skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression has always been that drinking aged whisky was more about signalling (both financial status and knowledge and taste), including in the largest markets (France, etc.). Same reason people still wear suits and Goodyear-welted leather shoes for work. So there'll always be a large demand for aged stuff. If you just want to get drunk, vodka is better for hangovers and a lot cheaper. For example, a liquor trader here told me Indonesia is really into Chivas 18 year old, which is by far his largest export there.

That being said, economics have made it happen already: there have been no age statements on the "basic" offering from all mass market Japanese single malts (Yamazaki, Yoichi, Taketsuru...) for a few years now because the vastly increased demand effectively emptied the stock of the 10-12 year old stuff that was previously the default. I also get the feeling that a lot of Scottish houses are cutting their product with stuff that meets the age requirement for labelling but is not as good as what their products were made of 10-15 years ago.

In terms of taste, I think the "fast aged" stuff is a different product. Younger whiskies have a very different flavour profile (not necessarily inferior - try a Port Charlotte PC5-7). Can it become a new market segment, certainly - in fact it already has (e.g. Laphroaig Quarter Cask mentioned elsewhere in this thread). Replace, I'm less sure.
Glad you made this point. To expand on it a bit:

Continuing abiogenesis may very well be occuring (in the very few locations that may still resemble the beginning), but at what complexity are we defining "life" when asking this question? Simple spontaneous assembly of RNA precursors? Something more fully fledged?

In any case, the problem isn't even competitors that have evolved since then - it's the existence of complex metabolism. All of the "ingredients" you would need for abiogenesis to occur are now consumed by established organisms, ripping down the molecules for their own energy needs before they can catalyze into a more complex form.

Life as we know it doesn't have room for the earliest products of abiogenesis anymore. Whatever form our earliest genetic ancestors may have taken, Earth's present-day micro-biosphere is simply too ubiquitous and too ravenous.
20% of the population consciously avoids online activities already due to privacy and surveillance concerns

citation needed.
Couldn't agree more. One has to wonder the limits of the move fast, break things philosophy.
There is. Cocaine and most other hard stimulants cause lots of dopamine to be released in the brain. Generally when you have higher concentrations of a neurotransmitter than normal for a long time, your brain compensates for the overstimulation by reducing the number of receptors. It doesn't work in exactly the same way as this drug but the end result is the same - reduced number of dopamine neurons, which causes parkinson's symptoms.

The scary thing about this drug is that it doesn't really have anything to do with the fact that they were trying to make opiates, it just happens that if you mess up the reaction you get this really toxic byproduct. As governments keep banning new drugs, chemists (amateur and professional, but it's hard to know which is which since this is all unregulated) keep coming up with new not technically illegal ways to achieve the same effects, and it's really just a matter of time before you create something else toxic. And it's entirely possible that some designer drugs that seem safe at first can end up having bad complications later on, since they're not very well researched and understood. At least we know how toxic meth is - with research drugs, especially newly discovered ones, no one really knows what kind of damage they're doing to themselves.
The making of this year's Google I/O Web-App (IOWA)
I remember in September 2014 when Apple announced Apple Pay watching the keynote live on TV. I was visiting San Francisco at the time, staying in SoMa, and out the window adjacent I had a clear view of the Coin office. To be a fly on the wall during that time…
Sysdig also has a blog post about this @ https://sysdig.com/blog/sysdig-falco/
Ancient Chinese Drilling
The probability of a false positive result = probability of not doing meth * probability of getting a positive test result while not doing meth. P(+ ∩ M') = P(M') * P(+|M').

That pretty clearly depends on the prior probability, P(M).
I would imagine that would be something the contract identifies explicitly along the lines of Bitcoin multisig.
Title should read, "The False Promise of Flawed DNA Testing". It isn't surprising to see prosecutors resort to underhanded methods in their zeal for imprisoning others.

The basic science is sound. However, there are gaps in it. For instance, most DNA testing techniques do not account for methylation patterns in DNA samples. This is important for profiling epigenetic traits.

Ref.: http://www.atdbio.com/content/56/Epigenetics
Walgreens really blew it on this one. The executives responsible for Theranos deal all got canned years ago for unrelated reasons.

NYT had an overview of Walgreen's struggle.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/business/a-once-avid-ally-...
"The Wall Street Journal reported that Walgreens was so eager to cement the relationship that it lent Theranos money, acquired warrants to buy Theranos stock and skipped its usual due diligence when evaluating a pharmacy partner."

"The Walgreens executives responsible for the Theranos deal, including Mr. Wasson, as well as the chief financial officer and the president of the company’s pharmacy unit, have all been replaced, forced out in 2014 by activist investors after Walgreens acquired the European drugstore chain Alliance Boots."
Move fast and break people.
In support of your point about "sufficently aggregated" data, I occasionally work on projects that publish aggregate health statistics, and you have to be very careful about the size of your denominators. For instance, even without telling what numbers you are dividing, you probably couldn't publish the percentage of HIV positive results among pacific islanders in Nebraska. Because there might be only six such people.
> and have little to do with the specifics of the company itself.

You are kidding me. The Elon Musk fanboyism is strong on HN. Of course it has everything to do with his company. He presented Tesla as a valuable company and created expectations. Those expectations are being corrected with a price drop. Had he not inflated Teslas ability, this would have never happened.
That's not quite how HIPPA works. I don't see anything wrong with the amount of information given here. How else could they talk about stuff like this, anyway? It's important to get out there for people to be aware of.
I recently got a call from the CEO of a company that I worked for from 2000-2003, asking if I could help upgrade some code I wrote that was still in production.
China claims sovereignty over Taiwan. Some publications toe the party line.
Do Startups Have a Drinking Problem?
Restaurants need this.

And it is free!
Why is it bad form to research a company and then decide based on your findings to invest in it? (I am an outsider to the world of finance and clearly I am failing to understand something)
All of the responses to my comment are missing the point: you're discussing medical researchers. This was a random doctor in the affected area who spoke to reporters.

I'm quite aware of what is acceptable to release in a medical context; this was not that.
They have very very few assets. The $9 billion valuation is a paper valuation that can vanish in one night.
Fair enough, but I'm not sure that will be good enough for much longer. With bigger and better datasets it should be increasingly easy to de-anonymize someone based on just knowing something like that.
It's also possible to question the idea the idea that are testing leads to better outcomes in the first place.
For what purpose?

Just stop layering bloat.
Yes, but you'd be better off using a higher voltage and switching DC-DC converters at the end.

The POTS lines would have ~50V on them in normal operation so they'd be insulated for 48V. However, V=I/R, and the lines have a constant resistance so if you can raise V and lower I you can get the same total wattage for a lower line loss. This is also why distribution networks are at 11kV and up.

Modern switching converters are pretty efficient, and you can also tailor them for the device so you don't have to double convert.
I don't think anybody is arguing that DNA testing could never be useful. What this piece is exposing is that a system we trust to be 99% accurate (because the science, if properly executed is) becomes tainted by improper procedures.

We need to determine processes that make bias impossible. For example, samples should be sent without any markings, directions, or names. Simply to be "compared." Periodically, an oversight group should send known matching or not matching samples, and if an incorrect result is returned by the lab, the analyst should be fired. Should multiple analysis failures happen under one manager, than manager should be fired. This isn't rocket science.
I wonder what the point of even announcing it at a dev conference was, save it for CES
>I'm amazed that people still feel this level of paranoia about stuff, when they have a clear option: do not use the product.

Maybe because people are not islands, and don't think like isolated solipsists but also worry about the wider social implications of a technology?

Them not using a troublesome product won't solve that -- and it might not even solve the implications for them (e.g. like your friends can still tag you on photos on Facebook, even if you don't have an account there). Or you know, visiting a friend's house who has the device.

>The very fact that someone is watching the keynote and going "oh my Gawd, the level of intrusion" at every turn, kind of tells me they are interested in having the features but don't want to provide the data. Otherwise you wouldn't even be watching the keynote. Am I missing something?

Yes. 30+ years of data abuses and privacy encroachment by advertisers.

It's not a paid service with siloed data used only for the service's purpose -- rather the service is the lure to gather even more data for targeted marketing/ads.
Do you think it's safe to assume most Parkinson's suffers didn't abuse cocaine, or probably use it much if at all?

Do you think it's possible that long term moderate to heavy caffeine use could contribute to Parkinson's by the same method of action you have described?
I hadn't heard about this case before, and so I don't know the details, but just from your own description, filing a preemptive lawsuit in response to an explicit copyright demand doesn't sound unreasonable - the advantages of doing so over waiting to be sued include venue selection and, perhaps more importantly, forcing the claimant to make their case, rather than letting it turn into a frozen conflict (with the possibility of them filing DMCA notices against app stores at any time). That doesn't imply they actually wanted to go to court.

Though I did just Google it, and throwing an extortion claim on top sounds... well, like a big mess.
I have many free apps as well as paid apps running. But I always used Heroku because I didn't have to worry about limitations unless a particular app has high volume. Now that it's become a monstrous burden, I'll definitely be moving most of my apps to a vps/DigitalOcean.

You just lost a huge number of free apps that could potentially become paid apps.

TLDR: Hassle of keeping track of account wide dyno use > hassle of running on vps
Trump Holmes has a nice ring to it.
The total amount of loans sold to the client was $22 million but only $3 million of those didn't conform. The issue at the heart of this is the legal language in the agreement that was shown to the loan applicant when they applied for the loan. It was really a stupid thing for them to fudge and the returned loans have already been snapped up by other clients.
Let's not kid ourselves: it isn't just the American motto...it is motto of most people in the world.
Self contradiction is a dangerous drug.
A new exciting concept for online education (Learn Scrum for free)
Bram Kanstein posted a story on Medium how they launched the most upvoted product on product hunt. Google it up.
My recollection had been that the D/L system of enantiomeric naming was derived from glycerol. Upon looking it up, it seems the derivation is from glyceraldehyde. I have no idea why I remember it being derived from glycerol, and I suspect that the reason may be the same reason why Lane refers to stereoisomers of glycerol.
More generally though: read everything you sign. Expect it to all be used. If you can never see a clause being needed, then remove it. If the other side insists then you need to figure out the real motives why.
> but the library it ships with is going to privilege one over the other

This really just seems to me a matter of no one having done it right yet...

Following your example (which I like), I can have both mutable and immutable types in my language. Your point is that the library will favor one or the other, but I think you admit both libraries are possible. Why can't I have twice the library?

Yeah, it might be more work to have a library twice as big, (and again, no one seems to have done it yet) but it's not more work than having two languages with two libraries.

All that to say, you're summarizing what's been done, but you haven't proven that something better couldn't be done.
I think it's time to move away from Heroku or create multiple accounts to pool together "low usage" apps.

Before // After

18h for every app // 24h for one app
How much profit do you think Verizon actually makes from your $70/month connection?

FiOS revenues make up 70% of Verizon wireline's revenue, and the average monthly bill is like $110. But the division's profit margin is 2-5% most years. Let's say generously they're making $7 a month on you (10%). A Verizon tech makes $35/hour+ not including benefits. So a one-hour field call wipes out 5 months of profit.
Something like what, that a specific doctor has treated someone with a specific condition? I'm not sure that's enough metadata.
Estimating how many people use your software
Um... what about this?

https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/web/offline-capabi...
Only for people that have already visited it and haven't cleared their browser cache.
One glass of Champagne, hold the phone, this is a major problem!

Or it's one person who's personal aversion to drinking alcohol is skewing their perception.

It all just makes me laugh, because when they mentioned Boulder, I instantly thought of the Boulder here in Western Australia... Which is a place that basically operates around the local pubs, haha.
Not only they can take they are under no obligation to even pursue charges. You have to prove your innocence to get your stuff back.

Note: Police get to divide this loot among themselves (as their own private property) it does not even go to government coffers.
Actually, one needs to kill oneself (not with fire). Living takes up carbon.

Come on. Acting as if any "carbon positive" living is immoral, is insanity.
Ever tried recording audio through a closed bag, Faraday or otherwise? I doubt it would be of much use...
> Several studies suggest that small volumes of blood have too much variance to yield useful test results.

That's misrepresenting it a bit. Currently there are zero blood tests that have a 100% accuracy therefore if you can't do a normal test with an accuracy near 100% you're not going to be able to do it with a smaller subset of data.

However, if we get to the point of 100% accuracy (or at least near) then there is no reason why those types of tests couldn't be useful. But yes today they are not.
They didn't need to do anything to "resolve their messy lawsuit" other than to withdraw the lawsuit.
Higher level does not necessarily mean more modern language features and paradigm - it only means language's computation model is farther removed from the actual hardware.

Allen was specifically discussing auto-optimizations (what we nowadays would just call 'compiler optimizations') and essentially argued that low level languages, in the quest of allowing fine-grained manual optimization, prevent many types of advanced auto-optimizations.

Specifically speaking, it is well known that FORTRAN still often beats C in numerical calculations just by the virtue of not supporting pointer aliasing (especially pointers pointing to arbitrary positions in the middle of an array which is being looped over).
Better and cheaper than going to war for territory
I use this extension; works well enough.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...

One thing is that it obviously don't help on mobile.
This is exactly what happened with our daughter. She had severe MAS at birth and was not breathing. It took a team of 4 working on her non-stop to keep her alive. After several hours of this they had to medivac her to another hospital that could do ECMO. She promptly went on life support and 11 days later, after her lungs were functional, she was able to come off the ECMO machine. Today she's a happy and super smart 3-year old. I have zero doubt that a home birth would have resulted in either death or severe mental impairment do to oxygen deprivation. I also tell every person I can about my daughter. I understand the desire of home birth, but not availing yourself of available modern emergency medical facilities during child birth is horribly irresponsible.

EDIT: And for the record, there was zero prior indication that something was wrong. The first sign was when the water broke and was green.
Eh. Price will go up to match demand, the market will clear.

Meanwhile, turnaround time on a serviceable corn whiskey is less than thirty days from cob to bottle. No one is going to die for lack of drink.

Whole story is a bunch of hype.
Download burst on the order of MB/s in the first few seconds can't be attributed to deep buffering. The router doesn't magically have a buffer of things you might visit.
Hackernews Enhancement Suite
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

Does collapse comments as well as other nifty features.
Depends on what you mean with smart phone. I don't need apps or a big display but yes, the distinction gets blurry.
> My mother is an alcoholic, my father was a meth addict. I'm curious why you decided to help her in her old age?

Compassion, and peace with the way life occurs. I hope you find peace one day as well.
So if I'm a copper and I see someone with a nice shiny laptop I want, I can just stop them and take their laptop for my own?

that's insane! Why aren't Americans rioting in the streets about this?
OP here. You're correct. I TL;DRd it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11727617

Also upvoted both of you FWIW.
"It's so early in the lifecycle that we're better off emphasizing innovation."

Early in the lifecycle, when there is a lot of R&D overhead and risk, is where companies actually have incentive to collaborate. It's very unlikely that the ecosystem will "open" later, instead we'll have to (as you said) accept the ecosystem of whoever wins.
I'm not sure what the problem is though. In all likelihood the doctor has been trained on HIPAA procedures.
There's nothing hypocritical about not wanting FURTHER intrusion...

Not to mention, smartphones don't record all you say 24/7 and send it to a foreign data center, except if tampered with. These devices do as their normal operation mode.
In case you use firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...
Split Mesh by Material and Convert a Mesh with Custom Memory Layout of the Vertex
Aspose.3D for .NET1.5.0 enables developers to split the mesh of scene by material, get mesh of the primitives, create a scene from the primitive 3D models and convert a mesh to triangle mesh with custom memory layout of the vertex. Besides all the new features, we have enhanced the support of flipping coordinate system in Universal 3D files. Aspose.3D for .NET is now more robust, feature rich and easier to use.
Long-term exposure to burning wood for heating and cooking can cause heart and lung disease.[1]

The main air pollutants in wood smoke are particulate matter (PM), carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and a range of other organic compounds like formaldehyde, benzene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.[1][2]

Using reverse-cycle refrigerant heating (or 'heat pumps') is probably the least worst polluting method of heating. Modern heat pumps can generate (well, move) four times more heat energy than used to drive the pump[3], with the added benefit of moving the source of pollution away from populated areas, or being carbon neutral via window, solar, hydro, geothermal.

1. http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/environment/factsheets/Pages/wo...

2. https://www.environment.gov.au/resource/wood-heater-particle...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Performance_Consider...
laundry would be great too :-)
People have been having drinking problems since ages. Why put it down to startups?
I simply meant that there are no data to show that any current living thing derives from a different earliest ancestor from all of the other currently living things. You are welcome to show me a counterexample if you know of one.
What is Bud? Do you have a link? I searched but came up with nothing.
How did Jeff Bezos scale Amazon without destroying its entrepreneurial culture?
Web Project Management: Status Reports
Yes. Back in 1989, Intel built one of the first custom chips for ML (ETANN). Since then, there have been hundreds of such designs, and dozens of working chips. So, people have been building them long before "deep learning" arrived in all its glory. Now that it did, it was expected that efforts in custom hardware should intensify.

However, such initiatives still face the same problems as 30 years ago: custom hardware is expensive, inflexible, hard to program, and quickly becomes obsolete. It's still worth it if there's no other way to speed things up, but Moore's law is still alive and kicking, as evidenced by 15B transistor GP100 chip form Nvidia, so we can still just wait a little bit for the next gen GPUs.

Google is certainly in a good position, having developed a very popular ML framework, and having enough resources to develop good hardware (the blog post was written by Norm Jouppi - one of the best computer architects in history). It remains to be seen, however, how well these TPUs are supported in TensorFlow. What kind of models will get the advertised speed up?
Yeah a summer internship type thing. Thanks for the advice.
Why would planting trees not work?
Is Our DoS Over the Weekend Linked to Brazil's Massive Internet Radio Attack?
You can also insert a "?" at the start of the URL which will search Google for that URL, the article itself is the first result.
You can pierce the corporate veil if there is willfull and intentional fraud. Doesn't always happen, but it's possible.
There are papers about de-anonimizing patient records and they show that for instance, patient records + facebook is definitely enough to fill in the names correctly.
Food for Rome: Stable Isotope Investigation of Diet in the Imperial Era (2013)