skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
here's your more information
http://blogs.cancer.org/drlen/2019/01/29/a-cure-for-cancer-n...
from the deputy chief medical officer of the ACS.
The statements made in the blog post are completely correct as modern medicine is done. But you didn't need his blog post to know what the scientists did was unreasonable. In science, you have to back every claim with published data.

Note that now the scientists are claiming they can't afford to publish their research. But running a lab to do cancer research costs much more than publishing (even publishing in a top-tier journal is less than $10K, rent on a lab and salaries are more than $10K/MONTH).
> Do you have a link to the earlier Apollo 8 images?

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/70mm/missi...
Sounds like you're making the exact same mistake.

In reality, where I live, different people have different work ethics. Some people get fulfillment from work, some people have really interesting jobs, while lots of others only work to put food on the table. You really think a hotel maid gets some fulfillment from her job?
Looking to boost your productivity with one tool?
No Hadoop does more than MapReduce, much more. Primarily: MapReduce does not have a distributed file-like block storage.
Although that sounds nice, dependency hell has never been a problem for me under Arch. Sometimes AUR-installed packages go out of date, but then you rebuild them and everything is OK again.
Wasn't that in may? Time flies.
That would be E00/1 for filter on/off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8d_OInQkLc&t=8m36s

IIRC when the machine crashed while playing sound, with the well-known blinking of the Power LED, you could hear the filter going on and off, too. And most games that had polished music turned the filter off.
As someone that lived through the introduction of dynamic linking and threading into UNIX, it is kind of ironic to see the return to the past being celebrated with joy.
Can you explain phone number spoofing to me? Is there truly phone spoofing that is more than faking the dialer on the client?
I started writing blog posts on Medium around 1,5 years ago. Some got pretty popular with 6k+ claps and many shares.

But almost exactly when I started everything went downhill:

- viewership dropped

- shares dwindled

- short, copy & paste non-valuable content flooded everything.

In 1,5 years it went from "pretty cool" to "not publishing there ever again".
Yes, I just started this month with a paid account ($1 a month) and it's basically what medium was supposed to be - custom urls and rss.

See the dead simple layout: https://kemendo.com/

I do wish they allowed email subscriptions but from what I understand that is coming soon. I also don't love the "published with write.as" text at the bottom of every page for paid accounts but that's no big deal.
Ask HN: How do you organize and inventory your non-digital assets?
I've been wanting to start an inventory of all the physical (valuable) things that I own. Mostly for insurance purposes but also for general documentation purposes. As I'm sure most people do I have plenty of possessions (computers, TVs, video games/systems, furniture, comic books, artwork, and on an on). But I'm struggling to put together the best way to organize things. I need something that's going to be easy to update and maintain but also allows me to find something quickly. At the bare minimum I think taking photos of everything would be beneficial (I've heard you have much better luck with insurance if you have a photo). But it would be nice to track purchase receipts, serial numbers, and maybe even digital operation manuals (for things like kitchen appliances).

I know there are database type applications (AirTable? FileMaker?) that I could use but maybe that's overkill? Some sort of cloud-based solution is fine with me because it'd be nice to be able to access the data from my phone. Just wondering if anyone has experience with something like this. What is your setup like? How do you inventory your non-digital assets?
I was including all leaders. The president is just one of them. None of them have nearly the level of knowledge we give them credit for.
Firefox logs a lot of messages like

> The resource at “https://assets.tumblr.com/client/prod/standalone/audio-ifram... was blocked because content blocking is enabled.[Learn More]

> The resource at “https://assets.tumblr.com/assets/scripts/tumblelog.js?_v=633... was blocked because content blocking is enabled.[Learn More]

Basically all is left is a white page with some unstyled text and DOWNLOAD links, which let me download MP3 files.

Of course I could click in the address bar and disable content blocking for this site, but that's an all or nothing switch and I'm not sure I want tumblelog.js I didn't inspect it but its name doesn't inspire trust.
Merkel is a physicist. She's great.

But then again many physicists were also convinced Nazi officers.
Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing
Is the safety of your kids important?
Long ago I was a consultant for a large church. One of their IT guys got a call from the pastor, who was worried about being hacked... The IT guy had been working on the desktop and had left up a browser window. The pastor read the URL as ExpertSexChange...
Firefox in a VM. Other websites render fine.
Getting boats to children who have to swim to school
Yeah that’s a good point. But I think the author of a random walk on Wall St was trying to make a stronger point: that all out performance on Wall St is just a random walk.
Like I said, Nintendo is not perfect. But they at least try. Apple frankly doesn't appear to give a damn about shipping broken devices / software right now. And they have the resources to easily give a damn
Which is where "managing up" comes in. Want your manager to change their mind and do the right thing? Find a way to package the right thing so they can do it without having to admit they were wrong.

(Yes I know, it's awful that people have to do this, in a perfect world things like this would be unnecessary, etc. When you find a perfect world, call me, I would like to buy some real estate.)
>Why should they have followed that process?

They started doing just that (didn't anyone actually read the article) and then decided they weren't gettig enough traction and tweeted at Apple. Then, someone discloses the full vulnerability later because.... ...reasons?

CVD isn't the single right way, you're correct, but it allows the vendor to address the issue and remediate it, before the exploit is published. In fact, CERT states that they'll publish exploits after 45 days (I think it is) of non-repsonse from vendors.

To me, it sounds like someone started going the right direction and someone else took over the PR-value of the loudest voice gets the most attention - which there is some arguments for/against that.

However, since they already started going down the "right" road, I don't see why there's this crusade to say "all reports should be accepted through any channel". It's an untenable precept.

Should start-ups or FOSS monitor social media for security reports? Don't they define reporting processes of their own?

I'm not saying, "Don't ever use social media," which is what I'm gathering some people misunderstand this as. I'm saying, if they started down the reporting path, via the appropriate channels, then why disclose the vulernability publicly, if they were already going down the appropriate path?

As someone else mentioned, it should've been on support to see the tweet and pass it on to the appropriate team; especially, since they had already opened a bug for it. Yet, I don't see how this automatically equates to just dumping the exploit into the public domain. (I hope my explanation of it makes sense, at least?)
How likely are these single-gene diseases to arise from a point mutation instead of being inherited?
Since this is marked as dupe, where is the original?
I disagree, those shareholders know what they're getting into when they buy the stock. I do agree with just about 95% of criticism directed at Facebook, so this isn't me defending them specifically. I just don't see why dual share classes should be forbidden as long as people are properly informed when purchasing non voting ones.

If I offered you 10% of my bakery's profits but told you explicitly that you'd have no voice in how I run it, it could be a good deal for both of us and we'd both know what we're getting into.
A friends ISP provided router literally has it written on the back. Also don’t forget WPS Push Button access.
> Using intermediaries also allowed Facebook to technically not violate Apple's enterprise certificate contract (because the intermediaries were in violation instead).

I actually though they would have done that, but it used the regular "iPhone Distribution: Facebook, Inc. (In-House)" cert, they didn't even create a shell entity and get a new one. Reports say Apple has revoked this cert, breaking all internal (legitimate) apps and possibly creating quite a bit of chaos for internal ops.{1} Their separate Apple Developer Program organization account, used to deploy TestFlight public and private betas and App Store apps, as well as local deployment to a small number of devices without Apple involvement for development testing, is not affected.

The intermediaries may or may not face consequences if they have separate agreements with Apple, but they did not use any Apple products to do their part and have not violated anything with Apple.

{1} https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-b...
Mastering the JavaScript event system
Aaaand there we are: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-b...
I think if India actually made sense as a place for western companies to invest in and build factories, they would have done it long before now.
This has been my experience, too. I worked at just one place that had a really good handle on high-volume, high-velocity streaming data, and they didn't use Flink or Storm or Kafka or anything like that. They mostly just used the KISS principle and a protobuf-style wire format.[1]

There is definitely a point where these sorts of scale-out-centric solutions are unavoidable. Short of that point, though, they're probably best avoided.

[1]: (It's truly amazing how many CPU cycles you can reclaim just by removing branch instructions from your message deserialization code.)
Wikipedia says GCD and Go are the same age (both released 2009). Is Go also different for the sake of being different? Why is Go good and GCD bad?

I imagine we’re not going to convince each other of the technical merits, but I personally think GCD is a very nice programming model. I’m less of a fan of Go but plenty of people love it so clearly there’s something there. There’s room for both.

It’s a valid criticism of a lot of Apple tech that it’s very locked down, but given libdispatch is open source (as are the Clang changes to support block syntax in C) I don’t think that criticism is fair here.
We have POTS at home and work with a regular digital answerphone set to "speaker" ("always answer").

So, all calls get answered by the answerphone, most spam callers hangup as soon as the message starts.

Genuine callers start to give a message and you can pick up if you want to handle the call immediately. If someone needs to "break through" then they can say "hi, it's X, can you pick up please".

Works fantastically.

I would love my mobile to work the same way.
Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps
I've been reading a lot of comments about this, and something that always comes up is the question "why shouldn't people be able to sell their data?"

I have two objections to that. First, they're almost certainly not making that deal from an informed position. Security and privacy are very complicated matters, and most people won't even realize to ask questions about data retention, aggregation, sharing, differential privacy, etc. Instead, they'll substitute in an easier more salient question (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution), like "Is $20 a month something I want?"

The second issue is that MITMing all network traffic on a phone will necessary scoop up the user's credentials, as well as private messages and metadata from that user's friends and family. It's naive to think about privacy as something an individual can accomplish. When you sell data from your networked social device (i.e., your phone), you're also selling out all your friends and family. Given all that really hot data, what incentives are there for the data collector to act responsibly and protect that data? The reality is pretty much none.
Its curious that the media is going to such great lengths to paint Facebook as villians.

My own Facebook stream is travel photos, people saying gushy things about their spouse, plus a few people still obsessed with Trump. Harmless stuff.

Our lives must be pretty cushy when this is one of the biggest dangers that we face.
Polar vortex stops by the Upper Midwest, brings record low temps
Did it ever really leave? What.cd only shutdown a couple years ago, I assumed something else replaced it and I'm just not hip enough anymore to get an invite.
I once worked at a company where the new CIO came out and said very plainly that the attrition rate was too low. The implication under the circumstances was that there were too many low competence long-timers. This was followed up with a ham handed campaign of making everybody miserable by dramatically increasing the sense of stress and "urgency" that everyone assumed was designed to increase the attrition rate. That in turn was followed by a small exodus of many of the better engineers (since that's who is able to leave easily when things go south.)

Five years later that company is now two CIOs removed from the original attrition warrior who left presumably to help the attrition rate even. The company still has a ton of long-timers that they seemingly can't get rid of. Why are companies so bad at coming up with a system that keeps more competent people and eases out less competent people but that also doesn't hurt morale by being a dystopian nightmare?
So just go through your cornfield, examine each stalk of corn if it's carrying the gene, and if so, pull it out? It's not competing the same way a weed competes - all it has to do is pollinate the other plant. A weed can't do that.
Unlike so much of the ugly narrative, even the ugly bits and pieces of this project (i.e. buying up ports, putting countries into debt traps etc.) - this one is different because there's a real, underlying material reality here.

It's rational economic impetus, and probably a 'good idea' for the Chinese.

Frankly, it may be good for many more than the Chinese.

a) Other nations will be connected

b) It can be 'two way' as well.

Just like the UK, and later the US controls the high seas for the benefit of every merchant, and developed important projects like the Panama Canal and ensures everyone, even economic competitors have access (Russian, Iranian warships through the Suez during peacetime, even though the US has de-facto control), China is to some extent doing the same.

The Belt-and-Road is 'what China needs' but it will also be beneficial to others so long as it does not get politically messy.
The browser version of Skype drops Firefox support
For those interested, the original paper on the Bkd-tree structure mentioned in the note about geo_shape updates: https://users.cs.duke.edu/~pankaj/publications/papers/bkd-ss...
This, exactly. If Firefox went Chromium, Ad-Blocking would be dead (because Google isn't going to move away from this, I think).
This article exemplifies everything wrong with the nytimes and journalism today.

1. It's asking me a question. Don't ask me a question.

2. It doesn't add anything new or informative. Pretty much a rehash of everything that's been stated repeatedly for the past 8 years.

3. Boring standard propaganda. It's interesting how the BRI is covered by pro-china, anti-china and "neutral" ( if possible ) propaganda organizations.

4. Written like an annoying travel diary than an article.

5. Article by Ben Mauk who obviously has insights to khazakstan or china right? In a world that "is more connected than ever before", the nytimes couldn't find anyone other than some guy from europe to report on this? Does the nytimes hire an indonesian journalist to cover brexit?

6. Nothing gained from reading the article. Are we any closer to answering the question? Did we learn anything new? Other than Abaiuly is a handsome liaison to opinion makers and potential investors?

You'd find more insight and "truth" watching youtube vlogs/reports/etc from the locals/travels or even finding these people on gaming chats and talking to them directly.

It is correct that the silk road isn't an actual route but a bunch of routes that changed throughout history. Historically, it was more of an idea of a connection and trade between the civilizations of china, india and the middle east. But the idea that it wasn't controlled or administered by anyone is simply not true. Whatever empires that controlled the region ( most famously the mongol empire ) controlled and administered these routes.

We ( and the british before us ) have shown that naval power and naval trade routes define global economic and political strength. Rather than china's overland silk road ambitions, I'd be more focused on their naval trade route ambitions. Especially if global warming opens up the northwest passage or the arctic siberian passage.
Deploying to Kubernetes at ZipRecruiter
Without custom CSS, you couldn't, however, fix the single most important readability issue about unstyled HTML: add reasonable margins and keep body width at the recommended 60–70em or so. Readability modes finally get that right.
Why do ex-NSA need special regulations? What even makes them special?
I am not condoning the unethical practices, but every profession has people who are below the bar you talk about. The reasons why they do it are as varied as the peoples of the world.
"The teeth-straightening market has become extremely competitive since 40 of market leader Invisalign's patents expired in October 2017. SmileDirectClub and a slew of other start-ups, such as Candid Co., are jockeying to overtake the teeth-straightening market, appealing to consumers with flashy marketing and less expensive treatments."

Anybody know of any other medical treatment patents that are expiring soon?
Unfortunately I believe your myopic viewpoint is exactly what Facebook has driven to create.
Some data for you: 100 years ago, I couldn't vote in the United States. 50 years ago, my best shot at not living in poverty would've been marrying well. 25 years ago, starting and running a company would've been preposterous.

100 years ago, could you vote? 50 years ago, could you pursue a career and succeed on your own merits versus seeking a spouse? 25 years ago, were men starting companies?

Do you think perhaps that history contributes to the "failure with inclusions"? Do you think women ended up dominating careers like midwifery and nursing because they all just happened to realllllllly like that? Or because that was available to them to have some agency over their lives?
Current discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19033451, which includes a link to the previous thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031055.
> buy a super fancy smart bulb and give it to you. You don't need your old insecure smart bulb any more so you put it in the bin.

I don’t see anyone throwing out a working $30 light bulb.
Wind Chill Blows: It’s time to get rid of a meaningless number (2007)
so I can be the CEO for 12 months for $12?

And I have no responsibilities, and I get a better LinkedIn?

Count me in!
Yes. It roughly translates to "exploded, though we didn't want that".

There's an equivalent term fof CFiT too - lithobraking. It's like aerobraking (using planet's atmosphere to shed some speed), except with rocks.
Netflix and Facebook definitely have something similar too especially for newer grads (although the former rarely hires new grads). Amazon just does it in the worst way possible.
>>administrators weren't able to properly discern trivial matters from life threatening ones

That suggests a very serious flaw in the overall capability, seriousness and knowledge of the project of the person making that decision.

The administrators are not that stupid. Reading the article carefully. These people were worried about the launch to be delayed by an year. That subsequently brings up the question about how that would work for their careers.

Also what is the downside for these people. Say the Shuttle crashes, they are not going to be billed $2 billion or charged with manslaughter. Heck, all they get is a job transfer in the worst possible case(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ham#Columbia_disaster_an...).

If you have literally no repercussions for making wrong decisions. You have now incentivized the administrators to make whatever decisions works best for them personally.

No amount and quality of engineering reports are going to work from here.
>It seems like we aren't only losing the fight for global hegemony but barely actively taking part.

We've actually shot ourselves in the foot with a shotgun in the last few years. We're doing everything we can to cripple ourselves and let other powers take over.
Great idea! How do you plan to "scale" it? Will you personally review every song that is submitted? And I guess related (though probably a "worry about it later" problem too) but how will you verify that some troll isn't just posting other people's work as their own?
True, but SunVox is so much more than just a tracker. In my experience with (PC) trackers they rely mostly on modifying pre-recorded samples. SV on the other hand allows you to chain together a crazy array of synth modules to produce sounds "from scratch".
The UI/UX for medium comments is so utterly horrible it makes me angry just thinking about it.

I was reading some interesting articles the other idea, and it was a painful, torturous struggle to read all of the comments and their nested responses.

The entire text of a comment should not be a clickable link! And you shouldn't have to go to a new page to read comment replies...

Sorry, just venting, not directed at you.
But it can easily tell you where the traffic is heading.
On mobile, try using https://hackerweb.app/

A much nicer mobile interface for consuming HN, but you'll have to go direct to the site to interact with it.
If you're using regex to parse attacker controlled files I'm not entirely sure if you're in control.

Many unexpected things can happen, as a simple example SSH can generate log entries like this

Jan 30 17:37:04 server sshd[26695]: Invalid user root from 127.0.0.1 from 10.0.0.1

The default rules can deal with this specific example, but this is certainly a path I wouldn't want to go down myself.
Sorry for the typo :)
If we agree that they didn’t claim to be doing CVD, were under no obligation to be doing CVD, and CVD isn’t the only way, then why did you comment saying ‘this isnt CVD’ and post a definition as if they were confused about what CVD is? I mean it’s not relevant because that’s not what they were doing.

You might as well comment ‘maybe I’m cantankerous but they don’t seem to be baking a cake here’. You’re right they weren’t baking a cake. So what of it?
There is nothing wrong in making money, if you want to attract good content writers and curate content, provide additional services like digital magazine, you have to make money to pay your writers, curators and staff.

I don't write for Medium, but I think rather than trashing Medium, maybe we should help make it as a better platform for publishers. There is enough garbage out in the internet, maybe Medium can help clean it up.