skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are a lot of factors that come into play when you're discussing things like this that the scope of this article doesn't cover. I've never enjoyed the idea of sorting people into little boxes because it takes away from the idea of individual experiences.

For instance with the first example W-S in the article someone could very well be a W + S but you'd never know it because at their last job or through life experiences they've been beaten down constantly for their ideas even if they were great simply because of who they are or other such factors. That lead them to the self-confidence issues described in the W-S category in the article. I find people who do excellent work are rarely stupid and with guidance can even grow and excel to become great. Maybe not enough to become leaders but not everybody should be.

I get that the point is to raise awareness on the 2nd group described so the behavior is eventually adjusted or pointed out in other settings and I'm thankful for that because I've experienced it at work myself. Many people have probably experienced the same on group projects in school or otherwise. The ones who don't pull their weight but always seem to have an idea. The people here that think the article is BS might just not agree with the tone adopted for the subject at hand which is understandable as it comes off a bit condescending while getting its point across.
Would you believe that simply loading a program into RAM with the intent to fix is copyright infringement?
I wanted to switch to Fi many times, but I have an iPhone and when you use Fi on iPhone, only t-mobile network is accessible and they don't have an app for iOS like they do for android.
Yes.

If you want to make sure your functions work, write unit tests.

If you want to make sure your application works, write integration tests.
Cloudflare is doing this AMP crap too. If a cloudflare user enables AMP on his site then links from their domain to yours will trigger a visit of Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Cloudflare-AMP/1.0; +https://amp.cloudflare.com/bot) AppleWebKit/534.34" which then mirrors the content from your domain and re-hosts it on Cloudflare servers.

Then whenever someone goes to the Cloudflare user's website and clicks a link to your website they'll instead be fed a version of the page from Cloudflare and you'll never see that traffic.

And since you (or me, in this case) don't have a Cloudflare account you can't get any response from Cloudflare support to get them to stop re-hosting and serving your content from their servers.
Should I even get into databases or programming?
I'm an older sysadmin thinking of getting into programming and then I read stuff like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/4moy2n/when_automation_takes_over_our_economy_what_job/d3xw9pz/

I've been in IT since I was 30 and I'm almost 50. I would like to become either a DBA or a programmer. Leaning DBA at this point. What are good approaches, HN gurus?
Could you point me in the direction of where Taleb has written on this topic?
It was a high deductible plan, $7500 as I recall. We had enough savings that the tradeoff made sense.

For some conditions, the high deductible was waived. I don't remember now what they were.
Same. I'm on Firefox as well and it seems to occur once a month or so.
even when the company realized its agents were helping scammers avoid detection

I'm inclined to say on the record here that actively assisting and rendering aid to someone seeking avoid fraud detection kind of answers that question right off the bat
There's also Snorkel, mostly written by Okay Zed (one of the authors listed on that Scuba paper) http://snorkel.logv.org/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201...
What if you need more than the government is willing to spend on you in the "public school" scenario?

I had a longer, more detailed response, but I realized that what you asked isn't really a fair question. In the end, the answer is "you die", and by elaborating on that it made it sound like I agreed that this isn't an issue in socialized medical care.
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getenode is only called in a few places, and each call looks like:

(getenode znode)

i.e. getenode is only called on znodes. The definition of makeznode is:

(defun makeznode (node)
(prog (l znode)
(setq l (list (list '(1 . 1) node)))
(xzfield node (list l node nil))
(setq znode (tellz l node))
(or (null znode) (eq znode node) (break makeznode))
(return l)))

So it seems like getenode is called on a regular list whose structure looks like

(list (list '(1 . 1) node))

Assuming "node" is an enode, the way to access it would be (cadar znode), not (cdar znode). Try changing the definition of getenode to

(defun getenode (l) (cadar l))

and see if it runs.
It is possible to get prices and negotiate - healthcare providers just aren't used to it. I was just listening to a good friend who doesn't carry insurance negotiate on price for an elective procedure he was thinking about having. They came down 20% right off the bat. After a callback, he had them down 50%. That was just for the physician. He had to make another call to the hospital, and the anesthesiologist, so I can't tell you the outcome. Point being, it isn't as hard as you might think.
I think the |support| link does exactly the same thing.
Pumped-storage exploits pre-existing landscape features. Battery storage is essentially building storage from scratch in places where no favorable geological features exist.

How much would digging a mineshaft, a bedrock cavern and a lake or additional caverns just to pump water up and down cost?
Yet, in the pre-Medicare days, this is exactly what families were faced with when someone got seriously sick: they had to pool their money to pay for treatment.

Today, people resent even paying the co-pay, and the notion of coming up with a few thousand dollars that might be a small fraction of the bills would be considered outrageous and unfair.
Neither is most of the Bay Area.
It is strange that even on HN the only solution to housing crisis is "find a way to build more". That's not the 90's anymore, a lot jobs can be done remotely now, a lot of jobs are if you consider how many times you work with people that are in other offices.

You have small cities dying all over the country side because it becomes difficult to justify paying for general amenities like hospital, schools, ... and cities where you quickly hit the limit of high density too. You can replace a suburban sprawl by high density block of flat, but you need to upgrade the infrastructure to support it massively and the cost does not scale linearly past a point.

Seems to me there is a sweet spot there in the middle where the cost of public infrastructure is effective, a variety of living style at various price points, and there is still enough people for modern service to be cost effective. A bit like Europe if you get rid of the top 3-4 largest cities in each country.

If there is something that is prime for disruption, here you have it: this is a problem everywhere in the world, this is a problem that is solved the old non technological way, but with an already proven way to solve the problem using technology. The only bit that is missing is the proper incentive and a well balanced set of already existing technologies thrown in to make up for the major incentive of moving in a large city: the jobs are all packed in there too.
Revel in These Wondrous Drawings by the Father of Neuroscience
Fukushima residents exposed to far less radiation than thought
Obviously, this is not "all transaction data"....
I don't see how this kind of state legislation solves any issue.

In the example given...Apple has never authorized a company to repair iPhones, but there are literally hundreds of companies out there who do it anyway...they just can't advertise that they're certified by Apple. The big problem seems to be the Department of Homeland Security raiding small local businesses and harassing them over "counterfeit parts". First of all, in most cases you're just dealing with typical small circuit boards and pieces of aluminum or glass or plastic. Second of all...why is this a matter for the DHS? Aren't they people who should be looking for bombs and things and dealing with actual important stuff?

Now, this law might make some supply of official parts available, so that's kind of positive, but there's an issue with that. Does that mean that every repair company can now only buy parts from Apple or risk a raid? This limits potential suppliers of commodity parts from many to just 1 and could jack up prices. The end result is that the consumer gets a piece of "Official Apple Glass" or "Official Apple Circuitboard" and pays much more for the privilege. As a consumer, I don't see a significant benefit to that.
Cracking Android Pattern Lock in Five Attempts [pdf]
80 MWh is massive for a battery. MW are a measure of power, not energy. You mean MW-h. It's incorrect to say something has a MW capacity when discussing energy storage.
Being someone who worked for Sun at the time, I'd rather say it was Scott McNealy's dream.
>Modulo things like natural monopolies, unaccounted-for externalities, etc, isn't the opposite usually true?

The purpose of "net neutrality" is precisely to combat the problem of natural monopolies in the ISP market and the inevitable abuses that result. Perhaps a better solution which has seen some success in other countries at promoting competition is local loop unbundling, but this guy has shown no sign of preferring that.
I went to a CocoaConf in Austin two years ago. I snapped a lot of desire path photos, because my daily walk from my hotel to the conference was mostly devoid of pedestrian facilities, including even sidewalks.

http://m.imgur.com/a/NhaYH

Clearly, people are walking there, but the city doesn't seem to give a shit.
Well it does, but when most of your org wants / needs to work in person, you need to pay that. The cost of an office is probably less than the value added by the employees who would leave if you went remote-only, at least in many firms.
Very true, but I do see a difference between breaking laws that simply are out of date, and breaking laws which endanger public safety. I'd like to think that judges have some give and take with these things.
another example: "Hawaiians call Mark Zuckerberg 'the face of neocolonialism' over land lawsuits" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/23/mark-zuck...

Bode well to get on with the local tribe with goodwill instead of using the blunt violence of the (questionable) law.
If someone from Google is reading this: there's a need for a business version, that has paid features: multiple lines with a single number ( "press 1 to talk to billing, press 2 to talk to support"), multiple numbers tied to one account, etc.
Here is one article I found, the basic claim is that the Touch ID sensor is (cryptographically?) paired to the secure enclave and replacing it requires Apple magic sauce to revslidste the sensor/enclave pairing.

https://9to5mac.com/2016/02/05/error-53-iphone-6/
I don't think it's hyperbole. If the reason Uber gets regulated is because it makes the rich feel uncomfortable sitting near poor people, rather than because drivers themselves demand change and back their demands up with industrial action or public outcry, then the created regulations will align with the needs of the rich and not the poor. In particular, you might see artificially strict selection criteria for drivers, preventing the poorest from even having the option of driving for Uber and raising the price of the service such that only the rich can afford it, or you might see the return of the awful medallion systems.

Notably, the profiled drivers themselves weren't demanding changes: that was being done by a paid lobbyist from a group that doesn't seem to be affiliated with them.

Equally notably, while Uber may be a little exploitative, it's nothing compared to 25 hours a week rostered at random times throughout the week for a hair short of the absolute minimum wage. Taking down Uber while leaving far worse alternatives intact removes an escape hatch for the most exploited workers of all.
Can you expand on what makes the Presto project different than the aforementioned enterprise approach? (Not a Java developer, so I don't have context)
I've tried iPad Pro; but went back to using frixion (erasable) pens: http://frixion.jp/lineup/

my favourite being the 4-color (w/ variety of colors to choose from) with very fine line 0.5 mm: http://www.pilot.co.jp/products/pen/ballpen/gel_ink/frixionb...

p.s. could be combined with even finer line 0.38 mm from this pen costing ~ $1.5 : http://www.pilot.co.jp/products/pen/ballpen/gel_ink/frixionb...

For more official occasions these ones are nice:
http://www.pilot.co.jp/products/pen/ballpen/multi_color/frix...
http://www.pilot.co.jp/products/pen/ballpen/gel_ink/frixionb...
Cisco does all this for the small price of one billion usd
Does anyone know what is the cycle limit on these Powerpack station cells?
Full article:
http://sci-hub.cc/10.1038/nm.4274
Once upon a time, before even the first iPad was released, the Microsoft Courier promised this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI
With someone or an entire country? Based on what specifically? to which extent?

300 people in a 173 million people country do fraud, flag them all?
And you can run encrypted filesystems on a cloud provider such that they can have no knowledge of your data. It will also be a little safer and more reliable than running it on your network.
I think you've actually just validated my point: you are conscious of the watch you wear, and so I suspect you notice what others are wearing. You and I notice because, to some extent, we're both interested. Your prospect wearing the Daytona probably noticed what you were wearing too, but we're a very small number of data points: most people wouldn't notice. I doubt most people even know what a Rolex Daytona looks like, for example, and why should they?

Of course, when I go to a meeting I'm aware that perception matters, and in certain contexts there's a good chance I'm going to meet somebody wearing a nice watch who might make judgement about me based on what I'm wearing (human nature sucks sometimes). So I'm not going to turn up for a pitch wearing one of my Seikos (even though I love them) because they're probably too affordable and, frankly, too casual (Orange Monster anyone?). What I need is something classy and relatively refined without being flashy or ostentatious. Eventually, specifically to fulfil that role, I bought a used Omega Seamaster (which has become just about my favourite watch because it's so versatile).

I'd certainly think twice about wearing a Rolex for a pitch because there's always the risk it might make you look expensive, but I wouldn't think twice about wearing the same watch in a social context. Why? Because I love a good timepiece, and since none of my good friends are into watches they never notice what I'm wearing anyway, so I can get away with anything within reason. (Btw, I'm talking about stainless steel models here; if you're talking gold that is a different matter because just by its very nature it's attention grabbing.)
Any versions of this course planned for R Programmers?
well, well. edison and tesla, finally working together again.
Setting Up Your Python Environment on a Mac
FTA, repair.org is the lobby/advocacy group behind this - it's a wonderful thing and I hope Australia looks at something similar soon.
https://business.smarttech.com/en

I've only used these in an academic setting and I don't know how much they cost but I think it's exactly what you're asking for.
Yeah, the advantage of PP is that (1) they are specialized and (2) they have a large patient volume that allows them to negotiate medical products in bulk. That allows them to provide reproductive health care cheaper and more efficiently with just as good if not better patient outcomes than any other service.
Okay, sure not off direct licensing of the OS. But total revenues are $31 billion. That's a significant number on their balance sheet.

http://www.androidauthority.com/how-does-google-make-money-f...

The Pixel doesn't have an sdcard slot, which is a deal breaker for me. (I don't rent my music, so I have a 200GB micosd card with my collection on it). Even their 128GB model simply won't cut it.
Photo sharing doesn't seem to count towards your storage limits either...
The disclosure is at min(fix_date, report_date + 90 days).
5 Questions Your Trading Plan Must Answer
You're not "forced" to work by other people though, you're forced to work by thermodynamics.

Our cousins the plants can photosynthesise, but we poor sods in Kingdom Animalia have to work for our food one way or another. While my hunter/gatherer and subsistence farmer ancestors had to work all day every day to get enough food to eat, I'm sure they'd be pretty envious of the fact that I could reliably eat for a week on the back of one hour's work in an air-conditioned office.
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Steve Jobs famously believed in cannibalizing their own sales. (Or, to be less charitably, he believed in that when it was convenient to believe that).

Whether the culture has carried over, who knows.

Even as an iPhone user, I never would have thought iMessage was even in the top 5 or 10 reasons to keep using the platform. But I'm old, don't text all that much, and have unlimited SMS anyway.

I imagine all the cool kids these days are using alternative data-based services anyway. Snapchat, the like. For us old folks, WhatsApp, GroupMe, etc.
I didn't mean to attack you specifically, but a lot of times these debates split fine hairs over truisms like "Mexican is not a race", "Islam is not a race", etc., as if bigotry is always well-informed on taxonomy and anthropology. So while pointing out conservative Indian-Americans such as Haley, Pai, Jindal, Ponnuru, were born in the U.S. is true, it's incidental to the main issues of how non-white populations are perceived/treated in this country.
Scientists Capture a “Sonic Boom” of Light
> (and yes there is a difference between ADHD and ADD).

Not anymore. Under the new classifications, there is only ADHD. However, ADHD can come in three forms - "Predominantly Inattentive", "Predominantly Hyperactive", or "Combined".[0] So, confusingly, a person can have ADHD without any symptoms of hyperactivity, in which case they are diagnosed with "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Primarily Inattentive".

The differential diagnosis between the three types is time-consuming and oftentimes not worth the trouble or expense except in more severe cases, so it's common for doctors either to subjectively apply the one they feel fits the individual without comprehensive testing, or to default to "Combined".

[0] It's actually slightly more complicated than that, depending on whether you use ICD-9, ICD-10 or the DSM V, but ICD-10 and the DSM V both agree that ADHD is the canonical term, and ADD is "deprecated" (to appropriate the software terminology).
> There are smarter ways of adding security

So you assume. Have you ever investigated credit card fraud? Perhaps there are edge cases that are more difficult than you imagine.

> Imagine if any other service provider (webmail?) disabled your account frequently to "avoid fraud".

Webmail is absolutely lousy with fraud. Webmail companies explicitly disclaim all liability... so... you kinda bolstered my point there. That is, you helped add the significant texture that companies that disclaim all fraud liability can be pretty lousy at preventing fraud.

To reiterate: The entity that accepts liability should be the entity that draws the line on what risks are acceptable.

Credit card companies are pretty unique in the types and magnitude of risk that they accept and manage. They already do quite a high wire act balancing fraud prevention against user convenience. And despite some things that seem inconvenient on the surface, they are typically still the most convenient way available, by a wide margin, to conduct most payment transactions.
Asus Takes on Raspberry Pi with 4K-capable Tinker Board
I want them to upgrade their technology past the 1990s so I don't have to share a semi permanent unique number with every person I want to pay, along with name, signature, expiration date, card type, CVV, zip code, address, and/or phone number.

THAT would cut fraud.
This place is 100% ideology. Pretty stinky sctb.
Windows is fine for Python development. It's just an executable, and you can even use cmd.exe. Some will tell you for some good reasons, and others just cause they love to hate, to use cygwin or something. You can check out Windows 10 bash as well.

If you find Windows some sort of hindrance, you can just use a Ubuntu VM, or reformat entirely to Ubuntu. I only use Ubuntu for over 2yrs now, and barely miss Windows, not much wrong with it though, esp. Windows10 w/ bash now.
Here's the relevant draft from SITG: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/employee.pdf

He also has the same idea peppered throughout Antifragile.
I am a Google Fi user, the Pixel is by far the best phone I have ever owned, and I have zero complaints so far. To contact customer service, if I ever need to, it takes less than 10 seconds. I almost always have service, if I don't have tower service I swap to WiFi and have the same and full capabilities. I dont have any issues as it stands, though I have been using Google products since 1997 and might be a bit of a fanboy... =P
Not a rip-off, but a consequence of lower regulations in the U.S.

Through higher domestic prices you are subsidizing the lower prices in most other countries for American-developed drugs.

You are also subsidizing the R&D. A single drug can cost billions (with a "B") of dollars to develop, test, and manufacture. It takes years of experimentation and careful trials, and even after the chemical is approved by the FDA, there are hundreds of millions of dollars in liability insurance baked into the price against the almost inevitable class action suit should there be an unforeseen side effect.

For example, Roche has developed an MS drug, ocrelizumab, which attacks B cells exclusively and appears to slow the progression of the disease. It's in stage 3 tests and has cost well over $1 billion so far. There is a large market for this treatment, should it ever make it out of the lab. The problem is, a side effect may cause the FDA to deny approval, and there is no particular compensation. Maybe they can use the knowledge to develop a better drug, or maybe it will help some other research organization. Either way, it's a very expensive and risky gambit.

The way they recoup their costs is by charging a lot up front. Since Canada and other countries cap the prices they can charge, they can only do so in the domestic market.

I'm not saying I approve of this approach. Frankly if I had MS I'd not want to wait 5 years for the FDA to declare it perfectly safe. I used to volunteer in an MS clinic and I can tell you, people were often willing to take the risk. Tysabri was another one that was amazingly successful against MS, but it also activated a rare and fatal virus in the brain in a very small number of patients, so it was pulled off the market. I've read that it's being allowed in limited cases.
That's really strange. 760KB for me, but it was a good 3 - 4 seconds before everything had rendered. The article content was there much more quickly, but the recommendations and responses sections below took longer to appear.

Crazy because when you look at Medium it does appear to be very clean so this experience has certainly been somewhat disillusioning.
Unfortunately, a lot of doctors believe that to become a doctor, you need to practice on real patients. I believe there is artificial reduction in the number of doctors minted each year, but I also realize there are practical limits on that number as well(ie cadavers). Fortunately, we are working on the problem with use of technology.