skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacunarity

One of my favorite measures
I've found Apple Pay to be the fastest way to pay for things. The local BurgerKing just updated their POS system and it had the RFID symbol. The lady at the till mentioned using the phone is much faster than a swipe. It's also secure as each transaction gets a unique card number. Employees can't go back and use the same card number for a number of transactions; a typical CC scam.
I don't know if doctors know we are not the completely oblivious patients of the past?

We know when we are being overcharged. We know when we are being dragged in for unnecessary office visits for a refill. (By the way--it's one year)

I don't mind waiting. I don't mind egotistical doctors. I just don't want to be taken advantage of when I'm at my worst. It's simple.

Yea--I know it was a bitch getting through med school, and most residencies, but ethics will take you a long way. It's better than advertising. Hell--it used to be taboo for doctors to even think about advertising.

The last thing you want is a bunch of free, usually petty, but usually spot on true, negative reviews on Yelp? By the way, I don't usually use Yelp. I give doctors the benefit of doubt, but sometimes all those reviewers can't be wrong? And when it comes to money/padded fees--that's when I take notice.

This goes for Dentists, and Veterinarians too. And yes--I know running a practice is expensive. I know MP insurance never seems to go down. On the bright side, Trump might give you Tort reform? Obama said, hell no! I really think some of you deserve it--some.
Why have embedded logic at all- not just a centrall server, with a secure connection to minimal hardware front ends (drivers and a webstack)?
Dynamic Back Ends in Haproxy with Lua
Ask HN: How early did you get your kids into Progrsmming?
What apps, methods, tools did you use?
You might have that mixed up, as most of those leaks pertained to foreign intelligence gathering. The aspect involving Americans was the telephone metadata program, and a bill did indeed get passed as a result to fix that.
Crafting sustainable on-call rotations
Exactly. Amex get their income from a cut on purchases, and that cut is larger than any other provider. They then take this money and spend it on advertising to try and convince stupid people they are joining some exclusive "club".
It is. Not many people favor coming in with a SWAT team and vaccinating children against the parents' will. However, society and institutions do in many cases also properly forbid unvaccinated children from attending school and participating in various activities with other children.
I hear you. Previous office I went to I had to wait more than 30 minutes past my appointment time before being seen by the nurse (before being seen by the doctor) which didn't include "arrive 10 minutes before your appointment". Obviously this is annoying. The third time I showed up to the same office I was 10 minutes late to my appointment, and they told me I would have to reschedule or wait about 45 minutes to an hour.

I told them to cancel the appointment then. They asked if I wanted to reschedule "Nope. I'm going to find another office".

I did find another office, and the doctor was more professional, thorough, and I had next to no wait time.
Pre-WWI Britain harbored many of the preconditions for fascism
U.S. Energy Flow Chart for 2016
MSA-2017-0007 VMware VCenter Server Updates Resolve a RCE Vulnerability
Symlinks at commandline work in vista or later. It is a different program however.
That's an interesting point and dwells in philosophical space.

Is Apple an entity with knowledge that it accumulates, develops, and applies or are people who work on and hold key positions in projects the ones that bring forth knowledge, develop it and apply it?

Is company's know-how separate from people working on it, and are people the ones who (can) bring it into the company or are people coming to the company and applying company's knowledge? What happens if either lacks - can a company bring in (group of) knowledge and can a company bring in (a group) of talent without (much) knowledge?

Cases can be made for both, I guess. So, there's no straight answer.
I have a European chip and pin card. The area around the contacts above the chip has a slight, but noticeable, bulge. I have a newer American chip and pin card. It's thicker but the card is perfectly flat. They also did away with the bump letters and numbers.
As silly as this idea sounds you could use this concept to create a commandline tutorial. The folders can contain clues.
Watch out, the Riddle flaw affects some MySQL versions. Update them now
Eh, decision matrix, with weigths according to votes on the decisive values of a product.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_matrix

Solves nearly all decisions.
The term “branch”, in Git, is ambiguous
> Any use of the backdoor risks it being noticed, so using other entry points make sense if possible.

This applies to 0-days as well.
Stallman is one of those people that avoid water as not to accidentally take a bath.
There was a time I would have argued against you. Now I agree with you. You're also leaving out the very important arguments against credit cards being that they involve taking on new debt and they lack the psychological safeguards that cash has. You hand your credit card over and you get it back plus your items. You hand cash over and you don't get it back.
Optimising Energy Use: From Banking to Green – Earth Notes
Learn to Write and Publish a JavaScript Module on NPM
I think it depends on your needs for performance. Most personal applications (streaming music, video or storing backups) aren't going to be affected much from having a 2 gigabit link.

At 10 watts, there is a good opportunity for some power savings. I have an Atom-based HP MicroServer and it lives in the area of 30-40 watts idle with 5 3.5" drives. Going down to 10 watts would mean saving around $40/year for me, not bad, but not enough to worry about.

The biggest failure with this in my mind not supporting 3.5" drives. Getting decent capacity in the 2.5" form factor is not really possible, and if using SSDs, in that case you'd want a more performant machine like you describe. Then again if using SSDs, why not just use an even smaller form factor.
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No, building a car is actually comparatively easy, as evidenced by the myriad of boutique super cars. It's especially easy if what you want to build is an electric car, because electric cars have an order of magnitude fewer moving parts compared to an ICE car. What is difficult is mass producing a car, as evidenced by Tesla's difficulty in doing just that. But Apple has lots of experience at mass production, and they have the means to acquire whatever talent they lack. That's not to say that they are guaranteed to succeed, but they have a much, much better chance than almost any technology company.
I don't understand why the files didn't get encrypted and then massively uploaded, like the wikileaks insurance files.

That turns it into a problem of securely archiving a 256bit string and escrowing it or doing some k of n thing such that it gets released if Poitras/Snowden/etc. go missing, ensuring they don't go missing. That's a much simpler problem than dealing with 8GB+ of data.

(And it only really works if you either publicize this or let NSA and any other potential adversary know about it; and you then end up with the "anyone who wants to cause trouble for NSA knocks off enough people to trigger the insurance file" problem if it's public...)
because of video drivers not supported anymore and there is not really workaround, so it would require buying new video card

A cheap 1GB video card can be had for $25.[0][1] And it is currently supported for the Windows 10 platform.[2]

Which is not to say that Linux and/or an Android tablet wouldn't be the best solution, just that the purchase and installation of a new video card is maybe not as expensive as would seem.

[0] - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681413...

[1] - https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N...

[2] - http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/112596/en-...
This seems to be horribly written. Example:

>"In the German Lotto you have to select 6 numbers from the set {1,2,...,49}. A popular strategy top lay Lotto - although it doesn’t increase your chance of winning — is to select a subset S containing k (k > 6) of these 49 numbers, and then play several games with choosing numbers only from S.

For example, for k = 8 and S = {1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34} there are 28 possible games: [1,2,3,5,8,13], [1,2,3,5,8,21], [1,2,3,5,8,34], [1,2,3,5,13,21], ..., [3,5,8,13,21,34].
Your job is to write a program that reads in the number k and the set S and then prints all possible games choosing numbers only from S."

if K needs to be > 8 how are the numbers in the selected subset {1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34}? The majority of those are less than K. I have scratched my head about this for a few minutes. There are many that are equally as confusing.

See:
https://uva.onlinejudge.org/index.php?option=com_onlinejudge...
I am a doctor, and this was the first thought that came to my mind
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Although the Preferred also has an automatic $300 travel credit which covers less than a week of my average expenses over the course of a year. When I canceled my Preferred in favor of the Reserve I went through the most half-hearted workout routine from Chase I ever had in my life. The rep fully understood there was absolutely no reason for me to keep the Preferred card but still had to go through the motions of offering me a cheaper annual rate etc.
Ah, the old implicit contract of don't beat your customers.
Is that possible? That you actively try to avoid United and still end up in a United plane?
Average American.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/edward-snowden-rasmussen-po...
We've created a patient feedback software (http://www.repcheckup.com) that allows doctors to automate their patient feedback by sending email and text rating/review solicitations.

On average, less than 5% of all patients seen will leave feedback. When prompted, we've seen this jump to 10-15% of patients seen, although we do have a few who have much higher conversion ratios.

(This is likely due to the doctor introducing the feedback concept at the end of the consult.)

What has been most interesting to see, contrary to the story, is that most doctors and healthcare professionals are still on the fence about implementing these sorts of feedback loops.

We find often times that buy-in does not occur until the professionals can see "comparisons" as to how others are doing.

There are also a ton of hurdles to implementation of these types of feedback loops, due to HIPAA and other requirements that often makes things near impossible.

This makes the whole thought of introducing this into a practice daunting for some and that's why usage of feedback loops like these are not already widespread.

Hopefully, as legacy practitioners give way to a new generation of medical and Heath professionals, patient feedback will be more widely solicited and used.
You just described the "what", not the "how". The implied context is algorithmic. It'd be like answering a question about sorting lists with "use sort()" - true enough in practical terms, but smart-arsey and deliberately avoiding the meat of the question.
From what I recall they had a huge internal change to focus on security about a decade ago.

They really threw resources at it with a top down driven focus to fix their security issues.

It worked.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is issued by the Nobel Foundation and chosen by the Swedish Academy of Sciences, just like the Physics and Chemistry prizes. The difference is that it was not endowed by Alfred Nobel in his will, but later by the Sveriges Riksbank.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econ...
Ok great. Thanks for going into so much detail.

How likely do you think 1 is in the next 15 years (surely less than 100%)? To me, 50% seems generous.

How much can Uber's revenue grow with/without 1 (bare in mind they already represent approx 1/4 to 1/5 of global taxi bookings, although I admit this could be undercounted and grow)?

Based on this, what happens to Uber's net margin with/without (1). Bare in mind it's currently > -100% and the sector average has been low-mid single digits for years. I can't see it rising much above $3 -$4 billion with and can't get it anywhere near this without.

Its true that smaller companies raise money at high multiples of revenue, but that is when they represent a much smaller proportion of the potential market.

It's also true that they COULD successfully expand into other markets and this COULD one day become profitable. However, in my mind this roughly cancels out with the significant competitive and regulatory risk that they face in doubling their share of the taxi market,and they could end up repeating their trick of selling dollar bills for 85 cents in the markets too.

Happy to hear where you disagree!
So even if that rule applied here (which it doesn't), then United would still be in the wrong for not offering up to that limit.
If you look at the rate of returns on their investments, they would outpace a lot of Wall Street and definitely most index funds.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/business/mutfund/congr...
Why Investors Love Elon Musk, Even Though Tesla Is Losing Money (2017)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardhyu/2017/02/24/why-invest...
It is just so utterly amazing that we've inherited an Internet built by people like this. Utterly amazing.
There are also PQD waivers for United (sorry :-)) for spend on Chase's co-branded cards. I get a United Club membership anyway so that card works for me. My travel patterns are such that I get decent status on qualifying miles but dollars are iffy.
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> Such a useless and dangerous feature.

Useless to you != useless to everyone.
The Strange Way Being “Good” Hurts Your Willpower
The size of S is k.
> Classic DIY NAS builds consume outrageous amounts of power (35W to >100W) compared to commercial NAS (~10W)

??

Commercial NAS (like non-RM Synology & friends) are not magic. They save a bit of power due to higher system integration, yes, but most power is saved simply by using low-end hardware.

Most x86 DIY NAS use either desktop hardware or low-end server hardware (usually same thing, different labels) -- most of these have far more compute power than the small Atom C2000 or similar found in a x86 NAS.

If you want something similar to a commercial NAS, then use low end Mini-ITX boards (<10 W TDP, usually four SATA ports and perhaps one PCIe) or a PCEngine.

ARM boards on the other hand are all rather weak in all regards: poor I/O, little memory, weak CPU cores (even if there are four of them), quite some of these boards also have stability issues. None have ECC.
It might be possible that for an ad-blocking system that,

for all visitors to a specific page, vision analysis only has to be applied once on that specific page and share that post-analytic knowledge publicly. Then all future visitors would benefit from that previous analysis knowledge and block the ad without yet another vision analysis on the same specific page.

to scope with pages changing widly, the system can assign 5% of the visitors to each specific page to perform new vision analysis and update the findings.
Other discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14114665

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119656

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14116791
I find the title confusing. At first I thought the post was about DNS hijacking or something similar. However, the phishing attack does not make use of identical domains but homographs.
you are right that conhost and bash are separate, but what i am saying is that conhost never supported color escape codes.
Now, that is a good joke
I see this repeated often, but has the problem ever actually been substantiated with proof? Collection of data by allies makes sense, but USPI would still need to be minimized, just as if NSA had collected it. Is that incorrect?
3 min read: How data changed the marketing/sales funnel
So 3000$ for a biopsy: ticket to Greece and back to USA : let's say 1000€. Biopsy procedure if it's ultrasound guided around 300€. Lab fee for examining the biopsy:around 200€ max, maybe less. Hotel room for 2-4 days in Thessaloniki 120€-150€ in a decent hotel. Total:1500€ or even less. All these can be done by highly and well educate medical doctors, treatment in private clinics is very good(since you are paying in cash you always get vip treatment) and o course you can enjoy a good vacation. I always said that medical tourism is the future
It's not "just" those who haven't been vaccinated at risk, though - vaccines often have both an efficacy rate (the likelihood you develop sufficient immune response) and duration (how long it lasts without repetition).

One of my relatives was vaccinated for pertussis, and yet still came down with it one day. Their parent had a hard time convincing the doctors to even test for it because, in their minds, it was no longer an option.

Even later, it came out that the particular vaccine that my relative had been given had a markedly lower effective duration than had been initially advertised.

So even if other entities make all the "safe" choices (presuming they're not immunocompromised or otherwise unable to be vaccinated), disruptions in herd immunity can have problematic consequences.
I'd suggest learning more about how to learn better, so that you can learn more on the job. Then you can spend your weekend doing something other than coding. Some useful books:

"How Learning Works" (I review it here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/03/19/how-learning-works/)

"Peak" https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Secrets-New-Science-Expertise/dp...

Gar Klein's books, in particular "The Power of Intuition" https://www.amazon.com/Power-Intuition-Feelings-Better-Decis...
The problem is that people then tend to forgo preventive care & routine checkups if they don't have to (especially poor people), and in the long term end up costing a lot more when they do get treatment once their situation is far worse.
Sure, but phishing is most all about very big brands or banks.

My point is, for this segment will never be a money problem, more a digital culture deficit problem. Most of them are still not proactive enough about those issues, it seems like they don't care that much. At least, until they will be hit hard by this. Then, they will likely spend 100x in lawyers, reputation, and so on.
I'm not sure whether this is sarcastic.
In order to prevent anything, you would need to register every combination of latin and cyrilic. For a short domain like "epic" this constitutes 16 domains. For a 7 character domain it would be 128 domains. In either case it would be a heavy multiplier on the base cost of the domain.
Appreciate the link.
Most of gRPC development is still done by Google, I would guess. Google would care about language popularity (and doesn't use any functional languages internally AFAIK).
One only has to look at things like passports, where internationally-significant naming is important, to see that English (and thus transliterated names) is the norm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport#Languages

Simple sanity checks for mixed character urls by the browser easily remedies this.

Except this particular example, the name 'epic' is written entirely with Cyrillic characters. One could argue whether a Russian company has the right to use such a name (with all-Cyrillic characters), or how it would be input --- and if you want it to be easy to input for those who don't completely have IDN support and matching ways to input those characters, you'd have to also display the punycoded version, at which point a transliterated name would be better anyway.
If you want people to leave cloud service X put that message on cloud service X.
> Fortunately the anti-vaxxers are a small minority instead of a large majority so the risk is somewhat controllable and fortunately the only people at risk are those that have not been vaccinated yet (a risk that for many diseases is extremely small) so the consequences for society as a whole are manageable.

Loss of herd immunity effects those who have gotten the vaccine as well (especially with vaccines that have more significant failure rates). Choosing to not vaccinate your child and expecting everybody else's children at the public school you send them to to just deal is about more than personal bodily integrity.
Optical illusions that flummox computers
Very interesting article. I hadn't realized that Microsoft strategy of developing their market not by the merits of they product but by lock-in to use business programs (and also games and such) went back so far.

Also it's great to finally learn what "UMB" stands for in "DOS=HIGH,UMB". Never felt right to add that option without knowing its meaning :-).
We almost need a kind of multiplex blogspam posts. A post saying as little as possible to maintain neutrality: 'Patent troll makes case vs EFF, EFF counter sues.' Then list in alphabetical order source material (Patent troll's claim, EFF's claim)

This does have the issue of giving minority positions more exposure. ie climate change denial links may be split 50% despite strong preference in the scientific community. The reader has to recognize which links have substance for themselves
Even automatically... ;)

http://bitblaze.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/apeg.pdf
Great article, as much for the tension between people wanting free content and ad free content, and the practical issue of publishers 'keeping the lights on.'

I subscribe to Blendle (currently I have another tab open to a Wall Street Journal article by Garry Kasparov about issues with artificial intelligence - I paid Blendle $0.49 from the funds in my account wallet to read this, so Gary and the WSJ get paid). Many Blendle articles I read are only $0.09 or $0.15 - this was an especially expensive one.

I think the 'war' over ad blocking might have a beneficial effect in moving content providers to easy to use micro payment systems.

Most people I know think that I am crazy for spending small amounts of money to read stuff, but there are costs in life like supporting things we enjoy and charities (I really like Google's One a Day charity clearing house - easy to take 30 seconds and give a dollar or two to some worthwhile cause). The amount many people spend on coffee each day is more than paying for content and donating to One a Day.
Verif/encrypt params/SSL/TLS layer by MySQL cli is done after client finish auth
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/65cc5p/verification...
Ego death
My apologies. I just figured that between the context of the discussion and the name of the game, he may have gotten the platform wrong.
In this case the patent troll went to Australia
Uber owns way more.

From http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-uber-did...

> Uber will receive a 5.89% share of the combined entity with preferred equity interest, which is equal to a 17.7% economic interest in Didi Chuxing, the statement said.
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/65b38y/vmware_vcent...
No, just like a restaurant can refuse service for not wearing a suit jacket but not because of race. It's not even a slippery slope.