skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this piece captures brilliantly the emotional and psychological toll that rote and thoughtless application of harsh procedures and mindless judgment can be wrought on people by an uncaring system.

When my daughter was conceived her mother was addicted to opiates. We were both in a bad place. I was just out of a relationship with someone with Borderline Personality Disorder and she was coming out of her own abusive relationship. Needless to say this wasn't how either of us had envisioned conception.

But her pregnancy was a strong motivator to turn things around. But addiction isn't something you can just switch of. Especially something like an opioid. It is extremely dangerous to the fetus for the mother to detox during pregnancy. Miscarriage is common. But that doesn't mean that treatment isn't an option. That treatment is, however, most commonly something like opioid maintenance in the form of methadone.

Methadone is still an opioid (although longer acting and "harder to abuse"). It still comes with the same risk of NAS. But that risk is actually fairly low. In researching the risks around my daughter's birth I came to find that only about 1/3rd of all babies born to opiate addicted women suffered NAS, and the greatest correlation was tied to usage of multiple illicit substances (say opioids and amphetamines together)

So we dedicated ourselves to having a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby and she started methadone maintenance at a local clinic.

In the end my daughter was born four weeks premature (premature birth is actual common in opioid addicts). The author of this story did an excellent job of capturing how the atmosphere changed as soon as it was discovered that my wife was under a maintenance dose of methadone. The derisive judgment. The loathing in the eyes of the nurses. That was a very new experience for me.

And the procedures and policies described in the article are actually in many ways detrimental to and harmful to the outcome for the infant.

Opportunities for bonding should be encouraged. And at least in the case of opiates it has been found that breastfeeding decreases the risk of NAS and should be encouraged (opiate concentration in breastmilk of a woman using opiates is measured in micrograms, far below the threshold to affect the infant, but the simple skin on skin contact and intimacy seems to make all the difference).

My daughter did not suffer from NAS and after three days of observation we were discharged when it was clear her lungs were fine and she was not going to suffer withdrawals. Thankfully the attitudes of the nurses changed within about the first day. I suppose we weren't typical of "addict" parents...but I can say that being on the receiving end of that sort of experience...the only effect is going to be to push addicts further down a hole with even less chance of being healthy, functional parents.
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Question: Would Firebase be a good option where the desktop/web app is the main access point, mobile been secondary (around 3:1) ?
Google is bringing custom tensor processing units to its public cloud
Why can't girls code?
Verizon did not throttle speeds. Instead, Verizon wanted to be paid for peering link upgrades. Such links are only free when two backbone providers feel that they both benefit from making them free. The division of Verizon that manages backbone is different from the one that runs Verizon Fios, so the fact that the other division had already been paid should not matter very much in that mindset. It was the refusal of both sides to budge and the growth of Netflix traffic that caused bandwidth requirements to exceed the network capacity. That is what people incorrectly called throttling. Setting up the Hurricane Electric tunnel broker so that Netflix traffic would be carried on IPv6 was a reliable workaround for me in New York.

Netflix might have been able to get Verizon to be more reasonable if they modified their streaming clients to upload random numbers back to them in excess of the amount downloaded. Then Verizon's logic would have dictated that Verizon owed Netflix's backbone provider money and Verizon would have wanted to avoid paying rather than be paid. Such a situation should have caused the links that Netflix traffic used to be upgraded without much negotiation. I was surprised that Netflix did not do that as a workaround. That would have made anyone even superficially familiar with game theory smile.
But you get 1000 free hours? (if you give them credit card data)

If you just want one 24h-app + a bit that's better, if you can live with <=18h for all your apps it is worse.
You might want to look into this: http://www.lumobodytech.com/lumo-lift/

I haven't tried one myself, although I am tempted as I often get quite bad back pain (at age 23 :-/ ), however I can't quite bring myself to add yet another device to my life that needs looking after, charging, etc.

However, I wonder if you can solve this problem purely with software. Could an app detect slouching by monitoring the user through the webcam?
I want subqueries.

1. What's the name of that film that came out around the time of Jane's birthday party, the one with that guy in that I always confuse with Adam Sandler?

2. Where can I go for lunch and sit outside in the sunshine?

3. Play me some music that I'd like but nothing too recent.
What percentage of home owners are people who have owned their house for a long time (to benefit from prop 13), need zero work done (unlikely if you've owned your house for a long time), and whose behavior can be reduced to a financial equation?
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True. Though as an EMS provider, I'll definitely say that I've run the gamut of calls to midwifes/birthing centers/home births from "completely competent professional I'd have no issue managing my partner's birth" to "I really need to call the DOH after this". Situations where, upon handing us a cyanotic baby with severely deficient APGAR score (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apgar_score) the midwife's primary care was 'respect for the process and the environment', wanting us to take off boots and "try not to be too loud or overactive".
There is good reasons for this, it can help a ton in figuring out where exactly the issue is. If the speedtest server is off-net, you have no idea where the problem lies. Transit provider? Peering? End network? my wifi? Last mile?
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724540
Bigger iron has been at 64-512 TB for a while:

http://www.cray.com/blog/the-power-of-512-terabytes-of-share...

http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/10/06/ibm-takes-big-workl...

Or significantly higher if you don't restrict yourself to single-system-image, shared memory machines - there are at least 2 1300-1500 TB systems on the Top 500 list.
Ah, it makes much more sense now. Great! :).
No, I meant arXiv:quant-ph/0010020
Playing devil's advocate - perhaps Oracle sees the ecosystem as being a "derived work" of their Java IP. This would be a dangerous view for software.
because they can only put these into racks so fast
When I want to ensure strict immutability, I use an implementation of deepFreeze (https://github.com/jsdf/deep-freeze) that recursively calls Object.freeze() on all child properties. Obviously slower than strict browser support. Does ClojureScript rely on the Clojure compiler to ensure the properties aren't modified or is there some polyfill?
Racial profiling (with "threat level" stickers!) and intrusive questions which become really extended and aggressive if they don't like the way you're answering?

Think the USA sounds more appealing, and I'm a white, obviously non-Muslim Brit.
Knowledge as justified true belief has been questioned since before Knuth began TAoCP.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/gettier/
Why is that the ethical thing to do? It seems like the ethical thing to do is to go to your client and say, look, I hear this judge writes code, and even if not I hear the other side has expert witnesses. We're not going to be able to win on rangeCheck. Let's pursue the "structure, sequence, and organization" angle, it'll be more worth the money you're paying me.

(And in fact they did not get a meaningful win on rangeCheck, and the case is back before Judge Alsup with his view of structure-sequence-and-organization overturned.)
I'm building a simple web app where I want signed in users to be able to add a JSON object to a database and then list all JSON objects publicly. Only the user who created the object should be able to edit it. Is this a good use-case for Firebase or should I look into something else?
Interesting. I've had a Fitbit since 2012 (the Ultra) and have had almost uniformly positive experiences with customer service.
Interesting article. I'm interested in the financial schemes (of the venture lenders) in the upcoming series of articles or any anecdotes from HN members. This article was more introductory than informing...
Whether the government already has data is immaterial when the question is whether they "should" have it from a moral or philosophical standpoint, which is the context I'm assuming we're working within. The legality of their having it certainly has questionable constitutionality.

In Sorrell vs IMS Health, the issue does not seem to be whether government and private companies could use the same data to market pharmaceuticals, but whether pharmacies could sell prescription data without doctors' consent. "Fairness" to companies using the same data as government appears to have nothing to do with it. You missed a period at the end of your link, so I added it in mine below.

If we ignore that and assume your interpretation is correct, your conclusion that private individuals and organizations are privy to the exact same personal information that all government organizations may have is definitely not the conclusion that outcome would point towards and is still, indeed, a bizarre belief.

As to your final argument, who is talking about suing companies? If you're responding directly to something I said, the logic to connect it to your response is unclear at best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorrell_v._IMS_Health_Inc.
Nothing is wrong with being more selective. Everything is wrong if you're the person or group strongly selected against.
I love Firebase, but the Swift code in the iOS guide is of really low quality. For example (https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/ios/save-data#dele...):

if currentData.value != nil, let uid = FIRAuth.auth()?.currentUser?.uid {
var post = currentData.value as! [String : AnyObject]
var stars : Dictionary<String, Bool>
stars = post["stars"] as? Dictionary<String, Bool> ?? [:]
// ...
}

What this should really be:

guard let post = currentData.value as? [String : AnyObject],
uid = FIRAuth.auth()?.currentUser?.uid else { return FIRTransactionResult.successWithValue(currentData) }

let stars = post["stars"] as? [String : Bool] ?? [:]
// ...
}
Well, the advantage of AWS is that you don't have to run it 24/7 unless your workload requires it.
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Because it raises the conditions necessary for you (i.e. makes those circumstances rarer) to be content and at peace.
>Yeah, the article mentioned that the husband was trying to show them articles talking about inhalers causing false positives but no one cared.

i'll go on a limp here (as fortunately has never had any even close to such experience) and speculate that may be he should have called a lawyer. Especially considering that in bunch of states it is a crime of endangering child or something like this.
Interesting that Google is doubling down where Facebook divested. The obvious difference is that Google has a cloud platform and Firebase is a funnel into it, whereas Facebook had nothing to funnel Parse users into.

I wonder if Facebook will ever launch a cloud platform. They've got the computing resources for it.
SSL change is nice, but the rest is just another step in driving away hobby users. Why not just get rid of the free tier all together if it's just going to continuously be handicapped.

I'd rather see the free tier be done away with and have the numerous AWS price decreases passed on to the actual paying customers.
Those requirements are quite common in Texas and developers still build like crazy.
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Wow that sounds awesome! Are there any estimates of when this will be an open beta for everyone? Very excited to try it out!

Docker ID: shuber
> What am I supposed to do in a bar?

You can speak to the bartender/waiter (especially ahead of time) and ask them that despite asking for a rum and coke, you need a coke. They will be happy to help out (at least, they have been for me).
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

Using it for over a year? Wow
Horizon[0] was announced yesterday; it's basically an open-source Firebase built on RethinkDB.

[0]: https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon
Did they announce anything re: Android for the desktop? Anyone know what's going on with Android+Chrome integration?
I do think kids should be allowed to roam, but as a cyclist I'm not convinced that being allowed to ride without a helmet is a crucial formative experience. It's not a trade-off, it's just irresponsible.
+1 -- Sometimes Google does embrace open source in building services that I can trust longterm, e.g., Kubernetes. I wish Firebase (which I won't use) were being built and marketed in a similar way to Kubernetes (which I will use).
The Teropa one is particularly good because it uses Test-driven development, which is a good way to keep yourself from going too far down a rabbit hole.
Inebriation is certainly monotonous after a while, but there's a big difference between that and the world of beverages that happen to contain alcohol. People happily spent decades exploring different kinds of wine, beer, scotch, etc. and still don't feel they've run out of exciting new tastes and experiences.
Says the guy paid by Google. Tell me, when Alsup issued his "name your shills" order, was yours amongst those Google released? I certainly see you (or at least your handle) commenting on various Google-related threads here and on Ars.
I did this mistake with Parse. The open source version released doesn't have full features and we have run into a few bugs which created a lot of issues.

It's better to stick with open source stack. I like what Amazon is doing with AWS with services like RDS and ElastiCache. If one carefully selects the services on AWS, there is almost zero vendor lock in.

Google also had hiked the AppEngine price in Sept. 2011 which caused a lot of problems to early adopters.
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Microsoft, where are you? Cortana on a device that is similar to the chip Master Chief has would be incredibly popular, and it done right could also be just as popular. Especially since Cortana is on every platform and completely agnostic unlike Google Home and Echo. Give it the same extensible API as Cortana has on Windows 10, etc and it could be a home run. Don't let Google and Amazon eat your lunch here.

I do wonder though how Google/Microsoft/Apple will handle there being multiple instances of their devices able to take commands. So if I say "Hey Cortana" or "Ok Google" will each device have to sort of communicate with the other to only activate the one that is closest?
Then again, a bad network design and lack of good maintainance will not work well for any network.
Also the probability of 2 of 5 nodes failing during a given failover time should be quite low for a production quality network.

There seems to be a flaw in your second point.

When the network partitions in a synchronous network, a node in any partition is not able to tell if a partition has actually occured or if the unreachable nodes are dead. The article points this out as one of the main problems Paxos tries to solve. Your given scenario actually puts the nodes in all in a vulnerable state where they are likely to make wrong decisions and become inconsistent
When it comes to having a baby, things can go from "perfectly normal" to "spectacularly wrong" in a (literal) heartbeat. The vast majority of the time, that doesn't happen, but when it does, I'd rather be down the hall from an OR, rather than a 20 minute ambulance ride away...
Well, the entire pay-per-view field really :) , NBA finals are already on VR, imagine that for all other sports.

They're not ready yet:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/28/a-live-nba-game-is-cool-in-...

but it's definitely coming.
For example Dell sells 4U servers straight out of their webshop which max out at 96x32GB (that's 3TB) of RAM with 4 CPUs (max 18 cores/CPU => 72 cores total). They seem to have some (training?) videos on youtube that show the internals if you are curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS47RVrfBvE main system board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_poMPOUGRa0 memory risers
> Unfortunately, this kills my primary use case for heroku which is small personal projects. I have a dozen or so of them on the free tier right now. Heroku was great because I could throw them up for free and not really have to worry about hosting.

Well you're using their PAAS for free. Ultimately a minority of paid users are paying for all the free users, it can't go on for ever.This is true for Heroku, as well as any PAAS that has a free tier right now.

If you use Heroku for hobby projects you don't need scaling and load balancing, you might need a DB on your instance so a dropplet at DO, or using EC2 makes more sense than paying 7$ for a immutable app on Heroku servers.
Microdosing may remove the "rather noticeable" side effects while producing a similar reduction of anxiety/depression.
c.f http://www.complex.com/style/the-rise-and-fall-of-karmaloop
"supported"
> What's the business model for Google Home?

Do they give them away for free?
Two biology events (not sure this book covers) that are completely underestimated.

1) evolution of cyanobacteria as a freak merger of green-sulfur and purple photosynthetic bacteria. Well, biological historians DO understand the importance of this, but the reason why the chemistry is important is not well appreciated. Cyanos use water as a reductant - as an electron donor. Normally one does not think of water as a reductant, but as a facilitator oxidation. This is biology's "great umpolung chemistry" moment.

2) The great oxidation catastrophe. Because oxygen, the oxidized poop of the previous process is highly toxic, there was a huge exinction event across pretty much all clades. But some of the emergent chemistry (disulfide bonds e.g.) really enabled structural scaffolding that facilitated higher order cellular structure. Mitochondria went into hiding inside of the reducing environment of an proto-archaeal species and boom - eukaryotes.

3) The size and distance of the earth from the sun. Hydrogen at ambient temperature achieves escape velocity. This means the net chemical trend over billions of years was oxidizing. One wonders if this made the first two chemical processes somewhat inevitable.

I'd also like to point out that thinking parsimoniously about energy from an evolutionary standpoint is not necessarily productive. For example: There's a lot of junk DNA (VNTRs, e.g.) which do not seem to be subject to aggressive optimivation for energy.
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No, it isn't a solution. It's also telling that hospital shootings and other violence are on the rise. When hospitals foster an adversarial relationship with their patients they shouldn't be at all surprised that this is what happens.

Then again, this is par for the course in the drug war.
The problem is, from the point of view of that conventional security expert (and of me too) the only "usefulness in the field" is the possibility to sell the extremely expensive snake oil to the buyers who don't ask what the price is. Because even without the same snake oil, the equivalent system can be designed, maintained and be significantly cheaper.

Getting money from those who can give a lot can also be a valid economic goal, or in this case an accepted approach to funding (I quoted that Microsoft researcher) but using "snake oil" can still be seen as the evil opposite of the established principles of honest security engineering, the classic entry for Schneier's "doghouse."

The fair approach would be, "we're doing the basic research, no there's no too practical applicability of our research, but it's good to fund it anyway, that's why the research is different from engineering."

It would also let engineers do their work and not force them to implement less secure directions "because policy." Which is the effect that certainly appears here and there on the EU level.
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Thank you, this was a great reply. Reading the discussions have been interesting.
Self hosted 'firebase' from RethinkDB team
http://horizon.io/
Komolgorov, Hofstadter, Autechre, and LISP.

This talk made my life. Thank you.
> It's better to stick with open source stack.

This is a hard lesson each person learns on their own.
Hopefully, maybe, this is just Google brand naming an open standard, such as the draft Web Application Manifest standard. [1]

Given the article's insistence that these will still be "sandboxed native apps", I'm skeptical, however.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/
Sounds like there's a fascinating differential equation in there somewhere. The TSA uses as much money as possible and provides as little service as it can get away with because it has essentially zero accountability.

The wait times and hassle increase until its easier just to drive so people fly less, reducing wait time, allowing the TSA to do even less brining wait times back up...

The whole system balances at some convergence point. A really sucky convergence point.
This is huge. If they really do offer such a perf/watt advantage, they're serious trouble for NVIDIA. Google is one of only a handful of companies with the upfront cash to make a move like this.

I hope we can at least see some white papers soon about the architecture--I wonder how programmable it is.
At least as often as not, people don't ask those "why?" type questions out of simple curiosity. In my experience, there's often a component of defensiveness, regardless of how you answer.

And saying that it's okay to be questioned for your choices just because they're not as common--I have to adamantly disagree.
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71% of the homeless population in SF (who are now living in tent cities) used to live in a home in SF: http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/What-San-Francisc...
This is true, but what is to be done about it?
yes, Firebase allows you to isolate user data, and it has built-in auth API.
Cell phones aren't allowed into classified environments in US government buildings because they can be remotely turned into listening devices without the owner's knowledge. There's been guidance on this for a long time. The cell phone in your pocket is definitely a surveillance device.

Let's be real. You don't keep your phone in a Faraday bag and you probably never will.
We used to have to in the UK for a while.
I don't think it was explicitly mentioned in the keynote, but it looks like they updated pricing:

https://firebase.google.com/pricing/

Can't find the old pricing now, but it seems similar, but with less plan types.
How would you make it self-hosted without making it suck? High quality voice recognition in a small box doesn't seem to be a thing that's even remotely possible today, let alone the query processing and knowledge database that comes with it.

You could build this on a pi with a mic, speakers, some foss stt and tts engines and some basic training data. But it'll suck.
And I suppose it will be another US only product/service from Google