skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they're selling things that aren't actually valid diagnostics as if they were diagnostic tests. In what sense is prohibiting that too stringent a regulation? It's not DNA-specific; if you set up a random lab that claimed to diagnose diseases from blood samples that you invite people to mail in, your lab would be shut down pretty quickly if you never validated the analyses.

If they want to sell DNA dumps and call them DNA dumps, that'd be truthful advertising. But if they want to make diagnostic claims, they need to actually back them up.
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It's an anecdote, and goes some way to explaining why so,e programmers have just given up on 3 already.
I thing my desktop is nicer than this surounded by dozen external HDDs.
Three words: people are dumb.
I live by the idea that no person will do things exactly the same way I do them.

Best of luck to you.
Nope.

"For now, we have censored the last two digits of the phone numbers in order to minimize spam and abuse. Feel free to contact us to ask for the uncensored database. Under certain circumstances, we may agree to release it."
For a website with "code" in its name, having the favicon still set to the default Wordpress one doesn't offer a good impression.
pretty ghetto looking landing page
In my experience in the US, the carriers/operators have an area code or two, but it's in the local area code rather than regional area code.

10-digit example: XXX - YYY - zzzz

The leaked data area codes are represented by the regional/XXX block and the carriers are in the local/YYY block in the 10-digit example.
> It appears that you can't provide answers without first asking questions.

That's not true. You can write answers right away, but you need to acquire some rep before you can write comments .
SpaceX will do a vertical landing of their Falcon 9 v1.1 first stage on land.
Bitcoin is overtaken by something else.

JavaScript continues to get faster.

Google Glasses gets released and we see them grow quickly, similar to how stuff like the pebble has been growing traction. 2013 was the year of the smartwatch. 2014 will be the year of the smartglasses.

2014 is the year of the Linux desktop with SteamOS!
Or just use port 8080 to bypass their Varnish server:

http://www.snapchatdb.info:8080/schat.csv.zip
http://www.snapchatdb.info:8080/schat.sql.zip
Folks make this statement: "but a currency must have backing, or intrinsic value" and feel that they have just proved bitcoin can't work. But not many contributors seem capable of stating WHY they believe this. Care to elaborate?

In any case, I think it's entirely possible that you're wrong, and I've written a long argument against your claim if you're interested:

http://reviewsindepth.com/2013/12/bitcoin-krugman-and-the-me...

The TLDR is that yes, historically currencies have required intrinsic value or government backing of some kind - but it is not an economic law of nature that a currency has to be backed as such. If you can get the economic costs of securing agreement over a currency, then a currency of "mere agreement" is possible. Given that the internet and the design of Bitcoin itself have dramatically reduced those costs - it may actually have a shot at gaining wide acceptance.
Or there is another reason for such activities, and “contraband” is just a disguise.
They censored the last two digits of the phone numbers. And if you goto google's password recovery option, it shows you the last three numbers of a someone's phone number. Just saying.
Take a look at Android questions especially. The API has changed so much recently that many answers are obsolete.
Snapchat devs explained how to create the database on Dez 27th:

Theoretically, if someone were able to upload a huge set
of phone numbers, like every number in an area code, or
every possible number in the U.S., they could create a
database of the results and match usernames to phone
numbers that way.

http://blog.snapchat.com/post/71353347590/finding-friends-wi...

omg
This is one of the clearest explanations of the situation that I have read.
https://tails.boum.org/

Mentioned by Jacob Applebaum in "To Protect and Infect" from 30c3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILAlhwUgIU
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Um..yeah..I just noticed that. That's REALLY embarrassing for them.
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That's why I suggested it - the parent said they were already in a MS shop, there'd be significantly less resistance with staying on the same stack.
they plug their magic box into your firewire port and dump your memory and image your disks. They don't care about what OS you are running. they grab it all.
All phone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) are allocated first as area codes by region and then by prefix for smaller locations. Some states, like Wyoming, have a single area code (307) while metro areas, like Houston, can have multiple area codes (713, 281, 832, 346) all covering the same physical place. This is a holdover of calling party pays so that a caller will know where a given phone number "lives." This distinction has become less visible with the advent of local number portability and nationwide mobile roaming.

(The NANP covers Canada, the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States, and a large list of island nations in the North American area.)
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Here is another idea - they follow the constitution.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"
Bump has never been successful since its inception.
* rolls eyes*

In Windows, Start -> Run -> ncpa.cpl, right-click Wi-Fi adapter -> Status -> Wireless Properties -> Security tab -> "Show characters".
That's actually an idea. Put pornographic images of your "girlfriend" in some thinly-veiled location ("BUSINESS REPORTS" under your Pictures folder). Border patrol will never make it past that folder in their search.
The part that made me laugh out loud was "Whatever happened to just grounding someone?" right after that.
Indeed, the relevant number is not (students who complete) / (students who sign up). A better number to look at is (students who complete) / (cost of class) - i.e., an actual benefit/cost ratio. (It's not the best number, since it ignores the value gained by students who partially complete.)

If I pay $2,000 and have a 4% chance of completion, that sucks. If I pay $0 and have a 4% chance of completion, that's pure win.
Where is "here", if I may ask?
suffix tree. same as longest subsequence problem. create suffix tree, reverse string and find longest subsequence.
Hmm, I somewhat disagree. Private information is anything you don't want public. By protocol, it isn't strictly private. But a phone number is private/unknown until its known, which is how most of us prefer it.

For example, in implicit social code it is impolite to give away a friend's phone number without asking them first.
Why are they doing this? Are there any good resources out there on the split with WSJ?
This does not mean that he is not able to present the things in proper context. However, the general situation with graphene in acedemia right now is that it is a good source of grant money. Hence you see wildy exaggerated claims of its capabilities.
Perish the thought! The solution they have in mind for expansion is more like:

http://www.promise.com/news_room/news.aspx?m=23&region=en-gl...

E.g.,

http://store.apple.com/us/product/HE153VC/A/promise-pegasus2...

I have had the predecessor device, a 6bay Thunderbolt RAID 6, for two years and it has been quiet and reliable.
If I had to guess, I would assume it's similar to the Verge/Engadget situation. Splitting from a stodgy corporation that doesn't want to change or update anything.

Eventually they collectively realize that nothing is going to change and they could run a much better site without their parent corporation, and it goes from there.

Of course, this is complete speculation based on zero actual evidence. But it would hardly surprise me if the WSJ and AOL had a reluctance to be proactive in common.
If you're playing anonymous, you surely would also use burner phones and not your main phone for that purpose. Same applies to identities, profiles and hardware, any IDs, network connection and so on.

Because if I do have an alias, which is doing very shady things. I would make it pretty sure, it's not going to be that easy to get it. When doing stuff like that you want to be sure that there's "shared nothing" approach. So if they hack your systems, your primary system won't contain any information referring to the shady side and vise versa.
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On my Nexus 5, if I'm on the right screen, it takes 1 tap (Gmail widget). But I agree that bump is way more convenient for sending this type of data and is well worth the effort.
Clearly, if anything, we should have more random stops and searches, maybe even in the streets. That would catch more of these dumb criminals.
The music industry as we know it is dead. As someone with a history in the industry, it is time to discover and embrace the new music model...whatever that may be. And there are many things it might be. Streaming, yes. The end of downloads? I don't think so but maybe. The ability for deserving artists without the backing of the major-label machine to have a measurable amount of success. Stay tuned ;)
>That isn't a 'cliff' that is an inflection point, or perhaps a global minimum.

No, there may be an inflection point in the metric "cost per standardized transistor". But this does not equal "cost per function".

There are manys way to utilize transistors more efficiently or still make them smaller while performing the same function. You have to realize that not all transistors in a chip are of minimum size due to circuit design requirements. Furthermore, only a fraction of the transistors are actually involved in performing the logic function you see from the outside. There is an increasing number of transistors spent on "housekeeping" functions such as clock distribution, power gating, bus drivers etc.

All of these can be improved by working on circuit design, improved layout software, optimzing the materials in the transistors etc. Of course this is less straightfoward than simply making the transistors smaller and therefore more expensive. Therefore we are going to see diminishing returns, but there will not be an inflexion point in the business model of the entire industriy.
How about assimilated?
I liked the name, I liked the content. I'll be following their new site.

All the best.
Happy new year!
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Usually questions are "closed" by 5 users (not by a moderator) so make it "5 jerks" (and I am one of them BTW...)

A question should be closed because it's a dup, or because it's not clear, or there's not enough information and the author didn't bother responding to the comments that mention that etc.

If you don't think so - you can write a comment and vote to "repoen".
If you feel better by calling us "jerks" - good for you...

Happy new year!
I recall that Feynman had some great quote about this. Basically, if you stay observant and studious, then you can try each bit of new information against the problems you already have, and you gain useful insights as a happy side effect of learning for fun.
The new site looks nice, the bold fonts and red and black
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IE will lose at least another 10-15% market share this year BECAUSE of the fact that they decide not to support WebRTC.
And then you get arrested for the illegal stuff that Google finds online.
It's even better: The U.S. is so stupid that you have to enter the area code that you're calling, even when your phone is within the same area code.
This is insane in a good way :)
> Harry Potter was published in 97, and the film was released in 01. They paid a million dollars for the rights. In your world they would wait a year or two and do it for free.

It's not obvious why that's a bad thing.
This is why you don't give your phone number to an app.

DUHHHHH
IEEE spectrum has a good and accurate general coverage of these topics.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors
No. 10: " little political involvement." - I don't know but they do kind of run Africa...Someone I heard of bought some land in Namibia or Mozambique or someplace. He planned to build a house so he got a geologist to check the bedrock, which turned out to be rich in copper. He thought he hit the Jackpot so he asked for mining rights, the government's reply was "We're sorry, you may build a house on the land but we have sold the mining rights to the chinese gov't".
Here you go :

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tank-hero-laser-wa...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/they-need-to-be-fe...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rick-oshea/maphdck...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wordflow/ldjhnilbg...

You even have the sales numbers effectively in there at the moment :

They need to be fed : 1013 users @ 0.99$

Tank hero : 233 users @ 0.99$

Rick O'Shea : 404 users @ 0.99$

Wordflow : 1547 users @ 1.99$ (not a game, a "distraction free" editor)
We did this already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6954238
Someone will make a plugin for IE if the demand is large enough, like they did for webgl (even though webgl demand isn't very big).
Should they be deleted? Edited? I'm not sure I want to wade into the SO quagmire to fix them.
I predict I'll finish my HP 200LX clone running RetroBSD on the new PIC32 board that just arrived. I get an excellent web developing job working on interesting project(s). I finish my book. :)

And on the whole: 2014, year of the Linux desktop... Hey, I can dream, can't i?
So is this possible because California doesn't recognize non-competes?

Because basically Walt/Kara seem to have borrowed Newscorp backing until they didn't need it anymore, after which they announce a new URL and continue on their own.
Thanks for the write up - It's always better to learn from other people mistakes. I think however you and the most of the other posters miss the most basic problem because they mostly seem not to have tried the site and that is that, to me at any rate, it seems the product is not very good. It seems to be basically a 40 question form with questions like "People in the team know the weaknesses and strengths of other team members." that you mark from 1-10 and is not customizable. Personally I hate that stuff - you spend ages filling the thing out and then when you find the average response is say 7 what do you do then? There's not obvious action. If you had a form with a question saying say "what do you thinks the biggest problem with your team?" and people were able to say anonymously that say "there were four founders without the right experience and only one dev really working" then that would at least be useful. I think before worrying about the market etc you should have tested your system on real teams to see if it actually helped them much. This could have been done with zero or little tech - say either a paper questionnaire or just write your questions in an email and have people email their answers back to you. The fact that 200 people tried the product and none bought does imply a product problem but it if you define your product as trying something to fix team management problems then I think the issue is not that there is no demand for that but that your product does not work in that regard. If it was me and I could code a bit, rather than scrap the thing I think I might try changing it to see if it could be made to work at the team improving level. You could say cut it to say five 0-10 type questions and five "what's the biggest problem?" type questions and then try that with a couple of real teams and see if they found it helpful.
> We have sacrificed our freedoms and morals in order to make war on those abroad

There are unperceivable powers that be. Possibly and even likely without what we consider morals. Bear with me. When you had enough wealth and can own or have anything, what's next? It's human nature.
Somewhat related: do Silicon Valley startups consider someone with actual completed MOOC courses an asset when looking to hire?
I wonder, at what point would NSA start manufacturing threats. It seems like clear progression of their behavior. Because you can't constantly cry wolf, you have to fight a straw-wolf from time to time.
For some reason, all of the 617 area codes are labeled as "Southern Michigan", but 617 is for Boston/Cambridge.
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You mean what if the doctors second test is inherently flawed? Then you're screwed either way :/
You have done more to bring us to the fore-front of understanding code and current events. I appreciate greatly you helping me to see the mighty geekAVerse in all it's Glory!
Why would you want this information?

Perhaps to see if one's own number is among those leaked?
Considering even a Raspberry Pi can playback HD video, there's almost certainly something very wrong with your software configuration.
Moore's Law remains halted. Nobody figures out how graphene will help. Programmers continue (see below) to move away from Java in favour of C to claw back some performance.

* See http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
Deflation is certainly a danger but I found this interesting:
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2013/12/mon...

It should be pointing towards inflation. That's not a prediction on my part, I really don't know.
This still kills the only benefit of WebRTC that it has over existing solutions - it's no-install nature.

If a user gets to the point of installing something, there's really not much difference between Skype and the plugin. Except, of course, everyone is already on Skype.
>It's not like they're taking information straight off of SNPedia, they survey the literature

That's the point. If they simply gave people raw results and told them to Google it, that'd be fine. They could even provide a report with hyperlinks to SNPedia. But that's not a very fun marketing message, is it? 23andme wants to sell itself as accurate diagnosis, without having to actually prove they're accurate. The FDA's letter said the FDA tried to contact them repeatedly about this issue, asked them to change language, and 23andme ignored them. What's the FDA supposed to do?
this is the major reason, i have stopped using new and shinny services poping up every other day.

I have shifted to using open source products and installing them on my own servers wherever possible.

And this is what big guys want to as well, they want to discourage users to put trust with small guys. perhaps I am wrong, but it's kindda apparent.
Just FYI http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/science/i-had-my-dna-pictu...

None of this DNA testing stuff is super-accurate.
Ponoko will laser cut and ship you acrylic for fairly cheap: http://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/show-material/19-acrylic...
That doesn’t just apply to small countries. I was also unaware that mobile phone numbers could have area codes and I’m from Germany (where each mobile operator has one three digit code – but even that is becoming meaningless with legally required number portability from operator to operator).
There is another link posted yesterday that got unnoticed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6986333

The articles seem to be from 28th December. How comes that no big media coverage happened? At least in Europe I did not hear anything.
Apple insists it did not work with NSA to create iPhone backdoor program
Wish list?
>>I wonder, at what point would NSA start manufacturing threats.

I have no reason to believe this hasn't happened already.
Here's the hidden worst part about this they don't mention.

You think border means at the point you cross into another country.

That's not what it means. Government can now do this behavior a HUNDRED miles inland from a border. You could be just driving across town, to or from work, and they can use this border search law because you are a hundred miles from the border.

Oh and the border also includes the ocean, doesn't have to be another country.

https://d320ze5h7gg57a.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/we...

100% of NY, NJ, Florida and half of Texas is subject to these searches as their state is blanketed by the hundred mile limit.

edited to correct hundred instead of hundreds, bad memory
Or that they lose money on the warranty and make up for the loss in other ways.

It's a necessary part of the package.
Shenzhen, China
This would be perfect for completing the database .)
Child porn? So they are worried people are bringing child porn into the country through laptops? What the hell? I mean I'm not saying it's never going to happen, but what a ridiculous compromise to make.

It seems to me judges are starting to be co-opted by the corrupt power in US, too, lately. It's probably because many of them are starting to be given positions by corrupt administrations that are in favor of the surveillance state. This is also why I'm terrified about Obama naming any Supreme Court Justices by the time he leaves Office. The current Supreme Court is definitely not perfect, but I think so far they've erred on the side of privacy. I worry that balance will change if Obama gets to name 1 or 2 Justices.

As an example, ACLU had a talk at 30C3 where they mention Valerie Caproni, FBI's top lawyer until 2011, and how she was very focused on increasing surveillance capabilities for the FBI through "legal backdoors". And then she was recently named a federal judge in New York. I wouldn't be surprised if this was her giving this ruling, but just goes to show how good judges are starting to be replaced by bad ones, in favor of the surveillance and police state.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRdOjgokQ4&feature=youtu.be&...
Normally I like having features like this in a language, but in JS I think it will be just a new tool for the "ninjas" to write crappy unmaintainable with it.
I think this was well written and I enjoyed reading it.

It brought some interesting information to my attention that I was not aware of (e.g. the porn habit blackmail scheme) - there have been so many articles about the leaks that despite them being important to me, I've made a conscious decision not to read them all.

I really like the quote (that I can't find a source on) that he "defected from the American government to the American people."

Edward Snowden is one of my heroes. This is something I find that I don't say very lightly or very often about anybody.
Well, FWIW, I have had 3-4 magsafe cords (MBA, MBP, MBPr) and have used them from 5 (MBP) to 3 (MBA) to 1 year (MBPr) without issue.

I've had other parts crap on me though, e.g a battery after 2-3 years of use that had to be replaced. Also had an iMac (sold now), which had a faulty DVD (also replaced).

The thing is, those things happen to ALL production runs, there are some % of defective units. You can be Apple, IBM, Dell or BMW, and you still get this. I've had "upmarket" IBM hard disks die on me for example ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST_Deskstar ).

And, for tens of millions of machines sold, you only get to read about the far fewer faulty ones on such problem forums (well, duh!) -- so it's not much to get an accurate picture on.

I like to do extensive research before I buy something (I buy lots of tech gear, from stuff like DSLRs to Audio interfaces), and if I gave much promimence to the occasional forum complaints, I wouldn't have bought anything at all, because there are always people that have issues with any product you search. I prefer to stick to reviews, seeing units in action from friends and in the store, etc. Case in point, my latest buy, a Focusrite Scarlett interface. Pages of complaints about strange audio glitches with Mountain Lion / iMacs etc in audio forums. Have been working 100% fine for me.