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> What are some need to know things in terms of frameworks and workflow that I should be aware of?

Strange times, isn't it? 10 years ago, a front end job would require a comprehensive understanding of CSS, the DOM and JS. Now it's all about framework X and Z, build tool A or B, Typescript and what not, like these tools are so complex one has to be a specialist in these tools because they can't be learn in a few days.

Meanwhile, micro-services are all at rage on the server and back-end developers deemed big frameworks like Rails,Spring,Symfony and co an anti-pattern because complexity is bad (Go)? But stupidly complex tools and frameworks on the client are OK?
Right. The political power of the insurance companies ensured it was framed as "access to insurance" instead of access to health care itself. Health care is a general ledger category under "loss control".

Likewise, the ACA repeal efforts are disingenuously framed as "enhancing access to insurance".
Do you really need the word `but` in "It's alpha, but"? I thought on HN, being alpha got you extra brownie points.
Perhaps I am assuming too much, but any sane universal health care system will require you to be a resident of a state for some period of time. Otherwise, then people will just hop a bus as you said and run the state dry.

Assuming that it requires residency, that requires that the sick person quit their job, find a place in the new state to live and work for say a year or two while staying alive with a dire sickness. It's not just a bus ticket that you need to relocate, there are many more significant costs associated with a move.

And even in that case, unless the state is already overcrowded, this is essentially a way to grow the state's residency and thus it's tax base.
Adobe’s Latest Security Patch Installs Chrome Extension to Collect Data
Is there any evidence that this happened?
Do you know of solutions that exist for pre-commit checks for GitHub at the moment?
Nailed it. That's the basic cycle I see: companies (people who run companies) do things which benefit them financially, citizens get upset at the inequality and demand change, politicians promise this change on the surface, then get into office and take actions which mainly benefit the wealthy + powerful. Repeat.

Neither US political party is attempting to disrupt this system, it's just "spend money helping poorer people" or "spend money helping richer people". Red team does this through huge tax incentives for companies and individuals despite the growing national debt. There's no longer an actual conservative, small-government party in the US.
As a Canadian, I hit CTRL+F and searched for "Canada" in this thread with over 600 comments and didn't find a single result. (Edit: My mistake, missed one other Canadian!) I searched for a few other nations with universal healthcare and couldn't find any references to them, either.

It is really interesting how the American mindset is to never look abroad to see what works and what doesn't. There's something amusingly arrogant about it. Almost as if every other country must be an absolute cesspit that could never have any lessons to offer, although I admit that other countries' universal healthcare systems have been effectively (but unfairly) demonized in U.S. political discourse.

Our system here is far from perfect and comes with it's own unique set of frustrations in terms of timely access to care, but it seems like those frustrations are nothing compared to what millions of Americans put up with.

I have anxiety even travelling to the United States for a couple weeks on occasion when it comes to healthcare. What if something happens to me? Did I buy the right travel insurance? Is there a certain process I need to follow? (Most travel insurance policies I have seen indicate that if you need medical treatment to call them first before you do anything, which seems like an odd thing to do if you're having a heart attack..) Did I fill out the insurance application forms correctly? And if I end up needing care, will the insurance company find some loophole or technicality to deny my coverage?
> I named it after the concept of 'tabula rasa' which means roughly 'blank slate' which I thought was fitting for an editor

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/5l0a2i/rasa_modula...
> an apparent perception of easing symptons might just as well be another symptom

Placebo effects are not exclusive to those with mental illness
I work for a company which operates in the Medicare Advantage space.

A provision of the ACA sets a minimum medical loss ratio for us. In simpler terms: it puts a legal cap on our profit margin, by requiring a minimum percentage of the money we take in to be spent on benefits to our members (such as paying their claims).

That is almost certainly going to get repealed.
While they encourage diversity, they have a pretty clear hiring profile for candidates http://imgur.com/a/ZsS81
I feel the same way. In Sam Altman's most recent interview he talked about hours of use per day being an important metric for a new product.

It seems like the first high-use product in this category will be a lightweight regular looking set of glasses that simply displays your notifications.

Then in the future, add a camera to display overlays on the real world.
> Rasa is putting extensions first from the very beginning, I've read that Yi has plans to extract their renderers into extensions but hasn't been able to easily extract them at this point. In rasa, EVERYTHING is an extension (for better or worse I suppose we'll see).

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/5l0a2i/rasa_modula...
Signal actively promotes as activist messenger by using names of revolutionaries and anarchists (Makhno, Proudhon, Masha Kolenkina) all over their website. Just for example: https://whispersystems.org/blog/images/signal-faces.png
All good tips.

I've been using QualityTime (Android only, I think: http://www.qualitytimeapp.com/) to measure and track usage daily. Seeing it quantified was a bit of a shock even though I thought I was doing a good job of mentally monitoring myself.
> "it's not something a general attacker can do but it would enable WhatsApp/Facebook to read conversations"

So it downgrades "end-to-end encryption" to "transport layer security".
IMHO presence wise we are there already, even with the PSVR (especially the PSVR in my case, prefer cockpit/controller based games). The resolution maybe needs a bit of imagination to make up for but again presence as described by John Carmack has been delivered by almost all of the devices you listed.
When can I order one with Uber?
I want a wealth redistribution program as redress for past injustices. Current concentrations of wealth and property are the result of force and fraud, and I do not see how anyone should support preserving those distributions, let alone enshrining their preservation as a moral imperative.
If you only have 5 - 10 minutes, ask for an email to follow up with. I usually give out my email address if a candidate is doing well. If you are going to join the team, you don't want to go in with wrong expectations.
This looks really neat. I really like the idea, and I think it has lots of potential.

That said, I'm going to try to moderate my enthusiasm until more stuff gets implemented. Thinking back to Yi [0], there is a lot of really cool stuff in that too (namely precise syntax highlighting, which relied heavily on parsing lazily). There's even a couple papers written about it [1]! IIRC, the main problem was (I think it has been at least partially dealt with) performance - people expect their editors to be blazingly fast. It will be interesting to see if Rasa encounters similar problems.

[0] http://yi-editor.github.io/
[1] https://github.com/yi-editor/yi#reading-material
Lily Robotics takes $34m in pre-orders, ships nothing, shuts down, gets sued
Interesting to see screenshots of LCOV. I'm hoping to get an intern to work on test coverage this summer, and I wondered whether LCOV is still current. Looks like the latest release is from December 2016.
In the early 20th century, both Canadians and U.S. citizens formed unions to push for better living/working conditions in their country.

The difference with regard to healthcare is that Canadians convinced their government to provide it, while U.S. citizens convinced their employers.

This was fine for most of the century in the U.S., but towards the end and more recently leading up to the passing of ACA, all but the most zealous unions were broken up and employers were providing healthcare less and less.

Unlike the industrial, early 20th century where conditions were horrible for almost the entire working class, we now have some people who are gainfully employed with healthcare and some who are not. Consolidating these two groups to agree on how to provide healthcare for everyone is difficult, because those who "got theirs" don't see it as a problem until they lose it.
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Robots: Legal Affairs Committee Calls for EU-Wide Rules
Location: Charleston, SC, US

Remote: Sure.

Willing to relocate: Sure.

Technologies: JS (ES6 preferred), React, Backbone, SASS, LESS, also like machine learning and VR.
Willing to learn (almost) anything.

Résumé/CV: www.github.com/jordanledford

Email: heyHN@jordanledford.com
Because VR games are so physical, gaming will no longer be
perceived as an unhealthy activity. I could have used this
growing up.

I don't see this panning out ever. If "virtual reality" went beyond being room based, then it doesn't really seem like the same idea as virtual reality. And I don't think anyone thinks it's healthy to bump around a small office room.

Harkens back to the 'playing Wii is exercise' movement.

Because VR is so immersive, I can imagine myself spending
significant amounts of time (hours) with a headset on,
every day.

While there's plenty of room for improvement, this doesn't sound particularly healthy. It's eerily similar to taping lightbulbs to your eyelids and expecting good results. Even if the light level were healthy, the close screen and lenses could do damage to focus. I would definitely talk to real eye doctors before planning around this idea. But then again, I'm nearsighted just from reading books and using the computer.

This is also a naïve attitude as anyone who has or has developed for VR knows that a little time goes a long way.

As a result, gaming will not be the only significant use
case for VR. My headset will steal time time from other
screens (tv/laptop/phone) and as a result there will be an
explosion of VR consumer apps, entertainment apps,
developer tools, and more.

The virtual office concept is nuts. There is never going to be a time when the cost per pixel of virtual monitors outperforms real monitors. VR is inherently selfish, so there's very little room for opening up collaboration. A dry erase board gives a better sense of community.

If I am right, over the next five years we will see the
following: 100 million devices distributed.

That's certainly possible but I don't understand the leap from, "this device is cool," to "this is a necessity." When I first saw 3D TV's I thought, "hey, this is great!" but they aren't sold in my local electronics stores any longer.

I do think VR is cool. I think it's great that Oculus was able to kickstart all the way to Facebook, and I think the Vive is an even better product. The smartphone VR is a neat way to get rid of wires. And there are plenty of great games and applications, where the community is just getting started.

But I don't think this is the revolution that people are pinning on it. In ways, VR devices are glorified view masters. Everyone loved those as a child but they are a toy. (The armed forces pay a lot for 'serious games' as well, so it isn't a discount.) I think if many people who tried VR tried a Nintendo 3DS they might also love it. And if you tried head tracking on a normal display it might also be exciting.

I don't like the infatuation with VR. It's not healthy and it's only going to make things more disappointing when the bubble bursts. It also rings hollow.
One place where Piazza really excels is in their Sales. They used their network to get the big schools, now getting the smaller schools is relatively easy. I can't imagine a startup/small business selling software to say for ex. Harvard, without knowing a few professors inside Harvard. You can definitely make a app that students use, but getting professors on the platform and getting the selling part right would be incredibly challenging.
WhatsApp vulnerability: Bug or Backdoor?
First. I don't know of a more consistent revenue model than something that is often automatically removed from paychecks monthly.

Second, a profit margin will take into account risk. So for the ski resort or the furniture store that includes the overhead of keeping the store open while you have no customers.

Third, if the risk is so insanely high why are these firms so consistently profitable? Shouldn't we expect to see them coming in and out of existence regularly? Restaurants are a truly high risk business venture, the majority fail to exist after the first year. Perhaps they have longer runways but it's rare to hear of an insurance firm shutting its doors. The large and consistent profit seen on their end of year reports belies the risk claim.
WhatsApp Retransmission Vulnerability (2016)
I'd imagine that the closest we have right now would be something like the Tor browser bundle. IIRC some things are outright removed, but many others are just disabled by default.
It is a common and significant misconception that D-Wave is an "adiabatic quantum computer". Adiabatic quantum computers for instance would be able to factor numbers in polynomial time (or more generally, adiabatic quantum computers have the full power of quantum computation, i.e. they efficiently solve problems in the BQP class). D-Wave, while being an interesting computing machine, is definitely not a general quantum computer (not even they claim that anymore). Moreover, classical computers have proven to be better at the optimization problems D-Wave was specifically designed for.
I think a large assumption you've made is what the make up of their applicant pool is, which I too have no idea what that looks like.
While that's certainly true, I wouldn't be put off if you just had the app side-loaded or webpage/DB hosted locally.

Having anything functional will put you ahead of the majority of candidates I see (DC area, enterprise software, so def. not the same market as SV/NorCal or start-ups in general).
Has anyone at OpenAI tried implementing Quantilizers [1]?

[1] https://intelligence.org/files/QuantilizersSaferAlternative....
>This is basically the iPhone/App-Store bandwagon all over again. If you can jump on it, do so.

The reason iTunes/AppStore took off and became profitable has more to do with their monetization models rather than the technology involved.
> There are lots of feature phones with cameras.

I'd love to find one with a decent camera. I have a fairly nice and compact point-and-shoot that I bought a couple of years ago, but it doesn't have a lot of the software-assisted processing that makes it so easy to take good pics with my (midrange) smartphone.
Women are incredibly valuable, but there isn't anything inherently "good" about having an exactly even split M-F ratio. Is a company with 70% women and 30% men better than a 50%-50% split? What about the other way around? What about mostly men but a few women?

The obsession with having an even split is, ludicrous. Should every industry have an exactly even 50%-50% ratio? Why not? Why should it? I think we need more women in highly male-dominated fields like dock working. They're good paying jobs, so why don't we have more women?

Why are we always focusing on putting women in STEM and not focusing on getting women good jobs in general?

The men that don't get jobs because of these new 50-50 splits, where do they work?

The question people aren't asking is why this actually matters. The only answer I can see is to make sure women are getting good jobs. Women are clearly getting an education, since more of them are going to college than men, but are we focusing on good, well-paying jobs, or are we focusing on only the best jobs?

I'm sure this will get pc-d the hell out of. But I'm just concerned that we're over-compensating. Paul Graham wrote a good article about "What you can't say". I think me saying this, even if it's idiotic or something, is an example of something I "can't say" in our society.

I support women, but I support men too.
I can imagine many scenarios where even without biasing your hiring that your company doesn't look, demographically, like your hiring pool. For example, if your candidate pool is 80% foreign and you have a limited number of visas to offer.

One can also imagine that if you are a particularly "female-friendly" company, word of mouth and primarily-female contact networks (e.g. women who know each other through female-only meetups or "girls who code" style events) would naturally bias your most qualified candidates towards being women, particularly if almost all your competitors are either seen as "female unfriendly" and/or don't have access to the primarily-female contact network.
I really want to get Oculus, but the requirement of high performance windows machine is keeping me away. I am a mac user and I don't intend to spend about $1500 for a windows machine that I would use only for VR.

I don't mind spending $1000 on an oculus which can work with a regular macbook pro.
>No, because the cost increases were not due to the affordable care act

You're distracting from the real issue with a different argument. I didn't say the ACA caused the increases. I am saying the Affordable Care Act failed to make health care more affordable.
My children actually attend a tuition-free, public Montessori charter school and am personally fine with vouchers. I am all for choice and individual freedoms, rights and responsibilities.
Medicare already does this. If you go uninsured and then try to enroll (at a time when you're eligible, of course), there's a penalty you're required to pay.
Ha, maybe the market has indeed adjusted without me hearing about it :)
tl;dr to me seems: Since users can change devices, they'll need to reissue key material, this needs to be supported. WhatsApp reports key changing optionally, but doesn't tell the server that happened.

If WhatsApp tries to backdoor a channel and one of the users has key change notification, they'll find out about it, and WhatsApp has no idea whether the warning was shown.
Or instead of coming up with our own lists, just look at what other countries are doing?

The UK is doing OK with the NHS at half the US cost as a fraction of GDP. Singapore is doing at least as good at about a quarter of the costs.

American combines the worst of government and private healthcare. The UK does a decent job with government healthcare. And Singapore combines the best of government and private healthcare.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/01/singapores_heal....
This. Plus that's not really different than the situation now. Not every doctor takes my employer offered plan either.
Far too few people realize that much of the ACA plans' cost increases is due to Congress reneging on a government promise to mitigate risk in the early years through "risk corridor" reimbursements. Undermining an opposition program, then pointing to its collapse as if it was always fundamentally flawed, is a very clever and effective piece of politicking.

Insurance companies did not know the health, and thereby the cost, of previously uninsured people buying coverage under ACA. To reduce risk of the unknown, the government committed to reimbursing money lost due to underestimating risk (conversely, insurance companies would pay into a pool if they earned above certain thresholds). Over time, prices would meet an equilibrium as policy costs stayed low, allowing more healthy people to join the pool, which lowers coverage costs, which then lowers policy costs. Prices could be raised modestly to account for the difference, and government payments to insurers would ultimately end.

However, Congress rejected payment into the risk pool and ultimately paid out only 12.6% of the promised funds. Many co-op insurance groups had to fold, others needed to dramatically increase premium costs to account for (a) the lost money, (b) the increased cost of the uninsured, and (c) the increased risk that the government wouldn't fulfill its obligations.[1]

The current situation - limited choices, high premium costs, and resultant lower healthy person participation potentially leading to a "death spiral" collapse - is a direct consequence of these actions, not an inherent failure of the ACA.

However, Obamacare gets the blame and Republicans can point to a failing market that they can repeal and, perhaps, replace. Very effective politics indeed. Just ignore the human cost, which certain politicians seem to have no trouble doing.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/us/politics/marco-rubio-o...
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Alas, in a regulated system "best" it's what's best for the guys with the lobbyists and the regulators.
100 is such a small N that 50-50 could just be rounding noise, I'd think. That's why I'm glad that they care about such things, but it doesn't suggest to me that they are truly unbiased in their selection process. The only thing that makes sense to draw conclusions about wrt diversity are the make up of a) large corporations b) university output and c) the distribution of groups throughout start-ups as a whole. They might have beat the average, but without more data, it really could be anything else other than what they posit they did.
It's a shame they aren't releasing it. Same for carakan - they had a marvelous JIT at the time, which would surely make a great study.
Moxie says there's no backdoor as well:

https://whispersystems.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoo...
> I'm not sure what you mean by 'wealth redistribution' in this sense, unless you regard 'good health' as a form of wealth. The only wealth redistribution that is facilitated by insurance is from sick people to medical insurers and providers.

Pretend for a moment that everyone receives their annual physical, as medical guidelines recommend. (They don't, but it makes our example simpler.) And let's say that the fair-market price of providing the physical, accounting for all costs borne by the provider and their practice, is $100. (That is an arbitrary number I have chosen, also to make our lives easier). What will be the co-pay for the annual physical for an insured patient?

The answer is that it will be $100 - there is absolutely no risk involved in this situation, so the expected payouts of the insurance company will be $100, and therefore they will incorporate that into their price. (The consumer will actually pay a bit more than $100 in total, because the insurance company has overhead costs, which are ultimately paid by the consumers as well). But of course, that's not the case, because the expectation is that health insurance will reduce these costs, and that people who can't necessarily afford $100 will still be able to have their physical. That's why health insurance isn't really insurance, except in name - we talk about it as insurance, but in reality, it's a wealth redistribution program tacked onto a risk smoothing product.

By definition, insurance is literally not intended to save the insured person money, in expectation. The expected value of all claims will always be less than the expected value of all money paid to the insurer by the insured entity. (This does not hold for every individual, but it does hold in the aggregate - that's where the risk smoothing comes in). The insured person pays the insurer a premium[0] in order to reduce the uncertainty in how much they would have to pay on any given month without insurance.

[0] Not as in "monthly premium", but as in "a premium on top of the expected value"