skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm merely disagreeing on Apple's motives. Yes, the voyeurs want backdoors, and yes Apple has built a backdoor. But I don't think Apple has created this backdoor for law enforcement. I think it's simply due to them, like any other company, having a hard time giving up control and creating open platforms.

Don't sweat the downvotes. There seem to be a lot of Apple customers that don't have a technical clue about what guarantees other systems actually provide or what capabilities are theoretically possible. I surmise they view computing systems solely in terms of productized offerings from companies, and thus Apple is the leader of the pack for privacy and this case is key to preserving that privacy.
These insulin changes are like the difference between a spanner and a torque wrench, or a spanner and a ratcheting wrench. The torque wrench is definitely more effective for certain use cases, as is the ratcheting wrench, both are nontrivial, but 99% of the time the spanner would do just fine / maybe be a bit more of a hassle.
I guess I could be a little more sympathetic if I thought our allies weren't spying on us as well. After all the noise the Germans made about US intelligence services bugging Merkel's phone, it came out that the Germans were doing the same thing to Hillary Clinton when she visited as Secretary of State.
You don't need to spend money on phase 1-3 trials for safety and efficacy of the molecule but you do still need to spends tens of millions of dollars to prove that the generic drug you are manufacturing behaves like the original, within a margin of error, and that you can maintain that quality control in the future.
Git Daemon Dummy: 301 Redirects for git:// to https://
I don't really believe that there isn't a lot of low- and middle-income people with diabetes that wouldn't buy drastically cheaper insulin if it was still rather effective, especially pre-Obamacare. It's clear that there's collusion to keep cheap product out of the market.
~900MHz is pretty common for this sort of thing. I have a friend who uses the 900MHz spectrum for communicating with a hobby weather balloon.
I would rather not discuss my view of gun laws in the US.

The thought experiment was meant to counter the arguments in the parent comment about whether drunk-driving is a crime or merely a "pre-crime".
Type 1 for about 15 years now. A1C has always been fine (typically 6.2 - 6.4).

Recently I decided to get "back in shape". I'm 5-foot-8, and this meant going from ~170lbs to ~140lbs. I actually dropped it rather easily (just walking and calorie counting), and I've maintained that weight since (6 months so far).

The kicker? I cut my insulin usage by 40%. However that wasn't just because I was no longer eating excess calories, but tracked my macros to see what I was eating. General guidelines are 50/30/20 for calories from carbs/fat/protein. Before I tracked it, I was apparently 60/25/15 which was VERY surprising to me, as I didn't think I was eating that many carbs. Now I'm 45/30/25, and slowly edging towards 43/30/27.

Granted, high protein diets aren't cheap, so the costs largely balance out. However tracking what you eat may reveal that you're getting far more of your calories from carbohydrates than you think.
"below efficiency levels" isn't some sort of moral statement, it's a mathematical one. It's not a question of moving sellers below their break-even point (you're correct that would obviously never happen). It's about transferring producer surplus to consumer surplus and introducing deadweight loss into the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony#Welfare_implications explains it pretty clearly for the example of labor.
Odd that the 2000 stock market bust doesn't show up...
I use a mutt setup like this http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/

Besides the efficiency of the CLI, I like having a local copy of my mail.
Snowden's strategy, or at least whoever managed information for the team, was super smart about the first 12 weeks.

They kept the government mostly in yhe dark about the depth of what they knew, and executed s perfect slow burn.

The agency went reeling from one disclosure to the next hastily making up lies and then having them disproved in subsequent releases.

Obviously there was more to it, however the main point is that the opposite seems to be true now. Even for receptive people, we just know and it is an effective strategy for the govt to habituate people.

Unless the facts surrounding an event gave relavent subdata and a narrative can be brought into focus with the new insight, this isn't news it is habituating the public to accept it.

I don't want to accept it, but simultaneously it is obvious that as noted in the thread, "SIGINT, is gathering signal intrlligience". So it ends up being a reminder that we have given up s lot, but not bad enough(on the per story basis) to ignite support.

Also, I am concerned about the risk we tale decentralizing our data. We may give up the opportunity to have amazing trend analytics and information that may never resurface in the inevitable balkanized system that is to be developed
This is exactly spot on. I would also add that "nobody wants to buy it" refers to the "doctors", not the "patient" - which is a very restricted and more easily targetted channel for marketing versus the patients.
I took the 40 minutes to watch his speech from last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_fPsFbgMQ

I recommend watching it to get a feel of how effective he is at this.
Same here, long time ago switched to DDG and don't have many complaints. Except, sometimes devil really is in the details: duckduckgo.com is awfully long to type on mobile and it's a tiniest bit slower than google, which is a little annoying if you use it all day long while downloading something from torrents and so on.
Speaking of it, can Google deny access to one's email from a non-google client?
I don't even understand how a progressive country like Canada can basically force people to take insurance because drugs (which if you have any health issue, you'll have to pay for) aren't covered by our universal healthcare system. It's ridiculous.
Any ETA on the Windows version?
You said that the FBI can demand information about a person from a company. What person are we talking about?
Looks like the Google API client ID and client secret are stored in clear text shipped with the released app:

WMail.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/shared/credentials.js

, and this seems to be used in authentication with Google: https://github.com/Thomas101/wmail/blob/master/src/main/Auth...
A proper RAII object has no pre-acquisition state, hence the acronym. Such objects are always valid and ready for use. That means resource acquisition has to take place in the constructor, which means you need to report errors by throwing if you're not to leave the object in some kind of non-valid state.

(I'd have thought the cleanup-in-the-destructor part was more important, and thus more worthy of being emphasised in the acronym - but there you go.)
US Stocks: The Cost of Trading at Market Open
It's likely that doctors earning less is an important component of reducing heath care costs in the US. Of course we should try to make that happen by increasing the supply of doctors rather than mismanagement.
You know that, but the happy-new-world ES6 tutorials out there do not. And I imagine the same about most people reading them.
They were spying on an allied president that did stuff like this:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19070_the-5-craziest-exploits...

Let's give NSA a slow clap for spying on crooks for once in their allied SIGINT. That guy makes our politicians look like boy scouts.
Dataproc is pretty significant compared with other managed Hadoop/Spark services. Here's how:

- You get a cluster in under 90 seconds and with per-minute billing.

- This lets you start with a job, then start a Dataproc cluster as part of job execution, then save output and discard cluster

- You aren't throttled by slow startup times, and you are not worried about rounding up your workloads to nearest hour

Plus Preemptible VMs support at 70% off, Custom Machines types, GCS as storage layer, very very fast networking, and interoperability with other GCP services.

(disclosure: work on GCP but not Dataproc)
In many US states, being in the car and in possession of the keys while legally intoxicated is grounds for a DUI conviction.
React utilities for building server-side email templates
I agree with OP. The name isn't bad per se, but I too believe it ultimately puts a ceiling on DDG's growth and marketability. The fact is, it is awkward to use in a sentence, and it will dampen the rate of word-of-mouth marketing for that reason.

I'm not sure how tongue in cheek your remark is, but just in general if you think that trends in language, such as using a brand name as a verb, come from the top-down rather than appearing spontaneously and organically then you're on seriously the wrong track. There's a reason that people don't say 'duck it', that has nothing to do with you encouraging them to or not. You can't influence it at all really (well for sake of argument, assume that's true at least with anything but a world-leading marketing spend) - all you can do is set the seed for the brand to get used that way organically. At the moment it's not.

The branding thus far is a sunk cost. It's never too late to turn round, walk back, and take the other fork in the road if the fork you chose isn't going anywhere.
I've corrected "duck" and "ducking" into certain profane terms so many times by now that I'd be afraid of autocorrect if I tried to use "duck it" regularly...
This is a pretty good video about the subject as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ezhdhHNku0 - Coded Mask - Sixty Symbols
Not sure if it's true for this configuration, but I know for GoTenna (a competing product), the terms of use of the unlicensed frequency bands forbid message relay.
Unfortunately not maintained any more.
reddit has some pretty good sci-fi writers' subs. I've seen people submit and ask others to review their work plenty of times. See what they think.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/

[check the sidebar for smaller, more relevant related subs]
Discussion here: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/43
Stack Exchange's data is open to all

https://data.stackexchange.com/
From an investor perspective this reminds me of the type of company Warren Buffet would invest in (if he invested in tech). Steady, focused, easily understood. Highly useful product.

The only thing I quibble with is the knock against enterprise sales. Jetbrains may not need that, but some enterprise software does, especially if it's complex software touching a lot of non-technical stakeholders, not something a user can just download and get started with himself.

I think the "no sales" model works well with strong products sold to technical users who can figure it out on their own (and in fact prefer to figure it out on their own).
WikiLeaks – NSA Targets World Leaders for US Geopolitical Interests
Top notch. This is really lovely.
It's probably not a mesh network. It's most likely point to point.
Is there an extension to hide downvotes, ungray all comments, and hide karma count? If not, I'm going to write one.

I know it's just an errant downvote, and people can feel however they want. But the information is no longer useful.
It's all open-source. These are powered by simple JSON files, you're welcome to submit a LaTeX Cheat Sheet :)

https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/tree/mas...

I think we have over 200 cheat sheet now
ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface
> "Chocolate intake was self-reported, and therefore subject to inherent reporting error. The dietary questionnaire used did not require the respondent to differentiate between dark, milk or white chocolate. ... We can therefore make the assumption that the majority of chocolate consumed in this sample was dark or milk, both containing cocoa flavanols to varying degrees."

It would be cool to have a study looking specifically at the effects of dark chocolate.
Meet the Fixers Collective, Geeks Fighting for the Right to Repair Your Gadgets
I like this! I just signed up to take a look. These were my questions before signing up, so I guess you'd say it's feedback on your landing page:

The website is really clear about how it works and looks for end users (and it looks really good). How does it work as the developer? Do I tell SYBG which features there are through an API? Through a web interface?

Do I use a JS snippet to make it appear on my site? How do I control where it shows up? How do I control the styling? How do I let you know which user is logged in and what their email address is?

Some JS snippets (or screenshots of the web interface) would be helpful.

Looking forward to having a play with it!

---

Edit:

Now that I've logged in and signed up all those questions are answered. I'd consider including some of this on your landing page, because the implementation time will probably be less than 5 minutes... knowing that would make me less likely to bounce.

For anyone wondering, the answers are:

- There's a simple JS snippet for identifying users

- You write new release notes in the SYBG website

- After you post a release, new users will see the release notes when they log in. If they don't log in for 14 days (configurable) we'll shoot them an email.

- Emails are sent with Mailgun. I use Mandrill... would love it if you support both (or generic SMTP) so I don't need two different outbound mailing accounts.

- The on-site alerts pop up either at the top of the screen, or in a `<div id="sybg-notification"></div>`. The link to view the FAQ on how to customise the look and feel is broken, so still not sure about that.
The thing is, the originalist take on the 4th amendment is pretty much that it prohibits the government from doing, without a warrant, what would be trespass if done by a private actor. All of the stuff people want to add, like expectation of privacy in things out in the hands of third parties, or mosaic theory, are living constitution embellishments.

The very concept of "privacy" is a living constitution idea. The constitution doesn't use the word. The 4th amendment doesn't talk about the "right to privacy" the way the 1st talks about "freedom of speech." It talks about searches and seizures of enumerated (tangible) things. It's not like the framers didn't conceive of information or records held by third parties. They were lawyers and bankers and merchants--they could easily conceive that the police might ask a shipper for records of a merchant's shipments or an accountant for financial records.
Marc Andreessen Is Enjoying a ‘Social Media Vacation’
How we signed up students from 1,600 universities in 6 months
Sorry, but I'm still in awe at search.

I have at my fingertips a method of searching the entirety of human knowledge in less than a second for any information I care to think of on a whim.

I remember pre-internet when getting answers to whimsical questions was impossible unless you had a wall covered with reference books or were actually standing in the library.

I don't know how many web sites there are, hundreds of millions by now? Each of which has multiple pages, each page of which contains many potential search results. All of this is searchable in an instant. I have no idea how. This is what Asimov was talking about when he compared high tech to magic.

And all of this is made available to us for free. On every device we choose to use.

To me, being picky about the finer details of what results are returned in an instant, out of billions of possible results, for free is just ungracious.

As the FOSS folks say, if you don't like, feel free to do better...
My bro, it's truly an honor to have my first HN comment stalker. I feel like I finally made it
These are all community-contributed. You can view all the JSON source files here:
https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/tree/mas...

and you can search for Cheat Sheets (and all other Instant Answers) here: https://duck.co/ia?q=cheat+sheet
> there's no evidence that these activities produce economic value of a magnitude that justifies their compensation

To be fair, that describes many, many jobs. Consider that a backup offensive lineman for your local NFL team probably makes more money than the General in charge of US forces in the Mideast.
> Biopharma is not IT where a smart kid can compete from his garage. It just isn't.

It isn't today, but it may be at some point. We tend to underestimate the effects of monumental shifts like we've had in IT. This project represents the first steps in that direction.

> The sort of thing that a single undergrad could do in a few days.

Even if this were true, the OpenInsulin project doesn't have a large institution's lab facility. Nor does the project have a government grant as benefactor. They are operating only off crowdfunding. It's obviously not enough to get through the FDA approval process, but IS enough to construct a roadmap to that end and make headway on a functional insulin producing organism. The project already has E. coli making proinsulin. The experimental focus has now moved to methods of purification. They are also investigating the feasibility/cost of getting this through the FDA approval process for biosimilar molecules.

I think the real magic of this project is its open nature, which I find to be lacking in the scientific community. This is research that anyone can make meaningful contributions to. Science (specifically biology) can learn a lot from open source software.
Stock value is essentially worthless in a private company until they allow selling of shares to investors or an exit occurs. Since such a small percentage of companies actually do either of those things I think it's not bad advice to treat them as worthless.
Wait, when did this happen?
Regarding:

>it has a bunch of consequences in solid state physics and electronics.

Are these consequences purely in the realm of theory at the moment? Or do we have some idea of why they might be desirable/interesting now?
Yes, very snarky, but I can promise you that science faculty do not consider it a good use of their efforts and resources to train students for jobs moving money around in circles.
The cost to start a drug company to make generic insulin must be prohibitive enough that we don't see any.
Thanks for helping point this out! I lead community at DuckDuckGo and there are a lot more, "Instant Answers" that the world should know about. The community of open source devs really deserve a standing ovation for things like this (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=who%27s+in+space&ia=answer).

Check out the whole list of answers in development and live here: https://duck.co/ia
They see ads on the web, but not on TV. Everything I stream is ad free.
Ally is a strong word. Allies would have honored their agreements and removed their occupation force.
For me, the main dealbreaker of Windows 10 Mail is lack support for email aliases. One can forward multiple accounts to a single gmail account and select the "From" address when composing messages.
Agree, as stated, 15 years ago someone would have thought "nut job" - funny (read crazy) thing is now that the general public switched from believing this was crazy to it making sense.
It's a good point, but what part of ETF trading is a contribution to humanity? Seems like quite the opposite in fact.
Agree, as stated 15 years ago someone would have thought "nut job" - funny (read crazy) thing is now that the general public switched from believing this was crazy to it making sense.
Death to Icon Fonts (2015)
Not sure about the states but most places require aircraft / boats to have locator beacons (bigger versions of PLB's.)

A handheld 406 plb like the ocean signal "rescueME" plb is essentially the same thing afaik.
Icon fonts are awful. I'm glad GitHub made this change.

I see a bug in repository page: http://i.imgur.com/GdyeFXK.png
Speaking of Saturn V engineers, this may interest you,

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/16/f-1-moon-rock...
> Single-payer is probably the optimum model for any advanced society

If single payer system dispenses sufficient cash, the providers are happy.

But if you look in places like Eastern Europe, they started with single payer, and it's still around, but the providers figured out they could set additional fees for higher priority, nicer treatment, less crowded hospital rooms, etc. At which point the incentives got switched to the point where single-payer doesn't get you much except a place in the back of the line and access to generics.

How do you build a system that's single-payer and avoids corruption from providers' side? Providers grow to despise monopsony, and have market forces at their disposal.
You've got a point. Maybe the worst-of list should be limited to games that achieved a certain amount of sales, to keep the obscure stuff out. Also, personally I'd be more interested in worst-of lists if they were restricted to certain years, or perhaps even certain platforms. For instance, a worst-of-NES-games list would be much more interesting than a list that comprised all video games ever, since I stopped paying attention to games after the mid-1990s. Or a list of worst-of arcade games from the 80s.
You should see the other stuff I take, Entyvio[1], at around $25K/dose (which is every other month). I don't know why they list it for various pharmacies, since you can't buy it - it has to be administered by an infusion center. I'm the reason that healthcare insurance is so expensive.

[1] http://www.goodrx.com/entyvio
When I was in law school I liked to research "tax protestor" and "sovereign citizen" arguments to practice my legal research skills. The IRS documents submitted cover much of what I remember of these people's arguments, but not all. Some other arguments or mistakes I recall being common:

• Quoting from a court case and claiming it says they do not have to pay tax. The case turns out to be real...but what they are quoting is not from the court's ruling but rather is from a brief submitted by the losing side.

• Quoting from a court case and claiming it says they do not have to pay tax. The cited court exists, but the case does not.

• Similar to the above, but the cited court itself does not exist.

• They cite a real case from a real court, but the parts they quote to support their argument do not exist.

• On those very rare occasions when they cite a real case, from a real court, and actually quote from the court's ruling, it turns out to be a ruling that was overturned quickly by a higher court.

• (One of my favorites) Saying that a court lacked jurisdiction because the flag in the courtroom had a gold fringe, which they say signifies that this is an "Admiralty Court" and only has jurisdiction over the seas and navigable waterways.

The article mentioned the argument that the Federal government only has authority over D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, etc., but doesn't say why some people believe that. I've seen two arguments for that belief. The first is that the Federal government was created by the Constitution specifically to run D.C. and other Federal territory and was not given any authority over anything else.

The second is that there is someplace in the tax code that says something like "For purposes of this section, 'United States' includes D.C., Guam, [...]" and they think "includes" means "consists of only" (and they ignore the restriction to "this section" and so think this applies to the whole tax code).

I've never run into an argument from these people that was not, frankly, idiotic. If one of their arguments does not immediately fail due to a fundamental misunderstanding of basic English, it falls apart as soon as you try to track down original sources.
A few years ago -

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/so-thats-it-for-thunderbird...

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2499053&s...
For mobile, I've found ddg.gg much shorter to type than duckduckgo.com, and it redirects to the same place, so maybe that's a solution.

I don't have anything for the latency, though.