skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First trimester ultrasound screening is far from perfect.

For a 30-year old woman, the T21 detection rate is only 84%[1] - and the false positive rate is high at 4%. As age increases, so does the false positive rate - up to a whopping 67% at 49.

So even if you were told the test detected T13/18/21, a decision to terminate the pergancy could mean terminating a healthy fetus. A terrible decision to make.

But there is some better news - there is a relatively new screening test, the so called "Harmony Test", which is a type of non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) that involves drawing blood from the mother and looking at the fetal DNA that is present[2]. For the most common genetic disorder, T21, the false positive rate is less than 0.1%[3], or 0.3% for all 3 disorders combined[4].

However, at least in the UK, the test is only available privately for around £400.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11702835

[2] https://fetalmedicine.com/harmony-test

[3] https://sequencing.roche.com/en/healthcare-providers/nipt/fa...

[4] http://www.rapid.nhs.uk/guides-to-nipd-nipt/nipt-for-down-sy...
> Respectfully, how does your desire to bear private arms contribute to your militia or the freedom of your state and country?

The Supreme Court in DC. v Heller [1] determined:

"The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home"

The definition of the militia in federal law [2] is not limited to those with membership in a formal organization:

"The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age..."

> We aren't allowed to have indentured servitude, but we legally have the draft in times of crisis.

In my opinion Arver v US was a war-time sham case and the 13th amendment's prohibition of "involuntary servitude" clearly and unambiguously prohibits the draft.

> We have the freedom to speak and share our world views, but I cannot yell "fire" in the movie theater

This quote is from Schenck v United States and was written to support the Supreme Court's decision that criticizing the draft was illegal and not protected by the first amendment. Fortunately this was later overturned.

> How does a suppressed destructive device on an unregulated currency exchange make our society better?

Suppressors have a legitimate purpose in reducing hearing damage to the user by taking the volume
of a firearm down from jet engine to lawnmower. As for the 51 caliber, I can only assume the previous poster simply thinks that applying a federal "tax" to barrels over 50 caliber is arbitrary and capricious.

> How did you come to believe you needed this capability?

The police not only have no responsibility to protect anyone, but also no responsibility to even actually show up when you call. We saw in the recent Florida shooting that multiple officers on the scene are perfectly willing to hide and completely ignore the murder of children. On this basis (among others) I see no reason for civilians who are not police officers to have legal access to anything less than what is available to civilians are are police officers. If there were firearm restrictions that applied to everyone I would be intrigued, but I have yet to see any legislation that does not completely exempt police (they are exempt even in absurd cases, e.g. from state laws restricting firearm ownership by people with a history of domestic violence).

[1] http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/07-290....
[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246
Oh, and my original title made clear, although the BBC title which HN has now imposed did not: this was done by Special Branch.

Special Branch are the police arm of the UK domestic security services, not the kind of neighbourhood police implied by the name "Metropolitan Police"
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When the Industrial Revolution was starting that can't have been the trade-off anyone had in mind, because none of those things had been invented.
People are also saying it might be OK if a human wouldn’t have been able to do better. Setting aside whether a human could have done better by at least braking, is “as good as the average human” really a good or reasonable standard?

I thought the whole point was that the average human sucked at driving. If a human driver had LIDAR they would not have crashed into this woman; more precisely, a human driver with LIDAR would have had to have been criminally negligent to have crashed into and then killed this woman.
Out of morbid curiosity, where's the line between "a little trolling" and a state-sanctioned, large, disinformation campaign?
I realize that this is tangential to what you're talking about but your comment reminded me of it strongly: As much as it's clear that there was some funny business with trump's people and russia, the way liberals are salivating over mueller's investigation makes me uncomfortable. they need the legal system to pronounce in some way that trump and his people broke the rules, in order to avoid acknowledging that the general thrust of all of this is the system working as it was designed.
https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/CB-Insights_Amazon-Strate...
The policy doesn't become active for a few weeks.
Careful, the EU is a big market. If you exclude the EU, and get big enough, someone can just copy your business, but abide by EU law. Suddenly you have a compeditor who has access to a large market that you don't have access to.
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While I thought so too, that seems to be a myth. https://history.howstuffworks.com/medieval-people-drink-beer...
Which might form an excuse if it was a human driver. However the human wasn't looking at the road. (I can't blame them, its pretty difficult to concentrate when you are not _actually_ driving) So headlights or not, it's irrelevant.

However the article goes on to explain that dip'd beam headlights don't dramatically increase your vision.

However you are correct its apples to oranges. The Dashcam sensor is had not adjusted correctly to the light conditions, or it isn't sensitive enough. However thats not entirely relevant, as the dashcam doesn't (or at least I hope it doesn't) form part of the sensor array.
If this become a common thing, they wold problally create a portal just for that. After all, if there is demmand, there is money to be made.
These services own their platform. So, they are justified in doing what they want right?

Likewise, the ISPs own the infrastructure and they can do what they wish as well. The Internet is not made up of public roadways.

So what's the difference? I think it's just that you want the ISPs to not own the roads. If you separate what you personally want ISPs to be from the rest of your argument, I think you can see that the ISPs and these tech platforms are pretty much the same - they both own their product and should be able to do what they want to.
Two reasons: cost and that I like things in one place and format.
Although the parent is not 100% correct, the majority of MS students from India and China are in the US for improving their odds of getting the H1B visa. These students either missed the H1B boat while they were working in India or they were not competent enough to be hired from their college campus, or their colleges were not good enough for a company to recruit.

H1B is a quota based lottery system. There is extra quota for MS graduates in US. They also have two chances to get an H1B while being in the US under an OPT work visa after studies. (2 years stayback visa)

Now after graduation, these students go to the body shops which are conveniently setup in those college cities. The body shops are usually run by IT managers in fortune 500 companies who is now a US citizen. (most of them came in the Y2K boat). The IT managers bill the body shops at very high billing rate, thus filling their own coffers.

For example: Take ASU, Arizona State University. Check the demographics of MS students there and the body shops around that area.

You get the idea.

More about the faux consulting companies here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4100451
three systems problems I'd like to see addressed, from simple to complex.

1) Getting stuck. I can imagine multiple situations where the environment changing leads to "stuck" situations.

2) Need to be aware of surroundings on par with human beings. No stepping on dogs or small children when walking up your front steps to drop off the mail.

3) human interaction: the "last 100 feet" is usually "my front porch and lawn". Ownership, control, and navigating human interactions are real issues there.
This is the opposite of correct. Toys R Us core business is profitable and throws off 200 million in profits a year.

The reason they went bankrupt is that a private equity company bought them in an LBO and the debt load became unserviceable.
It would be really hard to believe that Uber would do this. There is only downside, the probability of being caught is high (given they have to hand over a ton of data streams to the NTSB).
It's like how the 2008 election didn't count, because Obama is actually a Kenyan. People can't just lose an election anymore.
>There is no point to this at all if we can't make robots better than humans.

How about saving human time that would otherwise be spent on driving?
Another aggregator. It could even be a clone (think Voat). It's a free market.
>>It's not like sex work is even legal in the majority of western nations

It should be legal that is the point

>Its their fault they forced craigslist to shut down a section openly advertising illegal content?

yes, that was the entire point of Section 230 of the communications act, to prevent platform from being liable for users content, even if the users were doing things that were illegal

Further it is a violation, imo, of the 1st amendment to prohibit speech, while they may be able to make the ACT of prostitution illegal they should not be able to prohibit speech about prostitution.. There is a very very big difference
http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html
read the article before posting
I'm gonna wait for the NTSB report because they are not armchair journalists citing misunderstood optics laws.
> And most people do not care one iota about whether a piece of software is "free" or not.

Can "most people" afford paying $600 yearly fee to edit images? Are "most people" concerned if they fail to make a yearly payment and loose access to all their projects because of vendor lock-in with Adobe's products? Most people I speak to about this are very concerned about this, although they may not know that these problems are caused by Adobe apps being non-free. (But not knowing the cause of a problem doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist)

> Being "free software" does not shield you from criticism.

I agree totally. I just don't think that suggesting proprietary alternatives in this context is particularly helpful as they also lack features of freedom, e.g. sharing, privacy and absence of vendor lock-in.

> And it is not Adobe's fault that the developers of that software do not have a feature. That's entirely on the developers of those programs.

If Adobe freed the source code of Photoshop, how long do you think it would take for missing features to make it into Gimp?

> They care if it makes their life easier, and allows them to get a task done.

... except if the task involves working with other people who may not have access to that software, or may not want to run proprietary software, or may not want to give up their privacy or freedom.
Or why can't we ban churches because pastors can use them to rape or molest church members?
I'm sure the Uber footage is either extremely low dynamic range (and not similar to human vision) or was modified to make it look darker.

However, the driving footage is from after release of the story. The moon on the 21st had illumination of ~17%. The night of the accident was the day after the new moon with an illumination of 1%. Someone needs to film the same section sometime between April 15 - April 17 to get a more accurate estimate of the light on that night. I expect video will still show much lighter conditions than that shown on the suspiciously dark video, but without the same moon lighting conditions we are comparing apples and oranges.

(accident)
http://www.moongiant.com/phase/3/18/2018

(filmed)
http://www.moongiant.com/phase/3/21/2018

EDIT: masklinn pointed out the accident occured before the stoplight in the much more lighted area, not later area where the news crew was filming and was commented on in the second video. It was near the stoplight with the parking deck in the background rather than only the long spaced overhead lights. Incredibly misleading video from the dashcam. Maybe good to know for defense of the true conditions, but it probably won't make that much difference. look at the slideshow
I don't think the concept of "unemployment" is meaningful when we're talking about pre-modern people living off the land.
I'm surprised to hear a top police authority say this. I come from a family of police and it's always said that when telling your side of the story in a traffic incident, saying something along the lines of:

"But Officer, they came out of nowhere!"

never really holds up too well for you. It's the same as saying "I flat out didn't see them, so not my fault." It's quite the opposite in fact... and any cool-headed person will pick that up. I'm sure the investigation is well underway in any event.
They paid less tax, too.
> Growing up, it was usually the conservatives/religious who wanted rap, violent video games, blasphemy, etc banned and censored.

You weren't paying attention—except for blasphemy, those things were from across the spectrum: the most prominent figure for censorship of music (including rap) was Tipper Gore, who was only “conservative” in the sense that the dominant faction of the Democratic Party is center-right. Similarly, the Clinton Administration was active in promoting online censorship in law.

> Now, the push for censorship and control is being spearheaded by the liberals.

It wasn't a liberal Congress that just passed the bill that has is discussing censorship, so I think again you are falsely attributing something they exists across the political spectrum tomone side, just making the error in the opposite direction.
Maybe it does, if he works at Boeing.

The reason we have all these advances that increase our quality of life is because generations have worked their ass off to build them
Why? Both are getting away from home purely for spiritual joy.
I had typed a whole post but you replied first so I would like to continue on the whole 'Youtube is a private company' issue.

For me this is becoming more and more of an issue. I don't know if I have a good solution for it, or if the analogies running around in my head match up well. But the crux of the issue is that internet companies offering very very very public services are hiding behind being a private company when making any sort of decisions on this sort of level.

To me, they are offing a way for people to do mass communication, to a unspecified and in some cases a specified group or list of people.

Lets play with some analogies for a bit. What if AT&T released a memo that you were no longer able to talk about, guns, or any of the other things on this ban list? People would be freaking out. Same goes if your email provider all the sudden said you can't have a gun related mailing list.

The point I am making is while Youtube is a public company they are more of a utility the net society. They do not create the content, they only host and serve it. So they should on be allowed to follow the laws on the books -- and maybe even the same laws that the FCC already imposes on radio and tv broadcast for any video that is public - without paid subscription (much like how cable works, but some mechanics likely need to be worked out there).

Anyway this is just a thought, but I feel strongly that Youtube or any other service that provides public hosting of any content -- no mater how it is monetized -- should only be allowed to restrict content that is illegal to start off with.

On the other hand if they start limiting what can and can't be hosted then I think they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law every time illegal content is found on their systems. A sort of check and balance system. Either they are responsible, or they are not responsible, they can't have it both ways.
Good question. I'm not based in the US, so I don't know the ins and outs of federal or state level investigations.

In the UK I think the data is released to the coroner (assuming a fatality) but I'd have to research that to be sure.
Aren't scapegoats usually blameless?

edit: one of many, many articles you can find criticizing Megan McCardle https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/02/megan-mcardle... ... this is not a non-sequitur attack on her thesis, but I am saying that she has a long track record that one should be aware of before reading her OpEds.
oh please. stop the hand wringing. What are you teaching, bomb-making? Simple educational videos will never be banned. Guns are a special category obviously.
I never argued that. I do believe that things are much better now than in the 14th century though. That's the comment I replied to.

We should always strive to improve, but the article had the tone of "oh look how bad everything is" while implying that it hasn't always been like that. Things are far better now in almost any quantifiable measure than they have ever been in human history. Not enough people talk about that.
It's not absolute. You just didn't think about it enough.

Also, I think you were a bit rude.
No, but because we have it good now we shouldn't frame the discussion to seem that the current situation is dire. We can and should do better, but things are already pretty great.
Standard of living == hours available for chores

Interesting definition. Needs expansion to address the number of hours required to perform chores. Having more hours available to do laundry isn't better if laundry takes significantly more hours. Peasant may have had a whole day per week available to do laundry, but indeed expended that whole day doing it ... vs laundry taking me less than an hour per week.
I don't have HVAC now and nor have I ever felt much need for it; I don't do much online ordering; and I don't spend much time reading other than frivolities online.

On the other hand, power, especially over a large organization, and playing in a much bigger game is very interesting.
They could. It would probably go as well as teaching programming on an iPad. And programming really isn't the backbone of primary education. We're graduating kids who can't read.
Pavel Durov made hundreds of millions of dollars from VK and has mostly been funding it himself so far. But there was an ICO last month that raised ~$850 million.
Don’t those large chunks contribute to the micro plastic problem though, as UV rays and water movement break up the particles? Genuine question.
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Its very useful if you want to come into this country. If you are in India its hard to get a job in America. If you come here for a master its much easier to get a job here. The salary difference between there and here can be massive.
The car driver was half the time not looking at the road! Who the hell drives like that.

Jaywalking or not, the victim was clearly a pedestrian (not riding her bike), the insurance of Uber (Uber itself?) should compensate the victim's relatives. If it doesn't I expect a huge backslash.
I disagree, the US famously has a low cost of living compared to developed nations in Europe. That includes everything from energy prices to housing prices to food prices. When adjusted for the higher US wages, that imbalance is even more dramatic.

Take energy costs as one example. US natural gas prices are half that of Western Europe. Electricity costs are half or less that of Western Europe. In Germany, electricity is about $0.35 kilowatt hour. In the US, it's $0.12.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.js...
>>Microsoft, who also supports it

proving once again the Microsoft does not care about the privacy of their users, and their lawsuit fighting this was not them standing up for their users as they claimed but instead was them pushing for a liability shield that would prevent users from using them

This should be the end of CLOUD services... Self Host or no Host should be the motto of the day
How does a suppressed destructive device...

A suppressor, aka "silencer", is a SAFETY device. If you believe otherwise, you've been watching too much TV. They don't render the weapon silent or even quiet, they bring the explosive sound down to a range that doesn't pose risk of hearing loss. I've seen the sound of a gun with a good silencer likened to slamming an unabridged dictionary onto a solid table as hard as you can. So the assassin in the next room, or even the guy out in the back yard, is still going to wake up somebody in the bedroom.

So the use of a silencer is to protect the hearing of everyone around you. As such, it's certainly a net-positive for society.
If you were sober, how accountable do you think you will be held in this exact same scenario?
Don't forget conjuring up an external enemy to distract the public and get the population riled up.

5. Russia and Hackers and Collusion Oh My!

> Not the fault of the media who would never shut up about Trump.

But look at the ratings and the ad money they are getting? It's the same thing with school shootings. Massive 24/7 coverage turning the shooter into a celebrity. Then they wonder why shootings happen. Oh it couldn't be the media. They can't blame themselves. It must be guns. Another gem is "why is society so divided"? Could it be the media playing population/groups off each other to create drama and make more money? Of course not. They can't blame themselves. So it must be social media and the internet.
I like the critical thinking in this article. Problem is, I am critical about it's critique. Just because Ted Cruz made use of the same platform and did not win, does not mean there is no problem with what Facebook is doing. They are still thieving people's data and selling it for a nice sum.
They should release the LIDAR sensor data, so we can learn what the car "saw". This dashcash is basically irrelevant compared to the sensors on the car.
How many times have firearms been fired on your property in an act of protection? When was the last time?
This would make it very hard for startups to compete
The first thing I noticed in watching the video is that the Uber car's lights seem to be ridiculously focused on a very small patch in front. The dark spot the cyclist appears in remains so until little more than a second before she is tragically hit.

The question is indeed why the electronics failed to detect her, but there's something really wrong with car lights like that.
When was the last time you got an infection or disease that would have struck you down without modern medicine?

I never have. In fact if hospitals didn't exist and I never saw a doctor my entire life, I don't think anything would have changed.

I don't expect to live much longer than 60 as it is. Most 14th century monarchs, in the brief glance I did on Wikipedia before my answer, lived to 55 or 60 or so before they died of natural causes.
Not quite. There is still a direct correlation between work and benefit, as in if you work more, you make more, but you keep more. In Communist economies, that isn't true. If you work more, you make more, but you don't get to keep more.