skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I observed a total knee replacement surgery where the surgeons were not using their preferred system due to the fact that the patient already had one knee replacement and the doctors felt the same system should be used on both sides. The representative from the implant company was in the OR for a couple of good reasons. The first was that every system uses different jigs and guides to aid in the resection of the bone and placement of the appliance, the representative helped the doctors understand how to use the system. The second reason was that the surgeons needed to have access to a range of component sizes to make sure they could place a correctly sized implant. Using the same system on both knees also helped ensure that the geometry of both knees would be consistent.

At the time I was pretty stunned that the rep was talking the docs through the operation but the procedure was successful and I learned that when new devices are introduced it is very often the company that trains surgeons in its use.
Hi, here's an angle: make music/videos to advertise for startup products. There is a video agency that specializes in making TV commercials for software products that you could emulate: https://sandwichvideo.com/

So for this one, find some pair programming/screensharing tool and sell them a license for the song (or produce a video) as marketing material.
> I am supposed to lay out my entire financial history in a public wallet

Not at all. The fact that some transactions on some cryptocurrencies function in this way is a flaw, no-one actually desires that.
If you're in the Raleigh area as your name suggests, I'd advise you to be there 30+ minutes before they open. Our DMVs are a nightmare right now thanks to Real ID. I had go back in September - got my number at 1:45 PM and was the last person called before the office closed at 5 PM.
> Using misspellings of names is something malware often does

your spidey sense is telling you what you need to know, you just won’t say it
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Good points. And the idea of someone carrying immediately conjures up hero shaming. It's sad and hilarious.
Probably to dictate precisely when they get loaded, rather than relying on browser behaviour.
No. Just no. What you’re going to have is a shit load of people with guns firing in close quarters. When the police get there they’ll have no idea who the bad guy is. How about we just make the damn trains more safe instead of advocating for Mad Max Thunderdome?
using git doesnt make it a realtime system

Only a better system
I was in SF recently. I heard Starbucks employees complaining about police inactivity in their conversations to each other.
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Is this telling us anything we didn't already know?

Either way, I don't think he's helping the image issue.
The ideal is for the firearm to be a threat deterrence.

And that it would not be used.
The prices would be even lower if Apple decided to have a profit margin of 4% instead of 40%. The question wasn't 'how could the prices be lower', it was 'what's the evidence Apple has engaged in illegal, consumer-harming practices'.
Just gave it quick whirl - found the design to be really well done and intuitive! Congrats!

Given that Android is still in the works, am I right to assume that these apps were built independently rather than using a cross platform toolkit (e.g flutter/RN). Is that so?
https://www.whois.com/whois/microsft.com

It is owned by Microsoft, registered by MarkMonitor (MarkMonitor is a legit company)
The original design for the Bay Bridge retrofit was $400 million.

Instead, we got a less-safe, grandiose art piece for over $8 billion. $400 million more if you want a bike lane.
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Absolutely disgusting. What a disgrace to science.

Alexandra Elbakyan has done and will do more for science than this rent-seeking asshole will ever do.
There are different kinds of safety, though. There's sandboxing, which means that applications running in WebAssembly should not have access to resources they are not privileged to access. And there's memory safety, which means the WebAssembly application itself shouldn't try to break guarantees about memory. These are two separate things, and only the first can do things outside of breaking the website you're on.
He hasn’t finished his degree

> And I’m actually still attending my university online, to finish my Bachelor’s. I’ve stayed enrolled the whole time.
Can't be a saint until he's dead.
I thought they were being snarky, the tone of the article was belittling.

Before I read it, I thought "Messiah? Hmm yeah I guess that's kind of appropriate hehe". In the "Free Software Is A Religion" conceptual metaphor, he's bigger than just a common saint or prophet..
Among the millions (or hundreds of thousands) of uses of a gun in self defense each year in America, most don't involve shootings.
No, it does not imply that.
Is there a specific update url you whitelist?
there is no way to prosecute these guys unless there is camera evidence

... and the original batch of "surveillance cameras" were nonfunctional dummies[0].

[0] https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Use-of-decoy-cameras-se...
A lot of people are interested in it because they have a particular view of economics. In particular, they like that Bitcoin (1) has a fixed monetary supply, and (2) is difficult to regulate and tax.
There is. Let citizens who want to carry a gun, carry a gun. Herd immunity will protect the rest.
Existing platforms have limitations

My main problem is that many laws are written as:
“Hereby strikes section b of USC1788(1)(iii) and replaced the word or with and”

And with this kind of system it would be standardized already on how to see what the modifications look like, or at least jump to that old version of the law easily

When the final laws are all merged together after a passed bill makes simple instructions instead of the plain text law, it would be easy to see the version history of that section of the law, or act
~$105k based on 1 response, that doesn't seem like much data. The linked job posting shows:

> Pay Rate

$4,986.87/Month (Base Salary - While in Academy)
$5,651.79/Month (Base Salary - Upon Academy Completion)
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Is Nutanix a VMware copycat?
Peer-review is a good tool, but it is not the only tool that should be considered. And the problem is not peer-review specifically, but the implementation of the system and rent-seeking middlemen like Elsevier who do nothing but extract payment from taxpayers and researchers.

PeerJ and PLOS One are good starts, but until academia is no longer a slave to "impact factor," it will have limited effect.
At least one part of TFA plays rather fast and loose with the numbers...

“Farms these days are huge,” Chris Willenborg tells me. “A large farm is 30,000 acres.” Willenborg is a farmer as well as an academic, at the University of Saskatchewan. “In my ‘farmer’ hat, desiccation makes sense because it’s efficient,” he says. I can’t visualize the scope of a farm that big, so he spells it out for me: “Think of a farm 60 miles wide, and 100 miles long.” A farm that big would have different soil types, different climates even. It would be hard, even impossible, to have good weather long enough to harvest it all.

30,000 acres is 47 square miles, not 6,000 square miles.
Yes.

- But is "out-of-date" the problem? "round-trip" UML tools, auto-generating UML from code, seemed like a great idea once (e.g. Rational, Together), auto-keeping UML up-to-date. They don't seem popular now.

- Is UML the problem? (IMHO: no. It's good enough to be useful; like, no matter how bad XML is, it does work).

- Or is it that the devil is in the details, and you just can't summarize code?

IMHO, docs of architecture would be the most useful of all docs. Design patterns, javadoc-like tools, type-systems and UML all try it.

In the end, understanding the domain problem is the key to understanding the solution approach, which is key to understanding its architecture. That's a lotta understanding.

In practice, I inspect source, stepping through manually - your way's better.
Law enforcement is not even on the top 10 list for most dangerous jobs. I suspect there must be other reasons for the high vacancy rate.

http://time.com/5074471/most-dangerous-jobs/
Agreed with the button presses, would also like arrow key support.
Just a curiosity, but is Belgium included?
TheAwards names best apps in Spain 2018
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> Religious movement triggers alarm in them in the same way as nazis do to Europeans: they know they can lead to 20 million death.

I don't think that's quite right. They're sensitive because religion causes Chinese people to organize themselves outside Communist hierarchy, which they see as a threat to Communist power. They're sensitive to all similar kinds of organization, not just religiously motivated ones.
> TLA+ is very useful but only few services adopt and benefit from it.

It's true that formal specifications are rarely used, but I would bet that the ratio of those that benefit significantly from them to those that use them is far greater than many other, far vaguer tools.

> Also it's not very readable

That depends on what you mean by "readable." A prose description can appear readable in the sense that the reader may think they understand what the document says, but sometimes that's just because the text is vague enough to allow for conflicting interpretations. TLA+, on the other hand, is precise. True, it takes some learning, but it's easier to learn than a programming language, as it's much, much smaller (the reference documentation for the entire language and all of the standard library fits comfortably on 7 pages (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/summary.pdf)

> and cannot document many design aspects e.g. the reasons behind technical decisions

It can document some decisions very well. For one, you can state precisely your assumptions as well as the requirement. You then describe the desired operation of the system. You can then check that the design fits the requirements given the assumptions, and show that other designs don't. It is true that it's not intended to model the reasoning behind every decision, such as cost/time of implementation, but generic (i.e., non-software-specific) project management tools can help you with that.

Now, I am not saying that a formal specification is always required, and I agree that writing down an informal one is far better than not writing down anything at all, but it can really save a lot of time and trouble in subtle/complex/unclear cases.
It is almost impossible for somebody not politically connected to get a CCW in a blue or purple county.

There WAS one police chief in Contra Costa County that had a shall-issue policy for CCW (after clearing training and background checks). In response to this, the Legislature actually changed the law, disallowing all police chiefs except your city or residence to issue you a CCW.
I’m not so sure anymore. I’ve worked at a couple FANGs and I have never looked at a candidates resume beyond their last job or two. I only look at their degree to calculate years of experience in my head. But ultimately we put faith in our interview process more than a resume. I would totally hire someone who has relevant experience than what their degrees were (or any), as long as they passed the normal interview gauntlet that everyone takes.
>get past HR gatekeepers (which did not work)

Were you able to switch jobs/careers at all eventually?
I'm not complaining, just trying to explain why people don't want to contribute as much. You get the feeling you're doing work for an organization rather than improving a product for everyone. Some people are into that, but I think more people would contribute if OSM had a more usable product.
There's one more thing. I was trying mc to find out more about the features. Unfortunately, I found the multi-level pop-up menus in several workflows counter-productive.

One of the important goals behind `nnn`: extremely smooth workflows that don't get in your way.
Is it just me, or is someone else seeing posts like these pop up everywhere, and all reference Udacity's nanodegrees?

I know this one is in the Udacity site itself, but I've seen similar posts in other websites. Maybe they're actively advertising it via viral blog posts?
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This is legal in C, even if the representation for a null pointer is not actually "all zero bits" internally. The null pointer is defined to compare equal to 0, which is the contrapositive of what your test is doing.
The American highway system isn’t any safer. Rampant speeding, tailgating, swerving in and out, distracted on phones, etc. All of which is rarely and lightly punished.
No, I don't have it backwards; you do, perhaps you don't understand American politics.

> Liberal economics means fewer regulations, less federal planning, etc.

Not in America, here we call that conservative. In America, liberal economics mean more central planning and government control and more regulations.
Don't know why people keep insisting on this. OOP is a model. Functional is a model. Data oriented is a model. We as programmers just have to use them , in the most effective way possible to architect a solution to a problem. No one model of those can substitute any other. They complement themselves. There is bad OOP and effective OOP, just as there is bad Functional and effective Functional. The models are never bad by themselves. The programmers are.
Any programmer that bashes OOP in favor of any other model is just making a fool of himself and exposing his ingenuity.
> I don't think this definition excludes platforms that use non-zero bit patterns.

It doesn't; the comment above yours is saying the same thing as you are.
>Until you've seen what pests can do to a field that hasn't been treated with fertilizer or say herbicide, its really hard to understand why they get used. It is the difference between having a crop to sell, and going out of business and selling off your farm.

In my meager attempts at a backyard garden, I have lost entire "crops" of vegetables due to insects. From the slugs eating the young/new growth, grasshoppers eating the leafy plants, birds/insects eating the fruit, and just neighborhood stray cats using the loose soil as litter box digging up the plants. Then there's the squirrels and possums or raccoons that come along digging up plants looking for food. I just want to nuke the whole place from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

With all of that, it's just a hobby to "keep me off the streets", but damn those pesky pests. I have often said that I'm really lucky/thankful that my livelihood does not depend on me being able to successfully grow food. Oh, and before you get to the stage of pests, it has to rain just the right amount. Not enough, and nothing grows. Too much, and everything drowns and rots. None of these things are in the farmer's control.
It makes a lot of sense for 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 12.
He claims that digital distribution isn't cheaper than analog. I don't doubt that, given the amounts of money it probably costs to build effective DRM and paywall systems. Were all journals open-access, their costs would be a lot lower too.

Sci-Hub hosts 85% of the articles published in paywalled scholarly journals on a shoe-string.
Thank you very much.
It is built with React Native. I'm building tests for Android. It should be released in 1 or 2 weeks after all bugs are fixed and it passes all the tests.
This sounds very interesting. Do you have a site or anything?
Note to power users who don't subscribe to hacker news FUD against Microsoft (while using Gmail) remember how disappointed most of us were when start menu jumplists disappeared. This is how it wont happen again. Please don't turn it off- I don't want Microsoft removing power features
Note the way he picks on a woman in the audience for no reason to her surprise and bemusement. If you've read "Surely You're Joking..." you'll recognise it as one of his pick-up techniques. I'm a massive Feynmann fan, he has such insight, wisdom and humour. All of us have foibles and we see (IMHO) one of his in this one. They're all adults and I can completely forgive him for it just as I could if it was him putting his index finger up his left nostril and having a good dig while on camera. Not super pleasant to watch though. Adults deciding or not to have sex is fine. Being jerks to try and do it, eh, no more than yuk but, yeah, yuk.
> Progressives are not economic liberals.

They are under the American meaning of the word liberal, you just don't understand what liberal means in America. You are agreeing with me whether you understand it or not. What you mean by liberal, we call conservative or "classical liberal".

Liberal here doesn't mean what it means in the rest of the world.

> In India and Pakistan, for example, "conservative" just means holding on to traditional religious values.

That's not what it means here.
I've shelled out a few thousand dollars to publish my last two papers, and my editors / reviewers got none of it.
>Here is a question what is the sort of theoretical good for the gatekeeping? What is the functional purpose of it? I think that answer would prove insightful for determining the future.

Because I am not at all prepared to assess the quality or accuracy of a quantum physics paper and I doubt a molecular biologist is prepared to assess the quality or accuracy of a sociology paper. In what I have seen there are a lot of cargo cultists who think kthey understand a field, and use big words, and just don't get it. I feel that there should be some filtering function to remove that.

As an example:

This guy: https://www.mountainproject.com/forum/topic/113602967/near-m...

This guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/badphilosophy/comments/7x3t1g/stand...

This guy: http://ecclesiastes911.net/

and

This guy: https://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Simkin...

are all the same person.
The Google maps app is quite slow and bloated now on my Galaxy S6 and Nexus 5X. I think OSM has a great opportunity to overtake them on the "app being better" metric. Too many features have been crammed into Maps.
In `nnn` selection works seamlessly between multiple instances.

The shell in `nnn` is also a real shell with your complete env settings. So it remembers everything.

I can't think of a workflow where you are working both in the shell and the file manager when you have selection in place. It's a convenience, yes. But both are exclusive in nature.
Just respect people who played the cards they were dealt

Who applied themselves

For every entrepreneur that had a shortcut, there are 1,000s of trust fund kids that vegetate

Its not about your struggle, keep applying yourself

The society benefits
Cool!

New project idea ... Crawl a large set of popular docker images lacking Dockerfiles and attempt to recreate the dockerfile with this technique.
unfairly target poor people and minorities

How do they train the dogs to recognize which people are poor?
The OA community - particularly PeerJ - has solved this problem by forcing you to upload supplementary data either to their website (if it's small enough) or to Figshare, which does not allow you to delete data once it is uploaded and paired to a research study. It works rather well.
True, although these methods can be used more clandestinely. If you punch someone in the face and use their fingerprint, they know it.

If you compromise their accounts from the other side of the world by tricking a fingerprint reader, they won’t know immediately. And you’ll have broken fewer laws, and possibly be located in a country without extradition.
Counterpoint: There's a lot of people who will stop buying stuff online with such a system, once they have been bitten by a system that has truly irrevocable payments. Part of the reason why I trust buying random $25 used video games from eBay (using Paypal) is that I know I'm about 99% certain to get my money back if it never arrives, or arrives in poor condition. I can buy a used Cisco 48-port 1000BaseT/PoE switch on eBay and know that I have some degree of buyer protection. Or I can go to Newegg and buy a new $700 monitor and trust that if something goes terribly wrong with the transaction, Visa's buyer protection/chargeback system can be engaged.

Moving to irrevocable online payments is basically the equivalent of handing a wad of cash to some stranger in a parking lot selling "new, sealed!" ipads out of the trunk of a car.
Short answer: no. Longer answer: buy from farmer's markets, preferably places where you have seen the farm or met the farmer. You can't inspect everything they do, but you can ask yourself, "does this seem like the kind of person who is trying to do things right?" But, also, refer to the short answer, above.
Which you can verify they aren't doing if they provide the source code. Or the non-Apple app distributor could verify that they aren't or otherwise sandbox the apps they distribute to prevent that from happening -- another advantage to competition

So what sandbox is available for apps that don’t allow a native app to ascertain individually identifiable device information?

You also now have to trust the non Apple App Store to check the source code. The entire open source community let the HeartBleed bug stay in open source software for a year and a half...
> That is a free market solution.

No, it isn't. Taxes are not free market solutions. End of story. Taxes are government interference in the market; this isn't debatable, it's just a fact.
Historian? Do u know god and black death?
Only a few decades prior, but the Fourth Amendment seems to be attempting to strike a balance between the two.
An interesting topic but there were some really silly speculations that ruined a lot of the piece. Big farms can't combine in stages because they have more diverse terrain? Multiple combines harvesting together are a picture from a horrible dystopia?

I've lived in Saskatchewan a long time. Big farms are way better than family farms; they take a lot less expensive government infrastructure to service and are way more capital and operationally-efficient. Combines also always harvest together; the crop all has to come off before the weather turns so friends and family all come out and work monster shifts to get everything done.

If you are going to present a story as evidence-base, stick to the evidence.
Taler is designed as government spyware. Why it is part of the GNU project is a mystery.
Bitcoin Won’t Last, but Crypto Is Here to Stay: Edward Snowden
After the System Design Primer by Donne Martin got quite popular on Hacker News, I contacted Donne to find out which tools he used to draw those system architecture diagram and he was kind to respond my twitter message ( that is why twitter is so great ) to tell me it it is Omnigraffle ( only available in Mac and ios. )

10 years back I used to draw UML diagrams using Visio or one of the eclipse plugins for building systems diagram. However, the software landscape has changed quite a bit. On one of the podcasts of Martin Fowler recently, he also agreed that UML is now less favored standard in the software community.

Although I use Windows on my work but for the demo of the product I was working I built the system architecture diagram using my personal mac book and transfer to my work laptop to made a presentation. There was a good feedback and no-one raised any concern with UML or (any-)standards.

So, tool or IDE is less important these days, as we tend to use multiple tools/IDE based on the technology / framework / programming languages. I use intelliJ for Java, Sublime for Ruby / Rails + Angular + Others, Visual Studio for NodeJS, Vim for scripting, etc. etc....