skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BP are so incompetent that they can not even control a robot without hitting something, nor place a cap over the leak, nor even accurately estimate how much oil is leaking.

Giving them a nuclear weapon is not a good idea.
someone call Dean Kamen and Elon Musk, stat!

but seriously, let's make sure that kid gets good mentors. has talent and could do brilliant things in the future if he stays on the right path. (up the frickin wall)
-DNA2.0, California, https://www.dna20.com/
-Gene Synthesis and Design. Have an algorithm for optimised gene design. Synthesised a large (7kbp) Violacein operon we needed, and it worked perfectly. (Optimised for E. coli and B. subtilis. Relevant link: http://2009.igem.org/Team:Cambridge/Project/VI02)

[This place might be well suited to you for a dynamic programming sort of job, caffeine ;)]
There is more out there than just stocks

I mentioned stocks because they are the only investment I was able to find that gives a decent return against inflation and is possible to do without huge amounts of money (like real estate).

But if you would like to elaborate, I am interested.
So did Jefferson make this change on his own, and take the extra care in changing the words so the rest of the committee wouldn't notice? Or in discussions with Adams and Franklin did they all recognize how momentous the change was and expunging "subjects" was a kind of ritual?

I don't think there's need for either alternative. The most parsimonious explanation, it seems to me, is that he wrote "subjects" out of habit, and then (quickly, I imagine) realized that it was no longer appropriate. No hiding, no ritual-- just a correction.
That's a fairly one-dimensional view of Russia.
I do about 2 hours of meditation a day. This is useful because it builds a huge capacity for emotional regulation and lets me stand in situations I once would have run from or otherwise sought to avoid, and and I can still clearly see what's going on in these situations. Exercise has its merits (I also walk about 2 hours a day) but they are very different.

As Suzuki Roshi said "Sit Zazen. To live life without sitting Zazen is like winding a watch without setting it: It will run, but it won't tell you the correct time."
Probably harder than it sounds.

Analogy: Look at that stupid NBA guy. All he has to do is throw the ball in the hoop. How hard can that be? Jeez, how incompetent. :P
imagine this kid being sponsored by James Dyson the inventor behind the cyclone-based vacuum company.
You say god is dead? There's an app for that
Wow, I completely forgot railsmachine existed.
First off, you don't know me, so don't presume to know how I am to work with, or what kind of employee I am. In fact, what you wrote here is borderline slander, as you're basically telling people to not hire me. You and everyone else needs to quit that shit because I don't do it to you, and it does have a major impact on my life.

Second, who the hell are you to say I shouldn't have a life outside of your company? This is not a damn salt mine, or a factory. Programmers are hired based on their visible experience. The projects they do and the things they write are now a major deciding factor on whether they get jobs. To then tell someone that all of that stops because you're paying them a piddly little 100k/year compared to your massive ownership in the company is down right abusive.

Third, in the valley the trend of firing people at the drop of a hat because they aren't a "good fit" cuts both ways. If you show no loyalty to your employees then they owe you nothing. Expecting them to stick around and be loyal, but then fire their peers for having a bad day with no warning is completely unfair.

Basically, I think your entire comment smacks of business douchebag who has no concept of worker's rights, fairness, or even basic capitalism.
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Make Writing Process More effectual Using Examples of Research Titles
A good research title will attract the reader in order for the paper to be read. The title is a very important element of the research paper. If the title is a good one, you are guaranteed that the paper will be read. Therefore, going through a few examples of research titles will enable you to come up with an interesting one.
I use a combination of TextMate, d8 (v8 shell) and Sprockets (http://getsprockets.org). For debugging mostly Webkit's debugger.
I know Chairface did in an episode of The Tick... he only managed to write "CHA" though.
Mainstream application development needs .NET and Java. They are the dominant. Others, are backends made in Lisp, Prolog, C++ and others..
Codecraft is important to me. I am obsessed with whitespace and consistent names. Imagine my delight when I found a gedit plugin called Elastic Tabstops!

http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/
Thanks for the comment! Well I wouldn't have started it if the shipping costs were low. There was an obvious gap here (picking partners that ship to france), which I filled. I definitely agree the idea is useful and interesting (given the feedback I got).

The site is making pocket money more or less (very far from your figures), and the market is very tough, filled by niche blogs here in France. It was very interesting to make and I learnt a lot in the process, though!

It's not a WordPress - it's a custom application I developed wholly from scratch myself using Sinatra, MongoDB, Ruby (the back-end, the views, javascript/css etc), and which is heavily customizable (this is already the fourth revision of the site).

This made the ability to filter by manually entered prices a lot easier to implement, for instance.

I plan to do regular updates on this and let it grow slowly, see where it goes.
Amyris which came out of Prof Keasling and his artemisnin project. I think they are in Berkeley. http://www.amyrisbiotech.com/

Though I don't work there, I'm a bioengineering major and would be highly interested in what your project was. Email <cyclades at berekely dot edu>
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would you rather have a mayonnaise sandwich or "Pig's knuckles with carrots, celery and parsnips".

I think I may go for the mayonnaise sandwich.
In their part 1 [1], they link to a summary of a presentation [2], which says that with Tokyo, "when the dataset was larger than memory performance decreased vastly." No actual benchmarks, though.

[1]: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/05/19/mongodb-at-etsy/

[2]: http://journal.uggedal.com/tags/voldemort
You're missing an awful lot of astronomy if you think that orbital mechanics is the sum total of astronomical knowledge. There's no earth-bound laboratory that can create the hundreds of Teslas magnetic fields found in the sun; there's no earthbound laboratory where one can see high-mass effects like gravitational lensing; there's no earth bound laboratory that can explain or even observe the existence/absence of dark matter. Astronomy is much, much more than dynamics.
You don't know what the word "ironic" means. That's my feedback.

Ironic does not mean sarcastic.
I'm totally biased since I worked on http://www.diyseo.com. It tracks your SERP rankings and backlinks and gives you suggestions on what to change about your site (with heavy use of backgroundrb ;)
Indeed. Money laundering, for example, usually has to go through people that fit this description.
Don't confuse age with enthusiasm for work. I've seen many young 9-5'ers, and plenty of older programmers who work long hours in fun startups because that's what we love to do :-)
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Would love to see him do something similar for c as well.
I'd like to see the contrast between American vegan and Atkins/Paleo.
And after that, read Mandelbrot's "Misbehavior of Markets" to understand the limitations of the random walk model.
First make it work,

Then see if anyone uses it,

Then make it good.

The time to refractor is when you see a real time savings from doing so, not a hypothetical one. It works for me at least.
I use emacs with jslint + flymake, js2 mode + espresso, it isnt perfect yet but its getting pretty close.
My girlfriend and I did it. We are fairly close to the paleo diet, although in this case there's some Matzo for passover.

http://eruv.livejournal.com/190127.html
Hey Obie,

I've read the complaint and had a look at a sample 'not an invoice' and I find it commendable that you stand by your friends in times of trouble but really, don't you think that their business model is more than just a little shady ?

It reminds me of people preying on old folks by overcharging them for washing their windows or mowing their lawn because they 'agreed' to being overcharged.

Hiding behind 'the fine print' is not usually the mark of a great business.
"slugging away at code"?

You make it sound like you can only be "important" if you are not programming anymore. I say: go to hell.

I have never seen a manager winning a Nobel Prize - scientist are respected in our world, except in our field. Go figure.

I, for one, like to work for people who are smarter than I am. I believe many good programmers (here refered to as rockstars) feel the same. Therefore, they will not want to work for you and you can stop worrying about them.
the Ecuadorians love their hats, don't they?
That's a very good comment, and thanks. I mostly went with the AGPL to hedge my bets. It's much easier to reduce a license's restrictions than to increase them later, and I'd like to go with whatever the market wants at the time.

The interesting thing is, other people have had the same sentiment about the AGPL. It seems they actually prefer it plus some small commercial license option. I hadn't really thought people would like the AGPL for servers, but it seems that's what people are liking.

At this point I have no idea which direction it'll go, but I'll make a decision once it's more stable and actually runs stuff.
I think you're misunderstanding me. If you replace "thinking you're better than everyone" with "being more knowledgable on a subject than everyone else," then I agree with your comments.
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It's more like BP has 100's of world-class NBA basketball players at their disposal, and billions of dollars of cash to pay for equipment and basketball training, and yet not one of their basketball players has been able to make this basket. wiff. wiff. this will certainly work. wiff. optimistic this will work. wiff. it's under control. wiff. i just want my life back. wiff. :)
I'm a scientist mostly, so I prefer Direct Instruction from Siegfried Engelmann and Wesley C. Becker and learned quite a bit about how to teach effectively from them. What's interesting is DI is the only method with solid evidence backing its success. Lots of it. The others are mostly just bullshit rhetoric.
That headline makes absolutely no sense.
Sending businesses invoices that are not really invoices until you read the fine print is scammy, even if the majority will never get paid it is essentially hoping for administrative people not being 'on the ball' enough to realize what they're doing.

Big corporations invented 'purchase orders' for that reason so they're fairly well protected, but the smaller companies that outsource their books because they're too busy doing their work are the ones that are the victims of companies like these.

I've received a couple of such 'not invoices' from companies here in NL and Belgium and they're usually crafted well enough that you have to read them three times before you realize they're not legit. One of them actually presented itself as a 'kvk' which is short for 'kamer van koophandel', the local chambers of commerce.

They're parasites, pure and simple, selling a service for which there is no real demand other than to create a 'product' used as a fig-leaf to hide the scam behind.
It is far, far more easy for a malicious person to intentionally create something "bad" than for a good person to do it by accident.
That said, a malicious person would not be able to create something "bad" without a tremendously large amount of funding and manpower.

So lets imagine a malicious person with funding and manpower turns up: Sure, totally synthesised genomes will turn up and you will be able to email some guy who generates your operon to stick into whatever, so the barriers of entry for a bio-terrorist will be lowered somewhat; but even then the knowledge of how to create a killer virus will be scarce.

And after 20+ years of gained knowledge, once a billionaire Bond-villain with a fortress of henchmen* has made a killer virus, it is tricky to imagine it out-competing any virus created by nature's hands - she had several million years worth of head-start and a hell of a lot more funding.

So, yes, it is very unlikely, but still possible. However, if you were going to go to all that work to spread some virus, I would strongly recommend that you just learn to make nukes instead. They are much more reliable, predictable, and will have less fallout for you to worry about.

*Although a Government could much more probably fill this role.
Always assuming you're above average is, of course, egotistical. You don't need to have a Phd in introspection to become mindful of this. Being egotistical is in most cultures regarded as a vice. It is easy to love oneself. Also you are being ungenerous with regards to the abilities of others around you.

Always assuming that you fall short of the median appears to be a conscious exercise in humility. Being humble is usually regarded as a virtue. Being humble is not so easy, cuz if it were the world would be a hell of a different place. The problem with this approach is that you are being ungenerous towards yourself and your own hard-won abilities.

But you know, there is a difference between assuming you are one thing or another and how you project yourself to the world. I would imagine that what is most difficult is accurately and generously assessing your own ability (in different situations) and also fairly and generously assessing the abilities of others. What is important then is that if you find that you are "better" than someone at whatever that you are humble about it and that if you are "worse" that you are not envious about it.

In short Derek I believe that you have swung from one extreme to another and shot past the more difficult happy mean.

I also believe that there are any number of false dichotomies at play here. I can assume (better yet, know) that I am above the average at something and still not act like others around me are dumb. Same with asking questions. Obviously if I think that I'm hot stuff it may appear that an instant consequence of this is that I'll stop asking questions and stop listening but it's very likely that these traits are needed to push you above the average in the first place and it would be _dumb_ to abandon them when you're out in front.

Those statistics appear to lack citations and are meaningless out of context as well, but that's another thing.

I'm sorry but I'm not impressed at all and I feel that these posts of Mr Siver's are framed in a superficial home-spun zen truths kind of way so as to drive traffic towards Mr Siver's site and the fact that he links to his book one of his comments below in this thread only serves to strengthen my belief in this respect. I would welcome any comments if anyone else has felt the same way or am I being in my own way ungenerous of Mr. Siver's motives. I don't know the guy and have no axe to grind and maybe I'm being too cynical but if someone wants to preach to such a wide audience I expect the bar to be set a little higher, that's all.
VCard import is already there (available in Firefox and Chrome and any browser supporting FileReader). Outlook import on its way.
You should check out my new app, Ginzametrics (http://ginzametrics.com). It has support for advanced users and agencies in addition to SERP tracking. It's still in private beta but I will be adding more invites over the next few weeks.
Why? Clojure is smaller, simpler and more consistent than either Python or Ruby.

Forth is even simpler than Clojure. A language is not necessarily easy to learn just because it has a small, simple, orthogonal core. Understanding how bricks are made doesn't automatically make it easier to build a house. It's the difficulty of the macro-concepts that makes the most difference and most people find imperative programming and mutable state and infix syntax easier to handle than declarative programming and immutability and prefix syntax. Lisp has been more powerful than the competition for most of its history but it's never been popular.

TL;DR size isn't everything.
Depends on who I'm talking to.

Operations guy: Mongrel2 is a ops wet dream. Totally automatable and you can use it to easily carve your infrastructure up as needed to scale and deal with all the random crap programmers throw at you.

Programmers: Mongrel2 is future proof and gives you want you need with low friction. Wanna do sockets? Got it. Use any language? Got it. Change up the request flow to work around a bug? Got it. Drop Scala for Rails? Got it.

Or something like that.
Javascript. NodeJS. TokyoCabinet. Views and controllers are HTML and JS. 2 static files: index.html and application.js served by Nginx. Server is an API. Authorization and filtering done at the meta-data level: set union and intersection on database indexes to avoid JSON deserialization/serialization overhead.
And there is no confirmation at all that this is the individual posting. It could be his 10 year old kid. His machine could just be running an open proxy.

This is a really ignorant move.
Frequently bricks aren't compatible or affect the expression of other bricks in a totally unpredictable manner. The only way of guaranteeing a working biobrick made of many biobricks is to combine as many combinations of biobricks-which-do-the-same-thing as you can find, and use the ones generating the best gene expressions. Even then you might want to take the best 3 or 4 as they will behave differently when combined with other bricks.
Did anyone else find it funny how he was cursing out the guy?
This is true and possible, but I am sure Shoemoney is aware of that and probably took some extra precautions and explored that possibility (I hope).
Did you see the actual advertisement?

Illegal, maybe not...but malicious? Certainly. An advertisement just doesn't come out accidentally looking like it's an invoice from the Yellow Pages (the real ones), that takes effort. The intent is crystal clear, it's not to convince someone that they would gain something from your service, it's to trick them into thinking that they already owe the money.

Really, now - can anyone honestly imagine any plausible scenario by which this "business model" could have been devised other than "Hey, I've got a great idea, Yellow Pages is not a trademarked term, let's print up an ad that looks like one of their bills and send it to millions of small businesses, some of them probably won't read the fine print and they'll pay up, thinking that they'll be removed from the Yellow Pages if they don't!"

If you really think this was more innocent than that, I've got a bridge to sell you. Even if it's legal, this is some shameful shit, and that Hashrocket is associated with (let alone founded by) these douchebags casts a long dark shadow over its image...
Re:

1. Thanks. It gets better when you add more data.
2. The idea is to let you jump right in and try it for real.
3. Let me know what you're using so I can build an importer for it.
4. What do you suggest?
Don't you have that backwards? If I wish to make cartoons and use an anthropomorphic mouse, I have more incentive to create a new character so that I can avoid having to license Mickey. If Mickey were public domain, I'd have less incentive to create a new character, as I could just use Mickey.

In fact, I might have incentive to specifically avoid creating a new character, because Mickey has recognition.
Thanks. It'll look fine when you add data.
Rockstar programmers are not the problem, inexperienced, insecure middle-managers who feel threatened by the fact that they have no idea what the rockstar programmers are talking about half the time are.

Why don't you see your argument through to its most logical conclusion and say "only hire people who depend on you for their worker's visa?"
It took some 100 years to get from Kirchhoff's circuit laws to the transistor. Taking into account that biological networks are much more complex than electrical ones, count yourselves lucky that any modularity at all is even attainable. If any HN'ers out there can do better, the world eagerly awaits for your blinding brilliance to bear fruit.
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Thanks, VCard import exists. Outlook import coming. Let me know what you need.
The one system I read about in passing, which was surprisingly accurate, just looked for off-color blots to the bottom, left and right of a supposed face. If you're not blonde, eyebrows probably contribute more to the blot than the pupils.
I remember being in grade three (1988) and being told about what was then called 'the greenhouse effect' - some apparently respected scientists informed us alarmingly of how whole parts of the world would be underwater by 2000.
There is a huge difference between innocent according to the letter of the law and innocent in a real-life sense.

See the OJ Simpson case for a nice example of the two.

Your friends may be 'innocent' according to the letter of the law - when all is said and done. But meanwhile they look guilty as hell in the eyes of the general public of maybe not scamming half a billions worth of dollars but still a significant amount out of the pockets of hardworking people and corporations.

It may be 'legal' but it certainly isn't 'right', and by associating yourself so strongly with these people you are not helping yourself or hashrocket.

Your lawyer has no stake in your public image but you do, your interests are not aligned and I think you've been given some bad advice.
Paraphrasing Feynman: "I believe that a hacker looking at nonhackerish problems is just as dumb as the next guy." The level of ignorance revealed in most comments on this post so far is somewhat shocking. Michael Nielsen once mentioned that HN'ers could be incredibly arrogant when treading outside of their area of expertise, and this is all the proof one needs. Either that, or Biology gets all the HN simpletons out of the closet.
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Ask HN: Suggestions for mastering vim?
I've been using VIM for the past 15 months or so. However, I've noticed that I've reached a level of comfort that is far below VIM's capabilities and I'm in awe of those who know how to wield it much better than I. I know I can be much more efficient, but I don't know where to start. Thoughts?