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Agree. This was my initial reaction as well. While I can appreciate the founders background in Cancer research and drive to do something about the problem, the solution is unfortunately not a "just apply computer science!" one.

We don't know what we don't know. Yes, we know that certain genes can contribute towards cancer. However, that doesn't mean you will develop it. You could have a torrent of SNPs underneath BRCA1 but never develop breast cancer.

The last comment I'll make (not to be a naysayer) but it's naive to approach the solution as if it's black and white. Biology is super messy. The data is often not clean. Sequencers do get it wrong (albeit not often) and the bioinformatics is not a perfect science. People looking at the field from the outside should approach it with healthy caution.

It's somewhat the equivalent of saying that, in theory it's easy to launch a rocket into orbit. You have a concentration of reaction mass, you ignite it, it propels you to space. In reality, it's obviously infinitely more complex, much like genetics.
What does it matter what's underneath? At the visible layer which most of us have to use, it's java.
This makes interesting claims about performance but doesn't describe them. Are they all based on client-side javascript and graphics efficiency? I ask because it seems to me that the most important thing in map client performance is the ability of the tile server to quickly and consistently deliver tiles. Especially important is the tail latency. To experience this for yourself go to the Leaflet preview page[1] and change the base layer provider. It will be several seconds before all the tiles are drawn, even for several identical tiles in the middle of the ocean. Most of the tiles arrive in the first second but out of a hundred tiles on the screen there are the inevitable stragglers. And sometimes it just doesn't serve at all[2].

1: http://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/
2: http://pasteboard.co/8bnyEPXGC.png
At my school we wrote a part of a model checker (in C, with pthreads) for concurrency, the rest of the assignments were (as I recall) a mix of questions and math proofs, so you either got it, or got to redo the questions.

In general I only recall writing one simple essay and it was, indeed, for our completely fluff project planning class, which was almost entirely about the instructors homegrown, mostly bullshit agile-like system.
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> You can go get an off-contract sim card, use it on a clean Android

The moment you connect to your WiFi, Google gets the SSID and can relate other devices using it. Possibly (?) the SSID is also known to WhatsApp.

Does it really help much?
Wait, burdensome regulations buy a social safety net? Someone will have to explain that to me. I see no connection between spending days to get a permit to put a new wall socket in my office and a social safety net.

What a twisted, confused and convoluted argument.
TL;DR - ConversionXL developed their own method for prioritizing AB tests. You can download for free (doesn't even ask for an email address) the excel spreadsheet to use their method yourself.
That applies to all Berne Convention countries I think. Actually it is a relatively recent idea in the US.
The most bizarre thing about this is that geeks now even manage to rationalize this away.

That iOS/Apple (of today) are so revered by open-systems loving folks is a little bit counterintuitive.
Exactly, you don't know if that's true.

From my personal experience talking to actual mozilla employees and reading blog posts by mozilla employees, that statement looks pretty true. Even LGBT employees supported him through the ordeal. Yes mozilla the company had some problems with it's policies, but from what I've heard directly from insiders, Eich was partnering with the LGBT people to solve their problems and never acted in and discriminatory manner against them. Loosing him hurt their cause and the company.

Please do some research on what actually happened instead of blindly jumping on the popular bandwagon.

Of course there were employees who were unhappy when they learned about his donation. In fact they were quite surprised because of how professionally he did his job.

But I have never heard of any thing he's ever done to act in a discriminatory manner on the job. I have heard of cases where he actually protected such people and helped improve things internally.
I think you're misunderstanding what "Native Models" means in the context of iOS work. Saying that a database uses JSON immediately, to many ios devs, recalls years of writing very fragile json serialization code. Looking through CouchDB's iOS example apps confirms that yes, basically everything that isn't a string or int has to be serialized into JSON. That's a pretty enormous annoyance, and incorporates a lot of additional cognitive overhead when dealing with data that Realm simply handles properly for iOS from the beginning.

I'm deeply relieved to see that they're launching something that does something about the fragile ios architectures built around JSON. It's similar to what they did with their mobile database: they actually listened to what mobile devs found annoying, and then they built something that completely sidestepped all the fragility problems that emerge when you wrap sqlite with an ORM. Instead, they made an approach that fit within our workflow, as opposed to taking us further from it.
> But if you have a database of the entire population and can correlate relationships in data - what exactly does this legislation look like? "Ok Zuck, here's all my data. But don't run a `SELECT *` because that would violate my privacy".

Yes, there are laws restricting how and when data can be processed.

That someone has the ability to do something bad does not mean they cannot be restricted from doing it by the law.
I think you're getting downvoted because you picked one of the hardest language pairs there is for machine translation. German grammar is really hard to parse, e.g. verbs being split with one part at the beginning and the other at the end of the sentence. Generally, figuring out which part of the sentence refers to which other part is quite hard.

Google Translate works a lot better with many other language pairs, so people might be downvoting because your opinion sounds exaggerated and doesn't line up with their own experience. It's also quite dismissive of the submission, which is never nice. The guidelines ask us to "avoid gratuitous negativity". I often find your comments to be quite negative, often unnecessarily so.
They're going to get murdered in the press for publishing hate speech and neo nazis and terrorists.
Christian from Realm here.
Main differentiators are probably:

- Realm is self-hosted compared to Firebase which is an MBass.

- Native objects all the way down vs. a JSON structure
A 30 mpg car with $3 gas costs $10k per 100k miles to fuel.

In other words, the operating costs for a Tesla do not make up for the premium price of the vehicle. You're buying a luxury car, not paying upfront for operational expense. When they release the 3, things will be different.
I'm less impressed by "wrong about rigged data" results than most people seem to be. Yes, it implies that people bring assumptions to their answer, but is that really shocking?

People with a high prior for a thing assume that new data is most likely to conform to that prior. If you handed me a questionably-bimodal data set, my judgement of its distribution would absolutely depend on what you told me the data represented. Hopefully I'd answer right if I sat down and analyzed the thing in depth, but if you simply go "what kind of distribution does this look like?" then I'm going to include my outside expectations.

Yeah, there's a risk of bias here, largely from people not conserving expectations (if you already assume Geek Gene is true, unfavorable data should count more than favorable data). But saying "people used experience to interpret new data!" doesn't seem like it's proving much.
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Yes, just because you can do something with someone's data doesn't mean you should be able to do so.

That this sort of restriction is largely missing from US data laws is one reason we see so much fuss about data centre locations and 'safe harbour' provisions.
I don't deny these issues at all. That's why I said regulating to make sure people understand what they agree to is fine. I also think people need to be able to change their mind. There are a lot of specific things that I think are unacceptable (such as employers or landlords demanding access to facebook accounts). As I said, I'm not against all regulation.

But if most people are in fact fine with granting access to their personal data in exchange for services then peer pressure on the rest of us who refuse the deal cannot be justification enough to ban the entire business model.

I'm in the same boat as you. I refuse to use Facebook.
Legality != Morality. Some of the NSA surveillance is legal; that does not make it ethical.
$30/month is pretty good for 3k in visitors i think. I get about 10k visitors and only make $25 off adsense. What's your website address? I'd love to see where your ad placement is at. Maybe it has to do with the amount of time the users are on the site.

In terms of getting more $, affiliate income makes lots of money. In the old days when we used to run sites with adsense and affiliates, the affiliate income accounted for about 70% of the revenue. If you had a good place on your site for it, I'd start by looking in to the amazon associates program. FYI. The amazon affiliate pays out from 4% - 10% of the sale of the product.
What happens when you close your eyes during VR? Does the expereince stop or does it linger?
mtDNA is also very significant in historical migration studies... if anyone has a high level explanation of the global state of knowledge in this area I would love to see it ... trying to author a regionally focused ancient history book and piecing together the disparate pieces of supposed genetic evidence for various things is a task I am wholly unqualified for and would love some assistance with.
Educating someone to do it is more abstract and removed, just like selling these devices compared direct filesharing. Now that they routinely persecute filesharing, the ratchet moves forward to go after these devices. After they're well criminalized, they'll work on criminalizing spreading knowledge next.
I worked at two technology-focused nonprofits over a stretch of 11 years (mostly in management). At a well-funded nonprofit, you can expect salaries to run around 25 - 30% below market rates.

For organizations that are closely aligned with humanitarian causes (e.g. health projects in the developing world), I've noticed a much higher gap, presumably because these organizations are able to attract talent that's more passionate about the cause/willing to accept lower compensation.
I do not have the statistics but you can earn that much elsewhere and pay less rent & other costs of living.

Well so unless you are a briton or you love the country / city too much I do not see a reason not to move elsewhere.
Leaflet focuses on being lightweight, fast, easy to use and suitable for most mapping apps, while OpenLayers is more geared towards GIS/academics with its vast built-in support for different formats and standards.
And the android UI framework is still garbage, having to freeze and thaw activity state just to handle screen rotation is the most insane thing I have ever heard of. Hell, even the various Symbians handled this better (I loved my Symbian S60 devices, but programming for them was an exercise in frustration).
Yes, of course. I don't remember the last time I made a voice call, so I don't care at all about that functionality.

Really, all I care about is receiving SMS.
I think your logic is failing there, the fact that something is legal doesn't make it ethical straightaway.

You can do unethical things using legal loopholes without it being necessarily illegal.
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just had a flash back - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Beach_Software
I can't edit my previous comment, but let me just drop this here - Canonical JUST released a new commercially supported distro of Kubernetes.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/09/27/canonical-expands-ent...

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
(I'm not who you responded to,) It is a known tactic of the Chinese government. This book has a good overview of their intelligence apparatus: https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Intelligence-Operations-Nicho... . This isn't an abstract concern, it is something that has happened thousands of times, for political and industrial espionage and political repression.
I don't think it's really designed for games. It's more for stuff like event maps, theme park maps, office maps, transit maps, etc.
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Yeah, sorry for that — now that we're using a much better docs system, and will archive docs for older versions.
I've spent the last 16 years at HP in inkjet printhead manufacturing and R&D. Roughly speaking, we've come up with two models:

- disposable cartridges with printheads (what most people have at home), here we have to recoup the cost of the disposed silicon printhead and the low initial price of the printer

- permanent printheads (what you're asking for) and disposable ink "tanks" of various capacities, here the challenge is to make sure the printhead doesn't get ruined before the printer gets replaced. Third party ink can be a contributing factor to printhead health

We now also have an ink-subscription model where you pay at some anticipated level of ink use and you get a replacement cartridge when we think you need it.
The security guard was just doing his job: to prevent us from talking to Google employees. And he succeeded, blocking our camera and getting in our faces while Googlers crossed the street safe from our prying lens, and their colleagues gathered at the windows looking at the commotion.

“Do you always harass the press when people are out on the street like this,” I asked him, as he kept blocking the camera and jamming his phone cam into our faces.

“No I don’t always harass the press. I only do it when the press harass us,” he replied.

Make no mistake -- the various government agencies which, in the late 1990s, helped fund the fledgling research projects that eventually became Google knew they were onto something. And this is exactly the kind of "return on investment" they were ultimately hoping for.

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The parent worded it poorly IMO. But the notion is real.

The parent made it seem like you had to choose between making money or a good app, which is obviously nonsense.

But I do identify with getting more gratification from solving a problem well and offering to others for free than potentially making money off of it. I might be weird, but money is a drug, and I'll take just what I need (or what my wife says we need).
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This is probably nitpicky, but I'm not sure I buy this idea that "advertising profits" are "evil" - last I checked I happily use a Facebook account and all its features, built by extremely hard-working and intelligent engineers, without paying a dime. Not to mention the fact that I don't want to pay, and some people just can't.
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You can also deploy JARR (https://github.com/JARR/JARR) on Heroku, or just test it here: https://jarr.herokuapp.com/
Agreed, run 100% linux with a brother printer, works great. Setting it up was very simple.

I didn't consider buying HP for a second not because of their drivers but because I have an association of HP producing total garbage.
It will be difficult to get more than 8 hours a day? OK. What's the point of more than 8 hours a day beforehand if you weren't paid?
Looks like a good resource, thanks!
So a lot of folks are left feeling that their choice is between trying to help and getting blasted with vitriol, or just walking away and letting entropy win. I find it hard to blame those who opt for the latter route.

As do I. In fact, I empathise with them, because I've been a high profile contributor to discussion/support forums at various points in the past. I've seen firsthand how the culture in each forum makes a huge difference to how motivated you are to continue helping out there.

Unfortunately, while that might explain my original observations about the poor signal/noise ratio and problems with effectively spamming search engines that SO has today, it doesn't make those observations any less accurate.

The only way I see this improving now is if those running the SO network intervene directly, first by encouraging a more constructive approach and being clear with high-ranking contributors on what that involves, and then if necessary by starting to reduce the privileges of those who don't play along regardless of their score in the game and ultimately, if necessary, kicking the bad apples off the system entirely.
http://evwest.com/ do a conversion, that is the best bang for buck right now and you have control over surveillance
It would be trivial to make twitter profitable by laying off most of the engineering team in San Francisco, and moving the ops teams to the folks who run ESPN web properties.

Just keep the lights on, maintain the software and it would mint money.
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We used it on an analytic dashboard project: so far so good -- overall positive experience.
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I think people missed the hidden /s in this post.
Give it another try in a day or two (we're close to a small performance release). Browser based encryption has performance issues but at least now we're showing the sent message immediately (in grey while it's sending, in black when sent).
I'm not intimate with Go, but I figure its clean and simple design makes it a good first language; and in particular a good preparation for C, because of its focus on memory layout.

Rust? NO! One of the worst choices for a first language. Similar to C++, Rust is really heavy on concepts.
I don't see why you can't make those out of the data structures provided - or even the Clojure conses?
I don't think the argument is a technical one. Most folks on HN probably have some appreciation of the immense vertical engineering investments that have made printer technology so good. I for one am always quite astounded by the engineering.

The argument is a commercial one. You're probably aware of the old "most expensive liquid on earth" list, that printer ink is, gram for gram, up there with human blood, Chanel No. 5, LSD and certain venoms.

The point is that most people think that is insane, and that it is a business model that is skewed so that printer companies extract money from you based on how much you use the printer ("printing as a service") rather than the cost of the hardware. Imagine if Apple or Intel started charging customers per CPU cycle they used?
> Twitter is, more than anything, a media company. It's a bit unfair they're compared to tech companies in terms of performance.

How is Twitter any different in this respect than FB?
His point is that commentary on the cost of living tends to oversimplify. Different regions don't just have a linear multiplier that applies to all expenses, but that's what these surface-level shallow surveys tend to imply.

What escalates in expensive areas is really just housing and other costs related to physical space, like parking and transit. As he said, Amazon costs the same everywhere. So do your cell phone and computer. Utilities, food, gas, clothing, medical, all of those really don't vary all that much. They might swing by 50% between the cheapest and most expensive areas in the US, but that's nowhere near multipliers like 3x that people try to claim from just the housing data point.
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I don't think its that universities are dumbing it down for $$$. It's that they are teaching and testing on skills that are not related to 99% of software development.

I went to University of Texas, and managed to do really well on all the tests and projects without learning how to code. But that wasn't because anything was easy. There were a lot of very tough math, and logic classes that some of my class mates who had been working on open source projects since they were 16 did terribly at. It's not easier skills, it's just different skills.

99% of software development challenges are how do you write/maintain large projects without getting totally crushed by the complexity. This is a skill that no one tries to teach, and is also very hard to teach. Similar to being a good writer, it is very subjective, and CS professors are very uncomfortable grading subjectively. It's also harder to create homework for students than just building out toy projects.
> I, for example, consider myself as very acivist, but also very unsocial.

Can you square that circle for me and explain what you're doing to be an activist while eschewing the social sphere?
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> The leaf just seems to make too many compromises to reach low cost. The tiny size, the poor range, the ugly styling, the tiny wheels, etc.

Tiny size? Just the other day I fit a chest freezer I bought at CostCo inside it. That's not TINY. In fact, I was remarking that, while it does look small, it's just because the average US car is huge. In fact, it's likely to be bigger then what most people drive in Europe.

Agreed that the wheels are small. The car is heavy and tire lifetime is not the greatest as a result.

The Bolt is much smaller than the Leaf.

I'd get a Volt if I were worried about range today. It is an electric car, albeit one with a generator.
>> How much would it change your perception if you found out that a good portion of the refill ink market is also supplied by HP?

It makes my perspective that HP thinks its customers very stupid even stronger... since your comment implies that they charge dramatically more for their on-brand inks than for off-brand inks without adding any extra value.

Apparently you think that HP sells ink at roughly the same price as gold (http://www.npr.org/2012/05/24/153634897/why-printer-ink-is-t...) not because of anti-consumer practices, but because they are trying to protect consumers.

And when they do sell it at a lower rate, under a different name, it's to protect the consumers who are too stupid to buy HP's good on-brand ink from ruining their printers. How noble.

You and HP seem to think that, although cars with tens of thousands of components can somehow continue to run even when consumers are stupid enough to buy aftermarket parts, that printer consumers are too stupid to make a decision about 1 part -- even with the aid of state-of-the art ratings systems that allow them to instantly share any problems with the buying community.

Incidentally, when you accuse someone of a logical fallacy or say they have a "poor argument" without bothering to point why, is just a form of name calling directed at the (actual) argument rather than the person. It's a non-argument.
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Just a small heads up, WhatsApp supports installing the apk file directly without going through the Play Store. https://www.whatsapp.com/android/