skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, although it partially reminded me of Anathem.
Unfortunately this isn't a paranoid position anymore.

Even if 23andme.com are responsible and take every precaution with your data, they'd still be subject to subpoenas and I sure as hell don't trust the federal government to respect data privacy when not convenient.

Thanks for taking the fun out of this Jacques... :\
Haha.. I'm guessing so many people were using Notifo for this purpose they decided to roll it in as a feature.

Thank you Notifo :). I like your UI, but having a dummy service account to send myself messages was slightly annoying.
Good grief, is everyone going to pick up this misleading story? The correct site was revolutionmuslim.com, which is not currently up for unknown reasons. This site is...who knows what. There was a long thread on reddit that indicated it was most likely a scam site set up just for this purpose.
The whole IQ thing is BS. After about a minute of practice I can get it to switch at will. You'll have to trust me when I tell you that I'm not even close to being a genius.
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Awesome, can't wait to see it and try it out. Ping me when it's ready, and I'll add a link to the site/blog.
That was pretty darn cool to see live.
Hint for the future: if you're processing raw data that could include credit card #s, filter out 16-digit sequences as a whole.
http://bizcard.com/

Free for select designs and no advertisement of the back.
Especially node.js plz.
I agree completely. I made the mistake of turning to this book when I was still getting the hang of both python and programming. It taught me very little and really made my head hurt. I make sure to tell others to stay the hell away when I am asked about learning python.
I don't think tech employees who are often accused for job hopping deliberately set out to do so. Most would love to find a place where they can stay 5-10 years while learning and doing rewarding work.

The reason they frequently leave earlier is that they are unable to learn, grow and apply themselves at their present place of work, being in a situation where if they were to stay longer they'd be progressively less useful to employers. The reason younger employees sometimes within a year when they're not adequately mentored and instead keep being used _only_ for maintenance work rather than actual development.

Ultimately each hop, each earlier-than-desired departure does give you a better idea of what to look for in your next position (to avoid more hops). It's true that short stays close some doors, but in serious technology companies, hiring decisions for engineers are made by engineers. The hiring manager or company HR may ask you for an explanation of why you've left last several places (and confirm it by checking your references), but it's foolish to pass on a strong developer who made some career mistakes in favour of a weak, but "reliable" candidate. Companies that do so aren't the ones where I'd like to work in the first place.

The more significant risk to leaving early isn't the messed up resume, it's becoming too anxious and jaded, systematically leaving before being able to apply yourself (e.g., during the training process or when working on a starter project), unable to take advantage of mentoring available. Leaving a company with a steep learning curve within six months is foolish, but sticking around for another year when you haven't learned anything in the two years isn't wise either.
generally used for hypothetical, doubtful, or wished-for circumstances.

Not in this case. There is an elipsis: [te deseo] que tengas un buen día. ([I wish you] that you have a good day).

Edit: OK, I answered too fast. Its use in this case indeed indicates wished-for.
(I know it only takes 2 clicks to see the source, but how many people check out the source code of every page we see through the day ?)

The same kind of people that go hunting for credit card numbers online?
vistaprint is also ok, but the prices listed are artificially low (there is a "processing" fee).
Well that much is obvious.
That's why I recommended a few password management tools in the next sentence. I assumed our readers would want something simple and effortless and well as secure.
Yes, many people were doing this, and others complained it was too much of a hassle. So, we took the feedback and made it easier for everyone involved :)
"One of the best"

no, even "the best" is not adequate. He is in another category all together. The one brilliant writer with serious, crushingly rigorous scientific training, who was writing just as the first embers lit by Einstein and the quantum physicists started burning for others, illuminating first chemistry and electronics, then biochemistry and medicine and engineering, then computation and genetics.

There was the Renaissance, then the Enlightment. I think 500 years from now, they will coin the middle of the twentieth century the Illumination. And Asimov will be the remembered bard of the Illumination.
I found that when her legs crossed you have an opportunity to get her to switch, but I can't get it every single time. I wonder what the exact parameters of the test were...
Can someone explain how this works (I mean how the lady can look like she is rotating in either direction). If I focus really hard on her foot I can make her change direction, but I can't figure out the illusion they are using.
I had her body spinning clockwise and her foot spinning counter clockwise.
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When someone suggests to me that they want to learn Python, I sometimes send them to http://www.pythonchallenge.com. It won't work for everyone, but if you can see that they are the puzzle-solving type, it can be a good primer.
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So, does this actually correlate with IQ in any way (not that IQ is meaningful)? Or is it simply that 14% of the population can make the switch happen, and 14% have an IQ of 160, and the author is making unfounded assumption that making the switch is a function of intelligence.
> I can see it catching on with kids definitely.

Kids that don't have a credit card?
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15 for American Express. 14-16 for various kinds of Diner's Club. 16, 18, or 19 for Solo and Switch.

It would not have occurred to me that the number might even be in the raw data. Sounds like the supplier is violating PCI. (That doesn't apply if the supplier is the card company or issuing bank--PCI is just something they require others to follow. They hold themselves to a much lower standard).
Agreed, I made the joyous leap to Python from writing crappy PHP programs, in no small part thanks to Dive Into Python. It took me from curiosity about Python, to excitement and real insight very quickly, I haven't looked back since.
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You can use map-reduce on your search by partitioning up the starting keyspace alphabetically (26/num nodes), although with such an even partitioning the search will probably be unbalanced. But with some simple metrics on the starting letter frequency of words you could define a more balanced partitioning.
I stay away from most of Reddit, but the Haskell subreddit is a really good source of interesting reading: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/top/?t=month
Where I live you don't go to a bar to drink although you usually drink something when you're in a bar.

What do you go to a bar to do?
Obvious question: which studies and where are the citations?
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A related and interesting question which I was just discussing with my friend the other day.. It seems japan is and has for a long been years ahead with their mobile phones and other technology. Why is it then that they haven't dominated foreign markets too? Why does it take so long for their tech to reach the rest of the world? Anyone know?
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He also mentions that new tools designed to alleviate problems and up just causing more. I think this is a symptom of inflexible computing "architecture" -- what Alan Kay refers to in "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet". Our own tools cause incidental complexity -- complexity arising not from the problems, but from the way we solve them. And so it becomes harder to build things, as we strain against architectural limits.
What's wrong with ODBC? Yeah, it came from the 90s... but so did Python. And it's still your best bet if you're connecting to SQL Server.
Except their product can only be accessed through their website as a webapp.
http://www.uprinting.com/

Can't recommend enough. Their offset printing is higher quality and only a bit more expensive than overnightprints (I've seen examples of both) and they deliver on time. They also offer more paper options, but don't do spot UV or die-cuts (at least for the prices ONP does)
Is the SEC Porn Story a New Problem, or Political Ploy?

http://www.propublica.org/ion/blog/item/financial-regulators...
Not to mention that the title of the book is Dive in....

From that, one might expect that the introduction would be abrupt, not just getting one's toe wet.
Clones won't have identical DNA for the same reason that twins don't.
This has got to be BS:

I looked at it and went "uhh, I can make it do both?", then read the text.

There is absolutely no possible way that I am over 160 IQ and, if I am, dear god I am wasting it.

Edit: in fact, it's kindof fun to sit there and watch the hands dance back and forth, it looks much more like she's dancing and less like she's spinning if you make her switch directions when the hand is either at the far left or far right. Neat.
It was insane.
That worked for me as well.

What I wonder is, is there any cognitive effect to being in "right-brain mode" or "left-brain mode"? Right now I've flipped myself into seeing her going counter-clockwise all the time (my dominant mode is clockwise), but I don't feel any different.
You go to a bar to socialize. Alcohol is a social lubricant. If you only want to drink, go to the deli, buy some beers, and drink at home.
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I just had a daughter and it freaks me out to know this kind of datas ...
99 weeks is enough for two years of college. You'd have more than enough time to train some skill that's in demand and find a job that'll keep you alive.
These are good points to consider when building out your MVP. But the title is called "pragmatic startup gold". I would argue that a startup's initial push should be on customer development not product development.

The author touches on the importance of using the product to build credibility, so that you have an audience to iterate from. Isn't that customer development?

Forget about the product, go talk to customers.

Consider the project mentioned in the post: http://cydros.heroku.com/

The app may be super-cool but the marketability of that website is really lacking. The video is very blurry and the presenter stumbles to get his message across. Make no mistake about it, I am not bashing on the project, I think it's a fantastic step just to have something up. I'd just like to throw it out there that maybe more time should be spent on doing marketing work, making the pitch absolutely melt in your customer's mouth and polishing up the experience a bit. That way you can optimize acquiring customer interest which in turn will give you insights on how to build the product.
Seems like 23andMe doesn't ship to either India or China. They are leaving out half the world's population!

(I'm from India and would have loved to buy their $99 special - even if shipping was $99 more.)
I would also put C and C++ in that box then.
> "What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue."
I can switch at will. But it took about 30 seconds of initial practice, plus an insight. The insight is that you can't just see her change turn direction - you have to also simultaneously see her instantly switch which way she is facing.
There are other modules for DB connectivity.

If you're into SQL Server, you might consider IronPython, and then use .Net's ADODB.
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That's a valid point for a business, but for a user it seems like google's focus is crystal clear. The interesting thing is, I think, that they focus on their real customers more than who people perceive to be their customers. The real customer for google is the billions who use their search, that's where all their money comes from. If you're paying for google checkout, or apps for your domain or one of their other services the truth is that you contribute next to nothing to their bottom line. I'd like all their paid services to be better but I understand why fundamentally they don't look after those customers as much as the ones who really pay their bills.
In short, google makes their real money from people who don't pay them, that's who they care about.
It's mostly about potential, not about stuff done to me.

The EU now requires fingerprints to be given with your passport application, and the Netherlands, the country where I live has added a little goodie, they're going to keep one nice big fat file with all the prints in them, in case your future self commits some crime (of course, ostensibly that's not what it is for, it is to prevent the (scary sounds) terrorists from getting passports).

Stuff like this tends to end bad, and the easiest way to avoid bad endings is to be very careful at the beginning.

I can imagine all kinds of ways in which data like this could be misused, every year there are huge breaches of the public trust with sensitive data, be it credit cards, social security numbers, 'anonymized' releases, rogue employees and so on.

It's only a matter of time before some big time problem will arise out of a DNA database and I think to caution people to not send out their data without due consideration of the possible consequences is irresponsible. What surprises me most is how the hacker community seems to be fairly gung ho about this, and rushes to take advantage of this 'bargain'.

I'm considering not renewing my passport simply because I don't want to be a 'potential suspect' in every future crime on european soil. Of course, that will make me even more of a suspect for every past crime but that's just too bad.

Sending my DNA off to some commercial third party for 'analysis' and resale (at least they're nice about that bit, they mention it in their policy) is one of the last things I would do.
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The idea of a touch-only PDA device has been around in science fiction literature for decades. Perhaps nobody expected a company to implement it when Apple did with the iphone, nor did they expect Apple to to be the one doing it. But the idea is far from unimaginable.

After it came out, I doubt many people really thought it would fail. The potential was pretty obvious. Of course competitors will claim it's going to fail. What do you expect them to do? Encourage people to buy their competitions product?

The iPad. It is a big iPhone, with a few new interface elements. Yes, you can do more with it, but scaling up a bathtub hardly a stunning idea. Perhaps the first swimming pool was an engineering feat, but not a feat of imagination.
Agreed, but it's important that companies like 23andme don't market these tools as a complete tool for knowing what you'll get in the future, since there's still plenty more research to be done on many of these markers (and they're definitely not all inclusive of the diseases we face).
We opened several of the animations up on two monitors and were able to get one monitor set going one way and the other monitor set going the other way, it was pretty cool looking.
> I'm pretty sure Java and C# (as examples) are implemented in C.

Not to argue against your point (you don't need self-hosting to get cross-implementation compatibility), Jikes RVM < http://jikesrvm.org/ > is a JVM written in Java itself.
I think you miss the point that for every job there are probably more applicants than '1', so there is no guarantee that you will find a job even with a skill that is in 'demand'. In fact, for every person training for a skill that is in demand today the ratio of people that will end up unemployed with that skill goes up.
Are you saying phones and computers are not in the real world? He's not talking to artificial constructs, he's communicating with real people. It's not like most face-to-face conversations express any ideas or emotions deeper or more subtle than could be expressed online.

I think you are assuming that everyone shares your inability to communicate effectively online. It's fine that you are more comfortable communicating offline, but not everyone needs that depth of interaction in every conversation.
Here's a tip: cover one half of the image with your hand, including all of her body, so you just see the leg come around. Now uncover the image. Now do the same thing with the other half (or two-thirds, whatever).

If you do this a few times, you'll likely be able to see it go both ways. Not at will, but you can get into a mode where you are seeing her rocking back and forth rather than constantly spinning the same direction. The key is that your brain makes a snap decision about which side of her hip the leg is on, and then it's motion processing mechanism stitches all future images to match that initial impression. You can teach yourself to make her switch back and forth by refocusing on her hips.

It worked for me anyway.
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Could the allen head screw could be replaced with a simple pin for locking the height? If so, then a bit of clever counterweight arrangement would take care of neutralizing the weight of whatever is on the desk, so you just have to push and pull it up and down to adjust the height. Does this seem unfeasible?
At a job in college, a desk jockey ordered porn and used his work address on the purchase. He got caught when the sys admin came across the email w/his receipt in the spam queue. Though he wasn't fired (he did get chewed out) I couldn't look him in the eye after I saw the list of movies he purchased (they were largely she-male dvds).
With a little practice I can make her turn both ways, but I find it's much easier to move her counter->clockwise than the other way around. I saw her counter by default.
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You mean because of copy errors ?
Social virtual contact list sharing on the cloud!
My first Flippa auction is ending soon...I definitely won't use it again anytime soon. The fees are just too high, and I think fraud is rampant. It's $19 to list, but without any of the upgrades, my auction didn't get any traffic. The prices for the upgrades are $29 for a home page listing, $5-$15 for borders, screenshots, highlighting, or bold, $50 to tweet it to @Flippa followers. You could easily spend $150 just to list your site, in addition to a 5% success fee if it actually sells.

I suspect that some of the sales on Flippa are the same people selling the same sites to each other to inflate the price. I've seen sever suspicious cases that look like accomplice 1 sells a site to accomplice 2 with accomplices 3-5 bidding up the auction. Accomplice 2 then does the same thing a few months later to sell to 3, and so on. The site (originally worthless), sells for $2000, $3000, $4000 among the scammers before being sold to a sucker for $5000.

In a lot of cases, it looks like people are buying seasoned domains with high page rank and putting up a quickie site. These are likely to lose all of their page rank as soon as the domain is transfered, so be careful.

Definitely do your homework before buying or selling on any of these domain/site flipping sites.
I will integrate this into my company panel such that when there is a new sales report available, it does this.

Notifo remains my favorite YC service. Unpretentious and useful.
The illusion is created because the figure is rendered side-on with no perspective. Because there's no indication as to which direction is correct, your brain just picks a direction and that's how you perceive her moving. Once your brain becomes fixated on one direction, it's hard to change your interpretation.

(Apparently there's some sort of correlation between hemisphere dominance and the preferred direction, and between the ability to change direction and IQ score. I'm sceptical on both counts.)
you can share purchase history from online merchants without connecting your credit card - like amazon, itunes, zappos etc
Sheesh. What is it with all these stories? You'd think that leaking information about a new iPhone was the most important thing to happen this week.

It's not.
Thanks for the feedback, I take on board your concern.

I've explained what we do with your email in our Privacy Policy and have now linked through to that on the homepage where "confidential" is mentioned.

Do you think this is enough? What more could we do to overcome your concerns?

Thanks,
Ken
Sounds like a business idea, send out 'surveys' and analyze the envelope when it's returned. Sell the data to insurance co. Who wants in?
how does google dominate email?

yahoo has more email account than google.
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