skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, this trend of creating social news/aggregator/HN-clones is really catching on! Not really a bad thing IMHO, and I probably feel so because I'm working on "Yet Another News Aggregator" for another particular niche. I think this is basically a trend of creating subreddit-like sites, except with more customizations allowed.
Update: the radioactive source has been found.
http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/stolen-cobalt...
Barney Stinson had pointed out the cheerleader effect before, I never thought that it could actually be a thing...
I know their service is awesome, that's why I wanted to use them. I just thought their verification questions were way over the top.

I sent them a pretty snarky reply, and they handled it very professionally. They even activated my account, which made me questions once again why they ask so many questions if they will just activate your account anyway.

Bottom line, very impressed with their service and would recommend, just don't like how they go about verifying users.
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So, in this scatterbrained state, how many attempts would it take you to plug in a redesigned connector :-)
As someone who runs a number of message boards, I can say that I would be thrilled to receive such high quality takedown notices.

I deal with these often enough that I can attest to the general badness of takedown notices -- usually, they include the victim's name, the accusation that I'm infringing, and the demand for a takedown. Most noticeably, what is almost always missing are descriptions of the images, links to where they're located on the site (I can't find an image by name if one of my members posted it -- I just can't), etc.

As these include all of the above, I have to say kudos.

Somewhat offtopic, perhaps I should post my "Here's why I'm not complying with your DMCA takedown notice" standard letters as a response. (Not because I'm a dick, but because I don't personally violate image copyrights, and if my members do, it's hosted externally by design -- what I do instead is redirect the complainant to where the image is hosted and offer any assistance I can, short of editing user posts on my properties.)
500 Startups offers $100,000 at a $2M valuation (i.e. 5%). Cheaper than $150,000 at $1M (i.e. 15%).
I won't believe it until it has a more formal name. "Organizational Attraction Bias", perhaps. :)
The more information is available in the documentation, the more you can benefit from somebody pointing you to the right information for your question. So I think that if software vendors were to document even more, you would need something like stack overflow even more.

And then there's also the problem of cross-technology questions, where you have a question of combining multiple technologies. These kind of questions are usually a bad fit for documentation.
The work they've done is definitely impressive. Really looking forward to seeing the robot do its stuff in person down in Homestead.

Though Atlas is definitely nothing to sneeze at. I've become pretty fond of it since the summer :-)
Age:

Scala - about 10 years old
Kotlin - not yet released
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…except BitCoin isn't experiencing inflation. It's experiencing deflation.

(Inflation is when the value of a currency decreases, causing the price of goods in that currency to increase or inflate.)
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Yeah, I feel like half the biases listed are actually phenomenon that are quite noticeable, just referred to with more casual terminology. Of course, statisticians wouldn't want to work with arguable terms so they have to "jargon-ify" the words a bit.
Ok, if ever there was a time to bring out this particularly good industrial/ebm album, it is right now. In particular, this track, which includes samples of the above quotes:

DIN_FIV
Escape To Reality
Track #3 - "Conspiracy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2ktuDmEAv8
According to the FDA's letter of action, they spent years discussing the company's marketing of their product with 23andme. Surely the company, in that time, could have chosen to rebrand. Instead, it is plastered with quasi-medical advice.

Not that I think this is even bad—but I do think that this puts the company's marketing claims justifiably under the FDA's purview.
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> The payment is made to the multisig address and not released to the seller until the buyer is satisfied. If there are any problems with the sale, the buyer and the arbitrator could together send the money back from the multisig address to the buyer. You aren't exactly reversing the original transaction, you're creating another transaction that reverses the effect of the original one.

So it's just more secure escrow?
Is anyone else personally terrified of the new bar at the top?
Ok but it's a pretty involved and rare scam sending a product which arrives and appears legitimate and later breaks down.
I posted that comment on NYT then submitted this article to HN. I used to work in the medical laboratory business before getting into software development. I do not think 23 and me is going to escape enforcement from the FDA. The comments they made to NYT were about the fact that the FDA has to look at each test individually to determine if it can be CLIA waived. They imply that this is an archaic way of doing things as they are testing millions of correlations, and compare it with the challenges in the tech community with slow regulatory change.

They are wrong about this. The FDA does have to evaluate every diagnosis that they are making as it is that.. a diagnosis. Diagnoses that are going straight to the consumer have an even higher bar to meet not unlike a drug becoming OTC. Medical laboratories are not allowed to perform direct to patient testing for non waived tests.

The purpose of this is that they do not want patients to interpret tests incorrectly where there is gray area, and possibly make adverse decisions based on the diagnosis.

http://wwwn.cdc.gov/CLIA/Resources/WaivedTests/default.aspx
It's a lie of diversion / distraction.

Noam Chomsky:

Anything that's totally vacuous and diverts, after all what does it mean to be in favor of .. suppose somebody asks, do you support the people in Iowa, can you say I support them or no I don't support them. It's not even a question it doesn't even mean anything. And that's the point of public relations slogans like support our troops is that they don't mean anything, they mean as much as whether you support the people in Iowa.

Of course there was an Issue -- the issue was do you support our policy but you don't want people to think about the issue that's the whole point of good propaganda, you want to create a slogan that nobody is gonna be against and I suppose everybody will be for because nobody knows what it means because it doesn't mean anything, but it's crucial value is it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something. Do you support our policy and that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.

http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/199201--.htm

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=G7DdWmWUa_8

Incidentally, this passage is within a larger context of public relations. A while back I was looking at terms and phrases on Google's Ngram viewer and noted something really odd: "democracy" wasn't a term in broad use until World War I, with a second major uptick during WWII.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=democracy&year...

I noted that and didn't think much more of it for a few months until I ran across a reference to Edward Louis Berneys, father of modern public relations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

Really interesting coot. Double nephew of Sigmund Freud (oh yeah: Berneys popularized Freud too -- and married advertising to psychology while he was at it), convinced women to smoke ("Torches of Freedom"), and though it's hard to believe it had to be sold, promoted bacon.

One of his first campaigns? A WWI "support the troops" message commissioned by the US government. To popularize democracy.

That's right: the principle American Value was brought to you as a marketing campaign.

(Ngram viewer is fascinating for studying the emergence / rise / fall in the popularity of words and phrases).

More on lies of diversion:
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/5zrCkbzR...
I'd love to do most of my amateur video editing on my powerful ubuntu desktop instead of my macbook air. Is there a good community around any particular video studio project for linux?
Okay. I'm out. No more BTC for me.

EDIT: I read the article. I know what it's about.
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Thanks but i read the FAQ and i could´nt find what is wrong with my post.could you provide any detail? Any feedback on our page?
AFAIK no one ever asked Clapper (or any other NSA representative) to give a precise operational definition of the term "metadata". I don't want to hear what someone else thinks "metadata" is, I want to know how NSA operationally defines "metadata" internally and precisely when and where the usage(s) are made.

Voice:

I am on the telephone with you. My actual voice is the data. Is the digitization of my voice not metadata? After all, natural voice =/= digitized voice. So it seems that digitized voice could be, to the NSA, metadata and therefore subject to capture.

I know the NSA has software/hardware to translate digitized voice to text. Suppose all phone conversations are converted to text. Then is that text therefore not data but metadata? Once again, it seems that the text of all phone conversations could be, to the NSA, metadata and therefore subject to capture.

Fax:

I send a fax to you. What's on the sheet of paper is data. But is the digitized and compressed sequence of bits sent to you not metadata? It certainly is not the same as the original data. So it seems that the digitized fax could be, to the NSA, metadata and therefore subject to capture.

Still, were that not so, the NSA has OCR that can read handwritten or typed text from a fax and convert it to text. Is the converted text not metadata? It is certainly different from the original data. So it seems that the converted text from the fax could be, to the NSA, metadata and therefore subject to capture.

E-mail:

I e-mail you. The text I see before me is data. Once I press the send key, it is compressed through various software/hardware for rapid transmission as it passes over the TCP/IP/phone network. Is not that compressed text also metadata? Therefore it seems that e-mail content could be, to the NSA, metadata and therefore subject to capture.

IOW once data is processed through any transformation whatsoever then it could be defined as "metadata". Again I don't know NSA's exact definition (used internally) of what metadata is. There may be many different definitions. But since NSA's representatives raised the use of the term w/o defining it (and then used the metaphor of a library to draw questioners off track) I believe that they should be questioned again about precisely what "metadata" means when and where. Furthermore the question of what precisely the NSA captures should be driven to ground thoroughly.

Personal belief:

NSA considers the product of any transformation of data to be metadata. The NSA captures all voice, fax, e-mail, chat, sms, etc. and maintains it in digitized form. Regardless of origin, all communications end up in text format (with pointers back to the original digitized form) which is then subjected to semantic/content analysis (scanning for naughty words), and optionally (under control of an analyst) to social network analysis and AI software that analyzes events, objects, actors, their intentions, and possible variations in interpretation of the text.
One hour saved per land-on-answered-question is being incredibly generous, in my experience. Generally I need a dozen or so "answered" questions to get one that's both relevant and even remotely correct.

Even with that though, it has undeniably saved me time. All told though, possibly not as much as Google results for blogs talking about similar things, which usually have a lot more context so you can determine if it's still accurate or not. SO has huge bit-rot problems.
I was just popping in to post essentially the same thing. I have worked on two class III medical devices (systems work with a focus on software) over the past eight years (lead developer and project manager). It is obvious to anyone who has an ounce of experience dealing with the FDA that the interpretation is the problem and that such a product should be regulated in some way.

Honestly, their comments come off as a bit flippant, and really, they should be a bit more fearful. Right or wrong, the FDA is not to be trifled with.
You should also include dates alongside the breach. Just so that one knows, if they have taken corrective action after that
I had this idea too a few months ago. I had looked at lenticular sheets and other things but stopped thinking about it eventually, not sure why. (except for the fact that is what I usually do: I have an idea, think about it for a little bit, look at how it could be done and stop there :))

I think it was a combination of the price of the individual sheets (on Amazon at least) and the need for a high quality printer and assembly (the print and the lenticular sheet need to be perfectly aligned). I was imagining a cheap service to get memes into magnets for your fridge but the prices seemed not to match this vision. Working with artists like this site is doing is definitely a great idea. I had started trying to find a local printer but I don't think I found anybody fast enough for me not to move on to a different idea.

Great work!
Some interesting perspectives in this article:

First, calling the FDA "a very important partner" is overly glib. The FDA is not a "partner" in the sense that they will accompany you or assist you on your journey. They are only there to put the brakes on you. They are not merely "important," they are _vital_.

Second, the article is skewed to make it sound like people aren't entitled to our own DNA information. That's not what is contested. Of course, you can have access to your own DNA data, as long as the proper checks are made to ensure you're actually getting an accurate reading.

The issue is whether telling you have a disease with life-scale consequences requires validation of these claims.

There is something to be said for their tactic of giving a large number of answers instead of validating single tests, but it still requires a thorough level of validation to protect people from exploitation and it wouldn't hurt their cause to present themselves more respectfully to the authorities. Perhaps they're trying to fake casualness, that's certainly my reading, but I hope they don't screw this all up but not thinking it through and throwing around lots of bullshit.

For example, comparing themselves to Google is ludicrous. First, google's indexing search engine HAD been doing before, by altavista, webcrawler, etc., etc. Second, there was no question that whether what they were doing could negatively influence people's health and well-being. Perhaps the scholar/books scanning was a bit controversial. Perhaps some were surprised at Streetview, but that was actually legal and in both cases, they took several key measures, voluntarily, to keep themselves well inside the law. BTW, I'm no google fanboy, but to compare their IT stunts and magic tricks with potentially delivering low-quality information about life-threatening health conditions "isn't in the same ballpark. It isn't even the same goddamn sport." -Jules.
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this would perhaps add a little photographic perspective http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RgGNiCL8jK0/TFuDfppScAI/AAAAAAAAA3... Its the iconic picture by Kevin Carter shot 3 months prior to him committing suicide.
I got my example from popehat and there is a nice long blog post on there about how the laws are greatly moving away from "intent" and it is a dangerous thing.
>That would make them bad people.

Judgemental, much? I think you're presupposing that people have far more autonomy than they actually do in society and business. Moreover, you're making a judgement that any amount of sin automatically makes you a bad person, regardless of the circumstances.

Let's say you're a line worker at <big box retailer>. You notice the store manager embezzling petty cash. At the same time, you also know that the promise of anonymity in reporting the store manager is bullshit, and there's a high probability that you'll be fired long before the investigation of the store manager is completed. Meanwhile, if you do nothing, the store manager will get caught up in an audit eventually, and will get fired/prosecuted anyway. Do you report the store manager? Or do you go along, not participating, but not rocking the boat, either? Most importantly, does your moral calculus change if you have dependents who are reliant on your income for food, clothing and shelter?
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Dourado is right -- but only in the same sense that physical cash transactions "aren't reversible".

Which is to say that:

a) Once the transfer is made (of physical cash or bitcoins), then only a big show of force against the right people can reverse it.

b) But you can still layer an escrow particle on top of bitcoins and physical cash to extend the window of (non-forced) reversibilility.

It's still meaningful to say that bitcoin transactions in themselves, per the protocol, are irreversible.

(And it's still stupid to promote Bitcoin on the false, flaky grounds that somehow makes chargebacks impossible, even if the parties agree to enable them.)
Nothing's wrong with it, it's just recommended that you post it as a link rather than a text post with a link in it, as it will get more exposure on the front page and you will get more feedback.

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ:

If you are posting a ‘rate my startup’ post as a self post you are missing out on a lot of valuable feedback because likely your post will not make it to the homepage. I would suggest you post your site as a link and put your extra information about the project in the first comment.
A donation should suffice (they are running a campaign now, BTW) :)
0xB8000, to be precise. This is 16-bit 8086 legacy, where addresses were 20-bit and segmented.

The most fun mode was mode 0x13 from INT 0x10, with its fantastic 320x200 resolution and 256 colors. That one had the buffer at 0xA0000.
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>Ensure top level management has skin in the game (e.g. partnership).

It's better than nothing, sure. But let's not forget that over half of Richard Fuld's wealth was in Lehman Brothers stock. It didn't prevent him from flying his company straight into the ground.
The last time I was in an attribution conflict was with the OpenROV guys. What I told them was "If you give me back the Make Magazine prize that you won with my design, and you have Make change the links, I will allow you to live." It got done in a week.
my last read of the night - and turned out to be pretty interesting... thanks!
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It's wrong. 23andme does not diagnose disease. It links DNA to published research papers and provides confidence level based on a number of factors.
Yeah I agree with you about deprecation. While couchDB may not be a good fit building large html applications for small applications show and list are invaluable.

Consider a diqus like platform. How cool it will be if formatted comments can be served directly from the database.

But she said that they will be available through plugins. So we will have to wait and see...

The node js addition is to leverage the speed of v8 engine that impacts only the view building time and not much else(I could be wrong though)
All they need to do is slap a disclaimer all over the place and instead of mentioning specific diseases say something non-specific like "this test result indicates your heart/lung/bone/etc is unhealthy/risky/bad/etc". The completely bullshit vitamin/herbs/supplements/alternatives industry has been making similar claims without a peep from the FDA. You gotta know the rules to the game even if they are arbitrary.
A 1-hr session 4 days a week is a pretty typical lifting regiment. Personally I consider that hour a cognitive release rather than commitment, but to each his own!
I'm guessing that a lot of the difficulty comes from the fact he's creating an OS for a PC, which is a pretty quirky and inconsistent architecture.
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I believe one of their goals is to crowd source medical information and possibly sell the results. Right now they have a "23 and We" research program where you can voluntarily opt in. Even if you don't when you go on their site they try to get you to answer questions about yourself from time to time. I have never answered them and they seem very innocuous such as is your earwax wet?. I am not sure if they dig deeper if you answer those questions in future questions
Yes, we send them jerky monthly from now on.
...provides confidence level based on a number of factors

You have just described a medical diagnosis.
It doesn't really fall under the definition of an escrow:

a bond, deed, or other document kept in the custody
of a third party and taking effect only when a specified
condition has been fulfilled.

[usually as modifier] a deposit or fund held in trust or
as a security

The arbitrator gets "voting power" in regards to deciding where the funds goes, he doesn't keep it in his custody nor he have full control over it. What Bitcoin allows to do is really unique, and was never possible before. When the money is in a multisig address, it isn't really "owned" by anyone.

Edit: perhaps you could say that its owned collectively by the Bitcoin network, that can decide to allow moving it elsewhere if a transaction that fulfills the Bitcoin rules is received. Under that definition, one could say that the funds are in an escrow controlled by the Bitcoin network as a whole.
backwards compatibility is a burden, not a feature.
> "this test result indicates your heart/lung/bone/etc is unhealthy/risky/bad/etc"

It's pretty unlikely they would escape the FDA's review simply by making their medical diagnoses slightly more vague.
If I understand correctly the independent third party is only needed in a dispute. If the buyer and seller are happy then completing the transaction does not require action by anyone else.

This delays payment until 2 of the three parties sign off. From the buyer's point if view that is reversibility. From the sellers point of view this is a delay in getting paid.
The blog author is not a 'he' but a 'she.' Her name is mentioned through the article.

And I'm guessing that the difficulty comes from the fact that she's building a freaking operating system from scratch... ;)
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There are two assumptions here that are untrue and changing them would change the order of magnitude of the answer:

- That as soon as an answer to something is on StackOverflow, it isn't available anywhere else

- That every pageview on an answer saves someone 10$. Everyone running any kind of webpage knows how small of a percentage of the views is from people really trying to use it at all, and likely even among those a large fraction does not have any particular problem, but just view those "top 100 books" etc. mini-articles.
Reading this gives me a yearning in my belly to drop everything and hack away at a toy OS for a while
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