skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes.. another 1K. I blame doctors and insurance companies (but mostly the latter.. the former was taken for a ride long ago by the latter). An example of just how ridiculous this is: my son (who is almost 15), was recommended to have a 'pediatric echocardiogram'. The children's hospital that I took him to (a Tier 2 facility in insurance parlance.. which roughly means that my insurance company doesn't own them) indicated that this procedure MIGHT cost up to $5000. So, I asked my insurance company (which I pay 1000 per month to for my three kids and I, in a addition to a 3500 per year deductible), what Tier 1 facility in NJ I could go to, and how much the procedure would cost.

They did not know of a facility where this procedure could be done at first. They had to 'research it'. They found a facility, but when I called, they could not perform the procedure because it called for a 'pediatric echo', which they were NOT allowed to do (mind you, it's like the same echocardiogram that you and I would receive). When I presented this information to my insurance company, they had to again, research it. I ignored it, and found it on my own after calling the heart group at one of the teaching hospitals in my state (NJ). So, I asked my insurance company how much it would cost, they refused to tell me. They indicated that they do not dictate pricing; this is the job of the provider. I noted to them that I did not believe them because I knew that they have contracted rates with all of their Tier1 and Tier 2 facilities and they knew exactly what they would reimburse for. They flatly denied that they had any knowledge of pricing and that this was the responsibility of the provider. My response was a question: so, if the provider charged you 1 MILLION DOLLARS for this procedure, you would, in fact, pay it. They indicated that they did not have any pricing knowledge whatsoever. I ended up getting a second opinion and found out the echo wasn't necessary based on follow up findings. It was one of the most frustrating examples of federally mandated RIPOFF I had ever seen. My son's health was at stake, and they simply wouldn't help me. The doctor's are literally at their mercy because they control the money and EVERYONE lets it fucking slide. It's a crime.
And this is why Bitcoin is doomed to fail as a genuine currency. Imagine if your bank said they had lost your money and tough luck on you. Or you bank emails you to say they have been hacked and all your money is gone. Or the bank just disappears offline and your money is gone. Or you forget a password and so your bank says sorry, but that means all your money is gone forever.

Great system.
No, you really didn't.
I agree completely unfortunately.

It seems like they saw the original trendy tweet where he mentioned it and didn't verify anything.

https://twitter.com/Sebyddd/status/821005789930389504
I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say, but perhaps I can help provide context:

In 2013, I performed an unpaid analysis, in my nights and weekends, of MongoDB. I found a bug leading to the loss of acknowledged writes with majority write concern. Mongo fixed this bug within a few weeks.

In 2015, I performed a followup test as a part of my work at Stripe. I confirmed dirty reads (which were already documented, though perhaps not well-appreciated), and discovered stale reads (which ran counter to MongoDB's documentation). MongoDB wasn't enthusiastic about that report initially, but got things sorted out and started work on adding majority and linearizable read concerns. I found that writes appeared linearizable.

In spring and summer of 2016, MongoDB paid me to help expand the Jepsen tests and hook them up to their internal CI system, so they could use the Jepsen tests to help verify their ongoing work towards linearizable reads. I privately confirmed that MongoDB still failed to prevent stale reads, but the dirty-read failures I'd seen in 2015 appeared to be prevented by majority reads.

In fall 2016, MongoDB announced they were almost ready to release 3.4.0 with support for linearizable reads, and paid me to perform a full analysis so they could be more confident in the results. It passed the linearizability tests I had initially written in 2015, but I offered to expand the tests to be more aggressive. Our collaboration resulted in the present analysis, uncovering design flaws in v0 and implementation bugs in v1. MongoDB worked to develop patches prior to 3.4.0's release, and that's why it passes now. :)
Yeah but how will you know? Sure you could sue someone who publishes a tape of your conversation, but if they simply use the information against you without exposing the fact of its existence you're fucked anyway.
However, given that you want to make a trade, it's not arguable whether you want more market participants or fewer.
Not only that, but Apple seems to have decided to stop supporting open graphics standards altogether, including OpenGL [1]. Apple used to be quite vocal and influential as part of the ARB, not sure what caused the shift of the last few years.

[1] https://www.g-truc.net/doc/OpenGL%20Drivers%20Status.pdf
The biggest red flag is that this guy is supposedly still freelancing.

If he had a strategy this good, he would've quit freelancing and be a multimillionaire by now.

The only reason I'm not 100% convinced this is fraud is that it's on the Indian market. I don't know the level of sophistication there, so it might still be possible for an independent trader to exploit winning strategies.
I've always wondered how Dwarf Fortress stores its three-dimensional world... anybody have any information on that? considering the size of the worlds involved, I'd imagine some interesting methods are in play to keep the worlds at a suitable size.

Dwarf Fortress is kind of this interesting standard of complexity over interface design. prioritizing depth over a pretty UI seems to really do wonders in development..
Could a Yubikey have prevented it?
Because no graffiti/vandalism has ever been social commentary, or employed by 'positive' movements.
Correct, because the first picture is not explicitly asking upvotes either, but asking for comments. And I include pictures (or at least emojis) in as many tweets as I can.
Aww, diddums.

Get a job.
Residency slots are the limiting factor, not medical school slots. There's no point increasing medical school slots if you're going to create a bunch of people shut out on Match Day with $200K+ in debt. It should be noted that licensing requirements of doctors mean that medical school graduates are also competing against foreign

Blaming the AMA is a dated view. I believe that used to be the case, but certainly isn't any longer. They are in favor of legislation that would increase the number of residency slots.[1]

edit: Forgot to add that US medical school grads aren't only competing against each other for residency slots. Foreign doctors that want to practice in the US also have to do a residency here due to licensing requirements.

[1]: https://www.ama-assn.org/content/ama-applauds-members-congre...
> As someone who spends a lot of time in that space I don't really see what this is solving, WebGL is good enough and anyone serious about performance/compute are going to drop down to native anyway.

Not true at all; if your primary performance bottleneck is the GPU code, not CPU code, you could use a better web API modeled after Vulkan, for the same reason people switch from GL to Vulkan.

In general, if there's ever something where people feel they "have to" use native instead of web, that needs fixing in the web platform.
The forum they used as a source of data was a media outlet during a presidential election. What, precisely, is the community that they are imagining the comments section consists of? It is by definition contentious. Furthermore, antisocial behavior cannot possibly be defined as something you do as a group. It's in the name! Political vitriol is a team sport.

Trollish behavior is also mutually exclusive with anger, for the simple reason that we already have a pretty good understanding for the cause of peoples behavior when they are angry. Anger. The fact that discussions degenerate when people are angry is, presumably, WHY the study looks to explain trollish behavior.

My understanding of the methodology, when you leave out the CNN data, was as follows (Please correct me if I'm wrong, because my opinion is scathing).

First they garnered a set of participants with no overarching demographic, presumably to ensure that the results were as broadly applicable as possible, but I think failing to remember that online communities tend to be much more homogenous.

They then found a political article on reddit and seeded a new comment section for some with some reddit comments on the original article. They made 32 copies of this comment section, randomized the order of the comments and assigned 20 people to each.

Before they were allowed to comment, they were given a quiz designed to manipulate their mood by asking hard or easy questions, and then lying about how well they did relative to the median. They then justified the use of this particular piece of psychological warfare as having an effect which correlated with positive and negative moods, which are then interpreted as the causal element in the behavior that follows.

Immediately before commenting, the users are instructed that they are "testing a new voting system", which is just, excuse my language, the shittiest instruction I have ever seen participants given in a study.

Then they measured something other than the stated definition of trolling, and declared their results to be significant.

I won't comment on the stated definition of trolling except to say that a strong case can be made that these stanford/cornell researchers participated in behavior which was both dishonest and disruptive, with the effect of pissing at least me off. Does that not qualify?
You're making the mistake of being specific. Think heuristic.
You were having too much fun being pedantic to answer the question. It is not WebVulkan. It is "like a WebVulkan".
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What do you mean by “Event-Driven”?
> * My employer owns my laptop and the network it's connected to: of course it has every right to inspect its own property.*

Careful there: there's a difference between capability and right. Many legislations forbid employers to put surveillance cameras in the bathroom for instance. There is a level of privacy employees can legally expect.

E-mail is similar: if your employer intercepts your e-mail just because you read it at work, it is likely a breach of correspondence secrecy (in France it would be). This likely applies even if you're at fault for using the company's resources on personal matters.

While "don't trust your employer's network" is elementary operational security everyone should be taught at school, 90% of the population don't know what computers can do, let alone how they work. Because of that, their expectations are social, not technical.
alva, I found your skepticism very biased. Following your requests, we decided it would help if we address your questions in the interview. Therefore the only edits, where just addition around the 95% claim which seemed to be misunderstood.

Your main claim was that the bot cannot achieve 95% trade success trade constantly, which I undoubtedly agreed to and added more details on this claim.

The edit also provided more details about the platforms that I used along the way, as this detail was overlooked in the initial version of the interview.

I find your claims unfounded and harassing.
The best interpretation of a troll was actually on "South Park: Season 20, Episode 10" Trevor's Axiom:

https://vimeo.com/194900488
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This reminds me a lot of how wolfs eventually became domesticated into today's dogs. It was covered nicely on an episode of Cosmos. The path they took was not unlike what is described here for cats.
Yes, they clearly are deeply into their usual NIH routine. So it's highly hypocritical for them to complain, how open APIs aren't cross platform enough.
> Also, I expect Vulkan was designed with the expectation of process-level isolation being the end-all of security concerns. That's not sufficient for single-process, multi-tab browsers.

Chrome has process isolation, and Firefox is developing process isolation right now. I don't think it makes sense for a new technology stack to go out of its way to support single-process multi-tab browsers.
The federal law at issue here isn't contingent on the owner delivering a Cease & Desist letter or even taking any affirmative steps whatsoever. No court is going to read that into the law. At best a C&D is evidence of the rescission of authorization, but all the statute cares about is whether authorization existed or not.

Importantly, Oracle didn't actually lock their account. And even more importantly, AFAIU this guy was an employee.

For these and some other technical reasons (I haven't read the case but likely part of it may be related to the jury instructions), the question to be answered by the court really comes down to whether violation of Terms of Service alone suffices to meet the "without authorization" prong of the criminal statute.

If the answer is no then the case goes back to trial. The defendant doesn't get a free pass, it's just that the prosecution will have a slightly higher burden to overcome in showing lack of authorization. Higher in the sense that the burden involves taking into consideration other factors than merely boilerplate policies and notices.

Another way to look at it is, say your boss tells you that you must leave the office at 5PM sharp, and that nobody is allowed to log into corporate accounts after 5PM. This policy is also displayed from /etc/motd everytime you login. You occasionally stay at work late some evenings, accessing the corporate accounts in a typical fashion. One day you're accused of doing something nefarious--maybe you were, maybe you weren't. Is your working after 5PM a prima facie showing that your access was unauthorized? That is, do all they have to show is that corporate policy was not to login at 5PM? Is it rebuttal? Does it matter whether your boss communicated this to you personally?

The way these legal tests work, at least in common law countries, is that you break the law down into predicates. For the law to apply, you must show that each predicate holds. Each predicate is it's own little universe. You don't take other predicates into account; there's often a separate predicate for intent and other overarching context. The predicate here is "without authorization". What does that mean? It's a tricker question than you'd think. And it can't merely mean whatever your boss intended--it has to be an objective standard that doesn't lead to absurd outcomes in the real world. Especially in criminal law, a crime can't turn on someone's subjective intent, except for the intent of the accused. Similarly, specifically in regards "without authorization" not even the accused's intent matters.
First I applaud the met for this. Well done!

Sigh, now if only the museums would each stop reinventing the wheel regarding online virtual museum software, internal asset management, etc and work on an open source version of said apps. It's so tiresome that there isn't a decent OS app out there to handle curation, inter museum loans, virtual display of scanned assets to the public etc. everyone goes off and writes the same apps over and over and over again and never shares it. They need to get together and write one OS suite to be shared to all museums.
Chrome Dev 58 seemingly removes option to disable New Tab page recommendations
Stop playing startup and start building shit
We shall see. My money is on the machines. Or more specifically, mathmatics.
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"Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers"

You mean 600 traders replaced with a High Frequency Trading (HFT) computer.

http://bertdohmen.com/hft-algo-computers-crash-fx-markets/
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This doesn't give enough context while he was critical of certain things and of the then weak right wing parties that were the predecessors of today's Israeli right he was a big supporter of Israel especially as a fundraiser

He was on the board of deputies of Hebrew University and donated his papers to it
Thanks Google, I really want to see my device resources wasted on loading something you want to force me to read.
I didn't say Kyle solved Mongo's problems, but that he helped solve the problems. He identified numerous data loss issues, explained them in great detail, and even has tooling to readily reproduce the data loss events. That's a massive contribution in my mind.

By comparison, it's the difference between a bug report that says "you lost my data, you suck!" and "I've identified [x] ways your product can lose data and here's exactly how to reproduce each one."
As if GS and JPMorgan don't have huge Indian operations with IIT grads.
Does GitLab have any plans to implement a git server that does not rely on POSIX filesystem semantics and gets away from the need for NFS?

It seems like a git server storing objects in an object store would allow the GitLab SaaS to scale out better.
Why does the proxy not belong on the endpoint?
That is a very deceptive way to put it.

https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/

Safari is intentionally crippled in several areas. Its very specific and obvious. It is dishonest for you to at this point pretend Apple is going full force for web standards while they are explicitly not implementing features that are available everywhere else. And how those specific features line up directly as features which allow web apps to compete with its native application market.

Edit: To anyone seeing this down-voted. Apple employees typically down-vote stuff like this so please do not take this being greyed as anything but manufactured opinion.
Agreed. Pharma is managing their expenses and profitability based upon the ability to charge much higher prices in the US. Take that away and suddenly everyone outside the US will have to pay more -or- Pharma will have to rethink their business model. The more this connection is obfuscated the easier it is to confuse decision makers.
The paper is dense and I'm on a train. Can anyone summarize the difference between TensorFlow Fold and Chainer?

Also, self promotion: Gorgonia (https://github.com/chewxy/gorgonia) has support for dynamic computation graphs ala Chainer since day 1... however, batched computation remains difficult to implement.
Even worse, what if, besides just recording your conversation, they go even further and understand and remember what you said? That could potentially be even more harmful!
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Possibly, but no need to assume the placard-bearers are Irish. Father Ted was a joint Irish-British production and was very well-received in the UK when it came out.
>We have comforts and luxuries that were hardly conceivable 60 years ago, and they're well distributed

The avg amount of hours worked has also gone up considerably in that time, as has the level of education and human capital. If you control for both of those we indisputably get paid less per hour, while at the same time education and healthcare have gotten more expensive.

Not to mention that US poverty rate has not declined at all in the last 25 years, a period of exponential technological progression.
Isn't that just a classic example of the broken window fallacy?

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fal...
Another anti-competitive initiative disguised as "Apple-led innovation" - maybe Apple should get on board with Vulkan, everyone else has, instead of complaining about there being no cross-platform solutions.
I wouldn't say that hurting people is always the objective of trolls.

For example, I enjoy trolling as a flat-earther from time to time. Do I really believe the earth is flat? No, but it's fun trying to defend something absurd just for the sake of honing debate skills. Sometimes I can find logical fallacies in round-earther arguments and leverage them, which is immensely satisfying.
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> Besides I don't see why the admin would be hostile to the users being aware that they're being monitored.

Agreed. We could argue all day about companies who think they need to intercept traffic, but why would anyone who believed they had a legitimate reason to do so want to do so silently without any notification?

A persistent infobar near the address bar, for instance, would work nicely. And anyone working in a hostile environment with such monitoring imposed on them (a bank, for instance) would then have a much clearer warning that they shouldn't use their work device for anything they want to keep private.
The group's draft charter[1] proposes that contributing organisations would be required to agree to the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement[2], which includes a patent licensing commitment for all essential claims. So, if a specification came out of this, then it would not be patent encumbered; at least not by any patents held by Apple.

I'm willing to give Apple the benefit of the doubt on this. Like any big tech organisation, I'm sure they have people who want to do the wrong thing, and people who want to do the right thing. Everyone supporting Vulcan would be nice, but a standardised, patent-free, cross-platform, web-enabled, low-level GPU API would still be a major step forward.

[1] https://gpuweb.github.io/admin/cg-charter.html
[2] https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/
Seconded. Health insurance should be completely decoupled from employment. I consider my employer provided insurance to be wildly extravagant and would prefer a much more bare bone version if it was up to me.
Even an economic nightmare like Argentina manages to run on the same idea (I grew up there.) The level of complexity and inane amount of paperwork you have to do in the US to get the simplest care is still baffling to me. I get it that it's the inefficiencies that make this system profitable to some, and that's why you might get the "best doctors in the world", but it could definitely use some modernization.
>Appreciate your point of view. First of all, there seems to be a lot of skepticism around this project and I found that surprising.

Really? You made a crazy claim with no details at all.

Here's my assumptions on this thing:

1. Your algorithmic strategy is only performed on a small selection of stocks, that you have semi-randomly picked, aka not a part of your system.

2. These stocks have had a crazy run.

3. When the NSE had troubles in Nov. and Dec. your conservative stop losses triggered and you stayed out of the market.

4. Your decision on when to re-enter the market was a personal decision, not a part of your system.

5. You have given this thing more money to invest with than we are being led to believe.

Which ones did I miss on?

I gotta be honest, it really does seem like a nice little way to plug you business but I don't believe you're lying. I think you're overstating its performance by leaving out details and were lucky to get that performance in the first place.