skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's misleading. First of all, medicare is set by the government, and healthcare organizations cater service only to what is covered for medicare patients.

Secondly, hospitals charge people with insurance more. Typically if a patient is uninsured and paying cash, the hospital will work out ways to charge them less, because they are personally liable for way more than what insured are. Hospitals still want to get paid, and charging a patient into bankruptcy is not a way to achieve that.
Presumably the device generates a keypair and then needs to exchange with the remote device somehow? I assumed both devices connect to WhatsApp and it delivers what is ostensibly the pub keys from each of the parties to each of them?
That would be Powershell.
If you want more context on Putin's regime, check out, "Nothing is True and Everything is Possible" by Peter Pomerantsev. It's an inside view of Russian life/propaganda from someone who worked as a TV producer for a Russian network:

https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-True-Everything-Possible-Surr...
> You all should understand fiduciary duty.

We do. You should understand it. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-cor...

The interpretation of "fiduciary duty" / "they are a business" that you're implying is an urban legend, easily debunked by the fact that Google has no fiduciary duty to open a gas station in rural North Dakota as soon as they realize from Google Maps data that one would be profitable.
In practice, you need to learn the tax code to find most suitable form of conducting business. For example, in the UK if you know what you're doing, you'll pay ~20% tax on your income as a contractor. If you don't, you can easily end up paying something like 30+%.

Also, there are perpetual costs of having a company registered (such as monthly payments to an accounting company which handles paperwork, health care contributions etc.), so if you move around regularly between a couple different countries, you'll probably need to maintain a legal presence in each one, and thus have these costs multiplied.
Google deserves more credit than it's being given here.

I think AMP is Google's next SPDY. As you know, SPDY eventually became HTTP/2 through an open standardization process, and Google has since deprecated SPDY in favor of the open HTTP/2 standard.

AMP is similarly open. While it is still Google-driven at this stage, other companies are already iterating on it and implementing their own AMP caches[0]. There's no reason to believe Google is attempting to "lock-in" users to Google (and this article provides no evidence of that).

Every major tech company is trying to keep up with the demands of users. They demand content that loads really fast. People in many parts of the world have poor access to mobile data, which increases the importance of this even further.

As mentioned in this article, both Apple and Facebook are also working on similar projects. At least you can send a pull request to Google's.

Is Google using its influence to push the web in a different direction? Yes. Is it a bad thing? I don't think so, but others may disagree. The issue is that this article provides no argument that AMP is a bad thing, but rather a conspiracy theory that it is Google's attempt at "lock-in".

I agree that requiring an external Javascript to be loaded is a privacy issue, and that should be fixed. How about contributing a solution?

If not AMP or something along the same lines, how do we the tech community solve the problem of delivering static articles lightning-fast?

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/website-optimization/accelerated-...
We had a proper backup system in place at my company. Backups were replicated to an identical system at a remote site, and we periodically validated random backups. Our audit team also spot checked our backups to ensure that all servers were being backed up. Then we had a management change; ditched our system for a more expensive solution, and basically told our application owners that backups were a nice thing to have, but they shouldn't really count on them. The person in charge of backups was assigned other tasks and encouraged not to spend too much time on managing the backup system. With over 1000 servers, it's a matter of time until we have an issue that leads to a CTJ event. Unfortunately, the backup admin will probably be the one facing Jesus, not the management staff...
Which plan?
> I'm not sure what Trump's arm of this kind of propaganda is

In all seriousness - it's /pol/. See also /r/The_Donald, gab.ai, and a handful of niche forums.

As an aside, I'm sad that gab.ai hasn't seen adoption outside that political group. It's really got a lot of potential as a platform.
I don't have a problem with that, provided that the eating is not preceded by any slaughtering.

I can even imagine death rites wherein the deceased is consumed by high-prestige members of the other species as a final status symbol, or fed to low-prestige individuals as an act of charity, or by friends and co-workers, or by one's most effective enemy or rival--maybe as host for a brood of the other's larval offspring.

There are a variety of reasons why cannibalism may become taboo, and plenty of examples in non-cannibal cultures where dead people are allowed to be consumed by other species, whether those are carrion birds, sharks, arthropods, or fungi and bacteria. If your body isn't embalmed or mummified when you die, it's pretty much going to get eaten by something.

Why not get eaten by something that can appreciate your flavor and communicate its satisfaction?
Which client blocks remote images by default? Is it a cli or gui?
The real question is why do so many people upvote an advertisement like this?
> 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.

If you want to get into the speculation rabbit hole, it's far more fun to assume that instead of calculating something_truly_random(), RDRAND actually returns `AES-CTR(something_truly_random(), NSAKEY, counter)` as random output - which then becomes P & Q for your RSA keys. This'd be a far easier attack to mount, and wouldn't require any exfiltration of keys; just being able to see any current RNG state would expose all the previous states.

This might not be a problem for Linux, since RDRAND is mixed in, but for a while RDRAND was the exclusive entropy source for TCP sequence numbers, ASLR offsets, etc: https://cryptome.org/2013/07/intel-bed-nsa.htm

Who knows how Windows or OS X handles this.
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Exactly this. It is like all those data marketplaces from 2010. Infochimps most famously and azure shuttering their data marketplace recently.

This has the same feel.
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Intel wouldn't even have to be cooperative with an NSL in place.
Thanks for the reply. We have tried medium and got decent amount of traffic from there. The story got published in hackernoon.
https://hackernoon.com/find-people-to-learn-with-colearn-bbf...
But I want to know what can be done beyond medium and quora. Thanks for the book suggestion I will read it.
Yes, although this was made legal only recently.
Rather than this very long defense of someone it sounds like you do not know, how about a simpler explanation similar to the one that started this discussion: people make mistakes, it's better not to focus on retribution.

Just as we don't go out of our way to defend the guy who did rm -rf for what he did specifically, but rather move on.
"I don't know how Nixon won, nobody I know voted for him". People live in bubbles. When you encounter a cultural clique with contrary ideas it can look like a villainous conspiracy simply because it's assumptions are so alien and yet so strongly held. Surely they must be shills, trolls, etc? No, generally not. People actually do have those beliefs and consider them worth grouping up and fighting for. Not the people you hang with, but elections in particular are great puncturers of bubbles; they count the real numbers.
Canary isn't fully reliable... yet. I believe Dejalu[0] is more reliable and stable (from one of Sparrow's creator).

[0] https://dejalu.me/
And in that case, you can surely run your own Nylas sync engine server alongside it. Which still adds no new security issues with using Nylas.
Data is apparently somewhat aged, so could have been exfiltrated over a period of time.
Also, US military spending is truly enormous. There is a big return on that (obviously opinions differ as to whether it's worthwhile...)

(Edit for fact-checking: hmm, while the USA's military budget is by far the largest in the world, as a fraction of GDP it's not that extreme. Wikipedia says it's 3.3% of GDP, high compared to the world average of 2.3%, but way behind the likes of Israel, Russia and Saudi Arabia.)
Why is this on hn???
I disagree with your definition of technical debt. Decoupling everything as much as possible may be good (or it may over complicate the problem) but technical debt occurs when you don't do things like that, whatever you define as the "proper way", for sake of expedience or lack of experience.

All software has some technical debt but you can have more or less depending on how much effort you or your organization takes in reducing it or avoiding it from the start.
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It is not absurd.

A normal e-mail client doesn't suffer from this issue. Only if the user is hosting their e-mail traffic inside the US. You may think that's true for everyone, but that is your own bubble or tunnel vision. Say, you are working at the EP (European Parlement). You use Mozilla Thunderbird for your e-mail. Some of the e-mail you receive is internal from your party. The SMTP and IMAP server is hosted in your European country. Then, one day you switch from Mozilla Thunderbird to Nylas N1. Suddenly, your e-mail is not hosted in the EU anymore, and the US government can use a NSL to read your private data. You may not give a rat about this (and if you're from US I can fully understand), that's your discretion. Others do, and their viewpoint is not 'absurd'.

> Which supported service is not already running in the USA and subject to NSLs?

Any SMTP and IMAP server not hosted in the USA. You know, you don't have to use Gmail.

(Nylas Mail doesn't suffer from this problem. Only a few features still require Nylas servers.)
It's a reference to the nonsense 'controversies' created by Donald Trump.
What could be worse than unjustified authority and private capital? Only their combination.
Thanks for explaining! I appreciate the differentiation you've made between the world view and the approach, as I'd forgotten about that. I agree that many spiritual paths do follow a very precise approach. And in fact, I'd reverse this:

> Consciousness (Spirit) is an emergent property of matter

to this:

> Matter is an emergent property of Consciousness/Spirit

from a spiritual point of view :)
There are only a handful of actual commits on the repo: two from 1995, and the rest from 4 days ago. It would seem that someone had a tarball of the source and specifically choose to backdate the commit, for whatever reason.
This is why we can't develop nice things.
The latest installment is something else entirely with the Thief name slapped on it. It's not even the same studio.
And democracies have attempted to abridge power via separation, rule of law and representation principles.

As we see, many republics face problems with all of the above. Including US. Technicalities such as non-majority presidents and strict bipartisan systems...

In certain countries like UK, where apparently ruling party was against the strict referendum results.

In Poland, where the ruling party is changing the judicial branch to their benefit.

Those are not third world banana republics.
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> Unfortunately, here's what I actually measured with my trusty Kill-a-Watt for each server build as I performed my standard stability testing, with completely identical parts except for the CPU:

The two CPUs were in identical test rigs. There is a 80W difference changing only the CPU. While you can expect some of this is lost in the PSU, simple fact is more power is ending up inside the computer and it has nowhere to go but out as heat. The most reasonable explanation given otherwise identical builds would be to expect this difference to be due to the changed component.

So if we assume that Intel's 4-core is actually 140W TDP, then there's no way this 6-core can also be 140W.

Yes, this isn't an exact, scientific test, but it's certainly reliable enough to say "this 6-core processor is emitting more heat than the 4-core, although they are rated identically" which it seems to me was the only point he was trying to make given the context which was "two more cores, slightly lower clock speed, that might be an okay tradeoff - OH WAIT, MORE HEAT".
Why not 64GB? Why not 128GB of server class ram and 16TB SSD drives? Why not let us configure whatever insane arrangement we want at this point and make it whatever ungodly price Apple wants? You know we would pay for it...
So then the question is are our elected officials corrupt or incompetent?
This is one of the big problems. It's an arms race, with the costs being passed directly on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.
I think he meant Gmail
I don't want to write a thesis here, but hopefully a bullet-pointed list will suffice:

* The EU is not only undemocratic in the sense that the powerful European Commission is unelected, but is in fact antidemocratic in the sense that one generally has to have lost a democratic election in one's own country to be appointed to it.

* The EU places an enormous regulatory drain on its member states, issuing a stifling number of pro-corporate, anti-free-market regulations every year

* Policies such as the Common Agricultural Policy, the Clinical Trials Directive, and the Port Services directive are extremely illiberal policies, introduced to satisfy special interests.

* The EU is in the process of exporting draconian, crushing German-style data protection law to the rest of the continent.

* The European Court of Justice is not only activist, but also highly incompetent, lacking the institutional jurisprudential experience of proper supreme courts, such as those found in the UK.

* The Common Market is not a free trade agreement, it is a customs union. Combined with the EU's inability to negotiate free trade agreements (held up by Italian tomato growers, French vintners, and just about every other special interest wanting protection), this means that export-focussed economies such as Germany's are hampered from engaging with faster-growing economies - and just about every other continent's economy is growing faster than Europe's.

As I said, I don't want to write a thesis here, but these are just a few of the many reasons why I believe that Germany - and almost every other country in Europe - would be better off making its own laws by a democratic process, trading and cooperating freely with its friends and allies, rather than being part of an antidemocratic, supranational bureaucracy.
Thunderbird, gui.
Nylas Mail Basic and Nylas Pro are all built on an open source, highly extensible, modern platform. This lets us deliver a very familiar clean experience out of the box while supporting the ability to add an enormous number of very powerful features very quickly.

Everyone uses email slightly differently. The plugins allow us to build Salesforce integration, tracking, templates, and mail merge for sales people, while offering an entirely different targeted set for other users.

We intentionally "don't move the cheese to far" from existing clients to ease transition. There are a lot of grand ideas for radically different email experiences that fall flat due to their deviation from the core experiences most people expect and need. We instead believe that a handful of targeted features to a targeted group gradually develop into a very different way to interact with email for a very specific use case.

(I'm an engineer at Nylas)
I've noticed it, too. It looks like the public has gone mad. (Or perhaps like they're trying to gaslight us.)

But if the Chinese are doing this, and the Russians, and maybe the DNC and the RNC... that would explain why the public conversation has become so weird.
Including light bulbs?
I've tried it, I wanted to love it, but man was the self-hosted sync engine a pain in the ass. Seemed like this was a totally second-class offering from Nylas, there were several known bugs where the client had problems syncing with self-hosted engines and the response was seemingly "we know this is a problem with self-hosted sync engines, we'll try to fix it eventually". A fair enough response to me as a nonpaying user who didn't want their cloud offering, but certainly enough to get me to stop using their open source offerings as my email client.
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I simply mean that it makes no difference to you whether you buy your gas at Shell or Chevron because it costs the same and you get the same product. But it makes a difference to Shell if you buy your gas at Shell.

Since it is inconsequential to you, you don't care or notice the impact.
Builds that involve non-version-controlled files that exist only on a certain developer's machine, and because that developer is a control freak (or overworked), he refuses to automate or put those files in version control...
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I am dealing with a set of legacy apps that will eventually be phased out. There are 'generations' of code, trying to solve architectural problems that are never taken to completion. Making large moves like that is a form of technical debt; not taking every step through to completion (like, documenting the code ...) is another form of debt.

The original architect was, despite his outward appearance towards emphasizing correctness, was really not a great developer or a good technical lead. He insisted on writing "perfect" code, ignoring the rest of the development cycle or the people he worked with. Regardless, he left for reasons I am not really aware of last year. I knew he hated me, since I didn't share his obsession.

Fast forward to today ... the applications work. There is no more feature plans for it. But, it is frustrating to go back into it because the code is utter garbage. I am the only one who has any deep understanding of it in my company. Those who tried to understand it also struggled over it.

We are taking technical debt in the new application we are working on, but, we have been planning for it to happen. I have the chance with the devs I am working with to get this "right".

Throughout my career, the sense that I got was that people did not understand something critical: Owning code is a full-time job even after it is written. I never worked with technical leads that asserted that. They always made passing nods to the idea that we should comment more code or write more tests, as if it is just some tired dogma to follow, but no one has made a case to me for being clear on knowing what you are accomplishing, how one accomplishes it, planning to own the explanation of what the code does and what trade-offs were made and a plan to pay back the debt that was taken out. As tech lead now, I am continually communicating this; the progress is starting to show. I am just glad now my company is recognizing these needs too and is understanding the investment that comes with maintaining their major product.
The WD Red drives are expressly for NAS usage. Also, I'm aware of the slow redistribution of data. Generally there's only 0-2 connections on the NAS I have now, I just want more room. It's mostly BD/DVD rips, so if it dies, I can recover, it just takes a while. Reduced performance for a few days or a week isn't a huge deal for me.
Ask HN: Bandit Algorithm and Postgresql
I have been thinking about using bandit algorithms to optimize headlines, sub-headlines, and colors on a set of pages.

I have wanted to track the score for each aspect in a Postgresql database, but I am still trying to work out a set of tables to represent this.

Has anyone done something like this and what type of table structure has you used?
sooo, anybody know where I can get my hands on this?
There is a great quote from Tom Watson Jr (IBM CEO):

> A young executive had made some bad decisions that cost the company several million dollars. He was summoned to Watson’s office, fully expecting to be dismissed. As he entered the office, the young executive said, “I suppose after that set of mistakes you will want to fire me.” Watson was said to have replied,

> “Not at all, young man, we have just spent a couple of million dollars educating you.” [1]

All depends on how leadership views employee growth

[1] http://the-happy-manager.com/articles/characteristic-of-lead...
Whenever there's a bug in code I reviewed, there are at least two people responsible: The person who wrote the code and me, the person who reviewed it.

I've found that that helps morale, as there's a sense of shared responsibility, but there's no blaming people for problems where I work, so I haven't actually seen what happens when people are searching for the culprit.

The usual process is "this happened because of this, this and this all went wrong to cause us to not notice the problem, and we've added this to make it less likely that it will happen again". If you have smart, experienced people and you get problems, it's because of your processes, not the people, so the former is what you should fix.
Just wondering but are you aware that you can change the color scheme of the development tools? Changing the scheme also updates the colors of the console. There's at least 3 themes available as options, not sure if this helps, hoping it does.
Sounds like the life story of Yahoo.
This longing is even worse when one started out one's career working in hardware.
Many people do not realize that one can get professional help that does have academic rigor and will be somewhat paid for (depending on insurance coverage).

If you can get over the still present social taboo of going to a therapist I highly recommend it both for relationships and personal growth (there is not just CBT but some newer forms that I have forgotten the names of). If you don't like a therapist you can easily switch and most are happy to refer and connect you with others (if they don't they are not a professional).

If you are willing to be slightly experimental (and if you are buying a book I would imagine you are) there are also Universities and other Institutions that are always looking for participants in studies.

Another extremely pro to a professional therapist is that they keep longitudinal records. Many people have a hard time tracking their progress and if they do it still might not be accurate compared to a third party observer.
I'm dealing with one internal project where this happens because there's an artificial IT/build distinction between "emergency" code push and "casual" raw database change.

This means lots of business-rule crap gets softcoded into the database or ini files (increasing complexity and bug-risk) just to support a hypothetical future where somebody needs it changed without a full sprint cycle.
I may give that a try again, however 'jj' was more natural for me.
Process shrinks are increasingly expensive, so cost wise, I wouldn't expect it for another 10+ years.. also, if you need storage today?