skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's perfectly feasible to get universal coverage and sane costs, while preserving the existing insurance/provider model

Okay, but how? I have 'good' insurance and it still blows.

My most recent example -- I had a Holter monitor for a day and I paid 50% more for the 24 hour usage of that monitor than I can buy it for brand new. And then I paid $350 for a technician to tell my cardiologist how many events were recorded (being as optimistic as possible, that most likely involved verifying that the machine counted correctly).

Contrast that to a couple weeks prior in Hyderabad India, I went to the local CARE Hospital, which is actually a precent decent place -- the equipment was state of the art, and I did not interact with technicians, but actual doctors. Had an echocardiogram done by an actual doctor, consulted with another cardiologist, as well as an electrophysiologist. Total cost? 4400 INR. Do that math on that one.

I definitely expect the costs to be lower in India for obvious reasons, but the dichotomy is nuts.
Very cool idea, but still quite a few bugs even on relatively simple cases. Seems like it gets thrown off by coastlines, borders, and smaller (non-interstate) roads. For example see zigzagging in Virginia and missing coverage between Buffalo and London, ON: https://oalley.net/map/b4l
Ramadan is a month of fasting, where no food or water is consumed whilst the sun is up. Children, elderly, pregnant women and the ill are all exempt. Plus there's some interesting rules if you're in an unusual geographical position (in the ISS or North pole, so the sun never goes down).

Dietary wise it's closest to intermittent fasting, as you normally wont eat for 8-14 hours of the day, then have a big dinner. I had a bodybuilder friend who used it as an enforced time to cut weight.
> What does the iPhone not having space to store all of your photos have to do with using iCloud?

Because iCloud is a big part of their lock-in strategy. The issue is not about transferring a few photos adhoc from a phone. It is about having potentially terabytes of family movies and photos stored and organised on iCloud. Like I said, there is a financial incentive for them to make it difficult for people to move away. There is no easy way to transfer everything off, including all metadata.
Yes. Entering a town square one gets to deal with all kind of characters, including the assholes of any and all kinds. If one does not want to deal with them, one simply does not enter the town square and stays in his or her lovely mansion.
Check the radon level where you live. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking, and easily tested and mitigated.

https://www.epa.gov/radon/health-risk-radon

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/s...

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/brochure/profile_radon.ht...
I'm OK with it. I interpret "PIN number" as "the number to which we associate the expression 'PIN'".
Well, to be precise- this study shows no evidence of a fasting effect.

they show if you starve cells in a dish in a way that might mimic what happens when you fast, you can kill the cells. I didn't see any mention of even mouse studies in there, so I don't know what their in vivo model was but it mostly looks like cell culture to me (apologies if I've missed that). Extrapolating that to humans is extremely hard.

For sure a promising result but its pretty preliminary.
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Technologies: Java, C, PHP, Python, Javascript, NodeJS, AngularJS Angular2, jQuery, D3JS, Bootstrap, APIs, React, SQL, XML, XSL, GIT, MySQL, MongoDB

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English level: Excellent

Email: s.dellamarca@gmail.com
I see these posts a lot lately. I've worked in Chicago, Madison, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Des Moines, Hopewell New Jersey and Toronto.

A few points: A "senior" dev in Toronto would be someone with 8-10 years of experience. They can easily make 120+. I've hired many of them. Very few organizations in the GTA consider someone with 2-4 years a "senior", and those people will be lucky to make 90k. That make the COL in the GTA difficult.

If you truly are an amazing developer and you can't get a high salary in the GTA, get in touch.

Also, it would be interesting to see the ages of people who post. When I was in my 20's I'm sure I would have stayed in the Bay area if salaries were as good as they are now. But there really wasn't a _huge_ disparity in wages in the late 90's/Early 2000's between SV and elsewhere. I likely would have left the Bay area in my 30's though. And moving to Canada is one of the best decisions I feel I have ever made, especially considering the last 2 years.

EDIT: As a side note, I think outside of SV, ALL tech salaries (and all other industries)are too low and have been stagnant for the most part for a decade.
Looking for tech founder for next YC batch
Dear Hackers,

I look for a tech founder to apply for the next batch. Idea: Next gen job marketplace for tech occupations.

I'm just starting out. I am a business professional in the industry in Europe but can't find somebody willing to go to US in private network.

Leave your mail if you are interested to get in touch.
> If you know your software will increase emissions to illegal levels, and still write it, you are culpable.

Again a first order effect

> If you write software for autonomous cars that is not foolproof at detecting pedestrians, you are culpable.

Again a first order effect connected directly with the immediate goal.

However if you write communications software and people use it to say bad things, those are second order effects. You provided communication software that works as advertised and has beneficial purposes. Others misused it.
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Chinese smartphone export seems to be a quite new phenomena as well.
I’m kind of blown away by the comments this is getting. Do people actually not realise that every other company also pays their employees and also happen to pay corporation tax? Meaning that comparatively Amazon is paying massively less? How is that point not getting across?
What about walking?

The most basic usage is missing!

But whis works: https://maps.openrouteservice.org/reach
> This is why a steak will actually result in more insulin release than a plate of spaghetti.

That's bullshit, but yes, proteins do provoke an insulin response, which can be unhealthy with enough proteins. Note however that proteins != fat and fat does not provoke an insulin response.

And yes, for diabetics fat meat is healthier than lean meat.

Also note that fat and proteins keep you satisfied for longer, so you end up eating less meals per day. This is not about calories, but about the insulin response.

If you keep eating, the insulin does not go down.
The other thing people forget is also how expensive it is to move. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, good luck being able to save any to put towards a deposit on a new place or to even get to a new place.

And then, if you don't have a job lined up already, how are you going to live while looking for one? And if you do have a job, great... Does it pay enough to allow you to move to take it? I'd say most jobs don't offer relocation benefits.

Yeah, definitely not as easy to love as a lot of people think. It's expensive, and it's often hard to completely leave your support network and the others who depend on you.
CoinHive Mining Attack Using MikroTik Routers Affects Over 200,000 Devices
1. Instead of just sending out CVs, can try meeting people who work at companies and can get her pass initial filter. E.g. if there's data science meetups she can go to, or relevant conference where people do hiring. E.g. a PyData conference might be good place to learn a little Python and meet people who are hiring.

2. Keep sending out CVs. Plausibly there might be discrimination at some places, but it sounds like you have access to a very large geographical area, which means very different cultures and demand levels. In the US there is high demand for data scientists.

3. https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status /923830594240372736?lang=en has some advice for twitter based outreach.

Comments on CV:

1. "leads to solving defined problems" can make it sound like she needs someone to tell her exactly what to do. Presumably she can work independently, so should change phrasing so it explains better what she means. I'm guessing "leads to solving real-world problems" maybe.

2. Typo: "Adjunt" should be "Adjunct".

3. Remove mention of "internships" from intro paragraph. Makes her sound inexperienced.

4. Move consulting role so its at top.

5. Talk about at least one specific project in the consulting job. "Here's the problem they had, here's what I did to help them, here is the outcome for the client." Right now it's very vague.
Introducing Cryptosheets: Real-Time Excel Add-In for Cryptocurrencies
After many months of hard work, failures, firings, and question marks, I’m excited to finally announce Cryptosheets!

Cryptosheets is the first Excel add-in for cryptocurrencies that:

- Pulls real-time quotes, OHLCV, and trades from over 95+ different exchanges, 3,000+ assets and 11,000+ symbols

- Pulls the entire 1,700+ cryptocurrency library of CoinMarketCap

- Up to 5 years worth of Open/High/Low/Close/Volume (OHLCV) data from Cryptocompare

We have an entire generation of brilliant financial analysts, traders, investors, portfolio managers (the list goes on and on) who live and die within Excel.

These talented individuals are wizards in Excel from many years of use, but will never learn how to code.

https://medium.com/cryptosheets/introducing-cryptosheets-real-time-excel-add-in-for-cryptocurrencies-e8fe12950ec5
Seems Europe-focussed (which is fine). Definitely inaccurate readings for the US. Shows a 5 hour drive as an 8 hour one, for example.
Snapblocks – The Ever Evolving Sketch Library
You might be interested in the idea of Web Prolog, a language being written by Torbjorn Lager. It aims to provide similar concurrency features as Erlang, but retaining the logic variables, backtracking and unification etc provided by standard prolog.

It's at a point where he needs feedback. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmNvxDEaLO4
That’s not really part of the definition of emergent phenomenon. Yeah yeah, you can’t predict everything. But you don’t need to be a visionary or defeat the rules of complexity science to predict the NSA.
Thank you, I will study it.
Thomas Edison's reaction to his lab on fire
Hey HN community, I would love to get some feedback about my latest side project.

Snapblocks.io

A Sketch Library that continues to be updated based on user requests(coming soon) and by myself. I have create the first set of 200+ components in Sketch for the initial launch.

I would appreciate feedback about the website and intro video, and if you are willing to give the Library a go it would be great to get feedback on that too.

I am using the year/update license model. That means that if someone pays for the license on the website, that person will get a year of updates.

Since we are in the subject, how do you guys would share the Library? Dropbox link, file by e-mail, license system with license generator, sync server? Open to ideas. Right now I setup a simple password protected page that people can use to download the file.

Thank you everyone!
MIT Researchers Create an Aerosol Spray Loaded with Nanobots
I think “Western diet” is more than high sugar, high carb.

It’s probably safe to say it is high sugar, high carb, high fat, high protein, high preservatives, high in toxins, highly inflammatory, high in calories... yet low in micro nutritional value (vitamins and minerals). When you have all that, it explains why we focus on sugar and carbs, because when you combine all that with insulin spikes/high blood sugar levels it becomes deadly, and in that environment removing the sugar/carbs (insulin spikes) it is going to result in significant improvements in health and weight.

Those factors also explain high incidents of chronic diseases (heart disease, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes) and obesity.
In my typical texting fashion my first note was a typo. It would be really cool to be able to edit/delete notes. Very quick and easy though!
So if you own a British company, and do few jobs in France, where do you think you will be paying tax? In general, tax is paid where you declare the tax residence, not where you work. I know at least several people who live in Denmark but commute daily to Sweden for work, and of course they pay tax in Denmark, because that's where their tax residency is - it's the same with companies in general.
Django Vulnerable to Open Redirects in CommonMiddleware
> I don't want to have to say "Yup, still workin' on those bugs" every morning.

Then don't. Give specifics about what you did, what you accomplished or didn't accomplish, and what your next steps are. Provide evidence of forward velocity, or ask for help if you're stuck. The key here is accountability. Don't be "the guy in a room" who doesn't apprise the team of what's going on in his world. That guy is first in line to be fired.
That immediately reminded me of "Tim's Vermeer", have you seen it? Software guy Tim hypothesizes that Vermeer was tracing rays using an optical setup without strings, maybe vaguely similar to Dürer's. He sets out to recreate the device and Vermeer's painting's. It's a wonderful project.
> wouldn't it be sweet if businesses just let anyone join their WiFi? Bike repair shops always leave a pump outside for anyone to use, not just customers.

That's a flawed analogy. It'd be sweet if I could do any prohibited thing whenever I feel like it.

How frequently is the pump oversubscribed that it causes a queue and blocks the sidewalk? If this happened, the repair shop would soon stop leaving a pump outside.

With a WiFi network in an airport you have regular situations where demand outstrips capacity. This isn't something that is discovered later, it's common sense before you even operate the service. Users attempt to download movies at the last minute for their flights, and in many cases each person will attempt to connect multiple devices to the hotspot. The hotspot provider setup things to support their clientele. They'd have set it up differently if they wanted it available for use by all.
Can we install Linux on it bside-by-side with whatever it is in that machine?
Those benchmarks are ancient and the values being reported are confusing, but they're certainly not faked. I need to run new ones on a wider variety of hardware in a wider variety of circumstances and provide scripts to reproduce easily. It'd be nice to have lots of user submitted benchmarks of different environments.
I think if you can get a decent tech job and if you speak French. Montreal is definitely a better pick than Toronto.
Ask HN: Why do we have to pay to read research funded from public funds?
How did the academic and especially the medical sector come to a point that studies conducted by university hospitals and phd doctors are behind paywalls when it's a matter of public health?

Is anyone doing anything about it? YC?
This is probably not what you're looking for, but I'll describe my setup. I do CT research, and would basically store information about how an image was generated in the filename and log files. This didn't scale well, so I developed https://github.com/stilley2/filesdb which is a wrapper on Python's sqlite library. It allows me keep track of the parameters used to generate each image and easily search/locate them.
I’m pretty sure the people at Facebook fully understand what they were doing when they gamed the ux to get people addicted.
Bitcoin Whale's Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag
What Does Ecommerce Shipping Mean?
Agreed. But it's gotten very expensive to live in the GTA and salaries need to reflect that.
Capitalism turns public funding into a way to extract private profits.
No, I mean I don't eat anything on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If you count the hours, that's 36 hours windows, as it includes sleep.
For me, it was the first level when time move backwards as you went left. I literally couldn't stop smiling, I was so excited at the cleverness of the mechanic and the possibilities resulting from it; the music going along with it was such a cool detail.
Ask HN: EU Cookie Law Element Standardization?
I'm sick of seeing these things. If we could all agree to give the elements a unique class name like "useless-eu-cookie-law-notice", a simple element blocking rule for uBlock Origin would solve the issue.

I think there are already some blocking lists out there, but that seems like a silly thing to waste time maintaining given neither web master or user wants them to exist in the first place.
Thanks I will double check speed limit for the US.
And then no one knows what you are talking about.
At least the Powershell doesn't have the incomprehensible argument soup, but that's more the fault of ancient Unix utilities that arose in the days when characters were precious.

I don't do much actual Powershell scripting, but I can tell pretty easily what this should be doing without going to man files.
This cleared up a bit. Thanks!
> snacks between meals

Where is it written that thou shall only eat three meals a day? This is in itself a Western cultural bias.
It doesn't really make a lot of sense to compare currency conversions unless you are buying your raw materials in another currency. I'm not really that impacted on a day to day by the exchange rate, unless I'm in the US visiting family.
I really dislike these type of articles. The title is there just to shock you, and so is the content... so much that there's a disclaimer at the end of it. I think I would read it with an open mind if the title was phrased differently... "Maybe you don't need standup" or "how standup slows down our company" something of that sort.

"The natural side effects of not doing standup are:"

"- Developers communicate more
- Your team becomes more remote-friendly
- Tech debt gets addressed
- Developers feel more in control and less stressed
- Developers know you trust them and that you have their back"

These bullet points are non-sense. Perhaps developers were not communicating properly, and that's why you started having stand-ups in the first place. Perhaps your developers need more guidance and someone overseeing them. Maybe your business is growing too fast and you need to have more meetings to get things back under control. Some people are goal driven and can take care of things on their schedule other people don't even know how to make a proper schedule.

Here's what you should do:

1. See what works for you
2. Make adjustments
3. Evaluate adjustments
4. Repeat

Meanwhile, read some books on management and learn from more experienced people. There's no reason to drop everything you are doing because a blog post said so.
Phillip Rogaway gave an interesting invited talk [1] (and an accompanying essay [2]) on a related topic at a cryptography conference in 2015. It is quite an entertaining read, even if you are not a cryptographer.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-XebcVSyJw

[2] http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral.html
Linking to an archive instead is appropriate in these cases, if no clean alternative link can be found.
What are the limits of culpability and what are you responsible for? The article is pushing that definition beyond the first order effects of safety. And the proposed solution is that gate keeping is done by the press and the public. How well do you think that will go?

If you write software that replaces someone's job are you "culpable"?
If you create a phone and people are killed when someone texts and drives are you "culpable"?
If you create a better facial recognition program as part of building a secure access systems and someone uses that system to discriminate are you "culpable"?

I find this unending process of creating "victims" just so they can be "saved" as tiresome.
No, those are things you want to take "offline" or "to the parking lot".
I love this! I'm in Orlando, Florida which has some rather weird behavior (mostly within the state of Florida, namely going down south), but other than that it is really cool. I think the peninsular shape of Florida is throwing it off a bit.
> Not much of a suprise really

Not to be super contrarian, but AFAIU nutritional treatment of cancer actually is a very big surprise for traditional cancer treatment/oncologists.

E.g. a podcast I listened to with Dominic D’Agostino mentioned walking through a cancer ward and most/all patients were being fed Ensure, a sugary "protein" drink (ingredient list starts with water, maltodextrin, sugar), to keep them from losing weight.

Which is a valid traditional concern, but ends up supporting the cancer's glucose-based metabolism (disclaimer IANAE) vs. triggering what this article cites (for the subset of cancers that are susceptible to it).
Isn’t public IaaS and PaaS exactly what he is talking about? Amazon, Google, Microsoft selling the exact software and infrastructure they use to operate at scale. So maybe regulated prices for Cloud services? But they already seem pretty low because of competition.

Access to massive data is the real value that these companies have exclusive access to, not IT infrastructure
Somewhat perpendicular, but intermittent fasting has been a great recent lifehack for me. I skip breakfast every day, and sometimes skip lunch. Gives me back at least an hour every day. And gorging for dinner is a lot of fun.
Computer Science is a new field and individual developers can have reaching effects on society, direct or indirect, that extend further than any other engineering discipline. My belief is that it 100% is on the responsibility of researchers and developers to think of the ethical and social implications of their work. As an example, a podcast I listened to recently was interviewing CS researchers working on "deep fake" videos. When asked if they thought their work could have negative societal impact, their response was along the lines of "its just really cool to make this". CS as a whole has a lot of maturing to do and I hope we can get their sooner rather than later.
Regarding the "true difficulty" I don't think you can generalize like that. For example I suspect it depends on where you live, what hours fasting is, temperature and so on.

My friends here have told me that the main problem is to eat enough during the night because after fasting for 18 hours your body get used to it. I assume similar to my issues eating a bkg breakfast in the morning directly after waking up.
Pretty neat. It's ignoring some roads when doing it from "Montreal, Québec, Canada" even with 8 hours... It should be going farther east on the south side of the St. Lawrence river towards "Gaspé". Otherwise, it's a really great idea.
As I mentioned elsewhere, it depends on what you consider a "senior" dev. A couple years of experience _does not_ make you a senior.

The upper boundary for an intermediate in Toronto is certainly $90-95k.
This makes me want to try Go, though I wonder how long it would take to develop the same "fluency" and knowledge of which library to use. It would be exiting to have things run fast though...

One minor plug `pyflakes` is very good for basic checks for mistyped variable and missing imports, etc. It's not "smart" and doesn't check type consistency, but very useful to catch stupid mistakes.
Goldman Sachs says the price of Bitcoin is never coming back
I think that Powershell lacks right now most an up-to-date free resource. I remember back in 2011-2012 I was working a lot with it and there was a Mastering Powershell e-book which sadly is now gone, except as random PDFs on sites. But it hasn't been updated.

I'm not sure I understand the thing about deprecation. I don't think Powershell has very many backwards incompatibility issues. What bit you the most?

Also, I think after the recent switch to Powershell Core, they're not going to go for breaking changes. They can't, if they want to have any kind of cross platform adoption vs bash & co.
Do these notifications actually help with GDPR compliance or are they just a CYA for the websites?