skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think cell antennas have unique identifiers. If true, can you detect when you connect to a tower that isn't your usual tower in your usual geographic location (assuming you're being targeted at home, for example).

And if there is indeed a unique id, can the fake cell take the id of a real cell and still work with the cellphone company, or would it need the cooperation of the cellphone company? (for example, the cell company would look at hops?)

I guess it's too much to hope that the cellphone companies would try to protect our privacy.

Maybe someday we'll have police running things similar to license scanners but for cellphone conversations. They'll drive around the city recording conversations to detect keywords for illegal activity (herb, drug, murder of crows, etc)

EDIT: actually, I don't think they need to hijack cellphone connections. They can just listen in - at least they used to be able to. We determined the identities of the bombers of our embassies in Africa in the late-90s through cellphone conversations through RC-135s flying along the Africa coast from Diego Garcia, and an intelligence gathering satellite that drags an antenna behind it.
Thanks for the link, haven't tried Blaze yet. Their benchmarks do look a little suspicious, especially as Armadillo will auto detect and link to MKL if installed.
Unraveling Why Some Mammals Kill Off Infants
I disagree. Traditional drug firms have proven they're unable to adequately innovate with internal R&D due to large bureaucratic overhead. Additionally, old blockbuster drug patents are rapidly expiring and these firms have nothing new to offer except for small iterations on the old drug (e.g. a small change in chemistry which offers no to very little additional benefit to the patient while securing a new patent for the firm). In short, competition is increasing and they're unable to make huge leaps forward in technology to stay ahead of the competition.

Recognizing these facts, large firms have begun prospecting and betting on start-up companies who focus on rare diseases because this is a space where innovation has very little bureaucratic overhead and there is very little competition. Also, this is also a space in which the market size is small and where barriers to entry are high, reducing the threat of future competition.

In fact, if big companies believe they have bought a company with a promising drug, they would prefer higher hurdles for FDA certification to reduce potential competition.
A big hunk of gold so you can tell stories like: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/10/10/...
Here's something outrageous that a reader might have missed: An MRI doesn't have to be $6000. The marginal cost of one more MRI is pretty low (they go for under $200 in Japan, and people get them way more frequently), but the price tag quoted to insurance companies is inflated, so that the insurance companies can bargain the hospitals back down. Only the uninsured end up paying a needlessly large sticker price for things like MRIs.
This is the rule: Party X will defend unconstitutional electronic surveillance when the president is Party X. And it will attack unconstitutional electronic surveillance when the president is NOT(Party X).

The above rule holds true for both major parties.
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The 1962 amendments add "effective". The FDA was already mandated to require things be "safe". The example you give falls under the latter requirement, which is not what Peltzman's book is about.

I know nothing about European and Asian pharmaceutical regulation. They likely have something equivalent to the FDA's mandate.

It's my understanding that vitamins and dietary supplements are classified as "food" and not "drugs" and so fall under quite different regulatory systems.
That's called contingency planning. After getting an investment of $50M I'm pretty sure they did their homework on this and having the CEO resign simply triggered a series of pre-defined steps. You don't get that kind of investment without having at least the basics in place. (Or at least, you shouldn't...).
Sounds like a nice bike commute. Especially with the weather there.
Well to be fair, even the Nobel prize is a sort of PR move, though a posthumous one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#Nobel_Prizes
Enterprise (with Google Docs), and maybe Chromecast, are the two arguably profitable non-advertising products. The other product areas are surely in the red.

Google is trying to diversify, but they haven't been successful at turning a profit on non-advertising products, at least not yet.
That was the argument, not that Zip2 went through an accelerator. Thank you.
>I'm kinda amused a yc employee went through the effort of downvoting it after pointing out this situation is caused by y'all not following what you actually have in your notices for things.

Seriously what is it with HN/Reddit where everyone assumes that any downvotes are from people with an agenda?
The key element in moving offices is buy-in. It affects everybody. If you treat your employees like they're part of the furniture during the planning phase then you're going to have exactly the effect you describe. Not saying that was the case but I would not be surprised if it was.
It's no different from stored procedures and triggers in a database, or a shell language on an operating system. At some point you will have to invest time creating logic, for your purpose, on somebody else's system.
You're welcome.

It just occurred to me that you may have been asking about extending Shape in the C# example. In that case, you'd just subclass Shape as normal[1]. Some people argue that sum types shouldn't be extended, but I never really understood that. Basically, C# lets you define unbounded sum types (in the form of subclassing) whereas idiomatic F# more or less demands that you know up front how many variants you're going to need.

[1] Although, sometimes I do define my classes to prevent this by marking the constructor(s) of the abstract base class as private, and then writing the derived class definitions within the body of the base class.
It's a pity Github has become the central place for people to host free software while not being free itself.
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My bad. I read the article this morning, then posted the link now. I didn't see the correction before, and now reading it, you're right. Deleting the parent.
Wow, this is fantastic. I signed up for a trial and spun up a server. docker works well. A quick review:
1) they have the equivalent of ec2/digital ocean
2) can create volumes that can be attached to instances.
3) can create images and snapshots
4) s3 like storage. not sure about AZs and such.
5) I tried reserving an IP but they seem to be out of it.

Only downside - I would like to know the pricing before I start using this.

If anyone from Online Labs is reading this, please let us know about the pricing!

I will give the API a try tonight.
In that case I'm pretty sure RES saves the state of the collapsed threads.
The meaning of "lambda" in computer science is functionally (no pun intended) similar enough to what amazon is selling that people learning programming and nontechnicals or even IT pros who work with programmers will inevitably be confused.
I'm liking git for it's internals, but the UI is pretty bad in places:

# undo commit
git reset --soft HEAD~1
hg rollback

# undo changes
git checkout -- <file>
hg revert <file>

etc. I look up the git equivs up on stack overflow every time I need them.
>The US Marshals are not the only

yep. The cell phone tracking has actively been used for tracking and targeting in Ukraine/Russia war on Donbass by both sides.
100 was picked because it's a large round number. We need vote history to show vote arrows correctly, and for performance reasons we try to avoid loading entire vote files.
Is there a link you can point us at? If it's in portugese we might have trouble understanding it.
Sounds great. Just one question about the Windows screenshot - why are the fonts so jagged?
ok. the way you worded it, it sounded like the mistake was the publishing of the info, not that certain info was made available via the api. i was questioning why certain data would be available via the api, but it appears it was only available during error.
Huh? Shared server infrastructure? That's really what this sounds like. Welcome to web hosting in 1999 guys. Most of the point of AWS was that you have your own dedicated resources. Sure, this is a scaling solution, but revolutionary?
Your Mac Logs Everything You Download
DuckDuckGo Returns No Results for Soft Robotics
This is absolutely fantastic -- love it! Thanks for making this.
Screenshot from a remote server running on AWS. I guess the settings are screwed up on that machine!
SatNOGS – Satellite Networked Open Ground Station
There's nothing particularly unusual about what Arc does. This probably has a technical explanation, but the most logical deduction seems to be that when a mod visits your profile page, they can follow a link that will show them the 100 most recent items you've voted for.

Either that, or a program is aggregating the 100 most recent votes in order to be used in some filtering or weighting algorithm to change the ranking of comments. (People who upvote what YC alums/patio11/tptacek/etc upvote may be upvoting high-quality things, so make their votes count more. That sort of thing.)

I guess it might improve server performance if the server caches your 100 most recent upvotes for page generation purposes, since when it serves you a page, it has to know whether you've upvoted each comment or not. But it seems like a stretch to say it's only used for that purpose, because it still needs to know whether you've upvoted things from very old pages, yet the list stays at exactly 100 items. And they already hunt for and punish voting rings. I was just wondering the extent to which votes are scrutinized.

EDIT: The more I think about this, the dumber I sound. The dataset that was leaked was almost certainly used to generate pages and nothing more. It's the simplest explanation, for one. Manually looking doesn't scale. The program to look for voting rings is probably a completely different program. Etc.
Does that mean you get it before you achieve something?
Everything large organizations and ultra-rich people do is PR.
Try reloading the search. I think there is an intermittent DuckDuckGo bug which can result in no results being displayed. I have seen it a few times, and reloading the page or resubmitting the search has always resulted in a page populated with results. Indeed, your submitted story link pulled up a full page of results for me.
The efficient market hypothesis presumes that you can't affect the performance of the market (except possibly the shirt term price action). Bailing out Coca Cola presumably entails gaining enough control to drive the future directin of the company.
Justice Department Accused of Using Fake Cell Towers on Planes to Gather Data
I have several applications that would run very well on this. I wouldn't be too hasty -- all the world isn't Java or "enterprise" web apps.

The hosting market is huge. There's a niche for this, especially if they can exploit the strengths of bare metal non-virtualized hosting without the cost premium. A $5/month bare metal quad-core would be ideal for a whole bunch of applications.
As the article points out though, they may have used that temporary access to your systems to leverage more permanent access.

(And of course if the machine you're connecting from has an sshd listening then there's a good chance they could successfully connect back to it using your agent forwarding, then subvert the agent itself)
Maintenance on all of their services is non-trivial in terms of people at least. However if they are used internally, directly or indirectly then they're already paying for it.
True, its likely just like all other limits; arbitrarily small for anyone by default to prevent you from having an errant process spin up a ton of resources that you'd be expected to pay for.

Just like how you can get specific increases on your spot bids so long as you acknowledge that if you get a spot spike, and your personal limit is far greater than the spike -- you'll be charged your rate.
For people not familiar with the way things work in the USA, "properly documenting" here means that you need at least a few months of written warnings, an "improvement plan" that then "failed" and such before you can fire someone who just isn't working out at all.

In other words, it's very hard to fire them.
Hypothermia does provide some protection against hypoxia-induced brain damage. However, exposure to air at -13C for only a few minutes is very unlikely affect your core body temperature enough to cause hypothermia. And anyway, the time taken to fall from 15km to a more tolerable altitude would probably not be long enough to cause that type of damage in the first place.
Interestingly, when I click to Turn On "Region", it shows a bunch of results
But the point is that while publishers get to sell books through multiple retailers, Amy Poehler does not (in practice) get to license her words to multiple publishers.
> There's explicit discussion of new vs existing defaulted Discover cards in her request for data... which would not be meaningful if theydid not consider any funds misallocated.

That's not really true. Cards run promotions like that all the time where the benefit is offered to all cardholders. One goal may be to drive adoption, but it also drives other goals like retention and brand value. It's false to assume that the only reason they'd be pissed about lack of data on campaign performance is that they had only the one specific campaign goal in mind.
As a proof of concept I knocked up JankyBrowser in about 3 hours. Nagivation? Check. Tabs? Check (how long did other browser take to get those!). All in a little over 6K of JS.

https://gist.github.com/morganrallen/f07f59802884bcdcad4a
For a practical language I'd pick either F# or Clojure, depending on whether you like static or dynamic typing.
New Fund Unshackled Offers Paychecks, Visas to Back Unlikelier Founders
Derek Lowe has another theory: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/11/06/what_happens...

Your average startup brings exactly one drug to market, and then is aquired and broken up. The current system does not encourage building institutional experience in the field, in fact it destroys it.
I know it's compelling to answer users who ask for more transparency on security. But it's not the best thing to reveal implementation details after hashes were leaked.
Submit 16: How to run a user interview
The only browser that fits in a gist!
World's dumbest iPhone game
> I like the plastic bag ban because cashiers and other shoppers don't look at me weird for NOT wanting a bag

This has to be the most ridiculous concern to come out of all of this. If this is the worst thing to happen to you, congratulations.
Knowing nothing more about the issue, I honestly believe he's right in wanting to move the office out of the most expensive area in the Bay. It's a strain down the line.

Unless something fundamental changes in city planning I'd expect a certain degree of crowding out of that area.
That's not how bcrypt works. If you have the hash, you know the number of rounds.

Even if that weren't true --- and it very much is --- you'd still trivially be able to find that number given a single known password.
The fairly obvious solution would be to use another email. Or none. If it's a burner account, don't put your email on it. "Pay cash."
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I'm glad that Google has enough money to take on risky projects. So much of what they do fails - they essentially only have advertising. But to be honest nothing in that article seemed that world-changing or interesting. Even the nanoparticles are mundane and not much more of an extension of the work that's been going on since the 90s on bio-chips for detection.

But nanoparticles for drug deliver is interesting but they've been doing something similar with bio-engineered antibodies since the early 2000s. (in fact, if you're rich enough you can get a tailored cancer treatment with antibodies specific to your own specific cancer - this has been around for awhile)

I've long hoped that self-aware AI would come out of Google, but perhaps not.

In comparison, Elon Musk seems like the true visionary.
Reddit is dead.
In Demark? Even the weak as piss beer is expensive.
There were problems with very similar symptoms back when Mavericks was newly released. Apple eventually fixed it, but it took a few revs.
Because I know I'm right and all rational people agree with me. Anyone who disagrees is a bad person.
Sent this in response ...

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... I (think) I understand what it is you're trying to achieve, but the fix for any sort of collectivism (sexism, racism, homophobia, etc.) isn't more collectivism.

Personally speaking, I'd prefer not to work at a company that specifically advertised for developers of any specific sex, race, or religion.

While I believe it should be your choice as an employer to advertise and hire on whatever grounds you see fit, I see willingness to run a $GROUP-ist hiring campaign as a pointer that at least a significant proportion of the company thinks of people in terms of their $GROUP membership first, and as individuals second. That's a fairly ironic position for a group to hold that is also so clearly committed to mitigating the toxic effects of sexism in STEM - an heroic effort if ever there was one.

Anyhow, just my unsolicited $0.02.

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I don't think it's fair to conflate a progressive political ideology with website layout. The two aren't remotely related.

You can subscribe to a progressive ideology and abhor a dramatic redesign of a website. Just because someone is "progressive" doesn't mean they need to accept all change.
i too doubt this was the only thing that suddenly made him resign. there has to be more that went on behind the scene that even altman is not talking about...
But these aren't so much visual illusions as they are camera illusions. Their whole premise is the fact that they are a 2D projection of 3D objects. There are multiple 3D objects that project to the exact same 2D object, so I don't understand why there has to be a mistake involved.

That would be like saying two times ten is twenty, and four times five is twenty, so division has been designed incorrectly.
I'd rather live forever than on Mars.
The sentiment is more appropriate when talking about expensive liquid bread.
Containers abstract over reducible complexity.

Functions (should) abstract over irreducible complexity.

As long as we're asking hypotheticals — why do applications need to control the global OS namespace and the dependencies between elements in that namespace to a degree that the applications themselves can't be easily deployed without containers?

Can that problem be reduced?

If not, why not?
In addition to the egrigious complaints citizens could make, wouldn't telecoms and cellphone manufacturers have grounds to sue over this? It sounds like these boxes are actively disrupting or reducing cell-phone service reliability by tricking devices to connect to them, despite not being a good tower.
> The problem is that the justice system is not perfect, and occasionally convicts an innocent person.

Occasionally? Given the 4% rate of false conviction for death penalty defendents (http://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7230.abstract) and the fact that 97% percent of criminal cases dealt with in the U.S. don't even go to trial, it's far more than occasionally. Often. Quite often.
> It has the -tabwidth option, defaulting to 8

It was only used when you invoked the other option to use spaces instead of tabs. Both options are now removed. gofmt doesn't care how wide your tabstops are.
D.R.A.C.O. is a broad spectrum antiviral developed at MIT, but currently languishing without almost any funding. It theoretically can cure almost any virus, and has been successful in vitro and in mice. The mechanism should work in humans, and yet no one wants to fund it. It's completely baffling to me that no one is aware of this, and that it's not being fast-tracked and funded by governments around the world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO_(antiviral)
That is a good story!

Beyond the hunk of gold, they could also have the king of Sweden hand you the hunk of gold. I think that's a good touch.
Why are you telling the public of his reason for resigning? Isn't that something he should be allowed to do himself?
128 is round. 100 is just weird!
Too much dandelion soup?
what about using `pkill -KILL -f meteor` instead?
Presumably. If you're paying for an unpatched vuln, you don't want to get a patched vuln.
Very pretty. What is the power density of these? 288 nodes/enclosure is pretty dense. Did you design your own enclosure/backplane as well? What are the interconnects?
Population won't grow forever, not because of lack of food, but because (most) people would have better things to do than care for 6 kids, and 6 kids won't have positive effect on their wealth (it's already the case in the developed world - check out natural growth in Europe or Japan).

So more food = more people is not true.
Watch out for the limit on the number of concurrent invalidation batches. Youll probably want to scan for "pending" PUT objects and try aggregate them in to an invalidation batch.
You cut-and-pasted the same data twice.
... and HN delivers. :)
Well...there's rarely a downside in the extra mile... as long as it's the right folks doing it (customer service reps, account managers, etc). Spending a core-dev's time on a customer's code seems kinda backwards.

As a rule of thumb: I'd say if one customer makes those kind of complaints, it doesn't necessarily mean anything... but if two customers have the same exact problem then you should look into changing how you present your guidelines/docs to the users. They might need to be modified to make the warnings more aggressive and apparent. If you've done everything you can in that area, then all you can do is equip your customer-facing-teammembers with all the firepower they need to handle those kind of complaints themselves.
yeah, I realized that I lost my original output (copy&pasted the wrong thing after I closed the VM). tried reproducing, but no servers are available at the time, so I deleted the comment ;(

for those who're curious: I was wondering what kind of 20GB SSDs they're using, they seem to be way slower than virtualized storage.
Benchmarking Usability and Performance of Multicore Languages [pdf]
I haven't had a chance to play with it, but I ran across this project the other day: https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv

"OSv was designed from the ground up to execute a single application on top of a hypervisor... OSv... runs unmodified Linux applications (most of Linux's ABI is supported) and in particular can run an unmodified JVM, and applications built on top of one."
I really wish we could come up with "community awards" where certain people with certain accomplishment could pool in their own money to honor a researcher who is otherwise not so much known in main stream media. For example Steve Jobs is a well known name but Denis Richie isn't.
I've read Gary Taubes and I do have that book but I can't find this section. Which page is it on?
Ted Cruz is incredibly smart which makes this entire Op-Ed even more sad. Characterizing sales tax as a new internet tax? Fear mongering about ICANN being under Russian / Chinese / Iranian control? Comparing the USPS (who congress has forbidden to be innovative) to Facebook?

There are reasonable arguments to be made for net neutrality but these aren't them.