skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> OK, name one case where that has actually happened -- where the state has successfully coerced a doctor to accept new patients at a loss or a provider to overpay to make such a doctor/group choose to accept new patients

It has nothing to do with coercing doctors. Why would it? If a insurance network can't meet its obligations it will be fined or shut down. If an insurer has to pay more money to a doctor in some area to meet its obligations it will then have to (though undoubtedly that will be eventually passed on to its customers).

Meanwhile it's an agonizingly slow process to get justice for the people that need it, but insurance companies forced to refund money for not meeting their network coverage requirements is in the news right now, specifically because "more than 25% of physicians listed by Anthem and Blue Shield weren't taking patients in the Covered California health exchange or were no longer at the location listed by the companies, according to the state's investigation."

http://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-fi-obamacare-n...
...or "press Windows key, type 'cmd', press Ctrl+Enter, confirm the dialog, type 'regedit'" - you know the drill ;)

OTOH, with a little bit of forethought, command-line support over the phone has been unnecessary for years (screen+x11vnc+autossh+openssh-server). "Just click that icon over there...good. Now I can see both the console and the display;" I'm aware there are such commercial options for any OS - in Linux, this is quite simple to do by yourself.
I guess it is a bug in LibreOffice 5.0.2.2. This is the default version included with Ubuntu 15.10.
For hassle-free node apps deployment, I use and recommend PM2 : a [free and open source tool](https://github.com/Unitech/pm2)

As its doc states: PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js applications with a built-in load balancer. It allows you to keep applications alive forever, to reload them without downtime and to facilitate common system admin tasks.

It also provides a very nice integration with keymetrics.io, which is the paid service which finance PM2 development (they do provide a free tier).

PS: Apart from using it and loving it, I am not affiliated with this product's team.
Much appreciated. :)
#Ford and #FCA to Both Offer #Apple_CarPlay and #Android_Auto
That's because you compared a vive (current) to a DK2 (old). You couldn't possibly come to that conclusion if you tested a modern Oculus headset.
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> Before Amazon pushed Prime, you routinely had to pay for standard shipping everywhere.

Totally not true. Amazon had a free shipping option for years before Prime. You just had to select it, and sometimes you had to buy $35 or more, same as it is today.
They actually put money in development of strong encryption, €0.5M.
Here are the details from the government ordering to support OpenSSL:
https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/kst-34300-XIII-10
Either chaostheory edited their post o you missed a "the" before "business practices", presumably referring to the business practices of western countries.
The biggest sign of MS worries is the current push for Win10 - aggressive to the extreme, right up to practices that I personally consider malware ("you want that upgrade, and admit that you'll like it. Your 'no' means nothing to us. Here, let's re-enable that Clippylike abomination of GWX.exe; trust us, that's what you actually want.").
Tracking server-side is fine, it is assumed the server logs contain a record of my visits and I have no problem with that. I think what most people object to is the third-party tracking that so many people use.

Company A tracking my visits to Company A's website = OK

Company A using Google Analytics to track my visits (while also enabling Google to track me across multiple sites) = Not OK

EDIT: (replying here as we've reached max comment depth) - I was unaware that it is possible to use Google Analytics server-side only (is this true?) but I hope my original point is still clear, DIY tracking is fine.
The idea to write a tiny modular driver came to me because of need. Sometimes developers do not need a write and simply need to read a file. Sometimes they want a very minimal read and then would like to write. This would be in case of storing ADC samples and then transferring it via a wireless interface or if a USB is connected they would want to mount the space as a drive.
You asked for fear three times in a row. People tried to make you understand that 'fear' isn't the problem. I'm not sure how to state it more clearly: "It's not fear"

You presented a very weird case to begin with by implying that the reason people wouldn't want to be tracked is 'fear'. Why?

Maybe you're really just saying "Okay, ignoring all the other reasons why you might not like tracking: Are there any inherent flaws in tracking/something we can do to make this more trustworthy", but right now I feel as if you're presenting a weird "Either you consent to us tracking you or you fear something (specific)" choice.
>But another good example is rewriting an if/else chain as a dictionary lookup or repetitive code as a tuple of operations followed by a for loop.

I'm familiar with the dictionary lookup method but not the tuple. Perhaps it's obvious but could someone please give an example?
Why criminal charges? He wasn't defrauding members of the public, all the relevant information is in the balance sheets (as we can see in this blog!) and the investors who lost out were big equity market players who really should have known better.

The extraordinary thing is buying a business with $371m of inventory for $115m.
Yes, the OpenBSD folks have forked it as LibreSSL.
Interesting somewhat related talk from Tony Schwarz in the Leading @ Google series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tke6X2eME3c

"Demand is relentlessly rising. Our capacity is not keeping pace. The traditional solution to higher demand has been to invest more time. Unfortunately, time is finite, and most of us have no hours left to invest. Energy, however, can be systematically expanded --- and it can also be regularly renewed. To operate at our best, we need four energy sources: physical (quantity), emotional (quality), mental (focus), and the energy of the human spirit (purpose). This talk will focus on the role of energy in fueling sustainable high performance, and in motivating others."

...which relates to the work he does at the Energy Project - http://theenergyproject.com/
It's not full-text search, it's specifically a very limited search space (tags), which is why Redis is likely a very good solution to this problem.
There was a pretty serious security issue in it, but it was fixed. A lot of people were predicting the end of OpenSSL, but at the end of the day, most viable alternatives came around too late for people to phase it out.
> 1) It is opinionated (wasting time for decisions is bad)

I've wasted A LOT of time debating controller vs directive; asController syntax; service classes vs static factories vs rich models (resources); best way to deal with nested components etc. The problem is, most of the time I wasted with decisions in React was right in the beginning (deciding on how you control flow, how you build your app)... But with angular, all the pain points came late in the game when you thought you had done a helluva job designing a GREAT app, then you slowly come to realize its a tangled tag soup piece of crap.

> 2) It is simpler to organize the code (it is MVC)

If you call it MVC, then Id case it like this: mVc ... because the view portion of it is enormous! In fact, the very idea that they made the "template" do so many things is a huge reason why it could be considered a very bad flavor of MVC to begin with.
If the OP is correct, then it is not the market that is enforcing the insurance scheme to reject cover for him based on pre-existing conditions, but rather the state that is making it illegal for schemes to be tailor-made for specific (pre-existing) conditions.
Old BASIC implementations often stored the code in a tokenized form to reduce the memory the code needs and to slightly speed up interpretation.

One fun issue on C64's BASIC was that you could force the interpreter to not tokenize lines, but they were printed verbatim on "list" - totally invisible to the user. Printing the line, then having BASIC parse the same output fixed the issue. Although the error was pretty obvious IIRC (some fatal interpreter error aborting operation).

I'm not sure what the TI machines did. There may have been some odd tokenization error in that line and by rewriting it, you kicked off the parser which made the bug go away.
Unless of course the problem you're trying to fix is a network problem.
Guess it depends on the target audience. If you're launching cube-sat's to 100,000 ft for some pre-testing purposes, then "satellite" might make sense.

eg environment testing of cube-sat's at 100,000 ft, as part of their dev cycle prior to real (rocket) launch

Other than that though... "High-altitude balloon cube-sat", or "Atmospheric cube-sat" maybe? :)
> traffic outbound to the internet from the echo

A paranoid fear would be that the Echo could be recording additional traffic (based on special stealthy trigger words maybe) and sending that traffic later, in conjunction with regular traffic recorded for the regular trigger word, so as to escape detection. It does sound a bit harder to pull off, I just wanted to point out that spying on the traffic won't get you perfect security if (as I expect) the traffic is encrypted.

> Honestly, if you're worried about this sort of thing, you shouldn't own a cell phone.

Fair point, but as further comments pointed out, taking one kind of risk doesn't mean you're OK with taking more of the same kind of risk. :)

I already take fair precautions against my cell phone, but I have to concede that, with radio firmwares being proprietary, it seems true that any cell phone nowadays is as risky as the echo.
You're a bit mistaken. A lot of FOSS political warrghble happened, but OpenSSL still remains the most audited and used SSL library out there.

Yes, it may have bugs. Yes, the NSA may have tampered with the standards themselves (that everyone else must also implement, else risk compatiblity issues in some areas).

But there are no drop in alternatives that aren't based on the same codebase, and almost no one is using any alternatives: NSS (Mozilla's framework) is rarely used outside of Firefox, GnuTLS is rarely used, I've never heard of anyone using PolarSSL outside of very specific embedded projects, and LibreSSL (a OpenSSL fork) is being adopted only as a license-related political response, and BoringSSL is Google's response to the entire thing (their own OpenSSL fork that they control, to just ignore the entire political bullshit).
>"The reason nobody could sell you insurance with your pre-existing condition before is that regulations prevented making plans for conditions"

I didn't know about this, but it changes quite a bit regarding pre-existing conditions. Could you please point me to a citation or something about this?
This is by Bill Gosper who discovered the Glider Gun for Conway's Game of Life and Hashlife a way to enable huge, long Life runs to be calculated.

http://golly.sourceforge.net/Help/Algorithms/HashLife.html

http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Gosper_glider_gun
All kind of Startups jobs in Switzerland
I wonder how much engineering time went in to the memory/performance tuning by using the slave? And I wonder how much they saved on their hosting bill?

I don't know the answers to these, but the addition of the slave and the patches to Redis set off my "not worth it" alarm. If they are constrained on the development resource, that would be even worse.
When everyone has guns, the police have to have guns. Not only that, they're scared. All The Time. Traffic stop? Might have a gun. Stop and search? Might have a gun.

One fuck up and you've got death, permanent pain, or some other outcome that's pretty fucking unpalatable. (I assume that at least cops in the US have gold plated health insurance...?)

Here is my question. How much of the problem endemic to US police is on account of a culture of fear. Citizens should not fear the police, but that works both ways.

I'm just spitballing here.
If you're not Australian or especially if you are, this is an fascinating talk by Dick Smith (including quite a bit about his round the world helicopter trips!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1eivQNtulE
A Good Content Writer Is Not Just Someone Who Knows How to Write
The CSS px unit is actually usually (for high-DPI devices) defined as 1/96″.
> I'd rather bet that real Dell outsourced tech support to some company in India, where very often business ethics towards customer records is virtually non-existent.

Can you provide a citation to support your claim about business ethics in India? That's a rather negative statement about a large number of people. I've downvoted your comment but I'm happy to reverse that if you can back up your claim.
President Obama were the most admired man in the U.S.2015
I've got an old Android phone always plugged in, connected to a THX system on top of my fridge/freezer, for doing things like automatically playing music in the morning. Exploring what other things I can get it to do with Tasker atm.

OK Google works, but the mic really isn't as good as the array on Echo. I've been looking into external mics for Android - will test with simple omni mics first but ideally an external array mic would be the best choice.
Seems quite undervalued at $10. I would expect this to cost $20-$30!
It's nice, meanwhile "we" now have a law being debated by government (not sure it will pass) that allows the government to hack individuals if they are suspect, this may even happen via people the suspect may know. It even includes being allowed to install spyware on a webcam.

But I guess it is good to leave encryption strong, forget about mass surveillance and focus energy on individuals actually suspected of a crime.

The cynic in me thinks the reasoning was: "We need a European Google", "We see that Europeans distrust American companies because of NSA economic spying in the past", "Let's make the Netherlands more attractive for large European companies"... no Idealism involved.

Edit: Updated original post: This new law ("Wet Computercriminaliteit 3") has not been passed yet!
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Output power is a setting in your wireless driver. Just set it to whatever is appropriate. (Getting your neighbor onboard is probably the bigger challenge.) Getting the power just right is a big part of planning large scale wifi installations. You could also put dampening (basically a resistor-like thing) in line with your antenna.

There's been several proposals how to do this automatically, which would do a lot for the congestion problem you mention, for the IEEE standardization process. But I have no idea if they made it into the newer standards. Unless you actively cooperate with your neighbors, it turns into a tragedy of the commons. The one with the power regulating equipment will have worse performance to start with, but if everyone has it then everyone benefits.
Pixen costs the same so I guess that's why?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixen/id525180431?mt=12
If I'm thinking of the same thing (and I believe I am), the vote actually happened a month or so ago.

The original proposal was to give 500k euro to OpenSSL but what actually was approved was to spread that out amongst OpenSSL, PolarSSL (which, I think, comes from .nl), and LibreSSL, in a manner that was not yet determined.

Personally, I'd prefer to see the majority of it go to the guys working on LibreSSL simply because I think it would have the most impact there. I somewhat expect most of it go to OpenSSL, however, if for no other reason than it being the most widely used of the three.
Except what if "characteristics within that structure" also have structure? Attributes are an ugly, crippled special case of a tree node; they make some sense in a markup language, but for serializing data, I see zero point in using them.

As for why UIs are represented in XML? It seems like a simple case of people getting used to it before JSON was popular. XML is a default choice for Java and for C#. It also looks vaguely familiar to HTML.
You don't get to dictate to people what is a non-issue to them and what is not. Everyone has different experiences which affects their outlook and what they deem important.

> I have kids, they get home crying, because people call them this or that. So, it's time to grow up.

The "sticks and stones" argument, really? How about you call the next black person you see the N-word and then tell them to grow up when s/he becomes 'sensitive'.
Global listener patterns in React
I've never agreed with that. Without a good definition of what exactly it means to "look and act like a Card", large projects can easily get several slightly different definitions of what a Card is like, and nobody knows exactly which methods to use where (so what exactly do I need to implement so my class is a "file-like object"?). Horrible.

I call it smurf typing. If it smurfs like a smurf, smurfs like a smurf and possibly smurfs like a smurf, we consider it a smurf. Good luck with that information.
For me in SF, it hasn't been an issue. We are PPO blue shield which everyone takes.
True :)

What I've seen (keeping the user systems on LTS Ubuntu releases, with network essentially a dumb pipe to the Internet), my common issue of this type is "ISP endpoint went down, oh well, just powercycle it". In other words, when there was a network problem, access to command line at the workstations was not needed.
Without knowing the details, I think this sounds fine as long as there is reasonable suspicion, it is approved by a court or judge, and a warrant is issued to conduct the surveillance.
The cryptography example doesn't really make sense...
And it's free if you compile it yourself from source; Linux binaries are also provided for free [1]. But I love it so much I was happy to chip in a bit toward development.

[1] Don't use version in the Debian repos - resizing the window doesn't work.
One consideration that's worth thinking about is that XML serialization is larger (often not insignificantly) than the same data serialized as JSON.

On the other hand, XML can make error handling much easier by schema-validating received documents and thus rejecting a large class of invalid inputs at an early stage. This is particularly helpful if you're making something interoperable, like a public API.

So even when you're just using a library, there are ramifications to the decision.
As a stepping stone to a peer-to-peer service.
For compiling it's rare (though pre-processor abuse is a good way of creating evil messes like that).

But totally changing runtime behaviour with seemingly unrelated code changes is usually a good indicator that you've managed to trash the stack. A compiler that manages to trash its stack, now that has potential for some extreme levels of frustration.
If they're adding features purely for the convenience of python shell users, how about, I don't know, remove the need for significant whitespace (by adding "end block" statement). Because Python shell is a major pain to use when you try to copy-paste some code into it and it doesn't like the indentation levels. On the other hand I can copy-paste whatever into my Lisp REPL and it will run just fine. Or allow several statements per lambda. Saving a few keystrokes writing ".format" doesn't even register on the same scale of annoyance.
How's it different from active pens that graphics tablets have been using for some 20 years now?

EDIT: Yes, wacom mostly uses passive pens. But active pens are not new, Wacom has been shipping them for a few years, too, as has been the competition. Cf. the pens of the Surface and Yoga notebooks.
Ok, let's take the points one by one.

XPath: JSON doesn't need this in, say, Python or Javascript. You write normal code once it's a Python/JS dict/array/list and you're done. I don't need yet another language, I have general purpose ones that will do just fine.

Attributes and namespaces: these can sort of be faked, but fair enough. But then you get discussions on what should be an attribute and what shouldn't...

Schema: pretty sure this exists for JSON

XSL: Ah, the poor man's Lisp macros... And, again, easier to do in code in a scripting language.
Indeed, it is the way to go imo, it is akin to a steak-out, hacking friends and family though... a bit fishy.
Bytecode cache is experimentally released in Ruby2.3
Three Years as a One-Man Startup
That article talks about fines for overstating their networks -- stating in marketing materials that they had more participating doctor availability in given region(s) than they actually had availability for all policies offered. False advertising, in a sense.

That is very different from the problem statement: how do you make a network offer inducements at a loss to recruit additional providers?

I'd guess that most people buying off CoveredCA.org don't even bother to look at participating providers accepting new patients before buying a policy. There is no element of law that says to an underwriter, "Hey, you gotta add more providers in this area and that area now, or we will punish you." The law doesn't give government that power.
As an American unhappy with the way our government is heading (backdoors in encryption), I would love to see a "European Google". I am certainly no expert in laws in the EU but, as I understand it, the data protection laws there are actually pretty good. I would much rather handle/host my data in countries where the companies are held to these standards.
This is still exactly what the private use area is for: "I want a code that tells this particular font to show this particular symbol, and nobody will need to know what this code meant 20 years from now".
Dutch here. The argumentation is remarkably good. The privacy like you have with letters and phone calls is part of our constitution, and also part of European guidelines. The rules to violate this privacy, only in certain cases, is already part of the law (eg. wiretaps under suspicion). ISPs have to cooperate where possible.

That the dutch intelligence services are now hampered by end-to-end encryption making the ISPs have no way to cooperate any more, is basically the problem of the intelligence services to solve, and not a legal problem. Hence, encryption stays in place.
> Wikipedia's mission is NOT about usability, but to provide an encyclopedia that can be used, edited, forked, reproduced EVERYWHERE without anyone having to fear lawyer attacks.

To that, I say [citation needed]. Where in their mission statement do they state this particular stance on lawyer attacks?
Anyone and everyone, it was floated as an IPO to the ASX. http://www.theage.com.au/business/dick-smith-flat-after-unde...
cf. heartbleed [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
Author here! You're totally right, I've just added a shrinkwrap section.

PS. npm v3 still needs it, in fact it makes it better - `install --save` updates the shrinkwrap file.

Re: checking in modules, I used to do this during 2013 when npm was up and down every few days, but stopped a couple of years ago after npm Inc stabilised everything. It's been solid so far and the smaller repo sizes (and faster deploys) have been worth it.
The EU has a remarkable track record on implementing the best of its constituent governments policies on human rights and privacy, so there's hope there.
If a insurance network can't meet its obligations
it will be fined or shut down

What are you claiming its obligations are? Its obligations are to pay valid claims made by covered parties. It does not have a legal obligation to add provider capacity to a given region.
It would be good to sumbit a ticket for the original hanging bug as well, if one doesn't already exist.