skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oscar Insurance is a startup using technology, data & design to change the way people find and access care. We are disrupting the healthcare industry by putting people first, not business and cost. www.hioscar.com

We're currently hiring for a variety of Full-time/Onsite roles here in our New York City location.

Software Engineer: Web & Mobile (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=247940

Software Engineer: Data/Systems (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=248056

Software Engineer: Product Infrastructure (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/about/jobs/?gh_jid=240077

Infrastructure Security Engineer (NYC) :https://www.hioscar.com/jobs/?gh_jid=483542

Vulnerability Management Security Engineer (NYC): https://www.hioscar.com/jobs/?gh_jid=508948

Identity & Access Management Security Engineer: (NYC) https://www.hioscar.com/jobs/?gh_jid=624247

Data Quality Assurance Engineer (NYC): https://www.hioscar.com/jobs/?gh_jid=673585

Oscar was valued at $2.7 billion following a $400 million investment by Fidelity. Take a look at how we're simplifying healthcare: http://incredibleinsurancemachine.com
It's called reversion to the mean, and very well known among professional investors.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/meanreversion.asp
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Everything old is new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014
Huh, I guess that explains why I recall specific passages in audiobooks when I revisit the places I walked while listening to them.

Kinda problematic if I listen to an unnerving passage in a place I enjoy visiting!
It's usually not even worth the cost of electricity to keep running hardware that old. Upgrading to modern power efficient hardware pays for itself pretty quickly with lower electrical bills.
You're appealing to authority while assuming that the conventional HN reader automatically knows who Andreas is.
> Speaking of GC, why aren't more newer languages designed using the ARC system that Objective-C uses

Because ARC is just shitty GC.
Right now my goal is to "go on occasional walking breaks" as suggested by runamok below :) If you suggest one other thing that you believe everyone should do to revert sitting damage, I'll try to do it as well.
Recognizing this adds legitimacy to software patents. Don't. There have been free and open source MP3 decoders for many years now.
So, facebook was paid for data on users' poor emotional state.

And facebook experimented with adjusting news feeds to make people feel better or worse. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=facebook+news+feed+experiment&t=lm...

I wonder how much it would cost to have facebook make people feel bad, and then serve them ads to which they would be more susceptible because of their low state.
Show HN: Logging2, An Improved Python Logging Utility
HTML & CSS are not really suitable for "pixel perfect" text. Even text in SVG works just like text in an HTML document in the sense there is not a way to control precisely where text will wrap. You'd have to disable the browser's word wrapping & come up with your own logic for where to insert <br /> tags, even then you have issues like browsers ignoring CSS rules because of 3rd party browser extensions, missing fonts & such.

Look at this jQuery plugin for evidence - http://simplefocus.com/flowtype/

As you resize your browser, you see the browser re-layout the page & the text jumps around. The text wraps at different positions as you resize your browser around. You'd have to essentially render text to an image server-side, then scale the resulting image in the browser. And if you already have an image, there's no need for tools like wkhtmltoX or phantom for creating an image (you already have an image)... So headless browsers are not suitable for rasterizing documents that contain text [in my experience].

Converting HTML to PNG/PDF is like comparing apples & oranges. The conversion will be imperfect.
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/How-to-apply-me_cle...

The procedure seems far from trivial and requires special hardware(?). Is there a guide or some resources I could follow as a person with no hardware/low-level technical knowledge?
I'm an international student in US, currently looking for a Fall Internship - are you aware if Shopify provides visa assistance to interns or if there is a Fall/Winter program?
About a year ago I got really fed up with the way the logging library in python works. I was trying to inject request ids (Flask app with a custom before_request hook to create the ids) into every log entry and ran into numerous issues - should it be an adapter, a filter, should I just wrap the logging methods, how will it handle the dynamic injection of the data?

Eventually after 4 days of struggling to find the right mixture I settled on a custom adapter and a global instance of a logger and replacing the app logger with it. It was a hack on a hack on a hack. I wan't satisfied. (On top of that, we had machines with different timezones, so trying to align our logs later on was a separate mess given the inflexibility of the timestamp formatting).

So, I started designing and refining my idea of what a more modern, pythonic logging utility would look like. I've made several iterations on the design and API, and I'm finally ready to let people take it for a test drive.
>Also there is 1 level of threads in comments. A reply in a post can become a thread.

I'm not sure if you are trying to prove my point or point out something different.
Excelsior JET -- https://www.excelsiorjet.com/ AOT compiler producing native binaries.
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It's scary. We all need to scrape these public sites and protect the data.
probably their 'echo-killer' team.
Best database name ever
Yeah. Half of the comments on HN about AI feel very much like the way computers were expected to behave in sci-fi TV shows from the 60s.
How do we know that the algorithm is at all appropriate? How do we even know it's an algorithm at all and not a mechanical turk? The algorithm could be to hand off the case files to some minimum wage college student and have them come up with some nice charts and graphs. After Theranos, this isn't even a hypothetical. It is clearly an injustice to use a secret algorithm regardless of outcome. But once again, corporate profit must come before justice, it seems.
I feel skeptical about that. 2002 was seeing Pentium IIIs being released that could support usually a maximum of 256MB of RAM (512MB on the very latest high end models). I don't see much in the way of web browsing these days working with that.
Make sure you're using Chrome 59. If you don't have that yet, try Chrome Canary.
What was the dating site I wonder?
Proofs by picture arent proofs though. And how would you even convey by picture that two line segments are of the same length. Or that if you drew C and D as separate points they turn out to be the same point?
I too wonder why IBM would not invest in rewriting their millions of lines of code in some other language
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The job posting in the link does a good job of describing what we do and how (if I do say so myself). Short version; No heros, no assholes, do a good job, and build stuff that allows you to sleep at night under reasonably high load. We are also a remote first team and have an emphasis on learning and development.

The hiring process is mostly blind and is designed to match how we work on a day-to-day basis. There are no whiteboard sessions or brain-teasers.
So you don't believe in software patents?
Thanks for sharing the link.

Just thought you'd like to know that there's a small typo at the title: "Runnng" instead of "Running".
Insomnia: An Application for Late Night Developers
I think the Yankees model is a (possibly reaching) metaphor for capitalism. All the capital concentrates in a few hands. But where are all the "best" people supposed to prove themselves?

That's why you see so many posts in this thread like "I worked on the perfect team for a short period, but alas, it was short lived." Building the gestalt is always going to flame out. Right at the moment when you realize you've assembled something special is when your team members start getting traded to the Yankees.

That's why the only sustainable model is culture, culture, culture. Always be striving for the perfect combination of team members. Keep the talent pipeline active, and if you have someone who doesn't fit, get them out of there.
Free will is an outcome of a universe which is not purely deterministic if you have a proof that the universe is then essentially there is no freewill.

Freewill goes beyond the concept of your brain deciding what to have for dinner.

People are actually analogous to some physical system it's much harder to predict the actions of an individual whilst predicting group actions on a larger scale is easier since the various individual inputs are effectively canceled out.

This is like modeling say a glass of water, modeling each individual molecule is nearly impossible because you get to the point of not being able to measure them especially when you trying to measure or predict the sub atomic make up of each molecule, but modeling the entire system is easy.
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You didn't justify the "should return" sentence: why should they?
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Yeah, it's hard to talk about this since we're using a single term to convey multiple complex concepts.
What for? I can't remember when was the last time I paired my phone with a computer via cable.
To counter your arbitrary experience with my own, the Boston startup scene seems to be thriving.
Nonsense. In 2030 the wealth gap will be even greater than today and even less people will be able to afford fancy ACs and Taxi rides.
Calls to mind the National Lampoon Jan-Feb 1990 cover, when Honda was dominant:

http://lampoon.rwinters.com/Lampoon1990.htm
It's not fast at all but it's reliably slow. There's no stop the world event but you'll lose a lot of cycles at any given moment instead.
It would be comforting if only these classes weren't clogging my hardrive with millions of useless bytes.

Some of these libraries take more disk space than the frontpage of a news website in the browser cache!

And I feel obliged to use them sometimes lest they turn into malware out of sheer boredom.
Yes, feedly
All three can already compile to JavaScript. Scala and Kotlin have early state projects that compile to native.
Not Bobcat, unfortunately - which is what's in the PC Engines APUv1.
The Future of Football
Thanks for posting this - I just released this today.

You can read the book for free online, the book is released under a CC license, and the GitHub res is https://github.com/mark-watson/loving-common-lisp

Also, there is a free update for people who purchased an earlier edition on lean pub.
Saying that the bonds were garbage was not incorrect. It just took a lot longer for most people to realize it
I'm curious about what advantages and benefits, if any, the patents brought to Fraunhofer. Other than making mp3 slightly more difficult to work with especially on Linux, did it benefit them in any way? Did them benefit society?

Coming at this from an "this is a real-life example of software patents being {good|bad}".
Software patents historically have been awarded for incredibly vague, "could-apply-to-nearly-anything" systems. As a result, there have been a lot of abuses of software patents by companies, both big and small.
> If you want to put your money in a fund, your odds are better if you pick one that has just had a bad year.

Everyone - please don't make claims like this on HN. It's not adding value to anyone's life when you speculate incorrectly on financial advice.

I will pay you $500 if you can share serious evidence that the market can be outperformed by buying mutual funds that did poorly the prior year. (I am serious. Though of course, if it were true, you would stand to make billions beyond my $500.)
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So we aren't disagreeing heavily. Sounds like the main difference is that i disagree that it is any technical achievement of the newer languages that makes them "better." Rather, my position is that it was more from resources. LaTeX just didn't have the resources to build around it.

I don't know how to test this hypothesis. I can present my reasoning for feeling it, though. And that is simply that the technical makeup of the current technologies is built on sand.

Javascript is a mess technical capabilities that is constantly getting frameworks rewritten to address previously solved by other framework's problems.

CSS is a beast when you get in the woods and is basically dominated by whoever has produced the most recent resetting sheet. More, it seems that you can pseudo script CSS things now, what with duration and other items making their way into the standard. (Or, just the :content meta where you can now author crap in the css....)

And HTML, the cornerstone, is a mess of different ways to nest things into pseudo xml. There was a push to make it legitimate XML, but that failed due to the fact that it wouldn't work.

Contrast with LaTeX which just doesn't have a gui. The equivalent of the "Inspector" tab. You seem to be claiming that this is not fixable, but I have some serious doubts on that claim. Especially since I didn't have it at the beginning of my web career, either.
why do you think online advertising will crash?

I own a metalworking shop, and I have a monthly budget just for google... its the more effective way to bring customers...
They spelled out the reasoning in the post:

“in order to support the increased cryptographic loads that we see as part of pfSense verison 2.5, pfSense Community Edition version 2.5 will include a requirement that the CPU supports AES-NI”

You may disagree with that but it's intellectually dishonest to argue as if they didn't provide clear, technically defensible rationale, especially at a time when much of the industry has been moving to hardware offload.
Show HN: YouTube Alternative Player – V3 – Echoes Player (no Adswith Powers)
The Missing Memristor Has Not Been Found (2015)
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I'd recommend people take a look at VyOS[1] as well. It's a great router distribution, which comes with a lot of batteries included to do many, many things.

I guess I might still use pfSense when I need a _firewall_. I'd immediately grab VyOS whenever I need a router. Both can do routing and firewalling, though.

[1]: https://wiki.vyos.net/wiki/Main_Page
It made them a lot of money.
Wow, a comment on that article describes a case that's far worse :S Involves SSN/SIN and fixed-number PINs in the clear.

" Would you consider doing a story on https://borrower.ecsi.net/ ?

Same thing, your password is an unchangeable 5-digit PIN that they email to you in plain-text. But your username is your SSN. And you can't get rid of your account until you pay off your student loans.

Fortunately they're not vulnerable to SQL injection, as far as I could tell. I really wanted to email them their entire list of SSNs / passwords. "

N-digit pins on online sign-ins for universities are similarly awful and super common. To boot, they often have username = firstname.lastname@university.edu, so brute-forcing a target's password can be done on a laptop in short order.
Reverse engineering Space Invaders sound effect chip from photos
We sure do, its harder for some countries vs others due to regulations.

Here's the fall internship position
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They had an app where you could easily schedule a ride for the next day. It took away the opaqueness that comes with using private transportation.
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Amazon uses their .aws tld as well. For example quicksight is hosted under https://quicksight.aws, and Chime can be found at https://chime.aws
Thank you for writing a terrific criticism on how math is taught today.

In part because it's one of the oldest taught subjects, I think the field has gotten away with how it teaches. In every other field we have an escalation ladder of abstraction that starts from tangible descriptions that a motivated learner could understand all the way up to symbolic jargon that is only accessible to insiders.

Math doesn't have this at all. It goes from arithmetic straight into symbolic manipulation with only a sideways glance at describing three dimensional shapes. It's lazy and the field needs to acknowledge that it has practical dimension as well as a theoretical one and each needs to be taught and described differently.
Facebook has a much better natural monopoly than Google. As does Amazon.

My guess is that in 2030, Google will be about as relevant as IBM or Microsoft is today. Not irrelevant, but not the big dog either.
> The only problem with avoiding reddit is that on a lot of topics when you search for something reddit comes up frequently in the search requests.

That's probably because google or whatever else you use is filter-bubbling you...
> It took just a few moments to find out if $30K is actually fair and progressive.

This is a false comparison. 30k is average DEBT they have-not the total cost of college education. Add many more tens of thousands-just so a company can take a little less risk, according to OP.

The reason we have subsidies is because businesses now want a degree, for no good reason, as evidenced by the OP. Because more people, who can't afford it, need college degrees, the government stepped in to provide that, with loans, which they make money on, and grants, which they hope to be paid for by future taxes. That doesn't account for all of the growth in tuition prices, rather, the demand does. Demand has skyrocketed because college grads make more. Since demand has skyrocketed, the supply of college grads has substantially increased-commoditizing the college degree, which benefits businesses because now they can pay less for a college grad. That's the bottom line.

The problem is more nuanced than just cost and salary. The fact is to make good salary college wasn't necessary decades ago. Now it is. So before what you got for free, now costs tens of thousands of dollars. How that is "progressive" is foreign to me.
It can lead to security issues with cookie sharing and domain validation.

My example would have been better as <uuid>.canoncam.com
And I thought my dislike of FB as the scourge of the web was bad...This entire submission is filled with vitriolic comments for a person most of us have not met. I understand having significant concerns, but can we turn down the ad hominem a bit here?
Money, of course. All kind of companies (including megacorps) paid for it.

Even some private individuals like me (I think the company was called Fluendo?)
Does this mean that there should be no more need for Audacity to download the MP3 encoder from sourceforge?
The key difference is that this doesn't affect every ARM processor.
Were they involved in the creation of MP3?
Ask HN: Any Winamp alternatives for macOS?
The iTunes drama is over for me and I'm looking for a replacement--in the perfect case something that is like WinAmp, but for macOS. I miss WinAmp. It just worked, was hassle-free and wasn't changing.
This got passed around from SlateStarCodex, not sure where else it got traction.

But yes: a followup study found that judges schedule open and shut cases for near lunch so they won't get held up, and more ambiguous cases for open periods. Since "open and shut" usually means "guilty", the original study found higher conviction/sentence rates for near-lunch cases. Remove cases where judges can set their own case schedule and you see way less of this.
If you're doing the suicide burn with the main engine, you have to flip inside the atmosphere (while supersonic), and also need to lose large chunks of the nozzle (not just to get it out of the way of landing legs, but because firing the engine in the atmosphere would otherwise generate turbulent flow within the nozzle which would tear the thing apart). If you're using a different engine, then you've added a whole lot of extra weight from the engine itself and its plumbing (and tankage for its fuels if, like the Dragon 2 Superdracos, it's not burning LOX and Kerosene).

So, adapting the first-stage recovery strategy is not an obvious slam dunk -- in fact, it might very well be worth considering alternatives involving parachutes if you can get the thing intact through re-entry. (Note that the Falcon 9 v1.0 first stages on which they actually tried parachute recovery are believed to have not gotten that far -- they reportedly broke up before the parachutes even deployed.)
> Plus you can't delete them even if you wanted to

Just so people know, although HN doesn't do bulk deletion, we're usually happy to help with deleting or redacting specific comments when you email us links (hn@ycombinator.com).