skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be amazed at the very employed folks that spend time each week learning about credit cards and taking advantage of perks, on top of other things that will allow them to live a lifestyle they want. As a bonus, they get a happy boost when they get a good deal.

This is just paying attention to how you spend your money and being informed about the choices you make. If you are going to get a credit card, you might as well both know what you are getting into and get the best thing for you that you can. Kinda like any other loan contract (after all, credit cards are a short-term loan).
>Sure, cars are different from consumer electronics, but not in any insurmountable way.

Perhaps not "insurmountable"...

...but you realize that what Apple currently manufactures is equivalent to one single, near-insignificant component of what goes into a car: the on-board navigation system.

Building a car is hard. I don't think Apple can't do it, but I'm convinced they won't find it "worth it".
I do question the sustainability of the french system though and that of many other european systems.

Its important to remember that in a state economy where healthcare is free or semi free it's operated as a cost center and thus has budgets that are politically mandated not determined by market demand at least not directly.

This leads to a number of limitations on what kind of care patients can get what machines they can buy, what medicine etc.

Not saying the US system is better but all systems have drawbacks.
We only need him as a radical to make the normal open source look like a normal reasonable thing.
Room 641A wasn't a software vulnerability trying to hide in plain sight, it was a secret network tap.
According to 8chan one smb2 exploit actually affects Win10, despite being tagged as intended for much older Windows.
Damn that's a chilling thought
Interesting project for low cost NAS. However, why is it open to air? It seems to me that it would gather quite a bit of dust and be susceptible to damage. Is this required for fanless operation?
>Apple has $250 billion in cash, so this doesn't strike me as a huge concern.

It's not their money, it's the shareholders. It might be tough to make a case to them to jump into this market.
So what happens if I run grep -R?
Because you cannot change reality if you do not first acknowledge what it is. First off, this is an analysis tool. If we warp our analysis tools to pretend that e.g. no gender biases exist in places where they do, then we are not making the world a better place, we are just removing our ability to quantify the ways in which it is not.
>It could become a tradition like Ask HN, Show HN.

Since I see these threads regularly enough, I think it's already an unofficial tradition.
What was the situation here, exactly? You describe a situation of being thirsty and a doctor calling to you get you water. Then you got the water and presumably your thirst was satiated. Healthcare is provided by entire teams of people, not just by doctors. Doctors are part of the service, but they rely on a team for a great many things.
If a wordpress is installed in a subfolder example.com/wp/ it only searches in example.com and doesn't detect any wp install.
Yes, and this is why some of those others have designed the Rust language so that they can write programs that run fast without worrying about those tens of paragraphs of legalese.

Same motivations for D, Swift and Go, except you get a bit less performance due to need for GC.
> It would be very fun to experiment with a future model in which it will use the python AST and take out variable naming out of the equation.

So what if we use AST as a source for the code structure? Also, there are other metadata such as filename (e.g. reducer.js), path (./components), project dependencies (package.json for JavaScript projects), amount of github stars and forks.
Yet hardware, especially dumb mechanical parts like cases, is what distinguishes Apple devices the most. They also design awful inconvenient UIs, just like auto companies.
> [the troll] asked for [EFF's] "Stupid Patent of the Month" post to be taken down. Remarkably, an Australian judge agreed

Does anyone know why the judge agreed? I'm all for taking down trolls, but if a judge agreed, maybe there's more to the story than meets the eye.
Why is it even allowed to register "epic.com" with e|p|i|c cyrillic when it is already registered with english/ascii??

They look exactly the same, they are the same characters just borrowed from one language to another..

It should just be illegal to register same-character domains. All other solutions that force browser vendors to "do something about it" are implying that the web is in english all other languages are just addons.
> So NSA knew 90 days ago and gave MS the heads up.

Where do you get that conclusion from? I don't read any such claim from this advisory. MS seems at least for now to stay silent how they got info about those exploits.

There are various ways this could've happened. NSA could've warned them. Shadowbrokers could've warned them. Someone else with inside knowledge could've given them anonymous tips. From the current available information we don't know that.
Good point. I'm not too worried about France, they seem to have their priorities straight there, other countries are less stable. Especially in former Eastern European countries there are disasters happening right now, and many Western countries will have to come to terms with the cost of health care and attempting to take commerce out of it.

NL had a very good system which got replaced by something much less efficient, ostensibly because the 'market' would have been better at making things efficient where the only real change is that healthcare is now much more expensive and options are as limited as they were before.

Personally I feel a good society should take care of its sick, poor, elderly and inmates even if it costs but that's an opinion that seems to be out of fashion.
Isn't it possible to detect the mixture of cyrillic vs english and so on?
I think it was a default ruling. People are speculating that the EFF didn't bother with defending on this one, since it was in Australian courts.
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Funny that you and I keep discussing here when we are pretty sure everybody has left the building. An institution that I find absolutely remarkable is the Indian army (I am clubbing navy and air force in the same bucket). What I find striking and particularly especially so when compared to the defense forces of countries that were born under similar circumstances (no not just Pakistan) is that it has never exerted its political will. Sadly things are changing now with the army taking on clearly politically motivated stances. Govts are making politically charged appointments. The govt and the forces have started to play a tango and tat is not a good development.
> Show a country flag in the URL bar based on the language/alphabet of the URL

Languages are often spoken in more than one country. Should amazon.com fly the Union Jack or wien.gv.at a German flag? I don't think a Russian flag for Cyrillic would be appreciated in Ukraine either.

Scripts (e.g., Latin, Cyrillic, Hangul) could get their own signifier or symbol, but that does mean disallowing (or discouraging) mixed script domains — which may not be a bad idea.

Perhaps certain scripts should be limited to certain CCTLDs and generic TLDs so that the demo URL would be disallowed in .com, but permissable in .cyrl, which in turn disallows any other scripts (including Latin). It might solve the phishing angle.

It would also solve complex cases such as Japanese (which would require Chinese characters, katakana, hiragana, and some Latin characters; perhaps the full-width set?). Perhaps put those under .日本 and allow only Latin characters under .jp.

Technically feasible, though politically untenable.
To me this looks like a basic productivity thing. Health services is the only sector that never industrialized, it's a craft industry. You have a highly educated, highly paid specialist in front of every client. It would be absurd (and uneconomical) to make him do the job of a receptionist in top of that.
I would be really interested to read the publication you did on this. We are trying to do anomaly detection from a large stream of traceroutes coming on from approx. 10,000 locations continuously over the internet.
So, in this sense, vaccination should be an individual choice? This is something which concerns the individual, but has consequences for society as a whole.
Without a fee? Surprising they would eat the 2.9% or whatever for you.
It's about separation of concerns. Who defines what is the same and what is not? It's computers, so you need to be clear about this. You can't emulate our judicial process, here: make a law with a spirit and define the corner cases as they get litigated.

You already mention this yourself: you don't want the browsers to "do something about it." Ok, but somebody has to. So, if not the browsers, then ICANN. But they would be using the very same algorithm, in the end, no? If so, then why not have the browsers do that, in the first place? They have more control over UI, and it is a cleaner separation of concerns and responsibility.

Somebody needs to do something. And because this is about humans (in the end, when you say "similar looking", you mean "... to humans"), better have that be in the part of the system that actually is about them: the user agent. ICANN is too slow to be able to rapidly adapt to changes in this fight.
I wish you luck. I think your approach is far better than the mailed sheets of paper surveys I inevitably toss in the recycling bin that arrive 1-2 weeks after my children's appointments. Do you guys use any sort of incentive to boost responses?
Do you have a source for that? Looks like MS have released a number of patches for these exploits and so have other software vendors so I'm not sure what your claim is based on.
Didn't Firefox show puny code in the url bar once?

The problem is quite old. [1] is a 12 year old bug report on this very problem in Mozilla.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279099
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Years ago, I had a truly great primary care doctor. She had her own practice, which was typical at that time. She was caring, but above all, extremely competent. After she retired, I've yet to come across a situation remotely as good.

I think she was so good because she was allowed to be directly engaged with her patients and that resulted in some sort of feedback loop where she was always striving to stay on top of the state-of-the-art.

These days, those sorts of practices are hard to find. There's the doc-in-a-box places that dominate, and they seem surprised if you want to see the same doc rather than whoever can just see you.

There's also someone else in the room these days - the government and (practically the same thing) insurance company. The doctor / patient relationship is now more like the doctor stooge snooping on the patient relationship.

Just look at how many doctors no longer will prescribe medicine for pain due to the war on drugs. They're scared of losing their license. The collateral damage is the poor people who need strong pain management but find it increasingly hard to get it.
>it was a secret network tap

...trying to hide in plain sight, implemented by a major corporation so nation states cold exploit customers.
First time I've seen it. When was the last time?

I like it as a subtle effect - it should really be a)clickable to the relevant post, or b) have a mouse over text. (both options would still fall into to minimalist style of HN).
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Well, it depends on the sort of reflection you want. Decorators get a decent amount of knowledge about the code.
This campaigning, at this time, is in such poor taste.

Really, it is nothing more than a "nice touch" in honour of someone who was a uniquely important figure in the history of computing, and who, in Dang's judgement, deserves recognition by this community. How about doing some reading to understand just why this person is considered (by people in the know like Dang) to be such a standout contributor? I did, and I learned some really interesting things.

I participated in a discussion about this topic 1-2 years ago, after which the person who instigated that squabble admitted misjudgement and apologised:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10971758

As I said at the time: seriously, civil behaviour around a bereavement is just not that hard.

I have nothing further to add on the matter other than this: for God's sake, please let it go.

Please don't spoil what should be special moments of reflection with petty campaigning.

Please.
Ask HN: Why does this black line occasionally show up on HN?
As seen here: http://i.imgur.com/Vrj6PMv.png

Looking at Google Cache, it seems like we all have it today. It is a table row with a column containing an image to a 0x5px gif https://news.ycombinator.com/s.gif

Looking at the an archive from two weeks ago does not show the black bar https://web.archive.org/web/20170331001927/https://news.ycombinator.com/

Does anyone know what it is and why it is not always there?
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One reason why I prefer Wordpress is that I can pretty much build anything I want with just 'core' and a very small number of plugins (mostly Advanced Custom Fields, which has a paid version and quite actively developed).

With Drupal, on the other hand, I've always had to install a whole bunch of contrib modules just to get the basic functionality I needed. Has that changed significantly since Drupal 6 and 7?

Am I underestimating how insecure Wordpress core is, even considering that the get the equivalent you'd need Drupal plus a whole bunch of modules?
Thanks! No incentives right now, as we don't want to bias the data. Response rates have been high enough though to blow other mediums away (by a factor of 5x roughly).
I've had retailers complain to me about AMEX's high fees. Does that count?
The Go compiler is already much faster than your typical C and C++ compiler.
Now the compilation step, which is done on those projects via make -j4, can be done natively in the go compiler within modules by itself, compiling functions in one module in parallel.
Modules itself would be already parallelizable by make -j4, but since go build is its own tool independent of make,
they re-invented it by themselves. It's significantly faster than make already, but comes with maintenance costs. go build is much stricter than traditional dependency systems.

It's not really significant at all. Compile-times of bigger modules will get a bit faster, such as e.g. with zapcc, which got C++ compile times 50% faster by caching.
That's gross oversimplification and misleading. I was recently given the source of a large iOS app belonging to a company that our company purchased. The code is very well written, just has not been maintained past Swift 2. The converter did more hard than it solved. Xcode Swift converter is only good for small projects with no advanced language use.
Streaming bluetooth data through an RPi is at best unreliable.
This particular example was chosen such that the entire name was using the Cyrillic Unicode range:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_(Unicode_block)

From that, you can see domains composed exclusively of those characters with are homoglyphic or nearly so with the ASCII equivalents would be susceptible to this:

AaBCcEeFHhIiJjKMOoPpSsTXxY

That's not all the letters, but there are plenty of domains in English which can be written to look the same with entirely Cyrillic.
i think LG may disagree with them being the first, if memory serves they introduced the "knock code" with the G2 quite some time ago
You assume the mole is an MS employee first and an NSA op second. Traditionally, the opposite is true: if you want to infiltrate a somewhat friendly entity, you do it by engineering the hire of trusted individuals. This is more secure, since there is no risk that one of the guys will get cold feet and blow the whistle.

So you monitor universities and you make contact with some of the brightest sparks. You promise them a good job in exchange for the possibility that, one day, they might have to act For The Good of The Country; and in the meantime they'll even be In The Know, which will place them above their peers - excitement! Ambition! Then you lobby a few higher-ups you're friend with, to hire these guys in this or that group. They are top-notch talent, immaculate credentials, so the hire is a slam dunk. They go about their business, being good kernel devs or whatnot, and every few months you give them a quick call to catch up - there is no need for extensive briefing, nobody really cares about the going-ons of Team Kernel A356. When "the favour" is required, the guy is comfortable in his position and doesn't want to leave it, so there is no chance he'll say no.
8chan providing security expertise and 4chan electing presidents and directing bombardments in Syria. What a time to be alive.
Google or Facebook sure, but medium-sized businesses might find it to be too expensive.
The 6% cash back from grocery stores is nice. You can buy Amazon (and many other) gift cards at my grocery store and they all result in 6% back as well.

One thing that bothers me is AMEX says you don't get the cash back if you use a digital wallet. So, does that mean Apple Pay? Why would they add that restriction?
i imagine a future where the programmer is just there in case the AI does a mistake.
It's a mourning band. They're worn to acknowledge the loss of someone important to the wearer. Hacker News puts the bar up when figures important to the community die.

In this case, it acknowledges the loss of Bob Taylor: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/technology/robert-taylor-...
or maybe just disallow mixed-charset domains. After all there's not much use for a domain that's partially Cyrillic and partially Latin. Not that I'm aware of anyway - and the rule could be more granular if there are legit uses.
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That's what git blame is for

(I've got a thing in vim that runs git blame on the current line, and pops up the commit message in the quickfix window).
Assumptions of stationarity does limit things a bit, but it might be possible to extend the argument to weak or limited dependence. Once I was looking at this problem with some differential geometry lenses. Adapting to your setting, the nearest neighbors would be computed according to a data dependent metric not just Euclidean. The working hypothesis was that under normal circumstances the process is constrained to be in the vicinity of some lower dimensional manifold. This is reasonable because of the many "near invariants" among the dimensions.

Wonder why no one really bites this. I think the only way to monetize this would be to build one's own where monitoring is done better, and not sell better monitoring to others. Unfortunately that's a very capital intensive option.

Someday we should chat more on this.
>The robots already have the final say in that arena, because human law (for now) backs them up.

But traffic lights don't "have a say", they're put up and have their mechanics defined by humans. Neither does electronic time recording have a say on how many hours of work are required for an employee to get a paycheck.
My personal suggestion for a good balanced system is that most people pay most of the cost for normal healthcare costs like going to the doctor for a checkup, most of the cost for one of things like a broken leg but that society pays for more serious and longer term situations like cancer, heart surgeries where you are supposed to stay at the hospital for a longer time.

I.e. no one should be bankrupted because they get a serious illness.

With regards to France healthcare system here is an article who seems to think it wont survive though.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-03/frances-h...
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I've said this for years now. This is an old exploit that could be 100% preventable with ASCII-only URLs. I remember, the last time I said this here I got downvoted to oblivion for stating the true and obvious.
For less than $249 one can get a reasonable small notebook that will work in addition to the cell phone. If I plug my phone I get laptop power and access to all data on the phone. If I don't I still can use the phone as a hotspot. On the laptop (which came with Windows) I can run an OS perfectly suited to the laptop.

The value proposition doesn't make sense.

The proposed solution becomes interesting when USB-C becomes mainstream and we can use the laptop as a terminal to whatever the other device is, by piping video, keyboard and trackpad over a single cable. Still, I don't see mass adoption to this except for the maker crowd (it is a hassle to hook up our small devices to monitors and keyboards)
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Oh I didn't know that, thank you for clarifying!
The truth of the matter is that e|p|i|c are actually the same characters just borrowed from one language to another.

If I give you a piece of paper with "epic -> epic" you would say "it says epic two times".

If we give the same piece of paper to a Russian he will say "it says <insert Russian meaning here> two times". The Russian guy may even say it says epic(as in the English meaning) because there might be no "epic" word in Russian.

In short: It all depends on the reader how he interprets the characters e|p|i|c. The same should apply to computers too.

The lowercase a is the same character in French, Russian, English etc. The fact that some decades ago some computer inventors decided that there are four types of "a" depending on the language - that's completely broken in my opinion.

I don't think and I don't see any use of embedding the belonging language to every character. For me, this is obviously like an encoding "flaw".

So the ones that actually have to do something are the OS vendors. If they don't then ICANN or browser vendors should do something..
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They absolutely will. I have more than one service I can lean on for finding the doctor and getting help translating. Only Amex does all that and will also convince the hospital to accept my card as payment security instead of me needing to bring 20x the cost of service in cash as a deposit. I've visited hospitals in several countries for different reasons, and Amex has consistently been there for me.
That's surprising that Chase isn't trying to do a better job on their purchase protection benefits.

I dropped a phone once and cracked the screen. Since it was within 90 days, I did a claim through American Express and it took 24 hours for it to be processed. I didn't have to send it back or jump through any hoops. I don't understand why Chase wanted you to ship the cable to them?