skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and 'tech industry, you are so sexist and should be ashamed of yourselves' is a reasonable response to people saying 'Lack of women in tech is clearly a sign that women don't want to be in tech/aren't suited to it because anyone can enter tech and pitch a VC if they want', or 'Affirmative action will just mean there are incompetent females getting ahead at the expense of more competent males' (see the complaints about the Etsy scholarships, for instance: usually comes with complete denial of any systemic disadvantages).

I guess in these cases they are being blamed for not seeing the problem and so perpetuating it, rather than for causing it. But at some point it seems reasonable to say that ignoring or denying the existence of something so well-studied is wilful rejection that makes you part of the problem. How about the phrasing 'tech industry, you are perpetuating sexism/racism even if you don't intend to and you should be ashamed of yourselves'?
I posted below that FastMail is a good Gmail alternative, and switching isn't that painful. See http://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/

(Posting again here so you (might) be notified.)
A semicolon is different than a period in that it carries the connotation that the adjacent clause is a continuation or modification of the idea introduced by its immediate predecessor, not a separate thought (regarding the same topic, lest a new paragraph begin).

I don't think it has much to do with the commonality of the glyph in code, where ; usually represents a conclusion, not a continuation. It may simply be that coders and/or internet-savvy readers have more exposure to writing that utilizes semicolons and they obtain the habit by osmosis.
This is basically the future of Google's business. You think they're developing products like autonomous cars, google now, and glass for kicks?

They want to provide very powerful incentives so they can take a small bit of every transaction.
There are three major problems with it:

1) I don't even have access to my own information at this point. It's like if the doctor were to post a picture of your newborn baby on FB without your permission before you got to hold it.

2) The accuracy of 23andme's ancestry information is suspect. They think we might be related based on vague data. And again, the other people have this vague data before I do.

3) Finally, there is medical information attached to my account. For instance, maybe I have a normal risk of prostate cancer. Now 23andme decides that I'm related to Joe (true or not), and Joe has a super high risk of prostate cancer. What inferences can be drawn about that? What if this kind of data is shared with a third party -- again, without my knowledge -- and that third party can use that against me somehow? (Insurance, whatever.) I'm not okay with that.

In the end, it's the opaqueness of this process. If 23andme wants to say "Hey, we're not 100% done with your ancestry results, but we found a few people we think might be matches" at the same time they say the same thing to the other people, then that would be okay. But at the time, I was getting requests from alleged relatives that I had no way of knowing they were alleged relatives until 23andme gives me my results.

In other words, these other people -- strangers! -- knew something about me that I hadn't yet found out myself, when it should have been made available to me at the same time.
I was an avid GW user back when I had the Nexus S but since then, none of my phones have had NFC so I was pretty excited about this announcement. I would use GW, and it would go ahead and charge my credit card, no fees. But if I am understanding correctly, that functionality is no longer there? Must I "add" funds (and incur this fee) to maintain my previous use case?

Adding money to Wallet Balance from credit or debit card	2.9% fee with a $0.30 minimum
When I was nine (now 27), I was hit by a car and suffered a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) to the left temporal lobe. I was in a coma for five days; had anterograde amnesia for weeks, maybe a few months. My parents later told me that my personality changed dramatically.

I don't think many nine-year-old kids are introspective enough to know what their personality is like, and never was it mentioned that my personality reverted back to normal. I have no idea what I was like or what I would become. It's interesting to think about.

It took a long time for me to look back and think "what the hell?"
So, what attributes does an aircraft require in order to deserve to be called a drone?

Is it the degree of remoteness of control? E.g., ability to be operated reliably beyond the visual range of its operator? Or the ability to operate autonomously or semi-autonomously?
The FDA should leave 23andMe alone
A rare look at the tunnels under San Francisco
Where's the beef? How have the terms of picasa changed? (That's a no-cost downloadable Mac and Windows software right?) Also what did s/he get notifications about? Does s/he mean some emails about ToS changes?
Anybody capture the text before they got slashdotted?
Transparency In Search: All the Secrets Google Keeps
I don't think they're suggesting that, more just gross incompetence on the part of the developer, and a little bit of liberty about how "secure" the systems they have created actually are. It's a lot like inputs.io, a web wallet compromised because the developer used Linode to protect millions of dollars. The developer of that particular service paid back about the half the funds then disappeared.

> BIPS was built by passionate bitcoiners and talented developers. BIPS is hosted in our private server facilities. Passwords are stored with a double salted SHA-512 hashing algorithm. Our entire website is protected with AES RIJNDAEL 256 encryption and we have encryption of data traffic with 2048-bit, highest assurance Extended Validation SSL certificate, with 99.9% Browser Recognition.

> BIPS protects your payment information with industry-leading security and fraud protection.
On top of this, our server/database is regularly stored on tape backups. For added security you can also enable Secure Card and Google Authenticator at any time for up to 3 levels of authentication.
No problem! Hopefully you like it. So far I have nothing but good things to say about FastMail. They just had a big storage bump for all the different plans, which helps a ton.
I would imagine insurance for an online bitcoin wallet is somewhere between "prohibitively expensive" and "not possible to buy"
edit: rohansingh posted the FAQ entry before me
Get your Team and Pimp that Server
How to grow the speakers in your technical community
California High-Speed Rail Bond Sale Rejected by Judge
Ahh IRC channels... a whole ecosystem of interesting ways to communicate through typing
Yeah, any member of animal kingdom can rationally analyze situations and make logical decisions based on facts, but art, on the other hand, is unique to humans.
For a more barbaric sport like MMA?
The GP could mean any of several things, none of which have to do with those events (EDIT: he means 1 and the converse-corollary of 3):

1. Auto-eugenics: the ethical obligation one feels, when one knows they have horrible DNA, to adopt instead of breed.

2. Eugenic engineering: currently, this means "do IVF, look at the zygotes, and pick the healthiest ones to try to implant." In the future, this could involve genetic patches from healthy donors ("gene cleaning") or just plain hacked-in transhuman bonus features.

3. Eugenics, under the original botanical definition of the term: pairing people with really great DNA, and encouraging them to breed as much as possible, and repeating this process over several generations. We already vaguely do this naturally by interpreting health-signals like height or breast size as indicative of mating potential, and we're doing it more explicitly when we select good sperm/eggs from a donor clinic to pair to our own. (The final sci-fi-ish step in this one would be for women to volunteer to/get paid to/pay to (depending on supply vs, demand) "adopt at conception" genetically-"optimized" children matched by the clinics themselves. This would probably be in addition to the gene-cleaning techniques from 2.)

Oh, and I guess I should mention this last one, which is closest to the "problematic" version but which, surprisingly, has been attempted to success (i.e. Nobody being unhappy with the arrangement):

4. Libertarian eugenics: Pay people you'd be afraid of reproducing, to not have kids any more. This could be a state rent-transfer, but it's also possible to make it an entirely bottom-up process: any individual activist with some money to give can do their own "vigilante eugenics," finding, say, crack-addicted mothers and offering a lump-sum to get their tubes tied[1]. And this has happened: http://www.radiolab.org/story/251887-what-if-no-destiny/

Really, "the bad eugenics" is a ghost from the past, more an artefact of Nazi beliefs about racial purity than any productive approach to solving the problem.

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[1] Okay, this is less "eugenics" and more "euteratogenics" plus a little "euepigenics." But we're making people here, not show-grade Dalmatians; we care about more than their potential as good breeding stock.
Read the story of Christina Onassis and think if you would gladly switch places with her.

If that woman lived the last 20 years of her life without friends and normal human connections - it was a prison with gold bars but prison non the less.

Why is that we always look on the poor people below us as "they deserve it", and on the richer than us that are not fortunate as "big deal - they have money" it is only us the the Goldilocks of suffering that deserve compassion from the universe.
42 years old with an English degree. I. am. so. fscked.
The frustration directed towards the FDA in the 23andMe threads is not surprising, but short-sighted, IMHO. Sure, there are likely inefficiencies in the way the FDA operates, in a micro-sense, but in the macro-view, this sort of stuff needs to be regulated.

Many simple take-home tests that are arguably much more time-tested, reliable, and accurate than 23andMe's DNA services are FDA-regulated. If your basic take-home pregnancy test is FDA regulated, why should 23andMe be exempt? Or would you prefer a world where all of these tests were unregulated?

Not everyone does their research. Not everyone is intelligent enough to understand the implications of medical tests, drugs, and devices - regulation protects the vulnerable among us.

As an aside, I've worked in medical devices for most of my career. All other things remaining equal, engineering teams in these companies are no different, talent-wise and quality-wise, than most teams you'd see in other industries. Take the sloppiest engineering team you've worked with, now imagine them working on a clinical product with the potential to cause real harm to people (physical or psychological).

It is the regulation (FDA and others) that ensures that these teams "raise their quality game", so to speak. It is not perfect by any means, but I don't dare imagine the alternative. Yes, the regulation is a massive pain. I experience it first-hand. It slows things down, has massive associated costs and can even stifle innovation. The general trade-off, however, is worth it, IMHO.
Sci-fi book illustrations from the 1800s by Alphonse de Neuville
These illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou were produced for the 1871 Hetzel edition of Jules Verne’s pioneering sci-fi novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” Even though they were printed over a century ago these drawings hold their own when compared to modern illustration.By today’s standards, the notion of a giant sea creature seems like a B-movie cliché, but back then these drawings were the first fully realized glimpse into the French novelist’s vision. Dark, strange and macabre, these highly detailed illustrations bring life to the classic underwater adventure novel.
Do you think you could write more about this?
It's exactly the same. You have to add money from your other cards/accounts to the wallet balance (aka paypal balance) then you spend it from there.

So how long does it take for your google wallet balance to pull money from your other accounts or transfer the funds?

This would be innovative, if you could spend money on it, then choose from which account you want it to be deducted ex post facto, and if you don't choose within 24 hours then it gets deducted from your default account. While this might be cool, google would be assuming a large amount of risk.
Did you really just suggest trusting millions of dollars of customer funds to the equivalent of minimum wage fast food restaurant employees?
Written communication is hard, and one of the keys to good written communication is leaving as little room for misunderstanding as possible. Using proper capitalization, spelling, and grammar are a few of the ways you can make your text more readable and less prone to misinterpretation.

That being said, there are plenty of reason to eschew writing best practices, and you have to be pragmatic about it (for your own sanity, if nothing else). Have a hand injury? Skip the shift key once in a while if it saves you some pain. You're trading readability for speed/comfort/whatever, but depending on the situation that might be the better decision.
Yes. Sodium bicarbonate. Make sure it doesn't have any flour in it.

Buy a tub of sodium bicarb and put it in an old shampoo bottle. Add water and mix - aiming for shampoo like viscosity.

Depends how much hair you have, your activity levels and where you live but start with using it once every couple days. You may end up at once / week, but depends on the above factors.

Use it like shampoo, but more vigorously.
Show HN: XCavator, a BTC/LTC Gui and an LTC Pool
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6770398

From the top of the other thread:

"Let's clarify some things here, before the comment threads take off too much:

- This is a prepaid card. It does not proxy other cards, unlike previous rumored versions of a Wallet card.

- It only draws from Wallet balance. Funds can be added to wallet balance via various means (bank account [free], receiving a GMail P2P payment [free], credit cards [2.9% fee]), but this does not happen automatically.

As such, it does not appear to be trying to achieve the same "card replacement" that e.g. Coin is. No, it is simply providing another way to get at Wallet balance that doesn't involve transfer to a bank account or NFC payment. Could be useful for people who make use of GMail P2P payments."
It's exactly the algorithm I've decided to implement in one of my projects [1][shameless plug]. And although secret sharing is maybe not directly easy/relevant to implement in their context and for their type of use it would nevertheless be worth investigating what is currently done and is maybe related in the academic papers such maybe as [2]. At least it could give some ideas.

[1] http://coresecret.io/
[2] http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/629
Actual the fact a house deprecates makes more financial sense then what he have in the US. A house is an expensive durable good. Land is the asset that appreciates. Nothing crazy about separating the two.
They explicitly did not. From their TOS:

As a result of the current state of genetic knowledge and understanding, our Services are for research, informational, and educational purposes only. The Services are not intended to be used by the customer for any diagnostic purpose and are not a substitute for professional medical advice.
You have to add it directly from your account. It seems like a pretty sloppy implementation.
New Study
My night owl status was cured by having children. I no longer have a choice about what time I wake up.

Semi-seriously though, there's nothing like having to fit something immovable into your schedule for sorting things like this out.
Another good read are The Annotated C++ Reference Manual[1] and The Design and Evolution of C++[1].

They help understand all design compromises that were done to keep compatibility with C, which is was part of what brought C++ into the mainstream, but also the main cause of many of its warts.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Annotated-C-Reference-Manual/dp/02...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Design-Evolution-Bjarne-Stroustrup...
I said (and stressed) "hopefully" - I understand it's not mostly the case presently.
even when this function is turned off by the viewers, it continues to transmit viewing information although the data is not retained by the server.

Does anyone buy the claim that their servers weren't retaining the data?

For this to be true, the TV would need to transmit to the server a notification that data should no longer be stored. While it's possible, I find it implausible that they would go to the trouble to do all of that, rather than just make it a simple client-side switch that just stops transmitting the snooped data.
"a natural consequence of inherited wealth"

This is a natural consequence, ehh?
Plenty of assessment errors occur via other forms of health research, self-diagnosis, and professional diagnosis, too. That's why the more serious a result is, the more it should be examined and re-checked.

This incident seems to me like a big win for the 23andme model. They made an error – but followup by a single individual means the same error won't happen again for anyone in their international clientele. Errors in other health systems don't get globally corrected so quickly.
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The common case of hacker news readers is not unencrypted wifi.
> The people who get incorrect results and who then go and do things based on those results

A person who makes life decisions based on tests conducted through the Internet is gullible.

No amount of government intervention will keep this person from a world of pain and misery.
Mirror for the gender post: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=25bnhuBC
Latest Google Voice Extension update has huge memory leak
Being Immigrant to Being Entrepreneur
Nasdaq 4000: Tech bubble? Not yet
> But being taken advantage of is a fact of life

Hello? Beth Israel is a non-profit teaching hospital in New York City that is over 100 years old. that they might have a role in bilking an elderly patient is shocking, plain and simple. (I've been there as a patient myself.)

not to mention exposing the corruption of attorneys, doctors, and various caregivers - people who are supposed to, by virtue of their professions, put the client or patient's interest first.

would this have been a scandal if it were for someone's entire life savings at $100,000? $1,000,000?

at what point on the financial scale does someone become worthy of taking advantage of? some arbitrary metric, where a person is deemed to have "earned" their wealth?

i'm sure this type of thing happens on a smaller scale. we don't hear about it because there aren't enough juicy details to make a 300+ page book. if we're going to talk about who "deserves" our sympathies - imagine it was a family member, then answer accordingly.
I'm not really sure that that book is good for Django MVC or even rails since Backbone MVC is a little different and some consider it to be a MV*.
Nothing that people do could possibly be a meritocracy, because people are fucks. In fact, every social problem is easily explained by the fact that people are fucks. Q.E.D.
> Notice that if any other group is proportionately overrepresented in a population, it can still be "meritocratic".

false. a meritocratic system will very closely match the demographics of the population at large, because no given demographic is inherently better at a given task[1].

> It is only if there are too many white men, and only white men, that a group can no longer be considered meritocratic.

it's no coincidence that most un-meritocratic systems are overrun with white men-- white men are, historically, a priviledged group. so, of course, if a system values privilege over merit, one will see more white men. is that really that hard to understand?

[1] there are, of course, some small differences in average ability among different populations, but in most every case this is not the overriding factor leading to population imbalances in a given field.
So its like Coin except Google gets all of my purchasing data and I probably have to join Google+ at some point.
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What kind of jerk has his question answered by the Stackoverflow community, then insist it be pulled so others don't benefit?
>Why feel bad for someone who suffers a natural consequence of inherited wealth?

Same reason you'd feel bad for anyone? "Natural consequence" doesn't really mean much. Why feel bad for someone that suffers a natural consequence of inherited genes?
Interestingly enough, French diplomats use ./. (dot-slash-dot) as the period character, when writing official notes or messages [1].

[1] http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(signe)#Le_point_diplomat...
I disagree. certainly, the risk of misdiagnosis is is inverse proportion to the degree of supplementarity, but that can still affect an awful lot of people and result in significant economic loss. It seems to me that some people want to argue this on a binary basis, ie since 23andme does not purport to replace the advice of a primary physician, its liability for misdiagnosis therefore should fall to zero. To me, though, it seems quite likely that if 23andme suggests a risk factor that is greater than the probability spread between different options offered by a patient's physician(s), then it's very likely that the 23andme data will be given excess weight given the notoriously poor grasp of Bayesian inference among the general population (and even among some groups of clinicians).

If anything, the supplementary nature of 23andme's test data should make compliance easier, since their burden will drop proportionately under the B<PL formula employed to assess tort liability in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_negligence

I wonder if you and other folks who seem to be espousing this binary approach live in or hail from states with contributory negligence regimes.
Not sure if you actually read the book, but it outlines the spirit of the times Clark lived in very well and makes the argument that Clark never stooped to the tactics of the so-called robber barons. He paid his employees well and gave back to communities. He was known as honest and fair to those who dealt with him.

His political failings could be traced back to a socially awkward nature. Politics was messy business back then and it was impossible win a race completely honestly. Nothing he did back then was any worse than what everyone else did.

It even examined Clark's history with Twain and Twain's own relationships with Clark's business rivals. That particular rant was very likely politically motivated.
The mysticism around ANN seems to come and go at least once per developer generation since the 50s
Coming from a poor black community I have heard that many times, but only from people that would never be able to obtain higher education for some reason outside of their control. I think it is more so an excuse, or a way to feel better about their own situation.

However, often times when someone has a valid opportunity it's usually encouraged
The point is, Bitcoin can end up saving a lot of energy, by replacing traditional banking transactions, while everyone seems to be seeing it as "wasting" energy. Everyone sees the glass half-empty. Bitcoin only needs to be mined for another few decades, and then it won't need to be mined anymore.
Well, it's a news article. The goal of the journalist is to get people to read it. It would be a less interesting headline if it forced people to do the conversion since many people still do not yet understand BTC. Putting both values (BTC & USD) into the headlines would make it redundant.