skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a hackathon project I saw a couple years ago where you had to defuse a bomb in VR. Not quite an escape room project but the potential there is clear.
In Sweden the notice period is typically the same on both behalfs. If they demand you give 4 month notice, they will also have to do that.
This is quite ironic because I used to work in the security team at GoDaddy, writing tools to scan and clean websites infected with malicious code injected the same way. To find out that the company is using the same technique (for something less malicious?) is very surprising to me. I guess they never asked for a review of this feature to the security team, otherwise I doubt they would have approved it.
It seems dangerous to me. One unit of insulin too much and you're in diabetic coma territory.
history degrees ????? and while you are at it can also deny student loans for all the liberal arts degrees . . . read what the CEO of FEDEX said about it years ago . . .

loans to engineers and scientists only - - - the only groups likely to be able to pay back their loans without going into default.
Since 2010, no single browser has gained more than two thirds of global market share anymore

Pretty sure Chrome did. Or WebKit/Blink family. This is GOOD imho.
Jared Diamond (without explicitly naming sources) claims that cannibalism in humans (with the specific example of Polynesian peoples) arose from the lack of plant-based protein (they had no native cereals with non-negligible protein components) such as wheat, barley, or quinoa; and that this element was shared between most societies with cannibalistic histories.
GoDaddy has always been one of the worst providers or registrars someone can use. I wish I was surprised by a practice this bad.
I think it’s interesting that the speed-up coincides with the proliferation of personal computers and the internet. Imagine all the magnetic moments generated by every electronic device on the planet. I wonder where the magnetic poles will end up?
I recall that a supreme court case about a year ago said that unions are no longer able to demand membership fees from members. I wonder how that is affecting these unions, if at all.
What’s the usage of this?
>If you’re driving on a new road that hasn’t been mapped with the super high res Lidar, it presents a problem.

Not even remotely true. LIDAR is used to SLAM in real-time. Think of it as a radar on steroid. For successful reliable autonomous driving you need both machine vision and lidar. If you only use machine vision, you end up like Teslas and slam into stationary fire trucks. So you use machine vision for reading signs, lane localization, etc and lidar to prevent accidents.

> a cross country road trip on any highways.

That's not the agreed upon definition of self driving. Also, you should probably take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car#Testing

Waymo on average travels for 5,127.9 miles before a human disengagement is necessary measured over 635,868 miles. Cruise, 5,224 miles. Tesla, 2.9 miles.

> Not you or anyone else can say either machine vision OR lidar are necessary

Well since pretty much every single company that exists right now in the autonomous car space with the exception of Tesla uses LIDAR, I am inclined to think that's the way to do it.

All in all, machine vision is way too unreliable for anything above SAE level 2. Due to the nature of machine learning algorithms used (CNN) you can't be sure that a firetruck will always be recognized as a firetruck. The only way to reliably "see" a firetruck is via lidar/radar.
Hover, Gandi, Namecheap, AWS, Google, Cloudflare.

There are many decent alternatives. From the above, I have used all but Google and Cloudflare. My experience has been pleasant with all that I have used.
Thank you for the explanation :) I had written this piece keeping Indian audience in mind. Glad it has reached here. I have now updated the article and added figures in USD and international number system :)
You shouldn't trust Namecheap either. Just because nothing happened to your domain, doesn't mean when it does Namecheap will help. I had numerous issues over the years including someone being real jerk over their chat and just because of their rudeness and knowing my email and full name, was able to took over my account.

Namecheap is not cheapest neither (Namesilo)

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.namecheap.com
The best "How to stop it" would be to change registrars. Domain registrar is a highly commoditized, extremely low margin, volume play business. There is always another company better than the other.

Personally, I have a ResellerClub account that I 'sell' to myself and my families. I also use name.com and namecheap.com for both my personal and my companies domains. They all are good.

There is Google too, and CloudFlare entered the market.

Question: Even if one registers with GoDaddy, what if the DNS is at CloudFlare, it won't have this problem, right?
My personal major pain point with Apollo is with the need to manually manipulate the cache to keep it in sync after a mutation that adds or removes an item from a list, which feels really clunky and error prone compared to the much more elegant workflow of updating an individual entity, where the cache gets updated automatically by Apollo's normalization. See https://www.apollographql.com/docs/angular/features/caching....

Ideally I'd like to be able to specify a unique identifier for a list through a directive on a query, and then specify the same identifier on the mutation, to have the result of the list in the mutation automatically replace the contents of that key in the cache (or append onto it for use cases like pagination, possibly in combination with another directive for sorting the combined list on the client-side?).

I was hoping to be able to do something like this using the @connection directive: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/features/pagination...

Unfortunately, when I tried this it looks like the @connection directive actually creates separate nested keys for mutations vs queries, so unfortunately this use case isn't possible yet. I'd love to hear how others are approaching this problem, especially those using other caching graphql clients like Relay. Or maybe I'm missing some better way to handle this in Apollo itself?
Mine as well. Only major registrar with U2F. They seem to take security very seriously.
"Such pleas seem impudent coming from the highest-paid teachers in the nation, with an average annual salary of $68,000"

Those monsters.
AFAIK voting is purely down to user's discretion, so sometimes you do see posts get hammered by the 'downvote = disagree' mob, but it doesn't happen that often.
> I think it's worth pointing out why the author's of SICP themselves acknowledge why it was phased out.

Gerald Sussman made some remarks about this during an unrelated roundtable discussion at the 2009 International Lisp Conference:

https://cemerick.com/2009/03/24/why-mit-now-uses-python-inst...

Note that Sussman did not actually state why the committee decided to change the curriculum. The remarks about studying software empirically were his opinion. I was in the audience, and while Sussman seemed sincere in his remarks, I still have a hard time believing he was serious. How can anyone state, without irony or sarcasm, that we should just give up, and start treating software programs, where all the "laws" are not only known, but made up, by us, as if they were natural systems, where our only way to understand them was to start "poking" (I may be wrong, but from what I remember this was the actual word Sussman used) at it and observing the results?

If you give up before you have even started on modularity, composition, etc., and start treating every program as if it was a million line COBOL hairball, the hairball part is just going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

My takeaway from Sussman's remarks was the opposite of his message - the ideas about applying mathematical principles to software design in SICP have become even more relevant as a way to prevent software hairballs.

I make good money doing the "poking," but if you are going to teach that, stop pretending that you are teaching a science at the university level - this kind of shrug-and-give-up empirical programming is to computer science and engineering what a trade college auto mechanic education is to a mechanical engineering degree.
Yet all my pages were being served with the following <script> injected into them just before the closing </html> tag...

The free hosts I used many years ago would do something similar, with no way to opt out --- that is, until I figured out they were just detecting the '</html>' and inserting before it.

Combine that knowledge with the fact that the closing tag of the HTML element is optional, and you can guess what I did pretty easily. ;-)
> are explicitly about not having an easy way out

Really? I've done a dozen and in every single one, you could simply exit back from the door you entered from. The rooms were never truly about "escaping", at least past the lore and story. They are about searching for clues and solving puzzles. I've never been in one where we were explicitly locked inside. Generally you just make your way through and exit out a different door at the end.
Thank you for sharing this. This makes so much sense and I also feel that this type of sustainability wouldn't have been possible for all kinds of products/companies.
Personally, I see the "Escape Room" boom as something akin to the "Fondue Party" craze in the 70's. It's a fun social outing... once. Eventually there won't be enough new customers to sustain the business model and they will disappear almost as quickly as they arrived.

I'm sure there are better example, particularly ones from the entertainment industry booms of the 1920's and 1950's but I just can't think of any off the top of my head.
That was before Trump put forth his intention to veto.

Republicans don't want to fracture the party and embarrass themselves with such a vote. McConnell will never let the bill come back to the floor.
> They are stronger at what?

Lifting heavy books, of course.
Doesn’t even matter where the DNS is. This is happening on the actual web hosting server.
That fact that public schools are a shambles in this country is fucking insane given how much we purport to value education.

Also, it's fine to bitch about unions. They're not all perfect and there are certainly trade-offs. And (like anything) they can be perverted and misused. But overall they've done great things for the middle class in this country and we should all be very wary of powerful forces trying to hobble them.

Especially when it comes to teachers and education.
Agreed.

All respect to those who like proportional fonts, to each their own, but I think of code as a 2d grid.

Same reason I use syntax highlighting: color is another dimension that helps me see what I’m doing. This is particularly notable in Lisps, where turning on rainbow parens can be like switching on a light switch, immediately helping me understand the shape of the forms.
These days you could throw up an other wise invisible div that said "Page Tampered" please report to webmaster (or you could even do that yourself with a lookup on your hosted side to a script that would log IP/browser etc.

I've already encountered pages like that, they piss off everyone who uses adblocking/filtering so I would consider it an anti-user technique.
My French contract had 2 months notice and a non compete option for the employer, where they had the option to pay me 75% of the salary for 2 years to enforce the non compete. That kind of non competes I don’t mind.
The very notion that GoDaddy could be in a position to "clean" websites of malicious code is--what's the word?--stupefying? profoundly unsettling? mystifying?
The real question is: Can you scratch with it?
> There are at least three places where you can get injected, one is from the ISP

I'm not sure if they still do it, but Vodafone in my country (and many others) used to cache and compress photos on all websites, which often led to visible degradation in image quality. Luckily I discovered that their software respected the `Cache-Control: no-transform` header so include that header on all my websites now.
In the year 2019 every possible video idea has been done at least once

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jgRlzFIgm1E
Well, now you just need 18 other try-it-once fad businesses and then you can rotate through them all, one per year.
Maybe you got a bad one. As someone who has done a dozen, there's definitely a wide range in term of quality, but the good ones can tickle the puzzle solving itch really well. This is coming from someone who has played almost every puzzle video game out there.

It's definitely not for everyone, and I'll say, I personally like it better when there's only 1 or 2 others in the room; more than that gets too hectic for me.
There's one setup that I've used with XFCE before, but it's not perfect.

I've been working on and off implementing some Platinum stuff in Pharo's upcoming new graphics layer (called Bloc) and these have come out OK. That's where I'd really like to use it -- my whole desktop can be like Hypercard
> The 90th percentile weight for the canonical version is 5,229kb.

I get antsy when I made a page over 100KB (excluding images, and even then anything over 1MB starts to feel excessive unless it's something particularly reliant on images). 5MB feels very high.
I'm a doctor. I'm pretty sure I know what those things mean. But ya, wouldn't expect you to.

Ultimately that's irrelevant, because you don't choose the services you get in a hospital, "I" do. If I come in and recommend this or that test, are you going to check the price? Of course not, because the issue is only partially hidden prices. Its also knowledge asymmetry and fear. I think most doctors only recommend tests they feel will be helpful and in my current position I have absolutely no incentive to order extra or unnecessary testing, so I try not to.

I suspect (but I guess it hasn't been proven) that moving away from fee-for-service towards Medical Home type payments will resolve a lot of this as long as quality measures are carefully monitored and decreases in quality are appropriately sanctioned.
>>You're honestly not going to find anything much more basic than those two.

I'm looking exactly the opposite of this. I don't wanna spend time learning the "basic". I'm looking for an abstraction on top of HTML/CSS to create a responsive webpage easily.
I think this can be a very good start. Whenever I'm reminded of my tasks deadlines I'd work harder. Would also love to include different color signaling for deadlines...
Is this common in web hosting? I'd be pretty livid if my web host was modifying traffic, regardless of the intent.
Why? For those of us who've worked in hosting, it's a routine thing that you help customers do every day.

At their scale, trying to automate it hardly seems surprising.
They're undocumented APIs, not private APIs, they will eventually be documented anyway.
What is the meaningful distinction between news websites and non-news websites? Client-side rendering is just a technique which isn't specific to any industry.
> But in some countries it has a big issue with fire safety

If they could name a single other incident then I might have thought the author actually tried.

You just walk out the door you came in normally, don't see there being an issue.

In Poland they reported "the girls died from carbon monoxide asphyxiation." so it's not even clear to me they were even trying to get out.

Poor form for the Economist.
Interesting development of the standard turntable, though the aspect that it still utilises a stylus that makes contact with the record is the area I'm looking at some technological love.

With that, a laser or photo sensor that reads the record surface would be an advancement and preserve records from wear and tear that a stylus needle will induce.

Maybe the next version will embrace such technology.

Reference - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
Not the OP, but I'd say - it's not about anyone controlling your actions. It's about the way of conveying the message. It's about controlling yourself so you wouldn't just break open and flood other with whatever you might think is genuine and appropriate, but others would probably get as uncontrolled gibberish of madman said with ferocity haven't seen before.
I've been very happy with Namecheap. I moved all my domains to them year that Godaddy did some bad shit (off the top of my head, they supported SOPA and the CEO Bob Parsons slaughtered an elephant in Zimbabwe for sport).
Is anyone planning to scan all the available PDFs or data sources and put together a comprehensive tool for all hospitals in each state? Now THAT would be a hell of a tool to get hospitals scrambling to lower "not real" prices.
Thank you for the quick reply!

My question was more about how that persistent dataset in your shared development environment is created though. As that dataset has to first exist for people to query against it.

Curious if that creation process is manual or automated somehow through inference on the types in the schema.
Could you give an example of when a customer would need that? I'm missing something.
Problem-solving males become more attractive to female budgerigars
Using AI and Data Streams to Predict Local Flu Activity
So all the brain imaging scans that showed concussions were nothing?
The larger the employer, the more bureacracy is involved in the hiring process. Any non-conformance to the standardized process comes with a risk of complete process failure once a corporation reaches a certain size and begins to silo off certain functional groups. I've found myself in many situations where a customer or employee requested something perfectly reasonable to settle a dispute, only for me to find there is literally no way to resolve the issue as there is no mechanism with which to do so or the individual who can move the levers is seperated by so many layers of management/org chart spaghetti that no one has a clue who to reach out to. There's always the hope that someone close to the process is willing to put their neck on the line and break procedure in a way that risks reprimand or their career but that's a fleeting chance more often than not.
dont put links from last time..
I don't know enough to have an informed opinion but I'd have thought all the electronics on earth would still be an order of magnitude to small to have an impact on something as massive as the earths rotating core.
I have heard the exact opposite. That teachers increasingly have to acquiesce to the demands of parents and administrators. That they want to be creative and exercise their "calling," the art of it and care given to individual students. But they cannot because they're pressured by onerous top-down regulation, school administration, or blowback from zealous parents.

And also, yeah I wish everyone could perform their calling for free, for the simple joy of it, but the fact of the matter is that life isn't like that and never will be like that.
Is your worry that we'll convert every inch to landfill?

Rest assured, at the rate we create landfills, the tectonic plates will push our landfills below the surface of the Earth and create new untouched landmasses before we run out of space.

There are unintuitive results in this domain. Highly recommend you check out some of the lit, like Hocking mentioned above.
The ‘Driverless Experience’ Looks Awfully Distracting
How is this company still in business is beyond me. Maybe their clients are less savvy (non-HN-frequenting) site owners
This book is great! I was already familiar with the basics of property testing, but the book shows it can be used for way more than just the usual JSON parsing examples I had seen until now.

In particular I liked the idea of negative testing: making sure bad things don't happen, even if you generate data from a wider domain than what a function is meant to support.

The targeted property-based testing example is really impressive. The author tests a version of Quickcheck, and asks the framework to target a high runtime, putting an assertion in the test to make it fail if the runtime is very high. The framework then goes and generates an example of data causing O(n^2) behavior in quickcheck. Just beautiful.

I'm not done with the stateful testing part, but already I applied some of the stuff to a Python project (using Hypothesis) with good results. I hope I get to apply it to Elixir in the future.
I used to sing in the madrigal style in a choral group at my high school devoted to that style. I hear some of those tight harmonies in this style. It's amazing how the authors of The Sacred Harp were able to come up with a hack that allowed even untrained voices to begin singing music this complex, almost right away. Singing can be a transformative, transcendent experience but nonmusicians are often afraid to approach it for fear of embarrassment; fitting, then, that churches would devise ways to encourage everyone to sing together, as it can really cultivate the feeling of being closer to God.
I would mind it a lot, because when I leave a company I'll be making more than I do now, not 75% of what I do now.
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This article is from 2002.

Health systems are complex and mistakes happen.

Its great that articles like this get published to ensure that we continue to learn from our mistakes and highlight the efforts we go to try to prevent them.
Somewhat related, there was another article this week that mentioned kids (and parents) now get notifications sent over the phone of their grades: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/1/10/18174263/anxiety-...

“As the retreat group started to tell me more about why they felt such a collective sense of stress and pressure, a few major themes emerged. All of them said they voluntarily get their grades pushed to their phones through notifications. It took me a minute to realize just how annoying and agonizing that must feel. It means that at any moment, they could find out they bombed a test or missed an assignment. Instead of having the time to mentally prepare to receive a bad grade when a teacher returns an assignment, they receive a notification as soon as the teacher posts their grade to the online portal they all use. Further, their parents sometimes receive the same notifications.”
For those of you who might find Unifont, er, hideous (as I do), it’s worth knowing about Google’s Noto.

Noto is short for “no tofu”, the typographer’s name for the box which is displayed when the system can’t find a glyph for a codepoint.

It’s a decent backing font and guarantees you’ll see something rather than nothing.
I think the search problem is more your search engines fault for not pointing you to the official docs
GoDaddy convert here - Google Domains has worked out fine for me for the past few years.
I don't think the actual study[1] takes the kind of correlation=causation approach this snippet does.

That said ...

> In addition to distributing report cards earlier in the week, schools could consider including messaging to help prevent corporal punishment that crosses the line into abuse. But that’s a sticky issue in Florida, where some counties still allow corporal punishment in public schools. (Florida’s not alone: 19 states still allow schools to hit students, according to the Gundersen Center for Effective Discipline.)

This is absolutely insane. It's 2019. I grew up in Florida and remember "the paddle" from my elementary school days but had assumed it had been stricken by now.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abst...
That's just decorative. The real advance in record players is IRENE.[1] This is an optical record player. It takes a 3D image of the recording surface with a confocal microscope. That's used to create a 3D model, which is then "played" in simulation to get out the audio. The Library of Congress uses these to recover old records and cylinders. They can even put a broken record back together.

[1] https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/project-irene-lawrence-berkele...