skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the pointers - I'm looking forward to seeing how AI/ML is brought to market, as we hear a lot about research but not as much on the product side just yet. Sounds like MSFT will be pushing in this direction as well with the Maluuba team:

Last fall, we formed the Artificial Intelligence and Research organization, bringing engineering and research closer together to accelerate the pipeline from cutting-edge research to product development. Maluuba, too, has closely aligned its research and engineering teams, and we’re looking forward to learning from their experiences as well.
I'm old enough to remember the last VR boom. I was even lucky enough to work in a CAVE for a bit. That hype train derailed around 2000. The same promises were made, the same breathless enthusiasm, the same feeling that we were about to ascend into the cybernetic matrix. It didn't turn out that way, and the only thing that's fundamentally changed is that the hardware is cheaper. This is going to bankrupt some investors, and the remaining companies will serve a niche market.
>That is not insurance. That is a wealth redistribution. Those are not the same thing, although the current discourse around health insurance conflates those two concepts, for obvious political reasons.

Yes, they are the same thing. Insurance is fundamentally a redistribution of risk with money being shifted from those who have not fallen victim to that risk to those who have. If you have a problem with that aspect of the ACA, you have a problem with the general idea of insurance.

>The insurance company would price you based on your risk (in this case, it would be 100%), so there wouldn't be much of a point to buying the insurance, but it absolutely would work.

You do realize that this is functionally the same as getting rid of the preexisting conditions protection, right? Whether someone pays tens of thousands to a doctor for care or to an insurance company for coverage are in practice exactly the same. The whole point is that many of us think that is a fundamentally unfair system to force someone to face in that situation.
Sure, but that's ultimately irrelevant. The survey should be demonstrating choices made by developers, but (web) developers don't have much of a choice when it comes to using JS. Unless you want static HTML, JS is in your stack. In that sense, including JS is rather moot, unless it's exclusively about NodeJS.

If it is about Node, then I retract my point.
A bus ticket is way less expensive than cancer treatment. Of course, it's not like every sick person will travel to a handful of states, but of course some people will move in order to get health insurance. If only a few states implement it, they will thus bear a higher share of the costs than if the whole country participates.
> Because VR games are so physical, gaming will no longer be perceived as an unhealthy activity. I could have used this growing up.

Color me skeptical but they said the same thing about NES Power Pad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Pad

I think it's more likely that people will be even more zoned out as you can't even move your hand up and down in front of their faces to block their line of sight to the TV.

> If I am right, over the next five years we will see the following:

> 1. Lower price point and maybe the ability to finance the hardware (like your cell phone).

> 2. 100 million devices distributed. Without a significant number of users the best founders won’t get serious about building for VR over building for web/mobile.

> 3. New frameworks. Building and iterating VR apps is going to have to get a lot easier.

> 4. Large companies solving the primary hardware problems: headset and input innovation plus distribution. I think this might be too expensive for startups to tackle.

None of these predictions involve any insight into VR. Replace the word VR in #1, #3, or #4 with any tech at any point in recent history and you can make the same statement. I also doubt #2 will happen. The smartphone revolution was a natural evolution of expanding communication devices that people already had into devices that were more useful. VR requires an entirely new set of hardware (for the display component) that isn't anywhere near as approachable as going from a flip phone to a smartphone.

> Recently I’ve heard a lot of investors say “There isn’t a whole lot of new stuff to do in consumer. There’s already an app for that.” With VR, there isn’t already an app for that.

> I think we are no more than two years away from an explosion of new consumer startups and I cannot wait to start funding them at YC.

This I agree is definitely coming though I have my doubts about it being anywhere near the scale of smart phones or the push to make all things web. I also think there's going to be an even higher "dud factor" with VR startups than the already high rate for consumer focused startup. Let's see what happens!
Are there any information online about your startup? Will you continue working on it?
I am what you would call a "denier". By the way, when you people use that term, it makes you sound very cultish, especially the calls from leftists for the death penalty for deniers.

I actually don't "deny" that there could be anthropogenic climate change, but until the left wants to have an honest debate on the costs (economic, freedom), and also when the left stops "denying" that it fits conveniently into their ideological economic model, then there can be no honest conversation.

There are plenty of things to discuss within the broad camp of "accepts that climate change is real and a potential problem." For example, the severity, the cause of individual events, the best responses, the potential dangers in the future, etc.

So you really don't want to discuss it? It's either your reality or the highway, as your other respondent alluded to.
True, 4chan does work on mobile better than HN or Reddit. Gotta hand it to them.
Pretty damn jealous over here. More for the hockey than the VR. Sweet setup. What's the floor made of?
I get the feeling that there's parts of the community that feel the same way. I'm hoping that the planned move to github will naturally cascade into pre-commit checks.
> Another argument I've heard presented is that since 10 is divisible by 2 and 5 this simplifies many common calculations.

To me, it always seemed like 5 was only a common number because of its place in base 10, not the other way around. There doesn't seem to be any reason that 2 and 5 would have been chosen as more significant than 2 and 3 or 2 and 7.
So, arthurundiphiri[0], what has your experience as a service provider been like? Many takers? What's the ratio of free/express clients? How long is the queue? BTW, you seem to be one of the site's founders[1], if so you should add "Show HN:" to this post's title.

[0] https://gustlers.com/author/arthurundiphiri

[1] https://twitter.com/ArthurUndiPhiri/status/81959094054120653...
Donald Trump's song in happier times
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
"For years afterwards...nothing much fancier than wooden huts went up on the white continent."

I think that in 1903, that wooden hut would be thought of as pretty fancy and state of the art. Only in retrospect 114 years later would it seem quaint.
Posted it somewhere else, but here is another explanation: https://www.cryptologie.net/article/372/key-compromise-imper...
So you mock my comment instead of actually trying to respond to what I said?
I'm fairly sure this is the primary reason, just like a11y is shorthand for accessibility and i18n is short for internationalization. It also helps that F8 looks like "FB" and sounds like "fate" but those were likely just bonuses.
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Nice job!

About a year ago, I implemented skeletal animation in my OpenGL ES mobile game using a vertex shader and the assimp library. You can pass in everything you need (weights, matrices) as shader uniforms.

I don't do anything fancy like blending between successive animations (or having modifiers that only affect the upper body or arms, etc.) -- the former would require more than the number of uniforms available on OpenGL ES 2.0 on mobile.

Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGbkumPcFb8
Show HN: Docker Swarm Mode Deep Dive on Raspberry Pi (scaled)
http://www.osvr.org/hdk2.html is the only Linux-supporting headset. It's open source and would very much appreciate contributors...
I'm also looking to brush up on front-end; can anyone comment on if Bootstrap is still important?
I agree, a lawyer is a good idea. I've had this happen to me. Not pleasant.
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.
If you truly believe it is murder, as they do I guess, but I it's not a private affair. I'm not defending them but it's a poor example.
> If you can't see the huge potential for VR, there is something wrong.

Or, we see so many game-breaking limitations (cost, FOV, resolution, VR sickness) and are tired of the "give it 5 years" rhetoric that assumes magic will happen to fix it.

Or we're simply not convinced that what it offers is that much better than a regular old computer screen. How does VR change my daily activity of programming? Of watching movies? Of reading books?
I love this analogy. A similar one I've been using is that the Vive is like the Nintendo Entertainment System (1985).

Sure you could technically play video games in your house on the Atari 2600, but they were so much worse than arcade games they were sort-of still a gimmick.

The NES was the first home game system whose games were good enough to get lost in. But that doesn't mean there wasn't tremendous room for improvement.
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> It's stupid to require the poor to pay for plans they don't need

Poor people don't need health insurance? Doesn't everyone need it? If anyone didn't need it it'd be the rich.

> /want

Too bad. If we let people not have health insurance we might as well legalize suicide by the same argument.

> /afford

So people who can't afford it should just... die?

> and for rich to pay for plans when they can pay their own way.

You have to be pretty rich for health insurance to not make sense. Not just like upper middle class. If you're suddenly diagnosed with some rare disease you could easily see medical costs in the hundred thousands per year.
I've always thought that the famous line about "let customers shop across state lines" should be better formulated as

"let insurance companies shop for the best state"

Meaning, when customers have the ability to buy across state lines, the true competition becomes not consumers shopping for insurance, but STATES competing for health insurance COMPANIES to set up shop in their state- offering whatever it takes-- handing over amazing liability protections, tax giveaways, dropping regulatory standards-- all to get them to create jobs in the state.

The result is that (A) one or two financially strapped state governments give the industry whatever they ask for, promising them minimum regulation/oversight and low/no taxes, then (B) the entire industry moves there, where they further consolodate power. (C) companies regulated in other states (with safer products and actual responsibility to their customers) can't compete fairly, so they either move to that state or go out of business, resulting in (D) fewer choices for customers, poor quality products, higher prices, and more abuse and negligence from the companies.

I've heard this expressed as a "race to the bottom", which I always thought was a really confusing way to say it without context.

What makes me think this is going to happen? Watch the Secret History of the Credit Card documentary on Frontline about how this exact same thing happened in that industry.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/

The CC industry "state-shopped" to find a state (South Dakota I think it was) that would let them get away with just about anything. At that point, every major player moved there, and suddenly credit cards became super abusive to customers and there was no recourse (until very recently with the consumer financial protection bureau...)
There's a lot of argument as to how much money insurance companies make, and whether the right thing to measure is profit margin, or return on capital, or something else. For example, an insurance company that gets $100 in income, then spends $90 on medical care and $7 on lobbying to keep its monopoly has a profit margin of $3, which is not very much. But it's not obvious to me that a company that spent $90 on care, nothing on lobbying, and got $2.50 in profit by charging $92.50 would not be viable, absent the lobbying.

And you're right: by no means are insurance companies the only ones in this sector that engage in attempts at regulatory capture and creation of monopoly profits.

Though I should note that pharma companies have a lower return on capital than insurance companies last I checked, because pharma is so capital-intensive in practice. I haven't really looked into medical device manufacturers.
I loved this footnote from that one:

http://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm#ped...
But without a real counterfactual these reports can be conviently dismissed if it doesn't fit the person's world view.
I had periods of this feeling too - but I think being so isolated and distant has the potential to supercharge any bad feelings. At this specific moment I'm a bit down generally, if I was on the other side of the world miles away from anywhere I'd be feeling extremely low. At the times when I've felt good and the possibility of Antarctica excited me[1] I could not conceive of the possibility of not being 100% into the idea of being there - right now I'm extremely glad I'm not :)

[1] - like when I read Big Dead Place - a book I think you'd enjoy. It's written by someone who'd stayed in a couple of the US antarctic bases (McMurdo and Pole, iirc). Warning it will make you want to go http://feralhouse.com/big-dead-place/
I'm not sure your observation precludes mine (or vice-versa). I can definitely see how they probably riffed on the unveiling (considering the comma)...but the structure very much follows what I pointed out: "Make <something> <descriptor> again"
There are lots of non-science jobs, cooks, mechanics, firefighters, divers etc. See http://www.coolantarctica.com/Community/find_a_job_in_antarc...
Sorry, I must have spaced out half way through writing that reply. I originally intended to write something along the lines of, "How is the attack solved by your example." I'm trying to wrap my head around the fix for this attack without key signing. (Short of reading the source for noise)
I see. Yeah, 7 hours of fitness a week on a casual level would do wonders for a lot of people, me included.
Wow, both of you are paying a lot, I am sorry. Basically your high premium payments are going to pay for other people's care. Not a fair system. Everybody is not paying their share, middle class is though.
58% of Americans support federally funded universal health care, including 40% of Republicans:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/191504/majority-support-idea-fed-...

Opposition comes from the wealthy, whose taxes would go up, and insurance company execs (and employees) since it keeps them in business.
The current crop of companies can experience something similar to the video game crash of 1983. I also agree that the "VR will change everything" hype is baseless - 3d user interfaces are just not that effective for most applications. Though as an entertainment technology the experience is so compelling that it is hard to imagine that it won't become massively popular eventually.
How did that turn out for you?
The self-flying M*A*S*H air ambulance that could replace medivac choppers (2020)
I think you should post some links to relevant sections of the ACA and show me where they take specific actions to drive down costs.

I will tell you that I've seen scant evidence that it's working.

A wishlist of initiatives isn't a plan for action that drives down costs. Allowing Medicare to NEGOTIATE prices for drugs is a plan to drive down costs.

The insurance companies wanted to GROW the per-capita spend on healthcare. That benefited them. It's really really unclear if it benefited the public right now.

Forcing people into a market they don't want to be in isn't reform. The way to solve this problem is to make being a part of the market ATTRACTIVE.

IMHO we really missed an opportunity to affect behaviors. For one thing, Romneycare incentivized people to skip insurance until they needed it. That was a recipe for adverse selection.

The way to help this is to provide incentives for people to get in WAY EARLY and pay for their OWN care long before they may need it while also providing a measurable benefit to those who get in early right away.

People are capable of responding to incentives and I'm convinced that there exists a Nash equilibrium in healthcare that helps everybody win.

Remember, the same people who gave you "the Internet is not a truck" are the same people you're expecting to solve healthcare affordability. Think about that.
> Boelter said: “[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.”

Actually it is not that easy. Signal protocol [0] does not have any inherent delivery notification, but it is implemented in the application [1]. If attacker wants to deliver messages two-way without delivering receipts, it has to recognize them somehow. Of course you can try to guess by not delivering the first message after each delivery, but it seems too unreliable for a backdoor.

[0] https://whispersystems.org/docs/specifications/doubleratchet...

[1] https://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/2125355...
Yes. And I have a semblance of input to the government. Again, I am fine if it is decided that we need to raise taxes to cover such things. What I am against is the government telling me I have to buy something. It is a precedent that is sure to get abused and distorted in the future.

If it is allowed it will not stop at health insurance. Business has too active a hand in the US government as it is. How much worse will it get when they start greasing the palms to make sure they too have a required audience?

Edit: (Forgot) Yes, the supreme court upheld it. That doesn't make it right, just constitutional. If an amendment to the constitution is required, then so be it.

Seriously, it has me considering moving to another country.
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The printing press seems to have been a prime cause of the Protestant Reformation with its attendant wars. Years ago a friend predicted to me that social media would increase conflict analogously. I'm not sure he was right, but clearly events have gone in the right direction.
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My insurance company covers counselors for "medically necessary" reasons. What constitutes medically necessary is up to the counselor. They know how to bill it so you're covered.
Seems like you could fix the business/income side for less than it will cost you in insurance if you don't...
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/why-i-asked-my-friends-to-st...

To those who think privacy does not matter : http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters
It's definitely not something I would want to do forever. I'd love to do it once and have the experience and also contribute to important and interesting work.
And here I thought the Netherlands was expensive.. 100 bucks a month + a 385 deductible. And our level of care is top of the world. Man do I completely un-envy Americans.
The mobile space is tricky. A source code dump doesn't really do much beyond "trust us, this is what you get from App Store too". You also need the possibility to build the software yourself, which include things like API keys, before we're close to what assurances open source software used to give us.
It absolutely is needed for many AR applications. VR is a bit more forgiving, particularly if you are talking consumer and games. Any time you need maintain a relationship to the physical space you are in you can run into trouble though.
> But then you have to cache the input strings, I don't see how the hash could work any other way independently of the input lengths. And thats rather called an index list compared to the common use of the word, which the GPs might have thought of differently, too..

It's definitely possible. Here's a simplistic example. Say I have two strings:

A really long string that goes on for [truncated] ...

and

Some other really long string goes on for [truncated] ...

I can create a hash function that looks at the first character at gives either a 0 or 1 depending on whether it's an "A". For that known data set it'll perfectly hash the two strings into two buckets.

It's a very simplistic example but the same concept can be used to identify the minimum components of the inputs that would need to be looked at to create a unique hash function. It won't be a general hash function though; it's specific to that data set.

Note that this isn't useless either. It's common to have a fixed/known lists of strings that you want to do lookups upon.
> I believe the majority of human-computer interactions will be voice-enabled.

No, unless we'll be doing with our computers (phones included) something radically different from what we're doing now.

Games played by voice? Maybe but the "majority" of them?

Facebook? Speech to text is a thing right now. Voice only messages would change the nature of the social network.

The web? Is text based and touch based.

What I believe is that voice will become another HC interface especially for a new class of devices (Echo, etc) but there are places where its simply not appropriate. So, important yes, majority no. Not in 10 years.
As far as I understand, while I can write off deductibles my personal and business income is combined at the end of the year since I am 100% owner of my California LLC thus giving my inflated annual income.
Who were the brave ones? Small players? UKIP?
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Insurers have to compete against other insurers on price. Otherwise they lose market share. All of them negotiate hard with providers to drive down prices.
Of course you can use the computer in a way that the battery will last shorter than the advertised battery.

The advertised battery is neither minimum or maximum number of hours the machine can run without needing a charge. If CR wanted to find the minimum battery time, fine. But that is not what they are after, so triggering an edge case the increases battery usage is a bug.
Good advice. I fell into a vicious cycle my first layoff and it wasn't fun. Turns out it was a great thing that happened.
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Because the causes of stress are right there on your desk. Easier to get into a different frame of mind if you change your environment.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13392603 and marked it off-topic.
Reduced attack surface or standards compliance; pick one.
"isn't working any better now"?

I know people who are literally alive today because of the ACA. Do their lives have no value?
Maybe they don't want their salary being public?