skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of the tests you mention above are wasteful for your typical Medicare Advantage enrollee.

A good point to discuss. Perhaps I'm overly optimistic about people in general, but how do we know, a priori to a data-centric healthcare model applied to a patient, about their participation? These tests are only wasteful in the context of the current care model, which stipulates that once you have Type 2, there is a lockstep progression of increasingly invasive and expensive medication and interventions, graduation to insulin injection, and culminating in early death from complications? In the face of that kind of prognosis, it is not at all surprising that any additional tests are considered futile by both medical practitioners and patients alike. But if the patient was offered via data-centric care a clearer window to their condition, amplified proactive participation in care management with negative feedback loops tamping down undesirable fluctuations, and in the case of Type 2 or metabolic syndrome the clear goal of reversion (though not a cure) and drastically improved eventual outcomes, why do we assume that even elderly patients on Medicare Advantage would not statistically respond well as a whole population? I dunno, this isn't my domain expertise, so I'm honestly asking these questions; if there is the equivalent of behavioral economics studying patient behavior, then perhaps that field has the answers I'm seeking.

> There's an entire cottage industry devoted to solving this problem for insurers.

I'd like nothing more than to see these efforts succeed, look forward to following the progress.
Ahh! Serves me right for reading books from before the 486 :P
leaking unsalted md5 passwords == leaking passwords
Don't. Everyone's different and everyone has different struggles. It's unfair to say "well I have problems too but I've never let them stop me." Everyone has different tolerances. Just enjoy what you have and make the most of it.
This is a separate breach
Could you actually transit money from online banking?

I've found this to rarely be the case, and when it is there are additional verification steps / notifications that give you a chance to stop it (if it's a new payee).
On a side note: You can use such crafted strings as a black box testing tool to verify if a site does infact use md5 or other weak algorithms to store the passwords. This can perhaps be used in conjunction with other factors to craft an attack.

As a corrollary this can also be used as a testing tool by anyone for any third party site to determine known vulenrablities in their password storage
Or you could SHA256 the original password and feed the hash to bcrypt. Remember to use the 64-byte hexadecimal hash, not the 32-byte binary because bcrypt chokes on null bytes.

Everyone's been saying "just use bcrypt", but bcrypt has too many gotchas to be the default choice. We really need to work on getting scrypt and argon2 into the most popular programming languages and frameworks a.s.a.p.
If a driver's average rating drops below around 4.5 they get kicked off. By design you can't give a driver less than 5 unless you want them to lose their job.
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If you want to quit to refuse to help, fine, but I take serious issue with what you're suggesting beyond that.

These are the legal actions of the United States government, executing the authority given to them to the people's elected representatives, and overseen by a judiciary duly selected according the constitutional procedures. Their legal and democratic authority is unassailable.

Further, you don't know what motivated these actions. Is it intelligence about a specific threat? Has the government identified how a specific adversary operates? You could be impeding the investigation into a deadly plot. You have no way of knowing this.

This isn't a game. We have real enemies who would gladly kill all of us. We have processes as a society for deciding how we defend ourselves. If you don't like our current policies, then exercise your vote, exercise your right to speak and publish and assemble. But don't usurp the sovereignty of the people of this country.
I use afraid.org for my dynamicdns.
> it does cause problems where if I'm going to do several breaking releases one after another I have to keep bumping the major version, and I hate that

Well how about stopping to think about your API instead of firing off several breaking changes in short succession?

The problem here is lack of commitment to a stable API, not the versioning scheme.
What if it's present but the implementation is incomplete?
> But yes they don't allow other token provides like Yubikey or RSA fobs

I think this is incorrect, at least provided you're using Chrome. The implementation was buggy somewhere in the chain the last time I tried it, but it's there.
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I really want to like Portland because it is so cheap and seems to have good access to outdoor activities. Unfortunately I can't get past the weather, and the stark lack of diversity.
Yes that is a more accurate name. And, yes, you can! No need to replace the line - you can just run that FIND-LF server with an argument "-server yourlocalFINDserver".
I have both apps installed. I use the one that offers me the significantly better rate.

Edit: Not just better rate, but better economic advantage. Money + Time. I'm not too rigorous about the precise trade off, but ideally, I will act as to maximize my utility frontier.
Wow. This is probably the worst comment I've ever seen on HN. You're suggesting that people who follow the law, which you disagree with, get blacklisted, following the model of criminals killing other criminals who follow the law.

If you want to change the government, there are far better ways than retaliating against citizens unwilling to risk life and limb for your ideology. I think you need to learn to direct your anger. Not everyone is in so privileged of a position to be taking your specific moral high ground over their own well being.
I'm really not sure how they could do flickr more damage than they already have.
It's not US. It's another state actor. Can't say more.
Other previous HN discussions here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=productivity%20hack
Here is a great list of examples: https://mozvr.com/#showcase
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I don't know why anyone would still be using Yahoo as their email provider at this point.
has anyone tried password@password ?
As the article stated, LLVM 5.0 should really be called LLVM 5, and isn't it easier to remember and write than 17.09. And IF you do care about the patch level, then it's
LLVM 5.1 vs 17.09.1, again I'll take 5.1 any day.
Endurance runners' brains have greater functional connectivity
I'm an opportunist, and not an idealist. I will gladly take subsidized rides, while VCs continue to cover my fare. Uber is consistently cheaper for me than Lyft. If pricing was equal, I will choose Lyft without hesitation. If I knew with confidence that the probability of dieing in a Uber is greater than in a Lyft, I might still take the Uber if the price is attractive enough. But I can't possibly know, so my null hypothesis about the probability of dieing in either is zero, which, intuitively, not the case. Then again, I don't put money into my 401k concerned about the United States going bankrupt, either.

There is a difference between social / moral value judgments versus economic value judgment. For me, I commented on the social value judgments, but act on the economic one, unless of course the economic one is immoral. There is nothing immoral in me taking an Uber ride. I said "I'm not saying Uber or any private company MUST care", because to suggest otherwise is saying Uber HAS to act to some social value, rather than to their economic advantage.

Edit: I'll take a ride in Uber's self driving car, too. As long as it's "subsidized" at some attractive enough price. By that, I mean they pay me. What that threshold price is, I don't know, but I know it exists.

Edit 2: I love eating McDonald's. I will not boycott and refrain from eating chicken mcnuggets, even though I know their workers are being paid minimum wage. These are macroeconomic issues that I, cynically, lack the influence to affect. However, at a micro level, I give tips to employees at fastfood restaurant. I gave a $20 cash tip to this particular Uber driver, too. That's against Uber rules. That's also against what I just claimed about being economically maximizing. I don't consider the tip as part of my expense for some service / good, and rather just helping people out in general.
Unless there is actual political will to curb the very powerful in the interest of the less powerful, any scheme like this is unlikely to result in much.

One of the make reasons the federal government is sometimes less effective than we want, is that the powerful and paranoid want it that way. They put hurdles in the way of government that would make any corporation very foul, and then they blame the government for being slow.

Sure, the government is special because it has the power to compel citizens, but that's what it's /for/. We can't do without it. (Well, the bottom 99.9% can't)
You can disable 'conversation' mode. I did that 2 days after they make it the default.
All that would accomplish is that you and everyone you sent this letter to would now be subject to another NSL with a gag order, and your fix would be undone.
Troll. Period.
This was encouraging to read after just applying to a few IT internships with Disney. /s
LLC's can have more fees, such as in New York. A company rarely needs to worry early on about earning more revenue than it can pay out in salaries, so I'm not sure how often a C-Corp will become a problem.
Evernote will let its employees read your notes
> Biking, swimming, and rowing are all better on the joints than the impact from running.

I was a competitive swimmer for a large portion of life. My back hated me for it. Running has been nothing but good to me.
Hang out at /r/fitness, and tons of references will be thrown at you over time with even more advocating one or another nuance. The results in progress/achievement posts quite consistently emphasize that if you don't pay attention to the diet, you'll quickly wreck any gains you sweat out in your workouts. People are only too happy to cite research papers in discussions when asked, but I have yet to see a study so overwhelmingly conclusive that even the food, medical, pharma and exercise industries will concede the point.
> Delay

> Misunderstand

see also: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/06/1944_cia_sabo...

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...

http://www.joeydevilla.com/2015/10/15/how-to-sabotage-your-w...

"general interference with procedures"
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Correct. Specifically, it disallows deduction of state/local taxes from your federal taxable income.
Update: this first sentence is Wrong: Those are pretty expensive at the moment.

You can use Welder's Goggles with a #14 shade [1]. Most welding supplies stores will not have anything that dark, but if you get a set which allows insertion of extra lenses, you can get it dark enough. As a bonus, googles like these will fit over prescription glasses, and also block light from the sides.

Try it out before the eclipse! If you think "this is a bit bright but it's tolerable" then you need something darker. You don't need the sun to look bright at all through the glass -- it just needs to be visible so you can see the shape.

[1] https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/safety.html
If it's missing functionality you need you could request by filing an issue to https://github.com/hiro-sun/vscode-emacs
> You could be impeding the investigation into a deadly plot.

problem is, that's the excuse that's always going to be given by the intelligence community for even the most obviously unconstitutional intrusive privacy invading stuff, like the NSA's "opticnerve" program.
Does Yahoo violate its Terms and Conditions?
That assumes your job has a very low bus factor. Presuming a company of the scale required for a state to need its assistance, your absence (and that of however many people there are who agree with you) likely won't slow down the operation at all.
and they wonder why i use yahoo for my marketing spam newsletters.
So now, quitting your job (because you're asked to do something unethical) is the equivalent of losing your life and limbs?

Let me guess, you believe all government actions are lawful. All lawful actions are righteous and justified. The only permissible way to change the system is through the system.
Did I get the gist of your morality?

In which case, keep voting and I'm sure you will see the changes you want reflected in legislation just so they can be ignored in by secret courts and intelligence services.

In the real world, people respond to threats (e.g prison). That's what the government uses. Why are we expected to behave differently?
If you can professionalize a certain set of ethics, you can make it impossible for your employer to find anyone to complete the job.

For example, capital punishment is increasingly hard to carry out because anesthesiologists refuse to participate and drug companies won't supply the drug.
Maybe, you could try to build your first version of the idea with Bubble (https://bubble.is/).

You can go quite far just using this tool, Zapier and Blockspring (https://www.blockspring.com/) together.
It was weird, but anyway I've data now. Band steering to 5g: same spiel. Balanced: seems to still do the same. Off no big deal.

Without mapping the signal to find out if my laptop is in some dead zone while being in direct line of sight of the AP, I can't find a great pattern to it.
I had a rejected journal submission show up again as a keynote conference presentation a couple of years later. To be fair, with that sort of thing we could have just had the exact same ideas and so forth, but it wasn't a common research topic, and there were suggestive dots easy enough to connect. Regardless, it raised all sorts of alarms about what might have actually happened, and I started thinking seriously about the value of non-peer-reviewed, completely open publishing just as a way of maintaining authorship credit. Even if everything were totally innocent, it was a bit unnerving about the attribution of ideas and everything.

I'm having major conflicts about academics as a career. It seems to get more and more insane every day.
Fair point. But we'll eventually settle on some rules.

The thought is like the following: people actually compose chess puzzles for fun, without regard to them appearing in an actual game: There's chess puzzle composition competitions.

Could one write a program to make a monster puzzle (or better, the most complicated) with forced moves?

That is: maximize X in "white to move and mate in X moves" restricted to board size and standard chess rules.
What's "justice"? Outing the plagiarizers does nothing to get them to do the right thing in the future, their ability to contribute is virtually eliminated. This hurts the community if this is a one-off event but they otherwise have made or can make useful contributions. If this is habitual, then outing them improves the community (as they're a net-negative to the community).

So reasons to out: habitual behavior that's a negative to the community; to make the injured party feel better (in some fashion). We've already addressed habitual behavior, outing is appropriate as they're a net-negative. So the second needs to be address, satisfaction for the injured party.

The publication is out there, what the true author wanted, and people can base new work on that (by way of citations and reading it). So the only thing for the injured party to gain is satisfaction at knowing the offenders are hurt and that they (true author) will get credit. But this is vanity, and other than the potential for that credit to provide the true other with greater resources (due to proper recognition in the future for their, potentially, valuable work), there is no benefit to the community. And if the true author's work is of value, and their work isn't frequently plagiarized, then their personal career is going to be fine.

Exceptions, of course, are important to note. I knew someone in grad school who had a professor plagiarize their work (and not their advisor, either). This greatly hurt the grad student, as this was one of their early publications (first significant one, maybe?). It also greatly hurt the plagiarizer who lost a lot of standing within the department (I don't recall what all became of either of them, I was on my way out at the time). We can always construct ever more exceptional cases that show that extreme (by some measure) responses are justifiable in the name of justice. But moderate responses are certainly also worthy of consideration, and probably ought to be considered more often.
I didn't get very far, but their first section has a huge disconnect between data and the text. Text:

> So assuming you’re looking throughout the Bay Area for a good deal and you’re comfortable renting rather than buying a home, as most of us are during the early stages of our careers, higher Bay Area salaries at least cover the costs of higher rents.

Data:

> engineers at top tech companies in the Bay Area stand to make between $15,000 and $33,000 more per year than engineers at top tech companies in Seattle.

and

> median rent is about $1400-$1500 a month (or roughly $17,000-$18,000 a year) higher in the Bay Area than in the Seattle metro area

Somehow $15k-$33k marginal income "at least cover" $17k-$18k. That's just outrageously untrue, even if you ignore the fact that it fails to cover any of the numerous other ways that SF is more expensive (food? local services? CA income tax?) or the fact that you have to pay taxes on the extra money (which brings $15k-$33k down to $10k-$22k, assuming a conservative marginal tax rate estimate of 35%).

Even assuming they aren't missing anything, cherrypicking data, etc., their data doesn't come close to supporting the claims they're making. Claiming bias seems like a pretty generous interpretation here.
You're talking about the same US government that happily killed loads of people when they banned alcohol by throwing poison in the bootlegged stuff. Put your loyalties where you like, mine are with the people.
University of Central Florida required this when I went there, but I think the issue is applying the learnings from the course vs getting the pay check from your employer. I think it's one of those things that is easier to say than do unfortunately.
coördinating << author might be typing on a german or turkish layout
> Why not apply for a permit and stay on the safe side?

Because in our world - 'do it first and ask for mercy later' works better. It probably depends on situation if it's a unethical/bad tactics or not, though.
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Given that Trump's economic theory is essentially based on repatriated profits being reinvested into the US, he presumably wants to talk with the companies that have those offshore piles of cash, not so much with Tech executives. This seems to me to also be the more plausible reason that Twitter wasn't invited.

Amazon $9 billion offshore
Apple $230 billion held offshore
Oracle $52 billion
Microsoft $93 billion offshore cash
Google $73 billion
Intel $31 billion
Cisco $41 billion offshore
IBM $44 billion
...

The theory (that GS is pushing) is that this cash will be used for large scale share repurchases, and I assume that given Trump's appointments he agrees. 2017 should be a year where the effects of 2016 reinforced: narrower and narrower stock market gains, limited to huge companies.
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No mention of Kontena.io ?
Too new or too European?
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I've spent enough time in support to realize that people's questions also convey their current thoughts and understanding even when they don't state it explicitly :).
> And I see legitimate questions downvoted already. The amazon shill is real.

Please don't complain about downvotes or accuse other users of astroturfing or shilling — the first is explicitly against the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and the second is a notorious poison (late edit: and in the guidelines now too).
Let's say an unaffiliated third party (white-hat hacker) found the exploit and reported it to you under a Bug Bounty program. Let's also say that that third-party was someone who followed "responsible disclosure" rules, and said that they'd publicize the vulnerability if you didn't do so yourself within a short time-frame. You investigate (by asking your team, your boss, looking at the bug tracker, etc.) and figure out it's an NSA backdoor. Now what do you do? Are you allowed talk to the white-hat? Are you allowed to not talk to the white-hat, knowing that this would result in the white-hat reporting the vulnerability and thus compromising the investigation?
I agree with you, the effect size is relatively small, here's the main table:

http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/mp201...

Beta is the effect size here, which ranges from 0.07 to 0.03, not exactly high. The p-values may be tiny but that's just a measure of the likelihood of getting these effect sizes by chance.

>These results imply that, after correcting for confounding variables (see notes under Table 3), those who were deficient at time of birth had on average 0.06 point higher gender-weighted SRS score, which corresponds to an increase of approximately one fourth of the s.d. (s.d. of the SRS in the total sample=0.23

Now is 0.06 a large growth for SRS? Let's have a look at the scale of that value:

>The SRS-A mean total score was highest in the ASD sample [autism disorder] (M = 78.5, SD = 13.7), intermediate in the CLIN [other disorders] (M = 63.4, SD = 15.4), and lowest in the TD [typically developing, 'normal
] (M = 55.5, SD = 9.9)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425739/

So you have about 10 points on average between these groups, an effect size of 0.06 doesn't seem extreme to me (but it is nevertheless linked!)
Nextdoor also doing this.. local based reduces scope for fraud..
After maxing out 401k you get about $10k net a month @ $200k. Not including bonus and stock. $10k a month is a lot anywhere unless you have kids.
So in Australia we have things called small claims courts, which are designed to make it practical for an individual citizen to sue a billion dollar company for a few hundred dollars. And I think that Australian consumer law would take a very dim view of website terms and conditions that claimed to prevent it. There's a tradition of "Yes, your thousand-dollar contract is enforcable, but any attempt to enforce it would be an offence under the Trade Practices Act, and we could fine you a million dollars if you tried."
True, and a good argument for running, however using Turing and the effects on him of running as an example (it clearly led to his breakthrough scientific work as well as every other part of his life), it must be said that many people enjoy the company of women and would not be willing to become gay (from running) for a slight mental improvement.

(this is a joke comment pointing out how silly this thread is being.)
I agree with you that ratings should mean something. However, Uber requires an absolute minimum score of 3.8 for drivers to stay on the platform, and a 4.6 minimum for any area that has reasonable driver supply (eg: everywhere). This means every time you rate a driver a 4 it's effectively a statement that they should be fired.
That price is for a pack of 25.

I have two of the same brand I bought at the Boston Science museum last summer. I don't know if they still have them, but they were a couple bucks each at the time. I'm sure other museum type stores must carry them.

I can also attest that they work great even for just observing the sun.
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