skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opting out is the easiest way to protest these machines. Just tell the person running the machine, "I opt out!" before entering it, and they will pat you down instead of using the scanners. Considering the false-positive rate of the scanners, you may get pat down anyway, so might as well protest and skip the dose.
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I feel your pain. I'm currently looking for mid-senior Ruby/Rails devs in SP and it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
That idea might make you feel better, but it's not grounded in reality at all. Chemicals appearing in nature do batshit crazy things to life all the time.
> No, you are not buying what they are offering. They are offering a ticket on certain conditions, which include not doing this. If you do not accept those conditions then you are not allowed to buy the ticket.

They can state whatever conditions they want - that doesn't mean anyone has to follow them, they are legal, they are enforceable, or they can do anything about them.

Moreover, what if I have a three-leg trip and after the second flight learn that my sister who happens to live in city #2 is in the hospital with a 50% chance to live? I'm not taking that third flight, I'm going straight to the hospital and will consider myself lucky I ended up in that city.

There are far to many extenuating circumstances that an airline could not possibly be aware to actually have this policy.
I honestly think it was accidental. It looks like a classic case of a simple executive decision that appeared so trivial as to skip a careful consideration of the implementation.

Which isn't to excuse it: it was very un-Apple-like. And it certainly wasn't the only un-Apple-like turn last week.
We'll agree to disagree then. I've heard several complaints about lithium but none of them was "it turns me into a soulless robot." The way lithium works is by stabilizing mood, not by inducing a different mood like other medications (i.e. antidepressants). So I'm going to be facetious and say the people making those claims were soulless robots before taking lithium.
They don't know what's going on if you are a user or an intermediate node.

If you are an exit node they see all the traffic in clear.
The main rule on HN is you have to be nice, and the main rule on IRC is exactly the opposite, so I don't see it getting many upvotes here
My gut feeling is that Cook & Company wanted to be able to pull a Jobs-like move upon announcement

"The album is completely free to everyone and IN YOUR IPOD RIGHT NOW"

...especially since everything else announced was a wait (for the phone) or WAY away (like the watch).
MathML, MathJax and now KaTeX

Not that there isn't a usecase for this, but is this fully MathJax compatible?
Pot, meet kettle.

This article resonated with me very strongly, since I lived it. It seems to have struck a nerve for you too - maybe you're on the other side of the devout following?

Edit: I'm not claiming an emotional response to it, just that I can vouch for the validity of it in my case. Anecdotal evidence, but it's still a data point.
Experienced dumpers scorn novices seeking guidance, unless the newcomers can offer hot new 3Xs in exchange.
Experimental treatment obviously means unknown risk.

And of course the deal is going to be that you take full responsibility for the risk. In other words, if something like that happens, you get zero assistance, not even from any health insurance you already have.

> I don't understand the propensity of some to demean "hey, there's a serious immediate problem, let's do everything we can to help" with "but it might (with minuscule odds) go horribly wrong! therefore we can't let anyone do anything that's not established best-condition status quo!" With that mindset, it's a wonder such people ever drive to work (you might die in a horrible flaming carbecue!).

Short answer : because it's happened before.

I would also argue that given history, the risks of unknown treatments having major side effects are significant (let's say ~15-20%). The risks of major side effects on pregnancies and later offspring are even more significant (20-40%).

So those odds are not that minuscule and there are going to be victims.

Your attitude stems from the idea that seems to be propagated a lot these days : that science and therefore medicine can fix anything, any disease. That was almost true for a short period at the end of the 70s. In the 80s we found several diseases became fully resistant. Now the counter of completely incurable diseases is in the thirties, and rising fast. Old, well-known diseases are coming back, untreatable. Tuberculosis, pneumonia, dysentery ... all have MRSA variants. And that's ignoring a lot of viruses. Rabies, HIV, Hep C, MERS, Avian flu, Pig flu, ... all of which are essentially untreatable.

The point the CDC has been making for ~20 years now is that ~3 decades ago "net-"scientific advancement against infectious diseases stopped. There were advances, but diseases advanced at roughly the same pace. 2 decades ago we started losing ground and in the last decade we've been losing ground like never before.

And of course we're completely focusing on the wrong solution : don't use medicine anymore ! Great, but that ship has sailed, adaptation has happened and it's generally too late. There have been studies on how long these adaptations last, and how long we'd have to wait if we stopped treating ill people. The timeframe is in the centuries.
"its -O3 the letter, not -03 the number"

http://web.archive.org/web/20060513022941/http://www.funroll...
Where was this tool in 1996 when we really needed it?
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Awesome project ! could you explain me how you are rendering maths symbol without mathjax ?
> Natural products chemistry is getting trickier all the time

So now there's "natural" chemistry and "plain" chemistry? I thought molecules are molecules, and don't care how they came to be. What if humans were to artificially select some bacteria over a few generations to synthesize a certain molecule. Would that molecule now be "natural" or synthetic? In fact, it can be argued that many "natural" molecules are a result of that exact process, because their synthesizing organism has evolved to survive human effects.

EDIT: as pointed out by localhost, natural products chemistry is actually a well defined -- and widely accepted -- term.
> All models are wrong, but some are useful. This model has proven useful.

The model is clinically useful, but the assumption (which the DSM does not itself advertise or support, which is made implicitly when its categories are used as the basis for research) that the diagnostic categories in the DSM represent commonality in origin is an impediment to research.

While many people have overstated the NIMH move away from DSM categories as a basis for research funding as something like an indictment of the DSM in its intended role or, even more hyperbolicly, a rejection of psychiatry as a field, it is an important move that recognize that the DSM categories' utility in their intended purpose does not imply that they represent real commonality.
If they had done that, they could have exposed U2 to very bad PR: for example if the number of actual downloads was ridiculously low :P
150% of "not worth mentioning" is still not worth mentioning.
in the inspector,

> for (var i=1; i<99999; i++) clearInterval(i);

or, in this case,

> clearInterval(1);

works
So apparently the TSA says: "Each full body scan produces less than 10 microrem of emission, the equivalent to the exposure each person receives in about 2 minutes of airplane flight at altitude."

And the author says the dose is really 14.76 microrem, but doesn't dispute the equivalence to flight time. So really it's equivalent to 3 minutes of flight, not just 2.

50% of trivial is still trivial.

Oh, and the author says that the margin of error on these measurements is large. So perhaps the TSA didn't lie at all, they just measured 10 microrem. Even if the margin of error is 1000% the result is still trivial.

So... basically this is non-news about a technology which isn't even in use anymore. The TSA now uses millimeter wave technology as the author is aware ("these backscatter x-rays are decommissioned and sitting in a warehouse").

There are a lot of good reasons to be concerned about the TSA's use of imaging technology. This is not one of them.
> (does he capitalize the "The"?)

Yes. Though now that U2's an Apple product maybe it's time to switch to rounded Edges. ;)
I've always opted out, but they (on purpose?) make you wait and get nervous about your belongings. Sometimes I've waited 15 minutes for the pad down guy to show up and my stuff was unattended all this time.
I wasn't trying to imply such a pursuit wouldn't be useful, rather that you should only do it if you find it individually fulfilling and not solely because it might benefit humanity as a whole (because it might not, no one can predict these things).

But of course this is all just a personal opinion and highly subjective.
one of my cs profs was also a lawyer who does consulting for startups in addition to teaching coding. he used the same example to teach us regex.
Any benchmarks against MathJax beyond the visual at the bottom of the page?
Perfectly usable, maybe, but there are security fixes in each and every version of Android.

A desktop browser from 2012 is absolutely full of security holes, no matter which one you look at. There is zero reason to believe mobile browsers would fare any better (and they haven't, so far).

More and more people do their banking on their mobile devices. And Google's solution to the password problem is a shared secret on your mobile. So, is it really usable? It would be a matter of perspective, but I would argue a no.
This work investigates what are called "single nucleotide polymorphisms" (SNPs, pronounced "snips"), which identify genes that make slightly different forms of the same protein (the most common result of a SNP is to have swap one amino acid for another in a protein, which may change its shape a little so it won't work quite as well under some circumstances, or may bind a little more heavily to one site vs another.)

The percentages mean that if you take 100 people with a given combination of SNPs, 73 of them will get schizophrenia. People without that combination will have a much lower chance.

The good news for you and your son is that because they have identified multi-gene effects, the odds of you or your son having all the same SNPs as your sister is very low. You and your sister share half your DNA, so if there are ten genes involved, each with a 50/50 chance of being shared, that's a 1 in 1024 chance (2^10). For your son it's one in a million (unfortunately I can't tell from the article or the journal abstract how big the SNP sets involved actually are, but given the difficulty in finding them I'd expect more than four or five SNPs per set.)

With regard to your other questions, the honest answer is: nobody knows, although there will be any number of people trying to sell you on unproven solutions, mostly based on the demon of the moment. Twenty years ago it might have been red meat. Five years ago it would have been gluten. Today it would be refined sugars. Tomorrow it will be something else. The only thing we can be sure of is that the promoters will be smug, self-assured and self-deluded (or dishonest, but I think self-delusion is more common).
Sure, you can redefine the word in a way that makes it meaningless. Or you can use it the way the rest of the world does - where "natural" means "not the result of human intervention". By that definition, it's obvious why a beehive and beaver dam are "natural" and the Empire State Building is not. There is a degree to which this focus is arbitrary, but given that we are humans, it's sometimes a worthwhile focus to have. That in turn, of course, does not mean it's correct to care about it everywhere we seem to.
Doesn't that devalue the term if everything ever is 'natural' making it impossible for anything to be unnatural?
A great idea would be that when you copy a math expression from the browser, it would put the LaTeX code in the copy-paste buffer:

f(x) = \int_{-\infty}^\infty
\hat f(\xi)\,e^{2 \pi i \xi x}
\,d\xi

So then I could paste it in an email, in a text editor, in my own LaTeX document, etc.
I'm guessing that whomever is responsible for this idea at Apple will no longer have the ability to do this again.

I honestly thought to myself, did I drunkenly buy a U2 album? How much did I drink.

Just wish I could do the same thing to remove certain free songs out of my account for good.
Indeed, so they took the PR hit themselves. How umm... noble.
They have a benchmark page, where you can benchmark for yourself: http://jsperf.com/katex-vs-mathjax
We're using the similar fonts to what MathJax uses (ours have some slight changes in spacing), but we do our own layout calculations to be much faster.
> parents dismiss interactions in video games as less real than those in flesh and blood

But they are. There's a lot less bandwidth in online interactions and it's harder to communicate subtle nuances. I'm sure it's more comfortable for borderline autistics when everything communicated is explicit, but it's not necessarily better for their development.
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SMBC might be starting to overtake XKCD for king of referenceable (is that a word?) comics.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2158#comic
I don't think there are any shadowy marketing figures pulling strings.
> This article resonated with me very strongly, since I lived it.

"X appeals to me emotionally because it conforms to and provides a pat explanation for my personal experience" does not imply "X is true".

In fact, disconnecting those two concepts is an essential step to beginning to approach the world scientifically.
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I personally don't find it as sinister as you make it sound. It's mostly just a user interface/experience issue. I don't see much relevance to privacy issues or the cloudification of life.
According to Billboard magazine, U2's last tour took in a total revenue of USD $736,137,344 (about €569,000,000)[1].

U2 could have given the album away for free as a loss-leader for the tour. The fact that Apple paid USD $100,000,000 for the album and U2 gets all that free promotion for the next tour? They totally won on this.

[1] http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/touring/1176894/u...
That's a fair distinction.

I guess it's more that you cannot activate HBO Go on a Roku using your Comcast credentials as Comcast is not an option in that configuration. Not that they block the traffic or something.

I agree with the distinction, still just as irritated.
On the contrary, the main reason iPad sales have stalled appears to be that they have such long useful lives compared to other types of computer. My wife's father has my old iPhone 3GS and my wife is using my old iPhone 4, four years old and now running iOS 7, though when my contract expired shell get herself a 6. I'll stick with my 5 as I usually cary an iPad so the larger screen isn't as much use to me. These things last for ages.

I honestly don't know his long other peoples devices last or are used, but mine have so far had pretty decent useful lives compared to most desktop computers I've owned.
I wonder whether this assessment of the market efficiency and benefits to society brought on by price discrimination would change if we account for the time and effort people spend on trying to game the system.
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Have you heard of the very natural Oxygen Catastrophe[1] that wiped out much of the life on Earth? Some organisms began dumping a toxic chemical (oxygen) into the atmosphere in such large quantities that it practically killed off everyone except for those weird mutants that evolved to actually breathe that dangerous toxin synthesized by the killers!

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
So, no apology?
Yep! Also, ignore the IE 8 data on that page, there was a fluke with IE 8's .innerHTML. You can see http://jsperf.com/katex-vs-mathjax/2 for a version that IE 8 supports.
Great work! Would love to read a blog post in the future about how you guys did your layout engine behind this.
Not necessarily. For FICO scoring purposes, you may carry a balance and still never pay a dime in interest: FICO considers your balance at the end your cycle, not the balance after your due date.

For example, if I have a balance of $800 when my statement was generated, my bank is going to report that $800 to the credit bureaus and FICO will calculate my credit score accordingly. So, for this cycle at least, it doesn't matter that I pay in full before my due date (thus avoiding any interest expense), my credit report will show an $800 balance on my account. This is why it's more likely to experience big month-to-month jumps in your credit score when you have fewer accounts/lower credit lines.

I do agree with you, I think that not carrying a balance doesn't have any negative impact on your credit score.
I'm just concerned a wildly mis-calibrated machine might output 10 millirem of radiation and nobody would notice.

Considering how oblivious some companies are to the difference between $0.02 and 0.02 cents, milli and micro might be way beyond the ability of some TSA technicians to understand.
I don't know that I'd lump Carmack in with the rest of your list. Yes, he is quite financially successful from id, but he never stopped being, first and foremost, a coder who will sometimes just disappear for a few weeks to separate himself from the world and get coding done.

I wouldn't list Jobs either for almost the opposite reason in that while he had a huge impact on the tech industry, he was always a "suit" (even if he didn't wear one).
It appears to be from this list:

http://www.randomgit.org/projects
Android Zero would be great too where you would only get security updates.
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One of the primary reasons we switched to it at Instagram (we were using twemproxy) is that it has much more robust failure handling than twemproxy did, at least at the time. That may have changed. Our experience was that if we lost a single memcache server, it caused multi-gets that included the lost server to fail completely or hang / timeout, instead of just not including results from the down host.
> He says he just wants to have fun and tinker

Then why no try to promote tinkering ? A game company dedicated to game development in a way he deems fit ?

> Some people actually are just happy doing what they enjoy.

There's always some small thing you wish you could be able to make, some quirky, imaginary idea you want to achieve. When you see what's on the market, you know and wish you could just do better. This kind of mindset enables you to feed your tinkering enjoyment. I mean you don't just spend time programming, your sense of creative smell makes you think about projects.

With the fame and money he has, he might be able to hire people and develop those projects, and if he can't, maybe he could try to make a game company or structure that helps other small developers work on their own ideas and concepts.

Something to counter the corporate, uncreative way AAA games are made.
If you view the album where it gives you the tracklist of songs, you can delete them from there as well. Still more of a pain than deleting the whole album in one move, but easier than searching through every song in your library.

Edit since HN won't let me reply:

I see a "Remove from library" in your screenshot, which I assume does the same.(Edit 2: Didn't realize there were 2 images, so I'm wrong there) And I've never had anything appear in my library that I didn't add, so I cant really check, but you seem to be correct, since I have the same menu as I do in "Songs"

Edit again:

That looks like the menu I get when I hit the album's menu button, here's what I get when I hit the one next to the song while viewing the album:

http://imgur.com/OzkhnDn

but that isn't a Google-added one, so ymmv. (However the web interface lets you delete entire albums at once, so I'm not sure why you can't in the app.)
For french speakers who might not know, there is also the french equivalent of bash.org previously called bash-fr (now renamed to danstonchat) http://danstonchat.com/, it also has a quite large community.
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Maybe add an option to filter on languages ? As a Go user I am just mildly interested in libs for js (as example). But I would be interested in passing some time flipping through the most active Go projects on Github.
What tool do you use to change configurations?

I know my 2007 Lexus has those programmable options like beep durations and such, but I have only found two solutions - paying the dealership $60 to change them, or buying a $15 android app that changes them. I could do it myself, but the codes (Lexus Personalized Settings) are secret. Did you find a free alternative to modify your Prius settings?
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I don't want to get too down on the TSA corporation since their public facing staff have always been polite and pleasant enough to interact with. I always opt out, so I have to get searched, but they are polite about it.

That said, I don't like it that TSA staff don't wear radiation badges, at least I haven't noticed any. One lady working for TSA, at the backscatter device, was very pregnant and I wondered about the radiation hazard for her, if any.
We're not compatible yet, but we're working on it! In the meantime, you can fallback to MathJax on things we don't support. That way, most things can be rendered fast, and anything super complicated gets special treatment. We'll be releasing something soon on how to do this, and if you use React you can use the KA TeX component: http://khan.github.io/react-components/#tex
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Ok cool. so the feature does exist.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4919
Having worked at Texas.Net before it became DataFoundry, and being one of the people who built up the original Sun E450s that were used as the Usenet servers when the separate Giganews product was developed, I find this hilarious.

I know a good number of the GN/DF employees mentioned in the article, and think this sounds more like a disgruntled ex-employee trying to badmouth his former employer.

As for the "gigauth" file - how else are you going to run a subscription Usenet service without logging authenticated users?

Disclaimer: I worked for Texas.Net from 1996 to late 1998 and was one of the people involved in moving their HQ from their San Antonio location to 823 Congress in Austin.

Edit: BTW, here's pics of my tubby self at work in the GREEN TSHIRT THEY MADE ME WEAR! (hey, free clothing is free clothing, I loved not having to worry about what I was going to wear to work every day..)

http://www.mrbill.net/texasnet/

I have nothing but respect for Ron Y. and his family - he and his wife invited me to spend Thanksgiving dinner in '96 with them since I'd just moved to Austin and had nowhere else to go. I will never forget that kindness.