skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to learn more about what South Africa was like for people of different races before Apartheid, and the steps that lead to Apartheid, you should read the excellent book 'Cry the Beloved Country.' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country, http://www.amazon.com/Cry-Beloved-Country-Alan-Paton/dp/0743...)

The history of South Africa is unique, and you will learn something. These events are strongly connected to the discovery of gold and diamonds. Perhaps you've heard of the Rhodes scholarship? Cecil John Rhodes was a key player in these trades, and the Rhodes scholarship has a special status in SA.

Examples of previously white only areas : http://goo.gl/maps/JMQ07, http://goo.gl/maps/rz0bf

Examples of black only areas: http://tinyurl.com/pxpbwtq, http://tinyurl.com/kvxzm4l
Sorry, this line is getting very very old.

It's extremely tiresome to watch actions being justified because the "big bad" communists were out there. And what is this about an existential struggle?

The only real struggle between the two nations was who would dominate the rest of the world. I don't consider this existential. China is doing just fine without wanting to take over the rest of the world.

It's great revisionist history going on right now with Nelson Mandela's death. If you don't know the real history, you would think the States was right there beside Mandela fighting for freedom.
Yeah, that's cool and all, but can it deliver a package in 30 minutes or less?
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A powerful story put together by Ella Grace's adopter. Get your tissues ready.
But if you fail too often, you wind up dead or worse.
> Because the FDA is the one who ultimately wants this removed,

The FDA wanted it removed or justified -- assuring this with regard to medical devices is one of the things FDA is charged by Congress with doing. So, unless you can point to how the FDA isn't doing what it is charged to do, the blame either goes to 23andMe or to Congress, depending on how view the appropriateness of Congress's charge to the FDA.
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If you want my piece on this,

Each state is defined by its monopoly on violence, that is the military power it has over that area, the police/internal violence units are for keeping the internal structure of the house intact - the class system, for the rich to keep their fortunes and define policy. Thats the setup, but the real power centre and brain of the society is the intelligence agencies, which can direct and influence the policy makers on all from military matters to internal violence.

The intelligence agencies are above the law in any society. For them the law is a piece of paper to be used any way they wish. What is most important is "teh security of the state" which means the small network of people who get the reports on all others and each other - like a mafia family keeping each other stable and in place but still moving in the same direction - more power and safety for themselves.

This spying on masses is done to seek out good recruites, and has always been done without internet. The prime directive of any intelligence agency is to control the public life, wheverever it is, online or public squares.

The lure to work for these agencies is the secrecy, standing above law, being more important than others in society, and power.

Meh, doesnt really make sense, but Im gonna iterate more on these ideas.
Black South African here
It's a known fact that the ANC's guerilla campaign was largely a failure(most of the combatants were stuck in training camps across africa ).MK was founded after the Sharpeville massacre 21 March 1960 at which the apartheid gov killed 69 people who did not want carry ID's required for all black males.
Completely agree with you. The article seems to make the point that investors would welcome these changes, when in reality, we will be forcing these changes on investors. That was precisely my experience with the series AA.
When BTC prices do not deflate in any way and only experiences inflation of 2-3% on an annual basis, call me.

While I'm on the topic, you realize that because the money supply can't be increased in any meaningful way once mining is no longer viable, prices will experience constant deflation? This alone makes BTC worthless as money.
"If your upstream has a 1000Mbps port, and sells 10 1000Mbps ports? that's the same 10x oversubscribe. But I /guarantee/ that you will hit contention at least once a week. Probably more often. If people expect 1000Mbps reliable off that, they will be very unhappy. "

I like that example.

Reminds me of account receivable and bad debt.

Better to have 1000 customers that owe you $30 each rather than 10 customers that owe you $3,000 each. I'm not factoring into this example the cost of billing or customer service. Strictly that if you have 1000 customers it's much less aggravating and you don't loose sleep at night worrying about a big customer that doesn't pay a bill.
Well, they eventually demanded 23andMe stop marketing it when they failed after an extended period to either provide support or even provide a plan for gathering the required support. But that wasn't the starting point.
If someone tests this and their email goes to spam, would they be so kind to pastebin me the message headers/mime so I can try to solve that together with the Mailgun folks? Thanks a bunch.
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The individual sample sizes are small, yes. The variance between the paid vs organic conversions was still stark to me, e.g. 54 paid visitors had a 0% conversion rate to trial vs ~20% with 5 of 26 organic users converting to trial.

FWIW, the reddit ad campaign is at nearly a hundred views now, and still no trials.
What does this imply about the valuation of the company from an employee stock plan perspective? One of the nice things about convertible debt is that the investment is offset by an equal liability, providing a reasonable justification for continuing to issue stock to employees very cheaply. Does unencumbered cash (ie enterprise value) increase the risk of things like cheap stock charges? Can you use restricted stock with a safe or would you want to stick to ISOs and the 409(a) rules?
Confirmed by my referral logs. This is how it works.
Here is full story of 2013 hunt and all the puzzles: http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/What_Happened_Part_1...
We do not live in a Dr. Seuss book.

The fact is, Mr. I-Am, that most of the time, green eggs and ham are just rotten. We are not looking for a guarantee that we will like your culinary experiments, but we would like some assurance that they are edible.
That's 330 ppi by my calculation. The iphone has the same pixel density and it is very much good. I don't see the reason to push 1080 pixels on my tiny 4.5 or even 5 inch phone.
Absolutely love this quote from the article: "Money is like gas in the car – you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of the road – but a well-lived life is not a tour of gas stations!" - Tim O'Reilly
I'm glad the book has piqued your interest and hope you enjoy it.

By the way, in addition to the 50 science projects, the book also contains a bunch of sidebars, including several I've labeled "Don't Try This At Home," which describe some of the bizarre (and sometimes cruel) old-school science experiments that have been conducted on children.

They range from the weird but generally harmless (simulating entrapment in a refrigerator) to the scar-you-for-life (the infamous Monster Study).
YES! My bank limit my online password to be pretty much the same a nip number.

Are they crazy?

A few numbers is enough when you need a physical card and to stand in front of a camera... but it's not when you are online.
I would preffer more or less the api style docs with short general examples. than a lot of unusable text.
Basic supply and demand theory. When supply goes up, price falls. Since Bitcoin's supply does not go up after a certain point, all other things being equal it will preserve purchasing power vs the USD.
> The misunderstanding lead to software that had good quality but often didn't do what we wanted :\

This.

If you want me to cook a new dish, you should give me in writing exactly what you want or at least make sure that you carefully read (in full) and sign off the requirements/specs document(s) produced after our discussion.
Clients 100 percent (yes I mean it) of the time aren't even sure about the full requirements, let alone clearly conveying them during initial stages. This always ends with this word "misunderstanding".

I'm saying this from my experience working with both small and large fortune 500 clients.
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One possible reason for the failed HN launch is the landing pages makes the basic mistake of listing features rather than benefits or use cases. It is a description of what the code does, rather than why it was written.

I am still lost to the benefits of managing DNS with github. I can't see the documentation, and the free trial button leads to the scariest signup page in history. It wants read/write access to my private repos.
In my mind, this suggests a curious error in the study (since the sample appears large enough that this shouldn't happen randomly): probably an error in reporting the results, maybe the wrong image in the results?
Now this is an interesting app.

Anyone knows if there is something similar available for android?
Could reflect how much the participants cared by the end of the quiz?
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Well, of course not. However, cultural norms are very important to take into account when working with people of all backgrounds. There's a very fine, yet important line between taking cultural norms into account and forming stereotypes.
damn you, jekyll! i'll see if i can fix that bug.
I have an account. You can export your raw data from the test. I've done so and actually taken my results to other services for additional analyses. You can't, however, easily download their interpretations of your results, which is fair since that's their website. I did actually take the time to go page by page through their analysis and print them to pdfs.

If you're interested, I did a write-up on everything I've learned through personal genomics with resources, etc:

http://ideonexus.com/2012/04/16/adventures-in-personal-genom...
Why Twitter Got Just What It Needed
Agree.There have been some complains and disscussions about air pollution recently. They can easily be found online, whereas you won't find people talking about it or worry about it very much. The way of how Chinese expressing their feelings is far more different than a public outcry. Hence, people are certainly waiting for the action of their government. And, what about those who are so confident and think they will not be the next victim of the air pollution? Was Shanghai one of them who have this thought?
Finite being no-inflation. There is actually no technical limitation from stopping the subdivision of bitcoins.
>> But let's not pretend that any of this is done in the best interests of children.

Ummm, yeah it is. Without education they, individually, will find it very hard to thrive in our capitalist system.

Again, I struggle to see this as a bad thing. Yes - one of the goals of the political classes in establishing a perpetuating a compulsory education system is most likely to be economic.

I'm not sure I understand how "people who contribute to making a strong country through work and capitalism" are necessarily devoid of individuality or creativity.

(--edit-- I agree that a lot of systems do end up becoming very focussed on self preservation and expanding their reach, look at the military and police. Education is in no way immune from this, I still don't think that suppressing individuality and creativity are key goals of the system though)
I'd like to announce here to HN before the rest of the world my new service: the Twitter of personal genomes. It will publish all the data to the web. No expectation of privacy? No problem! I will call it genr.
In fairness, he started the military wing of the ANC, and his wife was involved in lots of very nasty stuff.

Those were bleak times, though; I'm sure Mandela himself thought as much. But for some reason you don't see the people so outraged about the relatively limited violence the ANC engaged in even slightly concerned about the constant terrorism and mass violence that the apartheid state directed against it's nonwhite residents. (I would say citizens, but they didn't even have legal formal citizenship.) And more than anything it's Mandela's performance after abolition that has cemented his reputation: he could easily have been another Mugabe, but he pursued restorative justice for both sides, not vengeance.

To paraphrase MLK...

I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that a political movement in a deeply repressed and violent society itself occasionally resorts to violence, but it is even more unfortunate that the country's white power structure left the coloured community with no alternative.
Beyond 23andMe
I have no clue what the email in question is. I just know the site is being reported as "bad" by: http://www.senderbase.org/lookup/?search_string=www.memofrom...

The warning I get from our network appliance: IP address is either verified as a bot or has misconfigured DNS.
I would not call that a driver. Also all of them are 3rd party developed. as it seems by single developers. So no standartization possible. The database adoption goes as far as the capability to use it in your project. And I found that the node.js drivers in particular were outdated in npm. Had to nudge one of the developers to update npm repo. Also REST access library is called driver???
this is true but if you don't take the grades to heart it doesn't really matter I guess except that it swings the overall figure.

Improvements can be made though for sure. It could be a personalized machine learning algorithm but I don't think it's there yet :D

Or, better yet, how bout building this into Photoshop... run the lint & have it suggest re-factorings for the user?

> Several non-integer font sizes are used. OK to refactor?

> Shall we re-organize layers/blending?
This is the same reason that there is a Bobby Sands Street in downtown Tehran.

The UK embassy responded by moving their main entrance to a side door on a different street so they wouldn't be forced to put Bobby Sands on their letterhead, official documents, etc.
Theoretically, you are of course right.

In practice, it is a tradeoff. If you have already decided that the password for this particular computer/application/website does not entail the use of password DB, it is a good option.

You are on purpose selecting a low entropy password, just one whose underlying pattern is hard to guess by a would-be attacker. I would not use this kind of approach for any account that makes it obvious that I am a programmer (aajem, HackerNews)... but for the general population, the attacker is not likely to target YOU, but the average user of such and such site.
Bitcoin dropping?
I am guessing coal/charcoal/wood fired street food vendors. I doubt a yearly family picnic contributes enough to worry about.
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You may also want to think about using our validator[1] to check the validity of the email addresses before sending.

[1] https://github.com/mailgun/flanker or http://documentation.mailgun.com/api-email-validation.html
"all of the bad things" seem to continue:

Cuba remains the only country in Latin America that represses virtually all forms of political dissent. The government of Raúl Castro continues to enforce political conformity using short-term detentions, beatings, public acts of repudiation, travel restrictions, and forced exile. Although the Cuban government released dozens of political prisoners on the condition that they leave the country, the government continues to sentence dissidents in closed, summary trials. The government has also relied increasingly upon arbitrary arrests and short-term detentions to restrict the basic rights of its critics, including the right to assemble and move freely.

http://www.hrw.org/americas/cuba

Another source for info, if you don't like HRW: http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/cuba
Strong AI is more than a tool - it's life, created by humans and more intelligent than we are. How could that not change everything?
So... opensource tool for healthy interpretation of raw data from 23andme? Anyone?
Obviously if a comet is hitting the earth a month from now the relative demand shifts from dollars to Viagra, but we're speaking in term relative to dollars. Since the supply of Bitcoins is not increasing after it hits 21 million, there is no reason to suspect inflation.
Because 23andMe can't run a disclaimer like that without being either:

- totally disingenuous

- defeating the core marketing angle of their product

Either they are issuing the disclaimer in good faith, in which case their marketing becomes "we don't really know for sure, this is just a for-fun thing, do not base any health decisions off this". This is antithetical to what 23andMe is trying to do.

Or they issue the disclaimer in bad faith - i.e., they claim certainty in their information, they claim reliability, and they market the product as a medical tool, and then slap a shitty disclaimer on the bottom like the small-print of a crappy infomercial purely for legal reasons.

The latter approach is just creative mislabeling, like calling vibrators massagers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_(file_sharing)

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

These are three completely different things.
> the risk of people maybe finding out something inaccurate and going crazy with it is higher than the reward of people finding out something accurate and taking action to preserve their health based on this information

I don't think this balance is as cut and dry as you claim it to be. There are very few "actionable" results that you can get from a 23andMe test right now, whatever they say to the contrary. The meat of the report that they currently provide is a list of alleles and associations to various properties, but there are thousands of alleles (and likely millions more not tested for lack of known associations) that sum to your particular phenotype. The math and science behind that summing process is severely lacking at this point, simply because we have not characterized the billions of interactions between them.

The FDA's problem with 23andMe is that they are not properly communicating this uncertainty in their marketing. Relevant to this issue is whether the reports can be called "medical" information or not. In order for things to live up to the standard of "medical" devices or therapies in the US, they have to pass a certain measure of QC, accuracy, and demonstrated efficacy. 23andMe hasn't done the legwork for any such tests, and from most accounts, it seems like the FDA has given ample effort to accommodate them so far.

This is not about hiding data from ignorant people. 23andMe will likely go on testing and providing reports. It just can't advertise it as "medical" until it passes the same standards as other medical products, just the same way I can't sell "Grade A" Beef unless it passes certain standards, or sell "bourbon" in the US unless it's aged in a charred-oak barrel. That is because we've decided as a society to link certain labels with standards, and the label would be pointless if it weren't applied consistently.
It's especially dour when people celebrate getting nuclear plants shut down or blocked, and you know the unspoken result will be more coal plants. How is that a victory?
Reading it carefully doesn't help if the information provided isn't accurate.
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I think the point is that there is nothing "creative" about deciding to go bum around SE Asia for a few months. Actually doing so will certainly take some planning, and maybe relaxing and reading might give you ideas for stuff to do later, but there is nothing creative in the act or in the planning and there is nothing to suggest that it will result will be anything creative either. I know scads of young 20-somethings who did exactly this and then came back home to do pretty much nothing.
I'd be more interested in a document store that was historical and didn't mutate.

Failing that, I'll just keep using RethinkDB for this sort of thing.
Why is the Food and Drug Administration sticking it's nose into what is essentially a novelty product? Are you kidding me?

If only 23andme had a pair of balls ... this should really end up in court where we can clearly draw a line the FDA can't cross.
I find the finger counting (3 with thumb, index, and middle finger) interesting. Here in Asia that could mean 8.

I was first taught to count starting from the index finger as well:

fist = 0

index = 1

index, middle = 2

index, middle, ring = 3

index, middle, ring, pinky = 4

index, middle, ring, pinky, thumb = 5

thumb = 6

thumb, index = 7

thumb, index, middle = 8

thumb, index, middle, ring = 9

(I am from Thailand, but I think this is how counting is taught in America as well?)

I thought this was universal until I went to Singapore. I was quite intrigued that in Singapore a "thumb" is not considered a number but rather a signal for "good" and instead they used thumb + pinky for 6. (The rest seems to be the same.)

Not sure why I brought that up, but I guess I had not realized that there was a difference in even the way we counted all around the world until that point.

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Do you know a better term for "debug others' code"?
Peercoin (eventually) uses proof of stake.
Safe is probably favored to become the standard vehicle for seed rounds, a benefit of being sponsored by YC. Investors will require less convincing and at first glance Safe seems to be at least as good as convertible debt (as fast and cheap as convertible debt, with no promise of repayment).
It's expensive, and it's a retrofit.

There are hundreds maybe thousands of models of highly evolved e-bikes made in China that have better features and lower cost. In addition to having an e-bike specific frame design that takes battery weight out of the wheel, most of them have removable batteries, which means you can recharge them at your desk at work and they won't get stolen.
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Except that, most creative ideas are bad.

You are right, but that is part of the process. When finding a good idea it helps to find lots of bad ideas and understand why they are bad. In the end it makes the good idea easier to see.

When coming up with a system design, db or otherwise I like to understands lots of different ideas, and more importantly, actively reject those ideas with a clear understanding as to why. The helps to find the idea that really does work.
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"How would you feel if your neighbour went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their back yard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?"

Same arguments can be used against handheld camcorders, smartphones etc.