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It's bad enough of an idea to connect to an open/untrusted WiFi network - now we're showing HN how to connect to random VPNs all over the world? My cursory opinion of this is that it's the worst idea ever I've ever seen make HN's front page.
Just ask Autodesk and Adobe, it's all they do anymore
If it's not a stretch, why mention it at all other than to muddy the waters by injecting additional politicization to the HN community? If it's worth mentioning in this case, it's worth backing up that it's substantially different from other posts on HN, which requires more than an opinion.
> where they discarded human losses on time.

This stinks of p-value hunting.

I can only imagine the study went like this. They did all these tests and then found that there were no statistically significant improvements after using these drugs. So they said to themselves, how can we tweak the parameters so as to get something publishable? Sure, let's eliminate an entire class of games where our control group does better than the test subjects.

Problem is, the most likely explanation for this is that people on these drugs spend more time thinking, and longer think time naturally is correlated with better results. But that's not how chess is played, else we'd all spend five hours on each move. Chess is about bounded rationality. As a result it looks to me that that they biased the results as to naturally achieve a desired effect.
it is too hard for me to believe that root ca's have not been compromised when anyone working at these companies could likely easily take it without anyone noticing. I do not think transparency has anything at all to do with it.

I think an encryption solutions that cannot be 'broken' for decryption is far more required than one that has the 'good guy' in mind. I do not find it an acceptable solution for critical data.
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I think it's related? Since certificate transparency is a way of watching what's going on with all certificate providers (or at least the ones that use it), an organization that thinks Google's root is up to no good has a way of checking.

It's after the fact, to be sure, but it matters for reputation.
The applications are quite far ranging. I am really impressed by the transparency of the Athelas founders.
EU is not consistent. I know Italy for example banned most of that type of research (because you don't want to make the Holy Father cry), whereas in UK it's still pretty liberal. I'm pretty sure other "holy" countries like Poland and Ireland also have very strict laws.

My cyberpunk education would point to the Far East as "the" place for this sort of thing to spring up unregulated.
You'd get a cask of Pilsener for this explanation. Thanks a lot! Yours is a very approachable description.
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I'm a psychiatrist, and the interplay between microbiome and behavior is an incredibly fascinating area of research. Here's to hoping it leads to something clinically useful sooner rather than later.
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I have a product licensed AGPL. It's hosted on Github and everyone can install and use it without me. I also provide commercial service for this product and provide extra features, enterprise support for maintenance. One of my customers is an enterprise e-commerce company, they build some e-commerce softwares for a couple of big enterprise retail companies. They offered me a deal: we will fork the man product, change its name and their developers will develop extra features for e-commerce websites.

They will continue to pay me for the extra services that I'm already providing and the new product will be brand new product which is not related it the current one as the claim because we will fork the repository and all the releases and development cycle will be different for this new product. I will take some money for my consultancy and also the relationship will be based on profit partnership, I will take commission for each sale and if I don't allow them to sale the product to a specific customer, they won't be allowed to sell it.

The main problem is that the new product that they're willing to develop won't be open-source, which violates the main rule of GPL. Therefore I need to license the current product just for them in order to be able to work with them.

Our company is also in the process of getting angel investment and I'm wondering if this deal can make some trouble to me later on. If I share my company's IP with another company, I guess the investors won't like it and the valuation of my company will decrease.

On the other hand, my product will be used my many enterprise companies which I can't actually sell myself so it will be widely used and proven software even if the name of other product will be different.

What do you think about my situation? Would the investors really decrease the valuation in this case? What can I do for the licensing of my app in order to avoid any legal issue in the future?
Facebook engineers responded to this in the U2F issue on the Firefox issue tracker. It turns out that for this particular technology determining whether or not your browser supports U2F is not yet feasible, so they resort to user agent sniffing. You can use Firefox with the third party plugin if you spoof the user agent to Chrome.
This hits home several ways. My wife runs an environmental company specializing in water concerns in Atlanta.

"In Atlanta, which spends more on water than any other state, there was a regulatory initiative to prevent stormwater from discharging into wastewater. The move prevented raw sewage from mixing into the streams used for drinking water."

These initiatives are based on Section 404 of the Clean Water Act which has reported to be up for massive cuts from the new administration. Water run off and sewage waste have a direct impact on clean drinking water in Atlanta and the potential weakening of Section 404 will result in dirtier and more expensive water:

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-freezes-grants-approves-pipeli...
I'm Speaker of my student parliament at my college. It is not as grand as you describe it. We only get about $250,000/semester from the college. We are actually incorporated as a non-profit through our state's general assembly, so our college has limited control over us. We have limited seats on our college's committees, and we have committees of our own which are majority-student. Committees like the Board of Education in our state have one student member from all the public higher education institutions, and they're appointed by the president of the college rather than by our student government. Our student government hasn't made huge progress on any major student issue.
I wonder if the quality difference in ranking stories vs comments is because the former can't be downvoted (only flagged), while the latter can.
I think it would be pretty easy to land one of those flexible jobs if you were a state rep or senator. I can imagine plenty of construction firms, law offices, NGOs, and other institutions would be happy to carve out a part time role for the benefit of having your ear and knowledge.
Just what I don't need -- being forced to interact with a DJ to get my coffee.

"What do you want?"

"Coffee."

"I CAN'T HEAR YOU! I SAID WHAT DO YOU WANT?!"

"Give me coffee or I will end you."
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While I also have a vested interest in GraphQL (competing in the same space as Scaphold) I agree partially with what you stated above but it's not all that bad as you seem to imply.

Yes, FB does have the power (now) to change the spec over night but so far it was mostly stable and whatever changes were added were only for the better. No new technology comes to life as a standard, it needs someone inventing it, maintaining it, promoting it up to the point where people can get behind it and form a group and make it a standard. Let's give FB a chance, so far it has done an excellent job with the GraphQL standard.
On the other hand, graphql-js and Relay are not that stable yet and their interfaces are changing very fast and probably for people that use them it's a bit frustrating but it's only been a year and i bet they will get to a stable interface in 2017 enough for people to be able to really depend on them.

>There was no reason to ignore what already exists and works for the web at large.

GraphQL came to life (and a lot of people adopted it practically over night) precisely because the things that "already existed" did not work really well (REST for SPA/Mobile).
When a lot of your business logic (whatever that means :)) moves to the frontend (browser/mobile), the backend API tend to become very complex in order to support the frontend and REST can not express very well that complexity.
Whenever people "sell/promote" GraphQL, they bring up 2 main benefits, fetching the data you need in a single request and integrating multiple backends/microservices.
If you look at GraphQL only form this perspective i would agree with you that it brings nothing radically new to the table.
You can have a REST api flexible enough to be able to get only the data you need in one request (see http://postgrest.com) and you can integrate multiple microservices behind it, we've also seen in the past "typed" schemas (WSDL and things like that).

Imo what makes GraphQL so nice is the the simplicity (Rich Hickey's definition), how you immediately get what a query does, how it relates to JSON and the shape of the response you get back. Making something "simple" is very hard work and i think FB nailed it.
Yeah, you know it so much that I have to download 100s of MBs to view a text-only site.
I was replying to a comment in which the author was pondering how the new administration will handle the political side of stem cell research. Look at the parent comment. Why did you not criticize that one for being political?
Not any transparency. Certificate transparency.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency
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Any recommendation for backend VOIP service? I can buy a phone on Amazon, but obviously need to get it connected somewhere. Any thoughts on that?
Aggregate everyone involved (regardless of company) into one category and do the math that way.
A link to the actual paper:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v541/n7638/full/nature2...

This method has actually been discussed for some time now, and I'm surprised the abstract wasn't written that way. I think it was referred to as the "oracle method" in a prior publication, although it's been awhile. I tried looking for it but realized all the keywords I would think of first bring up many unrelated hits.

The previous paper I'm thinking of couched it in terms of identifying experts, I think, under the premise that experts should both understand others' predictions and have a more accurate prediction, and therefore should be weightedly more heavily. But the upshot was the same: that surprisingly correct answers were more likely to be accurate.

I might be remembering the details incorrectly, but my first thought when I saw this was "oh, I wonder if this is a new paper by that same group."
Thorough code review is a great process that should be used in every company.
L-theanine is popular, I take it in a pill but Soylent added it to their coffee product. (Edit: NOS energy drinks also include L-theanine.) Others I've seen around include Bacopa monnieri, choline, Rhodiola rosea. More examples here https://nootrobox.com/full-stack
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What exactly in the article are you referring to? He -- a former supreme court judge of one of the German states, not of Germany -- doesn't outright claim anything illegal was done.

He sort of, fairly timidly, questions it, with the flimsiest of legal analogies: the legislature has to agree to military missions, e.g. participation in UN missions, and thus (?!) something something Merkel. It's a complete non-sequitur.
Prohibition may have been pushed using a Christian narrative but only because it made it an appealing message for the wider population that wasn't going to just take "look, we can sell way more paper and cigarettes now" as justification.
> Linux isn't really there yet. On my 3200x1800 XPS13 running Fedora, it took quite a bit of tweaking to get a usable desktop.

That's odd. I've got an Asus ZenBook (UX305FA) running Fedora 25 with Gnome. I'm using my BenQ BL2710PT at its regular 2560 x 1440 resolution and it looks great. Other than adjusting the brightness a little I didn't have to do any tweaks.
I don't disagree at all, I was complaining about referring to all diets as "fads", as if there is no evidence that some have substantial advantages over others, which varies per person to some degree. For example, on a low carb diet, my food cravings are miniscule.

The thinking "if you consume less calories than you burn, you lose weight" is also called into question every time I go through a cycle of this diet. It is most definitely not as simple as calories consumed(!) minus calories burned. If that was the case, I would be gaining a LOT of weight when I am not on this diet, yet I do not.
> the results were negative so it was clearly a scam

Great use of logic.

I still do not understand why you are blaming the general practitioner clinic for referring you to a specialist. If you want same-day STD testing there are a lot of private test centers in Canada. For example, top Google search result: https://www.stdcheck.com/canada/
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As it concerns "burning a bridge", remember that your employer is the one soaking it in gasoline from multiple five gallon containers, they're just asking that you not strike a match.

Which, of course, is completely unreasonable. Even if you have a written piece of paper with signatures on it, if they decide they don't need you anymore or can get another intern for less, they will effectively tear that piece of paper up and send you your way.

Moral: as others have already said, keep applying and let the cards fall as they might. Unless they have a full-time offer in hand for you today, you have no obligation to them. And I can guaran-damn-tee you that they feel absolutely no obligation to you. I mean, read your 2nd-to-last sentence: do you sense any commitment or obligation on the part of your employer? No, the commitment is completely one-sided.
Nicotine is best administrated through gum or a transdermal patch. I haven't heard of many people using it in pill form. Nicotine alone is similar to smoking a cigarette, but not identical: cigarettes also contain MAOI inhibitors which have synergistic effects with nicotine.
Maybe somebody could make a business out of bicycle parking.
Hi Jim, this is a terrific tool.

It would be more useful for students if it included age requirements for offices (if any).
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Thanks for taking the time to share your experience. What's the difference with your docker runner? I've been building docker images just fine without specifying a runner.
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As the article mentions - which I find especially problematic - private entities can petition the market court and obtain the contact information of the owners of IP addresses based on their self-supplied "evidence". At no point is the target notified of this nor given a chance to defend themselves. They can then send threatening letters demanding money from them.

How would ordinary people even know what IP addresses they've held in the past? One tactic they also apparently use is sending the letters months after the event. Would you be able to say what IP address you had months ago? Not to mention the fact that IP address != person.

You can also legally operate a passwordless WLAN or connect to one. That could prove to be an expensive proposition.

Of course, actual authorities would have to be involved for actually seizing devices for evidence etc.

One thing not mentioned is that in Finnish courts the losing party usually pays the winner's expenses and hence one person that fought this in court had the courts decide they had to pay 100€ for each movie (instead of the 600€ demanded), but they had to pay 31000€ for the winner's expenses.

Legalized extortion? I definitely think so.
It could be an intermittent problem as this is getting a lot of traffic right now. If it is reproducible please link the challenge or submit a github issue.
Its not immoral.

Right now I'm in a cancer treatment study. (my particular study is a "shotgun" type of study. They have a drug that they know works on certain types of cancer, but they have a guess that it might work on my weird/rare type.)

The previous studies on this drug I'm on, were done on patients they had exhausted the conventional treatments, chemo, radiation etc. And they were put on this drug as a last chance after the conventional treatments had failed. I'm lucky in that I'm getting this drug as a first line treatment.

In this case, with these kids, it sounds like they were given the traditional chemo, and when that show results, they tried this. As a result, they don't know if the chemo caused the remission or it was the T-Cells, or the combination.
> Most people that age simply don't think big enough.

I think really big, I believe. The problem is: I am not the kind of charismatic personality that is able to convince fellows to participate (friends would rather describe me as "brilliant scientist who tends to polarizes (in both positive and negative sense of the word) people"); so I am rather completely on my own - and the day only has 24 hours. :-(

EDIT: And what about people who honestly say that they are open to such ambitious projects but honestly admit that they first have to learn the ropes and if they get to a sufficiently high skill level, they will think about such ambitious question (in other words: It makes no sense thinking about these questions as long as you don't have the skills to work on them).
I'd just smash my laptop with a hammer, microwave the HDD, and go live a simple life on a mountain somewhere raising alpacas.
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The CHS and NHS are able to negotiate drug prices even though they can't coerce US companies with force.
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I assumed it was whiteboard photos with hand-drawn photoshop masks.
The follow-up article mentioned by another poster (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13494463) mentions cancer as a risk of the treatment.
The main issue I see is ease of MITM for corporate environments. In a corporate environment a trusted root is installed, then an appliance can intercept all SSL certs and re-create the trust chain to introduce their own trusted root so they can read all SSL traffic and your browser says "SECURE". That is broken IMO.
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As far as I can tell, this is more like Goog gathering their own eggs in their own basket. They are becoming more and more self-sufficient, but don't really seem that interested in taking over the whole market. As long as it stays that way, I don't mind much.
Please offer an alternative rationale for why they aren't as effective. I'm trying to understand why US healthcare is so broken.
I think we are talking on different lines of thought. I am not concerned with certificate transparency... as the article you point out says it can take a long time [years] before it is found to be compromised. the fact of the matter is, if ssl decryption is possible on the fly, we need a different solution for encryption, this include the use of credit card chip.

an encryption scheme cannot be designed to be broken and expect everything to be 'secure'

EDIT: I am not being allowed to reply.

excuse me, I think you need to read what I wrote more carefully. I do not care about certificate transparency. I must not be communicating clearly I will try again..

I am not referring to the ability to issue a new certificate.

I'm talking about the ability to perform SSL decryption without the end user knowing. you do not need to issue a new certificate to do this, you just need the end user to have trusted a new root CA... which brings us to this article where another company is issuing a root CA. do you trust everyone in your 'trusted root ca's on your computer?

Here are some ways to untrust certs [0][1]and another conversation on this [2]

[0]http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/285784/untrusting-an...

[1] https://blog.filippo.io/untrusting-an-intermediate-ca-on-os-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11781915
There's also Noopept, which is another stimulant
Last time I checked, Boost uBLAS was horribly slow and one should not use it. Use Eigen or Blitz++ (or just call BLAS directly) instead.
Shouldn't using common CDNs solve this problem?
I always said the hallmark of a great tool is something that can do 50 things in a shitty way. "ALEXA. ALEXA. SIRI! OKAY GOOGLE? Come here self-driving roomba. Play NPR podcasts and brew me a tepid cup of brown Keurig water while engaging me in a rousing game of Go"
I'm extremely interested in using autonomous driving and computer vision for a lawnmower. I hate mowing my lawn. I hate mowing my lawn enough to program a robot to mow it for me.
Google has had an intermediate CA for many years (GIAG2) so, if you don't trust Google, this doesn't make things any worse for you.
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I found Branko Milanovic's "The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality" to be an eye-opener. Roughly paraphrased, if you're in the top half of the US, your equivalent in India would be the top 1%.

I don't remember if it was that book or something similar I read around the same time, but I have a faint memory of membership in the Indian middle class essentially being "owns a household appliance".
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Reminds me of a study that showed that the most anti-women bias online came from other women.
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That is like saying "I'm going to lie to your face, but the government has forced me to admit the truth if you dig into it a little bit (Oh! and by the way, when I say a little bit, I mean "a lot")".

Just saying "That's the way it is", is not a good argument against "This is how it should be".
Probably Google's RankBrain, it processes 5 billions searches per day and uses whole web as an input. http://searchengineland.com/faq-all-about-the-new-google-ran...
> The Columbia undergraduate student government was also basically just party planners, in addition to being a feeble roadblock to university policies.

Not really, though the degree to which that's true depends on whether you're talking about CCSC, ESC, GSSC, or SGA. The student governments absolutely can effect meaningful policies of their own; I know because I worked on more than one such policy while I was there.

> The truly powerful group was the student-run Activities Board, which distributes student life fees to a hundred or so student clubs and groups

ABC (Activities Board at Columbia) is only one of the four funding umbrellas for student groups. And incidentally, ABC does not fund any student groups related to politics, religion, humanitarianism, or public activism. SGB is responsible for all of those, and SGB's funding decisions are fairly autonomous, as opposed to ABC's, which fall under more direct oversight from the atrociously-named F@CU.
This does not seem to include any local offices... it begins at the state level for me. There are many city and county positions that are better beginnings.
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