skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should do a product that only tests for preventable, curable conditions.

Telling someone they have a high risk of breast cancer or bowel cancer is helpful: they can get regular checkups.

Telling someone they have a high risk of Parkinson's or MS is just cruel.
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Please don't post dismissive comments to HN, especially in response to new work.

You have a good point, but there are better ways to put it—e.g. ask if such data is available, or how the author tests the work (this is a Show HN, the author's here)—than a swipe like "next to useless".
Me too, but it does seem to be more accepted generally. I know people who would have never dreamed of reading at the table who routinely use their smartphones now.
The XHTML+XSLT+XML-FO stack produced pages that took 3x-10x less CPU to render. But that's dead of course.
Don't get me started on 'gutsy'. Skinny people can be brave too no matter what deeply held stereotypes persist in our fatriarchal society.
> now that the base assumption ("standing is better than sitting") has been invalidated.

This is not true. This invalid conclusion mirrors the lament that a commenter posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10389475

> The work looks useful and valuable to this area of study. But WaPo and other media outlets persist in a ubiquitous and terrible trend in science reporting, especially those associated with lifestyle and healt : "Here is a study which has different findings than the other studies we've been reporting on, all that research is now overturned! Burn your standing desk!" Of course, in a few months, someone will publish another study calling this one into question, and they'll tell us all to go out and buy new standing desks. As we all know, science doesn't work that way. This study needs to be put into context with other studies, if it contradicts those studies, that needs to be discussed, future studies that might resolve the discrepancy should be identified, limitations on the applicability of this study and on the ones it contradicts should be pointed out, changes in the model we use to understand the effects of mobility and posture on health should be discussed, etc. etc
>Looking at their financial statements, net loss for last FY was 250MM but depreciation and amortization was over 700MM. In other words, the loss they show is just a paper loss. They make money.

If they consistently do this then they're not making money. Depreciation/Ammortization is just an accounting method to distribute investments over time. If you're consistently returning a net loss it's not just a timing issue. In this case maybe Salesforce is like Amazon and continuously reinvests free cash flow so they don't return a profit to shareholders and instead reinvest it into new business. Is that what you mean?
An early paper by the inventor on the technique is cited over 300+ in Google Scholar, including by Hennessy & Patterson.
I was going to suggest what the other poster said- take a vacation to northern Europe.

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On a percentage basis that's true, but if the transaction is small, such as a $3 coffee, then the actual debit fee is (($3 x 0.05%) + $0.21) ~= $0.22, but Square would only charge $0.0825 in fees. I suspect those losses add up at the transaction volume that Square sees.
It is very likely that someone finding this information would have been able to discover it by looking at their family tree. Serious genetic diseases do have a small de novo rate but by and large are already there just being passed down
Good riddance.

Chrome's introduction of notification center was incredibly obnoxious. No application (especially an auto-updating one) should put an icon in my menu bar without my permission, or at a minimum without a super easy and obvious way to remove it (preferably command-drag to reorder or remove it like native menu bar icons on OS X).

Initially you had to dig into chrome://flags to disable it, then enough people complained they added a menu item to disable it.

Really they should have just integrated with whatever native notification system exists on each platform.
Yeah but if you suspend your machine doesn't it stop accepting connections? I personally set up a tmux window on a raspberry pi for this, but it's too much to expect a whole company to manage this (vs. a nice simple web GUI like slack)
Centimillionaire does sound better than thousandaire, however.
but it's also ok to formulate testable hypotheses in here.

That's a bit odd... you're basically advocating "[formulating] testable hypotheses" simply to post-justify a choice you've already made.

That's basically science backwards...

It's also human nature. We all love to rationalize. But we can at least see it for what it is. :)

Edit:

Incidentally, I have personally witnessed the fact that buying a bike has absolutely no correlation with frequency of riding it... ;)
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I think he said "suit", not that I necessarily agree with his opinion.
> Also, I don't think 23&Me's test results have enough medical value to be used for evaluating health risks.

Insurance companies would have another view.
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It shows that message regardless of whether you have an increased risk or not. The presence of the message is not an indicator either way, so if you'd rather not know you simply ignore it.
Using Facebook as a C&C server
Woulda been cool to add a remote shutoff so that the kids trying to lift it could have a bit of a thrill.
23&Me was using a medical test to give users data regarding their risks of certain diseases without sufficiently proving to the FDA that that data was accurate.

It's not a stretch to imagine someone acting on that information with potentially dangerous results; taking extra unneeded supplements, having elective surgery, dramatically changing their lifestyle to reduce the risk of some condition, etc.
You don't need all photos, you can run a basic face recognition algorithm like the ones used in cameras to identify good candidates and just filter all other photos.

Profile photos are good enough, and with the amount of selfies people are taking there should be more than enough candidates for a full facial recognition matching.

Also facebook isn't the only social network, LinkedIn profile pictures are usually much better for facial recognition Google+ profile pictures are also usually quite good because they crop your face into that silly circle.
Walmart open sources cloud portability platform OneOps
how do you know if he was asleep!
It should be like that, but it isn't. Mostly because, on those few cash fares, they would prefer not to report the income.
Well, for scientists wanting to publish, GGplot it's quite unpractical. Most of the time we have to publish in B&W magazines and GGPlot simply lacks the capabilities to do so properly (por instance B&W filling patterns).

Matplotlib with some good definitions ends up providing much better results and nicer looking plots fro B&W unlike what people normally think.
I don't follow. What in the quoted portion is off the mark? I don't see any contention between the quote and the rest of your comment.
> Which devices and drugs were 23&Me selling?

They were marketing their genetic testing kits and related services for diagnosing genetic diseases and risks. That made it a "medical device" within the scope of the Food and Drug Act, which means that they needed to actually have specified level of testing establishing the validity of the things its was being used to assess.

The FDA noticed the violation, notified 23andMe, said, if you want to keep doing this, you need to meet the requirements, and please tell us how you plan to come into compliance. And 23andMe blew them off for quite a while, so the FDA enforced the law.
Seconded. Another extreme example would be human brains, which I don't think we understand enough for it to be "accountable" in any mathematical bounds, yet we trust them to make complex decisions. Statistical characterization of the behavior of the AI system is a better objective than the ones based on inherently biased symbolic systems. Just because it is the way how humans communicate it, doesn't mean it's the best way to do it.
Point of sale. They're building toward a monopoly on point-of-sale devices in small businesses. A lot of restaurants and locally owned shops have ditched their old registers in favor of Square registers, and Square gets a cut of all their sales. They can expand outward from there, getting into the enterprise market for chains, replacing the ugly, expensive bloatware.

Really complex retailers with broad product lines, like supermarkets and big box retailers, will continue with highly customized in-house solutions. But for retailers with only dozens or hundreds rather than thousands of products, and limited budget to buy fancy solutions, it's a godsend.

And, because the customers are making a major, high-risk, customer-facing commitment, they're going to be very sticky, very unlikely to switch. Basically, Square is entering a market where the established players are too slow and coarse-grained to reach a lot of potential customers, and then they'll have a terrific barrier to entry. That sounds like a good deal to me, from an investment point of view.
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I keep waiting for Square and Dwolla to merge in some form as that seems like a great way for Square to start cutting out the credit card companies.
About That Aunt Suing an 8-year-old
The system composed of you + planet gains mass. You can not measure a different rest mass for yourself at either situation, so you'll probably attribute the extra mass to the planet (and the planet to you).

And yes, there's also some change due to changes in gravity. I'd expect that to be much smaller.

But IANAP, and not that good with relativity.
This is satire. Scarfolk is a fictional town.
How do you know a page has loaded? A complex page with ads, AJAX, WebSockets may be constantly busy. Most social buttons, ads, etc. are now loaded by callbacks, that usually finish after the page has rendered.
Yes, the restriction is on marketing products to diagnose, treat, etc. Once you've bought the product, the FDA doesn't prohibit the seller from continuing to provide service (and, to the extent that they contracted to provide the service, stopping providing the service could leave them liable to the purchaser.)
IQ is only a good predictor when you compare low average and borderline (who indeed are at a disadvantage no matter their conditions) with average and higher.

Average, above average and higher scoring persons' outcome in life will depend more heavily on upbringing and surroundings than anything else.

In fact, those scoring the highest may actually end up worse - addiction, depression, anxiety, loneliness, etc. - all because they live well below their potential because of their circumstances...
I can't count the number of times in a public conversation I've heard people say, "well maybe I'm just being anal." Gah. That isn't a homonym people. You are literally referring to your asshole - or more precisely, a post-infantile stage of your development in which you developed a predilection for holding your shit in because you experienced conflict during toilet training. Which, for the record, has pretty firmly been debunked as some of Freud's more ridiculous "pop" science.

It drives me nuts, but I'm well aware of how deeply that idiom has sunk its fangs into the English language. So I subconsciously roll my eyes and make a little wish that we could come up with a better idiom for describing fastidiousness and move on. Some things in life are not worth protesting...
Aren't people who spend their days sitting behind a desk also more likely to be more wealthy than, say, people who do heavy construction work all day long? Did they factor in the effects of this difference?

Perhaps the extra years gained from being more wealthy are negated by sitting all day.
because the future looks worse, and they want to make some money while they still can?
Thanks for mentioning - really enjoyed the linked piece (previously on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9395156 though it didn't generate discussion).
Ted Bundy [0]
Andrew Cunanan [1]
Jeffrey Dahmer -

I wouldn't say it's "unusual" [2]

[0] http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/B...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cunanan#Early_life

[2] http://www.examiner.com/article/22-serial-killers-with-high-...
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I don't know, in those stock photos I can picture them without the books and it doesn't seem as bad. They're all pictures of people in public places minding their own business. The pictures in the OP are families and friends, often in what looks like what's meant to be a social setting, staring at their feet instead of interacting.

Of course you can find examples of people reading at the table, but that doesn't mean it wasn't considered rude. Notice he says Amy was "caught" reading at the table. When you read at the table you're sending the message that the other people at the table are boring and unworthy of your attention. Not that I was never guilty of it, I was a pretty rude kid. :)
FDA is US only. 23AM has a lot of customers from the rest of the world, that get all the health analysis.
Additionally having the hammer remain locked once he steps away would be a good improvement. It looks like it only locks when a person begins to clasp their hands around the handle.
showing a paper loss when you are actually profitable means you are overspending short term. It is not healthy for a business. It is no different than a person with a good job and salary who is hundreds of thousands in debit. You are basically spending future money that you have no earned yet. In the case of startups that future money is VC money
Those studies never really proved sitting was itself bad for you. Just correlated with bad health. Since standing without moving is just as bad, I'd hypothesize that sitting isn't bad for you at all.

Sitting just happens to be highly correlated with a sedentary lifestyle.
There's a dev branch that has been actively developed
He he. This is sort of satire is so wonderfully British...
Notre Dame's television deal with NBC was just extended to 2025, at $15 million per season.
I'm betting that they finally solved the scalability problems with headless WebKit. Google's been able to index JS since about 2010, but when I left in 2014, you couldn't rely on this for anything but the extreme head of the site distribution because they could only run WebKit/V8 on a limited subset of sites with the resources they had available. Either they got a whole bunch more machines devoted to indexing or they figured out how to speed it up significantly.
Nobody pays the sticker price. This podcast explains more:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/05/11/152511771/the-r...
> I can't count the number of times in a public conversation I've heard people say, "well maybe I'm just being anal." Gah. That isn't a homonym people. You are literally referring to [...]

Er, no. I'm pretty sure most people using that phrase are not using it literally, and I don't think any honest listener ever confuses the usage for a literal one.
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You don't always need an operator license but, when you don't, you typically do need properly certified equipment. (This is also why you don't need a license to use Wi-Fi.) The rules vary by service and by frequency band.

I'm no expert on boat RADARs, but I'd bet that, 1) they operate in bands allocated for that sort of use and 2) that they have been either type accepted or certified by the FCC to comply with whatever rules govern their band of operation.
What's my department in charge of?
This is one of those things that even the people in positions of power won't ruin because they're users as well. You think members of city council or whomever want to ride in taxis any more than you do?
Off-topic, but does anyone know what was used to draw the graphs? They look really clean

I'm guessing LaTeX? The font looked like LaTex's font
The order matters. He was a professor first (did the publishing) and then founded the companies second. So there are really two questions:

(1) When he was a professor, would he have still published the work even if he couldn't patent and profit from it later? My assertion: Yes, he probably would've still published.

(2) Would he have founded MIPS (and made it successful) w/o the patents? I don't know, but that was beyond the scope of my claims. ;) Or perhaps: If he hadn't patented it, but just published... then would other companies have picked up his technology (for free) and integrated it into their products, resulting in a net win for society anyway?
I wish Connecticut had more uber drivers
They are, you can easily verify by estimating pickup times to a destination a mile out into the Pacific or Atlantic :)
If crawling with JS costs 1,000X or 10,000X as much as crawling without, it's fair to say that even Google isn't going to crawl 100s of billions of pages executing JS.

As a former web-scale search engine CTO, my opinions are commonly surprising to folks who haven't built a web-scale crawler/search engine.
NFC matched to a subdermal NFC chip would be great.
Lafayette is where they found a good case. They are suing on the basis that the City of Lafayette is approving a project on the condition of an decrease in density, while the original project density was conform to the zoning. This is what is illegal in California. But no developer will sue a city for that, because they still want to build the project and don't want to burn bridges.
Right, and we'd just be headed over a cliff like the rest of them. Nationalized healthcare is a disaster economically and in patient outcomes, not to mention patient and physician autonomy.
Well, use fseek to implement jumps (use fixed length lines or "assemble" the source file so that has byte offsets for branch targets).
Cutting through likely sarcasm, those are INCREDIBLY AWKWARD. I tried to use a very similar device for quite some time, and it's just- impossibly awkward to use. 0/10 would not recommend.
Did Apple market the iPhone as "a blackberry with a bigger screen"? No, and by not limiting themselves to an existing competitor's market, they kind of crushed them.
Wrong.

For one people used to die a lot younger, many genetic defects will only kill an older, weaker human.

For two the environment is different, e.g. many more cancerogens in and around us. Just have a look at the cancer rates. A middle aged man in US today has a 70% chance of getting cancer during his lifetime.
Oh I see. thanks for the explanation. LinkedIn definitely makes more sense too since more users will have clearer profile shots.
So... what you say is practical, but it creeps me out. This is the same logic behind "just code for windows because that's what everyone runs and treat everything else as a port". We suffered through that for a decade already, let's not repeat the mistake.

Don't tie your ecosystem to a proprietary (yes, Swift is still a 100% proprietary environment!) toolchain. We've done that several times already in this industry and the results have never been good.
Conversely: "Hey Uber driver? I need you to pick up a duffel bag located at Cicero and X, under the bridge. Do NOT look in the bag. You will be tipped an extra $500 in cash if you obey these instructions."
> He also had the distinction of being a pretty smart guy, which is unusual for the demographic that gets into mass murder.

I actually thought it was fairly common for mass killers (other than those whose mass killing is confined to a single mass casualty attack / killing spree), if for no other reason than not being smart makes it more likely that you get caught before your killing reaches the level of "mass".
Well, if you really want to carry the analogy over, you have to tweak the scenario: imagine that it's really hard to know if you should take off your shoes in any particular Asian's house, and you get multiple conflicting standards depending on who you ask, but they mostly agree that if the host owes you money, the convention is not to take off your shoes.

In that case, the host should at least consider the possibility that they forgot about money they owe you, or that this was an ambiguous case, before concluding that you're committing a faux pas.

The analogy is that tipping is supposed to be "optional" in some sense, and there's tremendous disagreement about what is appropriate in what context, and that "if you felt this person didn't provide you with great service, you can reduce or withhold the tip".

Thus, if you tip too little, the driver should consider it to be possible feedback about underperformance.

Of course, they way it really works is that they expect you to give 20% irrespective of service, but want to maintain a pretense that it's "for service", enforced by rudeness-with-impunity.
Their competitors are public and are floating in money but aren't investing in technology to lower transaction costs. Ask yourself why. Its not like their competitors don't have money, people, or a desire for profit. Or "the market" isn't interested in middlemen spending money they have (or don't have) to improve their tech, so why would joining "the market" be part of the strategy for a company trying to advance transaction tech? The market doesn't want them to do what they've been doing. So they'll have to pivot, essentially. Into... what? And the what doesn't matter because whatever it is, its not their secret sauce.

Their transaction costs are lower than their competitors because they're losing money. I'm sure AMEX would have cheap transaction costs if they were willing to lose staggering amounts of money. I could form a startup to sell gasoline for $1/gallon over the internet. Sure I'd lose tons of money, but look how cheap my gas is compared to BP. Well of course BP is earning a profit whereas I'm losing money on every gallon, but I'm sure after the IPO...

They have some traction in very discretionary consumer spending. Not the best place to be in the start of a recession. And public policy has been, is, and will be, to concentrate as much money as possible at the top while draining it out of the bottom. Why would you open a new Ferrari dealership in Detroit? Or rephrased the digital money of the future for farmers markets is EBT "food stamps" cards, not an iphone app. That discretionary money being spent at the coffee shops and farmers markets is "supposed to" by policy all go to .edu, bank mortgages, and health care. The economy is trying to destroy the sector they are trying to middleman off of, good luck with that long term. They're sailing the wrong direction at the customer level.

Speaking of competitors... well why even comment in detail about each. The problem with payment middlemen isn't so much that they're there as a class, its that there's so many identical ones. In my alternate life as a volunteer treasurer for a non-profit everyone wanted digital donation/payment processing, however everyone wanted a different one, and I am SO not going to jump thru those hoops, so its cash and checks only. Its like insisting I open a bank account at every branch in the metropolis, good luck with that. Maybe we need a middleman for the middleman to manage the middlemen.

I hate to imply history is repeating but this is pretty much Flooz again, isn't it? Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it?
And where can a mid-size company rent an office for only some thousands a year?
I was a little puzzled by that passage - while it might be true that the content on single-page sites would be harder to crawl / preserve, most of those apps aren't really about content, per se. And most sites that are have some kind of SEO-friendlier slug-based routing that shouldn't really be any harder to consume than a flat, static site, I'd have thought. Not to mention that now sites expose their sitemap.xml, JSON-LD, etc. that should make the job of putting the pieces back together easier than in the Good Old Days this article implies we have left forever...