skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a healthy guy, I'd like the price increases to be inflicted on the fattie smokers rather than me.

I have a friend who agrees with you, and I am constantly dismayed at the willingness of people to throw their fellow human beings under the bus.

There are better ways of improving total health than letting insurance companies screw more cash out of the more vulnerable members of society.
I don't feel for the guy, because he was to blame for his own actions -- he had unpaid tickets. Tag scanning for unpaid tickets happens in almost every state in the US.
There are lots of "damage-sensing" mechanisms at all scales within the body. These are how your skin knows to grow after an injury, how your immune system detects which cells are infected and need to be killed, and how your cells know which parts of themselves to digest via autophagy, among other things. At the single-protein level, there's ubiquination, which marks protein molecules for destruction, either because they are misfolded, damaged, or no longer needed. But this doesn't work when those misfolded proteins clump together into plaques. Then you need something like autophagy. But even that has limits, and a cell that lives for decades tends to reach those limits.

As for Aβ possibly being the body's way of flagging problem areas, that seems unlikely, because such a function probably would not involve drastically changing its 3-D structure (i.e. going from "correctly folded" state to "misfolded" state), and certainly would not involve forming plaques. These and many other observed features are better explained as features of the pathology and not just a kind of damage signal reporting on the existence of a problem.
Do you realize that this report is written in "electronic design", or an embedded systems journal? It's not talking about the PC desktop here.
I don't know the exact numbers but Ada still plays a big role in security critical systems (airplanes etc.).

Is there a renascence of C++ and ada in those domains? That is to say did they ever leave. I don't remember hearing about a big push to have embedded software for airplane controls written in C#.
He's a troll. In a very rare, good sense of the word :-)
I think admitting you don't know isn't as hard as dealing with constantly admitting you don't know.

I often feel like a broken record when my boss comes to me and I have to answer that way. He doesn't seem to mind, but it eats away at my very soul... not to be overly dramatic, but it does cause more stress than it should.
I found through Google right away by searching for the title--first hit.
Same story (from different site) discussed nine days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4112241

I see that every news story and blog post from the past two weeks on this issue appears mostly to be based on the study team's press release, with perhaps a glance at the underlying paper in PNAS.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/05/1202092109.abst...

The line "*This Direct Submission article had a prearranged editor" intrigues me, as it suggests that this article didn't go through a normal process of peer review. I'm also wondering how much this has been verified in an animal model (a quick Google Scholar search suggests that the animal analog is far from being an established conclusion in science). Check LISP hacker and Google director of research Peter Norvig's online article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

for some reasons to be cautious about this finding until it is replicated by other researchers and analyzed by other study teams.
cost(false_positive) >> cost(false_negative)
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I can't understand why Apple offers a glossy display, the screen has to be angled slightly and that's the perfect setup for glare from ambient light.

It's like trying to read a glossy magazine and you keep having to shift around to see it avoiding the glare off the page.

Whether it makes blacks blacker or colours sharper the end result is it's annoying.
But if that doesn't matter to Craig & co, and people still use the site, revenue still stays as expected, they can just NOT mess with it and go play video games or whatever.
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Bristol is only 2 hours drive from London.
> Smartphones are devices we use constantly, all day, probably some absurd number of times per hour, and it is a statistic that is surely going up.

I might be the odd one out here, but I'll often go days without so much as touching my phone. Either I have my laptop with me, which is better than my iPhone at everything save being a phone, or if I'm just looking to burn time I'll read my Kindle. I have friends who are constantly glued to their phones, and I simply don't understand the attraction.
The WTF Condition
Correct. Tunderbolt is PCI-Express + Displayport. PCIEx part is what makes all these dongles possible at great speeds.
Aimed at fighting Big Brother, or preventing others from implementing the method?
I just have this sick worry that some company will do something like this and use it as part of the code review.

"You don't look confident in the picture, is there some reason for that?"
> This is surely crucial.

And worth investigating, surely? If it is genetic, then this may be testable via his relatives, or more intrusively, his remains.
Wired article providing insight into Craig Newmark
For what it's worth:

"21% of patients with bipolar disorder and a diagnosis of severe substance abuse (alcohol or illegal drugs) were convicted of violent crimes, compared to 5% of those with bipolar disorder but without substance abuse, 5% among the unaffected siblings of bipolar patients, and 3% among general public control individuals."

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20819987

I haven't actually read the study much less the rest of the research on this, but the actual statistics on this (whatever they are) seemed conspicuously absent from this article. In fact there really really no statistics whatsoever. It's a heart wrenching story, but there are good reasons why it's generally not a bad idea to create public policy based solely on individual cases.

Granted there isn't nearly as much research as there should be, and at some level you eventually do have to go with your get because of that, but at the same time there is a hell of a lot more evidence than was presented.
I have heard of duck-typing but not duckface-typing.
The OpenIndiana community
I want in on this free food! Living on the beach doesn't sound like it has good internet connectivity though.
Paranoid Linux used to do something similar. The concept was lots of seemingly real browsing traffic would be randomly generated through your computer, and this would add a significant amount of noise to the total web browser traffic to your machine.
The users are also within their rights to request that Craigslist share that information with third parties via an api, or by scraping for that matter.

The point is that Craigslist is not the only side in the transaction and should not be presumed to be able to set the terms on their own.
And nobody owes Craigslist, LinkedIn, or Netflix anything either. They can act as shitty as they want, but nobody should be surprised when it gives them bad press.
There are tons of reasons why Craigslist, as a business, may have taken this road, from a simple "less hassle for us" down the road to "we're building our own stuff" to. who knows. They're a private business - they can do what they want - we don't get to demand insight.

The vast majority of their users don't give a hoot about whether or not other parties have a way to wrap up craigslist data and do stuff with it.

The whole point of the Internet is that it's a collecation of independently run networks that can communicate.
The point of the WWW is to serve hyeprlinked pages to people.
There IS NO POINT to the internet - it just happened, and here we are.
That sounds about the standard.
iFixit seemed to suggest the panel is from LG Phillips. I doubt Apple have much to do with the panel per se, but the actual design of the new cover glass and the way they make it that thin might be patentable.
Sometimes the companies do it to themselves: Digg succeeded in defeating the network effect. CL is certainly aware of that fiasco.
The other day I made an eBay account, and in order to raise the maximum sale amount beyond $1000 eBay made me answer personal questions about my relatives, information that they had apparently found out from some commercial database, which I'm sure will then be fed back into that database. Not really sure how I feel about that.
http://paulgraham.com/identity.html

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gt/a_fable_of_science_and_politics
They made 1,200 of the things. Failing to be wealthy enough to own such a limited-production car is only called "failure" by a very few.
This seems to happen anytime people are forced to make a choice from a limited number of options. Everything from sports, to politics, to consumer electronics of different types. I think it's because our brains are really good at comparing two or three things. It may even be that we have a sort of obsession with comparing things. We just can't help ourselves. When your available options expand though it becomes far more difficult to compare. The thrill of comparing two objects and reaching the correct conclusion is gone at that point. The stakes are also much lower. Few people are going to sit down and compare a dozen different things so even if we do make the wrong choice no one is going to notice.
Dynamically Rendering GitHub Files in Web Pages
I spent just a few minutes in the OpenIndiana code base and found it rife with potential issues. For example, in the hsfs file system, there are no pointer assertions to protect against null pointers:

http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/comm...

lines 158 thru 171... are just one example.

While yes, you could find this anywhere in any code base, we're talking about OpenIndiana. If this kind of issue is present in the file system handler, there's NO way this project is ready for prime time, never mind a production release.
What about the posts I put on Craigslist in the future? The ratings I give to Netflix?

Am I somehow mystically bound to never ask for more in return for the data I provide them?

Of course we can ask to change the terms. It's a business transaction.
It isn't about 911 fans doing anything. Porsche has done this before, with the 914 vs. the 911. The 911 is an icon, and Porsche is a company that leans on history/lineage to help sell their cars, much like Triumph Motorcycles. They believe that keeping the idea of the 911 alive is better for the company in the long run.
Unfortunately, the very definition of manic (and schizoid) behavior precludes any sort of logic. My heart goes out to you. Mental illness and our society's still-prehistoric reaction to it are both atrocious.
"supplements-eating Kurzweil", ROTFL!
Skeptical of the results, but it does make me wonder if the data from that mission is public? Anyone know?
April 12th, and this was discussed before.
Or is mere fashion and consumerism absent from the general public at large

I admit, I cracked a grin. Of all subjects to be devoid of fashion and consumerism, Apple?
It greatly overestimates driving times for Charleston, SC
Did Apple just kill the CD? (img)
when you submit your information to craigslist you agree to their tos. If you don't accept you don't have to submit your information to them. Once the information is in their database theres now two sets of data. Yours that exists on your hdd or your head and craigslist copy of the data that you submitted to them. You are free to do what you want with your copy of the data, submit it to other sites, allow other people to somehow scrape it... but craigslist copy of your data, they can now do what they want with it.
Craigslist aren't doing this strictly out of the kindness of their hearts.

By charging for only a small number of listing, CL accomplish two things:

1. They create a large marketplace, which by virtue of its size provides more value than if it were a smaller, more diversified set of markets.

2. It "sucks the oxygen out of the room" for any competitor attempting to create a similar service. There are a few other commerce-related online sites -- eBay, Amazon, iTunes store, etc., and even a few competing specialized listings services (jobs, apartments, etc.) -- but none that specifically serve the general classifieds market.

I do suspect that there's a genuine component to CL's community service mission. But that doesn't mean the self-serving aspects of its behavior are any less valid.
Implementations:

C: https://github.com/floodyberry/siphash

Go: https://github.com/dchest/siphash

C: https://github.com/emboss/siphash-c

Ruby: https://github.com/emboss/siphash-ruby

Java: https://github.com/emboss/siphash-java
Now you're just arguing for the purpose of arguing.

The official doctrine of the Catholic Church supports adult stem cell research. That's just a fact. Sorry.
In the US, judges rewrite the law with every ruling. Since the precedent established by a case is used in future decisions, the "real" law (the one which your actions will be compared against in court) is the base law passed in congress plus all of the precedent that has been piled on top of it.
I wasn't talking about virtualenv only. I was referring more to just using setuptools and pip to manage dependencies and upgrades.

However, system packaging is orthogonal to virtualenv. You can have virtualenv setup packaged inside an RPM (an isolated, self contained package).

> How do you use rpm to provide isolation of dependencies and simple control of PYTHONPATH?

Our product has about 50 or so RPMs. Only a couple of packages needed self-containment. Isolation has its downsides -- you cannot reuse code. So we have managed to avoid it as much as possible.

> but you really don't understand the Python world at all

I understand the "deliver a product" world though. Python is part of the product, not the whole product. I think it is little short-sighted to assume everything is just Python and that is the end of the world, and just run "setup.py install" and you are done. And yes, we have been through the "just run pip" or "just run setup.py install as root" before, and it creates a dependency and upgrade tracking nightmare.

Install a plugin using "setup.py install". Then update the package and remove some modules, run "setup.py install" again.

Now all of the sudden your system is messed up because it picks up old, modules that have not been cleaned by properly removing a previous package when upgrading.
It makes the display 'pop' indoors, some people like shiny things, and it is a popular platform for art-stuff.
So basically, early easy access to even just a family doctor willing to describe the most basic meds and a lack of stigma attached to taking those meds would save society and families a ton of grief and expense.

But since we are in the USA, this will take decades to happen, if ever. The only hope is a massively profitable, universal drug is invented, then pharmaceutical companies will fall all over themselves spending a fortune to market it like viagra and make it "hip".
> I, personally, save several hours every time I look for an apartment by using padmapper over Craigslist.

> Fuck Craigslist. Seriously.

It's a bit disingenuous to say fuck Craigslist when the data you are using above...comes from Craigslist. Shouldn't you have switched to Zillow or another service by now if you hate Craigslist so much?
If they had stuck an APU in the Air, we might not have had to wait

[1] http://lenzfire.com/2011/11/reason-for-apple-to-reject-amd-l...
Sounds like you feel over $1000 about that. Yeah, creepy.
Wait! Wait a gosh-darn second here!

Craiglist is available by RSS and would not be too hard to scrape. You want "API access", you got it. Unlike Facebook, I haven't heard of anyone tossed off Craigslist for using a script to access the data Craigslist is happy to give out for free.

Ah, but you don't want "API access", you want a license to resell the data - and for free! You want different terms of use. Etc. Wah, wah, wah.

Guess what? That's different. Obviously.
Sorry for posting an oldie ha Here's the one that really peaked my interested from today.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47932940/ns/technology_and_scien...
Will work for traction
In the last 6 months our team has shoestringed a bookmarking tool for power users. The project is stable beta, but now we have a problem:

0. No connections in the valley.
1. No money for advertising.
2. Both of us are introverts. Unfortunately this excludes social promotion.

We are looking to make a project for you in the next 3 to 24 months and we'd like to have publicity for our project in return.
There's no obligation for any company to create an ecosystem about themselves. It's also not a universal strategy that always maximizes value. 3rd parties can walk with their feet when they don't like it. If companies are unreasonable, they get punished in the market. Why is this so controversial?
All these companies were built on an infrastructure which tax payer's money funded the development of before it promised to make a profit. More taxpayer money was put into the development of the internet than the Manhattan project. Private companies are reaping the benefit - in my opinion they owe it us to keep the system open, and API's are just a token gesture in that direction.
Red Sox great loses $50million fortune in bankrupt video game company
Most succinct and best comment - the original post is a tempest in a teapot. Craigslist is free to optimize their lock-in on their marketplace and web-savvy users are free to bitch about the effects thereof (I did on Twitter twice over), most likely to little effect in the short to medium term. Maybe enough complaints and CL will get its act together. Maybe it won't. But that's fine! Let's continue speaking out against CL's uncool behavior and hope for the best.
What's discussed before? Sounds like pretty huge news to me - how come the world has been so quite for the last 2 months?

I'm reading it for the first time, so it does make me wonder.. bunch of scientist claiming their 15 minutes of fame?
China wholesale.
china wholesale .
That is possible. But I get the feeling they naively stumbled into that outcome by genuinely trying to be decent.
The question was how Padmapper provides value to Craigslist. I answered that. The increased value is true whether or not Craigslist wants to maximize revenue.
From Lessig's "The Future of Ideas" concerning the lawsuit against Bidder's Edge for scraping eBay data:

Both sides had a point, and while my bias is with [Bidder's Edge], I don’t mean to deny the plausibility of a different regime. What I do deny, however, is that the answer to this question is obvious.
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well, old is not always old for everyone - it's reaching front page so clearly it's news for some people ;)
In the marketplace consumer expectations can get higher, a sense of entitlement develops, and that entitlement can be the valid effect of genuine progress. Not because the providers have to satisfy our sense of entitlement, but because they do, because that's what it takes to compete until at some point that's what's expected just to play the game. Food providers at some point stopped competing on food safety because everyone demanded everything be safe. We started expecting cars to be very reliable, and if someone makes an unreliable car then fuck caveat emptor, it's not going to become a matter of whether some consumers are willing to make that compromise and some are not – instead your brand becomes shit and you have to beg people to come back, if you can at all. Right now we don't have that expectation about APIs; but some people want us to, we are moving that direction, and maybe we will get there. Or maybe we'll get somewhere else; progress however ensures that we will get somewhere, that consumers will find something new about which to feel entitled.

And yeah, these companies don't "owe" us anything, but consumers (even the subset of developer-consumers) can still get pissed off at them and say shit and that's the fucking market. And maybe it won't mean anything, maybe it'll all fade away... and maybe it won't. That's the risk those brands are taking. It's our market-based prerogative to bitch about whatever the hell we want to bitch about, using whatever hyperbole we want, with any sense of entitlement that we've acquired.

If someone starts sending mail bombs to these companies because they aren't tending their APIs as we'd like, then that's coercion. But there's no coercion here, this is just people offering their opinions. So quit yer whining about our whining, the internet has entitled us to whine as much as we fucking want to, and has offered market-based ways to lift or bury that whining.
Really?! It's like a sneaky background check.

Can you clarify: Were you selling something for more than $1000 or buying something for more than $1000?

What were the questions exactly (not stating the personal data of course)? And how were you supposed to answer, i.e., did you have to type in names and addresses, or pick the answer from a multiple choice list, or what?
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They could land and perch silently, but when flying they are really obvious.
Previous submission, with skeptical comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3833759
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Burger King, the Cash Cow
Controlling EC2 from the Console
Show HN: Bootstrap styled tooltips for d3
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You'd be surprised how often you can impress people with an iota of initiative and forethought / googling.

Hell, I impressed a neuroscientist with a rigorous education in maths the other day (I'm a dropout) by calculating the tip in my head instantly.
I was selling something for over $1000. The questions were something like:

"Which of these cities did [Grandmother's name] own property in."

"Which of these people are related to you?"

The questions themselves are relatively innocuous, but the entire situation of where the information comes from and how my answers get used is rather disconcerting on multiple levels, especially since there really isn't enough information to make an intelligent decision.
It seems to me that if it is anything it is a memorial to Steve Jobs. His glider was stopped.
If the bounds check was performed after casting to unsigned, there would have been no problem. The vulnerability occurred because a bounds check was incorrectly performed on a signed value.
Nit: Collecting a dead object is not free with a copying GC. You still have to scan it during the Cheney scan or mark phase.
Professional Starcraft Team releases documentary with pay-what-you-want model
My cheap Japanese phone can tether -- but the carrier makes a distinction between packets originating from the phone and those from the computer, and they charge extra through the nose for PC packets (100$+ per month if you exceed a few megabytes, in extra to normal phone charges). All this while I can get a dual-mode WiMAX/3G WiFi router that fits in a pocket, has a day of battery life, unlimited data and transfers much faster for 50$/month. The problem isn't the hardware, it's the carriers.
Since Apple's users actually pay for their products, Apple is more motivated to protect privacy IMO.
2008: 1 Eur = 1.60 USD

Now: 1 Eur = 1.25 USD

That looks a little different.
Symantec throws up hurdles to independent software developers
Is this so unusual? I try to use my bank cards only at my bank's ATMs to keep profiling to a minimum. Sure, every now and then I end up at a register and discover that I am out of cash. Makes me feel uneasy every time. But it surprises me that this is on the front-page of a tech-savvy community - I thought we were all like that guy anyway.
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Very sad story. I think there are legal documents (Medical proxies?) that can help avoid this. As painful as the story is, I also think the other alternative can be abused.