skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read between the lines:

> They failed to discern a pattern of increased medication-taking by women who were carriers of genetic variations linked to behavioral problems.

The mothers carrying known behavioral genetic markers were not more likely to take acetaminophen. If the headaches were correlated to a known marker then you would expect it to also be passed on to an offspring in a statistically significant way.

But if there's an unknown marker that correlates with pain complaints? I know of at least one psychologist who is going back to some of Jung's commentary on behavioral issues and trying to carve out a set of people who are diagnosed as 'shy' or 'ADD' but who just have heightened senses.

The gist of it is that some people have a less aggressive filter on their senses, and eventually they can't cope with the information overload and they begin to act out, not unlike an exhausted child. Depending on environment and luck, they might develop shyness, ADD like symptoms, become scarily perceptive (extreme case: Sherlock Holmes, Psych), or some combination of all three.

These people also complain about physical discomforts and pain with a higher frequency than normal people. The question of how exactly they eliminated pre-natal painkiller use of the mother as a predictor for behavioral problems wasn't addressed in either summary but might be buried in the data.
> When your solution to an incredibly minor and easily-solvable problem

What solution is that which he didn't mention? He mentioned AAC, custom formats, just do it and ignore the share link issues (LOVE the share links).
2. Of the YC companies that use hosting providers, 55% use AWS, 13% use Cloudflare and 6% use Rackspace.

Cloudflare is a CDN exclusively, right? Why are they counted among the hosting providers and not with CDNs in the next line?
Tracking the Hackers Who Hit DNC, Clinton
We've managed to get confidential data stored in Azure for a large financial organisation, all compliances they required passed.

A server is a server right?

Problem could be cultural and generational. Some old school types like the idea of a server without redundancies and fire prevention and fault tolerance and high security clearance in a data center. They want it to be blinking lights at them in a cupboard on premises. They feel it is safe due to physical proximity, even though their firewalls are like cottage cheese.

We're noticing that issue with health data for medical practises. Older people are suspicious of cloud. The younger generation are more savvy.
"So besides the boring stuff listed in this article"

Not boring if you want to target YC batch companies. In fact it is quite the opposite. The niches here are hacker-rich and as such could be used as a guide to build new products. That is the reason I posted it.
Is converting Wikitext to HTML/RDFa really going to help with this task? I'd say it's actually clearer how to get the data out of the original Wikitext.
>I really wonder what kind of drugs they were on when they decided that it would be a good idea to import millions of illiterate, young men from an alien culture that hates us. We now have terror attacks here in the EU on a regular basis and the rise in violence and rapes can't be hidden anymore.

Not only do the elites not see themselves as the same people as us, they fear strong middle classes as a legitimate threat to their power. Mass immigration is just one of many steps towards creating a population that can be ruled by force without accountability.
> AWS isn't capable of supporting confidential information?

It's not a yes/no question. It depends on the information: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/

But as far as census goes, no. I don't expect any country to be stupid enough to trust a foreign third-party with census information. Even in the US, AWS has separate zones for federal applications. This includes people who specifically can touch the data involved.
The typical discount broker customer isn't a Robo customer -- they're fishing for people who give some dope in a suit 1% of their assets every year for generic advice and a shoulder to cry on.
Thanks for the kind words!

It basically follows the Bogleheads approach: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

You get roughly your age as the percentage invested in bonds, with some adjustments up or down for risk tolerance. For taxable accounts, the bonds will be VTEB (tax-free munis). For nontaxable accounts, the bonds will be VCIT/VWOB (corporate bonds / emerging market bonds). The stock ETFs are VTI (US), VEA (foreign developed), and VWO (emerging markets). Nontaxable accounts also get VNQ (real estate), based on how much real estate you already own.

For example, my taxable account is:
60% VTI, 18% VEA, 12% VWO, 10% VTEB

Tax-loss harvesting is a bit tricky. In order to tax-loss harvest, you have to sell one ETF and buy another correlated ETF. This is usually done by purchasing another company's ETFs (ex: Schwab). Unfortunately, while Vanguard charges no fees for its own ETFs, it does charge fees for others' ETFs.

The algorithm takes this into account though, so it only initiates a harvest if the tax refund you'd get is significantly larger than the cost of buying the non-vanguard ETF. In order to make this cheaper, VTI is paired with VOO - even though the index tracked is different, they are highly correlated with each other (>99%).
The thing which is disturbing about this one beyond the obvious that it resulted in a full compromise of HTTPS trust in iOS, OS X, and AppleTV is the shallow nature of the bug. When it comes to shallow bugs this must go down as one of the shallowest and long lived; at least for iOS.
He did say it wasn't an issue for downloaded files.

For streaming I believe he said you only get eight bits, which over a two hour podcast is about 30 seconds of precision. Then of course the podcast sometimes goes longer, not to mention how long Gruber's podcast goes.

Sounds like Matco is right it would work well for a 3 minute song but not s multi-hour podcast.
Sounds like what SCOX was speculated to be doing on their way down the chute during the IBM suit.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12293870.
What are you talking about? Marco's been trying to avoid that, as opposed to what the Stitchers of the world are doing.
Extracting data from Wikipedia with type providers: http://evelinag.com/blog/2015/11-18-f-tackles-james-bond/
they are to the kids who make web apps - most of this stuff they talk about on the internet is by kids who make web pages for start ups. I used to rant and say similar things, I now see the value of peer reviewed material. Basically 90% of developers advocating things on the internet are not peers, I look for how many projects they've developed successfully in the new gee whiz tech before reading too much. Really most of this stuff was originally thought of in the 70's and 80's, we just keep going in circles.
Some poorly bounded automated trading algorithm.
Thanks for the encouragement and suggestion. I'm on a mobile right now but pretty sure you can just click the link on the number to see the full feedback. Will check to make sure when I get back. thanks
Thus it is enlightening to know if an argument for A is being made hypocritically, to evaluate the possibility of A being true in a wider context.

That sounds like logic, but it makes much less sense than it sounds. So you're saying it's good to examine the hypocrisy of someone's argument, because of the possibility that there's contradictory facts or implications that the arguer is holding back on us? Not only is that also ad-hominem it's a fuzzy half-logical ad-hominem.
The requirements of the census should be obvious to anyone using it. Not the requirements of some suits sitting around blowing money because they can't think of scalable ways to host a web form. The system has one main purpose and that is data collection. A concise list of requirements could be:

- Scalable to the entire population of Australia (not less than 1 million submissions per hour)

- Significant attempts to combat expected DDoS attacks (the original census site decided not to take the offered help from upstream DDoS protection services)

- Data Security needs to be paramount (seems like the one thing they did right as nothing has been leaked yet)

- Just because it is a government contract doesn't mean the cost is irrelevant. [$9.8m + (testing costs exceeding .5m and .5m of OFFICE plants)]

These students achieved this in a caffeine filled weekend hackathon for around $500 and it achieves at least my first point as they benchmarked it at 4mil req/h.
Bantering on about how it isn't an adequate solution just isn't productive here. The purpose was to show that it can be done better and cheaper than what IBM and the Australian Government came up with in FIVE years vs 2 students in 24ish hours.

Credit where it is due guys.
I just tried these out in the newest nightly and it looks great and works perfectly in Emacs. Great job guys!
This is you-can't-parse-HTML-with-regex [1] level hideous, only worse, because Mediawiki markup is essentially a Turing-complete programming language thanks to template inclusion, parser functions [2], etc.

The only remotely sane way to do this is to use the Mediawiki API [3] to get the pages you want, then use an actual parser like mwlib [4] to extract the content you need. Wikidata and DBpedia are also promising efforts, but both have a long way to go in terms of coverage.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunction...

[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers
Ummm maybe it's the actual ailment that caused the mother to take the acetaminophen that is the root cause?
Dropbox Is in Talks for Possible 2017 IPO
Why physicists like models, and why biologists should (1993)
2. Of the YC companies that use hosting providers, 55% use AWS, 13% use Cloudflare and 6% use Rackspace.

No Azure? considering how much Microsoft gives away with their bizspark program, this is surprising.
Yeah, the transformation itself shouldn't be bad.

Made a Babel transform real quick for this particular example:

http://astexplorer.net/#/ZT6HYai08w
Oh so you get interviews? I get asked to do 2 - 4 hours of unpaid dev work on my weekends in order to get a phone screening or an onsite... maybe.

So far that's pretty much been a deal breaker because I have other things I'd like to put my energy in, but eventually I'll just implement a generic rest api that handles common interview cases in languages I want to interview in, and use that, and adapt it as needed.
More good news. Moving to Linux soon.
FWIW, this isn't a new regression on FreeBSD. We also saw these problems on Go 1.6 once we looked at our old build logs. It's just now documented.
Sounds like the plot of the "Ties That Bind Us" episode of the BBC show Hustle from 2006
Also, IBM built the original eCensus application in 2005 based on its own AIX operating system and WebSphere application. ABS tried firing up its cloud servers but failed miserably, and hence they had no option but to rely on IBM again, because of previous contract and bureaucracy. Australia needs code.gov.

http://www.itnews.com.au/news/ibm-wins-96m-to-host-ecensus-i...

http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/4a256353001af3...
The SPUs were basically the next evolution if the ps2's two vector units, which were often running middleware too. It was really hard to write code that ran fast (Sony were advocate of writing assembly in an excel spreadsheet), but generally the vector units were doing about the same thing for every game/developer (bruteforce stuff: transforming vertices, calculating vertex lighting, generating multi-pass command streams for the rasterizer). So most developers were just using Sony provides examples, or improved versions from middleware developers. Very few developers wrote their own VU programs, or even needed to.

The cell now has 7 vector units, with comparatively more memory, but there was no default job for them, all the vertex transformation now ran on the GPU's vertex shaders. And Sony initially stuck to their guns of "SPU programs should be written in assembly, in a spreadsheet"

Because the single PPU really sucked and was nowhere near fast enough for anything, Sony eventually relented and releases a version of GCC which would compile c++ code to the SPUs. Fast to develop, but nowhere near the performance of an excel spreadsheet designed SPU program.

This resulted in a whole bunch of games running code on the SPUs that was really badly optimised. But at least it reduced load on the PPU.
Right - for example pain management in Crohns.
It reads like a serial killer's confession.
For what it's worth, I got an MBP from work and it's power supply has an annoying coil whine/hum. I've looked online and it is common enough I haven't bothered to ask for a replacement. Quality issues like that exist among all manufacturers. Likewise with the software side. OSX still has bugs and I still waste time working around behaviors like in Windows or Linux.

There are definitely benefits to it but there are drawbacks too.
That's how I read it. Basically 19.5% of all YC use Optimizely.
Are cooks earning minimum wage?
So there I was. In the Army now. As a young adult I loved watching Stripes...the real US Army is nothing like that. In Stripes Bill Murray just got orders. In real life, you get orders and a commander's intent. When it came my turn to give orders, I learned that intent and vision were what people followed (assuming your troops have reason at all to follow the leader). Orders/plans are great, but people do best when they have something to rally around and fall back to for direction when everything else goes belly up (was going to use Aussie version, but not appropriate). Mottoes from a company mean almost nothing if they're not backed up by people who can grasp and believe in them. It's all about the leadership and the people who follow the leader, not the motto. Note: there are all kinds of leaders...don't always picture General Patton or Steve Jobs.
Reservoir Dogs Tipping/Gratuity Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4sbYy0WdGQ
What is this[1]?!

"To fully understand the difference between our Business Opportunity ad and all the other business opportunity ads you've been reading, the first thing you must know is that we are offering an overflowing profit palette of business 'opportunities', not just a single business 'opportunity.'..."

Plus 30 more paragraphs of similar madness.

[1] http://investor.neuromama.com/licensing-territories.html
This is a typical short squeeze. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_squeeze ) [ With the caveat that I'm far from an expert on this, I just have a collection of documents of many failed corners and very few successful corners. ]

The short sellers are anyone with a negative outlook on the stock. For example, some hedge funds do 50% buying, 50% short selling, so in theory they are neutral to overall market conditions.

The brokers in this case have been permitted to lend out the stock to earn extra money, the short sellers are ordinary customers of the brokers, the short sellers don't necessarily have any special relationship with the brokers.

The market maker would be buying as much as selling, and not holding any position over extended time, so they don't influence this event.

In theory, the short sellers have to pay up to meet their obligations.
Jesus, Norvig's version is so dauntingly short...
Well if someone wanted to shut him up without having to prove he committed any kind of crime, this would be the way to do it...

If there were any substantial evidence, I would say otherwise, but at this point that doesn't seem to be the case. Just anonymous accusations.
USDJPY Remains Vulnerable but with Warning
What problem do they solve? (Problems that were created by XML in the first place don't count.)
My own story of how I got hired at Amazon, back in 2008: http://brunozzi.com/2008/05/22/how-i-got-hired-by-amazoncom/
I know this is a popular way to look at things around here, but no. It's not about cloud / no cloud. People with sensitive data welcome VMs and cloud deployment - as long as the cloud is in a very separate datacentre with only local people handling it.

Look at the actual rules and what risks they want to protect from: http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/4a256353001af3...

Here are some of them:

2. an audited linking environment, involving staff activity being logged, monitored and, if
inappropriate activity is found, investigated. Any misuse would result in immediate
termination of access for the staff member, with further sanctions imposed if necessary;
3. ABS staff and in-posted officers sign legally binding Undertakings of Fidelity and Secrecy to
ensure they are aware of their obligation to protect confidential information, and the
consequences of disclosure (which include criminal penalties);
4. enforcement of the clear desks and clear screen policy;
5. access on a ‘need to know’ basis;

How do you enforce those rules on AWS / Azure / whatever provider's staff? How do you make sure only people with appropriate clearance access the servers?

7. Vulnerability Assessments are carried out on all new IT Systems by specialised staff in IT
Security trained in the field of Ethical Hacking;

How do you get those providers to agree to internal pentest exercises?

At that point, it's just easier to stuff some more servers in the government datacentre - completely isolated from other projects. And whether it's cloud or not is a completely separate thing - it may as well be on OpenStack.

> Older people are suspicious of cloud. The younger generation are more savvy.

So no, this is complete bullshit. (and so is putting this as us-vs-them - I'm part of a fairly young generation in the CS, working on cloud infrastructure, and I still would not want to see census data processed anywhere outside of "no phones in the building" government environment)
Ask HN: Has anyone been to Skill Distillery?
I'm looking at a couple possibilities: pick up an English teaching job either here in Taiwan or China, while continuing to teach myself to code using resources like freecodecamp, or:

Attend skill distillery for their four month Java program.

I want to know if anyone here has attended and their thoughts on the program. The reason I'm picking them over others is because it is one of two boot camps that can accept the GI Bill. I'd still have to pay some of the tuition since I only have three months left on the GIbill, but still, it would be a nice jump start.

Background: ive been learning to code for the past year using different online resources and occasional pair programming with a friend who now lives in Japan. Ive at the advanced algorithm stage on freecodecamp's JavaScript track.

I've made a couple of websites for local businesses here in Taiwan ( www.shbox.com.tw www.sushiworld.com.tw ) as well as attempted to work on a management software program for English schools with a guy from Taipei(that fell through for other reasons).

Mathematically I'm shitty XD I'm 33 so it's been a long time since I touched math. I want to improve that.

Right now I'm studying Chinese at Taiwan, though I finish in September so I need to make a decision on either teaching and programming n the side, or go to a boot camp.

End goal: I want to work here in East Asia, using my language skills to help build software and craft solutions for people. I also enjoy making websites. I feel like I can go either way, just stuck on which direction I should go XD

So, any thoughts on Skill Distillery? Thank you for your help!
"This is incredibly clickbaity and is definitely not the sort of calibre of article I'd expect to see on HN."

Karl Stefanovic on HN, really? ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=codeka
Yeah CloudFlare is not a hosting provider, so that piece seems erroneous. They are on the CDN line below, I just don't understand why they ended up on this line. Maybe because people's DNS points at CloudFlare?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12294350
Here's a good article on building low-cost devices to detect infrasound.[1] Most microphones and sound cards don't go much below 20Hz, so you need special equipment. It turns out there's lots going on below the human hearing range, and it can be analyzed.

With multiple microphones, you can direction-find, but you need huge separation in the infrasound range, because the wavelengths are so long. Human heads are too small for this. A useful trick would be to build some units that record a stereo signal - one channel infrasound, one channel a precision time track such as WWV. Space those round your town, and send back the files for synchronization and correlation. Good project in an area with hum problems.

The problem in Portland was traced to a bulk ship unloading machine. The addition of two mufflers fixed it.[2]

[1] http://www.techlib.com/area_50/infrasound.htm
[2] http://westseattleblog.com/2012/12/the-hum-followup-calportl...
All their website does is scrape Google and return the results. I found this by causing an error by accident which shockingly exposes this error page: (http://i.imgur.com/w0tgNUA.png)
> Do you not trust the court system to preserve free speech?

Bankrolling a plaintiff going up against a financially inferior defendant means that the plaintiff's argument may be framed more convincingly than the defendant's. And, not to put too fine a point on it, the jury opted to imperil Gawker's free speech; juries are even more susceptible to impassioned pleas to "think about the real victim" than a judge.

The main issue for me is that Thiel opted to use another case to exact his revenge against a media company, rather than his own. He made Hogan the instrument for his revenge. Sure, Gawker is a pox, but its right to be a pox should be defended with the same fervor with which Thiel's vengeance was exacted. It wasn't. It couldn't have been. That's why it's generally seen as a bad thing when someone an order of magnitude (or more) more wealthy than a defendant puts their money behind a plaintiff when the case isn't about the financier to begin with.

I see why Thiel is a self-styled privacy champion - the crux of his revenge scheme, after all, is that his privacy was violated. But, to me, it seems like a hypocritical assertion; why didn't he take Gawker down for violating his privacy? Did he not think a jury would be enamored enough with him?

The case stinks all over. It's bad for everyone involved. Thiel loses credibility as a champion of privacy, Gawker is on its way out, and Hulk Hogan's own private escapades were paraded out to the public. The whole mess is toxic.
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China launch First-ever quantum satellite and hack-proof entangled key transmission
I just learned Go 2 days ago and today I am already running my own web app!

I love Go because it is kind of like C, but better (more modern).Generally, I always program my stuff in Java, but whenever I have an idea of creating something I could only choose between: C, Java, bash. Obviously I am not going to use C and bash for most of my ideas. Thinking about solving my issues in Java is meh so often I decided it is not worth it to invest time. I feel like using Java for my ideas is like using a semi truck for roadtrips. It can be done, but it's just not very efficient having to launch the JVM everytime I want to do something small.

Yes, I was open to new languages, but I did not really care about: C++, Python, Perl, Ruby and so on because I never cared about web dev. Now I was bored and finally decided to learn Go.
Allen Downey offers many books for free [0] including a few on statistics and data science.

[0] http://greenteapress.com/wp/
The best description I can find of this "company" lies on page 37: "https://neuromama.com/ - Search Engine based on Artificial Technology....."