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My understanding is that one of the biggest issues that we can actually improve is inflated billing. It seems that something like direct primary care could help with that issue.

But maybe we could just create a law that resets things so that they cannot simply inflate the bill and then certain groups pay only a small percentage of the amount? Because it makes it so we can't tell what the real costs are at all, and then people who don't have insurance or the right insurance are screwed by these giant basically fraudulent bills.

That is the really stupid part about it.

Then another idea is, I think that some health care costs just really are quite high. This is because of scarcity of high-tech medical machines or doctors or specialists. Maybe the solution to that is to push for greater volume of high tech medical machinery or medicines and a greater volume of medical professionals.

Maybe by supplementing with advanced AI we can relax requirements for certain types of more general physicians or nurses rather than researchers, etc. Maybe just finding ways to reduce medical education could help.

Then one other idea is the realization that more and more mainstream researchers are having that A) the majority of medical problems have some significant component that is related to aging, or where aging increases risk, etc. and B) we are now in fact able to start investigating and have hope for treating the actual causes of the various system degradations referred to as aging.
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Per that argument, AES is insecure because if I know the key, I can decrypt your messages and even fake a message with valid CMAC authentication tag.

Siphash is secure in the same sense as AES, HMAC and a CSPRNG: seeing many consecutive values does reveal the key and does not allow predicting the next value.
Maybe I'm up too early, but I have an idea: Where will you be in your life when those stars collide?

Write down (briefly) where you are in your life right now, on a blog, Facebook, or even some tweets.

Then write down where you think you'll be in your life in the five or so years when these stars collides. Hashtag it #whenstarscollide or give it a similar title so people can find it when the times comes.
> What do I do with all that empty space? My job! I design, I write, I think, I work!

I wish everyone is in position to do that. Until then we will have to disappoint Jason :)
The only way we know to make a secure hash function is with a random seed. This is the "correct" way to do it. Anything else claiming "cryptographical strong" without a secret random seed is coolaid.

It is true that timing attacks to guess the key could be an issue, but I have yet to see reports of this having been done. Also, it wouldn't be hard to fix in the hash table implementations.
Same with the semiconductor industry. There are many profitable industries that don't release a webapp or use a JS framework.
Whenever in doubt buying a laptop for Linux, just consult the Arch Linux wiki on the specific model. If the given model (such as the XPS 13) is popular in the community, the amount and quality of the information collected there is mindblowing.

For example: the pages about the past 3 releases of the XPS 13:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9343)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9350)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9360)

From the compatibility point of view, usually more important than the distro is the kernel version. There are some minor exceptions to this, such as Ubuntu vs Fedora 25 on the 9343.

Ubuntu compiles the kernel with CONFIG_ACPI_REV_OVERRIDE_POSSIBLE=y (due to Dell asking for it), and Fedora does not. This results in the soundcard working properly in HDA mode under Ubuntu, but not working properly in I2S mode under Fedora. But this can be fixed, it just takes time and effort to find these information yourself.

No, the year of the Linux desktop - when you can just buy and use a laptop with Linux just as you do with Apple - has not come yet, and will not come in the near future.
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> that is guaranteed to be the same, across all distributions.

Then there wouldn't be "distributions", plural.

> Where are the Mac OS X frameworks on GNU/Linux?

Where are the macOS servers? Where is macOS running on a raspberry pi? Where is macOS running on your home router? On your watch? On your supercomputer? GNU/Linux does just fine.

macOS suits one use case, and one only (though it's very visible); don't make it sound like everything else sucks.
Does it? Carmack wouldn't be the first engineer to ignore legal details in pursuit of perceived nobler goals. Many mass-ignore sw patents every day.

Guilt needs to be proven, but I don't find it hard to imagine.

Side note: HN may not realize, but the public sympathy in this case may not be with Carmack and Oculus. ZeniMax, as parent of Bethesda, has a largely solid rep among the video game consumer audience as publisher of respectable games, and while the acquisition of id was initially seen as id selling out, their latest game under Bethesda (the first shipped without Carmack at the company) is widely regarded as a major return to form for a once-struggling game developer. Meanwhile Occulus burned through most of its initial goodwill with (perceived to be) disappointing pricing, exclusiviy shenanigans and losing a lot of ground to HTC's strong Vive offering. Carmack has tons of deserved cachet with us, but the public at large may be ready to hang him and Oculus. This will get ugly.
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Articles like the "AI + Blockchain" one are meant to be forward-looking, to help inspire people to build. Call it hand-wavy if you wish; I call it laying out a vision:)

But we're all about real apps getting built. Many comanies are building on BigchainDB. For example, I describe some of them here:
https://blog.bigchaindb.com/where-does-blockchain-scalabilit....

There are many, many more companies that have not publicly announced what they're building yet. Stay tuned:)
From what I've observed, the HN community values civil and substantive discussion. This relies, in part, on assuming good faith on behalf of the participants. Expressing that you believe that others won't evaluate comments fairly degrades this good faith.
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I would call Blogger yet another example of a decent product that was marginalized and cast into purgatory by the benign neglect of Google. Who knows what could have been if any effort at all was invested in improving and growing Blogger, but like so many Google products and acquisitions, it's just idled along and been overtaken.
Sure, functionality-wise Ubuntu and also other Linux operating systems can definitely match the palette that OS X offers. The problems with Ubuntu are starting if you are getting into the area of peripherals:

Drivers for some things are missing or are not performing as comparable Hardware does under OS X, it gets even worse when you're struggling with HiDPI: Have you ever tried to have one non-HiDPI and one HiDPI screen as when using your QHD laptop screen together with a FullHD secondary monitor? Total pain in the ass under Ubuntu and in contrast very easy on OS X.
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This is so frustrating! It's not like it can't be done; System76 manages to present a really nice base-model + customisation experience, so why can't Dell?
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Your heading is much better than Bloomberg's, but still confusing.
Offtopic, but how do I read that title? Syntax error in my head. I get the "Goes to Trial" part, but "Carmack Rift Over Oculus"?
Wasn't Doom 3 GPL'd ?
Why is this seen as a benefit? If a severe security issue is found in libc, I have to recompile all software to take advantage of it? Who thought that was a good idea?
I definitely find reading things about startups helps keep me motivated and a lot of them warn of things not to do or "If you could start over, what would you do different?" questions. I know everyone has a different experience, but ... if someone says, "Listen, we did this .. it didn't work... " Why would I have any reason not to believe them? So it definitely helps. Don't forget to constantly work at your startup, but helpful advice along the way can go a long way.
I would argue most software engineers perceive a huge rift between "I am comfortable violating some software patents" and "I am comfortable exfiltrating large swaths of my employers code base." I would hope so at least.
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This post is a good reminder that innovations are so often made by people with zero or little education.

Scientists don't agree on when humans learned to control fire. Some say 200,000 years ago, some almost 2 million years ago. But clearly, man learned to control and to make use of fire for heating and cooking, for agriculture and as weapons and even for machines long before anyone understood what it is or why it behaves like it does.
The article seems to be about copyright, not patents.

Also, it's not ipso facto illegal to implement the invention or claims embodied within a patent. That's just not how it works.
I don't know. Most Medium articles are not really worth paying for, in my opinion, and so paywalling the site would just add it to that collection of sites that I ignore and filter out, like the WSJ, NYT, Wired, etc, etc.

As valuable as Netflix? No way, not even close.
For work (java + web developer) Linux is what I would prefer. Unfortunately we're a Windows shop.

For play (gaming + photography) it's a no go. Stuck with Windows for a while longer I suppose.
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Either: The rift over Oculus involving Carmack. Or: Carmack's rift over Oculus.
All he needs to do to 'copy thousands of documents' is not wipe his hard drive on his way out. Any of us have thousands of 'documents' next to us at all times.

If anything, the fact that Carmack's statements (in this article) focus not on denying anything, but rather focusing on how what he did was ok, it's likely that many (and at very least a core) of the accusations are true. This is referred to as an affirmative defense.
On a side note, I think it's great that you're involved in the discussion here.
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> No idea what style the first is

Art Nouveau, no doubt about that.

> or the relevance of the third image

That's the inside of 'the first true Art Nouveau building', the Tassel Hotel. Unesco world heritage and all that.
The Craftsman is listed as originating in Southern California? This was news to me and is unsupported by anything that I have read. I always thought "The Craftsman" was a subset of "Arts and Crafts" with the "bungalow" variety being associated with california.
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> One thing that Apple has done very well is put together a website that:

A.) Tells you what they are selling, and
B.) Can sell it to you.

C.) Be able to configure a US keyboard when you're not in the US.

I'm in the UK, but I've used a US keyboard layout all along from the days that I bought an obsolete Sun3/50 to use as an X terminal. My last ThinkPad was bought in the US by a friend who came from there and sold it on to me. But if I wanted to buy a new laptop with a US keyboard from Lenovo or Dell today, their web sites don't provide the option. Apple do.

(I'm sure it might be possible to order one over the phone, but why should I have to?)
> And those people are outnumbered by people who are comfortable and productive with the current Go implementation.

Of course they are. The people who are not comfortable with the current implementation aren't using Go.

It's a fallacy to only look at what the major users wants. It's similar to the “faster horses” fallacy.
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No, it happened 1795 years ago. There is only one frame of reference involved here, one we can attach to the Milky Way neglecting the relatively small movements of earth and KIC 9832227 within it. And two events are simultaneous in a given frame of reference if light emitted from both events reaches a point midway between the locations of the two events at the same time.

So you position your space ship in the middle between were earth and KIC 9832227 were 1795 years ago, about 900 light years away from each and sometime about the year 1122 you will see the stars colliding and at the same time, with a good enough telescope, what was happing on earth in the year 222 which establishes that the the collision of KIC 9832227 and the year 222 on earth were simultaneous in the frame of reference attached to the Milky Way.
And if you choose non-Google Android, you don't get a lot of the features that make Android, Android. Google has been close sourcing huge chunks of Android over the years.
I think the wordplay is confusing you. Rift is the product name, but that's not how they're using it here. A "rift" is a disagreement. So the headline can be restated as "The disagreement related to Carmack about the Oculus goes to trial."
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"physical access = game over": well, there are levels of physical access, and this line of thinking is simply not good enough for smartphones and arguably laptops.

It should not be possible to break into a device simply by having it in your possession for a few minutes. Opening it up? Harder to protect against and therefore a lower priority. But some devices are glued shut and therefore more secure. (This security can be used against the user as well as by the user, but that's a whole other can of worms)
Do you mean debuggers are more advanced beyond comparison (my opinion; but tomography is closest to a medical debugger IMO), or vice versa?
Saying you can read the hash seed from memory sounds like a "wrong side of the airtight hatchway" problem.

If I can already read bytes from the running executable, I can just smash it to bits. If I can run processes on the machine at all, I don't need to slow it down with hash collisions, I can just fork bomb.

Can you usefully attack without having that kind of access?
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It's not like he cares, being dead and all.
why do robots group together in the dark?
From what I remember of "Masters of Doom" he was indeed using his employer's PCs, office etc but outside of working hours and with the blessing of at least someone higher up. I don't think anything in there implies that he was defrauding the company.
It's intentionally written like that - it's a play on the word rift and the "Oculous Rift"
Full quote: "...but often times better than a master of one"
It is, at least the version that is on the Id Software Github

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3/blob/master/COPYING.tx...
I get angry at code style comments: naming things, line length, uppercase / lowercase, specially when running a linter through our already existing codebase produces tons of errors.

If it works, it has tests, and it is understandable, merge it ffs.
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> Besides, there's a higher likelihood of Medium being alive longer than most blogs this writing would otherwise have gone onto.

Beg to differ on this note. I can see Medium closing up shop in 5 years like GeoCities, whereas you'll still Wordpress, if not self-hosted Wordpress blogs, well into the 2020s. The latter will still look ugly, but the content will still be there.

Generalising here, but the people writing content on Medium prioritise exposure over longevity. Whereas the people still using Blogspot/Wordpress probably care more about controlling their own content and don't necessarily care about things like mentions, top highlights, or nice UIs. And if Blogspot/Wordpress do shut down, the latter would put up much more of an uproar over the Medium users, who'd probably just jump to the next platform.

Ideally, Medium would partner with the Internet Archive to preserve its content.
Which game are you talking about?
Not if you work for enterprise dinosaurs. For the rest of the world, using features like these is a good way to make upgrading seem worth the effort.
I'd blame the senseless title case that Americans use. If rift was lowercase, it would be easier to understand.

"Carmack rift over Oculus goes to trial"
> They just updated their FAQ

FTA:

> the notice came in the form of an updated Frequently Asked Questions page outlining the termination, and an email to developers active on the platform.

Any developers using the API in their product would've received an email.
If you don't believe it, read Masters of Doom - it's a hugely sympathetic history of id and they still manage to look like sociopaths in it, especially Carmack. They steal, lie and backstab their friends.
Doom (2016).
As soon as I saw the suit was ZeniMax I dismissed it immediately. They'd sue me for this comment if they could figure out how.
Even printers (and scanners) are fine as long as you pick the hardware based on Linux driver availability.

I love how using an ageing Canon USB-scanner just works without any configuration on any new install of Ubuntu, because the driver is supported by the SANE project. No vendor-specific software needed; just open up Simple Scan and… scan.
I remember reading about something similar made from Hg. It was in a military application for a high-powered antenna auto-tuner, and EMP hardened.
Interesting concept, but I don't expect it to be used commercially anytime soon, because of how slow it makes the page load.

Then again, maybe your site being annoyingly slow for people who block ads is a feature rather than a bug.
I have an Ubuntu desktop and a Macbook air laptop. On the Desktop computer I have a TypeMatrix Bépo keyboard which is great for French people writing French text and coding.

What I'm missing on my Ubuntu computer is Word and Excel. LibreOffice is very far from the quality of Word. So I use my Mac when I have to write word documents but the Mac interface is a pain.

I had a windows laptop but although the hardware was good it was very slooooow at start up. It needed 30minutes to be ready to be usable (reboot or wake up) and without any roaming and with virus checking disabled. That's useless.

The only serious problem in my field with Ubuntu is that many people use Word as document format and this is annoying.
It's an intellectual cop out. If you think you will be down voted, you should consider how you can rephrase what you're saying so you aren't. I'm not saying to change what you say, just how you say it.

"I'm going to get down voted for saying this" is the HN equivalent "I don't mean to be a jerk, but [says jerk things]".
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At least while awake, you may be fleeting but you exist in a near constant stream of "you", which make it feel constant. When you go to sleep your brain enters an altered state, which is only a subsection of yourself.

Who knows what will wake up from that?
The fire moving through the smoke is a "rollover". A flashover occurs when the temperature in a space rises rapidly, igniting most objects in the room, more or less simultaneously.

A rollover is often the trigger for a flashover.
Yeah but the device is the Oculus Rift.
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Most software engineers aren't Carmack, though. He used to co-own his technology, and graciously rooted for putting much of it under open licenses. I think Carmack is a pragmatist and certainly understands the business value of code, but also isn't a big fan of constraints.

It's not like the my mind is made up, I don't know either way. Curious to see what the trial will bring.
GitHub issue tracker is free, treat it like that ..
This whole case seems utterly bizarre; I followed the development of the rift pre-Oculus, and none of what Zenimax are saying seems to be grounded in reality.
As I remember, Carmack's real innovation was to create a full screen effect that compensated for the cheap optics that palmer's design used; Now you could claim that as a member of staff, this innovation belonged to Zenimax, but this does not appear to be the case that they are making. In addition, how come other independent organisations have been able to create working VR without treading all over their patents if they were really betting on the technology?
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I’ve been coding professionally for 10 years and have always claimed to be a quick learner, looking to first be handed a challenge so I could learn on the job.

I need a change, so I am instead taking 6-12 months of my own time to get good at something new before looking for projects in that area. It’s obviously just a start, but I expect it to count as a couple of years of experience since I’m cutting out the overhead.

What are some tech niches, currently short of knowledgeable people, that would have a good above average return on investment for this kind of self study?
I have an XPS 15 and have had no coil whine issues so far, fingers crossed.
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It won't show up based on a number of criteria, your recollection may be correct but you may be running into this.
Someone else flagged this, because this looks too much as a job post that are not allowed https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html . I vouched this, but I'm still not sure if this is ok or not.

In case this is flagged again, try to post at the official threads: look for the correct thread in https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring And I guess that posting there will get you more visibility, because someone may search that thread, but not all the obscure old isolated submissions.
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It's a pun. :)
The page will remain slow until you disable your adBlock of course. Which is some extra stimulation to disable your adBlock.
You are right, it takes time to invent and discover, and then time to roll down to consumers... But I think the second interval has been shrinking. It used to take much, much, longer between the time something is actually invented, and its use by the public (I think 80 years or something for some technologies). It doesn't take that long anymore for its use, not only in its home country, but globally. I live in Africa and touched an iPhone for the first time in 2007, the same year it came out. Why? Because I have a friend who used to watch Jobs keynotes (like wait for them)..and suddenly, the whole world knew about a product. Trade circuits have improved. Doing business with people you never met. All these shrink the time between the time Jobs wrapping up the show, and the moment it is available everywhere.

The first interval seems frozen, but I think this is Parkinson's law at work. Today's scientists and engineers have the best technology in History, and they're pursuing the boldest endeavors by that very fact.
ZeniMax, as parent of Bethesda, has a largely solid rep among the video game consumer audience

...as an initiator of frivolous lawsuits.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/elder-scrolls-vs-minec...