skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the app is even moderately successful, those countries could treat your app's income as wholly or partially subject to their income taxes.

How would you suggest they treat it as income if your business is incorporated in US (Delaware preferably)? It doesn't become foreign income based on where you wrote the code.

Also, how are countries in South America or Africa going to know where your business income is derived from when all your financial transactions occur with the US?
Very touching. I took some similar pictures of my mom as she fought pancreactic cancer, and of the emptiness she left on rooms and objects.

I find that contemplating the pain in this straightforward way prevents it from growing into some kind of monster in your memories.
Besides, why bother with submitting this as an "app" considering it could just as easily be a webapp..
Not a lot of additional insight here. I wonder if, at the next iPad event, they will introduce the iPad Pro. I'm not going to buy an iPad Air but I would buy an iPad with the A7 and the same display as the Google Pixel laptop. Probably not going to happen though, older eyes are not the 'fashionable' eyes.
As a non-American, I have no rights in your country and my views no not count for diddly-squat. In fact, the NSA surveillance are specifically supposed to target at me as a non-American.

So as an America, if you do not approve of their actions then you need to do something about it. You succeeded in one revolution, maybe it is time for another.
Russia doesnt boast about being the "Greatest democracy and the Leader of the free world".
> the darkest of the dark ages

I agree this is a dark age for freedom, but to put things in perspective: Mao, Lenin, The Inquisition, Genghis Khan, Victorian Imperialism, Feudalism.

The current US Congress, the CIA, Hoover's FBI, et al may be tyrannical, but Obama is no Mao.
Same here. A few years ago I got my mum a mac mini and no problems ever since. But I just can't get myself into buying one of those "things".
The fair policy is to take the most competent candidates, regardless of gender.
Ask HN: Does anyone get numbness in the pinky?
I recently started getting numbness in my left pinky.
Here is a little background on me:
An amateur coder who spends many hours every day on his laptop (although recently I haven't been doing enough coding practise). I'm left handed, mainly stick to ubuntu and tend to use gvim, I hardly ever use emacs.
I looked up "emacs pinky", but this seems to be associated with pain in the finger (here's a nice picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrielsaldana/4468068807/in/photostream/). I had a quick look at carpal tunnel syndrome, but this is associated with the median nerve. The pinky is innervated by the ulnar nerve, and I can't recall any injuries in the past few days. Also over the last few months I have made an effort to keep a reasonable sitting position when typing.
Anyone with similar experiences? I am not asking for medical advice or an "online diagnosis", since I can make an appointment with the local witch doctor after the weekend finishes.
Are you saying we don't care how many male/female applicants and just accept the one we think fit the school?
if you have a paper to write or something, some younger people i've seen, they've really gotten accustomed to Word and Powerpoint.

If you're not an expert on the one program you need that's only on Windows, I think you can get comfortable quickly with Linux without missing anything.
> I am aware of the response early air strikes caused, but even then there were usually (always?) between countries that were at war.

As long as there have been states, there have been "non-state" actors that field real, no-shit militaries, with which to go to war.

The most famous example from history is the scourge of piracy on the high seas. You'll note that ships that would hoist the Jolly Roger would be treated with a military response, not a police one.

So, the legal framework for drone strikes against non-state belligerents is not nearly as nebulous as it's made out to be. In fact there's actually quite a bit of precedent within international law.
I would not be surprised if Watson is getting more value from the patient records than the journal articles. Even if patient records are unstructured, they typically are more likely to have key details of import for making rare subtle diagnoses that are not present in journal articles.
My brother has become proficient at using Windows, so his switching costs are higher. He didn't want to learn the Linux equivalent of task manager, adding startup applications, updating / installing software. Also he's in finance so 99% of his work is spent in Excel.

By comparison my parents are rudimentary users of technology, and thus their switching costs are low. As long as there is Firefox / Chrome they're ok. Some Chinese sites still depend on ActiveX but they've been replaced with Flash for the most part.
Anyway, those 0.999999 that don't scan the ports are doing lame attempts of guessing the password of your box, while the 0.000001 is doing that, but also trying new exploits that have a chance of working.

As a consequence, the chance of one of those 0.999999 bots invading your computer is zero, the chance of one of the 0.000001 doing the same is non-zero.
Heroin cravings never leave, it's the physical withdrawal you want to avoid.
It is an interesting phenomena, but it's pretty easy to explain: the barrier for an older person is "using a computer". The barrier for a younger person is "using linux". The older person doesn't know or care about the operating system - they are going to use the computer (or not) for very specific things. The younger person, who is probably more of a power user, is going to be more "enmeshed" with the details of the OS, and find it harder to give up certain things.

Heck, the last time Windows was my main OS was in 2007 or so, and I still think in terms of "Alt-Tab" with the Command button replacing Alt (since I'm in OSX). (And the never-disappearing menu bar, and the inability to tab between windows, and the fact that the maximize button is broken, still bugs me).
Diagnosis is actually way easier than understanding medical articles...

For that matter it is hard to coordinate and record treatments if the process of diagnosis is too complicated or arcane for AI to understand.
That...physically hurt to read.
"It's still not a case of the New York Times' free speech rights being infringed, because the New York Times does not have a free speech right to use a third party's printing presses to publish newspapers. If the police were trying to keep the New York Times from publishing using its own printing presses, that would be different."

I took the liberty of rephrasing the parent comment to target dead tree media. The First Amendment problems with such an order to a third-party printer are left as an exercise for the first year law student. That is not to say it's always a slam dunk case; there's a continuum between "FYI Facebook," "Please ban," and "Here's a formal order to ban."
That is one type of policy. But if all female applicants are not "fit" for the school, you get all male and zero female.

So the other kind of fair policy (which is kind of like affirmative action) is to ensure X number of a particular group of applicants must be accepted.
The idea just hit you one day.
the increased emphasis on bed side manner at many of the top med schools indicates they agree with you.
When you set the system to use keys, all those attempts at accessing just don't happen, and the log does not get polluted. Since the log pollution is the main complaint of people that change the port, I think you are wrong.
Police slap cuffs on Punk SMSer (UK, 2004)
My parents had no problems. They went on google, typed in the exact error messages, and found step by step instructions for basically every problem they had without really understanding what they were doing.
You should keep an eye on Mozilla's Shumway (https://github.com/mozilla/shumway). I recently installed it as an add-on to the firefox browser on my Android Tablet (Galaxy Tab 2 7) and have had luck with a few flash sites.
> They are not forthcoming about what the interpretation might be because it's exempt from FOIA.

So, the safe thing is to assume that anything permitted by Section 215 is actually being performed. In other words, the executive branch is not expanding the law, but they are refusing to detail what specific areas within the law they are paying special attention to, since that would simply be a blueprint of areas to avoid.

If the executive actually is being allowed by the judiciary to do things which are outside the scope of the public law (incl. section 215) then that's a serious matter indeed. But we don't typically demand that the executive always detail the implementation plan to implement the requirements of the law.

Imagine being able to call the police department and get an exact list of DUI enforcement areas along with exact times for weeks in advance.
Thank you. I read the article, looked at the pictures, and when I got to the end with the "Like us on Facebook!" crap it it cheapened everything.

The traffic needs to go to the source page, not this bottom-feeder site.
Don't feel guilty. It's stories like yours that give other people hope that breast cancer can be and will be beaten. Thank you for sharing.
I used to think that until I dated a medical student. It is heartbreaking to me and I'd grasp at any reason or bit of information to be more optimistic but honestly, get real... How do you think a Venn diagram for medical and computer science (and/or statistics) students looks like?

Unlike with jeopardy, you do not have a huge well organized catalog of information lovingly curated by trivia worshiping nerds. It is a ridicules stumbling block but there you have it. Health records are not normalized and you can't touch them anyway, research is closer to human readable prose and filled with jargon - good luck developing NLP for it if you're "just a programmer". Hell, look at their textbooks and the way they study and are trained, that screams for computerized improvement and is still a tall order.
I imagine that the spreadsheet is there to support an easy input format that anyone can get involved with. The spreadsheet basically only holds the assumptions and the facts. Then all the modeling is done in something where following the flow control is far more readable because you're dealing with long well named variables, which are rare to none existent in most spreadsheets.

When I worked in Wall Street level finance, basically none of the analysts bothered to use anything more than cell address, e.g. /[A-Z]\{0,1}[0-9]\{0,3}/. They basically treated naming their variables like most software engineers treat commenting their code. That shit was impossible to follow because.

The individual formulas may be trivial, but when you have a complex model with many pages representing different aspects of the business internally and external macro aspects, it can get messy fast.
Email metadata and URLs are equally capable of having identifiable info and user-provided content.
Yes, the addiction is still present. If I stop taking suboxone I will start feeling a little bad (depression, etc) by day 2 and will start withdrawing (feels like a really bad cold) on day 3. By day 4, I would be throwing up and unable to move/function.

The only downside of suboxone is that due to its long half-life, the withdrawals last a long, long time. With heroin you are out of the woods by day 4 or 5, but with suboxone, withdrawels last weeks/months.
... but I'd rather avoid anything that would reminds me of this horrible disease.

I think I understand this, but I fear this or similar feelings lead people to react with either disgust or avoidance when encountering chemo patients out in the world.

I can only image what it must be like to try to go about a pale version of your normal life, and have people avoiding eye contact or moving away.
There are already plenty of websites with this information. Perhaps OP wanted the information available when offline?
"Thought crime" like conspiring to commit murder is also a crime, as it turns out.

But then it's not really a strict thoughtcrime in the 1984 sense either, since it does still involve overt acts. E.g. simply saying that 'terrorists are cool' wouldn't get you charged, but starting a specific plot to conduct an attack and taking actions to advance that plot could, even if those "actions" are simple matters of coordination and communications... again, just like for ordinary homicide.
That's what I always think when I read about these sorts of problems in Japan and Korea. There's a tremendous amount of pressure generated by the overwhelming influence of the big companies, and the shame felt by those who aren't given validation in this system must be acute (or at least it sounds like that for Korea, I don't know as much about Japan.)

Anyway the most common reaction may be to accept the judgement that you feel has been passed on you - that you are worthless - but at some point someone has to come along who refuses to accept that, and realises that the whole system is founded on narrow-minded bullshit. Then that person can build a challenger to the chaebol - one fueled by fresh thinking and real inspiration.

I mean look at LG and Samsung. Where's the passion and love in their products? Raw technical competence and business acumen might lead to limited success, but these companies seem completely soulless. At the end of the day, the world will never love a Samsung like they do an Apple. No matter how big they get, they'll never be able to make it to the next stage, where they actually inspire people and have devoted, passionate fans. So the space for alternative approaches within Korean culture seems (from an outside perspective) huge, even if the first steps are going to be very hard.
That's really nVidia's fault, for not providing proper drivers. Intel and AMD's integrated GPUs are well supported with few issues.
Coleslaw with salmon: tasty, HEALTHY and nutritious.

Cut a chunk of cabbage, slice it into shred by keeping the leaves together while slicing. Dump in bowl, add salt to taste. Grate two or three carrots, dump in bowl, add a couple of dashes of balsamic vinegar. Mix and let it sit for 15 or 20 minutes, or a couple of hours if you forget... who cares. Then, add some mayonnaise, and a can of drained salmon broken into chunks as you dump it out. Mix so that the mayonnaise is spread out through the salad and eat. Yummy.
This is one way to look at it.

Here's another: I have Ubuntu on a couple of machines at home and still can't get them to talk to my Brother MFC-685CW printer. I'm a PhD in EECS.
> RT is not reliable

RT didn't employ Judith Miller. The NYT's did.

RT has an agenda just like everyone else, and accuracy is a function of that. It is quite reliable that way, but it's easier to spot the agenda than it is from the domestic propaganda sources.
I don't believe this is true. there was an attempt to add AI(sort of) to medicine in the form of decision support tools , but doctors didn't like them because it took autonomy from their job and made it boring: instead of figuring all kinds of stuff, suddenly doctors are being told what do by a machine.
Anybody else read "Player Piano"?
Yes, in a sense those things are mutually exclusive.

You can get in a network by VPN or SSH. Yes, after that you can also log into a computer by SSH, but the question remains - why access the network by VPN instead of SSH?
It does not change. It never has. It still says "First edition 2012".
> Oh yes it does. There have been plenty of studies that clearly demonstrate this. It is always easier to press a button that look a man in the eyes and shoot him.

I'm not so sure. That's probably true all things held equal, but that doesn't mean being a drone operator is any easier than being a ground soldier, psychologically.

My dad was a Marine. He was a combat engineer rather than an infantryman, but he saw his share of combat in three wars and while he absolutely hated killing people, the only way he could live with it was through the knowledge that in a combat situation, it's either you or them. That's emphatically not true for some specialties, like snipers and drone operators, and even seasoned combat veterans struggle with the moral weight of killing people without being in any danger themselves. Being in a firefight is hell but at least it feels like you're just trying to survive. Being a sniper or a drone pilot feels like you're just murdering people who pose no immediate threat to you. It's a tough thing to deal with.
Look at this mofo's awesome education:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ju-yung
That's an interesting concept. Am I missing something, though, or is there no way to create an account on that website?
"Transactions will be anonymous."

...

"Users are required to do a palm scan and ..."

?????
There was a lawsuit over a guide to Harry Potter that Rowling won, but she won it because the guide copied too much from her books. They were later able to publish it by cutting down on the quotations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._and_JK_Rowling_vs...

The courts acknowledge that reference guides to fictional worlds are either non-infringing or transformative fair use. You can't copyright fictional facts either, only the expression of them.
So you have to pay attention when selecting employees. There is a chance that when a employee fired or wants to quit job with a damage, he can damage company's Twitter account (e.g. with a tweet)
http://bugchecker.net/

It's cool because: we analyze paths taken in binaries to find bugs.
I'm not sure whether I agree. I don't generally believe in violence.

But the average American won't rebel unless they are actually starving, no matter how much they're repressed. As long as they have their McDonald's and Reality TV, they aren't willing to die over a little warrantless wiretapping.

"Bread and Circuses" is far older than America.

Personally, I simply can't afford it. I have to work 9 hours a day, and even if I had the time, a trip to march on Washington DC is very expensive. I suspect most Americans that care are the same.
I just can't imagine what it would be to suffer from a cancer. This is a horrible thing. A lot of pills and a lot of radiation treatment and watching yourself getting ___. I just can't even think about it. Rest in peace and I hope your husband will be happier now.
I do understand your reaction. However, the fact that he can extract such beauty from utter despair is a testament to the human spirit. It might not be uplifting in a simple sense and it might not serve some immediate tangible purpose (raise money/awareness perhaps ?) but I did feel the series was worthwhile and deserving of attention.
The best thing we've learned here is to enable a setting Facebook has called "Require AppSecret Proof for Server API calls". They actually have a lot of great security features which we've not been making use of.
From the review guidelines:

* If your app is rejected, we have a Review Board that you can appeal to. If you run to the press and
trash us, it never helps.

...just sayin :-)
'Reindeerspotting' is a good watch if anybody's interested. Subutex/Suboxone has its merits, but it's not a silver bullet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeerspotting:_Escape_from_S...
>Finding and installing that missing wifi driver

That "missing" wifi driver is not there because it's proprietary. It doesn't make sense to blame a free operating system for faulty hardware. In any case, I know that in Ubuntu, the user is informed of nonfree drivers being available and it's trivial to install the drivers from that point.
My dad's 60+ as well. I've had him use Ubuntu on an older laptop when his newer one was broken (several times now). He only uses music players & browsers (he uses stock trading websites, so needs java & flash plugins). He says he likes it but always goes back to Windows when he can.
Brief article, light on detail, about S4BB: http://crackberry.com/thinking-big-worlds-most-prolific-app-...

The figure of 47,000 apps really surprises me, let alone the additional 140,000-odd they've added ;)

Even if whole swathes of them are auto-generated, this represents a substantial amount of maintenance in terms of metadata alone. I have never worked on a product that required 47,000 of anything, let alone even 4,700, because of the amount of effort required to keep on top of that much stuff. 4,700 minutes is nearly 80 hours, for example...

Assuming you can keep on top of the organisation, though, as a business model, this seems like a good one! Given the race to the bottom for mobile app pricing, might in fact be the only good one ;)

(I often wonder about some mobile developers, and how they ever reliably make money off their work. Those that I know personally do it part time, seem to be funded by a one-off previous success, and/or have client work that pays the bulk of their bills. By contrast, I don't wonder about these guys...)

[EDIT: re-reading the article, and checking their web site, it turns out they are based in Hong Kong. I'd got the wrong end of the stick and assumed they were based in Europe. So that might explain the metadata issue: perhaps they just do it the hard way anyway, taking advantage of cheaper mainland labour to keep costs down.]
Similar experience.

Mom is 55. Very non technical person, she learned how to send text messages a month ago.

Nevertheless, my dad set up the computer in their house with Ubuntu two years ago and she's been using it for email and web browsing ever since.
Thanks for writing it. It was one of the things that helped me makes some sense of Haskell.

So much of what I had been seeing was all heavy math and abstractions, and while that's interesting it never gave me a foothold for actually using it.

Seeing something much more tangible made a big difference.
Sounds great - but would I be right to assume that Spanish is the working language in the tech community?
I'd love to see the source for what he's doing. Sounds neat.
Foreigner citizens have no (literally none) Fourth Amendment protection while outside the U.S. AFAIK there's no other specific provision in the Constitution (even as amended) speaking to communications privacy.

Even assuming the Fourth Amendment does apply, the "third-party doctrine" that has been applied to the Fourth Amendment since the 19th century would open up a hole for foreign surveillance large enough to drive a truck through, when applied to telecommunications. This hole was closed by Congress for telephones, pagers, cell phones and some other things, but not for email or other Internet traffic.

Even if Congress did pass a law restricting interception of Internet traffic, Congress could make exceptions to their own law... such as FISA and the FISA Amendments Act. Also, many other laws restricting the ability of government to wiretap have specific exceptions for the purpose of foreign surveillance.

It might be arguable that FISA Amendments Act goes too far in the leeway it gives regarding how to decide whether a targeted individual is a U.S. person or not, but that wouldn't substantially affect the law as implemented (and wouldn't make any of the non-Americans feel better either way).
Mind linking the paper?
> Windows installation is breeze

You can have exactly the same problems with drivers. Especially on laptops which came with one type of Windows, while you are trying to installer some newer one. Most non technical people can't install Windows themselves anyway. So installation has zero advantage against Linux, especially these days when Linux installation is easy. The main advantage of Windows is like before - it comes preinstalled in the vast majority of cases.