skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a source for "people care more about their family budgets than percentages of GDP spent on healthcare"? Take a look on how the middle class voted last election.

As for the increase premiums are up 25% in 2017 alone. At the same time deductibles are also rising, its much more money for much less coverage if you are unlucky enough to make over 50k a year or so.

http://fortune.com/2016/10/25/obamacare-insurance-premiums-2...
There is no point to cryptocurrency beyond the mechanics of the technology that powers it, and the constraints imposed by it. To ascribe some nobler point or ideal—which is impossible to coerce through the technology alone—is to naively expect something from cryptocurrency that you will never get.

If you want a currency technology and platform that constrains activities to morally benevolent activities, it must either be heavily regulated (traditional systems) or designed and implemented as such (no such system yet exists).
No true Scotsman fallacy.

"If you really want an open source platform" is interpreted to mean different things to different people. Open source may literally mean "open source" without the associated zealous frothing at the mouth RMS association. No contradiction here.
This seems misguided - it is watering down a decent system simply to appease and attract people too cheap to buy tokens; if 2fa is something that is so important to you, and you need it, just buy the damn tokens!

A vague comparison, would be me selling pre-printed 'random' passwords on paper because a user generating their own was 'too difficult'

IMHO, soft token u2f is only useful for testing, development, and personal entertainment
On the front page about 1.5 years ago with 2sli.de, my web app for interactive slides:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10890531

I got a few hundred sign-ups but not much else; I am still maintaining the site but have not found as much time as I would like to develop it.
And unless they pay enough no providers will do the procedure unless you somehow force them.
India's exports have to compete against those of other countries. If India places itself at a competitive disadvantage as this Transportation official proposes they will lose sales and thus jobs.

Sure they can manipulate the currency but that places a tax on what everyone buys from overseas and lowers standards of living.
Price discrimination doesn't work under perfect competition (see: law of one price).

Insofar as it might work for Home Depot, it may be due to local monopoly (competitor is not co-located) and asymmetric information (customers assume a bigger quality difference than is true). However in my experience, the price of premium tools/supplies often does reflect higher production cost these days.
Tinfoil Security (https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com) originally started as a Show HN, and hit the front page back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2291944

We're doing well, and hiring! :)
Many reptiles are indeterminate growers (meaning they'll keep growing as long as long as they are alive) so of course the largest ones live the longest. Birds and mammals, however, pretty much all have determinate growth as far as I know.
What you linked is basically an elaborate phishing scheme. The exploit allows the installation of non app store apps, but that doesn't mean the installed apps can escape the sandbox. The worst thing it can do is try to trick the user into entering passwords into the app's fields. As far as malware goes it's pretty benign.

There have been a handful of cases of iOS malware over the years, but no serious exploit has been widespread. For an exhaustive list see here: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Malware_for_iOS

The most wide spread malicious apps are generally apps that access private apis but manage to get through Apple's review process and onto the App Store. They can be far reaching but again they can't breach the sandbox which means the absolute worst thing they do is upload your email address to some server or try to trick you into giving away your password. I still stand by my assertion that the average user doesn't need to worry about malware on iOS.
The issue is that there will always be injustices and evil (born of greed). Until the day humans transcend bring humans (i.e., acquire unlimited resource and immortality).
Probably the book that surprised me the most, was "Designing Active Server Pages" by Scott Mitchell[1] - bought for next to nothing in a sale clearing out old titles. I don't really program in VBscript or on the .net platform - but the book demonstrates how much improvement it is possible to get in a server-side template language (eg: like PHP, ColdFusion) with a bit of mindfulness to how code is structured.

I'm not sure I would recommend it today, but at the time I read it, in the mid 2000s, it did change my view on these "unmaintainable" technology stacks. I later came across the fusebox architecture/pattern, originally from ColdFusion - and realized that many PHP programmers had skipped some history, ending up reinventing code structure, sometimes badly.

Note that fusebox has grown and changed, I'm mostly talking about the fundamental ideas, and I don't think the later "port" to using XML was a very elegant or good idea. For those interested, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusebox_(programming)#Fusebox_... and most of the rest of that page.

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596000448.do
And selling yourself to cia, nsa and rest of the spying organisations.
NPR & BBC seem better-than-average in that regard. They seem to keep a pretty neutral tone. I also like the Economist.

They're all skewed of course, but they don't try to incite panic.
While that was an interesting article I didn't see it making any claims of having bypassed the sandbox, but "just" the DRM to allow install of pirated apps.
The heavy sandboxing of every app on iOS is fundamentally different from any desktop OS. Sandboxing of desktop apps is still very far from a complete implementation.
Of course they do. Raise the deductible 5-10x and you can claim some pretty interesting "premium reduction" numbers.
A really good article on privacy in general that needs to be read by everyone:

https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.htm...

But regarding cryptocurrencies specifically:

Imagine an organization in one of the 74 countries where simply being homosexual is still illegal (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/gay-lesbian-bisexual...) that tries to save them from being prosecuted by the government.

This may require some anonymous cash.

Not all laws are equally just across time and space. The right to meet in secret and conduct transactions in secret aids transitions.
You went full straw man real quick. Where in this chain is anyone advocating shutting anything down by force?

And how did we go from dealing drugs to terrorism? Time out dude, time out.
If this wild theory is to be admitted, you must also theorize that the service was honeypotted for a while, and the proprietor is only now permitted to shut it down.

With no evidence for either, it's simply speculation.
In the U.S., the doctors do not have standing to appear in court and order treatment, or non-treatment, for a patient. That is solely up to the family, and if there is no family, the court appoints a guardian. There is no way this situation could have happened in the U.S., where the parents were forbid to pay for own treatment.

I think it does concern single-payer. I can only think of the quote, "A government powerful enough to give you everything you want, has the power to take everything you need away". In this case, where the government controls healthcare, it can make decisions for you, even if that is not what you want, or are willing to pay for yourself.
No, I need a source for "the rate of cost increase is steeper under the ACA than it was prior to the ACA".
The Economist is not an unbiased publication. It exists for the explicit purpose of arguing for the liberalization of markets.

edit: classic anti-left liberal, not "american progressive" liberal
What license was it under? If it was something like BSD than it sounds like what people were doing with the program was legal.
Show HN: Piggy, a friendly x-plat PostgreSQL schema migration tool
Web Browser: Chromium

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: Gnome-Terminal

IDE: Geany

File manager: Nemo

Basic Text Editor: Pluma

PDF Reader: Atril

Office Suite: Libreoffice

Calendar: Orage

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Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome

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https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

There's also an OPML file that you can import into Feedly.
>If an officer came to you and said, "Here is a photo of a 12 year old girl who was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave. The payments were all in bitcoin and we would have caught the criminals involved if they had not used your service to hide their transactions."

They'd just use cash. The argument against anonymous transactions and tumblers is the same as the argument against cash. Besides, this kind of emotional blackmail is the reason people avoid talking to the police.
AP and Reuters. Direct, factual, little to no editorializing.
I'll keep creating plain REST APIs for the time being. I haven't really faced any of the issues mentioned. Or at least they haven't impacted development time for me in a meaningful way.

If a client requires a GraphQL API, I'll happily learn. It does look like an interesting technology and a valid alternative.
The No Agenda show analyses (twice weekly) exactly what you're talking about and compares many sources. They deconstruct the media.

They frequently also use European (France 24 and Deutsche Welle) and Asian (like CCTV) to contrast the news in the U.S. They also include RT and compare.

http://www.noagendashow.com/
More suburbs is probably a bad solution to lengthy commutes.
Being generous, there is only the spectrum around 100 MHz to 10 GHz that's usable.

In layman terms, 1 MHz allow for about 1 Mbps. That's all the bandwidth you can get.

Wired connection bandwidth is trivial, any optic fiber will give a dependable gigabit link. A tower is already equipped with 3 to 12 radio stations.

While we are talking about telecommunications, I wrote that last week: https://thehftguy.com/2017/07/19/what-does-it-really-take-to... Would you like me to write a similar technical article to explain why there won't be more bandwidth?
This is a great point not understood by many. Bitcoin keeps a history of all transactions. If you identify yourself during a transaction your history is exposed. Mixing services help.
6 Reasons Why I Am Done with AirBnB as a Renter
Nor is using a laundry machine, but it may be suspicious when using it with a large number of bills.
Are people capable of distinguishing the difference?
nooooooooooooooooo
Friend of mine ended up in hospital in the US for a while. He had an accountant visit him at his bedside! WTF does an accountant have to do with healthcare?!
I think we're talking at cross purposes here.

Microsoft got burned badly in a comment on this thread, because some contractors effectively wanted to upgrade their contractual status after working there for a while. That led them to update their HR policies to make sure there was no such confusion.

For what it's worth, I am pretty sure that Google still provides cafeteria access for food to the cafeteria work, obviously after service hours.

Another thing to bear in mind is that this is an HR policy for Facebook (I can't speak to Facebook and the actual policy).

They don't really have to make sense, HR policies are there to shield the company from any possible liability and/or the possibility of the body shop's company getting their contract terminated. The spectre of the Microsoft lawsuit is probably likely to forbid certain practices for contractors, direct or through a hiring agency.

Also, for most restaurants, you're not allowed to take food home from the serving line after your shift. If you can take food home from the serving line, that (in the company's perspective) tends to create a perverse incentive for making more food and driving up supply costs for no benefit to the company.

There are many different perspectives for different companies. Simply saying that you've not encountered anything like this is not an indicative of general industry practices. Also, you were contracting directly with the company. You were probably paid better than the food service workers. If you're making under 20 an hour, the incentives for you to sue are far greater than if you were extremely well paid and should not rock the boat.

Finally, if you're spending all your time onsite working for just one employer for extended hours and periods of times, even if you have a contracting company between you and the company, if you do it for long enough and get enough benefits, you can claim that you were actually an employee of the parent company. Sort of like a common law wife. It makes sense that you would want to put up an even higher wall between you and third party contractors.
> I wonder if the shutdowns last week played any his decision?

Almost certainly. But I suspect it is more a case of "I can now legally claim to have deleted and destroyed all my logs".

That will make any case directly against him very, very difficult.
Right. But I was responding to the claim that robots will do everything.

Once you make a
more reasonable prediction that robots will replace some humans in some jobs then I think we can have an interesting conversation.

As robots take on manufacturing, I'm more worried about the political instability of Asia than anything else. It's manufacturing base could be decimated as factories move closer to consumers in higher wage nations due to automated manufacturing making it economical again.
Deductibles haven't 5x'd (let alone 10x'd) under the ACA, which, for what it's worth, caps deductibles. Before Blue Cross made it annoying to do this, we did the standard HSA+HDHP plan (most young families should HSA+HDHP), and it was a little annoying getting a bronze plan from BCBS with a deductible high enough to qualify as an HDHP for our HSA.
I think employers should be more accountable for how the people that work for them (directly or indirectly) are paid and treated. I also think making them legally accountable is the wrong way to go about fixing the problem.

I don't think you can legislate individuals and groups enough to make them decent. You have to go about it another way.

I also don't think it's reasonable to imply that people who think free markets are more efficient and humane are also somehow less compassionate.
It sounds to me like someone who was poor and believed in privacy, and is now rich and does not. It is funny how conservative you can become when you get a lot of money.
If you run an online store that doesn't validate credit cards correctly you will become an API for fraudsters to check the validity of Visa numbers.
Yes. To me, the problem is that there are homeless people in the first place. I suppose if it's just a problem that you have to see them in your park, then it's as good a solution as any.

I'm not homeless, though, and it's pretty annoying that one can't take a nap in the afternoon because of this.
It's ironic that your argument against associating privacy with criminality is citing an example where privacy is seen as morally necessary specifically because the acts one wishes to support have been criminalized.

It seems to me your problem is more with the association between criminality and moral wrongdoing than that between privacy and criminality.
>You can't even sell gift certificates on the Internet without having built a business that will probably have criminals as a plurality constituency.

This is not correct, in my experience - largest constituency for many gift cards is merchandise resellers. I myself have purchased in the mid 5 figure range of gift cards and I've met people who've spent in the 7 figure range.
It takes significant non-monetary motives (eg. personal relationships or cultural norms) to maintain a cartel.
Facebook is providing value. They aren't providing it for free here, which is to say, they are extracting the price for said value.

Wikipedia, on the other hand, is providing value, and isn't extracting the price. Therefore they rely on donations. If Wikipedia extracted their price for the amount of value they provide, I'd say they'll be one of the biggest companies in the world.
I think that's a fair point, but would argue that it's likely not true for a sizable amount of the population (e.g. my childhood fears have mostly left me). But further, there are lots of services which actually sell getting past your fears, perhaps they are just not selling well enough yet to overcome the amount of fear being produced continuously? Mainly, just questioning how much it is "forever" fear vs. a constant influx of new fear.
I wouldn't call asking you to clarify your position going strawman.
If you are looking for more discussions on RSI, HN user melling has been sharing his research on many such threads:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ErgonomicNotes&type=comment

Unfortunately tools like the Jouse3 mouth-operated mouse cost too much to be experiments.
Because private property is a cornerstone of a free society?

You can't just destroy someone else's property because you have some personal anarchist notion of justice.

If they are really being negligent then they should face the proper penalties.
> act inappropriately, troll, comment offensively

I'd argue this is the single most important thing the internet has given us. The possibility of honest discourse without fear of repercussion. It has single handedly changed the world.

The terms "act inappropriately", "comment offensively"… these are terms of control; tyranny of the majority.

Having to hear arguments you don't like or agree with is the single most important development humanity has ever achieved.

I hold nothing but scorn for the people who fight against minority voices.
I've written a paper for homework on FRP and know a popular FRP author who explained me how it works, but I've not used FRP on a production project yet. So call me a novice :)

What's the advantage of SodiumFRP over React/Vue with bidirectional data-bindings? The marketing for Functional Reactive Programming isn't good and most of my colleagues don't know what's it's useful for, maybe also unpopular due to the technical name. Most often Front-End devs don't know much about category-theory or functional programming and that's ok, but it helps react/vue/angular grow.
The VM is also fucked (or, at least it was in the recent past) because it turns out that their semantics are a mess. For example, exception handling is either implicit or explicit depending on how a method is invoked!

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/633
It sounds like law of one price only refers to goods where there is an arbitrage opportunity. If the goods have different intrinsic values, then they would have different prices, which I believe is what the original comment is arguing.
Paypal can do both of those
Forget the part about protecting jobs, how confident will the driverless cars companies be even otherwise, sending their cars out into the chaotic traffic in India, where you routinely share the road with bicycles, motorcycles, scooters, rickshaws, handcarts, buses, lorries (trucks), cows and the occasional sheep and donkeys?

Related video => [2006] India Driving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM
You could see this as political posturing by the transport minister. As the article mentions, with the state of India's roads, it was unlikely that it was going to be getting self-driving cars in the short-term. Banning them now, and removing the ban once the technology becomes feasible for India's environment is very possible.
I mean, you need somebody like ESPN (or Deadspin), because there's actual journalism to be done relating to sports. Off the top of my head, some areas sports-related topics that would never have been covered by SBNation-style sites include major sports leagues' problematic relationships to the military and local governments, the stadium swindles perpetrated by teams, the NFL's coverup of concussion research, and the monstrous scam that is the NCAA fall into the category of "deserving of real journalism". I follow a bunch of SBNation sites, but sites that specifically identify as "for fans of such-and-such a team", and that rely on unpaid volunteer writers (which a lot of SBNation absolutely does) can't be relied on to cover a lot of these topics.
There's an emerging trend of companies that will put your name on a generic book
And it's horrible for entrepreneurs:

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-entrepreneurs-shouldnt-write-books-2017-7
> a potential boon to many

While I believe the right decision will eventually be made, I'm not quite sure that positive language really holds up to scrutiny. Whole Foods fits a niche in selling a particular type of food, and shoppers are willing to pay a high premium for that food. With the exception of possibly Trader Joe's [0] there's no place near me that fills that niche besides Whole Food's. My understanding of Amazon's intent in purchasing the store is that they have no intention of preserving that niche, and want to turn it into an everyman's grocery store with some Amazon-specific gimmicks.

If Amazon is correct in believing the assets of Whole Food's are more valuable as a general grocery store, then the sale is a net positive for consumers. But there's still other anti-trust considerations at play and sometimes minorities do get what they want at the cost of net benefit.

Of course I don't know what that congressman's going on about. Whole Foods only exist in places where people can afford to go to Whole Foods. If you're poor the outcome of this deal is absolutely meaningless to you.

[0] For the record, the one near me closed down a couple years ago, before the Whole Food's even opened.
Serious question -- why not? What makes this a bad idea?
Employees want Mark Zuckerberg to know they are struggling to make ends meet
In many peoples' reasoned opinions, the "illegality" of prostitution and alcohol sales is up for debate (laws not withstanding). Heck, even past American presidents skirted the laws for the latter -- and probably didn't pay taxes on booze sales either.

EDIT: My point (to the downvoters) is that not all "illegal" activities are immoral, and that reasoned people could legitimately consider willfully defying & hiding their defiance as an act of freedom. Case in point: Tea in 1773.
Leaders of the current govt. were in opposition when they opposed IT and telecommunication revolution in the late 80s for the fear of job losses. The opposition didn't succeed back then and India could become a software outsourcing giant in the coming years.
It's an analogy.

Remove your objection of force here to stay on topic.

A quote:

> if not a majority, of the profits of his service came through being an enabler to criminal activity. He's being realistic on the subject

In the same way Signal would be an enabler of terrorism.

Let's call both equivalent. Crime = crime.

Is encryption (or even the concept of privacy) then unethical because some benefit from it wrongly?

Bottomline: Just because we realize that people commit crime with tools not intended for crime should we then outlaw those tools?
Actually I think Notepad got updated recently:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/6lpj7j/weve_rele...

> This update should not require you to have to reboot unless you happen to have Notepad.exe open. This update only revs the version of the OS and includes a updated binary version of Notepad.exe and nothing else.