skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One probability mentioned is that she is acting as a surrogate mother - getting money for bearing an embryo.

Also, I can see the postion of the govt. officials. You have some training in a technique, but you are not an expert. By all accounts the technique is infailable. Here is a person whose account differs from the data.

Your a priori on this being clever fraud rather than a little known, one in several billion case is high.

I think the officials were doing their job. It was a complex case and it went up to a complex level (courts, judges, expert witnesses).

What I didn't like is the threat (We can take them away). I think we should have techniques to out fraud without threatening people who have not proven to be guilty.
I wonder how many other chimeric women have had their children taken away without knowing how to fight it?
Well...if you know you can skip the line ahead of time, you don't have to get to the airport quite as early. I'd imagine that's the main draw for Clear and the other programs. Plus not having to take off your shoes etc.
PayPal and eBay are hugely vulnerable. They've underinvested in infrastructure, their technology is old, and they've become slow and bureaucratic. Worst of all, their ideas are stale and the user experience is dreadful.

PayPal's fat margins aren't justified by the service they provide, only by the lack of alternatives. But new alternatives are launching much faster than eBay can respond.

Square has become a well-run, genuine alternative. BitPay / Coinbase are still very small, but the cryptocurrency wildcard at least shines a light on what money transfer should cost.

Amazon is quietly expanding their payments footprint. The famous Bezos quote seems appropriate here: "Your margins are my opportunity."

Apple exposing their Touch ID API will level the playing field, exposing PayPal to more competition and margin pressure. Look out if Apple starts using their billion-credit-card database to get into payments themselves.

If Facebook/Whatsapp can payment-enable messaging and do it at a lower cost, PayPal's raison d'etre starts looking pretty questionable.

And now eBay leaking personally-identifiable information on 150 million customers isn't helping maintain trust or brand image. The breach couldn't have happened at a worse time.

We could be looking at the Blockbusterization of eBay and PayPal. The stock price is starting to reflect this reality, so look for more key people to leave in coming months.
Time Warner To Acquire Vice Media for $2.2B
>I wish we would stop using "poaching" to refer to the (legal) hiring of a person already employed at another company

But that's what it means...? Or do you mean like in the literal sense, like is your comment about illegally hunting wild animals? (which nobody would ever confuse for a second.)

If you are talking about the same thing everyone else is (hiring) then what do you mean by "actual poaching is illegal"? I am trying to really give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you know what you're talking about, but I just can't make heads or tails of your comment...
if they go public, you can always just make a billion dollars doing something else, then keep buying their shares and selling them for less, constantly driving the price down, until they don't exist.
Unethical Life Hacks
How can so many great scientists come out of Eastern Europe, and Easern Europe still sucks so much?
Does it not work though? They are known for being shitty yet they are one most popular(if not the most[1])

With this bad reputation and even some boycotts like "leave godaddy, they support sopa" it is obvious they don't have a good reputation and their service is "good enough to not bother switching"

I don't think they'd grow without massive marketing.

[1] I dont know how accurate this data is, although it doesn't look too far from truth http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global/...
http://bokeh.pydata.org/
Thanks, that at least explains why they're IPO'ing so late. Still not enough to convince me it's a good buy though :)
Even if it only posts to your FB news feed with explicit permission?
It's reached the point where Gotham really is one of the main characters in the Batman stories, if not the main character.
Do you have a source for this? Is there any documentation of this in the 802.11 spec? I'm also wondering if devices send a single probe per SSID they're looking for, or one probe with a list of SSIDs?
I assumed your parent was talking about customer service from a vendor perspective, which makes more sense. At a certain volume threshold ($5k / mo? $10k? I forget) the customer service experience absolutely improves, but not enough.
It's not right is it? http://instanerd.me/v/61
That's the wrong definition though. Humans are not "game".
I don't mean that in an organizational way at all. My terse perspective be the cause of the negative reaction and for that I apologize. My fault for trying to respond while meeting with all of the awesome people at DockerCon.

Edit to add that, I speak of a time where people know exactly what is running on their infrastructure, what version, who built it, any additional Metadata they want to track as a part of that. Built on top of those primitives you can create any sort of policy that you have a reasonable chance of enforcing.

About our marketing, it's interesting feedback, because I'd say I agree with the premise of the points you make. Developers are not ops people. Ops people are not developers. And trying to make them the same is not a recipe for success.
IMO, this piece [1] on Lydia Fairchild is better written and has much more information on chimerism and microchimerism.

[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201303/the-you-in-me
Yeah that is one perspective for sure.

To be clear, I'm not arguing that it is justified or moral. Whatever you think about 'right' or 'wrong', you have to realize that a person who builds a store is going to want to know everything about how his or her store is used. EVERYTHING. That's not good or evil, that's just logical.

Acting like it should be self evident to a store owner that tracking users is inherently wrong is just ignoring the viewpoint of the store owner wholesale. Does not lead to good policy.
>On July 1, 2011, Go Daddy confirmed that KKR, Silver Lake Partners, and Technology Crossover Ventures had closed the deal. Although the purchase price was not officially announced it was reported to be $2.25 billion, for 65% of the company. [1]

That my shed some light on your doubts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy
I see no reason why a mitochondrial DNA test would be helpful - your point is that the mitochondria are maternally inherited?

1. Mitochondrial DNA is less apt than regular DNA to accurately identify motherhood since it has a low mutation rate.

2. The mitochondria would still come from the chimeric cells which still are a generation away from the mother's cells.

3. If you have have considered the possibility of chimerism, there are much simpler tests - e.g. the tests that they did do.
Wow, are you serious? People will watch ads for game credits? Thank goodness I was a kid in the 90s before this wackiness pervaded the gaming industry.

I'm not knocking you BTW - the market will bear what it will bear - but, wow I had no idea this was a thing.
If the tests were reported to that level – and we're talking 2002 here – the fact that the child appeared to be from another relative wouldn't necessarily put the caseworkers at ease. (Was the child handed off between siblings as a form of welfare fraud?)

They got lucky with the thyroid test in the Boston (Keegan) case. The chimeric cells can be anywhere, in any proportions. (There's no guarantee the complete thyroid, or complete ovary is a single genome... so the 'luck of the stick' could change the results.)
Definitely not a good purchase. Though they may be a market leader, they are grudgingly so, and most people with experience stay away from them.
Gripe:

When you start a container and forget to forward a port into it you can't do it at a later time. This is braindead.
> How much new can they really do as a payment processor?

dude, how can you say this this year.
I like what you're saying, and wish companies thought like that, but most lots of companies look at devs like fruit to be squeezed until dry, then discarded. This is particularly true in game dev. Granted, the devs are partly to blame for going along with this terrible plan, allowing themselves to be pushed to work 80 hour weeks, all-nighters, etc. A smart employer would actively prevent their employees from working like that, because you're right when you say that a dev can be worth a great deal more if they stick around a while.
ROK Mobile wants to be both your mobile carrier and your digital music service
Sorry about that. It appears a couple of the inbound processing tasks weren't running. I suspect it's because I did some late configuration of supervisor and really I should have had them in autostart, which I didn't for uninteresting reasons. SHould be working now, but if not please do email contact@mailripper.com and I'll check it out. thanks for your patience, it's the very earliest release.
> One probability mentioned is that she is acting as a surrogate mother

No, this doesn't make any sense. A surrogate mother doesn't RAISE the children she gives birth to. That would just make her a regular mother. Why would they take away her children when no one has come forward to claim them? There's no crime. It's not illegal for your DNA to not match your childrens' DNA.
So...people who want to play around with hardware development without actually learning anything about hardware development? How is that helpful? Why not just learn what you need to learn and do it right the first time?
Why isn't anyone trying hard to make a better chatbot?

(from the comments) JE Says: "Nobody that I know in the NLP community works on chatbots or the Turing test"
Do you guys have an API? I have a couple cool ideas for apps bit don't know where to get data?
Fair enough point about GO Lang, however, should note Docker as a project was started way back when GO's future was... perhaps iffy.

You mean 14 months ago?
walkscore can already map out all "within walking distance of grocery + rail" locations in Portland (and elsewhere). E.g. http://www.walkscore.com/apartments/search/Portland-OR?zoom=...

The actual scores would have to be looked up one at a time, on per-address basis (e.g. http://www.walkscore.com/score/320-pioneer-way-mountain-view... )
Yes. Can you suggest to me what use case you'd have in mind? I'm guessing you'd drop the email and extracted text into a database for full text search?
"But there are no side effect free ways of changing the pixels on a screen or the sounds coming out of a speaker as those are precisely side effects."

No, those are precisely effects. They can only be side effects once you've defined how you're distinguishing side effects from effects generally.

A common way is labeling intended results "effects" and unintended results "side effects". By this definition, they're clearly effects not side effects, though this equally clearly isn't the usage in question.

Another way - common in Haskell - is to label effects that do not appear in a function's type signature "side effects". By this definition, it clearly depends on the implementation and there are "side effect free ways of changing pixels on the screen".

I don't think there is another useful definition to be had.
AFAIK -and please do correct me if I am wrong - twins have the same mitochondrial DNA, therefore even if she is a chimera all her cells should share the same mitochondrial DNA.

And isn't testing for mitochondrial DNA fairly simple/cheap?
Bob Parsons has an interesting life story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Parsons

- Grew up poor, flunked high school, enlisted in the Marines during the Vietnam War

- Graduated from college, self-taught programmer at age 25

- Started Parsons Technology at 34

- Grew it to 1,000 employees and sold it for $64M at 44

- Started GoDaddy at 47

- Exited Godaddy in 2011 for $930M at age 61 (http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/blog/techflash/2014/06/go...)

Great entrepreneurs never develop overnight, this game only gets better with age.
5 real-life problems OS X Yosemite solves
I've found starting docker containers using something like systemd works really well. Basically you do something like this:

# systemd unit file
Description=My Service
After=docker.service
Requires=docker.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run username/app

Notice I'm not using the '-d' flag in the docker run command. That forces all output to stdout/stderr, which will be routed to the systemd journal. Sadly this only works for apps that can log to the console instead of files.

More examples here:

https://coreos.com/docs/launching-containers/launching/getti...
42 Reasons why your Adwords sucks
I could not agree more. I have moved all of my services to hover.com over the years. They've been great, straight forward and simple.
Run Hadoop in production without commercial support? Explain why via 3 questions
but these bots won't cope with not being able to answer, because the human response (to learn) isn't open to them. If you sit down with a human and start talking about something they don't know, then usually (in a situation free from conflict or other emotional prompts) their curiosity prompts them to start asking questions and building a mental model of the subject that prompts further questions and they learn about the subject. The conversation builds on the learning and a real progression of thought ensues.

The chatbots can't do this, except in the most limited of ways ($job="CS scientist"), so they don't appear human.
I'll take this to mean that we should just fire our CEO and not have to worry about problems ever again. ;)
We don't really know how common chimerism, because it is expensive to test for. It requires sampling many different tissues/ parts of the body and comparing the gentic material found in each. Some kinds of chimerism are easy to detect and are believed to be relatively common. See:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.149...
I remember reading about how private equity takes companies and leverages them for a handsome payout, only to dump them in an IPO to let the public assume an untenable balance sheet.

1B in revenue on 1B in debt...its right at the limit for healthy.
Major Malfunction: Revisiting Challenger
It has been demonstrated time and time again why your comments are either incorrect, or a mischaracterisation of the situation.
My experience with it on trac and uservoice is that it's an easy way to filter out things that exactly one person cares about, and not much more. The main benefit is that it reduces the number of spammy +1 comments you get.
I'm certainly not equating the two, but honestly, if I ask why humans have heavy jaws and person A says "to take punches" and person B says "to chew on meat", I'm left with two reasonable explanations that come from opposite directions. I'm no better off than I was before.
10 most costly software errors in history
.NETMF will run a C# Interpreter in 256KB of RAM and 1/2 a meg of code space.

Give it a bit more and you can get a full UI up and running with a WPF variant!
If Apple would just open up sideloading, all of the controversy could just go away.
If you're enamoured with MVVM and know C# you might consider trying out Xamarin + MvvmCross [1]. I'm using it on a few projects and the code shared across platforms is (ballpark) 70-90% depending on the size of the project.

Xamarin's come out with Xamarin.Forms which looks like it could supersede MvvmCross but I gave it a shot and it's pretty immature right now. Plus its dependency injection leaves a little to be desired [2].

[1] http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/566270/

[2] Out-of-the-box it appears to have a global service locator and no constructor injection.
Direct link to GoDaddy's S-1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1609711/000119312514...
Some people have the strange, sometimes religiously motivated, belief that human intelligence has some vague magical property which by definition can't be reproduced in mere physical machines.

Otherwise it's just arguing about how difficult AI will be which is very hard to estimate. Some people look at previous failures and lack of progress in AI and extrapolate from that. But progress is rarely linear and computers are only now getting fast enough to handle the really cool stuff.
Mitochondrial DNA between twins is expected to be almost identical, but you and I also have extremely similar mitochondria: since it doesn't recombine and rarely mutates. So, you have to get to a much deeper level to identify the differences.

Even if it's now possible/cheap, that's a recent development.

mtDNA is good for finding your (maternal) ancestral group, less so for your immediate relatives.
There's something odd about how my normalization heuristic behaves with this particular spectrum. I haven't yet looked into it.
> Why would they take away her children when no one has come forward to claim them?

Because you have no idea where the genetic mother could have come from, anywhere in the world (and given vitrification, anywhen), the absence of evidence doesn't show much. What do you do, put up an ad in the classifieds: 'are you missing two embryos? please cal 911'?

As the other commenter says, this is an interesting failure mode which it's not clear you can do much about without allowing many other severe failures: it's much more likely that it's an extreme fraud which has beat detection thus far than chimerism, which makes the actual chimeras go through a lot to prove the latter, but if you loosen the standards, then what...?
#84 advocates giving loaded questions http://instanerd.me/v/84
The First Law of Data Science: Do Umbrellas Cause Rain?
Only on Hacker News would you get downvoted for questioning advertising.
Viable chimeras are fascinating. How does the immune system tolerate two different definitions of self?
It's a video game. Everything is artificial. Following the reasoning here I would expect that a proper game would be beat when I started it and any interaction I have with it is some kind of artificial barrier that should be removed.
This isn't limited to games, though. My experience is that people see "app on my phone" and think "disposable, like kleenex--and should cost about as much as a single sheet of the stuff."

One shouldn't underestimate the sheer effort required to get even trivial revenue from any one app, regardless of genre or quality.
Why are companies like GoDaddy allowed to just lose hundreds of millions of dollars every year? I don't get it!

The cheap domain thing is not a capital intensive industry, there are thousands of IT companies that can sell you a domain out there, it is not as if you need a factory or hundreds of thousands of staff to get into the business, so cheap isn't necessarily going to get you into a monopoly position - e.g. de Beers - so that they can have the market to themselves.

If they were making cars instead of domains and selling everything at what amounts to a loss year in, year out, some EU type of organisation would come along with an anti-dumping tariff to put an end to it.

Why is it with tech companies that GoDaddy style business models are allowed to persist? Sure some of those losses are due to acquisitions, but, again, why can companies that don't make money allowed to buy up companies that do make money?
I haven't spent any money on Boom Beach either, but it can take over 2 hours to train troops if you're at max level using all tanks (4 per boat at 36 minutes each = 144 minutes).
I read that post and I don't agree that 'majority of classes are changed be directly changing the implementation, not by sub-typing" - it means you change source code of third party libraries and it's very bad practice.
Termcoin – Now a pure JS Bitcoin wallet and blockchain explorer in your terminal
I'm surprised anyone is willing to pay money for these video ads to be included when the process for them being 'viewed' includes the person putting their phone on silent and doing something else for the 30 seconds or so the ad plays
Yes, I think Ebay will die by a thousand cuts.

There won't be one grand disruption (except maybe Amazon or Alibaba), but there will be many small vertical disruptions, like Etsy.

The real question is why Facebook is poaching from EBay and not vice versa.
I don't know why the official Docker images aren't marked as trusted builds, but you can find sources here:

https://github.com/docker-library
Don't forget that the threat of legal action can often be a deterrent even if the legal action has little chance of succeeding.
They rope you in with those 2 dollar domain coupons. I'll give them my $2 + tax but that's it.
When did the eBay acquisition occur?
I assume you're using a computer you made yourself from materials you mined out of the Earth? Running software you programmed in hardware of your own design?

Higher level abstractions in computing are of obvious value. Many more people know Javascript than know HDL, an assembly variant or even C. It's pretty obvious why this would be helpful. If you know a little bit of Javascript you can get out of the browser and have physical stuff happen. Pretty neat hack if you ask me.
I think you mean "SEEKING WORK" :)

[btw, why are you leaving your company?)
To clarify:

How much new can they do as Paypal? The company has a horrific public image (due to the reasons I listed) and has arguably been getting outmaneuvered innovation-wise in the payment processing business for many years now. The company is a giant just waiting to be toppeled.

Disclaimer: I may very well look back in 10 years and feel like a fool for the above opinion, but my current experiences have me pretty self-assured.
I'm pretty sure advertisers are doing it already, definitely on reddit. It would surprise me if HN didn't have a few stealth shills.
The best response is to act in kind. If that twat does business with anyone, hound them. Don't hire her, don't hire any of her twitter buddies, etc...

Enough is enough, we need to stop putting up with this shit.
Given that it is possible to alter people's behavior via non-magical means, I disagree that it's "totally artificial"
One of the benefits of updating software is to remove security vulnerabilities present in older versions.

Does use of Nix encourage insecurity by making it easy to use several outdated copies of each piece of software simultaneously?
Yeah, but with the father the semen would hopefully not be more than the third or fourth thing tested, if you kept testing. Ovums are much harder to get to.
*> If I were an artificial computer

Opposed to natural computers like humans? That is very interesting terminology.
I do wish it was easier to subscribe to a particular issue without having to leave a sole :+1: comment.
Advertiser here. This is correct. Social + context is going to be king moving forward. Advertising is going nowhere, it's just taking the form of content as opposed to banner ads.
>Don't people usually want tomatoes above the ground and potatoes below?

It's more than just wanting things that way; potatoes grown above the ground (and exposed to light) turn green and are poisonous to eat. I'm sure tomatoes grown underground would rot as well.

Came here exactly to post this mistake.
Please. If his tweet with a naughty word constitutes a "harassment campaign" that contributes to an environment where someone is terrorized then what are we calling the streams of hatred Shanley and her group spew towards Ryan Block, Marc Andreesen, Paul Graham, etc.?
The way I'm formulating it these days is: if you can be measured, you can be exploited. Observe, explain, predict, and control---the goals of the scientific method---all work on people too. You might say that people aren't linear systems, which is true---unless they act like them.