skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The closest I ever had to 'comprehensive documentation' was a Sandcastle site based on the triple /// XML comments above each method describing the parameters and expected return types in a C# codebase for some ticket scanners.

Other places had a 'covert' dokuwiki living at sandiego.companyname.local which if you knew the right email administrator to give you a login would reveal a treasure trove of knowledge written down or copy/pasted from emails by the old guard. (PC LOAD BETTER for any former fellow coworkers, you know who you are)

Setting up a Dokuwiki (on a flash drive or server) is fall off a log easy these days. Same with Onenote (2010 is the prettiest IMO), or if you want to put more work in, hook up your Jenkins build process to include fetching all markdown files from source and posting them to a statically generated site such as MkDocs.
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This is where the nuance of their scumminess comes in and where you're either ignoring or are ignorant of it. Yes, they can say that they're not "deleting" or "altering" reviews because that's not what they're doing. What they're doing is sorting by "Yelp Sort" and listing "Recommended" reviews. If you look at any Yelp business page, you'll see a tiny little link at the bottom that says "See reviews that aren't Recommended". They claim that these reviews are hidden behind this wall because they're from users whose reviews are biased or who don't have enough patterns to be "trusted" but this is literally just their way of hiding the reviews that people don't pay for. Since every single one of those terms is subjective, they can change what constitutes a "recommended" review and be completely subjective about why one review is "trusted" and another isn't. It's completely up to them and they totally line up with whether or not a company pays for Yelp's "services".

It's a lot like the BBB. No one has to pay to be listed by the BBB but you can pay for the BBB to "arbitrate" disputes between consumers and your business when someone posts a strike against you on their site. You're just paying for them to contact the customer and hide their bad review.
If the fact that something could be done badly is a reason for not doing it, nothing would be done - that's the ultimate procrastination.
A lot of this comes from hard lessons learned at the business level. If you're ultimately responsible for the success of a project with any significant level of uncertainty, you very quickly learn that any significant level of uncertainty means that things are probably not going to work out well. This becomes a knee-jerk fear response whenever any report says that things are not going according to plan, where the immediate impulse is to give that work item to someone who promises to make it go according to plan.

Very quickly leads to a race to the bottom where executives settle on tried-and-true strategies for driving revenue: give Google & Facebook lots of money for paid leads, spend a lot on salespeople to convert potential customers, nickel & dime them for everything, work your engineers to the bone to deliver the features that salespeople promise, and flip the company before the accumulated technical, management, and oftentimes financial debt kills it. Ultimately, if you want durable success, you need to take some strategic risks and invest in projects where you don't know the outcome before starting. But that goes against nearly every emotional circuit in how we're wired, so few executives can do it.
I remember they added the "has Pokestop" tag when Pokemon Go first released. Was a fun addition.
I guess it depends on your POV. I haven't found a mobile website that I liked using. The touch/swipe/double-tap experience is always janky, sometimes you want to zoom in on a map, but it zooms the entire page, etc, etc. Maybe if it was just text with no interactivity, then being a mobile website wouldn't matter. Personally I don't mind spending a couple of minutes installing an app if its useful.
Can approach RPS (Rock, Paper, Scissors) strategy as a relatively simple case of classic von Neumann-Morgenstern two person game theory. That theory follows from the classic duality result in linear programming.

The main result for players Red and Blue for RPS is: Red plays each of Rock, Paper, Scissors with probability 1/3rd and independent of everything else in the known universe. Can do this by using, say, an ordinary die with six sides. Then just from the strong law of large numbers, in the long run Red and Blue will both break even, no matter what Blue did, does, or will do.

To win, Red needs some means of predicting Blue's play -- no good predictions, no winning. I.e., for Red to win, Blue has to be predictable in some sense.
In what way? Be less vague.
There’s a mechanism that prevents this. If your key is stolen you can submit a transaction that opens your key for public auction again, so an attacker would have to outbid you in the auction to win the name. This will prevent most ransom attacks.
Wow, that is mad. So glad I switched to Firefox.
With this approach you’re minimizing false positives (wasting time on useless projects) not false negatives (ignoring useful ideas) so it’s not surprising that some ideas you discarded are then successfully explored by others.
Maybe I’ll try to steer them towards that. We tried roller coaster tycoon but the learning curve is pretty steep.
Microsoft is working towards transitioning the Windows ecosystem towards UWP (which uses Metro design), which is designed to work equally well with mice and touch (and everything else like the XBox and HoloLens).

Of course even 4 years after the Windows 10 launch you still have the new UWP settings app and the old Control Panel. It's a bit of a mess.
The guarantee is not a need, it is an opportunity that your potential effective employees are looking for. If you deny them that opportunity, they will look elsewhere and be highly effective for someone else.
You start with the root of the problem and work from there.

Know that while competitors might have it right, they also might have it wrong.

Talk to people.
My comment you were responding to, had absolutely nothing to do with drones.

The comment was about perpetually blaming the EU/US for whatever bad happens in 3rd world countries.
Damn, I wanna make something like this happen in Miami.

I wonder how expensive a 10GB uplink from Terremark would set me back.
You can generate one with a Handshake client. If you’d like help with the process and an easy way to use your coins ping me at Tieshun at Namebase.io

https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd
Why are many characters white? Because many writers are white. Should white authors write books with non-white heroes? Wouldn't that result in an outcry about cultural appropriation and things like that? Never mind that it would presumably be difficult to credibly describe the experience of people you have not experienced yourself?

Are there many non-white authors writing books with white heroes/heroines? Maybe they should just write more books about people who "look like them"?

A lot of popular children books actually have female heroines, like Pippa Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren being one of the most popular authors of children's books. I never had a problem enjoying them, strange enough. It never occurred to me as a kid that I shouldn't be allowed to enjoy reading those books, because the protagonists have the wrong gender. Good thing today's children have better education on such issues - god forbid they could enjoy a book of the wrong identification!!!

What about Lord of the Rings, should PoC be able to enjoy that book? Should it be considered a hate crime to recommend the book to a PoC? Should the government give out a grant for someone to write an alternative to Lotr with PoC heroines?

Female Superheroes exist, but it is also only one rather silly genre (and only two publishers). Plus, there are other reasons why action heroes tend to be male: because men are expendable and therefore supposed to do the dangerous work, as in real life. Superheroes are a lie, anyway, but to tell women they could simply be action heroes would be an even greater lie.

As for the experiment: "These findings exposed internalized racism in African-American children, self-hatred that was more acute among children attending segregated schools" - that is clearly an unwarranted interpretation of the result, fueled by ideology. And wanting to play with white dolls is not "obsessing" over white dolls.
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The service is providing every second anywhere on the globe simultaneously the same 128-bit random integer. It means being in London, New York or Singapore you have access to the same random integer at the same time. Actually, the jitter may be maximum 5ms between two locations but it could possibly be further reduced. The system would be transparant to guarantee by design the true randomness of the generator. Thankz for the ideas.
I've always thought I tasted a bit of this lifestyle when I went on a week long backpacking trip in Rocky Mountain National. Only brought enough food for half the trip and planned on eating fist to supplement. By the time we caught any fish we barely brazed them over a fire before eating them raw, and then decided to pack out the next day because this sucked.
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The same could be said that US dollar hurts the poorer US states. Truth is that you need fiscal union if you use a common currency otherwise you can't make everybody happy.
https://jmp.chat/ is what I am considering for a replacement. The service is AGPL and is run by someone that cares about Free Software: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/meet-the-libreplanet-201...
They're worth it only because without paying them protection money, your restaurant gets no visibility due to overcrowded marketing by other restaurants that do use GrubHub. Without them, or without Yelp, some other yellow-pages equivalent would be used, and the same total number of orders would be placed.

They are literally parasites.
I've been using voip.ms too. It's $0.85/month for the number plus usage costs ($0.009/minute for calls, free SMS but eventually will be $0.01/text).
I used to be in the "no webmail" camp until I started using Fastmail. I now find myself keeping a Safari pinned tab to their webmail and using it as my primary email interface.

Also speaking of mobile apps, Fastmail actually supports push notifications for email in Apple Mail. I'm not aware of any other third party email provider that's ever done that (I believe Yahoo! has support for that but Apple did that themselves when the iPhone first came out).
Sure, and different people make different trade-offs. I don't like using mobile websites, because to me, the interactivity when it comes to touch/swipe/zoom interactions, or edge-swipes etc is always a little janky compared to a proper app. If its a website that I use a lot, I'd rather just have the app than deal with the mobile website.
Illusions aren't so bad, and reality ain't so great (and is an inherently ideological concept to boot). So, there are probably worse consequences than this one.
If the url isn't important enough to display, then they shouldn't display it. They can display just the domain. They shouldn't display almost the url, but they removed an important thing.

Edit to add: if you type in an almost url from the screen or a screenshot, it's likely to not take you to the same page, and you'll be confused as to why. If you type in the domain only and go to the home page, that's not that confusing.
It's worth pointing out that Google shamelessly cloned Yelp and funnels everyone into using their clone when they search for restaurants. If Yelp is in desperate spot its because Google put them there.
Do you mean rclone or a whole service like Dropbox? (Rclone is pretty amazing, btw)

https://rclone.org/
>Pre-WW2 America isn't a place most people would want to return to in terms of healthcare.

I dunno, the differences weren't huge, and at least people didn't go bankrupt (data not from the US, but close).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625386/

"Life expectancy of mature women taken from Hollingsworth8 and OPCS data for England and Wales

Date Life expectancy of women at 15 years (years)

1480–1679 48.2

1680–1779 56.6

1780–1879 64.6

1891 61.6

1901 62.6

1911 66.4

1921 68.1

1951 73.4

1961 75.7

1971 76.8

1981 78.0"

1989 79.2
Well, that is the perspective that is preventing the situation from improving. However, if you take the time to look into it, you may find that the situation is not as dire as conservative talk radio pundits would have you believe.

For starters, nobody waits in an emergency. If you need urgent care, you get it— with no second mortgage needed. Waiting times vary a lot across the provinces and depending what kind of care is needed. Cancer treatment, for example, is very fast.

Generally speaking, wait times are a function of overall funding, and funding has been cut repeatedly over the past three decades, as Canadians have consistently voted for tax cuts over investing in health care. See the decline as reported by the Fraser Institute: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa... (Although of course, they're a right-wing think tank, so their agenda is further tax cuts and privatization... take from it what you will.)

As far as taxes, again beware of what you hear from US-based commentators about how bad it is. In fact, the income tax we pay is almost identical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Canadian_and_Ame...
That is simply so terrible, a lot of apps on the market are jockeying for the "download numbers" instead of the customer experience.
I hope this hack get’s so popular that the folks at Apple finally makes a MacBook with a proper touch screen.
You mean a list of ASNs with their IPs? MaxMind provides one for free: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2-asn-csv-databa...
More generally, mechanical manipulation of the soil. I learned at a recent Rutgers University seminar that overworking of soil is surprisingly hazardous to its health.
ENS has only 6 root key holders which not that many from a security perspective. Handshake has no root key holders — it’s secured by every fullnode supporting the blockchain. That’s what makes bitcoin so difficult to shut down.
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/h... -- also happened about 70k years ago. Very interesting time to be a human
Yet, there's Apple that is the exception to this rule
Ah, sorry, I was thinking this was for buttons linking to a company/personal Facebook/Twitter oage - I didn't realise it was about Like/Share buttons.

I was discussing this in another HN thread recently and my mind hadn't switched out yet :)
There's a lot of good amateur radio mesh nets around as well - I'm in the process of setting up an antenna to join one in Orange County https://sites.google.com/site/orangecountymeshorganization/h...
For streaming VR? I agree, I was upgraded from 30Mbps to 60Mbps and I really couldn't care less. The annoying bottleneck is on the other side, which regularly caps to 10Mbps or less.

1Gbps sounds great for an office, though; kinda sick of having shared 50Mbps connections where some stream HD videos just to listen to music.
Does your connection maintain 5mbps/2mbps consistently? Or do you experience ups and downs in terms of speed?
I like and have used Google reviews for a while after having had enough of Yelp's issues, to the point where I removed my many reviews from Yelp. However, I think Google has a ways to go to remove junk reviews. For example, 'Baguette et Chocolat' near Austin pissed off some open-carry person, who I think also runs a gun blog, last year by asking him to leave when he ignored their state-law-compliant signs prohibiting the same. He then proceeded to command his fans to leave bad reviews for this restaurant, and they complied in droves leaving useful gems such as 'Found out the owners are hoplophobes. Never giving them my business again.' . I spent quite a bit of time reporting these and I think many others did as well. Yelp shut down review logging for this restaurant fairly quickly at the time but I am not sure Google did anything - the above "review" is still present as of today. I am disappointed with Google but have come to realize that they embody the opposite of the motto: "if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well." Edit: Google still allows logging reviews without comments, which further worsens the problem.
this. 100x this.

You want good code that's maintainable? You're refactoring (and probably adding tests) as you go.
Automated filesync cross-platform. Not git-style manual push pull. More of leave and forget and only intervene when there's a file conflict.
Isn't agreement to no class action an ipso facto law violation and unenforceable in most states -- e.g., the way noncompete provisions are in California?
Google wants a world where eventually all internet is hosted and controlled by Google.

To get there they have to disassociate what’s shown in the URL bar with how and where the content comes from.
There’s no one to threaten. You may be able to find one or two people running the fullnode but it’d be immensely difficult to find everyone running a fullnode around the world and threaten them.
This is the exact game that OrderAhead played a few years ago:

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/orderahead-restaurant-website-...

I'm curious what local pizzerias think about this
curious: what does properly setting up and caring for entail?
You're missing the point. We know there are asteroids with price changing amounts of precious metals - we aren't mining them.

Commercialization involves so much more than proving it can be done physically. And it also involves more than meeting a price in a padded environment. There are hurdles to jump that are totally disconnected from the price.
this dudes my hero.
Sometimes, the mere process of writing documentation (or a specification) can lead the author to a better understanding and helps uncover problems. Writing, in this case, is an aid to thinking. It may not be the best-case scenario, but it's not a total waste of time, either.
There was Consume in the UK (predominantly London) from 2000. http://dek.spc.org/julian/consume/
Carriers typically won't unlock a phone that someone still owes money on or that's under a contract.
> why are fantasy characters (even today, even in Harry Potter which is extremely recent) overwhelmingly white?

I can't speak to every single case, but Harry Potter is a British franchise by origin. England is over 92% white. It does stand to reason that a fantasy novel set in England would feature mostly white characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingd...
Presumably you consider Mark the surgical site to be saving lives, and Introduce yourself by name a waste of time.

However, there is a reason for the latter item. There have been many plane crashes in which at least one cockpit crew member had some inkling that something was wrong [1], but their warnings were ignored, often when there was a big authority gap. Crew Resource Management [2] was developed to address this.

Introducing yourself by name is designed to emphasise that the group is now a team with a common purpose, and everyone, from the lead surgeon to the nurse, can and should speak up if something looks awry.

Quite some thought and research has gone into this. Obviously, this doesn't mean that the ideas can't be criticised, but a facile dismissal like yours is unwarranted and might be one reason the checklists don't live up to their potential.

[1] Some examples:

The Tenerife disaster, 583 fatalities: 'On hearing this, the KLM flight engineer expressed his concern about the Pan Am not being clear of the runway by asking the pilots in his own cockpit, "Is he not clear, that Pan American?" Veldhuyzen van Zanten emphatically replied "Oh, yes" and continued with the takeoff.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster#Comm...

United Flight 172: 'The captain focused on the landing gear problem for an hour, ignoring repeated hints from the first officer and the flight engineer about their dwindling fuel supply. Only when the engines began flaming out did he realize their dire situation.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_173

Korean Air 801: 'The crew noticed that the aircraft was descending very steeply, and noted several times that the airport "is not in sight." Despite protests from flight engineer Nam that the detected signal was not the glide-slope indicator, Park pressed on.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_801#Accident

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management
Part 2 is up: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190806-17/?p=10...
I think it's safe to say that the savings would definitely arise if (if...) M4A is implemented in good faith. Decades of hard data from basically every other developed nation with universal health care demonstrates this. All it will take is the political willpower which is now starting to emerge on the federal level. One also needs to carefully consider what constitutes a "tax" when it comes to health care funding. Premium payments, co-pays, and deductibles all need to be factored in to an apples-to-apples comparison of individual taxpayers' contributions to any M4A system.

There's also a simple mechanism to fix drug pricing: repeal the laws passed in 2003 that ban most US federal agencies from negotiating for bulk medical product pricing, and pass new laws requiring it of all agencies. Currently, I believe that only the Department of Veterans Affairs is legally allowed to negotiate bulk drug pricing. They take full advantage of that, and enable active and retired service members to significantly cut their prescription costs. They're a perfect example of the power of bulk pricing. And again, revising the law in this way is a political-willpower problem, not an economic one.
I agree with you! Protesters in North Koreans and Hong Kongers, too. Nobody needs to help them break the law, they should just build their own infrastructure.
Agreed, and of course the meaning also changes - What I mean is that you can have a different example that makes the point while avoiding this particular issue.
There are many such cases, not restricted to the UK. If you look you can find lots of rather amusing images about the topic. Photos of clearly adult men posing next to young teenagers, as if they are the same age. The amusing part is that everybody maintains the illusion.
An ophthalmologist I know is an attending physician, which means she teachers new resident physicians.

She described a few surgeries to me and her role in the room as the resident performs the surgery. Her brain is the checklist for the surgical procedure. The culture seemed to be, you should be good enough to memorize these complex procedures.

Meanwhile I'm thinking, why not just have someone else in the room reading and confirming the next step to the surgeon?

I suspect the culture of medicine, and especially the culture of surgeons does not jive well with checklist culture.
Kaibeezy’s Unique Business Model Axiom: If you have an idea, somebody else already had it.

Kaibeezy’s Unique Business Model Corollary: Don’t let that stop you.

So many people think they have to have the “killer” version in a category, or they collapse with disappointment when they find out someone else already had their amazing idea. Amateurs.

Existing solutions prove a market exists. Take the opportunity to see if the market is interested in your particular formulation. If you can carve out a niche and keep your overhead low, it could become viable or even quietly successful.