skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say the entire proceeds are going to patient care - but the gift package includes a $25 gift cert. What happens to the other $25?
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"If we keep closing our retail store every time there's a riot inside of it, we'll never have any customers."

No, you shut the thing down, you post a page that explains what is going on and what you're doing about it, then you open again when it's clear.
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ddos can run over a rather long period of time and come and go fairly quick. cutting the internet connection just is no viable solution for an online service.
Supply and demand is a economic model that exists in ALL economies that have finite resources and free exchange. The only ways to overcome supply and demand in the long run (as even the law of gravity can be overcome in the short run), is to either limit free exchange by force or have access to unlimited resources.
I got the same thing copying plain text from a word document.
Simple iOS Sprite Kit Game Tutorial
> If the risk of something worse justifies investigation, then it's better to know from the CT scan so that you can have it properly investigated. If there's no such risk, then no problem.

But the "risk" only exists because of the CT scan, which is returning junk data.

Because a doctor has seen the junk scan, has seen the shadows on the junk scan, they now have to recommend follow up scans to rule out any disease. That subjects the patient to risk - hospitals are not safe places to be in. (Hospital acquired infections kill many people! Clinician errors kill many people! Traffic accidents getting to hospital kill many people!) Just being worried about the tests is going to cause a deterioration in most people's lives. And there's zero benefit for almost all of those people.

Early intervention is not always better.
Move over Heroku...there's a new host in town
Why is the countdown stuck at T-00:13:00? Shouldn't it be counting down?

Edit: Nvm, saw the overlay saying they're on a hold.
There have been studies. Here's one of them:

http://www.bu.edu/law/faculty/scholarship/workingpapers/Bess...

As for consensus...I don't need consensus to know what's ethical. I've been working in software all of my professional life. Software patents are a disaster for innovation.
Who decides the addresses to add here? What if a government demands the assets of a political dissident be frozen?
"Education is a series of small lies." - my intro to computer engineering professor upon telling us that some gates are ternary

I don't see any other way to teach ideas than to start simple, help provide intuition for the basic concepts, and build from there.
- I like your icon.

- Maybe change the tint color of your app to match the orange from the icon and screenshot backgrounds.

- I would get rid of the status bar in the first screenshot.

- I would change "If you're a woman, living in London, in your 20s or 30s" to just "If you're a Londoner with too many dresses"

- Is the designer description provided by the user, or automatically generated by the app? This would be a cool feature.

- The font of the item and designer description doesn't go well with the look of the rest of the app.

Great first app!
I bought my first PC from that Softwarehouse in the late 80's. Man, I so loved that store.
> ...eugenics, as a theory, is perfectly harmless, until such time as one begins imposing eugenic criteria for others.

Which becomes nigh-inevitable once eugenic theories are readmitted to the discourse, because once you postulate that individual reproductive behavior has a detrimental effect on society as a whole, it becomes a public health matter. As is trivially obvious from the history of the century just past, that particular slope is very steep and very slippery, and it leads into a crevasse whose contents are horrifying indeed.
It may not succeed, or may not succeed well, but yes, this stuff is dangerous and we are afraid of it to the extent that we want an agency to protect us.

It may not work, but we want an agency to protect us.

Lots of people make similar comments regarding the TSA.
Heavy stuff.

Here's an example of P&G fessing to spying on a competitor when it learned about what the subcontractor was doing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/07/business/p-g-said-to-agree...
Yeah, I was more stating what I think should be the norm (copyright is opt-in, not opt-out). Under the current system, this is clearly copyright violation... but why is it the first thing that comes to mind to build a defense ? How come there is a process for rapidly defending your copyrights, and not something similar for your private life ?

Of course I know the answers. I'm just sad about that.
It like the Alaska and California gold rush. There was a lot of gold mined, but very few of the minners struck it rich, many got some gold. but the people that made the real money were the support as every miner has to eat, and needs a new pick or shovel every so often. the silicon makers are just this economic rush's green grocers and shovel salesmen.
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This must be the part of the day where the moderators aren't closing useful questions due to subjectivity.

I really wish they could just have a "subjective" flag and let users filter out those posts as they see fit. Some of the closed-subjective material is quite useful, as it contains the hows and whys behind developers choosing a framework or widget or technical solution over another.
Thanks - that seems to be the best bet so far - will decide between the T530 and W530 once I can compare the GPUs.
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It would be difficult to measure the context. I discovered that most users(not all) who delete are those who fear -ve votes which in turn effects reputation points i.e. there'd be a higher probability of an author deleting a question if the question has attracted some -ve votes.
Presumably someone who graduates from Stanford or MIT in CS will be preferred over someone graduating from Princeton or Yale in CS (Personally Indiana or NEU would be my first choices).
A good question to be asking. I agree with this sentiment:

> Every time a company loses somebody else's bitcoins, the main assumption should be that it was an inside job. It's way too easy for a company to take the money and say that they were hacked.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rexob/bitcoin_paym...
I see arguing against the test because of possible discriminatory uses as an argument of political correctness. Maybe we have different definitions.
That's not true. The FDA position is unchanged.

They have been in talks since 2009 to help 23andme understand what they need to file, and how to do it. 23andme has (repeatedly, it sounds like) failed to do that.

This notice is a standard corrective action taken by the FDA after failure to complete 510(k) submissions.
> Eugenics means requiring inferior people to not reproduce

Not necessarily. Saying "you have the BRCA gene... here, have some free birth control pills" would be a eugenic policy, but it's not forcing anything on anyone. The same goes for PGD: It allows parents to have children who lack a "bad gene" and thereby improves the genetic health of the population, but it's not compulsory.
it is, on the face of it, a weird thing to say.

given english is his second language, I think it is possible he meant one of two things:

(1) he does not think the question will be helpful to other users

(2) he is embarrassed about having his name attached to it.

my money is on (1), although it still seems mildly weird to me.
The raw material is worthless. It's the processing that is expensive.
(please note I'm not excusing LG just trying to parse the double speak)

So in FCC land cable operators know what you watch, their box is tuning to it and they're able to log this information for diagnostic purposes. They're also allowed to share some of this information as long as its not personally identifiable information. IE "2000 people viewed CSI NY" not
J. Rockway from 123 Main St. viewed CSI NY".

They're trying to make the distinction here (though doing in poorly) likely to save themselves some privacy complaints later.
> Dotcom built Mega so it was technically impossible for anyone, including the site’s operators, to know what content users had stored. It means one result of the FBI’s action is the creation of a rogue website which exists outside the intrusive surveillance technology exposed by Snowden.

Are these claims accurate?
Why would this be a legal issue at all? Can't I do what I want to the software on my own machine and with my own network connection, so long as I abide by the software license terms and the contract with my ISP?

Certainly I can't be compelled to accept whatever unwanted packets someone throws at me just because that someone based their business model on the practice, right?
There are some large studies that suggest, counter-intuitive as it may seem, that not drinking alcohol at all seems to have negative side effects on health. It could be down to badly chosen sample populations or ineffective weighting for existing conditions, socioeconomic groups or race, but there is some support for a theory that some units of some forms of alcohol might have positive effects on some groups of humans. And the 0.5 cigarettes a day seems to be a threshold, albeit perhaps too high.

I'm more alarmed by the way the score drops if you weigh less than 258 lbs... especially with a 32.5 inch waistline.

Edit: there are some neat sliders on that page you can move the "optimum" values and green ranges for acceptable scores on the graphs on the left hand side to develop a saner scoring system.
That's a very interesting philosophical question, how to judge historical figures accurately in terms of morality/ethics. My own position on the matter is that standards tend to evolve over time, so when seeking to evaluate someone, you need to take that into account.

If you just go by the Golden Rule standard of ethics, W. A. Clark was far more worthy than many of his rivals of his success. Politics, by its very nature, introduces a great number of potential moral pitfalls and there aren't always good and effective approaches to evading them.
The author is Philip Greenspun. His outlook on life is really dark.

He made some money in the 90's and since then seems to have spent a lot of time thinking about the problems of the rich. I once saw a talk he gave at Google, the upshot of which was that once you're rich there's almost nothing worth doing.
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But that same argument argues to allow harmonization with similar standards. If I wanted to buy, say, a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Scirocco, and have it shipped to the US to drive why shouldn't I be able to. It passes the stringent Euro standards, is based on the same platform as several US-sanctioned vehicles, and uses the same powerplants.
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eh cuz its just too good to be true. why not sneak out a few $700 now and then just in case tomorrow its worthless? keep enough for a large fortune but just take like 100 coins out every year. that would be what now, $70k/year? Just for selling off something that 2 years ago was worthless and in 2 years may be worthless? At a certain point you gotta just take the money & run.
Regardless of whether physicians are skilled or not at helping their patients interpret the results of a proprietary test, the point I was making is that if the test produces an unacceptably high number of false positives then this would result in an unnecessary increase in the number of times physicians have to actually have those conversations.

If physicians are forced to waste huge amounts of time and effort to console an influx of patients who have been wrongly told they have some terrible disease, this is going to reduce the amount of time they have available to work with patients with actual terrible diseases.

If other medical device/diagnostic makers have to comply with the law, so should 23andme.
I'm going through it now. It's a fascinating account, to be sure.
There's a valve on the first stage that they're concerned about (looking at a "signature" problem, whatever that means). They think they can resolve their concerns and still make the launch window (which is a little over an hour long).

Clock is running again now. Delay of roughly 20 mins to 22:55 UTC launch.

Edit: so they counted down to T-6min then stopped and reset again to T-13mins due to a first stage internal power problem. They're waiting on trajectory coordination before trying a third time today.

Edit 2: and they've aborted again at T-3:40 due to what looks like a LOX problem. That'll be it for today; the launch window has elapsed.
Are there any reports on other LG devices such as bluray players?
Rather obviously if you believe, correct or not, that someone is stealing your properly, you're not going to seek out districts infested with liberals who believe that property is theft. They're also more likely to respect the rule of law embodied in our Constitution, which of course has an intellectual property clause.

As for "largely non-technological", at this level I think pretty much every district is going to be the same, especially after each side rejects any domain experts or thereabouts that might be in the pool.
The cost of the products & shipping, at a guess. The profit of each $50 box is $25, which is donated to Watsi.
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That's exactly right. There is, at this time, no such thing as "medical genomic information", of the sort which 23andme purports to provide. There is a great deal of data, but that's not the same thing, and distilling that into information is an entire field of study -- complex, subtle, enormously recondite, and extremely refractory to the layman.
Go vs Ruby vs Expressjs.
I'm building an API. Is it worth learning something new or should I just stick with Ruby?
Adobe says breach notification taking longer than anticipated
I love 23andme. I don't make major medical decisions based on it (yet), and I know it has limitations (it didn't predict the pancreatic cancer that killed my dad, and it didn't find indicators for a number of other conditions in my family tree...). But, it's a fun thing to play with, it has connected me up with a number of folks in my family tree that I didn't know about, and it resolved some questions about the ancestry of my family. I'm an American mutt from poor white trash stock...no idea where everybody came from until 23andme. My sister had tried to do a family tree but ran out of steam just a couple of generations back.

Anyway, it's probably good they're being reined in from making medical claims. I don't think the tech is quite there yet. But, as a tool alongside many others, it's cool. And, I love that they're doing original research with their surveys...it's a super cool idea to combine lots of crowdsourced data and DNA results of thousands of people to find markers for diseases and traits.

I plan to keep recommending 23andme to folks who can afford it and folks who can grasp that a DNA test isn't a reliable indicator of disease and that it is merely a probability indicator.
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1295 stolen, sounds like a lot - does that figure count as actual bitcoin transactions?
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Original author here - I work at tech.pro and decided to syndicate it across to the site (it even references it down the bottom of the article!).
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Linked post is from November 19, 2013.
> In any case, the only hurdle to selling should be "does it do harm?", and "does it work as advertised?" can be determined later, if and only if there is any doubt among the consumers.

Laws don't operate under the principle of what should be, they are past agreements hammered out by negotiation, not logic. You don't get to say what the hurdle "should" be, that's already been agreed upon and set and it's unlikely to change because a few don't like it.

> Elsewhere in consumerland, the product is sold, and independent testing is performed on off-the-shelf samples. If a problem is found, a recall may occur.

Sometimes, sometimes not, it entirely depends on the law in those areas. Recalls don't help people who are dying from bad medication, the FDA's role is preventative, not reactionary.

> If the FDA did not apply prior restraint

That's their job, it's why they exist.

> and tested products already available to the consumer,

Then they'd be useless.

> it could regulate the usage of the phrase "FDA-approved" and make perfectly safe everyone who buys only the medicines bearing that approval for the purposes which have been tested.

Sorry, but their job is to protect people who don't have the information/brains to protect themselves, which in the field of medicine is practically everyone. This solution is simply a libertarian fantasy that has no chance of working in the real world. As the other poster said, see homoeopathy as an example, consumers aren't smart enough to not kill themselves with idiocy, even the rich ones like Steve Jobs.
The irony ... http://googlesupport.com
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Yeah but you didn't learn everything you know from poorly written PHP tutorial websites and W3Schools. The words "Key-Derivation Function" are nowhere to be found in the lexicon of these people.
FDA orders personal genetics company 23andMe to stop selling tests
"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college." --Kurt Vonnegut
> You're not going to socialize in the same circles and thus your referral network will be tiny.

I don't think white nerdy males from top schools (like MIT) socialize much in rich VC circles either.
Or any agency. A mother state isn't wrong. It doesn't do things without some merit for some people. It's just that the hand holding is frustrating to the more independent of us (including me) who would rather take risks and be freer.
The other $25 goes to pay the wholesale price of the desserts (normally $50, but Goldbely is providing them at cost to support patients on Watsi) and Watsi/Goldbely are covering the cost of the card and shipping.
I went ahead and made this[1]. The implementation is a little different from the way you do it, and it uses jQuery to create the events, but it supports sequences of click events using jQuery selectors like in my original comment, other events could be added without much effort.

The implementation is not at all as neat as the original, and i haven't done thorough testing, i just had an idea and tried it out.

[1] https://github.com/jonlt/cheet.js
Even if you're working on the same block, it's never the same work for the processor, the timestamp, order of transactions, number of transactions, and the coinbase all make the work unique.
Here's their security page: https://bips.me/security -- "industry-leading security" .. "BIPS ... does not store bitcoin on its servers".

Is it time for a PCI-like consortium that will validate your bitcoin storage security procedures? (Not that PCI is guarantee of anything, but at least following it prevents you from having full credit card data lying around in files).

I.e. analyze your fail-safes (which seem to be lacking) and validate that unless someone is holding a gun to the owner's head, that your 1000 bitcoins held for you in their "vault" cannot be sent off to a random address.
Can you explain the shipping process for "Frrrozen Hot Chocolate"?
That hardly qualifies as a 'diatribe.' Also, no need to get so defensive, their comments against the Mail weren't directed at you personally. While I'm offering advice, thicker skin is helpful when on the interwebs.
Is the donation certificate a receipt for tax purposes?
(I'm just buying this for myself, those marshmallows look unbelievable. Great advertising for goldbely!)
ack! I seem to have yet again made a fool of myself.
AdSense ---> ?

Analytics ---> ?

Any suggestions here?
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Since Satoshi's identity is unknown, it could be a female. Mike Hearn refers to Satoshi as a "he", and he would be most likely to know...but I don't know that Mike ever spoke to Satoshi in any form other than online, so he may not know Satoshi's preferred gender pronoun, either.
Your analogy is wrong. A riot inside your store would be a compromised server. What you want to do is to close your store every time someone who looks like a burglar walks by, in front of your store. After no time the competing store on the other side of the street will hire an actor to walk by your store and shut you down just with walking in front of your store.

It's super easy for every competitor to get you out of business forever if you just shut down. DDoS is not like something especially hard or expensive to set up (depending on your service of course), but again, shutting down is not an option as a standard countermeasure.
Ask HN: The 'I' in my company's name looks like a lowercase 'l' in sans-serif
Which is your preferred capitalization given the conundrum?

WeSawIt (as incorporated)
WESAWIT
wesawit
Wesawit
weSAWit
we-saw-it
WE-SAW-IT
We Saw It

Our logo is all lowercase (as seen on wesawit.com), but in sans-serif the form "WeSawIt" looks like "We Sawlt". Any opinion is much appreciated.
1295 bitcoin stolen with a value of x dollar. See, they didn't care about the bitcoin they cared about the dollars behind it. As long as a bitcoin its value is measured in dollars and accepting bitcoin is merely done because it is at a high dollar rate, how can this possibly be a viable alternative currency? Apart from the whole fluctuation on steroids, bitcoin is nothing more than a wrapper for American dollars.

Because, at the end of the day, you have to pay for your groceries and mortgage in dollars. B-but muh Subway sandwich
That's a great question. It isn't. But if you email daniel at watsi.org we'll send you a tax-deductible receipt for the $25 donation.

Thanks for buying :)
Stack Overflow isn't meant to be a special site where everybody is welcome. Joel Spolsky gave a talk[1] about how the most important function of their home page is its ability to drive much of the traffic away.

You may not agree, but in the eyes of most StackOverflow members, a user who posts "I will change my name to Allah Akbar if you revert my question" is generally considered a negative for the community. It is a feature, not a bug, that people like this are driven away.

Also, you seem to really be twisting the facts when you claim the user wants to delete it because they thought it was a dumb question. I'm not sure if you didn't read the logs, but they cited their primary concern as "ok i got my answers, we can delete this post now, i am not helping google users.".

http://vimeo.com/68200924
I managed to hit 160. The reason 240 is the max score is that you only have enough time to get a maximum of 3 drops (2 is more likely) so you have to aim for the 80 with all 3 drops.
How great does this disparity need to be before someone garners your sympathy? Is there a chart we can refer to?
Big difference being: no elections, and the Party keeps itself alive by appointing leaders who will keep it alive.

Citizen's rights? The Party doesn't have time to worry about that.