skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warning bells starting chiming as soon as I read how much the insurance cost. He might not have known better, but £273.70 for 18 months of insurance is at least 10x too low.

My trick is simple: Get an Amex Platinum if you need insurance for under 2 weeks [1] and buy insurance from your bank for anything longer. Banks compete on trust, so they don't randomly fuck you over. I actually used my bank's health insurance when I needed it and they were nothing but professional. It was RBC Canada, if it matters.

[1] Reach out to me if you do this and we'll both get enough points for a free transatlantic flight.
This is one of the subjects I wish developers (of all persuasions) would consistently put pressure on local representatives; don't let these sales to voting companies just happen without pushback.

We can't expect representatives or legislatures to be technically adept at all things (or anything for that matter). The fact that this has all gone down over the last couple of years without much of a fuss from our industry is shameful. We get riled up over corporate battles, which tech stack is the best, but when it comes to protecting the people's sovereignty and everyone's rights, the silence from our industry as a whole, across all strata, is deafening. We should be angry. We should be loud. It should be a subject that comes up at least once a month at meet ups and happy hours. But like the rest of the populace, we've been silent. A good portion of us (developers) have been just as ignorant about acquisitions and policies surrounding voting machines as the general populace.

If there is one thing that you should write or call your representatives about (local, state, and federal), just by virtue of your profession and interests, it needs to be about e-voting. All developers have what I believe is an ethical duty to our country to be educated about this subject and to make sure we're disseminating accurate and helpful information to our representatives, our friends, our neighbors, and our families.

Here's some helpful links to get you started if you've never broached this subject, need a refresher, or just want to see how you can help out:

* https://trustthevote.org/

* https://www.eff.org/issues/e-voting

* https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/audit-better-faster-ch...

* https://www.eff.org/wp/accessibility-and-auditability-electr...

I firmly believe that we should stick with pen and paper. However, I think that battle is already lost. We need to secure what governments/people want to use and we need to do our part to make sure our representatives/voting boards are making informed choices about which systems they'll be deploying in the field.

Educate yourself and contact your representatives. Do your part for our democracy.
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I see people say that Thinkpads are more rugged than Macbooks and have to wonder what that opinion is based on. My own experience is that they're at least on par. (unless we're talking about the specifically-engineered "toughbook" style Thinkpads)

I've dropped my Macbook Air, open, from a standing height onto a tile floor (accidentally, obviously), and the only damage was a slightly bent corner of the lid. That was 3 years ago and I'm still using it every day. And my home beater is a 2008 Macbook Pro that I've dragged all over the world; the only failure so far has been a fan, which I replaced myself.
Japanese handis had that feature. Guys, especially, used them for their secret affairs and other things they wanted to keep under wraps.
> I think it only matters what type of people are in charge. Democracy won't protect your country, only whether those who have taken an oath to defend the rule of law, their country, and their vote, actually do.

I think that citizens in a democracy have the power to protect themselves by voting and taking other political actions. The tools of democracy, unused, are insufficient.

At the same time there seems to be a very high correlation between the system of government and the quality of leaders. Trump is a problem but he stands out as an exception in U.S. history. The leaders of mature democracies seem much higher quality than those of other forms of governments, especially over time.

Also, institutions have a large effect. Their power isn't absolute, but the institutions in the US government are well-established and support the rule of law; they can't be changed overnight. Those institutions are protecting Americans from much worse (though they are also failing to do all they need to).
How likely is this to be due to accessibility (ie. keyboard-only users) vs. keylogging?
Oh god, no. Netflix has started doing this with their AppleTV app. I scroll to a show and am about to read the text about it and suddenly it starts playing video next to it. I now have to scroll fast enough that the previews don't start, and when I need to stop on something, I have to click on it to go into the show, then quickly click on "episodes" so it takes me to the static list of episodes that don't auto-play. I basically avoid using the app unless I know exactly what I'm looking for already. It's useless for browsing now.
I’d always assumed that “Travel Insurance” means you’re covered for whatever treatment you need in the country you happen to be in. (EDIT: providing the accident happens on your trip).

Flying you home and palming you off onto the state seems kinda shady to me. That’s not really “medical cover”, it’s just a flight home. And to make matters worse they made out as if flying him home was doing him a favour.

EDIT: Reading some of the other comments makes me think I’m just another mug who doesn’t read his insurance policies. But I still think that offering “£5,000,000 in medical cover” without qualifying that it really means "£5,000,000 in medical cover, only if we absolutely can't get you home and get the NHS to do it for free", borders on deliberately misleading.
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Topic from a year ago - "WALNUT: Acoustic Attacks on MEMS Sensors": https://spqr.eecs.umich.edu/walnut/
I don't recall anything Sinitic either, but it's not all an Indo-European game, at least :)

Khuzdul (the Dwarves' language in The Lord Of The Rings) is not well fleshed out, but was somewhat inspired by Semitic languages, in so far as it had tri-consonantal roots.

Klingon was created by a guy well versed in Native American language, and I think I recall reading was somewhat inspired by Inuit's agglutinative grammar.

Oh, and Laadan, an attempt at a conciously different perspective in language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Láadan
Why do you think some societies are objectively more just, and what definition are you using for "just"?
you can cut back on short-term expenses immediately.

Can definitely agree with that. There's hundreds or even a thousand or two on the table with phone bills, insurance of all kinds, etc and even those are trivial to change up compared to a house or car sale.
> It was a huge amount of work on Disney’s side to extract the scene from their internal scene representation and convert it to a format that’s generally accessible

Is this something that Pixar's USD [1] format would help with?

[1] https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD
This is why I was looking for opinion data as I feel quite differently in that a “please no photos” is an unreasonable request.

I’m not going out of my way to bother the person, but if I need a photo, then I will take it. I don’t think that’s part of general politeness. And being publicly visible is part of buying a stall (free in this venue).

Again, I think of this in the viewpoint of how I archive my life. Should I turn off my recording to please everyone’s various wishes, if they are unreasonable.

However, I feel differently in someone’s home or a public business where their requests may not have legal binding, but I’d certainly comply.
> Anything between these two points on the spectrum is unintelligible and

... very fucking profitable. I mean, the most significant part of "health insurance reform" was to penalize people if they choose to opt out of patronizing these private companies. Some reform!

I'd actually nitpick and say there are sane ways to combine the two regimes. For instance, a base level of common care, and then a functioning market for elective care, additional care, and upgrades.
I’d go a step further and give people discounts if they even try to eat healthy. Amazing how long I can go shopping cart peeking without spotting a single vegetable or fruit.
As the singular, with you/ye as the plural. (Then later you was used as the formal form with thou as the familiar, like French's tu vs vous, and then later the informal thou/thee fell out of the use. [And new plural forms were innovated, e.g. youse, y'all etc.])
Even neater is that they are using quantum entanglement in radar to detect stealth planes: https://www.popsci.com/china-quantum-radar-detects-stealth-p...
It's like when the government tries to address an oversupply of luxury apartments by renting them at full price and re-renting them at subsidized rates to consumers. I forget where this happened, but it was covered on Marketplace a few months ago.

That "solution" is objectively worse than either the extreme libertarian position or the socialist position (though there are economically sensible positions between, this just doesn't happen to be one). It preserves artificially high demand for these luxury apartments, costs taxpayers a ton of money, and around the waste-cycle we go.
If it's not ad supported, how do they plan to keep the lights on once the Kickstarter funding gets exhausted and when they don't get any institutional funding? Somehow the following paragraph form the manifesto doesn't sound very convincing (it sounds like some messaging services that have said that they'll make money selling stickers):

> "We will have a transparent revenue model based on a generic way for people to securely transact physical and digital goods and services inside the network. This will be done through an atomic digital unit of value. Although this initially reflected as a marketplace, our ambitions go way beyond that.

> Apart from this, we’re also planning to help enterprise customers setting up their own internal, self-hosted and secure social networks with extra functionality such as projects, identity and access management."

This should also be listed in the FAQ.
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This is the core problem of health insurance as currently structured in the US -- everyone will make a claim eventually so it's effectively a whole life insurance policy except the payout is sporadic and involves tons of bureaucratic crap. I personally would be fine with either universal healthcare or regulating the marketing to outlaw non-catastrophic health "insurance" thereby forcing routine care to be a direct payment relationship with your doctor.
> Drugs, diagnosis, lab test (from the like of labcorps), or just point of sale addresses?

If they had access to that, wouldn't it be a HIPAA violation?
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> For example, if you're a roofing contractor, I really think you SHOULD be paying higher health insurance rates than I do, as an office worker.

Why? Your sitting eight hours a day is remarkably unhealthy, and roofers (at least where I'm located) are typically separately insured for on-the-job injuries.
Oh, and it looks like they called Dropbox "secure" as well, in 2007
The insurance company is likely not in the wrong here. I think part of the problem is that, as Brits, we are used to not worrying about this kind of thing. If we get hurt in the UK we get unlimited "free" healthcare (paid through taxes) and there are reciprocal agreements throughout Europe whereby healthcare is either free or has a nominal charge to reduce Moral Hazard. We don't have to think about communicating with an insurance company.

Since moving abroad I have gotten used to carrying my insurance card and calling their number before any elective insurable event takes place. I feel that the OP was unfortunate in finding this out the hard way.
That part seemed really strange. You bought the policy, claim for whatever you’re entitled to!

Part of me wonders whether this set fraud alarm bells ringing and made them scrutinise his case more. (Not that that excuses anything the company did subsequently).
Here's a pre-print of the USTC team's paper:

18-qubit entanglement with photon's three degrees of freedom

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04043
Yes, there are laws now. I edited my comment to mention that.

Outside the US, labs are still a goldmine of data: time indexed numerical value that are used by providers to decide medical interventions. Except medical record or insurance history, you can't get any better than labs!

Still I noticed in the US that labs selling directly to clients (like private md labs, only in some states) insist that the patient provide an accurate phone number.

Given how phone numbers are used in the industry, I think they may want to keep the database accuracy for "future uses" when the law will change.
the crops that cattle eat are generally not the same as the crops that humans want to consume.
They're supernatural in terms of literary genre, but in terms of the actual content of the belief there's nothing supernatural about the idea that there could be people much smaller than us (unless you also claim they have magical powers).
I think a lot of folks here are suffering from flash PTSD from the early 2000's. I remember those days. I remember when a flash intro was blocking and cumbersome and slow. But I don't feel these animations are giving off the same vibe because:

1. They are non-blocking of both the loading phase and the content area. You can scroll right past them if you don't want to look because they are inline content elements. They are essentially "animated heros".

2. They load fast, actually less then the total size of some full screen hero images because it's a WebGL scene.

3. They are short and quaint - you might spend the same amount of time observing some small details in a hero image or banner.

4. They downscale to mobile without a quality loss.

I think like any other element in design, it's how it's executed... If back in the early 2000's flash was integrated in a less obtrusive way it might have been a better experience.
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That video is also 13 years old. Data moshing by itself can be about as exciting as listening to a guitar feeding back into an amp. But using it as part of a larger visual palette, and it's like a new kind of seasoning.

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMYIWSGlT54
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I don't think that anyone but "your boss" would say yes to this.
> Ross is condemned to die in prison, not for dealing drugs himself but for a website where others did.

Unless these transcripts are entire fabrications, he was rather more hands-on with other criminals than this petition is letting on: https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-bos...
My understanding is that Worcestershire or fish sauce (like in Thai cuisine) are a close approximation.
From my grandparents’ vintage TV set to delivering World Cup streams to millions
Much agreed. I've wanted a high core count cpu for absolutely no reason for the longest time. I can't wait to spend thousands of dollars on a cpu just to improve compile times by a few seconds. -j64 anyone?
Yeah, that's the biggest issue here. The kernel is not large because the kernel devs suck at their job, it's large because the default build includes a bazillion drivers for a bazillion devices. When you build the kernel for precisely the devices that you need, the image is going to be a lot smaller.
Phage therapy is the most glaringly obvious to me, particularly as antibiotic resistance increases while the pipeline of new drugs is nearly nonexistent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
This is already self hosted.
> This seems to go to far. Give the users control over their data in your system AND give them control over how their data is sent to other systems.

Depending on how you define "system", being unable to track and/or delete data federated out might put you in a hazardous position around GDPR. It's not just about users controlling their own data. It's also about system operators being able to enumerate who they shared data with, what safeguards and processes they follow, and so on.
Well . . . the charges themselves were all for non-violent offenses. But part of the reason why the sentencing was so harsh was that whole thing where he paid to have five people killed.

> "I find there is ample and unambiguous evidence that [Ulbricht] commissioned five murders to protect his commercial enterprise," Forrest [the judge in the case] said, leaving out one alleged attempted murder for which Ulbricht was charged in a different case.

-- https://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbrich...
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Just a note that not all research needs to lead to a product to be useful. Changing how an existing process is done is sufficient. A library for a programming language might be another result.
Re: your side note

That's why even though I'm a relatively avid gamer with plenty of disposable income, I've never bought on to the VR stuff. It's not about the cost, or the rapidly improving technology, it's that I don't believe (long term) that I'm going to really enjoy many VR games.

I have a racing wheel because I like to play racing games, but most of the time I end up using my controller anyway. Why? Because it doesn't feel real. The wheel ends up feeling farcical because yeah I'm cornering at 1.5G, but I don't feel a thing. In real life you're less likely to corner too fast because you can feel that you're going too fast. You're being shoved around, you're being moved side to side, you're sliding forward as you brake and backwards as you accelerate. In a video game you get none of that, and you become detached.

I think there will be plenty of valid VR experiences, once we figure out what's the right fit. Windows Mobile took the desktop and put it on a phone, it wasn't until Android and iOS came out that we figured that smartphones are really actually quite cool, provided you build the right interface. We now know there are just things you can't (or shouldn't) do on a mobile device compared to a desktop, and we build around that.

I don't know if playing an FPS in VR is ever going to feel "right" because you're entering the uncanny valley of "I'm walking up the stairs but I'm not actually". At least on Counter Strike you're just pushing buttons on a keyboard and looking at a small rectangle, so your brain knows it's not actually supposed to be happening.
> The police got a search warrant for the devices, claiming that they contain evidence of “Possession of Cannabis Less Than 20 grams” and “Possession of Drug Paraphernalia”—both of which Montanez already admitted to, which makes it unclear why the cops still want to search the phone to prove the charges.

This really doesn’t pass the smell test. I’m glad to this case moving forward.
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What would your preference be? Ybp is out. Holocene era is too hippy.. Personally, I would go with years before me but otherwise I'll take any convenient dating method including the year of some lord if it does the job.

AD/BC does the job ok for classical history and onwards. Now that "history" is extending back before the bronze age and even to these really early dates...we obviously need a new stamp.

Why is including values of our time bad, while honouring some 2018ya lord good?
> Personally, due to experienck, I prefer to forego insurance and get my healthcare abroad. Better prices than paying deductibles, better services. But I can not recommend that for everyone.

If you're in the US, that choice could bankrupt you if you ever need major emergency medical care, because of an accident or some condition requiring emergency surgery, like a brain hemorrhage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/magazine/those-indecipher...
This looks pretty good, unfortunately it's windows only.
I’m a little out of the loop here, but wasn’t the conviction also related to hiring a hitman to kill someone?
Read The Phoenix Project book in the while you have to go there, and all of your questions will become clear.
The violent charges were dropped during the investigation. In effect, he was not judged based on such allegations.

Wikipedia:

> "Ulbricht was charged with money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy to traffic narcotics,[26][30] and procuring murder.[27] The charge of procuring murder was removed from the indictment[31]"

31 refers to: https://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-murder-charges-ross...
You can also boot off a Thunderbolt 2 or USB SSD drive for better performance. I duct-taped one to the back of my screen a few years ago when I didn’t have time to get a repair done.
What is the practically relevant difference between 100% prediction capability and 99.999% prediction capability?
The book literally follows this process starting on page 5.
What is the pricing model? (eg per request?) Roughly what is that cost?

Is there an "all-you-can-eat" access level that other organizations have?

How granular are the data fields per record (/person) ?

Do requesters generally cache the retrieved data on their own stores, continually re-retrieve it, do analysis in large batches, or what? Would we expect to see big caches of this data sitting around outside of Lexis's vaults?
As I understand things (not a linguist), that's not actually a different language than English, though it's a neat exercise. The English language has undergone all sorts of pronunciation shifts over time, it seems like you've imposed a new pronunciation map on an existing language, but the grammatical structure should be preserved.
So this guy ordered hit men to murder ppl. Of course his dear mom left this out in the petition...
Rajit Manohar (also from Caltech) is an expert in design tools for asynchronous hardware, and moved from Cornell to Yale where he runs an asynchronous VLSI design group [0].

I've worked in groups that have shipped a few chips with his tools and AFAIK they're still the best out there. That said it's still more work than building a synchronous chip, but the power savings can be huge. Rajit has a bunch of neat chips published on his site [1].

Surprising to me was that some of the design foundation for hardware actually borrows from CS, leveraging concepts like communicating sequential processes to provide more formal ways of designing asynchronous circuits - a cool melding of fields!

[0] http://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/research.php

[1] http://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/chips.php
Potentially rigged elections. Now that's new.
I don't like how they mark exclusive right properties as "Originals" when they may not have made them. A lot of the quality of those exclusives is not great compared to their actual originals.
Well, obviously I wouldn't go for the stock configuration. Seeing my needs, the top CPU, RAM, and GPU seem reasonable.

But I really didn't check. The point is, the MBP's performance per dollar is ridiculous.
While I think that's an essential point, one question:

Car sharing does reduce the total number of cars. What is the greenhouse gas impact of a car independent of its use, including manufacturing it and disposing of it?
Nice basic intro to assembler, as a person from some electronics background it fits with knowledge of simpler architectures
Could you please clarify what you mean by the claim that the genocide has been abused? Should the Armenians be less outraged, stop fighting for its recognition, exclude it from history curriculum or something?
Can you fix the formatting for this to not include code block formatting for the lists, especially the second one? The side-scroll is unbearably long even on a PC.