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Great. But we need to tackle it at multiple levels, specifically prevention and not just treatment.

Furthermore, we need to develop a way of sustainable organ and blood availability. The only way I can see this happening is through synthetic/artificial means. What Organovo is doing is a good start, but they still need the matrix from an existing organ.

Here is what I see as ideal:

- Around the time a baby is born (before or after, or both), some stem cells, DNA samples etc are collected.

- We need a tech for storing those samples for decades, not years. Including a tech for "feeding" and growing them in a sustainable manner.

- Then we need to have a way to differentiate organs out of them.

- And be able to store working organs for decades, not years.

- And a tech to artificially grow, maintain, and store blood.

- And inject that person's immune system culture into those stored samples and organs on recurring basis. So that they are up-to-date with that person's immune system.

That means, if and when a person has organ failure, or is in need of blood, (s)he has the stuff ready from his/her own stash. No dependence on one another.

It's crazy and super-moonshot? yes. But it's a very realistic way forward. And it's a holy grail worth working towards.
Any place where a concrete list of such resources can be found?
I honestly can't tell if this is a shallow dismissal or if you are proving your own point by being the most upvoted comment.
Sorry, I assumed you were referring to comments. If not, what predatory behavior do you want them to identify and ban?
We offload to others the externalities of our activities as much as possible. We are not sustaintable, and nobody is eager to bear the costs of whatever they are doing.

This is a result of our narrow vision.

Slavery - treating people as property, like we treat animals - is an extreme example of this, and to this day we are still facing the consequences. But we still treat animals that way - as things that are bought and sold and exploited to death. Even after such animal slavery is abolished, we will still experience its consequences, for a long time.
> The courts aren’t there to set law, that is for the legislature.

They set the interpretation of the law, which could literally go any which way, and is not reversible without further legislative action to repeal/amend the law. So in a way, they most definitely set law by solidifying its 'meaning'.
Not a very interesting story, just you complaining about how Apple passed on you with a healthy dose of sour grapes. I know a couple aerospace colleagues who got hired there though. They were well above average mechanical engineers, needless to say Apple's hiring bar is quite high.
Lots of people posting random feature requests in here, but is HN even developed any more? The last significant changes I remember were two and a half years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675) and I think even those were the first ones in a long time.
Interesting! Please do submit it on HN, I'd be curious to see what people think.
I think he meant half of $4.2 billion.
Overwrite the return address or a function pointer instead. Then when the address/pointer is used you can execute whatever you want. Loop up Return Oriented Programming.
He's just saying that prevention is better than responding/reacting after the fact.
The article goes into this, but reminder that cancer survival rates must be carefully considered as a part of a bigger picture. In short, if cancer patients are surviving on average 5 more years than, say, X years ago, but cancer is at the same time being detected 5 years earlier, then the expected length of life for a cancer patient remains the same. This is well-understood phenomenon in cancer statistics but often glossed over in press pieces and not particularly well understood by the general public.
I have nightmares about these cats.
This looks very naive and dated already.

Basic, undergrad economics textbooks are very simplistic and most discussion is based on models with unique equilibrium and no uncertainty involved.

But serious economics is full of results on models with multiple equilibria, uncertainty, dynamics, games and what a whole lot of market imperfections.

It is common to see people from other areas (specially STEM) to take the naive textbook econ as the state of the art and make critiques that where long addressed...
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And this is "Hacker" news because....?
Finally! Joyful day!

I've not read all of the decision yet, but it seems that any decision about retroactivity was left for later. That will now lead to a bunch of fun cases where plaintiffs demand their property and monies back, and the cities and States will have a hard time ponying it up. Localities and States that play fast and loose with the Constitution should pay a steep price when it later turns out that the SCOTUS gets to make the obvious ruling. That will teach the cities and States to not violate the Constitution willy-nilly. It was obvious to anyone who bothered to read the Constitution and Incorporation case law that civil asset forfeiture was on very thin ice, both, as a matter of jurisprudence, and as a matter of plain reading of the Constitution.
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Tee-hee
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The NBA and the disgraced ref maintained that he bet on his own games, but did not fix outcomes.

The ESPN article argues otherwise through statistical analysis of foul calls as well as investigative reporting with the other gamblers and bookies in Donegha's circle of corruption. Based on their statements, it's rather conclusive that he skillfully manipulated games, although he couldn't control every outcome.

The article also highlights an unfortunate situation where Donaghy told the FBI about other crooked refs, but the FBI briefed NBA commissioner David Stern about their investigation early on, while it was still ongoing.

The investigation was then leaked to the press (strongly implying Stern did it). This made it impossible for Donaghy to wear a wire since he was now disgraced and fired from his job, and the NBA maintained that Donaghy's was an isolated incident of one rogue ref placing bets but not affecting games.

That's my summary of their reporting anyway. I found it persuasive.
I think the cost-benefit differs. If the whole database is leaked, you just rotate everything. Only the stuff that has been used (which tipped you to it being leaked) has a real impact. Nobody's going to compromise every single account you have all at the same time, unless they're specifically targeting you, in which case they're going to get everything anyway. So on balance, it doesn't matter if some random malware gets 1 of your passwords or all of them. The real-world impact is about the same: limited. The cost of worrying about the extra security outweighs the benefit.

Another way to go would be tiers of password managers. Even if all of their unlocked integrity sucks, you can have one manager that keeps your most sensitive accounts, and another manager for the rest. You rarely unlock the sensitive one, and after you log in, you unlock it and exit it. Now you have much better opsec with very little additional cost.
You left out orange usernames
Yep. I think the most egregious example is in the NFL where you can call a hold ( on offense or defense ) on every play if you wanted to. Of course in baseball, the umpire can "manage" the game by changing their strike zone. I still don't understand why we need umpires to call balls and strikes. Can't they get video imaging system to make the call? This way we know it is objective.
Samsung Launches Folding Smartphone, Continues the Trend Towards Bigger Phones
I suspect that nothing will change until the court rules that some form of scrutiny stricter than the status quo needs to be applied before curtailing the 2nd before that ruling will have any teeth. Incorporation means nothing without strict or intermediate scrutiny because states can just do whatever they want in the name of some nebulous concept like "public safety".
Your model doesn't seem to include people who have zero interest in dialogue or persuasion and are willing to simply eliminate people they find disagreeable.

I see this time and time again: Instead of engaging with dissenters, forums, groups of all kinds just evict people who are perfectly willing to talk. In principle, that's also acting to "simply eliminate people they find disagreeable." Often, it turns out that saying, "freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences," turns out to be a way to "find people who subscribe to eliminationist ideologies." They are not as bad, by any means. Instead of using bullets, they might use accusations and namecalling instead. In the past few years, people claiming to be on the Left have even used clubs, vandalism, and assault.

At what point do you consider the listening process sufficient for conclusions to be drawn, or any other action to be taken?

Certainly someone who reaches the level of Anders Breivik's extremism is beyond talking to. However, it's the height of arrogance and immorality to treat people who are perfectly willing to talk as if they are him. What I see so much of is the treatment of sincere questions as if they are such extremism.

If all you do is gather data and you never analyze or act upon it, what use is it?

What I see most of, is people not gathering data, not communicating, and eliminating first, asking questions never. "You are either with us, or against us." It stunk to high heaven when George W. Bush said it. It's just as coercive and authoritarian when such tactics are used by others today. (Worse, when it's used by people who are supposed to be against such things!)

If you would fear the unreasonable who are beyond talking to, it behooves you to reach out to those perfectly willing to talk. In fact, I can confidently say that you can find plenty of common ground, if you look hard enough. In 2019, in the current climate, the easy, facile thing to do is to give into the outrage mongering, your personal information bubble, and the groupthink and othering of the other side.
What's wrong with any of that?
Well one reason was because before 1978 you couldn't really invest in the S&P500, unless you had the time to manage a portfolio of 500 stocks. And back then most people laughed at the idea.

It's only very recently that people have started to realize that it's a good bet.
How can anything have an impact if there are no problems? How can there be problems if the arrangements are perfect? How can anything which is perfect be improved? etc.
That's good for wealth preservation and nominal maintenance. But it's almost certainly not going to generate wealth. Buffett is one of the richest people in the world because he manages money for other people (and does it well), not because he bought and held index funds.

Obtaining vast wealth requires doing things which have a multiplier effect well beyond the scale of your labor. That usually requires doing something related to the aggregation or generation of capital. It can't be done solely with your own capital unless you're already wealthy.
It absolutely is fair use. Let's consider:

- the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

Which is non-commercial.

- the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

Which is to none.

There's also a question of if a video containing a bad transfer of a piece of music along with children dancing is "transformative." See Lenz v. Universal Music Corp, where Universal Music got destroyed all the way up to SCOTUS for ignoring Fair Usage when taking down a video of a dancing baby.

Your whole argument seems to be based on some fictional contractual agreement between the dance studio and the music's owners. That isn't relevant to the discussion at all, a parent recorded and distributed, not the dance studio themselves for commercial purposes.
Is it possible to use a security token with this? My last search was not fruitful. :(
1/3 of his net worth comes from a single good (almost lucky) investment in his friend's company, which he was an advisor for. That's sort of on the line between investor and entrepreneur.

He's done really well, but it's a bit disingenuous to say that he did all through investing. He started a business that gives him 10 million a year to invest with! Yes, he appears to have taken that and increased it many times over, but it helps to start at a high base level.
YouTube recommendations are the best posible advertisement for mps-youtube.

(I'm presently listening to a specifically curated queue of 8+ hours of lectures of an author of recent interest, via Termux on Android, which I can background, unlike YouTube Web or App clients.)
Someone should release a version of Tor where users set the private key of their hidden service to something human readable (with the necessary mapping and padding).

Then someone wanting to access the hidden addy types that same private key in the url bar of a correspondingly twisted Tor Browser which would generate the hidden service pubkey and request the service at that addy.

Who wants to surf fwodjslkf...sdfjs.onion when you could be surfing amazon.onion?

It's also more democratic because if you don't like what you find there you can just publish your own amazon.onion.
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The refs definitely protect the stars. But the stars are why people pay money and buy tickets. So there is definitely pressure to keep the stars off the bench and on the court. And if one team is extending a lead, they seem to love to call fouls to keep the score close and the game interesting.

Whether they do it consciously or unconsciously or at the behest of the nba, who knows. But definitely the NBA, like all major sports, are more entertainment rather than sport.
Someone who's not willing to risk hopping on the dark net is smart. Too smart to assume that most people who see a comment from 'predator133' on YouTube will approve of predators.

There are neo-Nazi parades of people not afraid of being hated, but there are not, like, "I cheat on my taxes" parades. Too much to lose.

And there are a lot of hoaxters, trolls, parodists, and false flaggers out there. Often more of them than the deviants, because the deviants are weird and underground.
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It's not going to happen; it's part of the ethos of the site to downvote in lieu of writing insubstantial criticisms, a policy Paul Graham actually wrote out once long ago.

It's the right policy, I think. The last thing we need are dozens more one-line "why this sucks" comments on each thread.
Isn’t that what “stage” classifications are for? So that you have different starting points for tracking outcomes?
There's plans for an 7.62 Tokarev pistol based on the AK style action that have been floating around the internet since forever. No drill press or router required. Just a drill, file and some misc hand tools. The AK style action lends itself well to that kind of ghetto fabrication because it's a stamped receiver and machining tolerances can be described as "optional"
Why didn't buffalo and bison evolve to have stripes? Seems they would benefit from having them.
Maybe add a displayname "on top" that gets displayed in discussions, while still showing the username in the profile so people don't impersonate each other, add a button to "flag displayname" on the profile so that can be reset if abused or even the privilege to set it revoked -- done?
It's the same reason humans paint stripes on their bodies

https://www.techexplorist.com/body-painting-protects-bloodsu...
> I was so excited to have a working version to play with that I paid the freelancer $5,000 dollars to build the backend that I needed under the condition that he delivered his part within seven days, which he did.

> All of this happened while I was living out of a hotel room in Oahu, Hawaii. My then-girlfriend was getting her yoga certification there, and the program lasted a month.

Ah, if only we all used our hotel room in Oahu for a month, and $5k to drop on some developer to help! We could be building status quo improvements.

Seriously though, that just comes off as completely out of touch with reality to me, or some weird "humble brag". Most of us probably have day jobs. Not all of us are probably lucky enough to be in a regulatory environment where moonlighting is protected. But by the time I get home, more software is almost always the last thing I want to do. Mostly, I want to sleep, or eat. Or recover.

By the time my mind recovers enough to think about coding something that appeals to me, it's Monday again.

But perhaps I'm just not the type of person that'll ever get $115k/mo.
It's not meant to be taken seriously.
It took centuries for the slave trade to approximate the death toll of communist regimes. Fascism and national socialism were also utopian projects. Under all of these projects, millions of people were enslaved, imprisoned, persecuted, and murdered in vast numbers. I’m not saying the aggregate amount of human misery is the same, but the amount of misery inflicted in a given year was dramatically higher.

“Utopian” is used in this context to refer to efforts to rebuild society from the ground up on logical principles chosen in isolation.
Don't forget the Lakers - Kings 2002 conference finals. The NBA really wanted Shaq and Kobe in the finals that year.
Very different in Australia where every part of the gun is restricted. You can’t buy a single gun part and you certainly can’t buy ammunition without a license.
Obligatory reading before reading cancer statistics:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/01/cancer-progress-much-m...
Maybe you're confusing it with the fact that you can make a ghetto drop in auto sear out of a bent coat hanger?

Google "drop in auto sear" eventually you'll find something that explains the sequence of events of the trigger mechanism in sufficient detail.
This country (USA) can’t even agree to provide free universal vaccinations for children, how would they ever cover something like that for the masses? What you describe sounds like it would cost millions per person.
But this is Hacker News, we have to take everything seriously.
This sounds fascinating. Do you have a link?
The subtitle is in clear contradiction with the paper, the first sentence of which claims that this was proven for 3 dimensions in 1962.
Article with more details on this kind of “bias”: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cancer-deaths-continue-to-d...
Yep. The moderators also make or break it. When immature people (especially seems to be a lot of teenagers) get ahold of the mod powers and go on power trips (which happens surprisingly often), it's the end of that subreddit.
I see these 80% kits online that even includes the tooling you need to complete it. It’s so simple anyone could do it.
> non-top-tier, non-US city

Up your relevant demonstrable skills enough to work remotely for a company in a big US city.

Alternatively, immigrate either to US or to a country from where it's easier to work for US (hello Canada).

Maybe move to a bigger city in your country and work for its Google or Microsoft office if there is one and if it pays well.

An average nondescript town is not a good place to be a software developer. Low wages, uninteresting, unchallenging work (hello agency work, drupal websites, 15 year old enterprise java codebases), working in an IT dept that is a cost center rather than revenue driver, etc. We can't possibly know what exactly it's like where you are (better ask on a local forum) but that's what it's like more often than not. It might certainly be better than other careers locally, but it's worse than you can have if you're willing to make the effort.
This will be a pretty short-lived business once the spam traps detect what's happening.
You can see all that and more by setting 'showdead' to 'yes' in your profile.

On HN, we never delete anything outright unless the author asks us to (except for a rare few cases when we've had to for legal reasons). All the rest can be seen by turning on that profile setting.
Oxymoronic headline. Probably not worth reading
But its not just the link, its also the comments that go along with it. One example was "this is why you're here" with a link to a timestamp in the video. That context is unmistakable. There are certainly less obvious cases though.
Does anyone have a good solution to these issues for non techncial users? 1password etc + 2fa is great for even not super technical people.

But if it's ever breached I have no idea how you would get clear.
Web changed from Google to DuckDuckGo.

But which features are missing?
My wife was recently diagnosed with epilepsy. What I've learned in the last 2 years is that media treats epilepsy in an astonishingly simplistic manner. I should not be surprised by this given that we can't all spend our time knowing every subject deeply.

Two quick examples come to mind: photosensitive epilepsy is very rare compared to the incidence of epilepsy. Something like less than 5% of sufferers are triggered by lights / flashing. Also, I've read that those who are photosensitive can have their seizures triggered by rapid head movements. Remember that when someone tells you they have epilepsy - it's not always about flashing lights!

Second, epilepsy can happen to you at any age, and for reasons that doctors won't be able to figure out. This should be obvious because there are many conditions that we don't know the cause of. Yet it was still a bit distressing to me to learn that adult-onset epilepsy happens sometimes for reasons we don't know.

Bonus FYI: don't put anything in the mouth of someone having a seizure, especially not your finger. This is a very common myth!
All you do is make a die, harden it, and then carefully force it through the barrel? I guess?
Hey drcongo, I'll tell you anything you want to know about my case either public or private.

At least in Tokyo I know plenty of people who are running PG on DO in a docker instances and just doing backups on DO cause its cheaper than something like heroku managed PG so if I was one of them (I kept my data layer off of DO) I would be completely destroyed by this. So I tell everyone I know now at meetups about this experience and so happy to share specific details.

They told me I log on from multiple locations (OMG I have a laptop and work while I travel, busted) and that I had a gmail address on my account.

The most agregious thing is that if their trigger happy "security and trust" flagger flags you, there is no warning where they reach out to you, they just destroy your instances, don't tell you about that either until you logon and are asked to file a ticket if you want your account unlocked...then a month later will unlock it for you but everything nuked.