skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1985-87 I worked on plant that manufactured personal computers with russian-translated DOS in Minsk, Belarus.

The cost of this computer was close to the cost of car so blue collar workers established multiple schemes to steal either parts of computers or the whole computers.

The best plan by far was to throw computers out of the windows of factory so it would land on the soft grass right outside of the secure perimeter fence.
Then whatever was thrown - would be picked up by co-conspirators and drove away immediately.
Usually during the night shifts.

Clever, simple and working scheme that took a while to discover and crack for local security and law enforcement.
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That was my first thought, as well. However, it did say that the FBI agent had a warrant to collect his DNA through a cheek swab and that he would have been compelled to comply had he refused.
> nonsense ... the only sane one here ... hysterical ... conspiracy conjecture ... the cultural narrative ... all-seeing eye ... sensible ... conspiracy

Nearly this entire comment is name-calling in the sense of the HN guidelines when they say: When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

When posting to HN, please edit that out and stick to the substance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wait, what? In Germany, you're expected to tip your waiter ten percent for good service. Not tipping is only done for terrible service. Including in rural and traditional areas.

Sourse: German in a rural and traditional area
My takeaway:

- no standards can work, because

- all standards rely on implementation.

That's a bit disingenuous, but also substantially correct. People game the system in many ways in response to "standards" (really just requirements/rules). There's also a sad problem that when minimums are implemented, many people race to the minimum instead of continuing to perform at a higher level, because the minimums are what are written down.

Students try to game my assignments too. I try to do two things: make them "ungameable" or make them so that trying to game them actually gets the student to do the thing that I think is useful in the first place. But I have to have the freedom to say, "No, this is a crappy attempt. You can do better. Go redo this and improve in the following ways," rather than following a course schedule mandated by the school board. We don't trust teachers to have professional judgement in the US, so we take away their ability to think. "So scripted even a janitor could teach it!" http://www.brightlightsmallcity.com/reading-horizons-a-curri...
You're right that Ancestry.com is focused on mtDNA, but 23andMe actually uses a custom Illumina microarray with autosome, allosome, and mitochondrial targets. Here's a study where 23andMe used their (old version) chips to replicate a bunch of known genetic associations, most of which are autosomal: http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Well usually, one person was going to work, and the other person usually worked at home (doing laundry, etc.) Nowadays, two people have to work to pay the mortgage. Not really progress if you ask me.
There is a ripe market for perishable food items with somewhat recognizable blemishes resembling religious figures.
The 140 characters forces concise communication. It suits people who like to read and write witty one-liners and those who like to share URLs. It's fast to read. Change the limit and you will also change the site's core appeal to many.
Because using ASCII makes the documents more portable, more cross-platform.

There is not need to learn another version of Markdown, the diagrams are just plain ASCII and Markdeep supports the Markdown you know and love, plus more.

I think it is great, I love it!
This makes me wonder if there is a simple procedure for doing a pseudo-double-blind study on oneself (without a third party). That is, trying something that can be prepared in pill form in such a way that you don't know during any given day/week/month if it was a placebo, but that you can still determine that later to collate the data. I know a lot of people that swear by particular unregulated supplements or dietary choices and it would be really interesting to have an easy way to see if something they're taking is having the effect they think it does.
I always ask this question when re-opening of the API is brought up: "What reason do we have to trust that Twitter will not take it away once their business objectives for opening up the API have been met?"

Earning back that trust is much harder than the corporate decision regarding the API itself, imo.
Did you just go from creating a straw man to a "well, actually paedophiles are kind of redeemable" stance?

The gallantry and defense of children is because men that are in charge are predominantly straight and have children. Not everything is a charade.
If the government really wants your DNA it isn't hard to obtain legally. They'll just follow you around everywhere until you leave behind your DNA and then grab it. They'll wait until you drop your coffee cup in a public trash or spit on the ground or leave behind a cigarette butt. Many crimes have been solved this way.

For example see COMMONWEALTH v. Jeffrey BLY http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ma-supreme-judicial-court/1186295...

>Suppression issues. (a) Physical evidence.   Bly argues that the method used by the Commonwealth in obtaining his known DNA sample constituted a nonconsensual seizure and thus violated his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, under art. 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights and under the search warrant requirements of G.L. c. 276, § 1. The judge denied Bly's  motion to suppress on this issue, finding that the cigarette butts and water bottle seized by the police constituted trash that was abandoned by Bly.

Or STATE OF WASHINGTON v. JOHN NICHOLAS ATHAN http://www.denverda.org/DNA_Documents/Athan.pdf

>We find there is no inherent privacy interest in
saliva. Certainly the nonconsensual collection of blood or
urine samples in some circumstances, such as under the
facts of Robinson, invokes privacy concerns; however,
obtaining the saliva sample in this case did not involve an
invasive or involuntary procedure. The relevant question
in this case is whether, when a person licks an envelope
and places it in the mail, that person retains any privacy
interest in his saliva at all. Unlike a nonconsensual
sampling situation, there was no force involved in
obtaining Athan's saliva sample here. The facts of this
situation are analogous to a person spitting on the
sidewalk or leaving a cigarette butt in an ashtray. We
hold under these circumstances, any privacy interest is
lost. The envelope, and any saliva contained on it,
becomes the property of the recipient.
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Can you share the name of the organization where you got the accreditation please?
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No, in the market of instant sexual gratification, the supply of heterosexual males so far outstrips the demand for heterosexual males that the price is effectively $0. This could be a surfeit of supply or a dearth of demand, but it implies near total lack of demand, because usually supply reaches an equilibrium with non-zero demand that it never really forces prices to $0.
"One thing we valued about that system, for instance, was the birds-eye view it offered of the story and its underlying components."

Possibly of interest as November looms...

http://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/2010/05/help...

Not a spreadsheet as such but a similar time-line based planning tool.
The cover photo is the oversaturated version, here's the original: http://gallery.mikeolbinski.com/thestormgallery/h6b1e2196#h6...
I don't think so because nobody could afford these. It was the education system. Standard curriculum for everybody. By the time you finished 10th (last) grade you had studied pretty advanced math, physics, chemistry, etc. Even if it's not your thing, even if you could only get the lowest passing grade, you still had to do it or fail school. It was kind of rough, but I'm still reaping rewards from what it gave me.
When you say "According to someone who works there" does "there" mean at 23andme, or at the 3rd party company?
I could use like 5 more characters though :)
An L1 Visa is a cheap and easy option. It provides a relatively straightforward path to permanent residency as well.
Might want to make sure you spell your inspiration's name correctly (ie, not Grubber)
Is the red color scheme an homage to the Soviet flag?
But this isn't a minor glitch. Even if it is possible to reliably reverse the effects of unintentionally installing Windows 10, it is going to waste considerable time and resources for everyone who has to do it. In this case, it also seems generous to assume 100% reliable reversal will be possible without knowing the details of the mechanism used, given the subject we're discussing in the first place.

Cries for blood and similar hyperbole are unlikely to be helpful in any case, but questioning the position of anyone who thought this was acceptable behaviour or who was responsible and signed off on the update seems fair, and so does expecting Microsoft to provide fair compensation if anyone really does get significantly messed around because of this action.
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That's a nice strawman.

My argument is not that software doesn't suck, nor that we should pretend it doesn't.

However, recognizing that other's people work, upstream of yours, contributed to the "betterness/sucklessness" of yours is, IHMO, important. But this is purely subjective (therefore the IHMO).

Now, the /philosophy page of suckless.org objectively disregards this; by not acknowledging it in the first place.
Also may have to do with the prestige of being an engineer in USSR. That was a popular profession.
I'd wager a guess that most of the countries in the Eastern Block did have their own computers.

In Poland, for example, there were the 8-bit Meritums [1], the Elwro 800 Juniors [2], the Bosman 8s [3], the Mazovia PC clones [4] complete with their own Polish characters encoding that has the peculiarity of containing one character that had never existed in Unicode [5], to name but a few, not to mention the Odra mainframes [6].

[1]: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritum_(komputer)#/media/File...
[2]: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwro_800_Junior#/media/File:E...
[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79YSyyV9f2Y
[4]: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazovia_(komputer)#/media/File...
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazovia_encoding
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odra_(computer)
Sorry to derail the discussion but a possible word of warning: whatever is going on in the OP's page and code, it's causing the tab Safari on my iPad (Air 2) to completely freeze. Not bad enough that I have to do a hard reboot, but enough that the entire page is completely unresponsive. This is the first time this is happened to me on a NYT story page.
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The fact that the possibility to make that "mistake" exists makes it a non-mistake. And rather something that was due to happen but maybe someone pressed the button too early.
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Interesting. Does this mean that a treatment with fungicides may stop/prevent AD onset or progress?
I agree that intent is very important, but other things matter too, both legally and ethically. If you take on certain responsibilities then, well, you're responsible for them. In law that manifests as things like duties of care, as well as variations on a theme of ignorance of the law not being a defence. In real world terms, a supervisor who failed to spot a serious error that resulted in harm might not be criminally liable because of lack of intent, nor deserving of punishment for an innocent mistake, but their demonstrable lack of competence might still make it inappropriate for them to retain their position.
Another interesting quote on his Wikipedia page [0]

"And yet one day men will have to grow up. Compared with the long ages of human existence on earth, our civilization is in its infancy. Sooner or later we must be ready to leave the dreamland of childhood, where imagination finds unlimited scope, and take our place in a world of limited freedoms. That world however, can in the long run give us something better than any vision conjured up in childhood." – Total War and the Human Mind, 1944.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Meerloo
But not on this particular SoC. Qualcomm (with Apple and Samsung not terribly close behind) remains the volume king even in China, last I checked. This other small-vendor SoC's are gaining momentum, but they're not there yet.
sorry for his loss... Twitter appears to lack something from management.
I totally agree, but one reason to do so anyway* is because of the non-zero probability that someone who attracts a rape accusation from one person may well predate upon others, sequentially or in parallel. A topical example would be Bill Cosby, who's now accused by some 50 women of sexual assault, many of whom said they kept silent for years because he was so famous and they thought nobody would believe them.

* which is fraught with its own ethical pitfalls re. DNA storage, but is in line with current US legal mores, if not your or my personal ideals on privacy.
Sex is infinitely easier for women than it is men.

Yes, if you are a woman choosing to operate like a man. Most women don't, because they are women not men.
I was always kind of surprised that apps that use MS Office as a front-end for managing online data never really became a thing. Given how many gazillions of people are familiar with Office, and how much you can accomplish behind the scenes with tools like VBA it always felt like something that would inevitably emerge someday. But it never really did.

Maybe the problem was that gazillions of people are familiar with Office, but none of them actually like it? Or as we might term it, the "Lotus Notes Problem."
Even if they did provide that service, how would you prove they weren't storing the data anyway?
Same thing in Google Chrome on Android. I can only scroll until the page finishes loading (ads?), then the font size gets rather large, a menu bar appears at the top of the page, and it can no longer scroll. Like you I have never seen this before on NYT.
This argument is directly analogous to legal targeted wire-taps vs bulk surveilance.
> to say that Facebook is fearless about innovation is off base

I didn't say that they were fearless, only that they were more fearless than Twitter. Which I'll admit is not exactly a high bar to clear.
Retina scans through customs? I've never even _had_ a retina scan.
It's hard to do a test like this when there's a significant chance you're buying nothing but powdered rice regardless of what the bottle says.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/sidebar-whats-in-th...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements...

Want to do a double-blind study on whether St. John's Wort improves your mood? None of the bottles tested from Walmart, Target, GNC or Walgreens actually contained any St. John's Wort in 2015. That's despite all the reports years earlier about the same problem. There's little reason to believe things have improved or will improve so long as supplements remain largely unregulated.
C'mon America!
I feel like I can only dream about such a time, such a place. Engineer? Prestige?
People seem to dislike this change so we'll revert it.
I'm confused. They included instructions for updating Firefox and Chrome (web browser clients) to remove support for the older cipher suites. I was asking if there was a way to do the same for Safari.
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Depends on which way the arrow of causality points. If AD makes the brain vulnerable to fungal infection, probably not. But if fungal infection causes AD, then it seems likely.

This might be a giant breakthrough, or it might be just a side effect. The uncertainty is not fun at all. But if the arrow points the right way, then yes it's possible that antifungals would be a big part of treatment.
Ok, we'll reverse the change.
If someone wanted your dna badly enough, they could pick up your used coffee cup or fallen strand of hair just by tailing you for a minute.
We applied through Intrax (http://www.intraxinc.com/global-internships) and the cost for the 18 months was a little over $2k. Considering it also includes medical insurance, I'd say it's a pretty good deal.

The main requirement is the US company needs to have at least 25 full time employees -- not sure if YC qualifies.
maybe i'll add comments to describe what's going on. if you have SC running i'd be glad to walk you through it
Most stories are, but the best way to point one out is to suggest a better one, in which case we're always happy to switch.
That is a fascinating story, If you don't mind would you expand on it?

We're you stealing computers yourself as well? How dangerous was it?

Where would you normally go to sell a computer like that in the soviet union?
When I was single that was exactly my experience; I'm probably just a very average-looking guy with no exceptional talents. But few weeks ago an article from Vanity Fair (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/08/tinder-hook-up-cul...) was describing Tinder as an endless supply of sex for whoever cared to tap into it.

I tend to think that VF piece is completely fictional nonsense.
The fact that the NSA doesn't include DHE in its Suite B Cryptography algorithms is quite telling ...
You might very well be correct - it's one big downside of DA being an elective office, which is something I'll never get used to. My mind just jumped to the rape kit problem immediately on reading your first post, so I just went with the flow of the intuition.
It seems like Twitter has been stuck in a bind for the past 5 years between pissing off its "core users" and becoming more useful to more people and simultaneously more lucrative. The specific improvements mentioned by your parent – removing link text and @mentions from the character limit – would not affect concision and would make things far less frustrating for the vast majority of people. That they have been unable to get even this sort of simple stuff done is what makes people worry about their ability to dig themselves out of the hole they've found themselves in.
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Yet, Women are also more likely to kill there intimate partner. (This flips if you include ex partners.) Which may seem like a surprising statistic, but women often feel the need to use weapons to equalize a physical situation. Which can easily turn deadly.

Of children under age 5 killed by a parent, the rate for biological fathers was slightly higher than for biological mothers.[4]
However, of children under 5 killed by someone other than their parent, 80% were killed by males.[4]
Males were more likely to be murder victims (76.8%).[4]

~ 1 in 4 women and ~1 in 7 men will be victims of severe violence by an intimate partner in their lifetimes.

PS: The classic sitcom frying pan may seem funny, but it's a deadly weapon. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FryingPanOfDoom
For anyone interested in more info about this topic, my father and his friend run a fan site for the BESM-6 (including an emulator!), a Soviet-era mainframe computer:

http://www.mailcom.com/besm6/
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When there are too many administrators, which ones do *you* fire?
Your narrative fails to explain what happened to Skype. Skype was a fully encrypted means of communication, and the only way to listen in on the parties talking to each other was to hack one of their computers. Then the NSA (and possibly other agencies) forced Skype to install a backdoor; this is one of many examples. There is no technological solution to the government compelling cooperation from any developers who venture to protect privacy. What would you do if someone held a gun to your head and ordered you to either give them a backdoor, go to jail, or be shot?

The US government (for example,) has used many rationales to justify this behavior, including third party doctrine, and despite the obvious lack of any enumerated power to spy on citizens and residents at-will. Most other governments never pretended to provide privacy protections for their populations, these people were largely kept safe because of the sheer volume of traffic communications and the high cost of surveillance (before powerful computers and huge national governments).

It seems that the problem is entirely political, as the government(s) will go to any lengths necessary to preserve their ability to look in on citizens. Powers that were once viewed as abhorrent and inherently totalitarian have become accepted through the collective passivity of an ever-more risk-averse populace.
That seems a bit extreme. There are plenty of clinically relevant reasons to have your DNA sequenced.
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Communists had 1 positive obsession: exact sciences. See all that focus on math, physics, etc.

They probably thought they could solve all the world's problems as equations, with the head of state as the "master variable manipulator".
You have misread the message of the article.

Maybe my secondary abstinence isn’t in allegiance to God but
to my own broken heart and the fear that seems to produce a
kind of magnetic repellant whenever I come close to someone
I desire.

The point is not in the unavailability -- in fact the point is that it is so available but yet she does not want it; and yet that lack of sex is causing her shame (or rather causing her friends to pity her, and that pity to act as a shame, "making everyone else feel a bit more awkward for having a good time" or "[her] secondary abstinence trailing me like a sad ghost or an unwanted dog").
aka the Elliot Stabler maneuver, if you've watched enough SVU ;).
Do you have any evidence to contradict the article's claim that the installer requires human intervention and doesn't work unattended? Because nothing that you're saying is relevant, given that point.
For day to day things, this is what I consult.

https://labdoor.com/
One reason could be that someone is not familiar at all with java and the jvm but knows nodejs/JS very well.
I wrote a blog post about a soviet start-up from 1989 that used SM-4, mainframe type computer.

http://yansh.github.io/articles/rhythm/

A lot of the architecture was cloned from Western or nearby countries.

In any case, it was a fascinating period that in my mind produced some of the best programmers in the world. They did amazing things with little resources they had.
It sounds like what really happened was that Pakistan (or elements therein) was protecting him, sold him out (or someone did for money), and the US just went in and mopped him up... and then sexed up the story to help re-elect Obama and probably to cover for the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" program.

I suppose it's also possible that there is some alternative narrative that's being covered up, such as the CIA actually keeping him alive (or telling Pakistan to do so) as "bait" to catch other members of his network or for some sort of propaganda or psyops purpose. Maybe we'll know in 25 years.
I guess if the victim's DNA were on the offender... But then why not ask the victim for a sample? :/
... and some Bulgarian ones: http://www.pravetz.info/

A broader overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_hardware_i...
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