skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I did see the link to the data you provided. Unfortunately that doesn't provide the entire picture, lets not be naïve about it. US healthcare cost is not "expensive" because it is private. Some of the main reasons why it is expensive are (i) lack of pricing transparency, (ii) redudant test culture in US healthcare, (iii) lack of expenditure in preventive care vs curative, etc. This issues can be addressed without the need of nationalising any industry.

Showing just a healthcare expenditure vs GDP figure doesn't address the root cause problem, and it defiently doesn't explain that public is better than private, and vice versa. I'm not talking out of ignorance, as my father is a orthpeadic surgeon in the public healthcare system here in Europe, and the above is a logical fallacy that doctors are well aware of.
The one that backs down can be the Chinese Walter White in a few years.
Uber did not shut down.

Anecdote, I've made numerous Balblacar rides and no one has been a "techie" yet : teacher, painter, architect, hr, whatever. Mostly young people though.
Most of today's computers only execute programs written in a single language: its instruction set.

The original Symbolics architecture ran some form of Lisp-firendly but not really Lisp instruction set. IIRC there were compilers from other languages targeting it too.
Perhaps because the lag is a bit of a pain.

I use textsecure. Sometimes messages arrive nine hours late.
Brings to mind optimisation of grep. Covered previously at HN.
The UN's been pressuring Japan for years to ban child porn comics and cartoons, which it's a leading world producer of. Japan also finally outlawed possession of actual child abuse porn last year, do you consider that fascism?
> As my opinion on a problem diverges from society's, I fit less and less with that society, prompting me to withdraw from it.

Huh. I'm finding myself experiencing this in a range of issues in recent years.
No I'm saying that still they do that today and always have done. UPnP is always off. And that's £300 and a service case open to turn it on. Then a 48 hour turnaround.

MSP=Managed Service Provider. Basically rip off merchants who charge you for everything because you are trying to run a business with the tech rather than run an operations team.
Cloudflare is down
An Open letter to anyone moving to San Francisco for a tech job
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ - Investigating - We're investigating an issue with CloudFlare.com and related APIs. The edge network delivering customer sites is not affected.

It's the frontend that is down, my websites are working fine ;)
Great photographs. Especially the cars in the grass starting to be overgrown are a 'great' and instant classic post apocalyptic image. Makes you think about the costs of our 'innovations' in general too. This is the wasteland of nuclear energy gone wrong, but there are other wastelands like this one, albeit figuratively speaking.
Would be nice you could get single 'row' too, by number like: '<url>/row/2'
There's a mechanism for randomly generating a /48 with a low probability of collision. [0] SixXS maintains a list of "allocated" prefixes, [1][2] but who knows how complete it is?

Edit: Also, you might be interested in reading about the NETMAP iptables/ip6tables target. See iptables-extensions(8) for more info.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4193#section-3.2

[1] https://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/ula/

[2] https://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/ula/list/
Back around 2004, when I was using QNX for our DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle, I discovered that the machines on the vehicle were about 20-30% loaded when idle. Although they had no keyboards or displays, the embedded CPU boards we were using did have a minimal VGA controller. We were using the default QNX install, which has the full desktop environment, and it was bringing up a screen saver. The minimal VGA controller ran the screen saver very slowly, because the screen saver was reading from the display memory to scroll, a very slow process.

All this was at low priority, so it didn't affect the real time tasks at all. So it wasn't hurting anything. The QNX people were quite embarrassed when we reported this, though.
Volkswagen used a ECM that sensed if the vehicle was being tested based on various inputs including the position of the steering wheel, vehicle speed, the duration of the engine's operation, and barometric pressure.
(source EPA.gov)
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This is what Homekit[1] (and Brillo[2] from Google) is trying to fix. We're early on in IoT - things are very immature right now but that doesn't mean the entire concept is flawed.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/homekit/

[2] https://developers.google.com/brillo/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/28/donald-trump...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/21/donald-trum...

The idea that all minorities hate him probably sits well with your wishes and that of the author of the article but it's not necessarily true.
Belgian privacy commission is threatening Facebook with fine of €250,000 a day
That probably means people use group chat.

Suppose five people chat for a minute. 20-30 lines of text sent to four people (5 minus the sender) equals 80-120 countable messages. And if Telegram users act like on some old IRC channels, and have long-running chat sessions that most attendees don't pay attention to, you can get thousands per day per user.
Want to choose the best movie to watch tonight using #python and its AST?
I was able to understand that you were offended by my post, which is fine, but if I am to take it as a wake-up call, I am going to need to understand why you found it offensive.
There used to be things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
Yes, there are a few open-source projects that you can check on our github :-)
The very nature of there being two things is a problem already.
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http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h... ?
Introducing Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet
I don't believe he's hated by women/minority voters, but he doesn't have the support needed to win the presidency, and he certainly appears to do everything he can to reduce that support.
There are no pure air superiority fighters on the market, so you'll end up with a jack of all trades in any case.
I studied physics 15 years ago. There are much more IT students now, while physics stagnated.
Those cobwebs in the supermarket are something else! (close to the end)
Apple subtly rickrolled everyone
Don Norman, the author of "The Design of Everyday Things", writes that in most cases when the fault is attributed to human operator, it is actually a design error.
While I'm not exactly sure as to the answer, I have some info which would be helpful towards answering it.

The file contains 48,140,288 frames. There are only two colors - white and black.

Only the very center of the image (where the number is) needs to be updated for each frame. This area is 400x65 pixels, so up to 26,000 pixels could be updated on each frame, minus the space between the numbers, etc., so I'd guesstimate an average of 10,000 pixels changing each frame.

Each of those 10,000 pixels can actually only be one of two values, but each occupies exactly one byte when uncompressed. So uncompressed (which GIFs normally are not), it'd be about 481,402,880,000 bytes (~0.5TB), plus the full first frame.

However, GIFs use LZW compression. While I do not know a lot about it, I would guess it would probably do quite well in this case. Perfect 100% compression would mean 1 bit per pixel rather than 8. But let's assume LZW would only manage - say - 2 bits per pixel. That'd quarter the total size, making the total about 120GB.

Of course, this all assumes that it is actually a single GIF, which I believe is extraordinarily unlikely. I would expect it's actually rendered on the fly.

Edit: I'm also assuming that the overall image is actually 1280x960 as the image in the article suggests.
I'm not sure how practical would that be: you have to conform the tightest standard out there anyway (and garages are mostly indoor venues).
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Some time from now:

- Kids, who invented cripto-currencies?

- Bank of America!
Where there's radioactivity, there are monster spiders...
In your opinion what makes it terrible for peacekeeping & observation? Isn't it just a matter of Canada not buying and integrating suitable armament? With Jdams and Paveways you have to go too close for early operations, but Canada still dropped 10% of bombs in Libya according to wikipedia. Sweden has a similar setup, missing proper ranged options but they were restricted to doing strictly recon in Libya. In the end I suspect that even if you had the ability, no-one besides USA(/UK/France/Germany) has the stockpiles/willingness to start throwing around cruise missiles in foreign ops. For smaller countries there's political reasoning behind doing enough but not everything you possibly could in foreign ops.

Not all modern fighters have started as a multi-role, but every good fighter has ended up as one.
The problem is not that they detect the test - the problem is that they modify parameters so that exhaust is within acceptable limits as imposed by law. Hiding this in open source code would be quite a feat (but not impossible [0]).

[0] http://www.underhanded-c.org/
Second-hand IPv4 addresses reaping big bucks
Ah... you haven't seen the Enterprise version of FizzBuzz then? :)
The early Macs had tiny displays, something like 512x342. The first Macs with a resolution of 1024x768 (¾ megapixel) wouldn't appear until the 90s.
The calls to itertools won't be sped up significantly. However if then you loop over the results of a call to itertools and do something to each element, then that loop might end up being much faster.
As much of a tragedy this was, this is still nothing compared to the damage coal is doing to our society. I live in a coal mining town that also has a coal-fueled power and heating plant - the number of people who suffer in some way due to this is also huge. People get lung disease due to coal dust. In winter, everything is literally covered in soot - snow is blackish, with dark dots on everything. Pretty much every house was damaged in some way by the mine - most had their walls split at least once. There are lakes around the city which are contaminated with mining water - salty solution pumped from the mine - it's prohibited to swim in it or grow any produce near it. And there's plenty of places like that in the entire country.

I'm surprised that the author still calls nuclear energy dangerous, especially since he comes from the same country I do. Coal did much more damage to us, and not having a single nuclear power plant in the whole country is really damaging to our environment.
Oh that's gross...

The worst I saw was a CS guy assigned to a Mech E place while a Mech E was assigned to a CS place.

Why???
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Why Everyone Is So Obsessed with Interest Rates (and the Fed)
Rather than going immediately to the Arctic seed vault, you would think that it would make more sense to have seed vaults a little more convenient - something like an L1 cache as compared to treating the Arctic Seed vault as main memory. (Or tape backup, if you will)
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i have 5 active group chats (i had to turn off notifications for telegram on Ubuntu Phone because of this)
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Cython is much more mature, works on basically all python code and basically never leads to slowdowns compared to pure python. Unfortunately non of that can really be said about Numba.

That being said, when Numba works it's great and is much easier to work with than cython.
One thing that grabs my attention is that the radiation levels in the contaminated zones are much lower than I thought they'd be. For context, the limit for a radiation worker in the US is 50 mSv. Obviously, I guess it depends on the radioactive isotopes released and what kind of radiation they release, but I'm still impressed.
> The problem with the Python ecosystem is that there exist a lot of libraries for scientific computation mostly incompatible with each other (blaze, numpy, numba, numexpr, dask...).

I actually disagree completely with your specific examples. These projects have mostly orthogonal goals and are actually quite compatible with each other -- they all speak NumPy arrays. In fact, three of them (Blaze, Numba and Dask) are sponsored by the same company (Continuum Analytics).

Yes, the SciPy ecosystem is a complex beast. There are lots of complementary projects and its not always clear what the best tool for the job is. There are certainly improvements we could make for easier cross-compatibility between libraries (and there are likely projects that could be consolidated), but the number of options you have for scientific computing in Python is an indication of a very robust ecosystem.
Error establishing a database connection..
You can install unsigned addons in Developer Edition. I've been using Developer Edition as my primary browser for over a year. If you're the kind of power user that needs to install unsigned extensions, it's a pretty reasonable compromise...

You can always build release channel from source.

Adding a pref to release/beta for this would defeat some of the purpose of the feature - bad actors always find ways to install their shitty extensions into the browser. When the browser does signing checks before loading them, that raises the challenge significantly vs. setting some prefs and dropping a file in the right place.

Chrome has a similar extension policy. Edge probably will too. History has shown that nothing less than this will cut it. :-(
Dan Carlin proposed the theory that Trump understood that only trying to win the GOP primary is a winning strategy for the primary.[0] Basically the primary caucus is a lot more radical than the general electorate and normal candidates have to run on a just a little bit more conservative platform than the next leading candidate, while preparing to turn around as soon as they have secured the nomination. A candidate like Trump can run on a platform that is much better suited for the primary election, because he is not planning to win the presidential election.

As an outside observer ( I am German), I think that the theory sounds interesting. However, it is possible that he tries a different maneuver to win the general election. His refusal to found a PAC may mean, that he plans to run on an anti-corruption, Washington outsider platform and basically form a analogous coalition as Syriza did in Greece. Syriza's coalition partner is a right wing populist party, they basically formed a anybody but the old boys club coalition. And my guess is, that assuming Hillary wins the Democratic nomination, there are quite a few moderates who find such a candidate attractive, even if he is a reality TV star.

[0] http://www.dancarlin.com/product/common-sense-295-trumping-t...
Didn't they offer a bounty for anyone braking their crypto? I am not sure - but thought I heard something like that.
It's still interesting to see the duality in both paradigms. Lisp goes for genericity with the cons based list, while "static languages" reimplements them under encapsulated names. I'm not trying to compare per se, just to look at both side of the coin.
Get a cheap controller and have a play. I recommend the Numark Mixtrack III [1] because it has an audio interface built in. I think it comes with Serato software, but you could download a trial of Virtual DJ [2] too.

The software processes your mp3's to detect bpm. You then select songs with similar energy and sound (this is what I feel makes a great dj), match the bpm's together and then using the headphones to cue play them together in sync and then using the fader you bring the other track in, then at some point fade the other track out.

Advanced things to do are:
1) Loop the outgoing record - most dj software allows for a single button to select and loop one bar. This allows you to mix without worrying about the old song running out of time, and/or lyrics mashing over one another.
2) Harmonic mixing.

Obligatory Plug [3]

[1] http://www.numark.com/product/mixtrack-pro-3
[2] http://www.virtualdj.com
[3] https://www.mixcloud.com/ddmfhsuk/june-cd-swap-bonkers-mixta...
Building an Intelligent Bot Using the Slack API
OpenSSL's CLI is pretty annoying, and for many (like me!) it mostly consists of copy-pasting commands into a text editor, modifying them slightly, and pasting them into a terminal. Could be better. But yeah, trusting a third party with your private keys isn't an answer.
It really depends on your use case. Cython is more flexible and suitable for libraries, but Numba is easier to write. I elaborated on this in a recent blog post: http://eng.climate.com/2015/04/09/numba-vs-cython-how-to-cho...
It's a beautiful app with features being added every month or so. It really feels like the people behind this care.
I've also managed to move most of my (at least the tech-savvy) friends from Messenger/SMS/WhatsApp to Telegram.
Biotech Drug Stocks Tank After Clinton Tweet on Price Controls
> Once you get it, it's like vacation. 20 hours max of classes per week, no homework, no practicals

When I studied philosophy here in Belgium, I attended about 10 hours of classes a week on average, and while we did have a whole bunch of papers to write every semester, overall it wasn't particularly taxing. But having a light course load allowed me to dive much more deeply into topics of interest, from the ancient sophists to the history of economics, stuff that was never going to get me better grades but that was fascinating in its own right. I also spent a lot of time at the student newspaper learning how to code, how to do print design, how to write and at the end how to manage a newsroom.

Now, more than five years later I'm back in school in an intensive statistics program, and while it's much more challenging than philosophy was, that doesn't necessarily make it better: I'm building up a huge list of "things to study after I graduate because I don't have time now" and even if I wanted to participate in e.g. the student council, I don't know where I would find the energy.

If universities are supposed to educate us to become well-rounded individuals, pushing your students to the limit so there isn't time for anything else is not necessarily such a great strategy.

I'm fully aware many people would just use any free time you give them to party. But that's part of what makes this so sad. If people never have to learn how to meaningfully organize their lives outside of school, there's a good chance they still won't know how to once they've got a job.
Fundraising seems hard, but maybe if you have enough counterexamples like this, a compelling case can be made.
Nice summary of Atmel. I had no idea that Atmel was not doing well. Atmel has the basic arduino business, although a lot of other architectures, especially newer and more powerful ones, are using the arduino framework for their CPUs. Even the newest official arduino platform is ARM based.

I'm constantly reading about how the 8-bit market is still doing well, despite the emergence of ARM. Even though the AVR hasn't really innovated much, it has picked up a lot of peripherals and low power modes which has kept the AVRs from being strictly in the bargain basement MCU market. I don't think there has been much innovation in the 8-bit market, but the AVRs have a really good programming model, especially compared to the 8-bit PICs. I don't know if that's enough to give AVRs a shot at new designs, but they're one of the best 8-bit options today, IMHO.
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a huge dump site near the ocean [1] doesn't look like the best idea.

[1] http://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/fukushima/#attachment_9454
France confirms Google must remove search results globally, or face big fines
Vaccines causes autism – Donald trump
Count me against. Had not heard from them two days ago. Then heard an ad on Spotify and after that saw their ad in a restroom at a highway restaurant.

So ok, I know their business model. I know ride-sharing is big in Germany (or at least used to be - not driving that much anymore).

But also I am not in their target group anymore. Would not invite strangers into my car, just to save some pennies/euros on gasoline. Nowadays my quite (or podcast) time while driving is way more valuable to me.

But if I were a student and had to drive greater distances - I would be in probably.
"Rather than going immediately to the Arctic seed vault, you would think that it would make more sense to have seed vaults a little more convenient"

Reliability over convenience?
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It can; Apple's approach is to distribute lists of public keys instead of single ones. The seem to have the same threat profile: Apple can be compelled to silently add a public key to the keybag; Telegram can probably be compelled to silently replace a public key with an MITMed version.
Would love to try if the game was in any way available. Are there similar options out there?
"Zhang [...] says that he was justified in publishing the results because Xie’s work was merely biochemical identification, whereas he had the idea of using magnetic fields and the protein to control cells. Xie says that this idea is obvious, and that he included it in a patent he applied for last year."

You have to love that sentence:

"The idea was obvious - I included it in my patent application!"
"Seven years ago I ended my first documentary on Chernobyl with these words:

„An immense experience, not comparable to anything else. Silence, lack of cries, laughter, tears and only the wind answers. Prypiat is a huge lesson for our generation.”

Have we learnt anything since then?"

That makes one think.
The best fix would seem to be more secure OSs like iOS and Chromebooks.
And in what way does this incoherent anti-government rant further the discussion?

You could (and maybe rightly so) argue against a lot of policies. But without providing any background even someone from Germany, like me, has probably no way of following your thought process.
Went to look at the story with my AVG 'protected' laptop and couldn't view it because the website may be a trojan!
iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, and plain old XMPP all let me switch to my laptop keyboard when my thumbs get tired. That's table stakes in the messaging game. Until the promised browser extension is released, Signal is as worthless to me as Whatsapp.
The article was published with a new url: http://www.wired.com/2015/09/bjarke-ingels-2-world-trade-cen...
According to the article, they do just such a thing! The 'L1 cache' as you call it for middle eastern dry climate crops was in Aleppo, Syria, which is no longer able to perform its function of multiplying and redistributing the seed.
What were the main issues ? the heap all the thing + GC ? the cost of cons and atomic types ? all of that ?