skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The only physical evidence here is the hundreds of controls I have passed with flying colors. I made myself available around the clock and around the world. In-competition. Out of competition. Blood. Urine. Whatever they asked for I provided. What is the point of all this testing if, in the end, USADA will not stand by it?

And.

>>Tygart and the antidoping agency were basing their case not on a positive drug test but rather on other supporting evidence. (From http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/sports/cycling/lance-armst...)

Well I don't know the complete story of what tests and when he passed them.

But what are the odds of 'hundreds' of tests turning out out to be false negatives? And I suppose these tests are carried out all round the world in various competitions in various countries, in various labs, by hundreds of people over the years?

Its like their only evidence is he-said and she-said rumors over the years combined with the perceived impossibility of a cancer survivor making it through that high levels of endurance required to make it where Armstrong has made it.

>>The idea that athletes can be convicted today without positive A and B samples, under the same rules and procedures that apply to athletes with positive tests, perverts the system and creates a process where any begrudged ex-teammate can open a USADA case out of spite or for personal gain or a cheating cyclist can cut a sweetheart deal for themselves. It’s an unfair approach, applied selectively, in opposition to all the rules. It’s just not right.

If what I'm reading is true. This is something like a murder happens at a lane, then you and your enemy pass by that lane. Now your enemy complains to the police that you did it. And now the system has all rights to punish you on that statement alone.

This agency looks like to formed to increase their kill ratio. And to some how punish a few famous athletes so that they can justify their own existence and show the world why they are so important.
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What fantastic a line ruffled wedding dresses with the empire waist design! The shirring beaded adorned the skirt artfully.
Assuming you mean many, you are wrong: there are no ultralights rated for passengers. See 103.1(a) in FAR Part 103: http://www.ultralighthomepage.com/FAR.part103.html
Session data. NoSQL isn't meant to be a catch-all solution, and it's certainly not meant to be the only database you use in a complex project. It's meant for data that you really wouldn't mind losing that you have to access a lot. Normally, that's temporary data in an app that might require it on every page view— recently viewed items, sessions, shopping carts that aren't saved for later, etc.
Begging the question a bit here, so much so that I was tempted to just post '?'. I assume you mean Apple, but Apple's checks locally for code-signing, it doesn't phone home. Which is what the problem is.
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My opinion is that the decision is correct: isolated genes are patentable subject matter. I think the Myriad patent should fail on novelty: they isolated a bunch of variations on the BRCA genes that were indicative of cancer. These variations are naturally occurring and indeed common. Just as you can't patent the chemical composition of sulfuric acid, because it's common in nature and thus not novel, you shouldn't be able to patent these variations.
I make $8/hour and can't pay for college. Any advice?

Join the Air Force or Navy for the GI Bill.
A mildly interesting old article that has nothing to do with anything. Am I on Reddit?

Edit: Yep, posted earlier today: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/yp94q/til_tha...
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On a slightly different note concerning privacy:

How much more of this will we take before enough people demand privacy again? What event has to happen? On our phones, applications can't even be downloaded until monitored and approved by the corporation (one step further than this). Our desktops have been moving in this direction for some time already.
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>'Absolute failure' only if your standards are impossibly high.

"impossibly high"?

He's talking about it with the standard "breaking into the US market" term in use since the sixties.

What are you describing ("TV appearances, concerts, blips on itunes charts and of course they are all over YT") is not "breaking into the US market", the same things can happen for any obscure artist here and there.

We're talking mainstream chart success. It doesn't have to be on the Led Zeppelin or Clash level, but those guys haven't even reached Air or Daft Punk levels of US success.
To be fair, they explicitly punted the ethical angle. They point out that it's Congress's job to do the balancing of money versus life and exclude such patents if they deem it to be good policy.
well, yes, that's exactly what they said
That claim would be ridiculous. Basically because those tests are firstly numbered in 'hundreds'.

Secondly the sheer count of its numbers in occasions, places, people, labs, qualification of testers all turning out to be false negatives over the years is impossible.
Only 10x worse.
Ignoring all the snarky comments about how the current administration has ignored every online petition so far, this is really cool. Everyone now has a chance to have their name attached to an official government project!
In truth, I wouldn't use anything other than a plain Python string to represent an artist's name, if that's the only thing about the artist you're interested in. But it's hard to have a meaningful conversation about such a contrived example as in that link.

To answer your question, though, yes: all other arguments about Python vs. Java aside, the LOC ratio would change dramatically in Python's favor once you start to add actual program logic. (Unless you're stuck with an architecture astronaut for a Python programmer.)
I'm confused. I thought Apple already did this? Also this is a norm in mobile phones.
They noticed a behavioral pattern and used it to protect/leash patients: if anything, it's entirely appropriate for HN.
Audio CD is an old technology. It doesn't have advanced error correction method. With poor quality CD-R, it's true that the quality is not the same.
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I don't know about you, but Snoop Dogg hasn't exactly been at the forefront of American music in a long time. His 2011 album Doggumentary (uggh...) peaked at #8 on the Billboard 200.

And I don't doubt that K-pop has found a faithful following online. However, the internet has enabled the long tail, by allowing people who would otherwise be geographically disparate to create an online community. Even if 1 million Americans listen to K-pop (more than enough for a huge online following), that's less than 1/3 of 1% of the population - far from successful.

As for concerts, that's an area that has been an indisputable failure. Although there have been some in areas with large Asian-American populations (LA, SF, NYC), it's not like they've made inroads among the non-Asian population. In fact, the "SBS K-Pop Festival in LA" was postponed, allegedly due to poor ticket sales. Considering that people were flying in from all over the country for it, that's a pretty shitty move, even by Korean entertainment agency standards.

On the whole, I would say that the internet is a poor gauge of the general popularity of anything. Let me know when K-pop acts start regularly appearing on TV (no, the Letterman appearance by SNSD a few months ago, which they completely bombed, does not count) and radio - that's when you can legitimately claim that K-pop is popular in America.
What's the real potential behind connection?
prior to this FB update, I'd argue that the Google+ app was one of the best iOS apps. It's both responsive and intuitive, and they've put mobile first in their mobile UI design, rather than trying to simply mirror the desktop UI.
My 2 cents:
- I do not see what it does.
- I do not wants to register while I'm not sure I want to uses it. Even better if I can use it without identifying.
- It miss a demo part or a video that user can check on first visit.
It's similar to what we said when MJ died: we feel a kinship of spirit with someone who hacked. Instead of hacking technology, he hacked himself. And there's a certain question about how far you'll go to pursue perfection.

I hold out hope that Armstrong will be exonerated by history, since he's chosen not to do it himself. I wish we were all upvoting his response, which is much better.
I did consulting work in Olathe, and it seemed like every other cabbie 's side job was storm chasing.
5. People who hope something good this way might come.
Also, don't miss Gabriel's interview on Techzing http://techzinglive.com/page/423/techzing-68-gabriel-weinber...
I'm also confused why this is on HN.

In any case, considering many of those races happened over a decade ago, it's hard not to agree with him that it seems like a witch hunt.
This reminds me that the use of the word "standard-compliance" as a synonym for boat anchor has irritated me for a while now.
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Fair comment. I was hoping the hacker news search would be a little more accurate. I would argue that it is what failed in this case but it does reflect poorly on DDG...

Interesting both Google and DDG have the linked article as result number one for the term "duckduckgo interview" but no Zero click for either.

That's an interesting comment about the zero click. It's interesting, but I find myself using zero click info more these days. I tend to craft queries which I know will pull this information back for me. Its much the same way that Google trained me to use their syntax or how the instant search trained me. I agree that a solid index of the web is critical for regular search results though.

I would be curious to know if the apparent issues with Bing/DDG are more down to people perceiving Google to know the answer. I know that when I use alternative search engines I get weird looks from people at work who say quote "Why are you using that? Its crap! Just use Google."
I'm not specifically meaning Apple although they're certainly part of it:

- iTunes and App Store

- Steam

- Windows Phone marketplace, MSDN, upcoming software marketplace

- Amazon App Store and Google's Play Store

- Chrome Web Store and Firefox's add-on marketplace

- Ubuntu Software Center, packet managers in general

- Facebook's App Center

- Github, Google Code and SourceForge

I doubt there's anyone on HN who doesn't have a long history with a lot of names on that list. Almost every piece of software and game I have on every device I use has come via this list.

But I'm sure all of these .. centralized installation hubs I guess .. are reasonably vindicated by their privacy policies - where everyone's idea of 'reasonably' is different and most of them aren't like ours.
Reminds me of that joke: last week my doctor told me I had AIDS & Alzheimer's. I said, "Sh*t, at least I don't have AIDS!". :)
Those work the opposite way: a blacklist is downloaded nightly.
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Agreed. Personally I wouldn't care if anyone intercepted a message saying what app I just installed. The author also neglected to mention if the payload contains anything that identifies the user.
I think this is a good example of ideas from one discipline (phylogenetic reconstruction of the relationships between species) being applied to a different area, with all the common features - including resistance from the existing community who are used to subjective reasoning over modern statistical inference techniques.
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It's SSL, how are you supposed to be able to read the Payload? The article also explicitly mentions that no tests were run to figure out whether SSLv2 is used by the client.

You wouldn't personally care if messages were intercepted regarding the apps you're installing, but imagine the kind of leverage it would give someone trying to profile a network of activists in Syria. The exact version number of every app on every computer, perfect for studying the exploit surface.
This typically has very little to do with the state, and everything to do with the particular lease.
Your link provides no supporting evidence for your statement.

If you move out before the end of the lease, the landlord may be able to hold you responsible for the rent that becomes due until the apartment or house is rented again, or until the lease ends.
Not legally. You can buy OS X server for $20 and run it on a VM, but the VM has to be running on mac hardware to be legal. I'm sure it can be done though...
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Unfortunately anyone on the web can publish EXEs. Look at how big anti-virus definitions are, for example.
Well the consumer most benefits, if companies are continuously innovative, not copying each other and selling for cheaper. This article missed the point. Why doesn't Samsung actually make something better than the iPhone. Not some cheap ripoff.
Dear Oracle:

Who are you trying to impress by removing test cases and revision history? That just seems like a dumb idea all around. I cannot imagine what you are gaining from that.

What are you losing? Me, as a developer/user of MySQL and your software in general (in the cases where I have a choice, anyways). Also, I'll be avoiding you as a potential employer, now.

See ya
Well, This article is funny. The Chinese affiliation part is kinda weird. Seriously, China?

I'm a North Easterner, Manipur to be precise, who moved to Bombay in 1999. In Bangalore (the epicenter of the North East Exodus), since 2011.

I've lived long enough in Bombay, some in Pune and now in Bangalore. Have travelled to almost all of the major cities in India for business and pleasure. Of course, I've faced enough stare, ridicule and the perpetual question, "Are you Indian!". Sometimes, it's fun and you get the 'foreign' treatment (you know the way, we Indians treat foreigners, the good way) on various occasions.

Those non-indian treatment were mostly in established government establishments and mostly by not-so-educated people. I have never had an issue with the educated people, working class people, colleagues and business partners.

In India, most of the tourist destinations have two entry tickets - one for Indians and for 'Foreigners', which is costlier. Me and my family always have to carry an Indian Identity when we enter such spots to prove my "Indianness" and avail of the Indian pricing. Once at the Taj Mahal, me and my wife could not find our ID quickly. Instead of arguing with the person-in-charge, we got the 'foreigner' tickets. Of course, we got the foreigner treatment and were able to skip the long winding "Indian" queue to enter the gates to the Taj Mahal.

As for the SMS hoax and the recent NE Exodus back home, it was fueled by the fact that the North East people have always been kinda alienated by the common Indians who could not understand and fathom that we, the 'Asian' looking people live and thrive in India. Add to that, the miscreants taking chances of a phenomenon and attacking any 'asian' looking people in the cities. So, it was not just those NE people but many Tibetans, Nepalese were at the receiving end.

The incident could have well been evaded but this is India and nobody, specially the people in the governance, care about timely actions and getting things done on time.

Finally, in my personal experience, I get a much better treatment from the American people when I visit the US than here in my own country, India. Except for the immigration officers, nobody cares who or from where the hell am I. With my oriental look and an Indian Origin, I enjoy the company and good treatment specially from both the communities in US. Anyway, everybody else is too scared of lawsuits to have anything to do with racial profiling. :-)

As a parting note, here is a nice article about the perception of the general Indian towards the North Easterners.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/national-interest-we-the-i...
beautiful website
I can't wait for the google van to take me home.
A project I maintain has an experimental branch that takes most pull requests unless they have obvious issues (which I ask the author to fix). Only things I have not accepted so far were major GUI changes that I considered confusing. (I did accept one change that basically redid the entire GUI because it was awesome). The merges back to the master branch are several months apart, but I think it's a good idea to do deep quality control on the code AFTER it's merged to keep contributors engaged.
How long till people say he shouldn't be patenting it because patents are evil.
It gets even worse with DST. is GMT+2 meant to be Spain in summer, or something else?

Relative dates are a blessing where space is a constraint
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) isn't the government, and nobody's pursuing criminal charges. (There was a criminal investigation into his case, but it ended in February. The AP story has background: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CYC_ARMSTRONG_DOPING?...)

The proposed punishment is stripping Armstrong of his cycling titles and barring him from participating from the sport in the future.
Can we get permalinks to saved worksheets?
Why does the return journey feel quicker?
If one company does something wrong it does not excuse other companies from doing the same thing wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

First they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Imagine if it was a 100-years old, still functioning and yet to be released smartphone, with an HD video of the 1912 celebration. :) That would be so cool... Like in that movie, "Das Jesus Video".

Anyway, as others said, it probably contains letters from people of that time.
Same. The human mind at play.
The article doesn't actually say that Microsoft is using SSLv2, but if they were, then someone could potentially execute a man-in-the-middle attack against a user of the service. Which is to say, they'd know exactly what you're downloading, along with any other information this services sends to Microsoft, and they'd be able to provide you with fake results for the software safety check that this service provides. Odds are they would also have your IP address, so they could also potentially link this to you (e.g. via your other browsing behavior over insecure HTTP). It would be a pretty serious flaw.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/On-SSL-2...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack
This is nothing compared to medical software, for example. All you can lose here is some money, but no human life in danger. Some more perspective.
A drupal-org.make file, like any .make file that the Drupal tool Drush uses, is independent of the Drupal.org packaging system.

There's a lot of pressure from within the Drupal community to host all Drupal contrib modules, themes, and distributions on drupal.org but I don't see anything wrong with a distribution being hosted on GitHub. It certainly brings more visibility to the project from developers outside of the "Drupal Island".
Definitely! That's a great suggestion rkwz. There is a new crowdfunding site called Wishbone that actually has a "profile" that serves as a general fund. Would something like that be a good solution? http://wishbone.org/students
Your google insights link points to graphs regarding Hawaii. How exactly is this region relevant to this conversation (or to your point)? If you apply the searches to the US[1], the results are less surprising.

Please describe by which metric do you mean impossibly high. Billboard rankings?

[1]:http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=2NE1%2CSnoop%20Dogg...
The linked ... article? Media? Whatever it is, isn't loading for me; after more than ten minutes, I'm still just seeing the "buffering" dots.

In the interim, assuming it's about the same thing, here's a fantastic animated short about Dock's famous no-hitter, pitched on LSD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUhSYLRw14

EDIT: The problem may have been Chrome, or the extensions I'm using there; it loads right away in Firefox.
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The way obscure artists break into the us market is by signing with a US label.

This is flatly not an option for Kpop artists signed with a Korean label.

The British invasion in the 60's happened because DJ's actually played music requested by listeners, something that just doesn't happen on radio today.

The music ecosystem in America is still heavily tied to the US labels. It's moving away from radio and physical media but those are still 2 of the 4 biggest sources and huge uphill battles for a Korean artist signed to a Korean label. They have no special advantage on itunes, it's probably a bit of an uphill fight but not as bad as CDs in Wal-Mart where the outcome has already been determined. YT is where they shine of course but there's little money in it now.
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I am not going to let anyone know the software that I have installed, nor will I trust or depend on a white list issued by a big private corporation with business interests.
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Thanks for the kind words.

- Ruby/Rails/HTML5
- 1 dev + some freelance assistance on the front-end
- Took a while since we are all working part-time as volunteers. About a year total. Probably a few months of solid dev time. Setting up operations took a lot of time.
- Hardest part is working as volunteers. Everything takes 5x longer when people aren't being paid.

Thank you!
Additionally, the "violently tumble while marginally protected by airbags" plan isn't a viable method for eventually landing humans on Mars! One more reason to come up with a "gentler" descent :)
Scale will be tough, but our goal is to partner with a few large organizations (Doctors Without Borders for example) that can provide a lot of patients. That will help alleviate a lot of risk as opposed to working with 1,000 smaller clinics.
But even in computing, the race to the bottom produced better chips. Competition forced the companies to produce cheaper and cheaper chips, while still trying to make better ones.

The TangiBot isn't a competitor to the MakerBot in the traditional sense of the word. There wasn't a parallel design process. Matt Strong has not attempted to even improve the design of the MakerBot. At best, it's a copy or the MakerBot, only cheaper. At worst, it's just a cheap knockoff.
Why would I need to build LFS to get privacy? If my only purpose is privacy it's a ludicrous amount of work.
I downvoted you, and so I feel compelled to explain.

To your first point: On the desktop there are three ways to scroll: the scrollbar, the mousewheel, the trackpad. Of those three, only the scrollbar makes it obvious when you've reached the end of a document. Also, it's not all that different – Apple has brought the same bounce-back behavior to the desktop when scrolling with a trackpad.

To your second point: Some real world things bounce. Balls bounce, and rubber bands do in a sense too. Documents don't. They aren't emulating real-world behavior at all.

Whether the patents are good/valid is up to a whole other set of (apparently very arbitrary) rules. But the points you make to refute taligent's are very weak.
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Grubwithus is hosting a dinner/meetup later this month in LA for HN'ers to get together offline- you should come! https://www.grubwithus.com/meals/hacker-news-956e459396fe

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Do you really want some central organization dictating who can make software and who cannot? Who could you trust with that?
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