skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Poland the law theoretically mandates that a digital signature is just as good as a pen-and-paper one. But, when dealing with banks, one quickly finds that the law is one thing and the stone wall of your bank is another.

Here's how a typical discussion unrolls:

Bank: "To do X or Y, we require you to visit us in person or provide a written statement".

Me: "Here's my statement with a digital signature, attached as a PDF."

Bank (ignoring the PDF): "To do X or Y, we require you to visit us in person or provide a written statement".

Me: "The law says (specific citation goes here) that I have just provided a written and signed statement. Here it is again."

Bank (ignoring the PDF): "To do X or Y, we require you to visit us in person or provide a written statement".

By the way, I had this kind of stupid back-and-forth with mBank, which tries to position itself as a "modern and innovative" bank.

The only next step is to sue, but who would bother.
This price is based on our current costs of producing and servicing these units at our projected quantities.
It is still quite expensive for most families, unfortunately.
Our goal is to engage with insurance companies to make this more affordable and accessible for the larger population, based on the early adopters that are buying and the clinical studies we are doing.
Why should I have to sign up to potentially dozens of mailing lists to track the projects I’m interested in when I can track them all in ine place with that ne login?
Longhorn: An open source project for microservices distributed block storage
Worth mentioning that they only work in a very specific niche — e-commerce sites. That's literally the only thing they do, although admittedly very well.
> I'm pretty sure free speech doesn't exempt one from getting sued for damages

It does; if speech is constitutionally protected, it cannot violate the law, and if an action does not violate a legal obligation, it is not a basis for damages.

This is why (for instance) it is much harder to bring a libel/slander case for damages in the US compared to Britain; US libel/slander laws (even in jurisdictions where no statutory provisions exists so the common law would otherwise control) are limited to avoid punishing protected speech.

> otherwise all the copywriters will have a field day with misleading commercials.

Commercial speech has for a long time been found to be less likely to be constitutionally protected than many other forms of speech.
For periodic admin tasks, you might consider giving Ansible AWX a try (https://github.com/ansible/awx). It is a web interface for managing Ansible playbooks, and lets you configure jobs that another user can then execute and provide parameters. It keeps track of all run results, has a fair number of supported integrations for notifications, and can schedule runs.

I work for Red Hat, and AWX is the upstream community project for Ansible Tower, which we provide support for. AWX is one of our newer open source projects (we open sourced it after acquiring Ansible), so you'll sometimes have better luck searching for information on "Ansible Tower".
Side note: Did anyone else find this article difficult to read? Like it was written by an ESL writer? Christ, this is The Atlantic and it reads like it is written by a 7th grader.

Example:

> "To start looping with OpenAPS, Boss did also need to buy a mini computer called an Edison."

"..Boss did also need..." Why not just say "...Boss also needed...

>"By 2014, the hardware components of a DIY artificial pancreas—a small insulin pump that attaches via thin disposable tubing to the body and a continuous sensor for glucose, or sugar, that slips just under the skin—were available,"

This whole paragraph is confusing. Why put the parens before the "...were available,"?

>but it was impossible to connect the two.

Which two? The the sensor and the tubing? Something else?

>That’s where the security flaw came in.

Which fucking security flaw? With the DIY pancreas or the Medtronic?

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Good progress. Following suit here in Kenya.
One thing that is saddening though is the fact that these contracts are done by mostly contractors who we don't know what their intentions are with our data (at least for Kenya).
We have all seen the 'bad-actor' moves in China already. What about our economies, our people, our data.
Just build a cubicle within your cubicle.
Indeed! And probably much truer to the original than I would have done.

I wonder if there is room for multiple flavors of this idea. IIRC somebody had something similar that was text-only a while back.

I suspect the Faceborg has let so much air out of the Web that there might not be, but I love the idea that at least in principle anybody with $5/mo for a server could create a *Cities tuned to their own preferences, and people might show up and participate. All free and in the open.
It's the "IE6 Only" of the modern web. I really hoped we (as an industry) would have learned enough from that pain, but I guess not. Institutional Knowledge seems to suffer from serious memory loss.
That makes total sense to me. Having engineers in charge of the challenges that require engineering.
The remedy for this insane injustice is to eliminate the FDA’s monopoly on medical regulation and allow the non-fraudulent production and sale of medical devices and drugs to consenting adults. No single group has ultimate authority on what constitutes efficacy and the appropriate amount of risk. So long as they are not violating our consent by lying about their regulatory process, no group has a right to conclude for us what we choose to use and consume to better our health.

Until the point that we are free to think for ourselves, we are all subject to the fumbling incompetence and cynical malfeasance of the regulatory cartel. The FDA’s mandate is morally equivalent to the mandate present on every street corner in every hood in America: “Nobody but me and my gang sells drugs on my block.” Hence nobody is surprised when their cocaine is laced with baking soda and sold at 5000% profit margins. Multiply this across all of medicine and it becomes clear why medicine in America is a schlerotic disaster. Meanwhile the political parties are only divided on whether or not the taxpayer should foot the bill...
On the contrary, as an owner of a slow/heavy 2002 luxury vehicle, the improved acceleration and braking of newer cars offers the individual and machine a greater range of options to avoid danger and improve safety for the passenger.
Oh yeah, I had forgotten about NeoCities, though I did know about them at some point! Thanks for the tip.
Why We'll Never All Be Happy Again
Interesting! It seems this is a rewrite of Yoga, by the same author, seen by another comment in this thread. So why start again using flex box as a layout engine? For example, there isn't really a good, equally as rich, grid layout engine yet. Also curious what the intended goal with conformance is, as the README states this project has a secondary intent to be more in line with the CSS spec? Personally for me any layout system that can avoid Apple's constraint based system is already a win. I guess, what kind of layout would this enable that Yoga doesn't already?
Former CEO Phil Condit opened the Chicago office at least in part so he could have his secretary/mistress shack up in a company provided apartment.
The robot in question is Konecranes A-STRAD
Unrelated to the content, but the stock photos throughout this article felt completely needless to me. We're not 5 year olds, we don't need pictures unless they add to the content.
I can offer some pointers that have worked for me:

- Do what you like and what you can tie into an overall larger meaning. I made goals that sounded great on paper, but when confronted with factual reality couldn't be prioritized. So now I set goals to deal with some aspect of myself I want to change (e.g. tackle impostor syndrome, fear of becoming lazy/fat, etc.). Then when I feel like I want to give up, I just ask myself whether it's worth it, because I performed a cost/benefit analysis at the time I started and it was worth it then. Usually it is worth it to push through.

- Build an environment that helps you stay on track. I cancelled my home internet when I realized I watched too much YouTube. Now if I want to watch YouTube at home, I have to download videos via youtube-dl and watch them offline. When I want to walk for a while, I leave my wallet and metro card at home.

- Forgive yourself. It's okay to make mistakes, or slip a day or two. Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up. In fact, IMHO we don't learn to fail enough and so we don't actually know our true limitations and don't learn to push our true boundaries.
The uncarnine valley.
Trying to integrate Jenkins w/ Github Enterprise proved to be a real pain for me. It wasn't clear what git* plugin is the best to use for how I wanted to setup builds. It's literally impossible to deploy Jenkins in a repeatable manner with just configuration files, you must get it online and use the api to configure such simple things as API keys (eg, specify the ID of the key so your jobs actually reference the key and don't break).

Another big pain point, for me was, no obvious openstack integration. I wanted my jobs to run on ephemeral instances so all my dependencies could be defined in the job themselves, not having to rely that the Jenkins worker is setup just right.

I think Gitlab runners get this right, but I have not investigated too far.
Actually, historically its use doesn't necessarily have a pejorative connotation. You can take it to mean "The Fine Article" just the same. It's more of a joke reference with roots to 'RTFA' used frequently in discussion forums like this.
They are part of the same thing.

There are not "so many" muggings/fights/etc., but I do know several people who have encountered them. That's not so many; don't you? With respect to bullies, there is tons of bullying in every school. Any one who tells you otherwise is lying to himself.
Ask HN: From MQLs or PQLs to Sales – SaaS
Context: For the last two years, I have been working with a SaaS Cloud Management StartUp. I joined as a "Marketing Manager" when the product was sluggish and not a market fit. From then on, we have come a long way. After a year of good content marketing work, we are able to generate organic leads and reached a decision that the initial offering wasn't good enough to sell.

Now after pivoting, we have reached a place we are confident enough it will sell. During this time, I was heavily involved in PM and Marketing Role.

Question: Now, I have a lot more responsibilities. But, it's just a little pessimism since we pivoted and all. That being said, I am now responsible for the whole god damn funnel. I have been fine working till PQLs and MQLs.

Need advice on how to focus and what to focus on! What are the basics and advanced things, I should focus on? It's like I am replacing our former CMO. My way of seeing things needs to change. No more small changes to be done by me. “Hire someone and concentrate on the bigger picture” - says the CEO

There are a number of questions. Low touchpoint or high touch point? Go back to cold again?

What gives?
That's probably it, any use of these algorithms in business software would need to be justified for the increased training your fresh-out-of-school replacement would need to maintain this.
On similar news; McDonalds also rolled out a vegan burger in Germany today. It's apparently only a test run but I hope it stays considering it's pretty damn good.
How does this compare to Yoga?

https://yogalayout.com/
Writing a Simple ESP8266-Based Sniffer
Maybe you are thinking of Monotone. It shares some design, such as referencing commits by their hashes and zero copy branching.

I think Linus said at some point that if only performance would have been sufficient for the Linux kernel, there would have been no git (but don't quote me on that).
Happy Buildkite user here across two companies. We've built some custom tooling around the GraphQL API here but have since found it solid for both periodic jobs and CI needs.
I find when people say the tools are limited they are trying to use the wrong tool for the job.

2 cents
> That said fb and google ads are pretty unobtrusive

That depends on how you count. "Unobtrusive", maybe, but those ads are intolerably intrusive, because of the tracking.

Between the two, I'd rather have those old "spank the monkey" banners any day of the week. But I also fondly remember a time before even those existed.

In many ways, advertising has really ruined vast swaths of the internet.
Sabre, computer system that underpins the airline reservation system, is down
Agreed. I think of it more as a joking reference to RTFA. The humor of this probably originates from the early slashdot days.
Impressive Slideshow with 3D Effect
The library {fmt} (http://fmtlib.net/latest/index.html) is on track to be included in the standard.
As the article points out, there's another OSS solution, Loop (an iOS app with a hardware dongle that talks to a few kinds of pumps), that a company is putting through the FDA approval process (https://www.tidepool.org/loop). This seems like OSS working as intended, would be awesome to have the choice of a fast-moving DIY solution (for techies, early adopters, people without insurance) or a warrantied supported option (for everyone else).
This gives me an idea... Even in fullscreen, I believe hovering the mouse near the top of the screen will also bring back some controls into view, but temporarily... So there's already some kind of "peek mode" for the controls... Entering this mode while typing a password in a standard password input field might make sense!
There's really no reason other than the "feel good" marketing that this should cost MORE than actual beef. As long as that's the case, it's more of a "pacify the woke" thing than a "make the world better" thing.
No person who keeps Kosher eats at Burger King. Even their restaurant here in Israel isn't Kosher https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/burger-king-returns-to-i...
Maybe not. But if the alternative was spend one tenth of the time to cut the redundant sql queries down a bit and cut latency 50% - leaving a codebase that anyone on the team could further develop and debug... Then "that guy" might stil be in the wrong...
I don't think tinix was excpeting it to literally become a apache project - he was just saying its in a state of decay that apache is infamous for.
FWIW, I certainly didn't read his comment that way, and in light of his explicit denial that that's what he intended maybe you should reconsider whether there are alternate interpretations available.
> I don't trust the "move fast and break things" approach with for-profit healthcare.

This a million times. At the end of the day, tying money to people's lives instantly means people are willing to do anything (it's basic survival instinct, the most basic of all). Free market absolutely does not work when the customer is "willing to do anything at any price".
> Quite why HN seems to have such a collective hatred of Facebook specifically, far above all other organisations running social/content sharing platforms I don't understand

I cant' speak for anybody but me, but my personal animosity towards these organization is purely because they work so hard to spy on me.
Why do people like WeWork? Here in Singapore, a hot-desk at WeWork is $400+ USD a mont. Am I crazy, or is $400 a month a lot of money for a hot-desk with decent internet?

Or is it one of those things where all their money is in the big rentals, and the hot-desks are just for show?
vice is pro renewables, so that make no sense. Can you provide som evidence that rare earth metals are not needed?
The magic of adjustments: ebitla-dee-da
(comment about WeWork's “Community Adjusted Ebitda”)
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/04/26/1524715201000/The-mag...
Could be either one. The methodology you use for valuation reflects your priorities. Warren Buffet calculates valuations based on free cash flow[1].

For what it's worth, the company I work for currently just got sold off for $4.4bn USD by our parent company. Based on quarterly filings, that equated to about 2x annual revenue and 9-10x EBITDA for last year (not sure what the multiple was for net).

[1] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/66442
Are you concerned at all about becoming dependent on stimulant therapy and the long term effects that may have on your health?

I'm not an expert in Stimulant therapy, only familiar with some relatives "using" Adderall.
I operate a number of websites that are free for users, no catch. No advertising, no tracking, no nothing. There's not even any way to make voluntary donations.
And prior to that there were other solutions built around manipulating the Jenkins API, eg: https://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/

(My company switched from JJB to pipelines in the last year and has found it pretty decent.)
AI in Five, Fifty and Five Hundred Years
I think you're right to some extent but on your second point the reason the rich people buy brands, with the brand clearly present, is just to say "i can afford to 'waste' money on this". Having poor people clamour to emulate them is surely part of the narcissism for some? They want people to try to buy the same stuff as it supports the "people want to be me" notion.
I aim to eat a high fat diet and I never avoid salt (my constitution appears to handle even very high salt intake without the common ill effects). So to me, the impossible burger is perfectly healthy. I'd only worry about trading too much protein for carbs.
Oh, good times. By the way, CMU's recitation class ppt for this lab is fucking hilarious:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-s08/www/re...
My understanding is that the FDA trial is a trivial expense[1][2] in the whole drug development cycle. What I usually hear is that R&D that spans years to decades is what the pharma company wants to recoup during the patent phase.

https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2018/cost-of-clinic...
https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2018/09/26/Clinic...
The founder of Impossible Burger was on Too Embarrassed To Ask podcast [0] and I specifically remember him talking about how his product is meat (because of the heme). It's just not meat from an animal, or at least this is how I interpreted sections like "...It’s a heme protein that turns out to be basically the single thing that separates meat categorically from all other foods in terms of its flavor profile."

0 - https://www.recode.net/2017/8/18/16171336/transcript-impossi...
Fine, when you are one specific vendor shop, like Jetbrains or Atlassian stack and you have got plenty of financial power, then there is always cool features, what can bring benefit. But in the end CI and CD systems are glorious semi-smart cron runners. Are these tools 10x better than Jenkins. Not so much, CI/CD is from one of the standpoint most important and in the same time less important tool, delivery should suck very much to migrate to new platform just because. Jenkins shines here, it's not perfect, but it works.
More or less it's for free from licensing standpoint, you don't have to go thru Corporate procurement hell. It's not for free from workforce perspective, but none of these tools are with zero configuration. Just x,y,z, still some yaml or some other crazy configuration needs to be done (like Bamboo dsl).
Contracts. BK finds out and removes contract for franchise Rights. These rights are expensive to get.

BK the franchise would destroy someone if it got out in the news they were doing this. This is a huge PR stunt and they're going to protect themselves as fiercely as possible against negative PR with this.
Usually on Wednesday evening. Now with the EU election its on Thursday. There's something to say about Sunday as well but I guess some very religious people wouldn't like that (bible belt).
Notch seems to have gone a bit off the deep end, and I'm not referring to his conservative views. His tweets often sound incoherent. Maybe English isn't his strongest skill? I can't tell.

Someone in the Minecraft YouTuber community speculated that perhaps he got involved with party drugs (MDMA) and it affected him permanently, as they had seen something similar happen with a friend of theirs. Pure speculation.
So the cattle are living in the same condition as many San Franciscans? I live in TX and grew up in FL and the cattle have plenty of room to roam here.
How did they take over his account? Did they know his password? Or is there a way to get access to account after someone is dead?
Same worry applies to cars, plastics, artificial fertilizer, pesticides etc.

Government isn't going to stop this.
Historically, speaking the party rehabilitated (I think that is the term) the reputation of a number of important leadership figures who the cultural revolution had pushed out for a time. It would seem that the mistakes of the cultural revolution are to some extent recognized / an acceptable topic.

Deng Xiaoping was a notable figure who was pushed out during the cultural revolution and then returned to lead the party. It was such a common thing that there were committees setup to address the cultural revolution and were receptive to petitions made by those who were pushed out.
Don't worry too much, I also thought that TFA as an abbreviation for "the fine article" is at least as well known as it is for "the fucking article".
Brian Lunduke inadvertently found an exception to this. He wanted to make his site accessible by very old browsers... So he stopped using https.

http://lunduke.com/

It's a dumb exception, but you guys might find it mildly amusing.
Profitable Giants Like Amazon Pay $0 in Taxes. Some Voters Are Sick of It
Drone is working on support for Starlark, a python-inspired configuration language used by the Bazel Build system [1]. For complex pipelines, this should be more analogous to Jenkins scripting and may improve scaling Drone for larger projects (time will tell).

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark
I think WeWork is the most recession-sensitive. When the next one finally does hit in the near-future, they're fucked.
>Imagine being more or less constantly pregnant during your entire life

Can you explain this to me, I only know how this is on farms, the cow will be in heat 1 time a year, I mean it is natural to the cows, you can't impregnate them if they are not in heat and if it was a wild cow she would still get as pregnant as often.

But maybe is the industrial way something else is happening? Let me know so I understand your point
WeWork Files Confidentially to Hold IPO
Wow, that article is great for people who like a lecture with their news. Crime doesn't exist, apparently, and we don't have to do anything about it.

News: Ring is aggregating local crime content captured on their doorbell cameras.

There is already some kind of local sharing which I had heard about previously.
FBI says romance/confidence fraud is #2 cybercrime, costing $363M
There is certainly some survivorship bias involved. The filter (50+ weeks of activity, 8+ contributors, etc) only selects somewhat successful software projects.

Big professional software development also emphasizes reliable planning, requirements engineering, and documented processes. In contrast, most open source projects begin in a cowboy style with a single person starting to code without requirements and processes and often not even much of a plan. This lightweight process implies a lot more risk and indeed most of these projects fail. That is fine. The free software world rather goes with this evolutionary approach.

I wonder if there is any company which works in a similar way. Start lots of projects with a fraction of the resources. Be fine with most projects failing. I guess not because this approach is hardly compatible with career development. Googles 20% rule might be considered a step in that direction.
SF Bay Area home prices fall for the first time in 7 years
Inclusion of the free docker registry was also pretty visionary, and it's been a while since they added that -- it's crucial for just about all my new projects.