skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll give it a shot :)

logic cells: easy, by universality of NAND.

RAM: distinction between flip flops and RAM is unnecessary from a strictly technical standpoint. a massive (or not so much) array of flip flops with decoder and mux (also just made of NANDs) can get you by.

ROM/flash: maybe I could argue NAND flash counts as just a NAND gate, but not quite. I'll concede nonvolatile memory with just plain old NANDs. May I suggest a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode_matrix?

"analog components": having Vcc and ground available is an implicit requirement of having a functional NAND gate, and IO could just be some wires mirroring a memory location.

Overall I'd say its a largely accurate statement. All you need is something to set up your initial conditions (e.g. program in memory).
> I'm not sure how often Amazon changes the structure of their review content.

All the time, I think they do a decent amount of A/B testing on product pages (which would make sense). I looked into scraping reviews and doing some analysis for this exact reason.
Gibson Research introduced a lot of people to security. I doubt anyone believes he's the foremost expert at any one thing in particular. He's earned a lot of respect for making security easy for new folks.
Clearly you weren't a Gnome 2 fan.
"...and we think they all suck."

Was he referring to Limbo?

Plan 9 or Inferno on a smartphone form factor would tempt me to use one. The only reason I'm not using Plan 9 everyday is hardware support.

I don't dare say what I think of Java and Android. But let's just say I see things a little differently than Lindholm.

Rubin used C and NetBSD at Danger before he went to Google. Remember the T-Mobile Sidekick?

Microsoft bought Danger and shut it down.

A sad state of affairs but I guess it's all about the money.

All this and more will be in my upcoming fact-inspired novel, "Litigating mediocrity".
User Content Platforms Take the Heat for Artists' Struggles at WIPO
MATE rocks.

Although the original wasn't around in 96
How does it compare to FreeCAD?
CygnusEd editor for Amiga. Thanks Bruce
Do you hire International Students?
BeOS
California's Legislature Wants to Copyright All Government Works
"Avoid the idea that you can hire contractors for short term things, when contractors is really a euphism for disposable employees. Push management to hire full time employees" ..

Can you elaborate why ?
Borland Turbo C++ was my first "real" programming language after GW-BASIC. Had some extremely heavy Tandy laptop ('portable computer' might be a better moniker) with a CGA monitor. Those were the days.
Using Social Media in Background Investigations
> w/hr

Did you mean W (watt) = J/s which is a unit of power?
What Do Customers Think They’re Getting When They Buy Media Online?
These stories - and there have been many in the last year or so - never bring up the automat. There's a century long history of self-service restaurants, which were nearly all replaced by fast food restaurants. FEBO stores in The Netherlands has an automat component.

If minimum wage were so critical, why haven't more fast food restaurants in The Netherlands, where (Wikipedia tells me) the minimum wage is $10/hour for those 23 and older?
Sounds like "Don't count
chickens before they hatch" or, in
this case, don't allocate time
or money or sign deals or promise
things before are darned sure
can do them -- better yet, have
those things already done.

Or basically have a plan that has
the startup go live and get revenue
enough for break even before making
promises. Then, when one of the unexpected
things happens, the launch date is just
pushed out another month or two but
don't get into trouble with investors,
bankers, lawyers, employees, etc.
What are the other companies you know of? The 6 months stat is an interesting one.
Bandwagon Voting in Conventions and Primaries
The author also mentioned -you know- building a solution on 1980's-era tech, namely a single database of actual (rather than proxy) shareholders and contact information/voting instructions/other useful info:

"You could just, you know, build a big database of who owns shares, and transfer shares on that database, and not rely on a system in which people own shares in brokers' databases and brokers own shares in DTC's database and DTC owns shares in companies' (transfer agents') databases. The big database could send out voting instructions directly to the shareholders, cutting back on the outsourcing. You could build a new system, from the ground up, corresponding to the actual practices of finance rather than to the archaisms that they're built on." [0]

No need to go all blockchain and shit, just consolidate the mess of systems into a single well-designed and well thought-out one.

[0] That 'graph is -incidentally- the 'graph that immediately precedes the one that mentions The Blockchain(TM).
Cool. NITK is also close by in Surathkal, which doesn't hurt.
After decades of practicing medicine and seeing results of countless lab tests, I tend to agree with many of the comments here. The article isn't wrong at its core, but it is sensationalizing some very important issues.

The idea that lab studies yield false positives (and negatives too) is hardly novel. Of course test results can be misleading or easily misconstrued. We know a single test, or even a set of tests is rarely definitive. We know interpreting tests is an exercise in probabilistic thinking and careful practitioners rely on test results only to the extent warranted.

I often get a question like "so what does this test mean?" A single anomalous reading, probably not much. I answer "it's only a test", confirming a diagnosis is a laborious process to make sure the facts align as best as can be determined. That is, the gamut of history, direct observation, and a variety of lab/imaging measurements looking at a clinical situation from several angles need to converge.

In many practice domains lab/measurement technologies provide tremendous benefit. Think about the contributions of imaging (CT, MRI), endoscopy (colonoscopy, etc.), and yes, advances in medical laboratory science also save untold lives every day. Everyone here on HN knows all technologies can and will be misused but that doesn't mean they are not valuable and worthy.

I take my own advice to never forget: "it's only a test", and any test is no more useful than the limits of its credibility.
Very nice. I've been building something like this with C9. It needs to be done!
Guess there's always some criticism to be made about apps, but the bit about depositing half your salary is horrible. Some aggressive retention tactics.
Railway Paradise: How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable
It kind of fits with Kurzweil's guess that in 15 years or so we'll be extending life expectancy faster than we age. Though he's big into the nanobots idea which I'm skeptical of. But with advances in AI and DNA sequencing I can see people figuring out which bits of DNA do what and being able to modify the aging process.
> The simplest resolution to the grandfather paradox is blah, blah, blah...

The simplest resolution to the grandfather paradox is that time travel is impossible. Full stop, paradox solved. No need for quantum theories. Just because we can imagine something doesn't mean its possible.
Abstract

Physical activity is associated with reduced risk of several cancers, including aggressive prostate cancer. The mechanisms mediating the effects are not yet understood; among the candidates are modifications of endogenous hormone levels. Long-term exercise is known to reduce serum levels of growth stimulating hormones. In contrast, the endocrine effects of acute endurance exercise include increased levels of mitogenic factors such as GH and IGF-1. It can be speculated that the elevation of serum growth factors may be detrimental to prostate cancer progression into malignancy. The incentive of the current study is to evaluate the effect of acute exercise serum on prostate cancer cell growth. We designed an exercise intervention where 10 male individuals performed 60 minutes of bicycle exercise at increasing intensity. Serum samples were obtained before (rest serum) and after completed exercise (exercise serum). The established prostate cancer cell line LNCaP was exposed to exercise or rest serum. Exercise serum from 9 out of 10 individuals had a growth inhibitory effect on LNCaP cells. Incubation with pooled exercise serum resulted in a 31% inhibition of LNCaP growth and pre-incubation before subcutaneous injection into SCID mice caused a delay in tumor formation. Serum analyses indicated two possible candidates for the effect; increased levels of IGFBP-1 and reduced levels of EGF. In conclusion, despite the fear of possible detrimental effects of acute exercise serum on tumor cell growth, we show that even the short-term effects seem to add to the overall beneficial influence of exercise on neoplasia.
BASIC did as well IIRC.
The point is that I'm not going to subdivide the files, but subdivide the tasks - "I'm going to search for all my personal letters to mum this morning", or "I'm going to look manually through 5,000 email subjects for things that look interesting".
Why is the wirecutter even reading Amazon reviews? Isn't their job to give independent analysis?
Modelworks JPad Pro ... https://archive.org/details/tucows_296665_JPad_Pro
Working, eating and sleeping at the office
agree - sad i had to scroll down so far to see a comment like that ;(
>> Hopefully, such tactics will fall out of favor as more people notice them.

Oh you are way too hopeful. I've experienced so many times situations where I think "surely everyone is seeing through the speaker's BS" only to be severely disappointed.
I don't really see what's new here, that made the author "withdraw his endorsement". It's an issue from 2014, about a device that has always been fully proprietary? Ok, so they make other devices that was in some small way open, and ran Free software. Great. But the yubikey devices have never AFAIK really been open in any meaningful sense. So, really this isn't so much yubikey changing what they do, but rather the author not understanding what these devices were in the first place?

As far as I can tell, if you got one of these in the mail, there'd be no meaningful way you could verify that it hadn't been tampered with anyway. So you'd just have to make a leap of faith, and assume it was "secure"? If you were prepared to do that, then fine use the yubikeys. If not, perhaps you should take a deeper look at your usb mouse and keyboard too. Did you verify that your keyboard isn't running some code that might compromise your security?
The technology advances when it can advance, no matter what. The raise of surveillance would have happened even without NSA. The Deep Learning advancements happened because of faster computers, even though humans have discovered some of the best ideas 20+ years ago.

<rant>

There is potential for achieving superhuman intelligence by genetic selection. By scanning millions of people's DNA and their personal traits (predicting phenotype characteristics from genotype), they want to build a classifier that would rate a DNA before it got developed. Then they would be able to select embryos before IVF. This is done today too, but only to filter out some simple genetic defects.

A selection of 1:2 gives a 5 IQ point boost. A selection of 1:1000 embryos gives a boost of 40 IQ points. If we repeat this over a few generations, humanity will evolve much faster.

This iterative improvement by AI rating of genomes could be sped up by creating sperm and ova directly from embryo stem cells. This way we don't need to wait for a generation to pass to have the kids become parents. In a few years many DNA selection -> embryo iterations could be tested and selected and evolution would be sped up even more.

In the short run, 40 to 80 years, we face the appearance of AGI and human-computer interfaces. We will evolve together with it, and this kind of DNA synthesis would be an essential tool for the future. Even if a few people have been enhanced, when they have kids with non-enhanced people the new genetic advancements could be passed to the whole population in a few generations. The final aim is to extend life, intelligence and perhaps gain immortality and become much more than we were before.

Even if we don't do AI based DNA enhancement, we still need to prepare for the possible catastrophe at the point of singularity. We need to create databases of human embryos so we could create humanity back in case it is destroyed. I'd also put in these databases a copy of all the human produced data and culture, just in case they need to start from scratch. These databases would have to be hidden and remain incommunicado for long enough to make sure we didn't get wiped out. They could even be cared for by robots for millions of years before opening up, as an insurance ticket that we survive.

</rant>

My point is that we don't really control the evolution of these technologies. They will be developed because they can be developed. In the past they weren't developed because it was impossible. We, humans, created even the a-bomb immediately after we understood nuclear physics. We spied on people as soon as the internet (and even telephone) was available. Why would we be able to stop from making synthetic DNA? The temptation to prolong life or to enhance future children exists, the means also exist.
Not half your salary. An amount equivalent to that. But some people have to take a loan to cover that amount. So it effectively becomes like that.
I swear every day I see a new post about why X programming language is awful. It is pretty demotivating.
I also used Springboard, not as an Evernote replacement but I would use to do inventory of my physical belongings, movie and book queue, recipes, and wish list, because it recognized almost any type of product you threw at it.

Sadly, haven't found any other app as smart as this.
Sunrise. It's the best calendar I've ever used and the only one I tolerate on Windows, and now Microsoft still hasn't given us decent replacement.
What do you think happens to the methane in the atmosphere? It doesn't vanish. Most of it reacts in the statosphere and troposphere and oxidizes into ... you guessed it: Carbon Dioxide.

10% gets eaten by organisms in the soil, but at least 90% turns into CO2.

Of course, Natural Gas thermal combined-cycle electricity generation is MUCH more efficient than Coal, no matter which way you look at it. (Unless you have an old already-paid-for coal plant next to a coal mine and only care about dollars)
Wood That Could Be Mistaken for Glass
So they can partially block some effects of the exercise serum with rEGF, but I hope they (or someone else) figures out what all of the other active components are.

It might be interesting to make an exercise cocktail.
Songza
That's true, code is rarely linear. But the whole idea of encapsulation, separation of concerns and many, many other practices is to increase locality of a code. In that sense a well written and structured code has local, mostly linear systems that you can analyze in isolation to get insight into the larger system.

With this in mind it doesn't matter that the overarching structure is much more complex. Translation unit you're analyzing is (or should) be mostly human-parsable in a linear fashion.

What I found eye-opening in this article is that it challenged my concept of well structured code file. I was like "what?! this is blasphemy!" from the very beginning but at the end I was like "huh, I finally understand why sometimes #define's feel better in the center of a file than they feel at the top"[1]. It's rare for a blog entry to stir me like this. :)

[1] amongst other things that came though my head
Agree. What is the replacement for this now?
Yahoo pipes
Hi, pathology resident here, studying prostate cancer, and apoptosis in particular. This is an interesting study, and I'm glad to have seen it. I submit that growing a line of cells in culture has relatively little the natural progression of those cells in vivo. Indeed, any cell line that can be propogated in definitely ex vivo surely has some funky stuff going on inside. So, if you're inclined to say that we should be skeptical of mouse models, we should be really skeptical of cell lines. For example, the modal number of chromosomes in these cells is something like 85 (normal is 46).

That said, interesting idea. I noted in the methods that the cells were not grown in low-oxygen conditions, and I'm wondering, if the authors are listening, why they didn't do that.
It's not. It's nothing more than bike-shedding language design.

It's an easy thing to discuss, and everyone is an expert. Meanwhile, the real problems get ignored.
I've heard the love for foxpro before. I thought microsoft bought it and killed it?
I think what they mean is no reasonable way. Who wants to spend $20 on a button they will have to tear apart and desolder?
This narrative is bullshit because it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, the client doesn't give a fuck if it's written as a CGI perl script, much less if it's between a javascript framework and a library.
On Hackernews, it's a headline...
Javelin comes to mind, but I used it in the 1980's [1]. There must be some better example; it seems strange to me that I can't think of anything else more recent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_Software
Java before Oracle.
:( I'm disappointed in companies who are that pedantic about the law.

On the other hand, corporations are definitely all about risk-reduction.
I am baffled by the article's frequent use of the word Kepler. The first mention is correct: "New planets are uncovered all the time, thanks to Kepler. In fact, the mission just unearthed a stash of more than 1,200 new exoplanets, bringing its total haul to over 3,200."

This refers to the Kepler Mission[1] which points to a fixed spot in interstellar space and finds exoplanets. But that mission has NOTHING to do with our solar system. It isn't pointed anywhere near the solar ecliptic and couldn't see a local planet if it was.

So when it says "That lack of reflective light made it hard for Kepler to even spot the planet" it is being ignorantly misleading, and when it says "although Kepler managed to catch brief glimpse in 2014" it is just wrong. "the Konkoly researchers hadn’t thought to pair NASA Kepler data with ESA Herschel data" -- for very good reason, Kepler data would be completely irrelevant. "information about the amount of light the planet was reflecting from Kepler..." again, completely impossible and wrong.

The byline is Ria Misra, clearly a person who should not be allowed to write about astronomy anytime soon.

[1] http://kepler.nasa.gov/
Cool Edit 96
RSS Owl (http://www.rssowl.org/) is a good replacement.
Fuji Neopan 1600. Fuji Fortia. Kodak Aerochrome. Hasselblad V system (OK, they do exist but are discontinued and becoming increasingly more expensive to maintain).
That argument never felt very convincing to me. Perhaps because it really is about aesthetics, not some deep philosophical ideas connected to numbers.

I see it as rather simple. If you're listing off-sets, starting at 0 makes sense, because there'll be something there. But if you're counting elements starting at 1 makes more sense. I don't have 9 fingers offset from my first one, which I call finger zero; I have ten fingers, starting with the first one.

A set with no members is the zero set, once you add one element, you have a set of one. An empty list contains no elements. It does not have a first member, because it's empty. Add an element, and it will have one member, and it will be in the first position. Not in the zeroeth offset from the beginning.

You can the numeric names of letters of a string in an array, but I don't see that as a compelling reason for naming the first letter of a word, the letter which is at the zero-eth offset from where the word is held in memory. At best, it's a low level optimization, at worst it's just a leaky abstraction. Maybe you want to store the length of the word there (like in Pascal), for a different trade-off in terms of what is optimized.
Liquorix – Desktop optimized kernel
Thanks! To my knowledge, yes; I haven't googled.
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Coincidentally Anders Hejlsberg, who wrote TP, is interviewed here[1], HN comments [2].

[1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Anders-Hejlsberg...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11685317
Pascal as well I think. I dunno which was the first to support it, but it's not exactly a popular thing in modern programming.
How do you pivot a hardware startup that's built around a single idea?
Yes, shift the fraud risk to the family situation; offer any actual financial transfer as an upgrade.
I had no point other than exactly what I stated. I am not contesting the infeasibility of uBeam.
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I'm not sure I mind this feature... I hate when I plug in headphones, that I already have on my ears (I know), and my ears get blasted... it's not fun... if the audio resets to at least 39, that's not a bad thing imho.
Hmm that device is modern enough, latest Chrome version? Any plugins?
The "current constraints" being "This isn't Hogwarts."
I know I'm probably atypical - a techie and old enough to be cynical of most things, but are most people really still that simplistic? Surely 3 or 4 crap purchases or 25%+ return rate is going to be enough to tell anyone that the star rating is worthless?
Specifically these two sentences are hard to understand:

Hey the other day you said you said that the downloaded certificate is one factor, so with the password, that's already two factors, and the rotating token would be three.

But the CTO is confused then -- how was the certificate securely transmitted in the first place, to the point that we can count it as a second factor?

They are complex sentences. This makes them hard to understand.

The email's reading level is at grade 11 on the Flesch-Kincaid scale. [1] Anything above 9 is considered "Fairly difficult to read". Best selling authors tend to score less than 9. A lot less.

You don't need to write emails like you were a best selling author of course. That's silly. But it helps if you write them for the recipient. Don't just word vomit your train of thought.

Here's how I'd write your email (from what I can guess/understand of the situation):

Hey,

The other day we talked about auth factors in our app. You said the certificate was one factor.
Adding the password, that makes two. A rotating token would make three.

Do we really need the rotating token, then?

But the CTO is confused: how do we know the certificate transmitted securely? It can't be an auth factor if we're not sure.

Cheers,
~Bla

That said, we have way over-analyzed your email :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabi...

[2] https://contently.com/strategist/2015/01/28/this-surprising-...
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I would assume it falls under a separate license scheme, hence why programmers shouldn't try to be lawyers.
CYA is pretty much the only rule. Whistleblowing always works out badly for the whistleblower. It's strange but true that it's far easier to get hired from a failed startup than as a whistleblower, so the only thing to do is keep your head down and look for a new job. Let them fly the investors' money into the ground as long as your name isn't on anything illegal.

Fortunately SV startups are rarely capable of getting people killed with a bad product. I'd like to hope that someone would whistleblow the safety issues on home thorium reactors before the Bay Area is rendered uninhabitable, but I know it would be career suicide for the person that did.
This is just great. A backpack manufacturer would die for this kind of feedback.
One of the fundamental problems is that there isn't a "the browser".