skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For which other diagnostics exist from companies that somehow managed to submit a proper protocol.

Unlike Zika tests, it is extremely rare for patients in the trials I design to have any alternatives. Also unlike Zika, the standard of care in the diseases I work on yields less than 25% 5-year survival.

Not birth defects (horrific though they may be) but death from organ failure and infection. Nearly all of the compounds are known or potential teratogens. No alternative sources for most of the drugs. Still need an IRB.

You say, "oh it's just a finger stick!" To which I must say, have you looked at the number of physicians and nurses who got Hep C or HIV from an errant finger stick in the hospital?!
For context: Faster indexing and numa awareness is in MySQL 5.7. The parallel read-ahead is a Facebook patch.

Aurora is based on MySQL 5.6.
I don't think so, at least I can't figure out what would correspond to the expectation step.

It seems to be a gradient ascent on a smoothed density function, so there's only a maximization step, no expectation step is involved.
Here's an example (with Python code) of how it performs on street sign data:

https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/a0b69c84ebc00c54c94d

Unfortunately, it doesn't do well on large chunks of text if you're trying to OCR a scanned document.
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Why would anyone use more than 128 bits of entropy in a password/passphrase? (24 characters alphanumeric with upper and lower case.) The answer: "I don't have to out-run the bear. I just have to out-run you!"
See: http://keepass.info/help/v2/sync.html

From what I understand, the encryption is done client-side per individual item (e.g. if you use a cloud provider, unencrypted data never touches them), but there's some generally questionable stuff in how it handles secure things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9727297
thank you, I'll check it out. Know this company very well, we originated from the same university, but I've completely forgotten to check their new products now. Thanks.
My fascination with the 777 lead me to a great documentary on Rolls Royce and jet engine manufacture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfomloUg2Gw.

Note that Rolls Royce faces stiff competition with chiefly General Electric as the engine supplier for the 777 line.
This is very cool but, wow it takes a lot of cpu cycles. My desktop tripped out after about 5 minutes.
I believe what the article was referring to with regards to synchronization is that it works fine with existing file sync software like Dropbox or Google Drive, and knows how to merge changes. I believe there are plugins for things like SFTP as well. It does not provide a hosted synchronisation server or anything like that, so that would still be a selling point for LastPass or 1Password's subscription services if you want that feature.
256 characters is ~1536 bits depending on what characters you use.

There is secure, and there is silly. NIST recommends 80 bits for passwords. Anything over 128 bits is excessive, anything over 256 bits is silly.
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I believe that Go routines are implemented as work-stealing under the hood. Idle threads pick up runable Go routines from other threads.

There was a design document about this from 4 years ago, but I'm not sure how well it reflects the current implementation:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TTj4T2JO42uD5ID9e89oa0sL...
Thanks for the example. That's probably the best advertisement. I have a TON of physical notes that I want to turn into text. I know people use Evernote but I never trusted them. I prefer to keep it in-house and this is a solid solution. THANKS!
If you are like me and you like the idea of password managers but don't trust them because they're giant targets for cyber criminals and intelligence agencies have at my trusty ruby script:

puts ((rand * 1_000_000_000).to_i.to_s + \
("a".."z").to_a.sample(10).join + \
("A".."Z").to_a.sample(10).join + "_")

Some benefits: If you need to enter in a password on your phone the numbers / capitals are all in a row, so you're not constantly shift-on / shift-off-ing. There is multi-case alphanumeric with a symbol, so it passes most website checks. If the website is something dumb and they don't allow special characters your underscore is right at the end so you can just delete it, and since it is an underscore it's a special character usually allowed (unlike % for example) because they're not weirdly encoded, even in URLs.

You can save your passwords in a gpg'd text file if you want, though it usually doesn't matter that much. Just store them in chrome and use two-factor. If you get logged out just password reset to your email.
Oh. For 500.000 pages per year the ask >5k euro... No way. I need to process ~50M images right now, and then ~50k every day.
Royal bank of Canada uses a single 8-character alphanumeric password for online banking, and that login is also good for identifying yourself for government services (e.g. Tax services). I still can't believe it.
An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight
If you interpret "compliance" as the noun form of the verb "to comply", it makes more sense. Compliant behavior, that is, "compliance", is not always positive.
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Yet another swing of the pendulum.
Having worked in IT, this is the kind of "guide" that I hate. It's theoretically correct, but wildly impractical and therefore not useful at all.

Do not let perfect be the enemy of good. Right now, people's password hygiene is not even "good".

Some specific criticisms:

> At a bare minimum you should be using a unique 32 character random alphanumeric on every website or service that you use.

Sometimes you have to type in a password, even if you use a password manager. Maybe you are using a public computer. 32 character passwords are laughable. NIST recommends 80 bits, that's ~14 characters. Entirely sufficient.

> Do not use online password services

If it means you're using different, reasonably strong passwords for all your accounts instead of just one password shared with everything, then PLEASE DO use an online password service. You will be vastly more secure.

Getting "normal" people to use good passwords means their password manager has to be super easy to use. LastPass is fine. 1Password is fine. Hell, even writing your passwords down in a book is fine, as long as you look after the book.
Sorry! I didn't mean to suggest you did. Just saying: it's not like a "I'm doing this in the long term" kind of thing. The next thing will be in the writeup I do for Starfighter.
So is Aurora just a MySQL storage engine (e.g., InnoDB), or a modified version of MySQL under the hood?
I'm not complaining about them not supporting 256, I just find it strange the arbitrary limits imposed.

A site I signed up for today limited it at 42. Why?

And even if 128 is way over excessive, does it actually make a difference to the server? Obviously you don't want to be hashing multi megabyte passwords, but don't most password hashing systems need a certain sized key to work, so it's padded out to that point anyway? And once it's processing further "iterations", the size of the first password is pretty much irrelevant.
It seems mises are surprised by the fact the European UNION aims to harmonise tax laws. That is one of the main points of the organisation.

Of course that prevents individual countries from "racing to the bottom" with their own tax, environmental, and other laws, which seems to be mises real problem with the EU.
Good short potential on Musk's bonds.
> What does that even mean in this context.

IMHO: come up with a set of initial will-thought-out UI design choices that follow an internal logic, then evolve thoughtfully (and conservatively) in a way that respects those choices.

That has the added bonus of not constantly invalidating people's investment in learning the desktop environment.

I would expect a environment that follows that would "look" similar in 2005 and 2015, and that wouldn't be a bad thing.
And then protect it with a 128 bit AES key...
For passwords I need to be able to remember (not many) or share (initial passwords for user accounts) I use a passphrase generator. Everything else is random 24-character Keepass.

Plugging my super simple passphrase generator built upon the EFF wordlist: https://spg.brashear.me
A Hacker News link to a Reddit thread to a tweet. I'd really like to see a little bit more detail before grabbing my pitchfork.

I'll admit to being pretty clueless - it would be great if the organizers could write up the reasons in a blog post or similar. I don't know what Crockford has done to deserve this - not saying he doesn't, just that I don't know - and would like to know.
"Tesla is a battery company "

That is common misconception. Tesla repackages batteries bought from Panasonic.
Nothing against her personally but sadly with Mrs Clinton as president we are likely looking at more confrontation with Russia. Clearly the theme being promoted is that Russia needs to be confronted. A number of articles are promoting this agenda. Maybe our time could be spent more productively. Americans may think we have more serious problems domestically. I think some see in Putin, maybe not #1 good guy but someone who could be dealt with even tolerated, while we focus on more pressing issues facing the country.
For a game engine where task based structure is important Go would be a pretty poor choice.

I have a game server written in Go.

You don't want a GC in your inner engine loop.

Why not? I expect my typical GC pause times to be 1 or 2 ms under Go 1.7. But if my server had pause times of 20ms, I wouldn't care, so long as it didn't happen more often than once a second or so.

It's very common to issue cache prefetches for the next task as one is spinning down for instance.

Yeah, I've had Go guys say I should give every agent its own goroutine. As it turns out, this can cost 150-300 microseconds every time one of them wakes up. I have a traditional game loop right now.
Zika virus – reigniting the TORCH
Collectively? Maybe...
Atlas Shrugged. It clarifies the moral benefit of a selfish honest creative pursuit of money. It seriously improves your workday to feel faintly heroic about it.
The Abstract explains what the Opinion piece is about:

"The recent association between Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy and fetal microcephaly has led to a renewed interest in the mechanisms by which vertically transmitted microorganisms reach the fetus and cause congenital disease. In this Opinion article, we provide an overview of the structure and cellular composition of the human placenta and of the mechanisms by which traditional 'TORCH' pathogens (Toxoplasma gondii, other, rubella virus, cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex virus) access the fetal compartment. Based on our current understanding of ZIKV pathogenesis and the developmental defects that are caused by fetal ZIKV infection, ZIKV should be considered a TORCH pathogen and future research and public health measures should be planned and implemented accordingly."
But when a website you're using is hacked, it's probably not your password database that's being attacked. It's probably that site's password hashing that's being attacked.
I think encouraging longer passwords is a good idea. Even if 14 characters is suitable today in 2016, as computers get faster it will soon not be adequate.

By encouraging different password habits, people will be better prepared for the future.

I have to question your expertise on this matter since you suggest writing passwords down in a book, as well as using online password databases, both are terrible ideas.
> For some reason people give it a bad rap,

A lot of people have outdated opinions about Java, I know I did for a long time. Initially, the performance wansnt there, so people held that opinion without updating it when Java updated. Things are very different today.
Make them an offer. I can almost guarantee there's room for negotiation.
Making the password easier to enter on a mobile is a clever idea. Those who don't care for that, and want to generate a random password can use openssl -

$ openssl rand -base64 25
Ask HN: How do you decide, link or comments
Sometimes I click the link first, sometimes I click the comments.

It's a tough question to answer, but I ask anyhow.
I agree. Moving the needle is more important than puritanism.
Passwords significantly longer than 14 characters will never really be practical. Users hate typing them in. Password managers will never be ubiquitous. This is why the "pass phrase" has never really caught on and replaced the "password".

But I don't believe this is really a problem. As computers get faster, hashing can get slower. There is no upper limit on hash complexity.

Edit: This is your guide, isn't it? It would be ethical for you to disclose that, given that it has an advert for your business at the bottom.
Do people really want information rights and votes on a $5K investment? How little is your time actually worth?

That's a set-and-forget "investment" if there ever was one.
Any 'password manager' is a priority target. Just use longish pass phrase and don't walk around with a target on your back.
Juno's camera is 1,9MP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JunoCam
The 3DS emulator Citra is getting JIT
Diceware is not suitable for general use, because it is important to have a unique password on every service. That practice isolates you from the damage of sites like LinkedIn and Dropbox being compromised.

If you use diceware for everything you've got to remember all of those unique passphrases which defeats the whole point of diceware.

Where diceware shines is in creating a master password, which is explained in the guide.
That's pretty good! How does it do with your handwriting?

I used to use Evernote quite heavily and I've never been able to replace their excellent OCR. I would search for some text and was always blown away when it would find a photo of a whiteboard or a sketch of mine.

Any idea what Evernote uses?
Another descriptions of Diceware https://theintercept.com/2015/03/26/passphrases-can-memorize...
You can also cancel subscriptions for a specific app from the app page in the GP store
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And we'll never need more than 64kb of RAM too.

It was not many years ago when strong 8 character passwords were completely suitable. So respectfully I think your statements are false.

One of the reasons the guide recommends Keepass is that it eliminates the need to type in passwords completely. Even in the rare case of poorly designed apps that block pasting, the auto-type capability works around that.
I agree, I've been thinking about this issue myself quite a bit.

If decisions are recorded and perhaps represented in more simplistic terms then the process of choosing a proxy can be simply comparing a proxies past votes to ones own votes over a number of decisions and finding one or more matches - making choosing a proxy a simple multi choice process.
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bcrypt, for example, is limited to 50-70 character inputs, depending on the implementation.
> For a while prior to this, I had been poking into the field of remote viewing, which hadn’t yet quite burst into the public’s perception ... I had contact with a couple of remote viewers and thought this might be a useful test of this rather strange skill. The data back seemed to indicate a spot not southeast of Leith, but southwest.

Wait - what?

This threw me off because my impression of the author was somebody who was very technical and critical.

Great read - nonetheless.
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I read the docs, but I get the feeling we need someone to detail exactly what the store gives you for personal information. It seems like tokens but I'm probably missing something.
Why do you ask? Do you want it to be one, the other or just curious?
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That sounds right but the problem is how to associate the user with the token beyond something in your app. I just am not sure how I would go from a twitter support account to canceling the subscription.
Ban [something] because it's not effective.

Sounds like the antibacterial soaps fall into this category. As I understand it, if a product makes a health or nutrition claim, then it falls under the purview of the FDA, and the FDA rule is that if you make a health claim, then it has to be proven effective.
So are Ribbon headers.
Within 10 years walmart will have 0 retail employees.

They devastate communities, put all their competition out of business, and then lay off their human work force.

Walmart has a vested interest in perpetuating poverty.
Apple definitely provides you with unique details about the transaction and your system can verify whether renewal occurred or not. Wish they would add an API for cancelling. It would significantly reduce the number of rude emails we get from people if we could offer a cancel button in the app.

However, it would not solve the issue of people that think that simply deleting the app will cancel the subscription, or dissuade people from insisting that we cancel the subscription for them.
If you use a password manager there is practically no cost to the user to use any number of characters. Why not go for something insanely large from the user perspective?
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Apples and oranges, imo. There is no difference in practicality or usability between 64k of RAM and a gigabyte. There is a big difference in both as you make passwords longer and more random. This is not a commentary on whether that's a good or bad idea :).

For the people who recommend password managers, I do wonder why the password manager site is deemed to be more trustworthy than all the presumably untrustworthy (i.e. with respect to secure practices) sites, the passwords to which are stored in it?
One of the tags for projects is "Women Founders". In theory that shouldn't make a difference as to how investable a project is or isn't? It seems as ridiculous as giving the founder's favourite colours or ethnicity. I just don't understand what they were thinking when they put that feature in.
The "no other applications use" is not strictly true anymore, and hasn't been for a while - most stock Windows apps use Ribbon now, even Explorer.

But in general, the problem that you (and the other adjacent comment) is describing is different - you're not talking about discoverability so much so as learned muscle memory. Obviously, changes do break that, but this doesn't necessarily imply that for a new user, discoverability is worse. You'd need to run a study to determine that.
This! This is the most infuriating... and the salt in the wound is that some of the offenders are career/employment sites for firms that should have enough tech savvy employees to code a form that does client-side verification and clearly indicate password criteria to the user.
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Touche :)
What is the alternative ? Building a nuclear power plant ? the same newspaper will come up with a story of how nuclear waste is going to kill babies with cancer. We need to calm.
Good article. Disagree with this:

> What you forgot was that the web server was already parallelizing things at a higher level, using all 24 production cores to handle multiple requests simultaneously.

The reason you didn't see improved performance is because you server's load is high; it's maxed on the work it can do. Obviously no amount of parallelism could fix that.

Double the servers processing requests and your then your nifty in-memory parallelism can make the difference you intended. Note: had you doubled the servers _without_ adding your extra parallelism, the extra hardware would not necessarily make a difference.

You did a good thing; you were just dealing with overloaded hardware.
Plenty that you're missing:

1. At some point it's foreign money buying from other foreign owners who don't live there, and who use the proceeds to buy an even more costly money box/laundery

2. It reduces rental supply and prices out locals who then have to spend money on commuter expenses

3. Even if the above weren't true it's debatable how much of the purchase price actually flows into the local economy
I grew up in a single-parent household back in the 70's before computers and
startups were the thing they are now and although my mom was an uneducated immigrant,
I was fortunate to grow up in the bay area and get an education at a good public school
where my teachers introduced me to

Harold Jacobs's "Geometry"
Nietziche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
Freeman Dyson's "Disturbing The Universe"
Nigel Calder's "The Key to the Universe"
Jacob Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man"
Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach"

I especially loved spending time in the library, reading OMNI magazine, Scientific American
magazine (especially Martin Gardner's column) and the stories of Issac Asimov and Larry Niven.

Those authors made me want to go to college and learn from people like them - people capable
of thinking big ideas about science and civilization - and while none of those books ever
helped me raise money or start a business, they did help me help me overcome my personal
feelings of inadequacy from having come from a poor family and eventually become accepted
into a technical community which appreciated an ability to think and ask questions.
He also seems to have at least a basic interest in hunting for UFOs, even if he's rational enough to expect that most of the reports are probably false. But he seems basically open to the idea, if only to recognize the incredible difficulty of being successful. And, as he notes, the remote viewing wasn't accurate or useful.

You should not confuse people who are technically capable as being unable to believe something that isn't definitively proven.
You might want to raise a stink, show this article to their support staff: http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-crack...

Raise the point that forcing insecure practices on government operated financial sites might be a case of illegal negligence.
Don't current Title III rules make it legally risky for companies to crowdfund like this? The last thing I read about this suggested that crowdfunding like this could put a startup in a position of having to effectively go public very early in their life --- which would suggest that none of the best startups would crowdfund, which would create a major adverse selection problem for Republic.
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This is a great read. If I were closer to the area I'd definitely have spent some time trying to recreate the investigation and check out the site.

Also, got to plug the story of the search for the lost German tourists in Death Valley[1]. I feel like his writing in that series really gets you in the head of the lost, and is morbidly fascinating.

[1] http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun...