skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also a good chance that, at least in part due to Apple's greed and extravagant prices for chargers / fragile power cords, many people are using knockoff chargers and don't know it. See also Amazon happily selling knockoffs as real -- Apple claims 90% of chargers it recently bought on Amazon are fake and is suing the supplier, though unfortunately is not suing Amazon [1], which might help Amazon find the will to stop people selling fakes.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/19/amazon-fake-apple-chargers-ca...
Innocent people are commonly put in jail. Then you have judges who get kickbacks by putting people in jail. And yes, poorer people in particular, end up much often in the wrong place/wrong time.

We should start by getting rid of private, for profit prisons. Next we should actually make them safe places. I originally thought the headline was a joke because prisoners (gangs to be precise) already run prisons.
Same here. I've only had the issue in Thailand. No shocks at all in the US.
Not changing the salting. Changing the hashing algorithm.
In a "typical" case with lots of words with relatively short length, I think simply allocating a stack will outperform this "zero-allocation" scheme, because this algorithm will overwrite every memory page.

I think this algorithm might be a win if the trie contains a huge word (say, 1GB).
One of the great things about IFTTT is the number of services that are plugged into it. (They number in the hundreds) this has about 10 which is nice but nearly enough. Also the ones that make it a killer app for me are the gApps integration which this lacks entirely.
They do give one by default, but you can disconnect it if you so choose.

FWIW, I have never had a problem using the two pronged plug in the US. It's interesting to see all this preexisting problems with MacBooks surfacing after the recent release of the MBP
As if that would not lead to bad feedback and a potential PR nightmare... if you accept someones booking and then don't let them in when they arrive there is (rightfully) going to be trouble, regardless of the reason you give. (outside of very exceptional circumstances)
If there's ever a fifth Uncharted game, I think I know who the villains will be.
How can they override the video quality over HTTPS? even if they point you to their CDN can't you just DNS hack through this?
To the author: great work. This is impressive -- for a high school student [0], no less -- and useful. I'm always trying to think of good projects to recommend people learning to program or trying to supplement schoolwork. There are a number of lists (of lists?) on Reddit (like [1]), but they aren't as well thought out as your three right now. I hope posting this here helps with the incentive to keep this up.

[0] https://blog.shamdasani.org/no-i-do-not-know-that-language/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/2a9ygh/10...
A recent utility bill is only part of a package of documentation that is valid ID.
I think I've figured out why I'm seeing a delay. It must be related to the Caps Lock delay that some keyboards have, wherein the keyboard will prevent Caps Lock from engaging (or even sending any signal at all to an app, apparently) unless the key has been engaged for more than just a tap.

It looks like the only way to fix this would be to buy a keyboard without this feature.
I don't know that Paul Ryan's opinion matters too much at this point.

I also am not sure the Democrats could do single-payer even if they had the White House and Congress. They take plenty of money from the special interests too.
> this isn't gated by a permission dialog like location services or plugin access?

No. The justification is that you'd need to prompt for additional permissions to do almost anything with a service worker, other than react to fetch event.
You sound like you know more about this than I do, but I find login as a verb distasteful and believe such usage should be avoided. What would you do for the past tense? You'll decompose the word to its natural verb, log, and write logged in.

Also, I, for one, still favor e-mail, but I'm definitely in the minority there.
You may be right, but "Don't be worried that the president has promised to do horrible, horrible things--he was probably just lying to make racists happy, and anyway he changes his mind at the drop of a hat!" is not exactly encouraging.
Probably because those criteria actually look good for jewellery.

Which makes sense, easier to get someone to pay more for a gem they think looks good, than to make them pay more for a gem they don't think looks good.
I think the ideal solution, for me at least, would be to treat autoplay the same way browsers treat the location API. When a website tries to use it, present a little notification that asks if it's alright. If a user is clearly visiting a video-centric website (youtube, vimeo, etc), they will probably click 'yes' to let that website autoplay in the future. The possible downside is that some users may not "understand" it, and get upset at the website for not autoplaying like they expect it to.

The core of the issue is that autoplay was on by default in the first place. Turning it off cannot be clean, no matter how it's done.
I have this problem in India. I suspected the mains was dodgy, because during the many power outages i never got the shocks when on UPS.

I got a multimeter and measured. The neutral was 70V and the phase 300ish. So the difference was roughly 230V but a switched power adapter would make this hover around 70 too (I believe an old coil based would probably been fine).

The Indian electrician didn't understand my problem because his only tool was a regular bulb with two exposed wires that he jammed into the socket.

"Look sir, light, power working"

sigh.
From my understanding, the service worker doesn't live indefinitely in the background - it reacts to events. So without additional permission prompts, it will only react when you load a page that's within the service worker scope. So I'm not sure what additional security concerns there are.
> though I don't know how we begin the process.

Its political, and at least in the US, it traces its roots back to corruption and how unrepresentative the US government is of its citizens.

If you want to fix almost all societal problems, you first need a system of government that fears and respects its people. I don't care which permutation of state you pick, but if you want a government to care what you say, it has to care about its people.

Most countries have that problem. Its less overbearing because most European states have better implementations of near the same parliamentary system, but even those governments are often too centralized and too easily corrupted, and that breeds an unrepresentative state.

Making a government that acts in the will of its people is absolutely step one to fixing the problems it causes. Then you just need to persuade the people and thus the representatives to change it.
Not racism. At least learn the correct terms before slinging accusations.
If they just throttle your bandwidth and not play around with CDN's (ISP's actually mirror and cache YT and Netflix videos) then it doesn't matter.

If they only give you 1mbit/s of bandwidth you aren't going to be watching HD videos unless you are willing to let it constantly buffer, and there are also ways for them to screw with that like resetting the connection every 5min or so.
240+ comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12939856
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Creator here! Thank you :) The list you suggested on reddit looks awesome - I'm gonna use some of those ideas. Working on a basic to-do application right now.
I have this problem every winter. With my Macbbok it was the worst, it even caused the trackpad to stop functioning once, but it has also happened to some of my other devices as well.

It's happened so often to me that I've trained myself to touch something to discharge the static before touching my equipment.
It's still ignoring her responsibility if, when provided with the new information, she decides to ignore it.
I get it in my apartment (I live in the U.S.) which is brand new with 3 prong sockets if I have my feet on the ground (concrete floor) while roughing the laptop.

I've experienced it a few more times at different peoples houses as well.
I would love something like this to have a decent Waze applet. Yes I am too lazy to launch Waze before leaving home.
> Your "mad libs" example probably falls under a similar classification.

Yes, by stating that it's a derivative work, I meant that the output would be subject to the Madlibs copyright.

GNU Parallel's output isn't subject to the GPL.
I think support for cron jobs is coming soon, but the other challenge is that they're still working out the best way to allow apps to make outbound network connections. It's doable now, but requires administrator access.
They failed to mention my favorite side point: people in East Germany LOVED stickers (Aufkleber). I have no idea why, but Trabis were covered in stickers. We used to joke that they were to keep the Trabis from falling apart.
Many people wouldn't be able to distinguish from beef. I had it once in Quebec, much to the amusement of a jerk waiter.

It's not tough, just very lean and thus prone to overcooking. Honestly it tasted pretty good, I thought it was grass fed beef.

Venison is a lot gamier. I only like it in stews.
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Routine medical care should be like food and shelter: something you are expected to pay for yourself. That would put price pressure on providers. Insurance should be a backstop for catastrophic accident or illness. It should be sold by competing local and national providers. It should be untangled from employment as a benefit. You should buy it like car insurance.

Obama, Trump, Clinton. senators, representatives -- none (or very few) of these people have any medical background and really can do little else but screw it up as badly as if the government was the single provider of all software.
Oops I did it again, being a nice girl and the boss
iocage is great, but according to the README in GitHub it is not being developed anymore. The author is working on a rewrite in Go. The rewrite isn't done yet last I checked.
Relevant quote from the article re: what an effective solution needs to achieve:

>The real issue isn’t whether we have a single payer or multiple payers. It’s whether whoever pays has a fair chance in a fair market. Congress has given Medicare that power when it comes to dealing with hospitals and doctors, and we have seen how that works to drive down the prices Medicare pays, just as we’ve seen what happens when Congress handcuffs Medicare when it comes to evaluating and buying drugs, medical devices and equipment.

> Stripping away what is now the sellers’ overwhelming leverage in dealing with Medicare in those areas and with private payers in all aspects of the market would inject fairness into the market. We don’t have to scrap our system and aren’t likely to. But we can reduce the $750 billion that we overspend on health care in the U.S. in part by acknowledging what other countries have: because the health care market deals in a life-or-death product, it cannot be left to its own devices. Put simply, the bills tell us that this is not about interfering in a free market. It’s about facing the reality that our largest consumer product by far — one-fifth of our economy — does not operate in a free market.

The article's list of actionables seem like a good first step:

> We should tighten antitrust laws related to hospitals to keep them from becoming so dominant in a region that insurance companies are helpless in negotiating prices with them.

> we should tax hospital profits at 75% and have a tax surcharge on all nondoctor hospital salaries that exceed, say, $750,000

> We should outlaw the chargemaster.

> Finally, we should embarrass Democrats into stopping their fight against medical-malpractice reform and instead provide safe-harbor defenses for doctors so they don’t have to order a CT scan whenever, as one hospital administrator put it, someone in the emergency room says the word head.
A while back I had a long design discussion about using IFTTT to do essentially what pagerduty is doing. Notification relays and routing: Feed an event into it, and based on urgency and tags broadcast it to the correct feeds (irc channels, slack, email sysadmins, etc). You could theoretically create groups of people you want to contact this way.

No more screwing around with bridging protocols and every single bot implementing their own library to connect to a billion different messaging protocols.

But yeah, I'm not passionate enough about the idea to do it. And IFTTT wouldn't have been enough.
I have been thinking about this for a while now. Occasionally I get bursts where I am truly "myself" and start to realize what is actually happening before going back into observing the "someone else" doing things. Feels very surreal and at the same time "real". Like "this is life and not the other dude". I find it very hard to describe these kind of things to other people but your comment nails it.

Though I am more curious how you can "turn it off" and be the one who does all the things all the time. Some people suggested meditation but I have yet to try.
My toughbook does this as well. One of the replies there says thinkpads have the same problem, and I have an IBM power adapter, so that could be the culprit. IIRC it's high frequency, so probably created by the supply itself rather than a floating neutral in the building wiring.
Have you seen a tear down of the authentic chargers? There's a lot going on in there.
Hmmm... I didn't know that thanks for the heads up.
>We don't know that the brain uses generative models.

We have some fair evidence, see: http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/A%20free%20energy%20princ...
Hbase is approaching a decade of age. It is well understood, rock solid, and pretty much ever error is googleable. There are numerous companies that run it in production. Hbase may not get the press Cassandra does because of it is not as easy to setup due to some external dependencies (HDFS and Zookeeper). But its very much production ready for some epic data sets.
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Read the linked paper, it explains comparisons and its use cases.
The democrats couldn't do it when they had WH and Congress... they had to go with Plan B - "Obamacare".

Personally, I believe that Plan B was written to fail. Government creates problems. How do you solve the problem? More government.

Obamacare, imho, was created as the groundwork for single payer. I just don't think they expected it to fail so hard and so fast.

I have no faith in single payer... for example, look at the VA. Months of wait times for those who need the help... while those at the top get lavish bonuses.
It's a very impressive example of avoiding the sunk cost fallacy, though. I think a lot of people would be unwilling to cop that 'loss', even if they realised it would leave them better off overall. (Or perhaps more realistically, they would be unable to admit to themselves that it would leave them better off.)
There are some exceptions, for example:

Back up, back-up and backup all have legitimate differences to me.

Back up, something has returned to a prior state. (to) Back-up, verb. Backup, noun, copies of files.
I've tried to use lanyrd in the past and have found its information to be unreliable and also difficult to find what I'm looking for, e.g., "what Ruby conferences in the US are coming up next year worth attending/speaking at?"

Keeping conference information up to date requires continuous attention and it doesn't look like it's been getting much lately.
> diamonds being "non-negotiable" seems like a huge, glowing, neon warning sign

This is dependent on the relationship between the two people. If one party is strongly against the concept of diamonds and DeBeers, then yes, it'll be an issue. However, your parent commenter might be more moderate, or just doesn't care that much that their partner agrees with this particular societal pressure.
I wasn't expecting so much traffic! It should be back up now.
I've never heard of your tradition before, where are you from?
The public option was removed from the eventual Affordable Care Act when it passed in 2010. The Democrats did have both houses of congress and the white house at the time, but that part of the law was brought down by a filibuster threat from a small group of 'blue dog' democrats. Had it passed, it would surely have been a trojan horse for universal coverage.
I'm not sure about the social aspect of it, but I can see it becoming more of a "real meat for special occasions or if you're rich enough". Demand for real meat, especially for processed meat products, will drop.
My understanding is that it's caused by Y capacitors in the power supply's EMI filter leaking minimal amounts of current onto the case. As others have mentioned, proper grounding usually fixes the issue - although in one case I had to rewire an entire apartment because someone had a very lopsided idea what the PE wire is for. It was for a friend with a metal Macbook Pro, an exceptionally sensitive skin, and way too much time & money on their hands. :D

The usual word of caution: I'm trained in electrical installations. A layperson - even one skilled with a multimeter and a soldering iron - should never attempt to modify ground connections or power distribution. There are dozens of potential (and very deadly) failure modes that require proper training to recognize and prevent.
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I thought I was the only person to get shocks of my Macbook Pro, and that it had some problem. All because of the lack of a third pin.
You are making assumptions. I never claimed I don't think freewill exists. Also, why would the absence of freewill prevent your mind from being changed based on the evidence another presents to you?
>If I can prevent a single reader from needlessly dropping $6,000-10,000+ on a diamond engagement ring, this site will be a success. Financial worries are the #1 cause of stress in a married relationship - there is absolutely NO excuse to start your married life by taking on that level of debt.

This is probably very naive of me but it honestly never occurred to me that anyone would actually go into debt for a ring. I naively assumed everyone did it the old fashioned way. Save up and don't pop the question until you either have bought the ring or at least have the cash on hand to go get one together.

Personally if I was being proposed to and discovered that my partner had gone into debt to get a ring I would seriously question the wisdom of picking them as a life partner.
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There's hundreds of things that can be done to chip away at them.

A pet peeve of mine is certificate of need laws:

http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/con-certificate-of-need-...

The notion is to reduce capital expenditures and save costs, but they are a big part of why the hospital in the article can get away with charging so much for cat scans -- there's no competition. Of course it is going to be difficult to go to an outside imaging center during an emergency room visit, but when the outside imaging center advertises $500 prices, the patient will at least know there is something a bit fishy about the $3000 bill from the hospital.

They probably make a lot of sense for something like an ER, where there is a high up front cost and a lot of staffing costs and you can make reasonable predictions about demand. They don't make any sense for equipment that only used to be expensive.
Sure, that is a fair interpretation.

Given such an interpretation, I find it is more sensible to label such a person "misinformed", not suffering from "utter insanity". The latter phrase immediately shuts down, at least for me, any productive discourse.
Maybe there's a lesson in the fact that few here are willing to support prisons as an industry....it's not very easy to defend this particular system.
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The 70v is probably induced voltage at milliamp levels.

You can fix it by bonding the neutral to ground at the breaker box.
I used to work at M.D. Anderson and I can attest to their quality of care. People travel from around the world to receive treatment, for good reason.

Also, my mother was a patient there. She started treatment just a couple of months after I got my job actually. She's still doing well years later, and is glad she waited an extra month to get into M.D Anderson. The decision to wait was excruciating though.
TDAmeritrade passwords aren't case sensitive. It's only money I guess.
90 volts above earth ground? Or relative to something else?
Ungrounded adapter + bad mains power = zap!

Ungrounded adapter + clean mains power = probably no zap

Grounded adapter + bad mains power = probably no zap

Grounded adapter + clean mains power = no zap

It's not just the adapter and it's not just the mains power; it's when both come together. Electricity follows pretty simple rules when it comes down to it.

Always always always ground your A/C connections. Why wouldn't you?

Also, never use one of these unless you've attached the little wire/alligator terminal to a ground somewhere:

http://www.prestonelectronics.com/audio2/ttip/images/gndadap...
Maybe you just surround yourself with superficial people? I have a hard time believing people passionate about fashion don't have a nuanced appreciation for the aesthetic aspect of it.

Edit: Also wouldn't calling a fashion item ostentatious or low quality be a critique of bad fashion?
What's fascinating to me about this phenomenon is that you can actually feel the 60Hz AC by running your hand across the lid.

It feels as if the surface is slightly bumpy, but the width of the bumps changes as you adjust the speed your finger moves.

Unplug from mains, and the surface becomes smooth.

As the answer notes, this only happens when using the two-prong adapter without earthing. It also seems to be more noticeable when connected to older buildings.
I agree with most of this, but

> We should outlaw the chargemaster.

I don't know how that would work. My thought was to require it to be published.
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How can I know that having / not having aphantasia is a real thing? Our bodies are otherwise so similar that it would be surprising if our brains were wildly different in operation.

If people are able to "see" their thoughts in the same way as they see something with their eyes, wouldn't it be difficult to think about a cat while driving a car, because the cat would be in your visual field? Or is the "mind's eye" somewhere else, if so where do you feel it is?

If I think about a cat, it's kind of a concept. If I try to think harder, I can sort of trace its tail and fur and ears, but it seems very different to actually seeing one. Just as when I imagine a taste, it's very different from actually tasting something (otherwise I would just imagine food all day without actually eating as much).

The only time when these seem the same is when dreaming.
I did say proof didn't I?

Is this the same Rolling Stone that wrote "A rape on campus"? I note the article says "Four people close to Leeds corroborated her account" - does this mean close to her on the plane, or personal friends?