skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mother lost both breasts, her gallbladder and her fallopian tubes to 4 separate cancers. When they discovered the BRCA gene mutations, she was tested and turned out positive. My sister tested positive and had proactive masectomies and hysterectomies. I was tested as well, but came up negative for the BRCA mutations (phew). I'm male, but if I was positive it would have meant changes for my daughter.

One advantage of the human genome project was that it lead to discoveries like the BRCA mutations. Now, the women in my life could decide ahead of time to prevent these cancers.
In the US, there's a system called PrePass[1]. It's intention is to be used to allow a truck to bypass weigh-ins. The in-vehicle transponder has a red and green light on it. It could be repurposed to flash red when the vehicle triggers a too-tall warning, though this would be of minimal benefit since it's a small flashing red light most likely in the driver's peripheral vision.

However, I'm unsure if there's any similar system in place in Australia (or most other countries, for that matter.)

[1] http://www.prepass.com/services/prepass/Pages/PrePassTranspo...
What's BlackBerry?
Should've RTFM'ed. Thanks :)
And computer manufacturers should just include hard drives that are big enough to store as much data as people want.
Sure, feel free to email me.

I don't know why you can't follow me on Quora.
What are tech companies doing to improve the area? And when I say improve, I mean helping those who need it most.
And one on quantum mechanics, though by a different author:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Structure-Interpretation-Quantum-M...
Agreed.
It's also likely the case that in practice, their TDP doesn't matter.

Yes, they have a budget, but somehow i think their main problem is more finding sources of electricity and cooling, not paying for it.
The Key to Getting Motivated: Give Up
$100 million in revenue looks awesome until you see $101 million in costs or losses. What about profitability?
I'm also doing Mentzer's workout.

Even though it is only one set per workout, that set tends to be pretty painful. ;)
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That comment section certainly is not the place to discuss these issues. Just like Hacker News is not the right place. He repeatedly pointed to the working group.

"If anyone strongly disagrees with the content of the decision and would
like to raise a Formal Objection[5], they may do so at this time. Formal
Objections are reviewed by the Director in consultation with the Team.
Ordinarily, Formal Objections are only reviewed as part of a transition
request[6]."

[0] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/2013Ma...
[5] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#WGA...
[6] http://www.w3.org/2005/08/01-transitions.html
Sure, ok :-)
Decision to remove Newry's iconic Cherry Trees causes widespread anger
Hear, hear. I spent most of yesterday afternoon reading Cal Newport's blog and the first few chapters of his book "So Good They Can't Ignore You". His thesis is basically that the idea of "following your passion" is incredibly misleading, and that you should instead focus on building "career capital" which will open up better opportunities over time. (Career capital as I see it refers to the combination of skills, relationships and unique insights that you get from working intently in a particular field for a length of time).

It's something that resonates a lot with me, after bumming around a lot asking "is this what I really want to do?" I eventually realised that the whole "do what you love and you will never work a day in your life" is simply a fantasy. Of all the infinite things you could be doing, you will never know if you are doing the best or most important thing. Doesn't matter. Your life is not that important. You will never be able to put an end to the questioning and self-doubt. Doesn't matter. You can learn to enjoy the questioning, and appreciate that you are one of the privileged 0.1% of humans who actually get to choose what they do with their lives.

One other thought: why do people believe they can do it overnight? I think it's because we see (what look like) overnight successes. On closer inspection they are no such thing.

I can't be the only Hacker News reader who, at the age of 19, thought "hey, that Mark Zuckerberg guy made a website that made him rich at age 19, I can make websites, ergo I can be the next Mark Zuckerberg!" But to emulate Zuck you have to look at what he was doing at age 14. Turns out he was building successful tech products for several years before he started working on Facebook. Then you get cases like Nick from Summly, which looks like a combination of rich parents, savvy investors and a desperate buyer (Yahoo). All that is true. Luck and circumstances did play a part in his particular success. But he's still a very smart guy who wouldn't have achieved what he did without intelligence and hard graft.
Proof by contradiction is not constructive, since it uses the Law of the Excluded Middle.
Speaking of wealth inequality:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-10-inequality-in-equ...
Google CEO Larry Page Discusses His Voice Issues For the First Time
A partial answer to your question: there is an inverse Goldilocks zone for seeking funding. An idea/market/team can potentially be fundable pre-launch no-traction, and be potentially fundable post-launch post-traction, but absent extraordinary circumstances post-launch pre-traction is the kiss of death.

The app also requires a sizable upfront expense per major city (population > 100k) that is recouped about 10 days later.

For what it is worth: Many investors will assign fairly low confidence to this prediction prior to you having successfully demonstrated it 1+ times.
They had no understanding of individual computer users writing their own programs

Individual computer users creating their own programs is a very specific group of people. Consider for a moment that devices aren't really made for nerd programmers. They are made for average people.

As a technology nerd, of course I want the freedom to modify and develop stuff, without restrictions, on my devices.

As a family member though, I'm not convinced that my non-technical parents, grandparents, siblings and so on really need root-level access to their hardware. Software can easily get screwed up. For the same reason, IT departments frequently take away admin rights from employees. This is rarely tyrannical, but just meant to keep things running smoothly without having to reinstall the OS every six weeks.

Already we are seeing with the Android "freedom" model a lot more malware than the "closed" Apple model. Sure, there is a trade-off there of ceding some device control to Apple, but at the end of the day, the benefits are quite significant.

So at least for me, I am willing to give up some control, if it means that I don't have to be plagued by technical support calls from my non-technical family members.
MobileWorks is growing really fast and is looking for a full-stack engineer
> I also expect that income/wealth-based limits will be imposed which will cap whatever I can get well below the amount I'll need to come anywhere close to replacing what I can earn by continuing to work.

Unless you were working at a near-poverty level income, Social Security has never been intended to come anywhere close to replacing what you could earn by continuing to work if you were physically able to do so. What it was intended to do, from the outset, is provide a minimum level of support to mitigate poverty in those who because of age or infirmity could no longer work. This isn't a result of changes, its all the system was ever built to do. There already are benefit limits in Social Security, and while "means testing" to reduce them further for people with other sources of income is often proposed, it doesn't seem to have much traction (beyond the existing, long-established practice of making SS benefits taxable income to those who have more than a certain amount of other income, which is a weak form of means testing.)
Twenties does seem a great time to start a business, but somehow in real statistics the average age when successful entrepreneurs start their companies is 40+. You won't have more time, but you will have more resources, skills, and in-depth understanding of some problem domain, which is a key part of any successful business.
I wasn't able to signup. I'm on Firefox under Linux.

The landing page could use a little more explanation. I'm not sure how it works.
And, I think this is why they've done it. If it had been year or two ago it would have been in the same space as WhatsApp et. al. Now, it simply provides a way for BB users to talk with their non-BB counterparts through a preferred app and if it gets a few users back into BB world, then great.
Most cards in the US don't have a chip.
Are you sure you were eating enough? Eating more is almost always the answer to plateaus. Also squats are the best exercise for all-around strength, not just legs. Squatting more weight does wonders for other things like bench and overhead press.
> every number is the product of primes

Except prime numbers.

> People have already assumed it to be true, and still not applied it to anything practical like cryptography

How can you use something that you didn't prove?
There is nothing intrinsically morally wrong with high levels of wealth inequality. If wealth distribution were to stay as unequal as they are now, but total per-capita wealth increased at a steady rate, that would be a wonderful outcome for everyone.

The issue is that the high levels of wealth inequality are used to capture nearly all of the wealth that is created, thus increasing the wealth inequality even more. That is a clearly unsustainable system.
Teaching is not just great for learning a skill, it is also the best marketing method I know. By teaching you build a following that sees you as an expert and is happy to pay for a small portion of your advice.

Here's a post I just wrote on the subject: http://nathanbarry.com/marco-polo/
I'm Scottish and while I've not quite experienced it myself, I'm happy living in Europe where m taxes are spent on health care as opposed to bombs. It's not so much shocking as it is just really sad. :(
$4.61 for a scoop of ice cream? No me gusta...
I doubt the driver was scared of losing his job. I would say that the blame may fall, in part, on the company. I have a friend who owns a business which does a lot of trucking. If they work overtime, these drivers can make $70k+ a year (including benefits, health). For a job with few qualifications needed, that's pretty good. A lot of businesses in the area actually have too few truckers.

Anyway, the point is that by working overtime you can make a good living being a driver. This is why you can find so many truck drivers drivin tired. As such, there are strict rules in place at my friend's business that prevent drivers from driving for too many hours / too many hours without a break. With GPS and whatnot, this is quite easy to monitor and enforce. As a result, along with other rules and superb maintenance, my friend's business has a superb safety record. There is still the occasional accident (can't stop 'em all), but something like this incident has never occurred.
Exactly. I have nothing against the use of e-mail marketing, just the abuse of it.
Anything but mixed.
When I'm rich I'm going to build an RSS reader that works like this
The candidate has to opt-in, but we do always send a request email. We're considering making it a paid option to disable those emails entirely, or customize them how you'd like.

We do want to be as upfront as possible about why this is a free service, so we hope we've communicated that effectively.
just need better exploit code
I feel like I'm running into this problem, to an extent. I'll revise what the OP said, though: I think freelancing right out of the gate is great when you're young and don't need a super reliable income -- you get to experiment and learn in a low stakes environment (because nobody is handing you million dollar accounts) where no one is constantly lookig over your shoulder. However, I'm starting to find that there are limits to how much I can learn on my own, and there's a limit to how successful I can be at this without any real industry ties.
Yes. Idempotency is just one property of the GET request, what parent described would be a DELETE request (these too are idempotent). So I could have been more precise and funny with that joke, I guess.
If you already know Drupal, Commerce is awesome.
OP here. That's good to hear, and I appreciate the response. :)
Then you didn't pass your driving exam and get a license. In the US that's required and I suspect most countries require the ability to understand posted signs to get a drivers license.

If you're driving without a license, then that's a different issue.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/21b/ugh_fields/
> Accepted payment methods: Bitcoin, pogs, that Billy Ripken baseball card with an expletive on the bat, good intentions.
"One more bit of data from this study for Boston folks: when Kedrosky looked at the incidence of high growth IT firms by state, taking into account GDP and other factors, Massachusetts came out ahead. In other words, it was the state that had more than would be expected based on its population and economy."

Awesome. Go Boston.
It would only cause monetary inflation if an equal amount of currency were not removed at the same time (through e.g. progressive taxation). Even if it did cause monetary inflation, that wouldn't necessarily lead to price inflation (depending e.g. on the slack in the economy). Even if there was price inflation it would likely not be uniform across goods and services.

In short, while it would be possible to design a self defeating basic income program it is not inevitable. That said, I prefer the employer of last resort scheme being pushed by the Australian MMT crowd.
agree, I think what a lot of people don't realize is that when you click unsubscribe that it is a signal that your email address is active. For those sites that are sketchy and may sell your address or do something else with it, this only helps them. If they are spamming you without the option to turn down the frequency its spam.
Going back far enough, you and I probably came from rape and lack of contraception as well.

Your argument is?
Can't speak for anyone else, but I'd have rather taken Iceland's approach and let them fail... their assets would have been redistributed and bought out, and things would have probably recovered much faster, though a harder short term. Which may well have been better than what seems to be a long drawn out recovery.

I'm also against a lot of the subsidies that are out there.. if we really want available food for the poor, then those expenses directed at the farmers directly are the wrong place. I mean we have food stamp programs, and school lunch programs that could be expanded to cover more people, or even everyone domestically.

I'm against the expanded protectionisms in copyright and patents as well. I think they are important to have, but the terms are far to broad and lopsided. Corporate personhood is a directly related problem... I'd much rather see corporations far more limited, including requirements on distributing profits to shareholders, and not being able to make corporate donations to charities (especially politically driven ones) or for that matter employ lobbyists. If an investor wants to directly employ a lobbyist more power to them, the protection of a corporate vail is definitely abused.

I believe personal freedom and ensured competition are key to advancement of society, and protectionist corporatism is just as bad as outright communism, or extreme/fascist socialism for that matter. Then again, people often confuse what it means to be pragmatic, or a libertarian for that matter.
correction: Nearly all chronic homeless have mental illness and/or substance abuse; the chronic homeless make up only about 1/8 of the homeless at any given time.
Nobody, I was just introducing the term "Turing Tar Pit" for those who hadn't heard it.
Skimmed around the site for all of 30 seconds and saw this [1]:

> Only 0.1% of published exploratory research is estimated to be reproducible.

Which sounds downright absurd. Only one in one thousand studies are even in principle able to be performed again? So I followed the reference.

As far as I can tell, it doesn't say that. Based on skimming the reference[2], I think the 0.1% number comes from the section "An Example: Science at Low Pre-Study Odds".

It is not talking about reproducibility, it is talking about p-values. It is not talking about studies in general, it is talking about a specific type of study (whole genome association). It assumes statistical mistakes are made on purpose, as opposed to estimating how often this is done in reality, and that the prior probability of a given association being true is 10^-4. The example-of-a-bad-study study barely moves that probability to 1.5 * 10^-4 (that's why it's a good example of a bad study), which the quote rounds back down to 0.1%.

The quote is an egregious exaggerations, especially for a site criticizing a method of gaining knowledge. Hopefully the whole site is not like that.

1: http://www.scienceisbroken.org/posts/30 edit: it appears that the fact changes every time. I don't know how to link it.

2: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
One of my favorite short science fiction stories is about inter-dimensional warfare in which numbers are the weapons.

Dark Integers by Greg Egan

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0710/Dark.shtml
Yes, lemurs are indeed amazing animals.
Since Garmins and other GPS devices have lane information and speed limit information, you'd think you could punch in your load height and get a route that worked for it.

Anyone want to go collect 500K bridge heights for the database?
Not too far north along the west coast, the homelessness situation is mirrored in Vancouver, Canada. I have friends who have volunteered with non-for-profit agencies that support homeless people in identifying their needs and allocating resources to them if possible, such as social housing. My friends have told me that the people she has interviewed from the streets nearly 75% are mentally or physically handicapped or have fell into drug abuse and would never be able to function as a normal tax paying citizen again. There are cases where she has met people who where once normal people with normal jobs but because of a couple bad choices or traumatic situations, have gone into debt or turned to drugs and alcohol. One man was once a lawyer who lost his family over night and couldn't handle the stress and turned to gambling, drugs, and alcohol and probably suffered from PTSD and then sooner or later ended up on the streets.

In Canada, homeless/unemployed receive around $300/month from the government and if you have a psychical or mental disability, I believe you receive a little more financial assistance. Some homeless people just stay on the assistance instead of trying to get employment.

However, there is hope but we cannot rely on the government to sort it out. There is a privately funded organization called UGM that has a men's shelter and rehab program in the core of the homelessness district (equivalent to Tenderloin here) and are working on opening a women's and children's rehabilitation program. I volunteered there once and was taken aback on how well put together the program is. It's costly though, to build the building and support the program costs millions. They take in about 40 homeless people and puts them through a 6 month program. There are strict rules and guidelines in the program but in return they receive bedding, food, clean clothes and clean environment to live in, classes to help you finish your high school diploma, computer lessons, emotional and spiritual support, and career counselling, etc. It's still a newer program but they've seen a pretty high success rate, with many graduates becoming outreach works in the community.
Spotting Opportunities: Examples of Follow up Emails from Online Conversations
What would that even mean? The title is "Guidance for the Minimization of Text Messages over Dual-Function Cellular Telephones." Any idea what minimization it is referring to?

EDIT -- Found the answer to my question: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/02/minimiza...
Everybody is different. I tried a lot of different workout routines and while I would enjoy and make quick gains from each one, I would eventually stop making gains and get bored, and stop. For years I thought that if I could motivate myself to stick with something, I would be able to get healthy.

What I realized is that variety is exactly what I need. Now I'll generally switch up my routine once every month or two. Right now I'm on a biking kick because the weather is finally getting nice here. Before that it was pull-ups/push-ups/one-legged squats. Before that it was yoga.

There are tons of ways to get fit. Starting strength worked for me--for three months--but it's not any more the "one true way" than anything else.
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BlackBerry Q5: QWERTY BB10 Budget Smartphone In Multiple Colors Announced
Getting way off topic - the same underlying forces still play out today worldwide, largely through american/japanese/indian(?) movies and music.
I have long been a BlackBerry fan. It was difficult to let go of BBM. My Torch was simply to make phone calls, send emails, listen to music and instant message (bbm). It did those things much better than any one device. I made the switch to Android (SGN II) earlier this year. When BB10 launched, I got the z10. I figured it would solve all the other problems. I was wrong. I tried to return the device; I couldn't. I tried to sell it; didn't happen. So I kept it as my secondary device; simply for BBM.

Now (summer), why in the world would I need BB hardware?
> There is no redistribution. Everyone is entitled to the same benefit, just like they are entitled to fire protection.

This type of thing (even when it involves fire protection) is redistribution. One set of people are taxed to pay for things, another set of people get the benefit -- even if it is the same set of people the distribution of the tax and the benefit aren't the same, and the difference is redistribution.

Note that I am not saying this is undesirable, merely that it clearly is redistribution.
(Worked on RMS and Exchange)

The govt comes by with a subpoena (secret, classified, or public) and requires Microsoft or the customer company to produce communication records that exist in a form that may be used as evidence. Failure to do so is best contempt of court and worst obstruction of justice. No 5th amendment privilege for other people's crimes. So everyone who chooses to store or process messages makes it so the encryption is reversible and they can honor court requests. Nothing is private as a result.

EDIT: I should make it clear I don't agree with the current status quo. Let me answer two very good questions.

> Would they also do that if logging failed during the period requested?

If it can be shown that there is a willful neglect of collecting logs then the govt in the past has gone after companies for some form of conspiracy (most famous: MegaUpload, but Microsoft customers have had their fair share for accounting and securities fraud) or criminal negligence. There is a prevailing theory that companies are responsible for employee actions, and failing to log is seen as unacceptable.

It's only recently (within the last year) that the courts have ruled whether compelling passwords is protected by the 5th amendment, and most systems in place were designed and built using previous assumptions from 10 years ago.

> If this is true, why is OTR offered at all?

It's a checkbox feature required for HIPAA, PCI, and similar. "Must have encryption" -- the standards and IT departments don't say how the keys are managed.