skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really cool! In my experience, few scientific tools are designed with modern interfaces. Most are a webpage with many, many inputs and textareas and some expectation of the user to understand or trust the defaults (looking at you BLAST [1]). I haven't designed a primer in quite a while, but doing a cursory Google search for "primer design" confirms that things haven't changed much.

I know that writing and maintaining user authentication code can be quite a slog, but have you though of making a private/paid version of this? I can see a few times where something like this could be useful. Ex: assembling a number of sequences, annotating them, and having all that metadata inline to share with colleagues? Maybe having some kind of Jupyter Notebook inoperability would be enough?

[1]: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
From one of the annotations:

> I'm fundamentally opposed to making people buy their way into the company, it feels like a scam to me. You don't have to demonstrate your value "to" the company -- we each as individuals hold far more value than this taxable structure that can be dissolved when it no longer benefits the members. Also, whatever value a person has is being brought by their skills, thinking, and experience, not by cash. You aren't creative with cash.

I strongly disagree with this. People who have 'skin in the game' are much more likely to perform well than people for who joining up is a freebie and it's a lot easier to take someone on board than it is to remove them again if they don't work out in a collective like this. In fact, they might demand to be bought out and before you know it you're in court even though your 'collective rules' were made on the assumption that everybody would always be nice and play nice.

This would also allow them to reduce the candidacy period to something more reasonable, now you are essentially asked to give up a year of your life on the gamble you will be accepted. Better to put down some money then, which you can recover if and when you leave, hopefully with a bonus because the company has appreciated in value.

Also: people change over time.

I've seen this in practice in one of my own companies, the people who actually put money down for their shares were all hard workers and super dependable, the people that got their shares 'for free' (or in some cases with money borrowed from the company) were a lot less likely to work hard and were the first to run off when there was a speedbump (which we weathered).

On another note: I'm investing in a company that is a strange cross between a traditional company and a cooperative like this. It's been running for the better part of 10 years now, it's also a consultancy business and it's one of the most interesting companies that I've ever dealt with. The CEO is a very inspiring young man who manages to make all the employees of the company stakeholders, who has made it possible to account for project based income to be fairly distributed amongst the employees and who is now in the process of streamlining all this so the idea can be applied to other companies.

I really should do a write-up on that company and their story one of these days, it's been fascinating to see this idea take root and flourish over the years.
Washington was on brink of war with North Korea 5 years ago (1999)
Well there are those albeit in written form via the influencer program

Linkedin is oddly positioned tho because most its user base is undee NDAs
New York Moves to Require Uber to Add Tipping Option
(paid up sdf user since ~2004)
FWIW they had to give back that IP space to the actual owner a few months back and are in the 205s now.
Architecture strategies for catching the long tail (2006)
For a SaaS company like yours, I would do a site that's static content served from a CDN (generated by something like jekyll and friends). Obviously a site deployed that way is largely fail-proof and fast, but there's another (and larger) benefit people don't often mention:

Having your site content live in the git repo instead of a database is amazing. In fact, this is the approach taken by most documentation sites these days. It makes it so much easier and faster to make changes, updates, and experiment. I use Netlify as a static host; they have features to make any commit, pull request, or branch into a hosted preview. It's an awesome way to work.

(For less technical editors, you can plug them into the process with something like NetlifyCMS, a clever open source project from the same folks that basically is a CMS interface running on git / github.)
Thing is an ad-blocker is merely a content blocker that happens to block ads. making ad blocking illegal would not make content blocker illegal.

You could still use those to block trackers which are the underwater part of the online ads iceberg. Making an anti-tracking-blocking law would be a different beast because now you're attacking a fundamental human right to privacy and advertisers would still be mad because they lost their ability to upsell their ads that can't be targeted or retargeted anymore.

Alternatively just go back to using the system hosts file, or replace ad blockers by whole website blockers, use a vpn to a country that does not have this law. There are options around such a nonsense piece of legislation
seeing that, I still prefer the plain text, unprocessed MD
I live in the US and haven't heard of any of these, with the exception of Chick-fil-A.
Coral reefs, specifically? I personally don't care about them or have any feelings for their well-being. It would be unfortunate if my children don't get to see them, yes. Then again, that assumes they would want to, and pictures wouldn't suffice.

I think the problem being created/presented is state-promoting and reinforcing propaganda, rather than a left/right one. I.e. a problem that conveniently has only one easy & short-term solution: more state intervention/legislation.

Now, if it comes to the general well-being and usefulness of an immense natural resource such as the ocean? I think humanity deserves what they're causing & not-preventing. They put it simultaneously in the hands of everyone and no-one in the form of "public property", then complain when the problem of pollution is unfixable because of state-governments not implementing enough legislation and enforcement.
C Bounded Model Checker
Cap'n Proto security advisory for 32-bit builds with Apple compiler
Apple is a mass of DRM and private cloud, with access points via ios and osx. I'm writing this on a macbook air (an old one) which I use like a chrome book.

Apple doesn't hang together as a contiguous platform at all, their world is very janky and inconsistent, extraordinary given their colossal wealth and expertise.

If they are going to continue as a closed environment they have a lot of work to do on all fronts to polish up all aspects of their user experience IMO.
It's directly comparable, because all the aliens apart from Isserley believe that the humans have no language. Just like we believe that pigs, cows etc. have no language. But they do communicate with each other, don't they? So... it's directly comparable.

Only Isserley speaks English because she's been trained to do so.

So it's directly comparable.
Wouldn't this effect be much stronger in a worker-owned cooperative? Having an equal 20% stake seems much more motivating to me than the 0.4% that you might get as an early employee of a traditional tech startup, even if the shares diminish after you leave.
Calexit leader announces abandoning movement and settling permanently in Russia
Dead ends were sierras idea of replayablity. You could often get stuck near the end of a game and have no idea when or where you missed something. LSL games were some of the worst.
I'd love to read about this. Been trying to create this kind of worker owned firm in the media space for many years now. Am close to getting it but it's been tough for the reasons that you are talking about: people who aren't fully in it.
I know that, and I'm sure guys at Uber knows that too, and probably know much more than all of us combined. They are not idiots and they think about these things every single day. If people like us who only think about it once in a while when a related article shows up on HN knows it, they do too.

Just to be clear, I also think what you say is a very possible scenario, but the problem is this thesis is based on the current state of the world. Things change all the time (For example who knows where Uber would have been if this whole autonomous vehicle thing never became the reality, and there can be all kinds of variables in the future that may work for or against them)

You really never know what will happen. It's easy to say the moat is not as obvious as amazon's, but Amazon's moat was not as obvious as we think nowadays back then. Not just Amazon, every single disruptive tech company went through this, nowadays it's so obvious that you can make money with search ads but when Google first came out people never understood how they were going to make money by sending people away from their site as soon as they arrive. Obvious things are only obvious in hindsight.
Curry on 2017
I once set up a schedule where I would open the gitconfig manpage and read at least one section of the settings. My gitconfig file growed to over 200 lines then.

Quite a lot of stuff isn't very helpful in there though.
I received this email from them in January. HN might find it interesting:

SDF Celebrates 30 years of service in 2017!

On June 16th, 1987 Ted Uhlemann (handle: charmin, later iczer) connected his
Apple ][e's 300 baud modem to the phone line his mother had just given him
for his birthday. He had published the number the night before on as many
BBSes around the Dallas Ft. Worth area that he could and he waited for the
first caller. He had a copy of Magic Micro BBS which was written in Applesoft
BASIC and he named the BBS "SDF-1" after his favorite Japanimation series
ROBOTECH (Macross). He hoped to draw users who were interested in anime,
industrial music and the Church of the Subgenius.

Slowly, SDF has grown over all these years, never forgetting our past and
unlike many sites on the internet, we actually have a past. Some people
today may come here and see us as outdated and "retro". But if you get
involved, you'll see it is quite alive with new ideas and a platform
for opportunity to try many new things. The machines are often refreshed,
the quotas are gone, the disk space is expanding as are the features (and
user driven features at that) and our cabinets have plenty of space for
expansion here in the USA and in Europe (Germany).

Think about ways you'd like to celebrate SDF's 30th and join us on the
'bboard' to discuss what we could do.

I realize many of you have likely moved on yourselves, but I just wanted
you to know we're still here and we'll keep doing new and exciting things
with a foundation in the UNIX shell.

Sincerely,

Stephen Jones (SMJ)

https://sdf.org
If you want to outsource it, I can agree that the easiest way is to provide a simple interface for the other party. That's where a CMS like Wordpress would make sense.

On the other hand, if you want to have more control in the long term, I can recommend to use Hugo [0] as a static website generator.

They have plenty of themes [1] to choose from. You can still adjust it with basic knowledge in HTML/CSS. Afterwards you can chose where to host it. You can use Github Pages [2] for free or pay for a service like DigitalOcean [3]. I wrote a technical cheatsheet [4] on how to setup your own website with these ingredients.

- [0] https://gohugo.io/

- [1] http://themes.gohugo.io/

- [2] https://pages.github.com/

- [3] https://www.digitalocean.com/

- [4] http://www.robinwieruch.de/own-website-in-five-days/
OK, thanks. Except Mirimir has no Google account.

Cool. So can display time be set independently?
The Trouble with the Turing Test (2006)
The demo site runs bad on iOS. Bad scrolling (i.e. overflow not set to "touch"), animations are very choppy, videos do not play inline, unable to swipe to dismiss. The last one is not a big deal, but the others are crucial.
"Me, too" is frowned upon because it doesn't add much of substance to the conversation, yet feels like a contribution. Adding specifics about why you like it, providing relevant details, not only conveys your recommendation, but also is a beneficial contribution to the discussion.
I guess either you place yourself in amongst company or in an area that is not significantly politically active.
Agreed that that was the intention, and that made a lot of sense when almost everyone was involved in some way of working the land/sea near their home.

Granted I don't think I have popular political opinions, but given that I have to be in at the very least a district where 50% + 1 of the people have similar approaches to problem solving means that it will never happen.

Obviously this slows down the introduction of new ideas and parties, and perhaps that's a feature and not a bug, but it does mean a total disinterest for many who feel that they'll never be represented in any meaningful way.
I don't know. I'm confused as is. I really hate when people break:

1. Conventional units.

2. Don't follow the XDG basedir spec for config files.

3. Make inconsistent command line flags.

4. Don't allow control of color output using a flag thinking they are smarter than me.
If anyone took calexit seriously before, that ship has surely sailed now.
sdf.org also runs a Minecraft server, if anyone here plays.
"This isn't a court case, they had an iron-clad case for war." The only point of a cassus belli is to justify your war of aggression, if someone declares war on you the case for it is clear.

And no, the cassus belli was not iron-clad. There are only three legal ones under current law. Defense, defense of an ally, and a UN approval. First two don't work, Afghanistan hadn't declared any wars, and the third never happened.
Judge a country's wealth when you are earning profit
He did give $75 million to a hospital serving poor, elderly people, uninsured working families, and immigrants. So he's not all bad.
There's no such contract for publicly accessible website. If there was one it could be denounced as any other contract and would allow suing the website for breach of contract.

Then there's countries outside the US with different contract laws, so imagine the headache to have a blog online.
Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention
> Income taxes were never significantly higher than they are now in the United States.

Uh...you might want to check on that.
Speaking Up
Definitely getting hugged by HN right now. When changing my password I get "passwd: The passwd file is busy, waiting..." until it finally gives up and times out :)
It's pretty normal for co-founders to have equal (large) stakes. If there are 8 co-founders (such as in this case, which is a very large number but fine) then each could have 12.5%. 20% would be impossible.

And that's pretty much what any 'traditional' (as in bootstrapped) company would do, and its working capital would be the initial buy-in. That way the company can open a bank account before the first customer pays and has a way to rent and office and get an internet connection.

Later, after operating the company for 5 or 10 years the value of the brand would be reflected in the value of the company (or goodwill, if you wish).

This is actually fairly common with architects, dentist collectives and legal offices where partners are brought in over the years and rotate back out again when they reach their pensionable age.

This collective the way it is described here is just a way for a bunch of individual to operate under a common brand without assigning any value whatsoever to their creations other than the money flowing through the company, the company is deemed to be worthless (which they may very well be right about at the founding date, but which I would be surprised would still be the case after a decade with a nice fat portfolio of customers and a steady stream of income).

And then someone wants to retire and suddenly that lack of 'buy-in' from the next partner looks like a major stumbling block.

So this is a fairly idealistic document without much in terms of future proofing as far as I can see.
Do you have any examples of this? This is the first I've heard of it.
definitely the best git repo for small teams! better than gitolite and manual hosting, lighter than gitlab, the best for me.
But... They are not a reliable source at all.

Edit: if you disagree enough to downvote over inforwars, please speak up and defend yourself. Wtf.
>"there should be no issue with teaching ecological principles, which as noted elsewhere, are as firmly rooted in science as evolution. This is not a matter of pushing politics."

Sure, teaching ecological principles as facts and history, yes. I would agree with your wholeheartedly there. But that is not how it's presented in the classrooms of younger-grades. It is loaded with guilt and fear, along with suggestions/instructions about what must be done. At least in the case of global-warming, desertification, deforestation, pollution, ozone-layer depletion, etc. It's the ever-present boogey-man of society's bad choices. That's not teaching. Perhaps young children are simply not ready to hear some of these things, and know of the possibly impending disasters that humanity as a whole is causing. Almost entirely out of the child's control.

>"I would think of all populations, children have the most stake in the future of the planet."

Just as much as the parents, I would argue. They want what's best for their children. Still, doesn't mean you need to burden the children with thoughts/worries of such things.
How we manage technologists at x.ai
It's taken Sander, the CEO of the company I'm referring to a decade and several iterations to get it right. What's even more amazing to me is that their company culture is improving over time rather than getting worse (and that's with an increase in headcount).
According to Planet Money, an in person block chain is used in at least one prison. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/10/514577243/episo...
Most airlines aren't incentivized to treat customers as human beings... that's the bargain. That's the diff between Virgin / JetBlue and United / American.

ProTip(TM): Virgin counter at LHR is probably the best on planet earth. Super friendly and helpful.
If only you'll be editing the site, as a dev, I always like to roll my own. Simple HTML/JS/CSS.
Feel like I have more control, less learning and I enjoy it.
But that's the dev bias.

If you want other non technical people to edit or make changes, choose a CMS.

Your goal is to get your message out there asap so you can solve problems.

End of day, the customer doesn't care, only you do.
You can always change it later.
That's not at all correct. South Auckland would be far more dangerous and as for locking your door to drive through the CBD? That's very weird. Were they South African migrants at all? They tend to be a tad more paranoid.
It's amazing how far we have come in the past decade. I took 6.034 with Professor Winston in Fall 2006 (and agree completely that he is an amazing teacher). I remember there being only one lecture covering Neural Networks on which was remarked that they were interesting in theory but disappointing in practice.
And each has slightly different look and feel. Facebook and their products…
Ha ha. It is true there are a lot of ways to send nudes now. But it is nothing new. In ancient times they used to send it by literally carving intricate statues. People in that region of the globe were way ahead of the times.
We live in an age of "looking to be offended."

(That said people say unnecessary things when they should just follow the golden rule.)
They have to, but they do not and they argue that they don't have to. This is a thing in Europe right now, among which tax evasion through the double irish sandwich.
The "operational cost" is because of competition. It's not like Uber buys up all the cars so they need tons of capital.

The reason they need to spend a lot of money is they need to stay afloat until all others die off. Whether this strategy will succeed or not is absolutely not as obvious as you think, because there's of tons of history where companies that took the same road either ended up dominating the market (Youtube) or died off (Most others).

I'm not saying "scale at all costs" is good, but I also sympathize with them because there's not much else they can do at this point. As soon as they start charging more and go less aggressive on marketing they will lose to their competition. But they also know there are only a few serious competitors at the moment and they all have the same struggles. So if they manage to stay afloat until the competitors die off (read: get acquired), they will have much better leverage. I'm sure that's what they're shooting for.
Ask HN: How do you deal with MBA-types who degrade what you do?
I'm a self-taught programmer, and I constantly come across MBA-types who think that building software is blue-collar, "hire-an-Indian" labor. I even experience this within my family. "It's not that hard," "Coder monkey," "It's just a website, anybody can do that" are all phrases I hear and it's making me feel like total shit. I don't feel like what I'm doing is that easy. When I think someone else has it easy, I don't open my mouth and berate that person.

Their only exception is for people who work at large enterprise-y software companies: "Oh, you should talk to Joe, he writes all the software at Oracle. He's so smart. I bet you could learn a thing or two from him." I'm not opposed to learning from anyone, but the people they're impressed with are more often than not, not very good.

Have any of you experienced this type of sentiment among family or peers? Does it make you feel as shitty as it makes me feel?

Sorry, had to vent. :P
XXX is very offensive to people who can read rot13...
How does it compare with LMDB?