skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shipping & Transit LLC had not only a prototype, but also a product:

Jones developed this into a service called BusCall, which had some modest success.

I think the actual solution is simply improved patent review. The patent system is broken because there are so many bad patents; if only truly innovative stuff was patented, I think a lot of the reasonable criticism would become a lot less reasonable.

But without additional funding, improved scrutiny at filing time would also dramatically increase the cost of acquiring a patent, which is already expensive for individual inventors.
This is actually surprising enough that I'm glad to hear it even as an anecdote.

My experience with changing devices or cities (or god forbid both at once) is that it always requires further authentication, and often fails outright. I have an account which is simply disabled because I didn't set a recovery phone # or email and then changed machines. Everyone I've ever discussed the topic with has described similarly pervasive problems.

Which makes me wonder: what's so different between usage patterns? Obvious Google's auth approach is working for lots of people, so what's distinctive about this block of users who it's constantly failing for?
Vi Hart isn't a guy.
Tomorrow in the news: WATER: WET.
> “It’s too tall” is a common refrain in public hearings to approve new construction, but I’m honestly puzzled by the obsession with the notion of a building’s height as a measure of compatibility with its surroundings. I think the importance of height in and of itself is vastly overstated.

That is true, height is often a bad proxy for some other quality you're looking for and which could be solved in original ways besides height e.g. in the north east you'd want enough light to reach the street and avoid gloomy alleys, besides height you could manage it by removing wedges of the building (from a basic cuboid shape), or having a front courtyard or a large atrium, or yes height. Height also becomes a factor of the street width, narrower streets would tend to get shorter buildings.

Furthermore regulating height can be counter-productive: while you want to avoid excessive shade in the north-east, in the south-west you want to do the exact opposite, much like cities of northern africa or the middle east, for an arizonan or texan city to be walkable it needs shade and air flow rather than light: you need buildings tall enough that they protect pedestrians from the sun (without falling into gloom), but you also want them to guide and amplify the slightest breeze.

> 3. Land Use

> Segregation of uses is the most important of those features. The biggest factor that predicts walkability is the presence of actual destinations in walking distance of where people live. The postwar paradigm has been to rigidly control where commercial land uses can go and where they can’t, based on the premise that they are a nuisance in a residential neighborhood—bringing traffic, noise, and possibly crime. Yet all commercial uses are not created equal.

Many places segregate by maximum nuisance rather than specific land use: plots are give an maximum nuisance level, and businesses are charted according to the expected nuisance they produce. Anything below the plot's MNL is allowed and thus your small corner shop or barbershop (low-nuisance businesses) can live in a "residential" area, but a nightclub or a machine shop probably can't.
What do we mean by manager in this situation? Is the first level "team leader" a people manager that engineers, or are we talking higher level managers?
Money quote:

> Rob Leathern, Facebook’s director of product management, said Facebook doesn’t try to verify the provenance of every political ad. The lack of a “reliable source to look and see every possible entity name that would be valid, including ‘doing business as’ names,” would make it a herculean task, he said. “We have to rely on the things that we can scalably look at.” Facebook primarily monitors disclaimers for profanity, names of hate groups and “vague or inaccurate” descriptions, as well as URLs (banned because they’re not official names), he said.
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If any company has the data, it's Google. If they had a good story to tell, I think they'd be sharing that data.
I applaud you for what you're doing. I also know you've heard this 100 times Matt, but maybe it'll be the 101st time that makes the decisions makers allow this. Allow remote.

This country spans a large area & a lot of it is full of people who would love to help their country do better, but few want to move to DC. The US "Digital" Service should be a shining example to others of how to work remotely.
Crypto has 1 advantage... signed transactions are undeniable and cannot be argued with. This feels almost like a new UI paradigm.

At the same time, this can be a terrible disadvantage... mistakes are brutally punished with no recourse. Lose your key or get hacked and you lose everything. There is no warning.

To me, interacting with large amounts of crypto feels like running full speed through an electrified razor-wire maze.
Ya pretty much this. Though i prefer my Buck knife myself. I've been carrying a knife almost constantly since my dad gave my first pocket knife as a kid. I can't even begin to count the number of times it's come in handy. I've used it for eating more than once for sure. I've even used it to trim my nails.
Due to system limitations, I made a stats tracker for my team in AccessDB.
Due to the awfulness of access, I made an excel&vba front-end that would push data to and pull data from access.

It's been working surprisingly well so far, with no reported issues
I carry an Opinel in my pocket for eating in the office kitchenette or even in public places.
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I've never been able to get a real answer: does sparkling water hydrate you the same way flat water does? Also if there are "natural flavors" in the sparking water, how does that affect hydration. I personally don't mind drinking water, and always do during/after workouts, but prefer flavored sparking water if the option is available. Just wondering if drinking a few cups of that per day is the same as drinking a few cups of flat water per day.
Unless it's broadcast for free or with some cryptocurrency scheme... I'd expect the only challenge will be collecting money from people. The government should be able to interfere with that. Otherwise I don't really see what they could do otherwise to stop it.
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Sure, but the chest is the worst possible place to attempt to stab someone. It's full of ribs.

Stab them in the head, or the neck, or the gut.
Computer graphics is a pretty fun application as well.
>I wonder if Carlo would install Chrome for you if it was missing

It doesn't currently:

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo#q-what-happens-if-...

Perhaps it could though.
Is it really that surprising that people who are raised on soda won't take up water once they reach adulthood? Imagine the same situation but with regular food. Would you switch to the healthier but totally tasteless and bland alternative? I doubt it -- I know I wouldn't. I would keep eating steaks and vegetables over a tasteless mush.
It has a language server which works with many good editors like vscode, that’s something at least!
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With any production/consumer scenario it is usually 1 to 1000 or more ratio. Content producers and people that interact rather than lurk are a 1 to 1000 or more. This here article probably thousands view it, and only a trickle comment, some participate, others mostly observe. This ratio also shows up in conversions, customer purchases and more.

The fact is most of human existence is observing, studying, thinking, following, viewing existing knowledge while very few interact or create new production or are producing at one time on one subject or concentration, though we all are the 1s for something.

The key is when you are that 1 to the 1000s or more is to be real, truthful, provide value, wisdom, entertainment and be interesting and that can draw in more 1s to an eventual critical mass and success or world changing paths. The trickle of small change eventually reaches critical mass but growing slowly, in similar conversion rates that start to compound.

Humans are a differentiation machine, they follow along the paths of the branches of success or current realities and at a certain point differentiate themselves by forging a new path, others then weigh the pros and cons and sometimes that path becomes a main branch, but new branches take risk, dedication, resources and creativity, as well as convincing others to follow.

The bright side way to look at it is, there is always a quarter of one percent of people that are conscientious objectors, speak up, make change, innovate, produce, create or more all the time.
Your website is full of errors thanks to view-source:https://www.sunderlandstudio.com/assets/css/app.css that points to multiple links to url(../../../node_modules/slick-carousel/slick/fonts/...
This is a great argument for the intangible value of the right to individual privacy.
Shouldn't you avoid adding that link to Medium to not give them free ranking?
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What kinds of Chrome APIs are you using? Anything related to web styling and DOM should be stable.
There are a couple ways to pivot in postgres, here is one that uses json functionality https://gist.github.com/ryanguill/101a19fb6ae6dfb26a01396c53...
Any modern fork, essentially. The tips are flat or rounded, never pointy. While it might be possible to kill someone with it, given enough training and/or determination, I don't think it would fall into "incredibly easy".
I worked in different call center environments, things may have changed but hold time really was more a matter of dumb luck and incompetent call routing systems more than anything else.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I wouldn't necessarily read a difference in response as some sort of panned customer score or system necessarily. Incompetence reigns supreme when it comes to call centers, even when someone tries to institute a system.

I can't tell you how many times they tried to prioritize some things or people and the result was those things or customers actually waited longer...
That's a bit presumptive. This assumes that the executives don't ask any hard questions and believe everything the managers tell them without ever really digging into the problems. Or that the hiring/promotion process is broken enough to let people who game the system slip through.
American that just recently learned about Indian pencils- they're so much better than pencils we have here! Though I'm partial to the Apsara Regal Gold instead of the traditional black and red Nataraj
Well, it actually has 3 modes. You can use the third (Legends Mode) to see the entire entity history of your world.

Because it roughly simulates thousands of years of activity and tracks them, you can read about a Human Necromancer, the books he wrote, and his disciples. You can follow the dwarf that killed him, see that he gave up being a poet after his wife and child were killed by Zombax Warfbringer, the bronze colossus, and joined the army before cutting his way through zombies into the tower. Of course, he looted books (his past as a poet) and read them - giving him the secrets of life and death! So whoops he's now a necromancer. Oh well!
Does Sunflower offer column view like Finder? or is it just 2 panes? I don't see any columns in the screenshots.
> All of human experience demonstrates the opposite.

That's an absurd exaggeration.
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Not all human experience. There are certainly countries where government is considered to be - on average - rather fair.
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A history of sports fans resorting to performance-enhancing curses
In this specific case, Sony would have been forced to actually spend money doing a compiler from the ground up instead of cutting costs down costs while giving a few crumbs back to keep the plebe happy.

What I find ironic with the current anti-GPL trend is the eventual return of the shareware model, then lets see how well the MIT/BSD folks will appreciate it.
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Why don’t we follow password security best practices?
What kind of water are these people drinking? I don't understand how you could be dehydrated and hate the taste of water unless it's severely contaminated. A glass of water when you need it is the best damn thing ever.

I'm pretty used to crazy people existing, but this one just does not compute.
I guess am going down that path, am on the database side though. It terrifies me to be a people's manager, approving timesheets and crap..
I would love the mentoring part, but I'd rather skip and go straight to being the strategy guy.
That premise is true, just not in the way you think. Societies with uncontrollable violence tend to have informal codes of politeness designed to prevent violence and are far more likely to have gangs with honor codes. This does not necessarily make the society less violent, it just means you have more rules to navigate so you don't lose your protection or piss off some powerful person.
That's a large improvement over the status quo because it turns what is currently above the table behavior by the NSA (or whoever) to behavior they have to conceal and Microsoft (or whoever) has an incentive to close security holes because they don't know if it's the NSA or someone else who might be using them.
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Varying the order and varying the effort are both attempts to do the same underlying thing - retain good customers and waste less times on the bad ones.
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I take offense at your tone, and the implied judgement. Malbolge was the right tool for us, and let us tap into a talent pool that was otherwise going unused.
It all depends on your notion of fair.

If one percent of people call up customer service to complain about 50% of their transactions they are clogging up the system. I only call if something is breaking and I've exhausted all troubleshooting and automated methods.
No, the password is whatever you send over the wire. If a website processes your attempt to type "password" into "5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99" before sending that to the server, then your password for that website is 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99. That's what the server sees and how it recognizes you. The only effect of this is to make it less likely that the user knows his own password.
Here is a youtube version: https://youtu.be/dTPI6wh-Lr0
The cost of getting everyone you wish to communicate with using the new system is non-trivial.
Good job you're not in the UK (I assume) - you'd get arrested for that. Locking knives are illegal in public [1]

[1] https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
Yes, what a wasted opportunity! From googling, maybe something like this?

http://www.ragnarsmarket.co.uk/product/medieval-eating-knife...

or

https://myarmoury.com/review_tod_15c_eating.html
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In my extremely limited experience, the people pulling out the "do you know who I am?" card are typically not regulars. They might think they are, but they're not.

I'm a regular at a few places, and I treasure that status and the privilege that comes with it, and wouldn't go trying to fuck it up unless I was prepared to completely burn that bridge.
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Can you restate your assertion in a way that can not be trivially torpedoed by a single existence proof?
Actual title of the article is "Contaminated blood scandal: We are sorry, says government" - the HN title "We are sorry for giving you HIV, says UK government" is pretty gratuitously editorialised.
Sometimes, but I've found it's generally more accurate than trying to figure out the phone tree. Every time I've called my bank about a mortgage issue none of the phone tree options describe my issue at all; a customer service rep usually knows who to send me to.