skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drifting from the topic, but I never understood this urgent need for so much inheritance when doing OO, especially when using languages that don't natively have it, like C and JavaScript.

I really like OO programming (i.e. I'm particularly not one of the functional-fundamentalist OO-haters here on HN), but as I've grown more experienced, I've started to use inheritance less and less, and composition more and more. This is trivially supported in C structs, and you don't need any fancy approach for it, plus you can do with way less void pointer casting, which means less runtime errors.

Inheritance is very useful for a small set of relatively complex problems, such as language parsing or UI frameworks or particle simulations. For many other problems, including most applications (as opposed to libraries), however, my experience is that you can do fine without. This holds especially these days, when many of said complex problems are solved in excellent freely available open source projects, in nearly any language.
What the hell does 'le sigh' mean?
iSCSI san, so attached via ethernet or similar, taking network devices offline would take san offline. The rest is pure magic.
Yes, but Google could still collect ad revenue on non-tracked users, they would just be restricted to the same kind of ads they use to target non-logged-in browsers. Obviously the ads within Gmail would be worthless on an untracked user - nix those. But the ads on the Google search pages? On sites that host AdSense (or whatever they call it now)? They would still have tremendous value.

I do wonder if this wouldn't break Google Now though.
Huh. Could someone point out how this is different from Coin? On first flush it seems like it will have an easier roll out time, but I can see how privacy conscious people will be wary of it.

Edit- and I mean different from Coin in a use case kind of way. I realize that Coin does stuff with the magnetic strip directly whereas this is just another card that is linked on the net to all of your other cards.
In summary
- banks' liabilities to you (your deposits) are backed by assets. One of these is cash, but this doesn't earn the bank any return. Banks therefore prefer to hold much larger quantities of interest-earning assets like loans made to other parties, or government bonds (these are assets to a bank because they are promises by third parties to pay the bank money in the long term).

- For the same reasons as the payment clearing system is "netted-out" at the end of the day, the balancing of these banks' assets and liabilities is netted-out at the end of the day. If the risk-weighted assets of one bank doesn't match its liabilities - particularly if it doesn't have enough cash - it needs to borrow from another bank. If a bank has too much non-interest earning cash at the end of the day, on the other hand it will prefer to earn a low risk return by lending to another bank. This is the "base interest rate" we're talking about; the minimum amount of return a bank expects from making a very safe loan.

- Banks could earn a similarly low-risk and low-return by buying government bonds with their spare cash instead, so the interbank lending rate is closely linked to bond prices. The Fed, ECB or Bank of England can take advantage of this by buying and selling government bonds to keep the interbank lending rate at a target level.

- Why would they want to do this? Because the interbank lending rate (and bond prices) affects the rates for all other types of lending that banks do (the interbank lending rate plus a usually relatively large risk premium, plus a bit on top for profit).

- Why would they care so much about the price of lending? Because as the banking system's balance between assets and liabilities is only required to be eventually consistent, banks are given the right to create loans that far exceed the cash (and other banks' liabilities) previously deposited with them, provided they can borrow the funds at the end of the day. And because this credit creation is legal - and essential to financial markets' efficient operation - the only way the government can influence the total quantity of money circulating in the economy is by manipulating the minimum price of credit. As the total amount of credit created by the banking system far exceeds the amount of cash created by the central bank, the economy is very sensitive to the effect of small interest rate changes on demand for credit.
It is good to know of real-world misdiagnoses made via 23andMe.

Now, can we see some real-world statistics by the government-licensed medical profession? I wonder what a side-by-side analysis of the errors 23andMe has made vs. those the medical community has made might look like. I wonder how the real-life consequences might stack up.

As far as I know, 23andMe has never accidentally amputated the wrong limb, so it's at least go that going for it.

Interesting tidbit: you can always double-check the reports 23andMe gives to you by getting followup tests someplace else.
I think the banks are pretty focused on offering competitive products that are packaged together neatly to avoid putting too much of burden on consumers (what's the diff between choosing a bank or choosing a private transaction-insurance service?).

I'm paranoid of investment banks but I think plain old banks are benign. You put a certain amount of money in your account and they handle all this for you. There is usually no charge for checking. Credit cards don't charge interest unless you go into debt, etc.

I don't think lack of competition is so much an issue, it seems that the Bitcoin movement just has a fundamental distrust of govt/corporations. I think if Bitcoin money didn't magically appreciate in value so much it wouldn't be much cheaper than banking except for big international money transfers.
I read the first 2 sentences and decided it was little more than liberal propaganda bullshit.
I think many of the commenters here are fans of 23AM, and are hoping they get their regulatory shit together so they can provide an even more valuable and validated service.
It's also illegal to discriminate due to age, gender, race, sexuality and disability, but it still happens all the time.
That only accounts for a small fraction of the inefficient bloat of Big Banks
> I am firm believer is Eugenics

Eugenics means requiring inferior people to not reproduce. There are some problems implementing this requirement. Do you mean something else?
NY AG Schneiderman says nuclear regulators are downplaying waste-storage risk
AT&T and DMV does worse to me and i'm not even rich.
Note: I am firm believer is[sic] Eugenics, so I might be a bit biased.

You might want to explain that a bit further, before you get associated with the tragic events of the early 20th century and downvoted into oblivion.
>verify the presence of a disease before beginning treatment

Right, but there is a cost for that. If you have a disease that isn't causing any symptoms, do you treat it, even though it will probably never cause symptoms? There is a risk in all treatments, some more than others. There is a study that most prostate cancers don't show symptoms, ever and our super sensitive cancer diagnostics tests are causing more harm than good. More diagnostics does not mean more good.

See my comment here for more info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6795783
Petition to overrule the FDA's decision to ban 23andMe
Yeah, all doctors, as humans, and systems, as machines, make mistakes. What counts is statistics, and negligence. Are stats about this test/doctor worryingly bad compared to the average? Are the mistakes caused by negligence? If not, I'll happily use that doctor/service again.

I have far more problems with the growing perceived need to have employers triple-check everything they say, teachers avoid honest critiques and distrust any new technology that kills N people when the old one killed 10N (re: Tesla fires).
Quoting from the Cloudflare article[1]:

Red October is based on combinatorial techniques and trusted cryptographic primitives. We investigated using complicated secret primitives like Shamir's sharing scheme, but we found that a simpler combinatorial approach based on primitives from Go's standard library was preferable to implementing a mathematical algorithm from scratch.

Which seems like a reasonable choice for smallish numbers of keys/sharers, especially given the data they're encrypting isn't exactly huge.

Are there good libraries (for any language) implementing shared secrets?

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/red-october-cloudflares-open-sou...
Yes. CC companies are their own silo. Google aggregates data across multiple sources, and you can be certain that you'll start seeing ads related to purchases you've already made in meatspace.
Well said.

Finding the balance is a struggle for me. Is increased risk of dementia and other disorders when I'm older worth it for me to continue mountain biking while I'm still young? I don't know. What risks are worth taking?
I think whether it's exclusive is a very large part of the point.
Or switch to StartPage (https://startpage.com/), a good DuckDuckGo alternative.
Performance Tuning On Android
1. resign your board seat...
Keeping Elasticsearch in Sync
hah i suggested this a few posts ago & people got pissed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6783710

granted, i don't present these things very tactfully
Steady income (as an ASCI manufacturer) vs a gamble (as the consumer).

Do you want to be the punter or the house?
Generic collections in Go
Yes, that's the one. Thank you! I'm bookmarking it right now.
is arstechnica re-publishing all the osnews.com pieces? i've seen a bunch of os/2 history, comodore history, etc on the HN frontpage recently...
Turns out you weren't speechless.
No, the (necessary) risk you take is that you find out true information that you didn't want to know. The risk that you shouldn't have to take is that the testing company sends you BS results.
If your iSCSI network traffic can be impacted by an Internet-based DDoS, your network architect is an idiot.
I have an idea, how about we delegate the job of data collecting to those who 1) have the resources to easily segregate their TV traffic from the rest of their network, or 2) don't have any problems publicizing their non-relevant traffic (because it doesn't contain anything sensitive).
How many innocent lives the banning of CT scans would kill?
My position is that the FDA should have better things to do with its limited budget that never seems enough to keep up with the drug and treatment approval process than to go after innovative companies like 23AM.
China's most-wanted TianAnMen dissident offers to turn himself in. (bilingual)
Good old 3imp might be interesting to you, http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/papers/3imp.pdf

Dybvig himself, you might recognize him as the author of the Scheme specification.
No, you stop advocating that the rights of innocents are violated for the sake of cases where there is evidence of fraud. Instead, advocate that cases of fraud are actually followed up on. Be an upstanding citizen, not part of the ignorant mob.
You mentioned OLTP. Erlang's Mnesia store comes to mind, but as far as I'm aware it's limited to a 4GB data set. I'm not sure if that qualifies as a main-memory db, but it might be similar.
I'm told this is why doctors don't typically go on "fishing expeditions". They could order an array of tests every time you go for a checkup. But given the false positive rate combined with only vague symptoms (eg. occasional headache, stomach ache, joint pain), which could be almost anything - it's frowned on to go looking unless there are very specific symptoms or large degrees of discomfort/pain.

Of course in a health system where every check and scan can involve large amounts of profit...
I think I should set up wireshark on my network asap. I never used my TV's "smart" features, and the only reason I even have it connected to the network is for its youtube app (because building a youtube app for roku apparently takes longer than building a rocket that can land itself...)

Also, I'm fairly sure my roku is sniffing my netflix usage as well: I recently started seeing ads on the roku start page for TV shows and movies that I'd just watched on netflix: has anyone else seen this behavior?
Is this USA only? None of my European devices are eligible through the Play Store for an install.
Isn't the lesson here not to rely on any one source of diagnosis?

There have always been differing medical opinions, so allowing patients to cheaply sample many in order to rapidly get to the end is better than having a one off rarely in practise used test because it's prohibitively expensive.

The FDA are simply enforcing the medical industry monopoly on diagnosis. You can expect any potentially disruptive effort along these lines to also mysteriously fail to ever be approved.
Hopefully this explains some of it: http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/

There's a lot of history that gave kimble his stigma.
That brings back some memories. I remember saying a lot of silly things on comp.sys.amiga :-). For me the most interesting was the whole "whole machine games" debate where I found myself alternating sides. The question was could a multi-tasking machine run a quality video game and at the same time provide a credible 'computer' user experience. This came up on the Amiga because you could sometimes 'pull down' the screen with the game on it, and often get to the Desktop on the screen behind it.

People argued long into the night that the only way to get decent games was to run 'on the metal' and the other side claimed it could be done while behaving nicely. These days the question is moot of course[1]. But that you could have the debate was wonderful back in 1986 and it didn't surface on the PC until easily 10 years later.

[1] These days of course you can run full up command and conquer in a VM running Win98 if you want with DirectX 8 as an example, while running a nice Linux desktop.
yep, sounded like they shared switches between public and iscsi lans, or worse.
It is impossible to read 23AM's current website and not come away with an impression of the tool's clinical ambitions. I strongly buy into the idea that everyone working on the product is doing so with the best intentions and I'm thrilled to be living in a time when products like it are available at its price point. But their marketing is incautious and might need to be tuned up.
Guess what: this page is the one that made me look at what you do, and realize that I will probably use your services.
It's deplorable that so many stole from her. But as to the title, it's even sadder how poor people were systematically stolen from, historically and I'm sure currently to some degree.
Sorry I did not mean to be snide, I thought smtddr was setting up the joke and relying on someone to hit the punchline. I also thought the "people like me" was part of the joke implying "identity theives like I am pretending to be".

Edit: I should also mention why I did not take his request seriously. Now that all Ethernet networks use switches and not hubs you will only see traffic involving your desktop. The exception being a laptop connected to the same wifi as the TV provided said wifi is unencrypted.

Thus in the common case if you ask a random person to log their network they will only log their own computer's traffic.
You can filter your traffic with a few clicks for a specific stream/connection/device.
lol @ the example they used: "Midget_porn_2013.avi".
Nobody is arguing that it should be "shut down"; even the FDA doesn't appear to be doing that, and is demanding that they cease marketing only after years of effort trying to alter the product's marketing message.
While true, CC companies sell our data to other aggregators. So it's just adding in profit to a middleman while google is doing it themselves.
Nasdaq tops 4,000 for first time in 13 years
Only if the ban didn't kill more people than it saved, which it likely would.
I meant large in terms of people. It's hard to keep tabs of remote areas, but even harder to keep track of large groups of folks. This is why China's the best example.
Good luck proving that was the reason, though. How are you going to refute "he bombed the technical interview so we moved onto another candidate"?
I stand corrected. I wonder how the past 20 years have looked. (Not trying to be a smartass, interested in the #s)
That is funny because my limited experience with Python, on-off over the years, it was impressed upon me many, many times composition is superior to inheritance, and the language even has both built-in.

And yes, for all the pointy-hairs around, I know there are exceptions to the rule. I am speaking generally.
Yes, considering that CC companies have that information by the nature of the service they provide to you, their customer. On the other hand, Google seems to be expanding into more services to hungrily learn more about you and then provide than information to their real customers, the advertisers.

Edit: I should mention that I know that credit card companies sell data to third parties. But they don't exist only for that purpose, like Google nowadays. Thus, people are understandably less comfortable with Google knowing things.
anigbrowl's comment argued that correlations were bad, and did not mention whether useful ones were possible. Blame them for bringing up political correctness, not crusso.
I'd agree except for the part where she wasn't getting the care she deserved, and she clearly spent a large part of her old age alone without friends. You can't blame the second part on wealth but at least the care home should honour their contract. That was mostly what got me in this article.
Good luck. Making hardware in general, and silicon specifically, is a clusterfuck compared to the software world HN readers likely expect.

Know how a good undergraduate CS degree involves writing hundreds of fully functioning programs? A great graduate EE degree might involve one single functioning piece of silicon.

Know how we bitch about compile time in the minutes or, god forbid, hours? Turnaround time on silicon is weeks at the minimum.
> There are some problems implementing this requirement.

Diplomacy score of 100
Just because it was legal doesn't make it moral.
Dropped politics, picked up a good office chair.
Here is Paul Mooney's (famous reporter, recently banned in China) article in English, about Wuerkaixi flying to HongKong, to turn himself in.

He is accompanied by Albert Ho, the HK lawyer who assisted NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

https://www.facebook.com/mooneychina/posts/423190837807287
This Cryptic Internet Scavenger Hunt Has Baffled Cyber Experts For Two Years
I realized that I could just floss in the shower to save myself time. Now it feels weird if I don't.
I'm mystified by 'blame the victim' tone of your comment.

Does any old lady deserve to be taken advantage by scumbag lawyers or accounts?
LMGTFY: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=le+sigh
There's a moral argument to be made here. By the moral argument, pre-existing conditions, especially those not associated with voluntary behaviors like smoking, shouldn't affect insurance premiums because it unfairly penalizes a person for things beyond their control.

The point of insurance from the consumer's perspective is to mitigate the risks borne by any individual for black swan medical events, not to provide another reason for the already healthy to feel superior and contribute even less money to the collective insurance pool.

Unlike many health conditions, poor driving is something the driver can change, either through conscious choice or through additional driver training.
A day in the life of a stackoverflow moderator...
You are right, peoples who spend money believing them needs to know what happened to their money. Founder says he learn a lot from this project, but peoples didn't fund this project for his Entrepreneur education, they spend it for the product they told will be available one day. I don't think its that difficult to launch the App they planned with that long time period they took (1 and half year)
The ACA applies a partial community rating that requires insurers to offer the same premium to all applicants of the same age and geographical location without regard to gender and most pre-existing conditions.
attempting to be helpful: it should be 'as correctly as I can' because 'correct' is an adjective and not an adverb ('*I type correct' is not grammatical, 'I type correctly' and 'My typing is correct' are both grammatical).
also, it should be 'teenage child' not 'teenager child' because teenager is a noun, not an adjective (you can also say just 'My teenager follows my path').

Apologies if you did not want corrections.
Huh? A lot of the negatives they inform you about aren't really actionable (they are in your genome, after all), but if they were, 23 and me isn't a doctor; you would still go see a real one to receive any treatment.
And now you're starting to get it.
I felt the same way about Aaron Swartz. Or Jobs after his death. Or commentary on Samsung v. Apple. Or random SF news. Or random NSA commentary.
I agree that it has to be clearly reported and explained.

But, you know, there are in-home HIV tests that are FDA-approved. They tend to stress professional counseling and/or follow-up testing, etc. They also explain such somewhat-technical details as the window between infection and antibody formation, so it's an education process there as well. But, I think the availability of such a test is testament to the fact that easier access to important knowledge re: one's status may be worth the risks.
> Another sore point was the Medicare agency’s decision to use database software, from a company called MarkLogic, that managed the data differently from systems by companies like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle.

I wonder where this requirement came from. Were there specific reasons, such as an analysis that this particular technology was most appropriate to the task? Or something involving vendor favoritism?
especially since in these languages, periods are usually followed by a continuation in the idea.
That was my takeaway as well.

China looks like a fantastic country to live if you're a talented engineer.

(Obviously, you might not make as much money, but what could you pioneer with the agility you'd have?)
Off (too low) by one order of magnitude in our case (as far as the income is concerned) ... Note that the title here says "income" while the website says "value of a website".
I usually get irritated at unnecessary references to a person's size, but I think the closer made it all worth it.
When Steve Jobs passed, the entire home page was related articles.
Surely they can make use of the heat output at least?
This one doesn't seem to be linked to your other cards, just your Google Wallet balance, which can possibly deduct money from a linked card?

In any case, big whoop.
"fairly frequently" is still, in this context, within the general margin of error for any statistically sound sample size.

Yes, people disagree with their doctors, and yes, sometimes those doctors are wrong, but by and large, the number of people with multiple doctors in agreement, where that agreement is still wrong, are statistical outliers.

Further, and maybe it's just me here, I've learned a lot in this thread already, and I'm not an expert on the subject, but I just fail to see how the idea that I have a higher predisposition to cancer than the statistical norm, even if that information might be wrong, can be harmful.

I mean, I understand the objective, and the idea of preventing the sale of snake oil is one that I see as vlid in this context, but this isn't that. 23andMe doesn't make any curative claims whatsoever, as much as to announce that "hey, there might be snakes." They're far more scientifically sound than a mood ring, but even if they aren't, I just don't personally see the harm in that.
We know not one iota of what there is to know about the genome. Any report they create contains trillions of false negatives; that is the nature of genome research in its current state.
I dont like the air quality round here, but I still breathe.