skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using viruses to fight diseases might seem dangerous compared to current therapies, but viruses are already in use for therapeutic purposes on a large scale for almost 100 years.

Most people here don't know about it, because it's in use since ~1920 in the sowjet union/russia/eastern europe and not in the west. (for example to fight bacteria, that is resistant to all antibiotics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
But it looks like Down Payment doesn't affect the result conditioned on holding the Mortgage Rate constant. I'm not so sure that's a good assumption. I imagine the down payment strongly affects the mortgage rate you'd get.
The notion that HN is "feminist indoctrinated" is absurd.
I don't identify as an "MRA" nor do I think your assessment of my post as "boring" is cogent. In fact, I would consider your attempted ad-hominem lazy.
Unfortunately not. HE has some performance issues (that might be solveable with time) but the primary issue is that Google do actually want to see exactly what you're doing. It's important for basically everything Google does that makes it money.
Furthermore, the privacy concerns are nowhere near great enough. All of the mainstream privacy concerns have come from Google releasing your information to others (Google Buzz, that recent ECHR case etc) and not Google keeping information themselves. Furthermore, since I assume that what you're really talking about here is emails, it would be impossible to practically implement a HE system for emails that would allow for searching (because one could derive meaning from emails by sending them the right queries). It'd be no better than client-side encryption, and no one really wants that.

No, the people for which this is really useful is large non-IT companies like Boeing or healthcare companies etc. They have huge data processing or storage requirements, and frequently have to run around hoops in order to ensure data is not transmitted in a way that would breach commercial agreements or confidentiality requirements.
The problem is that frequently these workloads (especially for companies like Boeing) will involve much data, and HE tends to come with a large size increase and performance drop - so it's often too costly, which is a shame.
Im guessing "not often enough"
Hacking the DSP-W215, Again
- ODesk

- Buying Facebook ads

- Show up in SF and hit up all the various hacker houses / meetups / etc.

- Outsource your job search: https://medium.com/life-hacks/3e990967a1f3

- Contact tech recruiters
All I know is I lost a loved one last weekend to Cancer and until you've been that close to the process you have no idea how you hope and pray for anything that will help no matter how radical.
Couldn't you say the same thing about many jobs out there that are legitimate?
The good news is that this is happening faster than you would think. Having a father who is a leader in the field I can tell you the initial trials look very promising. However vaccines might not be the cure to end all cures. A very aggressive cancer might kill you before your immune system is able to re-engage to fight the cancer. So a combination of vaccines and more traditional treatments is likely to be the answer in this case.

My understanding is that one of the main benefits of vaccines will be to make relapse much less likely as the stimulated immune system will eradicate any leftover cancer cells in the body.
I thought QNX was not made by Blackberry and was open sourced?

What did Blackberry add to their phones that made India ban them?

Even Obama uses Blackberry phones for some reason. I think they are more secure or something.
> Most women in tech I know have multiple examples of stuff like the authors describe happening to them. Multiple guys in this thread confirm that yes, it happens and is observable.

To reiterate, what you've demonstrated is that there are N anecdotes of sexual harassment in the industry, for some N > 0. (Set aside M anecdotes of men and women who have not personally encountered such a thing.) You have not demonstrated that "it's statistically highly unlikely that you're not coming into contact with it."

Let's keep this discussion factual and avoid inflammatory hyperbole, please.
I just used an old shampoo bottle (housemates still use it). I funnelled in a tub of sodium bicarbonate and added water until it was just runny. 300ml bottle lasts me ~8 months, using about 3 times every 2 weeks.

Cost to me: about £3 / year.

Hair quality: great. I used to pretend I didn't care, but I do and this works and I'm never going back to shampoo.
>Although they were quick to remove the download link for the new firmware

A bad/misguided attempt to stop people from finding vulnerabilities?
AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean and friends I guess.
Don't customers also receive a benefit by having a lower utility bill?
what about OpenVZ?
I didn't say anything about the good or bad of taxes, just asking why people are using a word when it shouldn't be.

Historical reasons? Delusions? Sales tactics?
I appreciate the answers here. I took a deep look, but it turns out, that every application requires almost the same amount of massaging, especially at the point where my other requirements kick in (category page extra content).

It seems that so far the best approach would be to write a dynamic web app that does what I want, and save the content with wget. Seriously, it seems easier than any of the hackery I need to do.
I'm glad you mentioned that SLOC in a project needs to be considered, I was reading the article and thinking about how many people have uploaded a skeleton Rails app just to check out the features of Code Climate – more developers leads to more code, which is ultimately likely to increase complexity and churn and reduce the GPA.

I really like CC btw – well designed and provides value, however – I don't have enough going on to justify the rather high-price tag at the moment, to me I feel it provides less value than GitHub, but it's more than 3x more expensive based on my plan.
Could you upload it somewhere else please? Links don't work on speakerdeck and it's unusable on mobile. I'll never understand why people keep using speakerdeck as it has very poor usability. Your presentation looks great though!

edit: here's the direct link to pdf https://speakerd.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/83bc6d40c41a...
continuing that quote "The current CARTs kill not just cancer cells but any B-cell, the type of white blood cell that goes wrong in leukemia. Patients are likely to get injections of a protein that B-cells make, called gamma globulin, for the rest of their lives; if the treatment becomes popular there may not be enough gamma globulin to go around."

So, not scalable?
So the obvious difference is that if I run an obfuscated program, I'd expect to get the same output as the original program - the obfuscated program is to an extent expected to perform as a normal program, but be unreadable.

With HE, you operate on encrypted data and what you get out is still encrypted data - you never have knowledge of what the data is, you just know you've done something to it. So I could perhaps add two encrypted numbers together to obtain something I know to be the sum (but have no idea what the sum is).
Large-scale Video Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks
And then someone replies with "yes, I have a co-worker who had the same issue, here's how we fixed it..."

The question is, would anyone tell them they couldn't possibly know that since they don't use IOS?
You missed the part where you stop getting most of the updates from the liked company unless they pay Facebook.
We're certainly still evaluating alternatives, here.
Debian is much closer to what we use internally, and we wanted to start with sharing some of the internal ways we work.
Toeplitz Hash Algorithm
I was not aware of the lackluster performance. That is really too bad.

The consistent feedback I get about file sync (from techies) is they really don't want to be uploading a whole file every time they change something. I agree, but to have client-side encryption such that you're data is protected from the server host as well as people who gain access to said server seems to preclude efficient sync with current tech. Which is again too bad.

I am no crypto expert so rolling my own / building off this FHE is not really possible. I do understand usage of things like AES and RSA well enough though to know that adequate security precludes diffing/efficient sync.
I appreciate the thought and reflection, especially given that my response could reasonably be seen as snarky.
There is a max 10% genetic risk and also getting older makes the body more fragile for every illness not just cancer but the causes as outlined in wikipedia are 90% environmental.
It depends on which Nest feature we're talking about.

The consumer clearly benefits from not air conditioning an empty home.

But, the article conflates this with "demand response" -- which is more about time-shifting your electrical usage to avoid peak times than it is about reducing your energy usage. The meter will read the same, but it's a huge benefit to the utilities.

A simple way to fix this: price energy more expensively during peak times.
I never understood this argument of "selling your information" to advertisers. As far as I'm aware they allow advertisers to target demographics. What company that sells advertising does not?
When I changed my home provider 6 months ago I didn't get a real static IP by default. I had to call them and explain why I would need one to get it. That may not sound like much but here in Bulgaria just a few years ago we used to get 2-5 IPs with faster home plans and 1 with even the cheapest. The pressure is slowly hitting the end users so it can't be that much longer until it becomes cheaper to switch.
Most entrepreneurs don’t want to go 'big,' except they do
Yup. I just cycle through the choices trying a different one each time. Once I find myself using one _all the time_ I set that as the default.

I think a great solution for this would be to let power users distribute their own versions. That way, you could just find a designer you trust and install their version. It's still fragmented but at least you could go with people like the author who have thought through it rather than an awful corporate designed by committee mess.
It makes sense, it is just nuanced. Try: http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/08/laurie-penny/men-sexism
Interestingly enough the longer you live the less likely the cancer is to kill you as the cancer cells originate from "old" cells and have degraded ability to divide. If you are 90 years old and get cancer it's unlikely it will kill you before you die of natural causes.
Skycorp atempts to wake NASA's sleeping 1978 satellite
It's not a question of sources, it's a question of being able to identify the thing when it happens. Women have no problem in identifying it, because it's directed at them. Men might have a problem identifying it, for various possible reasons. I think the poster you replied to was asking for opinions from other men about what they see happening in order to understand what kind of stuff is visible to men.

I have the same problem - I can't recall seeing anything that would qualify as harassment in any of my workplaces, and I would like to know if that's because I'm failing to see it, or if there's another reason.
"cabbies are scum and the worst drivers in the world" - do you count London cabbies in that? They're pretty phenomenal in my opinion.
asm.js and WebGL give a hope that one day we will be able to forget most of HTML, CSS and JS like a horror dream they are. At the very least there should be a real choice of in-browser GUI technology and language (no crappy transpilation apart from asm.js please).
Agreed. Most new Markdown parsers for higher speed have different edge cases, including the famous marked.

If you don't mind the frustrating syntax tree, you can try Strictdown (not Markdown), and get some insights to make a better one. (I'm now lazy to update it.)
https://github.com/jakwings/strictdown
If Google Fiber spreads to enough locations, the ISPs could start seeing effects on their subscribers. Content providers can dismiss the ISPs demand for money, and Google and content providers can go and say, "get all your favorite services, fastest on Google Fiber". The ISPs would be forced to put content on the "fast lane" or risk losing customers.

Unfortunately, Fiber is not available in enough locations yet.
My wife would also relish enumerating the various stenches that my stink could surpass at that moment.

Usually, I just get "you smell buttery", and that does not seem from context to be any sort of objectionable smell.

But when it comes to smells, it would be better to rely on someone not already habituated. You almost have to walk up to a complete stranger and ask their opinion.
> What the drivers are understandably pissed off about is that they spent 2 years developing the navigational knowledge to get people from A to B quickly, so they could get their cab license, and now these other people are competing with them without havign had to had to meet any particular standard to start doing so.

No, it's not understandable at all. It's no different from Luddites destroying machinery that allowed unskilled workers to replace skilled ones. Progress might be a bitch (for the cabbies), but that doesn't give them the right to obstruct it.
There are many bacteria that are not the sort that are going to attack your immune system, defective or not. No matter how much you wash or use antibiotics you never eradicate bacteria from your environment. Rather, you select for the bacteria most resistant to the chemicals you apply to them.

The bacteria in the sorts of microbiomics discussed in this article are (usually) totally symbiotic. They aren't going to harm you, they are going to help you. They are going to be a secondary immune system and provide you a layer of protection. Removing them is actually more dangerous for you than encouraging them. In removing them, you create a vacuum that is easier for harmful and parasitic organisms to invade.

Edit: I haven't actually seen the research (and it might not have been done yet) on the specific species mentioned in the article. So I edited to speak more generally.

The idea many of us have been indoctrinated with that all microorganisms are potentially harmful invaders is not only completely false, that belief has lead us as a society to take action that was potentially very harmful to us. There's an entire ecosystem down there, and much of it evolved in symbiosis with us. We provide them a home, and in return they protect and clean us. They don't want to destroy their home, they would die, too.

We could learn a thing or two from them in that regard.
Read sentence 3 of my point #3 again...

Men might listen to you if you'd just stop the blanket accusations.

That's the (sometimes) unspoken meaning behind the reactionary defensiveness of so many men here. It appears in the (paraphrased) "I dunno if I can believe a bunch of women's anecdotes. Have any men seen anything like this? I could believe a man." And the ever-popular "At least this isn't quite as bad as those crazy man-hating feminazis!"

Saying "Hey, stop blaming me!" is really just a softcore version of "I don't take you seriously, because you're a woman." Instead of looking to escape the blame, men should be asking how such a blanket condemnation happened (and not "Because women are crazy"), and what they can do about it. And no, getting defensive and whining about how women are picking on them isn't the thing to do.
Google Voice XMPP is still working after the shutdown date.
It has nothing to do with porn and/or prostitution being 'awesome' and everything to do with it not being any of your damn business what consenting adults get up to, whether or not it's 'easy'.

Also; down votes are for not contributing to the conversation. You're not arguing for your position, you're just thanking someone else for appearing to share it.

Also, yay bitcoin, because you.
No, Herd Immunity is for infection risks which are SHARED across the whole herd. The point is to prevent the infection from reaching "critical mass".

What we're talking about here is different, it's a risk which applies to a small minority of specific individuals.
Ok, so if I understand correctly, it's impossible to write a program which hides its intent? That is, reverse engineering of what a program is doing will always be possible?

Something doesn't seem quite right, though. Programs are data. If it's possible to perform operations on data without knowing the data, then shouldn't it be possible to perform (useful) computation without revealing the algorithm? If not, why not?
It's the rare case of a theoretical result whose theoretical impact is fairly marginal but practical impact is enormous... when you set out to seriously optimize something, you will eventually hit a point where this starts to become a serious consideration. Serialization is a particularly vivid and easy-to-see example, but sooner or later you'll hit it in any serious optimization effort.
I don't think this is accurate. Many bacteria that are symbiotic with immuno-normal humans are parasitic and harmful to immunocompromised humans.

That said, it's unclear that regular washing with soap removes the kinds of bacteria that have the potential to be harmful -- I know for sure that skin is constantly covered with bacteria, with and without washing. So I don't know if GP's objection is realistic.
That 'something' is virtual black-box indistinguishability obfuscation. It's a way of 'hiding' (in some sense) a program rather than the data a program acts on. FHE is a way of carrying out any program over encrypted data. It hides the data but not the program acting on it. IO hides the program but not the data.
another way that works out of the box is to use a text-only browser like w3m :)
We'll see how it pans out. Maybe you should speak with Timbo at OKHi and share some thoughts with him. All I know is it's a glaring problem, government's aren't going to address (pun partially intended) the issue, and it will be solved somehow. The technology is simple, but so often in these markets, the execution is complex. With you all being spread across 15 cities and based in SF I'd imagine it contributed somewhat to missing the mark (on top of being a difficult problem in the first place).
MetaFilter at least has the advantage of being old and respected enough in tech circles to get the attention of Hacker News and Matt Cutts himself when something like this happens. For the vast majority of legitimate websites who see their traffic drop or become non-existent when google pushes an update to their ranking algorithms, there is virtually no recourse. I understand it's a necessary evil and there will always be collateral damage when trying to combat spammy websites, but at the same time it's scary to know that there are people whose sole source of income is web traffic and overnight it can disappear without explanation.
There's a pretty massive bump in IPv6 usage on weekends. I'm assuming this is likely due to residential / mobile IPv6 adoption being higher than commercial adoption?
There are some definite valid criticisms here (Photos/Gallery being the least understandable oversight), but you really need to try the Nexus 5. Fragmentation needs to be dealt with and OEM's need to stop "differentiating" themselves into UI hell, but pure Android is definitely worth experiencing. It will mainly make you more upset at HTC.
Was having fun but I think HN just killed it. Alas!
CIA CTO kind of touched on it:

Hunt said that the intelligence agency adopted Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build its own procurement system. "The security was really superb," he said, noting that this was also true for a lot of other cloud providers. That security, he said, was end-to-end and on every layer of the infrastructure onion.

For the chief information officer, Hunt explained, inner security is just as important as the fence around a company's networks.

"If they can't find you, they can't attack you. And if they find you and attack you, you want to be really hard to attack," he said.

http://www.zdnet.com/former-cia-cto-speaks-out-on-snowden-le...
why should they? I mean that honestly because context matters.

Why didn't you say something? Why should they be expected to step up and say something if you yourself are not willing to (was it a superior, for example?). Was there some brouhaha in which they sat silent while you had to defend yourself?

And why not ask them if you can submit their name to HR as a witness to the behavior instead of getting disappointed in them for not doing it themselves?

At the end of the day, the only person who is ultimately expected to stand up for you, is you. It's that way regardless of gender.

edit:
I still don't understand why HN allows replies to some posts and not others, but to respond to the post below me.

Because it's unfair to ask a man to put themselves at risk protecting a women when she, herself, refuses to put herself at risk. This isn't about male vs female, this is about a person putting themselves at risk for another person, and the fairness of it.

This is specifically why I asked for context.
I'm not pandering to anybody. I actually believe what I wrote.

But I do have a bias: I have a bias towards diplomacy. We all have biases and the sooner we admit that we're fallible minds that have lived just one life, not the objective thinkers we wish to present to our audience, the sooner we can begin to respect and listen to each other.

> There's a large percentage of men who are either misogynistic,
> and /or MRA jerks? Why aren't feminists characterized as jerks?
> Why are you painting MRA as jerks, but apologizing to feminists
> if you've accidentally offended them?

Not all MRA are jerks. Not all feminists are jerks.

I certainly didn't mean to imply that a large percentage of men were misogynists. I meant to say that it was a slightly larger percentage than is normally visible and that this was mostly because in a 50/50 male/female environment they would self-censor as well as have less reason to feel the way they do while in the current 90/10 environment (or whatever it is) they do not need to.

I think the article was unusually fair and diplomatic for a tech gender piece. I wanted to repay this by commenting on my own opinions in as careful, constructive and fair way as I know how to. If I was to have posted an inflammatory rant about how angry feminists were just as bad as misogynists and then have tried to equate them using some ridiculous objective-appearing seesaw as if I was the divine judge of a gender-war then I'd be completely arguing against what I was arguing for: diplomacy and the acceptance and understanding of each other's problems as a result of there being a lack of diversity.

I want a better way of acting together, not to win a battle.

You are absolutely entitled to your opinions but you are way too confident of the truth of what you're saying to signal rationality.
Your assumption that I'm actually opting-in to standard rules of debate rather than just making a general comment is also boring, for the same reason your other post was: I've seen it before, it's old. You aren't wrong, you're just uninformed. You should read more of what women write.
Protonmail.ch is not secure at all
Do you have some proof for this? (aside from PR spewed from the taxi companies) Somehow I doubt that the citizens that use the taxis would agree. I may be wrong but just because the official line is "very high standards of behavior" doesn't mean that's how it works in practice.

I would love to be wrong but I can't help but think the taxi drivers are protesting because Uber and other ride-sharing problems are stealing customers left and right due to providing a better service.