skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the images, this will only work with the MacBook Pro with TouchID as the connection between the computer and the base seems to be via the USB-C port on the right side, something that does not exists in the non-TouchID version. I hope there is a cable or something that I can extend to connect the base to the USB-C ports on the left side because that is the computer that I have.

I really miss the RJ45 connector. Since I bought this computer I have complained about inconsistent Internet speeds as the router — which is placed behind the computer — delivers only 60% of its real connection because it is consumed over WiFi. I am forced to restart the router every hour or so just to get the miserable 10Mbps that I pay.

I was already prepared to buy one of those accessories for the Mac that people hate so much, just to get a stable Internet connection because WiFi seems to be broken, even at less than 20cm from the router. I hope that this "base" does not weights as much as it looks. I assume it will also include a (replaceable) SSD and — maybe? — an extra battery.

I wonder if this thing can be lifted without a separation from the computer on the left side.

Edit #1: To add more to the story, I have a Raspberry Pi directly connected to the router with a script that runs every 30 minutes, the script measures the Internet speed and reports back to me, every time the speed is lower than 5Mb I get a notification to reboot the router, that is my "setup". I wish I could change the router, but somehow the ISP restricts the delivery of the service to the device that they provide, and they are not willing to change it for a new one because — according to their statistics — the 10Mb are being delivered (which is true, except via WiFi).

Edit #2: I live in a country where there is no Apple Genius bar, so it is difficult — if not impossible — to me to get assistance on this matter from them. I will do what others have suggested, will replace the router and see what happens. Thanks.

Edit #3: Thanks @heavymark I meant 10Mbps instead of 10MB

Edit #4: On a side note, this will be funny to carry in an airport specially if you come from a country known for drug trafficking. People have tried to smuggle drugs on the back of computer screens with less space than that and still get caught, now imagine an skeptical officer checking a computer with this base.
This was what I did, until I got married. Now we've got a potential baby in the next ~ 1 year, so "uninsured" is not an option.

So, to pursue some things on my own time I had to negotiate a sabbatical with my company (which they generously allowed), so I could stay on employer health insurance.

If I wasn't able to do that, I'd be up shit creek, because there's no way in hell I'd risk my wife getting pregnant without health insurance.

I hope more and more people decide they feel no social obligation to things. Mass peaceful "law breaking" is really the best option, imo.
I mean sure if you have a mental health condition like ADHD, but studies have shown that most with ADHD can still steer their awareness it's just much harder. If you literally cannot be aware of your behavior while using your phone, that's a issue, and medicine can help. Healthy adults can be self aware it just takes some conscious effort. Many with ADHD (especially with the help of medication) can become more aware of their behavior through practice often paired with cognitive behavioral therapy, and live happier more reposeful lives while still using their phones.
That looks like a monthly amount, yes.
This will be solved by untethering the experience and adding Inside-Out tracking. Then, you could go to a local park and go on a Skyrim adventure with redirected walking [1], for example. A 100yd football field could potentially simulate 2km of movement, if I remember correctly.

[1] http://www.roadtovr.com/new-unlimited-corridor-video-shows-m...
This basically solves the problem of the "bag o' dongles". Put them all in one place, and attach it to your laptop. BAM, no more dongles.

It basically reverses what Apple is trying to do by exporting everything out into separate devices which makes the machine look pretty in store shelves but a headache to use in the real world.
Anything is a pre-existing condition. I sail and my knee got whacked by the traveller car. It blew up like a pumpkin. I went on my own dime to my ortho guy. He said, it was either going to get better fast or not. It got better fast and I can't even remember which knee it was.

Pre-existing condition. Anthem denied me coverage.

My ortho guy said, I don't understand. It was a good outcome.
Maybe it's just me but I'm much more excited about Augmented Reality than Virtual Reality.

Recently I was looking for a new place to rent, and in every place I visited I kept trying to picture in my mind how my existing furniture would fit (and look) in the new space. It was so mentally tiring. I wish AR was advanced enough such that the rental agent would simply hire me a pair of AR glasses, I could log in to an account to load my existing furniture data, and project it into the empty rooms to rotate/rearrange/etc.
> Factory photos, hands-on reviews of cases, photos of chips,

Someone forgetting it in a bar, leading to criminal conviction [1] of the person who found it.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/brian-hogan-lost-iphone-4-red...
> I have no pre-existing conditions

Have you been to a doctor before? Then you might have a pre-existing condition.
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Relevant to what? Use the right tool for the job. Did all carpenters turn in their hammers when the air-powered nail gun appeared? Of course not. Likewise, should everybody stop using XML because of JSON? Of course not. The important thing is to understand the strengths and weaknesses of all the various technologies we use and use the right ones as needed to achieve the goals at hand.
The trick is this: in a traditional DH based key exchange, you need A) your private key and B) the other person's public key. Let's say your keypair is a/A and my key is b/B (the lowercase identifier is the private key, the uppercase one is the public key).

To do an exchange, you send me A, and I send you B. You compute the DH exchange with B and a, and I compute it with A and b. The important property of the DH function is that computing DH(B,a) is the same thing as computing DH(A,b).

Now, if I steal your secret key 'a', I can do two things. One, I can obviously impersonate you. But two, I can impersonate anyone else, because I can calculate the shared secret. The reason for this is that I need your private key, but I only need the other parties public key.

Let's say you try to communicate with me now and someone has stolen 'a'. They can already have my public key, B, because it is public. Thus, when the exchange happens, you send me A. The attacker knows the secret key, 'a', already. So the attacker can intercept the communication, calculate the DH exchange of 'a' (which they stole) and 'B' (my public key), and they have calculated the shared secret. It is not possible for you to tell you have exchanged with the attacker, and not me. They never need my private key, only my public key, which will come through during the handshake. So it can always be intercepted. Remember, DH(B,a) and DH(A,b) are the same, so if both sides calculate DH(B,a), that's completely legitimate.

This is a very simplified view (and I haven't looked at the bug report in detail, TBQH, so the case for Tox is probably slightly different), but it explains why if your keys are stolen, anyone can be impersonated to you: because the impersonator only needs public information (public keys) from that point on to forge any exchange.
do you have a link?
Based on the photos alone (who knows what the final product will be) -- there's only one USB-C connector.

If it was going to have a battery, wouldn't it make sense to put another USB-C connector in the base?

Seems weird to use the Mac to charge a battery in the base and then suck power back from said battery through the same single USB-C connection.
> Plus as I understand it, very few games even now fill a DVD, let alone fill a Bluray.

On average, yes, but that's because "indie" and mobile games are quite small. An average big budget Activision/EA/Ubisoft game has been Bluray sized for years.

http://www.game-debate.com/news/14795/average-game-download-...
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Neither of your points 1 or 2 are accurate, instead they reflect the political fearmongering I mentioned.

People lament that our politics are so divided. Mis-stating the situations we're in and exaggerating for political gain are a root cause of that. Do not be part of the problem. Stop spreading the fear.
Please keep in mind, I'm not saying don't use crutches. People with broken legs should use crutches. Just don't use crutches after you gain the ability to walk without them. I do think it's better to every 10 minutes try to question what you did, and whether it was something you wanted to do, or did because you were on autopilot rather than just turning the device off.
Deaths due to starvation [1]: 0

Deaths due to homelessness (2010)[2]: 700

Deaths due to lack of medical care (2009)[3]: 45,000

What's different is the magnitude. Although the United State's patchwork of services for the homeless is ostensibly supposed to give everyone access to food and shelter, people do fall through the cracks. But it is not an endemic problem like lack of health care.

[1] Debatable, and I can't find a solid source. The only malnutrition related deaths I can find are in elderly populations and abused children.

[2] http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/winter_weather/...

[3] http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-find... this is a higher end estimate from 2009, the lowest estimate I could find was 18,000 from a study done in 2002
"Judge us on the tech, not on me." Hans Reiser and ReiserFS taught everyone that the person's bio _does_ matter for the project.
> I've always expected that a backdoor was present in Whatsapp

Yea, and this is exactly why i never understood why Whispersystems/Moxie cooperated with Whatsapp/Facebook: It gives people a false feeling of security (communicating via Whatsapp), and basically Whispersystems facilitated/made this possible.

It was so obvious...
> This would give California and SV an even bigger advantage regarding what is described in Sam's post.

Btw, San Francisco has essentially had universal health care since 2007 (via Healthy San Francisco), though it doesn't cover non-residents on I-94.

It would be interesting to see if citizens and permanent residents represented a high proportion of founders in SF than, say, Silicon Valley.
I am also not religious (and generally agnostic about the so-called supernatural), but it seems pretty obvious to me why religious beliefs play a major role in the debate over abortion. It all comes down to my favorite subject: the Explanatory Gap.

Setting aside arguments that abortion is permissible even if the fetus has a right to life (e.g. Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion"), for many people the crux of the matter is whether or not a fetus is a living human being. The problem is that current science cannot tell us exactly when a clump of cells becomes conscious; we don't fully understand consciousness, so assigning it to a given object can be contentious. We simply have no good way of knowing when there is a person "in there", so to speak.

Since science cannot answer this question, religion has filled the void with beliefs about when someone's life actually begins. If we understood consciousness and could detect when it "starts", I suspect this debate would be much less dramatic.
Backchannel and Hackernoon are separate publications that are hosted on Medium. Backchannel is owned by Wired, and Hackernoon by AMI Publications.
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I'd note that, if you are not making much money as an entrepreneur, you'd probably be eligible for a sizable insurance subsidy; I think anyone making less than $100k a year is eligible for some discount off of the insurance list price.

Seven years is a long time, especially if you want to get married or have kids or get credit or not pay a ton in interest. Note also that bad outcomes in this case will compound; you've had a catastrophic injury and now you have higher interest rates and everything else.
Umm, how did you configure networkd to run wpa_supplicant?

Hint: Networkd doesn't run wpa_supplicant. So it can't "hide" anything about it. Or only as much as `ifconfig` "hides" errors from wpa_supplicant.
Obviously there's a non-zero chance it will blow up, but isn't that risk worth it if reform would:

* Preserve some form of protection for people with pre-existing conditions (this covers the "save my life" part)

* Lower costs of health insurance for both individuals and the public (perhaps dramatically)

* Actually address the underlying healthcare issues directly, i.e. implement policies that will reduce the cost of healthcare itself, not just the cost of insurance

In particular, the risk of losing some important things (like coverage of preexisting conditions) seems extraordinarily low.
This is rent-seeking by Ycombinator plain and simple.
> making it illegal to not have coverage isn't acceptable.

How can you possibly think that?
What's apples to oranges, exactly?

For my hypothetical family with the ages I listed, insurance cost about doubled in the last two years in the state of Maryland for an equivalent (PPO) plan. Deductibles also rose significantly. I know a specific family like that, and they are _very_ unhappy about it.

> but frankly the tiny minority that where negatively affected don't really care about the new premiums either

Really? You think people don't care about $25k/year in premiums instead of $12k/year in premiums?

What makes you think this is a tiny minority? What I listed is a basic baby boomer family with one child still in college.

> The net gains and losses depended significantly on age.

Sure. I'm aware of all that. The upshot of the ACA is that people with preexisting conditions are _much_ better off (which is good), but people who are relatively healthy, independent of age, are generally worse off. This is almost a tautology, of course.

I should note that the price cited at your link is way too low for the states I know of, in the "64" age range, assuming you want a PPO. For an HMO, it's perhaps doable.
This seems a little more appropriate to me: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hypershop/hyperdrivetm-...
Yep, you nailed it. Had it not been for ACA, making the career leap to co-founder would have been incredibly difficult. Two years later, it's a honor to be able to provide insurance to our employees.
It's rather ironic to see this title on the front page of HN.
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This curiously lacks displayport and hdmi.
You neglect to mention the part where the person who found it sold it rather than try to return it. Should that not be a crime?
10Mbps is trivial to do on wifi extremely reliably these days - you clearly have something wrong with your setup if you have to reboot things constantly.

As much as I agree that the lack of an ethernet port on a laptop sucks, I don't think this is your primary problem currently - might want to start by swapping that out/diagnosing the problem. Wifi these days when done right is pretty exceptional - I consistent get 250mbps (actual throughput) at home these days between my fileserver, and that's nothing crazy.
There are primarily three reasons why healthcare is so expensive in the United States.

The first is because the administrative costs are much higher than in other developed countries (about 25 percent). The second is because the U.S. spends much more than other developed countries for the same things (e.g., drugs, doctors, medical equipment, services). The third is because people in the U.S. receive more medical care than people do in other developed countries (for example, they're much more likely to get expensive surgeries).

A cheap, catastrophic insurance coverage plan for young, healthy people addresses all three of these reasons.
Many insurers are private non profits, often owned by the people they insure.

Here's one with 8 million members:

https://www.bcbsil.com/company-info/who-we-are
how can you tell how I feel from that comment? the law doesnt print money, it comes from somewhere.

the two sides were 1) it being redistribution to people who cant afford insurace, or 2) it being redistribution to insurance stock holders

I didnt even pick a stance, and youre assuming my position. or they arent mutually exclusive choices.
Based on news like this, rightfully so.
I read the article linked to in the submission. I did not read the research paper that the article references. When experts publish a research paper in an area that I have no expertise in I assume the following:

1. They might be wrong.

2. If they are wrong it almost certainly isn't for the reason I think they might be wrong.

3. 2) is especially true if the reason I think they might be wrong came to me within 5 minutes of thinking about the issue.

4. My first glance thought about the paper being wrong most likely is itself wrong.

Instead of concluding that the reporter writing

" Summer 2015 was unusually hot and dry relative to the last 20 years"

means this is the sole reason for the conclusion of the scientists it's better to wonder what all the factor are that led them to their conclusion. What is it that they know that I don't know that makes them believe this conclusion? That's the right starting point for investigation and understanding.
I stopped reading right there.

If you live in a bubble that small I am probably not going to learn anything from reading your article...
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I can see why the current issues might bring someone out of immersion. But from somebody who owns a Vive, I think having a more personal experience is key to getting the most out of it (for now).

When you describe the binocular effect, I know what you mean, however my experience is that all those issues fade away once your brain "accepts" the inputs and starts filtering out the noise. How long did you get to demo the Vive? In my experience (and those I've demonstrated to) it takes a bit. These days, if I'm in an engaging game, I'll lose the peripheral darkness on an unconscious level in the same way I'll lose the world outside a monitor when playing an engaging PC game.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_refo...
The answer is in their comments history.

I've seen both cases. Even people with completely reasonable histories.
So just look at the actual code executing. Should be fairly easy to tell if there's some huge secret function in the binary.
You have a brand-new Macbook Pro but a router that can't deliver 10Mbps for more than an hour at a time?
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It certainly could, and in fact Massachusetts implemented a similar program in the mid 2000s
I feel bad now. I'm just highly frustrated that everyone is not actuated by the idea "if they _can_ spy on you, then they _will_".

Any appeal to morals/integrity/laws are essentially moot in this area. We have the ability to protect ourselves and we should be using it.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/obama-expands-surveill...
I spent years developing and then offering a system that remotely enabled creating realistic 3D avatars of people from a single photo. It works, I scaled it to viral capacity levels, the quality is high (https://twitter.com/3davatarstore), and my prices were nearly free. Yet, game, VR and VFX studios only wanted it free. After being jerked around for years by circuses of clowns, I shut it down. I'm happier doing FR now for government agencies. VR will continue to be a lonely place until the corporate exploitation is regulated to the degree that an individual will have legal and portable ownership over their appearance in VR technologies, with all the legal ramifications that exposes.
Those tools are valuable but a lot harder to access and more expensive.
"dossier"

calling it that is trying to use big words to add credence
This issue is specifically solved with the limited ACA enrollment period. You don't wait to have an appendectomy.
"After keeping this data for two weeks, we randomly sample a small subset for permanent storage."

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
> If Obamacare is repelled at the Federal level, could a state just implement its local ACA?

Some parts of the ACA could be implemented in state law, some would be either illegal or impractical at the state level. It's also likely that a repeal would be accompanied or followed by federal policies which would make state-specified versions of the ACA less practical than they are now.

> what prevents California for instance of giving health coverage for its residents?

California already provides state-run send healthcare beyond the requirements of the federal programs it participates in.
I wouldn't deliberately, but there are plenty of situations where someone might inadvertently be given out-of-network care.

- An out-of-network providers gives you medical attention at an in-provider facility - maybe your ER doctor, surprise, is not in-network, even though the hospital is in-network. [1] [2] [3]

- Maybe you have a medical emergency and the closest facility at the time is out-of-network. (In some states and with some insurers under some circumstances, you can get them to pay the difference for emergency out-of-network care.)

The biggest risk factor is the "normal" <= $7500 medical bill from an in-network provider, but inadvertent out-of-network care is still something you have to be concerned about.

Also, I'm not sure if I'm reading you right, but "in-network" does not necessarily have anything to do with geography - sure, there exist in-network providers for my insurance throughout the country, but the second-closest hospital to me is still out-of-network.

[1] http://justcareusa.org/beware-of-out-of-network-er-bills/
[2] http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/10/protect-your...
[3] http://www.realclearhealth.com/articles/2017/01/09/in_throug...

EDIT: The HN backoff must be crazy high - 40 minutes later, and I still can't post, and I'll be offline the rest of the day.

Because the ACA didn't fix it. From my perspective, it was largely a giveaway to private insurance companies with some fortunate side effects.

The total cost for my health insurance premiums are 20k a year.

My in-network deductible is $4500.

My in-network out of pocket is $7500.

My out-of-network out of pocket is $20k.

Those are not hypotheticals, and because of those costs, I avoid medical care unless it is absolutely necessary. I'm afraid we're getting into the weeds - my main point is that the ACA's preventative care provisions are really quite weak and don't mean what we might think they'd mean; the preponderance of high deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums mean that people will continue to avoid getting prompt medical care until their condition becomes serious. The preventative benefit, mainly, is that everyone gets a yearly physical and a few other narrow types of preventative care.
The Internet Archive has that game, playable online; it appears to have originally come on six disks, which are the first six things listed (albeit not in order, but numbered) here: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_apple_games?and[...

I did also once find a web-based version of its content, which used hyperlinks between pages to simulate the transitions in the original game. Can't find it again now, though, and the only version I still have would be in the source content directory for my old conversion pipeline that fed the Plucker reader on PalmOS. If there's interest, I'll dig that stuff out of cold storage and see if I can get it up and going.