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And what is the ethical burden on the physician at this point?

Isn't there an obligation to provide all medically relevant information to the insurance company?

I am confused by your answer.

As to the parent question, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 [0] bars employers and health insurers from using genetic information to deny coverage, charge higher premiums, or discriminate in hiring.

It however doesn't affect other providers such as life insurance, disability insurance or long-term-care insurance which would obviously be needed over the lifetime of any infant suffering from any serious malady. These providers are free to use genetic predisposition information to discriminate under federal law. A few individual states bar this activity as well.

Kind of a giant loophole that I have no idea why Congress didn't anticipate.

[0]: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00493:
Sorry to hear that you didn't get the stock. I've been in a similar scenario where promises of stock were made and later not kept by a very small startup. In my case, the company didn't end up going anywhere, so there was not much regret on my part at the end. I also did get a salary during that time, which helped.

Joining as a low-numbered employee is a really big act of trust, bigger in some ways than being a founder. You ought to find out everything you can about whom you'll be working with, and what they think of you, before you consider it. It helps to have the ability to read people. Getting things in writing definitely is a must-do, but it's not a silver bullet.
I think his point was different... Big launch can cloud your vision about what would suit the real consumers, so it can be counter productive.

To me that sounds about right: do a big launch only after you are 100% sure you have a valid product. Maybe start as Beta and launch 1.0 only when you have a solid and loyal user base?
Netscape (IIRC) would do another GET (or POST!?) when doing a view-source, which NEVER EVER made sense to anyone I would demonstrate it it. I want to see the source of the page that's currently rendered, not the source of another POST request. That behaviour thankfully seems not to be present in any modern browsers.
Furthermore Python[1], Matlab[2], F#[3]. Furthermore parallel device debuggers (TotalView, Allinea), profilers (NVIDIA). There's a long way for OpenCL to catch up, if ever (because there might be a better standard coming further down the line).

[1] http://www.techpowerup.com/181585/NVIDIA-CUDA-Gets-Python-Su...

[2] http://www.mathworks.com/discovery/matlab-gpu.html

[3] https://www.quantalea.net/media/pdf/2012-11-29_Zurich_FSharp...
Works globally, only ships within the US. That's awesome.
What stops an attacker running rkhunter --proupd after he/she has installed backdoors in a few of your binaries ? I realise what rkhunter does (searches for common backdoors), but I can't see what advantage the proupd argument adds.
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Sounds like it's time for a "design pattern" or "best practice" -- that is, covering up for a tool's faults.

What if you treat DropBox as a raw, strict hierarchical store and never use it directly, but only link into it from elsewhere? Move all the links outside of it.

ln ~/Dropbox/photos ~/Photos
ln ~/Dropbox/family/baby/cute-movies ~/Photos/baby-cute-movies

etc.
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A much better and more in-depth article along the same lines:

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/ross-andersen-human-...
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Is this some sort of too early, too dark humour attempt to make fun of conspiracy theorists or is this written by someone actually believing this?

Even if it were true, what's the point? And if there is a point, and if the government is evil enough to stage an attack... why even bother faking it?
Like the numerous 9/11 conspiracies, it fails the Occam's Razor test. Even if there was a conspiracy, how many people would have to be in on it, and how would you keep it secret? And if there were such nefarious people in government/industry, wouldn't it be easier for them just to pay someone to set off a real bomb, rather than trying to stage an explosion?
Today I will mostly be: sketching out how to hook my URL catching bot to the Readability API for extracting article text and then to the Churnalism API for finding what press releases the BBC* have put lipstick on this time.

* other news-gathering organisations are available.
Lots of people post on forums about how these companies need to "adapt their business models". Approximately 100% of those people also enjoy content made by the "lazy big media companies" in question under their current business model, which is becoming less effective. Wanting cheap/free access to that content by making sure that the legal/economic framework under which is was produced continues to be circumvented is a Faustian bargain. It's not sustainable. But no-one seems to be having much success with ideas for alternative business models so far.

The fact that such people consume big media content now does not mean they wouldn't rather dispense with such content in exchange for the elimination of such laws.

In fact, an argument could be made that the production of such content smothers other, less capital intensive content made with lower expectations of large returns (for example, theater was much more successful around here before the big Hollywood blockbusters came to the scene).

However, the same conditions are toxic to smaller, independent content producers who might have done something innovative or catered to a niche market.

I don't doubt that the current conditions are toxic, but I don't think "those people" argue that the status quo is OK. Whether the conditions they argue for are toxic or not remains to be seen.
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Paul Curtis was arrested by the FBI last week, and on Tuesday he was released without charges, when the FBI found there was zero evidence in pursue charges. But his name and face were among the top stories, not related to the Boston bombings, in the past week. Much like many of those wrongly and very publicly arrested, he will now have some troubles in the future from those who may still believe he was responsible. As we know, information on the Internet, for the most part, lasts forever.

"US drops case against ricin letter suspect Paul Curtis"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22273355
Here we go again ... ignore all evidence and focus on a tiny little part of the story that has not played out like you thnk it should have.
What kind of controls and proof would be needed for such an experiment to succeed? This experiment if it worked, would overturn everything we know about physics. If they claim a positive result, it's vastly more likely due to improper controls, people deliberately violating them to achieve the result, etc.
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This was on the front page?
Some interesting thoughts on this subject: http://landley.livejournal.com/57348.html
Marin, the creator, is a member of the Cocoapods team, we've been testing it internally. Big fan.
Everything eventually comes to an end: civilizations, stars, individuals, species.

Dinosaurs ruled the earth for a longer time than elapsed since they've been extinct. Almost double, in fact.

Humanity is extremely recent; at the most, homo sapiens sapiens is 200,000 years old -- and history goes back 10,000 years. There is no special reason why humanity would (or should!) survive indefinitely.
It would be nice to have a tl;dr on the whole case. I don't really know the backstory here and popehat doesn't seem inclined to recap.
There are many sites doing spam but ranking so well like hompespakistan.com, propertyfinder.ae and many more. I have already report them but still no use.
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/boston-marathon-cons...
Surprised nobody has mentioned Wuala. It was doing this in 2008. Just never got traction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuala
Yes, people believe this. It's not different than "Zeitgeist" and the 9/11 conspiracy. More recently, they seem to focus on "crisis actors" that pose as victims after terror attacks or killing sprees. There was some of the same old after Sandy Hook. It's sickening.
There are plenty of articles out there documenting the inaccessibility of higher education. In my experience, and many others, the "aid" system is a ploy to make people who can afford college feel good that they're there on merit (instead of ability to pay, even if that's the actual primary criteria), as well as to give colleges excuses for jacking up tuition even more ("well it -says- $50,000/year, but act now and we'll give you it for $29,999!"...inflates people's egos that they're "so smart" that the college is giving them a $20,001 discount, increases perceived "value" of an institution, and also helps to obscure the real price of attendance so that the only way to find out if you can afford to attend is to gamble away $100+ in application fees before they'll tell you or not).
If you were going to fake it, surely getting the colour of blood right is so incredibly easy (animal blood) that its not going to be done wrong. The wrong colour is more likely a camera/camera user issue surely? I'd say that this makes it more likely to be real, not less. But hey, he has seen blood before and says this is fake, so it must be fake.
Very fast and lose use of the word 'indisputable'.

There's an annoying yet pitiful complete ignorance in calling your site 'educate-yourself.org'.
Disagree about the "should". Why would we not want to survive indefinitely? And when it comes to species, humans are clear outliers. I'm not sure how well one can extrapolate human future from what happened to the dinosaurs.
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Alas, article does not explain where the betrayal is. Or even what the author considers "web". Someone is too self-centric and has no idea what an average web user is and what he wants.

Honestly, rants like this sound a lot like "allowing same-sex marriages will destroy the sanctity of marriage" and alike. How exactly?

Will the ability to have DRM'ed content in HTML suddenly shut down "the open web"? No.
Congratulations - looks slick. I don't have a pintrest account so I can't really try it out or give you meaningful feedback, but good luck going forward.
You can't ever be 100% sure you have a valid product before launch. Especially with something that needs network effects to work. Just launch it and see if it sticks.

I don't think the vision was clouded by the big launch, only the dream about selling to Facebook for a billion. And when you start a business to flip - it's hard not to flop.
Bitcoin could make the jump to all-digital currency for us
Then you need some standardisation on what 'currency' is anyway, and if you use ISO 4217 you shut out Bitcoin.
That's really cheap compared to what I'm going to pay!
So why is Google looking inside the uploaded files, if the files aren't public? If the guy was a "hacker", so freaking what?
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What ludicrous name will this get if it hits the mass market. Medical imaging manufacturers already take there naming schemes to the extreme (SMASH, HASTE, Propeller, Fiesta, Lava, Lava-flex - all MRI admittedly. But meaningless proprietary trash when it comes down to it). The 3D cine loops that are generated are already called 4D scans, the still images are called 3D images so a model will be called...?
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Perhaps OP is being a bit more philosophical. Not suggesting that it is a failure of will or a straw poll of our future direction but instead because we are/arent worthy of continuing...?
This is much more interesting than Dropbox... http://www.aychedee.com/2013/04/24/dead-drop-with-bittorrent...
I remembered it. Thought it was hilarious.

For any tech startup with a limited budget I found it extremely impressive.
What would that achieve? It was an analysis of her post history
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"Stealing" jokes is very much frowned upon, but at least in performing arts, much relies on delivery. The same is not true for static arts, where poor attribution ranges from forgery to plagiarism.
Another way to state this: at launch, air resistance is your enemy. When landing, it's your friend.
My biggest problem is how to get back to where I was. I was reading a funny tumblr on my phone and got to the point where the page was incredibly slow, so I wanted to start reading again from where I currently was in the page... how do I do that?
> Teaching and nursing are both fields where you need a degree to start participating.

How is that relevant?
Great tool. but sadly Korean not available. when add a comment with Korean, all codes suddenly disappear. Are you have a scheme that support to unicode?
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Of all the possible reasons for borrowing money I would have thought that investment is by far the best!
I can answer this question since I accidentally created a circular reference the other day. It starts syncing the recursive structure until it runs out of quota.
Familiarity, and the fact that it isn't packaged for all distributions. (For example Debian have no packages.)

Sure it is probably "better", but running Debian's stable release the only updates I wish to apply are security fixes from the security team.
> You're going to try and counter that this is a staged publicity photo, but my rum makes me fearless against your rebuttals.

If only you had read one sentence further...
I don't hate it, but some websites implement it so badly. Sometimes I want to reach the career or about page of a website, but it's hard to do that when the page is constantly scrolling. I usually end up typing /about at the end of the URL.
I got your ";-)" but NERDTree was released in 2006 so, technically, even NERDTree is "pre GitHub".
This is beautiful, and even more so considering it's done so well in JavaScript. It's times like these when I reflect with disdain that our industry is so full of hipster brogrammers with tons of butthurt. Get over yourself.
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What value does a silly conversation in Quora bring to HN?

If it is Quora stuff then leave it there.
My estimates are always off the mark...unless there's a "real" deadline; at which point I go into unconscious mode and get whatever needs to be done, done.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

If the deadline is a vague ballpark date, then I almost always miss it, making up excuses with each subsequent delay.
Regarding the "don't have the keys" issue, I solve this with an encrypted TrueCrypt volume in Dropbox. Dropbox has 2FA set up on it, so getting into my servers requires 1) my dropbox password, 2) my phone, 3) the volume passphrase, and finally 4) the key passphrase.

As long as I have my phone on me, I can get into my servers, but am reasonably confident that a Dropbox compromise or phone loss would not result in my server credentials being compromised.
Won't that cause issues when going through a typical paranoid corporate web proxy?
Yes, terrible not contacting someone about something posted on the internet...
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I must admit that I don't spend a lot of time on HN defending banks, but I'm not sure what they are supposed to have done wrong in this case. A commercial entity wants to borrow money and they have plenty of assets to cover the loan if it goes bad - not the bank's fault they were bad at investing.
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Cool, let's just rsync the whole internet to itself and enjoy the race to the bottom
I find it strange that they seem to rule out asteroid impacts as a threat just because it is unlikely to happen within this century. They are unlikely to happen in any century but still do happen from time to time on a universe-scale timeline, and have been responsible for mass-extinction events in the past.
I think our disagreement comes from different understandings of what you meant.

When I think of "no code without a Jira ticket", I usually don't mean "create a Jira ticket for the code", I mean "find the Jira ticket that links closely to the code you're writing".

I do agree that creating Jira tickets all over the place creates unnecessary work for everyone - even those trying to read the reports.

It is helpful, however, to know the general area and background for the code you've written e.g. what the feature is and any comments on it. Stuff like "developer X was working on feature Y when he wrote that code".
That is absolutely hideous
Yeah. I think Prismatic has the best technology in terms of machine learning and NLP. With it, maybe Prismatic is worth more than their budget.
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Alcatraz is now integrated with Alfred Project Managers Workflow. https://github.com/willfarrell/alfred-workflows
Dinosaurs are a rather large group of animals (and you can join primitive birds with more "reptilian" dinosaurs, but I digress...) and humans are a subspecies (homo sapiens sapiens), comparing dinosaurs' extinction with human's extinction its almost like comparing mammals extinction with white shark extinction.
I agree with both of you. A journalist (in my opinion) shouldn't be someone who rewrites press releases. Having just finished Robert Fisks column before I came here, I'm certain of that. Not everyone can be where he is however, and the small local stories need to be written. Re-writing press releases is a mile from these situations however - at least read around the subject and compare/contrast (?pad it out) with what others are doing.
And now imagine also that there is a perfectly guilty rapist but, have exactly the same name as you (ups)

And when an possible employer enter your name in google the name rapist and the mugshot appears, and when you are in an airport you wait for an hour and probably lose the next flight typically until a bored airport policeman finds that, mmh, not, probably not the same people... maybe we could keep him/her another 20 minutes?

Welcome tho the world of plastic surgery...
It is useful if accounts other than root have been compromised, like the web server's.
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The blog post is an ad hominem attack.

I think the researcher mixed up who is connected to what site; but over all he is right: his paper has not been retracted (yet and possibly won't be).

Should he sue or threaten to sue about it ? Probably not; at least not until he can show damages.

Threatening the Streisand effect is pure trolling - If you defend yourself you're guilty ?
I think estimation is task dependant.

For instance if you've a well documented API of a competitive company that you know you can access in a familiar RESTful manner vs an established player with a SOAP interface, that has documentation - but it's wrong, and no available libraries for the language you are completing the task in, and a support team that wrong identifies the xml you're sending them as correct, it's going to take an unpredictable time. Even doing a vaguely related task using SOAP a few months previous hasn't enabled me to predict the duration of the unpredictable nature of SOAP, only that it will take longer.

The biggest difference in duration occurs when teaming up and working in a pair with an experienced developer that I've worked with in the past. Even then it's not a predictable duration on how much quicker this will be, or indeed if there's a guarantee of solving a tricky problem. All you can say it's likely that we'll solve it quicker.

Smaller tasks: Build a CRUD around editing one entity, authentication/authorisation for that and admin area. Estimatable.

More complex tasks that can't be broken down further: Unsure.
> It's like "building a city." Whenever someone tries, it's a disaster.

Not always! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeloord

The trick is to not aim too high.
Also there was a SkyDrive user who got all his MS stuff linked to the account nuked because he had taken half nude photos of someone with his phone and put them in his private folder in SkyDrive.

http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...
Well the bank would normally be on the hook for making the bank loans. Unless it bought insurance then it would only be on the hook if the insurer failed. Luckily they had buddies at the fed/ government to ensure this insurance was paid out at the full 100 cents on the dollar.
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Cool, so they're well within an order of magnitude of each other.
I understand what you are saying. But a product can be used to solve a problem. Building a city because a lot of people suddenly need a house is solving a problem. Building a city because you like to design a city is building a ghost town.
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> Why? How is the government going to shut down what is basically a private decentralized p2p network? There isn't any central server they can take out and the traffic over the network would look like any other encrypted traffic.

Many ISPs, schools, cafes and corporate networks do this today already. They only allow HTTP (which goes through monitoring) and HTTPS which is decrypted by a MITM proxy (you have to allow their CA cert on your machine, uncompromised HTTPS is blocked).

In many countries this type of shenanigans are forbidden by law (friendly governments exist too).
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"The trick is to not aim too high."

Like the "Blauwestad" which failed. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blauwestad_(project) (Dutch)
"What's the DRM-free business model that would allow them to produce the blockbuster movies"

It's the same as the DRM-encumbered business model: make movies and charge people to watch them. DRM doesn't make that model any more or less effective.
I would suggest going even further and not even build anything until you have some kind of traction or a strong product/market fit based on a statistically significant user pool.
Zeo is shutting down, why didn't I get to hear of them earlier?
6 months? Wow, you are patient. Anyway, just commenting here to point out that html formatting doesn't work on HN posts
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Generally good advice, iffy strawman regarding lean startup, linkbait title.
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Some markets are hard to serve if you are not in the market segment yourself. I'm not sure that an atheist developer "serving the religious market" with a Bible app is necessarily going to be successful. It helps to read the Bible on a regular basis yourself (on your device and off) so that you know what people want. For example, it is often slower for me to find a specific passage in the iPhone Bibles than in the physical book, which is problematic if I am trying to follow along the sermon, since the passage is often finished by the time I locate it in the app. This might not be something that an atheist developer would discover.

Likewise, if I tried to develop a Qur'an app, it might not work so well, because I have no idea how a Muslim uses the Qur'an. Of course, I could go talk to a bunch and write an ok version, but I'm sure it wouldn't be as good as an app that a Muslim would write (given a developer of equivalent skills).
That's fair enough! They may be, but I just think the hire me button should be the easiest to find as from your point of view, that's what you want people to click.
Aleady in progress. An you know what? It spawns lots of very imaginative stuff.
You might find this book interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Hacker-Billion-Dollar-Cybercri...

I've read it and can confirm its a good read. I think this guy was arrested in 2005 or 2007 but that's going on memory from over a year ago.