skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, no. You aren't seeing it.

A mammogram is a screening test. 23andMe is another type of screening test. You aren't getting extra mammograms because of 23andMe, they are the same thing.

Mammogram can screen you for early detection of a serious disease. 23andMe can do the same (they advertise - this is what the FDA has a problem with).

More screening for all diseases doesn't mean better outcome, and can be harmful, depending on the test, the people screened, the disease, etc., etc. and can lead to more disease (needless treatment). Throwing more screening at the wall for every disease doesn't do more good all the time. Especially when we learn that some diseases (prostate cancer) cause no symptoms most of the time. Treating these asymptomatic prostate cancers is very harmful, because they are harmless unless they progress. The treatment is risky and has serious side effects (impotence!)

Every time we have a screening test, we have to look at the science. What are we screening for? What is the good? What is the bad? Who is helped? Who is harmed? Do the positives outweigh the negatives?

Another outdated screening tool is the breast self exam - it was found (in scientific studies) it didn't do any good and caused harm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_self-examination) Lots of over treatment without a reduce in cancer rates. Also, just learning about it increases women's worry and anxiety about breast cancer. This is a harmful screening tool. This was studied and abandoned.

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BRCA test has nothing to do with this example.

Mammograms are currently very common in women a certain age >40 or >50. Most women get them every few years as part of their health maintenance to check for the presence of cancer, tumors or lumps. Right now there is research coming out that is questioning that practice, but the practice hasn't caught up to the research and most doctors say "get your mammogram" without informing patients of the risks, they treat it like it is "all good." That was the point of this research to ask "are we doing the right thing here by screening all these healthy women with mammograms? Let's study that."

I will personally opt out of the mammogram hype when I reach the mammogram age. I'm also going to inform my mother of the current research on the matter, I know she's already had a few mammograms herself.
Not ignoring, just talking about one among many related problems. I agree completely it would be good to reduce the state-actor threat.
We don't all share your faith in the market; it's as simple as that. Until you understand that, you won't understand those who don't agree with you.

> I don't think this unqualified statement makes sense.

It wasn't unqualified, it had a context that you removed, I'm specifically talking about the medical market, not just any random innovation.
If bitcoin is a means of exchange but not a store of value, you need some extra means of exchange to convert your stored value into bitcoins and for the recipient to convert their bitcoins back into stored value. And if you've got that extra means of exchange, what do you need bitcoin in the middle for?

I mean, why go My bank -> Debit card -> Bitcoin exchange -> My wallet -> Merchant's wallet -> Bitcoin exchange -> Bank transfer -> Merchant's bank when you could just go My bank -> Debit card -> Merchant's bank?
Haven't tried anything yet. Just wondering if this is an idiomatic use case to grant container access to global resources.
Currently CleverRun only works with RunKeeper. However,
RunKeeper should be able to pull Garmin stuff in, look at: http://runkeeper.com/apps/fit2app/47741 - Then CleverRun will be able to get that data from RunKeeper.
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He's an Ayn Rand worshipping objectivist, you can't reason with him. His view of people is as shallow as hers.
Warren Buffett on gold, random guy on bitcoin
Ah, my bad...I was reading on a tablet so didn't do the Ctrl-F-find-the-word to back up my assertion. I think I'm likely biased into thinking that flagging plays a larger role, and thus expected to see it more in your analysis, whether it's the reality or not. But yes, capturing the state of article ranking as they hit the front page would help control for independent flagging behavior. It's possible that people are flagging on the New section but I have to doubt that...those would be HNers with a bit too much time on their hands.
The system was provided by Diebold, if that's any help.
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Yep, I met Helen at my Dad's house a couple of months ago and she mentioned you. In fact I believe your folks are going round to Dad's (Chris's) place soon. Small word huh?!
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Common sense, unless that term is no longer applicable to modern times. If this were something real, we would be hearing about Rossi's valiant efforts to secure patent protection, not customers.
Internet privacy becomes essential in the moment that people put their entire lives on the Internet. All mail is email, all financial transactions are electronic, medical records are in computers, credit scores are in data centers--- you name anything important to your privacy/freedom, and it's in the cloud these days. No tradeoff is possible anymore.
I may not be correct, but Edward said specifically at the beginning of all of this: Please don't make this about me! Correct?
You just need a 200 kW power outlet in the disaster zone (According to their technical data sheet).
I'm sure I'm not the only one who isn't happy with the other choices (like why include Sheryl Sandberg but not Mark Zuckerberg, and Narendra Modi), but I wanted to vote for Edward Snowden anyway.
I would like to go something like "batteries included but not installed." The User interface I have now is a good example of what I mean -- I would prefer to keep everything built around implementing an interface, but it might be nice to provide an "official" authentication implementation as a subpackage.

I've started writing subpackages as they become important to me. The most useful thus far is probably gadget/forms, which is very much inspired by Django forms. I prefer a data validation layer that is independent from or at least very loosely coupled to a model layer.
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Hmm, so Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer "made lots of news"... is that why they should be included?

One is a corporate hack who had a book ghost-written, the other is a corporate hack who once dated Larry Page and landed a nice 5 year gig at Yahoo.

They have done nothing for technology. Nothing. They should not be included just because they're in the filter bubble of internet gossip.

If you want to vote for someone, on merit, who happens to be female, try Limor Fried of Adafruit.
The doc has been updated, but there was a problem while pushing it this morning. We are working on it.
I use Grunt [1] and (especially) grunt-contrib-watch [2] for this. Using Grunt also has the benefit of automatically recompiling CSS files and/or concatenating JS files etc. But your mileage may vary, of course.

[1] http://gruntjs.com/
[2] https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-watch
Yes, Docker should be able to help you. It is definitely not just for large companies.

Docker can help you streamline your development and deployment process across all the machines, from the development laptop to the production server. The result should be that your development environment is easier to setup and replicate, more similar to production, and easier to customize as you evaluate new tools, hosting providers and software components.

I recommend checking out the "Getting started" page, it has a great online tutorial: http://www.docker.io/gettingstarted/

You should also browse through this list of real-world use cases. http://www.docker.io/community/#What-people-have-already-bui...

I hope this helps!
LUCK is also defined as 'Labor Under Correct Knowledge'
If the only instance of a thing is on your "back-up" drive then it isn't a back-up.
I think putting Snowden on here is cheating, especially among this crowd. Yes, what he did was extremely important. Yes what he did had a tech impact, but the majority of the impact was societal, IMHO. I voted for him on Time, but here I have to vote for Musk.
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What if it results in some accurate positives and saved lives? You think the FDA should limit access to information curious people can obtain for $100 about their own genome that might help them behave proactively toward their own health just in case it results in more patients behaving proactively?
Agreed. As a fellow Texan, I'm embarrassed that this relatively small town has become the de facto venue for patent battles... especially those involving patent trolls.

How would we go about changing this? Surely the rest of the nation is taking note at the bias afforded to patent trolls by Marshall. I just don't understand how, especially in this case, they could have sided with the troll. Is there an economic benefit for the people of Marshall to side with the trolls or are they just completely oblivious when it comes to technology cases? I am completely dumbfounded by this Texas court.
From a guy selling cold fusion? Nah, it's legit.
The contents of my emails are exposed to "god know how many engineers and system administrators." I still think I have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" with regards to the contents of my emails. If you hire a cleaning lady and she has access to private letters in your home, does that mean you forfeit your reasonable expectation that those letters are private?
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I have heard two opinions. One of them is paranoid: "if you give up root on the container you give up root on the host system." I am not sure I believe this, I can't show you how to do the compromise and escalation, but I know there is a -privileged mode you can use on your containers in which Root user can do things like create device nodes, reset the system clock, and presumably other things you should not allow if you are concerned about this kind of attack.

The other opinion (given that you don't enable -privileged mode) is that lxc namespaces _do_ protect your host and other containers from being exploited due to compromise of a contained process, and cgroups _do_ protect your precious i/o and cpu cycles from being fully consumed and deadlocking your whole system when a rogue container decides to start infinite looping.

The competent answer of course is "try it", you should know that there are ways your processes can be compromised, and you should check if the exploits you know about result in the same or different privilege escalations when you apply them to a service hosted within a docker instance. That being said, you can't really prove a negative...
That's not an argument. rayiner has this exactly right: it is not a slam dunk violation of the Constitution as currently understood by the folks who make it their living to understand such things, and spodek was wrong to characterize it as such.

Outrage doesn't make you right; at this point it's just making hn boring.
> > Not mentioned in the article is that the "immersion heater" required power

> The tech data page specifies 200kW input power

Yes, but you see, that is a marketing claim, not a physical one. If it were true, Rossi would be sequestered with a team of crack lawyers attempting to secure patent protection for his breakthrough, rather than trying to sign people up to buy his unprotected, yet-to-be-built device.

Also, why doesn't Rossi use 200 KW of the claimed 1 MW output power to sustain the reaction, thus removing the input power requirement? This "fact sheet" reads very differently to someone who actually understands physics.
> Both Google (on May 3, 2010)[3] and the CIA have invested in the company, through their investment arms, Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel, respectively.

In-Q-Tel = CIA; Google Ventures = Google
I would say from a usability / opportunity of employment standpoint they are equal, but PHP seems when working with it far less "designed" than Python and Ruby in my opinion. Things like the inconsistency of single word / snake case / camelcase in method names etc.
Are you forgetting the IRA who spent 24 years attacking and killing people the UK? Please respect those people who died and were injured (on both sides) before calling anyone a 'doormat'.
No more than ebooks have wiped out printing.
I'm pretty sure that's not how medical regulation is supposed to work. Consumers expect that their purchases are safe.
My reply wasn't about 23andMe, it was to the guy's comment I replied to which also wasn't about 23andMe, so your point is simply out of place.
Is it an easier to use chroot? Because I'd just use chroot if I wanted that or maybe openvz. Or just spin up a virtual node dedicated to the task I need it to perform.
Hey,

docker newb here. Can I easily put my own software in it? I've got this c++ program that has a few dependencies in ubuntu.
If they dont like your business model or want to compete with you they can damage or destroy your ability to make a living
Well, that was an overly melodramatic title.
This is maybe part of the answer on the security point http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/containers-docker-how-secure-a...
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Thermal power only, though. Not 1MW of electricity
There is always a point in any discussion of medicine where broad "public health" concerns creep in.

If we really cared about public health we'd have a drastically different system.

In any case I think it's hard to make a persuasive argument that if the members of the public were only kept more naive about their own health risks, public health would improve.
It's not "common sense" to pull a number out of thin air. The data sheet says 200kW.

Also, Rossi has applied for a patent and it was partially rejected. http://phys.org/news/2011-01-italian-scientists-cold-fusion-...

Keep in mind, I still think this is likely B.S., but let's evaluate it based on what we know.
A 200kW generator can fit on a small trailer. It's pretty common in the electrical generation field to use smaller generators to kick-start successively larger generators. That's how conventional hydro and nuclear plants must be started.

http://www.kohlerpower.com/rental/detail.htm?sectionNumber=2...
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And he has obviously failed, and for a very good reason -- he cannot back up his claims. Patents in this realm (not in software) require scientific evidence.

Only a perfect fool would try to market a breakthrough device in advance of securing patent protection. So the explanation is obvious -- the device doesn't perform as claimed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Rossi_%28entrepreneur%29

"In January 2011 Andrea Rossi and Professor Sergio Focardi claimed to have successfully demonstrated commercially viable cold fusion in a device called an Energy Catalyzer, although in an interview Rossi claimed that his Energy Catalyzer does not work on the basis of cold fusion, but weak [force] nuclear reactions.[15] The international patent application received an unfavorable international preliminary report on patentability because it seemed to "offend against the generally accepted laws of physics and established theories" and to overcome this problem the application should have contained either experimental evidence or a firm theoretical basis in current scientific theories.[16] Journalists were not allowed to examine the core of the reactor, and there is uncertainty about the viability of the invention.[17]"
Patents can never be renewed. That's the entire point of patent systems: limited-time monopoly.
23andMe has plenty of money behind it through its investors. 23andMe has been trying to play the game of Big Supp (the "natural supplements" industry, which has billions of dollars of revenue) by trying to imply health claims that it can't back up with evidence. That's nice work if you can get it, but 23andMe doesn't have the same sweeping exemption from regulation that "natural supplement" makers have.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/new-concerns-about-the-s...
What do you base your performance claim vs Clustrix on?
Use the volumes feature to share a filesystem between multiple containers
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Well, the moment you become part of the state (government), you agree to FOLLOW the constitution. The question here is not who broke "promises", but who acted against the constitution.
What does the vm abstraction buy you vs processes? If one entity "owns" all the servers what is the draw in seperating the servers out in their own VM?
Agreed.

I currently have two external drives: an archive drive and a backup drive: both 2TB. (Most things on the backup drive are compressed and deduped, which is why I can fit everything.)
What was the first app/ webapp that you created?
They call that quaint there... These aren't stupid hicks. If you think for a second that these folks don't see this as an awesome way to give a big Texas flying finger to Silicon Valley types with their skinny jeans, silly beards, and smugnaciousness... you've merely increased their will to continue this process.
Narendra Modi is not a technology person. He's a factional leader in India. Apparently responsible for the deaths of a few thousand people, no less.
I'm nearly sure one day someone will write a MongoDB compatibility layer on top of PostgreSQL
It's not inexplicable including Narendra Modi, he just put all the names down that were in the original thread. The original thread didn't specify tech as being important.

Adding additional names because somebody else asked for it is hardly a major issue, it's just the nature of HN polls - there's no time to do a nomination phase then voting because if you don't act straight away, you're not going to get on the front page and nobody will vote.

(Although this seems to have been flagged off anyway...)
old news anyway
No, docker sets up its own partition in a loop-mounted sparse file. There is a slight performance tradeoff, but in production you should assume the copy-on-write layer is too slow anyway and use volumes for your performance-critical directories: http://docs.docker.io/en/master/use/working_with_volumes/

In the future the drivers should support using actual lvm-enabled devices if you have them.
Nope. Capitalism == free markets == non-coersion. We have a highly mixed economy now, not capitalism.

If you consider large government bureaus (public, or "private" via regulation, like, say, Verizon) to define "capitalism" just because there are large amounts of money involved ("capital"), you are defining the term by non-essentials. There were also large amounts of money in the USSR.

Capitalism lost because of European intellectual influences in America; the existing defense of the ideas of the founding fathers was insufficient to stem the tide.
I don't think Elon Musk is a very good candidate for this year. Last year seemed more eventful for both Tesla and SpaceX.
The hacker in me couldn't resist, entering the following code:

echo shell_exec('ls /');

results in:

bin
dev
etc
home
lib
proc
spoj
tmp
usr
var

I'm sure you've sandboxed it so running rm -rf / wouldn't wipe out your server, but just in case, thought I'd better let you know :)
Nope none at all except personal experience playing at both high school and college level. That was total speculation on my part. Head injury data is really tough to gather accurately since the farther along in your career you get the more pressure you have to "play through it". So I would estimate (again total speculation on my part) that less than 1/2 of the concussions that actually happen get reported on a collegiate level (no idea about the NFL).

More personal notes: In college I knew a few guys who would have headaches for days but refuse to go to the doctor or trainer for fear of getting benched. That was the exact opposite in High school for me. Players would go to the trainer for every little bump and bruise.
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As other folks have mentioned there is a raw feed if you want to see a non-penalized version.

It would be interesting if it somehow incorporated other elements to determine article "value":
- Open rate
- Ratio of comments to opens
- Time spent on article or comments
- Depth of comments
A small survey on Ecommerce market places
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Second that. He may be a good or bad politician depending on the person's viewpoint, but there is almost nothing he has done for technology.
The closest he comes to tech that is covered on HN is to have covered a lot of area in his home state with solar projects.
I also came here to post this. Our priorities of late have been flipped. While providing for the common defense is one of many responsibilities, our primary responsibility and the oath taken by those in government is to the Constitution.
Simple. Use a MVC framework.
That depends on the backend a bit i guess. devicemapper "flattens" each layer, so the depth should have zero effect on the performance.

For aufs, I have no real data, but I assume that a 42 layer image is somewhat slower than a 1 layer image.

The fix for going to > 42 layers is to recreate a full image snapshot (using hard links to share file data) every N layers, so the performance would be somewhere between the performance between 1 and 42 layers depending on how many AUFS layers you got.
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All tech's impact is societal. That's the point of tech.

And Snowden's technical ability was instrumental to what he did. So I think he fits quite nicely into the category.
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I grew up and live in the lower right 1/3 of the US and his depiction is not that far off. Based on totally made up statistics that I'm pulling from my nether regions right now I'd guess at least one jury member had the exact thought the GP mentioned, while at least a few others just subconsciously would not lend credibility to the "dirty hippy."
Actual polls show a slight majority in favor of Snowden, despite the barrage of whining and accusations from politicians and cable news.
I have been a PHP programmer since long and while I do wish to go up for Django or RoR but I usually get put off by the amount of time I need to spend getting around both. On the other hand, it is so easy to get started with any PHP framework (except Zend, of course) and thats what I love, easiness to get encouraging productive output but seeing the people's prejudice, I feel that I would have to more or less go up for them.

I hate the fact how difficult is to associate yourself as "good PHP developer" amongst clueless 3$/hr script kiddies but if you are able to call yourself as a Django developer, you are automatically in the category of a good programmer.
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HN commenters have shown enough restraint !
The few issues I've run into are that I can't use Compass and I can't have Source Maps (yet).

Instead of Compass, I've switched to using Bourbon (bourbon.io) but may consider just using Auto Prefixer in future dev efforts.

Source maps I can live without since I haven't gotten used to them. I know it's in the works or at least being thought about: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/issues/122.
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France doesn't even have any data for senior devs. I hope for my sake this doesn't reflect reality…
As a European I don't even know who Sheryl Sandberg is, but googling her it seems she's not really practising what she preaches: http://valleywag.gawker.com/revealed-sheryl-sandbergs-unpaid... ;)
It is definitely designed to be easier in several ways. One way is that it defines a format for portable container images, and an infrastructure for moving images around machines and sharing them with others. See http://www.docker.io/gettingstarted/ for an online tutorial and https://index.docker.io for the index of all community images.