skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hospital bills a million dollars, the health insurance says, no we'll pay you $125,000. That's it. I don't know enough to understand how this situation came about, but the bill the hospital provides is often 2x to 10x the reasonable cost and the insurance company only pays the reasonable cost. And has sort of negotiated this beforehand with the hospital. This is the situation that truly ends up screwing people without insurance, because their only negotiating power is that they literally do not have enough money to pay.
I've only heard of acid attacks in the context of Muslim "honour" reprisals. So I did a little research.

This BBC article from 2011 details some statistics on "honour" attacks: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16014368. Including that London's Metropolitan Police ("MET") reported about 500 Islamic honour related acid attacks for 2010.

Now this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22honour+attack%22+acid+Mus... returns as the first hit an article in which the MET claims [1] that Islamic honour attacks are basically a myth.

I wonder how the MET managed to report up to 500 per year to 2010 (first link above), then only one for the subsequent 15 years [1]?

It's curious that there are charities set up to aid acid attack victims[2] which report that in relative terms a lot of "honour attacks" happen in Pakistan; and that with a large UK Pakistani population there's only one attack in London in 15 years.

So, what's going on there.

Obviously it's fantastic if somehow such "honour attacks" were reduced by nearly 100% in one year yet highly disturbing if the police report that and it's not true.

Aside from that question, what I did find is a huge increase in use by gangs and a much wider use than I imagined for "revenge attacks" (spurned lovers, stalkers, etc.).

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5d38c003-c54a-4513-a3...

[2] Eg http://asfpakistan.org/, https://asti.org.uk.
This is actually a cool idea - paying idiot tax
There are free to access castle ruins and buildings of a similar age and much older all over the UK, they're hardly in short supply. Maybe you didn't intend it but this comes across as overly pessimistic. It's hardly as if every bit of history in the country has had a fence put round it to charge an entry fee.

Not trying to say what you're describing doesn't exist, but the only place I can think of that I've been to that charges to see some 3ft high bits of wall would be Old Sarum, but that also has great views.
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I didn't downvote, but I'll make a guess:

Native Americans comprise a broad range of cultures that developed in a variety of geographies and climates. Making sweeping generalizations about their traditional lifestyles is both flagrantly poor anthropology and a known practice among peddlers of diet pseudoscience.
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In the US at least, due process doesn't constrain private actors. Like the First Amendment, it only applies to the state.

Sure, the person could sue (I'm only talking about the US, still), but one can file suit over anything.
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Fair enough. Fixed!
Don't lie; it makes you look foolish.

07:48 <xkapastel> HAX
07:48 <xkapastel> `slikts: a self post made it to #1
07:48 <xkapastel> what kind of witchcraft is this
07:48 <`slikts> xkapastel: just need to get initial traction
07:48 <xkapastel> must be nice having a botnet
07:49 <xkapastel> tbh :)
...
07:52 <simpson> `slikts: So *did* you stuff the ballot box with upvotes?
07:52 <xkapastel> there's some voting ring
07:52 <xkapastel> the first post was a smiley from one of his friends, but afaik people do this sort of thing a lot so it's not really a big deal
07:52 <`slikts> simpson: very slightly
07:53 <`slikts> I don't have anything that could be called a botnet
07:53 <`slikts> but from past experiences it takes just a few votes to get past the initial bump
07:53 <xkapastel> too bad, a botnet is a good application of concurrent programming
07:54 <`slikts> also strategic timing counts
07:54 <`slikts> around now is the prime time to share content
07:54 <`slikts> middle of the week when US is getting up

That "first post was a smiley" indeed. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18502760
Reader + YouTube + Wave === (possible) FB Killer.

Maybe it's because their goto is analytics and "how can monetize this?" instead of "what do users want? what do they need?"

Both of these had a sizable user-base that would have been leveraged, as opposed to G+ starting from zero.
This is in bad taste. They play judge and executor.
In my experience, this is mostly what the GDPR is. There is no excuse for storing plaintext passwords in 2014+ and 20k is a fair fine for a mid-size company.
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This lists different tribes and their diet
https://thepaleodiet.com/north-american-plains-indians-tall-...
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March 2019. So it's in palliative care and has a DNR.

I like Inbox still. I was using gmail like i was using inbox before the product existed.

Oh well, when you live on the edge, sometimes you get cut. guitar riff
Of course you're right but it's equally often used for interpreted scripting languages. And I don't like the term scripting languages. Apparently naming is hard, who knew.
I use vim because I don't want the features of a "modern" text editor. My .vimrc is fairly basic at under 100 lines, and I only have a few plugins, which is mostly syntax files and syntastic.

I don't use stuff like NerdTree (I used to, but ended up not liking it), and mostly just stick to the features that come with it. As such, I can be very productive without much configuration at all, which is much of the reason I used vim in the first place.

I don't want another spin of vim because I lose one of its biggest benefits: ubiquity. The further I deviate from the base configuration, the less useful having vim available everywhere is.
Gilgamesh was written ~2000 years after PIE's theorized origins. It actually lines up well with the Rigveda, one of the oldest surviving Vedic Sanskrit texts.
I don't want to be that shameless, but https://onthesamepage.online does just that. I use it for sketching diagrams and mind maps daily. Not for presentations, but can export to PNG and SVG. Also kind of collaborative (I often use it alone, but from both tablet and laptop at the same time).
Google+ is listed as the first item... but it's still around...

It was only discontinued for consumers. It's still part of paid G Suite, it just focuses on sharing posts and topics within a company now -- something it's actually pretty good at. [1]

I wouldn't call it a "dead Google product" by any means.

[1] https://gsuite.google.com/products/googleplus/
I really don't understand why people seem to hate emojis so much. They're the same as utf8 pictograms, except they're more styled. They can be really useful in my opinion.

Maybe it's because young people use them a lot in messaging apps and older people are like "gah! young people and their picture messages! grmbl"?
If anyone is interested, here's a post about the original graphics and interface design from the movie by jt nimoy:

https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/tron-legacy-effects-...
Maybe https://www.plus.net/ should be next.
Reported few times without any result.
"Where would this possibly leave Google? All I can see is that, since it would be impossible for them to get a decent position in the cloud market, they will have to completely reinvent this space and create their own, new market which makes the cloud as we know it obsolete."

How naive would it be to say there's such potential in Firebase? It seems so different from what's out there now, and Google's putting a lot of effort and resources into it now too (including sunsetting existing products like Google Analytics Mobile in favor of the Firebase versions.)
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I accidentally clicked this link, got trapped, and came back here just to say the same thing. Any page that acts like this is simply dead to me.
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It will soon become riddled with Russian spies, controlled by ancient know-nothing 'crats (well paid ones at that) who are completely unable to assess the difference between shit and shinola - twas ever thus.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/114000.html
Checkout:
https://thepaleodiet.com/north-american-plains-indians-tall-...

Europeans are also taller than South Asians and their diet also contain more protein.
Rarity, significance, state of conservation... I'm not surprised a market value can be assessed by people working in the field.
I see this is based on a Spiegel article. Can someone link to the full ruling? One thing I am curious about is how the number was derived.

Regardless, even if you disagree with the scope of the law (which I do but not the intent of course), it is a very welcoming sign to see some actual enforcement happening. An under/subjectively enforced law of this size is much worse than a reasonably enforced one.
For me "git checkout -b bugFix" solved the level
That's why judges should be interpret the law.
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They can't even make a simple website that renders properly. Not promising.
Better muscle to support a growing skeleton? Better bone (marrow) growth? Or more iron, calcium, and vitamin b, d support immune and metabolism systems?
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This has a similar comment. Gnome Display Manager http://rc.quest.com/viewvc/gdm/vendor/gnome/daemon/slave.c?d...
Or perhaps it's because sometime the meaning of emoji can be hard to understand, rather than "gah! young people"
are my back ups encrypted? I can physically get those too.
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GDPR is not supposed to be enforced after a 2 year grace period ?
Full list of 5000+ websites that store their passwords in plain text: https://github.com/plaintextoffenders/plaintextoffenders/blo...
Neuroscience inspired machine learning is what's happening now. Others approaches are logic-based and evolutionnary inspirations. A nice piece commenting on some of that: https://neurovenge.antonomase.fr/
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That was starting March 2016
This reminds me of the calorie restriction research done in fruit flies (e.g. [1]). They found that protein was toxic to fruit-flies, and then journalists foolishly extrapolated that to humans. Apparently, feeding fruit-flies yeast extract gives them a short life-span. Who would have thought?!

Now in mice, who primarily eat grains, researchers find that feeding them milk is bad for their brain health. How is this research even funded?! Extrapolating this to humans in any way is entirely foolish.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2017-11-protein-diet-early-life-lifesp...
I believe the distinction between heavyweight and green threads here is not really the correct comparison. It's more of a comparison between kernel managed (non-green) threads and userspace managed (green) threads. One could argue that Goroutines are green threads that are executed on non-green threads.
It's also not infeasible to imagine a system where kernel threads are actually lightweight - single address-space unikernels come to mind.
That 2 year grace period ended in May 2018
You are thinking of "At will employment".

Right to work means you can't be forced to join a union.
I read the headline as saying that Knuddels was a platform for chatting about GDPR, which made it all seem very ironic.

edit: title has been changed, nevermind
I'm also super excited that the entertainment industry has caught up as well. Before it was ridiculously easy to inject ads and objectionable content into my video streams but thanks to HDCP I never have to worry about that again. It's so much more secure!
Let's try this again: What makes you believe that repealing KYC laws (which were introduced by the Patriot Act in the 2000s) would lead to the same conditions as Italy? And how is this consistent with the fact that the US didn’t lose 16% of its GDP to mafia activity before such laws were introduced?
E. Frenkel who was also mentioned in the article (as being in a kind of opposition to Langlands), is an interesting figure in his own right. His own account on his career in mathematics is fascinating.
Actually they’ll be fragments that sound like bursts of static but are actually adversarial constructions that induce an unquenchable thirst for the great taste of Diet Pepsi(tm).
>p4merge is the best merging utility for any VCS

What makes it "the best" ? Honest question, i found it kludgy and settled for Kdiff3.
I'm relatively young. I use emojis daily - they are part of the way we use slack in our company. I still don't really like them. It just feels like they are necessary because we have no standard for embedding actual pictures - and so we are cramming more and more of them into Unicode, using weird hacks like zero-width-joiner sequences, and so on. The rate at which they are added, means any given implementation is likely to be out of date, and display nonsense. They are also often a confusing way to communicate.

And yet, I don't quite hate them - they can be useful. I just wish we had something better.
No matter now much time you spend writing your driver, until your kernel has the "correct" signature, it was wasted effort.

So unless you point out a method, how to factor the right key, all your suggestions are a waste of resources that lead nowhere.
How about `googolgotha`?

Feels easier to pronounce.
I was extremely fond of Wave when it came out, but remember few people I knew shared that view. Now I am trying to think back to Wave and how it differed from Slack... wasn’t it pretty similar?
I miss igoogle...
Attack, succeed and blackmail could become a business. "If you don't pay me X we'll report you under GDPR and you'll have to pay much more."
Not to my taste. I guess you must use some App to read the feed? I just launched home page on the phone and it’s far from ideal. Take a look at this screenshot. https://ibb.co/hwFJXA

Would love to know what’s your setup on the go.
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Who gets the money, after those who administer it take there cut
As already discussed on Joe Rogan's show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eefgRVi7Ko - 25 minute summary), most of these studies are epidemiological studies and are not suitable for the field of nutrition.
Yes, that may be it. Great find! And sorry to Sun Microsystems, it wasn't you this time.
Someone should send a friendly email to each of those offenders, linking the ruling.

It's also fair to say that the next few years will be a busy time for the government agencies tasked with GDRP enforcement.

(Assuming they do it properly, which falls within the responsibility of the relevant country)
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Here's the Data Protection Officer's press release (in German): https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de/lfdi-baden-wue... - the relevant paragraph is towards the end. The tl;dr is that the fine is rather low because they were very cooperative and quick to follow suggestions for improvement, and have additional improvements planned. Also, they likely couldn't afford more, and the goal of GDPR fines is not only to be effective and a deterrent, but also proportionate. The DPO says that including the cost of IT security measures taken and planned, the total expense for Knuddels is a six-digit figure.
So the benefits of this are...?

Simpler code?

Higher performance?

Ability to target many architectures without tuning?

It would be nice to have numbers proving/quantifying the above.
Yes, it supports Windows natively. The tests were run on Windows.
"Knuddels is safer than ever."

Corporate speak is just so funny. The bar for "safer than ever" is pretty low when your dev team hasn't heard of password hashing.
Exactly! Hillclimbing is a huge weakness of trains which significantly increases the cost of rail construction.
I've looked at many of those Tumblr posts; most of them show that the website sends you a welcome email with your password in plain text, which is bad practice, but doesn't prove that the password is stored in plain text in the database.
It was, and the grace period ended in may of this year
Here it is with paragraph breaks but as a PDF:
http://hospitalitylawyer.com/wp-content/uploads/Responding-t...
You're in France, scraping instagram for likes and saving people's names and usernames for retargeting. This is a violation of the GDPR for good measure, as these people don't have any relationship with you or your company, it's just straight up spam.

Also a breach of Facebook custom audiences T&Cs, since you don't have permission to target those user ids.
I’m not sure I agree with the rule of two. Industries typically consolidate over time. Also, anti-trust rules typically prevent a rule of one. Several industries have had multiple competitors thrive though. Banking would be a good example of this where Citi, JPM, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America are competing in a landscape where many more competed 15 years ago. Automotives have consolidated, but there’s still more than two. I would also throw IBM into the MSFT and Oracle 90’s enterprise comparison. I think one of the biggest advantages of Google cloud as a business is the fact that most retailers will refuse to use AWS and more retailers are building out their technical abilities.
I'm so happy something like this exists. I absolutely love TRON and anything that relates to it. I was really sad that Disney didn't push for a third movie.
>Are there already atmosphere-breathing engines that do this and what are they called?

Generally this kind of engine is called Magnetohydrodynamic drive. I'm not sure about atmospheric engines, but according to wiki[1] there are prototypes that uses water as working fluid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive
Funny to speak about security and a GDPR fine for a website that hasn't HTTPS activated...
> Unlike Vim, Amp doesn't provide split panes, and support isn't planned

That's a pretty big missing feature that is included in vanilla vim...
It's been a while since I lived in Sweden, but does Swish not tie to a credit card? If so, it would be no more able to process payments than credit cards, as the payment processor is still involved.

It will only work if it uses direct bank transfers, in which case an outage at your bank or in clearing houses (which is no less likely than an outage at a large payment provider) would take out both debit cards, Swish, and any other means of transfer.

(Note for outsiders: MasterCard Debit is the most common card in Sweden from what I recall)
They should, though assuming a bloated org structure and process, fixing it now is probably more expensive than the €20000 fine.
I'd definitely worry if I were relying on this strategy.

1) What about the employees who won't or can't jump ship? These are the ones that are most important to push along in terms of company health.

2) I'm not a huge fan of the implicit 'firing'- the employee may feel a sense of responsibility to the company and slowly become more and more upset as theyre passed over for promotions.

3) I'd worry about the easy slippery slope towards terrible culture this would allow. A manager thats allowed to keep on sub-par staff because they're cheap might start stringing them along to keep the cheap and mediocre work. "Sure the promotion is coming, we just need to find the money in the budget next quarter...". Its hard to have insight into these issues from a level above the manager, and the manager has huge incentives to do it. So best not to create a structure where it can happen so easily.
"If you don’t pay me X we’ll report you under criminal law and you’ll have to pay much more."

"If you don’t pay me X we’ll report you under environmental protection law and you’ll have to pay much more."

"If you don’t pay me X we’ll report you under labour regulations law and you’ll have to pay much more."

How would GDPR be special?
Some banks force you to use a token to log in.

Korean banks required an activex that scanned your computer.

These measures surely raise the bar though I don’t know how effective they actually are.
i wish this site gave a brief summary of each product in addition to info on its demise. don't know many of them
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Report for what? Storing plain text passwords?
The classic ed and its visual version which is called vi are really good-enough if done right. The central concept here is simple regexps bound to one key commands, and that these commands compose. This is the reason why vi is what it is.

https://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Tools/Neovim

The only problem is that all classic vis, including vim, have been coded by amateurs and the code is a terrible mess.

nvi was good, as far as I remember.
'... Choose emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t.'

Pah!
Thank you for the link. :)
Its the rule, everyone goes in or nobody goes in

and having a unified front on Waze if one friend posts the warning on it, everyone has to post confirmations on the warning and leave

Its friend code to leave, but they just have to not invite you next time if they secretly disagreed
Well, you can work your way up with ever increasing levels of safety by adding first MD5, then moving to SHA-1, then adding a salt, and eventually something sensible like bcrypt. That's four more press releases right there :-)
There area still many more Google products which are effectively buried alive down the level and levels of menus.

I find it puzzling and ironic how difficult it is to find a Google product. They should have a Google product search somewhere in the apps menu in the browser.

Also, next to zero marketing.
http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/4629405305/discovercardco...

Ugh. A credit card company...really?
From public health perspective these studies work only for people who are able to control their eating long term. That's minority of adults.

Put mice in high stress environment, let them choose when and how much they eat. Allow them to choose from large variety of diets. Then find out foods that are both healthy and something that mice choose to eat without becoming fat.

My guess is that oatmeal with trace amounts of cocaine would be close to optimal.
Ashurbanipal means something like "Assur Protects Him" in Akkadian, the Semitic language of Mesopotamia.

There were significant contacts with India going back thousands of years, apparently.
They’d have to report it themselves. This is a worse value proposition than regular blackmail, where you take an existing violation, which the target already knows is illegal and has already shown willingness to conceal from authorities (or is not illegal at all, but e.g. just embarrassing), and threaten leaking it. In the proposed scheme, the mere reception of the threat itself creates a new situation for the receiver which must be reported. Paying off the blackmailer puts you in a worse spot than before. Not so with “ordinary”, Hollywood movie blackmail.
Why does a third party need to know in the first place, whether or not they sell the information or not?

It's not that I prefer cash, it's that I don't see involving 100s or even 1000s of third parties in all of my transactions as an 'improvement'.
Neat idea. What's the criteria? Just it seems to be missing Google Code. Had a look on Wikipedia and seems to be a lot missing from that too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...
But which proves that access to the website codebase will grant you access to those passwords.
I argue emojois make it easier to understand. Whether conveying sarcasm, frustration, joy or anger. It's much easier to infer the tone of a message using emojis.