skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they can't make a strong claim about it but some of the donors didn't seem to have the same results from an average of the drops and the other blood draw

> Our data also suggest that collecting and analyzing more fingerprick blood does not necessarily bring the measured value closer to those of the donor’s venous blood (Figures 1D and 2D). For example, donor B’s hemoglobin and WBC concentration were similar for venous blood and fingerprick in drop 1 but became less concordant with additional drops, while donor C’s fingerprick measures came closer to the venous measures with additional drops. These data may represent true differences between fingerprick and venous blood, or they may be the result of errors in collection (such as leaving the tourniquet on for too long during a venous draw). Further research is needed to determine how common these patterns are.

Also:

> Morris et al7 believe the higher variability of capillary blood compared with venous blood is due to the presence of extracellular fluid in capillary samples. In clinical practice, milking of the finger by insufficiently trained health care workers may result in even greater drop-to-drop variability than shown here.

This may present more of a risk for at-home testing if you need to make sure that the person hasn't squeezed their finger at all.

Quite an interesting set of problems that I'd not really considered before.

Full article: http://ajcp.oxfordjournals.org/content/144/6/885.full
Thank you for the clarification. How are you computing over encrypted data? From the "acknowledgements" section of the paper, it seems to be the same technique as cryptDB. If so, where is this source code? [I'm assuming this to be in C/C++] in the "crypto" folder as in cryptDb
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I think an elevated bikeway would definitely be less terrible than an elevated train or six-lane freeway. It'd be both narrower and quieter. It would still be kind of unfortunate for those under it though, especially if they wanted to proceed with the "urban elevated parkway"-type concept (which granted is pretty cool for the people above).

That said, from the sound of the traffic problems in the article, I think Austin is going to need a lot more than just bike lanes. It's expensive, but they might need to bite the bullet and build a proper subway.
You don't need a firewall on individual machines either; just don't run network-facing services in the first place.

At most, as a belt-and-braces security measure, you might want a system-wide prohibition preventing programs from listening on non-localhost (with exceptions for intentional servers, which should almost never happen on a client system). But that prohibition should primarily exist to catch programs misconfigured to listen on non-localhost, rather than leaving those programs running and just using a firewall to block them.
Neat. I wouldn't use it, as I have a database :).

Some notes:

- it's not thread safe

- it's not jruby-safe

- you should generally avoid Marshal. It can have compatibility issues across Ruby versions, etc. plus yaml or json can be introspected by someone who needs to debug things.

- it looks like it saves state in your current working directory? That'll definitely burn you down the line.

- no tests. Im sure there's weird bugs hidden in there.

Edit - another observation:

- you're setting instance variables inside the class definition. Making them Class-Instance variables, rather than Instance-of-a-Class variables like you want.

You need to set them in the initialize method instead.
How many of the websites you love to use are built on wordpress themes?
It seems like a lot of the problems in San Jose are not all that different from the ones afflicting San Francisco, just spread over a larger suburban area, with more parking.
>You are not born with rights

This argument is really semantic.

The line always devolve to the tautological "the only rules of the universe are physical rules"
> "It's impossible to replicate" especially if you don't want to.

Let's start the conspiracy theories

> There always was and still is a very strange negative fervor around this topic on hacker news

Strange? When there is no single proof of it, even by the ones stating that it works and there is no single plausible theory then there is nothing strange in the negative comments about that
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Nothing to read here. Clicking on the URL attempts to download an executable.
A new hire was really offended that we sometimes make fun of extremely bad code in our codebase (not even made by him). The kind of code that makes you shout "jezus, guys, come look at this, wtf was this guy thinking!"

And everyone stands at your desk making fun and comments.

It made him insecure, so I showed him this classic comic :)
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I believe the GP was making a generality and not talking about just this specific scenario. "Terrorism" is an ambiguous enemy and while the number of deaths to terrorism is disheartening, it pales in comparison to many other problems (e.g. car accidents or heart disease).
I'm curious how they arrived at affordability as a function of income. I'm surprised they weren't transparent about that.
Yes, that's true. I had thought about simply squeezing the finger to get some more but that appears to be a problem for the results too:

> Morris et al7 believe the higher variability of capillary blood compared with venous blood is due to the presence of extracellular fluid in capillary samples. In clinical practice, milking of the finger by insufficiently trained health care workers may result in even greater drop-to-drop variability than shown here.

http://ajcp.oxfordjournals.org/content/144/6/885.full

It's a very interesting problem. They didn't even see all the donors end up with the same average from drops as from a venous draw.
Actually, he said that "minorities make less money" in the video. That seems like a racist statement, as he chose to ignore an important minority group, asians.
YCombinator.com and most Godaddy DNS are hijackable by new Cloudflare's tool
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Pretty much spot on. The flip side of this is that web interfaces (and mobile) are squarely in the mainstream (shocker :P) which is good to know if you're a software engineer. The biggest indicator of this is mentioned in the article. Companies internalizing web design.

I think there's plenty of work left in UI/UX but the "balance of power" with regards to base design has shifted towards software developers. I'm not very good at designing things and not too long ago I was almost ready to give up before getting started because I knew stuff would look ugly and I'd need a designer (wasn't easy to find good ones easily). These days you use bootstrap and a plethora of other tools and get pretty good results and then you can hire a designer to polish.
I doubt that's the reason at all. I don't live in an affluent San Jose neighborhood. Most of my neighbors are working-class and probably on the lower end of the economic scale. Young families and whatnot.

There are still plenty of homeless that go through our neighborhood like it's any other.
I find #333 problematic -- it seems fuzzy usually, though #330 typically isn't. Hard to beat #000/#fff.

Pixels vary tremendously in size. Other than as a compatibility mode, I'd ditch them entirely. html { font-size: medium; } will give the user their default choices, which works quite well for those who know what they're doing, and can be trivially fixed by those who don't.

A basic style that's foundation for much of what I do:
http://codepen.io/dredmorbius/pen/KpMqqB
Are the regulations very different in different countries? I can think of a few places where getting live-saving machines an order of magnitude cheaper with a small percentage increase in risk of causing harm might be an acceptable trade-off in some cases.
XenForms – A Xamarin.Forms UI Inspector
Secure Enclave is explicitly not TrustZone per Apples iOS Security Guide. It's a separate core in the SoC running on L4.
How to set up cron job for Vtiger CRM? What cron job setting shall I use?
SpaceX wins 5 new space station cargo missions in NASA contract est. at $700m
We're not saying it's just the signing key. We're saying it's trivial to make those changes.

For the record, I made this claim before I saw anything from saurik. The changes are very minor, just disable erasure and the delay, plus something to allow remote password attempts.

Re "OS being released" that's not something that matters, because the OS is useless without the key. The only risk is compromise of the signing key, and that's the same as any iOS update.

Do you have any other justification for your belief other than trusting Tim Cook?

I'm not claiming he's more knowledgeable, but that Cook lied. This may just be poor phrasing or dumbing down on Cook's part, but the implication is wrong.
There's no possible way that GitHub management didn't know about her past attempts to have open source developers blackballed for their political views. The only logical conclusion is that GitHub's new management is completely comfortable with that kind of behavior.
From philosophical, pedagogical, and functional standpoints, absolutely not; from a practical standpoint of whether to offer credit, why the hell not? It's not like US schools seriously endeavor to teach students to usefully speak a foreign language in schools and the students could arguably benefit more per hour from just learning simple ideas related to coding.

As someone who loves coding and natural languages it's a bit disheartening to see the two put into a cage match for budget money but I can't be too sad about more people having the opportunity to learn about the machines that increasingly run their lives.

No one in the article makes a serious claim that learning to code provides the same kind of education as a foreign language but they do include a bit of Code.org's explanation of why CS is not a Foreign Language. While I can see why the blog post is good to have as a resource its inclusion seems to imply that someone is suggesting that CS and FL education provide similar benefits.
This is great. Reminds me of mondegreens, another phenomenon of mistaken language:

> A mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
Ok, so lets be pedantically logical. "Absolutely" is qualifying the word "sure". The definition of sure is:

Sure: confident in what one thinks or knows; having no doubt that one is right.

So to be 'absolutely sure' means you are totally 100% confident in your thinking, but this does not necessarily mean you are predicting the future. You can be sure of something and still be proven wrong.

The therapist did not say "are you absolutely certain you will not under any circumstances kill yourself", she just asked if in her mind and from her perspective, she had the confidence of not killing herself (regardless of any unforeseen circumstances of say the apocalypse happening).
The author makes the same mistake as so many others in assuming that people's behaviour cannot change and that car traffic will always be present. The reality is that when car infrastructure is correctly priced and alternatives are available, the behaviour of people changes and car use declines. There's no need for any of this elaborate separation of traffic.

The answer to Austin's traffic problems is the same as for all cities. Reduce space for cars (roads and parking) and put that space to better use, whether it be for more efficient transportation options (ie. bicycles and public transit) or for housing and amenities.

The author cites Vancouver's grade separated Skytrain as a model to follow but didn't bother looking at the real success of Vancouver's transportation system, which is that as of 2014 only 50% of trips are taken by car. This milestone was achieved not just due to Skytrain, but due to huge gains in walking and cycling trips. Vancouver built a great transit system yes, but has also densified the city, built a great deal of separated bike lanes, never built a freeway, and most important of all has not expanded road capacity at all for decades. Traffic entering the city decreased by 5% since 1996 and entering downtown decreased 20%, while the population living and working in the area has dramatically increased.

The amount of cars entering Vancouver's downtown has been unchanged since the 1960s.
Your reply is the kind of comment I come to HN for - we've started off talking about mobile device security and ended up discussing unbreakable quantum encryption.
Most of the stuff I found was for Python 2.7! I'll edit that into the post. My focus was for finding libraries that worked with new Python code, e.g. Python 3.5 code.

All of those libraries have Python 2.7 versions. Actually for all of them you pip install the same library; for pyttsx, `pip install pyttsx` and ignore jpercent's update.

I'm not sure what you mean about pricing and testing for development. Are you referring to Google's services? They offer 50 reqs/day for voice recognition on a free developer API key (https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys). Google Translate can also be used by gTTS; it will rate limit or block you if you send too many reqs/min or per day without an appropriately registered API key, but you could play around with it for sure.

If voice recognition is important, it might be worth investigating Sphinx more and putting the time to tweak their English language model files. Synthesis is more difficult, though I think the Windows SAPI, OSX NSSS, and ESpeak on *nix are all "good enough." There are also a range of commercial libraries.
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Lots of progress made, but still lots to do before we get to rendering most Web sites. And thanks :)
Amazing work, it is good to see Google Docs moving forward. I have written plenty of essays in Google Docs in the past, hopefully this new feature is just what some have been wanting. Thanks for the great work guys!
Ask HN: What (if any) are some good pixel-art editors for the iPad?
39 things you never knew about Uber (Infographic)
- first example: that's because a patent shouldn't simply expire if no royalty is paid for it. (As an aside: the clock should start ticking for the first time someone starts selling a product implementing it. And patent royalties should also be paid with mandatory delay of at least 3 years or something: so, for example, an entrepreneur can start a company that uses a patented technology, even if now he can't afford to license it, and only have to start paying for it after he had some time to start making profit.)

- about AK: all his ideas were software related and quite broad. Also, I would guess the he recognizes that allowing "broad software patents" indiscriminately with the current laws would be a total disaster, so he's mostly against software patents, obviously. But in a different legal context he's probably think completely different.

I don't know that much about patent laws, but the parts that I do know of seem totally backwards to me. Like nothing makes sense the way it is, you'd have to rewrite everything from scratch and retrain all the lawyers and judges. Probably because the laws were invented for easily-buildable physical inventions like the steam engine a 100 years ago. And they have no concepts that make sense for "informational products".

You can't look at the behavior of people in the past and say "considering their behavior, such laws would not have benefited them". The simple fact that a law exists and is written in certain way can completely alter the behaviors of people because they know they now can take advantage of it, so they behave differently.

I am personally against software patents NOW, btw. In the current legal context they would be nonsensical an harmful. But change lots of the context around them and they could be a very good idea for the reasons I mentioned in the previous comment.

Probably the solution would be to invent a new concept of "soft idea patent" that has no relationship whatsoever with the concept of "classic patent" and for which none of the current patent laws apply. Then write from scratch the laws for these new "entities". And "digital computer software patents" would be just one of the subclasses of "soft idea patents", each with their separate laws and regulations.
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Thanks, hopefully I end up with a reliable phone. The GPS is really the only thing relevant to me outside of texting and talking.
Traffic has decreased in the City of Vancouver. Down 5% since 1996 and down 20% if you only count Downtown.

This was achieved by:

* Building dense, walkable residential neighbourhoods downtown.

* Creating a great rapid transit network

* Building a network of bike lanes, including separated lanes.

* Policy against expanding the car road network that has lasted for decades.
Ross Ulbricht's Family Is Exhibiting His Prison Art to Fundraise for His Appeal
Today, a pure coincidence to the announcement that Microsoft acquired Xamarin, my brother and I launched a preview into a project that we've been working on for some time now. This is a Xamarin.Forms UI Inspector called XenForms:

http://www.xenforms.com/

Also, in the spirit of giving. I have released an open source version of a game in Xamarin.Forms and CocosSharp. It's a These Crazy Walls Clone.

https://github.com/jonedavis/Xamarin.Forms-With-Cocosharp

Hope someone finds it useful!
It really would be amazing to be able to get voice recognition software that covers at least recognizing a small enough fraction of our language to be useful without having to reach the cloud. It is definitely a dream I hope we one day achieve, thanks for the article, will test it on my day off and play with it a bit.
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I live in Austin and i walk/Uber everywhere and largely agree with the author, we need better public transit absolutely. I'm wary of this line of thinking however "Our population is largely young and vigorous. ", a significant portion of people who could use better non single passenger car options are certainly not so young and vigorous, and it's worth noting that even those that are now won't be forever ;)

I think bikes are great, more bike options for sure, 10000. However in my opinion they're not a great solution to the transportation problem for most people.
Remind me what happened to Silverlight.
Amazing, I always wanted a feature like this. Sometimes, we're so tired to move our fingers to type something.
I hope they make it as convenient as possible, like introducing voice typing in Google Keep, and creating a complete note just by saying OK Google.

Sometimes, things pop-up in mind suddenly and we need to note them down right away.This is definitely the coolest feature.
Also, on the other side, this is also helpful to people who face problems with typing, or somehow can't type (temporary injury in hand, or slow typing speed, etc.)
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I'm sure Google is mining (anonymized) data from this -- I wonder if they can use it to improve the transcriptions for Youtube automatic captioning by seeing what kind of revisions people make to the voice transcription.
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Wouldn't surprise me if true, iOS as a whole is built in a very modular fashion when it comes to the different components of the OS and developers only get access to what Apple deems us worthy of, hehe. Not that I want access to Touch ID, I much prefer to not have access to that...
So that you're vulnerable to a whistleblower?
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This has been a personal project of mine for the last 8 months. I'm excited to be at the point when I can start gathering feedback from Xamarin.Forms developers. The video on the site demonstrates several features that allow developers to explore the Xamarin.Forms Framework and their own application's while its running.
What about when you have student loans? That reduces your effective income and makes it more difficult to afford a home. Same with a car.
Interesting that NYC isn't included but SF is.
Thank God. Can you imagine?
yes but what if my location is not determined correctly by the browser (eg when connected via a VPN with entry point in another city/country)? I must be able to specify my location manually.
You forgot the selling of half the properties to absentee owners who then leave the property empty.
This is also pretty good: https://webdemo.myscript.com/#/demo/equation

Recognizes full equations and even sends it to wolfram alpha to compute result
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For me it's about 10% of searches, using !gde mostly when I need localized results. That's about it.
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This is interesting, but consider that income varies widely by location, and is generally higher in areas with a higher cost of living. Both restaurant servers and computer programmers make more in San Francisco than they would in Scranton.
If you can find it on the internet, it occurs in the world we want programs to operate in.
Would be happy to help! Email on my profile (sorry, didn't find yours).
email hn@ycombinator.com if you want to reach the admins
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tl;dr Someone who doesn't understand his tools chooses PHP, and then he tries Go and likes it. But he still doesn't understand his tools. For examples, he "likes the idea of" typing, but never explains why (or why not) others should feel the same way.
UK Telecoms Regulator Says BT Must Open Up Its Network
That is definitely the most aggravating thing from both a user and developer perspective. Naive people pushing kitschy ideas caused us to have 100% flash, unlinkable and unindexable websites for quite a while and didn't really get eliminated until mobile killed flash and HTML5 CSS and JS caught up to all the glitzy crap.

And we still see people trying to 'fix' the expected behavior of things like the scrollbar. Stuff like that is a huge waste of time on something that actually hurts the user experience and almost always breaks mobile or cross browser compatibility.

Many of these people have the wrong goal entirely because they think visually standing out is the most important thing. In print that makes sense, because you're trying to capture their attention while they desperately try to ignore your advertisement. On a website you already have their attention because they came to your website. And here's the Key, they came to your website to accomplish something, the designer ought to be trying to help the user reach that goal as effortlessly as possible. It's a bad idea for login links and fields to be anywhere but the top right. You put the cash registers near the exit of your store, Hiding them is a bad idea. Other funny analogies:

Why put those boring gender signs on the bathrooms doesn't everyone do that? It clutters up the doors and doesn't fit with our minimalist design language. Also, if we do that then they won't look like any of the other doors in our store.

We want our customers to feel like they can share everything with us so we removed all the bathroom doors and partitions between toilets. It'll even save you material costs!

Wheelchair access ramps are ugly, we don't need them.

I think an escalator should speed up and slow down depending on how fast someone is walking up. (scrollbar overrides)

I think having signs that announce the products in a particular isle makes the store too cluttered and busy, If we make them wander around aimlessly for the product they are looking for they will see more of our store and end up buying things they otherwise wouldn't have.

Just to clarify, I think standing out is great but not when it comes at the cost of usability.
And in the spirit of giving, here is an open source These Crazy Walls clone written in Xamarin.Forms and CocosSharp:

https://github.com/jonedavis/Xamarin.Forms-With-Cocosharp