skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For one thing, more funding would help.

>In 2017, mosquito-borne West Nile virus, which currently infects about 2,000 people annually in the U.S. received $42 million in support from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Lyme disease, with 20 times the number of reported cases, got half as much, a figure that has changed little in a decade.

Doubling allocations for Lyme research and prevention to $50 million doesn't seem like an unreasonable or overcomplicated request. Congress allocated over a billion dollars for Zika [1] - a disease that something like 10 Americans ever had. How does it make sense that a disease actively affecting 400,000 Americans each year is allocated effectively $0 by the same Congress?

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/28/senate-approves-zika-fun...
There could just as easily be an article "They Get Dumped All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why"
The NEO is a Yubikey v3. It supports NFC. v3 is the last FOSS one, but it does not support FIDO2. If you want a YubiKey with NFC which supports FIDO2, you need a YubiKey 5 (NFC version). Or a Solo with NFC (the Solo support FIDO2 and is FOSS).

I happen to have one of the InCharge chargers as keychain [1] and what is interesting is that it is 3 chargers in one: one's always USB-A, other one is either USB-C or microUSB/lightning. So they combine microUSB with lightning on the same connector. I wonder why YubiCo did not go with a similar design.

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/incharge-universal-one-ca...
It's the manager that creates the overhead. You can't unload work for ten men on an employee who has the strength of only three and on top of that expect that person to manage his manager properly.
So to say she dominates, mean she must win every race she enters? I don't think so, otherwise you just literally made my point, men don't dominate women (i.e. they don't win every race).

Yes, she dominates...when the 2nd place male athlete isn't even close that is domination. 10 hour victory from her 1st place to 2nd place, 75 minutes from 1st place to 2nd place...that is domination in running.
Think about people arguing about politics while drunk, for example, and you will see that often a lot of absolutism and hypocrisy will come out just to win that single argument. Well, put in a context where you may feel that it has to be "someone's fault" (e.g a failed project or late task), the ego/hypocrisy/pride (you name it) will take over empathy.

I think it has nothing to do with employee/manager or inside/outside spectrum, although those will probably exagerate the phenomenon, but it's just social dynamics in a stressful environment. I'm sure the manager is happy to have his high performing "techie" when things go right and the techie is happy to have his manager happy.
There was a TV series about a scenario where electricity simply stopped working: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(TV_series)
> It's a common social technique among adults with authority to frame requests as a question

Is that somehow locale specific? I've never had people ask me to do something like that until I had interactions with US-based folks.

Personally I find it very odd to phrase it like that and it basically achieves the complete opposite of that intent (so I've to actively ignore it and read it as the actual assignment that it was meant as).
Stripe finally available to Estonians and their e-residents
I won a Teensy LC from HackADay in 2015 and decided to contribute back to the community by starting a series of projects using Teensy LC starting from scratch by setting up the environment on Linux. I would be very happy if you could also submit project ideas that I can then document and build. The plan is to make all projects open source for the community, thanks =)
Presumably you'd use whatever procedure you use for a lost password?

But simply forcing a password change at the next login after detecting an insecure password would not unduly burden anyone and would be better than doing nothing.
Facebook to Let Users Control Their Data from Other Companies
Happy for Ellie Pell (aka "Woman" in the article title)

Sexism of low expectations. Race director wanted to be sure to include a best in class trophy for women, which is fine, but assumed (incorrectly) that there wouldn't be a need for a best in class trophy for men. Assumed that they'd just get the 'best overall' trophy.
Not for the faint of heart: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps.html
>If you live in a lyme-tick area, you should have antibiotics on hand at all times.

Does this mean oral or topical? And if topical, would tryclosan be enough?
I agree with your overall point. I’m hopeful that bringing U2F/FIDO2 to iPhone will help continue to push these standards into being first-class citizens. Right now, I use TOTP for a ton of sites because I’m using an iPad Pro as my primary workstation, despite the fact that it has a USB-C port and I’ve got a pile of USB-C Yubikeys.
You mean the thing that was only suitable for real world use by in-the-wild development teams last year? Something no repo provider really fully supports even to this day?

From HG's own documentation (https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ChangesetEvolution):

>While well on the way, the full implementation of the changeset evolution concept is still in progress.

HG's entire system requires far more investment in the tool than git will ever ask of you. And you probably don't need the feature in the first place. I consider changeset evolution a nifty feature, but it's also a devop smell in my book.
People with poor social skills have lower social status than those with better social skills (management). If you are high status you can basically ignore rules at your will and it is accepted by the society.
>We even killed nuclear because it's somehow not green enough.

Unfortunately for some areas, that might be a necessity going forward. Just last month France had to scale back their nuclear power when they couldn't sufficiently cool the reactors due to a combination of the heatwave and less rain than normal, Germany was also affected by that.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-electricity-heatwa...
This is such a valid point. I have some similar thoughts.
Kinda reminds me of the Uber case recently. Think everyone has collectively realized that the moat is not as strong, and must go 'city by city'. WeWork seems to be operating on the same shallow moat as Uber, rather than AWS
Decision nightmare: enterprise e-commerce analytics
Hi!

I am trying to figure out the best-suited analytics tool for a $500m/year e-commerce platform (web & mobile).

Everyone I ask tells me something else and I am hoping to filter some of that noise by posting here.

The most important things for us are:

(i) must play well with both Tealium and Google Tag Manager. We currently use the former but I want to run the later as well to see if we can eventually switch.

(ii) must work across web & mobile (comes with SDKs for both Android and iOS)

(iii) accurate attribution, funnels, etc. I am especially confused when it comes to aliasing, i.e. matching an identity to a user before they log in. Apparently, only Kissmetrics can do that, which I find odd.

(iv) I’d like to implement Segment and also potentially Autopilot, so we can add functionality through third-parties that is not native. This means we don’t need a tool with kitchen sink features and would connect notifications, email, heatmaps, A/B, etc.

(v) Other than that, we care about everything that would matter for any multi-platform e-commerce. Attribution is a big issue, of course, as are accurate funnels, drilldowns, etc.

I am looking at Heap, Amplitude, Mixpanel, Pendo, Kissmetrics. We’ve already ruled Firebase out. I also started to look at Oribi and Roivenue, but have not talked to them yet.

I’d be grateful for any first-hand experience with the above as demos/talks with some of them have not been that useful. They all say they’re great and can do everything.

Thanks!
Thank you (and all other respondents) for clarifying that. The website doesn't do a great job of explaining it.
> If you live in a lyme-tick area

So, continental US, excluding maybe Nevada and New Mexico (because desert).

> you should have antibiotics on hand at all times.

So, here is a problem: in US, antibiotics are prescription-only. And no doctor would prescribe antibiotics preventively. They will prescribe antibiotics after a tick bite, but you need an office visit (or online office visit). The only way to get antibiotics preventively is to stash some after a tick bite, or simulate symptoms over a video call.

TL/DR: if you are in US, you're fucked.
This is a typical CEO move. If you have to do something that seems honest and good, at least make sure you get credit for it.
You should complain to your provider if your average speed is that far below the advertised one, it should be within 10%.
> Is there any way to shorten the amount of keystrokes to use git?

Others have mentioned git aliases. But also, git recognizes some shortforms too. E.g. git rebase --con works the same as --continue. Doesn't work in hg.
Perhaps a better approach would be "no cure, no pay".

That way, physicians would have an incentive to actually cure people rather than bill them for some inconclusive diagnostic tests.
I find that I can sometimes get significant speedups by changing data access patterns when considering cache. I have found this to be the first and most valuable thing to tune, before attempting SIMD.
I’m not tripping on details, this is a crucial aspect working with neurodiverse people.

One of my common challenges is the opposite: I ask a question intended literally and people “read into” what I ask and make assumptions about what i’m “getting at”. Then I need to follow up with “No, no, really, I am curious about (same question again)”. sometimes I need to ask 3-4 times.

Conversations with people who are “on the spectrum” can be a lot more productive
Backbones are generally symmetric.

Without getting into super deep detail, on cable internet, there is a balance between spectrum allocated for Tv content, and internet bandwidth. The system will have a finite amount of spectrum available, which can be divided between TV content, downstream internet, and upstream internet.

Given that most peoples usage is mostly downloading, the CATV carriers allocate more spectrum/bandwidth to downloads vs uploads.
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dunno, I like git better, but at the time it did what our small team needed. Granted, we always ran into issues with one of us having a file locked that someone else needed, but onboarding was a breeze.

I'm glad I use git now, but Sourcesafe was an okay introductory source control solution.
I am now imagining an updated Jeux Sans Frontières with the competitors driving those round a course avoiding mooses.

For non Europeans it was a Europe wide televised game series which "featured teams from different European countries in outlandish costumes (often large latex suits) competing to complete bizarre tasks in funny games. "
Vaping May Harm Bloodflow – Even Without Nicotine
Jekyll 4.0.0 Released
Most home users don't get close to advertised speeds because of WiFi interference.
We have a gigabit Bay Area Comcast connection for $89/month (gigabit down/35mbps up) and downloading an Xbox One game (50-90GB) while wired directly into the switch still takes 20min or so.

I can’t get behind the paywall, but faster internet is definitely worth it.
It isn't crappy, it was necessary.

The 200-foot right of way was so that construction materials could be gathered from either side of the route of the track, to build the track itself.

In 1862, the midwest was practically empty and most of the land was federal land. The construction crews may have been hundreds, if not thousands, of miles from the nearest quarry or gravel pit.

>SEC. 2 . And be it further enacted, {Right of way granted.} That the right of way through the public lands be, and the same is hereby, granted to said company for the construction of said railroad and telegraph line; and the right, power, and authority is hereby given to said company to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road, {See Sec. 3, 1864 .} earth, stone, timber, and other materials for the construction thereof; said right of way is granted to said railroad to the extent of’ two hundred feet in width on each side of said railroad, where it may pass over the public lands, including all necessary grounds for stations, buildings, workshops and depots, machine shops, switches, side tracks, turn-tables, and water stations. {U. S. to extinguish Indian titles. sec. 18, 1864 .} The United States shall extinguish as rapidly as may be, the Indian titles to all lands falling under the operation of this act, and required for the said right of way and grants hereinafter made.

Also, in the early days of steam locomotives a train had to stop every seven miles for water. That meant that every seven miles a water tower and the equipment to fill the water tower had to be built.

If right of way, and all of that free land hadn't been granted, there would have been no transcontinental railroad.

One of the first "real" railroads, the B&O railroad, was created by the governments of Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio and had a very similar legislative deal (though that didn't prevent years of litigation by canal companies to stop the railroad) to deal given to the companies covered by the 1862 Act the because it is impossible to build a railroad unless the land is given to the constructor for free.

Looking forward, if the government gets behind the colonization of Mars or some other place, the deals will be the same "Hey Company X, build all of this crap on Mars and we'll give you the entire northern hemisphere" and then 200 years later people will be upset about the fact that Company X was given half of Mars.
You could send that notification, invalidate any client tokens, and also disable the compromised password forcing the user to re-authenticate through their email address, a-la password reset, and I guess also verify they aren't using the same password again.

You wouldn't lock the account forever, the point is to establish that the person whose password was compromised knows, that the password is not the only factor which is used to regain access to the account, and to ensure that your service (rubygems) and its downstream users are not compromised as well as a result of the breach.

Any groaning about the inconvenience caused by disabling account access until the password is changed, can be simply shrugged away in favor of security concerns, with a link to this story about rest-client.

By the time you have learned the user's plaintext password, their account may already have been compromised. There's a case to make that you disable all downloads of any gems that might be compromised from the account until you've verified they aren't. That might be over the top, especially for popular projects as now we are talking serious inconvenience affecting potentially thousands or more of downstreams.

It's a sticky situation, since you don't really know how long that password has been in the open for hackers to use and abuse once you've discovered it in a password dump.
1. You get better value for your money on an Airbnb if the Airbnb is honest and good. Stick with ones with high ratings and many reviews, and talk to your host if there is a problem.

2. Price. We've hosted via Airbnb for a year. We rent out a room and bathroom for $30 a night. It takes us a half hour to flip the room, plus an occasional outlay of supplies like soap, etc., so this is a good investment for me. You won't find that price anywhere in or near the major city closest to me.
Call it post-vacation hangover...Your point is very well made tho. Completely agree that office space != Cloud Service.
title fix: "Nicotine"
Like many said, at some point it's your livelihood that is one the line, and Google taking actions without providing any details is downright malicious, and I expect someone to get their financial life ruined.

Sometimes, a deep-rooted issue is unfixable through technological or verbal mean, and litigation would be the only way to get your life back and I sure hope that Google will get hit at some point.
For a definition of "it" that corresponds to the prices American telecoms feel their monopoly/oligopoly position entitles them to charge, the title is right, the extra bandwidth isn't worth "it."

On a recent trip to Sweden, I saw multiples of the bandwidth I'm used to advertised for a fraction of the price. For that definition of "it," I'd pay "it" in a heartbeat.
The truth about articles like this: Comcast and others pay for stuff like this to be published.
Payscale is a pro for unions where the labor is fairly uniform. It is a con in professions where an individual can get much higher salary by providing much higher value to the employer than his/her peers. Example: if I was in a union shop, and I consistently found ways to optimize the machine I'm working on to decrease defects and increase output, that is a benefit to my employer. But my employer may not be allowed to give me a promotion for that work, because I've only been there for 2 years, whereas another employee who just does the minimum necessary work and has been there 10 years will get the promotion instead of me.

Whereas when I do this as a Unix/Linux systems engineer, I get constantly rewarded. Or I build up my track record and take those skills to a higher paying employer.

And yes, good and bad unions exist. It is quite possible that bad unions tend to form around certain types of professions (factory machine operator, teachers unions, etc). Whereas actors, sports teams, etc. have more in common with high tech workers (individual contributions can have outsized impact), so it is possible that a "good" union would form around the tech industry.

Personally, I'd like to see something more like a trade guild, which sets a base set of guidelines that their members have to follow, and also minimal acceptable standards that employers would need to follow in order to be able to higher quality workers from the guild. The benefit to the employer is that the guild would basically give them workers that are of at least a known minimum skill level for a given position.
It's not just about speed but about time. I value my time. Yeah, I may not saturate my gigabit line, but when I only have to wait 1 minute for a 3GB MacOS update instead of 20, that's valuable to me. It's worth the expense of having a mostly idle gigabit line.

Also I definitely saturate my gigabit link on download all the time, and sometimes on upload too, but I realize I'm not the average person in that regard.
However this would lead to over treatment, which also isn't good.
Things like interactive rebase in Git are revision control UI innovations with a massive impact on my ability to deliver quality PRs.

Git feels like a tool I can use to create and mould meaningful commits that best convey intent. Mercurial feels like it wants to just make a literal log of what I've done, which is a bit simplistic and isn't the same as what I want to present when my code is ready.

I also find the model of Git much easier to understand and explain to others.
Chandrayaan-2 Update: Lunar Orbit Insertion
do you get a refund if you die?
Obviously its impossible, what is being said is if Courtney won, then the men's field was not elite. Courtney won those races, so by definition you won't find any of the men meet you definition of elite.

I did give you the names of the races she won, you could look at the fields and confirm of the hundreds/thousands of runners she never beat an elite make runner.

Here is a question, since your the authority how many ultra runners are elite and are they all male?
What is deferential about the "ask" when they actually mean "command"? It seems passive aggressive if anything.
Can you explain more, or point us to a document on the subject? I purchased a twiddler 2 some time ago and found it to be a frustrating experience, although something that I'd like to utilize more.
That's not the same thing - you measure it at the router.

I get a peak speed of slightly over my 35Mbs limit on my Vodaphone FTC - can sustain 30-31 Mbs for big downloads eg from steam.
This is a terrible idea. What do you think of software companies that pay "per bug fixed"?
Unfortunately, most non-techie users like having their freedom taken away in exchange for [security, ease of use, etc.].

There are a few things on the list universally hated, though, such as pervasive DRM (even non-techies hate lack of repairability and lack of compatibility with non-Apple branded peripherals).

At any rate, I hated the feeling of being locked into a walled ecosystem that was hard to escape from, so I never bought another Apple product after the iPhone 4S.
My answer is often “Will I? Yes. Would I like to? No.”
Just curious, which principle is that?
It's not one secret, it's a secret per pair. Imagine Anne and Barry both use TOTP with Google and Facebook, there would be one secret for (Anne,Google), one for (Anne,Facebok), one for (Barry,Google) and one for (Barry,Facebook).

A good implementation chooses the secret randomly. But both sides need to know what it is. In the example above Anne needs to know both her secrets (they'd be inside her Google Authenticator) and Facebook needs to know both their secrets (probably in a SQL database).

Stealing Facebook backups would get me the (Anne,Facebook) and (Barry,Facebook) secrets, but not the Google ones.
Click bait: Why not just say "we don't approve of proprietary operating systems" and leave it at that?
What is worse?

Also, insurance companies are an opposing force here.
As others have said, it is beautiful because of the relationship between e and pi. This is mind blowing. What do these 2 constants have in common? Not a thing. I feel the same way about the pi / 4 = 3/4 x 5/4 x .... infinite series. Why a relationship between pi and prime numbers?
> except performance

That's a big except. Mercurial was far too slow. Not sure if that's still the case; I haven't used it in years. But it was slow when the field was still open to competition.
> Teams which constantly re-prioritise items which some fake product manager came up with a few months ago is not agile.

I don't disagree with this. However,

>True agile teams never need to do backlog grooming. If a team has a backlog which is so big that it needs grooming, then they are not agile. An agile team build something, releases it to its users, and afterwards react to the immediate feedback/next important request.

This is like saying the first test should always fail because the tested code doesn't exist. While that's a good start, it usually takes a few sprints to release anything useful; especially if you have any hardware involved. Therefore, having a number of stories in a backlog really helps, especially if you do have to re-prioritize because hardware is delayed, etc.
Honestly, what's the point of these paywall articles? Might as well just setup groups on HN that only have access to certain paywalls and publish them there. At this point, this is only a topic of discussion. I have no idea why the article thinks it's not worth it.
Streaming video might not cause you to max out your connection, but downloading large files may well. And if so, the files will download substantially faster.
We just use Google Hangouts now. We rarely have meeetings with people outside our team but it always works fine.
The distributors have generators because they cannot afford to be down if the power is. They need power to run their systems. They might be running at reduced capacity but they will run.

Many gas stations/convenience stores and other small consumer facing businesses have generators because generators have proliferated and they have a financial incentive to have one. Sure, not all of them have generators but not all of them need it. If your two preferred gas stations are down and the third one is crowded you'll make do fine. This is what's different from '03.

Getting fuel in a blackout is a non-issue logistically. Paying for it is where the most problems will be because so many people don't carry cash anymore.