skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I don't know the details I have to admit. But I go with what President of USA said - it will be as cheap as your phone bill: "less than a hundred bucks a month". Here is the proof if you don't believe me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lT4VzH5xY8
The article doesn't even try to answer the "why". In fact, it is almost entirely content-free and just laments the negatives of the gig economy without offering much more insight or potential solutions.
Your ability to reason is not being assessed, it's your level of exposure to and understanding of the facts. Which, if you are not a climate scientist, is unlikely to be exhaustive.
This alone is why I wouldn't consider DVORAK. If we have to live in a top-down driven world, I'd at least be open to standards being driven that waay
It's supposed to end in .html and this link does not.
> HN leans fairly heavily liberal and extremely heavily scientific the rest of the time.

HN also has a strong libertarian bias. There's some correlation between subscribing to that type of dogma and being an active climate change denier.
It says McMurdo was powered by a nuclear reactor for 10 years (ending in 1972). Anybody know why they got rid of it?

Edit: Wikipedia to the rescue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station#Nuclear_power_... "As a result of continuing safety issues (hairline cracks in the reactor and water leaks), the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power Program decommissioned the plant in 1972."

Still seems cheaper to run another better one than bringing in 8 million gallons of fuel every year?
There's a difference between " shouting down contrarian or critical viewpoints when a discussion could be initiated" and "shouting down people who are rehashing tired old arguments that looks exactly the same as the arguments put forth by people who are already known to be operating in bad faith"
TypeScript vs. Flow
Maybe government isn't where the answer is going to come from. Maybe we should stop placing our hope in the government.

As a Christian, this makes perfect sense to me - hope should not have been in the government in the first place. But even if you're not a Christian (or any kind of a theist), if you look at the situation honestly, it seems pretty clear: Hope is going to have to come from somewhere else. The government isn't going to provide it. Sure, they sell hope. That's what their campaign says. But they don't actually deliver what they sell.
Testing LLVM
If each page has different dependencies, you're not sending much duplicate content. Also, SSR supports incremental rendering (due to HTTP streaming), something that is currently impossible to do with SPAs.

See this article for more detail: https://jakearchibald.com/2016/fun-hacks-faster-content/
> VR doesn't even replicate reality

What device and apps did you try? Did you try room-scale? VR controllers?

Whenever I watch movies in my virtual living room I drop things on the ground because I try to put them on a table that isn't really there.

> let alone do more

I can watch movies on huge screens. I can take a dive underwater. Go in space. Shoot zombies. Talk to real people around a campfire.
Well - you know, when you strip the symbols from the optimized binaries, the "huge_exploit_nsa_hook()" function kind of morphs into 0x66666666 or some other seemingly random number. Besides, I knew only one programmer who could read binary dumps of a program and instantly tell what id did. That was 30 years ago, when executables were measured in kilobytes.
I just think you missed my very dry wit highlighting how even such an overused phrase can be technically incorrect, the worst kind of incorrect. Even when the rest of the more-technical-than-an-overused-phrase article could be correct.

My apologies, I didn't realize people would take my original response so seriously.
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Wait, why would they count your company's total revenue as your income? Is there no legal entity between you and your company? (LLC, C-corp, etc.)
You just did, but in a vague enough way as to add nothing substantial to the conversation.

Obviously, I don't think you're obligated to offer any details you don't want to.

I guess I assumed you had a point and weren't just firing off scary sounding exaggerated anecdotes.
> Sure it had more bells and whistles, but I didn't want nor need them.

You don't want them now but you might want or need them later.

> The ACA helped many people. It helped people under 26. It helped people with pre-existing conditions. It helped give free or low-cost health care to people that couldn't afford it because now the government is picking up the lion's share of the tab.

There are a few important things it did that you missed. It ended lifetime maximum caps and it capped the difference in what you can charge the based on age to 3x. That last one in particular is greatly under appreciated. Yes, the young are now paying more than before but they will also pay less than otherwise when they get older. Everyone gets older so everyone eventually benefits from it.

> I think they will look at the industrial recommendations such as expanding risk pools across states

Nothing prevented them from passing this since they were in control of Congress. My guess is this is much harder to accomplish than it sounds.
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'redirected walking'. This has been used in practice by some of the big VR applications and in research since them. As I understand it, the problem is that it doesn't solve the 'small living room' effect because you can only distort by a few degrees and this produces a circle of like 15 meters - so works in a sort of warehouse setting but not in normal buildings.
With the people he's chosen so far to take on positions within the cabinet and various agencies, I have a really bad feeling about what's coming.

Wonder how all those people who believed him when he said he was going to "drain the swamp" feel now...
> Space only runs in iOS Safari.

What is it about this web app that requires iOS Safari?
Ask HN: How to provide a reliable/trustworthy Application
I have been mulling this question for a while now and with recent whatsapp revelation and the comments on HN made to think this aloud. If I a developing a security relevant application, and even if I make it open source, how can a "user" be sure what he/she is installing from a marketplace is executable of the code I am showing. How can the user be certain that it is the compilation of the exact same code - no more, no less.
Selling across state lines is a horrible idea. It's a race to the bottom in terms of regulation, which leads to adverse selection, and therefore more expensive premiums for the sick, poor, and elderly.

There's a lot of material out there about the likely effects of selling across state lines. To the point it is not even actually seen as a viable option, it's more something that Republicans say because it sounds reasonable at first. But it's not workable.
I'm a single founder 100% owner LLC, personal and business income is combined. Plus on CoveregedCA they ask for personal income and self employed income when seeing if you qualify for discounts. Finally, dealing with sending them tax and finance documents to get the discounts would be a huge hassle and I'm almost certain a hair-pulling frustrating experience. By the time that is all done, I'll probably be out of their discount bracket anyway.
Honestly, some of the stuff actually from the 80s is more vapor than anything contemporary I've seen. Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thUODyrEhK4
If we can solve the problems that allow thought understanding, then catching a mental slip should be as doable as a spell checker.
I don't get it....search results returned only your comment.
Washable cotton covers are available for the Rift and Vive headsets. The controllers can be wiped clean like any other controller.

https://vrcover.com/product/htc-vive-pre-vr-cover/
isn't there a bit of a broken-windows fallacy here? How many founders can't afford to leave their normal 9-5 / and do a startup because their premiums have gotten more expensive and they can't build up a runway?
Tesla Is Snatching Apple’s Stars to Make Itself the New Apple
> Once again, cheap is better than free. Pay a few dollars and never get bothered again by ads or pay-to-play, but most importantly, you don't feel like you're being manipulated by a never-ending game that starts to feel much more like work than play.

But old school/classical ff games always have that grinding and levelling part where it also feels more like work than play. Games from before were also designed to be addictive (whether it was intentional or not).
Theoden: So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?

Aragorn: Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them.

Theoden: For death and glory.

Aragorn: For Rohan. For your people.

Theoden: The Horn of Helm Hammerhand will sound in the deep, one last time!
I'm on a plane at least once a month with Delta and American Airlines and even small regional jets tend to have USB plugs or power outlets. It may be hidden under the seat or in the arm rest, but what they're saying is true. Most if not all airplanes have power available.
Turn a form into chat
The present state of affairs is that everything is a red herring. The health care system is so convoluted, with business entities inside business entities paying other business entities, that it's impossible to know where the money goes, so we have no idea what makes it so expensive.

Somebody is gouging us, but we will never know who, and everybody can point to somebody else, or to "society," but we just don't know.

Chances are, everybody who can make money while covering their tracks through a web of business entities, is gouging us.

One potential advantage of the government owning the whole system, is that it would facilitate figuring out what the costs actually are. This may be why other civilized countries pay half what we pay. It's a saying in business, that you can't manage what you can't measure.
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Terrible graphics. I'm not up-to-date but are we still at this level?
Also the term "American Antibiotics". I didn't realize that antibiotics were citizens of specific countries.

More to the point, I wish these scare tactics would stop. Resistant bacteria is nothing new and its true that we need ongoing constant research into antibiotics and antibiotic-like substances but that's about it.
I think it is worth changing the behavior of the client to fix this. At time of sending the recipient's key is known -- there should be no circumstances where the message is re-encrypted for a different recipient without the sender's explicit involvement...
It is being talked about, and has been talked about for years. But the reality is that to expand Medicare, you need around 65 Democratic Senators, a comfortable Democratic majority in the House, and a Democratic President.
Saying that the standard library is all you need is
like saying that you don't need the standard library
either, Go's Keywords are all you need.

Not really sure what you mean by that. I didn't say the standard lib is all you need I said start with the standard lib and add other libs when and as you need rather than starting with everything in the beginning. In my experience you end up fighting the framework in the long run, but if you like them use them.
Hi Hacker News,

I built this after wanting it to exist for a while. It's a social network that focuses completely on the one feature I care about, discussing things with people I know in a forum-style environment.

I feel like on the current selection of big social networks, this core feature is being lost in the noise of everything else that's been added on top over the years. I'm also not completely happy with the fact that they are mostly running under a model which pushes public sharing, and/or regular interaction with ads and advertisers. I basically put up with all this because I have to, just to have a place where I can have discussions amongst my contacts. So I thought, why not try to build a place that focuses only on that?

You'll notice that the site closely resembles another one you might know, with the major difference being that it is private, not public :-) That's no coincidence. A big part of the initial inspiration for this project was this community and the endlessly fascinating discussions that take place here. I wondered if I couldn't bring a similar thing to mine and other peoples' personal circles.

It was a fun project to build and I thought I would put it out there. If you have any feedback, I'd be really grateful to hear it. Cheers.
I was seeing premiums way lower than $905/mo back when I was first shopping for plans. With my current income 2015 I do not qualify for any federal subsidies. I have no idea what my income is going to be for 2016 but I can keep a majority of my income in my business so that my personal income is well below the level I need it to be to qualify for medical assistance. It doesn't feel right to me to be going on medical assistance with my earning power, but I guess this is the reality we live in.

I've been on hold with MNSure for 2 hours so far today and I can't start an application until I talk to customer support because of some problem in their system. The whole thing has been a giant comedy of errors so far. I'm definitely not a fan of the ACA.
"They have no reason to look" is to me equivalent to "I have nothing to hide".

Both may be true, but both willfully surrender control of the situation.
What happens when someone puts it off their whole life and doesn't have money when they need to enroll?
Agreed with OP on HoloPoint and other apps (e.g. AudioShield is another favorite of mine) being a surprisingly intense workout. I sweat quite a bit with these games after ~15min, and this is definitely a problem. On Vive, the soft padding absorbs the sweat from my forehead as a sponge and becomes quite gross. I've learned to deal with the yucky feeling and can mostly ignore it, but I could see how others wouldn't.
From a cartographic perspective judging Mapbox is difficult as it is a platform that allows vast customization of your map on a user by user basis.
i feel like the physical aspect is something that's actually cumbersome in practice, you need a lot of space, and even then you need to make sure you don't gradually bump into things. It's a bit of a gimmick and I believe it will wear off. I have a hard time imagining the N-state of VR being anything else than people sitting still, or even lying down with just a remote or two in your hands where you don't even use gestures.

The N-state of every leasure activity is as low physical effort as possible.

However I'm not sure what the main activity will be on a really good VR platform. It might just be watching movies or it might be playing games. The thought of some kind of second life type of game/world is also something that feels like a cliche but is also pretty likely to happen. In which case, how do you move? how do you interact? probably voice + some sort of game controller, right?

There might be some practical applications of VR, such as surgery or whatever, but that will never be the mainstream, unless VR fails for consumers (again), and this discussion doesn't become very interesting.

Don't get me wrong, I'm actually pretty optimistic about this generation of VR. I simply don't believe in the whole premise of it becoming a physical activity.
Ok,let's have a game. Take any European flight with Ryanair, Easyjet or Jet2.com. If you find yourself on a plane with USB or power outlets,I will happily refund your flight in entirety. Like I said,I have flown hundreds of times(20-30 times a year for about 5 years), only with those airlines, all flights were about 2-3 hours long, and not a single one of them had USB/power sockets.
Maybe he should have waited a week before writing something under the wow effect.
Ahh, okay - thanks for that. I don't want to wade into an argument, I just do not expect any artificially-created agent to act on anything that one might consider "feelings"-based, but instead through more tangible - programmable, I suppose - motivations.

I don't personally believe an AI agent will ever do such a thing as "resent" (or love, or feel at all). That doesn't rule out that it will perform actions harmful to humans for other reasons, though. That might be because I am to some degree an AGI skeptic, I guess.
> The ACA introduced no cost controls and just shifted the costs around from 1 demographic to another (mostly to the lower-middle and middle class healthy people, who don't actually use much health care).

In a lot of ways that's exactly what insurance is. It's pooling resources to cover expenses for the people who need it. In any given time period most people won't need it, or won't need it to an extent higher than their contributions, but it's there just in case. There's variation in premium amounts to account for the difference in likelihood of need (so those younger generally-healthier people pay lower premiums), but a very important part of making it work is having a large enough pool that only a limited percentage needs to use it each year.

There are also measures that were taken to try to reduce costs, but how effective they were may be up in the air. The only one I can name offhand was the requirement that insurance companies spend at least 80-85% of revenue on medical expenses. At least one person noted that might also lead to higher costs (via overpaying to let that overhead grow), though I think that that's the kind of problem that market factors would actually address - if you're overpaying, that money has to come from somewhere so you're also charging higher premiums and will shed customers as they seek cheaper insurance.

Other cost-cutting measures have been killed off through effective lobbying (e.g. Medicare being barred by law from negotiating drug prices, introduced back with Medicare Part D and the Donut Hole).

And yes, the general fitness level of Americans is pretty poor. Unfortunately, addressing that is more of a public health matter, and since the onset of modern medicine public health has been more and more relegated to a secondary role. Interestingly, some insurance companies seem to be trying to revive non-medical measures to improve the health of their customers through things like discounts for fitness assessments, fitness programs, etc. The assessments and advice resulting from them may make a difference, but even just the embarrassment factor of being unfit and going for one may help change behaviors.

I'll just note that in general, obesity is different from anorexia - fat people realize they're fat, are often concerned or embarrassed about it, and a large percentage of them would like to be be if not thin at least a lot less fat.
Thanks, I've never tried one yet.

Bringing this up made me wonder if we couldn't have a game that's to poker what Go is to chess -- simpler rules, deeper play, keeping poker's nondeterminism and incomplete information.
Sorry, what I meant by Apple throwing their hat into the ring was actually releasing a product. They've been working on myriad products over the years that they ended up throwing out. For a company like Apple, working on a product and releasing a product is a far greater distinction than for other companies.
Fake News and Yellow Journalism Leading to WW3
It's probably fine if you just want "if I go back to my desk, this window is on the left hand side". If you want more precision and accuracy, or consistency with physical measurements/other tracking systems, it's not so good in my experience. Happy to revise/update that experience though!
First result for that search: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/30/nsa_smile...

OPs comment:

> The NSA's of the world don't need to hack Google's infrastructure. They can just ask.

NSA doesn't just ask; they found ways to MITM Google.
I have used a Vive and a Rift for games for about five hours each and that was enough time for me to get bored with it. Not sure if it's that the games being developed for it are extremely lackluster compared to "real" games or if, like you say, the technology just isn't where it needs to be to be fun, but it was a letdown for me. It did have an amazing wow factor when I first tried it though.
A better analogy is alcoholics who go completely sober. You could argue that it's merely a matter of self-discipline to just have one drink and not get hammered, but... if it's easier to just stop drinking altogether, what's wrong with that?

Quitting the internet on your phone is much the same. It's no merely a matter of discipline, it's a matter of addiction.
There are lots of feature phones with cameras. In fact, it's hard to find phones without them.

No GPS was a difficult feature to find as well, but desirable for reducing the data footprint available to third parties.

I go walking without a phone now.
I've played Soundboxing quite a lot, its a load of fun and you definitely get a solid work out. Its usually my go to game when I want some VR exercise. The leaderboard is a nice touch as well, makes me really try push myself because I want to be #1 on some of my favourite songs.
What is insane about wanting to pay a low monthly premium in exchange for insurance that only kicks in for very expensive events?
I find this strange as turmeric's been used as topical antibiotic in India since ancient times - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric#Traditional_uses - highly unlikely they were thrown off by false positives in protein binding tests.
There were other issues as well.

Decommissioning[1]

With a total of 438 malfunctions during its operational lifetime from 1964 to 1972, the reactor at McMurdo proved to be an unreliable source of power generation, available only 72% of the time. Because of this, in May of 1972, it was determined by an independent assessment from the Bechtel Corporation that the PM-3A was not cost effective and that replacement with modern diesel-electric generators would require less staff and would also be more reliable.

1. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/
https://www.change.org/p/opera-software-open-sources-of-pres...

Please sign this to push Opera open sources for real
Yeah large software companies can pay but I'm worried that 200k will put it out of reach for many fields and many organizations no matter how exceptional the applicants are.
I'm not really sure what this means.

YC has been investing in VR/AR companies since at least 2014/5. 3% of S16 companies were VR. It's been on their Request for startups since at least 2014[1]. Is this simply stating that they are going to be more aggressive in the space?

There are plenty of us VR/AR startups out there...

[1] https://hackernoon.com/3-of-y-combinators-summer-2016-batch-...
[2]https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#vrar
A woman died from a superbug that outsmarted all 26 US antibiotics
Not for everyone.

People who "think in language" tend to be more common, but there are "people who think in language" and people who just don't. And people in either camp tend to assume that that's just how everyone is, until they are shown different. But since the "think in language" camp is larger, it is a lot easier to go through life not ever realizing that there are people who are different, to the point that many people even refuse to belief that non-linguistic thinkers exist even when presented with examples, which leads to a great deal of misinformation being spread in discussions of psycholinguistics.
ACA doubled or quadrupled my monthly insurance costs, which actually put a strain on my budget when doing a startup at the time.
> The recipient is not made aware of this change in encryption, while the sender is only notified if they have opted-in to encryption warnings in settings, and only after the messages have been re-sent.

Surely this is backwards. It's the recipient who is notified about key changes when the relevant setting is enabled.