skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The glicemic index is basically a hoax that has nothing to do with reality simply because the glycemic response differs widely from person to person or even from one day to the next. Even more problematic is that it’s getting used on food packages as a marketing gimmick.

I don’t see how an insulin index could be very different.

If you care about the glycemic load, then stop eating refined carbs and sugar, it’s that simple.

Note that fruits have insoluble fiber that delay digestion and feed your gut bacteria so fruits in their raw form are very different from sweets or even from fruit juice. So unless you’re metabolically deranged, you shouldn’t fear fruits, but you should fear fruit juice.
Fu-unji was pretty great when I went, it's a tsukemen place in Shinjuku. Always rammed with a queue that crosses the road. http://www.tokyoeats.jp/fuunji/

About 1000JPY a meal.

I also enjoyed the Hakata ramen at the Ippudo in Fukuoka, but I forget which branch.
The more I think about it the less likely I think the most recent crash will end up being attributed to the MCAS system.

Why? Because with what we know now I could have prevented the Lion Air crash. Any airline flying these planes would have been criminally negligent to have not issued guidance to all of it's crews pointing out the system, the potential danger and the workaround. Any pilots who've gone through their annual sim time will no doubt have had a trim-runaway situation thrown at them.

I obviously have no data beyond what has been released to the public but I'd be unsurprised to here this was completely unrelated.
Until it was cheap enough to manufacture with, aluminum hadn't been used in large structural components and the crack formation in aluminum is very different from steel.

With steel, if you add a large enough safety margin it will essentially never fail due to repeat stress cycles. With aluminum it doesn't matter how strong you design it, eventually cracks will form and it will fail.
So all you have to do to keep from establishing “intent” is for Bezos not to send an email saying “let’s undercut price to kill the competition”....
American and Southwest Airlines are still flying the Max 8/9, and are refusing refunds (Southwest/American) and charging change fees (American) for customers concerned for their safety.

I don't understand this logic. They are essentially risking their entire company over the safety of this plane. If something happens now they'll be driven to bankruptcy at record speed.
ICQ recently disabled the OSCAR protocol, which means I am not able to use it with Pidgin anymore (well, at least until someone writes a working plugin).

I really have to completely switch back to IRC, which is sort of protected against this sort of thing because it is an RFC standard.
Not yet implemented. I’m hoping to get that fixed today.

I mostly use slaves for recovery with the database dumps as a last resort. So I overlooked that.
There are two main reasons I’m aware of. First, a certain kind of person tries to make a deeply sexist argument and reaches for “science” to back it up. The overall experience with that kind of thing is profoundly negative, and it has a pretty grim history, so there are strong reactions to it. It’s true that well-intentioned people do ask uncomfortable questions, but especially online they’re dwarfed by trolls and people arguing in bad faith. All told this isn’t an insurmountable problem, and more and better research can help to shine some light on the issue. It’s also not impossible to determine whether or not someone is pushing a predetermined agenda and using a given study (while ignoring others) as a bludgeon.

The second, radioactive topic centers around trans people. I’m not going to touch that topic with a 10 foot pole, because online the discussion rarely develops more nuance than mysticism dressed up as science on one side, and bigotry dressed up as “common sense” arguments on the other. All told it makes for a difficult topic to discuss in good faith, absent agendas on or offline, but online it’s pure poison.
The world is guaranteed to be terrible if educated, moral people slowly die off.
Just stumbled upon this: https://www.elastic.co/blog/monitoring-logstash-filters. It may be exactly what I was looking for.
Amazon is rewriting the proprietary enterprise features of ES from scratch and giving them away for free.

Also, their MongoDB "distro" is just "Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)". That's not going to be open source, because it took a lot of work to basically rewrite most of Mongo.
Oh good, just what I wanted, all my private conversations made public so that dumb things I say to my friends can come back to haunt me years later and hordes of howling idiots can shower me with death threats because I don't agree with their deeply held opinions about the latest McMarvel movie.

Progress!
Yes. You’d have to seek an exemption from every country you’re overflying. Probably not worth it.
College Admissions Scam
Just to be clear, is this article an intent to ship?

That's the concern I have; not that it's going through the WICG, but that whatever process it's going through, this blog post sound like Google announcing user-facing shipment of a feature that hasn't finished its standardization process.

We've already been through this before with Web Bluetooth and the Shadow DOM specification. Once Chrome turns a feature on for end users, it is effectively standardized -- it is very difficult to justify changing or evolving a spec once real sites on the actual web have already started to rely on it. Again, look at Shadow DOM as a good example of why this is a problem.

I'd feel more comfortable about this process if there was some clarification that this is an intent to ship only behind a flag, or an intent to ship only to dev/beta versions of Chrome.
I think this is a great problem statement. The dynamic at play is that wallets/identities should be free to make, and expensive to lose. That is, the activity your identity participates in, is what gives it weight. So there will be incentive to sign public objects as well as to collaborate via encryption. An identity that has a history of interactions with other identities is harder to forge. One branch of fraud prevention will be based on detecting compromised identities.

I think a web-of-trust like model, if the friction is low enough, can build an informal identity system that doesn't need to be imposed from above. Some old thoughts on the idea: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/document-coin/
Sounds good, but I suspect many of those steps won't actually work. That is, he hasn't truly vanished, maybe to online trolls who are into SWATTING.

If this sort of thing could be structured so that it could be delivered economically, there are a lot of YouTubers who would be a potential market for this sort of service. That level of security would be entirely appropriate for them and very valuable.

This certainly fits into the category of things that don't scale.
This is really interesting and hope to see where it leads as Jenkins, Jenkins-X, Spinnaker and Knative all have something in common but actually very different products
Amazon do pay people to contribute to the kernel, and they have their own Linux distribution which when you poke it looks an awful lot like RHEL/CentOS but different due to some things Amazon add/change, so I'm not sure that's the greatest example. Red Hat probably aren't thrilled about that situation, but in the same breath are a larger company and not under the same pressure to simply survive at this point.
I don't think he is but in ff.html this actually deprecates from his point:

> It's hard to argue I'm biased against female founders when I have a female cofounder myself

Having your wife as a co-founder and using it to substantiate a lack of bias is like having your father in a company (much older) and using it to say 'I am not biased against older people'. Once again while it doesn't mean someone is biased it doesn't really support the point well and maybe even detracts.

> And with 3 female partners out of 12, YC has slightly over 3x the venture industry average

This is what I call a 'marijuana' comparison. (I am sure there is an exact term for it not what I call it). It's where you try to justify something as 'good' or 'ok' by comparing it to a much worse alternative. Like 'marijuana is not bad compared to alcohol'.
I think they're talking about mobile twitter, where every time I visit I see the message "something went wrong". Then I tap retry and get the same message. It's very offline first. Then I reload the whole page and get the online version.
Doesn’t this just damage the brand of the other 737 Boeing has, that from what I understand has a terrific record? I’m guessing most consumers are going to be apprehensive if they’re flying on any kind of 737. Whereas, they pull the Max and passengers would know that they're not on the troubled plane.
Or YC funding a company until its non YC funded competitor went out of business to make its investment worth more.

I’m not saying that YC has ever done that. I’m just taking the argument to it’s logical conclusion.
I think it's relatively intuitive for lay users that the links are secret. If you give someone the link, they get the file. What's not obvious about that?

If anything it's probably harder to understand for a somewhat semi-technical person who probably has started to think about encryption and so on but hasn't got far enough to spot that oh - the secret key is in the URL itself as an anchor and so the URL is the secret.

Computer Security is often nicer here than real world physical security, because we are often able to make the extreme cases so implausible as to be irrelevant, enabling intuitive statements to be true in practice rather than subject to endless caveats.

For example a lay person sees a padlock and they imagine that it cannot be opened except with the padlock key. And this is untrue in lots of ways - so a more technical person may think of some of them, and identify that this particular brand of padlock defends against those well, but not realise that other problems are undefended.

So this means the truth about the padlock has to be more nuanced and relative. Breaking the lock open with tools is "difficult". Picking the lock "cannot easily be done in under a minute". But lay people don't like nuanced, relative statements. It sounds a lot like this padlock won't really stop someone stealing my bike! That's because it won't.

But in computer security we often can make these cases irrelevant in practice. What if someone just tries all the key values for this AES encryption? That's fine, there are so many that even if they could try as many as there are grains of sand in the world, every second, the sun would burn out long before they had a meaningful chance of guessing the right one.
> Couldn't sponsorships help?

As implied and cited by the article itself, money and Debian are uneasy bedfellows.

> The last thing we need is Debian to become corporatized.

I highly doubt this will be a likely outcome here.
In the not so recent past, HN'ers loved to quote tptacek's legendary rant about how in-browser JavaScript crypto is fundamentally broken[0].

What changed? Is that rant finally outdated? Couldn't Mozilla at any time serve a corrupted JS bundle (with or without their knowledge) which would leak the key somewhere, silently replace the encryption by a noop, etc?

I ask out of interest, not skepticism. I much prefer an internet where we can trust web apps to do proper crypto than one where we have to depend on some app store to somewhat adequately protect us.

[0] https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
EASA suspends all Boeing 737 Max operations in Europe
I was not aware of those train games, thank you for telling me of them. It's obviously possible we both have major selection bias towards what we've seen, but I guess my point was more that the "normal internet fad topics" are not really as overrepresented in board games. Zombies and Dragons and stuff _exist_ in board games, but most of the really popular games are touching on topics that most reasonable people would not immediately associate with the generation of people ravenously playing those board games now.

Civilizations -- yeah, like I said, a VERY broad genre, so I kinda left that one alone.

You have a good point too on multiple strategies being important in game design. I just disagreed with how the author portrays all of this.

In the end, that's what my rant was (not so clearly) about I guess -- Good game, good design, good designer: Terrible article.
UK CAA reasoning:

https://www.euronews.com/2019/03/12/caa-suspends-boeing-737-...

http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/SD2019001.pdf

Norwegian Air and Norwegian authorities had the same information (or indeed lack thereof), but did not act until now. Given the known similarities, and the lack of data that rules out a problem with the B737 MAX, the responsible thing is to err on the side of caution.
Agree, but what I meant by more expensive was the new plane costs more than if they just kept making the old design through 2019.

Fuel savings and etc is always nice to strive for, but now human lives and insurance companies and airline companies are paying the price for the geometrical/software fault created by Boeing's corporate structure

If this continues, it's going to be the Concorde all over again really-- a better performing but a tad more unsafe plane
> But I fail to see how adding more scripting will always help with that

Your app has no control over browser connection management. JavaScript you write is aware of idempotency and retry semantics of your app, so it can manage requests more intelligently than the browser, without disrupting the user experience.

So sure, it won't always help if you do it badly, I can see how it always helps if you do it well.
I'm not sure if you meant this or not, but there's text.npr.org. Honestly I'd prefer much of the web this way. I'd be OK with images too.
In one of their videos, the URL is www.send.firefox.com - the others drop the www - is this intentional, a mistake? Why would someone use www before a sub domain like that?
Sadly this is very likely.
This is a great idea. A friend of mine actually pitched this idea to me a couple months ago.. and while I thought it was great it was too far out of my wheelhouse.
Fair enough, thanks for answering.
It wasn't always so. To be honest, current political events have been most maturing, and helped to end some of that pain and bitterness.

Yes, I agree, I think we'll do just fine.
But if they have information that leads them to a completely different conclusion, why aren't they sharing it? I'm having a hard time coming up with a scenario where they have more confident data, but can't share it (or if not what, at least share that they have it).
Corporations can and do register cars in their names. I assume LLCs are not afforded the same privilege because they do not undergo the same level of regulation that a C corp does. When you're involved in a car accident, your insurance doesn't want to go through webs of shell LLCs to find out who they need to sue / file a claim with.
Funny that Brits don't see £50 notes that often. Most of the time £50 notes are used by foreigners (tourists or whatnot).
> government entities need to provide some of the funding

No, government entities need to stop providing funding to the huge agribusinesses that are out-competing the small farms only because they have gotten the playing field tilted in their favor.
TLD servers for .ru zone can answer questions like “who should I ask where kremlin.ru is?”, but before that there is a question “where .ru zone DNS servers are”, and that’s what root servers are supposed to answer. If - hypothetically - all root servers will answer “oh, .ru zone is served by that guy in Washington DC”, no DNS resolver would ask “real” .ru servers because list of root servers is effectively hard coded and changing it on all clients is a lot of work.
TransferWise has a payouts API.
Theoretically, yes. But they could also derive keys from a shorter password value -- like password managers.
Well, I understand this comment, but your original is still unclear to me. You might want to clarify it for others.
Regardless of the cause of the Ethiopian crash, I think this whole affair has put into stark relief how much of a bodge job the 737 MAX is. It's the culmination of decades of revamps and modifications to a fundamentally outdated design, and the result is an aircraft that simply isn't very good. It's the aviation equivalent of the great edifices of legacy code that so many HNers will be familiar with from their day jobs.
Windows 7 users to receive notifications from Microsoft about end of support
Amazing!

Do you have any special config to sync to replica before accepting incoming connections in a straightforward manner?
Yeah but did you hear , it s asynchronous , and you never have to worry that the conversation will get too long
Well, in addition to API gateway specifics, like API keys, counters, etc.
Speaking as someone who is forced to vote on a proprietary touchscreen system with no paper trail, I wish researchers were finding cryptographic problems in my voting system.
You really think they didn’t set out to dominate mobile, search, the gaming market, etc?

You really think they had a strategy meeting and said that their strategy was going to be to always be a strong second?
Support for Windows 7 is nearing the end
> small farms are being outcompeted by large farms. This was a consequence of the market, not government subsidies

How so? Government subsidies are what enabled the huge agribusinesses to take over the market. The article discusses exactly this point.
Arguments also tend to start (unstatedly) from the baseline that "male is the default and most valuable" which will get backs up.
What SaaS Has the Best Software Documentation?
Hey HN,

Would love to get recommendations from the HackerNews community regarding the best documentations you've seen thus far.

So far I have:
Carrd: https://carrd.co/docs/sites
Convertkit: https://help.convertkit.com/category/20-user-guides
Mailchimp: https://mailchimp.com/help/

Feel free to post any you've come across, I will keep adding to this thread as a find more.
So productivity....leads to evil.

I'm going to let my boss know about this right now. And I'm turning off SLACK!
Panic. The tools used to confront such inconvenient truths are, as always, censorship and bullying.
I've been working with clojure professionally for over 4 years. The default navigation in emacs is non-existent as far as I can tell and only works at all once you've loaded the source into the REPL. Even that only works for resolving top-level vars and doesn't work for local bindings. Admittedly I tend to use cursive so this may have changed recently. But that still doesn't help you understand the argument/return types of functions etc.
IIRC it wasn't even political views, it was the dude's kinks that got him kicked out, which is much more ridiculous.
T-10 until we have interviewers at tech companies being bribed.

Probably the best way for an experienced engineer to get in at this point.
Alexa is useful to visually impaired and people and seniors:

- landline dial by name
- radio station by name
- TV channel by name
- play/resume audiobook by name
- microwave for duration
- device power on/off
- time, weather, etc

It takes some setup to get all devices integrated, but once it all works, it's borderline magic to a non-technical user.
>> and effectively punish consumers for choosing the best option for them

Consumers today are fat and lazy. Whatever small part of me is a consumer, I don't care about that part. We should care about producers and their right to participate in a fair and open marketplace. The biggest problem in people's lives today is not related to a lack of options in terms of what to consume, it is related to a lack of options in terms of what they can produce and how they can produce it.

>> Start with the most obvious error: Bing was not even launched until 2009

Actually, her statement makes perfect logical sense. OP is the one who doesn't understand history. If the antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft did not succeed, Internet Explorer would have been the only internet browser which could run on Windows (which itself was a near total monopoly in the personal computing space) and therefore, through their control of IE, they could have created Bing and made it the only search engine in the IE address bar. Maybe they could even have blocked google.com completely if it started to become a threat or maybe they could have added an overlay on top of google.com so that they could replace Google ads with their own ads... The possibilities of what Microsoft could have done to stop Google would have been endless if it wasn't for the antitrust cases brought against Microsoft.

If anything, her point is too clever and too insightful for some people to comprehend.

Basically Elizabeth Warren seems to actually understand how the world works and she understands the huge impact of goverment policy on the economy instead of pretending that there is no impact.
Bear in mind that eyewitness reports of events like this are notoriously unreliable.[1,2]

Yes, it may turn out that this incident bears no relation to the Lion Air one, but I think it's much too early to make any such assumption.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/weekinreview/ideas-trends...

[2] https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&co...
>As far as I know the human body absorbs pretty much all the nutrition from the food it consumes

Not even close, especially when it comes to vitamins, nutrients and minerals. For example, take turmeric which is praised for its anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant benefits...we will usually not readily absorb the active ingredients unless taken together with black pepper.

Black pepper will also improve nutrient availability in general, because it helps digestive enzyme secretion.

Another example is iron, which generally we readily absorb from meat but not plants, however, consuming iron rich plants together with vitamin c improves our iron absorption up to 6x.
> You could download J2ME apps from anywhere. Honestly I used Verizon as an example but thinking back, Sprint’s store was a better example. I think Verizon used something different.

In which case the lesson is that by charging so much in a competitive market, that business unit failed. Which leads to the real point:

> So now the government should also decide what is a “fair” amount of markup?

It's not a matter of setting prices, it's a matter of having competition. Apple gets 30% because it's the only feasible way to distribute to iOS. If Apple was charging 30% and there was a competing Mozilla App Store for iOS charging 5%, I suspect Apple would lose some business to it. And if some people still think Apple's store is worth 30%, no problem -- let them pay 30% while others pay 5%. But the 5% option should exist.

> And seeing how little money you can make from Linux users, the value add for distributing packages on Linux makes the price about right....

The point is that it shows the cost of providing that service. If Debian can do it at scale for nothing, what is Apple doing that justifies 30%, and where is the option to get just the thing Debian does for free?
As long as there is a possibility, I say yes - not "if" but "when."

Humans are always the weakest link with the internet and someday, sometime, bad code (unknowingly) will be pushed and something will happen to someone.
We are agreeing, except my statement "I doubt you'll find many people who are would say 'C++ is intended to be a true high-level language'".

If that is actually how C++ is being sold that is indeed wrong. Same if that's how Rust were hypothetically being sold.

Both make you think really hard about ownership for purposes of faster memory management. They're not "true high-level lanaguages". They are systems languages with zero-cost abstractions where possible.