skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So they need to do almost everything right and have luck on their side with things like positive acceptance. A betting man prob doesn't like all those bullet points needed.
Wow - literally just saw an article about RescueTime on the frontpage of NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/your-money/where-does-the...). And installed it 5 minutes ago. Coincidence, if I've ever seen one... RIP.
His impact... was immeasurable.

RIP

..now if Apple would only let RT track all our app use..
Perhaps the entire call of the function was replaced by a constant, then.
> There is what amounts to an "API". The virtualized software thinks it's talking directly to hardware, so the API is just an emulation of that hardware. Since controlling hardware is almost invariably messier than doing system calls, the API is actually more complex.

Nobody said a hypervisor was completely trivial, but just to be clear, a pure hypervisor wouldn't "emulate" any hardware except what was physically present on the system. The line between "virtual machine" and "hypervisor" and "emulator" are blurry enough as it is, and I'd like to be clear about what the subject of this little thread is.

> Here's an HN post I wrote a few years ago, about VM exploits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9241807

> Plenty of exploits to be found, many of which were related to emulation of "I/O channel programs", which are, essentially, System/370 I/O "hardware".

Very interesting. Thank you.
GeoJSON. Was hoping there was something lighter than QGIS as I just want to create a collection of markers, no unique shapes, point clouds, etc.
That's a great idea because the codes are usually on the bill, too. The problem, of course, is keeping all of that volunteered data secure.
I'd love to open it up tomorrow, but alas, I'm not the decision maker.
Being able to tell that a loop is gone shouldn't be too hard with a diff of the assembler output with optimizations on and off - at least for fairly trivial code.
Is it really a scam if there was no deception and every buyer knew what they were getting into?
So build it in Europe?
what about someone social engineering the registrar [1] or hacking the TLD nameservers [2] and getting control of all your accounts using that email?

[1] https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...
[2] https://thehackerblog.com/the-io-error-taking-control-of-all...
I agree, Canadian employers are really not paying good wages for the same skills as the US. The reason for that, AFAIK, is Canada's skills-based immigration policy. In the original article, notice that the CEO effectively brought over teams of people permanently to the country fairly easily (it seems like) so perhaps that causes wage depression?

I was answering the parent post on why salaries are not directly comparable in the US and Canada with one opinion, re. the healthcare safety net. It is entirely possible that having a sane immigration policy rather than the indentured sickness that is the H1B also leads to a healthier supply of talent and thus lowers wages. I am sure there are other factors.
One approach is to assign a random 2 byte number to each function and all callers to that function must follow the call with those 2 bytes (with a jmp 2 so it doesn't try to execute them). Unfortunately this would require the linker to get involved because we're not going to know these cookies at compile time.

Another approach is to take a hash of the types of the args and the return value (pointers obviously being opaque). This way we know the cookie value for any given function at compile time and we can stay out of the linker. However, in this case function a(int, char) can return to the call sight of function b(int, char) because to the code they're identical.
Hello, this is sales, ready to receive your payment.
I hate it when people make it sound like it's ok in Japan to knowingly just grab someone else's umbrella. You're right, they're cheap. You're right, they all kinda look the same. And yes, if there's 10 of the exact kind you left behind you may just grab one. But if you just steal someone else's umbrella, you're still an asshole. Yeah there's plenty of those in Japan as well. This is the real reason for why people aren't particularly attached to their umbrellas. Not because they're cheap* and replaceable, but because they know an asshole will come along and steal it at any moment.

* Those 600 yen actually matter to a lot of people
We expect car sales to hold up well relative to the number of cars on the road owing to the significantly faster (by 3.5X) replacement rate of shared vs private cars," noted Goldman Sachs. "This difference in velocity is due to the higher utilization of shared (23k annual miles) vs. private cars (5.9k).

But that single shared car presumably will replace several private cars, as more and more people give up car ownership for ride-sharing. It's hard to see how that's a positive development for carmakers, as they sell fewer and fewer vehicles that are driven more and more. In the long run, once the ridesharing balance stabilizes I'm sure they'll be fine, but in the short term, a significant sales decline seems inevitable.
> Pinot noir is really tough in general. If not for Burgundy, we probably wouldn't cultivate it, because it's really not that good elsewhere.

Have you forgotten about New Zealand?
because that's the URL that the admins of .AF publish. It could be http://whatever.af if they wanted that, but if it had an httpd not showing any content, would be equally as suspect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.af

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/cctld_db/codes/af.html
Next-generation Subversion   unveiled
Search "google dutch auction ipo"
Honestly, I imagine recreating the IRC community of CS is never going to happen again -- also there are a bit of rose colored glasses here.

While it was obviously great, the majority of it was just idling in team channels and looking for group/pug/team channels. It was very centralized to IRC and needed then, but better "services" have come along and handle these problems much better, ie: ESEA, reddit, etc. A lot of these communities have come full circle now with discord being popular, and for many games you can find discord servers that emulate some of the CS IRC experiences of the past.
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Rsync Service control panel for Mac (basic; free)
Here's a plan:

Hire 1 billion people to do the remediation work. Hire another 100 million people to do the science to figure out what proper remediation work looks like. Hire another 100 million people to design video games that walk the 1 billion workers through the process, and can accommodate differences in IQ, learning style, and work life needs. Then hire an additional 100 million people who will document the workers lives, and create media experiences to fund the effort. The work can also be funded by creating eco-resort experiences, selling food byproducts, etc.

No need for advanced technology, just very detailed instructional games paired with good quality basic tools and 1 billion people worth of labor.

Seems perfectly actionable to me. You just have to start with four people: the worker, the scientist, the game designer, and the media producer, and iterate until it's working well and then infect the global population virally.

I'd agree with you if it was 1950, we'd have a very difficult time of it going through traditional political/social channels. But it's 2017, and with software the problem seems very tractable.
This is why the Dutch system is interesting. They have a two-tier model of private and public coverage. For short-term, low-cost care, the private market operates (under regulation) and for long-term care they have a state supplied universal coverage system.
Give your user the choice. Personally I loathe social login ESPECIALLY for new sites because I don't want to give them any access to my social accounts. Because privacy. But social login reduces friction for a lot of users who are less concerned about privacy.
Faraday Future is one step closer to the deadpool
Customers aren't often a concern for the subsistence farmer, although I suppose you might sell or barter any surplus - though you may be better advised to share it freely and so build goodwill.
As of 2015 YouTube reportedly hadn't turned a profit but was breaking even [1, 2]. If the world's number 2 website's business model wasn't turning profits after 9 years... we can probably expect the same for snap.
Definitely makes you wonder about the viability of the ad revenue model.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-f...
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-still-doesnt-make-goo...
I work for the OpenEMR project which has a strong commitment to User Experience and design.

The last release 5.0.0 implemented Bootstrap 3, but we are trying even more design enhancements for the next
minor release.

A good quote from the book "Hacking Healthcare" by Fred Trotter is:
"[I] state categorically that healthcare benefits from open source more than any other industry."

If you want to improve Healthcare in the US please join the OpenEMR project. There are a lot of good OS healthcare projects out there but few that are fighting for the highest level of regulation compliance along with being really good to use software.

http://www.open-emr.org
http://www.cnbc.com/2014/08/19/es-took-off-but-the-auction-d...
So, if I understand correctly, a misbehaved program that incorrectly ignores SIGHUP will be replaced by a misbehaved program that starts a new user scope with systemd. In both cases, there is no way to tell whether the program has hung, or whether it is working as intended. The end result is the same. So, we've switched to a new API, broken all existing daemons, for no end benefit?

I'm fine with having KillUserProcesses exist as a concept. There are some odd machines, like public terminals, where you would want to forbid any long-lived processes. I'm not okay with it being the default option. Yes, the distributions can change their default, but systemd's default in an endorsement that shouldn't be there.
Although, suppose they manage to average 3 rentals before someone decides they're not parting with it. That would mean they break even. Add in potential for advertising as another post mentioned, and maybe there's actually some viability to this crazy half-disposable-item for super expensive rent scheme!
That's what I'm getting, but I'm trying to at least give systemd advocates the benefit of the doubt. When I have the time and energy, it can be a good use of time to poke at people with questions.
> Vive is room-scale and had motion controls from day 1.

Right, and it is native instead of a hack. The Oculus roomscale is completely impractical - hoarding all of the fastest USB ports on your machine.
Do keep in mind that he rather famously avoids investing in tech companies.
> 0x00A651D43B6e209F5Ada45A35F92EFC0De3A5184 couldn’t be reached for further comment.

Was this just a cute line or is it actually possible to reach them and get comments?
also see http://blog.qure.ai/notes/semantic-segmentation-deep-learnin...
Thanks for this; as very-much-not-a-security guy, the alarm sounded by the original post was surprisingly clear, but fleshing out a plausible attack scenario like this really helps drive the point home while also teaching me a bit.
This is frustrating. I originally moved from LastPass to 1Password several years ago because of how they handled syncing.

I was one of many to complain about their new Windows app when they started only supporting local vaults read-only. They assured me they wouldn't be forcing users off to the hosted version, but that's essentially what they're doing for anyone using the Windows version.

For what it's worth, the hosted version is nice - particularly for non-technical users - but not sure it's worth the monthly fee when I can use open source alternatives like KeePass with few trade-offs and also not sure it's worth supporting a company who is forcing the move to a recurring subscription despite the negative feedback from some of it's oldest supporters.
How about we just take the step and say that eating beef, in any circumstance, is morally wrong? Even if you can find some beef that you think is ecologically responsible, your are promoting the practice which is perhaps most central to global warming, after driving a large gasoline car.
And have you received any responses?
International education: postcolonial hangover?
While I do feel compassion for you and your pain, I need to point out to you that you are unreasonable, bordering on psychopathological irrational fear.

The scenario in which "the entirety monetary value of my life's work could be destroyed in a moment by a medical issue" - is very uncommon, the stuff of scary stories, not reality. in reality, you are protected even if you don't have a good insurance.

Think about "medical issues" that could happen to you or anybody to leave your "family destitute".

1. You can break a leg skiing. Suppose it is a nasty break requiring surgery then rehabilitation. Your ED bill would be 3-5 K, the surgical bill 4-10 K, hospital room x 3 days about 15 K, rehab charges maybe 3K. So you owe roughly 33 K. At most.
You can negotiate it down by 1/2 easily, with customer service, the hospital would rather get some money than none. They can design a payment plan an 0% over 10 years. You can also walk away - you won't be taken to court, the hospital will eat the bill and sell it to collectors - but you will turn your phone off. Medical contributions to bad credit are not as toxic as your unpaid Target bill, and you can still get loans by pointing out that you are in negotiation over the unfairly large hospital bill.

So... Unpleasant, but no tragedy.

2. Suppose a tragedy happens. You have a horrible illness that will require millions in maintenance. There is a social worker and a case worker assigned to you, and you will get Medicaid retrospectively, or Medicare - both have loopholes that allow certain disabled patients to be included before they even apply for disability.

So... You are in tough shape, but not financially. Your wealth is protected.
Are goats taking jobs from union workers?
I've heard the plugs for Stuff you missed in history class, and the first episode of Make me smart...

...but I'm about 2 months behind in my feed as it is.
My son was born last year. We had two insurance companies and accidentally filed with the wrong one as primary.

I used my hsa to pay the balance of about $800

9 months later, instead of refilling with the correct insurance company, they sent us a $20k bill.

After we called them and said, hey you know you should probably refill with the right company, they did. The insurance company declined because they took to long to refile.

The hospital never bothered to follow up and explain the situation until we called the insurance company ourselves and had them restart the process.

In the meantime our secondary insurance approved the part of the bill that was for my son, rather than my wife. The hospital sent me a new bill for $200 for their deductible.

From here, there was an extended game of back and forth where they'd send me a bill and I'd call and ask if they figured out the rest of the insurance and what happened to the HSA check we sent them. This went on for 13 months.

My son is now walking and this week they finally sent us to collections.

I called and threatened to take them to court, and finally talked to a supervisor who admitted that they owed us $600.

But what about collections?

Sir, that was a different bill.

Why can't you take the money that you owe me and pay the bill that you just sent me to collections for?

Well you didn't ask us to do that. I'll go ahead and do that now.

I resisted throwing my phone through a wall just barely.
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I'm looking to outsource an iOS MVP to a contractor. Would be a pretty simple app and we'd be looking to move development inhouse if it went well. How/where would you look to hire a contractor?
I guess it won't hurt to offer my own anecdata point about idiot medical billing.

Stanford hospital billed us for an IVF procedure. However, we were in Paris at the time they claimed my wife was undergoing the procedure.

It took going down to the billing office with our ticket stubs and pitching a fit to get it zeroed out.

I agree there's lots of room for improvement in medical billing.
This looks great. We're working on something at Tracker Network[1] that you may find interesting, but it's still pretty early. Have you got an email I can reach you at?

[1] https://tracker.network
I'm curious what you would have expected self-serving airbnb users to do that they apparently are not?
I think he is kinda street smart...
What's the use case for booting an entire OS to service a request?
> "Well-established protocols" can result in IPO prices being systematically set too low. Yes, theoretically a bank should be able to break the ranks, but all they would get for their trouble is smaller profits, and a potential lawsuit from investors. After all, they did diverse from the "established accounting standards" when pushing the IPO price up.

Assuming a roughly competitive market with n players that do not engage in direct collusion, if IPO prices are being set too low from the perspective of the companies IPOing, there's room for an additional player (n+1) to set their prices slightly higher. Assuming their ability to predict the risk on the opening bell prices is the same as the other n players' ability to predict risk, that bank will produce IPOs that are consistently favorable for the companies IPOing, and companies will choose that bank as their underwriter. Ceteris paribus, their profits would grow, not shrink.

There are factors that impede this from happening perfectly in practice - such as barriers to entry for the underwriters - which is (part of) what explains why this disparity won't trend to exactly zero. But it's wrong to say that banks would get punished by either companies or their investors for responding to this disparity by raising prices - the exact opposite would happen. And in itself, that still doesn't point to widespread collusion between banks, or even any sort of implicit conspiracy.
FB has four massive "empires": FB, Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram. They haven't monetized Whatsapp or Messenger much - maybe they never can, but for now that's potential opportunity. They have a strong grasp on their massive market share. They still have more monetizing to do on Instagram, which is already doing well financially. IG alone is worth more than Snapchat. FB has a lot of cash and keeps piling it on too. They were always profitable and raised a ton more than Snap, including the money they didn't lose by pricing the IPO at just the right price. Only hurt them for a short time.

FB has more immediate ways to expand too, most likely. We already saw them transition from relying on getting a cut of things like plugins and games in FB to that not mattering at all. They could try to go into payments more, maybe an Adsense alternative -- likely the only company capable of doing so too. Yahoo failed at doing it a decade ago and any other company has always been much more niche with much more worse payouts.
The reason you think I'm not answering the question is that I believe you have a faulty premise (that the works of Shakespeare are under copyright protection today).

I believe they are not.
I can't remember the source for this. 30% will never experience simulator sickness, 10% will always experience it and 60% can learn how to deal with nearly anything. If you were only sick after 30min then I'd put you in the final category - simply take breaks long before you are sick.
This post had an earlier, more accurate title, which you can still see in the <title> tag. "Do not accept New York Mag's climate change doomsday scenario"

The article says that there's still hope if we act now. It does not say that climate change cannot make the Earth uninhabitable by 2100.
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darn! thought i scored a big one. going back to my basement.
I believe the point is more about the marginal utility of wealth and what additional products and services $1.4 billion can buy relative to the $250+MM net worth they have now.
They are claiming the banks are fixing prices without offering any proof.

Well, the "proof" being "we all know banks are greedy and evil, so they must be doing this"
Looks very cool! Email is in profile.
So what, if not this, is the right strategy for our political moment?
There's quite probably some of that. A quote from J.S. Mill on the distinction between science and technology strikes me as useful:

"One of the strongest reasons for drawing the line of separation clearly and broadly between science and art is the following:—That the principle of classification in science most conveniently follows the classification of causes, while arts must necessarily be classified according to the classification of the effects, the production of which is their appropriate end."

Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12004?msg=welcome_stranger#E...

Deep Learning is finding associated effects. It does not find the underlying causes. It is a mode of technical rather than scientific advance.
> Don't learn technologies or skills that are in vogue.

This should be the big highlight of your comment. A lot of people out there don't seem to realize that the mass adoption of AI that is being claimed to happen still can go up in smoke if

1) the tech is proven to be unscalable,

2) the tech has a huge expense (money, personal info, etc),

or

3) the tech is seen as tacky and gains the associated brand image

Right now, AI requires a lot of FPGA power to do, so 2 might be the most likely scenario in the short term. Long term, unless non-technical users can be convinced to let go of their privacy enough for highly public contextual computing to be performed, then 3 will occur.

As for the OP, I'd recommend Full Stack since you get exposure to almost everything that you'd encounter in 90% of dev environments out there.
Also, the greatest duration of the eclipse will be in Southern Illinois at 2m 4.1s in length.
Pretty interesting project and looks great! I see a platform filter; is this targeting all platforms or just PC at the moment? Any plans to setup a way to jump directly into a game with a group of people? I'm not sure how many games support this but being able to click a button to jump into an existing game would be pretty compelling.

Love the recruitment and players LFG though a drop down seems like the wrong mechanic to me (would be pretty cool to be able to show game titles as like squares in which you could select as your filter (IMO at least)).

Hope you don't mind the feedback! Good luck! These types of ideas are certainly interesting.
Tclquadcode (Tcl compiler) dev status update
They are generally less than what providers bill to others but Medicare doesn't pay below cost.

Medicaid varies because states have way more control and many states (especially Republican-leaning ones) have slashed their rates as part of a concerted effort to kill the program. Not that it matters - in Texas you generally can't qualify for Medicaid if you're childless or have a job. The income requirements are insanely low.
Realize this is venting, but it is super frustrating to follow links only to be greeted with "Subscribe to the National Digital Edition" blocking pages.

I do use adblock plus...are there some Chrome console options I can use to block the script that hides the content?
In Rust the "verified product" is the chain of bors merges - we even save build artifacts for each node in the chain for easy bisection of issues. A rollup creates a single bors merge for all the commits in them, so it's only 1 link in the chain.
I'm just going off of what senior folks have told me in the Toronto area, for banking, or at big employers like AMD. $150-180k makes it far more reasonable, and if I had seen hints that offers would be close to that, I would have moved back to Ontario years ago.