skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would try this product for one simple reason: I care about my health more than anyone else possibly could. Frankly, I don't trust that a dentist would do a better job at casting the mold than me.
The Republicans were right to oppose FCC action for "neutrality" when what it really meant (at the time) was the ability to monitor and censor conservative blogs.

The recent moves have been lobbyist-inspired, though. Sad.
Generally, if you tell someone that taking on a debt obligation is a condition of doing business with you and make representations to the effect that they will be able to earn enough to meet that obligation based on their projected earnings from your contractual agreement with them that would be considered an implied contract.

If you then manipulate things such that they are effectively unable to meet their obligations because you are jerking them around they are certainly going to be able to find a lawyer who will take their case. Particularly if you were referring them to the auto-dealership and pre-qualifying them for financing.
is this gridspree, looks almost exactly like gridspree

https://assembly.com/gridspree
The difficulty is that the "trolling" folks like Coates want to eliminate is often simply a difference of opinion which is acceptable in one community but not in another.

One of the few times I read Coates' blog was discussing a black/white gap in dating site response rates. He immediately banned people pointing out statistics showing that black women are disproportionately fat. The HN discussion on the same topic was heavily upvoted and rationally concluded concluded that explanation was probably incorrect.

Building a system which will automatically detect that, e.g., statistics about race and obesity are trolling on Coates' site but useful contributions on HN is a difficult matter.

Collaborative filtering is the best way to create a bubble, but that generally requires a centralized communication medium like Facebook, Twitter or Reddit.
> The members of the FCC are Democratic and Republican political appointees.

And so are Supreme Court Justices. Once appointed, some future President can't just remove them because he/she disagrees. The President isn't a king.

It's not a party thing. Stop trying to make it one.
This is utter rubbish. The natural age-related fall in T levels is only a few tenths of a percent per year. Healthy men tend to retain good T levels well into old age.

J Clin Endocrin Metab.doi:10.1210/jc.2012-3842 Longitudinal changes in testosterone over five years in community-dwelling men
(abstract at end)

However for many other reasons, T levels can dramatically fall. Some of these reasons in include medications, stress, various diseases.

A common example is men who are on cortico-steroid medication for inflammatory or auto-immune conditions. Cortisol reduces T levels, reduces its effectiveness, and operates in the opposite manner (ie catabolic versus anabolic).

Longitudinal changes in testosterone over five years
in community-dwelling men
Zumin Shi 1 *,MD, PhD, Andre B. Araujo 2 ,PhD, Sean Martin 1 ,
Peter O’Loughlin 3 ,MD, PhD, and Gary A. Wittert 1 ,MD, FRACP
1
Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, S Australia; 2 Epidemiology, New England Research
Institutes, Inc., 9 Galen St, Watertown, MA 02472, United States; 3 Institute of Medical and Veterinary
Science Pathology, Adelaide, S Australia
Context. There are few population-based studies reporting longitudinal changes in total tes-
tosterone (T), luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and sex hormone
binding globulin (SHBG) levels, and limited information on risk factors for their change.
Objective. The objective of the study was to examined 5-year changes in serum T, LH, FSH, and
SHBG levels among Australian men.
Design. A randomly selected, community based cohort of 1,588 men age 35 or older at recruit-
ment (mean age 54؎11y), with available data at two visits. Men on medications known to affect,
or with established pathology of, the hypothalamo-pituitary gonadal axis were excluded, leav-
ing 1,382 for analysis.
Results. Mean baseline and follow-up T levels were 16.2؎1.4nmol/L and 15.6؎1.4nmol/L; a
change of -0.13nmol/L/y. Annualized T changes were associated with being unmarried, obesity,
and smoking at baseline, but not diabetes, hypertension, or cardiovascular disease. T declined
in men with persistent depression, or who developed chronic disease, and increased in men who
were married, as compared to unmarried, at both time points. In the multivariate analysis,
smoking cessation, development of central (waist >100cm) or generalised (BMI > 30) obesity
resulted in T decreases of 0.36, 0.25, and 0.20nmol/L/y respectively. Quitting smoking, developing
obesity, and having persisting depression were inversely related to SHBG change.
Conclusions. An age-related decline in T levels is not inevitable but largely explained by smoking
behaviour and intercurrent changes in health status, particularly obesity and depression."
They are. If they just deliver packets then they are clearly Title II. Last time the FCC did this (2004/5), the ISPs claimed that their homepages and email service and DNS made them not "telecommunications".

Well, Gmail, OpenDNS, Google DNS and Facebook (new homepage), make those arguments less useful. So "caching" is the new DNS.

Not sure how they'll deal with the rise of VPNs and HTTPS though. VPNs and non-cacheable are the most clear argument that people pay broadband ISPs just to deliver their packets.
I know broadlink, bought one of their product before.
I don't disagree with you. The downside, as so often is the case with the US healthcare system, is that this would prevent problems the insurance agencies will end up paying for when I need the tooth removed.
By that logic, laws would be created by a free market in law (polycentric court system).
If you haven't read Seymour Papert's Mindstorms book (ostensibly about the creation of Logo, but actually more about math education facilitated by exploring concepts through programming), it's a real eye-opener. It's one of the main texts that got me excited about taking a hands-on role in my kids' education.
I read the indictment [1]. Auernheimer wasn't a white hat security researcher--he intentionally went after AT&T with intent to damage them and reap rewards from it. He's not exactly a martyr for the cause of freedom.

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/113664772/46-Indictment
An alloy of iron and aluminium is as good as titanium, at a tenth of the cost
It astounds me that in all the years of braces being in use they haven't found a way to make them less ugly. It's like they're frozen in time.
It'd go against OOP, but you could take all the member variables and put in separate arrays.

E.g instead of an array of 3-vectors, you'd have an x-array, a y-array and a z-array.
This is largely political saber rattling. AT&T's best arguments are going to be procedural.

If FCC gets past arguments it didn't dot the i's, then this will go to the Supreme Court where AT&T and Verizon will get walloped. I can explain why, but basically there are 9 votes lined up against the ISPs on reclassification.
At the molar end of things, maybe.

I think the argument is that the bottom teeth were constantly being pulled forward and worn on the top.
Add a dash of quantum for secure cloud computing
They're generating profits at a rate of $200 Million per day [sic]. It's fair to say they make enough to pay for the costs of almost anything, including this. You've identified the one requirement they can in fact satisfy; the hard part is... everything else.

Edit: Clarity
I would guess the main reason for hiding your identity would be so the sellers don't overcharge. After its sold, it doesn't matter.
Might be something like Bing where searching a famous person's name would return a lot of content about them [1], such as their social media links, songs, movies or TV shows they were involved in [2], Wikipedia excerpts, photos, etc. They might just embed that user's tweets or something in the search results now. Also note the "Tweeted about Bill Gates" section in the first link.

[1] http://www.bing.com/search?q=Bill+Gates&go=Submit&qs=n&form=...

[2] http://www.bing.com/search?q=Pharrell&go=Submit&qs=n&form=QB...
“Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber attack”
While I don't like Internet providers creating different classes of traffic, the idea of the government getting involved should terrify anyone who values innovation and freedom.

Soon, we'll end up with a monopoly guided by regulations from lobbyists and using laws as a weapon against competition. That's hardly better than the problem we seek to resolve.
Optometrists aren't too happy about Warby Parker either. This seems like the Internet being the Internet for the benefit of the consumer.
I also wouldn't say that these are hardcore Christians. A lot of the beliefs people think are hardcore are stereotypical apologetic stock arguments found on many Christian websites, popular Christian literature, or churches. And those Christians who do believe otherwise tend to not speak up.

One can just look at polling organizations who look at Christian opinions on the trustworthiness of science, age of the earth, climate change and ecological responsibility, evolution, vaccination, secularism, gay marriage, and so on. You're going to find that these Christians have been exaggerated as fringe, when they are in fact a substantial minority, and sometimes a fair majority.

That's why politicians still talk about this stuff. That's why during election season, this stuff shows up on multi-million dollar advertising campaigns, sometimes in the form of sinister but subtle implications of things to fear, like gay people molesting kids, or public schools as centers for secularist brainwashing (the place where you're going to lose control of your kid's religiosity). People know that these issues cannot be explicitly talked about, so they talk in code.
IPv6 exists and works, and if we're going to expect our ISPs to get with the times we should be prepared to do so ourselves. NAT for IPv4 is ultimately unavoidable and thus excusable, but that doesn't mean that they can't use it to make the transition to IPv6 rougher on people who still need IPv4.
It still amazes me it works, not it amazes me it still works. I just mean that even knowing why and how it works it still looks like it is malformed.
That would mean several years prior to this elaborate scam he was already plotting... back when SR had no money to extort...
> My test levels were about 200, which would be acceptable had I been 70 years old.

This is a myth. 200 is low for a healthy 70 year old. Without disease or T-killing medications, T levels fall very slowly with age alone.
I've done this and been there to collect my dram. Scotland is wonderful.
"Hawaii 2" is one of my favorite things from 2014.
I'll try to get the datacenter techs to answer tomorrow, but here is my best off the cuff attempt:

> predict if a drive will fail

We have some heuristics (high numbers of time outs and high remapped sectors), but in the end most failures are sudden and catastrophic. It is more like statistical tendencies, the most obvious one being drive age.

> sparsely in rows

Others have noticed, I have to ask the OTHER Brian (Brian Beach did the lion's share of this drive stat collection and presentation).

> its you guys

Aww shucks. :-) But remember, we do this as a guide for ourselves, but we spend most days working on backup features and scaling, we don't have a lot of extra time. That's why we sending this data out there, some smart grad student or PhD in Xerox PARC can hopefully figure out some good stuff we missed! Besides, I don't think math and statistics are our strength, we just happen to be sitting on one of the world's larger stock piles of spinning drives with access to the computers with scripts. :-)
>If an AML flag is triggered, or there is reasonable suspicion, they have to report it and are barred from telling you that you've been reported.

Completely agreed.

>Kick you out as a customer would be a great way to undermine the whole AML thing.

This is where I think you're overreaching. Do you have a source on this? AFAIK closing an account isn't against any AML legislations. There's no onus on the bank keep a suspicious account (whether it's AML related, Bitcoin related, or just because the bank manager didn't feel like serving this account was profitable proposition anymore) open even when it's against their financial interest to do so.
Instead of wasting money on courts AT&T should upgrade all their DSL lines to fiber optics, lower prices on their plans and increase bandwidth. But of course they'd rather just whine about how their monopoly is threatened by Title II. I hope they'll lose big deal.

Though it wouldn't help anything of the above anyway, since even with Title II AT&T won't be facing much competition. They'd be just more limited in ways they can abuse their monopoly.
I think it's far more likely for me to have a hallucination than to be witnessing some supernatural events. For example, many 'ghost' sightings are in houses with higher than usual levels of carbon monoxide.
> It should allow them to be consistent about it and rate-limit everyone evenly, which would have the same effect.

That's an allocation of about 450kbit/sec (~56kb/sec) down per seat on a 737 assuming the plane is outfitted with GoGo's latest tech. Upload would be a tiny fraction of that. It's in everyone's interest to disallow high-throughput usage while permitting burstable high-bandwidth low-throughput usage.

"Bright line" rules that no type or source of content may be discriminated against by carriers only make sense if bandwidth is not a scarce resource.
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You can get a long way there with a server-rendered app, either via something like airbnb-style Rendr, PhantomJS (which has now hit 2.0), or React. Cache heavily if possible and you can get a really responsive render. It doesn't help of course for infinite scroll-style interactions, but nothing beats preloaded, static HTML! The difference, especially on slow mobile connections, is night and day.
Time to move to a GitLab repository hosted on server you've bought with bitcoin.
No, because a small business that does a lot of cash transactions would, on review of the account, look like a business, not like a money transmitter. There would be checks written to vendors, withdraws from a payroll company corresponding to a predictable cycle, probably a rent check on a predictable cycle, etc.

If your only two transactions are "Deposit lots of cash" and "transfer it to another bank" the bank will come to the conclusion "To the extent that there is a business here, it is probably money laundering." The bank was right.
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P6!
> The avalanche has already begun, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

thanks for the deep words, Kosh
Tracking Protection on Firefox
I couldn't be less sympathetic. You guys pull VLC for iOS like six months ago, provide no explanation as to why it was pulled, ignore people asking about it on Twitter, and no ETA or the slightest bit of information on whether or not it would return until a month or so ago, and you're surprised that this happened?

Provide a little feedback to the community in the future. Or better yet, just leave the app in the store between updates like a normal dev, and people won't get so frustrated.
A good way to learn is to look at really good examples. I would recommend looking at "Proofs from THE BOOK" for a few gems.
We use LevelDB.
> Is a statically typed language more likely than a dynamic language to work correctly in production, if both have 0 tests? Yes.

I'm not sure I agree. "Work correctly" does not just mean "compile correctly". I would want to see a lot of evidence to back up any assertion that programs written in statically typed languages are less likely to contain logic errors that compile and run just fine but don't do what the programmer (or his client) actually wanted.

I agree that neither is ideal and that adding testing can improve any code.
It was a big surprise to receive that in the mail. Wasn't sure if it was a joke or serious but after looking for it on Google maps I think I have a future trip planned.
I'd wager that the incapable developers aren't the ones that "just learned too late, welp", but rather lazy ones or ones without discipline, etc.
But strangely the author of the Economist post concludes that the market should be left to regulate itself. Even stranger, they immediately lament the fact that it's failed to do so in the 75% of America where there is a single broadband provider.

Which makes me wonder - will the FCC action do anything to expand the provider market, or merely ensure the quality of currently available access?
Upstream speeds vs downstream speeds will still likely be governed by the laws of economics
Doesn't seem very difficult to me actually if you look at it from a high level. There are two parts to this:

1. Translate Java to ObjectiveC: generate an abstract syntax tree, transform the syntax tree, generate ObjectiveC.

2. Provide compatible APIs.

Don't get me wrong it's a lot of work, but shouldn't be more difficult than writing a compiler in general.
"I have no illusions that any of this will change what happens on February 26," when the FCC is expected to vote, AT&T Federal Regulatory VP Hank Hultquist wrote in a blog post yesterday. "But when the FCC has to defend reclassification before an appellate court, it will have to grapple with these and other arguments. "

I might be misreading something, but is he not saying "We know this is useless but we want to waste the FCC's time and resources anyways" ?

I'm not familiar with how lawsuits for these kinds of cases work, but wouldn't this be enough for a judge to throw away any lawsuit they file? If they clearly state t hey have no intention other than to get in the way, it doesn't seem like a valid lawsuit to me.
[Two downvotes from Google]
Twitter is built for harassing. The medium makes it inevitable. you make a tweet and you shoot it out into the ether. It ends up on a couple million twitter feeds whether they asked for it or not. It angers some of those people, and they retweet it to show their followers how stupid you are. Now all their like-minded friends see that tweet in their feeds. A bunch of them are now aware of your existence and are mad and tweet back at you. This is far worse when you participate in a contentious issue on a hashtag. This is before you even get into hate-following and active-deliberate harassers. Then there is scale. There are a couple hundred million people on Twitter. If even .01% of them are sociopaths, that is a near-unmanageable problem.

Finally, a significant portion of Twitter is quite literally trolls trolling trolls. They both can dish it out and take it and don't see the problem. Good for them, but it's not compatible with everybody else.
How much do you think the robots at the Toyota factory care about your safety?
> It's undeniable that some people have an inclination towards software development, like a deep internal urge that must be satisfied, much like a drug addiction.

This describes me quite well. However, I'm not sure that this addiction is required in order to do software development at all.

There is evidence that with certain concepts in software development--pointers and recursion are two that come to mind--people either grok them or they don't, and if they don't, no amount of education or training seems to help. But I'm not sure the ability to grok these concepts is always correlated with the addiction.
I don't understand how this is a good deal for Twitter, Stackoverflow and any website that generates content and makes money using ads

Google generates revenue via ads, the same business you are in. And Google has a huge advantage. Embedding content into their search stream makes Google better, and stickier.

If Twitter is giving away it's content to Google, it's probably not at the premium it could charge for ads on it's marketplace but at huge discount via an API

This doesn't fair well for any website in this category. Google has found a way to compete with you for page views
Those parents would be telling their children that stuff whether they're home-schooled or not.
Correct. Though it't often easy enough to figure it out if it's related to an existing company.
How much does it differ from Adblock Plus in practice?
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Is that what P6 feels like?
I apologize for being out of the loop, but who's Kosh?
> I might be misreading something, but is he not saying "We know this is useless but we want to waste the FCC's time and resources anyways" ?

No, he's simply saying this prior release is not going to influence the FCC vote in any way, shape or form on Feb 26th.

However, a court battle after-wards might (as it did previously with the FCC National Broadband Act and the courts ultimately ruled the FCC had no authority to do what they proposed).
That's awk. That is literally the control flow style of awk, which Larry Wall copied into Perl very directly and entirely deliberately.

I find it very interesting that RPG uses it, and I wonder if it's convergent evolution (relative to awk and RPG) or if one is copying the other.
> And so are Supreme Court Justices.

And Supreme Court Justices decisions, throughout their careers, on issues that are politically salient at the time of their appointment very closely track the positions of the President that appointed them. While lots of people like to pretend that the judiciary is apolitical and nonpartisan, all the actual evidence is that it is anything but.

> Once appointed, some future President can't just remove them because he/she disagrees.

Right, the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary in general -- while not at all apolitical and nonpartisan -- are still more insulated from partisan politics and the mood current among elected politicians than, say, members of the FCC because they have lifetime tenure rather than 5 year terms. I'm not sure how pointing this out helps your case that the current net neutrality debate, both in the FCC and more generally, is not strongly partisan.

> It's not a party thing.

I'd surely prefer that support for net neutrality -- on the FCC, in Congress, and more generally -- wasn't a strongly partisan issue, but all the actual facts show that it is an issue that is extremely partisan. You can keep repeating "it's not a party thing" all you want, but it won't stop the fact that on the FCC, support for net neutrality regulations has consistently been split with Democrats for and Republicans against, in the Congress, support for the FCC issuing net neutrality regulations, or the Congress adopting strong net neutrality regulations itself, has consistently been strongly tilted to Democrats for and Republicans against (and, conversely, support for legislation explicitly prohibitong the FCC from regulating for neutrality has been strongly tilted to Republicans for, Democrats against.)

It is a party thing, whether you think it should be or not.
Genuinely curious, how would you resolve the problem differently?
He's saying that the threat of lawsuit isn't enough to prevent the FCC from going through with the reclassification, so they're going to wait for it to happen and then sue to overturn the FCC's decision.
The "Karpeles holding company" was a domain registrar which accepted Bitcoin as payments. The customer of the domain registrar? One Ross Ulbricht! Through an alias kept in an aliases file on his computer, using an email account to which his computer held the password.