skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental truth about health care is that no amount of taxation or insurance can live up to the demand. Even if you taxed every citizen a 100% there still wouldn't be enough to pay for healthcare.

And so every society find themselves in one of the most complex paradoxes of modern times.

If you tax your way to healthcare and provide everyone with free healthcare like in ex. Denmark, then access to treatment is equal but it's always a cost center and your will always mostly lag behind access to the latest treatments.

The only way to be able to pay for new equipment or new medicine is either through higher taxes or by budget cuts somewhere else.

If you go the insurance way of the US and try to let market forces rule then you end up with highly inflated prices and a younger generation that don't insure themselves and therefore don't pay for the healthcare system until they need it which drives up the prices of the insurance (hence Affordable Care Act).

Here the access isn't equal but you have some of the best specialists in the world and always the latest treatments.

Then there are countries in the middle trying to find a balance like Switzerland, Germany, the UK and France but even here I fear that no one have found a perfect system either.

So no matter how you try and pay for it whether trough trade agreements or NGO etcs that problem still applies. Someone always have to pick up the bill and the bill is potentially infinitely big.

Edit: For clarification
So you consider the behaviour to be normal? It's very difficult to behave normally when focussing on a particular behaviour, most people are not very good actors IME.

Would be interested if you can recreate this as a demonstration; also a video showing the behaviour would be great, I'd certainly attempt a duplicate.

>What would be perceived as customer interest as a non-minority customer is perceived as suspicious as a minority customer. //

I perceive problems with this line of thinking - for example any young solo male at the store I work at is suspicious. Does that mean I'm ageist and sexist? No, just that this demographic is contrary to the normal use of our services; moreover the only major theft we've had was by someone in this demographic.

We might fail to notice someone else stealing because our attention is elsewhere whilst with people in that demographic our attention will be much more tightly focussed; according to our records this has never happened however.

In your opinion is it wrong for us to behave in this way?
It's a great testament to the how NYC has improved that this is even possible. In the 1980's, just the notion of doing something like this as a public park would be laughed out of the room.
Thanks. An example use case would be, say given a movie name you want a movie's ratings in IMDB, TMDB, RT and other online reviewing site. I would create a container and add the tmdb search endpoint with the movie name which will give the list of results sorted by relevance, from that response I'll pick the movie name and TMDB rating to the final response and pipe the IMDB_ID from the response to a parameter of IMDB which will then give it's results from which I'll send the rating to the final response and so on..

The final response would be the Movie name, TMDB Rating, IMDB Rating, etc.. You can customize the key names in the final response too.

The APIs would be called sequential so a response from one API can be passed in as a parameter to the next.

As for the other parameters to be passed to these URLs, you can either send it as a parameter while calling the root URL or can be stored static in the app while configuring the container.
4 interesting implications of Walmart's open-source cloud announcement
It means certs signed by Let's Encrypt will work just fine for people without any special setup. See https://helloworld.letsencrypt.org/ for an example.

This does not, however, mean that we can all start using Let's Encrypt. They're doing a slow roll-out before making certs generally available to the public. You can apply for the Beta at https://goo.gl/forms/kf0IGCeAk5, or wait until general availability later this year.
Does anyone else find this hard to read? Small grey type on a white background makes it look more like terms and conditions than an article.
Also, if you're paused at a wait point, the console has access to local scope, so you often don't even need to create a global variable, just start using the local ones directly.
Yep, if you get a certificate signed by one of their intermediate certificates, you're good to go.
CMD+F 'foundation'
mfw >red
Looks cool!
I see the landing page doesn't express all things the tool can do. Might want to add bullets about the same features you've written here?
Someone write those dudes a mail please, they be good with that sort of stuff https://www.eff.org/
I hope the irony of such an article being published in a pay-walled journal wasn't lost on its authors.
>"Do you suppose they price those such that a trivial stock pair hedge will make money?"

The example was just for illustration purposes, a simplified version of how it works.

>"Also options trading is a regulated marketplace"

Is that right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_(finance)#OTC_and_e...

"Over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives are contracts that are traded (and privately negotiated) directly between two parties, without going through an exchange or other intermediary. Products such as swaps, forward rate agreements, exotic options – and other exotic derivatives – are almost always traded in this way. The OTC derivative market is the largest market for derivatives, and is largely unregulated with respect to disclosure of information between the parties, since the OTC market is made up of banks and other highly sophisticated parties, such as hedge funds. Reporting of OTC amounts is difficult because trades can occur in private, without activity being visible on any exchange."

>"Finally 'yummyfajitas is an ex-HFT who has written good blog posts on the subject."

I would welcome yummyfajitas 's feedback. I'm not attacking yummyfajitas, if that's what you're implying.
Some further info from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_radiation_experiments#Ex...
And to expand on this, I've had friends accept (on paper) job offers, show up, and either the job was completely non-existent or completely changed. Happened to my gf when we moved to Denver. A friend took an offer, moved to Chicago, showed up on Monday and got "never mind".
Ask HN: What startups are innovating in affordable housing?
I think this is a huge problem – particularly in the UK – and was wondering whether there are any innovative building companies disrupting the housing market?
Not sure what you mean by "no Ctrl-L" (no shortcut to jump to address bar?); most connection issues with off-brand browsers are SSL-related:

http://download.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf/releases/ChangeL...

Removed support for all SSL versions due to vulnerabilities.
Google is launching a new email product to help marketers
Learning “Office-Speak”
> "Nearly every time, the cost of the stock plus the cost of the put option will be exactly the same as the values of all expected outcomes."

Can you explain this further? Are you suggesting that you're obtaining the put option and the stock from the same source?
"Move fast" certainly applies to jet engines, but "break things" results in lots of expensive high-velocity shrapnel.
Weird, I felt a huge latency gap between the two. Of course dillo renders things naively so it's almost an immediate mode, but it also regularly display things under 0.5s[1] which feels impressively good.

[1] if not lower... I can't time it, but to describe it I'd say, rendering is done when the Return key is up. Seriously nice.
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dwb is dead too, fortunately there is a replacement for that too: https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser .

It's already pretty much a drop-in replacement. The dev is very responsive and friendly as well.
I used to help port Linux to various devices like the HP Jornada [0] or the Ben Nanonote [1], both of which have (up to) 32MB of RAM available.

Finding a suitable web browser with reasonable support for "modern" web standards (basically CSS2) and a lightweight footprint was terribly hard... the better ones, as I remember them, were:

1) Dillo[2], which was one of the most lightweight graphical browsers under active development, albeit a bit light on features as well... FLTK is a great toolkit, and runs well on resource-starved devices like the ones mentioned above.

2) Netsurf[3], a relative newcomer, had one of the best rendering engines out there considering its lightweight footprint. It too is under active development, and is moving towards HTML5 and CSS3 compatibility. Has GTK2 and framebuffer backends, the last of which is better in terms of memory footprint.

3) Konqueror-Embedded[4], which hasn't seen development since the mid-2000s, was actually the only browser with reasonable support for web standards and support for Javascript. Built against QT2 (which is a massive chore in itself), it runs fast and has a low memory footprint.

4) Links-hacked[5], which again hasn't seen any development in more than 10 years, worked pretty well in graphical mode. It's a mix between elinks code (before Javascript support was gutted out) and links2 code (for the graphical parts).

Some failed experiments were:

Firefox version 1.0.8, last release with GTK 1.2 support, was, unfortunately, too slow to run in any reasonable way. Startup time was around 1:30 minutes on the HP Jornada, and navigating to any web-page took more than 3 minutes.

Hv3[6], a browser and engine built in TCL/TK, looked promising but was a nightmare to compile and never worked correctly.

Finding modern software that can run well in such memory-constrained enviroment was hard enough, let alone something as complex as a web rendering engine.

[0]: https://deuill.org/page/1/jlime-vargtass
[1]: https://deuill.org/page/3/jlime-muffinman
[2]: http://www.dillo.org/
[3]: http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
[4]: https://konqueror.org/embedded/
[5]: http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~karpov/links-hacked/
[6]: http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/hv3.html
Good points. I think the hidden terms here are "ratio variables" vs "interval variables". It's not obvious that 200 degrees (Kelvin) is twice as hot as 100 degrees. But almost everyone is going to agree that water at 300K feels hotter than water at 280K (though this may not work across materials, as you note).

What we can do with our temperature scale is build a model that says every time we convert n liters of oil into heat and direct it at x liters of water we get a change of temperature of y degrees. Reliably, and with small margin of error.

We can't do this with GPD, and if we declare that a 10% increase in education spending will lead to a 5% increase in GDP over 15 years, we don't have a testable scientific model, we have a guess based on our interpretation of extremely messy data.
So, one of the issues I have here is that a lot of interviewing is done without structure, and judgements are so often made based off woolly ideas like 'culture fit' which often just mean rapport.

It's actually often the interviewer who feels nervous interviewing a woman, or a person of colour... and that prevents them from forming a rapport.

With the best will in the world, if you tell someone to be meritocratic and sit them down with someone with whom they have little in common and may never meet socially they'll be less at ease and may not make a human connection and that indirectly penalises the candidate.

One thing that helps here is to have very structured interviews, as having a clear and uniform structure can help interviewers feel more at ease. There are other benefits too.
Problems with the Human Brain Project
"Culture of Failure"

Good luck selling that to upper management.

On the contrary, quick iterations are about reducing the risk of building the wrong thing. Of course in the normal "blaming" corporate culture this won't work, because departments are always competing over budget and deliverables that are not "perfect" will be used as ammunition against the department where the product came from.
The relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right

The question of how to enforce "Database Rights" boils down to proving that the data is both yours (through the use of fake data like trap streets), and that the act of compiling the data is non-trivial.
Yes, and actually I am a libertarian in that debate, but I think one can successfully defend a compatibilist view.
AFAIK, no it's not. However, this is the solution as far as I see it. When you buy a domain name from a registrar they should give you a mini-CA that's valid for just that domain for as long as the domain is registered. Then it's up to you to create and sign any certs for any subdomains. This would cut out the CA businesses entirely, enabled security-by-default, and simplify the whole system.
> (I personally wouldn't work with a company in China jurisdiction when it comes to security products.)

I could say the same for most countries.
Why It Matters That Women's Hearts Age Differently to Men's
Wow, just like..... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass
The easiest way to stay focused is often to seek more challenging work. If your most difficult class is "history of The Beatles"[1] then you are likely to be board and look for other entertainment. If you are doing well on classes towards your major consider some other classes to experiment with.

I was a mechanical engineering major and I regret not taking more computer classes in college. Think of this as a time to learn and experiment. There is a good chance you will appreciate more breadth in a few years. Even smart college students don't always know what they will really end up doing in life.

Another option at a bigger school is to look into undergraduate research work in one of the labs on campus. We regularly host engineering or physics students and they tend to enjoy it, get some valuable experience, get paid, and earn a good recommendation for their next phase in life.

There is also nothing wrong with working on side projects. Just spend a little time thinking about how you can use them as a piece of your resume when you graduate.

[1] my sister had similar problems feeling unmotivated in college, and I found out she was on this schedule. Adding other classes helped a lot in her case.
Is it a quantum computer? I am curious about the secret behind the device.
Germany tried that, in the end they've spent more money on migrating to OpenOffice and then even more money on migrating back.

This is also the case of every company I've seen that decided to migrate away from windows based workstations to Linux ones.

They've spent a fuckload of money on porting their tools, training, hiring linux support guys for end-user related tiers and then still nothing worked like they've planned.

Also Office is pretty much free in the enterprise world you pay pretty much absolutely nothing for it the majority of the costs go into CAL costs mainly for Exchange which you'll use Outlook to access. Even if you do not use Outlook to access exchange you'll still pay for those CAL's just that the pricing will not go through the office license but now through the Exchange one, same thing goes if you are using SharePoint for collaboration etc.

If all of a sudden you stop using office and you don't pay those 93.4$ Band-E prices per installation or w/e you'll notice your exchange License pricing to go up the next day to accommodate for the built-in CAL license in office which you do not get with 3rd party software.
Ken Taylor, Legendary Canadian Diplomat, Dies at 81
Did a pair of teens seriously hack CIA Director John Brennan?
I think that quadcopters used for FPV racing generally don't appear in the areas where drone identification would be a need.
More of the "No True Scotsman" apologia for why Agile fails so often. I especially liked this gem:

>Team members reject Agile methodologies openly, as they do not want to be pushed out of their comfort zones.

I can't say I'd feel bad if a failed, Agile approach was not in my comfort zone.
Check this out:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/14/sunday-review/...

Perfect use of male condom: 18% chance of conception after 10 years. Typical usage: 86% chance of conception after 10 years.

Even "the pill": 3% chance at conception after 10 years with perfect use. 61% chance of conception with typical usage.

Everyone thinks they use contraception correctly. It may be true for anyone reading this forum, but if you're looking at policy, you have to account for typical usage. Education campaigns can move "typical" closer to "perfect" usage, but IUDs and sterilization are pretty much the only types of birth control that offer more than 50% chance of not conceiving in 10 years.
It's very easy to lose. Flash crash, transaction fees, your underlying model assumptions suddenly failing. Maybe you simply are doing worse than the S&P which is a failure in itself.
"Yes", except that general availability doesn't come until the week of November 16th.
Also Science involves some prediction power. Is economy prediction-able? If so, how accurate are its predictions?

Does it qualify as an actual prediction? Broken clocks are correct twice a day but...
if you type .LOG on the first line of Notepad, it will also put a timestamp (just like if you had pressed "F5") https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/260563
The Loop Extrusion Model of DNA
Adam Draper: Investors Don't Want to Hear the Word Bitcoin
It isn't foolproof, user installed Root CAs or roots installed by 3rd party applications are given permission to override pins. So HPKP wouldn't protect against scenarios like Superfish.

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html
The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
In other news Water is wet.

Of course Wikipedia is going to favor open access sources. The average volunteer editor isn't going to have easy access to the paywalled specialized journals on a when editing or creating an article. Having the articles be openly searchable and non-paywalled means that a editor volunteer can drop the citation in easily and without having to go through the various hoops of getting someone who has access to the paywalled sources.
Yes using "Name Constraints" but that RFC / extension is really broken, and implementations don't support it. See 4.2.1.10 of https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280.
Httpie: A CLI http client
One of us as long as the ethics and laws he breaks are what we find personally agreeable. Skirt rental laws and you become popular because so few people understand the reason for those laws. Skirt child labor laws and you don't, because people do see the major wrong, even if what you are providing for those children is a better alternative than any of their other choices.

In this case, the guy violated copyright law, one of the laws people tend to not agree with, so he is popular.
Personal recommendations are appreciated; Wikipedia's pages are rather overwhelming.

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

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

I'll add OffByOne for Windows, a demo of an ancient (2006) ActiveX control: http://offbyone.com/offbyone/
Dude, at least pretend to comment on the content and as a side note, comment on the form. How would you feel if someone commented that way on a matter you wrote about concerning an issue you consider important?
I wouldn't describe the IEA as being on the fringes - they apparently have had a fair bit of influence over the years:

http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/how-to-abolish-the-nhs

Edit: I should point out that I don't agree with them - just pointing out that there are established well funded entities who oppose the NHS - presumably on purely ideological reasons.
As somebody who uses this argument, and somebody who cares about reasoned debate, I must disagree.

Agile is not a standard. There is no class, there are no tests, and there is no governing body to determine whether you are agile or not.

As such, it's just a marketing term around best practices in iterative and incremental development. Along with XP and the latest hotness in CI/CD/DevOps/etc, it's where you go to see how the cool kids are doing it.

Since it's "cool stuff that works most of the time in hi-tech teams", the real question here is this: are you trying new stuff? If so, are you trying stuff that seems to work for a lot of people?

If you are not, then, by definition, you are not "doing agile" (or however you want to phrase it). If you are, good for you! You still might suck, but at least you'll suck in different and interesting ways.

So in this case the writer is correct. The "No True Scotsman" label does not apply. There are no Scotsmen to begin with.

ADD: And of course the flip-side to my argument is also true. Don't get me started with the folks who think that simply because you're doing various Agile practices you should automatically be succeeding -- or the folks that think "if we were only doing Scrum the right way". I've had a lot of headaches there.

Tools exist to get work done. If the work is not getting done, use a different tool. "Agile" is simply the sign over the place in the hardware store we go to get certain kinds of tools. We understand and apply tools expertly, but we do not do work by spending all of our time and energy being focused on tools. Instead, good tools allow us to focus our time and energy on the problem.
Pictures of the yak sent by Snapchat, of course.
A minor nit: Thomas Snell et al. v. The Atlantic Fire and Marine Insurance Company is the opinion which follows Thomas M. Cooley's opinion you are quoting here.
that's exactly what entrepreneur and investor visas are. And for investors, you don't even need to pass English test
USDJPY: Biased to the Upside on Bull Pressure
I've dived deeply, and I have yet to see a single cogent argument in favour of leaving - they have all fallen under the category of "parade of horribles". The motivation to leave comes from whitehall and can be summed up as "power and money" , and is perfectly rational for those proponents of a departure - but in order to garner broader support they must have "reasons" which appear reasonable, but toy with basic emotions.

Do you have a sane, rational argument in favour of leaving?
The headline is wrong and not very clever for such a project.

The project was able to get a CA to sign their keys, this is what happened. Using the word "trust" is simply wrong and might be interpreted as a too simple kind of propaganda after we learned a lot about the untrustable nature of a hierarchical certification infrastructure.

Another, even bigger trust-breaking elephant in the room is the fact that this project is USA based - as long as US government and agencies are insisting on practices we know from authoritarian and anti-democratic states like e.g. China or Saudi-Arabia there is no way any US based project can use the word "trust" for their product description - it might be recognized as a simple lie by informed people.

Questions to the project leaders:

* you must obey US laws and therefore offer MITM access to every Let's-Encrypt "trusted" network stream - why aren't you educating your users about this serious limitation of your product?

* why don't you rebase your project to a country where a government policy exists that is allowing companies to build trustable security based products?
How Many U.S. Federal Laws Are There? (2013)
Perhaps the issue is that when saying anything is moral, ethical, or legal, we seem to be acting as if there is some universal system of morals, ethics, or laws that we are applying to.

Even the worst behavior is moral, ethical, and legal given certain frameworks.