skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the one person you named wasn't silenced, you don't know any more names, and don't have any other evidence to support your claim, so therefore your conspiracy theory is that it's impossible to even know them, but they exist anyway. You've just proven my point.

The late Stephen Schneider also made the same point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Schneider

"So they make this assertion that they’re being systematically excluded, because they have no other argument, they no have evidence for the assertion. Let them do a study. Let them show us the letters of all the papers that have been rejected. What we did is look at real evidence, independently collected: How many papers, and how many citations. That’s independent, and the only way you can claim it isn’t true is to invoke some massive conspiracy that is frankly laughable." -Stephen Schneider

https://thinkprogress.org/interview-with-scientist-stephen-s...

And remember what Stephen Schneider also said about the person whose words and conspiracy theories you and misterman are parroting: "We've seen a lot of strawmen from Judy lately. It is frankly shocking to see such a good scientist take that kind of a turn to sloppy thinking. I have no explanation for it." -Steven Schneider

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101101/full/news.2010.577.ht...
Well there are a few other options.

Like that some people won't work in a place where there is only one demographic, or there is a VERY large imbalance.

Anecdotally I know a woman who refuses to work in a place where there aren't at least 2 other women that she will interact with on a daily basis. She's an amazing developer, but has been brought into male-only teams or teams with only one other female and it becomes an issue. And she's at a point in her life where she can require that of potential employers.

So by striving for a more diverse workforce, you could be opening up doors to exceptionally good employees who have the ability to set the bar for what they want in a company. To put it more concisely, diversifying your employees can increase your hiring pool.
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Syria and Iraq are not good enough sources for you?

I know what you are thinking "Those countries already had problems".

But you have some circular thinking: because they were not able to stop terrorism, they had problems, because they had problems terrorism got much worse.

If Western countries stopped fighting terrorism it would get worse, at some point it would get so bad the countries would be at risk.

Obviously in the real world no one would let it get that bad. But how bad is acceptable to you? 3 bombings/truck rammings per year maybe? 50 would be too much I'm sure.

Do you have some place you would draw the line?

I draw it at zero, which means, you need to spend a ton of money.

Look at Israel: They have not had a bombing in ages, so obviously they can stop spending money on preventing it, right? They have a problem with knife and truck attacks and I'm sure they are working how to stop it.

Once they do stop it, people like you will ask "Why do we need to keep spending money on this?"

I heard a security professional once quip "We should let a few attacks get through, just so they don't cut our funding." It's a quip - but there is some truth to it.
Everybody's hiring practices are pretty broken. As a white male engineer, I've never really had any success even getting an interview with ordinary tech companies out of engineering school. Had to start my own. Going ok, has been for many years now, which leads me to think all those guys throwing my resume in the trash may have some false negatives in their system somewhere.

I think there are objective benefits to fixing some of the weird culture in tech, including but not limited to (at least) doubling the available talent pool. And the objective truth that having more ideas and more viewpoints makes for much more effective teams.

I'm not so stupid as to think there aren't costs associated with bringing populations that aren't well represented in. There's gonna be catchup. You're going to have to develop talent. It is going to take a while. Engineering and entrepreneurship is absolutely a hard job, and most folks aren't cut out for it, not really. So widening the net is going to take work. And bigger, more established companies are probably better equipped to shoulder more of that investment, but smaller, hungrier companies can ALSO afford to take risks on talent that has potential, but isn't a 100% safe bet.
plan to keep the preexisting conditions protection plan, as long as you maintain coverage

That's a repeal of the pre-existing condition protection, because it goes back to how pre-existing conditions worked pre-ACA (HIPAA -- remember the "P" is for "Portability", not "Privacy" -- guarantees you can avoid denial of pre-existing conditions so long as you maintain coverage continuously or with no break longer than 63 days).
Your total income that you would report on your personal income tax return should be your personal salary plus your business profit for a single member LLC.
Assuming you fit the stereotypical HN demographic, these might be appealing:

https://ghgcorp.applicantpro.com/jobs/

Also, plenty of science groups hire "technicians" and "engineers" and other sorts of things to go build stuff.

For the really hardcore, you can try something like https://wipac.wisc.edu/careers/winterover-experiments-operat...
The line would be stuff you need rather than just want, and which can be expensive enough to bankrupt you.
I'm curious what this changed your opinion from?
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There have been plenty of reports showing something even worse - that pricing usually has no basis in reality, and you can have a 1,000% price difference by going to a hospital across the city.

Most hospitals can't even quote you a price. We were researching a procedure our insurance doesn't cover. One non hospital place quoted $750 cash price within 20 minutes on the phone. We called a nearby hospital and after over 10 hours on the phone spread over a week, and claiming that we don't have insurance (because their policy is you MUST use insurance even if they don't cover it), they quoted us $350 cash price.

We chose the hospital, and when we got there they said that price didn't actually include everything. WTF? It's a frigging mess.
> VR doesn't even replicate reality, let alone do more.

Why does that make any sense? That's like arguing Pac Man doesn't replicate reality so video games are bad.

It's funny LaserDiscs are on the list when DVD and Bluray took off like crazy -- LaserDiscs were just ahead of their time once the technology was right, it took off. The same is true for VR -- the question is not whether or not it will take off but whether or this is the point it's viable.

I just got a Gear VR last week and while it's not perfect it feels like the right point and that's just powered by my cell phone.
Will I live longer, or not? Are hot peppers good for my health, or not? Is the mechanism known, or not? Are they recommended by experts, or not?
I would counter that a) perhaps some parties don't know that they're using "tired old arguments" (if it is new to them) and b) the "bad faith" may be assumed, rather than known.

If you're being shouted down, regardless of why one party thinks you should be shouted down, your worldview and opinion of the opposite party will be strongly affected.
Color me still-unconvinced.

This retort does not address the fundamental point made in the Guardian piece:

> “[Some] might say that this vulnerability could only be abused to snoop on ‘single’ targeted messages, not entire conversations. This is not true if you consider that the WhatsApp server can just forward messages without sending the ‘message was received by recipient’ notification (or the double tick), which users might not notice. Using the retransmission vulnerability, the WhatsApp server can then later get a transcript of the whole conversation, not just a single message.”
In a meeting today someone noted with amusement that I was both the youngest person in the room and the only one taking notes on paper instead of a laptop. This is why: I can't always trust myself to stay focused when I'm on the laptop. As soon as I'm bored or uninterested for a moment, my damned fingers will - seemingly of their own volition - flip to a browser, open a new tab, and take me to HN or worse.
You don't know that. You have no idea what kind of health issues their families face. And yes, sometimes you are just paying for other people's care, right up until the time that you need it. That is, after all, the point of insurance.
Right. I'm saying I don't know if "many small companies could not afford to provide health insurance..." is accurate. I don't know how we're defining small companies (if they're under 25 full time employees, the mandates don't apply). I don't know how we're defining "couldn't afford to." What effects count? Are we saying that the rate of businesses going out of business has increased? Etc., etc.

Once there's some data, we can have the perhaps more interesting question of whether or not it's worth it. No question but that increasing the number of people with health insurance costs money and that has to have some effect.
Many Americans and many politicians often do look to other countries for examples of how to do something right. The problem is we have a loud-mouthed national-pride movement that believes in American exceptionalism and can constantly think of excuses as to why Canada's system wouldn't work here, or the NHS wouldn't work here, or every other country's system wouldn't work here. We're unique, so those other systems won't work here.

We also have a large contingent of people who take immense pride in voting against their own self-interest. They'll look to Canada's system and say "yeah but they wait for days to get an x-ray for a broken arm" ignoring the fact that they themselves couldn't even afford to get an x-ray. But it's worth it because even though I can't get healthcare, the people I hate can't get it either.

As shown by the most recent election, it's political suicide to imply that America isn't the single greatest nation in the world. It's even worse to suggest that we should be asking some other country for help. Those other countries are communists, and the only communist we like is Russia.
In my opinion, the best reason to use it would be if you don't have experience or knowledge with any other CSS frameworks. I think getting the experience in understanding how a framework or library works is more valuable than the syntax or semantics of the framework itself. This way, you are prepared to switch to another framework if warranted (or create your own).
I don't understand. Do I understand correctly that you accept that anthropogenic climate change is happening? If so, then you're not a denier and none of this applies to you.
I think that's on you. The purpose of the government is not to protect you from making monumentally bad life choices. If the government doesn't bail those people out then that will just strengthen the incentive to sign up when you become eligible.
The climate isn't so bad in summer (when most people go), but the all-day sunlight can be hard to deal with for some. On the plus side, McMurdo has 24-hour pizza!
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Marketing and politics are probably the two worst areas to try to find any humanity in.

I use it for things like gaming, talking to locals (almost everyone I know in my current city I met through Twitter, or through someone I met through Twitter), getting local news, and keeping up with friends.
If I understand correctly, the default is no key change notification. So for the majority of users, MITM would go unnoticed here.
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Great write-up. There is truly no better way to learn about starting a business than actually starting one, no matter how small and simple it may be.
Yeah, I should have stuck with homo sapiens / AMH / AMHS [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomically_modern_human
Namely as cheap as possible. Dan Lyons's "Disrupted-My-Misadventure-Start-Up-Bubble" is insightful.
Out of state tuition at public universities is charged pursuant to exceptions to the dormant commerce clause that don't apply to welfare programs like healthcare.
Yeah I feel your pain I'm in the same problem, in an early stage startup making 80% under market rate, barely making my rent and living off ramen, absolutely can't afford ACA.
A lot of people write C in C++ mode just for convenience, you get things like const, but it's not the same as writing actual standards compliant C code.

If you need portable C code, forget about all that stuff. Forget about a lot of things since some compilers are truly atrocious.
> If WhatsApp tries to backdoor a channel and one of the users has key change notification, they'll find out about it

The problem is that the might not find about out retransmissions. You are trusting that the "double-tick" means that the message won't be resent, but presumably WhatsApp can indeed retransmit those messages with the new key under pressure from a state actor.

They need to specifically address this point; it's the only thing worth talking about. The rest is just a discussion of implementation of key exchanges generally.
I own an Oculus Rift and find that you only really get sweaty with very physically active games (AudioShield, Space Pirate Trainer, etc.). When it starts getting sweaty I'll usually just go do something else for a few minutes until it dries.
I can't count the number of companies I've seen die or collapse because of this mentality.
A lot of complaints about the ACA seem related to monthly premiums going up compared to pre-ACA plans. It goes something like this: prior to the ACA I was paying $X, now I'm paying more, therefore the ACA is bad.

But here's the thing, pre-ACA and post-ACA plans are not remotely directly comparable. Pre-ACA plans could reject you for pre-existing conditions, drop your coverage if you got sick and became too expensive to insure (recission), or had maximum lifetime limits that would leave you bankrupt if you got a serious chronic illness (think expensive cancer treatments). All of these practices are now banned under the ACA.

Does anyone remember applying for individual health insurance prior to the ACA? It was a nightmare. You had to fill out a 30-page questionnaire regarding your health history, and if you made any mistakes, the insurance company would have cause to deny your claims if you ever got sick. You weren't sure if your insurance would actually pay out when you needed it. And that's assuming they even approved you in the first place.

So yes, health insurance costs more now, but you have to ask yourself, was that $50-100/month plan you were paying for really health insurance if they could drop your coverage just because you were getting too expensive for them? Besides, in exchange for paying more, a lot of people less fortunate than myself can now get coverage, and I know my coverage will actually pay out in the event that I become seriously ill. So overall, despite the additional cost, I think it's a net improvement.

It's not perfect, however. It still leaves too much power in the hands of the insurance companies, who are essentially middlemen squeezing the health care industry from both ends: charging higher premiums to patients and paying less to doctors, so they can extract a profit in the middle. Ultimately we need to transition to a single-payer system where insurance is administered by a government entity instead of profit-seeking corporations.

This is how every other modern country in the world does it, and the result is better health outcomes than the US. It's absurd how behind the times we are on this front.
> The chances of a sha256 collision is essentially zero barring a vulnerability being found in sha2.

Yes, but to answer the question if you can find the input from the hash, the answer is no because it's impossible to be 100% certain as many input can hash to the same value.
I've felt like that for a long time, and I think Obama is partially to blame for Trump getting elected.

This has nothing to do with why Trump was elected. The rich and powerful have been marginalizing the middle class for a long time, through reduced taxes on the wealthy and austerity measures, both here in the US and in Europe. This widening gulf between the rich and the rest of us has pissed off the middle class and they voted for Trump out of anger at the establishment that got us here.

The masses have made their voices heard on not giving a crap about surveillance. It is never high on any poll or any article I've read about the rise of Trump.
Your first argument is satisfied by 2 and 3 of the post you replied to.

Your second argument boils down to, 'perhaps they have a larger female applicant pool than you suspect.' However, it doesn't really seem support an argument that the company will look different than the applicant pool.
Anyone with access to the hypervisor at the service provider will have access to plaintext.

This is mostly true with today's state of the industry, but with upcoming technologies like Intel SGX[1], the hypervisor will not be able to access the plaintext anymore.

[1] - https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/09/26/protecting...
I'll say as somebody low enough on the food chain to need to work harder at hiring, but high enough that I do make those decisions, I actively seek out folks outside the usual boxes. I look real hard for people that aren't guaranteed first-round draft picks, and who may be overlooked by the system. There are tons of great hires who aren't getting any love, you just have to know what you're really looking for, do the work, and trust your instincts. I've seen a lot of sloppy, lazy, highly risk-averse work in hiring and talent development over the years. Everybody's trying to not look stupid, not to win.
> Do you get fined for not buying a house??

There is a tax penalty for not having a home mortgage, so it's mandatory in exactly the same sense that health insurance under the ACA is.
My interest was piqued when I first misread the question as How do I get a date as a frontend developer in 2017?
That part of Android is open source, so you could in theory audit it and build it yourself. I would be surprised if any big deliberate backdoors hid there. There are large downstream projects that use this source and builds on it which potentially would notice.

The Play Services however pretty much amounts to a remote root shell open at all times. Google can remove or modify code at will, and they have been known to do it in practice for spyware removal. I can understand how an activist finds that problematic.
RP1 It's not any sort of world you would hope for. I'd rather the technology be banned than end up with that kind of world. But the story itself was fun.
I believe he does not hold true title to his car. He has a certificate of title. The title is held by the state who employ him as a chauffeur. His loaning the car to someone who speeded violates his licence agreement as a hired chauffeur employed by the state.
The reply button has disappeared.

HN delays the visibility of the reply link on threads that seem to be getting too deep too quickly.
Those things are obviously true, why would it be sarcasm?
Please tell me you're making a game about being a quant.
Regarding C corps, that's why I noted diversifying the ownership of the company and "he's a lawyer, he'd know better than I."

Exchange-created co-ops bit the dust elsewhere as well. In Illinois it was Land of Lincoln Health, which was closed by the state because it was going to be unable to make a required payment into the program designed to help keep the newly-created companies stable. I believe whatever remains of LLH may actually still be suing the Federal government, because part of what drove them under was not getting ~$70m that they should have received through those same cost-sharing systems. (caveat: Not an insurance industry person and I didn't watch it that closely). Still, I'm sure that there were a lot of amateurs who got involved. I'm also sure there were a lot of professionals and investors who got involved and in many cases lost money because even minor fixes became impossible after the law was passed. NOTHING that was going to make the ACA's implementation better was going to make it through Congress, particularly the Senate.

The problem is that when you dig down into the rules you may find a recipe for disaster, but you also found the only way it could possibly work. There are minor nuances, but when you really dig down you find that the "liberal dream of Obamacare" is really "Romneycare" is really at its core a design created by the Heritage Foundation[1]. That's not to say that it's great or terrible or doomed because it was championed by Democrats or doomed because it was written by Republicans, it's just the only viable structure that doesn't have single-payer as its core. If the Republicans in Congress actually do come up with a replacement it's going to look almost identical to the ACA except for cosmetic differences and name changes, and if Democrats stick with "You broke it, YOU fix it" then it'll also never pass and we'll be right back where we were in 2008.

[1] http://americablog.com/2013/10/original-1989-document-herita...
And a countervailing argument that "[The ACA is from the Heritage Foundation is bunk]" http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2016/02/15/where-did...
I don't like subsidizing poor lifestyle choices to any degree. I hope whatever comes next takes things like choosing to drink, smoke, and eat too much into account.
Are you seriously making excuses for the overpriced health care in the US? Every other country has the same procedures we have in the US at lower prices.

http://ritholtz.com/2012/03/comparing-medical-procedure-cost...
Did you RTFA, or not?

There are some possible explanations for red chili peppers’ health benefits, state Chopan and Littenberg in the study. Among them are the fact that capsaicin – the principal component in chili peppers – is believed to play a role in cellular and molecular mechanisms that prevent obesity and modulate coronary blood flow, and also possesses antimicrobial properties that “may indirectly affect the host by altering the gut microbiota.”
It's a recruiting tool in many cases. Both men and women want to work for a more balanced company generally
What I don't get is, what would you do if there wasn't ACA? Not have insurance?

If anything happened you'd be in the emergency room and would either pay outrageous amounts magnitudes more than $460/mo, or declare bankruptcy making your hospital debt a burden for everyone else.
What is the user supposed to do when they get notified of a "safety number changed" message? How do they verify they've not just been MITM? Honest question... I don't use whatsapp or signal at all.
I'd second this recommendation - currently reading it right now and it has the nice combination of being really interesting and really easy to read. Mukherjee's style is really clear and enjoyable.
Just wanted to jump in here and say I remember that study, specifically...

I found it here, for ya, along w/ an editorial of the study.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.03.002

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.04.003
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>The WhatsApp clients have been carefully designed so that they will not re-encrypt messages that have already been delivered. Once the sending client displays a "double check mark," it can no longer be asked to re-send that message. This prevents anyone who compromises the server from being able to selectively target previously delivered messages for re-encryption.

Can this be verified? Can this be verified to be the case 100% of the time? Is there anything stopping the client from lying to a user [0] with this interface, saying one thing (i.e. "this will not be resent") and doing another (i.e. resending)?

[0] - Or being triggered to lie to a particular user at a particular time.