skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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what would you have the staff do? presumably the other person also paid for their ticket and is equally entitled to stay in the theater. where would you draw the line with offensive odors, for that matter? would it be reasonable to make the same request if it was B.O.? farts? their perfume?
To be clear, Venera 7 landed on Venus and transmitted data in 1970. We did have robots (probes, landers) that while crude by today's standards, did serve a scientific purpose.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
I don't see any indication on their website or marketing materials that they are accepting the PIN. I would be surprised if they did, because EMVCo have been firm in the past that a dedicated keypad is required.

I would be interested to know whether they're either capping the amount that can be charged, or are taking some of the liability themselves.

Square will also be looking to get as many people on contactless as possible, because with Apple Pay / Android Pay you can exceed the usual capped limit in the UK (I believe it's something like £30 with a regular contactless card before PIN entry is required).
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Your employer shouldn't have anything to do with your health care; the majority of economists across the political spectrum would agree. Single payer is not the only alternative to that. There are people who can't afford enough food, so we give them either food stamps or cash rather than trying to make it free for everyone.
Linux and Emacs will avoid having to ask this question for the foreseeable future.
It's all fun and games until someone feeds it pictures of children.

Now you have an illegal information firehose.
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> Don’t build apps that support commercial use

Doesn't make much sense either.
I think many people working on Basic Income would do well to focus their energy on pushing Single Payer + voucher systems for everything. Basic levels of healthcare, food, etc.

It makes far more sense than single payer, because it cannot be traded away easily by the recipients during bad decisions, so it is a stronger safety net.

But it is also far cheaper and more efficient than basic income, because buyers don't compete so prices don't go up across the board "patio style".
Not all email validators respect the + symbol.
I'm pretty sure most people with an existing condition would prefer not to have it at all than to cost insurance companies more and have that covered.

It's not a free lunch. They paid the admission fee with their health.

Regular wellness checkups are also not a free lunch. They're priced into the policies. You absolutely can insure against regularly consumed services, as long as the premium is enough to cover it and to do the underwriting for the unexpected expenses. Look at dental or vision insurance. The vast majority of what they cover are regular wellness visits.

Putting that aside, free wellness visits are also in the interest of the insurer. It's far cheaper to prevent disease or to treat it early than it is to deal with it later. Those savings from this so-called "free lunch" ends up right back in their pockets.
Hopefully if the previous generation paid it forward.

And as long we are talking about scientists, Feynman said this in his speech:

"The ideas I wish to describe are old ideas. There is practically nothing that I am going to say tonight that could not easily have been said by philosophers of the seventeenth century. Why repeat all this? Because there are new generations born every day. Because there are great ideas developed in the history of man, and these ideas do not last unless they are passed purposely and clearly from generation to generation."
Most places aren't using a regex only unless someone high up is trying to covertly respect user privacy.

If it's a walled garden, which more are becoming because it's the path to VC money, you have no way to know until you're inside.

Most organizations who do this crap also require you click a link in the email to activate the account.
Folks, if you're looking for a project to support that can literally save lives, this is a good one. If you didn't know, millions of people in America alone are insulin dependent diabetics, and insulin is fucking expensive. Even with insurance it can be costly, and people without insurance, or with shitty insurance, can find the cost prohibitive to the point of not getting their insulin, or not getting enough. And that will kill eventually.
Damn right, this is straight up evil technology, with high probability of harming society.
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There are two very different questions here, though.

One is whether we should accurately assess risk and probable healthcare costs. To which: yes, obviously.

But the other is whether our existing system can do that without ruining people's lives for reasons they can't control. To which: no, probably not.

The article points out that for insurers (or employers who underwrite their own insurance), mandates to cover people mean that dropping/firing someone in a high risk pool makes more sense than pricing accordingly. We already have regular problems with people getting dropped as they claim, we should expect to see people dropped because they will claim too.

Sure, risk pooling makes sense. But in practice we have a strikingly inefficient market that will probably respond to this information in a way that ruins a lot of lives unnecessarily.
Did they betatest this feature? I swear I've had it for at least a week or two now, and I've seen some friends post a couple of stories as well. I thought it was much less popular than the stories in Instagram or Messenger, but maybe most of them didn't have the feature yet.
Anyway, Snapchat still seems to be by far the most popular for this functionality, at least in my circle of friends.
You could almost certainly negotiate the rate down with Square. Maybe not for £6200/month, but at a certain volume they'll do you a deal. There's no way Philz Coffee (big coffee chain in the bay), for example, are paying Square their advertised flat rate.
If you implement this on your site, it won't get me to give my real email address; I'll just leave and not give your product a chance.
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This is stupid. We now have stories in 10 different apps. Who thought this was a good idea?
Kudos to the founder for trying something new.

But, I hope this doesn't take off because there are valid reasons for using fake email addresses. E.g. I don't trust the site not to sell my email, or leak it inadvertently through a security exposure.
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That makes sense, thanks. My line of thought was that if someone is using a disposable address they probably aren't going to respond to marketing anyways - they're just checking out your service.
> It requires extreme concentration in a way that I've never experienced in any other sport I've ever played.

I'm not a golfer but you might compare that concentration to what is required for archery, which I'm learning, and high power rifle marksmanship, which I learned when I was young. Golf's stigma doesn't approach that of shooting sports, depending on one's location/social circles.
I'm all on board for vaporizers, oils, edibles, etc. since they smell far less than smoking. Though I do get the appeal of the ease of smoking it.
How did you manage to trash the WSL? I'm not suggesting that it's hard to do or anything, just genuinely curious.
Also makes sense. Thanks!
Also rustc, though it doesn't quite have overloading in the Java sense: https://is.gd/s0oF79
They do clearly show a pin screen on their site though but it might just be the marketing dept
"naturally created thing"

What about genetic modifications to a naturally created thing? I wonder how closely tied to the copyright system the patent system is, seeing as they folded under pressure against the old rule of no patenting organic material, I wonder how far off copyright is from doing similar.
I get the feeling many forget the value in simply inspiring generations of people; think of all those who have increased aspirations as a result of that event - what is the worth / value of that?
This problem is captured in a succinct way in this piece by Mark Manson:

https://markmanson.net/everything-is-fucked
>Technological progress, as long as you don't count all of this massive technological progress (which when left out conveniently makes my point), has been slowed down.

Edit: I should be less combative and provide some actual content. Take a look at semiconductors from the 60s vs now. They are clearly related to 'the digital realm' but are purely physical technology. The fast computers we have now (which enable our digital realm) are at the tip of a screaming bullet train of physical technological progress.
Try outlawing tobacco and see what happens (hint: Prohibition).
Not every card, my credit card did not, for whatever reason.

There may be better security through Apple/Android pay, IIRC they don't expose a real card number, and the phone must be awake (and sometimes unlocked) to process a payment.

Regardless, it's irrelevant - the processing tech for android/apple pay is the same as for other contactless cards, so it comes for free - lots of places supported it without even knowing. That sandwich shop reader already supports phone payments most likely. I like it - saves me fiddling with my wallet.
Well one obfuscation technique is to change the argument types. So for instance, you might have foo(string). But after obfuscation, you move the code of foo(string) into foo(object). So a decompiler ends up showing:

String s = "123";
foo(s);

Java will call foo(string) if this is re-compiled, which is wrong. The decompiler would need to show foo((Object)s).

On the CLR you can go even further and erase a lot of the type info and just pass objects around. That is, you can just change all your method signatures to foo(object, object, object) no matter which classes (not structs) you pass. Or have even more fun and randomize the classes. So now foo(string) becomes foo(DBConnectionInfo).
Related and recent, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13975184
from the dev forum:

> What if the customer choses to encrypt their data?

>> Brian@Amazon · Feb 02 at 06:28 PM 0
>> They can do that, and that is fine.

https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/54909/impact-o...
And the fastest way to shut that down is to legalize the sale of it as quickly as possible... dealers wont take tthe risk on teh street when dispensaries are all around...
I think it's like a prisoner's dilemma -- if FB doesn't try to kill off SC, then SC will kill off FB. But it's like a one-off prisoner's dilemma, because this is two corporations that assume that both won't be around forever, so they don't care about building a nice long-term relationship for themselves.

Honestly, I could see the same thing happening in open source, though you're right, it doesn't seem to very much at all.
How long would it take until snapchat becomes the same?
It's possible, but I think they could've been a lot more clear about that. With what they're saying now, they're leaving things in a pretty grey area, which is not good for developers thinking of building "good" apps that use encryption.

An app like Cryptomator may use Amazon Drive APIs to encrypt data before it arrives in the Amazon Drive. Does that cover Cryptomator? Well, we don't know, because it's so vague.

It could also very well be a purposeful thing, if Amazon wants to data mine all the backed-up data. Plus, it may want to make it easier to give the data to law enforcement (or not get in trouble itself for having that data stored in an encrypted form), and so on.
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Single-payer systems are not without problems either. Unless we're rich enough, as a society, to pay for perfect healthcare for everyone then there will be some people who get less than perfect care.

In an individual-pays system, those with expensive conditions or those who are poorer lose out. In a government-pays system those without political leverage lose out - often still those who are poorer.

The British NHS, for example, has been the target of much ire due to different (and arbitrary-seeming) spending priorities in different parts of the country, often called the "postcode lottery".
I never understood why healthcare was so tied to employers in the first place.

Wage controls during WW2: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1140451...
That's pretty goofy. I don't use all of those, but of the group Facebook and Messenger are the most directly tied so it'd make sense to sync, or more succinctly just make it the same product.

I get the appeal of stories and I may actually use it, but I think their shotgun approach is a bit too unfocused.
I was under the impression that the new healthcare plan would affect a lot of people, especially the chronically ill. I remember a lot of panic in my social circle that my peers might have to rush marriages to get chronically ill partners under the healthcare of their employer, and the great gnashing of teeth about how something wonderful as marriage might turn into a desperate tool that many other people don't have.
I think he added networking lately. Might be easier to persuade gods followers, when they can interact with each other.
Well, it's not a jvm class file but a dalvik Dex file. A disassembler which can't generate compilable code from this valid Bytecode is incomplete or in other words: buggy.
“Your output level is so low, particularly on a phone, your two thumbs just tapping away,” he said. “This is ridiculously slow. Our input is much better because we have a high bandwidth visual interface into the brain. Our eyes take in a lot of data.”

NPR has a non-paywall article: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/28/521763351/...
Given that multiple inspectors examined the machines personally and decided it was OK, I'm skeptical of this assessment.
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I think it's a common expectation that a disassembler should provide output that is valid to be compiled, and that therefore this is an error.
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Perhaps Show HN would be more appropriate than "just launched"?
I never claimed they had 70 billion cash, just that they had large cash reserves. 8.8 is enough for two and half years if they don't earn a cent.
It is not trivial, nor invalidated.

They do exists as beings, yes, but different beings than the ones who possessed (or would have possessed) those limbs.

The question is not one of necessary conditions for "being-hood", it is one of identity via continuity.
YouTube Kids features some pretty disturbing content
I have a secondary email address as a throw-away email, just for the purpose of registration, i.e. my-other-email@gmail.com.
These guys let you add your own domain

https://www.guerrillamail.com/
There are hundreds of big changes like this, and likely many, many more. They must be considered together rather than independently before we can understand the true severity of this crisis.
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Because construction sites are ugly and noisy.
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Most do however, and setting up your own server and making it use underscores or dashes for that purpose is one way around that.

Related tutorial on how to set that up in Postfix: https://www.stevejenkins.com/blog/2011/03/how-to-use-address...
No, it's in the context of Amazon Drive applications:

"With our updated RESTful API and SDKs for Android and iOS, Amazon Drive is moving to an invite-only developer offering to ensure we can provide a consistently viable service available for supported use-cases."

Clearly, they want to be able to spy user data.

You can easily summary this list of restrictions to:

DO NOT WRITE Amazon Drive APPLICATIONS!

(At least if you care for your customer).

Personnaly, I would never write an application that would not encrypt user data, including user credentials. Basically, most services don't even need to know who their users are (unless you implement dumb password recovery scheme that requires you to send an email to the user, you just don't need ever to know anything more than a hash instead of an email in the clear!).
Consider cameras that can shoot 10000 frames a second at ultra high definition resolutions; in the 1970s we had shitty auto developing film as the height of consumer tech.

Battery tech has gotten so advanced you're literally carrying around a firestorm's worth of energy in your pocket and only notice in the rare case that things go spectacularly wrong; compare that to the heavy inefficient NiCds of your parent's age.

Semiconductors are 14nm. That's not for scientists, that's not for researchers, that's for any joe that has 300 bucks. 70 years ago the idea that a pace described by Moore's law could even exist was seen with skepticism (remember it's a marketing "law" not a physical one).

We have rockets that can land themselves, cars that weigh half as much as they did 70 years ago and are twice as safe, a logistic network such that exotic foods are available year round world wide.

It just kills me to watch people post on the Internet using more than likely their mobile super computers, saying tech clearly has slown down because "they've got a feeling".
yeah she ends the post with a </rant> tag.

It is her personal blog so her tone seems fine to me. For the already informed I still enjoyed reading it.
Seconded. I actually included a few of his arguments in a talk I gave for writers on preparing for Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) last year. I didn't belabor his point where he said you need time, though, because, well, during Nanowrimo you don't really have time.
Then it wouldn't be true to the real structure of the program (although it would be true to the real behaviour of the program). Why is that less wrong?
It certainly looks like it is really a unikernel - it boots itself, is tested via qemu instead of chroots / docker (the images are for building IncludeOS), uses newlib and virtio, etc.
I believe (though I'm not certain) that Facebook and Messenger's Stories clones are the same data
Weather is very short term. Hard to predict more than 5 days in advance. There are a lot of factors that effect it, but within 3 or so days, the weather is pretty good.

Climate models are the long term. What climate scientists seem to do, is create the model, then test it against the last period of time where they have good data. (Given what we know about past climate, what would we predict for the last 5? years. since the last 5 years already happened, they can compare the model to reality). Obviously since we only have only one planet and a short time to test on this verification isn't perfect, but they have a lot of computing power and its the best we can do.
Because the nature of the current system has incentives for employers to have a healthy "pool". When you have larger pools with a single payer, that goes away.
With the current system, those people will end up either getting care that isn't paid for and gets picked up by taxpayers, probably not enough to survive. Or, those people will be shunted to high risk pools, which will be largely paid by taxpayers.
I found that the killer application for Javascript would be to write github repos for Javascript wrappers for typescript. Seriously, why is CSS as Javascript objects a thing? Are we so bored with the stack we've been using that we can only make things interesting by cross compiling everything? It makes me think of this video: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Couldn't decipher your email ;) mine is anthony at 175g dot com
I think Facebook are gripping at anything to appear that they're still relevant
Is that within the T&C for using Amaxon cloud services? Do you give up your clients privacy for amazon to be able to read and use information that hits their disks?
check email.
This is the solution. If OP can't manage this, then OP isn't that worried about privacy.
Obviously. iOS is so far removed from what was envisionned in the dynabook, there are so many restrictions on what software can be developped on iOS, that there's no surprise they're not used for more than watching youtube...

(That said, you can watch youtube teaching channels).
Twilio were on the stage during the AWS Re:Invent keynote last year.
Do you know of any good ones with Ian MacKaye? I agree he would be fascinating to read about.
For that specific example that would actually be fine in Java. Everything is an Object, so even if you have foo(Object) you can just pass it a String and that is then fine both for the JVM and the Java compiler.

Since the JVM identifies methods by their name + argument types this would most likely break overloading unless done very carefully. I've decompiled quite a few Java applications and haven't seen anything like this either, but perhaps I've just had the luck to not yet run into it.
It's obviously not impossible to create legit Java code during disassembly. This is like an arms race; go ahead and dissemble my code, but I've made sure that you now need a better disassembler to produce valid code.

Eventually that disassembled will come along, and then more tricks will be used by the obfuscators...
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My point is, consumers already expect to use their card, not a phone/app; and for users who do have the necessary hardware, it's still about as convenient to use their card rather than their phone.
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Why is he ripping on tabs on top? Seems like a bizarre point to make in an otherwise sound argument.
You can control your downstream distribution channels, if that's what it takes. First sale is probably the only real commerce you have to control. But eliminating retailers like Amazon would be a big loss for most producers.
I'll try my hand at some feedback.

Your content is the kind of thing I'd search for using a search engine (and for those where I can judge the quality, it seems completely fine), but I don't see a reason to subscribe to your blog in some way. This kind of content (let's call it "tutorials") is only interesting to me if I currently face an issue, it's not something I read for fun or abstract learning. I subscribe to some blogs that have many tutorials, but their content is about a lot of varied things, and the value I get from these posts is discovery of new software or possibilities, not the tutorial aspect. Your blog is in a way more of a Knowledge Base than a blog to me, if that makes sense?
Isn't this usually coupled with some sort of insurance that covers a major cost overrun? That secondary insurance might get skyrocket if it gets hit repeatedly.
when US feet touched the european soil, german army was already devastated on the east where most of the force was concentrated. you guys did your homework in pacific for sure, but in europe, whole western front just shortened the war and inevitable defeat (plus preserved democracy in the western part).

this comes from person strongly disliking russia, but it's a simple fact that they won the european theatre and paid horrible price in casualties.
As a USMC OIF combat vet, it's interesting to see the scientific benefits holistically, but then to realize that unless your enemy wears a uniform and ammasses against you, you are bound to be able to use almost none of these technologies, which is why me and my fellow Marines ended up doing the dirty old style grunt work which was actually closer to policing than it was to warfighting (most of the time).

The point is, generals tend to; A) fight the last war, and B) over-value scientifice/technology solutions.

That's not to negate their importance even for knuckle-draggers, for example, the ability to call in a helo for supporting fire has saved more infantrymen on the ground than you could imagine. I just think it's important to keep technological advances in perspective, (especially in an age where overdependence could create a massive shift in a battlespace if say large radius EMP's were deployed).