skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Through our work with Intel, we're able to reach a global community of entry-level makers and students with a comprehensive introduction to physical computing and now with a more advanced, powerful technology solution that will help them bring their creative visions to reality. Arduino 101 will be available in the first quarter of 2016 for a suggested retail price of US$30"

More here: https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/a...

"32-bit Intel® Quark™ microcontroller for minimal power consumption, 384 kB of flash memory, 80 kB of SRAM (24kB available for sketches), an integrated DSP sensor hub, Bluetooth Low Energy radio, and 6-axis combo sensor with accelerometer and gyroscope."*

Dev board only in the US at the moment.
Formula for an ellipse in 12 dimensions?
Do we have such a formula. Anyone know what it is? Feel free to over explain, I'm not highly studied in math.
Uh, 25x revenue? Are you conflating money raised with revenue? Because Theranos has not made anywhere close to 400m over the entire life of their company...
Having a single party in total control like that would be destructive to our country, no matter how you spin it. Both parties have legitimate points and interests that need to be represented in our system. I have never understood individuals that buy in 100% to a single party and just can't fathom the idea of the opposing party having any good ideas that need to be heard. Radicalism of any kind is dangerous - conservative or liberal.
What I find incredibly interesting about the Uber story is that it seems to be a sped up history of the relationship between workers, unions, and customers in the market place. At first Uber drivers jumped at the chance to make "extra cash", not a career, out of their work. Then, somewhere (what do you think was the turning point?) this transformed into a viable job alternative. The workers wanted more pay, and thus, rights. We then have the current legal discussion regarding their independent contractor status. Now, we have them wanting raises in pay and the ability to get tips. I don't see how that cost won't be passed down to consumers. But somehow this picture transformed from "extra cash" into a viable job alternative. How do you think that occurred? People have done similar things with selling stuff on ebay, but I don't see them unionizing. Is it because it's different when it involves human interaction?

Side note: If we're learning anything about tipping from the minimum wage battles in restaurants, it's that it's probably cheaper for Uber to allow tipping.
It's certainly much easier in some languages than it is in others.
I understand this in its abstract sense - but I think (IMHO) the fundamental problem is that every framework out there is using Python 2.7.... which means nobody is using it.

I'm not sure if you have worked in the Ruby or Go ecosystem... but if you are starting a new project, you are using latest Ruby+latest Rails. this is not the case in Python. I asked a question here and on the /r/python forums. What framework should one use to build an API using asyncio+postgresql. Nobody seems to be doing it.

the answers I got mentioned using Tornado with Python 3 code on top of it.

People have compared asyncio with goroutines - but even for a project that is a migration from Go -> Python by a fairly advanced developer ... Py 2.7 is being used.
El Capitan ships with OpenSSH 6.9; you can get 7.1 using Homebrew.

OpenSSH 7.0 and above disable group 1 Diffie-Hellman by default.

From http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.0:

Support for the 1024-bit diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 key exchange is disabled by default at run-time. It may be re-enabled using the instructions at http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html
If we're talking only about start-ups that have gotten big during this boom, then you're very wrong.

Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, WhatsApp, Pinterest, and Dropbox are among the biggest winners so far. There's nothing Wall St or financial engineering about any of those. They're all legitimate businesses and or services that consumers blatantly want.
Campaign finance reform is dead in the water as long as the Republicans control Congress (and as long as, per Citizens United, unlimited corporate spending on political advertising is considered protected speech).

So if we agree with Lessig that campaign finance reform is the most important national political priority, then electing a Democratic majority to the House is the necessary precondition. (I’m not saying you should agree with that, but it’s the premise of Lessig’s campaign.)
>"you can be confident that a monoclonal antibody contains only one antibody, that recognizes only one antigen"

Not sure if you really meant that since it is kind of contradicted by some later statements, but all antibodies are promiscuous. Thinking you can map one antibody to one epitope is extremely dangerous. It is a matter of quantity (affinity/avidity), not quality.
> the middlebrow dismissers

The totally misplaced condescension is one of many reasons the Go community appears to be a net negative.
When I attempted a similar setup (Middleman + Google Sheets) I was quickly cornered into using fuzzy string matching to load data successfully. I ended up adding unplanned data validations that enabled the app to suggest corrections, but in retrospect I wish I'd done more validation in the spreadsheet itself for a tighter feedback loop early on.
hey - thanks for replying.

if Pypy + asyncio was available, would you have built everything using that stack ? There have been all these benchmarks that asyncio is so much slower than threads [1]
How would you compare that with Go ?

[1] http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-an...
I agree actual alien megastructures would be awesome. But hypothetical ones are the worst.
Very cool! Does anyone know of anything like this for back-end development?
Think of a startup whose founders spent 70% of their time raising money, they would never get anything done.

That's a bad example. For even a relatively early stage startup, raising money is the actual job description for a typical startup CEO. They probably spend more than 70% of their time on it.

It doesn't invalidate your point at all, however. Lawmakers are not startup CEO's. By providing every incentive to simply raise more money to ensure further employment, we've created just the worst possible system for functional government.
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Peanut butter probably isn't the best example...
ROFL. Thanks for pointing that out.
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This argument seems to be that "The body is mostly water. The task of removing X from water has been well studied. Therefore it's easy to remove X from the body". This seems to be a logical fallacy.

Let me rephrase this argument as: "The body is mostly water. The task of removing HIV from water has been well studied. Therefore it's easy to remove HIV from the body".

Just to be clear: I have no medical expertise, this is mere conjecture. But fungal infections could perhaps persist in various cells. In neurons. In spoor form. In all sorts of manifestations, where they wouldn't be affected by the same treatment that disinfects water. I don't have any expertise to say one way or the other, but I suspect that if there were a simple solution such as "just treat with Iodine, it'll kill the fungus", this discussion wouldn't be taking place.
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Isn't "fairer" roughly coterminous with "more likely to get people I like elected"?

I don't trust one major political party to draw unbiased boundaries any more than I trust the other.
For comparison:

About 1988/89 we got our first PS/2 workstations [1]. With some upgrades (RAM, 60MB HD, network card) these were about the price of an entry level Mercedes S-Class - in today's money about US$100k each.

[1] IBM PS/ 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2
Backing down from an approach that can't work sounds good to me. I wish politicians would do it more often.

Regarding hearing about other issues, near the end of the article:

> But beyond that priority, I would do everything else a president must do, too. Which means I bear the burden in this campaign of convincing America I could do that well. Like every other candidate, I will outline my position on the policies that I would press, once reform is achieved. In every relevant way, my campaign will be like every other campaign—except mine will place democracy first.

I suspect his positions will at least start out closer to something like an academic consensus than any other candidate, but am prepared to be disappointed.
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Hello guys and girls, the name is Daveyon.

I am a newbie Ruby on Rails Web Developer, living in Birmingham, UK and I wanted to create a project that connects both startups and developers/programmers on one platform.

The aim is to let startup pitch their idea(s), for their business, and a developer/programmer would send an interest that they are interested in helping for a return. That return could be paid, shares/equity, employment etc.

I would be very please if you could spend 3mins of your time to answer 6/7 simple short questions. Here is the web link: https://goo.gl/1dhRz2

Thanks again!
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Actually, that's where I got the idea... but when I last looked at Platter it was covered in "experimental only, do not use in production warnings".

Considering I'd have to write a build script to use Platter, it didn't seem like it would be a lot of work to write a few extra lines and not require an additional dependency.
The fact that the misconstruals are institutionally backed means they are not one-off events. Title 9 is an entire punishment system designed around eliminating due process and fairness to punish anyone who offends someone. It's a systematic disease.
That's the broken window fallacy.
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I largely agree with Lessig's point about our campaign finance laws being the root of all evil, and I think he's spoken rather intelligently about this in the past. But I'm frankly amazed at how earnestly he speaks about his "discovery" that "elect me, an outsider, to fix Congress" polls so well.

I mean, this is not a novel talking point. Does it really take an expert pollster to tell you that people like this message?
It has web sharing now, but I think that's 3DS to 3DS only. Not practical to use an SD card because the New 3DS makes that difficult.

What's weird is I've noticed that it isn't nearly as tedious as I would expect. I find programming to be slow anyway; I don't really type that often but with code completion for every keyword it's not actually terrible.
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I am trying to recreate the drag effect featured in this app, http://maddin.io/gestimer/

There are three options here:
- canvas
- svg
- html

I am not good at svg so I left it out. I tried it in canvas and got as far as this, http://codepen.io/shash7/pen/GpMQLG

But animating this is a pain. I also don't want to use any canvas library as that's going to be an overkill.

Lastly I tried doing this in pure html. This is the farthest I have reached, http://codepen.io/shash7/pen/QjqXBj

But its not accurate. Does anyone know how to create this or any library I can use to create it?
> Members of Congress spend 70% of their time raising money. They're not lawmakers, they're professional fundraisers.

> they would never get anything done

You will have a hard time convincing HN that what US needs are more laws, especially at a rate limited by time available to politicians for writing them!

Broadly speaking limits on campaign donations are fairly small (Max $5k) and average donation sums ($100-200) are extremely small. You will need anywhere from 2-8 million to run for Congress, about 25 million to run for Senate.

As an entrepreneur, what do you call it when you raise capital of several million from hundreds or thousands of investors? That's right, you call it revenue, and you call those investors your customers.

It's a weird model, but the US system makes a fundraising politician to personally talk to thousands and thousands of his constituents and reach out to 10-fold that figure to gauge interest. That has a significant positive side-effect of the politician being intimately familiar with their biggest concerns and often even smaller, local or personal problems that need fixing. After all, if you want to be a great salesman, you better know the customer very well.
Where did it go? From what I've read, it never existed, except as comforting bullshit. Read Bamford's books about the NSA. Read about the British Black Chamber.[0,1]

[0] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02684528708431876

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/gen...
Abaxis (manufacturers of the "Piccolo" systems, which seem to be lab-on-disc based and offer point-of-care operation) are an interesting company to compare to Theranos. They seem to be able to perform small panels of assays (up to 14) on 100 µL samples [1] obtained by venipuncture.[2]

They are valued at $880M, and had ~ $200M revenue and $27M profit in the last financial year.

http://www.abaxis.com/about_us/history.html

[1] http://www.piccoloxpress.com/products/panels/function/

[2] http://www.piccoloxpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015Revision...
“Fairer” in this case means “composition of each state’s congressional delegation roughly represents the composition of political affiliation among the state’s citizens, and elections are reasonably competitive in areas with mixed support”. Currently, there is no question that the Republican Party has a significant structural advantage in Congress due to the gerrymandered district boundaries in states they controlled after the 2010 census. Moreover, most congressional districts are extremely safe for one party or the other, encouraging candidates to run for office on radicalized anti-compromise platforms. My personal preference would be to see districts drawn in a neutral way.

The green states in this picture use an independent commission to draw districts, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Redistri... It would be nice if more of the yellow states (redistricting controlled by the legislature) would switch to independent commissions.
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Any other election he'd have been right. This time there's Bernie Sanders, who is pretty much the first presidential candidate to support common sense laws.

He raises money from lots of small donors with interests like you and me rather than a few big donors with interests diametrically opposed to you and me.
Strictly speaking that's not forward-secret anymore, as stealing the private key gives some advantage to cracking the session.

The practical reason is probably that using DHE with TLS is already many times slower than (plain) RSA. This would only make it slower.
Content, content, content. Did I say content? Interesting content, unique descriptions of products and speed, speed, speed.
After that you go and split test the hell out of it. Buy adwords and see which version/s perform best.

That url by itself will not get you noticable improvement but it's still worth it in my opinion. Changing "myproducts" to "toys" will certainly help. If you are just removing numbers from url - not so much.

Oh, and get a list going. Set it up so that users receive targeted offers. You say you are Data Analyst so that shouldn't be an issue.
I don't like that he is so vague about what he's going to do to fix corruption - I get it that it's about taking money out of politics, but how do you get there, especially when Congress is seized up?

If he were to be elected he would have a very strong mandate to fight for the reforms he proposes -- a strong enough mandate that Congress might be forced to adhere to it. If the people put Lessig in the Presidency it's pretty clear what the people want. A Democratic congressperson or senator who voted against such reforms would surely be risking his/her job. The same might even be said for TeaPartiers.

Regarding everything else... he claims most of it won't happen because the system is rigged. Most good causes like the ones you list could never command the singular and focused attention from the people it would take to defeat the powers that oppose them, even if the people generally would be in favor. We don't have a referendum system. That's his whole point -- to hack one in. I think it's still his point, he's just realizing that he has to play politics to do it.
> In addition, it's clear you don't understand statistics.

Yep. This person you're responding to just doesn't understand statistics. Not any specific data that you presented. Just statistics in general.

Wait a second...did you even present any data (or "statistics") in your original comment at all? What "statistics" were there to be misunderstood? How can you say that this person doesn't "understand statistics" when you presented no statistics at all?

"it's clear you don't understand statistics."

I think I said this exact thing in an argument that I had during my sophomore year of college. It was a good way to make it seem like I had some type of reliable data to back up my claim when really I was just suffering from a superiority complex because I thought I thought I was "educated".
> But in all these words he never gets around to explaining how as President he would actually make the reform happen, other than saying it'd be his "first priority" and (twice) that he would "work with Congress."

That's about as exact as any politician gets on the campaign trail. They say no plan survives enemy contact? I'd include that no path to achieving a campaign promise survives the election. By swear-in time, a large chunk of congress is brand new and it's an entirely different game of chess when you actually get in there.

> Lessig is such a paradox to me. His heart's in the right place, he's clearly earnest, and he's managed to accomplish some remarkable things, like Creative Commons. But every time he wades into electoral politics he does so in ways that are so desperately naïve that they'd be funny, if the stakes weren't so high. It's Mr. Bean Goes To Washington.

If running a country was based solely on the ability to understand complex problems and provide novel solutions, I'd say Lessig is a top candidate among US citizens to run our country. But unfortunately, before any of that gets to happen, someone needs to get elected. And you must first play The Game before you can get a crack at getting something positive done. And therein lies the problem. How can one play the a game that runs counter to the fiber of their being? Yes he's running, but he is not playing The Game.
There is no need for drugs to cross blood-brain barrier. If antifungal treatment is effective, drugs can be delivered directly to brain although that may need new series of research.
Coconut oil seems to have benefits in Alzheimer's patients [1]. It also has anti-fungal properties. Worth a look.

[1] http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_alternative_treatments...
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The "limit" on campaign donations is a complete farce though. Let's look at Jeb Bush. Jeb stated multiple times that he wasn't running for president in 2016, and instead started a Super PAC that let him raise uncapped campaign donations, and ultimately raised over $100 million. Then he announces that he had a change of heart, was indeed going to run for president, and gave control of his Super PAC to a friend of his. And now he has $100 million to play with, fuck that $5k limit, and the voters/peasants who would donate it.
For once it's very useful to have very few family members, or have a family that is totally oblivious to technology, internet and SV startups.
> every framework out there is using Python 2.7....

That's just FUD, it might have been true many years ago but not any longer. http://python3wos.appspot.com/, there are a few red holes but from what I could tell some of those have substitutes that in many cases are better even. It might also be true for in house libraries but at least there you have the chance to upgrade yourself.
yeah like a five person team who's CEO spends 70% of time fundraising is probably fine. But an ENTIRE team that spends 70% of their time fundraising perpetually would be about as effective as Congress actually is.
"It seems that the NSA (and possibly other state-level actors) can access encrypted traffic that uses 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman that use commonly-used prime numbers."

How does it "seem this"? There's no evidence, no plausibility, no sense here whatsoever. Someone hypothetically conjectured a magic all-powerful computer that could magically crack a prime, and that would magically make us all vulnerable to the government who want to steal the data from my recipe startup and the church newsletters documents on my laptop.

And therefore, system admins are all recommending upgrading to 2048 keys?

I can't see the sense or logic here. It just seems hysterical conspiracy nonsense to me.
Do you have any insight about the mention in the slides of Google having a 10kb solution?
Nice, you could also do something to embed http://yuml.me diagrams for converting text into diagrams?
Does it matter how he'd handle those other issues if he gets his reform done? You seem to be saying that continuity in handling those issues in a way you like is more important than the reform he's proposing. Wouldn't it be worth having a few years of "bad" foreign policy in exchange for a whole future of reform?
I agree -- typical pitfall of average.

Do you have any sense of what the equity numbers would have been like at year 0, 1, 2, 3... based on your general knowledge of startups (not necessarily Square)?
Not really - The premise of Lessig's campaign is that the party in power is irrelevant, neither can do it because they're both corrupted by their need to raise funds (and notably that the people funding them are not the public).

This is partly why his ideas to fix it seem drastic - there really aren't any non drastic solutions that can work.

https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_...

It has nothing to do with which party is in power - the affect of fundraising has corrupted the underlying incentives of the entire congress.

I found his book on the topic pretty convincing: http://republic.lessig.org/
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Playing the devils advocate here but why keep convicts' DNA forever? Should ex convicts not have a right to privacy? I can imagine they might need some way to keep track of inventory in the prison system but once you've served the time, why keep the DNA? Just to make the cops' jobs easier? If there is a false positive on an ex convict's DNA, it still means we got the wrong guy.
This is basically the approach we take with Prometheus, with the option to add in additional stats like duration and processed records too.

http://www.robustperception.io/monitoring-batch-jobs-in-pyth... is the full Python version, and the simple version is a bash one-liner too.
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Yeah but what's sad is that

$ man -k shuffle

gives
pstops (1) - shuffle pages in a PostScript file

I wish I knew about shuf. I've been using sort -R or using Python.
the author of this article needs to live in san francisco or los angeles for a week and go back to the drawing board
Is it April 1st already? Wonder which new product manager came up with this glorious idea. "less information is better. Let's not trouble our poor users with too technical stuff"