skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large percentage of Dexcom developers have had their lives impacted by Diabetes in some way. This and plain old competition are the biggest drivers in their features and usability in my experience. You have to keep in mind like most businesses they have a long feature pipeline in development that is not public knowledge. If you release a feature and see it mirrored by someone else shortly after it's as likely that you both thought of it, and you just beat them to it than it is that they were inspired by you. Especially when one of you has a much shorter time to market thanks to no FDA oversight.
Is it a lost art? If I'm not mistaken it's very much a thing still on the east coast and in places like Iceland and parts of Russia.
I'm just trying to put myself in their shoes. Your other statement appears to be "if they had strategically been better, the war wouldn't happen." That perhaps may be true, but moot as far as I can tell. Humans mess "strategery" up because they are humans. An argument based on humans being perfect is an imperfect argument.
Amazon Bringing 5,000 Jobs to Downtown Nashville
I agree, but I wonder if it’s instead not that disingenuous since most of the tech community, and likely all the city candidates, knew Amazon’s true MO from the start.
"My supplier did it" is not a valid excuse for ducking responsibility. If you put the demand on your supplier, and they do an unethical thing to supply that demand, then part of the blame lies on you for not having (a) done the due diligence to ensure that your supplier was above board and (b) checking that they could, in fact, meet your demand without doing illegal or unethical things. If you have no responsibility for what your suppliers do, then you could delegate practically any negative externality of your corporate practice to your suppliers.

The argument here is that Cadbury is effectively turning a blind eye (intentionally or negligently) to what their supplier is doing to meet demand. For an example of companies which actually do care about their responsibility all the way up and down the supply chain, go have a look at the Supplier Responsibility statements and reports put out by big companies like Samsung (https://www.samsung.com/us/aboutsamsung/sustainability/suppl...) and Apple (https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/).
For me constantly gasp before sentences sound bit weird. It would be better if this occurs only after long sentences, would sound more natural.

Nevertheless sounds really good!
Github also had real trouble with their cash flows. MS bought the popularity and the current and future projects that are hosted there (probably overpaid for all that).

Now - why remoting would work better for the company (off the top of my head):
1. next to zero office-space rental costs
2. you're going shopping for talent in the whole world and you can hire regardless of visas, eligibility, etc. I.e. you hire better talent, for less money (they don't need to pay outrageous rents for SF/London/Munich/Dublin/whatever)
3. You get happier employees (they don't get to see their families once every six m onths or so)
4. You get easier on-calls schedules 24/7/365 if you get a few ppl on different timezones
5. You get diversity from day 0 and local eyes in almost all markets that you care to sell anything
6. You _have_ to document more and better since you _have_ to work with tickets
7. You make your meetings worthwhile because your time matters (and you're not valued or paid according to "chair-time" that can be filled with boring nonsense meetings so that you can coast through the day)

There's a bunch of other advantages in other areas (ecology, general economy, tech, etc) but since the focus is on what's in it for the company I won't go into these.
It's worth noting that not all politicians fall for this crap. Austin's Mayor, for all his flaws, refused to give any incentives to Amazon.
Any large company. I’m being serious. As a development coach I see a lot of code and I must say the DEFAULT is “how does any of this even work?”
All the FDM printers I've been around when they print with ABS end up making my eyes water and give me a headache if I stay near them for more than a minute or two. Possibly the types of ABS used matters for this but I cannot stand near an ABS printer without really noticing it affect me.

PLA has a definite smell but doesn't seem to affect me physically.
Well said. I started a Wordpress blog on a whim, years ago, on Wordpress.com, and I think many people underestimate how whimsical many blog starts are.

For the average person (including me), going to www.staticsite.com, entering an email and password, and then starting is the way it happens. If that is not a quick, painless, and obvious process, then the vast majority of people won't do it.

Medium got going because it was like that (I think—maybe it is still like that).
It was disqualified because the rules for the event clearly required the vehicles to be primarily ICE vehicles. Hybrids were accepted only because the electrical motors were only usable at lower speeds.

The staff member that let the Tesla enter the event should not have, and presumably did not realize that the car was fully electric rather than just a hybrid.

There's some useful whining in the comments, mostly idiots posting the rules and misinterpreting them. ("May" in a legal context generally means "allowed", and when used with "not" or "only" places significant limitations on what is allowed.)

All in all, much ado about nothing.
No, it didn't dodge a bullet, it lost the competition and hence the opportunity. Unless you are a subject matter expert and know exactly how this benefits Toronto (In which case then, I apologize).

By virtue of moving into Toronto, all Canadian cities starting from Pickering/Oshawa all the way down to Hamilton/Waterloo would have seen a boost overtime to real-estate and hence towards economic activity - remember cities like Hamilton and Barrie are struggling to attract highly-educated / high-income residents and this would have given them better odds.

All in all, loss of potential income for the Canadian economy.
Brexit Negotiators Reach Provisional Deal
As someone working in medical devices, the FDA has really stepped up their game. They have issued a draft guidence on cybersecurity expectations[1] and are now rejecting submissions that don't adequately address security for internet connected devices. There is still a long way to go, but I think change is happening in the field.

[1] - https://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulatio...
There are a lot of complaints about "X app does this, why can't mine." The app store isn't a democracy, they can and do make up their own rules and they can apply them how they want.

Think of the Simpsons episode and the "No Homer's Club". They can allow one Homer, and reject all other Homers if they want.
Magento.
In the USA we let capitalism do our dirty deeds so that gov't doesn't have to :-)
It looks like you may be confusing surveillance with censorship.
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I would have liked an exploration of the alternate version. Are there any resources you might know about that?
You don't discuss arbitrary enforcement with Apple's reviewer.

Either they enforce arbitrarily, or they don't. In neither case do they care about your opinion on it.

If you want to have that discussion, have it. On your blog. On Hacker News. On Medium. But not in the "please reinstate my app" conversation with Apple.
Excessive rents and debts are a drain on consumer spending and ultimately harm the economy. The root cause isn't greedy students wanting an education (weird way to think about it), but tuition costs ballooning out of control.

It's also increasingly harder and harder to default on student debt, with states forcing extreme measures such as wage garnishing and taking away people's driving licenses: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/business/student-loans-li...

Fully expect to see debtor's prisons back in vogue this century.
Ideally, a geolocation system should also work in an adversarial setting, when somebody is trying to spoof their geolocation. We recently learned that some VPN providers do that, to appear to have proxies in more countries:
https://research.owlfolio.org/pubs/2018-catch-proxies-lie.pd...

Obviously, people can lie in their reverse DNS record but active measurements from distributed vantage points (e.g., by using the RIPE Atlas network) could expose that.
I'm not ok with going early 1900s. Most people aren't.

I keep saying "nuclear", you keep saying "no". So I'm not going to consider myself part of the problem.
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Loyalty can exist without reciprocity.
Owens Lake comes to mind http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-owens-lake-bir...
As an Italian expat: accent positions are very, very different; and English people associate different "default" sounds to vowels in isolation (e.g. "a").

Even educated persons will struggle if their only source is paper, because a lot of the Latin words that Italian is rooted on, actually have very different pronounciations in English.

Also: GL, GH, GN, CH, CE/CI vs CA/CO/CU, double-consonants reinforcing the sound, etc etc...
Chinese providers' external connections are already shit, firewall or not. Foreign language knowledge is not important for most of the population, and thus the Chinese internet simply gets more and more isolated.
The app you're using:

- is older and predates this particular restriction

- OR the reviewers overlooked it

App Store reviews are really a gamble when you start linking to websites in your app. It's just a shitty experience for the developer in general.
> I'm not sure why they couldn't just turn off individual radiators in this case though.

Mine had no valves or anything. If you wanted to turn it off, good luck.
Precedent is important. So important in fact that it is a widely used mechanism in courts of law when an issue is not cut and dry. If you lay out a set of rules which are only randomly enforced then your 'rules' become useless.
> Not allowing websites to write to certain file types such as executables will limit the possible attack surface.

The problem with that is there is no hard distinction between a data file and an executable. Essentially every kind of file, when opened, causes code to be executed, usually significantly influenced by the content of the file.

This API is moving the security perimeter back, making it the responsibility of every local app that may open a file touched by this API — essentially every file it might open — to ensure unexpected/malicious content can’t do anything bad. That’s not going to happen. Instead, users are going to have to be “sure” not to open files via this API using sites they don’t trust. That’s pretty weak compared to what we’re generally used to today (which doesn’t seem strong enough already).
I’d like to hear people describe why the code they’ve seen is bad.
Medium only carries mediocre stuff. My heart sinks a little when an enticing title carries that domain. No I don't want another es6/react top 10 stuff. This is the best article medium has posted. Speaks volumes.
How did you find out about this website?
"When Facebook took down 559 Pages in October, the reasons for why each Page was removed were not made clear.
[...]

After looking into the historical Page data I had collected back in September a second time at the end of October — nearly a decade’s worth of analytics for several of these Pages (shown below), I’d argue that for the some of the most prolific of the removed Pages, “censorship,” or the fact they might have posted inaccurate and/or misleading news articles and links at some point in the past were not the reason for their abrupt removal in October.

The likely reason why several of the largest of these mostly conservative and politically fringe news Pages were taken down is because they appear to have been gaming the platform’s metrics for years. The pages I show in the following section had put up Facebook interaction numbers in the billions. Similarly, many of the videos consistently showed engagement in the tens of millions of views."

https://medium.com/@d1gi/the-2018-facebook-midterms-part-iii...
How is tax on salaries handled in a situation like this? Seems like it would be really complicated.
Yet at the time science wonders why it's being questioned, it's authority, subverted, etc.? Isn't it obvious?

Editorial: Perhaps instead of blaming the public, science should look in the mirror, as well as hold those between it and the public accountable for errors, inconsistencies, hyperbole, confusing correlation with cause, etc.?
I’m confused. What’s the violation here? Apps are supposed to open links in Safari “outside of the app” unless they have permission?

What about in-app browsers???? Twitter, Facebook, Instagram... they all open links inside their app, in an in-app browser.

Can somebody please clarify Apple’s rules here? (No snark please.)
The study specifically targeted ABS which is known to emit fumes but the banner headline is overly alarmist by attacking all of 3d printing even though few use ABS. Working in a Harbor Freight store is a far greater hazard for VOC exposure.
It was nice of you to put all of this effort into writing up this post, but what gave you the idea that GP wanted to do software full time for a living when they've got a great job already? Seems like they have autonomy, efficacy, respect from their co-workers, and enough money to share lunch.

seems like a good gig, imo.
It takes 30 minutes plus 9 months of learning DNS, hosting, S3, static site generator, CLI ;)
> TypeError: "1fr ".repeat(...).trimEnd is not a function

Firefox 60 ESR
> dreadful innovations such as aerial bombing

Aerial bombing was an Italian innovation, during their war in Lybia
Well, the throttle control was one issue, but it is far from certain that it would have saved the engines. The main issue was still the ice that went in to the engines to begin with. The full report is available here:

https://www.havkom.se/assets/reports/English/C1993_57e_Gottr...
I was similarly confused by this...its not like its a Walmart superstore undurcutting the local mom-n-pop shop.

That said, perhaps the fear is "over-cutting" -- that HQ2 slurps up top talent from local tech businesses and overbids salaries. I can totally see that happening, especially with the only-handful of truly high-tech businesses in the Northern Virginia community. This is a bad thing short term and a good thing long term.
That's partially true. Not sure where you are from, but as opposed to places like San Francisco, NYC has a functioning real estate private sector that reacts rationally to increases in demand by increasing supply. This is not to say gentrification is not a thing, but it's not like in San Francisco where there's basically a set housing stock and new people completely displace the old people. Instead new people displace some of the old residents, but they also rent or buy newly built housing. In the long run Amazon's choice is probably good for nyc. It could be very good if nyc manages to get its act together regarding subway and infrastructure.
Is there an easy way of knowing which products I should boycott?

I know this is way to open ended to be actionable (based on what ethical standards, what kinds of products, etc) but could you share how you go about boycotting companies you consider not in compliance with your morals?
Thank you for the info.

On a related subject, do you know anything about the benefits and/or dangers of nose/sinus irrigation?

A few years ago I solved my life-long struggle with chronic sinusitis, rhinitis, and other assorted nasal issues, by washing my sinuses during my daily shower, with warm saline solution.

To anybody who might have bad memories of going to the swimming pool, no, it doesn't hurt at all, if the solution is warm and slightly hypertonic.

I use a plastic Neti pot that I fill with hot water from the shower, to which I add common sea salt with the provided measuring spoon. I rinse from one nostril to the other and vice versa. Then, with my nose full of water and my nostrils closed, I bend 180º upside down and apply very gentle negative/positive pressure to the water with my breath, to wash the upper sinuses. Then blow it all out and repeat a couple times.

The upside-down procedure was key to curing my long-term sinusitis years ago. I had been doing the procedure for a few days, when I saw a tiny glob of stuff wash away from my nose's upper sinuses and felt the unholy stench of anaerobic bacteria. From that day on, I stopped having weekly common colds and other issues (that the doctors couldn't cure even with antibiotics.) So it was definitely a good procedure and I kept doing it every day.

But recently I've read about possible dangers with nose irrigation, how one is supposed to boil the water before using it and change the Neti pot regularly.

Is there any truth to these fears? Should I go to the—admittedly—troublesome step of boiling and cooling the water I intend to use, instead of taking it from the shower?

And if so, are there any tests I would be advised to perform, to make sure I didn't contract anything by my simple washing method?
Personally, I feel like the correct thing to do for the user is to use SFSafariViewController. Custom webviews are pretty annoying IMO.
So, Price’s Law? https://youtu.be/UmUdcWk6Vfw
> I am super disappointed that they chose Long Island City

Edward Glaeser's research on the economic and social benefits from density, summarized in Triumph of the City [1] and referenced in this guy's videos [2][3], is worth reviewing. Long story short, agglomeration breeds efficiencies which lead to further agglomeration. New York can uniquely offer things other cities can't because of its density. A few thousand people moving to Newark (assuming they're willing to move to Newark) won't bring those benefits there.

Over centuries, despite population growth and political upheavals, the relative size of cities in almost every geographic region is remarkably stable. That hints at deeper mechanisms which can't be unseated by something as small as Amazon moving.

Better policy: give people in Newark the support they need to move to wherever they like, whether that still be in Newark or somewhere else.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/books/review/Silver-t.htm...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWWtqfwacQ

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvAvHjYoLUU
It's been a while since I developed an iOS app, but I seem to remember there being a rule that you "app" can't just be a wrapper for a web site.
Is Online Education the Way Forward?
No it's not. Just asked my friends in China and tested with https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedin... (try with github.com and reddit.com). The Chinese are heavily invested in GitHub, so if/when they do ban it then you can be sure it won't go unnoticed.
In essence, its essential that we as software professionals work in company that's really motivates us and hence can call us to grow, otherwise we would soon find ourself getting left behind in fast paced software world. Seen this happening to experienced developers in my company.
Fine, I'll bite.

How?
That's cool! What's a travelling wave reactor?
Yes, but should it?
through what features?
This is definitely part of it, the estimates claiming 90% bacteria by cell count end up suggesting perhaps a half gallon of actual bacterial volume. As far as DNA, I think the parent stat can't hold for base pairs. Not as a volume issue, but because mammalian genomes are ~3 orders of magnitude larger than bacterial ones. Even at a 10:1 cell count, our base pairs would be 99% human.

Most importantly, though, the 10:1 stat is just outdated. Newer estimates put the number around 1.3:1 instead.

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
GitLab the open source project was started in 2011.
GitLab the company didn't start until 2014.
GitHub is 6 years older than GitLab.
I started piano lessons two and a half years ago, essentially a beginner, at the age of 38, and have been keeping them up. I love it and expect this to be a lifelong hobby.

I'm mostly going to echo the advice given by several others. First of all, find a good teacher.

If you intend to take this seriously, I'd strongly recommend that you learn how to read music. Software might be fun and useful -- but I'd recommend it as an aid, rather than a substitute, for learning traditional music-reading.

Buy a good piano. An acoustic is ideal, but there are also good digital piano options in the $1,000-2,000 range. Don't practice on a low-end $200 keyboard if you're in this for the long haul: it won't have properly weighted keys, and you'll develop bad habits.

Finally, the advice that my own teachers have given me: the way to be efficient in the long term is to be anal-retentive and slow in the short term. Practice scales regularly. Practice new pieces very slowly at first, one hand at a time, and build up from that only once you're not making mistakes.

I confess to sometimes ignoring this advice, but with the knowledge that the times when I do follow it are the times that I'm learning the most.

And, finally, I wouldn't expect things to be very simple or efficient at all. There is no shortcut to hours and hours and hours of practice. Totally worth it, if you ask me :)
That would make sense except the author said they have a “show in Safari” button for each article. Apple’s reply was very specific and said nothing about just adding titles and URLs or the safari view controller.
The mods can't see everything. It depends how evident it is and if the comments are relevant [1] and if the if the only purpose of the user is to make adds. My guess is that this user only makes a comment per month, so it's not so easy to remember.

For an official reply, you can send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com and they can take a look at the history of comments of the user.

[For example, this is an example of a comment that is not relevant at all https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16961492 ]

[1] It's fine to reply to the technical questions that appear about your page/app/product. It's not fine to add a link to your product in unconnected threads.
> I'm still amazed how many people let their printers run while no one is at home

When it takes 12-24 hours (or perhaps more) to complete a larger print, are you really going to sit around and watch the thing? No, you're going to go about your life until its finished. That means sleeping, going to work, etc.
Amazon Emerges as Search Advertising Powerhouse
Can anyone provide any insights into specifically why Milan, Italy? I see that AWS already has 3 regions in Europe.
MOMA PS1 is in LIC. I wouldn't call it culturally devoid.
>$48k/job/y in tax concessions from NYC and $22k/job/y

One of us is misunderstanding this - I am understanding it as 48k/job and 22k/job, not per year. 48,000*25,000 = 1.2 bil, if it was every year for 10 years, it would be 12 bil.
Student debt is harder to discharge than other debts. You cant even discharge it through bankruptcy. One reason this was done was to reduce interest rates.