skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely possible. There is so much potential in gut bacteria research and we are only starting to recently scratch the surface with it. I get really excited about the topic of gut bacteria for some reason, it is just very interesting.

Its hard to separate cause and effect right now though. There also may be a snowball effect. We just know so little so there is a lot of research that needs to be done.

Antibiotics are unlikely. Fecal transparents are much more likely. Fecal transparents are starting to be used for c. Diff infections with success.
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I am no lawyer.

While lower court decisions have gone both ways, according to wikipedia,

in United States v. Doe, the United States Court of Appeals for the
Eleventh Circuit ruled on 24 February 2012 that forcing the decryption of
one's laptop violates the Fifth Amendment [1]

So there is hope.

Perhaps a more practical problem is even with a 5 digit pin, it's entirely possible to simply try all combinations. You probably need more than 8 digits before that becomes impossible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_State...
Don't rapiscans offer the same kind of non-invasive body-cavity searches? Why not just move the ones that are used in airports to prisons... Seems odd to need to do any invasive body-cavity search when u can just use the same thing that is used in an airport...
My fundamental issue with Apple's privacy claims is they are pretending that they have a technological solution to what is, ultimately, a political problem. As the laws in the US (and I imagine some other countries stand), Apple can be compelled provide your data to appropriate governmental authorities, install back doors, not tell you and even lie to you and the world about it. As long as that's true, no assurance from any third-party service provider is worth a damn.

I can understand the marketing benefits Apple sees in making these disingenuous privacy claims. I'd be willing to call that "just business" except for one thing: Trying to persuade people they have a technological solution will necessarily get in the way of the absolutely vital political project of destroying the political and legal foundations of the surveillance state.
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Kindle Voyage
Yeah agreed Jaycar is decent, although they still don't sell the RPi - although they have got a good range of Arduino gear. RS Components is I believe the main RPi supplier in Aus - fast & free delivery as well. I just ordered the Model B+ from them.
$20 more to avoid ads on the lock screen and another $20 for the power adapter!!! WTF
That's already being tried and doesn't work (enough). So the problem becomes 'what else can we do'. What you're saying is 'well we have so many teen pregnancies, why don't teens just stop having sex?'
Apple is doing what should be done. If everyone is informed enough to understand your point, there is no need of privacy policy, and NSA wont be an issue, and on and on...
How is the business like?

I kind of do the same thing but for a different sector, but we are not SaaS so would be nice to know.
+1 for circuithub. Andy gave me a brief tour last weekend and really impressed. Worth a try and costs you nothing to get a near dinstant quote on pcb fab by uploading you design files.
An open source HyperCard clone: https://github.com/jhawcroft/cinsimp/

An open source HyperTalk (modernized and improved in many ways) https://github.com/kreativekorp/openxion

I've used OpenXION for shell scripting once or twice, on a lark, and it was a pleasant blast from the past.
Heaven's Gate still open for business
> A third is to move your servers to Switzerland, though then you get served with process from the Swiss authorities instead of FBIDHSDEAetc.

And, if you keep your headquarters in Cupertino, quite possibly from US authorities as well (see the currently in-progress Microsoft case about access to servers in Ireland).
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I especially like the use of Rust's pattern matching here:

match (width == auto, margin_left == auto, margin_right == auto) {
(false, false, false) => { ... }
(false, false, true) => { ... }
(false, true, false) => { ... }
(true, _, _) => { ... }
(false, true, true) => { ... }
}

C-style switch isn't powerful enough to handle this due to the _ wildcards, so in a language without pattern matching you'd have little choice but to fall back to a chains of ifs and Boolean operators, which would make the code hard to read (and CSS layout code is notoriously time-consuming to debug, so anything that makes code easier to read is extremely valuable in practice). The compiler checks to make sure all cases are handled too.

This sort of thing has made Servo's layout much easier to understand.
> If you cant be sure ahead of time if a value is `"1"` or
> `1` (int or string of int)

...then your data provider is _broken_ and you need to take it up with them :)
Would be nice to have a demo site set up.
"Trendy" stack? Languages and frameworks come and go, but that's because they bring something new to the programming mainstream. Dismissing the new as merely "trendy" hugely misguided. (I wouldn't want to write software in a world where we're stuck writing DOS programs in C!)

Good programmers (ones that I'd like to work with, anyway) are always reaching outside their comfort zone. Try to dismiss those doubts about the new stuff, and keep up the good work! You'll thank yourself later.
A key difference is that we are being told to use auto (but not templates) gratuitously, even when there's only one possible type.

I prefer to make functions ordinary, and only templatize functions that need to operate on more than one type. There's good reasons for this: the compiler is less effective at type-checking templates, they require the function body to be visible, and they may fail to warn you when passed the wrong type.

"auto" suffers from all those problems, and yet we are being told to use it whenever possible. That's bad advice.
I'm not sure a few pages of 3d printers covering a price range from $140-$846 000 is really any evidence of over-saturation.

How do we determine this? An equivalent list of 2d printers would be significantly longer.
Actually, the parent is correct - the PDF you linked suggests otherwise:

> (NSFileProtectionNone): This class key is protected only with the UID, and is kept in Effaceable Storage. Since all the keys needed to decrypt files in this class are stored on the device, the encryption only affords the benefit of fast remote wipe. If a file is not assigned a Data Protection class, it is still stored in encrypted form (as is all data on an iOS device).

but AFAIK, the way this is actually implemented is that the non-None file protection settings are an additional layer on top of full disk encryption. On my jailbroken iPhone 5s on iOS 7.1, the /var partition is mounted from /dev/disk0s1s2 - where the double partition is due to a CoreStorage block layer between the filesystem and the actual disk. If you dump some data /dev/rdisk0s1s2, you'll find a HFS+ filesystem with plenty of strings, but if you look at /dev/rdisk0 itself, they're nowhere to be found, i.e. the CoreStorage volume is encrypted. (There's probably a more direct way to determine this, but CoreStorage is closed source and undocumented, so meh...)
Wouldn't it be pretty easy to make it available on Lulu.com or something?
I'm a J School grad but quite frankly I am surprised this hasn't happened sooner. The newspaper printing press will disappear much quicker than the linotype machine did in its day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine
Apple has directly addressed the PRISM diclosures, last year:

https://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/

In addition the new section launched today includes a page on government information requests, including "National Security Orders from the U.S. government." One sentence summary: they provide data to the government when required to by law.

PRISM itself is a program that is structured as a request/response, and the requests are approved by the FISA court, so it would fit into Apple's language in that section.

The initial report of PRISM implied that the NSA and FBI had direct, unfettered access to providers' "central servers", but that has been since walked back a bit. The points of concern with PRISM are 1) poor oversight from the FISA court, 2) overly broad request criteria resulting in huge datasets collected, and 3) the lack of public oversight due to gag orders.
OK. You win 2 internets. And fuck that highly misleading ad copy, Apple. :-(

[Edit] - Clearly something is off here. iPhone keeps a copy of the last several hundred emails downloaded from my IMAP server, I would expect an iCloud backup of those emails would be "under the protection of the passcode" (a.k.a encrypted).

That doesn't mean Apple is somehow encrypting the messages stored on my IMAP server. Likewise, it doesn't mean Apple is encrypting customer emails stored on their @iCloud.com (or whatever) email servers....

I'm going to assume there are just some wires crossed here, but I do hope they clean up the document and clarify this.
I think of it as $20 less without the power adapter. Most people probably already have a USB-capable power adapter. No reason for the Kindle to cost extra for a redundant accessory.
Brazil? You'll need to elaborate because I don't think we watched the same movie.
The server handshake was pretty clever. I looked into that method briefly, but it was obfuscated and using breakpoints was just easier.
I would assume they wouldn't need to lobby since there's probably no competition or no required item appropriations for what it is they do. Any advocacy would probably be directly to agency consumers and there's no explicit lobbying involved (although there may be something to be said about the revolving door quid pro quo between government/private sector).
Well if not lying, you should always entertain the possibility they are mistaken. The best confirm and reaffirm constantly. You know what they say about assumptions.
That was VERY anecdotal evidence against using legalzoom. Sure it may turn out poorly in some situations; however, I still think of it as a resource. The Y combinator backed company probably makes more sense for our domain but I would not write off legalzoom based on anything I read in this article.
Speaking as an iOS developer who's had a hand in hiring, it's the same as the "slightly broken Apache and Tomcat" scenario someone posted for sysadmins. We ship people a slightly broken app with a few common-yet-googleable problems, then ask them to build a tiny thing on top of that and ship it back to us.

The ability to solve common problems acts as a good proxy for experience, If they can't google how to fix a retain cycle or a broken constraint, we know they probably don't know what they're talking about.

The ability to build a good, small system on top of the broken app acts as a good proxy for development talent. If they can't easily set up a dead-simple delegate to do an asynchronous web call, they can't hack as a mobile developer.

Most importantly, if they don't care enough about the job to take two hours to whip up a super-simple app, then we don't have to waste our time interviewing them.
127.0.0.1!

Easy question
Sometimes, I wonder whether Star Trek is an unintentional commentary on organizational incompetence -- they follow standard procedure and fall prey to alien plots almost every other week. Even after fighting several quadrant-wide wars, their organization (the Federation) is still infantile in their security policies and tactics.

On the other hand, the sum of their individual failures don't add up to organizational failure -- the crews and the Federation itself always prevails in the end.
And this means the passcode has to be broken on the device. The key is generated from the passcode and the other keys you mention via PBKDF2, which slows down the cracking process. You also have to have a non-destructive jailbreak or Apple's update-signing key to do the cracking.

I'd recommend using a longer passcode. If you don't want to use the keyboard, choose a long number for a passcode and you will still get a number-pad when entering it.

Another loophole to be aware of is the "escrow keybag". If you're paired with a laptop, there is a file in /var/db/lockdown that can work in place of the PIN (the device can decrypt the escrow keybag with #2 and #3 above and use the keys therein to decrypt the files it needs). Apple did this to allow backups without unlocking the device.
Presumably the OEM is actually a retail price, Dremel is paying 40-70% less, and then marking it back up to $999.
http://images.apple.com/privacy/docs/legal-process-guideline...

Page 4 onwards provides a list of information they provide to law enforcement agencies. Probably prudent if you're an apple customer to simply assume all of this information is as good as public.
No, the study covered three sweeteners in mice. From the original study (paywalled, accessed via my university):

> To determine the effects of NAS on glucose homeostasis, we added commercial formulations of saccharin, sucralose or aspartame to the drinking water of lean 10-week-old C57Bl/6 mice

They found effects from all three sweeteners, though the strongest effects were from saccharin.

The followup study confirming the effects on humans, which was a much smaller study, only involved saccharin.
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> I personally don't like sandals. I'd happily give you lots of reasonable-sounding explanations for why I don't [...] Nobody [considers] my personal choice is relevant to the futures of the footware (sic) industry.

Of course it is relevant. In your case, the footwear industry would like to know whether the general public likes sandals or not, in order to decide whether to make more or less of them, and what types of advertising should be purchased. We can go with the initial assumption that there is nothing special about you, as a sample, and work on the principle that you are representative of the footwear buying public as a whole. So, we now know that not everyone likes sandals, and since we know other people that also hold the same view, we can be confident that you are not absolutely unique. Of course we want to seek out more opinions, and determine more accurately how widespread this dislike of sandals is, but I would be foolish to completely ignore this data point.

Similarly for teens and Internet services, the single data point here is interesting and thought-provoking because we know it isn't a freak outlier, and is instead somewhat representative of teens as a group. Since the actual quantitive information (that is, user retention and engagement at Facebook, Snapchat et al) tells us only what is happening, we must seek out qualitative opinion pieces like this to determine why. Everyone here is capable of understanding the limitations of small sample sizes and self-selection effects, and should be able to control for that. And of course, it's also just interesting to know what ones fellow human beings feel about a subject, and even important when there are business models predicated on these same humans doing things because their friends are. Network effects like that are obviously one of the main drivers for social network adoption, and thus increasing the value of a product.
1/(1+-1) = 1+-1

Great idea, but as other comments have noted, completely wrong.
Well, these are B2B customers, who are huge companies. We have actually had customers say they can't even find which servers are running the code, so could we "pretty please with money on top" just make it work anyway....

Sometimes you actually have to deal with what you get, and can't just "fix the other end".
> Why does Amazon want me to turn the light up, which eats up the battery?

It's actually easier on your eyes.

> If that means that in bright rooms it is going to crank up the light, I would not be happy. Does it do that?

Probably.

> If so, can it be overridden?

Probably.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/17/6353785/amazon-kindle-voya...

Amazon also says that you can fine tune the behavior if you don't like the default.
When do you decide to become a manager from a programmer
Minor commment, in that page they state that crows live everywhere except antartica.

But I've never seen one in south america (traveled a bit around there) and it looks like wikipedia haven't as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_(genus)
What he proposes makes a lot of sense if you accept that the purpose of prison is punishment. However, the more successful prison systems of the world focus on rehabilitation, not punishment.

Also, for incorrigible criminals, lengthy prison sentences do serve the purpose of keeping them off the street, while lashing does not.
I agree, but the OP does raise a good point that employers need to manage how long it will take to answer the questions for a qualified applicant.
totally agree. maybe amazon is actually trying to make a profit?
There are a bazillion of social startups out there without even a beginning of business model. What will they do with my data?

It might very well be a shot at Google, but it can also be a form of dismissal of an entire segment of the software industry perceived as "less noble" by Apple.
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Good list. Among the patients I see metabolic disturbances rank high on the list problems to manage. Some people complain of adverse effects of NAS such as headache, GI symptoms, but in the clinical setting, it's very hard to establish connections between NAS and metabolic syndrome manifestations like DM2.

The article says mouse fed any of 3 common NAS in water with/without glucose developed "glucose intolerance", which I take to mean above-normal glucose levels. That would point to either impaired insulin production or increased insulin resistance. I think the latter is much more likely.

This probably occurs in some humans too (among people genetically predisposed to develop DM2). Of course that's my extrapolation of the info, but seems a likely direction of future research. Getting insulin levels and measuring insulin resistance after NAS feeding are logical steps to take.

I agree with your comment and others that the role of colon microorganisms is a truly fascinating subject, and remains quite a mystery. Other research shows gut flora are distinct among host species. The evolution of these microbes appears intimately bound to the evolution of their host, but the nature of the link is unknown. Odds are unraveling the story of the numerous friends within (and all over) us will fill in important gaps in our knowledge in surprising ways.
A story, almost by definition, is an exception. If you went through your day without incident and all institutions performed as expected, there would be nothing mention-worthy. Stories are anomalies. If a serial depicts its society as consisting of idiots, that would be open to criticism. But I'm not sure if works that revolve around a single event (or a set of related events) can be criticized the same way. I prefer to imagine that in the universe of such stories, for each such event, hundreds of days go by without incident.
This is a very good question. I'm now no longer sure.
What is this, a new IRC client?
There are interviews were Tim Cook states the range of warrant requests (he isn't allowed to tell the exact numbers): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmm5faI_mLo

Seemingly, they also have some sort of canary in place in case they get secret requests under the patriot act: http://boingboing.net/2013/11/05/apple-hides-a-patriot-act-b...
Wait, what? It's $200 dollars? I spent a good five minutes trying to find the mistake that was showing me that price. Did Amazon learn nothing from the Kindle Fire phone fiasco?

Kindle had always been a no-brainer purchase at a "don't think too hard about it" price point that made upgrading to each new model actually feasible. But two hundred for a higher resolution screen and a $2 dollar photo sensor module? Color me confused.

I clicked the link with every intention of buying after reading the comments here, but I can't believe no one mentioned the (hefty) price tag!
I disagree very strongly with the argument presented there - in fact, I think it provides enough rope to hang itself.

It says:

1. With deduction you always get right type

2. Deduction guarantees no implicit conversion will happen

From this we can conclude that "the right type" never involves an implicit conversion. This is false: see vector<bool>::operator[], or consider the fact that auto allows you to make a variable of a type you cannot name explicitly (i.e. is private), which is surely not "the right type!"
"Fahrenheit 451... served up chilling warnings that helped to stave off the very scenarios [it] portrayed, by girding millions of... readers to think hard about the depicted failure mode, and to devote at least some effort, throughout their lives, to helping ensure that it never comes to pass."

Ray Bradbury said...

"In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction." (From Wikipedia)
Doing DIY legal for your business is like doing DIY earthquake prevention for your business. Chances are, if your business is going to fail, it'll probably fail because you're out of money, time, customers, employees, etc., not because of legal troubles or earthquakes... furthermore, there are tons of small businesses who are of a dubious legal / earthquake preparation, but nevertheless make money and do fine for a really long time. But when a major earthquake or lawsuit does occur, you're probably going to lose everything without proper earthquake / legal protection (you might still lose everything with proper earthquake / legal protection).

So should you do your own legal? Yes if you're <20 employees, no if you're >40 employees or you're putting your business through a hype-generator and you've generated hype or you think the law profession is somehow worshipful and you're cowed by lawyers.
DDG is good for English related terms. For Greek (and I guess other languages) lags way beyond Google in terms of results quality.
Awesome, but you're crazy, man.
I read the online version of LYSE and it really helped me understand the language and how to use it. Additionally you've helped answer questions along the way and have always been a big contributor to the community.

I've just bought a hard copy of LYSE to say thanks. I own almost no physical books these days, but you are worth it. Thank you!
Why not CLI? It is for hackers and CLI is faster than everything else.
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As he said in the article, neither seem to be problems which come up in practice. I maintain about twelve Go services running in production, and neither failure has cost me any significant amount of time.
It is a (rare) pleasure to see a simple solution posted to HN that does not require Python or some other scripting language. Or GNU sed for that matter.

I no longer have a Blackboard account, but if I did, or had a guest account to play with, I would try rewriting your Bash script in POSIX-like sh.

Nice work and a good choice of project.