skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone can't afford either A) the monthly premiums for a plan with a low deductible or B) the high deductible associated with a low premium plan, then that person is not capable of paying for their own health care and needs charity.

It is certainly insane to expect people who are incapable of paying for their own health care to be capable of paying for their own health care. But the health insurance market is not there for people who are incapable of paying for their own health care.
Sure, but shouldn't sustainability of the land be the primary factor for the price? (Layman here)
I'd compare the costs of vacation, short work days, to the cost of a Bay Area salary.
> Long term Brexit is absolutely going to be disastrous for the UK economy, unless parliament can get us on to a soft-brexit EEA membership track.

No. It might be. I'll even accept will probably be. You haven't got a clue, I haven't got a clue. Professors of economics at respected universities don't agree, in house analysts at top financial institutions don't agree. At best you can say that heavily politically influenced bodies tend to agree.

I'm fine with you stating an opinion on this stuff, I have my own expectations (chunky period of inflation and stagnant growth at best) - but I'm awfully tired of people selling forecasts as facts
I actually applied an absolutely-final overkill solution to the noise&heat problem on my desktop - I run a full liquid cooling setup with a giant heatsink with three fans on it mounted fully outside the case. It's mounted on my desk. The noise is unnoticeable and cpu temp is 27C at idle, 60C at full burn.
So we need a cloud service for "read receipts"? Interesting.
Cats and dogs are engineered¹ to be happy as pets. I wouldn't like the same to happen to us.

1 - By selection. I don't really know what to call the "engineering" where the "engineer" doesn't know he is doing it.
This was quite a gem when I was practicing some advanced SQL. I find the problems become legitimately hard and take me quite a while to solve. I recommend it to anyone interested in seeing how certain datasets can require quite a bit of creativity to extract using SQL.
That's kinda weird, If anyone leaks won't he post it on HN/Reddit immediately.
And that you already tried to restore from it
WhatsApp has the ability to change the identity key associated with a user. That's the key they give anyone who wishes to send a message to that user. This is necessary in case the device is lost, wiped or replaced. Changing the identity key triggers a notification for other parties in a conversation if they have enabled that option. However, WhatsApp also automatically re-encrypts any messages that have not been marked as delivered using the new identity key. An attacker that could force WhatsApp to change the identity key to one under their control could then read those re-encrypted messages, but not any messages that were already marked as delivered (or any future messages, assuming the notification causes the chat parties to re-verify the keys out of band before continuing their conversation).
Uh 25% increase only leads to round prices at certain points. 25% increase on £1 is £1.25...

Otherwise I agree with you.
The NYT once again disappoints. No mention of the 8 Goddess scandal?

It's almost as if the western media is deliberately avoiding the scandal, lest anyone draw parallels to western corruption.
$1500/mo. It was $440/mo five years ago for them same plan but with 1/3 the deductible.
Actually Claws is even geekier (used to be sylpheed-claws): http://claws-mail.org/
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I used to be a gimp fanatic keeping up with the latest alpha builds. I lost a bunch of money one time using gimp to implement a website from psd. I implemented that site pixel-perfect but gimp had rendered the psd completely wrong so it looked like I implemented the site completely wrong. Now I just pay my $10/month to have photoshop.
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This was exact issue I was having with Nylas. I dont understand why they want me to sign up with their server. I switched back to thunderbird now.
Oracle is a form of technical and financial debt all its own.

I wasn't directly involved in but had a good view of our university's finance modernisation woes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/1634558.stm https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2001-02/weekly/5861/1.h... - although in fairness the inflexibility and disorganisation were existing features of the institution, and Oracle merely exacerbated them.
You can turn it off in preferences. (Although I guess if you got rid of the app, you'd have to install it again to do that! No unsubscribe link?)
It doesn't even need to be that. Expose it on a header on the motherboard so end users can add/remove a jumper. Same as should be in place for the write enable pin on the system's firmware EEPROM. The fact that the end user has no way to prevent firmware updates on most motherboards is a fucking travesty.

Businesses can simply tell their employees to leave it enabled or find another job.
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> Considering that in aggregate, seen globally, the world in the 21st century is in a better shape than ever before,

This is the worldview that enabled the Brexit to happen and fueled the rise of many populist politicians in the world.

Most people don't care about the aggregate. And globalization does hurt parts of the economy as it benefits other parts of the economy. The parts of the economy that it hurts are the ones that aren't doing so well, and it benefits the already rich.

That being said, how is any part of this article going to appeal to somebody's who's out-of-work because their job went abroad? Tell them to celebrate because their tshirt is 10% cheaper?
It's a steal for mediocre organizations where traditional development of even a simple proxy to some other AWS service would be a couple months' planning and launch late with show-stopping bugs, eating a couple man-months total before reaching stability and ultimately serving only a few thousand requests before getting shelved.

In circumstances like these, I've estimated per-request costs of systems at tens of dollars.
Saying that technical debt is only deliberate is an old argument[1], but usage defines meaning and modern usage is that "technical debt" is a catch-all term. It just means bad code we know should be fixed.

[1] 2009 - https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html
well, technically as long as it is aiming for an hard brexit it can withdraw unilateral whenever it wants. The two year period is a safety blanket to negotiate a better deal while still enjoying the existing rules.
I was actually thinking just yesterday, "I wish there was some Sublime tutorial that just repetitively worked you through keystrokes to learn the muscle memory. That's been the biggest impediment to moving off of Textmate."

And then this. Thank you Hacker News AI for predicting exactly what I need to read today.

Now...is there something like this for Ubuntu?
Not true, a mouth guard absorbs a lot of impact from the lower jaw upwards.
Yep, this is an analysis by a trusted individual in the security field. His ultimate summary:

> [WhatsApp's representative is] technically correct. This is not a backdoor. This really isn't even a flaw. It's a design decision that put usability ahead of security in this particular instance.
The wikipedia article[0] on the matter says:

> The phenomenon of successful human male breastfeeding has been credibly observed in several cases.[6] However, the cases are not sufficiently documented to allow distinguishing of possible pathologic galactorrhea.

Where can I read more about this claim?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_lactation
I should add here that the "antiquation" case is the one that has caused the most observed grief in my career. The forces causing failure are coming from outside the code/business (dependence on an outside vendor), and sometimes collide with forward momentum of other parts of the code (i.e. that graph library will never, ever work with Java 7, to name an example). These become life-or-death situations, and the tendrils of the product dependency are often deeply integrated. It might be easier to rewrite than to fix.

Also, this case can impact not just products, but organizations. You can still find teams dependent on an antique commercial version control system or IDE that greatly slows down or even stops work. I've tech-led jumps to new version control systems a few times, and it's always riddled with anxiety, strain, and management angst. (And it always makes the team far happier and more productive!)
Now it's free!

Nylas Mail Basic was designed exactly with this in mind. It's a free client, syncs locally, and does not include a lot of the Pro features that power users save a lot of time with.

On the flip side, we've designed Nylas Pro (and its price point) for users who are coming from the productivity world of ToutApp or YesWare. The goal with Pro isn't to merely be another Thunderbird or Mac Mail. We're focused on building new powerful workflows for people who live all day in their mailbox, calendar, and address book.

(I build Nylas Mail)
I'm not talking about parsing. It's a mess in it's own right of course (encoding, line terminators, etc as others mentioned).

I'm talking about the actual conversion from tabular data to relational. Most of the applications I've worked on had this in one form or another.

So you end up with users downloading an export of their data in CSV, editing it in Excel in various ways, and then reimporting it in the application.

Every company I worked for, this kind of feature was always in the top 3 in term of support load.
http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings

Virtually a tie. 82.45 vs 82.13 using the distance to Frontier measure.
Since those are accomplished via a tracking pixel in the email and you need to serve that image from a public server, then yes, you'll need a cloud service to run that. As stated before, you can choose to run that server yourself if you don't trust Nylas with that kind of data.
> The open solution to a faster mobile web would have been so easy: Just penalize large and slow web pages without defining a dedicated mobile specification

It's obvious they have a different view on this. You can see this first-hand on their pagespeed tool. Pagespeed ranks your pages mostly according to random features, irregardless of size and performance. Actual test you can perform: 1kb web page with no compression ranks lower than 1mb web page after compression: "because you should enable server-side compression".

Their mobile assessment tool is similarly a joke.

The sad thing is that I'm likely getting a lower ranking on my website with has 5kb vanilla uncompressed js (gasp, not even async!) compared to the glittered rating of a 5mb homepage which loads 5mb+ more excluding webfonts from external CDNs.

You can taste that this has spread into google monoculture by the performance of their own web services.
Ah got it. With the recent GNU drama of libreboot I wonder how viable it really is as an ecosystem.
The AMP CDN doesn't even really help with caching - when I implemented AMP at launch for some large sites, it was strongly implied that we couldn't expect any reduction in calls to our servers, and we didn't notice any reduction when AMP went live. From my perspective it appeared to be a walled garden counter-measure to FB Instant Articles and Apple News.
And then they A/B test button colors and wonder why their user base isn't growing fast enough, lol.
The real challenge was to finish the game on Expert, where you didn't have to kill anyone. It was a great system that allowed dedicated players to get most out of the stealth mechanics, while still providing an alternative play style for casual players.
Yet, he is not measuring the Vcore going into the CPU. He is measuring the overall wattage consumed by the PSU at the outlet using a Kill-a-Watt. This contains a lot more draw than just the CPU, itself. That's an overwhelming lack of concern for a wealth of other variables that can amount to tens of watts. So to be more concise:

Overall energy consumption of a computer does not equate to only the TDP of the CPU, itself.
Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V8.1 (abort with ^G)
> {memory, Mem} = erlang:process_info(spawn(fun () -> 1 + 1 end), memory).
{memory,2704}
> Mem div erlang:system_info(wordsize).
338

338 words is what the "Advanced: Memory" guide lists: http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.html

> Erlang process	338 words when spawned, including a heap of 233 words.

However note that this is with HiPE and SMP enabled (which afaik are now the default) as the "processes" guide notes[0] without both of these a process should be 309 words. Without SMP, I get 320 words (HiPE is a compilation flag and I don't feel like recompiling Erlang right now).

[0] http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/processes.html
There's also some really great material at the JSC Oral History project:

https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/oral_histori...
There's also http://supmua.org/ though I haven't used it in forever.
> If you had a Nylas ID back when Pro was announced you got a gratis year of subscription.

Well, uh.. that didn't quite go that way for me.

The Pro 'transition' was a miserable experience that made me stop using it altogether* - it literally popped up asking me if I wanted to subscribe to Pro, and if I said 'no' (thinking I'll just continue non-Pro) the whole app quit.

* Coincidentally I tried it out again (seemed to get a 14day trial even though I'd used it before) a few days ago. There's still lots I like; the Basic tier is exactly what I needed really - last year when it suddenly held my emails hostage (slight hyperbole of course, there were still copies on the server).
If nothing else, they asked for an IP address in their DMCA.
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Linking google searches is pretty meaningless and borders on insulting
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One feature I've always wanted is to make a directory non-deletable without otherwise changing the directory's functionality. So if I do "rm -rf ~/work" I don't lose anything, but I can still do "touch ~/work/whatever". As far as I know, this is impossible.
They say in the takedown request that they want the uploaders IP and email to them down
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> Ok. I'm being a dick. I should calm down. I apologize.

Apologies always accepted here. No problem.

> I predict ranching will become a niche source of protein as vat-grown meat comes online (20 years) and taxpayers decide to stop subsidizing it (10 years?).

Even if all of this comes to pass, why will the resulting ranching industry be unsustainable?
Also on the trademark/naming/confusion front, there's also a prominent project with the same name: it's the Perl6 VM.

http://parrot.org/
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What was removed was fragmentation done by the network. Now it's hard coded to use PMTU discovery, whereas in v4 fragmentation was transparent to apps if you didn't set the "don't fragment" bit.
A plausible attack scenario, outlined in multiple steps:

1) Police arrest a drug dealer, who manages to turn his phone off by smashing it on the floor and the battery pops out, in the same step also locking the data from readout if the device is using FDE

2) Cops now take the SIM card, compel the provider to provide the PUK to unlock the SIM card and insert it into their own smartphone

3) Cops activate WhatsApp and now can read any messages sent after the arrest, thus discovering potential clients. They can also impersonate the drug dealer and arrange sting operations.
And also iTunes, back in the early days of OS X:

https://www.wired.com/2001/11/glitch-in-itunes-deletes-drive...
This article says at Umspannwerk.

http://theheureka.com/google-announces-official-campus-in-be...
This is false. IPMI is a completely different thing from the Intel ME. It is implemented on a separate chip (bmc) and has its own NIC (usually with its own physical port)

AMT on the other hand provides its network functionality by hijacking the host's IP, and siphoning off traffic destined for its ports (16992 and 16993). This is one of the things that makes it scary, and just one of the differences between it and IPMI.

Source: I have worked extensively with AMT and built a semi-open-source Python management library for it in a previous job.
Browsing the "self-help" shelf at my local charity shop, I came across Tarzan of the Apes and Breakfast at Tiffany's. I like to think that this is a clever deconstruction of the genre.
Worked on a product that was written in a legacy technology and built over two decades. Company does not want to invest further in the product and just want to support existing clients that had done lot of customization on top of existing codebase. New players have come into the market and eaten away the market share of the category the product competes in. Its a slow death for the product now. Management feels that it is better to buy a new product built by another company rather than building the same product in-house with no guarantee of returns.
RAND has study says the same about Russia.

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When I was in college, someone hired a team of Amish to build a car stereo shop across the street. It was quite fascinating to watch. They built it using techniques you normally see when building a barn. They sunk a whole series of posts into the ground. They were all different lengths. It made no sense when you looked at it, no apparent rhyme nor reason to it.

They poured a slab around the posts (well, the concrete company did), and then they got out their chainsaws and started cutting the tops off the posts and leveling them to each other. They attached cross members, and out of the chaos emerged the superstructure of the building. It went up fast. When they were done you would never know it wasn't built using traditional methods.
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And the world was so open, you could play as little or as much of a map as you wanted, given you cleared objectives. Rope arrows took you up buildings if you didn't want to crawl through. Plenty of bystanders to scare off playing ghost if you wanted to crawl every inch of their quarters for silver.
That's one of my favorite sci-fi novels and it's eerily ahead of its time IMO. Among many difficult questions, it also deals with

"is it good for humankind to be ruled by an invisible technocratic elite?"

"are we unknowingly increasing long-term existential risk by concerning ourselves first with short-term safety?"
This is pretty awesome! Thanks a lot.
I hope you're being sarcastic :D
He didn't build thousands of websites, just that the websites he has built were used by thousands of people. Sloppy "journalism" once again.

Plus this is barely even an article because of how short it is - practically all the info is in the headline, the text doesn't add much at all.

Makes me wonder how this stuff gets so many upvotes that it reaches the frontpage of HN in no time.
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That's roughly the amount of time it takes for our coffee pot to brew 12 cups of coffee. So it posts immediately that a pot is brewing to save people a walk to the kitchen, and again when the pot is done.
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> It's one of the last bastions of free speech and anonymity that exists.

Well... for certain definitions of free speech and anonymity. Let's not forget that people have left 4chan because they didn't consider it nearly free enough.
If only Google had a nice RSS Reader view which was blazing fast, and allowed you to view an uncluttered, non JS version of an article, while still correctly attributing it to the original provider, while making it easy to link to the original source.

Such really simple syndication technology could even have a catch TLA. I can't really think of one, but I'm sure there is something.
Reading "ElectronJS" is when i decided not to try this app. I don't need websites masquerading as desktop apps thank you.
This is admittedly unfounded speculation, but if the ME were compromised, one of the most valuable things an attacker would want would be AES keys. So _IF_ this binary blob is up to no good, we should expect one of its tasks to jot down AES keys (remember, intel has had specialized AES instructions for a while now) and hide them somewhere for later retrieval.

Perhaps it would behoove people to run a "keyscrubber" daemon that constantly generates random numbers and AES-encrypts a few kb of data and sends it to /dev/null. _IF_ the ME is jotting down keys, and _IF_ there is only a finite amount of space for it to store them, such a daemon might be able to flush out real keys and overwrite them with junk to hamper any retrieval efforts.

Again, two big hypotheticals, but, if it were stealing keys, the buffer would have to be pretty small, otherwise people could eventually detect it changing sizes or hashes in NVM. I wouldn't expect such a thing in standard redable NVM anyway, it's probably on a die somewhere and only a few kb.
Thinking about it, it's quite funny how much we are willing to take from a linux based OS and still claim it's running fine. Last time i installed Ubuntu on my laptop i could not change the resolution to 16:9 and the only advice out there was to recompile the driver. For any non tech person this is just not acceptable.

While I myself tend to complain a lot about Windows, I have to admit that I almost never take the time to dive in and really fix the problems. So in absolute numbers I do absolutely spend more time fixing any other OS than Windows but I probably complain about it the most.
IA(Definitely)NAL, but is this what you're referring to?

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:1...

If so, it says under (19) that member states are free to set more stringent limits if they so please.
Curious what hardware you have currently available and what workloads you are considering running and for what purpose. I mean:

1. Today's low end hardware is the high performance hardware of just a few years ago.

2. Most data isn't big and if the data is big then moving compute to the data is usually a better practice than moving data to the compute.
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/b/ is still the most infamous board, nearly a decade after one Fox affiliate station called it the "Internet Hate Machine" in response to its antics. Even though the days of "old /b/" have long past, its memes live on.

The election certainly brought more attention to /pol/ in recent months, given time we'll all be grumbling about how all the other boards are ignored.
I used to use Google Refine (now OpenRefine [0]) for this. It lets you load up the data and then apply rules to see if they are mostly correct. It doesn't get you all the way, but it is better than going blind on manually revising a huge Excel "database".

[0] http://openrefine.org/
That's seriously messed up, but entirely believable. A number of years ago, a Korean restaurant in LA was busted for boiling cats alive (it may have been "BYOC"). I asked a Korean co-worker about it, and he said that while it was going out of style, there is a traditional belief that an animal's suffering is beneficial to the person eating it.