skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Case 1 and 2 are the same whether or not you tell people up front, and if so it is downright unethical not to, as e.g. in scenario 1, poor people end up being charged more for something they might have been able to save massive amounts on by travelling to a different hospital for non-emergency treatment. Yes, you'd need to include other information, like information about outcomes.

Regarding #3, I find that peculiar. Yes, for major operations there are always potential outliers, and you need to give a range and there may be potential large exceptions. But e.g. UK private providers will happily give you a quote in advance for most non-emergency care, and for anything with a straighforward diagnosis they will be willing to give you a fixed fee quote with certain exceptions. Not least because they have the volume to either self-insure, or get insurance to cover exceptions.
I really like this. When I think about the most interesting comments, they are the ones where a reader adds something to the article, whether an anecdote, a correction, an educated opinion, etc. This system preserves that and removes the mud slinging. It also preserves the page views, as people are encouraged to return and read--perhaps with some "remind-me" mechanism.

I could see other permutations of his idea as well: you can only reply to the article, once you view the comments, it no longer accepts a comment from you; keep comments open but delay comments by one or two days--allows slow back and forth, not flame wars. Or allow replies, but only one comment per user. There are a lot of mechanisms to explore here.
Hacking (or spoofing -- Joe-job spam) accounts is an issue.

If a messaging system requires some local-only authentication token -- a keyfob or bracelet-generated code, say. Or possibly a token integrated into hardware (EUIDs on smartphones, etc.). Or some mix of the above.

"Who are you?" is the most expensive question in information technology. No matter how you get it wrong, you're fucked.

An advantage of a many-server, or peer-to-peer system, is that the sending server's reputations themselves are far more individually chuncked out. Gmail, as a spam source (or Yahoo, or AOL, or Hotmail, or ...) is a problem because it's almost certainly nonviable to reject all messages from such a major, centralised, service provider.

But if the server operates for only an individual, or family, or small neighborhood, spam-originating issues become both more specific, and more tractable for that site's operators.

The two-level encryption system need not be PGP. In some senses, it's TLS + PGP, as session* information is encrypted to all but the receiving host, though alternate systems might be presented.

A voucher system -- where other peers vouch for an unknown one -- might be interesting. Incoming mail shows up, receiving server sends a "who vouches for you?" request (either to the originating server or via a DNS-like system). The vouches are assessed. Vouchers' own reputations are on the line as well, and there should probably be some closed-loop feedback here.

Which gets to another issue -- a huge part of the email spam problem is the failure to close loops. That's where centralised systems have helped, somewhat, simply in generating enough critical mass to get things moving. But to take as an example (and one I've had massive issues with), Yahoo has a specific format they want their spam reports received in. I'm totally down with that.

But there are no end-user tools (at least at my last check a few years ago) which will generate those reports.

There's no script I can bounce mail through to generate a Yahoo-specific spam report. And the attempts I've made to self-report spam to Yahoo (a practice I've long since abandoned) meet with multiple levels of cluelessness.

This is a problem at any level of messaging infrastructure -- the inability to hold to account either the sender directly, or the sender's infrastructure. Take phone and SMS spam. Spoofing of origin numbers is rampant, and carriers aren't care-iers -- they don't care. "I'm sorry, Mr. Beedle, you don't understand. We're the Phone Company. We don't care. We don't have to."

Impunity is the root of much evil.
So I can't own or invest in a small internet company in China, yet Australia is protectionist when it wont sell critical infrastructure...
Both are subpar (and osx or whatever Apple call their offering is no better).

I've been stuck in an update hell with windows where security updates simply would not install the only solution I could find was a full re-install. I've been in a similar situation with Ubuntu and was able to fix it - but only because I understood it - otherwise I would have had to do a re-install.

The key with Ubuntu updates is to stick to LTS versions and to do a clean re-install (keeping /home as a separate partition makes this painless).

Both have rubbish audio systems. Windows breaks on my laptop every few suspend resumes (fixed by restart). Ubuntu every few months (fixed by restart).

At this point I'm disappointed by every system I use.
I don't think it's fair to categorize Aetna's annual loss of ~300M as trivial. That represents about 12.5% of their profits. If someone cut your salary by 12.5% I don't think you would think that was trivial.
I think the point was if everyone had to pay "full price" the full price would be lower, but right now the prices are inflated so 10% of the price is what they actually hoped to make.
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Single Payer.
Fleet vehicles and work vehicles are different things.

Fleet generally refers to the purchase process. Fleet sales are when a company is buying greater than X number of cars, and they likely purchase a separate warranty. They go through a separate department (fleet sales). If someone walks into a lot and purchases a vehicle, the warranty likely covers them if they use it as a work truck (for example).
Better than average reliability for subarus, you are correct i had to look it up. Surprised that audis are making a come back, i did not know they were rated better than average nowdays. Audis had some real nice lemons in the 90's/'00s. Lexus and toyota still beat them all.

http://www.consumerreports.org/content/dam/cro/news_articles...
Suggest an acquihire.
ascii is a representation of bits in the range you specified.

It doesn't change the unit of measure byte and its value when converting to the bit unit of measure.

Extended ascii uses the full 8 bits (unsigned) to value of 255 and values 0 through 31 are reserved for control codes.
Yes you can. In the UK people sue the government, or specially the NHS, over treatment decisions all the time. Including over things like denied coverage of specific drugs etc. (usually when there's no proven benefit from a given drug).

And as I pointed out: If you think they are too strict, then you can pay for a private insurer to cover things the NHS doesn't cover or won't do fast enough for you.
Can I rant on how bad much mathematical notation is in terms of usability? On the first page, we have:

> A discrete random variable X is completely defined by the set of values it can take, X , which we assume to be a finite set, and its probability distribution {pX(x)}x∈X . The value pX(x) is the probability that the random variable X takes the value x.

Actually, we don't have that, because copy/pasting it here loses essential information. This paragraph uses "X" to refer to three entirely different concepts, distinguished only by the font used.

Not only that, but it relies on subscripting and case, yet uses letters like "p" and "x" which difference in case is mainly in their vertical size and position.

Alright, rant over.
I had a few issues debugging the callbacks fired for letsencrypt-auto (i.e. how --post-hook and --renew-hook) works.

Almost hit the limit before I got it working
Not their core business? Their version wasn't profitable enough?

Hadn't really read about Parse before. It seems it was primarily aimed at mobile developers. Did it have significant use-cases beyond that? In comparison, AWS Lambda, Google Functions, and Azure Functions seem more generically applicable.
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I had the same experience -- I have numerous PCs and no evidence of any attempt at a forced installation. Not even on my wife's PC, and she's as non-technical as people get.

I've generally assumed that people either don't actually read what's in front of their faces (probably pretty common among the non-computerate), or don't understand what they read (ditto), or they panic and do something stupid. Of course, I have no evidence for any of these assumptions in Windows 10's case, but I've seen them in other situations.

I know people who apparently can't tell the difference between an operating system, a web browser and an email service -- or else they just don't have the vocabulary to express such distinctions. It takes some time to find out what they've actually done, and why. The idea that they know which party is at fault is generally not one that fits reality.

Note: this is not a defense of "dark patterns" or whatever. I'd assume Microsoft has a good idea of the technical level of much of its audience, and that it should therefore have been extra extra careful to communicate the Windows 10 upgrade in a far clearer manner than it did.
The 'Write Great Code' series is worth the price of admission by itself.

I think a lot of folks who want to really know what they are doing that weren't fortunate enough to grow their skills in a time that forced you to understand the machine through to high level could could benefit from those two books immensely.
that is way, way too far for any sort of reliable point to point microwave, even with a lot of elevation above MSL on both ends.

also the chinese version of the FCC will come along with their partyvan.

when you are dealing with a government where non-licensed non-compliant ISP type things will be shut down at OSI layer 1 by armed men with carbines, you have other problems.
Commenters here are required to be civil and to eschew personal attacks no matter how wrong someone else's view may be. Comments like the above will get your account banned from Hacker News, so please don't do that again. Instead, please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12306020 and marked it off-topic.
Personally, I can't stand OSX.

Since running things on Wine or VM end it up being too much of a hassle, Windows is my only option. I did that for a couple of years though.
Elequent Javascript is already free online (http://eloquentjavascript.net/) and a HUGE feature is using it's built in REPL to immediately play with the code samples. That is lost in PDF format.
It looks vaguely like that. Notice how all the menu links are clumped together? The same is true for all the action links anywhere eon the site. I may be old (38) and fat fingered, but I often will tap the wrong thing because they're just too close together and the targets are too small (plus they are text links, and not buttons.)

Actually reading text is not the worst part (though if I want to zoom at all then stuff scrolls off the page, since it won't reflow on iOS when you zoom, and browsing becomes miserable then.) The worst part is trying to interact with the site on mobile. I basically just don't do it.
You can't as of the Anniversary update [1]. You can kind of hide it though.

[1]: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/cortana-is-mandatory-in-the-windo...
And it wasn't just that - it was the complex system of meta-moderation. How you moderated posts was also scored.

One downside was that it could lead to a complete hive mind where your karma was dependent upon how much you thought like others.
How much does it cost to manually renew your certificate every year? How much does it cost if you forget to manually renew it, or make a mistake with one of the manual steps?
There was a fantastic Make Magazine Electronics book bundle about a month ago.
Canadian here.

Firstly, diagnostic care is often privately managed throughout the provinces, so if you don't want to wait, you can often pay to expedite. It's about $900 for a joint MRI.

Secondly, if you really need an MRI for a critical diagnosis, as I once did in 2012 as a hospital inpatient, I got it within 2 days.

Canada's health system is a point of national pride.
It really depends on the company culture and quality of management.

For me, in my current situation if I go into the office I'm lucky to get 2 hours of actually productive work done.

If I work from home that can range from 6-14 hours a day.
What are you quoting from? I can not find that text in the linked article (as of Wed Aug 17 15:44:38 EDT 2016).
google 'obfsproxy'

obfuscation of traffic to make it not look like VPN can be helpful, but traffic flow analysis based on source/origin IPs, timing and kbps/pps can still identify what looks like a VPN.
Adding a subdomain would increase the "Certificates per Registered Domain" counter by one, just like removing a subdomain would. There's no difference.
- title="Mustangs at Las Colinas" is a standard HTML attribute of the img markup.

- in the expression {{titre}lambda-talk}, titre (which is title in french, sorry) is the name of a constant defined further in the page or in an external page acting as a library.
I used to believe that smart people would share my political views, too.

By now I have accepted that different people may value vastly different things.

When you notice that someone is so disconnected from your own values, the only use of arguing is for the audience.
and an rpg one or two I think.
They are delegating their control to a program running on their own servers that listens to commands given in Slack/Hipchat. I know Hubot has an ACL system, but I'm not sure if it integrates with LDAP, etc... I'm pretty sure it maintains its own groups in its database and relies on Slack/Hipchat vouching for identities.
The quoted statement above is blatant discrimination and incriminates the company who wrote it. I'm surprised the company's lawyers allowed it. Much of the legal system in the US says that you cannot ignore the needs of minority groups just because it's not profitable.
The headline is misleading. Aetna didn't threaten to pullout if their merger wasn't approved, they said that they would be forced to do so because they would be losing too much money. That isn't "attempting to thwart antitrust law," it's simply stating the facts.
I'd really like to search by product dimensions.
GFW detects erroneous SSH sessions that contain large data flows. You need to go full protocol obfuscation to untracked destinations.
Is there a way to download the entire bundle as a zip file or tarball? (I probably should have asked that before downloading each file individually.)
And as I've pointed out at times previous when that claim's been made: there are companies whose annual revenues exceed many nations.

WalMart has an annual income of $482 billion.[1]

That's more than the annual GDP of Poland, as measured by the World Bank, the 25th largest economy in the world, and of Belgium, the Philippines, Thailand, Norway, Iran, Austria, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, South Africa, Hong Kong, Malaysia, ... and 153 other countries (163 total) in the world.[2]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12163564
For the poorer hackernews users. some of those books are free online anyways.

ex
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
Oops, I meant tagged images. If you look at the common images for like postgres, redis, and elasticsearch, they tag the images with the version of the service that's installed.

https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres/
Okay, what about HLLs? Memory fences don't work if you aren't writing C. And as I've said, forks are an easier way to get these guarantees, albeit at a moderate perf cost.
If you listed vehicle platforms not originally outfitted for camping (so no motorhomes or semi trucks with sleepers) that are most commonly slept in you could probably buy the entire top 20, take them on a trip and blog about it for under $145k.

I'm thinking E-series, GMT400 Suburbans, Ranger based Explorers and 1st gen Subaru Legacys would be the first few blog entries. The panther platform would probably make this list too just because the number in service means a lot of people lived out of them. As far as pickups go, once you've camped in one the camping part is about the same for all of them.
I think they may refer to the actual Amazon page, found under "Editorial Reviews". For example, from a random book I found.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385542364/ref=s9_qpp_gw_d...

Editorial reviews by Oprah, someone from the NYT, People, NPR etc.
This is the vulnerability exploited by EXTRABACON: https://xorcatt.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/equationgroup-tool-...
Reminds me of John McCarthy's lament at the W3C's choice of SGML as the basis for HTML: "An environment where the markup, styling and scripting is all s-expression based would be nice." »
>Hacker News is about the only civil place I'm capable of contributing to a discussion to at this point.

the interesting thing about this is that HN comment system seems to discourage dialogue - i.e. you are not notified when someone replies to your comment. It seems to be more geared towards comment-it-and-forget-it.
I absolutely think that a national policy should focus on maximizing outcomes across society, but it is easy to imagine that some people don't care about the outcomes that other people receive.
Is this tongue in cheek?
What if the need is great, but there isn't a lot of extra money to be made? Should the minority with disabilities be forced to pay extra to convince someone to provide them with otherwise identical functionality?

Many accommodations, if not federally mandated, simply wouldn't happen. For example, handicapped parking spots. People who use those spots are technically capable of using other parking locations as well, and the current handicapped parking spots are usually located in prime areas.
And what if I want only Nigerian princes because they have the most money?
Well they solve that problem the same way any other repair shop does by loaning you another car.

But to get back to your original point, I honestly think you are just plain wrong. If I look around at the street here I see huge amounts of people that have spent 40 grand extra (and often much more) for essentially vanity, a marketing illusion whereby an expensive car confers elevated social status to whoever is driving it. Their transport needs could be perfectly served by an economical, reliable car (frankly, for a huge number of people out there, lots of their transport needs could be solved by a fricken bike) yet they didn't buy that.
Ah. I think the trouble is that Lets Encrypt was created and promoted by tech people like me who like having their own VPS with root access.
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Salary is analogous to revenue not profits.
I recently switched to gitlab because they have a much more straightforward pages publishing system.

It works by setting up a (free) pipeline which can run arbitrary code (docker-ized) that you set up in a .gitlab-ci.yml file that outputs build artifacts (static assets). These assets are then copied to gitlab's pages system.

Keeps your git repo clear of compiled stuff.

Works the same for public/private repos, too. Also has option for a custom domain SSL cert and 404 pages.
the lede is @ the bottom of the announcement:

> Exploitation and Public Announcements

> On August 15, 2016, Cisco was alerted to information posted online by the Shadow Brokers group, which claimed to possess disclosures from the Equation Group. The posted materials included exploits for firewall products from multiple vendors. The Cisco products mentioned were the Cisco PIX and Cisco ASA firewalls.

> Source

> The exploit of this vulnerability was publicly disclosed by the alleged Shadow Brokers group.
It depends on the subreddit. There are many where civil conversation is the norm. r/politics and places like that are horrible. Just remove them from your default set.
Having spent years in China, I think this accurately describes Chinese reasoning. It omits the drama of lobbying, corruption and paranoia about control.
Yeah I have the "real" book at home and it's an enjoyable read. Very casually written. Similar to Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (JS) https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/
Components are not the big story as they've been around since the advent of UIs and are present in plenty of JS frameworks before and after React. The big story is the idea of expressing your UI as a pure function of the form f(data) = view and being able to compose those functions together. Before React, you couldn't do this in a performant, UX-positive way.
Well, the non-jokey answer is that simply transliterating it to Latin does carry novel information. It says, "your child has something the medical establishment is familiar with". That alone carries some reassurance with it.
It's true, Galt was a fictional caricature.
Amazon patent filing provides a peek at shrouded delivery drone designs
Can somebody please explain why is this comment being downvoted so low? I understand that the edits don't look nice, but why was it downovoted in the first place?
Oh, yes, it's a difficult call. The customer might even start in with this (stop me if you've heard THIS one before): "Hey, we'll pay all your NRE for you and you get to sell it to everyone else including our competitors as part of your product!!"

Do this, and your product people (if you have any) will all quit, and your engineering talent will start thinking "If we're just another custom engineering consulting company now, why don't I just go over to one of the big consulting firms and make actual money doing the same thing?
Which species of bees are you referring to?
I upgraded willingly, got annoyed by that kind of stuff and downgraded again back to 7 which I'm happy with. There was nothing terrible about 10 it's probably better overall, I just didn't want the weird extras.
Wait, isn't it supposed to be an iWatchlet or something now?
That's like saying "I use this hammer to tie my shoes and it's good because now I have a hammer."
Salary is the money I get from my employer to buy stuff with.

If I'm a shareholder of a company, then my cut of their profits (not revenue) is money I get to buy stuff with.
I think it's prohibitive enough to not allow things to spiral out of control in some crummy argument. I feel it's more of a peer review system. State your comment on what you've read/seen, and move onto the next thing. Which honestly is fine with me.
I am the author of a CRDT database that can store JSON.

Here are Kyle Kingsbury's (Aphyr) thoughts on it: https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/646302398575587332 .

In response to the OT comments here in the thread, people should be aware that OT is not P2P or decentralized. The algorithm in the paper is, however, and so is GUN (https://github.com/amark/gun) .

Probably more important to the discussion, is that it IS possible to implement collaborative rich text editing on top of P2P CRDT systems. Although I do not know of any yet, I am working towards one which uses a linked-list DAG, early demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rci89p0o2wQ .
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When the "endpoint" has millions of users, like Gmail, it is not an endpoint. It's a hub. I don't care it is technically and end point, in practice it's highly centralised.

It's not like each user chose to reject such and such message. No, Google is rejecting incoming mail for them —in addition to individual spam boxes. That does prevent me from enjoying the end-to-end nature of email to an extent. Oh, and, constant man-in-the-middle spying, which is also not exactly end-to-end.
So it seems the dump contains at least one legit 0-day, and it's been in use for 3 years.