skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language is quite neutral and explains pretty clearly what opting in means.

The research consent page is separated into about 6-7 paragraphs that explain the various ways it could be used, and what to consider.

It's not coersive in either direction.

I know this because I used to consent and after this announcement just went to remove my consent.

To 23andMe's credit, I did this because they sent me an email explaining this new relationship and reminding me I had consented to the previous setup but now should think about whether I still consented in light of the new partnership.

I felt it was all above board.
In principle, orbits in a 3-body system are unstable when extrapolated arbitrarily far into the future. But in the case of the Earth-Moon system, it's easy to find orbits where the "instability" grows on a timescale of years or decades, and therefore can be easily dealt with by active course corrections.
It is opt-in.

23andMe has done similar things before, then they contacted potential candidates and asked for opt-in specifically for that project. For example, if they'd run a prostate cancer study with some university they'd contact middle-aged men and ask whether they want to be involved in a prostate cancer study. Language would not be neutral, something like 'Do you want to help stop this cancer?'

Here are the papers 23andMe has published using their data: https://www.23andme.com/publications/for-scientists/
Google's ML Glossary
You’ll see 3 things in general:

Genotyping: this is what 23andMe does. Here they’re looking at a few million locations on your genome to see what specific letter you have. These are the locations which are most typically different in humans

Whole Exome Sequenckng (WES): full sequencing of your Exome. this is an oversimplification but the Exome has historically been viewed as where the “useful” DNA

Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS): what the name implies. Can be quite useful in cancer and rare disease research, and were increasingly realizing how much of an oversimplification my explanation of WES is

Almost all commercial “sequencing” that you see advertised is genotyping. And in the real sequencing world WES dominates WGS. In both cases it is due to cost. There are also a ton of options on all of these, such as how many SNPs are on the SNP chip in the genotyping case, or depth of coverage for WES/WGS
That's the problem we been talking about for years with regards to dependency on the cloud. Take digital games: you don't own then, when you pay roughly the same amount you did for a boxed game a decade ago now you barely get a license, not a right, to play said game on platforms such as valve for as long as they allow you to.

And it's the same problem with software in general these days, no matter if you pay you don't own it so you don't have a right to use it.
You give them a fake name and birth date when you sign up to stay relatively anonymous.
The Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) lack of a coordinated enterprise-level approach to cloud infrastructure and platforms prevents warfighters and leaders from making critical data driven decisions at “mission-speed”

From the Statement of Objectives [1]. Though it's probably more about the "Online marketplace offering" mentioned. I can see it now, bunch of office workers deploying some PHP software to their JEDI cyber cloud.

1: https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=9283ca4f1d895893346235548a...
And when this tool is pointed at a poor black neighborhood, do you think people will question the results just like they did the members of Congress?

To me, this is the issue. We make all sorts of statements when it’s congress, but when it’s real life it’s not enough to make the news.

After all, how many members of Congress have been shot because a police officer thought their cell phone was a gun?

THAT is what the ACLU is trying to point out here.
The answer is no, English is easier to learn for Chinese-speakers than Chinese is for English speakers. Chinese and Japanese are objectively much harder, because of how kanji/hanzi work.

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-mandarin-20160...

(English is, in turn, harder than languages such as Spanish because of its spelling weirdnesses.)

The early weirdnesses stop mattering pretty quickly. Stuff like irregular verbs, you just get used to. The things that make languages hard are things that still trip you up years into learning the language.

In English, that'd be spelling. We have spelling bees! For a lot of languages, the idea of a spelling bee is unthinkable, because spelling is just not a problem. But in English, we have spellcheck on computers, we have native speakers constantly correcting each others' spelling.

In Chinese, that'd be reading/writing characters. At least in English, if you forget how to spell a word, you can just spell it out phonetically. In Chinese, there are thousands of characters, and if you forget how to write one, you're screwed. In a famous essay, someone forgot how to write "sneeze" in Chinese, and asked his friends at the Chinese equivalent of Harvard, and none of his friends could remember, either (we're talking native Chinese speakers in the PhD program for Chinese).

http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html
Like the OP mentions in another comment, this is survivorship bias.
Yeah, there are sort of two different issues at stake here. One is how to get broadband to rural areas, which is why Spectrum is being penalized. The other is how to provide some sort of competition in urban areas, which this move seems to further undermine.
It's far from perfect. The main issue is people have no idea what they're really consenting to. Leaving aside the vague wording, we don't even really understand what data is even possible to derive from DNA. Some researchers are generating photos of what people are going to look like as adults from DNA, others are correlating certain genes to personality traits, educational achievement and risk of criminal activity.
I misread the title as 'The death of John Draper?'. This left me rather confused for at least several paragraphs into the article.
> I have heard people say that prison rape isn't a bad thing, because those getting raped are criminals anyway. Do you agree with that?

The victims being criminals makes the "is it a bad thing?" question all-but-irrelevant. I would have thought that obvious.

> All of this ignores the more practical matter of reintegration upon release and the message we are sending to the loved ones of prisoners. If the systems society has set up were exploiting them, can we really expect them to then have faith that trying to work with society will help? The same goes for their loved ones. They see the same unfairness in the system, will they feel like society is fair? like it pays to do what society wants?

It is unnecessary to make people feel like it pays to do what society wants (as true as that may be), as long as they feel like it hurts to do what society abhors.
Cook's Illustrated magazine doesn't get so far as explaining the chemistry, but they do document the lengthy trial, error and tuning process to get their recipes right, as well as what decisions they made and why.
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The media made its bed and now it can lie in it.
Then, according to your previous logic in other comments, they should move somewhere else.
Random selection off Google: https://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Genesis-Smooth-Pro-Bla...
Can you name a legal tech product that is currently used and really improves productivity?

Generally I agree with many of your points, especially that tech w i l l transform law. However, I'm not so sure how soon that will be.

I also studied law and I am a coder and I see similarities between both. However, I think it will be a long time until a computer will truly replace a lawyer. There is one thing that I think is especially hard:
Not all rules are clear cut (like "If the company has a turnover >5 Million, x applies"). Many rules have an element of judgement (in Germany we call it "unbestimmte Rechtsbegriffe", which roughly translates as vague legal concepts) that require context knowledge, which is something that has not yet been achieved by machines (or at least I wouldn't know about it). While logic is undoubtly an important part of law, judgement (especially one that requires broad context knowledge) and interpretation it another one, and from what I experienced, the latter can unfortunately often not to be solved with the rules of logic and thus it will be hard to bring a computer to do it.
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> give Most of the profits away to benefit unknown strangers. Who will do that?

The majority people of the developed western world already do this. Their taxes are higher than 50%. And they're happy with it.

The US is an exception.

The reason why they're happy with it is because they get benefits too. Transit systems and park systems that they benefit from. Healthcare coverage so broad they do not have to worry about their health.

OK, your house is smaller.

OK, your back yard (if any) is smaller.

OK, you buy less random disposable garbage on Prime Day to fill your smaller house.

But the people in these countries are happier. Because happiness is reality - expectations. And expectations are subjective and controllable.
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It'd be interesting to investigate if there's useful common error patterns that can be detected and then prompt the user to check. E.g. "you entered an e-mail address @gmmail.com. Did you mean @gmail.com?"

Then you could do the hard-fail checks very conservatively and still catch some mistakes early.
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Ask HN: Has anyone had their FB account disabled witho warning or explanation?
I woke up one day about a month ago, and my Facebook account was disabled without any warning or explanation. I've gotten zero response from FB support, and have reached out to two friends-of-friends who work at FB who have been stonewalled as well and unable to get any more info.

Has this happened to anyone else lately? I rarely post to FB, and I've checked through the last 3-6 months of my activity and can't find anything that seems like it would violate the TOS (the only thing you can do when your account is disabled is download account history).

Trying to figure out whether this was an isolated event or whether perhaps they changed their algorithm and accidentally flagged a bunch of profiles.
Imagine a future where a government or company can get a report on a potential employee/insuree/contractor detailing their risk of cancer, or whether they have genes associated with higher educational attainment or criminal activity from a data broker because their brother or cousin thought it would be cool to see how much Neanderthal DNA they had.
They can eat their domain names
The base is Openmaptiles (https://openmaptiles.org), to build from osm data you'd need to spin the infrastructure from docker. I posted the link to maptiler because in other threads people were looking for a simpler cloud instance (I'm at the sotm conference and they presented it)
Why didn't they just leave the car running though...
Google's being singled out because they, like some others, are so excessively greedy with profit these employees go without so they can hoard money they barely even pay taxes on. They have optimized to rob their employees and their cities, states and countries.
> It could become a nice little corner of the internet where ...

dot-Jaruzel? You could make a religion out of that.
I would not mind opting in as long as the all the financial benefits don’t go to the drug company and 23. The person sharing and/or the society should get a piece of the pie
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People who park their cars have enough money to be able to vote, call their representatives, and go to town halls (not to mention to have cars).

It's not "good politics" if influence is only available to the affluent.
Not quite the same thing but detexify at least helps figure out any symbols that LaTeX knows: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
> What? Giving away free drugs causes insurance premiums to rise? How does that work?

So, as an example, I'm on Stelara. It's $10,000/shot.

Their patient assistance program will, without any consideration to income, pay up to $20,000/year of my copays/deductibles.

Why? Because the marginal cost to them of producing the shot is probably $10, so by paying (for example) someone's $4k deductible (or even $13k, if I'm a family on a Bronze plan) they make the remaining $36k that year off insurance. That person might picked a cheaper option or not have taken the shots at all if they'd had to pay the $4k out-of-pocket.

It feels awesome as a patient, but that's because I'm insulated from the enormous cost. Over time, though, it's pushing my premiums up, but in a way that's totally disconnected (from my perspective as the patient) to the pharma benefit I'm getting.
I found this video online since May :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaORiYln68c
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I thought for most people it was because it's free and well known enough they've heard of the service already. Spam filtering is a bonus.
The thing about reverse discrimination that makes it particularly egregious is that on some level people view it as more socially acceptable than traditional discrimination. Discrimination based on superficial characteristics is always, and equally wrong in all cases. Furthermore, reverse discrimination actually perpetuates the very rift that its proponents decry.
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Cases like this show what's wrong with the US justice system. There is no internal quality control so prosecutors can try to hold on to their errors and it's really hard to get out of jail even if it's totally obvious that the person is innocent. I have now read about several cases where the person was obviously innocent but prosecution kept fighting a release tooth and nails delaying a release for years. In addition they often force a plea deal so the person can't even get compensation.

In my (medical) company we have a quality department that's outside the normal management hierarchy so they can override any decisions made and stop a product release. The US really needs an institution who is motivated to make sure that justice system works correctly and has the power and budget to do so.
> There's never really been any likelihood of the operators of .com, .net, etc. going out of business

ORLY? Where were you in the summer of '87?
The L1, L2 and L3 points are all unstable, but there are nearby orbits that are neutrally stable, e.g. the halo orbits and the orbits described in the article. A spacecraft on one of those orbits will still need to use some propellant to get it back on track from time to time (for "station keeping"), but it's typically not very much propellant. Such orbits have already been used for other missions, such as the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
Resolving proxy DNS servers do that for you. A successful transaction against a resolving proxy DNS server yields a complete answer with all of the alias chain and the final resource record set (or "no such name" indicator).

* http://jdebp.info./FGA/dns-query-resolution.html
Did you try right clicking and choosing "Save as..."?

As I said before, it's a 5-minute thing to get started with service-workers. Web-sites can use that and then you don't even need to save. There is this great offline library, fellow developers! Use it! What other platform gives you such easy-to-use offline capabilities?

> "not hijacking scrolling", "linkable URLs" and "not re-inventing <a href> badly"

You are dealing with a Turing-complete language here. Navigation situation is still way better than the applets.

What is the alternative you are supporting instead the current situation?
They have to provide service beyond what is specified in existing contracts?

I would expect the merger agreement to say that they have to make higher speeds available, not that they have to deliver a higher level of service than is specified in existing contracts.
True, but history has shown that unions are no help with that. Lots of union members trusted that their pensions were funded. Union leaders knew they weren't, but somehow were convinced not to care about it...
That's my point - often just treating the reflections form the ceiling alone isn't enough, you need to stop the reflections from other surfaces as well.
realitygrill is probably thinking about the new SEAS campus that mxwsn mentioned. I think they started planning the campus around the time of that renaming.
PuTTY's been a thing for almost two decades at this point. That's quite a lot of inertia; It will take a lot more than three months for people to migrate, nevermind the people who aren't on W10.
Maybe the idea that a high proportion of social scientists end up describing themselves as Marxist should make you reconsider your view of Marx, rather than dismiss the social scientists as equivalent to creationists?
Last weekend I took my family to the beach. A women started hollering that my ten month old was putting rocks in his mouth.

I had to pretend I was as concerned as she was about it, and that it wasn't something he'd done a hundred times before in the backyard.

Hearing that similar types of "neglect" get legal action has made my wife paranoid for years. So far, I assume it's a very rare getting-bit-by-a-shark-like occurrence. I hope I'm right and she's wrong.
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people building "polyglot" software aren't necessarily "fluent" in all the languages used in a software project, and it's way more important that you know problem solving and programming and how computers work to make code as efficient as you can than just knowing a bunch of programming languages, that said, you should know at least one language very well, and should occasionally see what makes others languages attractive or useful

so if you know go very well, you could read code written in something different, I think you can learn a lot from reading code in an entirely different paradigm, so for instance, you could read a program written in Lisp, or Assembly, or Prolog, just as a learning exercise, you don't have to become an expert

for example, why do people program physics engines in C/C++, but do GUI in Java or Python? because each language has its strengths (in this example, performance for the engine, simplicity and expressive power for GUI)

why do languages like Prolog exist? because they are useful for things like AI or reasearch

now, because a lot of languages sort of inherit from the C language, learning C is a good way to make it easier to get used to the syntax of those languages, because it's going to be fairly similar to C, Go itself inherits a lot from C as I understand it
There's a lot more to running a TLD than just running DNS. That's only a small portion of it. Running a TLD is non-trivial and there's a reason most gTLDs are run by big players or hosted by contract by same.
If you just employ enough people it would be interestingly possible to see how much the Neanderthal DNA impacts work performance... ...i should never do corporate HR.
All it takes is a couple of relatives of yours to sign up using correct information.
Not OP, but I've been working (among others) on this one: https://www.unit9.com/project/5gum

My friend and co-worker built this one almost all by himself (HW&SW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfANs2y_frk
Take a look at Chef John’s recipes on YouTube. He knows his stuff, and he makes sure to explain the thought behind the process. It’s illuminating and entertaining.

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> Originally published at gist.github.com

Maybe because the article was originally a gist[0] itself.

[0] https://gist.github.com/citizen428/16fb925fcca59ddfb652c7cb2...
Agreed. It seems pretty unhealthy long term if we have a society with only lawyers, engineers and MBAs.
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that this was portable on all POSIX systems:

uname_S := $(shell sh -c 'uname -s 2>/dev/null || echo not')
ifeq ($(uname_S),Linux)
HAVE_LINUX_SPECIFIC_STUFF = Yes
endif

This is how git does its conditional compilation purely powered by Makefile logic: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/config.mak.uname
I wonder why audio software seems to be a bigger deal in Europe.
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Ask HN: Any small-to-medium-sized Go team need a contributor/project lead?
Save for June-December of 2016, I have been a solo developer going back to 1994.

I'm applying for jobs in Denver. The most frequent rejection reason I hear (for Sr. Engineer positions) is that, while they don't doubt my Go/Node skills, I haven't proven I can work with or lead a team.

I'm looking to rectify that mistake. If you have a Go or Node project you're looking for help on, please reach out.

(If you have a job offer, resume is available upon request.)
> the government telling a company that the have to service a bunch of uneconomic households is a subsidy to those households.

Which we have decided as a society is worth it. Everyone should be able to communicate, and it helps those people be more productive too, helping everyone.

> Either other customers' costs will rise in order to pay for that service, or capital will be diverted from upgrading or expanding service to economic customers.

On the other hand, having less competition for something with huge last-mile costs can save money overall. The tricky part is keeping the downsides of low competition in check, by forcing more responsibility on the company as it gets more power.

> The idea that you can rig the merger so that it comes out of corporate profits with no consumer impact is nonsense.

If the merger let them go from negative profits to $10B, then the consumer impact already happened. If none of that can be rigged into rural expansion, then the merger shouldn't have been allowed, and they can go back to minimal profits.
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The belief that there's no exact solution to the three-body problem is common but wrong. There is one, and it was found about a hundred years ago. The history of the problem, and its solution, are all described in the book Poincare and the Three Body Problem, published by the American Mathematical Society. It includes a section about potential reasons for the pervasive belief that no solution exists.
It looks like the author used Medium's import tool[1] but didn't change the gist links to embeds. The source for the import is a gist itself[2], which just has the raw links.

[1]: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214550207-Import-p...

[2]: https://gist.github.com/citizen428/16fb925fcca59ddfb652c7cb2...
As the article explains, they did make ads for the Da Vinci. Several, in fact. To make it "iconic", they built up the brand.

The ad that's just looking at people looking at it is brilliant, really a work of art on its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsEAJkTP0-M

The effort that went into selling that painting is one of the more fascinating stories of the last year.
Clever.

But i was thinking more of using the whole surface area of a floppy as a PCB and cover it with flash chips.
I like your idea of opening it in an editor to prettify it up. It seems to go at least part way to integration Help Documentation in the process which is something I'd like to achieve
Interested in why the author used Scala. Cool stuff!
Never knew about it. Really good for quick introduction and revision. Thanks.
I don’t think it’s realistic to expect a few dollars for your contribution.

I’d be happy just knowing my 23andme profile is helping develop a drug that otherwise wouldn’t have existed.