skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point the fact that the whole friggin' rest of the OECD states have managed to come up with something less-broken and less expensive than what we do, and that AFAIK even the most "free market" and incomparable to ours demographically and geographically (e.g. Singapore) have done this with price controls and a "public option" or similar, is such easy-to-come-by and oft-repeated info that "gee I just don't know how this could work in the US" or "more government intervention can't possibly fix anything" can't be charitably interpreted. It's concern trolling or gross ignorance. Period. We've been talking about this for decades. The data are there. They're not hidden. It's not theoretical. Pick a demonstrated-to-work system and do it.
While MSVC doesn't have full C99 support, MSVC supported most of the features that shipped in C99 that make it much less painful to develop in C quite a number of years before C99 support formally landed in other compilers. MS will probably never support full C99 because the demand isn't there, but it's certainly not ANSI C you are expected to write.
A disastrous policy is still a disastrous policy even if there are people like your elderly aunt who derive great benefits from it.
This is confusing because ReCATPCHA v3 is non-interactive:
https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3
Actually, recent research indicates that these two species began differentiating themselves a long time ago, but their lineages have since converged: they now interbreed freely and there's no reliable way to tell the two species apart: https://twitter.com/dlslager/status/1072353359041085440

It's been really interesting to talk to birders I trust about this. The rough consensus is, most people think they're the same species and will get merged back together soon, but some are very attached to the distinction between the two, haha.

Birds are so cool! I think it's fascinating that we're still learning new things about this stuff all the time.
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None of the above. It's GDI and the widgets are most similar to those available via MFC (this talking about the classic she'll, so Metro/UWP aside).
> "Why did you spend less time on X than the average worker?"

"Because I wanted it to work correctly."

Edit: I assumed you meant "more time"
The data points surrounding those anomalies were reasonable, and the main sets of jumps I saw were either in places where I likely had poor GPS penetration or were quite old (back to the Google Latitude days). There were also precision indicators for many that made it pretty clear that they were locations based on connecting to a relatively distant cell tower.

My expectation for the absurd jumps was that Google was calculating locations based on identifying WiFi devices in the vicinity and that for some devices there were duplicate MACs distributed in different regions (or possibly that the MAC on some equipment was being set from configuration rather than being hard-coded). I did not check to see if any of them were 00:DE:AD:BE:EF or the like since I generally only noticed several weeks after the event.
But there are no privacy concerns in this case. The ad placement is completely contextual based on content, not based on viewer. They just trained a model to learn what sentiment an article would elicit and allows advertisers to target based on that. This seems like the best case for advertisements for anyone concerned with privacy and targeting.
Why are you using so many nonstandard ligatures? It's very distracting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19659888
ReCAPTCHA is one of the worst things that has happened to the Internet. Please consider an alternative if you are a webmaster that has a choice. It's overkill for most purposes.
The Search for the Perfect Door
I abandoned online data courses for project-based learning
reCAPTCHA v2 apparently. reCAPTCHA v3 is advertised as never interrupting users at all: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3

Which is kind of horrible, since it means that you might not be given an obvious opportunity to change your score if you fail.
But krapp is right - there are people here who strongly support possession and distribution of images of child sexual abuse. Those comments are not always flagged; they're not always downvoted.

Anti-Semitism is common, and only the worst gets flagged and downvoted.

Sexism is out of control.

And you know - you know - how toxic HN can be for some users. There's no way I can recommend HN to my friends because some of it is so toxic.
Wayyyy simpler, and it's only one system instead of many conflicting ones.

Medicare and SS move money around much more efficiently than any private system in terms of overhead. Sometimes innovation is a downside.
Any code in active development would have been ported to C++ (although left in the original C "style"). The MSVC C compiler is just for back-compatibility and not intended for modern C development.
What's pipelining assistance?
I can't for the life of me think of a compelling reason why regional fallover is something most companies would want in a db. It sounds great, but the reality is: the last time Azure had a regional failure, it also took down other regions. AWS and Google also have similar horror stories. On paper, regions are geographically isolated, but the reality is that in all of these instances of failure there was some "super-region" that has some core global infra that every region relied on, and it went down (AWS and us-east-1, Azure and south central US).

You don't actually want single-provider multi-regional, what you want is multi-provider, like what Anthos is trying to do. But that's a harder sell to CIOs, and Azure checks a lot of boxes on paper despite being just horrible.

The other funny thing about Azure is how they champion the number of regions they have (54), but many of these regions only have one AZ (only 8 have more than one). So when they say that something is multi-region or does regional fallover, its like, "great, that's TABLE STAKES for getting HA on Azure". But with AWS, you have at least two AZs in every region, so its not as big of a deal. GCP is the same way, but there's some language in their docs even AWS poked fun at during Re:Invent last year where they say that AZs "often" have isolated power and networking. Not always, just often. So are they truly isolated?
I dont know why you're being downvoted, since the core of your idea is valid from a usability perspective.

Maybe the same people who dislike the recent movements to mandate niceness see this as the same (it isn't) or maybe it's a dumb and unworkable idea.

When you make a wrong turn, the map software re-routes you based on that choice instead of telling you you're not following its instructions.

This sounds nicer, but I wasn't thinking of DWIM (Do What I Mean) systems. I was thinking more that .. when you drive into a car park, and the car park is full, you don't think of that as an error, you don't need an alarm about it, you just drive somewhere else and park. You knew that might happen, you plan for it - the car park being full is a normal state of affairs and dealing with that normal situation shouldn't be a completely separate concept handled in a separate way.

You don't try to park, experience an error, bounce back to a control thread, try to park on the street, experience an error, bounce control back to somewhere else, try to park round the corner, get a space.

You have a preference of places to park where you go to the car park, the street, round the corner, or you go home. And none of them are "error states".

It would be annoying if you employed a delivery driver and told them to park in the car park, and they rang you up to say the car park is full, and waited for instruction, then you told them to park on the street and they rang back and said the street was full.

Instead you want a delivery driver who will try reasonable things to park, and if they cannot, they bring the package back to the depot and it goes for delivery tomorrow. If it's urgent, you include that in the original instructions and they try reasonable and unreasonable things to park. The "what to do" is built in.

Instead of having 4 states, made of 1 good and 3 errors, there are 4 possibles, 1 completes quickly, 3 require more input or more processing, and none are errors.

Have you ever used Python's dict.get(key, fallback) ? You pass in a fallback value which is returned if the key is not in the dictionary. Control moves forwards with the possible states handled in advance. Compare that to C# and a dictionary lookup which either returns or throws an exception - and there is no alternative. You either check yourself whether the key is there first, or you handle an exception. There is no way to inform it what to do if the key is not found, no way to tell the dictionary that's fine, no way to tell it to create a new key, no way to give it any information to work with. All you can do is tiptoe around it like a minefield (check before you step), and if it explodes, pick up the pieces.

Simply having a polite compiler error message or IDE sugar papering over the Key Not Found Exception doesn't make that design any nicer to use.
I remember looking into and applying for SBIRs many years ago. My comments reflect the programs as last I interacted with them, so they may be dated in understanding.

There are many issues, not the least of which are the very long lead times. From submission to decision/notifications can be 6+ months.

Another issue is the Phase I/II gap. Sure, you can get more money, but there is another (at least) 6 month interval for that. And there is no guarantee that you will get the Phase II. You have to show very specific positive forward motion in Phase I to get Phase II. And Phase III, commercialization, is similar in that you need to show a nascent market.

Back when I was looking into and applying for these, the VCs I spoke with suggested that they were a signal, albeit not a strong signal, that there was "something there". Not enough on its own to pull them off the couch to write a check, but enough to keep them interested if others did.

This said, having participated in my fair share of government sponsored small business innovation programs, and seeing the most politically connected applicants get funded for fairly poor ideas, I'm kind of jaded about these programs. As bad as they are VCs have the right incentive (profit) albeit in the wrong structure IMO, to invest. The government is all about box checking to show their effectiveness.
Salaries in the US are more than twice as high as salaries in Europe tho. Maybe not having any benefits is a part of the equation to get those salaries? (naive suggestion, I'm not an economist)

(Source for the salaries: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/average-salary-information...

$28,000 for no high school degree -> people with BS gets this kind of salary in Europe. $37,000 for high school degree -> people with MS gets this kind of salary in Europe. Same logic for the other salaries on this chart.)
euler angles are sort of the odd one out, a particularly bad way to represent rotations. Orthonormal matrices, quaternions, skew-symmetric tensors with exponential map -- all represent SO(3) without gimbal lock, with different pros and cons for each.
Like I said, not repetitive, tedious. And tediousness is purely subjective. So I agree with you that we should have machines to do tedious tasks for us, I just don't agree that the tasks I mentioned are tedious for enough people to justify having a machine for them.
This is both for both Medicare and Medicaid (which is notorious for underpaying)[1]:

In 2015, $58.7 billion in Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement shortfalls and high uncompensated care costs affected hospital revenue cycles, the AHA found.

[1]https://revcycleintelligence.com/news/medicaid-medicare-reim...
Yes. I am interested.
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But I understand the OP. He needs to get paid.
I lived in on a 50ft houseboat near Botany Bay in Sydney for many years. It was the cheapest lifestyle I have ever lived in this city.

https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.9926935,151.1272364,3090m/d...

I was on a swing mooring about 200 meters from shore, close to a public wharf, and my 'rent' was only several hundred dollars a year.

A membership at a local yacht club provided me with access to services and fast WiFi in the bay.

It was bliss in the summer months, but rowing to shore on a rainy winter morning was not so much fun.

It is not legal to live on a vessel in this manner but it only strictly enforced on major waterways like Sydney Harbour.

I was never hassled by water police, but I did get a letter from Ports Authorities from time to time. I ignored them, and there was never any repercussion.
Every job i had as a programmer, the first thing I did was kill VNC and remove it from the startup script. No one ever complained about it.

The reason I did so was because I worked as an IT before and I was often asked to dive into someone else computer to monitor what they were doing. Often without their knowledge.

Side note: One person that I found particularly interesting was an employee that had been affected by malware. I had him on the phone while I told him I'll access his computer. Right then, this person decided it was the right time to make a purchase online, showing me all his credit card information.
Madagascar measles epidemic kills more than 1,200 people
It's somewhat interesting that someone might copyright the output of a compiler. Although in practice it's not terribly different from the source.

> How derivative is defined?

For the US, it's primarily defined in plain English in the USC. But subtle distinctions are made by court rulings/opinions.
Is there anything like this for non-US residents?
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Maybe, if Salaries in the US are twice as high as Europe, then the average American is already paying more total tax than the average European and thus might expect more benefits.
I don't really see the benefit either. Why would it help?
It wouldn't surprise me if 14% of existing jobs disappear every 10 years. Pick any 10 year window and the jobs at the beginning will be different than the jobs at the end, and most of the the jobs that remain will have different requirements.
This also happened to me. My wife didn't support our moving so we didn't move. I'm now 15 years later in the same stage of my career with little possiblity of upward movement and eventually divorced anyway for other reasons. Best to move on and up.
Go somewhere where you are a big fish.
What sense does it make to have org mode outside of emacs? I think the entire power of the system would be that it explicitly lives within emacs. From the repo:

> Org is probably the best and most complete plain text organizational system known to mankind. It has countless applications like authoring, publishing, task and time tracking, journal, blog, agenda, wiki etc...

Yes, absolutely.

> Unfortunately Org was originally developed for Emacs and therefore available only inside Emacs. It is a huge limiting factor for Org's development and popularization. Because of that it is not as popular outside of Emacs community as it should be.

"Unfortunately"? It is a dynamic tool, I don't understand what it would mean for it available outside of emacs except for if that were also a dynamic tool. Are you going to create a standalone dynamic org mode application? It seems better to make a "stripped down" emacs that only has org mode and literate programming features so as to not have as steep a learning curve as the entirety of emacs all at once. What other reason is there for this work except for avoiding the learning curve of emacs? Emacs has got to be one of the most configurable pieces of software outside of Operating Systems(maybe?) in existence.

Org mode is powerful because it is a plaintext system that gives hooks for emacs abilities like transformation (faces, folding, tagging/searching, agenda features) and execution of code with literate programming, and passing values around between code blocks and so on.

Why would this want to live outside of emacs?
I do think the recently (and again two years ago) extremely popular post on org mode's markup language absolutely misses this point[1]. This post is also linked to from the repo.

I'd love to learn about what I'm missing here, and would love to get some answers to my questions or responses to my assumptions! I'm very interested in your roadmap and design decisions, I think your external links (except for that article) are fantastic. I will follow the project for sure.

I just think there is some mental disconnect with how org mode is represented and discussed on hn, and those discussions almost all seem to miss the majority of org mode abilities that absolutely depend on living in the style of environment that emacs provides. From reading the top discussions here, one might think org mode is in competition for the same space as markdown while that is not even remotely true [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19622019

[2]: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=org%20mode&sort=byPopularity&p...

PS: I am trying to do a more thorough review of the discussion about org mode on hn, and I will be taking actual notes and comment links down to better explain my ideas here rather that just general takeaways. Thanks for bearing with me, or letting me know if you disagree.
I hope this works out for the OP. It looks nice.

BUT...

Can anyone recommend other skeleton/generators/demo-apps which include DB & authentication & backend ?
Thanks, glad you like it!

That version was forked a long time ago by someone when my repository was still public - it is not official. I am considering a self-hosted version but it is not part of my immediate plan I'm afraid :(
Not to mention that if you disregarded all imperfect sources, you would have no news.
Ill bite. What jobs have disappeared in the last ten, twenty and thirty years?
I never mentioned 19th century Russia. Invading to occupy, oppress, steal, and subjugate is 20th century Russia, no need to go back any further.

As I said before, justifying Russia acting like a medieval power in 2018 by citing American expansion in 1850 is just stupid. It's whataboutism but not even logical.
Perhaps I'm naive, but I think it is surprising anyone wants to be taken seriously as a researcher in any field and proceeds to publish information that in on its face and with no effort provably false.
Read “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” — community is about people.

Everything is a lottery. My parents bought a house in a marginal neighborhood in NYC for $20k in the 70s and made a 100x return at retirement time. By accident of birth, I bought a beautiful house in a different place in the 2000s that hasn’t gained much value. Renters on the other hand always get screwed as capital concentrates and rent is pushed up. Even in my case where I’m not making money, my expenses are flat and equity growing. That’s not an option today for most people.

In my aunts case, she lived into her late 80s independently. If she had lived in a typical suburban environment, she would have almost certainly been in a nursing facility and would have incurred 10x higher taxpayer costs and a much lower quality of life.
> If you are just going to get it stolen, others will just invest in stealing. No one will waste on r&d.

Okay, why does Linux exist? And why is it competitive with every proprietary OS kernel? And why does it get development from for-profit companies?

> There are reasons we have laws.

Of course there are. Many of those reasons are not good. In the specific realm of intellectual property law, some of those reasons are "because Disney has lobbyists".
At a minimum a lot of money would be saved by standardized billing practices and costs. If Medicare pays too little then reimbursement could be adjusted. It would lead to more transparency and less bureaucracy. I think that’s how it works in Germany. There are different insurers but they operate on a set of standards. It’s nuts that in the US every insurance negotiates separately with each provider. It’s extremely inefficient and also makes it basically impossible for the patient to do any price shopping.
This thread goes on indefinitely because of the lack of one word: context. You think of that little old lady one way. But if she was Queen Elizabeth, you would perceive something completely different in terms of power dynamics.
Im a fan of running these tests live in production. A type check is cheap so it doesnt affect performence that much. You should not force correctness on others, meaning their code will fail because of your strictness. But you can force correctness on yourself so that your code never causes someone else's to fail. So make the schema validation or typecheck on outgoing responses, not only in testing, but also in production.
> marketing increases the number of "customers" by more than the cost of the marketing (or why do it?), and the extra money is what both encourages and pays for more R&D.

Does it increase the number, or does it just reallocate customers from one company to another? And I'll repeat my question - how high do drug prices have to get, before further increases can no longer be justified because some scrap of the revenue goes towards R&D?
Pharmaceutical research is very broken. It is startling how ineffective all but a few drugs are. Medical Nihilism by Jacob Stegenga is a great book on the topic.
What's slimy and dishonest about having a store that smells nice? Do you object to cleanliness and a pleasant temperature too?
I'd disagree with the upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4:

> Though ISO/IEC 30170:2012 doesn’t specify details of the Integer class, Ruby had two visible Integer classes: Fixnum and Bignum. Ruby 2.4 unifies them into Integer. All C extensions which touch the Fixnum or Bignum class need to be fixed.

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/12/25/ruby-2-4-0-rele...
This appears to be SBIR, which has quite a few requirements. However, are definitely worth it if you can apply for the grant.

I know in Champaign, IL (where I live) there are resources to help you submit an SBIR grant. I opted to go down a different path after completing a training regarding how to submit one. However, if I was working on implementing anything bio-tech related, I'd definitely submit an SBIR grant.
I’ve worked closely with media, and this is something I’ve witnessed as well.

Where many people like to propose that journalists and editors are steered by the business and sales staff-my own experience couldn’t be further from the truth.

I can’t speak for less reputable outlets. The journalistic outlets I’ve worked with have been very dedicated to their own voice—and passionately so.
On a related note, there's an app that will identify bird species based on photos that you upload (http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/photo-id/), and it's powered by "Visipedia", a collaboration between a Caltech and Cornell research group (https://vision.cornell.edu/se3/projects/visipedia/?__hstc=75...).

I remember how nascent the tech was when they first started releasing it in 2011ish and it's incredible how good it is now. Really awesome stuff.
According to the last batch of BLS statistics "programmers" were disappearing and are being replaced by "software developers".

Both referred to the same (although gradually evolving) thing but one term was starting to be seen as outdated while the other took over.

There wasn't any real attempt to distinguish real change from name change as far as I could tell.
I don't know about Lyft but Uber says they lost money in Q4 2018, hopefully not in each sale but definitely in aggregate.

The money the got from customers for rides / food delivery didn’t cover the money they paid to the drivers / restaurants providing the service.

Edit: Ok, looking at the numbers more carefully they are still be positive after paying drivers / restaurants. But they lose money when the operating, marketing and administrative costs directly attributable to the sale are included.