skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is obviously true, but that doesn't stop other insurance industries. A healthy 40 year old women and a 70 year old man with heart disease are going to have different prices for a $1m life insurance policy, but both policies will pay out equally regardless of when they die.

I'm not saying home insurance needs to be the same cost for everyone, but the current situation of specialized policies that vary house to house in each region is overly complex. Plus climate change is changing the risk profile for everyone and the results of which are not yet clearly understood by climate scientists let alone random homeowners.
Western Digital includes one of these in their Black2 drive kits. Instead of shipping with a driver CD, it ships with a USB key that opens up your browser to the webpage that hosts the driver download.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/811LzsR6HGL._SL1500_.j...
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apparently lists can help, though that hasn't been my experience
Ah. So my coworker stole the saying, just like I stole it from him.
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PostgreSQL, pg_shard, and what we learned from our failures
I could but that would involve some editing — I stripped the content directly from the parent post!
Ancient. The latest fun project enabling this sort of thing is Samy's USBDriveby project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSLEq7-hlmo

And yes, you totally can detect operating system, bypass HID protections, and deliver custom weaponized payloads in the form of scripts catted into the command prompt.
Instead, you just get a pop up, daily, to upgrade to Yosemite. There's no way to remove it, hiding the update in the app store does nothing and there's no way, even after months of clicking "Close" to have it figure out that "No, I don't want to upgrade to it."

Is that a better design? Especially considering Apple routinely automatically downloads updates that are also in the gigabyte range.
Why are fans of athletes allowed to drink and beer companies allowed to advertise with obvious sports oriented themes in their ads?
Fruit Salad Trees
What scientists say about Elon Musk's idea to nuke Mars – LA Times
The NZ ad mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wwXfAFQoh8 (NZ isn't a large country: those roads probably ran to the same town anyway).
Percentage chance that's what the user desires?
The main issue I see is how do we allow adults to dope while keeping children/teens away from it? Or would doping even increase with children/teens if it were more widely acceptable amongst adults? When I was in high school there were plenty of athletes using steroids - so already happening. Although I do believe that number would increase especially within high schools.
IIRC this is how the IRS recommends milage expenses are to be treated. The delta of your normal commute = work.
USB firewall.

White-list the USB keyboard when it is first attached, using its unique serial number, and avoid a prompt in the future.
This is a project I could get into. Full Maker on. I like the details provided and the images. I'm thinking about using some other display than android phone since I don't have one.
User Defined Functions for Amazon Redshift
That's correct, I even have a version of it for the Z80 Softcard on the Apple II. Even in that day, the license was still only for 1 CPU and you had to mail in a license registration card to be able to use the software (I don't think that sort of EULA is legally enforceable, though)
String processing in C is a nightmare. It looks like you basically have to be omniscient to avoid every corner case and potential error.
We spent a week discussing the possible meanings in college. And each was as valid as any other interpretation, this one was mentioned, but it was clear that none were more valid than any other. You can't get a poem wrong, just like you can't interpret a painting wrong. And artist will be inspired to create, but what that means to the observer, is personal between them, and the work.
For those who, like me, were looking at the master branch and assumed the codebase was inactive, this is apparently the branch where development is happening:

https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/tree/titan09

This is version 0.9, and they are gearing up for a 1.0 release.

Anyone here using it who can summarize their experience? Production-readiness, performance, general usability as an alternative to other NoSQL databases?
Since becoming reacquainted with the poem a couple of decades on from 8th grade English, I've read it as regret at the way age reduces your choices. That comes from interpreting the fall woods as being the autumn of the narrator's life, and focusing on

"Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back."

That is, when you're young, you can choose one path and presume you can come back and take the other path sometime; you've got lots of time. When you're getting old, a lot of choices are more or less the only shot you will get; you cannot count on having the time to come back and try the other path.
It's not like Stanford had a sub-100 program and then started recruiting the best faculty. Some might even argue that Chicago (including its business school) has been just as influential as either Harvard or MIT. The top programs are Stanford, Chicago, Princeton, Harvard, and MIT. Penn, Berkeley, Yale and a few others are also in the conversation. Good for Stanford that they made a couple of senior hires, as they've strengthened one of their fields, but this isn't big news. Stanford has never been an underdog.
Zebra Striping: Does It Really Help? [pdf]
NYC-specific comment:

Taxi drivers don't typically own their medallions. Medallions are typically owned by medallion holding companies, which lease out their cars to drivers.

Very low interest rates fueled medallion companies to push the price of medallions higher and higher. Everyone was bidding for what they saw as a good with fixed-supply. Then Uber came along. Turns out they were wrong.

So who suffers? Banks that made bad loans and a small number of stagnant companies whose business models are now obsolete. Business as usual. The world keeps turning. Drivers will just shift to Uber or one of their myriad competitors.

Having Uber or the city bail out these banks/holding co's would be a little ridiculous. Let the businesses that made bad decisions deal with the consequences.
Darpa wants to forecast the spread of infectious disease outbreaks
Thanks for that! Much more informative than the article. I think the rest of the commentary is important too. Like the original article says, poems are meant to be interpreted, and I think Frost played with the words to encourage different interpretations, even the literal reading of the last few lines out of context.

The poem is essentially a commentary on interpretation. There's the initial evaluation of the paths, evaluation along the path, and an evaulation of future evaluations, showing how those interpretations change over time. The initial evaluation is that the less worn one might be more interesting. During the walk, there's the interpretation that they're probably both the same, and an evaluation of future evaluation, emphasizing the importance of the choice and implying self-deception.

I think this follows the actual propagation of consequences according to chaos theory. At the moment when a choice is made, the effects are relatively small, but we all know that long-term effects of those minor differences cause large divergences in the future. So there's an actual element of truth to the final evaluation, even though it's considered as self-deception, because of the passage of time and repeated self-interpretation of the choice, even if the roads were about the same.

Essentially, the choice itself is consequential, even if the immediate results of the choice are not.
I'm not an OO preacher, I'm just making the observation that most research systems designed for uniformity were object-oriented. Otherwise when it comes to languages, I currently mostly use ones based on functions and pattern matching.

You can't really speak of the "OO blindfolded way of thinking" when all you do is contradict without any substance.
That's precisely what the author of the article determines by quoting from private correspondence from the poem's author:

> “I’ll bet not half a dozen people can tell who was hit and where he was hit by my Road Not Taken,” he wrote to his friend Louis Untermeyer.
Exhibit 8: Excerpts from AirBed and Breakfast’s Application to Y Combinator
> First, default settings are never "consent".

First, I'm confused about how this is considered a default setting. Anytime I've installed a version of Windows that has automatic updates it asks me during the install what my update preferences are. Just because a select menu has something as the default doesn't mean that I'm not consenting when I review that select menu and hit "Next" in the installer.

Windows 8: http://www.eightforums.com/attachments/tutorials/7868d134523...

Windows 7: http://cdn1.alphr.com/sites/alphr/files/styles/insert_main_i...

Windows XP: http://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers/xp_automatic_updat...

Secondly, this is a commercial product that I am choosing to install. By necessity it has a lot of configuration options that are set to various different values. Is it not implied consent that when I install an operating system that I am agreeing/consenting to all of the different default settings?
I was going to say that. Reminds me of Sony's RootKit. Did any Sony exec get prosecuted for "hacking"? Nope.
>Do we know that all human-caused fires would still have occurred "naturally" if the humans hadn't been there?

Does lightning stop happening if people are gone?

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01998581
In

what

WAY

does the author's use of the PRISON

SYMBOLIZE

the protagonist's struggle - AND

how does this relate

to our discussion of the uses of irony?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3YdjD0OyJc
Interesting. I've come across similar stories and sentiments among scientist and engineer friends. A frustrating experience to be sure, but it strikes me that these are people whose jobs require them to sort out systems which, without proper foundational knowledge, would seem pretty confusing and arbitrary. What surprises me most is to hear a person whose identity is grounded in curiosity and exploration write off that experience as horse shit, without questioning first whether they lacked the tools to understand it.

Perhaps you just had a bad teacher?
My company is developing sensors that implement these sorts of coherent interferometric ranging techniques, and I can say that it's pretty unlikely that it works from space or from a drone. There are a lot of non-obvious factors that make performing those kind of measurements from orbit a bit of a nightmare.

As far as I understand space comms--which isn't that far--the 'pilot beam' technique used by satellite links is more or less a way to get a phase lock on the signal beam, which will accurately determine the exact target location, at which point the space transmitter can use a beam-forming antenna to to jack up the power to that locale specifically, giving better SNR/bandwidth/whatever. The key bit here is that (a) the method requires that the target--i.e. your bedroom window--transmits the pilot beam up, and (b) only 'solves' the atmospheric interference issue by pointing a powerful beam accurately.

Don't get me wrong, it could probably be done with enough money, and if anybody could do it would would be the US intelligence machine. Same goes for a drone, to a lesser extent. With anything flying in the atmosphere you'll have to do deal with local vibrations on the same order as the measurement deltas you care about, but there are ways to do that too. It's interesting, thinking about it now, that a lot of what we're developing could actually be directly applied to such an endeavor, even though we're not related to such industries at all. Fun.
I agree. Sometimes one can establish a degree to which his/her interpretation is correct by considering evidence (from the author's text) for and against his/her interpretation, but rarely are lit teachers (at least in my experience) this objective.
I certainly don't disagree with this critic's (correct) interpretation: it's that these decisions don't matter, unless you retroactively assign meaning to them. I, too, wince when I see self-help gurus using the phrase "the road not taken" as if it's a directive to choose unconventionality over normality.

But I do take issue with this essay's assertion that most Americans are too stupid to understand this poem. That's just elitist nonsense. I'd like to think my fellow American is smarter than that, and not just elite readers of The Paris Review can figure these things out.
This is patently untrue, at least in the United States. Maybe if you are doing slash-and-burn agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon. Even for clear-cutting, you have to leave a regulated number of stems, of certain diameters, on the piece of land.

Typically, the way you would cut a piece of land is by selectively cutting out the species and grades of lumber that are actually worth money. So one winter you go in and cut the big, high-quality pine, or spruce and fir for saw logs. Another season you might cut out the high-quality veneer-grade hardwood trees. Of course, when you do this, you would also cut a bunch of the junk that is never going to grow into profitable timber, and sell that as pulpwood for making paper, or low-quality logs for making pallets, or sell it as firewood. If you selectively cut like this, it's not particularly difficult to rotate through a series of stands and continue to harvest them indefinitely, and you maintain a variable-age forest that sustains the local wildlife, to boot.

At least on the East coast, it's not really necessary to replant cut sections, even if you do go in and clear cut them, since there is so much residual seed on the ground already, and many of the species will even sprout again from stump. You go through a short cycle of black/raspberries and other scrub growth to fix the soil, then the young softwood/hardwood whips come up through, and within ten years you've got a stand of wood that's ready to be thinned out again, to clean out the junk and let the good wood grow up into profitable timber again.

On the West coast, as I understand it, replanting is more important, since many of the species won't grow from seed UNLESS there has been a forest fire.

The United States is also more forested now than it has been in a hundred years, since so much land formerly cleared for agriculture has grown back as forest. If you could look at Google Earth imagery of New England from 1900 and today, the difference would be astounding.
Hi, I helped hannahmitt make the mirror.

The rectangle of light isn't noticeable at all in normal light if you adjust the brightness on the tablet well. In a dark room it can be noticeable, though.
strlcpy(3) is actually used quite heavily throughout the Linux kernel: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=strlcpy

I'm not sure what Linus intended.
Some mirrors may have a thin enough back coating for light to shine through, but the two-way is ideal.
Because music isn't a competition. It's a creative endeavor.
Apple's 16GB iPhone 6S is a serious strategic mistake
A favorite of mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4389806
How to Implement 3D Touch View Controller Previews
I'm particular struck by the part

"...long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;"

It reminds me of my over-analysis in developing software. Sometimes, I over think things, try to predict the outcomes of things, spend lots and lots of time considering what's behind the 'bend': what's the perfect solution. Analysis paralysis.

But, at a certain point, the analysis gives way to intuition. I choose the path that 'feels' best, knowing that many different paths could have been just as right.
> It's a tremendous cost to support housing development in an area that's not really suited for it.

Be it deserts, be it wildfires, be it floods – this is a huge issue, and just continuing to fight against nature is not easy.

Well, unless you are the dutch, but they can only keep their cities safe of floods because they keep floodplains for the rivers.
Did you misquote the article?

"That said, Firefox does send your browser Mozilla interaction history with the Tiles feature"

It sounds like Mozilla is only capturing how you interact with the tiles, not what websites you visit.
In my opinion, you are mostly right that "alert danger" and "alert alert-danger" would be the same. The exception would be that you could easily apply global styles to "alert danger" via the ".danger" class. However, I find that in big websites, I don't want to rely on the global scope (for lack of better words) too much.

All my alerts and message styling would be in a separate myApp-messages.scss that would ultimately be merged into myApp.min.css

In this myApp-messages.scss, I would create all my own classes that then extend global style definitions if needed but avoid using them.

.alert{

color: $text-color;

background: $light-background-color;

&.alert-danger {

@extend .danger; // if needed at all

color: $danger-color;

}

}

As for "alert alert-danger" vs. "alert-danger". It is true that you could do something like :

.alert {

color: $text-color;

background: $light-background-color;

}

.alert-danger{

@extend .alert;

color: $danger-color;

}

In the "alert alert-danger" case, you can easily target all <div class="alert"> and then use advanced selectors to filter out or target more specifically its other states. You can also easily append/toggle the modifier classes with jQuery. With <div class="alert-danger", you rely on the css preprocessor to do all the work and in doing so cut yourself from using some tools.

It's all a matter of philosophy, really. I like to have as many tools to do a job as possible, so I try to have as much classes on my elements as I can without going overboard (I'm looking at you, Drupal).
Pick up a copy of "How to Read Literature Like A Professor" by Thomas C. Foster at your library. My AP Lit instructor had me read it almost a decade ago (after similar complaints) and it helped me enjoy required undergrad literature classes much more - gives a practical, fair insight into literary analysis.
Thinner? ... Deliberately? ... but why?
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I'm extremely disappointed that I had "turned off" my development work PCs automatic updates, however after a few weeks I found the telemetry update (KB3068708) for Windows 7 installed fully without my consent.

I had "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them," selected in Windows Update for this category of update. I did not choose to install this, and I was made aware from a HN thread made a few weeks ago.

The update was visible, at that time, but not installed. Now, a few weeks later, the update is on my computer. I believe the update was actually installed during an unrelated security update which I had allowed.

I'm wondering if I'll have to use external scripts of my own or third party to remove the telemetry bug on my computer.
When musicians compete for positions in symphonies it is a competition.
Reminds me of how much I miss life before multi-part MIME emails...
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PCI-DSS the endpoints you use to connect to the CHD environment are in scope, other endpoints that are used to interact with CHD data e.g. POI's or CS terminals are also in scope.

HIPAA endpoints that are used to access, view or input patient data are in scope.

I am a QSA.
One decent underwater rock-slide in Hawaii will end the need to debate conservation in California. Likewise in the Azores for New Jersey. Nature doesn't judge nor plan, it just happens.
> attack things with their limited experience and knowledge and fail to understand things fully before heading in

Over the years I gradually came to this core truth of programming: solving problems is easy, it's understanding what the problem is that's hard.

Kinda sorta similar to "it's not about coding, it's about modelling": http://www.chris-granger.com/2015/01/26/coding-is-not-the-ne...
This is way more affordable than the same thing I saw at Harrod's for like $10,000. Awesome project! Can't wait to try this.
Two loads diverged into a rack, and I—
I implemented a weight-based round-robin balancing algorithm,
And that has made all the difference.
For any activities that really are that valuable, there is no need for a subsidy. The revenue from the activity in those cases exceeds the costs of dealing with the disaster.

The efficient thing to do is end the subsidy, and have all the less valuable activities whose benefits don't exceed the costs relocate or cease.
Grails, not because it's better then anything else out there but because Groovy is similar in syntax to JAVA and I was able to get productive quickly.
Teach Everything You Know with Nathan Barry – Chasing Product
So how much does it pay to be an Ueber driver anyway? Just curious.

PS: Über without the umlaut is spelled Ueber. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9C
There's no such thing as doping without influencing others; the indirect influences alone affect the economics of the sport.
> jobs require them to sort out systems which, without proper foundational knowledge, would seem pretty confusing and arbitrary.

But they do respond to some kind of underlying rule or rules, which can be teased out, most of the time. That can be fun in many cases.

To me, all the lit stuff seemed completely arbitrary and made up. There were no testable hypothesis, no experiments to run. "The author was trying to tell us that ..." - well unless the author actually documented that later, how do you know that with any degree of certainty?

The only English class I liked was journalism, where we were taught how to clearly and effectively communicate the facts known about something, and were rewarded by keeping things brief and to the point, rather than filling up pages with BS.
I have two related points of reference. The first is a chess game, the shifting long-term tensions of which become more perceptible and enjoyable in the opening phase as one increases in skill; and the second is another article posted not so long ago on HN about linguistic studies measuring the distance in sentences between the main subject data and the main predicate data (or similar, I may be abridging it). At the time the focus was on how much more comprehensible sentences are when that distance is short, but I kept thinking about how many of our celebrated authors and poets display virtuosity by extending that distance from time to time, building and exercising suspense.
I'm nothing.
We used construction paper to black out the back around the tablet. My guess is that the paper wouldn't like the humidity but the rest would be fine. Perhaps you could swap in some black plastic material that would work with spray adhesive.
I like to think that Roland Barthes would have loved to use "The Road Not Taken" in his piece "Death of the Author"[0]. Truly, at a scale that's frankly staggering, agency has been given to the reader—though one could also argue that the clipped version of the poem often remembered is a case of remixing and rewriting and that the agency isn't merely passive interpretation but a very active creative endeavor.

0: http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen5and6/threeEssays.html#barthes