skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"we have breakthrough science, but we definitely can't tell you what it is"

Haven't followed the story but that is stock snake oil marketing boilerplate. If they really were/are saying that, no surprise that they were shown to be frauds.
That's exactly what everyone thought when we landed on the moon.
havent looked it up in a while but isnt there a servlet based way to read smartcards?

regardless, using applets to deal with smartcards seems oxymoronic ;)
Understood. Thank you.
Most of us would be willing to move anywhere in the EU, at least for a while. I lived and worked in France for some time. My family came from Germany and Switzerland 150 years ago, and my wife's great grandmother came from Spain only 100 years ago (she's Mexican and now also American). It's a really neat thing to be over there and feel that connection to an ancestral homeland that we still have family stories about.

Close to where I grew up was a town called Swedesburg, they fly the Swedish flag there to this day. Lots of Germans and Swedes. One would think Europe would change immigration law to encourage people who would naturally have some affinity or ties to the region. But that doesn't seem to be a popular idea. I think my wife and I would be able to integrate anywhere over there, northern or southern Europe, with zeal. I've always gotten the vibe Europe prefers its former African and mideast colonies to immigrate north, rather than American hordes with their money and talents (which may be more offputting to the natives than a more desperate immigrant).

Add in the novelty and fun of being in Europe and I'm sure you have no problem with getting people to come over.
There is something to be said for Usonian. Americans will never adopt it themselves but maybe the barbarians at the gate can pick it up.
Well i've Googled "company towns", and the first result is "company towns| slavery by a different name". No wonder nobody wanted to live there.

So it's probably can be done better.
Whats joke in that. Android platform has more such things than Windows currently
The news is light on the tech side of things, but I wonder if their experience building their Aereo antenna infrastructure might have a place in this.

From the video, it appears that their goal is to have a few transmission towers in a region and then neighborhood or block-level repeaters that receive the signal and rebroadcast it.

So, fixed millimeter microwave wireless from the repeaters to the main gateway, but what will they use from the repeater to the customer?

Some WISP's are starting to roll out 4G hotspots over unlicensed frequencies. That would work in this situation and their experience with micro-antennas could let them cram several antennas into their router to connect to as many of the relays as possible to increase bandwidth and resilience.
Does "Once was at an off-the-record gathering where nothing interesting happened" mean that whatever happened is off the record, or does it actually mean nothing happened? I'm not sure how to read it.
Getting Started with Vim, quit using nano
I totally agree. Children born into wealth and privilege are completely hobbled by the lack of this fear drive. We should institute 100% inheritance tax, and all children, rich or poor, should be taken away from their parents and raised in orphanages with only enough funds to keep them from outright starving or freezing to death.
Actually, a lot of the useful things like ADT illustrations tend to be written as ancient Java applets as well.

On the other hand, the Java bytecode is simple enough that it shouldn't be too much work to write an emulator in JS, and, as most of Java is written in Java, all one really needs to write around that is a shell for the AWT and maybe a bit of class/string functionality to get the viewer working. Threading and I/O would be a truly nasty pain, but you could probably bypass most of that.

I'd be more surprised if there weren't already some attempts to work on this.
I'll guess that the browser opened several connections to fetch all of the content (to work around broken http/1.1 pipelining) and needed to complete many tls handshakes. http2 probably would have done a better job.
Oh wow, that's awesome! How has it been going so far? Looks like you have some momentum, what were some of the biggest challenges to overcome?
We've had radio equipment for last-mile connections for a while, it's used everywhere. Doing it at 1gbps (vs the current 100/300/450mbps) won't reduce the hurdles of needing line of sight, weather and obstacle sensitivity, degradation due to exposure, antenna positioning and leasing space, plus all the required maintenance.

If this company is going for a tech solution, why not push for 5G which solves everything at once?
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

I can learn from my mistakes and improve progressively.

If I rely on another instead, I cannot, and I cannot (necessarily and confidently) see to it that they learn from their mistakes and improve.

By relying on another (at least an unreliable \ uncommunicative \ uncooperative one), I cannot improve my chances of them not making those same mistakes again, taking me down with them.
What Rob (the author) went through is hard, and left him understandably butthurt about oral operations. Maybe he's one of the people who didn't need the operation but had it done, and there were complications. If he posted his taken-then x-rays online today, maybe other dental professionals could weigh in on whether it was a good idea at the time?

What this article doesn't emphasize enough is:

1) Like fingerprints, teeth are unique from person to person.

2) There are legitimate medical reasons to remove wisdom teeth, and those reasons vary from person to person.

Like a cartoon, I have a small mouth with big teeth. Thus, like San Francisco, I've had "space scarcity" for the better part of 2 decades.

My dental journey took over a decade of planning and execution, as well as 10s of thousands of dollars so I'd have some kind of decent smile as an adult. (thanks Mom and Dad!)

Had I "passed" on this work, I wouldn't have anything close to resembling a smile today - a high price to pay.

Maybe Rob's family should have consulted second more dentists/oral surgeons. Maybe they didn't have the resources.

Technology will likely help us make better decisions about these procedures in the future so "unnecessary" treatment spending goes down.
This is one of the scariest posts I have read. Infants and small children definitely need high-value human attention. I don't even know where to begin, just wanted to let the world know that I'm horrified by your comment.
> Medical technology has yet to make any impact on human intelligence.

But stay tuned! Human intelligence is now modifiable. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis has been done for a while, and increasingly is done with SNP arrays. That means you can use the polygenic scores from past GWAS studies on intelligence. I've been modeling this, and with a fairly realistic model of how IVF & PGD works and the best current polygenic score publicly available, an American could expect a gain of ~0.2 IQ points right now if they used PGD to select for intelligence, which is potentially cost-effective even. This will go up as additional GWASes come out (SSGAC has one coming out soon which should at least double the gain).

More strikingly: CRISPR has already been used to edit human embryos fairly successfully. Once CRISPR is finetuned to the point of being safe enough to use for 1 edit, as the several planned human trials point to being the case now or very shortly, then 1 edit will buy you 0.5 IQ points (the effect of the largest identified gene), and as CRISPR improves linearly, the gains will scale nicely with the number of edits you can do; progress in CRISPR is so fast that it may be able to go from 'irrelevant' to 'game-changer' in a few years, somewhat like the NN Go players recently went from 'terrible' to 'amazing' just a year or two by constant improvement.

(In contrast, embryo selection is easy to implement technically, but highly limited in its potential power because you turn out to be bottlenecked by how many eggs you can extract from a woman and how many of them will survive fertilization and implantation to yield a live birth.)
Putting it incredibly crudely - rich people started hoarding money, which made everyone else feel financially and personally less safe.

It's still happening. The effects for most of the population are:

Less disposable income
Less secure employment
Fewer employment choices
Less free time away from work
Increased debt
More anxiety

None of the above are good for creativity or individual freedom. (They're not really good for anything.) And more anxiety usually means less tolerance of all kinds because the stakes for any bad decision are much higher.

In the 60s, universities were full of smart people with tenure, and the mandate of a university was education and research.

In the 10s, universities are full of adjuncts on poverty wages, and the mandate has become expansion and profit.

Wall St used to be under control. Now it's a place where physics PhDs - the ones who could be working on quantum gravity and nanoengineering - go to die.

>The same processes might be at work in other areas, e.g. the takeover of music and film industries by "MBA thinking" over people who actually care about art.

I've heard it called the Capitalist Counter-Reformation - analogous to the period of retrenchment and the reestablishment of regressive values and rigid power structures after the freedom and heterodoxy of the early Renaissance.

We're basically living in the 16th century - not a happy time - but with Internet. We have 21st century science, and 16th century politics and economics, with aristocratic nation states instead of aristocratic city states.

Hopefully we won't get The Inquisition. (I'd like to say I'm optimistic, but it's hard.)
> GDP growth is "more money"

This is not true. A measure of the amount of money in the economy, as tracked by the Fed, has risen around 50% since 2008 [0] while GDP has only grown a few percent per year.

[0]: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2
> 3. Chip & pin has been required for quite a while now, contactless cards are extremely common.

Due to the way this was implemented in Europe and the fraud it enabled[1][2], I wouldn't consider it any sort of plus.

1: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/x-ray-scans-expose-an-ingenious...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10414375
This same type of article about the DeLoreans comes up at least once a year. Vaporware.
Even depression. If you read about candida or yeast overgrowth, it is believed to cause some kind of inflammation which might be linked to depression.
Genetic medicine is a tough problem. CRISPR isn't a panacea, and if I had to place bets, it's primarily going to massively accelerate basic biological research rather than itself be a clinical tool except in certain limited contexts.

It's pretty easy to edit a genome, just shoot some radiation at it. It's a lot harder to do it precisely, and though CRISPR is a huge step in that direction, it's not likely that in 10 years you'll be able to walk into a doctor's office and they'll CRISPR that nagging genetic imperfection out of you.

CRISPR is a DNA nuclease, it cuts both strands of DNA at a site that is very precisely (though not perfectly) governed by an RNA template. If you cut both strands of a living thing's DNA, that's a Very Bad Thing for that organism. In fact, that's why it evolved, as a tool for bacteria to combat viruses.

CRISPR based tools depend on reassembling that DNA properly, ideally with the desired alteration (inserting or deleting other pieces of DNA at the cut site). This works well if you have the opportunity to try a whole bunch of cells, and then can figure out which ones have the desired DNA modification.

In an R&D context, that's an easy bar to clear, but in the clinic that means you're somewhat limited to things you can take out of the person, modify, multiply, and put back in the person. Often that means blood cells right now, but could eventually be adult stem cells. A huge advance to be sure, but many many diseases can't be addressed this way.
That quote doesn't mean that department buys or operates airplanes. It means they own at least one specific kind of StingRay that they can mount in aircrafts that happen to be flying in their precinct.

I will say, being from the US, the fact that any branch of the government would use such a device should amaze me, but unfortunately I have to admit I have heard of worse abuses of power.
> I find it strange that in the US full anaesthesia is the default.

I don't think is the default. They offer it amongst a range of options, but it's expensive usually on the order of a few hundred dollars extra. I think most people do local + nitrous.

The few people who serve really upper middle class areas might offer it by default, but it's generally just not the case for most of the US.

I could be wrong though, I don't have actual data, just my own experiences.
Right, and I guess I meant to imply that it is some of the unwashed non-elite masses that notice that stuff. Our product is for people who are bad at software and want an easier way to do task X, but they still know to look for the green lock. I don't have strong data but I'd just say-- don't underestimate the web knowledge of people who are mostly making cat pictures.
The ignorance of, and/or disregard for regulatory standards is the common thread here.

Also, How do you know they work? They got slapped for giving people risks of disease using genetic data over the internet -- a method which was not peer-reviewed or shown to be accurate and precise. That is not bullshit - that is effective regulation.

The saddest thing is - even if you are right, all the FDA asked 23&Me to do was file a premarketing authorization -- something that many tiny companies do all the time to buy time to generate solid evidence.
They did have one great point (other than the styling, which is very much a matter of taste), which is that they defied the trend for sports cars to require the driver to be tremendously uncomfortable to drive them. They're very comfortable for me (185cm) and even taller drivers find them quite roomy.
Ah, I like yours better for GitHub specifically, but for any website, my .bashrc got this as its latest addition tonight:

# watch for a website to come back online
# example: github down? do `mashf5 github.com`
function mashf5() {
watch -d -n 5 "curl --head --silent --location $1 | grep '^HTTP/'"
}
SVG does a lot more than just pictures. Yes, you can have javascript parse for simpler uses, but using some of the interactivity in the format would add more difficulty. Also, consider things like video formats or access to physical hardware on the computer. Plugins serve the task of experimentation much better than javascript can.
There are pollution laws, but unfortunately companies receive only relatively minimal fines. So depending on the substance and quantity 'accidentally' leaked, it may actually be a cost saving for the company. And granted, in sure a lot of pollution actually is accidental, but even there the reasons are likely due to the company cutting costs which led to an accident. For instance, let's say there's a bake that had a high likelihood of soon failing. When you take into consideration the cost of a replacement valve, service to replace it, and down time of processes that depend on this valve and compare it to the amount you'd get fined for a spill if the valve fails, many companies will take the risk of the valve failing because the fines just aren't high enough. The other thing is that there's almost never any jail time for those that were involved in the decision making process to take that risk. Case in point, BP oil spill, nobody has served jail time even though there were numerous reports that people were aware of the risks of continuing to operate without replacing the valve that failed.
I don't even get that. I get redirected to http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/verify-user-north-... which just says '

Please click here to go to BMJ Best Practice US.
Alternatively click here to go to the BMJ Best Practice site intended for users outside the US. '
Because Wimax tried to take on the cellphone industry without actually getting any of them onboard besides sprint.

If they had focused on broadband to the home instead they may have had a different fate. This also sounds much, much faster.
If you can have your users install a chrome extension, you can use the native messaging APIs: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging .
That doesn't convince me; it's like saying every Tom, Dick, and Harry should get encrypted phones because Verizon has the capability to tap into conversations. The onus should be on the provider, not the customer.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981679 (827 points, 8 hours ago, 260 comments)
> and I don't really want a car that "luckily" doesn't have to meet safety standards.

Especially with the purported engine upgrade. A 400 HP modern engine in something that might have struggled to meet early eighties standards of braking, handling, and so on is a shiny coffin.
> I'm sure they're aiming for the nostalgia factor.

That's a polite way of putting it. They're aiming for the kind of geek whose money-to-sense ratio is so high that they'll pay any amount of money for a thing that reminds them of a thing they liked when they were kids, no matter the quality.

Granted, replacing the engine fixes the #1 problem, which was that some dipshit thought 130 horsepower was enough for a status-symbol sports car. But somebody that silly isn't going to stop at one mistake.
The brain is a muscle. And much like physical muscles, there are consequences for inducing artificial growth.

Time and again these experiments only prove that for 6-12 months the subjects are euphoric, creative, motivated... until they require the next level of enrichment, which they don't know how to achieve, because they've skipped "level 1" in the game of life.
So its a pretty well known thing and I am just realizing ?
Shit happens some time. Who cares who broke it- what matters is they're fixing it. I hope github does make public a official reason tomorrow. Not looking to blame anyone- I just want to know what they're doing internally to make sure it does not happen again... adaptation. Even if it's from some external hack or ddos attack- how can they plan on building redundancies in. I am pretty sure GitHub's dev team is talented- I'm being such an anti-troll.
Yeah, but I'm just explaining why warnings for mixed content are more important than for plain HTTP.

I'm absolutely not arguing against such warnings for HTTP.
My wisdom teeth pointed pretty much straight forward, so removing them was pretty much mandatory. I don't appreciate the title. This is one of the first times I've seen that the actual article has a less editorial title.
The fines are low. The regulations are not well enforced. The organizations that are supposed to enforce the regulations keep having their funding cut. And certain political groups are trying to strip the regulations and the funding further.
Compared to three a week, it's a significant decrease, even if it wasn't a complete cure.

Personally, I wouldn't be all that worried about two headaches a month or so (then again, I've had a near-constant headache for the last two years, so my perception may be a little skewed).
Mozilla had been working on a "j2me.js" VM called PluotSorbet. The primary use case was to host J2ME apps on Firefox OS.

https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet
My first thought about this is that, if I had a guaranteed "floor", I wouldn't have to live in a big city but could move my family to a cabin in the woods. Perhaps what YC should experiment with is something like a new Homestead Act: you'll get an economic foundation to stand on, but only if you're willing to work the land, so to speak: you have to do something with it, whether that be starting a company, writing, farming, or something else creative.

I don't have any research published in a related field, but I'm tempted to send in a proposal. Would the researcher have to live in San Francisco for this?
I feel sorry for the person who will inevitably be killed.
I've been testing out Go for a while now and outside of deployment, the CPU performance and GC tuning that has come with new versions has been a really, really great perk over time.

No code change, no breakage, just constant free performance.
> Haven't you ever had a moment that your work was so interesting that you wanted to share it with someone else in your 'non-work' time?

No.

> talk about what interests you.

I have far more interests than work. Work is what I do to pursue those interests.

Lunch and the end of the day are hard lines between work and non-work specifically to keep my head clear and to not suddenly become the job.
Taking your sequence data to a counselor is a solid use of 23&Me data. RE: risk prediction - they need to show efficacy & describe methodology in a clinical trial. Otherwise one is just taking their word for it that your risk is what they say it is -- or that they didn't mix up your sample/lose chain of custody.
"Attribution" means more than just the last click.

If you see an ad on TV, and then 2 minutes later receive an ad on Facebook for the same product, click through and buy then how much is the TV ad responsible vs the Facebook ad.

Same for Youtube ads. Typically (as a very broad rule) people don't click through to purchase from a Youtube ad. And yet lab (and other) studies show an increased propensity to purchase a specific product after Youtube advertising exposure.

As an ad buyer, how much do you spend on those TV/Youtube Ads, vs how much for the final click.

lcs's point is that sometimes that (paid) final click comes from a user who was probably likely to purchase anyway. So an advertiser would be better off paying more for wider exposure than for that final click (assuming a fixed budget etc etc).

This is a live problem right now, and a solution is worth billions of dollars.
How the Birth of a Nation Became Sundance’s Biggest Sale Ever
Many pieces of education, both the purely educational bits and the well-rounded bits, can come from experience and other sources. A degree often operates as a third-party certification that an individual has completed these tasks, and/or can stick with something for x years.
"We’re looking for one researcher who wants to work full-time on this project for 5 years as part of YC Research. We’d like someone with some experience doing this kind of research, but as always we’re more interested in someone’s potential than his or her past. Our idea is to give a basic income to a group of people in the US for a 5 year period, though we’re flexible on that and all aspects of the project—we are far from experts on this kind of research. We’d be especially interested in a combination of selecting people at random, and selecting people who are driven and talented but come from poor backgrounds. We're open to doing this in either one geographic area, or nationally distributed."

This is beyond awesome: an effort truly to explore this with an open mind, measuring whether and how it might work in the real world, and doing it in a no-nonsense, zero-pretense way.

Kudos to YC and kudos to Sam Altman.
Our minimum wage is NOT $28 AUD, it's ~17. Meal at a tasty restaurant for 2 is ~35-40 if you don't go super fancy. Coke + chips maybe 5-6, 4 in a supermarket. Free wifi is almost EVERYWHERE (cafes/mcdonalds/businesses).
But yeah, tech scene is awful. Just awful.

I'm sorry you had such an expensive experience, Sydney is considerably the more expensive of the capitals.
It could be that the people who accept friend requests from randoms with 5000 friends aren't very strongly attached to the service in the first place, and aren't the core market or the bread and butter of FB.
I think it may be that Chrome resource problems, as well as crashes are more traditionally seen on the Mac. Of course, I could be biased with that conjecture.