skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone know how many decimal places of accurately is currently provided?
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Introducing the p0f BPF compiler
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"Allow this website to know your battery level? (Can be used to identify you)" yes/no
> I'm not sure this is that big a deal considering the default Windows representation of the pistol emoji has always been a toy gun rather than a realistic depiction of a firearm.

Except that they're changing it to a handgun with the Anniversary Update: http://emojipedia.org/pistol/
You should try reading up on the subject before being blithely dismissive.

False discovery rates, false positive rates, and family-wise error rates and how best to control for them are ongoing areas of interest and research in GWAS. There are calls for p-value requirements in the 10^-8 range to help avoid this. There are calls to address stratification (which can affect both type I and type II errors). A lot of research and debate on this topic over the past several years. Who are you exactly to dismiss all of this scientific inquiry? It's great if you have expertise in another field, but it seems odd to dismiss scientific questions and ongoing research in this particular field.

You'll find plenty of information if you actually seek it out rather than simply making a knee-jerk, snarky comment, but here is one example article which articulates some of the issues that have been under consideration in recent years: http://m.ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/41/1/273.full

Note, there, how the level of significance is discussed. A p-value of 10^-7 to 10^-8 is suggested (as compared to this study's 10^-5 level of significance... and, believe me, many GWA studies have been published with much less significant p-values).

This is an ongoing and active area of discussion in the field. I'm not an expert, but some of my colleagues are, and it's a topic they sometimes discuss and brainstorm over lunch, etc.

Actually, even the wikipedia page on GWAS mentions some of this inquiry and debate, as well as the erroneous publication that has plagued this nascent field. It'll all be worked out over time and great discussions are happening here. Vast improvement in processes and standards has been made over the past few years in particular. But we don't move the ball forward by dismissing questions or incorrectly assuming all must simply be right and well.
I wasn't talking about bundling but rather about something like C glibc or rusts stdlib. Having a solid stdlib that covers for example string padding can at the same time minimize code duplication and number of dependencies.

Neither did I deny that inlining everything comes at a cost as well, so the goal is to find a good point on the scale. I was just pointing out that having tons of small dependencies is not free of cost.
The US Postal Services' websites are by far the most visited.

Followed by things like the Weather services and then things related to health or social security.

Those are "costumer"-oriented sites.
But then again, some of them could be browsing from their work computers.
I would imagine that arbitrary SVG rendering is harder to get right?

With fonts you can probably cache a lot of the rendering (even considering things like ligatures), and considering how much text your machine is showing, the performance tricks could be extra useful.
>Edge, Spartan, Internet Explorer (just saying..)

Why does he keep repeating "Spartan?" That was Edge's codename. Now its just Edge. Is he's referring to the engine that can be embedded into other applications? If so, its called EdgeHTML.
I have 8 copies.
>> A generic feeling is just amount of fitness to the pattern.

This is nonsense and the rest of your comment is nonsense on stilts.
In this case, that's what "broken" means. Not that there is something technically wrong, but that they are doing things that they shouldn't.
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Yep, if the ball pitches outside the line of the stumps it's not out unless the batsman made no attempt to play a shot.

> The Laws should, I think, be updated for the new technology,

I disagree (although being young I've only ever watched cricket with this sort of technology). Given the other aspects of the game rely so much on precision, I can't see letting the umpiring become more subjective and/or allowing for more human error would improve the game.
I think a persons opinion on Go really depends on where you're coming from and what tooling they are used to. As a PHP/Node/Ruby dev I find Go does everything PHP/Node/Ruby does, faster, and more reliably due to static typing. Often more verbosely though.

I've simply never wanted for the things he asks as I've never had them. It's all in the expectations is my point.
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Seems a little disingenuous to call out Apple on the gun emoji in the headline. You have to read all the way to the end before you see:

> Microsoft's pistol emoji is also a toy gun, but the icon remains lethal-looking on other platforms including Google's Android.
Why on earth would the language hinder you from iterating fast with a flag, and then convert all the warnings to errors when you run the full tests?

There is a cost to this too. It is another option. Another thing to document and maintain. Another thing for developers to learn about. Another thing for newbies to be confused by. Another thing that will asked about on the mailing list.
Somehow I'm not surprised, neither by the way it's broken nor the neglect on Microsofts part on this issue...

Pretty much every non-standard Microsoft-only approach to things seem to be broken one way or another, only to be fixed after someone threatens to expose and exploit it. I know it's gotten better in recent years, but the fact that it's still something that seems to be pushing from the outside in, instead of being part of the manufacturer's culture is shining through rather harshly.
That's.. not how Google Webmaster works.
Well, I'm not native English speaker, but certainty and confidence means pretty similar things, although probably I should have used confidence instead.

And for your criticism about all ML algorithms having degree of confidence - can you give me an example where an algorithm would not have it? And therefore would not have intuition?

ML are made for partial knowledge problems - means that they don't SOLVE a problem, they take prior experience and GUESS the answer. That is intuition by definition.
In case you haven't heard about it: Bitwig Studio works effortless on Linux with a great feature set. The workflow is more similar to Ableton Live than Cubase though.
U.S. government says SMS codes aren’t safe – so now what?
The linked article[1] about stb_truetype seems to have polygons instead of fonts so it could be used for polygons or any vector.

[1] http://nothings.org/gamedev/rasterize/
I mainly posted this to get the reaction of people here who have used more accepted alternatives.
mailto links should be handled by your OS's default mail client. I just realized mine opens Chrome even though I clicked it from Firefox and Thunderbird should be my mail client anyway.
Wow, that's a US government page. Good job!
Detecting Living Eyeballs During Retinal Scan
Because web developers have this dream of replacing native apps, the industry has been busy removing piece by piece the sandbox that browser apps live in. They want to have all the power and features of native apps except one: app store review and approval. But if you have all the power of native without any moderation, plus the wild west of user-hostile ad-networks... actually i don't know where it leads but it's not good.
> Please don't be so melodramatic. It doesn't happen "out of nowhere". You've purposely broken your development focus to compile and unit test.

No, I'm compiling to see if my changes still allow the tests to pass. This is a huge problem if you're doing TDD. The main argument you make is that it's not such a big problem and I think the number of people complaining says otherwise. Or maybe we developers just like being melodramatic. I honestly can't tell. Maybe what triggers such passion is go being very close to a perfect tool for certain things and those annoyances look like small black dots in a perfectly white surface (That sounded dramatic as well, what's wrong with me? :) )
Sounds like something for the browser to handle automatically, without the site's javascript ever knowing about it.
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Looks like someone's amount of fitness to the pattern got hurt.
One reason is diversification.

If there are N ways to write a program, M of which are security hazards, it's better to have M/N of all programs exposed to risk than have a M/N chance that all programs are borked.

"Reinventing the wheel" is a leaky cliché: the problem at hand isn't that people would independently try to come up with the solution to a simple problem (rolling something down a hill), but that the instantiations of a solution would be irrevocably linked, such that one flat tire stops all cars.

What's more - jesus, go outside, look at how many kinds of skateboard wheels, car wheels, bike wheels you see in five minutes time.
It does do that. But it runs at very low priority, so it might take a while.

But on the other hand, it starts warning you, first just in the log file, then on every query you issue way before it actually stops working, so if you're not ignoring warnings in your logs / your client-code, there should be ample time to react.

At least, there was for me when I first ran into this a few years ago.
Bayesian Statistics Explained to Beginners in Simple English
What is the argument for uniqueness?
How many zeros would you need to use to count the ants in the world?
I've written a good amount of rust, and a ton of C/C++, and, well, the compiler complaining about the type, or, well, anything really, is far more likely in Rust than C or C++
awesome product, have been using it for a while
My results of the hello world tutorial in Angular2 was 53 requests, 4933.49KB, and loaded in 1.74s on local dev, according to browser dev tools. All for one html file that had one h1 element.

Plus, it started out broken. I had to search elsewhere to find the solution to the error the tutorial produced.
Fair enough, but with a language like Javascript a large standard library will never be a reality.

There are too many implementations (by design) and the language is such a "mutt" of designs that it will never happen.

I personally don't think that's a bad thing, but it is different to how many languages work.
Mailinator's Private Domain feature
That's crazy.
The other great thing about Go is it has a lot fewer language snobs like this guy as the people who use it typically don't have time for that kind of crap (SysAdmins, DevOps guys, people building orchestration tools, etc etc)
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How do you explain what "this site wants to know the list of installed fonts/plugins" means to the person using the browser? How would they make the decision to allow or disallow this?

If you show too many confusing popups like this, people will get in the habit of clicking "ok" without reading at all.
Tigers don't change their stripes.
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Your privacy concern is not necessarily undue paranoia. It can be difficult to adequately anonymize genetic data, which can be personally identifying by its very nature, without much accompanying metadata. And you should also keep in mind that you can partially compromise the privacy of your genetic relatives as well. 23 and me may have reasonable privacy protections for the current state -of-the-art, but advances in genomics mean that what is 'anonymized' today might be personally identifiable in the near future. And what happens if 23 and Me, or its assets, are sold in the future? Unlike email addresses, login details, or bank accounts, genetic data remain personally identifying for you and your relatives and descendants and are inalienable (at least until the BioSingularity)

While it is true that anyone could collect your shed cells to analyze, collecting personal artefacts requires some degree of prior specific interest in you sufficient to justify the costs of the collection and analysis - this is a barrier. When your data is uploaded into an easily-searchable database, this barrier is lowered, allowing those with access to trawl the DB for any members matching certain criteria.
You should also keep in mind that all of these private databases are open to subpoena by various governmental jurisdictions. If you are familiar with the Birthday Problem and the various common abuses of Bayesian reasoning, you can imagine how this could pose a problem even for law-abiding citizens (and their relatives, remember). Additionally, it should be noted that regulations against adverse use of publicly-stored genetic information (e.g. by insurance companies) are by no means universal.

Aggregated SNP data is very useful for researchers. But the utility of these commercial SNP products for the customer - beyond satisfying personal curiosity - is often overstated. If you are in the fortunate position of having access to a reasonably adequate family medical history and regular physical examinations, you will receive little marginal medical benefit from these services. Many of the phenotypes that customers spend the most time discussing on various fora can be reconstructed with reasonable accuracy from a pedigree, and the predictive power of these assays for many polygenic traits is fairly low at present. If you are interested in a few particular traits (like caffeine or drug metabolism) I would suggest ordering a kit for just those traits at first, and also playing around with data available on the 1000 Genomes website (www.1000genomes.org). This can be a bit more expensive, but it allows you to establish your comfort level with DNA data before exposing you to any privacy concerns. Of course, if you are interested in conducting personal research on your own SNP chip data and are already familiar with the data format and all of the associated statistical caveats, 23 and Me provides a good product at a reasonable price.
Which is kinda surprising. With her board of directors stacked with people coming from the politics environment, you would think they can get better PR people.
Or her lawyers don't want her making public statements that will prove harmful in future litigation...
> And essentially no one will do that for Windows Phone, meaning that
Windows Phone depends much more on developers to be able to make a profit off of it, and therefore much more on having market share to begin with.

Totally incorrect. There's loads of developers making Windows Phone apps that are compatible with services that don't have an decent official app yet (See, for example, Rudy Huyn).
I have been using it since I switched to VSCode about 4 months ago and thus far, knock on wood, it's always found the one I intend. I however do think it considers what public members/methods you are calling.
But also ML, Scala, C++, C#, Java, TypeScript, Hack, Dart, Swift, Objective C (as of late), Visual Basic... and COBOL snobs.
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> “We hope to achieve FDA market authorizations of these exciting technologies in the coming years,” she said.

I've never thought about what it takes to run a medical devices company but think about that statement. It looks like Theranos just did a huge pivot and they won't be able to generate any revenue from the resulting pivot for atleast a few years?

At this point, shouldn't goal number one be to get a product, any product approved by the FDA, are they the only governing body they need to get approval from?, and then get it to market ASAP?

Someone get Holmes a copy of Ben Horowitz book "The hard thing about hard things". If she wasn't already, she is now a war time CEO.
Mainly because it has no generics.
> Alphabet is one of the biggest so you'd expect them to be doing pretty much everything down to nuclear physics.

I've always had the sense that they operate on a strategy of "if it's technological and important, we should be doing it". Self-driving cars and longevity enhancement aren't terribly natural markets for Google, but any successes will be worth a fortune. It seems like "don't miss anything" is the basic plan.
And very bad quality control. And an inversion of priorities.
I'd personally never use them since they only annoy me on other websites, but clients (or even designers sometimes… ugh) often want them because "We're Web 2.0". That's kinda why sharingbuttons.io exists!
But I'm not working 40 hours a week. At least not billable hours. Usually, freelancers can clock in 25-30 billable hours max, because the rest of the time is spent on admin, sales, outreach, learning, etc...

The biggest thing is finding clients, but I think that is an easier task once I figure out my positioning.
Can they be returned to manual operation, such as for inspection or turning off a socket to change a bulb?
Thanks for the love! Glad you like it!
I was going to suggest RethinkDB, I've used it for tons of projects, and it's my current first go to DB. Combines the flexibility of a document store, with relational queries on them. Pretty awesome. Are the memory requirements that much more than having tens of thousands of tables open?
> the best submissions and the best comments do tend to float to the top

I guess this is a "filter-bubble" problem. The HN crowd is (probably?) rather homogenous, so the stuff that gets to the top is stuff the people here like and think is good. This doesn't mean that anything getting to the top here is good in a general sense.

There are enough people out there who despise HN for being a bunch of privileged white guys, who only talk about stuff that privileged white guys like.

I'm one of these privileged white guys and I like what's going on here, so I'm probably not in the position to judge HN objectively, haha.
Or in the real world:

"I like your offer, but I will have to consider my options as..."

"Okay - don't worry - we have plenty of other people applying."
Or lack of ability if FTL is completely impossible relativity puts a limit on the size of a civilization.
And the universe can easily out a time limit on it as well because extinction events can happen.

Even if we move onto mars a GRB would cook all of us.

And even if it's something considerably more boring then expanding to other planets or even star systems might not save a civilization from collapsing.
Oooh awesome!

Anybody else reading this who's using them, would love to see your sites!
I've got a fellow freelancer who charges $125 to build Wordpress websites, and he doesn't even make the design. But is good with layouts, and knows how to price by value.
Took a look at DroidJack[0], and it's impressively nefarious. Seems like Android is Windows all over again when it comes to security. I already see people running virus scanners on their phones.

[0]: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/droidjack-rat-tale-how...
I don't think any others on that list really qualify as "major". And AutoCAD 360 (=the mobile version) is very much not the same as AutoCAD proper.
Their website is using the standard boilerplate angular version of a 'dashboard' theme from Metronic.

And their API console page took 7.02 seconds (on FIOS connection) to fully load the DOM.
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> Lisp is functional

Not really, multi-paradigm.

> and at least Go has reflection.

Go is introspective.

Lisp has both introspection (e.g. find-class allows to look at existing classes) and intercession (e.g. ensure-class creates/modifies a class at runtime).
Good point. It often comes down to labeling. For instance, if you call yourself a freelancer your clients might think "cheap, disposable, commodity", but if you call yourself a consultant and can show that you deliver, then you can charge a premium price.
I ended up excluding the whole projects folder to prevent spotlight from indexing any source code. I never use spotlight to search any of my code anyway.
She may not be heeding their advice.
You're referring to Oxford Nanopore's devices, MinION: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Nanopore_Technologies

Its error rate is too high to be important; the technology is overhyped.
Part of the clustering is planned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Spine
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Chrome is made by people who want that information.
Mozilla is heavily funded by people who want that information.
Safari is made by people who want to keep things as 'simple' as possible.
Internet Explorer is made by idiots.
Jeez. I was expecting the situation in this post might be that someone who's married with kids went on a vacation alone, which is unusual but sounds like it could be a healthy thing to do occasionally.
That's the point...these ones don't.
I'm not sure there's a single task that I've found more convenient to do on a phone than a desktop.
Example - Satoshi Nakamoto of Bitcoin fame
I'm Indian, though not Muslim, but certainly frequently mistaken as such by racists. One of my close friends is a Muslim with three daughters she fears for daily. I have much to fear for personally.

But the idea that we have nothing to fear except Trump is bullshit. Trump didn't bring us here. Bush, Clinton and Obama did. Fifteen years of terror and violence in the Mideast did. Actually sixty years if you want.

I fought hard to stop the Iraq war that Clinton voted for. She has nothing to be afraid of personally. I've been afraid too long.