skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're getting the wrong take away from these articles.

The message is that the real world is messy so don't spend 2000 lines of code trying to validate it to a strict (simplistic) model.

For example my bank's website couldn't deal with the fact that my street address was (representative example) "5/3 Hawthorn Street" because the '/' was an illegal character (as was -,: and a whole bunch of other separators I tried) - but that's how it appears in the Post Office's database. Some programmer has spent effort to implement the code to reject my legal (and incredibly common) style of address. It would have been far less effort not to have done that.

By contrast the DVLA website just gives you a free input text area, perfect. Minimal effort for them, zero hassle for me.
It limits the thing you can do. This library allows you to easily get and display content from any external source.
The github repo can be found at https://www.github.com/goinstant/secure-filters
I would put it this way: I was expecting to read about a bug, not encounter one myself. So I guess the two outcomes are not exactly opposite, and maybe I'm using "irony" incorrectly here. I'm not sure.
Which is why UberX was originally advertised as being "hybrid uber". As for the higher cost per mile of urban driving, I genuinely would love to see a source.
Ahh, nostalgia.. getting a second disk drive for my A500, using PowerPacker to pack the executables of often needed tools, use a menu editor to add them to the Workbench menu = my first taste of the external harddrive I got later. Which was quite the brick and had a proud capacity of 52 MB. The 4 megabyte RAM expansion, also huge... combined with the Action Replay module and the kickstart 2.0 ROM switcher, it all took up quite some space. Oh how I miss my Amiga 500; it died when I got carried away while soldering (after having sucessfully made a pause toggle by putting a switch between a pin from the expansion slot to mass). Ripping modules! I miss that, too. Later on, the A4000, playing Ultima VI with a speed increase of 35x (which had to make up for the games that refused to work on it)... configuring the crap out of MagicMenu, MUI, Directory Opus, and whatever I found on the Public Domain disks I ordered... discovering the Aminet CD series... all that music, the demos, oh. And yes, the games, obviously, all the pixel art and all those amazing composers.

Sorry for rambling, and regards to grafx2, Renoise, DeliPlayer, WinUAE, and whatever else keeps some of that spirit alive still ^^
How San Francisco's Latest Gold Rush Has Transformed the City
When I click on participate, nothing happens...
It's not a slam-dunk case, just keep in mind it's very easy to measure the harm done by things like Thalidomide, but not so easy to measure the amount of people dead or maimed by not getting treatment due to the glacial pace of regulatory approval. "First, do no harm" could just as easily apply to not dragging your feet in giving someone potentially life-saving treatment.
well, sorry about that, I am a bit AFK and cannot correct the situation until I go home...
Market risk is not related to irreversible transactions, at least i don't see how.

What insurance might solve regarding bitcoin irreversible transactions and thieves is that customers of bitcoin services could have their funds reimbursed after a heist.
Am I the only one this seems completely reasonable to? There are probably people who take action over the results they get from the service and if the results are incorrect the actions could have negative impact on their health. Therefore the service should have to prove the results are accurate before advertising it as a first step in prevention.
This puzzle can't be optimised in principle. The whole network of fiat currencies and bank accounts is a web of promises, not hard money. Every transaction is another promise from one banker or person to another. And at the top of that scheme there are central banks printing new promises backed by promise to pay back with more promises. It's easy to abuse and it's done constantly in multiple ways: inflation, capital controls, withdrawal limits, censorship, haircuts, bail ins, bail outs etc.

Bitcoin will be just a place where people will exit en masse and trade in BTC completely, without relying on fragile and corrupted system that we have today.
I wonder whether a company could bypass the FDA by simply giving people their genome data, without any interpretation or diagnosis, which could be left up to people's doctors, opensource software, etc.
Owner is married to the founder of google. I think they'll be okay. :)
FDA orders 23andMe to stop marketing genetic test service.
For me, it popped open an email to them in outlook. Not exactly what I was expecting or what I wanted.. I couldn't figure out how to make my own graph...
TL;DR - He's not unknown but he's definitely an asshole.
Its one of those moments like the Korn Shell Story http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KornShellStory
The entire application is centered around recording the users while they are really using your application. Nobody really uses a tripod on their phone and I would doubt you have the best lighting when you're just searching for a song on spotify.
“What do I do now…?”
There is a level of trust needed. However, you can use this library, change the proxy url and implement the server side yourself.
I'm surprised nobody has already mentioned this (or I just missed it):

- A country means the same thing as a nation-state (for a counterexample, see the UK)

An Americanism I've often encountered in postal address forms:

- Every country has something equivalent to "states" and your "state" is a mandatory part of an address
Ugh. There are much better solutions than keeping user funds in the hot wallet (fully cold storage with manual withdrawals, multi-signature wallets), but many "reputable" businesses STILL uses them. I don't understand why. If you want to store your customers funds online, do it the right way, or don't do it at all.
>Well worth watching the videos

Oh god, more "we just accumulate more and more debt" tripe.

How about learning accounting 101; when you take on debt, what goes on the other side of the balance sheet?

The fact that people "learn" from sites like that is a crying shame.
I agree, there are six posts about Bitcoin right now on top. On one hand it is community regulated matter, but on other hand 20% of top posts is too much.
I think what people praise in mother Theresa is her dedication to the poor. I think most people aren't aware of many of her more controversial positions.

Also it's hard to still talk about "the religion" when you separate it from its scripture; there are about as many views on Christianity as there are people in the world.
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Duct tape and baling twine are essential tools for your startup
What marginal value would a union lawyer add over an individually hired lawyer here?
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Sounds useful, but it's not portable, and doesn't work on OS X. I suppose I could just switch to GNU sed, since I mostly care about interactive use, but thus far I haven't done so.
Show HN: Perfect Postcards - $2 to the US, $3 to everywhere else
Because the people running these services apparently cared more for quick money than for security. Or running their own server. I mean, who runs that kind of thing on a cheap rented server? No pity here.

They took a risk, and one don't always win when taking a risk. (You startup folks should know.)
This is why marketing drugs directly to the consumer should be illegal.
Random question: Is it correct to call it readyness or readiness and if so, why?
That example is a bit severe, but I think the Warfarin compliance example is spot-on. You receive a prescription for a drug, but your magic internet test tells you to take a lower dose, because you're "sensitive". Then you die of an aneurysm because the test was wrong.

People are completely stupid when it comes to medical issues. I heard a woman complaining that she couldn't eat honey because she was allergic to fructose. I work with at least 3 "gluten-sensitive" people (it's pretty unlikely they all have Celiac disease, it's not a big office), because it's a hip thing to do. Hell, didn't Angelina Jolie have a prophylactic double mastectomy?

edit: Since everyone is jumping on the Angelina Jolie example. I don't think her decision was made based on a single spit test. And I think she had doctors advising her. But the amount of publicity it got makes me worry that it could become needlessly popular based on self-diagnosis (like not eating gluten).
What would be wrong with a world where this app was pre-installed on every phone and allowed EMT/Doctors/Firefighters/Police to indicate as such and set a radius for alerts they would like to see (100ft/500ft/1000ft/etc)?
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It's interesting that your interpretation of "screwing you over" involves them actually stealing the money that you worked for.

In contrast, a union worker's worst case example of "screwing you over" is firing you without proper cause. That didn't even enter your mind, because that is standard operating procedure at most non-union jobs.
Stockfish is amazingly strong. It's the world's second strongest engine (after Houdini) and completely free and open source. On average modern hardware (say core i7 CPU) it's rated around 3250 ELO.

I also have HIARCS chess (rated 3190 ELO on my hardware) which is notable for its human like play, but Stockfish kills it almost every single time.
"untrusted" is the issue here, and trust is built over time. In the meanwhile you can use the library and implement the server side.
The back story is 23andMe declined a federal request for a customers DNA. This was the government backlash as a result of protecting user privacy.
Central America is a subset of North America, but its not defined particularly consistently. Mexico belongs to North America, and it may also be part of Central America, depending on which definition is used (the major difference between the most common definitions of Central America is whether or not Mexico is included.)
How far can an idea go with no marketing budget?
'Stalker economy' here to stay
> I use 23andme and I'm happy with the information provided. I know it's not reliable - it's not a lab test anyone will use to base important decisions on, since it is not a full sequence of genes.

You have unwittingly affirmed the very argument you are attempting to refute. Their inability to make accurate functional predictions from genomic data has much less to do with the technology (sequence vs. array) than it does with the fact that, isolated instances aside, nobody knows how to do this well. I am a 23andMe user myself and, knowing a bit about statistical genomics, I was surprised how credulously the results of one or two GWAS papers are presented as an almost-diagnosis on their website. GWAS are plagued by all sorts of confounding issues and the statistical evidence in favor of their conclusions is often extremely weak. This is not something that the general public appreciates, so I can see why FDA might get involved.
That's the point of the market-depth charts.

You can see the cumulative bids for the price as it moves down so you can pretty easily see what kind of loss you would take if you needed to sell a few thousand coins and it's not currently that bad.

For example, you could unload 1295 BTC without pushing the price below 760, and that's if you just dumped it all at once.
http://bitcoinity.org/markets
As part of the world's population, isn't there a high chance that the FDA contains some fraction of the "stupid" majority? Is it possible that a majority of the FDA could be labeled "stupid"?
CTRL-h doesn't behave the same as backspace on OS-X. This makes it hard to use for me. Cool idea though.
More info - there is enough demand from new investors so we don't need to get them on board, just if it makes sense..
Try "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin.

But also remember that there's no one proper way of doing these things, it's all heuristics, not laws written in stone.
I typed "I'm trying to break this thing."

I got,

> trying to break things thingng.
Still have mine , 1 Mo , deluxe paint , real 3d and Turrican 2, it was a killer machine and a lot of famous game programmers started on it. Too bad commodore screwed up.
It is not a good language indeed. It doesn't allow you to express proper abstractions or anything particularly interesting.

But it did allow you to get things done very quickly, and that's why you see that was used a lot in several industries for small things that doesn't require to be maintained a lot and still do useful things.
Would love some feedback on this! Thanks anybody for commenting =)
Yep, browser/web app is on the way.
The average drug costs around a billion dollars to bring to market and decades in development and approval. 23andme might not be a small fish by internet standards, but they are by medical industry standards.
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There are assigned blocks, but this will not do what you think it will.
> are there any other examples than Thalidomide?

A whole lot of people have died from contaminated blood transfusions: http://articles.latimes.com/1994-08-31/news/mn-33183_1_aids-...

That's another case of a medical intervention ending up doing more harm than good.
Use both, you are talking to a jury, not other computer folks.
That is a far less marketable product. Most customers couldn't interpret that data.
But transfering bitcoin is not instant and not free is it? Please correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I understood you will have to wait for your transaction to be included in a (few steps of the?) chain, and unless you pay a fee you might not get included for a while?

And is there not possible that in the future, if the amount of transaction increase as bitcoin becomes more popular, and the money you get from mining goes to zero, that transactions with fees will be the only ones accepted (at a reasonable rate)?
I love Shredder for exactly that reason. It makes a huge difference for us lower rated players! Also, there are not 100 knobs to twiddle to get the playing level dialed in. Instead, there are a few "styles" (solid, aggressive, etc) and a rating. There's also a setting for Shredder to automatically adjust its level to give a competitive game.
What if successful startups are just lucky?
It was also co-founded by Sergey Brin's former wife.
The study is here: http://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459. One of the authors archived it here, http://elucidation.free.fr/parachuteBMJ.pdf, since the British Medical Journal website is restriced-access. It actually is a pretty profound comment; I recommend it highly.

The fact that many of these idiot patents are legally strong is precisely the problem; that's why we need patent reform to kill them.
I like this idea, and I'd like to get notification when new movies become available if they fit what I like. I'd also like to mark movies I want to see which are not available yet (just came out to theaters), and have the system notify me when those movies arrive.

And finally I'd like to have groups of movies, so that I can have a group of my favorite movies, and a group of my kids' favorite movies, and not have everything mixed as amazon seems to do.
I'll probably never use this library for anything, but I've submitted a pull request that takes out their 3rd party proxy and merely suggests it in the error that is thrown if you don't define your own. https://github.com/TOMODOcom/TOMODOkorz/pull/1
A TSV is typically referred to as a "flat file". You're going to get a lot of confused looks if you talk about a "TSV database".

That said, you can:

- create an external table in an RDBMS (any of the above will work), which allows you to work on a flat file in place: http://www.fromdual.com/csv-storage-engine

- import the TSV to an RDBMS, work with it, and export it again.

I'm sure someone has written what you're asking for, but I don't get the appeal. RDBMS aren't scary, you can install MySQL and work with it for free, and if you use the GUI tool you don't even have to touch SQL.

edit: Excel is a tool that can edit TSV files, and as a bonus it looks and works exactly like Excel. What exactly do you want?
What're the pro's and con's to just using a socket?
Yes, for certain industries and positions...most especially outside of entrepreneurial hotbeds.
A true libertarian must support such a business.

I'm not sure that libertarianism is coherent enough to admit the existence of "true" adherents, but surely you mean to say that a "true libertarian" must not support the outlawing of such a business? Typical libertarians often display preferences among businesses. E.g., a libertarian might prefer Taco Bell to Panera Bread.
You don't need to have money to pay them right at the point that you need to save money the most.
Obviously there are problems with metaphors but my point is that to say the dollar is volatile in the OPs example, he needs to say that all non-Bitcoin currencies are volatile.

From the position of relative perspective that may be a valid theory, however in it's not the one best explains what is being observed.
Can you please give example of such a country? I can't think of any country with working healthcare where you are allowed to claim anything medical (or heaven forbid perform) before clearing it with the authorities.
If you believe 23andMe is a sound source for the clinical diagnosis of medical conditions, you're probably not going to read the fine print telling you otherwise.
Yes, that would be great! I'm nevyn@lookback.io, just email me or leave your details here and I'll contact you. Thanks!
As if the FDA were qualified to make such determinations.
Doesn't exactly answer your question, but here's a list of formerly approved drugs that were withdrawn due to risks to the patient (22 in the last decade).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_withdrawn_drugs
I feel like Google is missing its window of opportunity here, about one year ago there was a massive hype surrounding the Google Glass (from my perspective at least). And then nothing, a bunch of people got their hands on them and after the initial feedback, nothing.

The last time I heard about Glass was because someone got fined for driving while wearing them in California sometime last month.
That's a good point. I don't know as much as I should about the clinical trial process or the ability of terminally-ill patients with nothing to lose to seek experimental drugs. In a better world, it'd be as simple as patient and doctor both giving an informed and well-reasoned consent, knowing the risks involved but choosing to take that risk anyway.
sometimes I think/believe I've accidentally stumbled upon a Ron Paul forum.
False. Read the letter carefully. They're specifically concerned with false positives and false negatives - these are both very real possibilities - one is documented up thread.
> The bible doesn't condemn suicide(or abortion) anywhere in it directly. However, as with any good moral book, it is ambiguous.

On abortion, it's surprisingly unambiguous. Kill an unborn baby, pay a fine to the parents. That's it. It even says this immediately after saying murderers should be put to death. It's in one of the harshest parts of the bible (Leviticus, I believe), and yet abortion is only a misdemeanor.
Beware the top search results (the new Ricardian rents?)
The $9100 number skews the analysis for several reasons. First, it does include fuel, depreciation, interest, insurance, repair, maintenance, and tax - see the linked Consumer Reports article for details.

Second, $9100 is the median number, not the mean or "best price available." The article lists other cars that have numbers closer to $5000-$7000, and all the numbers are lower if you keep the car for longer than 5 years.

Finally, the article says that "Depreciation is the largest cost factor by far," and that it contributes about half of the cost of ownership. Buy a 1-2 year old car, and your cost of ownership will drop considerably.
Sure, this is a website but what the author fails to realize is that while this may work for the Hacker news crowd, it will not be affective if you are trying to target other groups. The general public likes pretty things and in most cases are willing to give up function for looks. Just look at fashion, I'm sure women wear heals because they function better than typical shoes. There's a bigger picture here.
Probably.

I think most people view their service as fun thing that comes back with results that, if revealing of a concern, would cause you to seek proper and more detailed testing from a real medical practitioner.

It's not like a physician prescribes a 23 & me writeup.
> So this isn't really a case of the gov't stomping on the little guy

Last time I checked, the US federal government had an annual funding rate of $3.45 trillion compared to "a hundred million in funding" total for 23andMe.

So yeah, government stomping on the little guy definitely fits the picture. Then again, it would fit the picture no matter who the government decided to stomp on. Perhaps we should focus on less stomping and on more cooperative behavior?
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I just don't read posts I'm not interested in. I never feel compelled to complain that others are interested.
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Yes, theoretically my employer could slander me. They could also just move from slander straight to murder, I suppose. So I guess I was wrong about what the worst case scenario was.

Incidentally, in the US the deck is stacked so far towards employees that even if I was grossly negligent, the employer is unlikely to say anything other than "he worked here from $START_DATE to $END_DATE."
Greebs is easier to use and clean, doesn't get warm, and is designed to fit any bottle perfectly. Plus, using a socket means you don't have that socket to use anymore! Most importantly, Greebs is going to make a whole line of smoking pieces where this piece is removable and interchangeable, which is going to be awesome.
Howdy,

If you'd like to play with hGraph check out a tool we made during development.

http://hscoremixer.org/

We created this tool for physicians to give us feedback on the engine that drives hGraph. You can define what is considered "healthy" and rank each metric's importance in your overall health.

Put in your numbers and see how healthy you are.

Eric
Possibly somewhere that takes into account the significant advances in laboratory science since the 18th century?
Couldn't the same argument be applied to WebMD's symptom checker ?
Great going, rejected from YC, 100 is now featured on lifehacker
> I think most people view their service as fun thing that comes back with results that, if revealing of a concern

Take this thought, and replace "some people" with "my mom" and see if it still results in the same conclusion.
Users are not going to have lights, or stand in correct place for lights. So you would see awesome clean well lit video in their examples, and horrible dark noisy video from your users. Might feel like there was a disconnect. Better to get a realistic example in my opinion.
Wait wait wait...so it effectively memory maps all the things?

Mainframe environments are weird.
The most common sort of cease and desist letters we tech people are accustomed to are DMCA and patent-related. These letters are typically meant as precursors to private litigation. They are often sent out with commercial considerations in mind, and so tend to be light on details in order to be more threatening.

The FDA is a regulatory agency, which implies that their mission is less about intimidation and more about protecting the public good. Hence the more open tone, I suspect.
> the "socialist left" is far more intrusive in our lives than the "christian right"

Is it? As far as I can see, the "socialist left" in the US is utterly powerless and negligible. Even the "christian left" has more impact.