skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This product has me actually considering the purchase of a MacBook Pro now.
What I get from this is you and your wife are healthy and didn't go to the doctor and after the ACA your premium went up $20 a month.

> Sure it had more bells and whistles, but I didn't want nor need them.

Like FREE preventative care. That's not a bell and whistle. That's worth more than your $20/month right there. Go to the doctor already.

And more importantly, that premium is identical regardless of what condition you were in. Without ACA, if you had cancer, you would die and/or be financially ruined. Worse yet, if you just had something like depression, or high blood pressure, or diabetes, then you'd be screwed out getting affordable insurance even in the event you got cancer or something unrelated but deadly.
> I hope more and more people decide they feel no social obligation to things.

This is incredibly naive and ignores a lot of the political and theoretical underpinnings of our society and our country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_refo...

Massachusetts had Obamacare (RomneyCare) years before the federal law existed (it acted as a model for the federal plan).
Great explanation of this sometimes overlooked detail of DH-based authentication.
Here are the specs: http://blog.macsales.com/39345-owc-makes-macbooks-pro-again-...
Most people that are pissed in our modern age are so, because of a feeling. This really is starting to become an issue

While I'm not advocating or even agreeing with the comment you're replying to, your statement is as overbroad as it can be. In the case of this issue, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see companies (as in companies we've worked in as tech workers) use the H1B system and form an opinion on it. For many of us (and that includes those of us who are hiring managers and/or close to C-level execs) it's readily obvious enough that forming an opinion isn't 'just a feeling' whatever that means. Feelings are invalid now? And 'most' people?
I've wondered if scaled movement was possible or if it would really mess with our brains. For example, 1m realspace = 3m in VR. Would your body adjust to smaller/slower movements, or would there be a disorientation?
What a silly quote, do they believe reading books is an unhealthy activity as well? Every activity doesn't have to be physical exertion.
Most topics on HN have people staunchly defending different camps; this is just an obvious one. As an example, Signal is very controversial, so there are a few people who say it's great for privacy, and another group that say it's misleading and less secure than it appears. Full disclosure: I don't have a position on Signal, but I'm a big fan of Moxie.

How would you "discuss these things" without having different points of view? Should we all just post 'this climate change is even worse than I thought', then respond 'I knew it was this bad, see my post from 2 years ago'?
ESR38 stopped getting upstream security updates from Mozilla in April of 2016. But I'm sure the Palemoon folks have stayed on top of things since.
Our thoughts, as we experience them, are usually in a form of an inner monologue, and very much like talking it's always in some particular language. Based on that I'd suspect, if telepathy was possible, that it would still be very closely bound to the language that you use to verbalize your thoughts.
I very much get the same sense from the uptick in VR over the past year or two that I did when 3D TV was all the craze several years ago - kind of interesting, but in practice not very good
Note: I altered the article's title slightly.

1. Replaced "State's" with "[WA]", for clarity.

2. Replaced "Obamacare" with "[ACA]", to get under 80 character limit.
The whole point of my post, which you seem to have completely and utterly missed, was that you don't need 0-days for exploiting Pale Moon. Every single Mozilla CVE published from Firefox 38 to Firefox 50 is potential issue for it. The amount of 0-days in there is exceedingly low, but amount of CVE is very high, because Mozilla publishes CVEs for security bugs they find themselves. AFAIK Google also does this, but Microsoft doesn't.

This isn't FUD. You can literally go read the list:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...

I count over 174 fixed vulnerabilities and stopped at version 48. Yes, some of these might not apply to Pale Moon because they're new vulnerabilities or it has the relevant feature disabled. You think anyone did the work to go through them all? Let alone backport the ones that are relevant?

Mozilla used to do this work for Pale Moon by virtue of still backporting the most important ones (i.e. not all) to ESR38. Not any more. Good luck!

the vast majority are for things like WebRTC, WebGl, and other attack surfaces that Pale Moon intentionally avoids

Pale Moon supports WebGL nowadays. It's needed for a few things like Google Maps to not suck. Of course, the implementation is outdated, which is perhaps what made you think it's not there...
The field of healthcare economics is a complex one. I think simplistic analysis is not sufficient.
This clunky contraption reminds me of the "Ultrabase", a sort of mobile docking station for the Thinkpad X220 and earlier -- only those offered way more connection options.
> Previous to the ACA people would buy "health insurance" with a deductible so high they realistically couldn't use it anyway.

I talked to the CEO of a small rural non-profit hospital and asked if ACA had helped since they traditionally wrote off a lot of the care they provided. I figured that everyone being required to have insurance would really help them stay afloat.

She said it actually hurt them because they had an influx of people coming in with subsidized insurance that never paid any portion of the deductible. So the hospital was now struggling even worse than before because they were writing off more than previously.

For me, this was a counter-intuitive result of ACA that I hadn't expected.
It is not a race to become the universal map. When Steve Jobs was breathing, there were a few fierce words about 'Android'. Having Google Maps or a Google browser on the phone was to be avoided at all costs so Apple shopped for maps and put something together so they would not be at the mercy of Google deciding to discontinue their maps app on iOS/Safari. So the Apple maps were never born out of vision, just spiteful thinking and a perceived need to have indigenous maps that were not supplied by the old sparring partner (Microsoft) or the evil Google.

I think that the Apple map product was designed in that era of skuomorphic thinking that went on until recently in iOS. So the maps are designed to be a familiar map, much like the atlas you had as a kid when it comes to typography.

The Google Maps evolved from looking like paper maps a long time ago and are about showing you the information you want, not everything that can be crammed on screen. This challenges us to think about how we see the world, for a long time 'A-Z' maps were the thing and you had page numbers and 'square' numbers, e.g. B7, page 126 instead of 'hyperlinks'. Apple maps are more in line with that 'old persons' way of dealing with cartography issues, the Google maps are pioneering a better UX for visualising the world.
Retr0bright [1] is good for that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retr0bright
What is your solution for mounting the base stations? I've looked into tripods before, but the sensors are meant to be much more firmly mounted from what I've read.
Exactly. It will be interesting to see how something like this sells.

I have a feeling that it will fill a niche, but not be a hugely popular option with most MBP users. Folks can whine about the lack of ports, but in a few years USB-C devices will be quite common and reliable.

For something like ethernet, I'd honestly rather "haul" a small dongle around.
"He says that is impossible and you need B's key to impersonate B when talking to A." Indeed this is what you'd expect out of any secure handshake, right? But that's not the case with the novice Tox one:

The handshake depends on forming a shared secret. They do by computing an ECDH, which has the property:

ECDH(private A, public B) = ECDH(private B, public A)

So, if you control private A, you can form the shared secret that A relies on for verifying anybody else's identity. Reasonable AKEs protect against this; Tox's naive one does not. So, instead of requiring two compromised keys for a man in the middle between one peer pairs (A<-->B), you only need one compromised key for a man in the middle between infinite key pairs (A<-->{everybody}).
Check out: http://skinning.org

This course is awesome, from linear blend skinning up through the latest elasticity-inspired models. The videos are locked behind the ACM paywall but the course notes and slides are all online.
I think it's only a real test if the unit is reasonably priced (still tbd). If it's overpriced, then I think it won't be a true indicator at all.

I like the idea a lot (I'm a huge fan of the older unibody MBP chassis), but I wouldn't want to pay $500 just for the privilege of having one.
But that doesn't mean the ACA saved their lives, it means ACA allowed them to continue with their startups rather than find coverage working for any of a plethora of big businesses. That is obviously still a good thing, but to claim that those founders literally would have died without the ACA seems misleading at best.
To add to this point - I personally only buy/play Room-Scale games for this reason. And with HTC expected to sell additional LightBox sensors, it's quite possible I'll be able to expand my play space from the current HTC Vive max of roughly 12x13 to pretty much fill my entire basement. Of course you are limited by the cabling right now but HTC has a wireless module already announced for release during the first half of this year.

Exciting times for VR after decades of false starts.
I'm not arguing that people need better self control, just that they need to be aware of what they're doing so they can do what they want. There's nothing wrong with browsing facebook for 10 hours if that's what you wanted to do each step of the way. This isn't like abstaining from something you want, it's choosing between two things you want.
Nah, let's call it something fun like Nibiru or Nemesis.
I found that Superhot VR was much more exciting than Eve Valkrie. The immersion was so high that I started closing an eye to shoot better. I haven't done that with any other game.
The “bag of dongles” problem has been solved by other vendors too, though. There's a whole market for mini-hubs that plug into your MacBook or MacBook Pro now. Heck, Apple has their own three-port USB type-A/charging/HDMI hub.

Also, I don't think Apple actually wants the dongle situation. This is a transitional stage where many existing devices lack USB-C. Apple presumably wants everything to either use USB-C, or be wireless.
Too much space for just a few extra ports. If they are smart enough, they should add a built-in bluray player and perhaps a couple decent speakers.
This is a bad argument.

Does anyone know as much as the contractor who made their house? Then why don't houses crumble, long after they are built?

A free market would have various accrediting bodies, and doctors would advertise the quality of their accreditation as evidence of their skills and qualification.
Yes, edited for clarity. In the mid 90's a high deductible plan was on the order of 10k for an individual. Really there is not a lot of room between zero deductible and $1,300/year for a 'low' or 'medium' deductible and making the new definition silly.

This also added a lot of confusion as what was considered normal was suddenly called high.
Seems like an accident waiting to happen.

Would the connectors shear off into the ports, or bend the ports as the connectors are bend away?
Almost all the advice here is aimed at US employees. Does Canada have, and it should, stronger laws about your rights under termination? If you are the only person affected you may have basically been fired under their law and they are using redundancy as a way to get around the law. I don't know but a local employment lawyer or consultant does.
I strongly advice speaking to someone in the game before your next meeting. You may be in a stand down period where that is what you are meant to do. Do this properly and you should get your options and perhaps more cash. You are getting ripped off if they don't give you the options or compensation for losing them.

Saying on a public forum that you wanted to leave anyway was probably unwise btw as it makes it harder to negotiate a decent severance.
I'm invoking the commerce clause. So the States can only make more onerous regulations. You see this with California emission standards. The Federal government has a minimum and California say, "You got to do better." This prevents a race to the bottom.
Life insurance is sold across state lines. Do you feel it suffers from the same problem?
> just band-aids

INSURANCE EXPLANATION OF BENEFIT

Adhesive bandage. . . . . . $300 | Covered: $.02 | You Owe: $299.98
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For everyone who is (rightfully) upset about this: turn your anger into action, donate to people who are actually concerned about your privacy and who are taking action to defend it. I suggest OpenWhisperSystems:

https://freedom.press/crowdfunding/signal/
vdev was already given up again:

> This system is mothballed.

From its Github page at https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev
But you are actually making my point for me. Opportunity cost is a vacuous argument. Everything you do has an opportunity cost. That's not a risk, it's just a consequence of the laws of physics.

Maybe publishing would have counted as taking a risk for the reasons you cite, but Newton resisted publishing for a very long time, so he was actually avoiding that risk. So once again it really seems to me that Newton is not a good example of the merits of taking risks. (Quite the contrary in fact.)
I absolutely believe that healthcare costs have gone up. They've been going up for some time, and at rates quite a bit higher than inflation which is why even employer-provided insurance pre-ACA was getting more expensive, lower-quality and in some cases being dropped entirely by companies.

What I don't believe is that healthcare costs have gotten more expensive FASTER THAN THEY ALREADY WERE because of the ACA, any more than I think that my cat died in 2012 because of the ACA ("Gee, Thanks Obama!") which I'm sure some people would also argue.

So in your comment, I absolutely believe

> Healthcare costs have become expensive as shit

But I think you're trying to assign blame where it's not due with

> because of the ACA.
I think the point is that currently there's a profit motive for healthcare. There's no incentive to promote _health_. By putting the federal government (a proxy for the U.S. citizenry itself) in charge of healthcare, the incentives for maximizing health (minimizing sickness / our tax burden for healthcare) become clear.
> The way to "fix" the exorbitant cost of healthcare is to allow young and/or healthy people to sign up for the bare minimum: a dirt-cheap catastrophic plan that covers the absolute basics and prevents personal bankruptcy.

No, that's just the way to transfer the costs back to older/sicker people, it doesn't do anything to fix the overall costs (and might drive them up by delaying care.)
The huge tower skyscraper in the middle of town...

Seriously, something is wrong with the whole setup. ACA does address some of it but it has jacked my premiums sky high. Single Payer is the answer in my estimation. The sooner we come to this and stop fiddling around trying to make people we shouldn't happy the better off we will be.
I had that urge last week, and found that it had disappeared from my Steam library. Granted, I purchased it with the "Valve Everything Pack" in 2008, but the rest of the games from that pack are available. I guess it's just another lesson in "you don't get to keep the stuff in your digital library".
Jesus, no wonder so many people don't have coverage. I have never had to pay anything, even benefits are largely covered by my employer. I think I pay 15 bucks a month for a family plan on vision/dental/eye/drugs/physio etc.
Any movement of the player in VR that is not 1:1 tends to cause motion sickness.
Don't you get incredibly sweaty though? What is that experience like wearing a bulky mask thing?

That's currently my biggest beef with these VR headsets, you have to wear some bulky thing on your head.
Selling my Vive tomorrow, before it's too late (unsellable due to something better on the market). < 50 hours use over several months. The visual quality is awful, not just resolution, but the lenses are terrible as well. Glare, very blurry except for a narrow center, the rings of the fresnel lenses are very noticeable. The glare is unbearable in any games with a lot of contrast, like space sims, that retro arcade hall game was terrible in this aspect, too, whatever it was called.

I'm not going back to try VR till the resolution is something like 8k per eye and the optical quality is far better. FOV needs to be much wider, HMD lighter and more comfortable, and of course wireless (I know you can get this now).

I have a dedicated home theater and room scale still does not work, because you will never have enough physical space in a regular home, and have to teleport around in games anyway.

The only games that really work are seated cockpit games. Racing, space sim, flight sim, etc.

Nausea was not an issue for me. Nor the "anti-social" issue, I've never been a party gamer, I like to play games alone, in a dark room with headphones on, sat at my desk staring at a monitor, or alone on the couch with a gamepad in my home theater enjoying surround sound and a 106" screen.

All made-for-VR games I've tried so far have been mediocre and more like small demos than full games. Best experiences were games not made for VR but with added VR support: Assetto Corsa and iRacing. Probably the only two games worth having VR at all for, but personally I'll wait for 6th gen or whatever will be good enough for me.

The games I like the best works better without VR. Sim racing games could be one exception, but are, for the moment, better with a triple monitor setup. Games like Pillars of Eternity have no need for VR, IMO.

Certainly VR has potential, I just think the HMDs we have now feel old and dated already. It's 2016 (when released) and it's heavy and wired, basically ski goggles with crappy monitors and crappy lenses hugging my face.
> Well you could define what you mean by "not allowed to speak"

Of course I meant she is not allowed to speak, quite literally. What else could it possibly mean after all, right?

So, in the spirit of this discussion, I will have to concede that what I was trying to articulate is absolutely 100% incorrect as it is based on a false premise, that she is literally not allowed to speak. Indeed, she is on camera numerous times speaking, which proves absolutely that I am wrong.

You win Don Hopkins. Congratulations.
> it's a gender war and it's extreme

I know you see a short-term zero-sum situation where gains made by women displace men to some extent, and it's scary. But think of how much better of a world we'll have in principle when there's real equality of opportunity. It will take some time and doing to get there and there will be a temporary period when awkward manual corrections like quotas are made, or posters featuring more girls than boys. We only have to deal with that for as long as we need it.

A man who earned his status through merit has nothing to fear. A man who had opportunity handed to him by default is the one who has something to lose.
Oh wow this is amazing! I wonder if it would also work if there was an outer-rim wall to create the illusion of being surrounded
Two issues with that: it takes up two USB-C ports, and its only support is those ports (so you run the risk of it breaking). Something like this[0] looks like it solves both of those problems, but it's not designed for mobile use (I've been eyeing one for a few months, but have yet to pull the trigger).

[0] https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/usb-c/owc/usb-c-dock
Are you kidding? Harry Reid had to resort to procedural maneuvers to get the ACA passed – single payer would have been laughed out of the room.
That's an interesting observation - most of the caveats about VR (poor UX/interactions, consumer hardware at least a few generations away from a good v1.0) probably don't really impact this space much as the focus is on other things. People are already demonstrably willing to put on somewhat clunky gear for an hour or two for a workout.
Helping people with preexisting conditions through an _insurance_ program is just daft conceptually. We do need to do this, but calling the result "insurance" just leads to confusion about how it should work, because it can't actually be "insurance" in the way the term is normally understood...
This is rent-seeking by Y-combinator.
I have a MacBook 12" and we have an Airport with 802.11ac and a Fritz!Box with 802.11ac. I have no problem fully using our 200MBit/s downstream cable connection over Wifi.

Something is wrong with your access point or its configuration. Or live in an area where all Wifi bands are extremely crowded (usually it helps to switch to 5GHz).
That thing does look like it suffers for having an Ethernet port, because it has to be taller to accommodate it. I would similarly rather have an Ethernet dongle than a much thicker laptop.
To some degree, yes - Massachusetts did that, in fact, and the plan there (that was signed, somewhat ironically, by Mitt Romney) is very very similar to the ACA.

There are a lot of details, though, that make this complicated and not necessarily viable for all states (MA is both relatively wealthy, has relatively wealthy neighboring states, and has a somewhat unusual healthcare market).
James Clapper's job is to worry about everything, of course he would say that.

The common flu is a lot more dangerous than CRISPR/cas9.

The CRISPR/cas9 system has potential for existential threat in the same way that AI does (not anytime soon.) This is what happens when you develop a new set of tools.
We need more women to get into VR. Not some SJW thing, young 20 something techy dudes just don't shop enough. Future malls will be in VR, and it'll be awesome, but right now the wrong demographics are using VR.
The poster can decide how much information they want to share. It is not useful, however, for them to contribute completely empty anecdotes. For as highly as the comment was upvoted, it should have more substance.
"We live in the "call out culture" and, ironically, it's how Donald Trump gained so much momentum. People have reacted to this by staying silent instead of explicitly stating their views publicly and creating conversations, opportunities for learning, and ideation."

Of course, let's also not forget that there is a culture that has made a point of shouting down contrarian or critical viewpoints when a discussion could be initiated.

Worried that perhaps some vaccinations are unnecessary? You're a stupid anti-vaxxer.

Critical of environmental science methodology? You're a climate change denier (and probably in the pocket of Big Oil).

Not a fan of how Black Lives Matter conducts some of their protests, or perhaps you think that using ID to combat potential voter fraud is a valid idea? You're a racist.

Not a supporter of a specific presidential candidate? Well, it's probably because you're a misogynist...and there's a good chance you're rather deplorable as well.

That's a good part of why people have stayed silent: they're demonized before a conversation can begin. It's not necessarily because they didn't want to have a conversation.