skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course you're right, but there's a misunderstanding there.

My point is people who went through the experience of having test results compatible with cancer and then discover it is just a false positive (which technically it's not even true, there's no cancer diagnosis before a biopsy, it just can't be excluded), well, these very people seem to speak out against screening, or adopting more extensive screening policies, because they had a "false positive", and "it's stressful".

I am pretty sure all the people whose lives were saved by screening find that pretty selfish.
It's kind of ironic that the graph about embracing future technology requires Flash Player.
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I'm not sure if this is what the OP meant, but this[1] is what I think of when I hear anyone mention "Truecrypt".

1. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/nsa-paranoia-has-fanned-the...
The ones described in this article are ones that shouldn't necessarily be constrained to tight loops if you're looking for maximum benefit. Because their real gain isn't saving CPU cycles, it's reducing load on the memory manager. There's definitely still a diminishing returns situation, but the returns may not diminish as quickly since a memory allocation done by one spot in the code has the ability to impact performance virtually anywhere else when you're working in a garbage-collected language.
> False positives aren't inherently a problem. If you have accurate understanding of the sensitivity and specificity of a test, then you can take action to maximise the utility of the expected outcome.

In many cases, the optimal action is not to test in the first place. "Overdiagnosed" is an interesting book on the subject by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch. A recent piece by him in the NYT gives an idea of his thesis:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/opinion/an-epidemic-of-thy...
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Great news. I'm not a fan of Docker's new monolithic approach to containerization. Things like orchestration and networking should not be included in docker, but rather pluggable.
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1. Other form encoding types have discrete MIME type fields.

2. While data URIs are awesome, it forces you to process that URI in some way (parse, regex, whatever) just to get the MIME type. Also, this forces 13 bytes of redundancy every time.
Funny, I've always had relative success with Nair..

Heard they're reworking the whole DM system.
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Yeah, digital bundling makes a huge difference. Digital files are the clear overall winner in terms of convenience, portability, and flexibility but even leaving aside any audiophile debates over sample rate and analog vs digital, there's something a lot of people enjoy about tangible items, big cover art, and the feeling that paying (or paying more) is justified when you get a physical thing as opposed to a bunch of bits. Bundling lets you have it both ways and since the cost of distributing the digital version is very low, it's not much of an added cost (even if either way you're primarily paying for the cost and value of the actual data whether you buy vinyl, CD, or mp3).
Agreed. I recently started work for a new company and they forgot to add me to some services so I needed to request access and then had to wait for them to get to it. A one-click "Add/Remove user for all our services" would be quite valuable in itself. And then the potential cost savings that could come from cancelling/reducing unused SaaS services would make it more valuable.
This looks very interesting - it'll be really useful to have something like Docker that isn't so monolithic - it should be much more composable in new ways.
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- Created a new (and soon-to-be open source) activism platform that’s currently live at act.eff.org.

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We are in need of four developers whom we would like to hire preferably in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, North Carolina area (but San Jose, California will work also).

--
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Must be proficient in: HTML, Javascript, CSS, nix, Apache, Apache Tomcat, Java servlets, Event drive programming, MVC patterns, etc.

Nice to have experience in: Node.js, Angular.js, Talend, R, Java

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Must be proficient in: nix, shell scripting, Java, Java Servlets, Apache, Apache Tomcat, Event driven programming, MVC patterns, etc.

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Somewhat surprisingly, this is exactly what it says it is -- not a generic NNTP feed for Hacker News, but a script to slurp up HN and pull it into a local news server.

This is, erm, less useful than some alternatives off the top of my head:

- pipe HN to GMane for distribution via NNTP, which will reduce load on HN but make someone responsible for actually doing it

- actually convince the HN devs to do a unidirectional or even bidirectional gateway to a couple of major NNTP servers (loses reputation and voting, so bidirectional seems unlikely)
I'm not sure it occupies the same niche, but have you had a look at Google Inbox?
XML schema sucks, really sucks, when you use XML correctly and ignore node order.

How is ignoring node order "correct" (and on the flip side, how is demanding an order using it "wrongly")? In many XML parser implementations, node order is reflected in the resulting DOM. Yes, a schema lets you demand that nodes come in a specific order, and this is a complete non-problem, generally -- the whole point of schemas is that they very tightly define the format, and source systems abide by it, even if that means they have to alter the generating order to be compliant.
If the choices are between a slow addon review process, and a webstore full of malware, I'll definitely pick the slow addon review process.
> entire classes of apps in China that would find no market in the west.

Could you go into more detail on these apps?
Hey, I'm a NYC-based Javascript Developer but I'm looking to move to Berlin in January and I think I'd be a great fit for your Junior JS developer role. (Also I have EU citizenship :p)

Would you mind exchanging info? Contentful looks like a really great place to work.
I don't see a lot of value in this article. I'm aware that the Mozilla review process is slow, but this rant is not the one that's going to fire up people in Mozilla to fix it.

The author cries, "...as an open source project, we’re already stretched thin—it’s a colossal waste of resources to deal with the issues caused by this policy. If we were a for-profit company, we could just make it someone’s job."

What does the author think Firefox and Mozilla are? Firefox is open source and Mozilla is a non-profit. That Mozilla as a non-profit has policies to have volunteers do what seems like a good job (especially looking at the AMO review comments in this case) should be lauded. As IvyMike pointed out trusted extensions morphing into malware in Chrome, which is developed by a hugely for-profit company, it seems to me that Google is the one that should be considered hostile to everyone in the community and should also be ashamed.

Also, the author does not need to stoop so low saying things like "I can not in good conscience recommend that Ember developers use the Ember Inspector add-on from the Mozilla add-ons page. Either compile it from source yourself and set a reminder every few weeks to update it, or switch to Chrome until this issue is resolved." For heaven's sake, host the extension on your site and provide the link to the XPI file to your users. Firefox can install it from there and your users will click on the "allow site to install extension" dialog. There is no need to host your extension on AMO if you're this upset with Mozilla.
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Different command structures could be part of the cause. Obamacare was a non-classified civilian project, under the leadership of civilians. The primary fumble was (due to corruption) using a federal-friendly (corrupt and ineffective but known to be loyal) contractor rather than an actual development firm.

NSA etc are military operations with honeycombed classification schemes and cellularized access to information. Even if there were failures and waste, we'd never hear of it. I assume that corruption plays less of a role since the concern is on effectiveness, but I have nothing to base that on.
tldr; more of what everyone else is saying, review is valid, indictment of mozilla's policy as "hostile to open source" is hasty

"we don't like mozilla's review process" != "mozilla's policy is hostile to open source".

I think this blog post was made in frustration, and he's not the first or the last person that will do so. While I can agree it took too long for the review to come back (rejected at that), as others have said, the review is solid, and Mozilla is stretched thin just like any other open source project/non profit.

If it's transparency ("it's not our fault") that you want, why not put up a quick status page/alert for people? You could even expand that to a status page for all the ongoing ember projects (plugins, new versions of ember), and have a state that is clearly marked "being reviewed by firefox team" and the appropriate version that was ready for release.

Also, maybe point some of the users that are complaining about slow firefox plugin updates to the review helping link mentioned in the comments:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/AMO:Editors
Here are 179 basic Linux utilities...

rpm -ql binutils coreutils moreutils moreutils-parallel \
findutils diffutils sharutils psutils \
pciutils iputils elfutils | grep -E /usr/s?bin

...some of which likely have parsing bugs which can be automatically identified with this fuzzer discussed on HN recently:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/

Also, an exciting opportunity to discover what the 'pee' and 'sponge' commands do.
I had the same experience. I was about the same age when I felt bad a lot. I had developed food allergies and suffered from nausea after I've eaten something along with a slight chest pain. It was going on for weeks before I went to my doctor and got diagnosed with a single gallstone and a lot of slug right away. In those weeks before, I was terrified that it could something more serious. But I told myself, that it was just the stress of the current project and the traveling (each week). After the diagnose, I went to the hospital three times when it was really worse, but denied further actions because of my project. The last time I went was on the last day of my project. I was in a really bad shape. I was operated a month later and today I am fine.

What I learned: See a doctor ASAP and do not delay treatment, even when working on one of the best projects.
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At this point, these anti-Uber articles constitute nothing more than a smear campaign - and a bad one, at that.

Every company sits on troves of data re: your personal habits and comings and goings - and they all get hacked, all the time. Even ones run by the "grown ups" that - according to the narrative - Uber so desperately needs if they ever want to be seen as a member of decent society.
Then why was national socialism such a huge success in Germany?
Certainly, but I doubt it's very enforcable.
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The managerial ineptitude of limiting doctor supply so they are overworked is even more medical system idiocy.
Funny thing, most of them are actually still just starving...
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Would be nice to make animations with this. And with textures that aren't dots.
XorNot carefully avoided that recent case by specifying "in the western world".
...or boxing that fits in standard sizes of storage containers that can be easily handled by the robots. Similar to how small sized by high-value items (video games, perfumes, etc) are often stored (and rattle around in) clear locked boxes on the shelves at department stores.

The manufacturers could be encouraged to reduce their box size (and, thus the amount of room it takes up in the warehouse) by being charged a fee for items that took up too much room and/or non-standard room.

For a while during Jobs' Keynotes they'd announce a new iPod, and then say how much smaller the packaging was. The end-user probably doesn't care, but for those in the supply change I guess it's a huge deal. Less airplanes and shipping containers from China, more stock on the same amount of shelves, etc.
Macs are hugely popular in Italy among web developers. What I usually see is in offices, coworking spaces and conferences is a sea of glowing apples, my Linux laptop (I don't like the OSX GUI), very few Windows laptops, usually not the ones of developers. After all if you deploy on Linux, why develop on Windows? OSX is a good enough approximation.
Web 2.0 (technology) doesn't mean "dynamic content". In 1994 there was dynamic content with server-side script execution, which solidified into CGI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface :

"Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard method used to generate dynamic content on Web pages and Web applications. " (emphasis mine)

"History ... In 1993, The NCSA team wrote the specification for calling command line executables on the www-talk mailing list."
that sucks, kim dotcom is dope.
This situation speaks more to the prevalance crippled input devices and less to the innate superiority of modern UI trends.

Admittedly I only use plan 9 for text processing and as a terminal to other (both plan 9 and unix) systems, but I cannot imagine any work toward buttonless-touchpad convenience that would do anything but cripple what is currently a powerful interface.

I'm not sure there's anything to be gained from forcing different paradigms to bend to whatever monoculture is currently in power.
I run a SaaS business which requires pretty much full access to your GMail account (we don't require delete capabilities). Originally, I thought nobody would grant that much access over their email. But it surprised me how many people are willing to do that. Sure, there are some people who are wary and not do it but I think people on HN vastly over estimate the percentage. As you said, Mint is a great counter-example.
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Yes! General tagging of videos with all possible tags is great for media discovery, but we've built our system with data analysis in mind. We want to be useful for those who want to analyze photo and video datasets when they already know what their query is.

We've found that most of the value is in the latter. For example, our system helps answer:

1) on a publisher video server, which videos were about automotive?
Can we package those ads off to car brands?
2) how many people took photos of my brand's product on instagram
after our marketing campaign?
3) what were pedestrian traffic patterns like outside
our store based on the CCTV system?
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Absolute no brainer. Product was well-crafted and I don't know why no one combined email and calendar before, but this made my life a lot easier and I'm iPhone/Gmail. For exchange users this must be a quantum leap ahead.