skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See https://www.palemoon.org/technical.shtml for details and in particular why they don't support WebRTC.

The real reason is that they are based off of an old ESR and their code wouldn't be able to inter-operate with anything else. Aside from the issue that they're not getting security patches for it, either...

The recommendation to use an external PDF reader is also not quite something I can stand behind. (Unless that external reader is Chrome...)
Are we sure that VR in its current form (headset ala Oculus) is the form of VR that will become ubiquitous? I find it hard to believe that the average consumer will be interested in buying that clunky, expensive piece of hardware just for the "coolness" of it.

If VR is to become popularized i feel like it needs to be more seamlessly integrated into our daily lives.
My experience with the USA healthcare system has been utterly phenomenal. Almost no waits for procedures of any kind, top-tier care. My last hospital stay was 5 days with many lab tests and two ER visits and an ambulance ride preceding it. Out of pocket I paid $100, $50 of which was later refunded to me.

Parts of the ACA are necessary but I can't help but feeling, based on the price increases, the Act itself is horribly inefficient. We didn't increase the supply, we just increased the demand for a product which is very inelastic, resulting in skyrocketing premiums. A reform must involve increasing the supply of care.
Yes. The most obvious one is to make it possible for me to build WhatsApp and install it on my phone, however there are a lot of challenges with this.

A less obvious one is to make it possible to detect WhatsApp cheating. This isn't perfect, but someone only needs to detect it cheating once and then your name is mud.

One such way I proposed: If I can create my own key, then I can pass my public key out of band to someone who can mitm[1] themselves and verify that the message on the wire was encrypted and only encrypted with my key, and I can mitm myself to verify that my device only ever sends things encrypted with my own key. Tooling for the protocol is non-existent, and despite someone claiming they could do it in 10 seconds, they never followed up with instructions on how I could do it in 10 seconds.

This also allows other non-WhatsApp versions of the client, which may make things much more difficult for FaceBook (since now they can't upgrade legitimate clients if they discover a protocol-level problem) but the Internet has some experience with protocols.

[1]: https://mitmproxy.org/
1. Savotta 202 with addidtional pads on the shoulder straps for when I'm without a laptop:
https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/savotta-ljk-202-daypa...

2. Black British milsurp daypack: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/british-patrol-backpa...
T420 fits perfectly in the inner compartment, can carry enough for a short camping trip, very versatile.

Not the best looking or most functional packs, but they do their job well.
The preexisting conditions ban is what messes up the math of affordable healthcare. Or any minimum coverage provisions for that matter. Either you'll pay for it anyways in subsidies or it's going to effectively outlaw health insurance (not enough people are going to want it).
Nice straw man there.

Apple never replaced their existing online discussions with WWDC. You can continue to talk to WebKit developers using the mailing lists any many Apple developers continue to be present within the Developer program forums.
> Either we deny coverage to those that are already ill, or we force everyone to have insurance

This is the crux of it, but I wish people would stop calling this "insurance". While I agree that all Americans should have some degree of guaranteed healthcare, shoehorning this into the concept of "insurance" is a recipe for failure.
Researchers discover self-assembling 2D and 3D materials
In my opinion - JSON won. It is much more relevant today than XML.

If anyone want to use the domain JSON.Com or NoSQL.Com for a similar project as Tim Bray - let me know.
At that point you should basically only be using the hardened tor browser based off (currently) Firefox 38. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-65a6-hardened-r...
It's more like winning a state lottery, where the monthly payout will be terminated if you leave the country for any reason.

There was law requiring insurers to accept you if you switched insurers without a break in coverage; just tweak that law to address common reasons for brief breaks in coverage (say, if you notify & pay either insurer to cover the "gap" within a reasonable amount of time).

This and other problems can be addressed with objective & focused solutions. No need to take over the entire health insurance industry just to fix a few systemic problems. ...and making it illegal to not have coverage isn't acceptable.
I'm in colorado.. just to be clear, we definitely do not have any type of universal coverage here, and Health First Colorado is not open to everyone. It's just normal medicaid.

They didn't care if you signed up when you were injured because you would have qualified for it anyway... you just didn't complete the paperwork. You definitely cannot do this when you exceed the income limit for medicaid and have to get normal health insurance.

The ACA increased the limits to qualify for medicaid. I know there were a few states balking at increased medicaid costs.. but you could have gotten this in most states, including CA.
The amount of knowledge we lack with regards to species still surprises me. We can do pretty well with plants and animals, but we don't even have good genetic analysis on types of mushrooms that grow on the surface, picking up any field guide often results in "this looks quite like it, but the ones from this part of the world make people sick and we don't actually know if they're related".
And there are hundreds of millions of people who have seen their premiums and health care costs go up.
Google did use their Street View cars to check navigation. They also use government data and crowd sourcing. I imagine that, on average, they have the best maps in areas where they are active. HERE may have better coverage overall.

In areas with active communities, that OpenStreetMap is crowd sourced is probably more of a strength than a weakness. The issue for OSM is that there are lots of places where there aren't any active contributors, never mind a community.

This tools makes it easy to compare several web maps:

http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/
Consolidation is an accelerating trend on both sides. Payers merge in order to have more negotiating power with providers. Providers respond by merging in order to have more negotiating power with payers.
The insurers are actually losing billions on the ACA plans. This is why they're abandoning it, and why the system is in its infamous "death spiral".
That mint condition Apple IIe Platinum made my jaw drop.
Simple question:

Why is there little or no start up innovation in the insurance space? Why aren't YC17 companies able to attack this?
To clarify.

HSA require a deductible of at least $1,300 for one person, so people have starting calling that a 'high' deductible from 2003 or so.

Before ACA you could by health insurance with a 15,000$ deductible as an individual. After, ACA the individual out of pocket maximum is $7,150 per year for an individual. So, now legally the maximum is below the old pre HSA threshold for 'high' deductible.
> if Obama could have passed single payer

But he gave up before even trying. Way to move the Overton window.
It's OK. We're in a post-fact era.
The government does not, so far as I am aware, set the prices of the plans. Therefore it is nonsensical to claim that "the government itself doubled the price".

Now, if one were to claim that the government failed to do anything that had the effect of reducing the cost of health care or health insurance, then I would completely agree.

For example, there is nothing to prevent someone from signing up for insurance, having some expensive medical procedures performed, and subsequently dropping the insurance. I have personally heard reports from insurance agencies that some people do in fact do this. And I can't say I'm surprised, either; even after factoring in the tax penalties, it's probably a completely economically rational thing to do in a lot of cases.
Perhaps expands to "in a world where anger is a proxy for nonconformance, and where even nuance is nonconformance, and if nuance is good because reality is not two sided, then having people angry at you is indicative of maturity in an immature world".

There's a lot to disagree with there, probably mostly around two sided-ness though there's mostly a lack of tech in meme wars, they haven't figured out how to make smaller groups and dynamically manage them effectively. I know that nuance as a sign of maturity is also directly under attack and that there's no apriori way to justify it.
You can opt out of them storing data about you. Even if you are the only car at a supercharger, it slows down the rate as your battery fills to protect it. It charges as max power (120kwh) when your battery is pretty low. However, the net effect is vastly faster than all other battery charging systems. Leafs lose range quickly if you charge them with chademo a lot, because they never cool the battery down to keep it from overheating during charging.
This touches on the topic of reductivism.
Without getting too deep into a discussion about geopolitics, it should be abundantly clear that getting rid of authoritarian governments is just the first step. Democracy is hard. Americans of all people should have a deeper appreciation for how hard it is to keep a functioning democracy.

As for dropping bombs, that ties into the drone policy and the real questions about collateral damage, how targets are selected and vetted, and the reality that in some ways targeted strikes are simply extra judicial killings.

Assessing Obama's legacy requires wading through ethical morasses and coming to understand situations that may be occluded by a lot of factors that are not visible to the public.
> There is no legal way for a deductible to be that high

That's the theory. As I noted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13393287 experiment suggests otherwise for the out-of-pocket limit, at least....
I am not religious in any reasonable sense of the word. What possible reason can you give that your religion should have any sort of say in what care is available to me or, much more importantly, my children?

And, while you're at it, please answer my original question rather than throwing out strawman arguments.

> why should my employer get to decide whether I'm opted in or out of a particular thing based on religion?
And also, it was very easy for insurance companies to drop a few expensive procedures in the small print to maintain the same premiums. Then, when customers actually had to use their insurance, they get screwed.
> if analysts stumble across evidence that an American has committed any crime, they will send it to the Justice Department

It's a very unfortunate argument for advocating privacy. Privacy is so much more than getting away with a crime.

In fact, allowing somebody to get away with crime would be a valid argument against privacy in my books.
So, does it run only Lua or Python too?
There are a lot of social programs for food and shelter in the US. The food one works fine, the shelter one is more hit or miss.
Healthcare economics in the U.S. is sufficiently complicated that it defies any simple fix other than saying implement what country X is doing. However, given the massive amount of profit being generated in the system that's not likely to happen in the foreseeable future. Your fix is almost certainly not "the way to fix the exorbitant cost(s).."
With Pale Moon the largest risk is that as far as I know the ESR branch they forked away from no longer gets security patches from Mozilla.

So you probably don't need to do effort to find a 0-day, just browse old Mozilla CVE disclosures.
As someone that has worked for myself for 16 years, I will sorely miss the the ACA. Let me know if you have any recommendations because surely I'm missing something.

- Before the ACA we had Blue Cross and I inquired about maternity coverage. My wife was looking at a shoulder surgery so we were locked in. Blue Cross offered us a $1000/month rider that had to be in place for 21 months before birth and then they would cover anything over our high deductible. It worked out to about $25,000 on top of our regular premiums before they would pick up the bill. We jokingly priced getting an apartment in another city instead.

- Then the ACA came out. Maternity was included free and the premiums are about the same. We had a baby and had to cover twice the deductible. The marketplace gave us some trouble due to stupid bureaucracy so we priced out getting a plan directly (non-ACA) but the price was so much higher and it covered less. So, even with the marketplace, the coverage and affordability made it an easy decision.

Anyway, I could live without the subsidies (we haven't qualified for them every year) and I wish the marketplace was a little easier to work with. Though I feel like our coverage is so much better now. Why take it all away?
To be fair, USB-C connector may allow you to charge it in use from an external battery pack.

Besides, this seems fairly on par with other portable gaming devices currently.
With regards to pre-existing conditions, Ryan's plan talks about continuous coverage policies. Under a "continuous coverage" policy, a person with a pre-existing condition would need to avoid having any gap in insurance coverage in order to avoid paying more for insurance or being denied outright.

So if you lose your job and your health coverage, insurers would be able to deny you coverage.

But if you never have a gap, then you can't be discriminated against.

Rep. Steve King said " If we guarantee people that we will - that there will be a policy issued to them regardless of them not taking the responsibility to buy insurance before they were sick, that's the equivalent of waiting for your house is on fire and then buying property and casualty insurance.
Yes, well done.
I was thinking consultant because the question made me think that there was uncertainty about product-market fit in the US in addition to the uncertainty regarding the role into which to hire. A consultant seemed like a way to get a clearer picture of the market before making the investment of a hiring decision.
There is no alternative. Profits for the healthcare industry all the way.
Medicaid eligibility cutoff is based on the federal poverty level, which for a family of 4 is $33,465/yr. That's only slightly more than rent in a distant suburb of the bay area.
This was a feature of the GameShark for Nintendo 64 as well for finding new codes beyond what they published.

For example, if you had 100 rounds of ammo left, you would press a button on the cartridge, and have it search the ram for the value 100. Drop back into the game, fire off a shot, and hit the button again to search for which of those values changed to 99. Repeat until you found target area in memory and make a code for it.

The device also had a parallel port interface to talk to it via a pc, but I remember less about using that when I was a kid. Pretty basic technique, but as a kid interested in technology, it's stuck with me to this day!
> - It literally saved my life

Could you expand on this?
I think what people forget is that engineers are very curious by nature. They don't want to work on the same things forever. I don't know, but Mr. Lattner probably took Swift was far as he wanted to go with it and now it was time for a change.
> VR in its current early adopter state is a lonely experience

Some solutions to this have been asymmetric games/experiences where there are people in VR and on normal PC interfaces interacting with each other. The most popular example by far is Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes[1], whereby the VR player is a bomb defuser and the other player is the one with the bomb defusing instruction manual.

Another example is Mass Exodus[2], where a VR player must try to "catch" a PC player trying to blend in to a crowd of lookalike robots.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/341800/

[2] http://store.steampowered.com/app/566530/
>The good parts, like covering pre-existing conditions is exactly what causes your insurance to go up. It's basic economics.

It is really as simple as that. Could you imagine a system in which car insurance wasn't mandated but car insurance companies were required to repair your car regardless of its preexisting condition? No smart person would preemptively buy insurance. You just wait until your get into an accident and then bring the already damaged car to the insurance company and demand a policy to repair it. No insurance company can work like that.

Insurance only works when the costs of the most expensive customers are shared among the cheapest customers. You need incentives to encourage the cheap customers to sign up or the whole system falls apart. Rejecting preexisting conditions is the old capitalist way of incentivizing people, but as soon as that is prohibited nearly all incentives disappear for a healthy person to buy into the system.
I work at Google. The final bullet in the CIO Summary on Keyczar was a typographical error, taken from our paper on encryption at rest (https://goo.gl/hSordh). It's since been removed from this Security Design Overview. The encryption at rest paper goes into additional detail and includes the important clarification that while a very old version of Keyczar was open-sourced, the open-sourced version has not been updated to reflect internal developments.
There is none:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/there-will-be-no...
An app that effectively used steganography[1] would probably come the closest to being an "unblockable app". As long as they don't detect that communication is going on, they can't usually block it -- short of blocking everything, which is rarely practical for long.

Some other interesting reading is: [2], [3], and [4]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_channel

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer
> The Author is relying on a crutch... You still didn't fix the underlying issues

So?

This would be an actionable observation if it was possible for someone with the problem to fix the underlying issues. But neurology just isn't there yet. Until it is, your best bet is crutches like the author uses or:

- https://selfcontrolapp.com/

- https://freedom.to/

Alongside getting 9 hours of sleep at the same time every night and 30 minutes of vigorous exercise every day.
One could write a book on that topic. My stance is that they prioritize what and how they do differently than most competitors, and that would be end user experience and polish.

E.g., the iPhone UI's smoothness was a result of their prioritizing smoothness over other factors, like ease of implementation. If you look at how they did it (view objects are backed by GPU rendered layers), it's not really developer friendly. Because developer friendliness is not their priority, at all.

So, what you should get from Apple is the most polished experience, and they exert a great deal of control to make sure that the designed experience actually arrives at the end user. They got this really right with hardware, but they still struggle with the software part. Sure, most software Apple produces is beautiful and works really well. But things are crumbling. Looking at the various fiascos - Maps, Me, then iCloud Syncing, increasing number of problems with OSX quality - this controlled approach does not seem to work that well on software. You can control all possible states and usage scenarios of a physical device, but good luck with that on a OS consisting of 4 billion bytes, or a massive neural network (Siri). IMO they need to let go and open up at the software side.
That's like the completely opposite of what should happen. If you think of health insurance economically, there are income coming in (premiums) and payouts according to some risk pool. Right now the payouts are higher than they were before because of pre-existing conditions, and the income is lower because people under 26 not paying their own insurance premiums. If "healthy" people start paying lower premiums and not really lowering the payments very much since they are pretty healthy and don't really cost the insurance very much anyways, then the "unhealthy" people are going to be paying even higher premiums.
Thats easy, actually. If you suffer cancer it should be the company that you are active with at the time who are responsible for paying for your treatment for that, even if you are no longer with them.

You weight until you have cancer to sign up? Well then you have to pay for the cancer treatment, but if you break your leg tomorrow, the insurance company has to pay.

Again previous conditions are not an issue, because they won't cost the next insurance company anything. If you get diagnosed with, say, aids and need treatment for the rest of your life, then it should be the company you were with at the time of your illness that has to paid, even if you are no longer with them.

Couple this with payment in cash for treatment, so that you can shop for the best/cheapest/whatever doctor (just as you would with car work), a mandatory disclosure of prizes and untangle health insurance from your employer and the system should be much more manageable.
That's apples to oranges. Some family plans used to also have higher deductibles I know of someone that had a 30+ grand deductible per year. It was cheap, they where healthy, having insurance meant many procedures cost less, and they had enough money that a low risk for a 30k out of pocket was just not a big deal.

So yea, for a tiny slice of the population ACA did make things worse, but frankly the tiny minority that where negatively affected don't really care about the new premiums either. Because, for most families having a 30k deductible is approximately the same thing as not having insurance.

PS: The ACA allowed some people without insurance because of health issues to get insurance. But, it also added a lot of young healthy people that would not have had insurance. The net gains and losses depended significantly on age. https://www.valuepenguin.com/how-age-affects-health-insuranc... So, people looking back on cheap insurance also look back when they where younger. New York and Vermont do not permit any use of age as a factor when determining health insurance rates, so younger workers do significantly subsidize older workers. Masschusetts limits cost increases to 2x so there is a significant subsidy.
The Windows version of Firefox is already sandboxed. (The other platforms are too, but not in release)
This idea is great, but it'd be cool if they offered the same form factor except putting a giant battery in there instead of more storage. I think people would be more willing to carry this around if it effectively doubled their battery life.
It really really isn't zero sum. Ask Google- there will be a lot of good information about it.

If value-adding enterprises are unable to market themselves, their business expenses can be forever lost to the world.
That 20% also covers employee salaries, building and maintenance costs, whatever IT infrastructure is needed, etc. That's not net profit like the 2-3% supermarket number you offer.
Originally published in the NSA's in-house and top-secret classified journal Cryptologic Quarterly and later declassified with redactions.
Sounds like your a bit behind that times. Pale Moon 27 is a rebase from FF 38 which has WebRTC. I'm not sure why we should trust your claims, already shown misinformed, when the developer's page states something else. The PM community is basically in consensus in not wanting WebRTC.

As for external PDF readers I'd argue that avoiding the push for integrating or redeveloping more and more external applications into a browser is very sane.