skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had type 1 diabetes since I was 10. With even a semi-automated solution we would greatly prevent the short and long term complications. The biggest issue is that brain runs on glucose. When we can't manage our levels, the brain shuts down. In order to prevent this we grow up paranoid, watching for every sign. Stress, faulty needles etc. all effect us.
Knowing that we can theoretically prevent nerve damage (almost every person with 10+ years diabetes gets it) and other serious conditions (kidney failure, blindness) and practically not being able to do anything is very depressing.
Sounds like an Project Euler challenge?! (https://projecteuler.net/)
> Founders pay themselves no more than they need for rent and food, and often less, and their employees make 2x-3x what they do because the market will pay 4x-5x.

I don't get that attitude, to be honest. If you were making chicken sandwiches, would you buy discount chicken to cut costs until you "made it"? Would you hire under-qualified or substandard cooks?

OK. You'll "offer" equity to take up the slack. So you're basically requiring your employees to be investors in the company. What is the realistic ROI for the difference in their incomes compared to the market rates? If it doesn't realistically add up to at least 10% APY, isn't the whole setup a bit dishonest?

Well, maybe you're different. You're a guaranteed unicorn, so 0.1% of the company is a huge pile of money. I hope you're right. If you even get a modest buyout after that kind of deal, you're walking away with a nice chunk of change and your employees end up in a big net negative, financially.

So props to the founders who run the math after sub-billion dollar buyouts (most of them) and at least make up the difference to the investors (employees) they over-promised and under-delivered to.

"You don't understand. My pet-messaging flea collar slash social network would never get made if we didn't structure things this way!"

You're probably right. I guess that would be a shame. It still sounds like either a flawed or dishonest business model to me.
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That's not really the point. Your btrfs file system to be an effective measure against attack should be on a separate machine where you only have write access to one single snapshot. If you have btrfs on your working machine it's not effective. Once someone gets root then they can just unmount it and encrypt the raw device.

The point is privilage separation and if you want to protect against root exploits then you need a separate machine with appropriate access control (which is basically an append-only backup).
The general advice is don't listen to people when they say what they want.
Yeah, I was thinking of max, not min, sorry. My point was that it's a trivial thing to write, your generic max (or min) is right there. The math.Max() (and math.Min()) function is not trivial, it handles certain special cases, and that's probably why it was included.[1]

[1] https://golang.org/pkg/math/#Max
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I've had WebGL crashes quite often on YouTube.
Allot of the WebGL demos are also either forcing a WebGL crash from time to time or just hang browsers due to performance.
You can say allot about Flash but atm it's performance and stability are better than WebGL in it's current state.

The problem with WebGL is that it pretty much inherited the mess of OpenGL every driver version on every GPU can implement different feature set of it (similar to the extension mess of OpenGL in Nvidia and ATI minidrivers at the time) which results in Browsers having to maintain blacklist/whitelists[1] for a very large array of hardware and software combinations (Chrome currently isn't maintaining a driver version based list other than a cut off date for certain drivers which also causes problems if you are running old hardware and the best drivers for it are considered out of date by Google).

WebGL it self is also not implemented in the same manner across different browsers Chrome and FF for example have quite a different blacklist/whitelist for WebGL, I don't know if this because of different in browser implementation or because of they are simply encountering different issues and adjusting accordingly.

The worse thing I've encountered so far is WebGL on switchable graphics (e.g. Nvidia Optimus) enabled laptops, some features might switch the GPU arbitrarily even mid execution which causes the whole thing to implode..

[1]https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/gpu/+/master/...

Whats worse is that WebGL can actually crash your graphics driver and if it's bad enough than Windows can't recover the kernel mode driver it's a complete kernel panic.
This doesn't happen often but if you want to do it you can do it sadly too easily, Chrome/FF chase known DOS cases with WebCL quite well but they really don't catch all of them and if that feature isn't blacklisted for your setup well you can crash a machine with a single pixel draw ;)

And the introduction of WebCL would probably lead to some of the nastiest RCE vulnerabilities you can imagine soon enough you are allowing people to execute general purpose code directly on the metal and interact with Kernel mode components.
There are already GPU rootkits out there soon enough they'll find an infection vector trough WebGL or WebCL and it will be a very unpleasant period.
The article insinuates that the DEA branch was accused of conspiracy and espionage - other articles seem to imply that the President at least believed that the DEA was following him around and spying on his romantic life, as well as implying that the US DEA branch attempted to contract killers to hit Bolivian gov't officials.

I can't imagine that the grounding of the President's plane under suspicions of housing Snowden warmed him up, either.

Further reading:

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia%E2%80%93United_States_...

[2] - http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1856153,00...

[3] - http://www.cepr.net/blogs/the-americas-blog/remember-when-ve...
Check out the list of investors.
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Thank you. I found the following applicable definitions of the word "even" in the dictionary[0]:

Used as an intensive to indicate something that is
unexpected: declined even to consider the idea.

or

17. (intensifier; used to suggest that the content of a
statement is unexpected or paradoxical): even an idiot
can do that.

or

You use even to show that what you are saying is
surprising. You put even in front of the surprising
part of your statement.

Even Anthony enjoyed it.

She liked him even when she was arguing with him.

I shall give the details to no one, not even to you.

Maybe my confusion stems from the fact that "even" is translated into the phrases "även" (also), "till och med", "inte ens" (not even), and others in Swedish. I can't come up with any good translation for "What even is X?", without rephrasing it to something like "What is x, even?".

Is this considered "good" English? Is it a strong social demarcator, ie you sound like a teenager/professor/girl/snob/... if you use it? Like I said, I became curious because I noticed the phrase before and now I noticed that it was edited.

0: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/even
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Meta-HN: Citations without citations.

Further reading:

[4] http://motherless.com

[5] http://slashdot.com

[6] http://reddit.com

[7] http://motherless.com (7+) Yes, this is listed twice.

Edit: Put an 'l' in motherless, made a (something) into (7+). Not sure why...
please consider open sourcing it in the future when the time is right.
Atm (assuming LTS) you'll have to use upstart, which sucks. Terrible selinux support also.
>Investors in Uber's Chinese unit include Hillhouse Capital, Asia's biggest hedge fund, Chinese Internet giant Baidu Inc, China CITIC Bank Corp Ltd, China Life Insurance Co Ltd, Ping An Insurance Group Co of China among others, said one of the people.

I completely agree! Sounds like sufficient local power there to thwart any untoward action from the competition.
Five year support might be too short for some people. If so there's Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and its community rebuilds like CentOS), and SUSE Enterprise Linux.

A paid RHEL subscription will even give you security updates for point releases, in case your needs preclude from upgrading even to backwards compatible versions (e.g. You can use RHEL 6.4 even now, instead of 6.6 or 7.0)
The article incorrectly mentions God Save the Queen as the first national anthem. The oldest national anthem in the world in the Dutch Wilhemus. The first to be officially recognized as national anthem is the Spanish La Marcha Real. God Save the Queen is younger than Wilhelmus, and was never officially recognized as national anthem; it's really just a very popular song.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_national_an...
Reminds me of the episode of Silicon Valley mentioned in this Techcrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/03/when-silicon-valley-is-too-...
It may be using both.
Bullshit. Women use Tinder for sex, not to find a spouse. For some guys it seems hard to face the fact that many women just like sex, a lot. Source: several women I've talked to.
In the Norwegian market, iZettle gave away (price under a euro) atm card readers that connect to iOS or android devices, with an app that made it easy to open a lemonade stall or the like. Adding new items to sell was great fun -- place espresso/bagel/muffin on table, take picture, decide on price, and there it was, in the "shop" on my phone.

Made me wonder about the steps from this shop instantiated locally on my iPhone to a shopify-like online presence.
What are the hurdles to mirroring the local instance of the shop to something served at [yournamehere].mall.izettle.com ?
It's interesting why shell scripts are seen as so "fragile" or "flimsy." Why would bash be any more inherently flimsy than any other interpreted language? Why would the global mass of Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Java, C++, whatever be any less fragile? The whole world is held together by duct tape. At least most shell scripts keep it simple.
Yes, you're missing something. Measuring one of the particles breaks the entanglement, so that whilst you know the state of the corresponding particle, you can't affect it further.
I like how rkt moves the concept of the pod down the stack into the execution layer
Depending on what you're doing, poor internet access can be a boon.

Otherwise you'll just be sitting there in your cabin reading Hacker News.
Have you heard of Firefox for Android ? It supports browser plugins and uBlock Origin runs really well here.
IIRC ZeroClipboard falls back to flash if you're not using a browser with the new clipboard APIs.
SecureBoot!? Hahahah, Linux Foundation marks this as critical?

I am sorry to laugh, but thank God the LF and others fought tooth and nail for some way to have someone other than Microsoft have the key.

But seriously, did anyone else laugh?
Isn't the larger risk a true p2p solution that cuts out the middlemen (Uber and its investors)?
Not the soundest security advice I've read recently:

> We recommend that you use the same passphrase for your root password as you use for your LUKS encryption (unless you share your laptop with other trusted people who should be able to unlock the drives, but shouldn't be able to become root). If you are the sole user of the laptop, then having your root password be different from your LUKS password has no meaningful security advantages.

Your root password is much easier to steal than your disk encryption password. Trick the user into running a program that does 'alias sudo=evil-sudo' >> ~/.bashrc, or sniff it from an unrelated X11 window, or use a microphone. A microphone is far more likely to pick up your root password than a password typed once at boot. If the root password is sniffed with a microphone, the attacker might not even have root access to your system over the network. If stolen with evil-sudo or via X11, you might realize you've been compromised before all of your data is exfiltrated. Neither scenario should let the attacker then steal your disks and be able to decrypt all of your data. Unless you follow the advice.
Bingo. Mr. Birger fails to see the salient point here. Everyone knows what Tinder is. It's a hookup app. Want a serious relationship? Don't use Tinder and don't sleep with someone 30 minutes into getting to know them.
Related: OkC heightens all participants' expectations of one another, which is counterproductive particularly in advance of even he first face to face encounter.
I didn't laugh but I got a bit suspicious about their true motivations as soon as I saw that.
It works up until the incorrect grammar becomes the correct grammar, because language evolution.
Is your analogy useful? It's been several decades since the first driverless cars, so if the "Wright Brothers to St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line" comparison were predictive, we should have had plenty of those cars on the road by now.

There are also many other analogies you could have made with different timelines. Virgin Galactic, which bills itself as the first commercial spaceline, is already half-a-decade behind its original launch date. Even Tito's 2001 flight was four decades after Gagarin.

Why look to commercial flight and not commercial space travel as the relevant comparison?
The replication effect sizes are almost all positive [1]. This study represents very strong validation that the published results were qualitatively true, in the main.

The regression to the mean effect is unsurprising and doesn't diminish this finding. Given the difficulty of performing this kind of research, this is a very positive result for the field.

[1]http://m.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716/F1.expansio...
> Why would bash be any more inherently flimsy than any other interpreted language?

I'd say that it at least feels this way, because the "global state" in a shell program depends on a lot more properties of the system than the "global state" of a Python program. C/C++ or even entirely static binaries from Go for example (I'm not a Go expert) all eliminate state being 'imported' from the host machine.
What about "for sex to find a spouse"?
One issue I've found is support for old releases. Ubuntu only has a 5 year support life cycle, where as CentOS / RHEL have a 10 year support life cycle. For most people this isn't an issue, but in the enterprise it definitely is.

I recently had to move a bunch of Ruby 1.8 applications (where it didn't make financial sense to upgrade them) to new servers. They wouldn't even run on Ubuntu 10.04, where as CentOS 5.5 is still receiving security updates.
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I doubt it's worth picking over all that stuff Jobs said about Flash - it was FUD top to bottom. I mean, in his famous letter he flamed Flash for being closed even as iOS locked people into a single browser, flamed it for being nonstandard while Apple pushed out Safari-only web pages [1] and weird quicktime extensions, etc. He even called out Adobe for being late to adopt Cocoa even though core Apple apps hadn't migrated yet.

So, the language about crashes may have had more or less basis in reality, but it's not as if Jobs was concerned with nuance and details.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/06/apple-html5-gallery
Well, then fuck them.
Finally, a good, safe, story
Yes, however:

My expectation is that this regression to the mean should not apply to strong effects. Where I define strong by: the strength is enough that significance level and publication criteria are unimportant. In this case, I would expect half the results to return stronger.

The first result was a random sample, and the second result was a random sample. If there's no outside bias from publication cut-off, there should be a 50% chance that either is higher.

It's concerning if the strong results consistently re-test weaker. That shows systematic bias.
One must be very careful when determining the level of influence as this can often be quite an emotionally charged topic with interests that go beyond the purely academic on both sides.

Some of the ideas that area said to be influential, historically don't appear fully formed in Zoroastrianism until after contact with Christianity. Like the other religions, Zoroastrianism did not appear in its modern form but gradually evolved some of its modern ideas.
Ironically, that had (previously) caused men to swipe right on everyone, putting the ball back in their court for selecting who to talk to once matches were made.
I agree that the general advice is disturbing. However, looking at grandparent's post, I highly doubt that he asked the question in a way that indicated a judgement free response to the answer. This will not get him honest answers.
Maybe prepare a pullrequest for this? ;)
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NSA [1] has pretty good list for major OSs.

[1] Yes, pretty ironic, isn't it?
Yes my traffic school instructor told me to never wave. Not because of responsibility, but of the fact that you might have missed something and the person (especially children) might interpret your wave not as "I'll stop until you have passed" but as "road clear, go ahead".
Oh wow, thanks for the eye-opener. Was it a different term than length-contraction that I was looking for? I thought that acceleration toward c resulted in the contraction of distance, and at c the distance would simply be reduced to zero. Where did I miss the point?
This is an oversimplification of both men and women. THe truth is most people are looking for "I don't know" or "it depends", just like in real life. When most people see a girl and ask them out, it would be absurd to think it's as calculated as "for sure hookup" or "definitely to marry", it's just "this person seems worth getting to know". Tinder is one of the few apps that mirrors that reality by not asking you ridiculous things like "what are you looking for?" It changes all the time and will absolutely change for the right person. Same as in real life: plenty of long term relationships start in bars, and that's OK. We all go to bars, sometimes you meet the right person there. I am bewildered by why tinder is so hard to understand: it's essentially just a bar, a slightly better bar actually since you know everyone there is single.
This has been studied. The kind of determinism that a local realistic theory requires in order to explain Bell violations is generally regarded as absurd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
I find the rant of the article exaggerated and ridiculous. But actually a lot of those companies do fit the criteria.
No, of course not. And NSA is not spying on US citizens.
Why laugh? On proper UEFI implementations you can enroll your own keys. Arch Wiki (as usual) has an article with more details:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firm...

It may not provide 100% security (what does?), but using this still provides much more security than just booting whatever lies on disk without any sort of verification.

So yeah. Laughing at this advice is at best uninformed.

A nice bonus-effect from using secure boot is that most UEFI implementations secure-boot faster. Why? Because when in "insecure" mode it keeps up a splash-screen saying "Booting insecure" for a few seconds before moving on.
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Oh, the Millikan experiment. I had to do it in uni lab as a 4 hour long experiment. It's impossible to gather enough data in this short time and your eyes figuratively falls out by staring into the microscope measuring the drops' velocity. I can assure that this is the worst experiment one can do as a student.
I wrote a similar thing to this too: https://github.com/hitchtest/hitchsmtp#bad-smtp-server

It just outputs the mail it receives to stdout as JSON for easy parsing. Sending to specific email addresses "e.g. 451-please-try-again-later@smtperrors.com" will trigger specific SMTP errors.
Did you read their conclusions? Javascript is most certainly a method for fingerprinting, regardless of Flash presence.

"Browser developers should also consider what they can do to reduce fngerprintability, particularly at the JavaScript API level."

"We identified only three groups of browser with comparatively good resistance to fngerprinting: those that block JavaScript, those that use TorButton, and certain types of smartphone."

Not having Flash doesn't mean you're immune to fingerprinting. That said, it would be nice if Adobe prevented system font lists via Flash.
People ask me why I, a software developer, don't move to Silicon Valley where salaries are high and venture capital is easy to get. The skewed male/female ratio of Silicon Valley is the reason. As an Asian-American male, I have a hard enough time getting a date. Going to the valley seems like the odds would be double stacked against me.
I know several women that have used Tinder to get into serious relationships, as that was their goal from the beginning.

I'm sure the vast majority use it for hookups, but you can't generalize everyone.
Chrome & FF do not use OpenGL drivers on Windows, they translate to DirectX using Angle: https://code.google.com/p/angleproject/
a "closer-to home" market would be easier for sure, and we are also thinking about it. but the issue is more or less similar - you need a local with an existing network or somebody with real passion to push the product to partners / clients with different marketing campaigns (content marketing, blogger relations, exhibitions, direct mailings, forums, blogs,...)

affiliate model is an options as well. the easiest push would be through webhosting companies or marketing agencies, who offer the product as upselling product to their existing clients and get some rev-share, i guess.

regarding the razors & shaving cream partnership. the idea is generally a good one (in theory). we already have some local partners (mostly online marketing agencies), but they usually don´t have the time/capacity/motivation to push a product from somebody else for a 40% share of a (small) monthly fee, as they don´t see the value in passive long-term recurring revenue.
I've had pretty much zero consequences from disabling Flash globally in all my browsers.

Where is Flash still essential?
Most of the places I drive to don't have trains going there. Sure its great between cities, but getting into the mountains?
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Sure, if the external tools used by the script change, the script's behavior will change... Other languages somewhat solve this with versioned dependencies, but even that's not quite sufficient, which is how come all the rage about reproducible builds. But yeah, good point.
Bullshit. Different people come into Tinder with different expectations.
No, it's not an oversimplification of anyone or anything. I will say your bar analogy is pretty good, though. If you go home with someone from a bar (that you met that night), the general expectation is that it won't be something serious.

I mean, come on, it's not that hard to see the overarching point here. Even pop culture portrays it this way (see Knocked Up, Trainwreck, etc.).
The Everett FAQ Q16 disagrees. http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm

And if you're in the mood for a lot of reading http://lesswrong.com/lw/r8/and_the_winner_is_manyworlds/
Yes I was kind of wondering if this is a new thing, like because[0,1,2] or if it's canonical English. I was looking for an analysis like [0] on this, but I couldn't find any.

0: http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/72252671648/why-the-new-...

1: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/because-a...

2: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/because-has-becom...
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By definition a generalization is an average of.. everyone. On average, Tinder is used for hooking up way way more than it's used for serious relationships.
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