skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting you should choose taxes in particular for your analogy; by trivial extension, you cast 23andme as someone who operates as a tax accountant not merely in ignorance, but in outright defiance, of the professional licensure requirements of the field.

Libertarian-utopian notions of needless regulatory immurement aside, such requirements exist for reasons amply evident in a study of their origins; in short, without a licensure requirement in such a highly specific and technical realm, incompetents and charlatans of every stripe abound, to the ultimate and severe detriment of all those who would seek the advice of genuine professionals in the field.
This is awesome. I'd like to see more companies and startups work with Watsi to bring awareness to doing social good (especially when you don't have to lift a finger to do any of the hard stuff, these collaborations are making it easy for normal people to do good). Not to mention the desserts look amazing. Kudos.
I doubt it was a moderator that edited your post. Moderators are unlikely to engage in edit wars because it would be easier for them to lock the post.

Your post may have been edited by just another user. Look for a diamond ♦ in the username. The diamond indicates that the user is a moderator. However, any user with 2,000 rep or more can edit posts. There are a lot of 2k rep users on Stack Overflow! Some of them are teenagers (look at the profiles).
The Big Picture Strikes Back
True; there's no reason that the filesystem should be storing anything other than char[]. The filesystem is a serialized domain, and char[] buffers are for storage and retrieval of serialized data. But that also means that each filesystem should explicitly specify a serialization format for what's stored in that char[] -- hopefully UTF-8.

However, the filesystem should really be where that serialized representation begins and ends. The filesystem should be interacting with the VFS layer using runes (Unicode codepoints), not octets.

And then, given that all filesystems route through the VFS, it can (and should) be enforcing preconditions on those runes in its API, expecting users to pass it something like a printable_rune_t[]. (Or even, horror of Pascalian horrors, a struct containing a length-prefixed printable_rune_t[].)

And for the situation where there's now files floating around without a printable_rune_t[] name -- this is why NTFS has been conceptually based around GUIDs (really, NT object IDs) for a decade now, with all names for a file just being indexed aliases. I wonder when Linux will get on that train...
FWIW, many vision researchers believe that the resemblance of the first convolutional layer to Gabor filters is perhaps more a case of selection bias than anything else. The argument goes that were they not the output of the first layer, that paper wouldn't get accepted =)

I'm not sure if I fully believe this, but certainly there doesn't seem to be a very principled way to choose your network architecture. Different people propose different ones, and the fundamental justification for each one seems to be: "look, we recreate gabor filters in layer 1 and we get good numbers at the end!"

Of course, NN people argue that that's almost exactly what vision people do as well, except in "feature-land" rather than "architecture-land".
If you haven't seen it, you should look up the "modus vs. volvo" crash experiment (videos come up top in search results). It is half-drowned in "breathless TV", but it's interesting.

Car manufacturers did up their safety game over the last decades. My daily drive is also a car of a certain age, and that's the only doubt I have about it ...
You turned into a Segway?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway_PT#Early_history_and_pre...
I don't disagree - I'm thinking og G's marketing muscle and huge synergistic opportunities rather than any technical superiority. Of course, those also come with the risk of antitrust action but it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
That is far from an uncommon idea. The phrase to search for to learn more about this is "Composition over Inheritance". That leads you to e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance or, combined with "site: c2.com" to http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CompositionInsteadOfInheritance or http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?UseCompositionAndInterfacesWithoutCla....

In some sense, deep inheritance hierarchies were a thing of the 80's, when inheritance was new (at least, in the mainstream), just like the <blink> tag was a thing of the '90s (or was that the 00's?). Now, deep hierarchies are a code smell.
The thing is - people know this. It was lampooned on The Office, for Pete's sake[0].

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONrNetxS1Fs
Life of a stackoverflow moderator - closed as off topic :)
Here is the original blog post, more technically precise

http://blog.cloudflare.com/red-october-cloudflares-open-sour...
Is it just me, or is some excited "Look we encrypt everything, and look, we even use good algorithms and look at those key sizes!" becoming a red flag about the security of a service? Most of the times it seems to be someone being excited about using state of the art encryption and forgetting that encryption is only as hard as the system and the humans surrounding it.
Another interesting way to look at it is that insurance is fundamentally based on future uncertainty.

Imagine if it somehow became possible to predict with perfect accuracy a person's future payouts under a given insurance policy. Bob goes to buy house insurance and they can predict with certainty that he'll eventually get $400,000 paid out (presumably because his house got destroyed somehow) while Steve is predicted to have nothing paid out.

If the insurance company has access to these predictions, they will naturally charge Bob about $400,000, plus a profit margin, while they'll charge Steve next to nothing. In this situation, insurance policies become nothing more than elaborate savings accounts.

On the other hand, if the clients have access to these predictions, Bob will buy the best policy he can find, while Steve will naturally not buy any policy. In this scenario, insurance companies all go out of business instantaneously because it becomes impossible to make any money, or even break even.

Yet both sides have huge incentives to try to approximate these scenarios as best they can. The better insurance companies can predict people's insurance usage, the more profitable they can be. The better clients can predict their own usage, the less they spend. But let both parties achieve their predictive goals and the whole thing falls apart utterly.

Medical science is driving relentlessly toward that goal, to the extent that many people were being shut out. The ACA tries to attack both sides of it, by preventing insurance companies from charging differing prices based on certain predictive information, and by preventing clients from refusing to purchase the product. In theory, this returns you to a flatter risk pool where all people contribute roughly equally and everybody sort of pretends they don't know that Bob's house is going to burn down.
Sniffing Data from Radio-Controlled Bus Stop Displays
its probably an attempt at a "reddit roll"
For basic video chat, I recommend Talky which uses WebRTC to implement group chat, including private rooms and screensharing:

https://talky.io/
actually they will as mining is needed for transactions to be processed, but the reward of unblocking new coins will get lower to compensate the miners though transaction fees will be paid.
A cryptographic bitcoin address generator in fewer than 30 lines of code
I was impressed by how robust and transparent this Python script is.
Same thing here. Personal story short, I discovered--thanks to the internet--that having hypothyroidosis and taking L-Carnitine [1] can cause rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney damage.

3 doctors completely missed huge warning signs and prescribed strong antibiotics in spite of the fact that there was no evidence of infection.

It was only thanks to my being an informed healthcare consumer that I prevented a very bad weekend.

I think it's possible for non-physicians to make informed decisions. I would also say that many want to have someone to blame. In my case, though, blaming someone doesn't help much when your kidneys die.

I'd argue that a $100 DNA test is not a diagnosis tool. It's like a friend looking at your skin and saying 'hey, you should get that mole checked out'.

[1] In the form of Pantothen, the "Natural Acne Cure". Yeah.
Bitcoin mining is how the blockchain is built. If everyone stopped mining, there would be no new transactions.
I feel like i waste most of my day in bed and in the upcoming semester I will have earlier classes and a more restricted schedule.
Critics said he won many battles simply because of luck; Napoleon responded, "Give me lucky generals," aware that "luck" comes to leaders who recognize opportunity, and seize it.

(wikipedia - Napoleon)
I would buy 10 if I could ship on a particular date and have the gift card filled out in advanced.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1qomqt/what_a_landm...
Javascript supports prototypal inheritance natively and it works well. The problem is people trying to fit every java oo concept in js, ending up writing unreadable mess.
Don't read the whole book. Just the Rails MVC pattern section I linked you.
I differ from you in that regard. I learn tactics by seeing them played out. Once I see the pattern, it gets burned into my memory a bit, especially if I missed a tactic that led to my defeat.
NEIL: Never Ending Image Learner
yes, it highlights how assisted suicide will not worsen the problem, as it exists just fine without it.

but there is not talks about medical accountabilityq and transparency, which is the solution to the root issue, making the talks on assisted suicide frivolous. but i guess solving problems does not win votes.
Oh I'm sure they love that lovely data, but they don't have the consolidated holistic view that Google has in the example given.
This is great!

Something I hope watsi does in the future: gift cards.

Sometimes, for friends, I like to make charitable donations in their name. It would be nice if I could give them $100 watsi credit, and then let them choose the distribution of it.
The MongoDB Online Education Course for Developers begins today
All of those startups combined are a small fraction of the chip market. And I don't see a Google/Amazon-like culture of innovation in these companies where the profits from a monopoly are invested to create new things. What I see are cutthroat, beyond-lean companies that are trying to extract as much value as they can in the short term, cash out, and move on.
Add Moose-style accessors to your vanilla Perl classes
Health Startups - Dire Consequences
You are a VERY good science writer btw.
my first app, 'Reloved', mobile shopping for women. How to improve it?
I don't know about you, but it's rather hard to ensure that your partner has the "right mix". It's hard enough to secure a mate as is! :)

Instead, I suppose the suggestion would, "Well, go adopt!", which is a less than satisfactory answer for probably like 99.9% of all of the public, seeing as how nobody bothers to get a "genetic checkup" before they reproduce, and we're pretty much wired to prefer our own offspring to others when it comes to parental investment. All in all, the only context I've ever really heard these sorts of conversations in seem to be surrounding people who have terrible conditions that they are afraid of passing on, not two otherwise healthy individuals who have no idea whether or not their offspring could inherit some kind of genetic disorder that it latent in them. Yes, that is the problem isn't it? Also, given the amount [read:lack] of effort in "planning" that some people seem to put into reproduction, I wouldn't be surprised if this remains the problem...forever.
Unfortunately Bitcoin ASICs are only good at double SHA-256 hashing; meaning it only does sha256(sha256(INPUT)). Probably not remotely useful of any modern password systems.
Adobe Says Breach Notification Taking Longer Than Anticipated
> ok i got my answers, we can delete this post now, i am not helping google users

This is a really weird thing to say. Is this person saying that he/she is so ideologically opposed to Google that they refuse to leave any helpful information in an indexable location anywhere in the entirety of the World Wide Web?
Dokku v0.2.0, the Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash
Counting Subscribers with SubToMe
I feel like I should really be reconsidering using Linux as a primary OS.
very similar to the Pirate Bay guys, just seem to keep on truckin'
Mathematica and Wolfram On The Raspberry Pi
My first app :) Reloved, an app to help women find, buy and sell gently used fashion items.

Would appreciate feedback on:

1. How can I make it better?
2. How do I acquire users?

Thanks!
Double salted?
Pedaling at 128km/h
Wired calling us "New Linux Operating System Is an Open Source Apple OS X" made me very sad. Still, I think we have to be happy for their article since media coverage and feedback is always more than welcome.

Personally (but I think other elementary hackers agree with me), I feel like we have our very own identity, philosophy and beliefs and it saddens me that Wired (and many other people too) consider us the "OS X" of Linux OSs. In my opinion, we are more than that, but we'll keep on working to proof just that hopefully.
Kalman Filter Algorithm Helps Knewton Predict Student Abilities
This is a motherf##king website
An ARM Powered Business Card, Part Two
Someone is already into it http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/13/sanitizin...
You could to a point, but you would need a lot of mining power and the ability to act quickly.

BIPS didn't announce that they'd been compromised until over a week since the funds were sent out, so it's completely impossible at this point. If you wanted to get a transaction with one confirmation reversed, you would need to convince the two largest pools (ghash.io and btcguild) to mine a fork that doesn't contain your blacklisted transaction in under 10 minutes, and even then they'd create a very noticeable reorganisation. You'd also then have to race to get your funds out, as you know your keys have been compromised.

It's fairly impossible really.
the car insurance is pretty dependent on where you live.
I don't find it weird. First, the probably insignificant numbers make the impact negligible. Second, it is fair that decisions made in good faith under the rules applicable at the time are not retroactively punished.
so in conclusion they all lacked morals. or just being slightly less worse is enough for your ethics?
Docker + Mesos: A Powerful Combination
Yes, I'm sure it did (does). TrueSpace was priced around $300, which tended to put a damper on adoption.

As a 3d modeling and animation package, it served as a poor man's Lightwave 3D or Maya. The interface would probably give some designers fits. Still, it was a useful and nimble application and one of my first experiences with CGI. If I could get it to reliably run on an XP SP3 box or in a VM, I'd probably still be playing with it.
More easily said than done. :\
A Real Relationship, Not just Business
The technology actually isn't in question here; Illumina has entirely earned its preeminence in the field of DNA sequencing. That part of 23andme's process can be trivially duplicated in any sequencing lab, including the one a hundred feet thataway from where I'm sitting right now. Merely sequencing a genome and identifying SNPs is as close to a solved problem as anything in the explosively emerging field of bioinformatics.

What's in question is the validity of 23andme's analysis, and that's an entirely different matter. Bioinformatics is, again, an emerging science -- expanding at an amazing rate, to be sure, and full of enormous promise for the improvement of human health overall, but nonetheless still in its nascency. Treating bioinformatic analysis as an established part of medicine, to the extent of making "highly confident" (23andme's words, not mine) predictions of future medical concerns based on analysis of a relative handful of SNPs, strikes me as flagrantly optimistic at the very best, and potentially verging upon fraudulence at the worst.

That's the FDA's concern, and if anything it is only reinforced by the OP's experience. Were 23andme's analysis and predictions anywhere near the level of reliability the company claims on their behalf, it would not be necessary for one of their customers, having been terrified half out of his mind by the results of 23andme's analysis of his genome, to develop sufficient understanding of sequence analysis to replicate their process and identify their error.
> The mods seem a little power hungry. If you're a SO mod, I'm sure you've got better things to do than correct tiny grammatical quirks that make people who they are - try focusing on the bigger issues.

It was probably another user instead of a mod — Stack Overflow is a weird combination of a forum and a wiki, so people are allowed to fix each other's posts.

Besides that, though, I think you should consider the possibility that you were also in the wrong. Just because their edit lost meaning doesn't mean it didn't also add something useful. Instead of reverting, I think a better approach would have been to add those meaningful aspects back in and call attention to them, since they obviously weren't clear to everyone. If a hard revert was really necessary, you could have just explained why.
The one I don't understand is repeated commas. My older sister used to do it all the time. She would write something like:

Well,,,, the way I see it,,, is this,,,,,,

I have no idea why. I don't think she does it any more though... :-)
I didn't say anything about fair. I didn't even say that you don't need luck. I believe you do need luck. But, you can remove a lot of your dependence on luck by getting better at the game over time, as well as by playing a lot. Just ask anyone that plays Texas Hold'em.

Want to score more? Get your number of shots on goal up. Luck is just the positive result of chance being realized. Chance to succeed vs chance to fail. So as long as you don't care about the number of failures you stack up, you just keep rolling the dice until you succeed.

Perseverance is sufficient as long as it is accompanied by adaptability. You simply need the ability to recognize your strengths/weaknesses/personality type and play the game accordingly. Either invest in improving your weaknesses, or spend time networking to find a partner to complement them. Even better, pick an idea where your weaknesses will not be a factor.

What makes startups so hard is all the opportunities to fail that come along as you try and build something new. Every month, or every week, there is a new thing that wants to kill you. Sometimes these things have nothing to with the company. But, there are sooo many ways to mitigate these problems and you learn how to do so better and better the longer you play the game.

If you'd like me to go into some more personal details to show some examples, just let me know.

Edited: minor edits.
I can't figure out why this is relevant to my comment.
Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, McDonalds spying on nonprofits with former NSA, CIA hackers
I hadn't heard that - my understanding was the problem was that G+ elevated the pseudonymous trolls too high in the ranking - because they're part of the G+ "culture", G+ treats them and their upvoters as popular power-users and gives them premium placement.

But either way, in any other general-purpose comment-engine, the host of the channel/blog/page/whatever would be able to allow/deny anonymous or pseudonymous users. AFAIK, all YouTube allows is whether you want to allow or deny comments in general.
I Saw JFK Murdered When I Was 6 Years Old.
If the reward gets low enough that people stop mining, then the network adapts to make mining easier, keeping the mining rate constant. It's brilliant.
Yahoo Outlook memo
So basically, VoltDB acknowledges that cross-partition transactions are Hard and has put a lot of effort into minimizing them. (This is basically the entire point of the original HStore paper.)

InfiniSQL says don't worry, we'll just use 2PC. But not just yet, we're still working on the lock manager.

I look forward to your exegesis of how you plan to overcome the well-documented scaling problems with 2PC. Preferably after you have working code. :)
> It is not possible for a non-physician to be an informed healthcare consumer

It's also not possible for a physician to be informed about every possible condition. I have type 1 diabetes, and I know a lot more about it than my GP does -- odds are she's only going to see a handful of T1Ds in her career. When I'm talking to her about my diabetes, I'm educating her rather than vice versa. (So she sends me to an endocrinologist, and he's as far ahead of me as my GP is behind me in knowledge of diabetes.)
>I'd argue that a $100 DNA test is not a diagnosis tool.

I'd argue the same. But that's not in the slightest how 23andme presents itself.
No problem, we'll make it happen! For anyone that wants to, order on the site, and afterwards send an email to daniel at watsi.org with the following info for each package: 1) recipient's name, 2) recipient's shipping address, and 3) gift card message, and we'll deliver the gift(s) by 12/16/2013.
This isn't true anymore. RDS now exposes an external replication stream for Mysql. AWS actually doesn't seem to be that interested in vendor lock-in. They usually build what people ask for.
Worlds First Full LED Keyboard - Customizable Color For Each Key
I think it's a brilliant idea. Popular estimator sites are making real passive income, in that there's not much work to be done after launching. The snag is this market is saturated and there is a low barrier to entry to keep competitors out. That said, I've never seen a site take an average of the most popular estimator sites. I think it's a clever angle, and it certainly creates the perception of a more accurate result. I'd use your site over your competitors.

Your challenge is going to be in gaining market share. Meaning, you need to rank high in Google! Or spread virally. That'll be tough, but I think you can do it with this angle.
I've been a paying customer of Google Apps before, the support doesn't improve much.
You might put a desk in there, similar to a desk-under-bed like this kind of thing http://www.ghoofie.com/bedroom/modern-and-cool-bedroom-desig...
ssss is a good implementation, but its GPL and their app is BSD, so...

I googled around for ssss implementations and bsd license and found one in javascript of all things.

(Please no license flamewar, just stating the facts!)
Researchers Are Trying To Teach This Computer Common Sense
Like skizm, I'm pretty sure High School isn't going to be the big problem.

I think American Football is very much in need of a rethink of their "safety" equipment. You can have a full contact sports[1] without the damage done. A football player is now wearing hard armor and it is not helping.

Boxing isn't less popular because of injuries. It is less popular because it isn't on ABC every week and it is all pay-per-view. Its an event sport that is not worth the money to pay for the events.

1) calling these blood sports makes for a problem when real blood sports are discussed - hyperbole and the brain shouldn't be mixed
Sygic - Offline GPS navigation for iPhone and Android
> Domestically, Dotcom has caused carnage. A government minister has resigned and is facing charges of not declaring political donations made by Dotcom. Prime minister John Key has had to apologise because an intelligence agency for which he was personally responsible was exposed as illegally spying on Dotcom. The police were embarrassed when it emerged their raid, using an anti-terrorist strike force, was carried out unlawfully

It would be great to see these kinds of repercussions in America when the government oversteps it's bounds.
Do they have insurance for being stupid?
Oh weird. sorry about that. Thanks for fixing it.