skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, the price increased. And, let's ignore related factors such as the increased cost of medical education and advances in medical care (my aunt got a new heart a year ago!)

My view of the mainstream story is that things went from ok to chaos within the past, say, 3 years.

Instead, the costs have been steadily rising while voters have repeatedly opted not to make changes.

Thought experiment: what if gas or milk prices had increased at the same rate? Education cost has increased a lot, but that's mostly inflated by student loans that I predict will implode like subprime mortgages.
People are getting relatively poorer in comparison to their health care costs. So yes, we have been getting worse, and at some point the character of a problem changes into a crisis, which can seem "sudden".
Some sites do that (wikis being a common example), I personally never found it all that useful.

What benefit do you see from such an indicator?
Offline time tables are more than zero useful!
CSS is for a print paradigm. But it makes very little sense in a web app paradigm. So in lieu of anything better, we encapsulate CSS with hashes, and write it in Javascript so we can have dynamic styling.

What we really need is a better way to style web apps.
Yes, that was a reasonable and accurate explanation in 2007 or 2009.

It's decade later. I'm using Safari for hours at a time in web apps with video and JavaScript. Performance is excellent. Battery life is sufficient.

Now let me run these same web apps offline with embedded web servers or cached data!
That's actually not true in any of the states that didn't sign on to the ACA Medicaid expansion, which, yes, was designed so that between exchange subsidies and Medicaid eligibility there would be affordable subsidized or government provided coverage across the whole spectrum where people didn't have employer coverage or the ability to afford unsubsidized coverage.
many will disagree with me, but i remain very surprised that these firms have not been hit by a lot more equal opportunity lawsuits from state and federal agencies.
Did you report him to the authorities I hope?
Which reminds me of GATTACA law which congress passed after the movie came out.
Maybe in the US, but not in Europe or in South America.
> A lot of people just get the best iphone every 24 months (e.g. rich people, or people who have a generous smartphone policy at work).

You don't need to be rich to afford a new iPhone every 24 months. $1000 over 24 months is a little under $42 per month. After the first time, you won't spend that much anyway, because you can sell your current 24-month-old iPhone for a few hundred dollars when you buy the next one.
Doesn't matter. The "zero day" thing is a red herring. If you operate a business like Equifax, technically you're responsible for infrastructure vulnerabilities whether they're known or not. You assume your app servers could get compromised by an unknown vulnerability; you design your applications to minimize attack surface to reduce your risk, and then build in layers of controls and additional defenses to mitigate the impact of such a vulnerability.

Nobody Fortune 500 company besides Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple really does this effectively (and even then, the track record isn't great). But that doesn't change anything about the analysis.
Although the carbon emissions caused by the manufacturing of an electric car is greater than those for a gasoline car, the amount of carbon emissions for the total lifecycle of an electric car are on average half those of a gasoline car [1, Figure ES-2]. This is calculated using the average U.S. grid emission data. In a country such as Norway, where 98% of our grid is powered by hydro, the greenhouse gas emissions during the operation of an electric car is 99% less than that of a 2014 gasoline-powered car [1, Table 1].

The great thing about electric vehicles is that it makes it possible to greatly reduce emissions as the grid is transformed towards a larger share of reusable energy.

Another great trend is autonomous driving, which will enable a reduction in the number of cars by having cars as a service at a lower price. Fewer cars will mean that cars can be built better and last longer, as they can be more expensive. As long as these cars are electric and powered by renewable energy, the potential to reduce emissions compared with the current situation should be large.

[1] http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/11/Cle...
Maybe you can try attending a "hacker" tour.

Although Dangerous Prototypes doesn't seem to have a current offering, you might be able to find something similar:

http://dangerousprototypes.com/subscribe/hackercampshenzhen/

Noisebridge seems to have something in October although less focused on Shenzhen:

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/NoisebridgeChinaTrip7
But you have to account for the fact that much/most of the electricity used by EVs is generated in ways that produce carbon emissions. And even if we specify that it all comes from "zero-emissions" sources there's still an environmental cost that comes with manufacturing, and mining/processing materials, for cars, batteries, wind turbines and solar panels, nuclear and hydropower, etc.

Which is not to say it isn't an improvement, just that it oversimplifies things only to look at one side of the balance sheet.
Just be aware that ionic3 is full of bugs.
You can use angular 4 which is absolutely ready now. Ionic is full of promises (literally and
figuratively), but it is not even ready as a beta.

- I spent days to make workaround for making it work. Even basic things like routers.

- I suffered a lot with its build process. Transpiling my typescript is a so much pain for my mac. That is even worse than when I compiled java years ago.

- The need to wait 2 minutes for the live reload (when it actually reloads the change like expected) is a big loss for the web development process.

Anyway for me the point is totally true. I was only on natives and now only what you call "PWA"
And for a tie-in back to the main article here, it is a path lots of MIT students took in the past. Bexley House manufactured LSD for quite a while back in the 1970s.

Bexley closed four years ago for repairs, and was demolished with no plans to open a new dorm as a continuation. This seems unpleasantly relevant.
Thanks! Will work on it.
I did not realize this was considered racism. I never excused anything. Is it true or false that native Americans took part in murderous rituals? It is very unfair to label my post racist. I am certainly not name-calling. The entire argument you presented in response was an ad hominem attack on me instead of refuting anything I mentioned. I am saddened that you are incapable of understanding my point. Please address the specific point I made earlier. Thank you.
> I guess my next question would be are genetically people that have genetic similarities more likely to have similar interests.

If that is the case, it would lead to the politically uncomfortable question of different genders or ethnic groups being more likely to have particular interests.
How did Tesla make some of its cars travel further during Hurricane Irma?
> If everyone started requiring the use of a dragnet surveillance program just to log in to services, it would become next to impossible to protect yourself.

Yes, this is true. If all websites start requiring their visitors to do something their visitors overwhelmingly don't want, the result would be something their visitors don't want. Kind of suggests that they won't do that, yes?

We will probably have to agree to disagree here; you're imagining a world where oauth.fed.gov slowly becomes more and more widespread until it's ubiquitous and we have no other options, and that just doesn't sound realistic to me. (I think it would struggle for adoption even if it were implemented perfectly and had the best privacy controls possible, due to exactly the fears you're enumerating in this discussion) But we are talking about something hypothetical, so either of us could be right.

At any rate thanks for arguing forcefully but staying respectful and on topic!
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They are[1][2], but now it's old news and it will take some time until they take it to the next level.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8EnYIuvFos
[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/11/15952510/audi-a8-level-3-...
Good points. Which leads to the question, when everybody has "free" healthcare, who gets the top docs, and who gets the bottom and average docs?
IIRC the biggest contributor to the transportation's emission are freight ships that cross the oceans. I wonder how they will be solved..
Maybe going all-electric will help people transform their mindset to no-emissions production (since cars live with people, frieghts ships don't), so it could be that this is an important cultural shift.
China to Shut Bitcoin Exchanges
Wow, you're really good at projecting.
>> These are also the times when you learn which people are actually your friends.

Yep. I tried to dump my shit on my someone close and I think it had a negative effect on the relationship. Other people turned out to be better for that. You really don't know who you can or can't count on until you try.
Yes but I don't see how that would affect their pricing strategy?

Cash reserves make it easier for them to make a riskier play into the luxury market. But in the long-run the reserve is only a temporary fallback not a sustainable model.

Pushing the price up makes it easier to play with the price margins and add more expensive parts.

It could also be fueled by the output of their R&D but they could also see the value proposition they offer as justifying a higher price from entirely non-functional aspects (ie non-software/hardware innovation), just merely the emotional draw of the product via design and branding. The measure is whether people still want the product as much rather than whether it does x & y better than the competitors.

People tend to discount the utility of emotional appeal and the connection people have to the products they use daily. Instead focusing on CPU speeds or raw feature comparisons.
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I feel like such an app could download the bus schedule and do this all offline (and let the user know it is simply an estimate)

In fact, I really wish Google Maps did this, but I guess the damage of getting it wrong once is far greater than getting it right 100 times.

Phones are pretty powerful with huge storage. If you can compute directions offline, why not buses? Saving a map or route is tiny compared to the 64, 128, or 256 GB storage on most people's devices, surely bus schedules can't be that big.
>Even scarier is the implication that if your job is stressing you out, the only solution is to meditate -- i.e. you are the problem, not your job.

Certainly. To go a little further I would hope that it's not something coopted to salve one's situation, but rather to gain clarity on what your issue might be exactly, and what you might do to resolve it -- whether that means altering the arrangement of your time, or finding a new job, starting a family, going back to school, picking up a new hobby, or quitting everything and joining a monastery.

It can be useful to "quiet the mind", and observe what you are actually thinking and feeling. Sometimes the noise of day-to-day living can be all-consuming -- enter some platitudes about "life passing you by".

I agree with the danger of applying it as if it's that you just have to temper your desires and placate yourself, while thinking that it's only some sort of neuroticism that is causing any suffering in the situation.
China EV venture Future Mobility launches Byton brand, eyes U.S., Europe
You probably never use taxis in Vancouver then and/or you don't understand the value proposition that Uber brings. There are tens of thousands of people in SF alone that now earn money that previously didn't, and customers that have a much better transportation option that they are willing to pay for.

https://www.bcbusiness.ca/vancouver-has-fewer-taxis-than-any...
After Equifax Breach, Here’s Your Next Worry: Weak PINs
I think that any employee, whether remote or not, should see a therapist if they are suffering from depression or any other mental health issue.

Hopefully your employer provides you with a healthcare coverage plans which includes a mental health benefit.
Vanguard's Joe Davis: Automation of jobs is trend that will define our lifetimes
And can we hope for snowball effect, if cars were to be all electric, maybe people perspective on ecology, green areas, air pollution would change too. Unleashing more desire and efforts into planting trees and plants. Etc etc
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I think the idea was that MIT and Stanford don't even care about the "two pieces of flair" (i.e. extracurriculars), but most successful applicants to those schools will have them so they can also apply to Harvard etc., which effectively require them.

The result is that even the non-academic stuff those students have done has an academic target.
Emergency rooms only have to stabilize you, they don't have to treat you. It's a big difference.
I think the signal that the AI bot has identified is very likely to be related to the effects of differing hormonal exchanges and releases over long periods of time.

We know that hormonal derivatives like steroids can influence appearance, and also that ambient secretions offer signaling at a distance among humans, in circumstances not limited to the synchronization of menstrual cycles, at a minimum.

Take these factors together, and exclusive close proximity to gender concentrations based on preference likely results in mild changes in appearance that automated analysis can determine as a non-zero signal, and hazard an informed guess with. People are not wrong in claiming that this is a form of stereotyping, and that sometimes the stereotype will be incorrect.

People may not like it, but just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there.
> The safe spaces and coloring books for students after Trump got elected was pathetic. 18 year olds stormed Normandy, now they are crying over the democratic process.

Isn't the sensitivity of the next generation a positive, and not a negative? I wish my father had emotional awareness instead of being part of a generation that customarily hid or pushed emotions away. The march of social progress is a good thing, not a bad thing - or, perhaps, do you believe that through progress in the modern world we are all not entitled to mental security as well as personal security?
Entire fleet is not going to switch to electric in 2022, Mercedes-Benz will start offering electric versions of their models in 2022, some other manufacturers are targeting to switch to EVs around the same time span. So in the beginning of 2020s we'll see gradual process of switching to EVs for all car manufacturers. 5 years is plenty of time for electricity providers to prepare their grids, especially considering that their investments will probably pay off with an interest, since they are gonna increase sales as more cars become electric.

Plus most of the charging probably will be scheduled at the time when electricity usage is less and providers offer better pricing. For example in some areas in US you can get free nights rate, at night there is less strain on the grid and abundance of wind power makes it possible.
I was also homeschooled, and it turned out pretty well for me, but knew people who had negative experiences. I think the main pro and con of homeschooling is that the parents have full control. As a parent, you can help your child advance beyond the academics of normal schooling, but you are also responsible for a holistic upbringing that includes social activities. Luckily in my area, there were a lot of homeschooled kids who got together a good bit, and later on in high school, I got a job that exposed me to a lot of the other things in life.
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Agreed, and it's hard for me to see how you control ancestry or ethnic perfectly, since ethnicity is just a relatively stable form of genetic diversity.

I might counter-hypothesize that the 1% they found is just the amount of variance in ethnic group that wasn't controlled for perfectly.
(Throw-away for obvious reasons).

MIT alum (<10 years) here. While i didn't live in senior haus myself, I lived in a dorm very much related to SH, had many friends there and overall jolly time (^^).

One thing under-emphasized in all these SH shut down stories is the "rampant" drugs availability across the dorm. For non-MIT folks: SH was the go-to dorm to acquire any drug you wished. If you went to their parties (steer roast being the main one), kids were rolling on all sorts of substances (outside, inside, in their rooms, everywhere), and anyone with half a brain could get their fix. And, imho, this was not a "small minority"...

Now, the twist here is that all their (official) parties had campus police all over, and they knew exactly what was going on in there. Oh, and did I mention the MIT president's residence was right next doors (across a fence)?

So as long as the flow of substances into the dorm was somewhat monitored by the campus police, with them being (theoretically) able to track & control the environment, all was fine.

Fast forward a couple years, students are getting stuff on silk road with bitcoins, anonymously from unknown sources. Campus police loses their control, and even worse, this may leak to city/state/federal cops, which is obviously the last thing MIT (or the cops) want.

Seems like a non-unreasonable decision (from the administrator's POV) to shut it down. You obviously can't admit the years-long substances-situation publicly, but it just-so-happens that it correlates negatively with graduation rate/GPA/you name it. Boom, easy, done.

Now, don't get me wrong, I had a great time at SH, and would prefer to see it stay there. But please stop romanticizing how MIT was going against disadvantaged students, minorities, etc.etc.
I am not sure why Sales Revenue would be the metric you want to look at, sure it's much smaller than 1P sales revenue but that's because you can't count the sales price of the marketplace in sales revenue. Total GMV is higher on the marketplace and the margins are incredibly higher.
No idea what Brazilian law is regarding hearsay or even if they have a rule disallowing it, but at least in the US, this instance of hearsay would be allowed as evidence in court under the "statement against interest" exception to the hearsay rule.
Yeah but that's a top notch, mature, well known piece of software. This is a brand new, untested library put together by a one-man shop.
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Remember kids: the administration doesn't care if you blow your brains out -- they just care that you don't do it on campus.

There's a reason I always told people to seek help off campus.
It's also not true of extremely high cost of living areas such as NYC or the bay area where you're living beyond your means long before you qualify for government programs based on poverty levels that are calculated averaged across the nation.

The system has warts. There are good reasons to criticize it. But saying we leave the poor dying in the streets because, well, fuck 'em they're poor, is both untrue and insulting.
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Lawmakers look for compromise to stabilize health insurance markets
Well, I can see how I implied that, I meant only to say that it allows (and that is how I used it, and the couple times I saw others using it) one to define common properties as variables/mixins and ignore the cascading.

Of course the result is cleanly written style sheets, but the output is a mass of duplicated code.
Thanks for pointing that out; hopefully Equifax is sued to oblivion and Quadriga partners with a different credit bureau in the future.
There aren't many grand designs in computing systems in general. Most evolve from humble beginnings. The web has been evolving since the 90s, and it can keep going.
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I agree with your premise but filtering fields selected by the database, or serialized into JSON, isn't exactly an unsolved problem. It's probably easier to muck up true... but it's not hard to prevent either.
Yet all this is doing so little. It's not like many people are using WebGL and canvases to do interesting graphical things. Mostly they're just messing with scrolling, popping things up, and fading things in and out. All this machinery is way overkill for what it's used for.

(Especially messing with scrolling, badly.)
I've gone though this before... If you break this down into passenger vehicles, the percentage gets much smaller.

It really blows my mind. We could replace every car on the planet with zero emissions, and still would put a tiny dent into the total percentage of pollution. We're winding up all these battery factories, spending millions on personal vehicle tech like it'll save the world, and the real majority of the problem doesn't seem to get any focus.

I just feel like it's sort of a distraction to keep us busy ignoring the real problem. It all feels sort of like a farce to me. But then again, I don't know what kind of new regulations and emissions controls are going into factories, ships, etc. I just feel like there probably isn't any regulation on the real polluters. They'll just keep getting tax breaks, while we'll undoubtedly get taxed for driving an old "polluter" car.
>>Personally, my feelings are that if your app is mostly a webview, just stick with a web page.

I agree, but it is clear that those who grew up with phones do not. Apps dominate the marketplace and use space for millenials.
They made the first fully electric sports car (Roadster).

They made the first fully electric luxury car (Tesla S).

They created the first super-charger network. It's still the largest network of its kind.

They are the first car company to also be a large-scale battery manufacturer.

They are the first car company that pre-sold half a million cars.

They are on track to deliver fully electric mass market (as defined by volume) car. Tesla 3 is expected to reach production/sales of 0.5 - 1 million a year, easily surpassing any single competing, fully electric car.

Yes, Tesla is a car company but they already did plenty to deserve a little more than "just another".
Not sure. How's it work in the entire rest of the OECD?
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To the extent that that's a story, the more important part of that story is happening long before dorm selection, in Sophomore and Junior year of high school. I think that is a big issue, in particular with securing access to opportunity for people in lower-income communities. But I don't think availability of counterculture dorms is a super important part of the story.
>Houston was eliminated as not having enough white collar workers.

That fact that it is now under 10ft of water probably had nothing to do with it.
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That's a _superb_ logo actually.

It's a shape of a racked server + an usual, but fitting choice of color. It's instantly recognizable and versatile as hell.
> Speaking as someone paying what is effectively a second mortgage so my nephew can go to school, I expect the school to let me know how it's going.

Why? If you're paying your spouses' medical bills, do you expect to be included on personal, private conversations between the spouse and his or her doctor? (Spoiler: you need the spouse's consent for that!)

No one is forcing parents (or you) to pay for someone else's college, but as adults, the university should manage the students' autonomy by not sending "nastygrams" home.

Why do you think you're entitled to invading your nephew's privacy simply because you gave him some money?
Why is this article considered worthy of being posted on "Hacker News?" I fail to understand how this is at all relevant to "Hackers."
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