skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry mate, what?

The op said a friend discovered they had a genetic mutation that lead to an increased risk of cancer.
There are several conditions that do this: multiple endocrine neoplasia (types 1 and 2), li fraumeni syndrome (a p53 mutation), familial adenomatous polyposis (apc mutation), hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer and a handful of others.

All of these present with strong family histories. In fact, patients with APC mutations often have cancer before their 30s. Yet have been successfully passing on this mutation for generations now.

If you do not have defective copies of the above (or a small subset of mutations of other regulatory and proto-oncogenes) then you have no greater chance of developing cancer than the next person, lifestyle and virus exposure factors not withstanding.

Now I really don't think you have any idea what you're talking about because your two points are at odds with each other: you first state that we are living longer, and defects 'will kill older, weaker humans'. Bullshit.
Your next point, that cancer rates are higher now than at some indeterminate point in the past, is also bullshit and out of context: if we are living longer, then of course we are going to get cancer. But this has no bearing on our genetic susceptibility to cancer over a certain age. In fact, there are no known genetic mutations that predispose to cancer later in life; all the syndromes predispose to cancer early.

I can only suppose you are trolling very hard, and hence hiding behind 'anon1mous'
"First, why can't companies these days just sell me a product for the cost price plus a margin? This seems like a fair way of doing business."

Why?
I can opt not to use the cupholders. I could get out my toolbox and remove them from the car, if they really offended me. So far as I can tell there is no way to remove the giant touchscreen that controls everything about the car and still have a working vehicle. Nor am I aware of any way to permanently disable whatever radio mechanism it is that offers Tesla remote root access to all of their vehicles, which clearly don't actually belong to the people who believed that they were buying them.
The hot hand fallacy ignores the entire concept of flow which is well studied, reproducible,and not very controversial.
Sure, that's pretty much what I do already. I just thought it'd be nice to have the one-stop package offered here.
i liked poking about think-aloud protocols (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_aloud_protocol) - jeff shrager always said to wait until they're swearing while they're doing whatever it is you're having them do and then you know you've started doing a think-aloud protocol properly.
Just curious, why was my submission moved in favor of the other submission?
Because the middle ground is what happens in real life. Many sites have poorly designed mobile experiences that zoom helps fix. I personally have my mobile Chrome set to over-ride site viewport settings to always allow zoom.

For example wikipedia (used to?) disable zoom while making all their pictures small. But what if the picture has the information you want to see?

This is because a lot of content on the internet is long form reading with pictures, and ideally you'd want the middle ground, responsive quick scrolling with the ability to zoom on pictures, infographics, etc. and then zoom out again to carry on reading.

And before you say it, all picture viewers on mobile suck. We already have an amazing, built in solution.
> Tesla requires drivers to remain engaged and aware when Autosteer is enabled. Drivers must keep their hands on the steering wheel.

Which sense of "must" is used here? The car seems to play an unwinnable game with the driver: keep your hands on the wheel or I'll...what? Disengage autosteer and perhaps crash? With no enforcement mechanism, drivers are incentivized to "abuse" (aka "use") the system as much as it allows.
Matplotlib can produce high quality plots. But it requires lots of code, and hours of digging around the API docs and tweaking subclasses.
> What's the point of having drivers license lessons and testing

Hah, implying that these are actually useful. The Washington state test and generic lesson plan doesn't even include highway driving. It's a 20 minute test that quite possibly anyone could pass; all I had to do was briefly drive around, and the hardest part was probably parallel parking with a couple of feet of leeway, and controlling your speed down a hill.
What's the intended function of the previous functionality? Didn't double-tapping zoom in and out to a specific section? What problem does the delay solve that isn't present on unscalable viewports?
Has anyone made a TACC add on for normal cars? The self-driving stuff I'm reserving judgement on, but a cruise control that would let me automatically match the speed of the car in front of me would be awesome. I've wanted one for years...
The fact that people who bought a car that didn't self-drive now have one is probably the most novel aspect. Lane keeping, adaptive cruise control, parking assist, collision avoidance, etc are all features in other vehicles as well, slowly trickling down to more models each year.
Does it have to be?
(serious question).

Right now, IMO, we just need more self-driving cars in general to move the whole concept in terms of acceptability and availability. There is certainly lots of room for innovation, but for now just more product selection alone is valuable.
You're talking about two fundamentally different things. Apps are designed specifically for mobile, so of course they will work well fine at the scale they were designed at.

Ideally, websites would be designed to work fine at any scale from mobile to desktop (responsive design). However, many mobile websites are delivered today as downscaled/simplified versions of the desktop site. This means there's a lot of design that crosses over from desktop to mobile. When you add disabled scaling on top of that, many things break, like content being too wide or font sizes being too small.
The weird thing is, I came from Windows, migrated to Linux in the past 2 years or so... been using Windows since 1996 prior... and I can't get used to Powershell. I just hate it. It's so fucking cumbersome. It definitely feels like something that was tacked onto a GUI as an after-thought.
For one, it is being deployed via a software update to vehicles already sold.
Good video, thanks.

Summary of video: USA developed the "VT fuze" proximity fuse used initially in ship based AA fire; improved efficacy rates from 2400 down to 400 rounds needed to down an aircraft. First used over ground at the Battle of the Bulge.
The Open Minded Explorer’s Guide to Object Composition
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I don't think I've seen automatic lane change outside of Tesla.
A lot of commenters here are afraid of developers disabling user scaling to get better performance. That is incorrectly making the assumption that user scaling is good thing for every kind of website.

If a 350ms click delay is actually a performance bottleneck on the app you are building, it's very likely user scaling is something you want disabled anyway.
Isn't similar argument made about automatic transmission? In general I feel the input by the driver with the turn signal is a good one. After all, there is risk when you are trying to see your blind-spot during lane change esp. if the driver in front you stops hard.

I welcome our computer overlords.
Mine would be the same as yours except that I live in Manhattan and often walk around Midtown / Union Square where there are tons of clothing retailers.
I'm not being facetious, just curious. Is this novel in any way or just an expansion of technology on the market?
Videos on YouTube[1] show that the car drives itself even with hands off the wheel. However, I've also read that the car will prompt the driver to keep their hands on the wheel and even turn on emergency flashers/slow to a stop if the driver failed to do so [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw7Esg-txR0
[2] http://www.wired.com/2015/10/tesla-self-driving-over-air-upd...
You can defeat the system any number of ways. This is just to wash Tesla's hands of any liability: if you get in a crash because you intentionally subverted the engagement requirements, it's clearly your own fault (not attacking Tesla here, it's what all the other carmakers do too).
If you are in the U.S., you may want to investigate the Genetic Information Nondescrimination Act (GINA):

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/special/g...

"GINA protects individuals against discrimination based on their genetic information in health coverage and in employment. GINA is divided into two sections, or Titles. Title I of GINA prohibits discrimination based on genetic information in health coverage. Title II of GINA prohibits discrimination based on genetic information in employment."
So,,, at what point does this become accepted (as opposed to tolerated) business practice? Or, more optimistic, no longer tolerated. At one point it was ok to say, "This is all new and still being worked out." But, it is no longer new. It is very worked out. Entire sectors of the economy (and legal system) are devoted to knowing more about consumers then they sometimes know about themselves. The entire industry is being built on bait-and-switch and obfuscation practices. And, the tech industry, the supposed knight in shining armor come to save humanity from itself, is leading the way. Someone, at some point, needs to call a spade a spade. We need to own this, if this is our new society. Or stop closing our eyes, if it isn't.
As I understand it... If you're using Mobile Safari (or many other mobile browsers), and you double-tap something, it's interpreted as meaning "zoom in to this element". This is useful for pages with narrow columns and things on the sides, etc.

However, in order to implement this, when you do a single tap, the browser has to wait to make sure that you don't do a double-tap. So there's a 350ms delay while it's waiting on your second tap, before delivering a single-tap event, e.g. to click on a link.

There's a meta tag you can use to disable user control of the zoom level, e.g. with pinch-to-zoom. One of the things that this disables is the double-tap behavior. Given that double-tap is disabled on those websites, there's no need to sit around waiting for a second tap; you can treat it as a single tap immediately. This change removes the delay.

(People are upset because this is an incentive to use that meta tag if you otherwise wouldn't need it, and being able to zoom on a mobile browser is useful.)
A somewhat off-topic FYI, but the JOBS Act increased the private holder cap from 500 to 2,000 shareholders as long as no more than 499 of them are accredited.

https://www.cooley.com/jobs-act-what-does-it-mean
{Private Beta} Yodeck, a Cloud Digital Signage Service, Raspberry Pi Compatible
How much is that user base and momentum worth? Billions?
Quantum Cats
A common phrase in aircraft cockpits nowadays is "What the heck is it doing now?" as pilots have migrated from actually flying the plane to simply being glorified systems managers.

While planes have become so, so, so much safer because of all this automation, pilots uncertainty regarding autopilot functioning is a major concern nowadays, and the reason for several accidents.

There are very interesting HCI challenges around properly communicating to the pilot/driver "what the heck it is doing" and clearly communicating just how much control the human has or doesn't have at any given point.

This "announcement" certainly doesn't inspire any confidence that they have really thought this through deeply enough (I think they probably have, but it should be communicated like it). As a huge Tesla fan, I can't help but feel like I need to hold my breath now and make sure something terrible doesn't happen because of this, and it ends up leading to even more regs setting us back on the path to full car automation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs Apple & Pixar
I'm a happy Square user too.

But too bad we don't actually make them money.
It means that un-optimized websites that have a certain meta tag set will feel (keyword here being "feel") faster when interacting with them.
Does anybody else get the feeling that the primary goal of large scale venture capital these days is to pump-and-dump IPOs, regardless of the actual stability/validity of the underlying business?
YC goes into traditional venture capital with a Series A investment in BuildZoom
Rule #1: Don't choose a plastic surgeon who spams HN (and can't even post a link successfully).
Is it smart enough to not change to a lane going in the opposite direction or change to a "lane" that is actually a ditch off the road?
I do have a Facebook account, primarily because I am studying abroad and I need to keep in touch with my family and close friends and Facebook is, thus far, the best way to share what is going on in my life. It kind of allow me to "broadcast" my life events.

Now, I really dislike what I just read.

I wonder if tech companies have a moral obligation to disclose to the user what are the terms of the contracts.

While ToS and Privacy Policy are public documents, I don't think they are close to anything readable for the layman. They are mostly pile of legal garbage and it is virtually impossible to go through them everytime you sign-up for a service.

That is why I would like to put the emphasis on clarity here. What if?

What if technology companies were forced to disclose clearly what signing-up for their product entails with respect to user privacy. I am thinking of something alongside this:

"""
Hello r0naa,

Welcome on Facebook, we hope that you will have a great experience here.

Facebook will allow you to:
- easily communicate with your friends

- share photos, videos and play games with your friends

- keep in touch with distant relatives

On the other hand, we will:

- keep a record of the messages you send to your friends

- keep a permanent record of the photos you have shared on Facebook

- keep a log of all the websites you have visited that contain a "like" button.

Moreover, you should be aware that we will disclose all your personal data to the US government if we are issued a NS letter.

Hope you have a great day,

"""

To be clear, I am not saying that this is the right solution. Only, I believe it is pretty obvious that there is a problem and that a lot of people who are not technically literate are not able to make a informed choice about whether or not they want to give up their privacy, even partially.

I hope it will spawn an interesting discussion, feel free to share your ideas and suggestions.
Unfortunately little mention of front collision avoidance (braking), an important safety feature, which I've waited for on Teslas must be years now.

In the forums there's always the guy that says we should "drive better" instead. With that logic, there's little use for safety features at all.
Remind me: They originally had the 350ms delay in there to distinguish between a tap and a pinch, correct?
Good news for hybrid apps devs...
I really don't understand the lamentation around pinch to zoom. There's a fantastic os-level zoom built into ios! Set it up and three-finger-click to activate. And it works great.
> If cab drivers expect a tip regardless of service quality, then the tip might as well be added to the cab rate.

Yeah, it should be, shouldn't it? But it isn't. The system is fucked, of course, but it's fucked in a very deliberate way where "protesting" by not tipping hurts the cabbie significantly, and the people responsible for the system not at all.
What happened to Somalia’s pirates? (2013)
> Isn't similar argument made about automatic transmission?

In Europe, there are different classes of license for auto vs manual transmission vehicles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus
Gray Matters: Too Much Screen Time Damages the Brain
Let's see: 17" touchscreen in an $90,000+ car. How much did you pay for it? And what is the value of Tesla calling me up 2 minutes after I had an accident to find out if I was OK, or did they need to call 911 on my behalf?

If you don't want monitoring, don't buy the car. If you don't like the touchscreen, and think it makes the car overly expensive, don't buy the car. If you don't like the car, don't buy the car.

Where is the problem?
It needs an accelerometer to engage the magnet if the device is disturbed without the handle being touched.
Emoji could be seen as introducing a common set of ideographs into the world's writing systems. They supplement existing languages, but seem unlikely to develop into their own language due to the conflicts in word order (SVO etc.) in the native languages of those using the emoji.

Nicaraguan sign language arose essentially in the absence of another language, i.e. deaf people couldn't speak Spanish. But the vast majority of emoji users already have a language and so there seems little impetus for them to develop a new one.
Yes, I'm sure it's accurate, assuming we're talking about the US. Didn't you read the source I supplied? It's quite clearly stated there, and I'm fairly sure the FBI's numbers are accurate.

The graph you linked to doesn't say what you claim it does – although it does point out the extent of intraracial crime in the black community. Despite that, you are correct that people identifying as "Black or African American" are about 52% of homicide arrests. That's an entirely different statistic.

The fact remains: whatever ethnic bias exists within crime figures, the statement "Most criminals are in fact black" is categorically incorrect, and basically the epitome of crass, racist statements.
The more data they have the more valuable they are to drug companies. The data doesn't help them provide you anything.
The fact that American licensing isn't very rigorous is not an argument against drivers licenses.
Why am I even arguing this?

Because you don't agree with Safire, who stated quite clearly:

Egyptians, from whose name the word gypsy
erroneously originated, are usually unaware
of the etymology and are not offended.
(Gypsy cab, which uses both syllables,
stresses the ''wandering'' meaning of gypsy,
which is descriptive and not derogatory.)

Edit: You seem to be saying

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in
rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what
I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

Never mind the opinions of people who made a living writing about the meaning of words.
The auto-park feature would be super handy, but I don't see an auto-unpark feature... I look forward to seeing Teslas stuck in amazingly small parking spots!
Well, shit. I guess we better get back to building solidly profitable companies that can be started with the contents of our savings accounts, and don't require $600mm in VC funding!
The counter to that—and no doubt a factor for many like Slack—is that when you use a custom protocol/API you get to control the whole experience. You don't have to deal with bugs in third-party clients, wait for clients to get emoji support, and can control the look-and-feel (many of the Jabber apps I've seen aren't great).

This is obviously not ideal for everyone, but I suspect that outside of tech that using a custom client is possibly even a plus.
Unscalable != Responsive. One does not preclude the other.
What Does Minecraft for Music Look Like?
I too am a PGP participant!
"They're all pictures of people in public places"

The third one was of a husband and wife at home.

Here are ones that are even less public; people reading in bed: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/3035922303_1cfa0001d6_o.... http://cdn1.stocksy.com/a/nuW000/z0/126529.jpg http://citizented.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Reading-in-... and https://41.media.tumblr.com/f46e012a1002708a99852d2acb5f4ae8... .

When I compare them to the first image of the qz page, I get the sense that it's the back-to-back composition which gives the sense of loneliness, not the lack of a smartphone. I couldn't find the same composition through an image search, but the last of these is head to foot, which is close.

You are reading too much into the "caught", and not enough into the present day equivalent. The sense with Amy Carter is identical to what would happen now if Malia Obama were "caught" using a smartphone during a state dinner. (Or do you really think that no one now would consider that rude?)

BTW, here's Art Buchwald poking fun at the 1977 event: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19770303&id=... . The lead starts out by essentially saying it's dogshedding.

Then again, I may be reading too much into Carter's practice. According to https://books.google.com/books?id=3M1KlBNm7WcC&pg=PA46&dq=%2... , reading was allowed at the Carter table, but talking was not. So I checked with a Google Book search.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Lq9IKuhf24MC&pg=PA158&dq=%... says that the author's father would read at the lunch table, as would the children, and it took years before finding out that others considered it impolite.

https://books.google.com/books?id=0Cihcn_W0bsC&pg=PA111&dq=%... has someone reading at the table, and whose mother complains about the practice.

In checking a few more, I'm willing to accept that many people considered it rude, but a substantial minority did not.

Oooh! Here's a neat snippet from "The Marlburian" (1882) from https://books.google.com/books?id=HQUIAAAAQAAJ&q=%22read+dur... :

> Dear Sir - I wish to enter a humble but hearty protest against a practice which I believe have increased of late throughout the school. I refer to that of bringing books to read during dinner. It certainly does not aid digestion and is in may ways injurious to health. At dinner more than at other meals it is usual to relax the hard worked brain by conversation on general subjects, alias "shop" ...

Perhaps the rudeness level for books at dinner hasn't changed in 150 years?

Interesting question - which is more rude now; pulling out a book, or pulling out a phone?
That's, uh, pretty weird actually. It means you have to know whether your RSU'd employees are accredited investors to know whether you have to go public?
http://www.leftlanenews.com/tesla-model-s-gets-emergency-bra...

Model S has had collision avoidance since March 2015. I think it came in firmware 6.1 and improved in 6.2.
A tap and a double-tap, AFAIK. Since the latter is used for zooming, if the page is not scalable then the possibility that the user has double-tapped can be disregarded.
No. Jack was a co-founder of Twitter, so it was a completely different game for him. Levie was a nobody with an idea, and had to raise at almost egregious terms at times to stay alive.
Mercedes requires hands-on for steering. The Model S is nearly capable of fully hands off. Model S can also change lanes with a button.
As someone who spends a fair amount of time traveling between countries that drive on different sides of the road... I am always getting the turn signal and windshield wipers mixed up. So I doubt I can use the auto lane change feature.
I think the part that's constantly fascinating about the Tesla cars is that these features are being delivered as software updates. This would be like a software update that switched your phone from 3G to 4G.
Ask HN: Any small businesses buying K-cup pods
Note: I am not sure if this is the right place to ask for help. Please guide me if this is not the right forum.

We usually buy Keurig K-Cups from Amazon on a monthly basis. Our quantities are low and hence cannot go to the big box distributors for a better price.

Any small businesses that are doing monthly purchase of Keurig K-Cup pods interested in joining with us (within U.S.), so that we can combine our orders to get discounted price better than what we get @ Amazon for example.

I am talking to a reputed distributor for the K-cups with a guaranteed customer service.

Share your thoughts.
Cool beans! I like that.
It's a "slow tap" that eliminates the delay. Tap and hold your finger down for a moment. The delay registered with a "slow tap" is about 10 ms for me.
Granted the tone was a little sarcastic, but IMO that was largely in response to the parent comment starting with "uhh"