skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies for a trivial objection: but the serpentine icon associated with this, likely otherwise fine, package embodies an odd little annoyance to all us structural biochemists: It depicts the DNA helix as left-handed. This is a rare form of DNA at best, most likely an unlucky graphical choice, and causes many nerdy folk to suspect that you don't know what you're doing. If you think i'm nuts (and hey maybe...) there are entire websites devoted to this error, because for some reason it's a common error and makes our eyes bleed [wink]: http://users.fred.net/tds/leftdna/
That's a good point, though the article addresses it explicitly.

>I’m not saying anyone else should be this way. Back when I was a full-time musician, I had a whole recording studio full of stuff. But these days, everything I want to do is on my laptop. If I had a different hobby, I’d have a different situation.
You are claiming this on what ground? Source please. Or stop spreading misinformation.
Conspiracies are often true. Conspiracy theories are generally false.

Many popular conspiracy theories involve huge numbers of conspirators - thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. For anyone who has a "feel" for how math works, it seems wrong. Putting some hard statistics work around it makes the false nature of large-scale conspiracies more concrete for those of us who believe in math.

A conspiracy theory where no more than a dozen people need to be involved makes sense to me. A conspiracy theory involving every climate scientist in the world, or every doctor in the world, or every NASA employee, seems like BS.
Oddly, almost this exact issue was a major issue in the recent Canadian federal election. The Conservative government attempted to ban niqabs during citizenship ceremonies. They went so far as to appeal lower court rulings that doing so was against the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They lost the election and the new Liberal government ended the attempt to ban the Niqab.

Interestingly, as the Conservative government kept falling in the polls, they even said that they would consider banning Niqabs for public servants!! It sounds so bizarre that a sitting Canadian government would suggest such a thing, but the 2015 federal election was a first class, direct flight to bizarro world.

This is the best article that I can find on this issue. It isn't great, but if I have more time later, I'll replace it with a better citation.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpo...

On a style note, I have no idea if the word niqab should be capitalized. My iPhone autocorrects it to be capitalized, but it doesn't look correct. Can anyone help?
Everything you describe is a tool. I think there's a difference between unnecessary stuff, and tools.
My understanding is that NSA's changes to DES were all in the s-boxes, and that it was the s-box changes that hardened it against differential cryptanalysis. I think there's even a story that tries to explain how they did it (randomly generating s-boxes selecting the ones least vulnerable to the attack).
> Would it be fair to say that since I am from America that I should get upset at anyone who wears a hijab for their own religious purposes?

No. However, you would be entitled to be upset if they demanded that you wear a hijab for their religious purposes.
I don't think the author is "the problem with America". On the other hand I do think he should be paying more in taxes.

If you want to talk about "problems with America", well one of them is this notion that we only two choices and they are one extreme or the other.
There is some evidence that psilocybin in low doses (much lower than "effective for recreation") can ameliorate or even cure migraines. I mention this as I have a member of my family that suffers from terrible periodic migraines and I myself experience migraines at least once a year.
White House looks to robotics for economic future
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Yeah, they actually rebranded it as TurboTax Personal Pro before they discontinued it. It just shut down before this current tax season. We're picking up where they left off, with our company Taxaroo[1].

My understanding from the research we've been able to do is that there were a few issues:

- The branding was weird. TurboTax is supposed to be about DIY, so having a tax pro service under that was confusing. I spoke to several former preparers with Personal Pro who said they would get clients asking for technical support with TurboTax

- It started as "intrapreneurship" within Intuit, so it was a small team trying to grow it (not a top-down initiative). I suspect they had certain (large) targets they couldn't meet that were gates along the development process.

- I suspect ultimately, similar to above, it never became large enough to be interesting to Intuit, and it was likely cannibalizing some of their existing customers as it was.

[1] - https://www.taxaroo.com
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> Related: gwern's study was pretty bad in a number of ways, most notably that it's unlikely the lsd was stored correctly, which will have a large effect on potency and make dosage much less meaningful as the test progresses.

It was stored fine. LSD will not self-destruct in days when stored in distilled water in a refrigerator. It will not even self-destruct after multiple decades in a jar. People store LSD in all sorts of forms for regular trips and it works fine, and somehow, people keep reporting positive microdose experiences regardless of how they sourced or stored their LSD...
That's an interesting question - if you read the stories of how Edward Snowden's story came to light, you'll find that his main issue with Glenn Greenwald was to get the guy to use technology properly.

Hopefully out of the many tech heads who read HN, one will have the same thought as you and build the tool.
Are you suggesting a 4 digit passcode is secure? News flash: it's not.

Any 4 digit passcode is insecure by its own nature. It's security depends on another unrelated system. This is an inherent weakness.

If you're stamping your foot demanding that your 4 digit passcode not be compromised by the FBI or anyone else, may I suggest a smarter option: choose a longer passcode.

Choose 11 digits and then it doesn't matter if someone at Apple or FBI or Mr Robot goes bananas and decides to write some software that compromises your phone's passcode retry limit. 11 digits is not trivial to crack via electronic means.

If you're relying on a combination of a 4 digit passcode and faith in your phone's manufacturer that the retry and self-destruct methods can't be hacked, well that's your own irresponsible position. Keep it if you like, but it sounds like an Apple passcode fanboy party waiting to be crashed.

As long as encryption remains solid without back doors, that's all that matters. The rest is a matter for Apple to choose whether to cooperate with an investigation into serious crime. They choose not to, citing "back doors" and "protecting users". No surprises there.
This man worked hard, took risks and got rewards from it; I don't think this is something that anyone wants to punish. He certainly isn't a bad guy. Neither is any other rich person; they are taking maximum advantage of a system that produces outcomes that can be disproportionate to the hard work and risk that people put in.

Mark Zuckerberg is ~$50 billion (I'm sure theres an exact number somewhere). This means he is likely to be around 1000x richer than the person writing this article. Did he take larger risks or work harder or was he 1000x more effective at his job?

Wall street trading is a high value job and many PHDs are hired to work in the field. It produces almost nothing of value. We have a system that provides incentives for the brightest people to do something that provides no value and hides all their innovations (trade secrets!).

Then there's the question of economic stratification's impact on the market itself; it's largely agreed on that reducing the difference is better (and that everyone equal is equally silly). Billionaires just don't spend the majority of their money or bother putting it back into the economy because they don't have to.

I also want 'free' college. Investing in education tends to pay off for everybody who can hack it. These people contribute more to society (even as artists) and are much more likely to be out of poverty, make more money, advance society and generally be good citizens. Having the government pay 100% gives them more leverage over what the colleges spend money on and may actually reduce the costs (but IANAE). If a productive person has more time in college to explore their interests, might they be more productive overall? Most unskilled service jobs add very little to society; instead of working a job, he could have been building his company or saving that money to put towards his company.

Bernie's rallying cry is politics; it vilifies people instead of the system that they naturally take advantage. This works well as a narrative, but the people aren't villains. I'd much rather have as many productive people as possible take advantage of systems that create the most progress in society overall.
And even if you have a hobby that requires things, receiving them as gifts is not a good idea. Can you imagine musician who received his musical instruments as gifts instead of carefully choosing them himself?
It also works great with kids once they reach a certain age. Two years ago we asked the grandparents to give experiences instead of toys. Archery lessons, horse camp and climbing lessons have been the biggest hits so far.

The other thing to remember is that it's about the feeling of giving as well as the person receiving, and the grandparents have said they feel like what they're doing is being appreciated more than just another toy or gadget.
Minimalism comes in many forms. Here, we see an example of a content-free article.

> fun aside, name and service are both const char* so I find it funny that they are set in the program, I do understand that from the callers perspective they don't change, but still bad form

… are you sure you know enough C to do this?
So I used my touch screen to speed things up, and was banned:

http://i.imgur.com/ZqsCqfO.png
That's awesome. You just have a sql database of your physical possessions?
A sufficiently energetic meteor strike will cause a high enough amplitude wave to qualify as tsunamis (and which therefore would produce destructive effects onshore).

Exact modelling is tricky, but that sort of thing appeals to some geophysicists.

Funny headlines, serious research:

http://news.ucsc.edu/2003/05/355.html
http://www.livescience.com/49298-asteroids-causing-tsunamis....
It comes down to the marginal utility of your money vs. the upgrade.

For example, I fly Singapore to Tokyo about once or twice a year, sometimes more often, always on Scoot, a budget airline run by Singapore Airlines. Upgrading from economy to ScootBiz costs as little as $80 with their "bid for biz" program. I always "bid for biz" and it's absolutely worth it: early boarding, free food, much more space (for yourself and your carry on), etc. So the marginal utility of the upgrade for me is worth more than $80.

At some level of net worth, flying First on a legacy airline to Tokyo, maybe Japan Airlines which I had to take in economy once for $1,500 vs the $200 or so Scoot can go down to, would have more utility to me than the $10,000 extra I'd have to fork out. I don't know what that net worth would be (probably north of 50 million), but I know that past perhaps a few million dollars in liquid assets, I would always fly business even at 3x the cost, and I know plenty of people in that situation doing exactly that. And there's people for whom flying SQ Suites [1] for $30,000 one way is a "discount" from flying the same route privately.

[1] reposting because such a fun read: http://dereklow.co/what-its-like-to-fly-the-23000-singapore-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11008224
It's not for everyone. But I doubt you can do all these hobbies in a single day or even week. Many can be rented or bought in smaller "travel" versions, however.

(Reminds me of an aside, in that every single sport has very specialized gear (on purpose) now. You can't be caught dead wearing basketball shorts when cycling, even though they are just fine, outside the tour de france.)

But still, if you've got a big house there's no immediate need. It's when you have to move that you'll wish for less.
I think this is mostly a solution without a problem. Just to hit a few points--S3 might (and I'm not sure I agree) be expensive. However, it gives you HA and multiple copies of your files on the backend for safety. If you're serving a lot of images, owning that hardware can be very costly. Also, when cloudfront was tested the results were pretty good. Easy to implement, not much more expensive than S3 alone. Our EC2 costs dwarf S3, and our site is very image heavy.
Or, gasp, not every person, even really well informed people, agrees with you. Not everyone sees this as a slippery slope. Not everyone thinks the FBI could later argue this is the same thing as built-in backdoors in software. Maybe we don't even think this is an overreaction to terrorism, bit instead a reasonable way to collect leads for any serious crime. Some people may even make the mental analogy of a small code change to any other simple assistance.

Or everyone who disagrees with you is dumb or a shill. Sounds like real sound reasoning.
You are filled with what emotions when you:

- donate
- after talking to a friend you realize you have something you don't want you can give them
- talk to a neighbor and realize you can clear out space in a garage or house or shed by giving them something
- just throw something in an alley and someone comes by within the hour and happily loads it up in a truck for use or selling elsewhere

Sorry if you can't see the positive in the effort expended.

Yes, I should not assume much about you. I am optimistic that people don't feel WORSE during the act of giving.
Sorry for the delay reply.

Betapage is more useful for new startup you can launch your startup in private and public beta stage and can get the subscriptions of early adapters and beta tester while products in beta stage do not get good attraction of audience on product hunt, they usually collapses there.

We are soon launching the platform of Idea hunt which will be totally different and would be more interactive than the same platform of producthunt it would be more like an idea validation platform.Users will be able to get expert advice about their idea even before launching it.
Another option is to tell people specifically what you want ahead of time, or buy your own gifts in advance and give them to family members for them to give you during holidays
I don't mean to get into a civil war discussion, because studying it is a hobby of mine (it's just a very interesting subject)...but at the very least I'd urge you to consider that there are a lot of very important details being left out in order for you to view it that way.

There was almost a century of political back and forth build up that compounded to lead to secession.

Just to highlight one detail to give the counterpoint on your example:

> Indeed, it was the American South that originally wanted to interfere in the business of the North in order to crack down on fugitive slaves.

For that, you should read up on the Tariff of Abominations in 1828 that nearly triggered secession when it was passed. This presented a huge problem to the Port of Charleston and trade with Europe, so much so that South Carolina tried to have it nullified and the Supreme Court said that it could not. When documents of secession reference fugitive slave laws, they're doing so because some northern states were allowed to selectively nullify while the south was not. This came to a head with the Morrill Tariff which was a part of Lincoln's campaign. Indeed, in his first inaugural address preceding the war he even stated that fugitive slave laws would be enforced and that federal force would only be used for collection of duties and imposts. That's the reason Fort Sumter was such a big deal in the first place because whoever held it had the power to enforce port taxes on Charleston harbor. To be clear, I'm not saying that was the cause of the war I'm just highlighting a detail. There were a lot of factors.

The whole thing is a sincerely fascinating subject and is even more interesting when, through studying it, you compare it to the relatively few details we're actually taught about it in school.
Of course, it's possible to "do things" that don't require a lot of extra things. Writing, walking, meditating, listening to music, reading, making out, drinking tea, running, dancing, making electronic music, math, logic, praying, thinking, debating, making movies with your smartphone (one such movie recently won a documentary award), origami, chess, baking, cooking, lifting at a gym, hackerspace participation, movie club, podcasts, philosophy, swimming, concerts, penmanship, cards, geocaching, juggling oranges, composing, whistling, singing... programming... lots of possibilities.

Some people live ostensibly fulfilling lives owning nothing but a robe and a bowl.
I don't think he's sorry about it either.
Of course it isn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_(book)
Agreed. I train Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which means I need to have gis, fight shorts and rash guards. That's not really "clothing", it's equipment, and I can't buy it just anywhere. I also train powerlifting, which means I have a rather serious belt (https://inzernet.com/detail_belt.asp?PRODUCT_ID=FOREVERBELTS...), Olympic lifting shoes, chucks, and wrist wraps.
> when you do use DuckDuckGo in a sentence people notice and it sticks with them because it is different

This is a good point, but I guess if a lot fewer people use it in a sentence to begin with than otherwise might, it won't provide much of an advantage in practice.

> our main focus is building a great product people love

This entirely sums up the point - DDG does things differently and that's great - going against the established grain with your product makes it what it is. But why go against the grain with your branding too? Aren't you just adding an orthogonal concern to deal with, that has nothing to do with what makes your product great?
Check if a Phone is Blacklisted from within Slack
Since the number of 2nd hand phone purchases is steadily increasing, and the number of reported stolen devices is doing more than that, we decided to "slackify" this endpoint.

Identify any phone based on its IMEI number.

Check if it is blacklisted against over 150 network operators from 57 countries
(GSMA Data + Direct MVNO Connections + Proprietary Algo)

• /whatphone Get specs on a phone based on its IMEI/MEID

• /isblacklisted Check whether a phone is blacklisted

• /isatt Did the phone originally come from AT&T

• /how Help and list of more commands!

/whatphone and /isatt commands are unlimited. /isblacklisted checks have an underlying cost, so they are limited to 10.

https://slack.com/apps/A0LV9V6JZ-doctorsim-imei-lookup
How Amazon’s IoT Platform Controls Things Without Servers
Everything about enforcing driving stoned has changed. The stuff stays in your system too long to have a convenient test like alcohol does. So now you effectively have no way to prove whether or not someone was breaking that law.
any details? source?
>Since we are coming out of an ice age a mere 12,000 years ago, we should expect sea level rising.

Given that the headline is that the rate is higher than the last 2800 years, I'm not sure why you would think that the change that started 12,000 years ago is going to be a significant factor.

The IPCC summary for policymakers [1] has highlevel quick facts, from that:

>Proxy and instrumental sea level data indicate a transition in the late 19th to the early 20th century from relatively low mean rates of rise over the previous two millennia to higher rates of rise (high con dence). It is likely that the rate of global mean sea level rise has continued to increase since the early 20th century. {3.7, 5.6, 13.2}

>I seem to remember from the first IPCC report that it was on the order of a few centimeters per century

Sure, that's the currently observed rate; about 3.2 mm/year +/- 0.4 mm/year, from Table 13.1 of IPCC AR 5. [1]

Of course nobody's really concerned about 3.2 cm in a century. The problem is when that increases by a couple orders of magnitude due to increased warming, which it will unless we stop forcing the climate with additional CO2 within the next 30-50 years.

[1] http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_SPM_FI...

[2] http://imgur.com/vadnlXJ
This doesn't make a lot of sense.

It is not "patently false" that a large population will not achieve what they want through hard work because they lack a certain racial or socioeconomic edge. It is true that they will have to work harder, but it does not mean they are barred from trying. Why do you think that people are victims of their skin colour and heritage? Why does that make them a second class citizen?
I know a lot of great devs who think very highly of PP, but as for me, it doesn't work well at all.

I just haven't had a great experience with it, though I remain open to trying it again.
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An example of all available charts here:
https://dtab.io/sheets/568f61ac6e8ca271338363eb
(what is that orange number above the nick? is it related to klout?)
These chain of thought leads to one of the most common startup ideas ever to cross VC desks - the ability to gift experiences online. (Interestingly, a Google search that I just ran for 'gift experiences' returned almost exclusively UK results. What would a US resident be searching for?)
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I agree. If it were "meinfield", it would at least be a German pun.
What about the weakdh stuff? See e.g. http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2293
What language does the article use for examples? I don't recognize it.
"Massively" multiplayer, yet the page says in broken english that i can't play because he needs to do optimizations to make it work. pure garbage. don't just throw words like "Massively" if you don't mean in, liars.
This Danish city is so bike-friendly even kindergartners ride to school
You only have control once your business steadily earns enough to employ managers to run things for you. Until then you are at the whim of your clients.
Just a small correction - the Halifax Explosion happened in 1917, not 1916.
1.8 to 3 millimeters a year from 25 years of satellite sea surface laser altimetry. Its not an easily obtained number because you have to account for the "noise" of much larger waves, seafloor topography gravitational distortion, multiple satellite generations, and other phenomena. But its is considered a more accurate number than local tidal gauge measurements, which is subject to local interference causes like subsidence.

I do not know if any paper has claimed an observable acceleration or deceleration of this rate yet.
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True, look no further than the diamond ring "tradition."
I think a lot of the confusion in this discussion is coming from the specific example. The fine structure constant, an aspect ratio, or something like Reynold's number for quantifying fluid flow turbulence -- these are all dimensionless numbers that scientists use, sure and there's probably nothing special about them.

I think the confusion is in actually measuring these things. Scientists use dimensionless numbers all the time, but you have to directly measure quantities with units to indirectly get the dimensionless quantity.