skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the time Harvest App does a perfect job. It is a regular timer app but it is quite good at Symantec when you are not working. If sometimes I'm in doubt about what I spent my time one or if I know that I worked on something else that I was timing, I'll look it up in WakaTime. The combination of the too has been the most useful tool for me.
Most urban areas want to minimize water running into their sewage system and wet soil is weaker than dry
Ultima Thule Revealed
I dislike reading long-form text on backlit screens. All those features you mentioned sound great, but I can't read an iPad for hours on end.
New resident physician in the U.S. here. I actually really enjoy my job now but absolutely hated medical school. Would I do it again? Probably not even though I’m happy now. Four years of misery during my twenties was not worth it. And the stress of $250,000+ of student loans is ever present. And unless you’re at the top of your class at every stage of training, you have little control over where you end up geographically which is really bad when you have relationships to maintain. Long distance for several years sucks a ton.

So I’d only recommend going to medical school if you’re a top student who can get scholarships (so you don’t have much debt) and so you have some control over where you go (because you’ll be competitive for most programs). But even so, I went to a top Med school which was my first choice and I still ended up hating it. You’ll never know what program/city you’ll like until you try it but once you start it’s very difficult to change Med schools or residency programs in general.
Usually? Sometimes resource competition leads to innovations including more efficient use of the resource, discovery or development of new supplies/sources and so on. Or it might just lead to increased price leading to decreased demand and an incentive for someone to figure out a better way to satisfy the demand.
A Boeing 737 Max Test Flight Had Its Ups and Downs
will try thank you
Interestingly, it was the Arabic conquest of the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa and subsequent control of the sea lanes that cut western Europe off from the east. Intellectual commerce between east and west was greatly curtailed after the Byzantines started losing badly. It wasn't until the Battle of Lepanto that western Europeans started to have more or less free access to the east again.

There is no denying that in western Eurasia the Mediterranean was the seat of high culture and learning until about the 17th century.
The article talks about laundering, which is cashing it out.
Crypto mining would provide a more stable cashflow and has a more limited downside versus theft. I see your point, given how successful the thieves have been. But I just wonder about the value of hydro power.
> the Muslisms who rely primarily on the book alone, are much more progressive than the ones also relying on the traditions.

As an ex-Muslim, the way I see it is: If you were to rely primarily/only on the Koran, it is because you want to justify and legitimate your own agenda. The Koran is very flexible and can be either very progressive or very conservative, strict and violent.

So you make your pick and then find the particular "bayt" that supports your claims :)
Indeed, a ‘beautiful vision for his country’.
With renewables getting better every day, at what point will they make fusion reactors irrelevant?
When the people without water get up and move, from one country to another, it will become a global governance issue.
You can't post nationalistic slurs to HN. We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Aryabhatiya, which contains the first known instance of the algorithm we use today for finding multiplicative inverses in Galois fields, is one well-known example. (Of course Aryabhata didn't know it could be used for that.) The Surya Siddhantha, from which we derive the word "sine", is another example. I recommend reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics
Who needs to feel at home on a business trip? At least hotels don't pretend. Airbnb is like the uncanny Valley of comfort. It's not home, it's not not home. And verrry heterogeneous.
> Personally, I use grubhub a lot--as a menu to look at for when I call the restaurant directly with my pickup order.

Which is of course exactly what the article is about. Depending on where you got that phone number, turns out you may be using grubhub to place the order and give grubhub a cut, when you think you are calling the restaurant directly with your pickup order.
> It doesn't really add up to me. Actually it sounds like a world of troubles to avoid paying taxes to me, but who knows, rich people are weird.

I'm not commenting on the plausibility of this woman assuming her mother's identity in 1934 to avoid taxation.

I'm pointing out that the comment about her supposed daughter knowing the name of her mother's math teacher doesn't make any sense as a refutation of those events if we otherwise assume them to be plausible, which that part of the Smithsonian article does.

Yes she's not fleeing the Gestapo, she's allegedly trying to avoid paying taxes. Are we to think that someone who's otherwise keeping up such a ruse wouldn't have thought that it could unravel because she doesn't know the name of her high school's best friend's sister's boyfriend or whatever?

Even if she hadn't thought about that at the time this quote is based on an interview she had in 1990 when she was 115 years old. At that point she'd have had a lot of time to consider that maybe her tax fraud was going to destroy most of her assets and possibly land her in prison, so maybe doing some research on her mother's life was in order.
I think about it very often. Most of big tech nowadays seems to be more about treating customers like shit, stalking them, bombarding them with ads, dark patterns, lies & fraud, intentionally misleading terms & conditions, etc. It's becoming very hard to find a gig where my work will actually make people happy instead of just being a necessary evil they have to put up with.
What I find particularly troubling about the design of tokamak reactors is that on one hand you have magnets that need to be cooled to -250C or whatever the “high” temperature is nowadays and in the middle of it you have plasma that will leak thermal radiation in any way possible.
The magnets themselves will heat up from running large electric currents through them.
This just feels like a recipe for a disaster - if things suddenly stop working, due to heat or otherwise you have a very hot, radioactive plasma trying to equalise its energy with the outer world...
> If you penalize and normalize website censorship because of bad actors then what's to stop a big company from barraging a smaller site with malicious users to get it taken down thus removing competition?

The smaller site will have to do what Voat is currently doing and restrict registrations and access for a while. Ultimately the fact that big players can shove smaller players off line is weakness of IPv4 address exhaustion and designing platforms on a strict centralized client-server model, not a model of suppressing violence-inducing speech.

> I don't have the resources or people to deal with that. Should I be taken down for something I can't control?

Yes, because you can put a banner on your page "Hey users, we can only support X users for required moderation of violent content with our current resources. Will you give us more money to support X+Y users?"
Awful taste on the part of Wired to work in a pun on an article referencing two tragedies that ended in the loss of 346 lives.
Typesetting Markdown – Part 7: Mathematics
It's really interesting reading Al-Khwarizmi writing back and forth with Ibn Sina speculating about life on other planets and whether they might have been visited by prophets too.

Much, though not all, of the big scientific work in the Islamic world was in Iran and central Asia. But eventually enlightenment led to counter enlightenment and the rise of Gnosticism and mysticism. Then the Mongols rode in and killed everyone. They were normally good about capturing cities in an economically useful state, especially if they surrendered, but Ala ad-Din Muhammad II really pissed of Genghis Khan who was mostly busy with China at the time and couldn't spare the troops for a conquest, just an invasion. So they killed everyone in the cities except a few hundred they shipped back to Mongolia. Then came back a few weeks later and killed any survivors who had come out of hiding. And central Asia went from a trade nexus with possibly the largest cities in the world to the state we know it in today.
Unison and Wings 3D are both projects I wanted to make changes to when I was using them. Downloaded the source code for both, spent a day or so reading and fiddling and got bored. I actually like learning new languages, but I don’t have the capacity to learn a new language, build system, tooling, style & formatting, install the right Emacs mode, and so on just to scratch a little itch.
Good point about not being rated back! For me, I like that AirBnB's are available in much more locations, and often at a lower cost. And for longer stays, it's nice having a kitchen which not all hotels have, and when they do you pay a hefty premium for it.
Hauling it back from the moon wouldn't be overly expensive. It'd be getting there in the first place that would.
Disney is THE major IP lobbying funder. They are the root of most of the evils in our IP laws.

Please make the moral choice and pirate, don't give them more money.
So even accepting your argument at face value (for the purposes of this argument), the British government has no blame for a company consisting of its citizens and based in it's capital starting wars for two centuries with military support from said government?
AWS with Terraform rocket start guide
Homomorphic encryption does not affect that problem... It's just down to policy. If the decryption authority “stays open” after the election and no longer insists on checking ballots to see if they have already been cast, then yeah, you can abuse the system to decrypt placed ballots.

If the keys are destroyed after a valid election, as one would expect, then there is no possibility for that.

One way to better ensure the keys are destroyed is to use secret-sharing schemes so that multiple parties that are adversaries would have to lie similarly about destroying the keys, then conspire to work together to decrypt ballots after the fact. But I hope you see that this is all chasing social problems that must be solved as a precondition to have fair elections in the first place.
I don’t think it has anything to do with patents. Anyone can use the library for free. NewTek just doesn’t want to open source the library.
Yes, on Windows. You do have to select the first part of the url, but I often just want the host and port, ie localhost:8080 instead of http://localhost:8080
I only included the nationality because I thought it was relevant here for purely geographical and possibly linguistical reasons: they appear to be working from quite far away and not using primary sources for a lot of their work.
How would measuring someone's wrist bones tell you how old they are?
SFSU shutters popular Chinese cultural program under pressure from feds
What do you recommend doing when Linux Freezes? It doesn't come up a lot, but when it does it can be kind of unnerving since the three-finger-salute doesn't work.

I would also love to know if anybody has a solution for getting video to play properly in Firefox. I know it's not a bug per se, but it would be nice to not have to switch between browsers all the time.

I've been using Ubuntu for about a year now and otherwise its been a very positive experience.
Hydro power is nice and all, but monetizing that requires strictly different resources than monetizing hackers. Perhaps hydro power can be valuable, but that will not make hacking any less valuable.
It's more a reproduction/migration crisis really. These cities have all grown above what their local resources can provide, its time to cut back.
Exactly, I try to explain to people that STDs are just a conspiracy by Big Condom™️ but they're just too brainwashed man.
Also, IIRC youtube-dl will automatically re-encode it using ffmpeg if you pick an unavailable format!
Would you please stop taking HN threads further into ideological flamewar? That's not the intended use of this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> It feels as though much of tech has gone from helping people accomplish their goals efficiently to a business model of extracting rents while providing no or little value.

This isn't new. So much of what we consider "value" today is just information asymmetry. Hiding phone numbers, hiding true costs, stuffing data into a proprietary database with a service contract, hiding whoever the real manufacturer of something is… that is where the money is made.

The Internet was supposed to fix that, but instead of getting an "Internet" we got a series of private networks, loosely connected, with gatekeepers. You can visit different ones, but they don't' really talk to each other. You can add your own information, but it won't really get seen by anyone because everyone has been conditioned to go through one of the big gates.

We tried for a while, with things like open protocols and semantic web, but most people quickly realized there was a lot more money to be had creating walled gardens.
Good on RocketLab for finally doing reuse. It's such an obvious path for improving flightrate and reducing cost for a high flightrate rocket that I'm super surprised that it has been mostly poo-pooed by the smallsat launcher startups (even though they all seem to be shooting for high flight rate). There are also a bunch of different recovery options available to smaller rockets that aren't available to large rockets. (And Rocketlab has shown an ability to execute and enter operational service that makes me fairly confident they'll succeed.)

By the way, this is nearly identical (minus the helicopter) to the method that John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace (now Exos Aerospace https://exosaero.com/) used for recovering their Stig reusable sounding rocket back in 2011/2012. I'm a little sad that none of the media reports are mentioning that, as it's clearly a direct forerunner and Exos Aerospace is still doing flights.

Here is the ballute:
https://www.universetoday.com/93281/armadillo-launches-a-sti...

Here is the guided parachute return:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV7zL07Tof8

And here is an Exos Aerospace flight earlier this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G9dJ3IQQVk
That is not accurate.

$300 million of the settlement was designated to go to individuals who suffered specific harms (identity theft, etc) due to the breach.

And additional 31 million was designated to go to other people who's information was stolen but didn't suffer additional harms due to the theft.
Dropbox ended up be an institutional requirement where I was working. Now I just let iCloud do it’s thing. It isn’t great, but it is less buggy than Dropbox.
Unfortunately without anymore context we don't really know what you mean. Is being a paramedic really that bad a job? why?
I'm trying to understand what it means for a private company to "ban" something. My guess is that the government created a framework for a private company to operate as highly regulated utility with a monopoly on water distribution. If my guess is correct then it is really the government that is supporting that "ban" and I would guess (putting my cynical hat on) that there are some pretty cozy relationships between the owners/investors in the private company and the government.

The private part doesn't sound crazy all by itself, but I think it is a challenge to create systems that prevent a private regulated utility from abusing its privileged position.
Penben ?
At least it's not Muslim Math! /s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=embMAtagQiU
Manifesto-validation is a difficult task.

Somebody could automate the generation of manifestos, and leak hundreds claiming responsibility after every shooting, arguing for a variety of different positions. Then the public would have less certainly about what shooter's political intent actually was - which could lead to less politically-motivated mass shootings?

I wonder if someone has ever successfully tricked the public into believing a manufactured manifesto was written by a perpetrator, when it was actually written by someone unrelated to the incident.
Russian hackers using Google instead of Yandex or other? Or is Google here a metaphor for 'searching the internet'?
The Conscience of a Revolutionary
> Ratings measure how good a restaurant is compared to other restaurants in the same class because that is where their patrons' reference frame comes from.

In the US, ratings measure, in significant part, race/ethnicity/subculture from which the restaurants clientele is drawn, because White Americans give higher ratings for similar descriptive satisfaction levels than other demographics (tending toward not unacceptable = 5/5.). Asians give the lowest scores for similar descriptive satisfaction levels.
What I do not understand is why nobody copied yelp with an ethical business model yet.
Last month, Grubhub hijacked restaurants web traffic by buying similar domains for the same reason, so this isn't too surprising for them: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/28/19154220/grubhub-seamless...

I assume Grubhub's Eat24 acquisition from Yelp came with some poorly written contract clause that allows them to force Yelp to implement this absurd feature as part of their "ordering partner integration", but maybe Yelp is unethical AND stupid after all and is doing it for part of the take. We'll probably never know. Either way their reputation will be ruined.

Disclosure: I interned at Yelp engineering and enjoyed it. The engineers were all nice people with as much integrity as one would hope.
> Docs site should be among deliverables along with its CI/CD and automatic tests.

100000000x yes. I was fortunate enough to have this ingrained in me at my first job out of college. Can't thank my old mentor enough.
Well, _Beloved_ for instance was published in 1987, and Jazz, also mentioned in this thread, in 1992. Her first novel, _The Bluest Eye_, in 1970.

But yeah, I would say she has continued to increase in popularity (popularly and in school curriculums) since the 1980s, although some high schoolers were probably reading her works in the 80s. I graduated from high school in 1983, and read Beloved in a class.
I think it's very poor etiquette to make assumptions about the contents of the article while advertising the fact you haven't read the article.
We found out about a decade after grandma died that her age may have been off by a few years. She lived in a remote place and a few of the siblings all got their birth certificates in batches on rare (once every few years) visits to a city with a records office. I can't remember what tipped them off about being wrong but I think a few were officially born far to close together.
Without context, I have no idea what are you trying to imply or document with OPTION?

I can more or less figure out what the code does, but not why it does it.
Here you should document why are you grepping for something
This idea that technology improves exponentially ad infinitum is bogus. Nothing in nature can grow exponentially in the long run. There are plenty of technologies that have almost plateaued, passenger airplanes for instance.

In the past, people envisioned an era of free electricity because surely nuclear energy would improve exponentially. It did not. Neither will renewables.
What’s morally bad about unlocking a phone? Literally suggesting that it is morally bad to modify a device you own. If att doesn’t want people to mess with these phones than they shouldn’t sell it.
I think HN has one of the better systems. The waiting period means you kind of have to learn the norma before you can apply them.

Sometimes people can using voting for the wrong purpose. In general, it seems to work well.
Med Devs Are Inserted into 500k Patients Each Year – But Are Tough to Sterilize
Yeah, I've been pretty deep in the RC community, but what doesn't make sense to me is the physical skills of pilots like that! Handling orientation changes like that is insanely difficult. I practiced flying RC helis for a while in a simulator and even the basic orientation exercises are pretty challenging.
This was Inversion Of Control applied to an essay.
That is just a simplistic caricature of what actually happens. Any company has to first accept the tax breaks and business incentives (land resources, loans, no red-tape, easier access to market etc) that the Chinese government employs to attract foreign businesses in specific markets. China has structured those incentives to benefit them - which include setting up a joint venture with a Chinese company. If the company is a state owned enterprise, your benefits might increase even further. You have to obviously transfer the IP for the factory to actually make the thing you want. China, with its communist past has their own understanding of property rights. I believe even its citizens cannot own land - everything belongs to the government. I'm not an IP law expert, so I don't know what international laws China is or isn't violating, but I don't expect China to respect US laws, without a treaty.
There are a lot of vertical specific ones. Trip. OpenTable. Thumbtack. Hard to monetize though.
I am a former Yelp engineer. I think the thing this story describes is dumb and bad and they should stop doing it. Inserting yourself as a useless middleman is a classic shitty startup move.

Here are some great reasons for current and former Yelp engineers not to engage in internet debates about accusations of nefariousness in other areas such as the review filter or sorting algorithm:

1. Being in internet debates mostly sucks in general, especially with people who by default hate you.

2. Yelp has a blanket policy that you shouldn't engage in these debates.

3. Yelp has been sued some number of times and might be again. I would be paranoid that something I said here would be used in another bullshit lawsuit, especially if I were truly in a position to know things.

4. It's pretty clear that the PR battle was lost long ago, regardless of the truth. Leaving a comment on a thread like this changes literally nothing and is a waste of time. Yes, that means I think I'm wasting my time right now. :-)

Every Yelp engineer I've met has intentions at least as good as, say, the average Google engineer. Sites like Yelp can have negative effects on small businesses the same way e.g. Spotify might have an effect on independent music or Airbnb has an effect on the apartment rental market in a city, and engineers aren't always good at recognizing those effects as problematic, but Yelp engineers are certainly no worse than your standard Silicon Valley type.

I still trust Yelp reviews more than I trust local business reviews on any other platform.
Is this really the most simple available method?
The CEO of Nokia Rajeev Suri is an India-born Singaporean citizen.