skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is misleading. Although I get that this is dangerous, and trained on the right (wrong?...) dataset it could be an automatic racial profiler. The paper is written by Chinese researchers from Chinese Universities, and all of the pictures shown of people in the dataset appear to be Chinese or at least "Asian" race in American racial categories. This makes it hard to assume their technique will automatically have racial bias, although I imagine running it on a set of US criminals could disproportionately flag black or latino people as criminals. The core idea of classifying people as criminals based on facial structure is equally gross without the racial component though.
Exactly what medical monopolies are you referring to? Hospitals, insurance companies and drug companies are pretty fragmented markets which is one of the reasons for the complexity of US healthcare and high costs.
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I mean yeah. If the Doctor tells me to do something in a panicked voice I'm going to listen.
That is slick! I'll be using this next time I go to the gym. One of the big problems it solves for me is boredom - I lifted for a couple years but couldn't stand doing the same workouts week adter week. I do realize you're supposed to switch it up, but your app makes it easy :)
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Would you provide some evidence to the rest of us?
Coinbase statement: https://blog.coinbase.com/2016/11/18/protecting-customer-pri...
Still slower than cmd, fast enough that I'm actively trying to unlearn the cmd muscle memory.
You can easily search the chrome web store btw
> It's not the end that many of us would like the see for him, but he did know the penalties well before he did what he did.

One can justify all kinds of whistle blower revenge this way. Just remember that Snowden didn't violate the constitution.

Which is worse exactly: Violating the constitution or violating laws to expose those that are doing it?

To me it seems like the NSA was acting more traitorous than Snowden ever did.
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And do the c level execs take a 1/12 pay cut? Of course not, but please people let's continue to apologia for management.
How would something like this work? Would there be keywords you input into the extension? etc
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Don't listen to the feedback you're getting here about pricing.

It looks like you're used by people in healthcare, and they pay primarily for self-hosting.

My suggestion: replace "Data not confidential" with "HIPPA compliant" and double your prices. The free version works for 99% of people who just want to draw a flow-chart, and you charge reasonable prices to healthcare orgs that have to be extra careful because of regulations.
Hi, just wanted to say you've built something very nice! I just tried it out by re-making a fairly complex diagram and it took me like 10 minutes, including learning the syntax, very nice idea, done well!

I did notice one annoying bug, as I change and break the code sometimes, the editor just stops working and it's hard to tell what's happening (the loading indicator just stays there). Opening the dev tools, it appears you're not catching all errors when your parser (peg.js) fails.

SyntaxError: Expected ":" or [^\t\n\r :;[\]] but "\n" found.↵ at peg$buildStructuredError (https://code2flow.com/worker-flow.js:2:12222)↵ at Object.peg$parse [as parse] (https://code2flow.com/worker-flow.js:5:1413)↵ at exports.FlowWorker.onUpdate (https://code2flow.com/worker-flow.js:5:4410)↵ at callback (https://code2flow.com/worker-flow.js:2:8619)"
I think it would an interesting exercise to attempt to build a reasonably modern device that's truly audited and secure head-to-toe.

If it could be done with proper 'design by contract', inspections, and at a cost that folks could swallow, you might have a new Apple 2 on your hands. Not in the corporate world, at least not immediately (where tomorrow's profits outweigh next-week's), but among security cautious folks and researchers.

I'd love to see if a laptop, for example, could be built to that standard. And if built, if it could actually accomplish real (not hobbyist) work. BlacktOPS or something catchy :)
GO for NO
I respect your belief that these things are immutable, but the belief of many is that it's not true. These are rules of men, and if they wanted to change them then IME with many such immutable principles in many contexts, they suddenly find a way.
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One other aspect is the extreme degree of federalism in US. When looking at it from the outside, people generally tend to pay more attention to what's happening on the federal level. But in truth, state and local politics are much more relevant to day-to-day stuff, and there's a very broad range to pick from when deciding which state to live in. Of course, in practice you also get limitations like "where can I actually find a job?" etc; but there's still plenty of options).

And state and especially local politics are easier to influence, too. State politics more so in states that have some form of voter initiatives (which mine does), which rewards grassroots bottom-up efforts.
That isn't evidence; it would be great if this discussion could be informed with it, because now all we have is more and more noise from more and more people, making it harder to get to the truth.
oh yeah, that game theory. mmm. I see what you mean.
Thanks! I think I'll give that a try. That's a great idea.
So is NYT fake news, their own echo chamber with no facts or research.

They just pull a popular headline and write what if... So what's the difference between these Macedonian boys making more money money with adsense? -- none. I give the latter more respect for succeeding.
Uhm, you're not using your imagination to put it mildly.
There's many ways of getting a plausible deniability.

Plus, breaks are never done through the strongest part of the wall.

Computers can be made totally secure in management minds, and in the minds of the broader public.

We know from stories of break-in after break-in to some of the worlds top companies, that that is a dangerous lie.

Most of these break-ins were done without the conscious cooperation of anyone inside who had admin rights.

Now, just imagine what can be done calculatedly with admin rights.

It comes down to trusting people eventually.
It's always about people.
Or they are going to find themselves so far behind that they have to buy into a Google ecosystem to run their cars and like Android manufacturers they find themselves in the declining hardware margin business.
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Is this what they mean by 'fake news'?
> Why would climate change be a hoax? Who is making money off of a "climate change hoax"?

The entire "Cap and Trade" market?
> So does every left-leaning outlet / See what I did there?

I see you typed some letters in a comment box. But doing that that doesn't create truth or fact. What separates real knowledge from a string of letters?
> I declined every invitation for coffee, drinks, and networking of any form. Most of these invitations came from VCs..

I find it really hard to believe that VCs are chasing the author, who had no track record in Startup land. Her advice looks solid, but how can VCs be bending over backwards for a meeting with her? I've never seen VCs do that based on what I've seen so far.

Anywas kudos on shipping, the idea looks promising.
If someone can snoop traffic and see confidential data, you're not very serious about security - no confidential data is sent off-server without being encrypted. (SSL mostly, with point to point VPN tunnels for a few apps that don't support encryption natively)
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I've thought about doing something like this, but my thought was a website first and then going into the extension realm.

If interested, I can help with the back-end. Fullish-er stack person with a few things living in production today (one of which does 500k uniques/month). Ruby/Rails is my go-to. Email is in profile.
Adults call it "diplomacy". I'll leave it to you devise your own lexicon to refer to those that use the phrase (preferably with a sneer) "have to sugarcoat everything".

See also: "I'm just saying what everyone else is thinking."
I searched and found no credible source supporting this claim. Do you know of one?

Wikileaks makes the claim, and some very partisan sources repeat it, but that's all I see.
there's a framework for that.
Someone hit a 'like' for your post or your page is not a follower. I see this assumption in people who think that convincing people to hit the like button on whatever click-bait they throw out there is somehow building an audience. I, and just about everyone else, is quite happy that FB forces you to pay a toll to spam my page as it cuts down on the marketing BS I have to wade through every day.

I truly hope everyone follows your advice to drive traffic over to an email list, being able to dump your marketing into my spam folder takes fewer clicks than marking your follow-up posts as something I never want to see again in my FB news feed.
Please see my response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12984303
The fact that it comes back after an hour or two of laptop keyboard use strongly suggests that you've not addressed the underlying issues. That's one of the key things I see cropping up repeatedly here - "I've found something that helps with my pain, if I stop the problems come back."

I regularly use laptops, standard keyboards, and have no problems. When I had RSI, it was bad enough that I couldn't hold a fork for almost three months, and typing was an exercise in agony.

Seek help from a good physiotherapist, but you'll need to do some research to find a good one.

Also, see if you can find the bad habits you have that promote your injuries. I have upper body muscle tension and poor posture, and when I first recovered from my RSI I was having problems all the time with writing, typing, absolutely everything. It turned out that those problems weren't bad feelings, my hands and forearms had lost a significant portion of their strength, yet I was working just the same as I had been beforehand.
"It's also pretty easy to set yourself up as a freelancer in many European countries"

Which ones? I've only heard of this for Germany.
Which is why Albert Einstein said it better: "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler."
The same can be said of most if not all US companies. They either co-operate willingly or are served 'secret letters' by 'secret courts' in 'secret processes'.

Not only is this co-operation extensive, documented and widely known there has been zero action, prosecutions or accountability from Snowden's leaks so far.

Kaspersky is an antivirus vendor with insignificant users and influence. Why care about Kapsersky when wide scale surveillance and 'co-operation' with the NSA of most US companies carries on uninterrupted inspite of the Snowden leaks.

That seems far more 'dodgy' than anything Kaspersky and Russia could be up to.
Why is this flagged? Is a well reasoned discussion of the entire future direction of American politics -- where Silicon Valley is -- somehow less relevant to the tech industry than "The Troubled Friendship of Leo Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky" or "Volkswagen plans 30k job cuts worldwide," both on the front page right now?

I suggest that there is a systemic bias on Hacker News: any article about identity politics that is less than unabashedly laudatory on the theme is almost immediately flagged -- though they often receive numerous upvotes and generate substantial and rational discussion.
I mean one of these dreaded combo modem/router thingies, hence the quotes. There is no bridge mode, and I cannot turn off NAT. It's also doubles as a completely fucked up DNS server which I have to override for resolv.conf.
Even though I disagree with you, I didn't explain myself correctly initially.

Rails is a framework. You are not a Rails engineer, you are a Ruby engineer.

I see this a lot with people that started with Rails, they don't understand the basics of Ruby and it's capabilities, they look for "Array comparison Rails" etc...
It's a prop from Pitch Black, the Vin Diesel movie. This YouTube clip shows it: https://youtu.be/11uE0vKMPKQ?t=7m20s
That depends entirely on how you define "good content" and who you think is creating it. The NYT interactive articles, for example, are obviously time consuming and expensive to create, but your average company using blog posts to boost search rank is usually paying ghost writers a small amount to crank out articles on a schedule, based on topics relevant to the brand's marketing.

Personally, I think you're much better off doing some keyword research to find what people are interested in and creating articles based on that instead of trying to back into a headline that fits your intended content.
Not that simple. Depends on the deal but taking retirement and redundancy are very different things.

This looks like a retirement package which means they can't take a new job, if I understand it correctly.

Having faced layoff in both Europe and US. The laws are a world apart.
That's most of what I tried to express earlier about the difference between dev/eng and "production" work. Being in the blur and under pressure, without moving targets around and under your feets that creeps in your life seems to be prevalent in the former way more than in the later (even though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12987866 tells a different story too).
like I said - this was done to an extra card I bought, not the one I fly with
"Badass" by Kathy Siera: how to make products that succeed by making your users be badass

"Design for How People Learn" by Julie Dirksen: instructional design, but any product will involve a bunch of teaching.

Will return with more if I remember any.
Yeah, maybe we'll switch as well now.

But I just cant stand the loving hype for MS here. They gave out such horrible and dog slow drivers to their paying customers that people reverse engineered the protocol and wrote their own. And it still performs very well.

Now that MS publishes this codebase (which should have been standard, or at least best, practice), they get showered with love.

Like an abusive relationship where one is happy and extatic if the abuser is reasonably nice for a day.
Ask HN: Anyone have real Charitable Organization metrics?
Wondering about the performance of charitable organizations. The data out there lists irrelevant metrics such as CEO pay and percent of funds paid out. These two metrics are irrelevant and shouldn't be used to decide which organization does a better job.

Case 1: Give $20 to a guy digging for plastic bottles. He buys a bunch of booze. No CEO pay and 100% of the funds paid out. Yet, the aid was 100% ineffective. In fact, you could have done harm.

Case 2: You offer to buy him food. Spend the same $20. This required active management. How much did it cost to give out $20? If you had to pay someone to supervise and ensure positive results, $30 to $40?

Case 3: Natural disaster. Aid organization receives $10 million. Pay their CEO $0. No organization outside of a few home office volunteers. They give out 100% of the funds. They are grabbed by corrupt government officials, warlords, drug dealers, etc. Only 5% might reach someone and do some good.

Case 4: Same disaster: A different org receives $10 million. They pay their CEO a good salary. They also have trained and experienced staff. They invested in a large cargo plane, portable medical facilities, tents, containers and a rapid deployment aid and support package. This infrastructure costs money to maintain, transport and grow. Only 50% of the funds reach the afflicted. Yet, this organization is there with an army of people and their resources helping, feeding and housing folks.

Clearly the CEO and % donated metrics are meaningless. I would rather give to the organization in the last example. I think most might agree.

Is there a site or watchdog group that compiles real, relevant and verified metrics for aid organizations?

P.S.: Please don't engage in slicing-up the above cases. They are simple examples used to make a general point. Not intended to be an exhaustive treatment. I'd appreciate if we could focus on --if this exists-- identifying a source of more realistic metrics.
I think we're just stuck in this little echo chamber as there's no way this post will catch any interest 4 hours later with only 7 points, which is precisely what I suspect the person who changed the title was aiming for. :(
What do you mean by "monopoly" exactly? It's a vague term both legally and in vernacular. Which medical monopolies are you referring to? Every facet of healthcare in the US can be seen as monopolized. AMA license requirements for doctors are a monopoly... Insurance is monopolized by regulatory compliance... Drug research is monopolized by patents. Are you talking about insurance companies? Healthcare providers? Drug manufacturers? The whole bunch?
Not quite, the tests themselves are another layer in the call stack.

All things being equal,

A depends on B depends on C

is more brittle than

A depends on B

So if you have

Tests depends on A depends on B

It's the same as if you added a layer of complexity :)
When exactly did you have this hammered into your head?

Not once have I heard this during my naturalization process.

But then again neither did the idea of voting once occur to me while not being a citizen either.
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From the link provided by gp, they may be referring to Medicaid and Medicare, though it's not at all clear to me from that page either.
Right. That depends on your target customers. You need to design a simple DSL that tailored for your customers and make them pay!
That's basically what I mean: both the C++ and C committees have been OK with C++ not being a proper superset of C.

The reason I mentioned it is that some of the syntactic horrors of C++ could safely be thrown out the window these days.

BTW though I'm primarily still a Lisp programmer I do like C++
I pretty much only program in C++ at work and Rust at home now, and I think Rust is hands-down a better designed language. It just feels more coherent and consistent.

I used to despise C++, but ever since I've had to abandon all usage of it's std library, I don't mind it anymore. It's a bit less crufty that way. Though I'm still peeved every time the compiler dumps 30 pages of every virtual method in existence because it couldn't find one that matched my call.
That's an interesting story, but it's not my experience and I see little to substantiate it.

Certainly all media organizations have real flaws and make serious errors, but that is true of all human institutions (name an exception!). Wikileaks is no exception either.

But there are large differences of degree. I feel like you describe the ideal of Wikileaks but not the reality. Transparency is a great ideal, but everything is a bad idea in the extreme - Wikileaks shouldn't publish information that puts lives at risk, for example, or helps the political ends of clearly bad people (and I know sometimes it's hard to draw the line between bad and good, but not always). The reality is that they were Useful Idiots (the technical term, not an insult) for Russian intelligence, and appear to have their own biases and vendettas.
Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal.

Fundamentally about being agile, adaptable, transparent, collaborative and decentralised. You could say it's about digital transformation but on a military scale. An excellent companion to some other books mentioned here, such as Deep Work (this book is a constructive counterpoint in many ways), Extreme Ownership, and Ego is the Enemy.

https://mcchrystalgroup.com/teamofteams/
FYI: Knex is also a famous query builder for Node.

https://github.com/tgriesser/knex
I'm a software engineer dabbling in mech design. I always do mental experiments and paper drawings, but I find that until I actual model it in SolidWorks I don't know for certain it will work.

In your mind, do you see a "mental picture" of the model before you CAD it?
By full confidentiality I believe they mean that customers host the software themselves.
I have a bad habit of falling asleep with the lights on anyway.
And cost the firm millions of dollars (granted, revenue does not seem to be their problem), and I note, painted a big red bulls-eye on the firm once God Emperor Ascendant, excuse me, President-Elect Trump assumes office.

And before you say "Oh, they're a private company that can do whatever they want", tell me when I can run a segregated lunch counter or refuse to bake a gay wedding cake.

You would think that companies like Google with their awful anti-customer (paying and not) policies would realize that they're handing Team Trump golden opportunities to make plays against them that are both good policy and good politics. SF/SV has had a long run without major interventions from the government, I suspect that's going to end.
Isn't "conservatism," especially when the system isn't worth much to begin with, something that is deadlock?
That's not what I saw, I followed the issue closely and hardly saw anyone bring up that it was a likely misinformation campaign. But please let's discuss here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12990832
Maybe those VCs were not used to being told "no"
To say nothing about how it would deal with a washing machine...
Cant take a new job! I cant believe that it violates so many eu rules and the employees human rights.

Of course it might not make sense if you are near state retirement age.

Of course this is outwith things like medical retirement ie you have a terminal illness
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Insurance companies are often I regional oligopolies, hospitals similarly and in some cases regional monopolies, and drug companies (like anything IP-dependent, particularly patent-dependent) are straight-out state-granted monopolies.