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Default gallery app on Alcatel phones has been replaced with spamware
https://twitter.com/svblxyz/status/958314262270705664

Detangle is now open-source. You can specify a list of "internal sites" to be opened in your main browser, while other sites get opened in contained / separate profiles (or Incognito mode). Great for added protection against UXSS and other threats.
Indepdent healthcare providers like IPAs / MSOs provide a large chunk of healthcare in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if they are looking to partner with these groups directly.
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Hopefully Linux compatible comes with that.

I’d be pretty surprised though. The Mac line may not be Apple’s biggest seller, but it’s not like it’s losing them money. It’s a huge revenue stream.

Also don’t underestimate the impact of the fact that every employee at apple uses Mac.
yep that's why services that charged for every last thing didn't take off
Maybe, but at the same time, they clearly don’t believe in fair taxation or comprehensive education or anything else they seemingly advocate. One rule for the toffs and another for the plebs, is their real message.
Lots of emotion in that post, but to my mind it comes down to equality under the law. Governments shouldn’t be able to negotiate ad-hoc taxing/regulatory rules on a per business basis. The tax and regulatory regime should be the same for all businesses in the jurisdiction. Level playing field ...

A secondary reason against these deals is that I don’t think government bureaucrats are particularly good at negotiating these deals. Too easy for businesses to change their mind/plans and not suffer any real consequences.
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I think you’re skipping the most contentious point which is that if it’s random it’s not a hash function any more. It’s more of just a unique ID each object has, and calling it a hash any more is misleading.
This is a bone of contention and a heavily discussed subject, because the world is not a black-and-white place. The Red Army was indeed a savior. It is thanks to those masses of poor soldiers, of which eight millions died, that the horror of WWII last only five years or so. All Europe and all world indeed should be grateful to them.

On the other hand, there was the Stalinist regime, ruthless rule, killing one's own people and others - for power and control. Whenever someone makes any judgement about Russians, they make a generalizing mistake. On top of that, I'd be very careful when making judgements about people's behaviors in extreme situations, it's quite easy to make that at a distance.
My understanding is that async/await gives the promise to write asynchronous code like synchronous code. Except the use of 'await' it's true.
I think this is what a lot of politicians think, also. They don't want government run healthcare because it's only a matter of time before the market fixes healthcare.

Edit: I think Apple is only interested in medical devices.
well... whom you would like to send to jail? actual clerk, his/her boss, department head? queen? whole government? (i would love this one :))

Government is unique entity - it is a entity 'too big to fail'. And we all know how entities that can not die act.
In seriousness though, while voice input would not be how you do complex programming, you could argue that there will always be more specific and specialized tools for that.

For people who spend most of their time clicking with a mouse or pointing at pictures on a phone screen, I could see voice working with things like IFTTT to create simple "programs" or actions. That's essentially what happens when I say "hey Google, turn on living room lights at 6pm".

Someone needed to program the framework for that to happen, but someone also needed to develop the Arduino IDE that I use when I engage in the very limited hobbyist programming that I do. I get to use a simpler interface because someone more specialized and experienced created it with lower level tools.

In a sense, that "if time=18:00 then set livingroom_lights=on" command is a very simple program entered via voice command.
Just one of the many perks of working here at Wallaroo Labs. 8*P
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I have to admit to the same suspicions over the years, but then the question is: what supported/reliable solution will they implement for iOS development? Sure, there are options for developing to the iOS platform outside of X Code/macOS, but something better would have to be introduced before EOLing macOS.
Do they simply introduce macOS as an independent operating system and/or license vendors to produce hardware to a certain specification?
That depends if the best result is similar to a bunch of slightly less-good results, or if the best is a wild leap that doesn't look anything like other good results.
For those, who still find it challenging, see here:

> "But apparently everybody either forgets or disregards the fact that Canonical is partly responsible for Wayland being nowhere near production grade after 10 years."

Then the article goes on to state that wasting time and resources on a never finished and casually abandoned project (Mir) has a lot to do with Wayland not being production grade after a decade.

Come on, it's really not a difficult read. Although some of the subtext of the article seems to be proven by the comments here...
> America use to have more rail at one point in time than Europe has today. It wasn't that long ago. We're talking less than 70 years.

The US has a larger rail network than the EU, still. Actually, the US's freight rail system is the envy of Europe, although our passenger rail sucks.

> The "America is too spread out" argument is total bullshit. At the very least, make the cities have good transport and walkable areas. It can happen in a very short time frame. We lost it in a short time frame. Northern Indiana has the same population density of Scotland, so it can work if we build it. We use to have trains from Nashville to Atlanta. The famous "Chattanooga Choo-choo" doesn't even have an AmTrak anymore.

No, it's not bullshit. It is not profitable to have a train route of more than about 5 hours (China is sort of the exception that proves the rule, as their air network is incredibly constrained which eliminates alternatives to trains). That is roughly the straight-line distance between Chicago and NYC, which (as I've pointed out before) is longer than the longest axes of most European countries. And Chicago-NYC is one of the shorter links between major city pairs in the US.

It's also funny that you compare to Scotland, since Scotland has some of the worst availability of rail in Europe.
Which is why the experts can use that now very real threat to refuse to carry out certain political commands. You have to have the possibility of going to jail in order to refuse to go to jail.
I think it is reasonable to expect a transcription service or screen reader to treat "¯_(ツ)_/¯" like it treats any other word.

Emojis have been around long enough that they ought to be handling them by now anyway.
It'll require more than a one-word answer to explain why that Koch-affiliated (https://www.charleskochinstitute.org/educational-programs/pa...) libertarian think-tank didn't think to chart other rising healthcare costs, like the costs of prescription drugs.

Administrator salaries don't seem to explain this: https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ASPE1.pn...

Nor this: http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/556494646da8110d29e...

This sort of thing probably doesn't help, either: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/30/drug-companies-flooded-...
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well having weird body parts or modifying one of the symetric parts by mistake. Example having an arm full of muscles while the other one is quite weak and small. Becoming blind or loosing taste ... etc due to mistakes.
I also remember tuning PID values on the old Jaguar motor controllers. It was not a pleasant or particularly fruitful experience.
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> I tried selling them, but either no one is interested […]

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/dealers-dilemma
> React and Redux are under 100k minified.

And the usable content on the single page is way less than 1KB (I am talking web apps, not content-heavy document pages).
With markup you may go to 2-3KB.
Is a new immature language like Pony really that desirable in the marketplace? I highly doubt 'resume development' was ever a primary motivation.

If it was anything beyond the strategic interests of the company it's that developers love a) clean code and possibilities of a fresh new project and b) playing with new modern toys.
I would have a problem with it if my bank, retail store, ISP, news outlet and car dealership were all the same company.

The scale and connectivity of the data is the problem here. It's now possible to draw conclusions from the combination of datasets.
So Linux (there is no GNU/Linux kernel, but a GNU/Linux OS) is more popular than how much you'd like it to be, and is that the problem? I for one am glad GPL-licenced free software is running on as much platforms as possible. In those cases Linux is basically a library they pick for their work. You can well say the same thing for glibc, gcc, apache, nginx etc. But in the end-user space nobody is forcing you to use Linux, and that's what monoculture is, not the choices regarding firmware with which the end user is not meant to ever interact.
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The people writing poor laws are supposed to be held accountable by the population in a process called an election. If that process is not working, it seems unlikely any legislation to punish lawmakers will fix it - they make the laws, after all.
There's a simple, political answer. If you're the MP for, say, Manchester after the Ariana Grande bombing, you're (probably) not going to survive politically after trying to make philosophical points about privacy to angry, grieving parents (on live, national TV), explaining why you voted against the surveillance bill.

It's an example of an issue with concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.
Cryptflix is an obvious idea, I wish I had it!

But this headline’s a little non-inclusive. Seems to infer that guys are in the know and that moms and girlfriends aren’t.

While I understand HN’s audience probably skews male, and that crypto owners definitely skew male, it’s not productive or beneficial to drive home that point in marketing. That’s the surest way to keep the status quo.
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Having watched The King of Kong, this doesn't surprise me that much.
It's a little bit of everything.

As the other comment noted, there has been a vast expansion of administrative bullshit cost in the system.

Pharma drug costs have gone up a lot (that's around 10% to 15% of the $1.x trillion cost problem the US has). The US is spending about ~20% of its GDP on healthcare, or roughly twice the OECD average (~70-80% more than countries like France or Belgium). That's up from 12.x% in 1990, and 14% in 2000 (that 6% representing an added $1.x trillion in cost). That 12% figure in 1990, is comparable to what nicer developed nations spend today.

US wages are high, healthcare workers typically earn far above the median (eg US nurses and doctors are very well paid), and we've hired a lot of healthcare workers in the last 20 years. The number of healthcare workers has roughly doubled since 1990 from eight million to around 15-16 million today. A near 100% increase vs a population increase of about 30% or so over that time. That is guaranteed to generate a massive cost spike for that part of the problem, and that cost isn't being distributed across a further 100% larger population base. Healthcare workers have also seen their wage growth exceed the median wage growth, they've mostly done ok. So the net cost per capita for each healthcare worker in the US, has soared.

Insurance companies have done exactly what you'd expect. They push prices as high as they can get away with, adding more cost bloat to the system.

The American diet deteriorated dramatically since ~1980. Obesity particularly soared from around the mid 1980s to 2015. That brought with it a lot of added healthcare costs, around cancer, diabetes, and so on. These people weren't/aren't dying so much as they are requiring expensive routine care for various health consequences of the obesity. Conceptually it's like the battlefield cost of having a vast number of wounded soldiers, rather than those soldiers simply dying instead; in this case the battlefield is the economy or society generally speaking.

And then the US population has aged quite a bit in the last 20-30 years. The boomer generation is going to be extraordinarily expensive from a healthcare standpoint. For now that's getting worse by the year as with most developed nations.
Actually systemic higher costs do help. An older industry analysis found insurance to be competitive so they only way to grow profits for the industry was to grow costs. The trick is for insurance companies to find ways to get other insurance companies to pay more even if they have to also carry those costs.

AKA, 10% of 2 trillion is more than 10% of 1 trillion.
I really don't understand how this is Strava's fault.

If you're stupid enough to actively record and upload your GPS data from geographically sensitive locations, then maybe you shouldn't be allowed to work at those locations, or allowed to have devices that are capable of doing so.

Would you blame instagram/facebook if people were posting photos from inside Area 51?
"Write in a way that comes easily and naturally to you"

That's pretty much what I did at the start of my career. Nowadays I think things through a lot more (and generally come up with a lot more robust solutions).
1. No, I meant Coke's recipe is a secret known only to a handful of anonymous employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula#Current_ingr...
This happens with every release of OSX, it's why most long time OSX users are so cautious about upgrading when a new version arrives. Here are a few examples.

Yosemite: https://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/the-worst-bugs-in-os-x-yosemi...

Mavericks: https://www.wired.com/2013/10/mavericks-issues-and-fixes/

El Capitan: https://www.imobie.com/support/mac-os-x-probelms-and-solutio...

Personally, I remember this as far back as the first upgrade I participated in, from Leopard to Snow Leopard: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/backstage/comments/problems...

I had trouble finding lists of Sierra's issues due to naming conflicts with High Sierra, but off the top of my head I think that was the version that broke Homebrew's permissions scheme, requiring manual intervention on the part of many users.
wonder if that community service is hacking for the government.
> Pony Kafka sends data to Kafka about 5% - 10% slower than librdkafka but reads data from Kafka about 75% slower than librdkafka.

What? So what's the point? Wouldn't it better to just contribute and optimize the existing clients then?

The Kafka/confluent team specifically chose to implement everything in librdkafka (because kafka is client-side logic heavy) and then make thin wrappers for every language so performance, bugs and stability can all be worked on in a single place.
Here's a good video summary about Todd Rogers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-H4sEHB54
27 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16060201

> Could this problem be attacked by a goodwill billionaire with a long-term plan? Open several private medical schools that will offer "free" med education in exchange for multi-year contracts. Open many small copycat clinics. Manufacture your own generics if possible, import whatever is cheapest, focus on things you can do cheap, be transparent about pricing, build awareness and brand. McDonaldize/Amazonize American healthcare.
What cities? Article light on any details
The best hacks always appear overly simple, or even slightly benign, once explained.

You could potentially use the hack the author explained with one of those possible black-sites in Africa to see who's deployed there. A little more research and you can find their home address in the states. Now, tell me an enterprising counter-intel or terrorist organization wouldn't want that info.
> I've always wondered what's stopping someone from creating a non-profit and just having people join it in order to give the non-profit ability to negotiate lower prices.

Likely the fact that many of these prices are basically standardized because of CMS. Providers basically look to what the Medicare/Medicaid standard is as a benchmark for pricing.

As a provider why accept a lower price from insurance when the gov't is providing a backlog of people at predetermined prices?

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Unless these companies are also looking to enter the provider space, they will likely only competing on marginally better insurance rates.
This reminds me of another app I saw recently, Calm Harm (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/calm-harm/id961611581?mt=8). At first I thought that was a strange approach, but as I looked through the screenshots, and read the reviews, I realized that this really seemed to be helping people. I don't struggle with self-harm, but I do struggle with depression and anxiety, so I'm glad to see apps like this being created.

I was pretty bored with the app ecosystem in 2017, but Calm Harm gave me hope that there are still some people out there innovating and actually working to use our existing technology to help people for good rather than just making some money off advertising or Yet Another To Do App.

The only thing I get concerned about with these apps is the storage of this data and how it can be made personally identifiable. Hopefully these angles are tackled with people's privacy in mind.
Hi VP of Engineering at Wallaroo Labs here.

We put a lot of thought and experimentation into our decision to use Pony. It wasn't a decision we made lightly.

I wrote a post a few months back that covers that decision:

https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/10/why-we-used-pony-to-wr...
So, is the opinion that he just fabricated the photo, or that he had a knack for figuring these glitches out? Because as far as I know, glitching things is considered all well and good with speed runners, and lots of his other high scores imply some kind of glitching or another.
For those unfamiliar with the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_A4Skusro

Still one of my favorite movies of all time.
Sorry, I did not mean to straw man you. Re-reading your comment I realize that you didn't disagree, but were rather pointing out something else.
I do think it's very odd for any company to be making big bets on private health insurance when that system isn't going to exist in another 5-10 years. The ACA was the last stab at leaving private insurers in charge of a somewhat more regulated system, and it failed.
It is. With a design focused company, everything you do on the system is thought through and designed — your copying of a file is part of a user story that somebody wrote.

Unlike Microsoft, Apple tends to focus on one or two ways to solve a problem. Generally speaking, if you’re having trouble doing something on a Mac (as a user) and it seems very difficult, you’re off the path and would be better to start over and rethink what you are doing.

When you’re doing something like relying on a deprecated protocol that Apple barely gave a shit about, you’re on thin ice. At best there are a couple of engineers and a strategic customer who care about the feature and it will sort of keep working. If not, you are out of luck.
Could you?

The game runs at NTSC rates, which we'll round up to 60Hz. We'll also say that 6s of inputs need to be considered, and scores which are above 6s will be discarded. We'll finally say that the possible input states consist of the joystick in either left ("shifting") or neutral ("popping") position, and the gas button either up or down. This generates four possible input states.

The number of possible input states in total will be 60 * 6 = 360, and so the total input space is 4 * * 360 = 2 * * 720, which is a little big for brute-force exploration. Many of these states suck; after all, the total number of shifts is not ~300, but ~5. So a guided search is likelier to pay off.

Edit: Thanks HN for eating asterisks and having no math mode.
TSA agents are not LEOs. They are security guards. They do not have the same rights and priviladges, protections or responsibilities as police others and other sworn Peace Officers.
He means the Law of Jante type of thing.
According to that chart there were 1-2 years in the 90s where the headcount of health care bureaucracy quadrupled, but the trendline for price did not change at all (maybe the smoothing is too aggressive? I couldn't find the source data). How do you conclude that the problem is administrators if an increase of 300% in # of admin doesn't produce a proportional change in the price?
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When people sat chinese, they usually mean mandarin. No big deal.
This is something I've been thinking about for a while - what would insurance companies (and even other companies in every vertical) look like with some incentive other than profit? Paying good salaries is one thing, but doing it for the sake of external shareholders is a different case.

Newman's Own is one interesting (and successful) example I can think of that's an otherwise for-profit company acting effectively as a charity. Are there papers/books about how effective this would be in practice?
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Apple doesn't take the professionals seriously. Yes, they supposedly shifted from AFP to SMB in 2013 but ever since, SMB performance of Mac OS hovered between laughable and abysmal. And it's not so much the SMB server, but the SMB client implementation that sucks.

On gigabit ethernet, AFP as well as NFS on Mac reach easily 100 MB/s, while SMB hardly passes 50 MB/s. On 10GigE it's even worse: AFP, 1GB/s, SMB 150 MB/s.
Testing on a Hackintosh, the same hardware that hardly passes 150 MB/s in SMB reaches 900 MB/s running Windows 10.

SMB on MacOS is a bad joke for everyone needing to move big amounts of data. NFS works OK, but alas, the Finder has (many) bugs and some things don't work well (refreshing, icons, etc). AFP is still by far the best solution.
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Neither. Successful anti-terrorism is about nipping this stuff in the bud before the potential perpetrators get close to having specific plans. You can easily think of tactics that would disrupt recruiting, financing and supply chains quietly, all the way down to simply having a "friendly" chat with someone (and/or their mother).

The extend to which this happens and to what degree surveillance helps with this is difficult to ascertain, of course.
"Waymo" was invented so that the press would stop calling them Google cars, because in case things go awry, Google as a whole would be under fire. This way "Waymo" (effectively a department of Google) can be thrown under the bus effortlessly with no PR damage to Google.

They don't want people thinking of Google when their cars are holding up traffic, turn out to be assholes when merging or changing lanes, or cause a fatal accident. Thus, Waymo.
That was for what I'd imagine is v0.1 quality code, they said there were plenty of optimizations available to make it at least parity with the C client. Secondly, the issue was the system performance between Wallaro and the Kafka client, not necessarily the raw performance of the library.