skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super Mario code injection, allows game to be turned into Flappy Bird
Great head on his shoulders, and feet on the ground
People can buy ether on Bitfinex, Kraken, and Poloniex. The first two take dollars, the last only bitcoins.
Security Implications of Synthetic Biology and Nanobiotechnology [pdf]
It would be easier to support IFTTT on this if the proposed APIs to be implemented were public. But making the APIs private and then being a dick about it with all the legal threats isn't something that I can reasonably support.

I doubt I'm alone in thinking this way.
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just because it comes over TLS, doesn't mean it's true
My point is that the current popular opinion based on a casual response to an (unbiased?) question should not necessarily be used to determine the policy of a nation.
I'd spend money on a Yahoo Pipes + IFTTT solution with some kind of guarantee they're not going to vanish overnight. You know, like a Pinboard.in style company. I think we need to clone Maciej.
Yup, exactly :)

VC approach to these silly "disruptive enterprises" is statistically sound: throw 1000 pieces of shit (disruptive enterprises) on the wall, see what sticks. 95% of them will just slide down; but they won't cost too much ("grow big or fail fast"), and some % might get some traction, and hopefully cover for the other 95%.

This also works with books and movies and computer games etc, it is fun.
Content may be king, but now Authenticity is a prince (or princess)
He mentioned "several" issues. One was Intel Ethernet, but the other was a serious issue with the kernel:

on a server with 128 GB of RAM, over 70 GB of RAM was being held down by the kernel and left idle for an extended time. As you can imagine, this didn't help the ZFS ARC size, which got choked down to 20 GB or so.

That's a big issue. Is he supposed to periodically reboot his NFS servers to free up the idle RAM?
Full disclosure: I'm an engineer at Catalyze Inc, a direct competitor of Aptible's.

That being said working with payers and providers you are obviously going to want to learn the ins and outs of HIPAA. However increasingly providers, and by proxy, payers are requiring that their vendors be HITRUST certified. It is worth realizing that being HIPAA compliant will not be enough for a lot of the big players. Just something to be aware of!

FYI, my company's platform is HITRUST certified, beyond the simple self-study, which, again, is often not enough for the big players in health care.
Yep. This is bad enough that the simple fact that a site integrates with IFTTT will be sufficient to trigger my brand-new 'Wow. You guys signed that? I am NOT trusting you with data I care about' reflex.
you should appreciate this one too: http://makerstutorial.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-build-elec...
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That's what they're doing at the moment. I'm guessing IFTTT believe that they have become important enough to get the sites to integrate with IFTTT.
Thanks for posting this!

So on that first paragraph, are they implying that the journal should have provided Theranos with a copy of the manuscript for review and comment? Maybe I'm not reading that charitably, but that's not how the system works, and I don't think scolding the journal (page 3) over manuscript decisions is an appropriate response.

The second paragraph is strikes me as a bit rich considering the reputation Theranos has for secrecy. As best I can tell, they still haven't published the more detailed information on their technology that they promised when the WSJ first broke the story?

Were I the editor, I think my response might be along the lines of "you raise some excellent points, and so we invite you to submit a research manuscript for accelerated review".
I am not disputing that it is possible to design serious, rigorous evaluations that somehow hinge on candidates not using their normal tools to answer programming questions.

What I dispute is that anyone really does that.

It is awfully easy to rationalize any hazing ritual with this sort of six- degrees- of- concurrency- and- formal- methods logic. But there's a simple observation to make about all these questions: they do not mimic the experience of doing the work the interviewer is evaluating candidates for.

The more a question diverges from the experience of doing the job, the more process and framework and structure and rigor is needed to extract value from it. But really: most of these questions are just the same dumb fucking programming questions, just with different variants of the interviewer repeatedly whacking the candidate over the head with a paper towel roll while trying to answer.
> The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon
public policy.

That's a feature, not a bug.
Dis-ease. Semantics. There can be morphological (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2785515/) and biochemical indicators of depression and anxiety.

To make mice depressed they will do a forced swimming test (poor mice). So this is another way to induce depression: physical+psychological stress.

If there were good science with good funding it's feasible to come up with a lab test for depression--and anxiety--that's very, very accurate.

No, the article is incorrect. It does not have citations either. Explore pubmed for plenty of information. (Keep in mind the sad reality is that even good science is wrong lots of the time--I'm hedging, okay most of the time.)

The risks of not properly treating depression and anxiety is very, very high. So the article is very irresponsible in my opinion.
Yes. They did. At least one example I know of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Tunisians - lol
There's money to be made in the IBM midrange market. The company I work for is still using the iSeries (although we're switching to TOP_5_CLOUD_ERP system as we speak), and we use Apache and PHP to connect to modern systems.

Every year, IBM is at the user conference for the software we currently use. They're always showing off their newest Linux machine with 200 cores and I don't know why, because half the people there aren't even using bar coding, and everyone there is a small fry.

Here's where a niche developer comes in. You can use Java which is supported by IBM, Zend has a nice PHP setup, and IBM's bastardized version of Apache. Want to build an API to interact with this stone age fucker? You can do it. Build a Slack integration and look like a hero. Heck build some crappy web app because it's easier and faster to do development with your favorite framework than it is to do it on the IBM with RPG and whatever the fuck that thing runs. SQL your brains out!

These customers aren't leaving the IBM without investing a half a million dollars into a new platform. Every year, there are less and less people there, but they'll gladly spend $50k to integrate some simple workflow.

Rent a booth for $1,000, give away an iPad or some FitBits and pass out some business cards. Go to 3-4 of these a year and you should be able to keep busy for a while. And you already know SQL, PHP, Apache, you just get to discover the 'intricacies' of doing it on the IBM.
You didn't really pay for anything except a promise that they would maybe try to get you something. Kickstarter has all the risks of an investor with none of the payoff - like equity in the business.
"I've tried explaining these as applications that no one controls, but that has a wild west connotation that isn't applicable."

it's also a statement that's simply not true. the parties that usually control financial and legal systems might not control it. it might be the case that no single person or single organization controls it. but to say that "no one controls" it is false. there are people whose input controls it. if that were not the case, it would not be useful.
I don't know how the author's grandparents ate, but this does exist: http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/

The author also writes: "Whole foods like blueberries and eggs were being pushed off shelves by their more sophisticated cousins" before talking about relations with local farmers, but if you want your blueberries in the wintertime you're not liable to get it local.

I do agree that we need to improve lots and lots of things concerning food in this country, but it's also important to remember how things actually used to be.
> If a situation is causing no problems outside of depression/anxiety, and you took away the depression/anxiety mechanism, there would be nothing wrong with it.

My experience with SSRI's has been that taking away that mechanism is taking away creativity, emotional range, and introspective ability. Reality distortion is reality distortion. I reject procrustean medicine that fits humans to the mold of what is best for society, which is the primary environment in which anxiety/depression originate.
I'm fairly skeptical of these stories, for the simple reason that this seems like far too much effort to go to just to deliver malware. If the scammer were trying to get people to pay the fines, that would make a lot more sense - it'd be over $100 a mark. But commodity malware infections are worth maybe a few dollars per host. Not much to use your clever multi-platform location-collecting scam on.

If these stories are accurate, I suspect the malware being delivered is pretty interesting. I think it's more likely that there's a way simpler explanation, though.

The scammers might just be sending out emails to people that they have an email address and physical address for (which could have come from any of a number of data dumps), with random times and random major streets near the physical addresses. A certain portion of the time, this will just happen to match up closely enough with someone's real driving for them to think it matches their memory. It only takes a few cases to get a police department to take note and then amplify it through local media.
Not a lot of time at the moment, but I'll start with the fact that there's BitBucket, Unfuddle, and others I've forgotten (hell, SourceForge is still around) that may allow a dominant position in that space, but GitHub is a long way from being a trust or monopoly. Additionally, the barrier to switching to competitor is low. GitHub has arguably little control or influence over the hosted source control market. Unlike Microsoft in the 90s, there is little but goodwill and reputation to keep us all from switching to BitBucket tomorrow.

Theres a lot of subtlety I'm missing, but that's the best this non-lawyer can do for the time being.
Yes. It's just stock on a vesting schedule.
I love that someone offered to buy time on his machine.

Pro tip: when someone offers money for using something about which you don't care, say "Sure, how much do you think you need to get started?"
> False positives can still be very harmful to patients (surgery, medication, lifestyle changes, etc) so they must be taken into account as well.

Well yes, I wasn't suggesting jumping into treatment before verifying with the expensive, higher specificity test.

Even with pregnancy, the impact of a false positive isn't huge when the next step is just to take another test - the same test that would've been done anyway if the first one wasn't available.

Though the potential savings probably aren't great with pregnancy tests because they're already cheap, and I'd imagine the overall incidence for people taking the test is pretty high.
The replies to your post are saying that they (Sherpas) still have the choice to move to India or America. While that's true it feels too technical. The whole picture needs to be seen - that the influence of the economy around climbing is strong enough for the choice of moving vs guiding expeditions to not be equal. Consider too the original point of the article - the Sherpas are being wage abused relative to the risk they endure.
Correct. I believe most implementations do it this way for efficiency... but my naming could be better.
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I think that's a great idea. At this point in time, there is so much stuff going on the CS/AI/ML domain that translating research papers into something people can read without incalculable suffering might be as important and valuable as research itself. After all, many of those papers concern things that almost anyone with access to a computer can actually implement and use.

PS: Bonus points for anything that diverges from the current mainstream (like SVMs or boosting).
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The ironic thing is the right to be forgotten is about public data, and that is what Google is arguing over. Perhaps there should be a global right to be forgotten, but it has to be implemented in a correct fashion. Opening loopholes for despotic regimes to be an editor over Google search results is not ok.

As for not using the Google services, your comment on the face of it is a nice little narrative. Although ironically the data you share with Google has some of the best privacy protections, and you can delete it at any time you wish. Also it doesn't affect search results, so you are not really doing anything other than taking a moral stand, and limiting your access to services, some of which I personally find quite excellent and good.
I have been following the Theranos articles in the Wall Street Journal closely. (I’m not a scientist and have no experience working in a clinical lab, so my opinions are those of an interested observer.)

My opinion is that Theranos should still be a small biotech company operating in R&D mode. They had no business going to market with a methodology and a product that were unproven and entirely hidden from scientific peer review. After the dust settles and they reorganize, that’s probably what will happen. Theranos should also allow their investors to pull out without any consequences.
There is a crucial element of that form of criticism, which is that it is played like a game: There is a definite time and place, a magic circle, and when it's over everything is "reset" and you just have a project artifact and happy workers.

Compare with a boss walking up on the floor and bellowing, "so, why is it late???" Now the whole office is cued in to maneuver and deflect blame, not just that one time but throughout the day, every day, until they leave the job entirely.

Really good leadership understands how to maintain the atmosphere for the situation. They can turn up the heat but do so judiciously. They have to do it with care precisely because the individuals tend to be a "bag of emotions", easily swung off track with careless dialogue.

The Reddit thread is cautionary towards a neutral business situation where the goals are simply to maintain trust, gather basic information, and assign tasks and plans. Confrontation in that instance is quite destructive.
Compared to unit tests where the concept of the user doesn't even exist or needs to be shimmed in with a proxy object, I really don't think the user differences in ACL are the deciding factor between the two.

As for programmer productivity, proper parallelization of these tests results in sub second test suite runtime. Maybe more if there is a new dependency that the testing servers need to install, but it really isn't that bad.
> Wouldn't you be performing this work because you believe it will facilitate the transfer of traffic to your site?

That is surely how IFTTT will pitch it to 3rd parties... but, really, probably not. Being accessible in the Recipe list isn't great advertising, anyone not using your site already probably isn't going to sign up due to seeing your name on IFTTT.

Framed another way, there is a famous saying in the design industry: "I can't pay you, but it would be great for your portfolio". Classic exploitation tactic; manipulative and predatory.
1 s:/C=FR/ST=Paris/L=Paris/O=Gandi/CN=Gandi Standard SSL CA 2
i:/C=US/ST=New Jersey/L=Jersey City/O=The USERTRUST Network/CN=USERTrust RSA Certification Authority

Nope...?
Oh, this is a fantastic and beautiful deconstruction of this argument, I LOVE this. The comparison to chronic pain is fantastic, because indeed, chronic pain is a side effect of many conditions, and if we were able to relieve the chronic pain somehow, we certainly would, but being currently unable, we seek means to treat the chronic pain.

I've often held that the most insidious part about clinical depression is its self-reinforcing nature. Deep clinical depression is throwing a person into a deep hole with thorns sticking out of the sides- every attempt to climb out of said hole results in swollen cuts and pain to the arms and body, rendering eventual escape more difficult with each struggle.

Eventually, it becomes like trying to climb out of said hole with no arms at all. It's one of my life goals to discover biochemical methods to help such people regain the use of their arms, or even essentially grow new ones.

I find articles like this one useful ONLY* insofar as they assist those who have gained use of their arms and cut away the brambles on the walls of the pit- for most others, it merely ends up encouraging more struggling, self-recriminations, and effectually a deepening of the hole. :(
And they were Jewish or Pagan before the Christians forced their way in. Check out this article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence#Ch...

Those old warrior popes sound a lot like the Mullahs of today. I particular enjoyed this line: "In the 12th century, Bernard of Clairvaux wrote: "'The knight of Christ may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently; for he serves Christ when he strikes, and saves himself when he falls.... When he inflicts death, it is to Christ's profit, and when he suffers death, it is his own gain.'""
Pfft.. So far they've all missed Octal support (015). Relax, everyone, I took care of it: https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen/pull/259/
I should clarify that the terms of service I quoted are a thing you agree to by using their developer site, and that I was not given a document to sign.
I hope that wink is a realization that sponsored content (in the form of "Show HN" and the linkbait submitted by heavily interested parties) has already arrived.
Isn't MTG a 1v1 game generally? "Each player"?
Would it be possible to make a FOIA request?
I certainly self censor and even now am posting semi anonymously obviously.

But those in favor of mass surveillance could answer the study by claiming that if the surveillance is kept secret then 1. it won't stifle minority opinions and 2. it will work better

By saying this they could not only answer the study's concerns but could now advocate zealously punishing whistle blowers.
VR makes me sick and nausea.
Different people have different needs. There is no standard for what an awesome life is. Having an awesome life in some ways can still be miserable in other ways, and only for particular people. An "fantastic life" where one is depressed is not fantastic.

Psychological diversity is a precious resource, and a society that is too inflexible to accommodate those who are particularly sensitive or have exceptionally different needs is a bad society. Depression and anxiety, and a host of other mental disorders for that matter, are an epidemic in too many countries, too many countries that are supposed to have high quality of life.

> if you effectually tell depressed people to figure out what's wrong in their life and fix it- well, it's one way to obliquely encourage suicide.

Kind of a straw man don't you think?
They already had the 6-week-old iCloud backup from the device. Don't forget as well that this was a work phone, the personal phone was destroyed, which suggests there's nothing of interest on the work phone (presumably just info related to work).
> 72mb of ram probably get away with NT 4.0 easily

Very easily - we used to have lots of 32MB NT4 machines. I think the system requirements were only 12 or 16MB (as usual wishful thinking really). Although I think the eventual resource usage of SP6 was a lot higher than the RTM version.

> and maybe even Windows 2000

I tried Win2K Pro on a 486DX2 66 with 64MB once - it worked but was very very slow. I suspect the cpu and disk were a bigger factor than the amount of ram.
Yes, this is the correct intermediate.
"In open source, you can only have “my” in the associative sense. There is no possessive “my” in open source."

That's not quite true. I think the disconnect comes from a misunderstanding of ownership vs licensing. When you release under most open source licenses, you grant license to anyone to use and to republish your code. It's still owned by you, but can be used, modified, and published by anyone else.

And there's nothing stopping you from releasing it under a different license as well.

So reversing the removal of code is perfectly fine.
you can only do this if the surface of the treadmill is an inertial reference frame. ie. a person running at constant speed vs a person on a treadmill at constant speed is functionally equivalent.

However, the moment you want to stop or change speed this no longer works - in the real world your body needs to accelerate, while on the treadmill the treadmill accelerates and your body does not. This is because the ground remains an inertial reference frame during the acceleration, while the treadmill surface does not.
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>There can be morphological (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2785515/) and biochemical indicators of depression and anxiety.

That doesn't really have any bearing on the accuracy of the article. PTSD is also associated with reduced hippocampal volume, which reverses with successful treatment. It isn't as if the hippocampus suddenly shrinks for no apparent reason...

>So this is another way to induce depression: physical+psychological stress.

The article is talking about psychological stress, so you're really just discussing the same underlying cause.

>No, the article is incorrect. It does not have citations either. Explore pubmed for plenty of information.

I don't see how it is incorrect. It is just discussing the problem at a systems level rather than a biochemical level. Both explanations can be correct.

>The risks of not properly treating depression and anxiety is very, very high. So the article is very irresponsible in my opinion.

On the contrary, I think it's very irresponsible to dismiss articles like this out of hand, as that will likely prevent people from seeking the correct treatment.
Depression is commonly defined as the inability to recover from negative emotional state. To then call that a symptom of emotional needs seems to miss the distinction.

If we compared this to injure and clotting, it would be weird to describe a clotting disorder as a symptom of injuries. Preventing more injuries is likely going to help and is a good step forward, but it do nothing to address the issue on why the recovery process is impaired.
Cert chain is incorrect basically and the browser is fetching intermediate certs to try to make it work.

Most of the issues Qualys points out on blog.pinboard.in are not present on pinboard.in itself, so I presume there's a difference in config there that would be a good place to start. They're also running on different versions of Debian (squeeze v. wheezy, which ship different OpenSSLs) which accounts for some of the variance.

Also, as Qualys notes, disable RC4 ciphers on pinboard.in and you're in pretty good shape.
Once you get them running, they stay running. Like OpenVMS systems, you'll occasionally hear stories of how people lost them. They'd run without maintenance for so long that people would forget where they were when they needed it. My company has one that's been running all the critical stuff for years. It's the only thing that always works.

Btw, the original design was an awesome capability-secure system called System/38:

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/index.html