skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To some extent you’re right. Unfortunately as more data about you becomes available, it becomes easier to discriminate against that data. I don’t believe there’s a life insurance company that currently uses genetic testing, but there’s no reason they can’t - the law allows it. Furthermore insurers definitely want higher prices on those with higher mortality - whether genetic or not.

However if you do want to fix this, you can’t do it as an insurance company. Let’s pretend you try - we’re going to charge slightly more than accidental death premiums to everyone. That is - we’re going to blend the health risk into one big number and slather it over all our prices. The problem becomes the free market. Consumers that want life insurance will pick the one with the lowest price. If you’re someone healthy - that means you’re going to skip this new equal opportunity company - it’s more expensive for you! You can get cheaper insurance if someone reviews your medical history and you probably are ok with them doing that. Now on the flip side - if you have a disability, you definitely want this cheap product - it’s cheaper by 10-20x than anything else in the market! So now your pool that you’re spreading risk across is 90-95% high risk and you can’t spread the risk so you can’t even pay out claims - there’s just too much risk for the net premium you are collecting. You’re basically creating a “disability life insurance” and your premiums should have been (to break even) nearly as astronomical as any other company.

For reference, you can currently buy accidental life insurance - it explicitly excludes death due to health conditions. It’s a relatively bad product since most companies will dispute claims - if you have a car accident and die while in the hospital with a heart attack, they will try to prove that you had a heart condition. It’s one of the ways regulation works correctly otherwise - after 2 years with a normal life insurance product, the company is required to pay, by law, even if you lied or omitted something when applying.

Unfortunately in insurance you need regulators to do things like these. It’s why the ACA was required for health insurance. It’s a race to the bottom that no company can stop. Furthermore currently regulations make it very hard to compete on anything except price so there’s nothing you can do to sweeten the pot for the healthy risk to balance the unhealthy risk.

Disclaimer: I’m an engineer at a company that sells life insurance. These are my own opinions though.
Could you share why as a former Google dev you no longer use Google search and gmail? I'm curious why you mentioned that in response to a post about cloud source repositories. Thanks.
From chatting with various folks, I think git had some features before Mercurial did. I recently adopted hg and found it much smoother to use, but learned also that many of the features I depended on were added only very recently.
If you want a fancy web interface on top on Git, FTP, SFTP, S3, whatever backend, I built this: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage
Targeting journalists is horrible.

Any government that is doing these things does not represent we the people. Journalists are our loudest narrators - meaning - the government appears to really wish to control our narrative.
No, but they intended him to die.
You're comparing being mean on the Internet to sexual assault.
Digitization killed customer service
A recent 8 kB intro "One Of Those Days" by Loonies is pretty funny and impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp0t2jCMGZE
Uh, Microsoft's nickname in the 90s was the "Evil Empire".
> This article is wrong and plain ol' fearmongering. A coordinated denial of service on network nodes is theoretical at best, as it would require a series of further, orchestrated actions on the rest of the blocks to achieve it.

This requires no action other than pushing a specific binary to an unpatched node in order for it to crash.

The cost of producing the binary is one time, approximately $80k USD depending on luck.
I've built Jekyll+ to handle editing GitHub pages, it may be worth a look; https://github.com/Wiredcraft/jekyllplus#readme
The wolf will live with the lamb, Google cloud and AWS
>You can't use data to optimize anything?

No, I can use data, the problem is I don't know what all the effects of that optimization will be. So I constantly have to change what I'm optimizing for.

> We agree on lots of things to optimize for.

Broadly, but there are limited resources and each thing effects the other. So even though we agree that A and B are worth optimizing for, we will disagree on which is more important. Worse in many cases we will agree on A and B, but the data shows you cannot optimize for one without pessimism the other.

That is the broad agreement isn't really enough to do anything with, we need the details and there we disagree.
I recall that one of the main problems with darcs is that it was almost comically slow even on moderately sized codebases. I suppose it might have improved later on but by then Git and Hg were too far ahead.
Yes, that was a large part of my point. In real life most of the time we deal with problems as they come up; you can't fit humans into these cookie cutter molds we are currently attempting to with these CoCs going around.
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Let's get this onto a tray.
This is one of the most contentious topics in Norwegian politics.

The main arguments on the pro-side is that continued oil extraction is profitable (meaning more jobs and larger government budgets) and that Norwegian oil production is less taxing on the climate than the competition (article claims 55 kg co2 per ton vs global average of 130 kg).

On the contra-side you have climate activists arguing that we should stop, or at least decrease, oil production in order to help combat climate change. You also have the fish lobby arguing that starting oil extraction in these locations could be detrimental to the local fish populations. Lofoten in particular is famous for its Skrei cod.

To summarise the political climate (the % is based on quite old numbers, from February this year):

Rødt (Communist Party ~2,9%): Against
SV (Socialists, Climate minded ~8,6%): Against
AP (Labour ~22,4%): For
SP (Farmers, Nationalists ~11,2%): For
MDG (Green party, Climate minded ~3,7%): Against
Venstre (Liberal party, Climate minded ~3,8%): Against
KrF (Christian party ~3,9%): Against
Høyre (Conservative party ~28,9%): For
FrP (Far right ~13,1%): For

Note that this issue is more important to the small climate oriented parties than it is to the larger parties. Thus the large parties will often use this as a bargaining chip when they need the support of the smaller parties.

My personal impression is that most people in the cities are against, while people working within the petroleum industry and outside the cities are for or neutral.
Depends on how you’d define success. My older brother did a Show HN for his startup, NanaGram, about four months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17016374

The product’s now delivering family photos in the mail for hundreds of grandparents every month. They might not be making millions of dollars yet, but they are making some money and doing lots of good in the world by helping with elder loneliness. That’s a success to me.
It might have more to do with drivers.
I'm pretty sure there is leeway in the appeals process for handling this case if it's absolutely obvious the Jury didn't follow the law.
Thanks for your feedback. You explained that really well using the word "popular". Here are more details why people are picking GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/2017/07/19/git-wars-switching-to-gi...
Terraform for Serverless Series: Enhanced Management of AWS Lambda Functions
> The progressive demanded he lose his job and conducted a campaign until he did. Potato potato.

So what you’re saying is that you want a code of conduct to protect Eich’s free speech but not that of the people who campaigned against him. That … simply doesn’t work.
Thanks, I'll give this a try :) Currently I have Hyper looking like this: https://imgur.com/a/8pZmMqM so I have tabs that I can click between and they look nice.

"Prettyness" seems like such a trivial thing to complain about, but when I spend half my working day staring at something I'd rather it was nice to look at!
>Such as?

I'm no policing expert, but I think a start might be arresting the assailants. I mean in a lot of cases, the videos are being posted to the assailant's Facebook. Now again, I'm no crack detective, but that seems like some evidence you could use to me.
Yup, pretty sure that "overcommit" should never have been the default option (although it is quite easy to disable, comparatively few people know that it even happens).
Web REST API Benchmark on a Real Life Application (2017)
I don't pursue an academic career, I'm a freelancer doing various things, yet I published two cryptographic papers in recent years (at real scientific conferences, one at USENIX Security, other at USENIX WOOT). In one case it was even financially viable due to bug bounties.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot16/woot16...
>Not a successful startup but a successful product.

What does that mean exactly? Lots of downloads/customers but not enough to be profitable (or not profitable enough to where it was worth the time and energy)?

Or is it profitable, but you just don't view your single product as a "start-up", because maybe it is a one-man-show, and not something you do full time?
Thanks for actually phrasing one of my points far better than I did, haha.
I have coauthored about 20 articles over the last 25 years, mostly in peer reviewed mathematics journals.

I published the first three while in grad school. After grad school, my advisor and I just kept collaborating meeting once a week for an hour or two. I was never paid to do academic research, it has always been a hobby for me. I have only published one article where I was the sole author.
Thanks for commenting! By the way we intent to grow as an independent company. We want to support all public clouds. This financing was lead by Iconiq, not GV. And we plan to go public on November 18, 2020.
Looking at the new Cupertino stuff.... since Google is reimplementing all iOS animations for navigation, bounce, etc., is that not infringing on Apple's patents?
The ethereum network has substantial issues stemming from very poorly defined consensus rules, which manage to grow in complexity every time you look away. The sheer scale of the consensus critical code makes it review resistant. I've been in the room with proficient auditors and struggled to make heads or tails of exactly what some forms of the code are doing.

The scripting languages people use being compiled down into a very strange bytecode complicates matters even worse. The underlying type of the VM being 256 bit has caused the compilers to do heavy amounts of bit packing for efficiency, which makes reasoning about their behavior substantially harder than it should be. It's a struggle to call any of this system well designed with a straight face.

To all of this, I have sat with developers in exchanges who are at a complete loss how to deal with the poor RPC interfaces given. Simple tasks like receiving money as deposits from clients have a never ending stream of edge cases due to contracts and addresses being in the same name space, dealing with combining inputs using multiple transactions with some confirming and some not (leading to partial withdraws, or partial deposits), sequence number behavior driving everybody insane.

I can't speak to the hype around "building on ethereum" as I've never been a part of that, but on a basic level the tools presented are unusable, regardless of what language the client you have chosen to use are written in. The RPC interface in Bitcoin is at least straight forward, with primitives that largely make sense. It's not without fault and some things require kludges or result in head scratching, but it's not as crazy as Ethereum's.
This is actually very neat, I haven't though about pausing desktop applications to save battery/CPU before. Tried it out real quick with Safari on my work laptop (macOS), worked like a charm with

killall -STOP "Safari"

Safari is paused/suspended

killall -CONT "Safari"

Responding again.

Shouldn't be to hard to hook it up to a keyboard shortcut which grabs the active window and sends stop/continue signals to that window.
Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics
As a not professional photographer, I wouldn’t even put them up in the first place. I do photography for myself for my enjoyment.

If the copyright protection expired in 10 years, releasing them at all would be allowing someone else to monetize them in a few years.
We built the animations using a slightly enhanced version of anim_encoder, which I currently have online at https://github.com/wbond/anim_encoder. One of the changes was adding pngquant which helped compress the images a bunch beyond pngcrush.
Presumably if you were going to write the latter, you'd also write your init() functions accordingly?
The terminology is confusing because for a lot of purposes every Linux distro can be considered a separate platform, so it may as well be a separate OS even though it uses the same kernel (and often the same everything, just arranged and configured differently enough to cause headaches).

That said, I am also disappointed that everyone who cobbles together a Linux distro these days insists on referring to it as a new OS, because I remember the days when people actually announced new OSs like Syllable, AROS, SkyOS, and Haiku.

Lately I've seen the term "Operating Environment" emerging as a way to further delineate an actual "new OS" from something that just sits on top of an existing kernel but is more different than just a new Linux distribution.
WalkMe raises $40M at a $1B+ valuation for its on-screen guidance technology
A code of conduct is absolutely required. My local hackerspace has a rule about proper footwear because some "functioning adult" didn't think he needed to wear shoes. On a shop floor with metal shavings. That's a liability risk no one wants to deal with. And "accidentally" dropping a 5lb hammer on the guy's toes isn't a good solution.

As far as combating bully, tribalism, and harassment. A code of conduct isn't effective unless it's enforced consistently. My local hackerspace has had to remove people. It's been effective. Those people are no longer a part of the community and as a result, the hackerspace is safe place late at night.
If you want to do a quickfix on your site, just change these things:

"You’ve been told to TALK to your audience, but it’s NOT WORKING" → change it as a background color div

"Hell YES I Want It!!!" → remove the pink shadow as well

I get that pink and blue are your colors, but those colors don't pair well together used that way. Either that just reduce the pink shadows by a large margin.

These are the changes it should look like

https://i.imgur.com/G0ekTgX.png

This is all the code I modified

https://i.imgur.com/sIMnapZ.png

and here

https://i.imgur.com/LY6Jci8.png

It still has the correct callout to action but doesn't induce any nausea to your users. I made the fix very quickly, but you should get the general idea. There might be minor tweaks you can make from the suggestions I indicated

If you want to implement these changes on your wordpress site, you can simply just copy paste everything I've written and paste it in your css file, or forward this whole message to your developer.

These are just my personal opinions though, your free to do whatever you want
Did Balsamiq start as a Show HN?
No i got off it. I thought it would take 3 months (naive hope). It took 18 months. It was a liquid solution, I had to take 7 drops per day. I had to decrease the dose VERY progressively. I took my time. It was rally a small dose at the end. But I wanted to be safe.
Again, it goes together with a proper therapy. One without the other is useless. So I progressed a lot during my therapy, which allowed me to decrease the dose.
It's been 2 years I dont need antidepressant, and I dont think I will ever need it again. I am completely cured :)
"Alphabet’s role in funding the 350-person firm comes soon after it lost out to Microsoft in the bidding for GitHub. "

Can someone describe to me how bidding for companies like GitHub works? Is it a blind bid where the highest bidder is selected? Or are participants given the opportunity to up their bid against one another?
>hard to secure.

Is an understatement.

It can't be made secure without rewriting the kernel using a proper system architecture, and then it isn't Linux anymore.
The atmosphere is the thing here, along with the character sketch of a person. It's the age-old process of trying to look inside someone's head to feel as they feel.

From the opening few paragraphs I suspect she was one of those people with intense in-person charisma, or as we call it round here, "reality distortion field".
If you didn’t write the init functions you don’t have a choice
This has also been my experience thus far.

The devs in the dart[1] and flutter[2] gitter chatrooms are even faster at responding to questions, in my experience.

1. https://gitter.im/dart-lang/home

2. https://gitter.im/flutter/flutter
I read a few articles about a new way to work with hg that appeared in the past few years. They were saying that we don't need to have names on every branch. That actually we don't need to name many things and it works much more smoothly. I wonder what is the opinion of hg users here.
Just a note to try to derail the inevitable political handwringing: these documents are all dated from 2014 or 2015 and therefore have nothing to do with the current administration, beyond that they haven't revoked them and replaced them with something else.
The latter. It's profitable but I don't consider it a startup as it's "just a product" perhaps at one point when I have expanded the product line enough I would consider it a startup but for now it's just a nice relatively profitable product.
RNA editing involves modifying transcripts such that one gene can encode for many separate proteins. The different proteins may only differ at few amino acids but these modifications typically occur in functional domains eg ligand binding sites, pore domains etc. This allows an increase in functional diversity without an increase in genomic complexity.
That's the first I have heard of SLS being ready as early as 2021. I wonder, when it comes online will NASA stop using SpaceX & ULA for space station supply/people missions?
stop this "what about the western world". I see this pattern every time there's a critical article about China. When there's an article about the west's censorship, we would be happy to talk about it, but for now, let's focus on the ridiculous and crazy to be put it mildly things going on in China.
How to Set Up a Symfony Project for Work with Docker Subdomains
Michael Atiyah Will Present a Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis on Monday
iirc, he most approves of some of the Australian rations, particularly the CR1M rations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z8_Xf5tZ5k
Ask HN: Reached rock-bottom low point in my life – how to get back up?
This is the 2nd time in my life that I turn to HN for help. The first time, I already thought I was kind of in a bad shape. But tonight, I reached a new low point. I have been out of a job for a long time. Currently, my only income is from a small remote job that requires no special skills. I can only survive on it, because I moved to a developing country in Southeast Asia. But this is a dead-end. I need to change - everything. I know the best way would be through a job that would allow me to gradually learn new skills. I don't really care that much about pay. I can survive on a few hundred dollars a month. Although I would like to say that I'm willing to do almost anything, I also know my limitations. I previously created some websites on my own using Ruby on Rails. But I'm probably quite far from a 'real' hacker who enjoys coding so much, they do it in their free time as well. For me, programming is just a tool to get what I want. Also, I always struggled a lot with front-end development and would often get frustrated when things didn't work. I never quite gave up on becoming a real developer - however, at the same time, I never had enough motivation to practice on my own until I would have reached a professional level. I believe the only way would if I could receive a lot of guidance. I did think about attending one of those coding bootcamps, but 1st, they are very expensive, and 2nd, they seem to be high-stress environments - and there is my other big weakness, I really don't respond well to stress at all. So, I guess what I'm hoping to find is some sort of coding internship where I could really very slowly grow into the role - without much pressure. I don't know how much sense that makes or if it's even remotely realistic. But I just thought I would give it a shot. If anyone thinks there is a chance that they could use my help, please do let me know. My gmail is pnh23can@gmail.com. My native language is German.
> The 80/20 Rule seems to work quite well here, when I see it applied, which is not often enough.

That is 20% of the effort can deliver 80% of the features?
In what way its more reliable?

It works only on Linux.

Mine approach works on Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Illumos/Solaris/UNIX/...
From what I've understood, IPFS decentralization = if you have enough money to host , you have a voice. if enough people like what you say, you have a voice. if either of those fail, good luck & hope the door doesn't hit you on the way out.
The problem is that artists don't make money if they sold a ticket for 50 and a scalper re sold for 500.
It's a specific part of art/education/craft; not going to drill director further than that, sorry.
Have you served on a jury? Frankly it gave me a good appreciation for the process and how well it actually works.

The “problem” is that few cases go to trial, and many of those lack competent counsel.

The other thing to keep in mind is that the law itself and rules of procedure creates many of the social issues that come up in these discussions. Jurors have the benefit of handicap of weighing evidence presented to them against statute as interpreted by a judge.
Did you install Win10 previously on the machine? It recognizes the license from the hardware ID it generates.
The same way FTP had all the features of Dropbox before Dropbox was a thing?

Usability matters. Sourceforge was atrocious.
Design for Startups by Garry Tan [video]
As I am getting older that's exactly my take on how to achieve something useful. As software devs we sometimes try to outhink the problem by solving every non existent problem that might occur down the road and also doing it in an as elegant way as possible. But the fact is that "down the road" will never come if you never leave the garage.

One example is a little fun halloween project I did last year. It's nothing more than a simple servo that opens a box after a voice command through amazon Alexa. I a don't do much in the way of motors and electronics. So I tried to find a way to elegantly mount the servo in the box and build something that pushes the lid upwards.

In the end I thought what the heck I'll just glue it down with endless amounts of hot glue hoping that it will stick.

A year later when I wanted to retire my box to save some space it turns out that the glue stuck so well that I had to cut it out. So even if it is not elegant and could gave been done in a much more elegant way it worked and nobody cared how it was done.

No matter how elegant your solution, most of the time you are judged by the result not the how.

Here is the link to the box I was talking about https://youtu.be/BdbjoniAP0s
That seems really cool!