skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's another way to look at it: Compared to medical regulated DNA tests, such as those for breast cancer risk or other types of risk factors, which can cost in the thousands per marker, 23andme is astonishingly cheap.

While I could never bring myself to spend the $199, I was a very early adopter when it went on sale for DNA day (maybe the first DNA day sale), and the rest of my family bought the next time it went on sale for DNA day a year later. Now that medical results are back, I think it is worth either price, particularly if you have any concerns about genetic health issues being passed down to you.

In my case, my father was schizophrenic (and a couple of other relatives on the same side of the family likely suffered from undiagnosed mental illness based on what I know of their behavior and the details of their violent deaths), so I was more than a little curious about whether I had any of the genetic hints that I might suffer the same fate. I don't, and knowing that I don't have the couple of markers known to 23andme was worth at least $99.

A few years after we all signed up for 23andme, my father passed away of pancreatic cancer, which can also be a genetic condition, and so I was able to check for the risk factors that are known (though my father also lacked those markers, so it's either a marker that is unknown to 23andme, or he was not genetically predisposed to pancreatic cancer in his case). That was, again, worth at least $99, to me.

I know in either case, the ability of 23andme to predict those diseases is low, and it shouldn't replace hands-on medical care and paying attention to warnings signs, but it does provide some predictive power. And, for a while they were doing original research (polling their customers and comparing data to produce reports), which was really cool and fun to see happening. I don't think they're still doing that, maybe because of the FDA ruling.

When the medical stuff went away, I stopped recommending 23andme to friends and family, as it no longer held any interest for me. The family tree functionality is neat, I guess, but I'm not Mormon, and don't have a huge amount of interest in whether I'm related to somebody interesting 200 years ago (I'm probably not; I come from very poor white trash stock).

In short, the fact that we're arguing over whether a genetic profile is expensive at $199 or at $99 is a laughable first world problem. I'd like it if more of the world could afford it, and my signing up early was part of my encouragement for that to happen; I want it to be possible for everyone to look at their genetic predispositions and such, and take some of their medical care into their own hands with more informed choices. So, I opted in early. I would have bought eventually at $199, if they hadn't ever offered the $99 deal.

But, I too, would like to see it getting cheaper. It's been many years now, since I bought in at $99. At some point, they've gotta be thinking in terms of making it more accessible to more people. There are huge swaths of people for whom $199 is not chump change.
Just saw your comment. HN isn't all that usable. Maya was basically what PowerAnimator was regarding user interface (more or less). So it was something we, who used PA, could transition into easily. I've been using it since first beta (in 1997 I think). It changed the landscape quite a bit. It didn't get much widespread use until version 3 which was the bee's knees. That TDI video is great! Always glad to hear about our young industry's history. 3d studio for DOS was crap. I've used it from time to time on odd jobs (although only 2 through, I believe 4 - never saw v1). Lightwave was years ahead in contrast. I will give Blender another chance, maybe over winter break.
Um, isn't Wikileaks famous for wanting to just publish data dumps of everything? It's their partners at newspapers who sometimes talk them out of it.

It seems like you're confusing them with some other organization that does responsible disclosure.
I appreciate this comment, but it seems a little like saying that William Randolph Hearst had a "completely different perspective and motivational drive" when investigating the sinking of the USS Maine.

I'm not sure that kind of 'reporting' is a net positive.
Bayes rule should be taught before handing out highschool diplomas.

Differential calculus, trigonometry, and even geometry can wait. They are interesting topics, but statistics (with bayes) is something that is immediately applicable to typical situations encountered by the average citizen.
The open source version remains on their GitHub page here: https://github.com/robovm/robovm
In my neighborhood all the houses going up for sale are being bought sight unseen, over asking price, by investors who replace the carpet, paint the walls, then rent them out.
What Jennifer Lawrence can teach Silicon Valley about wages
We use SAS Enterprise Guide for this at my work. Handles source data spread across multiple databases.
If you're talking about switching to the free streams Twitter provides, good luck if you want to maintain a URL count for more than a handful of URLs. Streams actually IS the right product for what I wanted to do, but the limits are so low (I could maintain ~12 connections from a single IP) that I couldn't use it. They do have a site stream that would fit, but that's been in closed beta since it came out (2012 IIRC?) that is no longer accepting invitations and, according to the responses on their dev forums, is unlikely to be extended.
On the university's hp are two nice videos that explain the Bell test:

http://hansonlab.tudelft.nl/loophole-free-bell-test/
The government is supposed to keep the copy you gave them secret until you die. Coincidentally, the OPM accidentally leaked a bunch of them a few weeks/months ago.

But it's your own information, you can do what you want with your copy.
A bit bizarre taking a musical instrument and trying to treat it like some kind of hi-tech gizmo. I think it would be much more interesting to show how a guitar is actually built, rather than how to destroy it.

> Finally we use a dremel to open up the body of the guitar and find a single piece of wood — either mahogany, poplar, or maple, which are all lightweight woods that provide the right balance of treble, mid-range, and bass vibrations.

Come on, at least do your homework. Poplar is a softwood, not really suitable for a solid guitar body as it is too soft. Both mahogany and maple can't really be called lightweight (density of 0.6-0.7 g/cc). Anyway the wood in the picture is definitely not poplar, nor mahogany, nor maple. Judging by the grain and the colour it looks like some variety of oak.
There's lots of product placement, but YouTube doesn't get any of that money. Companies go straight to the channels when they want to advertise. I don't think YouTube could get away with a contract that gave themselves a cut of this money.
(CTRL-ALT-T to get a terminal in chrome, then type "shell") copy-paste the rom download script from johnlewis.ie, backup your firmware from the menu, then flash the firmware and boot your favorite LiveUSB of choice. I use KaOS[0] as my preferred LiveCD while I install arch (with OpenRC) or Gentoo.

I have a C720P. There are two versions. should you have the older version (cyapa touchpad module), any modern kernel will work. If you have a Elan touchpad (i.e. touchpad doesn't work on boot), you'll have to patch a kernel driver. I could create a full overlay for my gentoo modifications, but I doubt anyone would want to use it. :)

0. http://kaosx.us
Windows still trails OS X and Core Audio here unless you're using ASIO. There are no real ASIO drivers (AFAIK) for the Surface Pro 3, though ASIO4ALL works if you want to dedicate your sound card to just ASIO apps (for me that sucks, because I want to hear other audio on my system at the same time!). With my Macs, though, it pretty much just works. I'd probably use an external interface if I absolutely had to use Windows (and I'd want a bigger screen than the Surface Pro, probably the Surface Book and even that's cramped).
Matthew Cole had an interesting talk a while back about how Italy was able to implicate the CIA in a kidnapping and identify several agents, using cell phone tracking technology provided by the US.

(Edit: Oops, Matthew Cole, not Jacob Appelbaum.)
What's the difference?

If the email content was not encrypted, it'd (most likely) be available in plain text somewhere along its route.

If the email content was encrypted, we wouldn't be reading it now.
Uber makes a nice profit in mature markets, but that does not mean their current margins are sustainable. Its hard to imagine a future where they don't pay drivers more.
Worst scrolling of any website of any website I've ever used. I can't get it to stop on the second slide.

Seriously people, when can we drop this obsession with landing pages that hijack the scroll bar and turn a document into some sort of slide show? I just want to scroll down and read your content, but instead I'm forced to try touching my trackpad in various spurts trying to get it to stop when needed.
What happens is that in a low volume housing market, prices are determined by the activity of relatively few sellers and (wealthy) buyers. Prices can easily go up and up in a rarefied market.
Are managers like you common or are you some type of unicorn?
Flyover states? Like... Virginia? http://www.businessinsider.com/which-states-are-flown-over-t...

Just kidding, I'm in flyover country as well (Colorado), though our real estate is much less affordable than yours, it sounds like.
The prices of Caviar fastbite have been slowly creeping up.
>nothing in there could possibly be of legitimate public interest.

There could be. There is a reason the government asks there questions because they get relevant information. Hypothetically there could be newsworthy stuff in there.

But there isn't anything actually in there. So it's shitty to leak it.
We're working on it. We just launched and wanted to get people using the product and getting feedback as soon as possible. But will definitely have more product info and screenshots on the site soon. Thanks for the comment!
Although complex != complicated.
Can you use a fake name?
Historical events can be translated into a more relevant and useful language that's then more accessible to people who don't understand whatever language is dead/is dying though, doesn't that make more sense?

Frog: I don't know much either so I'll take your word for it. The way I see it is that nature is a massive constantly changing and constantly evolving system that, while we've done a lot of damage to I concede, we can't hope to take such a vast and complex machine and stick a wrench in it and stop it in a particular place that we like.

Traditions: The value of a given tradition is only expressed in the culture that holds it. If the tradition is dying, the culture obviously isn't holding it very much. Kind of like how not many people in the US avoid Black Friday because it's supposed to be part of the Thanksgiving holiday, and by contrast how the pilgrimage by Muslims to Ramadan (God I hope I got all that right) is a massive industry because it's still widely practiced.
>and a whole class of possible security flaws just GoAway™.

Technically not true, they don't go away, they're just harder(and not that much harder) to exploit.
We're losing money, but we're doing it at scale.
Doesn't mapping the same physical memory into two places actually end up defeating the W^X bit entirely? Since you can write to the RW mapped page and have it change the RX page?
Stanley Meyer's water fuel cell
I don't honestly care that much. I'd prefer they tear down old buildings than kill people. Again though I know I'm in the minority here.
Pretty sure this is because many people, with the economic instability of the last five years, are deciding not to by the big McMansions anymore and don't want to take care of them... unfortunately, this means that those with more money that millennials also want the same "starter" houses. The real problem: too many builders built big-ass houses no one wants to pay for and take care of anymore.
Support scams that plagued Windows users for years now target Mac customers
You can currently pay for GNIP if you want access to the API beyond what Twitter will give you for free. I have no idea if that will suffer the same issues of being cut off once you get popular enough, nor do I know how much it would cost, but it seems like they're at least vaguely headed in that direction.
This is common in computer science and related fields (licensing agreements be damned), but much less so in others.
clueless...more like willfully wreckless. They know better. "It won't happen to me because I will drone strike you" is probably how they justify it. I wouldn't give two cents of the lives of these hackers right now. They are going to end up like Michael Hastings.
Please for the love of sanity, take this advice to heart! Just having "A smart headband and an application to induce lucid dreams" on the landing page would go miles!
Part of that is because people will spam a wall of emotes in a single line, and many such lines.
We should make a up a spurious tale about an enormous stargoat eating the sun and send them on ark to colonize another planet.
My chromecast doesn't block ads, i'll pay for the service specifically for this
this may not elucidate a clear answer, but I've heard it described as such and thought it might help:

entanglement works sort of like creating a matching pair of gloves. You can put each glove in separate boxes and ship one to New York, one to San Francisco. You open the box in New York, finding the right-hand glove and know instantly that the left-handed mate is in San Francisco.

So too bits can be entangled, and measuring one, gives you a "cheater's peek" at what the other's value is -- they're integrally linked.

This seems immensely useful regarding encryption, because in my mind, this lets you mimic the public-, private-key model on the small scale.
There is no such thing as burn out. You're either progressing or regressing in your job. Burnout, work-life balance are man made excuses.
Even cricket uses video replay extensively for officiating...at least at higher levels. The reason it is accepted is that it is consistent with the game's higher order values. What changes is mostly just an implementation detail that exists for historical reasons.
Front end devs or some graphic designer.

Its good for marketing a product as long as its kept to like under 5 items.

For showing data/information, it is a terrible way to do it. I dont want to read a powerpoint presentation.
Or maybe even 10minutemail.com. :P
Certainly an intriguing product.
And run into issues when your API key gets ratelimited :)
It's going to get even cheaper in the next year or so in Maine. Several major paper mills have just announced huge layoffs or have closed their doors. In Franklin County (approximately 35000 people, and about 1/16th of the state), the Verso mill laid off 300 employees, along with 100 logging contractors. Spider that out to the service, supply, and transport jobs that are going to go away as a result of this, and you are talking thousands of jobs that are going away, and there's no other industry to absorb those losses.

Real-estate is already dirt-cheap up there - a home that would sell for half a million in Boston or a million in SFO can be bought for less than 150k. It's going to crater even harder.

If anybody likes to ski and can work remotely, I've got a couple of houses for < $100,000 in the family that are a half-hour from Sugarloaf or Sunday River...
Usually if you email an author of the paper and request a pdf, they'll send it to you.

They don't make any royalties from the paper and they benefit from other researchers citing it.
The released docs so far are all dated when he wasn't actually in government. This is his honest to goodness personal email account.

So far there is no indication that he's using his personal email as a government work email. In fact, all these emails are from times when he had no government email.

Clinton side stepped her official email to use an off the books private server in an official capacity.
This isn't so much a call but a browser dialog that you cannot get rid of targeting safari.

>This is a very irritating campaign, since when the popup appears, it somehow locks down the browser. You cannot quit except via force quit, and when you restart your browser it automatically restarts the lockdown. You cannot close the tab, and only force quitting again will allow Safari to realize something is wrong, and not resume the session. Which means any open tabs you have are gone.

>So it's very irritating. one of Apple's last updates to Safari was I think an attempt to stop this kind of thing. Clearly they don't have it beat just yet.

This dialog, is a large problem that the browser should solve. There is no reason for dialogs preventing the closing or leaving of a browser tab.
ZeroCater Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers, Head of Product and VP of Engineering
That all makes perfect sense. For a moment I thought you were referring more to the NAR (market) than the tax regime/REIT side of things.

As a millenial with hope of some sort of real estate in my future, I've been thinking of buying an empty/distressed lot and rebuilding it, but I don't know how realistic that is.
Shitty employers do shitty things.
I have a midterm next monday, yet here I am... procrastinating by reading CIA's director emails.

What a time to be alive.
Yep, this was effectively the culmination of saving as much as I could from graduation in dec 2011 to now. I'm pretty happy I managed to save this much, but it would not have been possible had I not been headhunted into what can only be called a dream job for a 28 year old from my area.

My wife only makes around $20k/year, maybe less, so this is almost entirely coming out of my pocket.
I skimmed it. I skimmed the previous comments on the previous submission of this piece 11 hours ago. This is really awful stuff.

Yes, women live with threats to their welfare from all sides. So do men. Sex is inherently risky. A baby could result. You can catch an STD. Women can get knocked up and abandoned. But, hey, men are sometimes trapped by women who got intentionally pregnant by them while claiming to be on the pill and IIRC it is estimated that around 5% to 10% of babies have a different biological father than the man who raised them and honestly thinks it is theirs. One study apparently concluded that women who were having affairs were engaging in sexual practices that would make it more likely they got pregnant by their illicit lover than by their SO.

In my opinion, this is an incredibly crappy piece of writing. It in no way helps women and if you are a guy hoping for tips on how to better understand women so you will have an edge in dating, this is not good advice.

From what other people here are saying, the author of the piece started as a pick up artist. This piece reads to me as "pick up artist, trying to sound PC." Pick up artists also try to "understand women" -- in a totally shallow fashion so they can better manipulate them. This article similarly treats women as a monolith, as if all women feel exactly the same way about men, dating, sex, you name it.

If you want a better relationship to a woman, take some time to get to know her better and skip reading crap like this.

/opinionated old woman
Don't worry too much about that. Apply for a ton of jobs, for weeks, if not months. Assume that for 80% of them, your resume will get tossed immediately, for no good reason whatsoever. Not your fault. Similarly, for reasons beyond your control, you'll probably fail half of the phone screens, and when you actually get called in, you won't get past 90% of the interviews. Don't worry about it: that's just how it goes. Those numbers will vary substantially with the market, your experience, your innate horsepower, and your asking salary, but the fact is, although there are a lot of developers out there, and employers are careful who they hire, there are also a lot of job openings. Play the numbers game: my rule of thumb is to apply for 100 jobs to get one that you want.
> As a millenial with hope of some sort of real estate in my future, I've been thinking of buying an empty/distressed lot and rebuilding it, but I don't know how realistic that is.

Very reasonable. I've done this before. Let me know if you'd like to chat over email, and I'll get you my contact info.
Don't quote me on this, but I believe that's exactly the rationale behind the 'stateless functional components' introduced in 0.14.

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/10/07/react-v0.14....
I hope they don't get away with this. As a developer, I want to see the Twitter story set a strong precedent that deters other companies from double crossing the developer community. Between Google+ (which paid a price for never letting developers on board at all) and Twitter (which prospered from their hard work and then betrayed them) I hope future companies will have a new understanding that if you want to be a platform for anything, embracing 3rd party developers and keeping faith with them has to be one of your top priorities.
While not a talk by Applebaum, this video is semi-related and showing OPSEC failures by CIA using cell technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM0PmwOlifE
Node.js: Logo iteration
US: Drones will soon need distinctive markings, just like aircraft tail numbers
Which doesn't make it and better. At all.
I've suggested to a few people the idea of cryopreservation and I've yet to find someone who wants it. The consensus is one life is enough. I quite like the idea of living on but seem to be in a minority. Rather than billion-dollar research maybe the government might be better funding a big freezer. People might be more inclined to do it if it was a no cost option compared with cremation / burial.
First off, this is coming from the prosecutorial side, who has every incentive to make the case as understandable as possible.

Frankly, it's not surprising that the average person can't understand complex finance and thus complex financial litigation.

> Everytime I hear a finance person use the excuse of 'you wouldn't understand' to a complex, I can't help but correlate it to a developer who's obfuscated code tell another developer they wouldn't understand, without acknowledging that they obfuscated the code.

The difference is that a jury is not other finance people. I don't expect jurors to understand financial crimes any more than I expect a random member of the public to understand a complex computer bug.
I said easily, I didn't say risk free. I also didn't say put everything in stocks. Stocks are extremely overpriced at the moment, and only a small of my portfolio are in them. Investing is a hobby I spend some time on each week.

I'm just pointing out that you should calculate the gain you could personally make from your capital and account for that in your decision.
No, for the explicit purpose of making some good money off the table.
This is going to sound a bit churlish, but how does Twitter make money? Sure, there are some sponsorships, but what actual product do they sell?