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Thanks for that story - I'll look up that Amazon link. I love the movie but definitely prefer the book. I'm not sure Red is a better character inherently but I'd certainly rather hang out with him than "Stalker".

Tarkovsky always brought his own perspective to things; it's been ages since I read Lem's Solaris but from what I recall Tarkovsky also packed it full of Daddy Stuff that wasn't in the book.

Not such a bad thing; hushed reverence for the source material often yields movies that are no more interesting than reading the book (the obverse of the problem where directors run rampant and screw things up completely; the two best contrasting examples of this are SF Channel Dune vs Lynch Dune).
I'm unconvinced you read my comment and are instead painting me with a "disagrees with the Bitcoin community's consensus and is therefore bizarre" brush

You've plied this valiant contrarian noise in virtually all of your comments on this. I'm personally a critic of Bitcoin. I most certainly am not in the "community". Yet the evidence that we have leans overwhelmingly towards "con man". I honestly believe someone would have to have a serious bias to ignore the overwhelming evidence that they are being had.

Your claim that anyone thinks he's "subverting cryptography" immediately cast your comment as hysterical. No one has seriously argued this.

You mean convinced at least five people and three editors

He convinced one or two people. Editors and journalists will run with the weakest of evidence because it's salacious and draws viewers. Do you really think they provide evidence of anything?

I'm sitting here with a complete lack of ability to care

Your rhetoric betrays that you actually do care. Very much. And each time you claim that it's some heroic stand that is only be squelched by the bitcoin insiders, it makes you look a little more foolish.

To your substantial edits: you're trying entirely too much to tell everyone how little you care. To quote Shakespeare, the lady (or man) doth protest too much.
Sadly, we've never found anything that proves animal communications have grammar. Or in information-theoretic terms, these are low entropy messages. They are instinctive things, like a hard-wired set of warning cries, or "write-once", like how male songbirds learn their species song during puberty, and will produce it identically forever, once stabilized (even if they go deaf!)
>what if she cut off her thumb and disposed of it in such a way that it was irretrievable? Or something less permanent like dipping her thumb in acid to destroy the fingerprint surface

Sounds like intent to harm oneself, which gets one locked up in the loony bin until one demonstrates oneself to be of sound mind.
Healthcare and Banking usually have huge IT departments. They don't just use typewriters and store customer data on paper just because they're not the software industry. Is there any company anymore that doesn't have at least an IT department?

Heck, most of them have their own software divisions. Let's not even get started on companies like Lockheed Martin/Honeywell - how many programmers do you think they employ?
> That he presented hearsay evidence... End of story.

You're suggesting that geniuses are always upstanding, straight-forward, super honest people, and that anyone who isn't super honest can't be a genius.

So what if he's sly, padded his resume, and has tax trouble. So what. He might still be a genius and might be Satoshi. We need more direct proof, but I'm not drawing conclusions from personal defects.
I am responding to a post that claims that countries no longer engage in the sorts of atrocities found in history to claim that things are not that different. I think we actually spend more effort these days "justifying" the carnage whereas in the past it passed with less comment.

You seem to be tilting at windmills that you erected yourself.
This is your point, but not everyone agrees with your point. Which doesn't really mean that you're wrong, just that we have entered an area of subjectivity.

What you suggest is certainly one way to measure "better" objectively, but that doesn't magically make it the best way.

On a large scale, you can see this in the field of health care. Some people argue as you do, and this leads to a fully free market for medicine. And the principle is that the most good will be done, because the people who value their health the most will pay the most for their services.

But whether we agree or disagree with the principle, surely we must acknowledge that there are entire countries full of people who have a different belief about the greatest good with respect to health care: In Ontario, for example, it is usually illegal for a doctor to charge more than a set amount for a certain type of procedure, and thus the people able to pay more are prevented by law from doing so.

That doesn't make Ontario, Canada "right" and Ontario, California "wrong," but clearly the idea that "it is better if the people willing to pay the most get the most" is not a universally held belief.
This. You can't apply some other language paradigms in every programming language just because it's the only thing you know how to do.
Oh neat! I hadn't heard of hyperscan before. I will have to check this out.
How about the NASA anti-gravity-thing plane?

Seems like a good target
The thing you have to understand is that your initial statement has literally no foundation to it. There isn't any solid proof that program failures like this are direct means to keeping workers employed (where it is implied that they otherwise wouldn't be). I am also not really sure how some crazy guy (I am being hyperbolic) betting hundreds of millions of dollars (some of it his own funds) somehow becomes analogous with a purposefully obtuse military industrial complex scheme to keep people employed.

There are certainly cases where the government soaks up funding, gives it to a company, for absolutely no other reason that we can tell other than to just funnel money along into their little corner of the country (and thus their constituents).

But I have a really hard time believing that is the case here.
It will be fun to watch, for a lot of us, and that's worth something.

This somewhat implies that the ApplyHN experiment is at least as much about performance art and entertainment as it is doing any sort of real entrepreneurship.

That's fine and all, but let's be honest with ourselves about why we're here.
The LLVM backend that has been written generates code that directly runs on the Videocore GPU, which also handles the early boot process. Your link is concerned with code that runs on the ARM core, and interfaces with the GPU via the existing code running on the GPU
Google places the most comprehensive controls on PII of any place I've seen, including hospital environments subject to HIPAA. (Mostly because, unlike the hospitals, they have the technical clue how to enforce it properly. The hospitals... are still learning about computer security, and it's not their forte: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/two-more-healthcare-... )

Getting access to private information in Google is hard - my experience as a researcher here is that there's a strong incentive to find an open-source or non-PII dataset before touching user data. I'll go through my year here without ever touching even the most innocuous PII data.

It's very unlikely to me that thousands of people will have access to this data. It's much more likely that a small handful will, and that they'll be supported by others with no access whatsoever. From the article, in fact:

"The agreement clearly states that Google cannot use the data in any other part of its business. The data itself will be stored in the UK by a third party contracted by Google, not in DeepMind’s offices. DeepMind is also obliged to delete its copy of the data when the agreement expires at the end of September 2017."

From an incentive perspective, the potential value-add of abusing the data is tiny compared to the potential costs and loss of user trust. Google's very aware of how important it is to maintain user trust -- http://www.techradar.com/us/news/internet/google-we-have-a-c...

Corporations don't have brains, but they have cultures, and Google's culture -- composed of those thousands of engineers -- is quite fanatical about protecting user privacy. It's one of the non-technical things that's impressed me most during my time here.

The risk with a company like Google is if the economic winds and culture changes, but that's a long-term process, and is also the reason for legally-binding contracts to do things like delete the data (see above).

tl;dr: Google has the technical means to protect the confidential data better than almost any other agency, including from its own employees. The most important question to ask is whether the NHS structured the data sharing in a way that provides for long-term protection, and (IANAL!) it sounds like it from the article.

Source: I'm a professor who deals with our IRB occasionally, have colleagues doing joint CS-medical research, pushed patients around a hospital in a younger life, and am on sabbatical for the year at Google.
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It isn't that ruse. I replicated the file that is verified in the screenshots - the ruse is that it contains an old bitcoin transaction from Satoshi rather than Sartre's writings.

https://rya.nc/sartre.html
You've linked to a page about care.data

This Google thing has fuck all to do with care.data - they're totally separate.

I understand "the" NHS is complex, but it's pretty frustrating talking to someone who has very strong opinions and who clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.

It's really weird to link to a document that talks about the severe legal penalties for anyone who attempts to de-anonymise the data, and then use that to say "look how flimsy these agreements are!", especially when the document you link to has a BOLD lead saying that things are even stricter in the newer document.

> The politician provides the initial promises

Again, not a politician. Chief data officer at NHS England, and a real doctor. http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/about/our-people/dr-geraint-...

> The problem with psuedonymous data is the NHS basically admits it can be used to identify people given sufficient effort.

It's trivially easy for Google to do this already without the NHS data, and they don't face prison time for doing it. See all the pregnant teens outed by supermarket loyalty cards for other examples.
>> If a company didn't bother to retain records on who bought something they are now required to recall due to safety failures

I am not aware of any law in the US ( talk on US laws because you discuss it later in your comment) that requires by business to keep sales records for the purposes of recalls, the only businesses required to do that are business that sell regulated goods, (firearms, explosives, Drugs, certain chemicals, etc)

Normal Consumer Goods are recalled all of the time with out the Manufacturers, or Retailers having a master list of every person that bought that item.
Unfortunately, Dr. Slobodchikoff, while indeed having a PhD, is not actually a linguist, and most of his papers are in other fields. Here's a pretty good assessment of his prairie dog claims: https://badlinguistics.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/hold-the-fro...
If so, the author says it poorly. Yes, you wouldn't look for a causal link without correlation, that would be insane, but the existence of correlation tells you only that there might be causation, nothing more.
> "Fairly dense" is all you need to vastly improve things in many places. Look at vast swaths of the bay area that are single story detached houses. Mix in some 2/3 story buildings in there, and you'd add a lot of supply without going 'full Hong Kong'.

Ok, but I still don't buy your argument. Seattle has a density similar to Rome. San Francisco has a density similar to Milan. Why is Italy cheaper with good public transit? It's clearly not the density, and I don't buy that it's just NIMBY-ism either (though even if so, it's still not density.).

> Also, Milan is about twice as dense as Seattle.

I was looking at the broader urban area. You're right that it is considerably denser if you only look at the 70 square mile administrative area (roughly San Francisco density).
The database should already know what indexes you need just by looking at how you access the data. Explicitly choosing indexes is explicitly making a choice off time-space tradeoffs, and you have to do it at a very low level: which columns do you build indexes on? How many do you build?

It really isn't that far off from choosing the layout of a struct in C and having to know how it's packed and aligned.

>Knowing what indexes you need and why is far from being some kind of esoteric specialized knowledge of database internals.

I'll concede that, but the issue still exists. Does your database have DROP TABLE IF EXISTS or not? Some do, some don't. If it doesn't, how do you achieve the same functionality? A given database offers thousands of operations, and the syntax, performance, and semantics of each varies by quite a bit.

My point is, you have to learn the specifics of the database you're using to do general purpose data storage stuff.
I also use the web interface and I believe it tethers your phone to the browser - so the phone is sending the unencrypted messages to the browser window.

If you delete a message on the phone the message disappears in the web interface too.
I think it was explained that this experiment was only under the umbrella of YCF because it was the closest fit, so none of the traditional rules or criteria really apply.

However, I think Pinboard would be a better fit for the normal YC program. Maybe in the future there should be two tracks for Apply HN (established and idea stage).
>> Or - worse - you'll see new information, but it'll be invisibly erroneous, because random GPs don't work to the standard that physicians administering examinations in clinical studies do.

So you will take this into account and emphasize the more reliable types of tests, like blood tests. Or you'll find ways of learning which doctors who do the tests more accurately(or train doctors to do so) and which people are more consistent/reliable with their relationship with their docs. Or maybe you'll get a few hypotheses which are relatively likely and that would incentivize the researchers/google to do small clinical trials on them.

It's worth a try at least.
I've worked in three million+ loc codebases, in PHP, Python and Java. I don't share your opinion that you need static types in these circumstances. You need discipline, modularity, and most importantly you need to have been blessed with gardeners and maintainers throughout the life of a project and not just after a mess has already taken hold.
By that definition we are addicted to water, oxygen, and calories.
Tracking calories would blow most people's minds about the quanta of food they're eating. I've been tracking for a while, and sometimes I'm still surprised.

Scale and app. It's never been easier.
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> I, for one, am glad this is happening because this administration has practiced an incredible variety of crimes, and deeply hurt the country in their hubris.

What you said just proves my point. You're happy because you perceive this to your advantage. But this judicial power works both ways. In the future they can use this power to do whatever they want.

> A government isn't perpetually in power once it is elected.

True, that's why it is called a democracy. The government will be legitimate only until the next election. It's not a group of judges that can determine the legitimacy of a government.

> It is funny how PT government supporters

The fact that you consider me a PT supporter shows that you just care about your political position, not about the larger point around this issue. There are people pro and anti-goverment who see the big problem that is being created by the Brazilian judicial system. It doesn't matter what government is in power for this to be a problem.
Ah, I see. In that case, I think we agree!
Really though.

I wouldn't even trust going to the nearest computer shop myself and picking out a computer.

Presumably the assistant was believable because they weren't dressed in spandex and sequins.
The issue is he'd have to be a cryptography "genius", so the fact that he can't provide a simple cryptographic proof speaks volumes.
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The distinction is obvious: correlation does not include an ordering, but causation does. You can observe that two things both happened, and that is correlation. You can observe that one thing happened, and then another thing happened after, and stipulate causation. You can increase your certainty by a controlled experiment.

It seems like all the author is really saying is that experiments aren't good enough to produce 100% certainty of causation. Not all that shocking. But the author also seems to conflate correlation with uncertainty, and this is probably where the title comes from: increasing certainty from controlled experiments implies causation.
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Passing a law and being able to implement it are 2 different things. If US decides to put pressure on banks they will comply.
I've had no trouble learning the basics of a relational databases. The problem is that the basics don't really transfer between implementations all that conveniently.

It's like how I know the basics of processor architectures. There's registers and caches and interrupts. But now ask me to apply that to a specific machine's code? Now I've got to read the whole manual for that machine to figure out how the 'basics' apply to this particular machine.
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Thanks for the vote! Planning a wedding is super broken. Besides the fact that vendors largely up charge specifically for weddings, the amount of time it takes to iterate with vendors (often face to face) is way too long. We're hoping to make the whole process more efficient :)
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Your first point makes no sense whatsoever. Because an American company operates in a foreign country doesn't mean they don't have to follow the law.

"oh sorry, breaking local laws? Oh well, we're in america! Too bad!"

Doesn't work like that.
Idlewords himself said that he is hoping to attract protest votes in that Apply thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441720

It's necessary to have been around for a decade to understand what the protest vote is, exactly. PG's advice circa 2009 was "get to ramen profitability", which is what idlewords did. AFAIK, PG has never reversed himself on that stance.

The protest vote might be something along the lines of "YC now encourages startups to chase valuations rather than get to ramen profitability". It's unclear to me that the latter is true, but that's certainly the perception.
Two points worth making:

1. The original Theranos scientist who started the project - Ian Gibbons - committed suicide after saying that "nothing was working" in 2013. After Gibbons wife spoke to the press, Theranos threatened to sue her.

2. The idea of a needle pricking the end of my finger, just to get one drop (not enough for analysis anyway) is horrible. Far better to get it from an area with less nerve endings which will get more blood - like the usual place in the crook of the arm. The whole idea was stupid to begin with.
I prefer to just use async (https://github.com/caolan/async) for all control and error flow. Namely async.auto() can do almost any crazy flow.
Infection-resistant materials

Suggestion to the founders of this: Explore insulin pump infusion sets and continuous glucose monitoring sensors as a possible market for your technology. This is a significant and growing market, and it's one where infection resistance is important: Non-professionals in non-sterile environments, inserting devices through the skin which stay there for between a few days and a couple weeks. Skin infections are one of the most common complications of both CSII and CGM systems.
Maybe try the emacs psychologist? Microsoft's Tae was an example of a sophisticated attempt at what you're describing, but that didn't turn out so great.
thanks for the comment. This would be interesting, but not sure it would have made sense to pack it into one article that is already heavy with data terminology for a lay reader.

Will definitely be looking into healthcare data more, as this story has resulted in some interesting leads
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