skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er, I missed the second part of this.

I don't advocate them doing anything unconstitutional; merely that in the initial clearance process and ongoing clearance process for cleared employees that relations hostile or adversarial foreign powers continue to be a factor in investigation. It might mean putting more resources into specifically China-focused CI in the screening and review process. It might mean longer clearance processing (as a result) for people with extensive contacts with China (and since I go to China multiple times/year, I'd fall under this). It might mean borderline cases with lots of connections to China get denied whereas lots of connections to e.g. Brazil don't.

And this should be much higher for people in particularly sensitive positions (like case officers at CIA) vs. NASA scientists working on largely open source science.
Why wouldn't you just sell the eth in the first place?

I havent read the whitepaper yet (i will this weekend), but it seems like the collateral is essentially locked up in the contract, so you lose any interest or other opportunity cost.

Even with only current instruments you could synthetically create this loan for cheaper: sell the BTC collateral for USD, buy futures to cover the BTC, invest the unused USD to collect interest..

The problem is that the collateral is locked in the contract and that collateral is another liquid currency.
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I haven't evaluated VPN providers enough to decide if there's one I trust. An evil VPN (or an insecure one taken over by evil people) is in an extremely easy position to MITM my HTTP traffic: it's technically easier than MITMing wifi traffic, and they also know my identity (either because I paid with a real-world identity, or they have logs of where I'm connecting from and what I'm connecting to).

For performance reasons I don't want an always-on VPN; I trust my home wifi, my phone's hotspot, etc. at least as much as I trust any VPN I could use, so I wouldn't get any benefit from it.

I suppose the thing I should actually do is route over an SSH SOCKS tunnel to some server I control, which would work fine.

(A thing I have wanted for a while is a configuration that does this for HTTP and lets HTTPS through normally for performance, which now that I think about it, I can probably just write a proxy PAC file to do ... thanks, I'll see if I can improve my setup.)
Yep the proprietary bootloader on the Raspberry Pi handles most initialisation leaving the SoC in a usable state. If you want to see how things like DRAM init work you can take a look at the open source reverse engineered firmware at https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware . It isn't complete but it is just about enough to also boot the Linux kernel.
I used to live in Northern Denmark and I have experienced their healthcare first hand and witnessed social welfare which helped my friends and colleagues. And I still do think this is excessive tax not well justified for the following reasons:

1. I would expect a state of the art public transport in the whole country. The rail system connecting different cities in Denmark is pretty dated and slow. Even using diesel engines in some parts. Now I would expect some part of that 180% tax to be invested here. But the fact is people are often forced to drive with car due to poor public transport connectivity in many places.

2. Even electric cars are not exempt from these high taxes anymore. This eliminates the benefit of the doubt that this was for the good of the environment.

3. The high tax for cars has historical roots. Many in Denmark believe it is no longer necessary today to fund the welfare state. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151120/whats-the-deal-with-denmark...

4. These high taxes are also defeating the purpose of keeping the environment clean by creating a huge market for used really old cars which are often the worst polluters. https://mereconomics.com/2016/02/09/on-the-efficiency-of-dan...

5. Opinion: It all boils down to having free health care, free education, really good welfare system and not being able to afford a car. Other European countries like Germany seem to have worked out a model which can make all of them affordable to most people.

I can go on but got bored.
Never forget being charged 14.99 for one Acetaminophen while in a hospital, and this was years ago.

My father had good insurance. He went in for a spider bite. He needed to stay the night. I arrived and he thanked me for Teddy Bear, and flowers. I told him I didn't send you anything. He said, "Well someone did?"

Weeks later he called me up, and said the gift shop on the hospital send the gift, and charged the Insurance company $230. Billed under something like "psychological affirmations".

Any who--they are thieving entities. It kills me when I meet people, with no assets, who pay their inflated hospital bills out of American pride? They are so strong in their convictions, I don't even bring up a chapter 7. I understand they save live, but don't financially ruin patients.

One other memory. I went in for something. I had great insurance, so I didn't worry about the bill. They gave me a blood test. A week went by, and I got a bill for $900. I called my union, and they the hospital didn't know I had insurance.

My union said my bill would be $10. She said the hospital sent them the bill of $100, and I would pay my 10 percent. I asked, "Why do they only charge you $100?" She said, "It's about Collective Bargaining. Yea--I find it shocking too."
pacman iirc
Aside from generics, Boots in the UK used their patent on ibuprofen to dominate their market.

I’m always surprised there isn’t more pharmacy-driven research or investment into exclusive over-the-counter medicines to mimic that strategy, or bidding wars to get exclusive pharmacy rights to new drug patents so that firms can get halo effect shopping.

(Not that I endorse this sort of corporate lechery, I’m just surprised, is all)
I don't run the Electron apps because I just don't trust them - I already have a perfectly good and secure thing for running JS, it's my browser. :-) I agree that they're a huge attack surface.

The only other things that should be making connections are OS update checks, which should be secure already, and an SSH or mosh client.
Is writing "plain old JS in a text editor" really that rare nowadays?

Honest question - I've only done a few websites, some with basic JS functionality and a few more advanced (for a website, that is) Go apps now - but never really felt the urge or need to reach for the "modern JS scene", so I'm unsure just how prevalent that kind of setup is.
i found this, seems it's been supported for a long time. i'm not ecstatic about the wrappers in ruby/python for gpio, but then again i don't need it at this point in time.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi
Totally agree, I wrote about it on my blog http://myblogclickhere.com/lookatmyblog.html.
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Play time in my Steam library is overwhelmingly tilted towards just a few titles. Overwhelmingly, these are older, sandboxy games that have had strong modding scenes. The number one game in my library is Medieval Total War 2. I believe I paid $10, on sale, for it plus all of its expansions. After Steam, and Sega took their cuts, Creative Assembly got a pittance, and I've gotten over a thousand hours of gameplay. The community mod makers that expanded that game massively (those that didn't end up hired by CA, anyway) never made a red cent for their labors of love. I love that game, and it's a tremendous value for me.

Much as I dislike it, trickle out DLC and in-app purchases are one way to try to extract more value out of that massive investment. But it's a tough proposition, going against everything that already exists. I could never buy another game, and have more gameplay available to me than I could ever exhaust in multiple lifetimes.

People will always make games, because they love doing it. But it's not really rational; you've got to be good and catch lightning in a bottle
Stanford and Harvard do have higher admissions standards, though they also take legacy status and donations into account, which might be what staunch is referring to.

However, they also practice affirmative action, which means some VCs who have a bias towards these institutions may consider minorities who they never otherwise would.

So it's not nearly as unfair as staunch is describing.
Nationalized production is usually something to discourage for the same reason monopolies and oligopolies should be discouraged--they are insulated from competition in special ways, and as a result in the long run they tend to become inefficient (which in the worst case translates to basically extorting customers).

The root of the problem with American drug companies is that they're insulated from open market competition by a government approvals process that costs billions--only a few companies have enough money to take a new drug to market. The government could reform this process but chooses not to, claiming it's necessary for consumer safety (certainly some kind of approvals process is).
An even easier way is to subscribe to a reputable VPN. There are often various sales where you can pick up annual packages at steep discounts. Having a VPN is also useful for troubleshooting network connectivity, and bypassing content-based throttling.

I like Private Internet Access.
Because higher ups forced us to?
Cubietruck temperature sensor
> Neanderthal works with barest primitives

I see what you did there with naming.
> Probably the easiest, yet most powerful one is to only use the browser in incognito mode while surfing on insecure networks. This way, no information (like passwords or cookies) can leak out and no evil cache entries can sneak in.

This isn't true, as incognito can leak cookies. The proper mitigation is for site and app designers to use cert pinning.
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i also found that there are high level services that are needed to control the device, simple things like restart, changing ip's, upgrading, backing up, etc. i started to create a higher level library for these things using golang, basically a restful service, in this way it could be controlled via an application instead of having to use ssh, this is good for consumer like devices, but obviously opens up a can of security issues.

i will share the code (make it public via github) and write up my experiences developing for this device.
I'm pretty squarely in the progressive camp, but this interview was ridiculous. The interviewer was making numerous assumptions and wild assertions that didn't follow at all from what Peterson was saying. She was arguing with her pre-perception rather than arguing with him.
Yes. Bioavailability and absorption kinetics are major factors.
It's not just here in the US, I've had similar culture shock moving from Minneapolis to San Francisco. I've had endless pain at work trying to communicate an idea quickly enough and not being able to have conversations that feel genuine/curious/reciprocal (more defensive). I'm still not sure if it was because I'd earned my respect there so people paid close attention vs. n00b here, or that the culture was genuinely different. I have friends from there/that time here now, we have good discussions still.
Unchecked? What about the FDA check on new entrants to the market?
In my (early 20s, fairly normal) circles Facebook Stories is seldom used, and Snapchat is actively used. Just not the parts that Snap wants us to use (i.e. anything besides the core product).
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> Are people getting into cryptocurrencies really that clueless?

short answer is YES, people getting into cryptocurrencies really are that clueless. take for example that the vast majority who opened new accounts at coinbase didn't realize that you could buy fractional shares of bitcoin and therefore assumed since they couldn't afford bitcoin at 1BTC at around $15k they opted for altcoins

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7femm2/many_people...
It is for modern commercial products, yes.

And while there's some fragmentation and hacks that justify derision, it's not that bad. Any complex software component needs a package manager and a build system.
A year earlier, Pesce had been defined by the men in her life...

The author writes this, in between a passage describing a grandmother who mimed strangling Pesce and another that describes a mother who no longer referred to her by name.

There is an attempt to give a women’s liberation angle to this story; that independence from men is somehow the cure; but being part of a criminal family is something very specific relative to the general question of women’s place in society, or in Italian society, or even in Calabria.
Conforming to regulations are not the same thing as getting approvals/certification.
> I couldn't tell you what a procedure will cost you even if ordered to.

Is that the case even if I give you the exact CPT code (or possible set of codes) for a given imaging or lab procedure? That is, could you not provide the out-of-pocket and insurance covered rate if I provide my health insurance information?

For what it's worth, the last time I tried this, I still had to wait for several days to get an estimate of cost. But I don't really see why it should be the case provided that the information I mentioned above is available.
>I've often heard people being discussed as e.g. "a female dev" but don't often (never that I recall) hear anyone say "female doctor" (I'm referring to casual conversation, not discussions about who's gonna work the catheter on a patient)

You don't have to specify the gender in most cases. It's assumed that nurses are women. You'd only ever specify the gender for men, so you'd say "male nurse" but never "female nurse." I generally don't hear people say anything about their GP, but I've definitely heard women qualify the gender of their male gynecologist. I've never heard of a woman specifically call out the gender of a female gynecologist though.

>* We have female-only hackathons, bootcamps, and meetups, etc, do similar things exist in the medical field and if such things do exist are they as common? Are there many medical conferences open only to female doctors?

Depending on what you mean by conferences, yes. Here's the official list, provided by the Bar itself, of women's legal associations: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/women/resources/directory.... Though admittedly, I have no ability to provide a sense of scale in comparison to the IT field.

>There are often articles/lists of prominent/powerful/etc "women in tech"[1][2][3]. Are similar such articles published in the same quantity for medicine? A quick google yields almost entirely historical results, where's the list of "30 Inspirational Women to Watch in Medicine in 2018"?

Medicine moves much slower than tech, so it will never lend itself to having a list of top movers and shakers in a particular year, regardless of gender. And it particularly won't be the case because medical breakthroughs aren't in the public sphere the way FB or Tesla is. However, there are definitely awards/medals/prizes that are gendered. A quick google search will find many examples, though you'd likely never hear of them outside the industry.

>Is it a common practice for hospitals to make reports publicly available that detail what percentage of their doctors are female and how they plan to increase that number?

No, not publicly, because openly favoring women or other minorities could open them up to lawsuits.

>Do hospitals generally do anything to recruit (and/or retain) female doctors specifically or are their recruiting and retention efforts just focused on doctors?

Yes, but again not publicly. It's worth mentioning that part of the infamous DaMore memo was pointing out the potential illegality of Google's hiring practices. There's an open secret among HR pros that race and gender-conscious hiring practices are the rule rather than the exception. Since the 1971 Griggs ruling you basically have to have a prejudicial hiring practice in favor of minorities. But speaking openly about it will put you at risk of reverse discrimination lawsuits.
you can certainly redirect api calls into native windows dlls. there are also debugging utilities to see where your applications are failing. how low level are the utilities you are using?
exchanges

clients on exchanges sell BTC and buy USDT thinking they are buying USD not realizing they are buying tethers

think of it this way, you can easily put money into the system but you can't get it out, instead you get funny money

don't believe me? find me one person who has sold tether and has documentation to prove it

when money comes in but can't leave... there's a name for that...
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> The money that never exists in any form other than on some computers managed by systems built and maintained as cost centers that need to have every single possible corner cut?

Those systems also probably have more humans carefully monitoring their daily operation than any other kind of system anywhere. People really care about their money.
dane here: this tax is infuriatingly unfair; the fact is that most politicians in Denmark live in Copenhagen where it might be practical to rely on bicycles and public transport but for the mainland this is a fantasy. There is no usuable public transport and bicyling isn't practical beyond 10 km. The people this hurt aren't living in Copenhagen.
Well, some of us blame the whole thing. Why shouldn't healthcare be a government service? Why is that less appropriate than police and military? Or roads?
Thanks for a sterling example of what I was saying elsewhere. Nearly 9 years here, and a ban threat.

Hell of a way to try and keep order boss.
For a fantastic discussion about the Byzantine process for generic drug approval, I recommend a recent episode of EconTalk[0]. The guest wrote a book called "Drug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market"[1]. When up to half a billion dollars of revenue is at stake, the drug companies have incredible incentives to delay or prevent generics coming to market. Believe or not, they often simply refuse to give a sample of the old drug to the generic company. No sample to compare, no FDA approval. It is illegal to dispense a drug without a prescription, and the sample is not for a patient, so it can take some maneuvers to get a legal sample. Or the drug company can change a tiny feature of the drug, re-patent the new drug, and then destroy/withhold all the old drug. No old drug sample, no FDA approval of an "identical" generic. The drug companies will contract with a generic company that never, actually gets to production (wink, wink). Those contracts are finally being understood by judges, so now they are going to a second level of contract obfuscation that is even harder to notice, but still keeps the generic off the market.

[0]http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/06/robin_feldman_o.htm...

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Drug-Wars-Pharma-Raises-Generics/dp/1...
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Internal schwag differs from external schwag.

Often times the internal schwag is made by name brand outfits. The stuff they give out can be lowest bidder stuff. Also designs can be somewhat different for the internal vs external versions.

That said, perh for many smaller cos both are one in the same.
why would they push back on the most successful scheme since MtGox' willy bot?
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No. That is only the case when the certificate is pinned, which is the proper mitigation in this case. VPNs do not have stellar records regarding security.
It's simple. People are selfish so they like those which are like themselves and they want their self-images to be successful.
Dallas proper had ~8 different sites that fit the criteria Amazon cited.

Amazon doesn't require it all be contiguous space - they have buildings all over Seattle.

Downtown has a lot of parking lots that could become buildings, Exposition Park could fit the whole thing, Victory Park submitted a proposal, and Midtown near the Galleria also submitted one, with a few others.
The obviousness of Nintendo Labo
Companies usually have assets, like buildings, real estate, etc.
and the papers mentioned below have yet more detail.
Yeah but that would protect you from the insecure wifi attacker, no?
"Really well" in the big cities only. Outside the top ten, it's useless. I've lived in a handful of cities in Denmark for about 20 years and this view of public transport is a
typical eastern bias.
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How Microsoft Corporation Makes Most of Its Money
> Your car is unlikely to experience life-threatening complications with a nearly unbounded upper cost while it's being fixed.

If you bring your car in for repair and tell them that you need to have the car's brake rotors and pads replaced, the shop can tell you that the parts will cost X and the labor will be Y hours at Z cost per hour and give you a relatively accurate estimate. They may later tell you that there were some bolts that had to be drilled out before they could remove some parts and that may increase the labor cost somewhat.

Why can't that be the same case if I go to get a chest X-ray with posterior-antierior and lateral views? If you have the CPT code(s) and the insurance information, it should not be difficult or time consuming to get the cost estimate.
From what I observed during the time I lived in Aalborg was that families with two incomes could easily afford one car and of course for families with kids a car is very much a necessity than a luxury. While recent young graduates and immigrants could not afford a car without burning a big hole in their income.
Yeah - I agree it's a ticking bomb - hasn't exploded yet, though.
The same reason any industry benefits from being privatized: to incentive innovation. The antibiotics revolution would never have happened, at least not in America, had there not been a profit incentive.

The other services you listed are less dependent on innovation.
We designers must all be like Tron: fight for the user!
I don’t really like flying though schipol. I avoid it where I can.
Dane here: what's the population where you live? In most of the country (by area), isn't an accurate statement that you don't need a car.
No, it wouldn't. You still need to protect that you are connecting to the wifi access point and not a spoofed one, due to arp or DNS poisoning.
In that case I may be able to look it up. Granted this isn't the area I work in but in theory I have access to the necessary data. The people who do work in this area should be able to tell you, at least for some outpatient procedures. But more to the point if you have an inpatient stay or show up in the ER it's pretty uncertain what procedures you'll actually wind up having, which is where the price opacity really comes in.
The theory is that Israel punches above it's weight class in the tech/startup sector at least in part because most everybody there has at least some military training.
They (Azure) do for most operations.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/wind...

I've found actual reboots to be rare - the exception being the recent Spectre / Meltdown patching.
The Boeing in discussion was/is for sale: https://www.insidehook.com/nation/old-cia-jet-sale
Typos I see from quickly poking around:

Part 1: "tar -xf tar -xf gcc-arm-none-eabi-X-XXXX-XX-update-linux.tar.bz2" should probably lose one of the "tar -xf"s.

Part 6: "unfmilaiar"

Part 8: "Proccess"