skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KindHealth
At KindHealth, we've developed our own health insurance marketplace (integrating with each of the major carriers directly) and proprietary algorithm to match consumers to the plan that best fits their needs.

Our recommendation engine is our first product.

Our goal is to revolutionize health insurance management by creating an "intelligent assistant”, an AI-enabled platform that enables users to utilize command-based texts (and eventually by speaking natural language voice commands) to manage their health insurance on a day-to day basis
• "How much of my deductible have I spent?"
• "Is Dr. Jones in my network?"
• "How much does an ankle surgery cost?"
By tracking a user’s spending (like mint.com), KindHealth will be able to push a new health plan recommendation to a member with a one-click enrollment, eliminating the need for a user to shop for health insurance.
Both were dictators who killed millions. Seems like a reasonable comparison.
They were both dictators that killed millions of their own citizens.
The joke is funny but it is actually shockingly difficult to make nodes kill themselves instead of doing something for more malignant which is the typical case for bugs. That is a zombie just like in real life can be worse than a dead corpse (since we are being funny and all). Chaos Monkey shoots two in the head.

I have had issues killing errant JVMs and Rackspace nodes (yes sadly we are still on Rackspace).

I can understand why 2.0 is much more focused given the plethora of monitoring solutions.
I can't imagine growing up, and not spending my summers building forts, trekking through the woods, jumping off ramps with bikes, and beating up my body on a skateboard. Sounds like a horrible childhood these kids have to deal with.
Ereaders usually show a percentage and either an estimate page number or (kindle) some arcane fraction.
For me, seeing it go from 1% to 2% was a lot encouraging.
Error: Could not connect to Cloud Shell on port 8085.
Ensure your server is listening on port 8085 and try again.
NodeMCU has stopped further development of a new devboard
FCC Reaches Settlement with T-Mobile Regarding “Unlimited” Data Plans [pdf]
Screencasts for learning Rust
The argument in the paper is that data professionals -- 9ncluding yourself -- do not understand data fundamentals, for which reason they blame "poor performance" on the RDM. But RDM and normalization are purely LOGICAL and as the article states, performance is determined exclusively by PHYSICAL implementation. So the article does imply that on rare occasion you may be forced to denormalize WITH EXISTING SQL IMPLEMENTATIONS, but this has nothing to do with the RDM and normalization and everything to do with SQL implementations which are not relational, do not have proper support of physical independence and are not versatile enough at the physical level.
That rings so true. But on the flip side, it might be that because Netflix has a chaos monkey and all it's services need to be resilient to failures, accidental downtime isn't that big of an issue to them.

Their developers can still make the same mistakes that we do, but their architecture is better designed to handle that. Just a thought.
In articles and discussions like this I often feel like I'm in the minority by preferring to live and work in lower density areas. Living, or simply visiting, cities is stressful to me, and the benefits of doing so are not worth the downsides.

I like being able to drive 10 minutes to work, or 5 minutes to the grocery store, and not have to worry fighting traffic or finding parking. I like that there are walking trails behind my employer's office. I like that in the evenings or in the weekends I can drive into the mountains or to the coast. These things would not be possible if I lived in a city.
Looks like the repository is here: https://github.com/TaipanRex/pyvisgraph
I can say, for me at least, it's absolutely worth the investment.
* can I get a good job programming in this? Without moving to another country or continent.

Yes, there are many large companies which are either actively deploying Rust, or planning to. Easily found if you search.

* is my industry showing interest in it?

Yes: security, high reliability, availability and safety oriented industries. Any industry looking to get themselves out of the entrenchment of C/C++ but still needs at least one of the major reasons why it persists.

* is any industry showing interest?

I haven't found any industry, primarily focused on software development, which isn't interested. I've been actively poking around to see which way the wind is blowing. I honestly haven't come across any industry which would actively say "No we're good with C", other than those were software is an annoyance which they grudgingly have to be involved in.
I think in Infinite Jest the writing style -- not just sentences like these but jumping between text and endnotes -- gives the reader a deeper experience with his argument about attention, boredom, and the ways modern society seeks to constantly distract us. Much of his non-fiction writing explores these themes more directly and succinctly, particularly his Kenyon College commencement speech.

This particular work seems to use complex sentence structure to embody the emotional distance the depressed person feels from others, the difficulty he raises in the first sentence of expressing one's pain to others making you more isolated.
Manned flight meaning LEO.
Inconvenience and stress. I had my card "stolen" twice, and the bank was kind of a pain to deal with. Mostly their incompetence, rather than a refusal to help, but that didn't help. I don't bank with them any more, but it actually wasn't even over those incidents.

So while I wasn't out any money, I was definitely out my time and had to deal with excess stress, so I do care if it gets stolen in the future.
I suspect what makes someone a good coach is that they already know to a high degree what personnel are best for a particular situation on the field, and don't need some algorithm to pick for them.
The NoSQL Database MongoDB
It's not about 'trust' at all. The typical brexit supporter doesn't 'trust' any of these people any farther than they can throw some ministry building. The brexit supporters are convinced they'll have more influence over a sovereign UK government that answers to UK votes, whereas they have learned through long experience that they have next to no influence over Brussels, by design.

This straw man the_mitsuhiko setup with brexit dunderheads that "trust their [UK] government so much" is a fiction that exists inside his/her head; a sad self-delusion people indulge to demean things they don't like.
True, but the Belichick quote near the front of the article is

> “As you have probably noticed, I’m done with the tablets,” he said.

...so I would just attribute this to people naturally referring to the frontend of the system they're using as the system itself. When he said "I'm done with the tablets" perhaps he means "I'm done with the system that I am using from my tablet".

It seems almost as if NFL confesses that it's not [necessarily] MS here, "... multiple factors that can cause issues within our sideline communications system either related to or outside of Microsoft’s technology."
For us, it was about control. We felt powerless when our issuing banks canceled our cards w/o warning. You're correct in that Final uses EMV to solve for in-store fraud just like rest of industry (which reduces by 80-90%). But if I lose my card or on slight chance someone manages to skim at POS that is magstripe, I can just turn that card off, and all other recurring payments and merchants are unaffected, just need a new plastic.
There's a maximum of 40 seconds in between plays.. add in the time for players getting up from a pile, and then the time for them to run to their positions on the line, he's got maybe 25 seconds where this thing absolutely has to work. It's not a matter of being impatient if it's flaky for 10 seconds.
That sounds useful, the problem is getting something like it implemented at all sites that have embedded ads. A problem without a solution called 'network effect'.
You can use node specific preset like other's have mentioned but working on https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env for all future versions as well
Parent may have meant that it would be cool to see a write up on how this tool can be used to simulate network conditions between nodes in a Jepsen test using only containers on a single docker host.
Why not? This seems like a fairly common comparison, made by actual historians. Some estimate that Stalins death toll may exceed that of Hitler.
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Do you think our political biases themselves come from evolutionary survival schemas? e.g. right vs left, etc.
5 Considerations to Make If You Want to Retire Early
2 is a big one. Yet another consequence of high land prices as now both partners are forced to work.

Another is the break up of wider family. Before people could live locally and they would have their grandparents local too, and aunts etc. Now that land rents are so high and work is god, together with low job security, people are forced to move to other parts of urban areas or even to different cities in order to find work.

Still everyone seems pretty happy with capital gains on their home that can never be realised because all other homes also went up in price, so perhaps it's worth the utter destruction of life as we know it!
Comodo Incident Report – OCR
> I agree it sounds great to let your kids roam free as we did, but I think in practice the environment has changed in ways that make it difficult

I agree, both with this and the premise that overprotective parenting is a real phenomenon. You can't place all of the blame on the parents for their increased vigilance because the environment of growing up has literally changed.

Like many of you, when I was young, I played all over my neighbourhood with other kids my age, completely unsupervised. Free to wander quite far from my home with the understanding that I would be home for supper. However, I grew up in a small town (pop. ~20k).

Today, most people live in cities, and many in large ones (us included). When my kids are older, I will do my best to give them freedom to play, but there are just some realities today that are different from when I was younger. I remember reading somewhere that there are roughly 3x the amount of vehicles on the road as there were in the 80s (when I was growing up). My biggest safety fear for my kids is traffic. We live in a city. There are a lot of parks around, but getting to and from places involves navigating traffic and a lot of it. I'll do my best to educate them and give them trust to do so, but you can't help but be a bit concerned. We all know you can be involved in a traffic accident these days through no fault of your own.

To clarify: I'm not saying that the world is actually more dangerous for kids today than it was a generation ago, but I think for many parents it's not difficult to see how they could have that perception (true or not) and thus parent in a more protective way. Not only has the world changed, but so has the beholder (from carefree child to responsible parent).
I hate to rat-hole on the tiniest nit, but the term "Alligator Clip" overtook "Crocodile Clip" in about 1938...

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=alligator+clip...

(OK, maybe it's a regional thing.)
> "Not only that, but the US has already said Russia is behind those attacks; it would actually harm their argument if they built a giant PR campaign"

Did not US said that Iraq had a weapon of mass destruction and invaded them with a huge PR campaign?
Nariko.io is a visual feedback tool to give and receive screenshot attached comments about the design and UX of the iOS application you are currently developing or designing. It's currently in Beta and could be a useful addition to everyone's arsenal who is working on apps. Early adopters will be granted a lifetime free access.
Had to upvote this one
We Need More Open-Source Love
Those who are looking for Twitterfeed alternative should try https://socialpilot.co.
Making a business case that shows the bottom line is likely to be a compelling advocacy method.
USA! USA! US … Oh, Never Mind. It’s The Literature Nobel.
Russia and the US are going to bicker over who gets this person, as the article makes clear and you've alluded to. This is just one of many conflicts between both nations that could have far-reaching political consequences.

I'm not sure what's more difficult to follow here? I'm not predicting a specific outcome (or worse, detailing some conspiracy theory); I'm just stating that there's a significant potential for bad things to follow this news and expressing my dislike for the general theme of it all.
There is actually an immense amount of coordination that goes into an NFL game, even more so for the Super Bowl:

* http://blog.rfvenue.com/karl-voss/

"... at the Super Bowl we manage ... basically anything D/C to light that is allowed inside the NFL venues.
> I just want the top 5 or 10.

Why not go to a normal shop, or that shop's website?

You probably know which shops sell budget, middle and high-end furnishings. They've made the effort to filter 50,000 products to the 10 or so which they sell.

For example, Ikea have 138 bed sheet sets. An obvious filter, like "green", leads to about 10 different products.

My local fancy department store has 160 sets, "green" filters that down to 18.
The latest web design trends feel like they are trying to make things "readable" for people who don't actually want to read. At the expense of people who want to read. I am so happy when I see a simple page with text and pictures I can scroll through without things reloading or things jumping around.
World Heat Record Overturned--A Personal Account
Why would it be mad? Because Hitler singled out an ethnic group for extermination in addition to political opponents rather than just killing off political opponents? They both racked up a comparable body-counts of their own people as rulers (well, enough for both to be consider mass-murders, though I understand that Stalin had a high body-count).
It's NoScript's new-ish defaults at fault.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12256720
If true, wouldn't this be detectable in academic studies? It's easy to write untestable code for small problems, too.
Totally with you on the paid and sponsored review system. One of the great strengths of Amazon has been allowed to degrade into a biased and untrustworthy advertising system. I used to feel like i could trust reviews but now I'm actively looking for other options--anyone have any recs for product review sites? I'm willing to pay a membership fee for decent information...
I just did the same thing. The 6P is still an incredible phone despite its age. Plus the Pixel may not handle OTA updates with rooting as seamlessly as the 6P.
There is a good reason why most serious monitor reviews/guides recommend adjusting the brightness waay down. I think the common standard is around 120cd/m², which should be comfortable in typical indoors ambient lightning.

This is also one of the reasons why "HDR" is sort of a thing now. It enables utilization of the high brightness that modern displays are capable of in a controlled fashion, somewhat like what you are asking. Pure sRGB white on a (properly configured) HDR display should not be eyewateringly bright, while media can still show even brighter colors/"superwhite" for effect.

Essentially the problem boils down to color management. The fundamentals for it have existed for decades, but it hasn't really broken through outside some professional contexts. I think the historical reason for this is that people were so happy to have any colors at all on their computers that very few stopped to think if the colors should be controlled in some fashion.

Same way that HiDPI displays has forced software and systems to be more resolution-independent, I think HDR displays will force some degree of color management to mainstream. I doubt we will be getting professional-grade factory calibration everywhere, but just having workable system-wide color management and any sort of display profiles, even if it is accurate only in the broad strokes.

Incidentally the poor color management support in software is the main reason not to by so called "wide-gamut" (=AdobeRGB) monitors, unless you know what you are doing. Despite typically having better factory calibration etc and overall color capability, tons of stuff will look cartoonishly garish because software (like browsers) are not properly accounting for the expanded colorspace.
I actually find his non-fiction in general to be much more satisfying than his fiction. He was such a gifted guy, and so funny, but when writing fiction I just feel like he was un-grounded to anything relevant to me, just wandering in the depths of his pyrotechnic writing-for-its-own-sake. For example in _The Pale King_, as an English major with lots of experience deconstructing and analyzing texts, I can see how subtle and clever his portraits of the characters are, but after a while I find I just don't care, because the story isn't interesting me as a story. Reading his non-fiction, I feel like he's always getting somewhere, and it's usually much more interesting to me.
Scott Adams says he thinks Trump is the last chance for change from a self serving political system. If you are an American and you are reading Hacker News I think you should ask yourself how much you really want change. If you are here, the system is probably working for you. And change can be good or bad.
Yes, I would be surprised.

Because, unlike most products which only require training to work with, true RDBMSs require knowledge of data and relational fundamentals and such is scarce today, because education has been replaced by sheer training.

How many database "experts" do you know today who have any background in logic and math, particularly those designing DBMSs?

I've watched them for almost 50 years and they've become worse and worse, not better.
"they can easily add Rust libraries to existing C++ codebases."

Is that truly easy? I would expect all kinds of incompatibilities that would require going through a C layer (object layout, difference in virtual method calling, object ownership, etc). For example, calling a C++ function that takes a pair of iterators from Rust and returns a std::map, passing iterators pointing into a Rust hash table, is that easily done?
2012 hack on a "west coast company" ... anyone know which hack this might be?

Linkedin maybe? This stirred up controversy in the US gov where they might have invested resources in pursuing the attacker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_LinkedIn_hack

Yahoo's discovery of the big intrusion recently was from 2012 but that might have been too recent?

Also Dropbox was hacked in 2012.
The scientists who support Donald Trump
Opening act? I think we're well past act 1 scene 1, there's a literal proxy war happening right now in Syria.
We have three Mars orbiters that act as communication relays currently. MRO, Mars Express and MAVEN. A fourth is proposed for 2022.

Edit: The orbiter component of this mission also acts as a relay.
Testing Random, Valid SQL in CockroachDB
If I was Snowden I would be very worried. If the US gets a hold of this guy I could see Putin offering Snowden up as a trade to get him back.
No, I haven't, but that's a great idea, thanks!
I heard someone from Cognizant recently refer to their behemoth outsourcing firm as a 'startup' - ridiculous.

I guess the word is seen as cool, so companies want to associate themselves with it. But to me it just makes them sound bloody stupid.
You're quite right -- take a look at the original 1973 paper [1], "A Universal Modular ACTOR Formalism for Artificial Intelligence". The "universal" there is intended to mean, among other things, a uniform actor model (comparable to the uniform object model in Smalltalk). It's a remarkable paper.

Later actor languages step away from total uniformity, in part because it requires quite some finesse to avoid infinite regress and/or great inefficiency in such a system.

[1] https://eighty-twenty.org/2016/10/12/hewitt-bishop-steiger-i...

A few choice quotes from Hewitt, Bishop & Steiger IJCAI 1973:

"An actor is always invoked uniformly in exactly the same way regardless of whether it behaves as a recursive function, data structure, or process." (p235; page 1 of the PDF) This implicitly includes messages.

"The intentions [roughly, contract monitors] are written in the same formalism as the procedures they describe. Thus for example intentions can have intentions." (p235)

"[The reader] might envisage an infinite chain of actions (such as banking) to be necessary in order to get anything done. We short circuit this by only requiring that it appear that each of the above activities is done each time an actor is sent a message." (p238)

"There are no instructions [in the sense of present day machines] in our model. Instead of instructions, an actor machine has certain primitive actors built in hardware." (p241)
Most extradition treaties agree with you, and refuse to extradite unless the crime charged is criminal in both locales.
See my other reply in this thread for our reasoning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12744567
Whoever wins the White House, this year's big loser is email
The sheer fact that much of the comments are about physical storage is an excellent validation of the article's claim that data professionals don't know and understand data fundamentals and the RDM.
Following in line with the jokes, it's like they looked at my company's production environment and said "Let's make that a tool!"
Leaked Colin Powell email shows Salesforce’s interest in Tableau,Adobe and other
> Reddit works

You know what I really hate about reddit? The inconsistency of the links. If the link is a self.subreddit link, it goes to the discussion thread, if it was a submitted link to a location outside of reddit, the link goes to that page and to see the discussion thread you have to click on the small 'comment' link.

I wouldn't say reddit works any more than a 'designed to death' site, just that it hasn't been 'designed to death.' It is full of it's own problems.
It was not my claim that the US doesn't run PR campaigns, just that the one you propose doesn't make sense.