skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes your employer offers a service called an EAP (Employee Assistance Program) that can direct you to resources that are covered by your insurance.

Finding a good therapist is really a bit of trial and error. Put yourself out there. See someone and do a gut-check. A therapist should work to establish a trust relationship and you should feel listened to. If they make you uncomfortable or you think they will never be someone you can open up to, it's probably not the right fit.

Full disclosure: I work at a company called Ginger.io[1] that provides 24x7 coach chat support and video therapy/psych sessions using a smartphone app. We work with employers to provide services for their employees as a perk. Some of our employer clients fully cover the cost of psychology and therapy, and for others insurance covers our cost.

We make the set up process a bit more straightforward. We match you with a care team, and make it easy to change it up if it's not the right fit.

1. https://ginger.io/
Winning is one thing collecting is another. I wouldn't be surprised if Equifax appeals and she never gets paid. I hope she does though!
Surely the window on this is rapidly closing. I haven't synced my phone to my computer in years. Can't imagine I'm alone here...
You might want to take a look at Big Clive's video about the radar motion detectors in Chinese E27 socket LED bulbs [0], which have become cheaper even back in mid-2016 than good old PIR motion detectors. The latter are basically a castrated Flir-style camera, the former closer to this.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgdXRLjYkc4
There may be a concept of religious prayers and songs not being used in a context that's disrespectful of them.
Anyone know what justifies this uncited claim: "best known as [...] and for her unconventional views on her profession"

Everything librarian-related on that page (anti-censorship, pro-free-speech, pro-privacy) is standard librarian culture that I remember since I was young.
Madurodam was a fascinating day visit. Kidd-ish, but some of the models were fascinating.

Advice: don't drive a car in Amsterdam! :)
Also Bird has no intention to police their own users or help cities participate in the upside of their mess.
Seconded. I'm at WeWork now, and had to upgrade offices just so I could be somewhere that was quieter. Once my contract is up I'll be looking for a more out-of-the-way office where I don't need to put on headphones several times a day.
When I buy an X Mbps link from anyone other than a handful of residential ISPs, I get to saturate it as much or as little I like.

Data caps only exist in the context of an ISP covering their ass for overselling. "Fair" and "reasonable" are just a matter of perspective, one I can never sign onto when they're the fine print on misleadingly marketed product.
>split/lapply/aggregate/ave

I always feel bad when I resort to a for loop in R. Do you have any recommended ressources about mastering those specific manipulations?
This isn’t something AT&T can force, afaik.

Two things:

1. Go to Settings > WiFi and turn Ask to Join Networks ON.

2. Any time you are auto-connected to a network and don’t want to do that again, go to Settings > WiFi, tap the blue info icon next to the currently active wifi network, and then tap Forget this Network when the details show up.

Ask to Join Networks is usually off by default. That means your phone will always attempt to join any public wifi without asking you first. Apple thinks this is friendlier for people. All known networks, once joined, will forever be auto rejoined in the future unless you turn Ask ON and forget each network you connect to (except those you trust and want to auto-join).
The Wounds of the Drone Warrior
Turning (Crypto)Kitties into Trading Cards
Most things don’t have emergency overrides. There isn’t a special button you can press in a car that will let you drive it without the keys in an emergency. If you’re stuck outside a locked house and a bear is about to eat you, you’d better hope somebody is home and willing to let you in.

Phones are the only thing I can think of that do support this, probably because they can draw a clean line between “emergency” and “non-emergency” use.
But the tax is based on the value of the property, not the price of rent. So the incentives are misaligned with council tax because the government sets the price of the tax, on the value of the property the owner owns, but then the tenant pays the tax.
A Chip in the Windshield: China’s Surveillance State Will Soon Track Cars
Alright, I'm going to check out D then. :)
I've been reading up lately on how fiat money systems work, and it doesn't seem to me that boots and guns really help. Certainly there have been countries with plenty of soldiers who failed to maintain the value of their currency.

You have to pay taxes in the local currency, but if the currency crashes you just have to pay a higher nominal amount of taxes.

You can outlaw competing currencies, but you can only do that in your own country, and it doesn't necessarily keep your official currency from going down the toilet.
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The danger is that you can intend to type

if(b < -9)

and instead type

if(b <- 9)

The latter always evaluates to true and assigns the value you're trying to compare with to your variable. This can be extremely difficult to catch and detect, especially for people who aren't software developers. They aren't writing unit tests.
Why can't it be both? Science and technology advance in often unexpected directions and for new purposes all the time. Satellites in orbit came from ICBM research, GPS from military location tracking, the tiny electronics in your phone are the grandchildren of at least one miniature spy device.
We already have "light-speed internet" or close enough. Signals in cables travel at (approximately) light speed (for the medium, which is not vacuum). And we do have wireless EM signals and fiber optics cables as well...
these are both hazards that are brought from the lack of user policing done by Bird who doesn't care about the city or users as long as they can profit.
My own (currently broken) Bash testing framework written in Bash https://github.com/helpermethod/bash-specs/blob/master/src/b...
Scientists Share the Worst Stock Photos of Their Jobs
iPhones attempt to authenticate the port right now. A challenge system is in place if you connect an iPhone to a computer and want to authenticate it. The difference is that challenge is completely turned off with USB restricted mode. In other words, it's completely impossible for the challenge to start because the phone doesn't even let you talk to it while locked.
Wonder how it affected her credit rating
This is scary. Are there any orgs we can support that are against big merges like these?
True, since there's an overall government trend towards anti anti-trust.
The general strategy must be undercut the market to buy market share, and then transform the market entirely.

I don't understand the precise mechanisms in the case of WeWork (it's not as clear as, say, Uber + self driving cars). Can someone explain?
The apples:apples comparison would be a total of amount of currency converted into Bitcoin.
for reference, IWG's market cap (the parent of Regus) is $3.8bn
As someone else has pointed out, not owning the real estate is part of the reason for the high valuation.

A good franchise business will force the franchisee to buy the real estate and give the franchise the opportunity to buy the real estate at a fixed cost (either fixed outright or a multiple of revenue for the location), effectively giving them no downside on capital depreciation on the site (i.e. the value of the site going down) or the ongoing dilaps costs. They only have upside: they can buy the site if it's doing really well. And meanwhile, you're buying your training, goods, services, and paying a portion of your revenues to the franchise.

WeWork is like a franchise which has no interest in owning your real estate.

They and others have realised the opportunity to take advantage of a couple of factors in the macro (more fluidity in working working lives -- telecommuting, flexible work --, startups, low interest rates meaning units can be vacant and on balance sheet without too much pain for an owner) and build a smart offering around that: got an empty building OR bored of the overheads and headaches of managing an office space yourself? We'll lease it from you for a fixed price and then take any upside. You get smoothed cashflow and a fixed yield, and we get whatever upside we can make.

They don't have any of the overheads, complexity, costs, or risks of owning the real estate. The IP and brand they're building (brand is an important factor here!) are not wedded to geography. Shoreditch isn't cool for startups any more? WeWork is gone.
There are running jokes amongst stats students about those who resort to using SPSS and EViews. It's mostly because of the GUI as most of the students use SAS (proprietary and expensive) as well as R.
People without gov issued health insurance don't know the pain of bouncing from shitty doctor to shitty doctor. They see so many worse cases than you every day, 'sad gringo probably should off himself, the ingrateful lout' is the attitude you get when you try to discuss your problems. Have fun explaining the depth of your issues in a 2 minute pitch!!
You're dancing around your point. Just state it.
> Their concerns are generally valid, but they should keep in mind a lot of people using do not have a software development background and do not care that the language is not elegantly designed

To me, the opposite is true. People with no CS background would benefit the most from a simple design.

> in R, data types are pretty fungible, everything is a vector, coercing things generally "just works".

Things just work until they don't, and then you need to understand all the weirdness of R.

I don't know what's the typical experience of a non-programmer with R, but as a programmer, I had some headache trying to understand R semantics (apparently I'm not the only one [1]).

[1] http://r.cs.purdue.edu/pub/ecoop12.pdf
Gamergate went after Kotaku and tried to get them to do something about Nathan Grayson's conduct.

http://deepfreeze.it/outlet.php?o=Kotaku

At some point one of Kotaku's editors(maybe, its been a while) stated that there were no ethical violations.

Gamergate then worked to boycott Kotaku and get advertisers to move away from the site.
Saying that GamerGate lacked leadership is wrong. It had multiple important figureheads that directed the movement over time, starting with Eron who turned a personal affair into an open-internet vendetta under the guise of 'ethics in video games' (of which the reviews and corruption people claim simply does not exist).

It blew up from there as many people became leaders of multiple subsections of GamerGate, many of whom we see today in the alt-right parts of the internet which I am sure is entirely coincidental. The difference between Occupy Wall Street and GamerGate is that GamerGate rallied behind multiple different leaders which would push the the movement towards various directions. This was all stuff I saw from personal experience.
Well, laws can change. Both legal laws and laws of physics. There have been several laws of physics in past centuries that have been found not to hold (not that it's very probable, but still possible).
--Example 1: The decision was made for me
The therapist I went to after my suicide attempt was an uncaring, unsympathetic bitch. (yes, I know I'm gonna get kicked out of the feminist club.) I went to her only because the hospital staff released me after I said I would see someone and the appointment was made. And let me digress a minute. The ER staff (Inova Alexandria, Virginia) were even worse. They told me I was silly and unfeeling and totally wasting their time, that there were people with real problems there and I was taking time away from them. I kid you not. Back to the mean therapist. I only saw her a few times.

--Example 2: My doctor made a recommendation
I diagnosed myself with clinical depression (I took a quiz in Good Housekeeping but I had know for 20+ years that something was wrong with me) and went to see my GP. In the appt with my GP, I disclosed I had been molested and he recommended I see this woman (I have no idea what her degree was, it didn't matter then). He warned me she was a little touchy feely (not in that way!) but told me to stick with her for a few sessions. The doctor was right. My therapist was wonderful and got me through one helluva hard time.

--Example 3: My new NP made a suggestion
I'm not in the mood for therapy therapy so talked with my NP and she suggested a local clinic type of thing. She described what it's like, told me she visited several times, and has referred other patients there. All are getting something out of it.

I've done pretty well getting recommendations/suggestions save for the crazy b in Alexandria, VA. As a networker, I feel confident I could find someone by asking around. BUT ONLY if I were not in crisis mode. If I need an emergency sort of thing, my plan is to call my NP (I have her mobile) and her tell me where to go when.

I do agree with the too many options comments. I have thought about just checking myself in somewhere. THAT is a challenge. Is A better than B? Etc.
Seems the space is getting crowded. I rent from Industrious, a WeWork knockoff that's nicer IMO; I get a weekly newsletter and it seems like a new location is opening every week.
Turing Trains
The crux:

> Lewis issued a court order that found West was owed money to cover the cost of up to two years of payments to online identity protection services

So Equifax was liable for the insurance/protection that West bought out of fear for her financial safety.
This is a fascinating solution to the problem that general plaintiff cannot sue until after they have provable harm. Instead of waiting for a rare $XXX loss and then suing for recovery, many plaintiffs can pay $X for insurance/protection and then sue for that cost.
> It makes sense since gender harassment can be an antecedent to sexual harassment.

A lot of things can be antecedents to sexual harassment.

This categorization obscures instead of illuminating.

For example part of the findings for the study is transgender people are far more likely to face sexual harassment from staff.

This sounds like normal harassment and highly unlikely to become sexual in nature.

The approach you take to stopping this kind of harassment is unlikely to look anything like the approach you take to stop sexual exploitation.
>Hulu is one of the crown jewels here.

Maybe for Comcast, but I doubt it is for Disney. Disney already purchased BAMTech which handles streaming for MLB, HBO, ESPN, League Of Legends, and many others. They have been working towards using that technology for a Disney streaming service that will debut sometime in 2019. That company is already closing in on Hulu in terms of value and would make integrating Hulu's tech and employees difficult. The only real value Hulu gives Disney is contracts for content, but those contract are only temporary and good content is still the core competency of Disney. It wouldn't surprise me if Disney proposed the original deal with the expectation that they would need to sell off Hulu to a competitor in order to get the political capital for approval for the rest of the deal.
Why would Congress do either of those things? Isn't it the judicial system working as intended?
A global decentralized currency like Bitcoin could eventually allow what happened with a global decentralized currency like Bitcoin to happen to the 2 billion unbanked too. I'm not convinced that foisting 50% weekly price swings, MtGox-calibre ecosystem security and Bitfinex-style creative accounting upon poorly educated people who rely on those savings to not die is a net positive for society.

Aside from the obvious downsides, Bitcoin doesn't even do any of the good bits of m-Pesa (local currency denominations, works on dumbphone, instant transactions, intuitive because it's basically mobile credit, loans and repayments)
Good for you!

I'm interested in your perspective on the small claims route vs. class action.

It seems like a class action suit has the potential to have a larger impact on Equifax since the size of it would be so large, but it's sad to see individual amounts so low in most of them.
> Objects in the real world have utility that's directly linked to their unit value.

But that's not true of money...whether it's official fiat money, many local currencies, or even gold, which has some utility but not near enough to support its total value.
A strong NDA is probably more beneficial than the earnest deposit. Think of it this way - if their plan is to just do some diligence and copy your business, how will the 5% earnest money stop them? 5% of the purchase price is much cheaper than 100%. So, paying 5% won't incentivize them to finish the deal. It will just somewhat increase their costs.
I am looking for office space right now, and I left the local WeWork office 30 minutes ago. Its very simple, they do things a lot better. That is the space I want to rent. When I talk to cheaper office's they feel cheaper. Also their contracts are simple. I want to think about my business, not building out an office space. Finally, the fact that I now have a meeting room I can reserve in multiple cities across the globe makes it almost a no brainier.

The drawback? They really know how to jam a lot of people into a very small space, which might be why their valuation is so high.
Hahahaha man commenters on hn really live in their own little bubble.
And yet, Subaru EyeSight can detect and react to stationary objects without any of the problems you describe. Do they have some magic technology unavailable to Tesla?
> only the coastal regions will suffer from sea levels rise

that's sort of definitional, but what might be 'coastal regions' 50 years from now might be somewhat different than today.
When I used Windows, I remember you couldn't create folders named "con", for compatibility reasons.

It kind of sucked because it means "with" in Italian, and I often could have organized files within "with"/"without"subfolders.
Depends on the wording of your ToS, of course. But a business customer will have a harder time avoiding the terms of your ToS than an individual consumer, at least. It's generally best to have some mechanism to show they actually accepted your ToS. Is that something you had?
So it’s not “a librarian”, but someone with lots of money, education, connections, time...
Yep, using many predictions you can calculate a 'brier score' which is a measure of your predictive performance.

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

See also: https://predictionbook.com
Just what I was looking for. Guess we'll get a new security announce.

Thanks
A lot of the shorts are probably long the broader market (which vastly overperformed compared to TSLA over the last few years), which makes these kind of fluctuations much easier to stomach.
Immigration, World Poverty, and Gumballs
I wrote an article about emigration for self-employed: https://qotoqot.com/blog/best-countries/

TL;DR: Canada, Germany, Chile, Spain, Thailand
The technical aspects aren't the problem. The political and social aspects are.

What does Apple do if they have this capability and China puts pressure on them to unencrypt some information on Chinese "dissidents"? China has incredible leverage over Apple, seeing as how all their devices are built there. Would Apple dare resist these requests from Chinese national law enforcement agencies?

Better to not have this ability at all, and thus never be put into this precarious situation.
The argument is that it's because there wasn't a large amount of overlap in regards to concentration of a given market position.

Time Warner is a content owner/producer/broadcast networks/etc. primarily. AT&T is mostly a telecom company.

You can usually get away with extraordinarily large mergers under US anti-trust law, so long as you're not overly concentrating the ownership of a given market. AT&T wouldn't be allowed to buy Verizon or T-Mobile for example.

If Apple wants to buy Fox they'd likely be allowed to. If Apple wanted to buy Google, they'd likely be blocked. Microsoft could buy John Deere or 3M or GM, they couldn't buy Amazon or Facebook (disregarding market caps for a moment).
Serious question - should we considering speculative cpu execution to be A Bad Idea (tm) and move on from it (since these problems keep coming up), or is the thought that we more or less have been gaining performance on the back on incorrectly written software (which does not take these speculative execution edge cases into account), and the only forward is patching?

I guess a another question I have is can we win the performance back through fixes on the cpu or will speculative execution always be insecure and thus need patching in software?

Try as I might, I am not a CPU person.
That's just one of the many reserved file/device names in Windows!

"Do not use the following reserved names for the name of a file: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9." [0]

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
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Basically if you try and do option #1 you actually need to parse the content, and THEN find out it's untrusted (which means you need to _execute_ your parser on the potentially unknown / hostile bytes), and then pretend you never processed them in the first place (discard) unknown / hostile bytes.

And you need to remove the signature and reassemble the modified data structure back to bytes in EXACTLY the same way as the signer did. This is more work (for larger data structures) and way harder to get right.

Re-normalization of the message also has some other issues, e.g. you need to make sure that you are parsing and processing the re-assembled version (what the signature was checked against), not the message you received; otherwise your signature might be completely useless (think about an attacker inserting duplicate keys: the re-normalization might remove them, but your parser might normally not. Signature validates, but you're not processing what was signed! Oops.)

If you do this the best case scenario is that it kinda seems to work, and if you're lucky it's even secure, but it actually doesn't work or silently stops working for some messages after you update a parser somewhere in the system, because suddenly they disagree about some edge case, and your system breaks.
It only increased as they were trying to do the nationwide rollout and when they did it the 250GB cap was already obviously way too low; there would have been a big outcry with the possibility of legislation. They needed a number that was big enough that they could roll it out without anyone complaining too much.
Tons of reasons. For one, I wrote "native" above, and the web+JS aint that.

But even if we ask the more general question, why "web+js can't be the great cross platform toolkit", the answer IMHO is:

Web+JS are and will always be (due to the nature of the platform) inherently slower than optimal (even if "fast enough" for simple apps), use more memory, use more CPU, don't use the native facilities and so are foreign to every OS look and feel (from themes to usability features), and so on. And of course they're "bring your own theme" affairs, so no standard users can get used to, everybody does their own BS UI in SPAs and web-engine based apps (like Spotify and Atom).

Add the amateur hour development practices that they enable (where a company that would previously hire actual GUI programmers can now hire some web devs and let them loose to create its app) and the picture is not nice...