skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there is a backdoor. Why not? Under what law whatsapp and whispersystems live? The one with secret courts and secret court orders?. How to trust someone
under this umbrella?

We need to spread technology companies. Everything but a bunch of things comes from this law.

And what starts in another country, magicaly gets bought or dismissed. Take Symbian as an example...
How does 2FA protect against eavesdropping with something as simple as this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_keylogger
Scroll through Mozilla's security announcements, pick ones at random, find the patch that fixed it and see if it ever got applied to Pale Moon. In many cases they haven't.

I have pointed out many of these and argued with Pale Moon devs about it. "Moon Child" believes they don't need to apply patches if they can't replicate the PoC from Mozilla's bugzilla.

These are things that are obviously vulnerable and need to be fixed (such as missing bound checks in the XML parser).

If someone ever cared enough to target Pale Moon users they would have an absolute field day with all the known Firefox vulnerabilities they could use.
Define 'months'. I can name half a dozen games of equal quality that came out in the last 6 weeks.
From your linked article- "...what is expected to be a long, winding process of repealing the Affordable Care Act"

So, not being repealed in real time, as you claimed. Not being repealed today, as you claimed. Instead, "the long, winding process" has begun.

From your linked article- "Though the repeal is on the top of the legislative agenda, Trump is unlikely to put his pen into action on it anytime soon."

It will be quite some time before the actual repeal happens. Not anytime soon. No need for panic. No need to sow fear.

From your linked article- GOP leaders' comments that they want to replace the bill at the same time they repeal it suggest that a seamless transition may take time. House Speaker Paul Ryan said replacement and repeal would happen "concurrently," and Trump has pledged it will be "simultaneously."

So by the Republicans own words, there will not be a time when there is no plan in place.

In fact, Republicans are going to vote to continue funding for the present plan. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/republicans-obamacare-...

Again, no need to spread fear.
I'm sorry, I was not talking about Feldman, just about your parent comment.
Isn't Opera experimenting on that now? :)
Libertarians and conservatives believe that health care is or could be a well-functioning market, like buying a refrigerator.

But there are many basic differences. You know when you need a refrigerator, but often are not sure if you need a given test or health treatment. Refrigerators are bought one at a time, but tests and treatments are often whole bundles. Refrigerators of a given brand and model are basically identical, not so health treatments. If you get a bad refrigerator you can exchange it under warranty, a bad health treatment can cause you permanent damage.

You can get reliable information on refrigerators from Consumers Reports, not nearly so much for health care. You can generally get along without a refrigerator for a while, taking time to get information before making a decision which one to buy, often that is not the case with important health care.

There are many sellers of refrigerators with public prices and lots of price competition, not the case for health care. The prices for refrigerators are standard around the country, not at all the case for health care. The majority of health expenses are in the last few years of life, when people are in poor mental shape to make decisions. You can buy a refrigerator at a reasonable price without insurance, but not individual health treatments.

In these and i would guess other ways, a purchaser of health care services is, by the very nature of things, in a far weaker position than a buyer in a normal market. And of course, the health care providers like it that way.

Can anyone suggest any other basic differences?
Have you ever heard of the obfuscated C contest? Even with the code in front of your face and looking innocent it's hard to see what it does.

When you only have decompiled assembly, obfuscation is much easier.
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If we could legally sell bone marrow (which hurts to donate, but regenerates), a lot fewer people would die.
Agreed, spiciness adds minimal additional calories compared to something like a thick cream sauce or sugary hoisin-style sauce. Healthiness isn't a given but seems easier to achieve compared to other popular styles of preparing food.

I'm also curious how spiciness affects satiety. Eating a meal and feeling full afterward is obviously preferable to having constant cravings for more snacks and treats.
...we didn't start any new wars...

Don't tell a Libyan that; you might get punched in the face.
"Oh, yes... Paleblood. Well, you've come to the right place."
Sounds like a plot point from Berserk...
SteamVR has a theater mode. The issue is the pixel density isn't really as high as you'd like it to be. You're using 2160x1200 resolution to render over most of your field of view, so the effective resolution of a rendered TV/cinema screen is actually lower than you might like. It's like playing on a 720p or maybe even a little lower resolution. Also, how will you see your mouse? That's actually not a huge problem if all monitors were replaced there could just be mouse tracking in the simulation.

It's possible, but the resolution and pixel density has to go up before it can be an effective replacement for the amazing screens we have.
Pickles, on the other hand, will kill you. http://www.jir.com/pickles.html
I strongly prefer apple maps.

Why?

Because I have low vision and only Apple Maps respects the system font size. I can actually read the map labels. Google maps renders the print too small.

If I can't read the map labels, I can't use the map. Everything else is gravy.
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Establishing residency usually only requires domicile in the state. It certainly doesn't take a year; more like 30 days, usually. In some states, a trailer can be used as a domicile. And some states also treat certain actions, such as registering to vote, as presumption of residency. Generally speaking, it's not hard.
This seems to be the same angle played every time the analysis of crypto tools comes up on HN.

(Almost always) when someone mentions the 'impossibility of analysis' of closed-source programs they are actually referring to the difficulty in doing so -- not actually stating that it's impossible.

It is easier to look through source code.

Now, if we're progressing through this conversation according to script, it will be mentioned that open source projects have had tremendous security problems, too. (OpenSSL comes to mind..)

But that's beside the point expressed.

The only point, and it's the point that was originally expressed, is that open source code is easier to look through than a closed code base.

The hurdles posed by closed source, although not impossible to jump, significantly hinder the progress of analysis.

Is this not true?
When I tried all I noticed was the pixelation and had to take it off. It was such a terrible user experience. It reminded me of some student science project, instead of a marketable product.

VR isn't going to be popular until we have 8K or 16K headsets doing 120fps, and then we have to deal with the fact that it removes you from your environment.

The first generation of VR died off because they couldn't figure out how to solve the product liability issues. That problem still exists, which is why VR isn't going to be usable and is a dead-end.
It doesn't of course - it protects your account from future access / replay attacks.
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Your source (correctly) says they were mostly from Saudi Arabia, which has a rather extensive history over several decades of terrorist attacks

That's a detail that doesn't matter. What matters is that we open the doors to men who have high risk of radicalization and ties to rich Saudis, bigot.
This probably has more to do with mice being an imperfect model organism for humans. A healthy diet for a mouse is different than a healthy diet for a human.

Humans have a particularly robust digestive system, compared to other animals; for instance, we can eat lemons. We could be regarded as highly omnivorous, and extreme generalists. This makes it difficult to model human dietary nature, because many animals can't handle a diet as varied as ours.

As far as mammals go, humans might actually be the most tolerant of a varied diet. This probably stems back to our early days, where scavenging was common. It's pretty apparent that at some point humans underwent intense selective pressure for dietary tolerance. I can't think of another mammal that can regularly eat things as diverse as corn, lemons, and beef, and not die. This makes it really difficult to find a good organism for modeling human dietary behavior. Even our close relatives, like Chimpanzees, would have issues when fed a normal human diet.
You're right. You've changed my mind.

They need to get rid of all counter-terrorism operations and ignore the problem because all attempts to stop any attacks have been without effect.
A documentary that seems like it was made from that book is "Antarctica: A Year on Ice." It was on Netflix but isn't any longer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2361700/
And be sure to smile at the cameras watching you in the store, and the ones in the parking lot that recorded you driving in.
It's an problem the medium has to solve the way every other medium handles it's technological constraints. Pop music production was partly a way to handle the constraints of AM radio. Opera's vocal style was the result of the clash of large venues, growing orchestra's and the desire for solo vocals.

If VR can't render readable posters then good artists will stop putting posters in VR.
> having to crane your neck around to see what's going on sounds like a PITA

This is a step too far in my opinion. You already have to "crane your neck around" to see what's going on in the real world, all around you, all the time.

I'm also sure there are less physically demanding games/experiences for those interested. Pick your poison.
But the nature of the jobs hasn't changed. It's no less important for your pharmacist to give you the right medicine. What's changed is individual credit seeking and self promotion has been deemphasized.

I've seen this first hand in the legal industry. Business generation has shifted from getting a call from your golf buddy to formally pitching your team/strategy/rates. Meanwhile, 30% of GCs and new partners are women. Not a coincidence.
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Votes aren't why that comment is dead --- note that it doesn't say "flagged". There is stuff that happens behind the scenes that [deads] users, especially new accounts; I think some of it might be voting ring related but not sure.

(That comment is incorrect but I agree with you that it's constructive).
Thanks! We have a good lawyer - but he certainly focus on legal aspects. M&A advice in this niche is really scarce... You barely hear about company acquisitions this "small" and how negotiations went. We had a M&A banker (through a friend) essentially give us the advice "make it intransparent, sell the whole package, don't let them go after you individually" - but getting advice and having the balls is two things... Plus: if half of the team is like "yeah, but maybe we can try interviewing and see what happens" you kind a lose the negotiation power after all :-/
What's your point? That not all terrorists are from abroad? We know that. Why is it necessary to bring in people who have high risks of radicalizing? Homegrown terror isn't a reason to stop trying altogether.
Yeah though configuring login is not something that takes more time than to set it up.
Do we need GraphQL?
It's not that huge of a win, roughly 9-10 of that extra 13 percent is spent in the bathroom. Study finds relaxing on the throne decreases mortality?
If you are concerned enough about the security and privacy of the app, then you should learn how to use the app. That includes learning about the indicators provided by the UI telling you about key changes, delivery notifications, and anything else the developers considered important enough to show the user.
"Shapiro v. Thompson (1968) considered the constitutionality of a state law that established a one-year residency requirement for welfare recipients. The Court struck down the law, finding it a violation of the "right to travel" (really, more the right to migrate). The Court said it had "no reason to ascribe the source to any particular constitutional provision," relying instead on the "fundamental rights" prong of equal protection analysis. In a subsequent case, the Court upheld residency requirement for in-state tuition benefits. In so doing, the Court distinguished Shapiro, which it said involved access to "basic necessities of life." In Zobel v Williams, the Court, 8 to 1, struck down a Alaska scheme that distributed royalties from the state's mineral revenues to state residents based on the length of state residency. Residents received $50 in benefits for each year they lived in Alaska. Various justices offered three different reasons for invalidating the plan.

Finally, in Saenz, the Court breathed new life into the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in finding that clause to be violated by a California law that set lower welfare benefits for newer residents than for long-term residents. The Court says the clause "does not allow for degrees of citizenship based on length of residence."

(http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/newresi...)
No, paychecks are compensation given by you to them in exchange for work performed.

Health care benefits are also part of that compensation. Why should you have any say in how your employee uses that compensation.

Your employees use of their health care plan is none of your damn business. Trying to use health care to regulate their behaviour based on your religious views is a particularly nasty form of oppression.
What's stopping it from being wireless right now? Wifi technology or battery life?
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Nobody knows why?
I don't believe that.
I can tell you why.
Because they keep looking and focusing on their computer monitors, their laptop screens, their tablets, and their phones, and rarely look up.
For hours, for weeks, for months, for years.
For kids who are still developing, surely this will be an issue.
People playing computer games that create effects that their eyes would normally do; blur effects, dust effects, light effects...
Prolonged usage is confusing their eyes - Eyes trying to unblur a blurred screen. Eyes trying to look deep into the distance, but in truth they are focusing on a screen 12 inches away...
When's the last time these people 'losing distance vision' got outside and looked around?
I'm sorry, but if you look upthread, the comment I responded to not only didn't say that verifying open source was easier, but actually made the extreme claim that there was in principle no way to verify closed source software at all.

Meanwhile, addressing your (different) argument directly: sure, reading C code is easier than reading assembly code, and reading Python is easier than reading C. The easier it is to read a program the easier it is to reason about it.

But:

* It's not terribly difficult to reason about the functionality of messaging software in any language.

* WhatsApp is an extremely high-profile target; it would be weird if people hadn't reversed it by now, since less well-known programs that are much harder to reverse have been productively (as in: findings uncovered) reversed.

* The particular things we're looking for in a program like WhatsApp fall into two classes: (1) basic functional stuff like data flow that is even more straightforward to discern from control flow graphs than the kinds of things we routinely use reversing to find (like memory corruption flaws), and (2) cryptographic vulnerabilities that are difficult to spot even in source code, because they're implemented in the mathematical domain of the crypto primitives regardless of the language used to express them to computers.

Sure, though. It is easier to spot backdoors in open source software. It's just not capital-H Hard to do it in closed-source software, so this open vs. closed debate about backdoors is usually a red herring.
I halfway wrote a short story in my head on this about five years ago.

The science gist of it was this:

DARPA funded a project based on the ultimate goal of being able to regenerate limbs, treat PTSD, etc... Comcast got a hold of it, Comcast makes a killing handing out "vecks" for free, but sitting in the light show costs you. The light shows are orchestrated by comcast-recruited DJs to do light shows and play with your serotonin, dopamine, and adrenaline levels. People become light junkies

The kicker is that the virus has to be activated with a proprietary sequence of light.

Meanwhile, guy from failed DARPA project, the first light junky, gets this for free as a side-effect from the DARPA project, but he has to go to his friend for it.
My computer doesn't literally claim to be Virtual Reality either though - so that's a bit of a straw man. That's like saying my car doesn't perfectly replace reality either, clearly nobody ever claimed it would...
That particular swap station was a great one if you expected lines at the superchargers between LA and SF, which is one of the most-used routes and has a charger that's halfway. As a Tesla driver that travels that route, I'd happily pay $50 or $80 to know that I would have more reliable timing on the day before Thanksgiving. However, I usually return up 101 to do some wine tasting.
I don't think it's fair to compare VR to Soccer, it's more equivalent to home treadmills, or something like a bowflex. An expensive niche product that usually just gets left in the corner getting dusty.
Pre-app store iPhones? (and all of the software that it massively incentivized?)

Or just the phones themselves?
At the binary level, obfuscation is powerful but obvious. Is iOS WhatsApp meaningfully obfuscated?
Sophisticated users without setting up authentication and backup for their valuable data?
He's got FU money. He has fame and recognition. He has no reason to sell to Google at this point in his life.
So hilarious! Got to build up the tolerance so as to enjoy spicy food more and spend less in the bathroom :)
Got a favorite sauce?
I don't get how they can do this. Does it mean that comp is simply non-negotiable?
US culture cherry-picks data and declares that any statistical discrepancy is caused by oppression or passive privilege. Other hypotheses are taboo and dismissed.

There's also a subtle background noise: a constant reminder that males are somehow defective and need to be taught how to behave, so to stop the oppressors. Thankfully, experts whose incomes depend on identity politics are here to fix your mess.
No current electric battery technology has the energy density to heat a house all winter economically. You'd need a volume of batteries similar to the volume of your house.
That's not how science works. The onus isn't on someone to "prove it doesn't work" - the onus is on the person making the claim that it does work.
Exercise, good nutrition, and low stress would probably do a lot more than this treatment (if effective).

Telomeres, lifestyle, cancer, and aging:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3370421/

Better choice of diet and activities has great potential to reduce the rate of telomere shortening or at least prevent excessive telomere attrition, leading to delayed onset of age-associated diseases and increased lifespan.
The progress bar at the top finish long before I can see the image.

I think you can try how it feels when the page shows the intermediate steps. Sometimes a slower page with some intermediate result is nicer than a faster page that is blank for a long time. Something like a splash screen.
I swear I recall some Canadian study that showed capsaicin to reverse one of the types of diabetes. IIRC it was published in Cell but I can't entirely recall, it was so long ago.
again ows has nothing to do with this. It is solely vulnerability of whatsapp
Ah yes, that could work. I'll try it when I have my phone handy (I don't bring it to the office).
Elizabeth Bathory, eat your heart out.
Condoms. I was 11 and we were just hitting puberty when I decided to walk into a pharmacy at a whim and buy condoms. My lunch money at the time was 30 PKR (.30 USD) a day. And a quick trip to the pharmacy and an awkward conversation with a guy there told me a 3 pack of cheapest condoms was 5 PKR (0.05 USD)

Long story short, I sold condoms at 15 PKR a piece, made a profit of 40 PKR (20x cost). No one else was brave enough to buy a pack at the pharmacy so I enjoyed my position for the next two years.
> Even Obama admits this

Probably more than anyone, Obama understands that politics is the art of the possible. The fact that the ACA was passed by a margin of one vote is some evidence that, in the face of raging blind opposition, they didn't leave anything on the table. If congress weren't in thrall to gerrymandered hyperpartisanism and effectively unlimited donor money, the law would have had at least some bipartisan support, been revised numerous times, had bad parts improved, good parts enhanced, and concerns of both parties and various constituencies addressed in light of the empirical evidence gathered over the last seven years. I don't think there will be a return to the previous system. Instead, for several million Americans, they'll try to demolish the first four floors of a building and disingenuously point to the doctor's office on the fifth.
Thanks! I'll take a look at it!
I believe Chrome is semi intensive, or at least wasteful.
I am optimistic that we have a chance for real solutions here:

* Pricing: How about transparent pricing up front for all non-emergency services? That means the price you pay, and that your insurance pays. Not some mystery of "you are responsible for some unknowable amount if the insurance company doesn't pay" or "we might make you pay your entire deductible".

* More effective implementation of high deductible health plans that's simpler for people.

* Medical expenses and insurance tax-deductible, full stop. No messing with HSA, FSA.

* When you are diagnosed with a condition, your current insurance is responsible for the rest of your life for related expenses. No new insurance company would deny you because it wouldn't cost them anything for your preexisting condition.

* Subsidize normal health insurance for poor people.
Not necessarily. People who spend their days writing source code tend to think in terms of source code because that's what they know. People who spend their days analyzing binaries don't. Be mindful of the difference between difficult and unfamiliar.
Correlation finding is still an incredibly important first step towards figuring out what would be a good double blind randomized trial. Science media could definitely report correlations better.
The prevalent and hostile view exists because this is a pretty dubious study design, and there's a ridiculous degree of financial entanglement in many of these "trials". Lots of bad data doesn't necessarily help anyone.

If the problem really is "This area doesn't have enough money", then the same money being used to buy into the trial could have funded a proper double-blind trial.

And this is from the perspective of someone who does support the use of non-randomized evidence in medicine.