stability that is trumpeted as such a wonderful aspect of fiat currency is manufactured and at the whim of fools.

And absolutely, point taken about banks. I do not fully appreciate the role of centralized banking and certainly, few do. I should qualify some of my statements with the idea that banking is an option, but not a necessity. and that optionality certainly applies to the marble facade we see all over the American landscape.

And finally, yes, you can setup as many accounts as you like - and that behavior will be partially obfuscated because those IDs do not have to be linked. But if you would please give me a modicum of credit (pun intended) - the smart contract would likely require its own level of background on any given ID. If shenanigans are present - the ID is not permitted access to the transaction. Or it might not care - I guess it would depend on the potential exposure. Trivial problems have trivial solutions. There are much bigger problems that would need to be tackled. Thoughts?
Because the HN community likes bashing Slack for it's memory usage.
Try and disable JS specifically on BBC? The site renders fine without it and I have no issues even with a relatively old PC.
> It’s quite possible to have an understanding of something that works in some situations but does not explain every situation.

Ah. You're thinking of engineering, not theoretical physics.
How so? That same tooling is used on the build server that compiles the app. From looking at job postings, .Net on the desktop is basically dead. Most companies that are still using .Net are doing it on the server.
The Right to be Forgotten existed before GDPR though.
An observer could be required because of the causality nature of our reality. I would assume the observer is an agent that connects cause and effect. It could be the one thing that brings order out of chaos in reality, if by chaos we mean the collection of agents.

I want to thank you about mentioning "Minsky's Society of Mind". On my reading list.
Rogue ICMP packets performing a reflection attack on those schmucks on Mars
IMHO Paint.NET is pretty approachable too, but it never hurts to have options.
They own most, see p34 https://s1.q4cdn.com/231238688/files/doc_financials/quarterl...
The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto:

https://postmeritocracy.org/

Author and signatory #1 is the same as the Contributor Covenant, which is the CoC adopted by the Linux Kernel.
In the era of victimhood and "microaggressions" honesty does hurt people's feelings apparently.

But we all know all that has nothing to do with honesty, it's about political control, in and outside a informal community. Open source is defacto an easy target since most projects don't have real organizations. The people who pull these stunts in the open source world have no power of persuasion in private businesses, they can't impose their dubious code of conducts,contributor covenants and other "post-meritocracy" manifesto there.
to paraphrase randall munroe, what are the odds that we would have two unrelated US presidents whose names both started with T-R-U-M ?
Frankly, the UK screwed up by not getting into a trade war to protect their IP. They had their chance and blew it.
I'm so confused. From Wikipedia:

> Appendicitis is caused by a blockage of the hollow portion of the appendix. This is most commonly due to a calcified "stone" made of feces. Inflamed lymphoid tissue from a viral infection, parasites, gallstone, or tumors may also cause the blockage... The combination of inflammation, reduced blood flow to the appendix and distention of the appendix causes tissue injury and tissue death. If this process is left untreated, the appendix may burst, releasing bacteria into the abdominal cavity, leading to increased complications... Acute appendicitis is typically managed by surgery. While antibiotics are safe and effective for treating uncomplicated appendicitis, 26% of people had a recurrence within a year and required an eventual appendectomy.

Given that bacteria are not even listed as a cause of appendicitis above, how do antibiotics help at all? Is there anything they can do to prevent "tissue death" in the appendix itself, and how? What about that "stone"?

Or are the antibiotics for dealing with an actual ruptured appendix (to kill leaking bacteria from the gut into the rest of the body), while the appendix presumably eventually resolves its blockage and heals itself on its own? Which sounds... scary, but of course I'm no MD.

Would love if anyone here knows how to explain what the article doesn't.
Music Modernization Act about to become U.S. Law?
Traditionally, the music industry (i.e. the RIAA and similar entities) has faced opposition from the internet crowd (EFF et al) on questions of copyright. This time around there didn't seem to be much of a fuss. How big a deal is the MMA?

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/09/mma-passes-house.html
I agree. What I meant by "could" is it was right in their backyard, as are all your examples.
Their failure is representative of bigco culture.
Of course a Code of Conduct is a political document.
Alright, so, where should these projects go when they're threatened out of existence? IPFS? Secret organization on Keybase?

Maybe I should start a company in Somalia or somewhere which will head/protect maintainers/release worthwhile OSS projects that have been threatened with legal action.
stupid people, everywhere...
Yes, this model is not super informative, but I think it does put a lower bound.

Also, I'm not sure which figures you're refereeing to for "order of magnitude", but recall that their "percentage of supply" change is a percentage of a PUMA, a mere 100,000 person district, not of the whole area. So even holding everything constant in the Bay, and assuming people will move places they would actually never move, a mere 5,000 housing units in one PUMA still makes a difference.

Totally agreed about the need to balance zoning more.
Sure, they will not be deployed universally but they will soon be common for interstate trucking and taxis. Also expect to see different adoption in the US than Europe and Japan (like Norwegian and Japanese cell networks vs the US). Needless to say, I agree rural Ukraine may have different needs than San Francisco. But that has nothing to do with adoption in San Francisco.
Adoption does not have to be 100% to be significant.
If it's about setting precedent, CBS could still offer licenses free-of-charge. Lawyers would still get their rights, and PR doesn't have to deal with the fallout of a C&D against a fan project.
It's a legal thing. Everyone is worried that their intellectual properties might turn public domain.
That email is just so Stallman. You have to enjoy his single-mindedness.
> You're just saying you agree in a silly way and citing some things you also happen to find needlessly complex.

Thank you oh wise one. I had no clue
Have you ever really looked at a thing with class="profile-card" and said "oh this is a profile card", when it wouldn't have been just as easy to tell that based on the context or what it contains?

Wait, what? Who hasn't done this?
There are a lot of us like Linus. The easy solution is not emotional counseling, it's an assistant/editor who can tone down his public comments. This is not a new problem.
In addition to focusing on international, they are still focused on very small companies. I went to a conference for small solo entrepreneurs this year, and they had a heavy presence. They also acquired/supported indie hackers. Now that they are giant, it would be so easy for them to write off the small customer, but they continue outreach. Its strange that I have such positive feelings about a payment processor, because payment processing isn't a major issue for our business, but they have just been good to do business with compared to the 3 other processors I had before, and that makes me like them.
At least on recent Android you can deny it. The UI doesn't support it and you need to resort to hacks such as https://whatsappwithoutcontact.com/
variables and mixins, clean css, readable templates instead of some overloaded hodgepodge of classes.
Legends of Software
Apple has signed up a number of prominent provider organizations but it's certainly not universal. Federal regulation will probably be necessary to get that data opened up everywhere.
I think many readers (science journalists, in particular) only read the abstract, introduction, and then immediately jump to the conclusions.

The introduction section almost always frames the paper with opinions and biases. And, the conclusion section often focuses too heavily on how great the results are (and the author’s prowess) without identifying interesting issues or irregularities encountered in the methodology, data, or outcomes.

I get that publishing is a huge part of a scientist’s career success and for self-promotion, but I see many papers that over emphasize those aspects. Again, I don’t fault them. One can’t easily get funding without a reputation. But, in my idealized (and probably unrealistic) world it would be different.

I do want to stress that I’m not complaining. What I have access to is amazing. But, sometimes I wish I could see it all.
When Asimov says that "the model of a flat earth is nearly right, it's only wrong by 8 inches per mile" it's supposed to be an outrageous statement - the earth is not flat, that way of understanding is completely incorrect, and the (Newtonian level) correct model can help you solve new problem classes such as travel to the moon.

He's making the point of how the existing understanding can't give wildly wrong answers which are ready to be "upended", or else it would not have persisted. The understanding can be upended, sure. But the new theory has to account for everything existing.
It sounds like anyone could have been better than Faulkner as a postman by caring a whit for the job.
Damn, I spent all night last night trying to get jspdf to work for me and gave up. Breezy looks like exactly what I needed! Serendipity.
Linus wrote emails all day every day for 15 years and like once a year he'd go off on somebody.

It's not a false dichotomy, because nobody's perfect. You're gonna have flaws, they're gonna come out on bad days, and at that point you've got a few options for what kinds of flaws you prefer.
My gallbladder removal 5 years ago was outpatient surgery. I went in around 7am and was home on the couch by mid afternoon. Gave up the serious pain meds the next day since the side effects (zero attention span) were more annoying than the bit of pain. It's amazing how far we've come for some medical treatments.
On the other hand you can, for example, get trapped inside it while it is on fire.

There's tradeoffs here and it's not at all obvious which of the two options is safer.
> its that they likely are using bots to upvote as well.

Doesn't seem the case to me. The majority of BBC submissions, even by the OP, sit only at a few points.
Thanks for the reply. As long as it's easy to mix free and non-free packages at my discretion, I'm willing to give it a shot.

Also, thank you for the capitalization correction. It grinds my gears when people capitalize things unnecessarily and I wouldn't want to be one of them!
How do you think video works?
If the email to BBC was written by Torvalds, then he is a great communicator. Very few people can write with such clarity.
> It's a legal thing. Everyone is worried that their intellectual properties might turn public domain.

If that's the case, couldn't CBS have just licensed its IP to these people in a good-natured way?
Anyone else get a chuckle that out of the myriad of relevant quotes, the author selected, "He... once [described] an Intel fix as 'complete and utter garbage'".

Good for Linus, I'm happy that he's not looking to adjust his technical expectations:

"technically wrong is still technically wrong, and I won't start accepting bad code just to make people feel better about themselves."
Right, how does the user download my app and then get a license-key which allows them it to install it on one PC?

Alt if the app is server-based how does the payment give them a login and password they can use to login to my app online?
You're not wrong. It means diversity quotas are being pushed and excellence is no longer pursued (or at least it's not the first metric).
While everyone was spending their time learning how to be nice - this guy actually sat down and built something useful.
.Net Framework is clearly on life support. .Net Core is the wave of the future. It’s open source, supported for at least 3 years and no license fees...
I don't know, but the idioms of the "white lie" and "polite fiction" certainly imply some connection between impoliteness and truth-telling, don't they?
He communicates well but on a task instead of things about people per say. Someone like him for instance isn't sure about how to respond say Sandra having a baby and would have to ask if it is good news or not but he knows how to process say increasing multithreading is important in the Kernel but there are competing security issues he knows how to coordinate there to patch Heartbleed and its ilk.
Because common sense tends to prevail.... eventually.... so long as you persist.

And for many the years of being slammed for doing it will just make the eventual freedom all the sweeter.
Here we go normalizing verbal abuses to just "not being polite enough". This culture is now so pervasive in our industry that people are wearing their rudeness to their fellow coworkers as a badge of honor. I have seen incredibly meek guys on the outside turn into monsters as soon as they get into their roles of lead devs or tech leads.
Repeat after me - "Kindness is cool."
One of the ideas is that smaller payment amounts are viable on a blockchain - and there will be mining or transaction fees assessed but there will be fewer and smaller fees. Point-to-point transactability cuts out the ubiquitous payment middlemen and it gives the person making the transactions CONTROL of their transaction data. No longer will business pay credit companies to learn about you - they will have to pay YOU to learn about you.

Data is worth billions and trillions of dollars. And blockchain allows you to take control of it.
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