skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to pour cold water on you or anyone this is working for, but since this can read as a recommendation, it's worth pointing out a few things.

This is another form of insurance. It's arguably a distinct model for it than a conventional insurance company, but it's a way of addressing the same fundamental set of problems, so it's subject to the same realities and dynamics any insurance solution is.

So... why would it be so much cheaper?

Possible answers include no profit overhead, freedom from regulation might allow administrators to find efficiencies. And for some programs, particularly long-running ones tied to tightly-knit communities invested in taking care of everyone inside, perhaps it more or less works that way.

Possible answers also include basically everything you worried about conventional private insurers doing pre-ACA: avoiding expensive obligations through various exclusions, bureaucratic obstruction, or selectivity in adding people to the shared-cost pool. There's also the risk that for the given fees it's actually not going to work out for some HCSMs once they hit the wrong group roll of the health-event dice.

This is not to say it won't work out for you. It's worked out for some communities for a long time and may go well. Just be aware that it's also possible that the reason you're paying less is that you're not getting the same kind of backstop.

Further reading:

* https://www.buzzfeed.com/lauraturner/christian-health-care

* https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/a-christi...

* https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/christian-health-minist...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/opinion/sunday/onward-chr...

* https://obamacarefacts.com/healthcare-sharing-ministry-exemp...
Okay, I got that the other way around, thanks. Seems there was quite a gap between the two foundings, too.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu.com
That's not a fair description of what GMO herbicide resistance means. The other way to frame it is: GMOs allow you to make use of simpler, broad-spectrum herbicides with fewer known health impacts on animal life, as opposed to selective grass- and broadleaf-targeting herbicides that have known, proven human health risks but no PR due to a lack of connection to GMOs.

Unless you're paying $3/# for carrots, herbicides are in the mix one way or the other. GMOs allow us to be pickier about which herbicides we're exposed to.

Regarding IPR issues: you're referring to Monsanto lawsuits. Monsanto enforced its IPR against people who not only planted Roundup-ready crops, but then used Roundup on them --- in other words, people who took advantage of the IPR itself, not merely people who happened to plant Roundup-ready seeds unknowingly. Farmers don't accidentally spray their crops with Glyphosate.
Another concern is cross-contamination. A three minute video from CBS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MkH08772A4
As various news sites have clearly and repeatedly reported they used the data to build highly detailed and specific psychological profiles of target voters then created content which would broadly appeal to people that match that profile. Kind of like buyer personas[1], but with rich detailed data on 50,000,000 people and their connections to play with.

None of this implies in any way that they even took out a Facebook advert (in fact they preferred content that looked organic, seeded through various Facebook groups/Twitter accounts), so I'm not sure why your experience with using the Facebook self-serve advertising portal gives much insight here.

In short: they used the dataset to target people, but they did not specifically target people in the dataset.

1. https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/buyer-persona-research
So if you run an open bazaar server, do you have any control over what content gets federated to your node?

In the case of BitTorrent, you are only serving up what you have specifically downloaded.

So how do you federate the market listings without turning unwitting users into felons?
This makes me think about what someone said in regards to the Black Lives Matter movement, and its relative success. Essentially, if you're waiting for Jesus, or even just Martin Luther King, Jr, to come back, and be the pure, untainted perfect black person to martyr themselves because you think every other victims imperfections are cause of your struggle, then someone else has convinced you to rely on your predjuidices, instead of thinking clearly without emotion.
There seems to be a belief that such an exam would produce uniformly high caliber practitioners. There are plenty of lousy members of every regulated profession.

The exams in regulated professions are designed to test that you know the jargon and general knowledge of the field (anatomy and physiology, case law, etc,). The day-to-day application of that knowledge is usually consistent with that knowledge. Outstanding members of the field are determined by years of experience and specialization.

Software doesn't meet any of those expectations. The jargon changes weekly and your expertise with O notation and hash tables means almost nothing in day-to-day practice. The fixation on evaluating candidates on those topics is more about what's handy as a way to narrow the hiring funnel than it is about measuring what's important.

Software development is a creative activity. You can't measure that. Safety critical software is developed under regulatory guidelines enforced by process requirements and certification of organizations that follow those processes.
>Once the news broke, some on social media raised the "nightmare scenario" of the virus infecting an airplane’s control software and possibly triggering a ransomware demand while in the air.

>"The plane would have to have been connected to an infected system.," he said. "The chances are pretty minimal."

If they can't confidently say the chances are guaranteed 0% then they need to actually look in to it and not just dismiss the idea.
FWIW, the headline of the article has been changed by the Seattle Times. The second clause is now "but says no impact on jet production"; originally, it was: "could cripple some jet production".

(it's about 1 hour since the original submission)
Hello HN poster with multiple handles and negative karma who keeps complaining about HNs unwillingness to comply with the GDPR, creating new accounts and cross referencing them yourself by self identifying that you are also these multiple other accounts.

FYI, the piece is not a rant.

Also FYI, I am talking about people like you. Your problem cannot be solved by the mods deleting your multiple cross referenced accounts that you complain you want deleted while continuing to make new handles and then voluntarily outing yourself each and every time. It just would create headaches for the mods while feeding your delusion that your behavior is not the issue and does not need to change.
> Maybe social media platforms are inherently cyclical?

I think so, because a huge part of social interaction is either being a trend-setter or following trends. Either one of those requires constant change.
Oh, sure, I'm not saying he is a saint or anything. But Gate's actions are very, very different than "I'm donating to a company I own and calling it an 'initiative'" Zuckerberg. That's a whole new level of dishonesty.
Balance that by copies sold.
I guess the major 'problem' is that (at least the media representation) most of the effort in GMO is not going into products being more healthy, but towards increasing yield.

Put in that light it's immediately obvious the first argument will be 'big industry.' People don't trust big industry, so therefore if they are the largest supporters/drivers of GE it will wholly be placed in the 'bad' basket.

'Big Industry' players time and time again do act poorly, fund outcomes, corrupt policies etc so you concerns can't be dismissed easily and will be conflated either way.

So the question out of this is: how do we increase the integrity of actors involved: science, media, government, business? What would it take to be able to identify and understand which GE is 'honest' vs not?

Until that can be done in any meaningful way, it will continually just be an argument between those saying all GMO/GE can't be trusted and those saying it can. Not to mention the different points being that the distrust is in those engineering/producing GMO vs the actual products/processes themselves...
> but there is no mechanism by which a gene could get from maize to a weed.

I'm not sure why you say that; this has been unremarkable for a while and is often seen in the wild. Insects play a role too, though this article from Nature specifically discusses cross-pollination.

https://www.nature.com/news/genetically-modified-crops-pass-...
Pretty poor is the state that when faced with "smear/assassinate this person's character" comes up with "may have had consensual sex with questionable consent about the use of a condom with a female".

That's the best the forces of the US/ UK/ Swedish intelligence communities could come up with?
(Theoretical physicist, working in a different area)

"Intuitive" means two different things in this context. One is that, over time, theoreticians certainly gain a lot of intuition about how the relevant math works. That's no substitute for doing the work, but it does cut down on the number of mistakes you make, you often have a decent sense of what's definitely not going to work, etc.

The other meaning is what people usually imply - that some combination of analogies with everyday phenomena finally "clicks" and you "understand" the physics all of a sudden. That's just nonsense. Past the natural limits of our everyday intuitions (which are very narrow indeed, consider how something as trivial as terminal velocity is often unintuitive to students in basic mechanics) physics is applied math, everything else is a crude approximation at best.
> instead of being able to peel or rinse fruit (with varying results), you're eating corn kernels that have pesticide on the inside

We eat lots of pesticides. Capsaicin (in chilis) [1] and piperine (in peppers) [2] are two examples.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaicin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piperine
so it's time to buy?
OpenBazaar is not like BitTorrent but more like Tor hidden services. As a node, you do not host any content that isn’t yours. When you visit a store, you traverse through the network and communicate directly with the owner of the store.

So, the legal liability of each store rests with the store.
Anatomy of a JavaScript Error
Prodigy. BBSes. Usenet. /.. HN. Digg. Reddit.

Gave up on /. around the time cmdrtaco got married. Gave up on digg sometime before the downfall. Have stuck with HN (was fairly early here). Reddit on and off.
I think I failed to communicate.

Let's try a different version and call it the "no assholes rule".

If I hired someone who was a top 1% engineer but was a complete asshole to work with, that's someone who would fail the asshole test. It's extremely unlikely I'd have hired that person, we built a team of people who were both good at what they did and friendly with each other.

The grocery store test I apparently completely screwed up in getting across what I meant. Someone who failed the asshole test would fail the grocery store test. What the grocery store test is trying to get across is how you would react when you saw a co-worker outside of work. Do you like them enough that you'd go say hi, maybe chat a little before moving on with your shopping? Or do you dislike them enough that you'd try and avoid them?

If applied in the right way, it makes you think about the person in a broader sense than just their coding skills. If you like how they code and you would like to chat with them outside of work, that's a pretty strong indicator, in my experience, that you'll bond as a team.

I'm not sure how I failed so badly at explaining that, whatever. The point is that building a team is not just about individual skills, it's also about how the team gets along. A soccer player recently was trying to make the same point when he said "you can buy any player you want, you can't buy a team".

tl;dr: building a team is not just about skill, it's also about chemistry.
I don't see what IP law has to do with nutrition.
> Second, I have got the feeling that many people who experiment with genetic manipulation don't know what they are actually doing.

This is frankly ridiculous. You describe yourself as a computer scientist and presumably have no expertise in the field and then use your gut feeling about how well people understand the consequences of their efforts? I know plenty of people who think that I'm just typing words and random until my code compiles.

Demanding that we are able to model living organisms in computers before we can productionize gmo tech is like saying that we can't deploy any web app until it has been formally verified in Coq.
Plus to me dark matter feels like a hack to make the math work. It feels inelegant. But that doesn't make it wrong - nature doesn't care what I like or don't like.
Have you or your team used it to trade anything yet? Would be interested to hear what kinds of things you traded and how the process went.

Apologies if user stories are on your site-- I can't access it atm.
Listings are not pushed to unwillimg nodes. Nodes only pull and cache content they explicitly load. If you load something that isn't something you want to provide to the network you can clear your cache.

We do operate a few nodes that accept content updates from user nodes but we can manage what is and isn't hosted there. They're not really "super" nodes because anybody can host them and have nodes push data to them.
Anyone know for sure this is WC? Anyone seen actual samples? Is this just a case of people that would not really know the differences seeing something like what they think WannaCry behaves like and jumping the gun. I would hope this is something new.

edit: It's all overblown

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/979133770921017347

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/979134886467526656

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/979140927813046273
I wish there was some way to hide all comments on the internet about dark matter / dark energy from anyone whose understanding of the subject is below the level of even having read the wikipedia entries just once.
This guy/gal gets it. That's exactly what I was trying to say and apparently failed at saying.
I'm speaking on the subject based on experience in my own field (I don't presume to know other fields). But I believe what I said applies anywhere.

> An entry level position does not mean you get to learn on the job from scratch or near scratch.
I believe in decentralization and the benefits of anti-fragility.

Having only a handful of companies in the world exerting enormous control over online commerce is dangerous. The amount of data they control is staggering, especially when combined with data collected from other centralized platforms (social media, the banking system, government surveillance).

I don't like needing to ask permission to use those platforms in order to engage in something as fundamental as commerce. Alternatives need to exist, and OpenBazaar is the alternative to the tightly monitored and controlled online marketplaces.

The world needs a protocol and network for trade that no one company or government controls. That's OpenBazaar.
The 19 Billion chickens in the world scoff at your bookface.
I've tried Plex but keep going back to Monaco. Somehow, my eyes grow weary faster with Plex. This may just be a function of my age, so your mileage may vary, but here's a listing of things that I think make Plex tiresome for coding:

1. The lower-case ell ("l") and number one ("1") look so similar that I need almost to squint to see the difference, if I'm tired.

2. Plex seems to distinguish between letters by small "inside" features, as opposed to "edge" features. What I mean can be seen by contrasting "a" and "g" in Plex and Monaco.

I think it's this second thing that tires my eyes. While I admit that the letters are clearer in Plex than in Monaco (e.g. there's no mistaking "a" for "o" in Plex), I find that tired eyes can get enough information from the outside shape to distinguish the features, and there is a higher comfort level in viewing the characters, without the extra high-wavenumber twists and turns of the "pen".

Again, I think a lot of this may just be that I have old and never-especially-great eyes. But I thought I'd mention these things, in case younger folks find their eyes growing tired and are wondering why.
I'm trying to make sense of the xvc licensing. Is it some sort of weird licensing joke?
Weird. My facebook newsfeed is empty. Maybe I clicked unfollow few too many times?
paging dang
It's funny, I used to use MySpace to bookmark bands I liked or may like. Now I use FB for the mainly same thing, as well as keeping up on other interests like skating and surfing. Oh, how cyclical the world is...
Not necessarily, look at the "black girls" example.

Anyway, that's Google's call to make.
Why use Fedora for images and not something leaner, like Arch or Alpine Linux? (just examples, there are others too)
Good - it's not just me!
Those ads were priced that high for a reason, to keep garbage off the iPhone. iAd only really made sense as a way to enable developers to make money from their apps in a high quality way. All the stipulations don't make sense for a pure ad-tech business.

And I don't think a former iAd exec has any reason to be doing PR for Apple when the purpose of that WSJ story and his cooperation with it was to pimp his new job/startup.
This is not quite correct. It does actually work a lot like BitTorrent. When a node loads content it begins to serve it it to other users as well. This cache can be purged by the user.
Many a gravestone bears the epitaph "but I was right."

Of course criminals are wrong, to blame, and should be punished. Still, people are responsible for securing their own safety for as long as criminals exist.
> Shouldn't women feel comfortable with their coworkers regardless of local culture?

The problem is what makes a woman feel uncomfortable is culturally driven - when you have such a mix of cultures at work people are bound to make innocent mis-steps.

Californian companies have a tendency of looking at it by race and gender identity.
Do you assume the best of people or do you assume the worst?
That web slide show was overdone IMO, but I'm a sucker for a code coding font and gave it a spin. Fired up three identical terminals with the same text, colors, and sizes, with respectively SF Mono, Source Code Pro, and now IBM Plex Mono [1].

My conclusion:

OMG, what has the world come to. It's 2018 and I have more great fonts at my disposal than I know to choose from. I could honestly live with any of them, but I'll stay Plex for a bit, if just for the beautiful 7.

[1] I do have other fine choices, like Inconsolata, Droid Mono, etc, but not enough time to try everything.
While this has long been known, I was never able to actually reproduce this and I'm not sure how it's technically even supposed to work.

Assuming we're using IPv4, the default gateway is a VPN and the machine is behind a NAT: Any outside service (e.g. STUN server) would see the VPN's IP address. How would the browser even technically be able to know the public (i.e. the NAT's) IP address?

However, the WebExtensions API allows tweaking this via the webRTCIPHandlingPolicy to only reveal the public "interface" IP address.

FWIW, I'm always connected to a VPN and I have configured my macOS [0] and Android [1] firewalls to drop any connection other than the VPN's.

0: Wrote it down here: https://jomo.tv/security/pf-prevent-traffic-bypassing-vpn

1: Quite self-explaining: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.ukanth.ufirewall/
IMO Docker and CloudFlare have lived up to their hype more than most startups, so it seems pretty cynical to complain about their marketing.
> There's a very good concern .. if Monsanto patents the genomes ..

The trouble is the anti-GMO-on-principle stance badly undermines the political case for taking such concerns seriously, by a sort of unintended divide-and-conquer.

It's much easier for legislators to ignore corporate power over food production systems when so many of the objections come from obvious crazies. And it's hard for those of us who are suspicious of the Monsantos of this world but are otherwise pro-knowledge to make common political cause with people who think GMOs are 'evil' (due to their Manichaeanism they'll reject anyone who isn't anti-GMO on principle as political allies).
I remember 2 years after .net came out there were jobs requiring 6 years experience. I asked a recruiter about that and they were shocked I had the audacity to even ask
This 2017 study says that herbicide use has been increasing overall, also on non-GMO crops such as wheat and rice. And that the increase rate in GMO crops (corn, soy, cotton) is no faster than in non-GMO crops.

http://weedcontrolfreaks.com/2017/04/gmos-and-herbicides-its...
> the same techniques can be used for good or ill

One problem is consumers have segmented into two mutually exclusive groups. One likes healthy food and hates GMO. The other cares much less about both health and GMO. Since the first group has self-selected out of the market for GMO, sellers optimize for a health-indifferent population.

Side note: is the plural of one GMO two GMO? Two GMOs?
Resume screen first.
Phone screen next.
In person screen next though I may well have done the google search before the in person thing if I'm paying to fly them out.

And it's worth stating that for me, social media is any sort of web foot print I can find with google (or these days duckduckgo).

We did the same thing with prospective customers. You google them and see if you find a bunch of people complaining about them. Yes? Work less hard on that sale. No, everyone loves them? Work more hard on that sale.
You should definitely count any part-time tech work or summer internships towards total industry experience. Companies may not count it at first, but it will end up giving you leg up. It may not seem like much, but compared to the people who got a degree without working in the industry, I guarantee you know way more and would be more useful to a company.

In my case, I got hired at an "entry" level position for a huge company along with other "new college grads" types, many with masters degrees but no experience. I was promoted within a year to the mid-tier position while my less experienced cohorts spent 2-3 years getting there. From mid-tier, it becomes more about what you actually know and what you've done rather than "years since graduated from college", so getting to senior level with only 3-4 years "full time" experience is not impossible if you play your cards right (and really do get good experience during college).
Even for humans: In France the Badinter law (1975) says in case of a collision between a car and a pedestrian, the car is guilty. Penalties can be nonexistent if the pedestrian threw himself towards the car, but the driver bears the theoretical responsibility. Which is quite good in pedagogy: You have something that can kill, in your hands, you get the responsibility of not committing damage.
It's an exercise into negative UX from IBM labs.
I went to Gaza in the summer of 2016 and did a mini-AMA here on HN [0]. In short, it was a tremendously rewarding experience and I'd highly recommend it. The Gazans I met were driven, friendly, and very curious about what life in the states was like.

Happy to answer any questions not addressed on the site.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858963
We have some bootstrap nodes and some data nodes to help provide redundancy on the network. We can control what content we serve from those nodes. I'm not a lawyer and can't speak to legal concerns.
Congrats! OB is great and openbazaar-go has been a very helpful project for us.
If the mission is transition, how do I give up my current position?
What kind of other things are you going to build on the protocol? (If you are able to say so in public yet.)