skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's browser.zoom.full in Firefox. Might be nice if it could be used on a per site basis or turned on/off with a button.
> they still hold back key features from a major platform like OS X.

I don't think "hold back" is the right term. It's my understanding they share some code between the platforms but for a lot of the GUI they do not so it's expected many of the OS X features are simply not done / lower priority than other features.
If you're mad about the ebook market concentrating on Amazon, you should be absolutely furious at Apple over agency pricing. That was when ebookstores were launching and competing for attention. Agency pricing blocked a critical dimension of competition when the big wave of new ebookstores was trying to get off the ground.

And even if Apple didn't want to compete with Amazon over price, others did. For instance Google - their Play Books pricing model seems to be "discount whatever we can, wherever we can". Even in these "agency lite" days, they're still a useful price-match reference for the Kindle Store. Or consider Kobo - they had a regular stream of coupons that made them worth checking for a lot of books... until agency pricing clamped down on the books you could apply them to.

Instead, agency pricing more-or-less froze the ebook market starting in 2010 until 2013 or so (when the last publisher defendant settled and started allowing discounting again), entrenching Kindle as the default platform for most readers, crushing smaller companies that wanted to try something different. More over, this has worrying downstream effects - encouraging many independent authors to be Kindle-only and so on.
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The real problem is that quantum computers would break the forward secrecy algorithms we're using today. So if a practical quantum computer shows up tomorrow then we can start using different cryptography tomorrow, but evildoers will be able to decrypt everything we're sending today just by storing it and waiting for quantum computers.

Which is a pretty big "oh crap" that will catch a lot of people by surprise if quantum computers ever really happen.
Well, science is about doing experiments. It's really difficult to isolate causality with psychology, but possible to at least identify patterns. And then it takes more experiments to peel off those patterns.

This is a really good case of science at work. It's an experiment that specifically targeted ego depletion and couldn't find it.

I find it a bit worrying that so many people immediately agree to the conclusion proposed by these experiments. Ego depletion is one thing, but there are other well-known effects like Pavlov's Dog.
Does anyone know if Theranos conducting tests outside of California? I thought I heard something about Nevada and maybe one other state?
A year or so ago while my Japanese in-laws were visiting, my brother asked them if they would like to try a new swearing card game he was kickstarting(1). I was hesitant to let this happen as although my wife's parents didn't really know the meaning of the words, they knew they were "swear" words, and that might be seen as inappropriate.

In the end this was just my predefined view of what a "swear" word was, clouding my judgement, and everyone had a good time. My in-laws later explained to me that although they knew "swear" words were meant to be offensive, they couldn't wrap their heads around why/how, and as such happily yelled "Cunt!" as easily as they would "Potato!".

(1) http://www.f--kthegame.com/
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The past couple editions of Microsoft's management tools have just been front ends for powershell commands on the back end.
Yes, they do, or the FBI wouldn't bother Apple with a request, and if the FBI sent a request anyway, Apple would say it is impossible. The FBI sent Apple a request, and Apple didn't say the request was impossible, so Apple has what amounts to a backdoor (really, a front door).
I have used both and I agree. Obviously, you still wouldn't want to use MSSQL for personal projects but technically it is years ahead of MySQL that's for sure. My main OS is Linux, fwiw.
I hope your right, but I'm concerned that blockchains still rely on the core developers. Very few people really understand the protocols, and even they don't audit their nodes' code. You don't have to trust a central database, but you DO need to trust the code that runs the distributed database.

This need for trust demands politics, and that's why we have Bitcoin's crisis de jur.
You absolutely pay more.

Every time you go on Amazon and look up an Ebook priced over $9.99, and it carries a note that says, "this price was set by the publisher," that's a book that Amazon would sell you for less money if the publisher let them.

It's hard to find a clearer-cut case of price fixing.
It seems to require twitter to login. I suppose I don't care if they spam my twitter but still it is annoying.
Turkeys are American.
The chronic fear of reading's demise (2009)
Hell no! It was a nightmare to keep them running. Luckily the two left running are on the way out and used by a tiny userbase.
Frontend is still the Wild West. Programming is still the Wild West. We're still figuring out what ideas don't work, what ideas work and how far up they scale. I can't help but wonder if we are nearing the end state with Functional, or if some huge new ideas are yet to be thought up. Math and physics are kind of like programming and are pretty well figured out by now. There is also Logic programming, I personally don't understand any huge applications of it but the whole world couldn't apply functional until maybe ten years ago. What else is already out there that nobody is paying attention to?
We are clearly not on the same page. Because I think that 1 and 3 are rather different things, and you don't.

In particular 1 consists of exact statements about the likelihood of 7 births in a row being mmmmmmf.

By contrast 3 consists of statements about what Bill and Lorena's childbearing plans would have been if something different had happened.

Those are very different types of statement. There is no connection between statements of type 3 and statements of type 1 unless Bill and Lorena's state of mind makes a significant difference to the odds of the next child being a boy.
The article's conclusion would indicate that you would do use in-silico biology to 'discover' existing drugs. Then once computer methods can reliably discover, say both penicillin and tetracycline, you'd push forward.

Funding this, however, would never come from industry. You'd need to convince NIH that spending many years rediscovering old drugs is the magic leap forward we need.

As someone ignorant of the field - has this been done? What is the state of validation in computer biology?
Day-fines calculations here in Germany are calculated from monthly income after tax, with some fixed basic-living deductions. I do not think there is anything more you can deduct from it - but it is clearly intended for persons not corporations.

But with the usual limitation of a maximum of 360 days and the min/max limits being 5/30'000 EUR the absolute amount of a maximum 360-day fine can vary between EUR 1'800 and EUR 10'800'000.

Such systems can be made, they can work and I think they can be made loophole free.
At least in my personal case, I think it helped accelerate things a bit.

I'm originally from Germany, so my professional network I developed while being a student turned almost useless after moving to the US.

I could have probably tried to establish a bit of an online presence through e.g. open-source work, but that tends to be a lot more time-intensive compared to just adding a few keywords about what I like and can do and a bit waiting :)
If you want to know more about Quantum Computation, there is an edX course (https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-mechanics-quantum-computa...). It goes over the Shor algorithm and the quantum Fourier Transform that leads up to the Shor algorithm.
It's a risk mitigation. Questionable communications which cause changes in troop deployments may be worse than a total blackout and subsequent stasis.
Quick Google image search shows the full breakdown including bios

http://www.businessinsider.com/people-at-obamas-tech-dinner-...
My daughter's suggestion: we should ally with the octopi.
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4. I'd bet on Meg Whitman. Carol Bartz is on the other end of the table, and the only other women tech CEOs are Marissa Mayer and Ginni Rometty, both of whom didn't become CEO until 2012.

5. Eric Schmidt

6. Probably Art Levinson

7. John Chambers

10. Reed Hastings

12. Carol Bartz
Very nice article, I was introduced to a lot of concepts under a historical perspective. However, it does not cover emerging patterns (startup culture) or what would be the most plausible alternative future trends. Can someone suggest some good reads?
The strong argument here is that if you are giving a lock icon but knowingly allowing decryption by a known bad actor, you are also breaking the experience of your users.

I also agree with the weaker argument that the cert in question is essentially for a local intranet and that the DoD can, for as long as it continues to exist, which I find politically disagreeable, install the cert locally on its own resources.

If it wants to publish material for broader consumption, it can get a cert like everyone else.
If someone intercepts the quantum key, it will modify it 25% of the time. If you randomly measure (and verify publicly with the sender) a fraction of your total key and find it unmodified, it means the rest of the key probably is too, up to a certain security factor. By starting with a longer key and measuring more of it (or doing privacy amplification, for example xor-ing multiple keys together), you can get as much security as you want. It also means the security is everlasting, meaning someone cannot retroactively break your key in 100 years using some mega-computer.
I am very new at japanese, so don't take my word for this, but there aren't a lot of "motherfucker" style insults in japanese. You mostly insult people by talking to them with the wrong politeness level. The meaning of the word is still something like "you".

http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/insults.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11242897
tl;dr These words are offensive primarily because of the implicit cultural taboos associated with them.

I'd argue this is unfortunate, since many people are quick to take offense without first examining the specific intent or context behind a word's use in a particular situation.
rkt seems a little too inelegant for my likings. wish they had similar buildfiles or cli syntax as docker. even then, i'm not sure what benefit it'd bring over docker.
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How do I get a job at Google[x]?!
they say credibility is hard to gain and easy to lose. Physics has as a standard to do predictions reproducible exactly to a something like 8 standard deviations. Psychology, as a domain, appears to be struggling to make predictions that are reproducible "up to 40% of the time". Now, even if we say they are twice that as an approximate totally unscientific show of good faith, we're still really far at 20% reproducible from reliable, credible knowledge as is promised by other fields, and would still make the field pretty murky at best
> Math and physics are kind of like programming and are pretty well figured out by now.

I used to think this too. Then I got into machine learning and modern physics. There is still much in both fields left unresolved, both empirically and philosophically. I suspect the same is true of programming. For instance, machine learning aided programming (the next generation of syntax checking, with recommendations) will no doubt open up new ways to be even more productive, and new tools will crop up to support that. Maybe machine-aided debugging gets way better and this leads to bettering ecosystems because it can catch (and maybe fix) breakages better. Right now, I think it's amazing that all these things like npm, pip, and apt hold together as well as they do (but the extent to which they don't is a huge time suck and productivity killer).
On OSX there is a system-wide prefpane (part of Xcode extras) called Network Link Conditioner that allows you to quickly simulate different connection speeds, even different levels/quality of wireless signal.

Any Browser-testing that only works in a single browser is honestly worthless.
Wish I had taken better care of my eyes.
Alternate text on Pastebin here:
http://pastebin.com/CqwL0iHR

No images but it has the full text of the story.

WSJ has a paywall for subscribers.
You get the same hoodie for writing a negative review.
Yep thats kind of my point, the idea that a word by itself, regardless of intent could be offensive, made absolutely no sense to them.

To put it into perspective, I've seen nearly every word on your list in different childrens cartoons/anime.
It makes sense to charge different for different OS. Using absurd examples, it would not make sense to charge the same for a hypothetical version of SS for iOS than say another hypothetical version of SS specialized for CoreOS for instance.
This is absolutely amazing
Too late to edit it now, didn't realize HN even did any formatting (don't think I've ever used it at least). But yes, [STAR]2289.
I don't think I'd call a $450 million dollar fine "getting away with it". That's HUGE. Also remember a vast majority of Apple's money is off shore so this is actually "noticeable".
Only a matter of time before someone translates them into English.
Up to a point.
Unfortunately this fairly rock solid planner means that a lot of people will keep throwing things at it until until explosions.
SQL Server's parameter sniffing often makes me sad, and having to turn on trace flags effectively by default is still fairly annoying.

Otherwise I am pretty happy with the product.
Can't follow that link for some reason. Firefox says:

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

uses security technology that is outdated and vulnerable to attack. An attacker could easily reveal information which you thought to be safe.
Makes sense! You need to minimize tracking error on the underlying basket of assets, and the faster you are the less error you have.
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Good read, I'm not the biggest expert but definitely enjoy it
EDIT: I forgot about the prevalence of uninformed priors. Thanks HN!
What backwards Kafka-esque horror show do you live in to believe a 800+ page government report of red tape and regulations is a feel-good outcome.

Some people really do prefer slavery over liberty.
Can I just state how awful this two-column layout is to read?
Some of the "pirate links" are competitors to bigger corporations that have competing products and services. The DMCA is used to censor small companies and bully other companies.

The same thing happens with Youtube Videos, you use a scene from a movie or sound from a movie or song and get a DMCA takedown notice and your video is gone. Not the whole movie or song just a small part of it via fair use, if there is a fair use anymore.

A friend of mine used a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey where Dave Bowman is removing memory storage from HAL 9000 and used a text to speech program to speak instead of having the movie dialog speaking someone's essay manifesto pretending to be HAL 9000. That video got a DMCA takedown notice as well.
S-Corps can split payouts to the owner into wages and dividends while all LLC income is equivalent to wages. Wages are subject to social security and medicare taxes that dividends are not.
I've never seen so much scrutiny over a company before. Everyone is screaming "death to Theranos" at every opportunity. How much of that is purely balking over the high valuation? I have a feeling if they didn't raise so much money then journalists wouldn't be swarming this at all.

All of the critiques I see don't seem even close to show stoppers. No public peer reviewed studies? Some lab updates to match FDA regulations? Using some "unauthorized" third party equipment? This is a new company, why should these be the doomsday callings?

I have no idea if Theranos will succeed, but I can't shake the feeling that this media response is inflated due to the high valuation, and journalists are falling victim to the hype as much as the public, whereas this is a fairly normal health startup otherwise. It probably was a mistake to accept such a high valuation, so I don't think Theranos is totally innocent here.

It's also strange that a paywall article made it to the front page? I wouldn't guess there's a big overlap of WSJ subscribers and HN readers (lol conspiracy).
As long as the storage mechanism is not explained, I'll assume a statistical fluke.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Decided to skim it instead of reading it all the way through because it was annoying.
I found the "toggle columns" option (top right, under the search box) and it made me happy.
This post didn't gain much traction, but XSS attacks are still pretty popular and Google awards up to $7500 for XSS attacks[1]. React and Angular may help prevent XSS attacks, and while I don't know specifics, they likely do have some ingrained tools to prevent it occurring. I wouldn't be surprised if a XSS exploit could find a way around client-size sanitization though. In a perfect world, all strings coming from your server would be pre-escaped.

Rails is 'immune' in the sense that it doesn't let you directly drop HTML onto pages from strings without escaping it first, and if you would like to do so, you have to explicitly mark the string as safe[2]. This isn't to say that XSS is no longer an issue though, Rails and other frameworks help prevent these occurrences in many cases in simple applications, but larger scale applications have a lot more code and a lot more ways to punch holes in that protection. In fact using Express with with Node.js doesn't sanitize your strings by default (as far as my quick research has shown), which leaves a potential attack vector.

While XSS is a very well known vector, XSS attacks are not uncommon in non-boilerplate web applications. Fortunately sanitization is easy and bugs can often be fixed quickly.

Browsers can prevent some methods of XSS, such as by preventing loading JS from a remote untrusted source. If you find a way to drop JS directly onto a page that the browser can't catch (such as the entire JS source being delivered by the server), there's still vulnerability.

OWASP tends to be the place to go to learn about web security[3]. They have lots of examples of potential exploits.

[1] https://www.google.ca/about/appsecurity/reward-program/
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/3932440
[3] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-site_Scripting_(XSS)
That is rather scary. Quality control is a serious requirement to any competent lab. With physicians making decisions by results labs transmit, there is an inherent need of verifiable trustworthiness to the results.

A patient may be subjected to life altering medication or treatments, which is not a trivial responsibility that can be shrugged off with erratic processes or lack thereof.

A lab director's responsibility includes ownership of quality processes, reviewing abnormal results after the fact to see if proper processes were followed (such as communicating with the respective provider), reviewing financial success, and much more. To shrug off quality control and operate as if reputable is not just unethical, but incompetent. Such operations should cease immediately.

Disclaimer: I have experience in the medical lab industry.
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And how much of that is due to Theranos being a medical company? You need to play a clean game when lives are at stake.
> The people working there are free agents. Why would they choose to work for a sweatshop if it makes them worse off

> The workers typically have [only] worse alternatives

Well, why would anyone write nonsense, if it makes them worse off? And yet there you go.

Edit:

>If people don't need the money, and have some better alternative, then what's stopping them from doing that instead?

The sweatshop owner, their customers, the government, the economy all have an incentive. The people might be part of any of those, granted, but less likely in poor conditions.
Completely wrong. How far down do you have to read in this article to find Theranos' valuation?

All the way. It's not there. At all.

Nobody really gives a fuck about the valuation except valuation wonks. But a lot of people care a lot about this woman being a complete charlatan who is endangering public health.
This has never made any sense to me. What is the threat model? In almost any case where you can use QKD, it would be cheaper to send a courier with locked/handcuffed brief case.
When they have been found guilty in a court of law ?
SQL Server RDS is built on Windows. Albeit a scripted to the 9's adaptation to make it act more Linux like (e.g., RDS can't connect to your AD, so they had to make some sacrifices).

The big difference with RDS is that you don't get the full gambit of clustering capabilities that SQL server supports. This is mainly due to the fact they don't have a shared storage model that SQL cluster failover requires.
Price fixing. Salary fixing. H1B fixing. Fuck you Apple.
Yeah, but extortion and kidnapping don't scale as well as the drug trade does.
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My sarcasm detector may be broken, but in short, no. Even a "good" professional can give bad advice. I love my accountant, but I still catch things he's missed occasionally. (And he catches things I've missed more often.) It's a partnership. Unless you're a mega-corp with in-house professionals, you're always going to know your business better than your accountant/lawyer/etc., and you're always going to care at least somewhat more than them too.
> How much of that is purely balking over the high valuation?[...]this is a fairly normal health startup otherwise

Absolutely not. Start-ups are supposed to fail early and fail often but when you're in the medical space you simply can't act entirely like a technology start-up. People's lives depend on many of these tests; you can't just go "well let's ignore the FDA and we'll take the slap on the wrist" like in other industries. Here they might deliver inaccurate test results that are then used to treat someone for a medical issue.

That can be deadly. Yeah many people are going crazy from the valuation and secrecy but there is plenty of legitimate scrutiny here especially if you read this article (I'm assuming you didn't because of your very generic Theranos comment versus addressing the issues in the article itself which sound grossly negligent, IMHO).
Werner von Braun oversaw development of some awfully small crummy rockets https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ii7uwp1SRIM (imagine the ones even before these!) but also oversaw the Saturn 5 which lifted every person who walked on the moon. We understand the physics, now it's a matter of engineering and funding!
I don't understand your alternative or how you get 5 and 4. Knuth's algorithm travels 12 sides of your 'square' (3 sides times inside+outside times upper+lower) plus the distance between upper and lower (once).

(TIL I brush my teeth just the way Knuth does. Except sometimes mirror-flipped.)