skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You dramatically underestimate how many people have decent employer paid healthcare.

> $1,100 per year out of pocket in USA, versus $690 for Germany

I don't think these numbers are being interpreted properly or they are they just hand-waiving away your employer contribution (which ultimately is part of your employee compensation). I've been self employed in both countries so I can tell you first hand the actual price of health care in both.

In Germany your public health insurance premiums scale with your income. It maxes out at around 700 EUR per month for family coverage. You pay extra for prescriptions (not that much though) but there is basically no such thing as a co-pay or a deductible. My daughter had part of her kidney removed, was on chemotherapy, had club feet treatment, tons and tons and tons of treatment, AND physical therapy. Zero extra charges. We even got a free 4 week vacation in the Black Forest "for families with children who have a severe disease". So, total out of pocket cost for me was 700 EUR per month.

Now back in the US my own company's health care plan, which isn't awesome but it's also not terrible, costs my company $1300 a month for my family. And on top of that we have a $1500 per person deductible with a $7000 out of pocket maximum. Physical therapy here also costs $40 per session.

So, the math is pretty simple. By far Germany is way way way way more affordable. And this isn't even counting how much time and energy you spend in the US dealing with your fucking insurance and billing.
Can you describe how you can exploit this?

It's good for defense in depth, but you have to pwned the user in another way to set the cookie in the first place right? If you're using httpOnly cookies you should be fine?

(Not an expert and genuinely want to know because it seems like the node.js ecosystem doesn't consider it a problem worth fixing either: https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport/issues/192
)
Can we get over the menstruation stigma already?

I don't want to see images alluding to pissing or shitting. Do I have a piss and shit stigma?
Cool beans! I'm proud to say I had a small role in the production of these fundus cameras: https://www.centervue.com/products/eidon/
No, I was assuming that the other miners continue the longest chain, not the old chain. But they'll include the transaction(s) you were trying to suppress in their blocks; they're not on your side. Each time they mine a block you have to start the attack over again, and the odds are not in your favor. You control under half the hashpower and you need to stay at least one block ahead of the main network. It's not a race you can win in the long term, even assuming a certain amount of luck.
I could see getting a partial refund instead of a full one.

Otherwise, why even try to find an a/c tech at night, if you know that it won't make a difference?
ERP vs. CRM – Is there a difference between the two?
The Art of Learning by Waitzkin.

The book details the lessons over time that the author (an American chess prodigy) learned about how to improve at chess. It gets interesting when he applies these same lessons to become a world champion at combat Tai Chi.

The impact this had on me is how I apply myself to any competitive discipline to maximize learning. Not necessarily success, but the amount of knowledge gained from practice. This has the happy side effect of often leading to success.

But also I liked the stories of a child growing up in a competitive world, the amount of love and support he receives from his mentors, friends, and family. The ability to share this love with other students of chess and to produce profound insight into how people in general learn and react to hypercompetitive situations.

What is also great about the book is that it written in very accessible language. The reader does not need to be a scholar to understand the concepts Waitzkin is trying to express in his book.
fyi... On Amazon's Fire HD 8 (2017, 8" tablet) running bromite: my mobile experience is very good. Fast page load, fluid scrolling. Have not tested it on my desktop yet (FF on KDE Neon Plasma/Ubuntu 18.04... LTS).
Once had a well paying job that I kind of got tired of not having much to do (long story: tried to quit, offered to be available on contract basis, nope they gave me awesome retention bonus, was asked to just stick around until company does X Y Z). Anyway I came in late, took 2 hour lunch, left early. Still was tired of being bored and was all caught up on YouTube. Got to the point I just told boss I’m not playing this pretend work game anymore, in fact I’m not even going to check my email anymore, call me when you need something from me. I did about 2-4 hours of work per month for several months. Picked up another job, eventually the company had done XYZ and they paid me retention and a 12 month severance. Never understood any of it, but didn’t complain.
Facebook has, in fact, used WhatsApp data to improve the Facebook connectivity graph. They haven’t messed with the actual message texts. Yet.
It can also be illegal when VCs do it: "Pricing below your own costs is...a violation of the law [if] it is part of a strategy to eliminate competitors, and when that strategy has a dangerous probability of creating a monopoly for the discounting firm so that it can raise prices far into the future and recoup its losses." [1]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
My guess would be that the ransomers bought a list of web shell URLs and passwords, and went from there. https://backsib.com/ sells backdoor access for 40 cents each in lots of 50. I believe there are other groups doing the same sort of thing for "WSO" web shells. Sure, they'd get a lot of dead/unattended sites, but they'd get a few live ones, too.

I'm also going to guess that there's really not that many servers infected. As an example, there's a sort of vigilante malware for WordPress sites that renames files it considers malware to ".php.suspected". Google for ".php.suspected" (quotes included). Somewhere in the first page of results you'll find something like https://precision-grinding.com/wp-content/plugins/revslider/..., which has been victimized over and over and finally the vigilantes got in there. You won't find the same when googling for ".lilocked". Tons of posts about it, tons of articles advising how to remove it, no instances.
Yes, we want a Google Search API [at a decent price].
How did they predict sick days? A statistical model?
Wasn’t able to detect what software my site use, my server name was disabled.
Different motivations AND different evaluations of the company and market between the VCs and the founders. Also different risks and rewards for the VC and the founders.

Sometimes the VC thinks that the market the startup is in is a bubble and the VC will push for growth over long term health. Sometimes the VC is right and sometimes they are wrong.

I've seen this play out where the VC pushed for growth probably to get acquired. The VC may have been mostly right since the market was a bubble that popped. One competitor was able to pivot though and ended up with 4X. Most competitors failed. Perhaps the VC wanted the money or perhaps the VC didn't believe in the founders.

Sometimes the startup has no market and then the VC may push for actions that lead to acquisition. Sometimes the founders demand additional incentives in the acquisition.

I've seen this play out since the VCs probably at best break even and want to wash their hands and the founders threaten to stop the deal since they lost out on salary and stock founding the company.
Waw... Тhe rise of machines
Most sites don't have their main data/functionality in the Disallow section though.
Yep, that's the one.

The astounding, insane decision to use "libraries" aka delegate call in any immutable smart contract always boggled my mind. The amount of space saved is so ludicrously small as to beggar belief. Hope the 10k or whatever worth of space savings (about 20 transactions worth) was worth it.

Anyway, he didn't get a roll back, and the $200m in value that disappeared didn't either.
Ask HN: How do you track your startups metrics?
What tools do you use to track growth? Or other metrics that gauge your projects success?
U.S. states launch antitrust investigation into Google
It's actually good for the purposes of the study, as the highest risk populations for decreased bone mineral density are elderly populations. We know from multiple studies that women are at highest risk due to decreasing estrogen levels post-menopause, and around peak risk around age 65 (hence why it's recommended to get osteoporosis screening done at age 65). Men aren't quite as susceptible as our testosterone levels are relatively stable, and maybe including them isn't the best of ideas. However, proportion of gender is nearly equal in all treatment arms of the study, so it shouldn't skew the results.
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Hopefully the privacy commissioner is aware of this stuff works as well
Interesting theory via Twitter:

> If you look at BCH and BSV you will see the coins also moved - this looks like someone moved to do a split of forks. The good news (if that is the case) is that this likely will mean sale of BCH and BSV, not BTC!

https://twitter.com/shanepicker/status/1170517377441849351

If that's the case, it implies that someone is looking to liquidate the value of their BCH/BSV they got for free in the forks, and need to move the BTC too since otherwise the transaction would be valid in all 3 chains.
Nothing is known to be free.
What has been your life trajectory, if you don't mind me asking
Your post is much, much more indicative of the demographics of HN and what sort of a bubble people live in than the grandparent.
Why did Node become so popular if this is the case?
Even in Poland they showed it, I was watching something random wiser and suddenly this. First I though this was some action movie, then the news ticker that was correct and accurate hit me. That's when the second plane hit, and then later the towers collapsed.
So the champion of the public internet turns out to be a company that scrapes your social media, MLs it and sells the results to your HR dept?

I'm reminded of Dave Chapelle's Halle Berry routine...
Just because the States are kicking this off / working together doesn't mean that they will ultimately have jurisdiction over (most of) the charges they may want to pursue. Interstate commerce is an enumerated power in the Constitution so it may not be their call to make.
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Probably because Google's corporate spyware is better.
I would greatly appreciate here if a chemist/microbiologist/geneticist could explain how does this work without a model of the human immune system?

The article describes the process as follows:

Step 1. Somehow train an AI to distinguish compounds that work vs those that don't work.

Step 2. Train another AI to somehow select candidates from trillions of possible compounds that work.

Step 3. ???

Step 4. Test vaccine.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -Hanlon's Razor
We could have solved this in the 1970s or 1980s, but didn't, wonder why not. Vote next time.
Ah didn't realise full context in this specific case. I was referring only to "a fan legally constitutes an aircon". So, if the only thing in an AirBnB is a fan, saying it has aircon is misleading.
Can you tell me more? Any guesses to how it furthered agendas? It certainly changed stuff like airport security. I could see it being allowed to happen to make people take the war on terror more seriously. It would depend on how much of the current state of things could be predicted to determine reasoning. I'm sure even in the internet age there is plenty of forbidden knowledge.
I believe that sharemywin's post is satire. It is at least, intended to appear to be gpt-generated.
> Assuming a human author, on the other hand, the claims are probably true.

Maybe this is where we differ? I don't agree. People are mistaken all the time. Your hypothetical even assumes an untrustworthy human is directing the algorithm.

To me, the most convincing point in favour of the truth of the claims in the article is that nobody has contested them. The claims appear to be easily falsifiable, so the more scrutiny they withstand, the more trust they deserve.
Top cities most consumption of cannabis, per year, (metric tons)
>These include about 65 species of mammal—some of which, such as naked mole rats, are noted for low cancer rates even though they are small compared with elephants and whales, and so do not seem to conform to Peto’s paradox. The search will also look at non-mammalian exceptions to the paradox, such as crocodiles and birds. Dr Tollis and Dr Maley speculate that birds, at least, inherited their cancer resistance from dinosaur ancestors which were much larger. They are working on computational models to test this hypothesis.

The existence of exceptions is telling.

Concluding causation is well known for being tricky, but concluding implication is not tricky.

Look at the truth table for implication:

F=>F : T

F=>T : T

T=>F : F

T=>T : T

this means the exceptions indicate that unless there is a common underlying cause, implication is the other way: species that happen upon better cancer suppression, have the opportunity to expand into previously unavailable behemoth niches.
Just a PSA;

"Yoga Vasistha" has nothing to do with the physical aspects of Yoga i.e. Asanas (though some passages do talk about them) but deals purely with the internal/intellectual aspects of the mind. It is a very long book with lots of Allegories/Similes/Stories/Repetition and so you have to read it slowly and with patience.

I recommend reading "The Concise Yoga Vasistha" (an abridged version) before reading the unabridged "Vasistha's Yoga" both translated by Swami Venkatesananda.
I'm a hospitalist (internal medicine employed by a hospital). I'm fairly certain that what they are intercepting are pages from the ER to admitting or consulting physicians.

In the US, this would be a HIPAA violation but I'm not sure of the Canadian law. We still use pages at my hospital, but no PHI, only room numbers in the ER for admissions are paged and then you log into the EMR. We use HIPAA compliant texting apps to communicate PHI.
And maybe eliminate the top 100 artist?
Came for the mushrooms and a typo. Was disappointed, momentarily.
I had an Atari Lynx and about 30 games. I had a carrying case and wall adapter as well because it ate batteries like crazy. I gave it to a friend who had a computer museum.

There is an emulator for Lynx games here:
https://atariage.com/Lynx/emulation/index.html

It reminded me of a hand held Amiga or Atari ST even if it had a different chipset.
Let it ipo and crash. Really the only rational thing to do.
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So does that include Uber and Lyft?
The simplest technique for a blog, IMO, is using a static site generator. Deploying static assets is simple, and you have your pick of generators/languages.
They'd have to be wifi to a tethered phone, wouldn't they? Otherwise the latency would be ridiculous.
World's Most Important Electric Car Is Launching Now it is not Tesla or Porsche
How to stop worrying and start living -- this helps every day.

How to become a hacker -- not actually a book, but helped build my belief.

The mythical man-month -- this tells me to never take software project time planning seriously because it won't be accurate no matter how confident people are.
Rails scales OK. You can't run Netflix on Rails on a single server, but it scales OK.
I don't think that is the case because I see this outside of HN in my day to day life. Your mistake is assuming that opinion in opioid infested fly over country is what determines Facebook regulation, rather than a targeted PR campaign towards elites that impact policy.

On the coasts (which is half the country at least), people are certainly talking about FB and privacy.

#MeToo requires a cultural shift, not a legislative shift.
I was less so speaking on website metrics and more so on business metrics. Maybe there's more to Mixpanel that I'm not aware of but does it go beyond funnels, website conversions, a/b testing, etc.?

I realize saying "metrics" is a bit broad but I imagine early stage startups track some of these like user-growth, revenue growth, subscription growth to get an idea of how their startup is performing or to help goal-set. Or is this an area where most hack together a spreadsheet that unifies data from external data sources?
From Roy Rogers to Lil Nas X: The Wild Western Story of Nudie Suits
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Yes, the main goal of US healthcare system is profit, not health. Totally wrong priorities.
So, you'd be happy if another guest decided to leave at 2am one morning and pay you only 50%? You're charging a nightly rate, not an hourly rate.
Doesn't work on Kanji :-(

Reading untranslated manga would be so-much-easier if it does!
> Yet, no current programming language lets you write your logic as a sequence diagram.

This is not a bad thing per se. If I make a diagram, I want to be able to understand it.

WTF is the sequence diagram for request hedging going to look like?
Atari like Commodore didn't market their new systems that much. It was mostly magazines and word of mouth. At least in the USA it was that way. Still they both controlled the home computer market in the 8 bit areas.
Any chance the rover might have survived? Also I wish it was more a ball than a shape that could tip over!
Let them probe, why all kind of IM services refuse to interoperate, while e-mail does it just fine.
I'd assume if you weren't signing up, you'd probably look at like 10 profiles tops. A scraper is more than likely going to run through anything and everything it can grab links to (provided it doesn't leverage a very specific filtering mechanism for selecting profiles to scrape).

I could see the hit from a scraper being heavier than that of a typical user. There's also the potential that a user is going to click an ad for any number of reasons, there isn't that likelihood the scraper will.

I'm not anti-scraping by any means, but I get the concerns.
I had this issue recently where I wanted to revive an old side project I worked on a few years ago. The front-end was written with React + Redux + Webpack, which I assumed I would still be able to get running today, but it ended up turning into dependency hell (even though there were version numbers in the package.json, npm doesn't lock to those versions?!?).

The backend was written in Go, and I just ran go build and it worked without problems. The fact that it just worked without me having to change anything shows how important backwards compatibility is to that community.

The past few weeks I've been working on a backend Typescript project, and the number of packages I've seen that don't use semver or any similar versioning system makes me cringe. I even saw one that wore this as a badge of honour in their README :s If you release a library and you don't have a sensible versioning system, you are just making life harder for your users. (I'd argue for a CHANGELOG too - the GitHub releases section doesn't count)
Nice job on Internal family systems OP! I'm not there quite yet but getting close

- TypeScript : Absolute game changer for JS. I can't imagine programming regular ES. Sort of hoping TypeScript becomes the next ES.

- Desktops : Desktop processors and video cards are insanely powerful compared to laptops. If you're doing any sort of compilation (even if it's webpack / frontend) this stuff helps a ton. A project that takes 90s to build on a mbp is 30s on a desktop.

- Windows 10 + WSL

- Attachment Theory: https://www.behaviorology.org/oldsite/pdf/AttachmentTheoryBe..., https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1d36/ac75d7081fcd86d467f6d2... (The stuff by Cindy Hazan and Philip Shaver are very relevant for adults)

- Schema Therapy: https://www.guilford.com/excerpts/young.pdf

Look up Psychology in Seattle on Patreon and download the deep dives for Attachment Theory and Schema Therapy. After that it's easier to grok the research papers/books.
Something like this is what I am waiting for. This and cars at these prices could bring about move to electric cars a lot faster than most are expecting.
A Fight for the Soul of NOAA
>A recurring pattern with Google and YouTube: Someone achieves virality through controversy. They are promptly de-monetized, deleted, or frozen with no reason given. When the period of viral opportunity has passed, typically in about a day or two, the account/monetization is reinstated with no reason given.

Tulsi Gabbard is suing Google for exactly this:

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/07/25/hawaii-news/hawaii...
In the real world, I've found Perl scripts written in 1999 (and poorly - as they were written by me in my teens) will still run in 2019. It's basically the policy that even language mistakes won't be undone:

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy.html#BACKWARD-COMPATIBIL...
Thank you for taking the time to reply and explain, I appreciate it. I was incorrect.
Hmm, it seems a little convenient that they didn't have to shoot the plane down. Do we have any evidence that they didn't shoot the plane down and then construct the passengers saving the day story after the fact?
Actually the maintenance costs less than $60 per patient and most of it is in autoinjector, some in coolant and checks. You're being gouged. Source: in Poland, checked the costs.

The cost of a new full size CT machine with surrounding equipment is quarter of a million USD though. Some are more expensive than others, but you can get a new good one for this much.

USG costs few tens of thousands, and maintenance is super cheap, mostly consumable gel, some $8 per patient.

MRI machines are more expensive at half million USD and $120 per patient. (cooling costs)

This includes salaries.

Hospital bed is like $12 per night, staff included.

Germany and Sweden have even better healthcare, mostly due to larger number of doctors and nurses. Not that much more expensive too. Our education and salaries don't keep up.
Any suggestions for an alternative to react-router?
Finally. The transition is not hard, just time consuming, just split the work among the team and force everyone to make a little progress each day.
Defensive Coding
Are you a defensive coder? How to taper it down..
Was Hitler just "stupid"? Hanlon's razor is used by the malicious to fool the stupid.
Facts You Might Not Know About Jack Ma
Read the indictment for yourself. Namely page 16 and 17 which account for charges 3-21 of the indictment (the vast majority of it).

The only company within US jurisdiction that BTC-E did business with is a company called "tradehill". The amounts of money moved were small, ranging between $12.60 and $17,000. Less than $100,000 was moved overall and all of it was moved in early 2012.

The US doesn't care about tracking down the $12.60 that you laundered on 24 January 2012 like it says in the indictment. The US is just using that as an excuse to impose it's money laundering laws outside of it's jurisdiction. The indictment is a pretext for extraterritoriality. Extraterritoriality is a thing you get to do when you're an empire.
If there was a monopoly on advertising, wouldn’t we expect advertising revenue to grow, rather than shrink?
I was thinking along the same lines but in general.

How do you account for the linearity of humans judging against and liking things that we've heard before, excluding the things we haven't heard from the future?

Do we trust that SVM/NN account for it somehow?

Is there a way to limit corpora or have a point in time training set i.e. only against inputs that precede it.

Of course this could just be a fine tuning knob against the other temporal style/fashion trends you would expect in the data-set.
“451 Fahrenheit” by Ray Bradbury