skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Just as many moms who were visited by nurses had a second pregnancy within two years.

It is just hinted at in The Atlantic's article, but the original Lancet article confirms that they wanted to reduce second pregnancies.

Why was that?
WPS leaves you vulnerable to reaver/pixie dust. No idea if it's possible to disable the pin method.
try coursera, opencourseware, khan academy. There are plenty of places to learn math.
it's not your entire genetic data - it's not full genome sequencing it's a SNP chip
And it does that by implementing a compiler for a language with existing standard, which is ANSI. If you don't like the ANSI C standard (and I admit it's not perfect), don't use a compiler for ANSI C.

Also, this is not just GCC problem, all the existing C compilers have the issue to some extent. After all, STACK (the MIT tool to detect undefined behavior) is based on clang. And ICC exploits the same UB tricks AFAIK.
Harvard stem cell biologist Amy Wagers, cardiologist Richard Lee of the
Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and their
colleagues claim that a specific protein, GDF11, may explain young
blood’s beneficial effects. They have reported that blood levels of
GDF11 drop in mice as the animals get older and that injecting
old mice with GDF11 can partially reverse age-related thickening
of the heart. In two papers last year in Science, Wagers and collaborators
also reported that GDF11 can rejuvenate the rodents’ muscles and brains.

Seems Elizabeth Báthory was onto something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Báthory
Holy moley, what a long article.

I slogged through it. I enjoy long format pieces when the author has some sort of clear narrative. In this case, however, I feel a bit more outlining wouldn't have hurt things. Several times I felt as if both the author and I were bumping into things without knowing why they were there in the text -- and we interpreted those things differently. Editorializing is fine, just cop to it in the first few graphs.

Structurally, it was a worthy effort. Thematically, it should have collapsed into a semi-long format opinion piece. I grow a bit tired of the New Yorker format of showing me an explosion, then cutting to a small bug crawling up a blade of grass. I know I'm in for an hour of reading before I get back to the explosion. Meanwhile the author is trying to make a point, but is too coy to just come out and say it.

For those of you without the time, here's my tl;dr

1) Chicago is a deeply corrupt city. Everything is politics.

2) Lots of convictions have happened on less than solid grounds. Over the last 20 years or so, folks have starting making names for themselves by getting innocent men freed.

3) The problem here, as we've learned over and over again with the criminal justice system, is that if you poke at a case long enough, it starts to look shaky and broken. Even if it wasn't.

4) This entire "was he guilty or not" game has become both a political football and the means by which people get rich, famous, and admired by others. That means it has little to do with what it's supposed to be about: whether the person was guilty or not.

5) There's a ton of background he-said, she-said detail on how one particular case came down. At the end the reader doesn't know any more about who killed a couple of people in 1982 than they did at the beginning. The author realizes it was never about that in the first place, which is how the article should have started.
>Tiny Spaces, Probably no sex.

Wrong assumption. I am sure if a Googler wanted a "slip in", a tiny space wouldn't be a hindrance.
And his father is an engineer in India. Definitely not a bad life.
> even if you try to describe what you induction cooking plate does for you using visual building blocks and English language you still end up with pretty tangled mess that only real programmer could have patience for.

Sorry, I should have been less succinct - I totally agree with you, visual languages already exist and are improving all the time. I don't believe that they will lead to a world without programmers for the reasons you state. They are just another way to express syntax, they don't reduce the complexity of the actual problem being solved.
There's a big weather system there:

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeswestpacus.html

It doesn't seem to be named. The one closer to Hawaii is Olaf.

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/
> terrible battery life on laptops

It's not terrible, just worse. On an X240, it was about 60-70% of what I could get from optimized Linux. Before you say that's terrible I will say that stock Ubuntu only got 70%-80% of optimized Linux too. So OpenBSD was only slightly worse than Ubuntu in this regard.

Sure, Linux in general can be optimized much further than stock Ubuntu, but that's work I'd prefer not to do. If it's important to you, sure, go ahead and do it!

Battery life is important to me, but even more important to me is having more reliable networking, and network tools I can actually understand and use. Ever tried to set a GRE tunnel in NetworkManager?

And sure, I can chose not use to NetworkManager and Ubuntu and do everything "the old fashioned way" in Linux too. I can install Gentoo and make it work without all that, but that's work I prefer not to do. OpenBSD does what I want from it from the default install. Nothing else to tinker with.
I absolutely agree with this. GCC implements ANSI C, and that unfortunately includes undefined behavior for various reasons. The problem with undefined behavior is that it's, well, undefined. Different compilers might choose different things, because different developers have different mental models of "what makes sense" in various situations. Which is hardly an improvement. Also, it wouldn't be ANSI C but some unknown mutation of C.
This one is like a culmination of the other two projects. More features and a lot smoother than earth.nullschool.net, I can really see this being useful for navigation.

It's also a perfect example of why open source kicks ass, with the chain of inspiration from one project to the next.
This is the first comment I saw, as I spend a good bit of time on the new comments page. I used to get attacked a lot on HN, so I came here intending to be supportive.

Unfortunately, unless I missed something, you were not personally attacked. Your comment was critiqued, and accurately so. If you do not want people to describe your comments as nasty and judgemental, it helps to make sure they aren't.

So I will suggest that rather than defending your right to making sweeping judgements, you try to up your game. And, for now, walk away from this one and let it go. Sometimes, not digging your grave deeper is as good as it gets.

/wisdom from the school of hard knocks
Both are original titles—the 'asshole' one is an H1 heading and the 'egotistical' one is the HTML doc title. The submitter chose the latter, which (since it's less baity) was the better choice by the HN guidelines.
If by Bitcoin you mean a block chain based cryptocurrency, then yes, since Ethereum is already a blockchain based cryptocurrency. If you mean the exact protocol of bitcoin, the answer is also yes (Ethereum is turning complete, so it should be able to do anything minus networking) although in practice it would be inefficient.
Synesthesia research is just so not there. My brother was going through a grad neuroscience class last year. They got to select 2 subjects for the teachers to teach in addition and one was synesthesia. He said they could find about 20 studies that were worth presenting in terms of the neuro taught in the class. The paper they selected was an fMRI one where n=5 subjects, and the controls were dubious at best. It's just such a small field and the synesthesia is only self reported. No one has any idea what it means or how to measure it to determine what it really is. Until the field can measure something, it's going to languish on the border with pseudoneuroscience.
Factor in geo-replication, HA/redundancy, tiers of backup, archiving, ACL management and auditing.. I could well believe it.
We were looking at this in the office on Friday, watching Hurricane Patricia (it's not much use for the high-speed predictions we usually need, but it's a really beautiful way to visualise/understand the data after the fact). The Mexican government prepares for these storms, issuing catastrophe bonds that pay a high rate of return but lose all their value if high-impact storms hit populated areas so the government can fund their aid/reconstruction efforts. As someone who sometimes finds it difficult to follow all the links between what we do and real-world value, it's great seeing financial products being used so directly for good.

[1] https://www.windyty.com/?2015-10-22-12,17.958,-101.558,5 (hit play and watch the next 48 hours, 200 mile an hour winds disappear as soon as they hit land, it's amazing)
I would not imagine 23andMe handing out a table with people's names in one column and their genetic info in next. And their terms and conditions clearly say that.

However, with the changes cited, they are lowering the level of protection they used to offer in order for their client companies to not be able to deconvolute data in order to build that table.

Users are informed of the changes, that is what matters.
Two-factor auth on Tiger “Wheel of Fortune” game
GitHub’s Large File Storage is no panacea for Open Source
It's white text on a dark gray background. If this looks pure black to you, your display's contrast may be too high.

But you're right that there's a pretty good amount of contrast. It might be difficult for people with visual disabilities, but it's not low-contrast.
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According to the logs, it was submitted like this and never changed. Perhaps you saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10438539 on the /newest page?
We started shipping earlier this month, which is why the price went up from the prior pre-order discounted number.

Stay tuned for a novel-length blog themed around something like, "Why Manufacturing & Supply Chain Are 100X Harder (& Take 100X Longer) Than Everyone Tells You". But I'm sort of still in PTSD mode. ;-)
Diversity as a part of Unicode 8 emojii standard
They might be a for profit company, but they haven't actually made a profit.

I don't understand the mentality of your post. On the one hand, you seem to think that profit and public interest are mutually exclusive. They aren't. They are overlapping concerns, as in two circles on a venn diagram partially overlapping.

On a personal level, you make an admonishing statement that the parent gave away their data for "neat" visualizations. I infer from this that you are saying they are giving away more than they got. The opposite of this would be profit (getting more than you gave). So you don't like 23andme because they want to get more than they give, and you admonish the parent because they gave more than they got.

The FDA banned them from advertising, not because there was no scientific proof, but because they didn't know how to present the data in the way the FDA could understand.

Regulatory agencies have their own lingo and methods and they are obscure, requiring the use of people who's sole job is to be the adapter between the regulators and everyone else.

23andme made a mistake likely out of ignorance regarding just how difficult it is to navigate regulatory waters. The FDA didn't grant them rights to marketing because they did anything new technically. It was because they are doing new things bureaucratically.
Well my wife uses the OpenBSD laptop probably much more than me now. Main things I hear?

- it doesn't break random stuff on upgrades

- just works, if something worked yesterday it works today

Yeah, and that's on OpenBSD -current upgraded about once a week - that has the perception of being more stable than Ubuntu, Archlinux & Debian.

I didn't notice battery live degradation but I never ran Linux on that laptop. I do notice performance decrease on Firefox but at this point it's hard to pin point if it's the OS & SMP support (which the developers actively point out as an active area of focus) or Firefox itself (also being actively worked on by upstream).

All in all, my wife is using the OpenBSD laptop daily and I don't hear here complaining that much.
Totally agree - pages like this really make you feel good about OSS/OD: http://forum.windyty.com/topic/11/can-we-use-pictures-animat...
Yes, apps (like Facebook's) which are drawing lots of current in the background is part of it -- but the point of our team's hacking into the iPhone was to find out what else really affects your phone's battery. It's not just background apps updating.

Nothing we discovered in the lab is 'revolutionary' -- everyone knows your battery gets used up more when the screen is brighter, and when your phone is trying to find a tower or router to connect to, but we just wanted to put some numbers behind it.

Hope it was useful; we had fun breaking open an iPhone regardless ;-)
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MGBA: Dumping the Undumped
It should read otherwise. Why America never attempted to copy successful British model of healthcare. Paracetamol is the key!
I hope they don't do to it what they did to the giant squid when they discovered that too (kill it).
I'm not sure what other people were expecting, but I'm pretty disappointed by these performance numbers. I does great in the "destroyer" benchmark, but that's the exception. Steady state random write perf is actually lower than the sata 850 pro!

In other words, if your workload isn't super heavy, this is quite fast - but then, why the heck are you buying this expensive, low capacity power hog if your workload is almost certainly fast enough on a slower drive?

At the very least, this drive should be beating or equaling samsung's own SATA drives reliably - but it's not. The power consumption is also worrying, especially due to the tiny form factor...
i prefer LA (specifically the west side) over SF for many reasons but i think you're going to find plenty of fake and/or disingenuous assholes in any major city, generally among newcomers and people "trying to make it". this is especially true of the conference/mixer crowd. it's full of dipshits and wannabes and hangers-on.

i've spent time in la, sf, new york and seattle and the demographic archetypes are largely the same all over the socioeconomic spectrum. there may be relatively more or less of each, but they're there.

the trick is finding and cultivating relationships with the good people, wherever you are. anyone can point out the assholes and complain about the 'people' in a city.
Miscommunicating data science: Simplistic models and the art of storytelling
Thats such arrogant drivel. Ever thought that your attitude might actually be part of the problem? If you approach any other group of people with contempt and suspicion, they will approach you the same and trying to teach people to 'toughen up' and 'learn some lesson' about reality will not improve the situation

Just because cops might have too much power in the states and sometimes get armed with former military equipment doesn't mean you need to generally expect cops to act in bad faith the way you describe. It's not some "childish fantasy" that it's not like that in other countries, it's reality in may that police are generally courteous.

There was a similar discussion on here recently about it being a 'rookie mistake' to approach work situations in good faith and that you should have everything on contractual basis and getting a lawyer. That's such a horrible approach to live and again, from what I hear it seems to some degree be an unfortunate reality in the states, but that does not mean that it should be accepted like this and that it's just an inevitable part of a society.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10443765 and marked it off-topic.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10443762 and marked it off-topic.
Lol, we did these lab tests before we thought of turning what we learned into a post (if we had really been strategically content marketing, we wouldn't have posted this at 8 pm on a Friday night haha). Mostly, we wanted to break open an iPhone — that's what happens when a hardware team is in TGIF mode ;-)

In any case, it's not just background apps updating. Although yes, that's part of it. We wanted to learn more beyond what the iOS battery-monitoring feature will give you -- which is which apps are consuming which % of your iPhone's battery, both when you're actively using them and when they're running in the background.

For our own purposes, we were particularly interested in the interaction of location services and Bluetooth-LE which are required for own product to be useful. We threw in general "futzing" and screen brightness as well out of curiosity. And while our team knew that trying to connect to towers & routers ate your battery a lot (easily observed by just turning your phone into Airplane Mode -- can last for weeks!), we had no idea it could be as much as 250 mA every few seconds!
Yes. The worst part of it is that compilers have the option to do something sensible when handling undefined behaviour. The standard even suggests doing that, describing one possible option as behaving "in a documented manner characteristic of the environment". So why doesn't gcc do that?

People are far too keen to assume that because the standard leaves it undefined, and "undefined" sounds a bit here-be-dragons, it's therefore inevitable that undefined behaviour has to be some nasty creepy ugly thing. That it renders your entire program instantly meaningless. That it's a perfect excuse for the compiler to look at your program and turn it into something completely different. But... it doesn't have to be.

I don't know why people don't treat handling of undefined behaviour as a quality of implementation issue, rather than just rolling over and letting gcc make their lives worse.

Mandatory links: http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/04/cc-osmartass.html, http://robertoconcerto.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/strict-aliasin...
Perfectly reasonable--the same thing RS would do (see: "Gnu/Linux"). Trademarks do not protect themselves. It takes a concerted effort by the trademark holder.
Test-last vs. test-first: testing what you should have written
I don't understand why this runs in the browser. Surely this is all stuff you can do in a local shell? What am I missing?
Better System Tests – Increasing Testability Without Sacrificing Elegance
Yeah, I'd have to look into it deeper. It seems like a hard thing to demonstrate rigorously.
Who is at fault in your example becomes much less clear cut when you consider the variant where the author of foo doesn't have access to the source code of bar and baz and they only rely on shared state on some systems or in some corner cases.
How people generally think of this regulation? Like something positive/desirable or something dangerous?
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I get and appreciate the distinction, but I wish Microsoft would replace "Visual" as the brand keyword with something that doesn't evoke associations with Visual C++ for Win32 desktop applications or Visual Basic for Applications macro memories
Seriously, was there some AB-testing in progress. My page was just fine. Single clean column of text with no particular effects.
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iPhone if you want to feel first class.
Pretty sure that applies to any and all companies regardless of what they put in their ToS...
I would not say fools.

This is actually great for them they didn't actually do anything bad(like dumping oil or stuff like that), so people wont care in a month or so and the news media gives them a toon of publicity.

AKA all publicity is good publicity.
How does this compare to https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon?
I sort of agree, as long as you flexibly include metal machining & welding in the skillset of your archetypal mechanic. Solving mechanical problems by fabbing stuff from nothing. That's pure wizardry to most folks.
I saw this posted probably here a while ago. Why is Alaska left out still?
The article started as white text on dark background, then switches to dark text on white background. Each section has a massive drop capital.

(I didn't mind it, much better than a bunch of other pages.)
This is a nice variation on the Dutch auction!

I first learned about the Dutch Auction when Google used it during their IPO. Wall St hates it because one of the perks of being, or being connected to, an investment banker is that you get in on IPOs at a good price. With the Dutch Auction there is no initial IPO pop, and therefore investment bankers lose out on that profit opportunity.

Google uses another variation of this in Adwords. For each ad they do an internal auction, and the winning bidder pays the minimum needed to beat the second place bidder. According to game theory, the correct action for each bidder to do is to bid exactly what the ad is worth to them. Second guessing what other people bid is irrelevant.
Is that a good or bad thing in the OPs view?

There are always unintended consequences to legislation
"Switching careers" also implies that he found a job as a programmer. I imagine it's really difficult to convince someone to employ someone who is 60+ and just learned to code.
Right, so more difficult and variable depending on time of acquisition and method of instruction. Not impossible. Thanks for the interesting article!
Part of it is that Apple doesn't make it easy to set a data cap on your device, or warn as you approach it. Another part is that this feature was bungled: the first time it takes effect, it should track when more than 10-20 MB are downloaded and then pop up a warning. Alternatively, the wifi symbol could perhaps become dashed to reflect that there are temporary connectivity issues. Even if all it did was flicker between wifi and cellular as data was used, it would encourage users to investigate during the occurrence-- at minimum a note in Settings, under Wi-Fi, could alert the user a day later to the bandwidth use.

This was just poorly thought out, and will need to be improved in future incremental releases. I think the article further indicates how Apple opposes Google-esque thinking around networking and Internet services, but it's something they need to fix before they put a 4G chip in a MacBook. And while the UI I have confidence on, I'm less certain of the infrastructure. On a perfectly fine network connection, Apple Trailers is the one app that doesn't stream well for me--I figure no one at Apple knows this since they outsourced delivery to Akamai, or whoever.
Thanks. We actually didn't do this for strategic content marketing purposes — we just did the lab tests out of our own curiosity/desire to open up an iPhone on a late Friday night. Once we had the data we figured it might be interesting to share with others. It also helps us now give even more specific answers to people who often ask us: "How much does Bluetooth drain my battery?" "How much does toggling into Airplane Mode do to conserve battery?"
look at it on a high resolution screen (eg 1440p)..
- 2/3+ of the screen is wasted.. why am i penalized for having a solid resolution?
- unnecessary javascript text animations.. this is a story about injustice.. not a trailer for star wars
- dropcaps the that literally take up 1/2 the width of the text container..
- enough scrolling to properly piss you off.. and no, this isn't because of the content.. its because of shit design

this is a heavy article to begin with. i got frustrated with the horrid design before i got half way through and copied it into text editor without any styles
Please note that the quoted statement does not give any specifics about how the feedback was given.
It probably cost them prop F though.
if you read the article it's comparing the 10 county area of the bay vs. the 5 county area of la