skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The security of a system is only as strong as it's weakest link, which in this case is the system software (OS and drivers) and hardware. Imagine that baseband-hardware has been fitted with a backdoor that simply says "encrypt all textual input and send to this address". Even better to piggy back to a well-known endpoint, like Facebook, then compromise that (which is easy if you're a state actor). The only thing that really saves us is that it's just too much data! (Well, that and the fact that most of us are happily playing the games of commerce, and not particularly interesting to state security services.)
Sweet. I saw a 2k17/18 on another site. So that gets my hopes up. I'm a casual gamer, and this seems to be a good in between full console vs mobile gaming.
> I had no insurance and had stopped all physical activity beyond basic exercise for years, being too scared to hurt myself

Now you can hurt yourself no problem, or you can hit by a bus if you want!
What a stupid thought. Having no insurance is not an excuse for being active.
For those with a Wall Street Journal subscription, they had an excellent unbiased article on the economics of providing healthcare for people with serious medical conditions. Anyone trying to reform or repeal the ACA will have to address this issue.

"Health Care’s Bipartisan Problem: The Sick Are Expensive and Someone Has to Pay"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/health-cares-bipartisan-problem-...
SpaceX documents reveal losses and high hopes for a new business
I guess a better analogy would be talking. You can think about talking or you can talk, and I'm not sure anyone could really explain what the difference is, but it is relatively unusual to speak by accident while you're conscious. I can imagine training myself to add a new mode of "talking" that actually transmitted a thought.

Slip-ups would definitely still happen, but I think they would be more expected and less of a big deal with such a fluid communication system. And maybe you could build in a delay that reads your thought back to you before it sends.
My beef is the obvious confusion of "climate" and "weather" in the article, with the further unsubstantiated assertion that such events will are "going to become more frequent in the future". As they say in Italy: Bologna.
Didn't know that Google Labs was shut down. Some of the Gmail Labs were useful - and some have probably gone mainstream by now. The one that reminds you if you use a word like "attached" in your email, but have no attachment, comes to mind. I tried at least half a dozen of them, may have only kept using one or two. Still, the Labs idea was good.
I'm in Vancouver, B.C (Canada)
It seems that google has a more coherent theory of how users use maps at different zoom levels.

At the outermost zoom, physical geography is emphasized : terrain shows prominently, and political boundaries at the national level with hints of state boundaries.

Zoom in farther, and political bondaries are more emphasized and physical features less. States are named and some cities.

Zoom in farther and you start to reach the domain of navigation. Large roads are prominent and labelled, as are some cities.

Zoom in farther and more roads are labelled, as well as rail/metro stops and some landmark destinations.

At the highest levels of zoom, finally it transitions to destinations and foot-navigation as the focus.

Apple has a similar progression, but with less coherence. It emphasizes cities/neighborhoods more at the expense of road labels. And landmarks and destinations appear at lower zoom levels, also at the expense of road labels. Rail/metro stations are much less prominent.
> It also generates billions of dollars of free marketing as everyone creates stories and pictures and live blogs at the keynote.

Also the hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions of dollars that this speculation generates on tech sites (that follow Apple news and rumors) through ad revenue and affiliate revenue.
Interesting. Robitaile's comment presumes that US policy should favor Americans over immigrants, and your comment suggests it should serve immigrants over Americans.

I'm curious. Are you aware of any country on the planet that follows your line of reasoning?
I'm wondering why people think that the argument that because the Dwave system can only solve 1 problem or in fact only 1 subset of a problem disqualifies it from being a quantum computer is valid. Last time I checked a conventional computer only solves 1 problem at its core. Are quantum computers measured with a different stick?
That's surprising: With that IP address, you'd expect it to be ten times as slow.
I have better solution: Break up Mega Govts. They are truely too big to fail. USG can exploit as much as it wants because it knows citizens have nowhere to go.
I wish they worked offline. I was in Tokyo in 2016 and Google Maps was useless without internet.
No, it's always been the practice, since the 1950s at least. Microphones and media that could reproduce far more accurately than amps/speakers have been around since at least the 1940s. Modern mixing developed in the mid/late 1960s and into the 1970s.

Mixing any sort of multitracked pop music is extremely artificial. Consider any record where an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar are roughly the same volume. In practice, you can't even hear an acoustic guitar next to a raging guitar amp! In the stereo field, things are panned hard left, hard right, or center (there's even a word for it - LCR. Off-center panning sounds weird). Radical eq alterations, compression, multi-miking techniques... heck, move a microphone an inch relative to an acoustic guitar, and it can sound completely different. I have started using two mics on acoustic guitars - one about a foot away, and the other six or more feet away, and blending them. The blend sounds better than either mic by itself. And then there are synths, drum machines, and other direct electronic instruments...

Yeah, "naked sound" in recording doesn't exist. I've been playing acoustic guitar for over 30 years, and play drums and sing and do a lot of live folk music. Recorded/amplified music sounds VERY different. And it should.
Many of these stories suggest that you'll have less overhead (and more runway) as a 25 year old found than as a 27 year old founder.

I'm not convinced that's providing productive selection criteria.
Trump adviser: TPP 'dead,' will move quickly on bilateral trade deals
An important one to highlight is his administrations' advocacy for LGBT rights both domestically and abroad. It's maddening to see the dichotomy between his privacy legislation and how he's advanced the civil rights of so many at the same time.

The two facets, on the surface, appear to be at such odds...
Asking everyone to pay into a shared risk pool is not gouging. That's simply the nature of insurance. We're going to have to pay for people with pre-existing conditions one way or another, whether it's structured as a tax, penalty, or insurance premium.

Certainly there is some waste, fraud, and abuse in the healthcare system which could be cut. But ultimately the only way to significantly cut costs would be to ration care. It's a hard issue and no one likes to talk about it.
You shared the estimate for the number of atoms in the observable universe. afaik, we don't have an estimate for the unobservable universe.
BTW is there a good comparison for how big the anatomical differences are between Neanderthals and modern Europeans, compared to the differences between modern Europeans and modern, significantly distinct populations such as Congo pygmies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Pygmies

(Anatomic differences are perhaps not as important as cognitive and psychological differences, but the latter are very hard to find out about extinct populations.)
Exactly. For some build systems (ex: Maven or NPM) you can have a local proxy the mitigate a lot of this. It also has the advantage of having a fixed (hopefully validated!) set of dependencies instead of pulling it whatever wild-wild-west change there is in the latest version of something. It also insulates you from the historical changes.
> So what's the answer? How can health insurance providers help people with pre-existing conditions, and also not gouge young healthy customers?

* Taxes go up, but they go up less than health insurance premiums would. Remove insurance companies as an industry. [1]

* Price controls on providers (inelastic demand of healthcare means "the market" sets the price to "you pay whatever it costs so you don't die") [2]

* Allow Medicare to negotiate with drug manufacturers, otherwise buy from other countries [3]

That's about it. If Sam and YC want to see this fixed, start advocating for politicians who support single payer.

Startups will not fix this problem. Blog posts will not fix this problem. Political activism will fix this problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtplKTHa4TA

[2] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Res...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/upshot/the-real-reason-me...
kwin and Gnome's solutions aren't reusable on other compositors. Gnome is awful at making their stuff reusable. KDE is much better, but their clipboard stuff isn't reusable, and Sway's likely won't be either due to the nature of the problem. There are plans to collaborate more with KDE on reusing KDE components in Sway and other compositors, which both parties are excited about.
Similarly, I wonder what awesome things could be done if we didn't spend such a high percentage of our GDP on health care.
These problems are all a result of the huge tax benefit given to employer-provided healthcare; if we got rid of that or extended it to apply to individual plans as well (and hopefully allowed people to purchase out-of-state insurance), it would reduce costs, and allow for more job freedom.

I would also personally rather have health insurance actually act as insurance, where you are granted the coverage at the time of diagnosis, rather than having the insurer gradually pay for treatment, but this is unlikely to come to pass.
That truly is the beauty of thinking about it, and letting imagination temper itself with the banality of reality.

Like, for example, the experience of having watched the birth of the Internet, and seen it actually channel itself into 4chan, parish, et al., was .. yeah .. kinda enlightening.

If we Get Telepathic, its going to be useful to have gotten over such things. Just a hunch.
Make Your MacBook Pro, Again
Tensorflow and deep learning – without a PhD by Martin Görner [YouTube]
The battery is not user-replaceable [1]. Having USB-C charging means that do you have a variety of external batteries to choose from though.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/27/you-wont-be-able-to-upgr...
Yes, you are right. But I think most people did not enable the security option so they wouldn't detect any interception of messages.
The way it's described it sounds like it is more like the American company which is dishonest. Not the individuals who they are hiring. The company is gaming the system to get cheaper labor.
>Is the healthcare industry just charging too much money?

Yes. Twice as much as the rest of the world in fact. Mostly due to lack of competition (25 year monopolies for simply adding a antacid to an existing drug) and zero negotiation on pricing.

The President Elect said as much yesterday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/...
We have the same problem here in Germany.

The FDP (Free Democratic Party) claims to go for liberal rules so businesses can strive. Somehow this mostly includes rules for big corps, with the remark that they provide employment.

Funny thing is, the head of FDP is a guy who burned about 3,4M€ of investment money and federal credit.

There are always parties with nice ideas, but when you see who donates money to them, you understand why they can't realize them :\
It's 2017 and music labels/companies still want to say, "you can't hear this song because we haven't settled distribution rights... and can't make any money off of it... so... poo on you"
Yeah, I think actually it really is opt-in, and that may just well be the reason it "doesn't work".
I'm not entirely sure that's true. I think a lot of the anti-ACA lobby is doing it for purely partisan reasons. If the ACA succeeds then its a counted as a big win for your opponents, so you fight like the dickens to make sure it doesn't work out.

Similarly, a lot of people that support the ACA don't support the ideas behind it, as much as they support something being done from the previous, untenable situation. Obama took mostly Republican ideas and ran with them, now the Republicans have disavowed any involvement with them, and Democrats have adopted them as good (or at least better than what was there before, even ACA supporters acknowledge that it's a deep compromise from what anybody wanted.)

I think that the attitude of "it's going to help my side or nobody" is a much stronger driving force than the desire to prevent people from taking entrepreneurial risks.
Awesome. Now the other thing I'd like to see is a re-launch of webservices.org. That's been down a while. Does anybody even know who owns the domain / who ran that site before?

It would be nice to see it back up, and carrying content related to "web services" in the general sense (that is, not just SOAP and the WS-* stack, but REST, GraphQL, etc., etc.)
Then why say you guys are official and remove credibility from all the other forks? I know that's not your intention but you used the word official because "these idiots on the Internet will pay more attention to us"
Irony in an audio-only app using a full-size video hero on their website.
Sure! Our company has been working on a "whole-house, always-on" product for a while, but it hasn't taken off because of the difficulties involved with having users flash Tomato onto their routers. I'm guessing HN readers are a bit more comfortable with that :).

https://www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn/vpn-router
Sam Altman should get a list of all YC startup employees insurance data made public, maybe with a a small questionnaire form with objective questions.

That way analysis becomes easier and all perceived sample biases can be alieviated.
So just a couple "apt update && apt upgrade"'s away, and we're there ..
Isn't the biggest part of health cost is from drug company and insurance company?

If that's the case, addressing the cost is the foremost issue, instead of forcing everyone to join a universal plan. That does not help addressing the root problem above.
I see it as part of the DC bubble effect. What is considered "pro business" is defined by corporate lobbyists, what is "pro labor" by the unions with the largest bureaucracies, and so on.
The ACA increases the opportunities for young people and people with chronic illnesses. By distributing those costs, healthy individuals pay more in premiums, which limit their opportunities. If we are optimizating for overall economic productivity, far more people benefit from not having the ACA.
"Tapes are shit" is also a mythfrom a technical perspective. A good recording made onto a good metal tape on a high-end deck from a good source, will sound nearly as good as a CD or clean vinyl on a good turntable.

Commercial prerecorded tapes were shit, OTOH, becayse they were always on cheap tape stock, with at best Dolby noise reduction, to maximise sales.
Apparently citing facts that are critical of Obama results in auto shadow banningCan't be too classy when you're complicit in torture by refusing to enforce it's prosecution, be on watch while your military commits war crimes or hell, be at war every day of your 8 year watch. Real classy for a warmongering mass murderer. Oh and kill lists, super classy stuff.

People who call Obama classy are clueless.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines? There's no question mark at the end this one here, but I think that the Law is at least conceptually close.
While I'm totally the same in this regard, this does feel a bit like an open-source version of the bystander effect.
Downvoted. It seems like a perfectly legitimate concern for someone that can't afford to pay for a fracture out of pocket.
I think you are presuming what he meant. Can you really declare a single individual moving from a "corrupt" country as being corrupt just because they are from that country? So his argument is that maybe they are seeking to leave it BECAUSE it's a corrupt country.
Affordable Care Act?

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_health_care_inflation_rate

Health care is not becoming more affordable. The rate of inflation in health care is significantly higher than the US inflation rate.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T5YIFR

How is that affordable? How are $600 epi-pens affordable?[1] How is a 4000% price hike on a 62 year old generic affordable?[2] Google for "snake bite hospital bill." $153,000. That's not affordable. That sounds downright fraudulent.

It seems they should have named it something more appropriate, like the Universal Health Insurance Act. Insurance that is no more affordable than the overpriced health care available in the country. But point this out, and everyone starts their partisan bickering and nothing gets done at all.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-29/mylan-to-...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/0...
The ethical viewpoint is very clear though. They just chose to be morally bankrupt.
One of the best experiences I had was actually going through a different site which seemed to have even more options than Healthcare.gov, https://www.policygenius.com/health-insurance

I'm sure there's more as well, but this definitely helped several friends of mine. Seems like these kind of things would have been impossible without large swaths of the ACA.
Here's a non-paywalled version:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/healthcare/health-cares-bipa...
Is there any truth to what Trump said that healthcare providers have monopolies on divided by geographical areas?

One of his proposed solutions is to outlaw these monopolies and let the providers compete between themselves to lower costs.
If you have to read this thread then call your rep. It litterly is about a 30 second call.
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

Even if you have a rep that favors the ACA it gives them an idea how much effort in to saving it.
He's a complete random element. I literally have no idea what he's going to do. ...maybe that's a good thing? Everything that was "reliable" in the past let us down.
It's the nature of universal insurance with no lifetime limits.

In terms of insurance, it's perfectly possible to write healthy young people a significantly cheaper policy that has limits and is no longer available as they age. It's probably pretty stupid for the young people to opt for that policy, but whatever.
This post, especially presented as it is through the voices of these founders, makes an important point.

However, missing, as far as I can tell, is the critique of health care that startups and the open source movement stand to make - a point which the ACA ignores:

Health care has a gatekeeper problem. And an IP problem. Many people find that medical doctors are only a part - maybe a small part - of their health care regiment. And that being and staying healthy has little in common with the official positions of agencies from HHS (especially FDA) to EPA.

The ACA enshrines insurance, pharma, and hospital companies, including those that are the biggest parts of the problem in health care in the USA.

For my part, I need to hear how we can move away from the credentialist model of care toward an open source model before I can become impassioned about any plan.
It depends if there were some sort of control mechanism for just how much telepathy was 'allowed' - like, its not - imho - full mind-reading, but rather "selective understanding" from the target sides' point of view .. I wouldn't want to know everything, just a few things during actual real incidents. Therefore, there still has to be a line between individual choice and social sharing.
This is a rudimentary form of the plot of Serenity (the Firefly movie), if I'm interpreting that correctly. Kingsmen, too.
China rewrites history books to extend Sino-Japanese war by six years
This reminds me of Jon Stewart's swan song of "Bullshit is everywhere"[1] message.

Sigh, I miss Jon Stewart.

[1]. http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ss6u07/the-daily-show-with-jon...
Thanks for writing this. Whatever your view on the ACA, you can probably agree that health is important. It's a tough problem, how we handle it will define the US more than anything else in the future.
I have no pre-existing conditions, but being able to sign-up using the exchange was a big reason I was able to go full-time in a small business rather than continuing to work part-time for a large company to keep health benefits. The monthly premium is too high in my opinion, but one hospital visit made it worth it.

Improvements definitely need to be made though, I'd rather have Medicare like my grandparents and I have a hard time understanding why people are so against national healthcare or even exploring the idea.
When my wife and I looked for insurance just before ACA, the private plan without subsidies, because they didn't exist, was $250. It was a basic plan with a high deductible and an HSA. It was pretty much what my employer offered. After the ACA, same plan, by name, now cost $530. Sure it had more bells and whistles, but I didn't want nor need them. This priced me out. This same plan today is $780 a month without subsidies.

We are now on an ACA plan. $270 with subsidies. Think about that. The government doubled the price of the plan or more, and is paying with our tax dollars the difference between my $270 and $780.

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.

As much as people like to rag on the Republicans, and they deserve it, I don't think they will throw out the good parts. I think they will look at the industrial recommendations such as expanding risk pools across states (Commerce Clause allows this regulation), and other rational plans. Will it be perfect? No. Will it be better than the current ACA? Maybe.
Univerity of IL is also vague about this on the degree requirements page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13385544

I would assume it's a hard dependency for any US school Msc offering. I do know in many European countries you can take a Pre-Masters which is a 2 semester program to make you eligible. For example TU/e has an english taught Msc in security with some classes taught by Tanja Lange and DJ Bernstein https://www.tue.nl/en/university/departments/mathematics-and... with the requirements being that Pre-masters program for non degree holders (sadly, not online option as you do research and conduct a Masters Thesis).
> their policies tend to be friendly to existing big businesses, but may be deeply hostile to new or merely potential businesses.

There is a big distinction between "pro free enterprise" and "pro business". The former supports capitalism, the latter crony capitalism.

> Under Republican policies, these businesses would not exist

I think the GOP has yet to figure out what their health care policy even is. They really need to figure out how to be for something again.
McAfee on Russian Hacking and Cyber Security
The prevalence of employer-offered, private health insurance is – like many facets of American life and institutions – an interesting path dependency of WW2.

The federal government imposed limitations on the ability of private firms to offer higher wages, so that the government could more easily recruit workers for war industry. Private employers found a loophole. Offering health insurance.