skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the very law they are supposed to enforce

It doesn't seem all that clear cut that they were breaking the law in this case. What is illegal about them shutting off the internet and then posing as repair men? Is there actually a law against that?
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Not really. Sonar scans on vast, deep seabeds are hard. Also consider how far a crashed plane can drift on descent, how thoroughly it could be disintegrated with sea impact, quickly it can be covered up by sand, et cetera... :)
Wow is this ever wrong. Guaranteed issue is an enormous win for entrepreneurs. When you work for your own tiny company, you obtain insurance on the individual private market. Prior to the ACA and its guaranteed issue rule, insurers routinely denied coverage to family members based on cryptic "DO NOT COVER" condition lists. Coverage denial didn't merely mean the insurer wouldn't cover a particular worrisome condition (which is bad enough) --- it was a blanket denial of any coverage at all.

Young male entrepreneurs didn't run into this problem because they were male, which conveniently dodges more than half of the "DO NOT COVER" list, and because they usually don't yet have families. But cross 30, get married, have a kid, time travel back to 2007 and try to insure your family. You'll see, like I did, how helpful the ACA is for startup founders.
Yep. My employer based insurance was cheap but they dropped me when I got cancer. They wouldn't have covered much anyway I later found out.
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Actually, I would expect the opposite from people in flyover country, which has a common distrust of all things government.
(Author here.) Guilty, I guess. What do you find poorly written exactly? Thanks for your feedback and my apologies if I crossed a line with the headline.
'Operation' inventor raises funds for operation
My understanding is that Raft has been proven formally correct in one of the author's PhD:

https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/~ongaro/thesis.pdf
(Chapter 8)
Two Addicting iPhone Apps
Hi, I am currently 15 and have two iPhone games published in the Apple App Store. Rocket-Dodge was my first app, created when I was 13. Then, Butcher Chop was published three months later. Due to my lazy attitude evoked by my early teenage years, I have only just began to try to gain advice and publicity involving my two programs. Please download the two apps and comment your thoughts. Thanks!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/abby-apps/id515860706
This is such a stultifyingly stupid attitude it's hard to know where to begin, or to understand how you can be effective as a developer.

Let's be clear – if you develop a service on the web, and a significant proportion of the users or target market uses IE8—enough that there's a positive ROI—then you are making a poor business decision by refusing to support it.
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If you're young and relatively healthy and you're not paying out of pocket for at least most of your first year's worth of medical expenses, you're paying too much in insurance premiums. You want an HSA-qualifying high deductible plan, and you want to manage the pool of money that finances the deductible yourself, rather than signing it over to an insurer as a higher premium every month.
This has been my approach as well, but effective December 31 my insurance provider will be prohibited from offering a catastrophic-only policy, so I'll likely be completely uninsured come the end of the year. The Affordable Care Act will have priced me out of the market.
Before the engines flew for the first time, yes they never flew before. And Antares is the first rocket where those engines have flied - though not the only one rocket already.
> Well beta means feature complete and considered ready to ship excepting as yet unspotted last minute bugs from testers

No, that's a release candidate. A beta is considered feature complete, but potentially not, and almost definitely somewhat buggy and/or non-performant. It's also often not undergone any major form of usability testing, and will often need to be modified to incorporate the results of that.
> beyond what C/C++ has

Whoa now, let's not go lumping C and C++ together! C++ has quite a heavier runtime to manage stuff like exceptions and RTTI! (though, to be honest, I don't know what's a C++ program's runtime requirement if compiled with -fno-exceptions, -fno-rtti and the like)
I often end up adding that myself already one way or another, so I hope others are in the same boat and that is what they add!
All my reasonable Bronze options in Illinois as HSA/HDHP-qualifying, and they have the same doctor networks as the Silver or Vanadium or whatever plans.
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This is something that happens a lot in television and movies (Cop 1: "Did you hear screaming behind the door?" Cop 2: "No I....oh yeah, someone must be in DANGER!" Cops kick in door and see evidence for their case), but not so much in reality.

I too find it troubling that the Supreme Court upheld the government's position that it was a valid search.
No, I'm not interested in TIGHAR's "evidence" that they discovered 20 years after people for 20 years attempted to live there. Of course there will be some traces of that people. I'm interested why anybody who was on the island one year (1938) after supposed landing/crash (1937) haven't reported anything. The island is so small (see Wikipedia) that everything would be discovered in just a single day.
Afaik you should have PA-DSS to your app running on top of the Android OS that btw is not PCI. Just PA-DSS to your cloud services considering the architecture you are proposing is not enough. PCI-PTS to your hardware is another problem you are going to face in your certification because you are using a touchscreen 'pinpad'.
This is a story about rescission, which, thanks to the ACA, is now illegal across the entire US.
Am I the only one who sees the main image is photoshopped!?
> It will also be a godsend to me, because even though I have giant farmer hands, I detest phones bigger than an iPhone 4S.

What are you imagining here? I don't see how this could help your use case.
MPAA assumes that all Google Glass users are thieves and bans it from theaters
Could you expand on that thought more?
Really interesting pdf of slides from the PGCcon talk about this here

http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/events/696.en.html
Yes, dropped for v.4. Both are good frameworks and these new versions look great, but considering I prefer SASS to LESS I don't think I'll be switching back to Bootstrap any time soon.
Orbital now has ATK experience on board. Feels natural to switch to all-solid rockets - like other Orbital designs. However for now, the Antares is the biggest Orbital rocket, and it's designed with NK-33. Definitely need to investigate this event and make decisions.

It's better to use engines which were just created - or just manufactured - but sometimes there are reasons to prefer old engines to new ones. Age is not the only factor.
What about yearly or by incident payout limits? Like max 20000$ per year in treatment or the like. That's what most of the plans canceled by the ACA were limited by.
thanks, I'll be checking the project out for sure
I think Microsoft does deserve some credit for the idea behind WMI, but when I worked with it I always got the sense that the API was sitting on top of a massive hairball that I didn't want to look at for too long. It was slow, but it worked. I'd be thrilled if osquery just achieved the same level of query completeness, and made it easier to find properties and query them. I found WMI confusing in that regard.
Tiny little correction: On x86 multi-processor machines, the CPU can be woken from idle by an interrupt or by a write to a designated address in main memory from another CPU. Linux uses* the latter technique to very efficiently wake up a process on one CPU when it receives data from another CPU. This is a big speedup on some workloads.

* This didn't work very well until Linux 3.16.
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I'm doing just fine as a developer. What you think is a stupid attitude is shared by pretty much everyone I work with, and others as well. From managers down to individual engineers. It's an attitude shared by many startups too in the bay area. People are either developing mobile apps for iOS or Android, or web apps for Chrome and Firefox, and probably Safari if they care about mobile.

IE updates come in too slow, longer than once a year - it's been a year since IE 11, and IE 12 is not even on the near horizon. Chrome and Firefox have had how many updates since then? Even Safari has updated in that time. Windows 10 is slated for release after April 2015, that's a year and a half since their browser has been updated!

IE selectively implements standards for business reasons and IE has a history of versions sticking around for long periods of time.

IE's developer tools, even in IE 11 are horrible. They're not even a shade of what webkit, blink and mozilla based browsers offer.

Finally, and the most damning of reasons: you need to have a Windows machine or a slow and painful (and expensive) virtualization service to test IE if you don't use Windows to develop. We all use macs, if someone isn't using a mac they're more than likely using some linux distro. I haven't worked with a developer that used Windows as their main development machines in 5 years, and in that case they were actually developing a windows application.

IE doesn't deserve our attention, users can install a different browser or deal with it, but I haven't heard a user complain about it, at all. Once in a long while someone might ask, sheepishly, and not make a big fuss about it when we tell them that we don't really support IE.
Yes, probably they need to simply talk about this possibility more, or more prominently.

If you already know what you're looking for, then feel free to simply search for it; you don't have to browse through the categories it might be in, or the subjects it ought to be listed in, or any of that. Likely the only reason why it isn't in the places you looked is just that nobody has gotten around to applying the right metadata to it. This is simply a fact of life; there are millions (or billions, if you squint a little) of items in the archive, and most of them don't have all the metadata that they ought to have.

I wouldn't worry about stepping on their toes by organizing things better. It's not actually a collection until someone organizes and curates it; until that happens it's just a pile of stuff. IA has always operated on the assumption that it's ok to just have a pile of stuff if the alternative is to have nothing at all. Given the size of the pile there's no way they could ever organize everything themselves, even assuming that there's one obvious right way to organize things.
Do you know the difference between in-band and out-of-band signaling?

The ad networks are using an automated Turing Test based on statistical models to differentiate between "real" and "fake" requests. Until someone commits real dollars to make a purchase, there is no out-of-band verification of the requester's humanness. When you click the ad, your tamper-proof mouse does not take a tiny blood sample to verify that you are a real person, and communicate that via magical ansible to the ad network servers. Until the check clears on a purchase, the only data the ad networks have come through the HTTP requests, as in-band signals.

In-band signals can always be faked. Ask anyone who has ever blown a modified whistle from a cereal box into a phone handset, or modified a Radio Shack tone-dialer to produce the old payphones' "quarter inserted" tone.

So any script writer that either knows or can guess at the algorithms used to automatically sort "fake" from "real" can produce automated behavior that fools the automated sorter. What's more, those models are brittle. If the real behaviors of real humans change, such as by ad-blocking or running other response-modifying scripts, the models become decreasingly accurate classifiers.

A script that blindly clicks all blocked ads on a page is the tip of the iceberg. You can substitute the "click everything" strategy for a "click like a woman pregnant for the first time" strategy, or a "click like a male gamer, aged 17-25" strategy.

If web traffic ever has a significant number of browsers impersonating the browsing behaviors of other types of people with the help of scripts, ad networks can't trust any of their traffic to know "real" from "fake". That is an intractable problem for them.

You have to be able to verify a statistically significant portion of traffic as real humans before your models will work. And that is what Nielsen does with its consumer tracker devices.
TLDR: in order to align with semver in the future, the 1.x and 2.x "versions" are being turned into two packages respectively named "jquery" and "jquery-compat", both at version 3.0.0.
Given the number of applications tied to running under a windows server, yes. Also, 80% of azure is running windows host environments... Many small-medium businesses are running a handful of windows servers, and most of them would prefer to simply install new applications on their already existing and under-loaded servers.

On the flip side, while I am more than happy to deploy new development projects to Linux hosts, and even in docker containers, I'm still stuck developing under windows, and having to run a VM to do most of my development isn't something I'm all that in favor of.
> How is that helpful to me? [...] while people who don't work are getting health care for free.

- Your phrasing of "people who don't work" implies to me that you feel disdain towards them, and that they could work, but are just lazy. (and now they can "freeload" health care too!) If this is not the case, then I would change the phrasing to something like "people that are unemployed."

- "What's in it for me?" isn't always the best measure of the value of something. For example, Bill Gates can afford to pay all his health costs out-of-pocket. Would you agree with him if he said that we should dismantle the entire health insurance industry because he doesn't need it?

- You haven't explained what level of coverage you think that the "non-working" people had before. Do you think that their level of coverage has improved or declined?

> Now with Obamacare I am paying $260 for the same level of coverage. [...] How is that helpful to me?

Insurance companies now have to account for the risk that if you get sick in a chronic/expensive way that they can't find some technicality to drop you. Whether you see this as a benefit or not is probably correlated with your belief that those things "happen to other people."
When I was young, I never understood why there was an idle process in Windows, eating my CPU... The days without Internet.
The idea that a typical post-menopausal woman could easily obtain any kind of health insurance on the individual market prior to the ACA is laughable.
True, and actually the criminal status of trespass varies as well - it's usually a misdemeanor but is sometimes a felony, so my original comment was a bit vague. But the bit you quote encapsulates what I was saying about force.

People have got away with shooting others for merely approaching a dwelling (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Yoshihiro_Hattori) but attitudes about this seem to be shifting, so if you do feel impelled to shoot someone I would suggest calling the police immediately rather than relying on presumptive justifications.
A Neuroscientist’s Theory of How Networks Become Conscious (2013)
This does not power wandisco. WanDISCO uses DConE.
As of January 2016 all versions of IE below 11 will be dropped. By Microsoft.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/suppor...
Sure but I don't consider a test launch the same as "production" launch carrying payloads for ISS or other companies to hurl into orbit. Slightly different in that it is more acceptable for a test rocket trying out new functionality with no payload might fail.
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At the time I had to enter my card number it wasn't the case.

Just checked again and when I go to the card number screen it is now HTTPS.
On my largest site with a couple million visitors a month, IE makes up about 16% of site visitors. About 25% of those are using IE8. So, about 4% overall. I specifically ensure that the site still works in IE8 and up and was still quite functional on IE7 when I last looked.

Anyone not ensuring their site works on IE is leaving money and customers on the table. Note that it doesn't have to look exactly the same, but it should still work and allow customers to learn, buy, sign in, subscribe, etc.
how about you take a FUCKING VIDEO. Thanks :)
what the hell am I reading?
Hi - I work for Poynt on the PoyntOS and Payment interfaces - so maybe I can provide some clarity without going into too much of our IP. As mentioned on our site (https://getpoynt.com/specs), we have two separate subsystems - one for Android and the other for secure payment processing.

All the payments (EMV/NFC/MSR), secure key (including acquirer keys) management, P2PE encryption, EMV/PCI, etc. are handled by the secure processor. There are no other applications that can run on this secure processor other than the signed and certified applications.

On the Android side, Poynt's Secure service is the only service that's capable of communicating with the Payment Processor to initiate card reading (EMV/NFC/MSR/others) and pass through the encrypted data it receives to the merchant's acquirer. All the 3rd party applications run independent of the Poynt's Secure Service and when they need to collect a payment, they do so through our Poynt Payment Fragments to facilitate the Payment flows. (See here for information on how it works: https://getpoynt.com/developers/terminal#2.3 Poynt Payment Fragments).

So as you can see, we are able to keep the security domains separate and thereby able to handle PCI certification in a much more graceful way. Obviously they are some complexities but choosing a certifiable payment processor board was one of many ways we are able to deliver a secure solution.

Cheers!
"Look at the prosumer camera market, both DSLR and new mirror-less models. A significant population of people desire interchangeable lens. A phone with interchangeable camera module could have all kinds of possibilities."

If you told me I could have a large, high-quality sensor (wouldn't even need full-frame necessarily), and a single fast lens that covered a wide range of focal lengths with excellent sharpness, chromatic aberration, bokeh, etc, I and many other passionate photographers would buy it in a heartbeat.

Unfortunately, the reality is that prime lenses, due to fewer components and lens elements, tend to have better specs than zoom lenses. The super-zooms you see on the market with insane focal ranges (like 18-250) are typically very slow (f/4.5 or so), very heavy, and if you look at comparisons their quality is crap.

So I think I would rewrite your comment to read "a significant population of people desire high-performance capabilities, and currently the only way to get on the higher-end of that spectrum is via interchangeable lenses."

Interchangeable lens attachments for phones have been attempted and have not done too well because ultimately they just don't perform as well[1]. Also, if you are bothering to carry around a separate lens attachment for a mobile device, you are probably in a situation where you could carry a mirrorless camera as well. I know if I had the choice between carrying some lenses and a slightly heavier Sony A7 vs. lenses and a phone, it would be the A7 all the way.

http://www.dpreview.com/previews/sony-cybershot-dsc-qx100
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My point is that the US is spending extra-ordinarily amounts of money on healthcare system which is not universal, nor free at the point of delivery. Obama did want to put in a national healthcare system, but the opposition was just too much, so ACA was the best compromise that his administration could get through congress.

There was so much disinformation put out about nationalised healthcare systems. My favourite was the people in the States where being told that Canadians and Britons where not allowed to choose their doctors.

Overtime American healthcare costs should come down as people who where previously excluded from the American Healthcare system get treatment and advice for non-acute conditions. Before ACA, they would have had to wait until the conditions where serious enough for Emergancy treatment.
There's no guarantee, with your old plan, that they would have kept you had you gotten really sick with expensive medical bills. The Slate article above touches on some of this.

Some people are getting subsidized care but the only people getting it for free are those who are eligible to enroll in Medicaid. Not all states have agreed to increase their Medicaid rolls however. Plus, as a Medicaid patient, it is not that easy to find doctors, especially specialists, who are willing to see you. I had a Medicaid patient who had surgery for a wrist fracture a few weeks ago. The orthopedist who operated on her would only agree to see her in follow up in a separate clinic for 'caid patients, and that appointment would be in February. Fortunately we were able to encourage the surgeon to see them sooner. Im guessing that's not the kind of healthcare you want, even if it's free.
Fiction runs on idealizations of the world, and that jumps out when a bunch of them change -- how men and women are different, how people relate to authority, ... How thin those conventions and myths seemed to me made me less interested in today's fiction too, now.

http://www.exurbe.com/?p=2176 gets into some of this in discussing a couple of TV series set in the Renaissance: one of them's pushed more into a modern story-shape that modern viewers expect. (Skip down to the two paragraphs on Episode 1.)
Indeed.

Just the proportion of people who play computer games who see them in this way is shrinking rapidly.