skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is time for all of us in the startup and VC sector to do a deep dive on our investor base and ask the question that the CEO asked me. Who are our investors and can we be proud of them? And do we want to work for them?

I would extend that question even further: Can we be proud of the gains we've made by working with the investors we've dealt with in the past? If not, how are we addressing the problem?

You can't be forward looking without addressing the past. This is why the moral pleas never really gain traction. If Fred was honest he'd address the elephant in the room by accounting for and giving back the gains. Until that happens, this is empty posturing.

Politicians will do this, this isn't some crazy ask. For example, Cuomo put his money where his mouth is and "returned" the $110K donated by Weinstein through the years:

> “My message to everyone who has current accounts with money from Harvey Weinstein is, ‘Give that money back,’” the mayor added. “Give it to charity. Get the hell away from it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/nyregion/andrew-cuomo-har...
Nice! I love ffmpeg, but this looks like it could be used to bring the smooth real-time video editing that's common on the Mac to Linux systems!
Oh, it's just the usual waiting game. Happens every time. Sellers will stubbornly hold on to the last "fair" prices they were told, even if they can't sell, the RE agents will suggest waiting out the winter and taking the house off the market till the next spring. Buyers are aware of the inventory increase are waiting to see if it grows further and the they snatch up a bargain from a desperate seller.

That's how it went down 10 years ago, it will be same this time - come spring and the "for sale" signs will pop up on every single corner. You can just count those signs to tell if it's the buyers or the sellers market.

However there are differences too. 10 years ago we were facing a catastrophic recession, including an unprecedented level of banking shenanigans (undermining business financing) and a huge hit on the employment (undermining consumption), but this time it seems pretty stable. So that's a bull development. On the bear side, strong overall economy might embolden the Fed to keep increasing the interest rates, decreasing housing affordability and pushing the prices further down. Also Seattle has seen a huge amount of construction recently, a lot of old properties on the Capitol Hill were torn down and rebuilt in the last 3-5 years (at this point we are talking not just a number of affected properties but a percentages of the entire inventory in the Madison-Aloha area), the downtown sees a large number of constructions and SLU has been a giant construction site since like 2010. Also notably there is no shortage of rental properties downtown and Capitol Hill at stable prices. The rental market was positively nuts in the run-up to the 2008 implosion which was somewhat distressing to me personally.

Fun times!

Are you looking for a place to settle down?
It’s bizarre that “capitalism” is frequently blamed for the moral atrocity that is the American medical industry when really it’s one of the most clear cut examples of a state-mandated cartel
All of them? The drug company ones are...
About time an organisation started playing the same games these mega corporations do, if you don’t play how will you ever win?
Of course you could be perfectly healthy and then get a bad disease, or get run over by a bus. But life is about probability.

And living healthy increases your probability of living a longer, healthier life. And as this study shows, it increases it by a significant factor.

Of course, the wonderful thing about life is that you can make your own choices. And if you don't want to eat healthy and work out, and are fine with the consequences, that's totally ok.
You missed some other ports including 25.
But I want to get to the footer where I’m pretty sure the contact details are. Not sure how you can design around that. I mean, you can try. My example was just one of many. But you’ll never change the expectations of users who have been conditioned by the use of 1000’s of other websites that don’t use infinite scroll.
I'd love to hear which websites do it properly.
Is this mac only?
It is not from me either :)
Both statements are true, which is why I talked about people who can and cannot split their focus.

Some people are great at having a side hustle, but it sounds like OP isn't one of them.
I met a family member (like 2nd cousin or further away) at some wedding a few years ago. I only talked to him once, but he was very clear about this situation. He owned a hotel, and was trying to track down the writers of bad reviews on Yelp. Primarily, as the owner of the hotel, it was his job to find out what's wrong about the hotel and improve it.

But he started to investigate some of the 1-star reviews, and came to the conclusion that these people didn't exist. He dug through all the receipts, he tried to track down and correlate the time with when these reviews popped up and tried to track down any issue. His ultimate conclusion was that a number of the 1-star reviews on his hotel were simply fake.

The discussion continued to talk about tort law, and how he's unable to even get a person to sue. He can't sue Yelp, because Yelp wasn't the author of those posts. So he was basically helpless to defend against 1-star reviews. In any case, if people can fake a 5-star review, they can also fake a 1-star review. And based on what I discussed with this man years ago, it seems like it really is happening right now.

Its probably easier for a Hotel-chain to leave bad reviews on their competitors. There are only so many hotels in a given area, and Yelp easily allows you to list all of the competitors in your region. Its probably less of a thing on Amazon, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't exist there either.
Thanks, I overlooked that myself, and is definitely misleading.
Yeah this is true. The cost of generics is so low but in the United States it remains quite expensive if you don’t have insurance.
Why not use {,u}int{8,16,32,64}_t from stdint.h? Then you don't have to think twice whether some type is signed or unsigned.
Mark Zuckerberg and senior FB execs are limited partner in several funds, such as Greylock’s latest raise. When you pitch these guys on your next Facebook-killing idea, beware.

Personally, I think there’s money in the Valley that’s as dirty as the Saudis.
Meanwhile, in Russia the repair culture never went away, for obvious reasons. It's inconceivable here that people would just throw away all broken things without attempting to fix them. Repair shops are everywhere―there are even more for phones and laptops now than for other stuff.
Appending a dynamic anchor #page=n while scrolling and putting links at the top, not at the end, for example, address most of the problems
Citation needed.

As a user, my main gripes even with ‘great implementations’ are:

- not knowing how ‘long’ the page is as the native browser scroll bars can not be accurate.

- breaks ‘find on page’

- page up/page down keys rarely work as expected (admittedly this an implementation issue)

All that being said, it bothers me less when on a touchscreen device or when using an Apple trackpad. Desktop with a mouse/trackball or keyboard only nav is always painful.
Just turn it in to the police anonymously, let them look at the drive.
Considering Sputnik happened, it's totally possible that USSR could've developed nukes if US had no Manhattan Project.

And if that had happened, US (and rest of world) would've been really screwed. Manhattan Project used 1/7 of all electricity generated in US at the time. No way such gigantic project could've been conceived and completed in peace time in US. And definitely not fast enough if USSR had developed it first.
Yes, but leading with that statement suggests it is "gospel," not "the right answer for some people who can't split their focus."
Which argument? The mug-throwing incident that initiated Perl6 development happened 2000-07-18, and it took a couple of years after that for the language to take shape...
Most programmers see the opposite, actually. Every one of my friends want to do a startup, but "dont have any good ideas". Any tips for finding the right idea, or do you have any good ideas :)
Never once in 20 years of automobile ownership has a mechanic tried a stunt like that on me.
I think it says that people are more concerned about being poisoned than they are about a website being slightly more or less crappy than it would otherwise be.
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California requires hospitals to publish chargemasters (price sheets for most common procedures) and makes them available https://oshpd.ca.gov/data-and-reports/cost-transparency/hosp...
Shit like this is what made me lose confidence in Amazon and I stopped my prime subscription.

My wife bought me “luxury” branded jackets and clothing for fall. Half of them were counterfeit. I called Amazon and they said I can return them and they’ll send me new ones. Ok. How will I know those won’t be counterfeit? Worse, I found a jacket was counterfeit after the return period when it literally started to fall apart at the seams. Welp, Amazon said they can’t refund me.

Multiple times my packages are either not delivered on time or aren’t delivered at all. 2 times they were half way across the state. When I called them to ask, they wanted me to confirm my address since they magically and suddenly couldn’t find my address anymore. Well guys you’ve delivered 10k+ worth of goods to me at this address this year alone. WTF?!

My customer service experience also degraded every other instance. When they missed my last delivery date I called them and threatened to cancel and the rep said “Sure, Sir, let me do that after I reorder this item”. He figured it was quicker or reorder an item than wait for it to get back from across the state.
In the kind of conflict with sudden death of at least 700,000 American civilians, financial crisis would be really down on the list of concerns.

Anyway, avoiding this kind of war does not depend on benevolence of America only. It's not helping when your senile opponent professes visions of nuclear martyrdom on TV.
Actually Trump and the Republicans ran on a platform of price transparency, but Senate Democrats can block and have effectively blocked (assisted by now-deceased McCain) any non-taxation-related changes to Obamacare.

Reference: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpomete...
This is what's so strange about the system. There is no "price sheet" because it's all funny money until the consumer gets billed. Perhaps the doctor would not know, but the hospital should have a price sheet for every routine service rendered.

Those edge cases that are not routine procedures should have estimates provided in advance.

For those edge cases that are so time sensitive that an estimate cannot be provided to the consumer in advance... well, that's what insurance is for.
I've been in healthcare, pharma industry for a long time.

Healthcare isn't 'broken'. The high drug and medical prices are by design. That's the way system is designed and it's working as intended by regulators and industry leaders.

If they really wanted to 'fix' the healthcare, they can fix it. But there is no money in fixing it at this point. One guy with small amount of funding will do nothing to highly regulated space full of deeply entrenched incumbents. regulators, doctors, pharmacists, pharma, medical device, pbm, medical insurance, hospital systems, lawyers, and IT jobs at those companies.
Thanks for the info! Very interesting about bootstrapping from the last good image. An old friend of mine (now retired) was involved in Squeak from before the beginning, and this reminds me that I've been meaning to catch up with him. I bet he has some interesting stories.

I tried out Squeak about ten years ago, but never could get past the awful bitmap font. Naturally, the first thing I noticed on the Pharo page was that the fonts look nice! So I installed it on my WQHD ThinkPad to try it out.

The first thing I noticed is the way it responds to the TrackPoint. It is not like any other application I have ever used. Instead of letting Windows control the pointer position, it's doing something very different, I just don't know what.

It's not so bad with the touchpad, but I don't use the touchpad except for scrolling.

It doesn't support high DPI either, so the text is all blurry. Way better than the old Squeak bitmap fonts, though.

I don't want to sound like a complainer, it just wouldn't be pleasant to program in this environment when every other app and dev tool I use supports high DPI and correct TrackPoint response, both on Windows and Linux.
That's true, I did read quickly and skip parts. The bulk of the essay remains about one thing while the conclusion negates it, to a degree. It is difficult to come away with a conclusion of what the authors believe because they spend most of the article advocating for one position and reverse in the end.
Get domain expertise in something other than programming and make things to solve real business problems for people that aren't technical. Alternatively, partner with people who aren't technical. There are a million developers working on programming tools / knowledge aggregators and very few are ever successful because the community wants everything to be FOSS and they won't pay you. Far fewer people are working on annoying, unsexy, everyday business problems because the problems aren't interesting and the developers lack the domain xp to know that the problems exist or the scope of the problems. Non-technical business people are also very ready to pay money for simple solutions to real problems.
You keep repeating yourself and missing the point, which is: no, it does not matter and does not change the overall security of pretty much all users. It is simply not within the threat model. Unless you have to consider a technically advanced adversary or highly automated attacks, it's simply still not relevant.

None of the iOS related things apply to the download portal, and none of the intercept/local access exploits apply to normal users.
The biggest problem I have with infinite scroll is that it breaks searching within a page. If I want to find something I have to scroll down to the bottom and then wait some arbitrary time until I think enough content has loaded. Even if I know roughly where the content I'm searching for is, I can't just click to a specific page. I have to guess how far I've scrolled and hope that it's far enough. I waste time and data transfer because I'm forced to overshoot if I want to reliably find things. I can't even bookmark a specific page, so I have to repeat this tedious process every time.

I've never seen a use of infinite scrolling that wouldn't be better replaced with lazy loading of images/video.
Do you still think this repairman shouldn't charge you or receive fair salary for his work? My opinion is that Repair cafe is brought to you by big companies trying to influence on independent service tech. For example, if you have coding problem you cannot solve, you will probably hire some freelancer, and you will be charged of course. Because that's what they do for living. Even if you don't want to mill you own coffe (which should not be problem for 21st century man), you will pay to get ground coffee. I even saw artists statement and it says like this: "I'm an artist, but this doesn't mean I'll work for free." Why nobody expects from them to work for free because it's fun? I don't mean people who decided by their own, to work something or sometimes for free, but public initiative...?
>>Before anyone objects with "but what about emergencies!" note that emergency care is a single-digit percentage of total health expenditures.

That is true, but emergency care disproportionately results in bankruptcies compared to other forms of care.
You ask this question and you are already doing what you should. Asking questions.

Maybe these are not the ultimate questions you want to get an answer for but are a great start.

Also be aware that everyone will start to realize their limits at some point. As children we could improve by endlessly repeating whatever we saw. After a while we need to work on finding the things from which we can learn and improve in a better rate. Also finding a balance between work and regeneration is key. Work efficiency and regeneration speed can be increased - thus allowing for better rate of learning. Also by not stressing over needless things you can save a lot of energy.

The more stable a system is the harder it is to rewire it - so we must sometimes start over and make things a bit unstable to find new paths.

Good luck!
What happens if you insist on paying only the $59 that you were quoted?
I remember watching the movie as a kid and being enthralled by the tale.
I take it you have never been to a mechanic?

Because every single one I've been to also includes labor cost in the estimate.
Precisely. Yet it is completely normal in American medicine. And worse, the actual patients are rarely aware of the total amount billed or paid because their insurance company handles it.
You're a wannapreneur if:

- You talk to people about your ideas, but never build anything

- You build something without first talking to people

- You build something and never try to sell it

If you build something that people say they'll pay for and then they don't actually pay for it then this is problematic, but also normal and doesn't make you a wannapreneur. At that point it's just part of the struggle.
Why is it assumed that this morally undesirable money would take the form of an LP directly signed on with one's VC? Can't this money instead invest itself with an existing LP that's seemingly on the up and up?

For example, say Goldman is an LP on one of your VC's funds from which your company receives money from. Setting aside how morally dubious they are on the face of it, they're otherwise a reputable and respected American company.[0]

However, where's their money coming from? On a larger scale Goldman absolutely does business with the Saudis and has forever. On a smaller scale, I'm sure there's any number of vehicles or ways to otherwise structure the money going into a particular investment such that it'd be difficult for the eventual recipient (i.e. the startup) to know exactly where it's coming from, let alone the VC.

[0] https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/goldman-quietly... /s
Transparency is good and all, but there is anther way. In most advanced economies professional bureaucracy figures out the costs. Ordinary folks focus on getting healthy, not on costs.
Honestly I'd be more inclined to write this off as a bug with Polymer.js or something rather than jumping to a conclusion from the YouTube comments like "Say goodbye to free speech﻿" -- It's much more plausible to be a technical issue than an attempt at controlling the contents of YouTube comments.

The guy says it was an amalgam of his previous comments he'd made that day and I'm sure if you have a channel of his size, you're likely to have YouTube open for quite a while, and since it's an SPA, you could get all sortsa concurrency bugs or whatever.
Easy to fake, and a sample size of 1...I think this requires more examples before being taken seriously.
A function is an object. When we redefine a global function, we're simply replacing the symbol's function binding to point to a new function object. That can be an atomic operation: a word-sized cell is overwritten.

If one or more threads are executing the old function, then they continue to do that. That object is referenced by those threads and so doesn't become garbage until the last thread stops executing it. Newly issued calls to that function go to the new one through the newly established binding.

ANSI CL allows functions that are in the source file (actually compilation unit) to use more efficient calling; they don't have to go through the global symbol function binding. The idea is that compilation units are replaced at once, rather than individual functions. Call optimizing behavior can be overridden for individual functions by declaim-ing them notinline.
They send it to a ruthless collections company and ruin your credit.
Measles outbreak raging in Europe could be brought to U.S., doctors warn
Surely goes to collections
" Would such a setup lower the barriers for Chinese businessmen to buy a flat there very much?"

That's not a concern :)

The issue is to provide 'stable governance' for those who need it, while protecting regular folks from massive inflation due to external factors.

Vancouver's 'regular' (ie non construction) economy is being hurt by this - why? Because nobody can afford to live there on regular salaries. Very few entities would consider opening up an office where the 'prevailing wage' cannot attract people.

Consider the 'cost' for buying property and who gains from it? The arbitrary owner. What if that 'cost' could be transferred by way of taxes, instead of property speculation?

So a 'New Singapore' with land owned by the state and leased out for long periods, and a series of taxes to make sure the surpluses are mostly derived by the state and not property speculation. Surely it'd be expensive to live there, some kind of market function. But a small area could accomodate quite a few people. 90% of these major expenses are real-estate, and I don't mean development, I mean speculation.

So this way - Canada can 'export' stable governance and protect local economies. If ex-pats want to move to Van they can get citizenship etc.. but that would slow down as it should be easier - and probably more convenient - to just move to the a new, well managed city state.

A huge financial services sector would immediately pop up and there'd be tons of jobs there for those who wanted to work in that sector. Major private wealth management funds, with assets under Canadian domain, not PRC. Safe investments, safe place for domicile etc.. Great export :)
I guess the main critique here would be the question of authenticity. How can you prove that it was actually youtube and not some homebrew lookalike site he cooked up?

With that said, I'd like to add the obvious "BIG if true"
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Zeal is a good offline code docset reader for linux and windows (but not mac!)

https://zealdocs.org/

The docsets come from Dash, which is very nice since that is payware. So here apple users pay for non-apple users it seems :)
They disabled per-folder .httaccess files for performance reasons. Also for security, as it allowed server owners to control the entire server via global configs and prevent badly coded CMSs and plugins from opening security holes and bypassing stronger server-wide rules.
Not that I particularly disagree with your statement, but my point was more that if Ukraine itself had a more effective military force, this wouldn't have been something Russia could have done in the first place. Military strength matters. For us, and for everyone else.
OK. I'll be that guy. Is there nobody who is going to talk about Larry Cashdollar, the person who discovered this vulnerability and first reported it?

I'm honestly not sure how I'd be more impressed; if you told me this man actually uses this as his real name in his daily life, or by finding out that this is actually his birth name.
I'm not saying I abuse or collect/sell info, I'm just pointing out that the GDPR is generally irrelevant to most sites. Most sites don't need to follow it to the T. But agreed they should have common decency.