skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even there though....

Do you think (or the average person) knows enough to shop around? This stuff is complicated! I'm not sure I could make a rational decision between treatments that have different prices, but also different likelihoods of success, side effect profiles, and all that. This is even more complicated when you're paying for a diagnosis too, rather than just a treatment.

Lasik and plastic surgery are interesting because they're essentially commodities and the patient can easily evaluate the results themselves.
Italian Man Lives Life of Luxury for Years by Posing as “Prince of Montenegro”
After a prisoner has served their said time [for felons]:

1) remove their right to vote [in florida 1/4 african americans can't vote] [i]

2) force them to divulge they are felons to all new employers

3) force them to tell their neighbors they are criminals [sex crime cases which often only involve one witness testimony]

4) garnish their wages

5) seize their property [drug cases]

6) place them on parole to increase mental fear [at any moment they can return to prison without trial]

7) force them to provide random urine tests and body searches [creates anxiety for people with addiction]

8) force them into community service mixed with other felons

This is a system designed to create crime.

[i] https://theintercept.com/2016/12/22/a-quarter-of-floridas-bl...
This is definitely a pro-tip! Using a dot instead is a great idea and much less likely to be "auto-removed" by a smart harvester that strips "+" extensions.
Exactly. Prisoners lose a great many 'rights' when they are incarcerated. Internet access is one of those.
It does, but it isn't.

Similarly multiple out-going pipes to split off various levels of grey waste (some direct to garden, others, to soakways, or to septic processing systems).

Capex for these kinds of systems is ultimately dwarfed by savings on opex - just like we find with mandatory double-glazing & other insulation regulations.
I believe that the main focus of any ecommerce site should be pricing, availability and having the payment and delivery options your customers expects.

E-commerce sites want to "engage" with their customers, but fail to realise that the customers don't want a relationship. They just want whatever product you're selling as quickly and cheaply as possible. Most of you customers will be coming via price comparison sites or Google, so they aren't going to you directly (unless you're Amazon or eBay). For most e-commerce sites the customers aren't going to stay long enough to notice imperfections in the UI.

What you do need is a dead simple checkout (no signup required) and an equally easy return form. Everything else will be used by only a tiny percentage of your customers, often those you don't want to deal with anyway.

For some weird reason making the checkout to simply will result in a large number of purchases cancelled right after placement. In my experience customers are more likely to cancel within 15 minutes of placing the order than at any other time.
- Don't eat carbs.

- Only eat once a day.

- Only drink water.

- Sleep on the floor (or any relatively firm surface).

- Get rid of everything you rarely use.

- Only buy in bulk or on sale.

- Never keep an idea or task in your head.

- Stop carrying a wallet and keys.
> Jolla has always used (and continues to use) outdated hardware

But Jolla has shipped. Jolla 1, Intex Aquafish, Turing Phone, Inoi R7[1]. Limited runs of Jolla C, Tablet. Sony Xperia X should be coming soon. This is a startup of (these days) less than 50 people, cut them some slack, they're competing with giants.

> The Sailfish SDK relies on VirtualBox for the emulator and for native compilation

It's infinitely more efficient to build and ship 1 VirtualBox OS Bundle, v.s. building and maintaining at least 3 different cross-compilation toolchains (one for each of: Windows, MacOSX, Linux). With limited developer resources, I'd choose the latter route too.

I also prefer this setup to things like scratchbox2 and Android's (or iPhone's) emulator. It's portable between base OS's and it makes use of existing and well-known tools (VirtualBox).

> For years, Jolla withheld from or misled the public on the state of internal affairs

The Tablet fiasco could have been communicated better. At the same time, that's the risk you take with Kickstarter/IndieGoGo. It's a startup.

I don't agree with any of your other points, they're a startup, it's not all smooth sailing.

> Sailfish OS always lacked basic security features for applications (QT Quick embedded in plain text) or for the phone itself (encryption).

In regards to packaging, or app isolation, Jolla's wisely chosen to work on "mobile problems" and leave package management to the heavyweights (e.g. RH with Flatpak).

VPN support was added in the last release. The public git repos show ongoing work to filesystem encryption.

> Sailfish OS was never true open source, even less so than Android

Significant pieces of SailfishOS are proprietary. However, I think it's a more "inclusive" OS than Google's Android. Google develops Android. SailfishOS is GNU/Linux, it's developed by Red Hat (e.g. Linux kernel, systemd), Intel (Connman, ofono), Qualcomm (BlueZ), Qt (Qt Company), Mozilla (Firefox), GNU (CLI tools), KDE (Calligra), Collabora (gstreamer), etc.

I'm hopeful that one day SailfishOS will be fully open source.

> Very poor/non-existent developer relations

Disagree. They hold fortnightly meetings (#mer-meeting on Freenode). Most of the code is public (https://git.merproject.org/). There's a public Bugzilla (https://bugs.merproject.org/). There's discussion boards (https://together.jolla.com/). Community translation portal (http://translate.sailfishos.org/).

[1] https://together.jolla.com/question/136143/wiki-available-de...
> So the word "kernel" is there because the design flaw is in the kernel

The vulnerability is in the userland process. However, the kernel can utilize a stop-gap measure that makes exploitation difficult in most scenarios (but this is arbitrary).
Ask HN: Physicist Work as  Developer, Data Science, Data Engineer?
I studied physics and then I learnt Java and Android and I was working as a software developer. I have just quit my job as it was boring coding in Java. Any recommendation what would be a good role for a person with my profile where I can find more motivation. I am wondering either becaome a Data Engineer, Science or start programming in Ethereum. Any help is welcome
Lots of people don't do it.

I guess a minority by population. I needed to make an appointment a couple years ago and the woman on the other end of the phone didn't really believe me that I didn't know where my medical records would be (in the past 10 years I'd had some stitches and a tetanus shot).
The "market" bears it because the regulatory structure of the market allows for no alternatives.
Thank you for the reply; I think that this is a useful description of the advantages of your service. Just for purposes of completely accurate comparison, though:

> - With spamgourmet the addresses are designed to expire after X emails, so it's intended for services you don't care about.

This is configureable; it can be turned off entirely (allowing a trusted sender to send an unlimited number of e-mails to an address), or the allowance can be 'refreshed' (so that, after, say, 5 e-mails sent to an address, you can allow 5 more as a further probation).
I never noticed that, thanks. I googled and found it's there since Thunderbird 45, April 12, 2016.
Runs well on my laptop. Windows 10 + Chrome and it's probably using my integrated GPUsince the Nvidia one never kicks in with Chrome.
>Please believe women when they report harassment in the workplace

This meme is often repeated in context of sexual harrassment (workplace or otherwise). How do you square that with the fact that women are as capable of laying and misleading as men are? How do you square that with "innocent until proven guilty" when accusation are leveled against another individual or company.
Why does everyone hate ads?
AMD likely started designing Epyc before USB 3.1 was standardized. I don't think that it will hold anything back, as 3.1 controllers/ports can be provided by the chipset instead.
Control-Flow Enforcement  Technology Preview [pdf]
Jobs got fired from apple.

Edit: Downvotes for simply stating a fact?
> iOS/Android app (4 guys could maintain this)

Those 4 can handle everything backend related too?
In the end it's only the web server that is serverless, you still need other servers depending on your use case, and hey, web servers aren't that hard to run anyway.
Hey all,
My name is Chris Munns and I am currently the lead Developer Advocate for Serverless at AWS (I am part of the Lambda PM team). We really appreciate this feedback and are always looking for ways to hear about these pain points. Can email me directly: munns@amazon.com if you ever get stuck.

Thanks,
- Chris
Best interest in mind: sure you want to post this with a partially named account with more personal details in prior posts?
AngularJS4: What’s new and What to look forward?
What does this 130 litres include? Food? Meat? Clothes?
> Uber's problem is taxi companies have lower overhead because among other thing their drivers sometimes get hailed by people at street level.

There is always demand for Uber/Lyft just because there isn't a taxi cab nearby 24/7. How is that difficult to understand?
sure, but the politicians and such here don't want to solve the problem, or should I say follow the example of other countries. They will regularly cite other countries of how we are failing then comes the litany of "buts" when confronted with issues seen in those countries. The "but litany" is how their solution will fix all raised issues or provide coverage not seen elsewhere for less and better.

which in the end results in nothing getting done as the problems cannot be agreed to. so its mostly hyperbole to claim it is a solved problem. even in nations with free healthcare problems exist, it just depends on what you want to ignore as a problem
No word on APUs, no word on HSA. Is HSA just dead?
I would think Google would already be using Swift for their iOS apps and all. As for other stuff they have lots of choice and Swift can't be ruled out. After all, they also use Typescript developed by MS.

I think many want rewrites of fine, working software to show language's worth. This is startup or single developer stuff, large professional companies rarely rewrite stuff on whim.
Some business models are fundamentally broken, then the growth is eventually no longer effective in selling the story that one day the company will be profitable.
Product backlog grooming best practices and why it is important
Exxon Mobil Lends Its Support to a Carbon Tax Proposal
The problem with getting rid of any leader, a CEO, President, Prime Minister, or even a Dictator even when they seem 'bad' is that you can't be sure the replacement won't be even worse or even more ineffective in meeting objectives. Unless there's a clear and obvious replacement waiting in the wings it's not certain him leaving is a good or bad idea, especially if they end up scrambling to find someone, anyone, to bring in.
Systemd can be frozen by setting an environment variable and reexecuting after
He may not, but I have seen a board threaten a CEO in a situation like that. It never came to a lawsuit, the CEO stepped down but this sort of thing definitely can happen depending on how bad the situation is.
> It relies on a complex internal model of the world to both augment the object recognition and to sometimes discard the visual data as invalid.

That in particular is what makes the hiring fascinating. This problem is Andrej Karpathy’s expertise[0]. His CNN/RNN designs have reached comfortable results, in particular showcasing the ability to identify elements of a source image, and the relationship between different parts of the image.

The speed at which those techniques improve is also stunning. I didn’t expect CNNs to solve Go and image captioning so fast, but here we are!

I think the principles are already there; a few tweaks and a careful design is all it takes to beat the average driver.

[0]: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/main.pdf
I only run into this issue when I try to watch replays (previously streamed content). Which sucks... frankly. I hate navigating through content on YouTube.
It's 6 liters per square meter of solar membrane. They increased it 25x with a Fresnel lens. From the paper:

> For NEMD experiments with solar concentration, a 25.4 × 25.4 cm Fresnel lens was used to concentrate sunlight on the membrane surface by a factor of 25. The unconcentrated and concentrated solar intensities at the NESMD module surface were 0.7 and 17.5 kW·m−2, respectively.

A facility of 500x500 m^2 would probably still be feasible.

The link is to the university news department, the actual paper is here:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/14/1701835114.full

or here in PDF format:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/14/1701835114.full...
If there was ANY evidence of Amazon doing that
it would destroy everyones trust in AWS

So if one insider with stock options notices another bending the rules, they're incentivised to cover it up rather than raise the alarm?
Queen's Speech: Petrol stations to go electric
There are very few companies, in my experience, that are OK with you charging less than 40 hours, regardless of circumstances. If you want to leave early, you burn your leave time.

They are all happy (and in some it is implicitly mandatory) for you to work greater than 40 hours.
>If you do not show some level of skepticism, you default to a state of belief.

Well, no, you default to a neutral state of receiving information, sans judgment.

Also it is not true that if you do not show skepticism, you default to some specific state. You could hold any number of opinions without showing skepticism -- what you are showing the other party is irrelevant. "Showing" or expressing belief is not the same thing as believing.

>As in, you believe your colleague at face-value

If you are pretending that you believe your colleague while silently reserving judgment or judging disbelief, you do not believe them in any meaningful sense of the word. You are disguising your judgment of what they are saying so as to not cause further conflict -- i.e., acting. That is very different from believing what they say or even 'believing at face value'.
Yes, but that would tell the investors to forget about any pay day justifying the valuation.
> IBM's recent demise

Somebody should let them know!

Certainly on a downward trend of late but ~80BN in revenues last year is far from dead
Probably not worth optimizing for something that has 7% market share. It works fine at 60fps on Radeon HD 5750 from 2009 on Linux. /smug

Nice to see WebGL performing well on a seemingly old HW.
He didn't say that women don't lie about harassment, just that they are taken more seriously. Similar to rape claims.
An example (from a case I was involved as a witness in only last week). A jury must be 100% confident that the evidence presented confirms their beliefs. The judge will say "do not decide based on if you believe it happened but instead on the evidence presented". There a world where the jury can believe it happened (and deliberate for 4.5 hours) but still come out with not guilty because the physical evidence is not there. In historical sexual abuse cases (of which this was one) - the CPS (Criminal Prosecution Service here in the UK) will not take on the case if they did not think there was a good chance of winning and yet the only real evidence here was witness testimony and no forensics. It didn't matter that the jury obviously believed it happened - they did their job and realised that was only an opinion and not backed by evidence.
Robots have been in the operating room for several years now. People are just not aware they certainly aren't there to reduce cost as much as reduce risk from human error.

http://fortune.com/2016/07/11/robots-medical-surgeons/
Lots of people saying the API gate away is hard.

You don't need to use the API gateway.

Just talk direct to Lambda.
Netflix's Interactive Shows Arrive to Put You in Charge of the Story
It's a valid concern and this is where the free market aspects really come into play.

If a school opened up with the goal of training people to diagnose and treat cold and flu symptoms, so that the graduates could diagnose those symptoms and their severity, then recommend a course of care or call in a prescription...here are the potential barriers.

1. Insurance companies wouldn't pay for it at all because those graduates would lack any type of professional credentials.

2. Those graduates wouldn't actually be allowed to call in prescriptions, also due to lack of credentials.

3. Getting credentials approval would require a lot of money to push things through the process, if at all. Then the school would have to be setup in an effort to recoup those costs. The school would be setup with the goal of making money most likely and everything else in the process would have to happen before the school even became feasible.

Assuming all of those things happen, then insurance companies would largely decide whether or not to even pay for those services and people who had companies that wouldn't...would not likely go to those providers. If they did pay for them and the pay was too low to justify the time commitment of dealing with the insurance companies, additional costs would be involved in terms of staff to deal with billing and followup. (Insurance companies often deny on first request, requiring rebilling).

When it comes to cash flow, insurance changes at the beginning of every year can cause payments to be delayed for up to 3 months which becomes a huge problem for office leases and payroll. Between all that if the compensation isn't high enough, it disincentives people to go into the field at all.

The alternative is pure private pay and allowing individuals to decide, this care is good enough for me. Which would require signing something indemnifying the practitioner from legal recourse since they wouldn't be able to get malpractice insurance. If that care costs more than the co-pay at their regular doctor...they will have no reason to choose it. And even with private pay, those same practitioners still wouldn't be able to call in prescriptions.

That is the industry that has been created by removing health care from the free market.
> People can go shop at their mom and pop store, but a large majority of people want low prices.

People really underestimate how much of an impact this has. Here's a completely made up example. Let's say a person of a family of 4 goes grocery shopping once per week. This person buys 30 grocery items on each shopping trip. The difference between Wal-Mart and the local place might only be $0.25 per item. Is it really worth it to go somewhere else to save $0.25? No, unless you're saving $0.25 on everything you buy.

At $0.25 per item with 30 items each week and 52 weeks in a year, this shopper saves $390/year or a little more than $32/month by going to Wal-Mart. $32/month is pretty meaningless to most people who command a developer's salary, but there is a sizable portion of people in the US who could really use an extra $32 each month. That's the difference between Wal-Mart compared to the local shop, and that's the reason why Wal-Mart edged these small stores out of business.
Even when the burden of proof is a preponderance of the evidence, the accuser still has the burden the proof. The general rule seems to be more than 50% probability or "more probable than not." This is not a minor issue...if all you have as evidence are the testimonies of the accuser and and accused and no way to impeach either one of them, deference should still be given to the accused.

Also note that it is in general impossible to prove that something did not happen, as opposed to proving it did, as things that did not happen have no evidence of their occurrence by definition...
I am glad WebGL2 added transform feedback, it makes all mass-spring systems so much easier to compute.
Define "much longer to write." I don't think that claim is true.
> We know what Google and Facebook get up to with peoples data, why would Amazon not analyze or try similar to their customers? To have all that technical capability and not be curious about stuff would be a waste.

Do Google, Amazon or Microsoft look at the data of their cloud offer clients?

I bet that if they do and it is know their business would go to hell
60fps on an early 2014 macbook Air. Which is surprising.
Minesweeper game implemented using React and Kefir
Interview with John D Gauchat – Author of HTML5 for Masterminds
Given our track record I'd rather we didn't try find out.
their life literally depends on it.

That would only explain emergency procedure costs.

Everyday healthcare costs that are not life-or-death are also extremely high.

Almost all of the regulations in the medical industry are for ensuring people are safe

Are tax laws that benefit employers and lock employees into healthcare plans there to keep people safe? How about laws that prevent companies from selling insurance across state lines? Allowing companies to confiscate unused FSA money at the end of every year?

And even then, there are many regulations and laws that I'm sure are ostensibly to keep people safe in the short term - but they have the negative effect of stifling innovation that could bring down costs and make people safer in the long run. Look at the disastrously-slow pace of the FDA drug approval process that has continued for decades.
Good conclusion. Yeah, I don't think I understand competition as a whole, and this is just another facet of this.
it's also a massive recruiting and advertising campaign, since they have no product without hiring huge numbers of drivers
time to update that.
No, this does mean privilege escalation (pretty much all recent proof of concepts for this problem are local user-to-root escalation) because it allows you to engineer a stack/heap overwrite in many non-buggy binaries that run as root.
"After being a felon..."

Sounds like they were a criminal before that.
The vast majority of time we spend watching TV is via a FireTV box, with a good split between Amazons own video service, the Netflix app (which is very well integrated - Netflix results show up in the normal FireTV search results), and the BBC iPlayer app. With the addition of additional "channel" subscriptions I suspect we'll use it more and more.
Well at the commercial level we certainly could and it has been done though most of the uses I have seen are to golf courses and certain parks. certainly large commercial buildings could have a separate set of pipes to provide toilets with water.

now what should be more easily done is require building codes to insure large complexes have separate gray and black water pipes so that easier to treat water is routed better.
Etsy to Cut Headcount by 15%
What does Linus have to do with it?
Given K ruthless record I'd say he bailed before the crack more than stepped down to see it flourish.

Would wait to see what'll happen to his equity before take a bet, but gonna guess will be sold high and eventually rebought after the crack when K will try to step back in at a better condition, with less stakes and more hard cash.
Ohjah Steakhouse has become more than a locals’ favorite