skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the details of the particular case of FDA and 23andMe (I remember only the one when FDA asked 23andMe to fix their marketing, or else), but there is a known problem with giving medically-relevant information to people - that armed with such information, fully predictably, they go batshit insane.

Most people are not properly equipped to handle such information. I see this as a failure of education, that could probably be easily fixed if e.g. high-school curriculum taught basic statistics and probability theory as applied to interpreting medical results. It's the simple things, like "just because you got a positive test on X doesn't mean you have X", "think of horses before zebras" and "if you read 'X causes cancer' or 'X increases risk of cancer by 1000%' in the news, take note if anyone is providing the base level - an increase of 0.00001% probability to 0.0001% means you can ignore the news and keep enjoying X", and "if commonly-used-in-food-X was really dangerous, you'd see people dying like flies around you; if you don't, it means it's mostly safe so don't panic".
EDIT - Fuck throwaways. I am desp_programmer and desp_programmer1.

HN has been of great help to me. I owe it to the community.
Because people seem to think everything they do on a computer is or should be private. It's not and shouldn't be.
And Gmail scans your emails in a functional way as well...
As a long time Apache user I've never understood using its proxy modules for stuff like this. I've always felt like its much cleaner to just use a small daemon process built solely for the task of reverse proxy or balancing. e.g. haproxy, pound, etc.
Or if T contains a NonZero (Vec, VecDeque, HashMap) ;)
I should clarify. I don't see the problem with pundits saying "You can't live on $X" when you really, demonstrably can't raise children well on $X, where "raising children well" is defined as positive psychological and employment outcomes. The article suggests that this is the situation we're in right now; therefore I'm fine with people agitating to improve that situation.

If, as you fear, America should at some point find itself giving too much to the poor, then perhaps proposals to limit that would be appropriate, but right now (and for most of recorded history) we have the opposite problem, and your fear does not look at all realistic.
Cool. If FB feels like making a public commitment to financial liability in the event it's discovered that they violate this, it might almost be worth believing.
+1

The hilarious part about this is the fact that the clicking represents the time it would take to manage / buy / sell property when you're that rich.
Not if the site used the service worker feature to pin secure versions of the site javascript on first connection.
This is not news and has no place on HN.

Sure it is, and yes it does. And please note that I say this as an agnostic.

The King James Bible is a part of modern Western history. In fact, if you'd read the article, you would've discovered that this bible was intended to act as a bulwark against puritanical influences in England, which I'm sure you'd agree is a good thing.

Like it or not, religion is a major component of our history—and our modern world.
Is that 1,000 patients enrolled each being tested daily? That is a heck of a lot of testing!

Obviously depends on the patient population (in/out patient) but IMO a huge component of the cost is pushed off on patients having to spend a day getting to the study facility to give blood and urine versus dropping it at a local lab.

Then again, if Theranos tells us anything about variability of lab results, you certainly have to take every precaution to protect the integrity of your data.
Wasn't he only just recently CSO (or similar) of Yahoo? What's the story there?

EDIT: found this: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2015/06/24/yahoo-loses-security-c...

Where it is written:

> Stamos also won plaudits this spring at Austin’s South by Southwest festival when he revealed the company will roll out end-to-end encryption for Yahoo Mail by the end of the year.

Except, I don't believe Yahoo ever did "roll out" end-to-end encryption for email?
The minimum wage is never sufficient because it's never, to date, been enough to comfortably support a family, as the article we're commenting on demonstrates. Fortunately for you, your "damn these lazy, greedy poors" rhetoric is still quite popular.
See also http://summernote.org
It's great to hear from Facebook that we can trust Facebook. /s
People who use password managers tend to use the clipboard to copy the passwords around. I assume those passwords are also available in these apps?
I've only played through once, but got 1.66B and felt I could probably get higher pretty easily.

My strategy was to initially buy high/sell low to get net value up so I could purchase higher value properties. By the time I could buy the most expensive properties I had stopped selling anything. Whenever a recession ended I would simply buy as many of the most expensive thing possible before the price raised too much. Similarly I would cancel any debts, and do any maintenance as soon as the bottom of the recession hit. Buying properties seemed to cancel the need to refurbish, but I haven't looked at how complex the logic is so I'm not sure.
There are just different problems. If everyone were to block ads, they'd become harder to block. And some of the websites that rely on them would stop existing.
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exponentially decaying.
Actually it's more like this: That ugly language called Javascript that everyone derided and said was "too shit and slow to ever write a Demo in" back in the 90s when all the "real developers" were writing server side scripts in Perl and left the frontend people to their own devices caught up with them. They kept pushing the boundaries, discovering things like XMLHttpRequest, and using that crap little language. Eventually big players like Google started throwing a lot of money at the problem and Javascript became usable enough to write apps in. The front end people that all the cool Perl kids derided needed something on the backend. They wern't going to touch Perl since by this time it was an old languishing dinosaur and there was a bad taste left in their mouth. And thus NodeJS was born. The frontend dev could write his server side stuff in the one language he knew.

This is my completely biased and highly selective history of events ;)
I meant react-native and I couldn't update my comment when I noticed =/
How does this compare to Prosemirror? (http://prosemirror.net/)
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And yet, no difference today - nothing wrong with killing an inconsequential specimen for the sake of science. The front plate glass window on my house kills more birds than that researcher, every week. Thump. Thump. Thump. I don't have angry mobs calling for my head over it. I go out, pick them off the porch, and throw them in the trash. And no, I don't take time to sketch them.
Absolutely. Best of luck!
name, displayname, email blah blah.... I don't know why people still make signup process so annoying !
It's not quite this easy :)
A Google search or two leads me here: https://github.com/yahoo/end-to-end
got 3.91B on the first try. Buy as many as you can whenever you think the recession is about to end, and sell at the top of the boom.

What's interesting is that I liked getting into as much debt as possible at all times. At a certain point I got confused and thought my net worth was decreasing because my debt was going from -200 to -25 or so. I then went and got myself into half a billion in debt straight after, and came out a billionaire a few minutes later. I like this game.
I am not opposed to what Amazon is doing on Fiverr. That said, I don't think you might be aware of the entire picture. Amazon itself is likely to be the very reason some sellers feel they have to play these games. See my post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10408396

Unless you have at least a couple of years of experience dealing with Amazon from a seller's perspective it will be impossible for you (or anyone else, not focusing on you at all) to form an opinion based on all of the facts and nuances of the ecosystem Amazon has created. We get feedback from a large number of sellers we service with our management tools. Believe me when I say that the view from the seller's perspective is far, far less pristine than from the vantage point of Amazon buyers.

In a few words: For third party sellers being on Amazon can be a really fucked existence. A few have even gone bankrupt.

Again, not defending the wrongful purchasing of fake reviews but rather saying I understand precisely why some might feel the pressure to do something, anything, to save their businesses when going up against a mess of a system almost entirely rigged against honest sellers.
I think that's a cop out. One could say it about any individual act; in aggregate, everyone thinking that way is a recipe for the ecological disaster we're currently in.

Admittedly, without policy change for the very large polluters, any individual act is a drop in the bucket. Nonetheless, individual decisions matter when scaled across populations of hundreds of millions.
I'm just saying you wouldn't use std::variant<T star>, you'd just use T star. Also C++ has the meta-programming capabilities to special variant for pointers.

edit: replaced * with star to defeat italicizer.
Exsto: Analyze the structure and dynamics of an open-source project's community
I removed the facebook app from my phone a long time ago. I do not intend to put it back.
I got to 8b second try. Get to the most valuable property as soon as possible and then ignore everything else not worth you time/clicks. Then buy as much as you can early in the Boom when prices are lowest. When a Recession starts, start selling everything while the prices are still high. Rinse and repeat. I kept all the debts until the end.

This only really works because the boom/bust cycle is too predictable and consistent, so it really just becomes a 'how fast can you click' game. It would be better if a) more random boom/bust points, duration, and rate of rise/decline, and b) buy and sell in bulk.
And then let's default it to deny access, and suddenly we've just destroyed the clipboard.

I don't like the direction where this is going. We've created an adversarial situation, where software developers go against users and against each other and then instead of fixing that, we keep destroying features of cooperation and interoperability in the name of "security" and "privacy".
That's pretty good. I never sold once and just clicked max buy as fast as possible. Got 3b or so. I stopped buying in 2073 or so.
Instapaper has been doing this for a while.
That is kinda worrying, though I don't use that functionality myself. Is there another way that passwords could be passed between apps without using the clipboard?
Does masters degree makes sense?
Boring lectures, assignments, waiting for the degree to complete. Is masters degree really worth it?

I want to quit but I feel guilty of not completing it. I might miss out on opportunities in future. I might have a feeling in future "Only if I had tried a little harder..."
But at the moment it's making me depressed. I procrastinate and finish assignments at the last moment.
Some do. It's usually called having a secretary.

We must be careful to pick up sane defaults; just shutting down everything because "privacy" is not a way to build useful technology.
Thank God for that. That makes them actually useful.

Personally, I find sandboxing not as something desirable, but a symptom of a problem with mobile/web ecosystem.
Did Life Begin on Mars?
Looks promesing, but it looks like the person is still working on it to get it ready.

I don't understand this line:
"This project was developed for real-life site on http://helmetrex.com"
But the url is the site that you are already on, and it is called StuctorMarket, but Stuctor is something else here:
https://github.com/ipselon/structor
Every third week there is a problem about privacy and security.

How do we solve these issues once and for all? Is it on the OS level, or consumer education, or must the government intervene?
I thought this documentary was well made. One reason that it might have gotten a low number of views is that nobody knew about it. How do you publicize your content? What's your target audience?
I like this feature and don't think it is creepy. All they are probably doing is regex'ing a URL and if one matches showing it there. Sure they could see some other random thing I have copied, but there is no incentive for them to do anything with that information.
The demo GIFs going around on Twitter a few weeks ago made me really excited for this.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10405128
/r/buildapc may be receptive to this as well.
check out http://osv.io
Do generic stock servers have a future in a cloud world?
Well there is only one way in the standard lib (distutils). But it is so old and limited that practically nobody wants to use it in its vanilla state.

The ongoing work to modernise stdlib and to incorporate the best parts of the various alternatives in a compatible way while balancing the sometimes conflicting needs of devs on windows, devs on *nix, sysadmins, distro packagers etc is very complex. It will take a long time to sort out in an evolutionary incremental way.

Part of the problem is that the 3rd party tools they are trying to improve/replace were never fully specified or understood. There are a lot of corner cases to find.

There is slow progress being made though.
Thanks, that's a nice repository. I see that like its parent (Google's end-to-end), it is collecting dust for 99.99% of users.
I thought the story arc was confusing. I wasn't sure if it was a promotional piece for the guy, or a call to action. If it was a call to action, they didn't really explain how I could help.
Thanks for telling us! We all wanted to know.
This is the question I was going to ask. It seems like porting many of the poor decisions that were made in creating the web to native desktop.
Former Seminary Student here. Not really that significant for religious reasons. This is purely a Historical and Literacy in the Middle Ages finding. King James version is not very important at all in academia for theology besides historical understandings (My main focus and where I was going to do my PhD). We have the original documents that the King James used and we also have MUCH better originals than the KJ.
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Former Seminary Student here. Not really that significant for religious reasons. This is purely a Historical and Literacy finding regarding the Middle Ages.
I love skipping straight to comments.
I was rather surprised when I had a week where most of the attacks came from Las Vegas and New Hampshire.
All desktop apps have access to everything. Your download manager can also unlock your browser's saved passwords, read your emails, copy your SSH private key, intercept your IMs, spoof your bank's website, etc. Some of these attacks are more difficult and leave more of a chance of detection than others, but they're all possible.

This is widely considered a mistake, but it's also an implication of steady backwards-compatibility in app design -- and in many cases, code -- since the late 1980s. No one expected Lotus 1-2-3 to steal your WordStar documents, partially because neither of these were networked. So the OSes told Lotus 1-2-3, WordStar, and anyone else who came along that they had access to the entire drive and they could be designed as if they had that access, even though they didn't need it. Apps could ship their own Open dialogs; the OS trusted that they would only open files they were told to. A quarter-century later, the Windows and Mac App Stores are trying to reverse this, but the app developers are understandably grumpy because they have a quarter-century of code that never had to deal with such a design principle.

And the Windows and Mac App Stores are attempting to reverse this by reference to mobile app stores. Mobile platforms, being an entirely new mental model for both developers and users, could abandon lots of the design principles that make sandboxing hard. There is absolutely a reason why no mobile app has a desktop-style Open dialog: the OS doesn't trust it with that power. There is also a reason that the mobile AV industry is a tiny fraction of the desktop AV industry, despite mobile use having outpaced desktop use.
>>That's the kind of quality of life a strong union will get you as a worker.

The flip side of the coin is that the quality of air you will breathe every single day is guaranteed to be abysmal, and air quality has a very strong inverse correlation with life span.
Maybe there could be a way to negotiate a secure channel between a browser and password manager. Say, when setting up, a browser gives you a key to retype into password manager, and then it's used to encrypt the password before putting it in the clipboard.

Adds one more step for setting things up but saves the clipboard as a whole. People using password managers are already people willing to jump through some hoops to set things up, adding one more hoop shouldn't make things worse.
the iOS / OS X sandbox model of file interaction is a good compromise for a similar situation imo.

sandboxed apps may only access a file outside of the sandbox via an explicit user interaction with a system UI element, i.e. drag-and-drop a file via OS X drag-and-drop API, select a file in iOS / OS X owned file dialog, share sheets, etc.
Buy as many as you can, do nothing else, sell at 2090. Ended with 30 billion net worth.
I have to sell at 2090, because I need to click thousands of times to sell all the estate.
I'm not really sure what the point of these sorts of article is - do they want to let feral cats roam free throughout Australia unrestricted? Do they want feral cats to be taken into captivity?

It's not really constructive to try and argue that Dingoes and Tasmanian Devils are excluding cats from the food chain. Dingoes are absent from much of southern Australia - and so they aren't competing with cats in the first place. Devils are stricken by a disease epidemic and are more scavengers than hunters - they aren't outcompeting cats. Native marsupials that cats might be competing with would probably more or less include quolls - and guess what? Quolls don't seem to be able to outcompete cats.

Then when it comes to cat numbers, the argument seems to be that unless we're certain about numbers no feral cat culling is worthwhile. That's a strange argument, given that the link to the ABC's Fact Check on cat numbers seems to conclude that numbers are estimated at anything from 5 to 20+ million but aren't verifiable. While we can't verify numbers (nobody has the time to conduct a survey of every cat in Australia, like we do for humans), I think it's fair to conclude feral cats outnumber domestic cats at least 2 to 1.

Thinking too much about the ethics of conservation is as dangerous as not thinking about it enough - humans caused the cat problem, so we should fix it. And also fix the cane toad problem, the fox problem, etc.
Here is a blog of a guy trying to build core memory from scratch for fun:

Weekend Project: A Tiny Core Memory Array: http://mikesmods.com/mm-wp/?p=556

Weekend Project: Determining Operating Parameters of a Memory Core: http://mikesmods.com/mm-wp/?p=610
> This is widely considered a mistake

Is it? I've heard voices, but I didn't realize it's a very popular opinion. Personally, I think it's a feature and what makes desktop useful as a tool, as opposed to mobile devices being mostly toys.
Always decide based on the people, not the institution. This is similar to advice for those embarking on a PhD: pick an adviser, not a university.

Go with Amazon.

Both companies have enough internal variance that the situation could have easily been reversed had you interviewed with different teams.
Yep. If this is the only thing stopping native apps from disappearing completely then it's probably a good thing.
That's why AWS launched dedicated instances, pretty much for exactly this use case.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-dedicated-instan...

:)
Looks like they just post to their FB, some FB groups and their twitter.

https://twitter.com/PLGRMage
https://www.facebook.com/plgrmage?fref=ts

Trying to get the founder on here to answer about the audience.
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Packaging is usually something that is hacked together to fulfil some quick requirement and then has all sorts of things bolted on afterwards. It's very rarely designed well from the ground up.

The overhang of backwards incompatibilities hangs around forever, too. Every time you invent a new and better way of doing it you have to continue supporting the old way for years. People will keep doing things the old way forever, too.

Python's package manager has many flaws I find that it generally works okay. I tried Go out a few months ago and once I saw that their approach to package management was to point your code at a github repository I backed away slowly and didn't look back.
This makes no sense.

How many Amazon, Google or Microsoft engineers (or even SREs) have ever set foot in one of their datacenters.

Hint: the answer is basically none.
The problem is, if something related to how you run your test of the anti-fungal has an effect on the disease, you're going to assume its the anti-fungal; but maybe it's not. If you have a control group, and both groups do better than expected (compared to the body of evidence), then you've learned something you wouldn't have without a control group (and you'll have to work hard to figure out what changed in this study vs other studies). If anti-fungals are a clear winner, it's likely that the study protocol would be changed to give everyone the drug after early results.
How where people supposed to find it?/How was it promoted?

The title isn't great (sounds like an ad and the actual title might get cut off in compact views) and the thumbnails all only show the logo. The name and logo probably are not well known, so they don't give any motivation to click it, even if I would see them somewhere.
In the literature I've encountered a Cournot-Nash Equilibrium is a solution to an optimal transportation problem. There could be some discrepancies in definitions as to the parameters one is allowed to vary. This is also assumed to be a global minimum - not just local.
Ah, so just to clarify regarding insider / outsider terminology, I'm getting those terms from my research into religion in general and anthropology[1][2] rather than my own religion. But that made me chuckle a bit, the idea of a bunch of stepford wives chanting "outsider...outsider" and banishing someone. That is a familiar sort of stereotype to me as an insider, though many outsiders (again, not really my term, just a convenient abstraction) haven't usually seen such a mental concept through to completion via e.g. direct research, so it's still a shockingly common perception. I have some pretty hilarious anecdotes from encounters with those perceptions, but they are long to tell.

(BTW I'm happy to leave the non-scholarly use of terms like "outsider" to nation-states[3]...hehe)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Insider-Outsider-Problem-Study-Religio...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_and_etic
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijin
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Could you comment on the current state of affairs in HK?
You want Nix.

Everyone wants Nix.

But we're not allowed to have Nix.

Because the world sucks and people look at something that has a little bit of necessary complexity and think, "I don't like complexity! I'll build something simpler", and they build it, and it looks cool because it seems simple, but then you use it and it turns out it has implicit complexity.
Slightly off topic, do you have a favorite translation?