skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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You really can't imagine a world where healthcare is worse than it already is in the US? I don't think it's really that hard.

Imagine that everything is the same as it is right now, but that insurance companies manage to get the various 80-90% payout laws overturned and start paying out at only a 50% rate. That means premiums nearly double in very short order.

Or maybe a new law that really makes the electronic records requirements stick gets passed, but it's done in such a poor fashion that all of our records end up getting sold to bankers, who then figure out a way to make bets on people (ala Walmart's life insurance "scandal") and then the insurance companies get wind of this and start dropping people once their bank calculated risk profile gets too high.

See, look! It's that easy.
I saw a doc about nuclear weapons that mentioned this one and said that the real reason that no one made them bigger was the fact that they were wasteful.

The atmosphere is effectively 10 miles high. Once your blast radius approaches that the difference in pressure pushes most of the energy upward above the atmosphere. You don't get the horizontal spread you'd expect as you increase tonnage.
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> All of these criticisms could have been made about the iPhone (and were-- regarding the keyboard being virtual) or the iPad (I personally couldn't figure out what the compelling app was for the iPad).... but once the platform is out there, you find out what it is.

Not true. The browser was the obvious killer app for the phone, and it would suck dick on a watch.
> Many people go into computer science because they want to know how computers work .. Very few (but definitely some!) go into computer science because they want to know about Turing Machines

I'll be a little provocative, but students don't necessarily know what is useful for them. It's like those kids that want to learn to play guitar solos like Eddie Van Halen but refuse to learn any music theory.

Besides, when you look at the recruiting process of some prestigious companies, it seems that industry values employees that can show good mathematical skills. It's not simply an academics thing.
I heard about this dataset recently through the automatic statistician project - http://www.automaticstatistician.com/

Here is the analysis automatically produced by them : http://www.automaticstatistician.com/assets/auto-report-affa...
>One of the most controversial projects he proposed was a plan to use a multi-megaton hydrogen bomb to dig a deep-water harbor

Russians used nukes for mining. Its not magic. You can manage fall-out, risk, etc. Its not "crazy."

>"Teller suffered a heart attack in 1979, and many observers[71] described him as blaming it on Jane Fonda"

A 70+ year old man being a difficult curmudgeon? Say, it ain't so!

> Teller began a strong campaign for what was later called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

SDI made sense. We still have SDI. Now we call its "Strategic Missile Defense" and its our biggest counter against rogue nation nuke launches and other attacks. It also has Putin scared as he can't match it and is demanding we don't continue to build new sites in Eastern Europe out of desperation.

>The only thing missing from Dr Strangelove is having the uncontrollable hand.

I really wish more people understood the world from the lessons of history instead of caricutures from Hollywood movies.
My personal choices would have been "Covalent" or "Ionic," but naturally those are taken already.
My comment is:

No-comp sci is not a branch of maths.
Yes-you do need to know some maths to study it.
This project(at least for me) is a little bit misleading.
Because it isn't rendering HTML using WebGL.

It using html2canvas[0] to rasterize the browser rendering into a canvas, upload it to WebGL, apply effects and patch-back events(i.e. mouse clicks) back to the hidden browser dom elements.
(On the other side, font hinting and such are not really a problem)

Implementing full UI framework over WebGL has it merits, and hopefully someone will make a useful(and not html+css based) one some day.

[0] https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas
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You start out implying that China _isn't_ diverse, an dthen seem to argue that the US's problem is that we're more diverse. But you got it right the first time: China, especially in terms of leadership, doesn't listen to a bunch of diverse groups. They centrally control it without much concern for the whining of the luggage industry, or the furniture industry, or the cotton farmers. In the US, we listen to special interests because 1. we listen to those who talk and 2. special interests are very interested in a small thing that the general public doesn't care about.

A very small luggage industry can demand absurd luggage protectionism because people in that industry care a lot, and people outside of it are barely even aware that it's a thing. I won't change my vote based on whether you put massive tariffs on foreign-made suitcases, but people whose jobs depend on it will.

China avoids this by not caring about what people say.
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The weaknesses of XTS mode are mostly limitations imposed by full-disk encryption. You should think of XTS as fine for FDE, but you also shouldn't put too many expectations on FDE. FDE is great if you leave your powered-off laptop in the back of a cab. It's not great if federal agents distract you and steal your powered-on-and-logged-in laptop at the library.

You should definitely use FDE, but you should also separately encrypt the things that are really important to you.
Aren't they all? Do you think the EU regulators said "Man that Microsoft is really hurting people with IE and Windows Media Player, let's help the underdogs" or do you think Microsoft's competitors had some kind of influence on them?
The article states that they were previously forced to block Cuban ip addresses and that AirBnb actively lobbied to be allowed to do business there. Also they had to find a way to forward payments to Cubans as most of the banks will not do this.
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Joking aside, one could probably write that article and make a good case based on the same logic.
This is actually a big problem for emerging tech, not the MVP as concept. Notice that everything that this guy reviews is IOT/Hardware and not what we have come to expect of the MVP in form of: landing page and dedicated phone number for a food delivery service.

The reality is that there are a tiny sliver of people who will agree to be early adopters of any really new technology. Outside of that, everyone expects things to be "Apple perfect" right out of the box or they will just abandon it. I am not saying they are wrong for that, but just stating that as a fact.

In general new technology is not compelling enough on its own to have users dedicate a lot of time to working around implementation/functional issues.

This is why it is so critical to have some kind of non-revenue funding for very very new technology, either in the form of Angel/VC for independent developers or in R&D funds within large organizations.

There is just too long between when a product goes to market to get feedback until it hits the right notes to be adopted to not be supported by something other than revenue - and for really hard stuff just being LEAN and cheap doesn't work.

tl;dr: You can't start Tesla on Pizza and Ramen.
And it seems that LUKS supports full disk encryption only, while TrueCrypt allows to use encrypted containers (i.e. single files).
I have a 90 minute commute and my living room is just barely 30 miles from the target.
That would probably be very sweet indeed :) .
Android's GC is constantly improving but I just don't know if it will hit the point where it is entirely invisible for a reasonably coded app (ie if you create heavy objects during each onDraw cycle, it is your fault and would result in shitty performances with any OS).
ARC sounds like an interesting way to do GC. From my limited understanding, the reference counting adds a non-null cost but it looks like a good trade-in against unpredictable GC pauses.
This is a known issue with (almost) any full-disk encryption - see e.g. our own tptacek's http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/04/30/you-dont-want-xts/.
If it was an "accident" that made the Chinese government look bad, we would be hearing about the "unrelated" murder of magistrates by now.
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interesting application, not going to hire these guys to analyze my software tho, i'm looking for interns not college grads
It's still in CTP.
>thus the lead they've created in this space matters more than any of their other innovations

What lead do they have in battery production? Currently, they purchase all cells from Panasonic, if I'm not mistaken. Sure, the Gigafactory is going to be...big. But it's far from finished (and there's speculation that construction is on hold). Meanwhile, it's not like all the other large-scale battery producing conglomerates are just sitting around; they are also expanding production.
My girlfriend and her friends, did it in Germany too.

You got for free card for public transport, which for Berlin only cost me 80 Euro/month.
Also health insurance is somehow cheaper.

I think there is still an age gap, to prohibit people from overusing it.
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This mouth-breathing Bullshit really needs to stop.

the overwhelmingly most likely suspect for the source of the GitHub attacks is the Chinese government.

Why would the "Chinese government" carry out an open attack against an american company for absolutely no potential gain at all?

Do you really think they are stupid enough to believe such an attack could remove these two software packages from the internet?
Even then, MBs on first page load is a lot. Judging from:

http://www.sorryana.rocks/mavericks-wallpaper/

(which loads some content/initial display pretty fast, btw) -- even a full-screen image intended for the Apple Retina iMac is "just" ~3MB. And if you're going to fill the entire viewport (and then some) -- you'll not be needing a lot of other images...
The top category is from Google and the bottom is from Marketplace.
Not really marketing alone. Geeks always seems to miss the form part of form and function. Look at the year of the linux desktop for years on end. Geeks see how much function linux has and think everyone should use it regardless of the form. See the original iPod or the iPhone not having removable batteries.

Beats headphones sound okay and often deliver the music the way many of their users want with heavier bass. Beats also makes headphones that have a much nicer form than any others I have seen.
From the other videos (this testing one, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihe6xf7reAo) it seems like this is actually how gameplay looks.

(personally I think its a pretty cool style)
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Think his point about MOOCS is that they don't filter the applicants, but let them fall by the wayside.

That is inevitable if the object is to grant a prestigious qualification but do not screen at entry.
Better or richer schools will always have an advantage over schools with worse teachers or less funding, particularly with the way we currently do exams.
I read/listen to a bit of both (despite living in Denmark), and they strike me as leaning upper-class more than anything else, especially NPR. High culture, art museums and classical music, cultured fancy vacation destinations (Venice! Paris!), that kind of thing. Which all strikes me as more bourgeois than left. The upper classes aren't very culturally conservative, and are embarrassed by reactionary groups with lower-class bases, like UKIP or the Tea Party, so could be grouped on the left if your idea of left is opposing such groups. But they aren't very left economically, and keep their distance from lower-class movements on the left too, anything that gets too "red".

In a Danish context I would imagine the archetypical NPR listener voting for the Social Liberals, who are basically in the exact center (socially liberal, economically free-market, but not radically so in either category).
SublimeClang [0] does syntax highlighting and even code completion in Sublime Text. I used it for Objective-C sometimes when I'd get annoyed with Xcode. The author has since started another project that will hopefully avoid some of its problems, but last time I checked, it still worked OK.

[0] https://github.com/quarnster/SublimeClang
I think the interesting lesson from this is less about crypto, more about free-software projects and how to grow them.

The Truecrypt developers supposedly left because it wasn't interesting/fun for them anymore. I believe that. Funding this audit required ~$65k in donations, probably more than the Truecrypt project ever saw. If you were the developer of a project that you knew was solid, and you knew had no backdoors, how would you feel about people essentially maligning you being able to generate more cash than you've ever seen for your side project? That'd make me want to quit too.

At the end of the day, which is more preferable -- a TrueCrypt that was never audited professionally, or a TrueCrypt with active developers?

How can we ensure security in open-source software without driving the developers away in the future?

I think one way would be to match every single audit donation with a donation to the upstream developers. If it's worth spending a dollar to audit software, it's worth spending a dollar to keep that project alive and show the developer you care. It would have taken twice as long to get the audit funded, but maybe then the developer wouldn't have been hounded away.

Personally, though, I think this audit was a colossal waste of time and resources. All it told us was something every truecrypt user was assuming already, and it cost us all Truecrypt. What guarantee is there any of the new developers are going to be as trustworthy as the original developers, or as skilled?
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Everyone is so negative here. It sounds to me like a lot of people are making judgements without personal experience. I'll admit, I thought some of the same things before I got a pebble (which I originally bought just for development).

Having notifications on your wrist is actually really great. Being able to decide if that buzz is important now or not is actually useful, and it absolutely isn't more detrimental to being with people and having conversations.

Perhaps you don't get your phone out for every buzz, but you probably do at least check it most of the time when someone is calling you. Seeing who it is on your wrist and deciding if it can wait is much faster, more seamless, and less of an intrusion.

It may not be worth as much as this costs, certainly for a lot of people, but it absolutely is a great feature. The Apple Watch is also far more powerful than the pebble, and it looks much better too (to be fair the steel pebbles don't look bad, the original though...). It will be interesting to see if there is ANOTHER killer app in addition to the notifications that the more power enables.
That does get airplay but it's not accurate. Millions of people live in mobile homes, a few get damaged by storms, as do regular stick-built homes. Tornadoes trash a few every now and then. But none of that is why they're being cleaned out; it's arrogance. Pricing the poor out of housing altogether isn't improving their safety. Modern tie-down codes had already solved that problem years ago.
Keep in mind that at the height of the Cold War, both the US and USSR had thousands of nuclear warheads. A single nuke might not be a civilization-destroying weapon, but a carpet bombing of nukes sure is.
It might seem that way... but "non-enterprise" based on the Community Edition's licensing terms is basically just open-source + hobbyist use. Your company becomes 'enterprise' the moment it surpasses $1 million of revenue. Not even revenue from software created, revenue period.
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I don't think a watch will solve the problem that Apple's trying to solve with it. If anything, notifications on your wrist will probably be even more distracting than a phone in your pocket.
So do you just put the camera/piper-thing in one room? Or do you have a few?
You can't selectively block content on an SSL connection w/o having a back door to the encryption keys used to secure the connection. A man in the middle attack would be detectable unless the root certificates were compromised.
But almost no actual "B&B"s are using airbnb, in my experience at least. The vast majority are spare rooms being let (or in some cases converted living rooms etc just to try and cope with london rents).

I spent about 4 months "between homes" and Airbnb got me through most of it. It's a hugely mixed experience, but in many ways I'm glad I did it.
Electric vehicles have great torque and are ideally suited to rapid acceleration up to the 150 mph range - after that, just like the drag racing world, things get a lot more expensive and complicated.

I could buy off the shelf speed parts for a 351 windsor powered mustang and build a 9 second street car for around 10k so this article has a certain hubris. I'm an electric car fan, but I'm getting a little tired of all the giddy writing about super fast electric vehicles and how they are doing things other vehicles can't.

In both the ICE and the electric world we are making staggering progress in terms of performance and efficiencies.

In the ICE world there is no substitute for cubic inches to go fast, in the electric world the batteries are the limiting factor. Garlits has failed to break a 200mph quarter mile so far despite serious efforts (he was first to 200 in 60's drag racing) NEDRA is really worth following for the development end of electric but it's still early days for electric performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL82_22BKYk great bit of video of Garlits arcing out which ended his most recent attempt. Horizontal firewalls and instant kill switch are a very big deal in electric vehicles
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They are going to be building a UK R&D center apparently, so they are on their way. http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1306223/electric-cars-...
The Express Edition isn't officially deprecated, but the role in which it makes sense is pretty small. It only makes sense in organizations with more than 5 devs (or enterprise organizations of any size, but those will also probably generally have more than 5 devs) that aren't doing open source work and for some reason don't want to spring for a paid version.
In the Netherlands I see something similar, in that Dutch people are actually too enthousiastic to speak English—many of my expat friends tell me that when they try to speak Dutch, people will respond in English.

Not speaking Dutch is all fine while you’re on your student visum in an English speaking environment, but it breaks down when you have to pay taxes or get a letter from the immigration office—all that is in Dutch.

Personally, I think it is great to learn a new language, and you’ll gain a lot from it as a person, but there is also a real necessity to it once you start to live somewhere for a longer time—a fact that one might not immediately recognise because of European enthousiasm to speak and interact in English.
>That business could one day replace most petrol charging stations.

Why wouldn't gas stations merely re-equip with electric charging equipment? They already have the best real estate.

There are also competing standards for DC charging, so I find it highly unlikely that the other manufacturers will license anything from Tesla, rather than settling on another standard.
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Been hearing a lot about Visual Studio 2015 recently, as far as I am aware it is not even in Beta yet...

I am a .Net developer in a Corporate IT job, so I am exactly in the demographic Microsoft aims for as users (not buyers though). Visual Studio is hands down the best IDE, period.

The pricing is absolutely, absolutely insane.
>That isn't quite true. Ears have no problem hearing up/down and front/back information.

>Conventional stereo doesn't include those details. Alternative systems like Ambisonics do.

Ears don't hear up/down and front/back. Ears hear left and right. The _brain_ uses information from tiny deviations of the sound which are caused by your head being in the way and then decodes it as being up/down and front/back.

This is what binaural sound is about, meaning, if you record in stereo something using earplug microphones, then listen to that recording using earplug headphones, those tiny deviations are present in that stereo recording and it'll cause your brain to determine the position of the sound source using that information. It's a psychoacoustic effect, like the reverb tells our brain the room characteristics a sound is played in. We don't actually need to be inside that room to playback a sound, we just add the reverb, the effect is good enough for our brains.

To me, the whole surround audio for consumers is a marketing gimmick because you can never get good enough and they can always keep selling newer and bigger speaker setups. The only adequate setup would be an anechoic spherical room, you sitting at the center and speakers in every direction possible. Surround as it is now has some practical use in motion pictures and mostly cinemas, to give you a somewhat feeling you're in the action, but it's not actually proper surround.
Thanks for wasting my time.
You're the one who said I lack imagination. I'm not agreeing with you. I'm just saying that if you're going to state that I'm inherently incapable of even comprehending your argument, then the conversation is over. There's no point in attempting to have a discussion who thinks that my opinion is a result of some inherent flaw in me.
The issue with this analogy is that schools like Stanford and MIT aren't very large at the undergraduate level and have admissions rates lower than any school in Europe let alone Italy when looking at undergraduate admissions rates. The undergraduate admission process at these schools is much less academic focused than a European university as well.
This one flipped my wig.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Judge,_Baron_Judge
As an aside, the user experience on this page is absolutely atrocious:

1. The title font is nigh-unreadable.

2. It took me several seconds to figure out that my browser hadn't frozen when I encountered the first big image in between 'chapters.'

3. Every time a pull quote starts animating in, my scrolling stutters.

Seriously, Wired, you have one job: show me content (and ads, admittedly, which is arguably what I'm reading), and then get out of my way. No browser stutters, no illegible headlines, no confusing 1920x1080px images. Just content.
Surely you can use LUKS on a loopback device backed by a single file?
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For Oxford and Cambridge there is an in-person interview.

But for any other university, A-level subjects and grades are the only important factor. To take an example, LSE is often the third-ranked university in the country, and they literally have web pages listing grade requirements [1].

Naturally, not everyone has recent UK A-Levels so there's a little flexibility, but the results of standard tests are what drive admissions.

[1] http://www.lse.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/howToApply/departme...
FWIW, I'm working in this : http://www.nidium.com/ since a few years. (It's almost ready and about to be released)

Previous HN thread : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6314961

video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63&v=BSzEZXUTXlQ