skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US spends about half ($1 Trillion) of our federal taxes directly on Healthcare programs, between Medicaid and Medicare. We can afford to do that because of broad private-industry spending in R&D, Universities, Telecom, and other forms of central infrastructure. The value that those programs provide to our population are measurable and direct.

China, on the other hand, still having widespread government ownership of the economy, spends a significant portion of it's taxes on managing (mismanaging) their infrastructure and intellectual resources. That unfortunately only leaves about 6% of their $2.2 Trillion budget for healthcare, all the while, not having a private healthcare industry to fill the gaps. If you've been paying attention to China at all in the last few years, you would be well aware of their many literal bridges to nowhere, empty cities, and "san gong" spending.

Zhu Lijia, a professor of clear governance at the Chinese Academy of Governance 国家行政学院, puts "san gong" spending (or spending on luxury yachts, private planes, lavish dinners, etc.) at 1 trillion yuan, or 30% of total government expenditure.
I think the use of real names was identified as one of the reasons for Facebook's success[1], so they just copied that.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/myspace-quietly-begins-enco...
Incredibly sad day. I had the privilege of seeing Dr. Kalam speak to a packed auditorium at the IAC [1][2] in 2007 in Hyderabad, India. Not only were a large number of conference participants present but there were about 300 school children there too. There must have been almost 1000 people in that room and there was absolute pin-drop silence. The way Dr. Kalam was able to capture the attention of young and old is something that I feel truly privileged to have witnessed.

During the Q&A, a girl stood up and took the mic, she can't have been over 10 years old, and she asked him in plain English why he wasn't going to stand for President again when he was loved by every single person in the country. She asked the question that was on the minds of every Indian in the room. His response was measured, balanced and most of all inspirational. He commented that he wanted to return to his passion. That he was a scientist at heart, and that the country was in good hands.

My family WhatsApp group is flooded with messages over the last few hours of the various encounters they've had with Dr. Kalam. Even his last breathe was taken at IIM Shillong doing what he does best; inspiring a nation. A friend of mine in Bangalore had the honor of meeting him recently. He has been working on a space startup in India for the last three years and commented how special it was to have the occasion to speak to Dr. Kalam about the future of the Indian space sector.

He was an incredible scientist, a visionary, a leader and in someways that is outdone by the single fact that he united a single country: with all the religious tension between Hindus and Muslims, no one I have ever met back in India has considered him to be anything else than ours.

The 27th of July should be a national day of recognition for his genius.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Astronautical_Co...

[2] http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/sep/27slide1.htm

EDIT: Minor corrections
Keeping the conversation going
Giving visitors a vote button will shake your faith in the internet. Giving unregistered visitors a text field that doesn't require approval before being listed, that's just downright dangerous! :P
Summary: MMS messages can cause Android phones to decode video with libstagefright, which is a C++ library with vulnerabilities and insufficient sandboxing, leading to remote code execution without user interaction.

You can partially mitigate the risk by disabling auto-downloading of MMS messages in whichever app you have set to handle text messages, such as Messaging or Hangouts. THIS IS URGENT. While the precise details of the flaw have not been publicly disclosed, this disclosure is sufficient for a skilled person to rediscover the flaw, which means that there is a considerable risk that someone will systematically use it on all the phone numbers.
> Our bodies were not meant to

Not to nitpick but this phrasing always bothers me.

Our bodies, most likely, weren't "meant to" do anything by anyone. They've just pondered along adjusting to their environmental stimuli like everything else does.
Hi Everybody,

We are trying to do a startup fellowship list in this link :) https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=9956732
Everyone is non-technical when they start. I've noticed a lot of layfolks have this notion that there's some innate intellectual difference between people who work with technology and people who don't. There isn't. At the highest levels you may start to see real jumps in necessary intelligence, but the majority of technology (whether it's IT, Auto, Electrical, etc) is possible for anyone to understand, provided they start simple and methodically work their way in to the good stuff.

So my advice to "non-technical"-but-curious friends is: don't label yourself. If you're interested in technology, that's enough. Start with whatever subject you're most interested in. Grab a random article. Look up every word or concept you don't understand. Initially most of what you'll be doing is learning definitions, parsing jargon. Once you get the language down, you can move on to ideas. How do these things work, what is their structure? Learn the common ones. Learn the old ones. Learn the new ones, the unproven ones. Once you get those ideas down, you can move on to problem solving. Pick a problem you've run into. Look into how others have solved the problem. If they haven't, take the concepts you've picked up and give it a shot. Try different angles. Try going old-school. Try something cutting-edge. Ask for help. Finish the project. If you come up with something half-way usable, congratulations: you're a technical innovator.

There are efficient and inefficient ways to learn, but curiosity is the thing that matters most. Hold tight to that and dive right in.
> People are replying to users but the reply username doesn't match the display username.

To be fair, Twitter suffers from this too.
It seems that this article also somehow missed entirely the potential link between some artificial sweeteners and diabetes[1][2]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26095119
[2] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7521/full/nature1...
I'm personally a fan of using git-archive to make a tarball that can be deployed. These tarballs won't contain the .git directory and can be pushed/pulled instead.
I think everyone started out assuming they had no other effects. Recently, though, evidence has shown up [0] that suggests that they have some unexpected effects on gut bacteria. I don't think anyone has figured out why.

[0] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweeten...
Rap Lyrics: Conceptually refreshing poetry or crass trash?
At least half a dozen nations are working on such systems now. They're doing this not because they think it's a good idea, but because there's this attractor basin they recognize we reach by default, of a new arms race of faster, smarter, stronger AI weapons spiraling up. This is something we don't think is a good idea.
This letter is essentially a petition, which we'd like to take to the U.N., showing that the AI and ML communities don't want their work used in autonomous weapons, things that are built specifically to, by themselves, offensively target and kill people. Having this sort of grass roots effort has precedent: chemical weapons, landmines, and laser-blinding weapons were all banned globally with bans and treaties based on this sort of thing. It's true that terrorists and rogue states might still use them in isolation, but you won't get this effect of the major powers having an arms race. Although these things are under development right now in multiple countries, they haven't been deployed to the field yet. So we're really at an inflection point: we're trying to get a ban in place before they're actually deployed at all, because after that it'd be much harder to get such a treaty. If you agree with these sentiments, we are collecting signatories from the community.
The original quote is actually the precise opposite of this.
> Other devices (e.g. Galaxy Nexus, Droid Bionic, HTC One X+) married Qualcomm LTE radios with non-Qualcomm SoCs

The Verizon Galaxy Nexus and Droid Charge (both made by Samsung) actually didn't use any Qualcomm chips. Samsung baseband for LTE and VIA Telecom for 3GPP2 (1XRTT/EVDO). http://www.anandtech.com/show/4465/samsung-droid-charge-revi...
That's a good point. I'd be interested to.

Perhaps the asking price is discounted to help build the portfolio.
If an ER doctor is actively trying to save your life (i.e. you are an unstable patient in an ER), it is _very_ unlikely that they would have any idea if you're a donor or not.
Private infrastructure
I agree this was a major problem, I have been using G+ off and on since the very beginning. It was annoying that I could not select an available username instead of the one Google thought I should use, and I wasn't happy that I couldn't use /c/myusername even though I knew it was available. No consistency whatsoever in the UI/UX. It should have been a cinch to sign in on the same username across all Google services.

You're also correct that this is something you'd think a company like Google would be able to execute well on. Well, you guessed wrong...
https://www.wendys.com/en-us/hamburgers/jr-bacon-cheeseburge...

380 calories for a burger + bacon from fast food; remove the bacon and it's only 280

This monster is 1000 calories:
https://www.wendys.com/en-us/hamburgers/daves-hot-n-juicy-tr...

Anyone eating that isn't telling you they are trying to be healthy. :)

ketchup is also an optional choice
This is something that I've always found odd about how the actual value in the economy is tracked. Specifically, how the stock markets continue to rise despite the decline in productivity. If I was told as a shareholder or private owner of a company, that an hour of labor and inputs are making me mess than I was making 20 years ago I would be upset but that doesn't seem to be reflected in the volumes and prices of the stock markets themselves. Why is this case? Is there something I'm missing?

All in all, I hope someone or some firms figure out how to break through the hurdle to automation in industries where it would matter like healthcare. It would be the first step to correct the economy in my opinion.
Helpful Tool Minimizes Slack for Windows to the System Tray
> All the time if you use libvirt.

Does it? Afaik libvirt requires AppArmor/SELinux for this.
I love this!

For it to be compelling, it needs to be readable in a bunch of iOS / Android barcode scanners, though. Any plans there?
Delta is about to allow some flyers to upgrade to private jet
With that username, I can confirm you are Brazilian :)
Let us not forget the current asserted risk of kale being an accumulator of thallium - hence panic (however: http://m.snopes.com/kale-not-safe/ )

Wait long enough and every substance we eat will be associated with a study which calls it into question. Then, if chance associates that study with a "slow news day", a relative panic will ensue. As a crusty old medicinal chemist, i offer the best rule of thumb (circa 16th century): [no matter what source it is] the dose makes the poison.
Your job will never love you: Stress and anxiety in our frightening job world
Chillhub – The Ubuntu Smart Fridge
It's the human belief that we can optimize everything and forestall death with better living. I'm sure everything we eat has tradeoffs and we'll never know all of them. I'm also sure that 50 years from now people will look back at us and laugh at what we believe about nutrition - both the harms and benefits, and what can possibly be achieved with nutrition relative to genetics and environment.
I see a series of patches going on CyanogenMod (5 on 12.1 and only 3 on 12.0). Are there any more?

1. http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/103267/

2. http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/103268/

3. http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/103269/

4. http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/103270/

5. http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/103266/
Why target people specifically? A phone has all the tools necessary to infect every other peer they can reach. Almost instant billion device botnet, each with a new list of targets to infect in the contacts book. It'll be interesting if this does happen, and the same mistakes as early worms are made (global internet pipe denial of service by probes attempting to find new hosts to infect).
> I just found the statement odd. It seems the author's and my ideas of "reduced intake" don't align with one another... I mean, I can't imagine anyone would say a bag of candy every day constitutes "reduced intake".

"Reduced" means "at a level lower than it was previously".

If you are eating two bags of candy every day, one bag of candy a day is reduced intake of candy.

If you aren't eating any candy before, then one piece of candy a day is increased intake of candy. What level of intake is "reduced" depends on what the starting point is.
I see this as them admitting "hey, we tried to bring our users we thought was something really great, as it turns out, they didn't agree with us so much, so now we're not going to do that anymore."
My thought exactly.
That sort of stuff is for exceptional events, a few times a year, not a week.
I actually think the Ouya was a very nice idea, and clearly so did a lot of people who backed it. The execution was awful on so many levels, but there will probably be room in the market for something like this once the console market is done shifting => non-existent. I would guess it will be part of something like the Apple TV box though.
Keeping children off of sugar is rather challenging. We had our young kids on a nearly zero sugar diet for a couple years, but they had really strong behavioral reactions to even small amounts of sugar (e.g., three starbursts) given to them by friends or adults. We have slightly increased their sugar consumption (e.g., maple syrup on pancakes) and they don't have the same reaction to small amounts of sugar. Not our favorite trade-off though.
They already did the rogue AI thing: http://futureoflife.org/AI/open_letter
It's likely too late for panic, everyone is probably owned already. It has the best infection vector ever, unauthenticated, unsolicited messaging with an easily discoverable addressing method. What more could a worm want?
Linux IPv6 improvement: Routing cache on demand
My biggest gripe about artificial sweeteners or anything with 'no sugar' is that it feels empty. Yes it is sweet, yes it is delicious but it just doesn't seem to have that fullness I get from consuming sugar. I know sugar is harmful so I prefer artificial sweeteners but I can still detect some something-is-off-this-might-be-chemical-taste feeling. I might be oversensitive here but splenda is a definite step up from aspartame.
I agree with that, why fight tools when they are meant to make the job easier
> I wonder how long before games start being developed for server side rendering.

Haven't you heard about Gaikai (now owned by Sony) that provided cloud-based gaming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaikai

The problem is latency. Now you have input latency from you wireless gamepad to/from your PC/console, the rendering loop CPU/GPU time and then also the latency of your network and the server CPU/GPU time. Good night. If you live in a big hub city near the cloud datacenter you can use it, or if you like slower paced games. But if you like to play Quake (read: very fast paced first person shooter action with 120+fps) forget dreaming about cloud streaming your games now!
Its interesting that Google has not implemented a solution on their part, choosing between a non-cookie based Adsense and one using cookies, depending on what the user chooses.

This is an unnecessary burden that many site owners will not be able to lift on their own – no matter how much Google bombard them with information and third-party solutions.

Implementing a solution on Googles servers, seems to be the only solution that doesn't unfairly punish unknowing users of Adsense.
> Find It's mostly mental and possibly the m-word is what follows this.

Yes this, pretty sure it kills any comment immediately.
It gives the DA an incentive to apply any charges that might possibly stick because it increases the likelihood of a plea deal by shifting the perceived risk to the accused. This is absolutely a bad situation, but presumably the DAs aren't amoral monsters who are deliberately trying to falsely convict people. :)
Whoa, never thought of that, but blackhats certainly will.

If they get one celebrity, they could get all their friends.

I predict a second one of these https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_photo_hack

Ironically this time iphone users will be protected.
this video turned me off from drinking regular coke and switched to coke zero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZp29Qeu8_U
> "straight out refuse working on such projects"

One of my family members turned down an offer of double his salary because it would entail working on military systems, and he's a conscientious objector.

> "the people who do work on such systems should be held accountable in some deep way"

... another of my family members has worked on autonomous military systems, and believes herself to be a viable military target because of it.

> "building tools and techniques in the active goal of harming human lives has become morally unacceptable. Engaging in civil disobedience if you are working on such projects is the only acceptable outcome"

The two people I referenced above have a deep, thoughtful, respectful disagreement. Your version is incredibly oversimplified. (For a taste, see the responses to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1823802 .)
A discussion about the IoT with Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet
If a two year old phone doesn't get security patches is that enough for massive class action lawsuits? It's a defective product.
"Mikhail Kalashnikov is responsible for as many deaths as the people who pulled those triggers."

Spoons made me fat.
How to Get Ruby on Rails (Rails v4, Ruby v1.9.3) to Work with MySQL
On the other hand, any big change done by google will be heavily criticized most likely, independent of whether they are "right" or "wrong", and to certain extent they will have to push through it to see if it's a positive change or a negative one.
How likely is exploitation, given that the QEMU binaries are compiled with all available mitigations/hardening flags?
https://www.reddit.com/r/keto
Makes me glad in retrospect I never switched over to gmail. My email experience hasn't changed in a decade but it still works just fine and I never have to worry that some megacorporation is going to arbitrarily change it out from under me in order to better pursue their corporate goals.
I love how the original concept is then convoluted and completely compromised by "early selling" and "manager selection".
If your product is strong enough that people can link colors, shapes and typography directly to your brand, I think you need a pat on the back! For the rest of us, it’s good practice to be careful with established cannon when dealing with potential ambiguities. It’s known that certain color schemes respond to certain conventions, so as long as your brand doesn’t go against them you can use whichever color you want and still be able to communicate your message. The products you mention don’t go against any particular convention, so they can establish their brands within those color schemes.
For lack of time, I'll just cite examine.com rather than doing my own meta-analysis: http://examine.com/faq/is-saturated-fat-bad-for-me/

Not that I particularly trust examine.com, but they do cite their sources, so it's better than nothing, and better than me spouting off unfounded nonsense. Anyway, here's the relevant bits:

> Looking at reviews and meta-analysis' of controlled trials, there does not seem to be much evidence that saturated fat increases risk for Cardiovascular Diseases. However, replacing some saturated fat with polyunsaturated may reduce risk.

> Saturated fats do increase cholesterol levels relative to polyunsaturated fats.[2][8] It should be noted that in any study done on macronutrients (fat, carbs, or protein) removal of a macronutrient must be met with inclusion of another in order to balance calories out. Many studies replace saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats, which tend to reduce cholesterol and triglyceride levels.[9][10][11][12] This may lead to the conclusion that saturated fats raise them, when the possibility that they are inert is viable.

In my opinion, as research stands today, worrying about anything except trans fat is not worth the effort. Maybe, just maybe saturated fats are worse than unsaturated fats. But in terms of your healthy it's probably in that 1%. People need to worry about the 99%. That 99% comes from eating less sugar, moderating carb consumption (I don't mean Atkins here, I mean replace some starches like french fries with vegetables and meats, but bread on your sandwich is fine), and general calorie tracking. Anything more than that will begin to fall into areas of research that aren't well covered, and, again, likely only contribute trivially to your long-term health.
>> You can buy old Itanium hardware super-cheap now on eBay. I got an HP Integrity RX2620 for £58

My last gig had an Itanium running some HP-UX software that had been cobbled together over the past 20 (?) years. eBay provides cheap parts to upgrade the server as well as put together a machine for the failover datacenter.

CPU and RAM were both cheap. However, you're stuck with commodity SCSI drives which are still expensive for the largest sizes. 300GB drives, NIB and matching are like $150 USD a piece.
Other hunter AI-s, good ole flak cannons, something nano that just assimilates metal to replicate, hacking into their network and genociding the nation that made them ... the list is long and nasty.
I read it as that all of quantity, sugar content, and caffeine content are concerns, so the parents have:

1. Limited overall quantity of soda permitted to less than is typical for the age range,

2. Limited most of the consumption within that limited quantity to caffeine-free options,

3. Limited most of the consumption within that limited quantity to sugar-free options.

I don't see anything to suggest that sugar-free soda is perceived as positively "healthy", only that it is a mitigation of one of the sources of unhealthiness (as is the caffeine-free limitation), but that other concerns exist, hence the overall quantity limitation.
The Brain vs. Deep Learning Part I: Computational Complexity
I was willing to concede your point, but I tested first. Using clang to compile, I did some profiling on my function optimized to various levels (-O0...-O3, -Os, -Ofast) with various inputs. The variation in timing is noise (I get the same variation on the same test inputs in different runs of the program.) I'd be curious to know whether you can provide a combination of compiler and compiler options that do indeed produce noticeable variations in timing as a function of the inputs.

"You cannot write a constant-time function in portable C / C++..." perhaps you mean that we can't outsmart compiler optimizations. Without optimizations ("Debug" configuration), the code runs exactly as written.

Ultimately, I'm going to prefer code with obvious intent regardless of how the compiler will optimize the thing. We'll just have to find a way around this timing attack business.
Gamer care about input lag. Pro gamer on PC don't use wireless input devices, they prefer cable based ones for exactly that reason. The input lag is also what (afaik) almost killed Gaikai. Sony recently bought it for some older PS3 titles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaikai
cgroups and SELinux protections are separate. See: https://libvirt.org/cgroups.html Also: https://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html#security
Ebay continues cleaning house – eBay decommissions several standalone apps