skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My advice to anyone thinking of doing genetic testing (be it 23andMe or another route) is to consider seriously doing it at as a "John Doe" (ie not using your real name and details).

Knowing you have a high susceptibility to a significant disease could have all sorts of implications for insurance - medical, life and even car.

In general insurance companies require you to disclose any and all information that you have that would be pertinent to them assessing risk. Clearly for medical and life insurance you knowing there is a high chance you will get Parkinsons (for example) is information your insurer would like to know - and presumably will have a negative impact on your coverage costs/availability.

Here in the US there are currently laws - such as Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) - to prevent insurance companies demanding this information.

However laws can be repealed. The insurance industry is the 'leader' in government lobbying. 23andMe is still subject to US federal subpoenas laws. 23andMe could be aquired by an insurance firm.

Also consider laws differ in other countries, where insurance companies might be able to legally demand results. In Canada insurance companies can not only request it, they can demand you get this kind of testing before you can obtain coverage.

Consider further that databases can be hacked/stolen (it seems to be happening to every email marketing company right now).

Think carefully whether you want your personal legal name and contact details all over the results of a test like this.
Is AirPlay encrypting streams though? There are a few apps that can playback AirPlay videos. Recently, I started to use a script that made Plex show up as an AirPlay target and it worked fine.

edit: NB: I'm not sure "encrypting" is the right word here… do not hesitate to correct me
It's probably a botnet performing automated SQL injection checks on your site; you definitely need to make sure that you are correctly sanitizing any user input, especially if it's echoed back to the page (XSS) or used directly in a database query (SQL injection).

Especially if you're having database problems, you're going to want to check things. If you have a database of accounts, you might even consider taking the site offline until you can verify that it is secure (and that it hasn't already been dumped to an attacker).
Fair enough. But from a positioning perspective, Diaspora's got a lot more visibility than Appleseed; so it's important for Michael to highlight the differentiation.
I'm not sure - I've heard of an Android app that can send video to an AppleTV, but I haven't heard of an app that can receive video from an iOS device. If you know of one, I'd appreciate a link.
"It's not a given that Google will just "figure it out" and your reward will be in heaven. Anyone who thinks that is just hoping Google will do their job for them.'

i imagine in Google's perfect world there is little or no room for SEO. doesn't that mean it actually is Google's job?
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The HN audience isn't just one big lump. There's so much content on here now that I'd guess the majority of HN users only sees a small percentage of the general content stream. I'm addicted to HN and I only get through perhaps 80% of the content.

Given this, it's very easy to have the same thing submitted multiple times (through different URLs) and to do well each time, as we're seeing here (I submitted the first link to the very useful homepage at cleveralgorithms.com - everyone else is doing internal pages for some reason). It's happening a lot lately. What to do about it? Point out previous HN discussions that might be useful to newcomers to the link and, well, pass on.

The obvious "black hat" tip, though - if you want to rack up some karma points - is dig through the HN archives, find a successful but not crazily memorable post from 2 months ago or more, find a slightly alternative URL to submit, and go to town. It'd work like gangbusters.
Have you used it or are you talking out of your hind-quarters?
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There's a few reasons. The main difference is that Vimeo uses a higher data rate than YouTube: ~2.6Mbs vs ~2.1Mbs -- about a 20% difference.

Then there's the source. First, Most Vimeo content is produced by creative professionals so the content itself is meant to look amazing. In contrast, YouTube does bulk video, most of which is homemade. Vimeo looks better on content alone.

Second, the Vimeo video is directly encoded from the creator. YouTube's creative content tends to be commercial work posted via distributors and agencies. It's likely that the content shown on YouTube has been encoded twice - first by the creator for the distributor, then again by YouTube's uploader.

There's other things. It's probable that Vimeo is using 2-pass encoding, allowing for more accurate VBR. It takes longer, but looks much nicer. YouTube users want speed, so one-pass may be standard.
Oh, I meant it looked vaguely familiar, like a real trading app. Maybe old Fidessa or something?

The left hand screen, lower right corner is running Bloomberg.
I understand expanding into adjacencies as a sensible mode of growth for a company with mature products -- so Google obviously expands into different types of advertising, and AOL into different types of content, and Apple into new form factors of portable electronic devices.

But I think the critical difference is that those are new products by old companies, and specifically products where they can use existing expertise or technology and apply it successfully. So Microsoft's expansion into search makes no sense because they hate the web and have always sucked at it. Facebook's expansion into real-time made no sense because the whole value of their stream was its curated nature.

Of all of the examples of bad expansions I mentioned, the suggestion that the contributors of WordPress create a "WordPress lite" that is simple and Tumblr-like actually sounds on the face of it like the best of the bunch. But in my opinion, Tumblr's primary advantage is not its interface (though that's a big secondary feature) but its community. Tumblr provides a built-in mechanism for content discovery and distribution, and is insanely viral -- the only way to comment on a post most of the time is to reblog it to your own tumblr.

For WordPress to create a Tumblr-like "WordPress Lite" would involve far more than merely stripping down the interface. They would have to completely rework WordPress.com to provide a centralized identity and content-distribution mechanism. Not only would that take them far away from their core competency of building single-instance software, but as Tumblr is demonstrating, building such a platform is technically very challenging.

My point is not so much that WordPress should not attempt such a project. They're smart -- maybe they could pull it off. But such an expansion is by no means a simplification of their current software; it is in fact a significantly harder problem.
It's dead, Jim!
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Pretty old. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1765002
Would love to see examples of implementations when any of you guys make them public.
Not quite. You're assuming I worked 30 days a month - but I only worked on weekdays. So the pay per post was actually just above $30.
Got the stats from lahman baseball database. We thought about using Yahoo's Baseball API, but thought wanted to compare players from past eras too.
"I'd live my life much differently if I thought my brain would rot at age 50."

What would you be doing so differently? I'm really just curious.
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Why are you posting this?
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Could you help me understand your reasoning/calculation?

I'd like to verify it with my expectations for a passphrase:

- not-so-common (non-)words (think meme, Shakespeare style English, abbreviations/artifical words -> Jedi, Klingon, whatever)
- I'd like to understand how to valuate punctuation: You don't just need to guess the passphrase, you might need to pepper it with commas, quotes, dots, question/exclamation marks at the right spots
ASCII key, from the source: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=RFeUcdXd
True, but that value isn't for sale, it's manifest as easements owned by your neighbors. (the true price is buying the land and the easements that conflict with your agenda).

For example, if you fish the wetland, or set up a water front hotel, or drink the water then you have an easement right to clean water. It cuts both ways though; if a polluter moves to unoccupied land and pollutes 10 barrels a day, then he has an easement right to continue polluting at this rate.
Here's one: http://bananatv.net/
The site at http://hellosundaymorning.com.au/ is somewhat interesting, but I am not sure why you linked to this SMH article. The article is only tangentially related, since it is about the writer's personal journey with alcohol abstinence as opposed to Chris Raine's website.
I like this post. It is exactly right. This is sort-of like... Red Hat vs Cent OS. Cent OS is essentially the freeware version of red hat. Yes yes OSS bla bla bla. However, why are companies not pursuing cent? its free. Hell its orders of magnitude cheaper than RH.

The answer is "freeware". Cent is freeware. When you need THEIR support, its freeware. When you want a feature, its freeware. When you want someone to spend an hour looking through forums and give you an answer to your problem, its freeware. So many large companies see the value of getting Red Hat.

In the end freeware works just as well as OSS, adware, etc. Its just a different business model. In many cases it makes sense, in many its useless.

Heres an interesting one though. It strikes me by surprise. League of Legends uses a freemium business model. You play the game, earn IP to buy characters/runes. You can pay money to buy the characters faster. You can pay money to buy skins, which offer NO ADVANTAGE. So basically there is zero crippled functionality when not paying them, However they will plow through your money much faster than WoW ever would if you want to keep up with their very fast release of characters (1-2 per month) especially if you are a casual gamer. What would you call this model??? Is it still freemium? Maybe careware?
Thanks, we actually moved to our own office (the old one was at 500startups). We're still in downtown MV but closer to the Caltrain. We still have the ping pong table setup :).
It can get far, far worse. Mitnick spent 4 years in a federal prison without being charged with a crime. Democracy and freedom is just the lie the government constantly bombards us with in order to keep us subdued and productive.
Adobe announce subscription pricing model along with Creative Suite 5.5
And how do they know about it to care about it? Chicken/egg.
I'll write something up for Appleseed's wiki when I get a chance, for the most part they're original concepts that are being worked out within Appleseed. But basically, they work similarly to what their names imply.

Linking, Cloning: I have two accounts, on a.com, and b.org. When the two are linked, actions taken on a.com are duplicated on b.org as my b.org identity. Friends on b.org are not made aware of the existence of my a.com identity. There are subtle differences between linking and cloning that are still being worked out.

Profile forwarding: Works just like email forwarding. I leave one site, and move to another, and at the original site, I leave a forwarding address.
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record store, cd store, music shop for angsty (?Pre)Teens to loiter and/or spend money
if you expect to be truly anonymous with 23andme, you're going to need to anonymize the address the kit is sent to, the payment information, and the connections to other people you have as well.

related: http://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-use-23andme-anonymous...
AirPlayer from Erica Sadun would work: http://ericasadun.com/ftp/AirPlay/

However, she mentions that you can't stream music to AirPlayer due to RAOP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Audio_Output_Protocol

which, I guess is not true anymore due to the parent link :)

But it does seem to show that iTunes was indeed checking keys before sending to an Airport Express, but that AirPlay (for video) wasn't affected. As far as I know, AirPlay is not much more than HTTP Live Streaming.

Also of interest in the same area (though this is an iOS app, so could technically include some key checking without knowing it): https://github.com/nto/AirView
Not true, whitehat SEO is more about being seen and understood by a webcrawler. Honest SEO techniques include structuring your site in an appropriate way to allow optimal crawling, including appropriate content/meta data, making sure your http redirects are setup correctly. Stuff like that.
Let's say someone wanted to buy as a John Doe. How would they pay without the risk of revealing their identity?
Hi and thanks for your response.

But I need to know in general.. is it something usual that someone visits a website using multiple proxies at the same time?
The Elements of Player Experience
> Sticking with the standard library means you'll eventually get those improvements, too.

Not in 2.x, you won't.
Pplscroll aims to please superficial daters
pplscroll is a new dating site aimed at giving users only pictures to select from - www.pplscroll.com. The catch is that you can only say yes to 10 pictures (profiles) per hour and they won't know you have said yes to them. Thus you both have to like each other before you are added as friends.

it's a pretty cool concept.
> It might be fine for a single-use application (recipe browser in the kitchen, etc), but it's pretty underpowered for much else.

Does anyone actually tablets like this? I can only imagine such a tablet at the bottom of a draw underneath the hometheater warranty.

You might as well splash out on a device you're going to use
Wolfram Alpha Fail
Should it be very easy to handle queries like this?

1) "number of people in the world with an income per capita greater than $12000."

2) "income distribution of the world"
Could you provide a mirror? The link seems to be dead.
IMHO, you're missing the point. The RepRap project might not be economically interesting, but it might put technologies and capabilities into the hands of companies and entrepreneurs who will do economically (and socially, culturally, etc.) interesting things. As a comparison, Linux distributions, Linux kernel development, etc. aren't economically interesting or significant, but nobody in their right mind would claim that Linux hasn't had a huge effect on startups and on the entire tech industry.
Adobe wakes to mobile world, Web standards
Library for creating API's
My company used it too. Honestly, I can't imagine people not using it, particularly since there's no way to hide low-priority issues otherwise.

The new interface is somewhat frustrating in this respect because there is now no way to hide low-priority stuff at all. It would be nice if you could show all issues sorted by milestone due date, or anything to that effect. It's made even more frustrating by the fact that you can't seem to change the number of issues shown per page.
creating an iphone peripheral and app for bouncers to use to read peoples licenses and use that data to show realtime club stats?
Well, this is what a whole lot of the world will be using. Now hundreds of millions of other people will be able to own a tablet.
All sites rank "artificially", since search engines are incapable of measuring quality or relevance to a searcher's intent and instead rely on proxy signals like links and similarity to keywords on a page or in a link graph. Good SEO concentrates both on making sure that your content creation does not interact poorly with the 100%-guaranteed-to-be-artificial way that search engines perceive your website, and on strategic issues in shaping how you create and communicate value in such a way that it will actually be found by people. For example, if you routinely create long essays with metaphorical titles, you need to be told by your SEO guy that search engines don't do metaphors well and searchers don't typically look for them, so they need to be retitled to be more fact- or benefit-oriented. (This is a lesson that the traditional media learned, and it required absolute bloodletting in the newsrooms to get it across: "Studio Flutters As Swan Soars" used to be newspaper best practice, for web writing it is now "Strong Black Swan Opening Weekend Did Not Help Studio Stock Price.")

More broadly, this attitude is like the reflexive engineer distrust of marketing, believing that product quality excuses all sins. It doesn't. If your product sounds scary to a user, and she avoids trying it because of that, you fail to create value for her. You need to communicate that your product is not scary. If that requires a photo of a woman with a headset then it is your duty to your customer to put that same woman with a headset stock photo that everyone uses so that she feels comfortable enough to experience the life-changing benefits your product has to offer.
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I bought my entire family the $99 special on last year's 23andme. The kits are pretty darn anonymous - and they all signed up under initials. Unless you give them your legal name, their is no way to identify who the test was for - address doesn't tell you that.
The way I was going to handle that when I designed my own password generator to replace my encrypted text file of passwords was to store a version number of each site. The version number would be part of the input to the hash. Changing the password for a site then would just require changing the version number.

Requirements and restrictions on the password content could be handled similarly, by storing password formatting information for each site.

I never got around to implementing my system, because I got a fantastic deal on 1Password (via MacHeist) and my system became completely pointless.
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Wow - I didn't know Apple banned Wiley for publishing the iCon unauthorized autobiography - with so many stories like this from Apple (remember the one on the one tiny music label getting singled out?) - I'm amazed their image is still as cool it is.
"To date, there is no way to order the service completely anonymously. That said, if you have a trusted friend or relative who would be willing to order a kit for you, his or her address and credit card would be tied to the account, rather than your own, and there would be no way to connect it to you."

even if you've ordered under your own name, doesn't this suggest you could just maintain plausible deniability? surely a DNA test can connect it to you- but that would nullify the "john doe" tactic as well, no?
Exactly. Like (ahem) YouTube links.
Makes a lot of sense — especially given the amount of remedial education a lot of not-particularly-cheap colleges are having to undertake. Seems plausible that a lot of the investment (both in terms of municipal and state subsidies, as well as private debt) being made now won't bear a meaningful return for a long time, if at all.
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From hurt feelings towards Apple to this; everything about this update is smart. Who got the wakeup call?
I know the OP probably isn't reading this, but I'd be curious to know what OS the Airport Express runs.

I always wondered. My guess is maybe a proprietary RTOS to perform its simple functions?

Back in the day I figured it'd make a great OpenWRT Linux box, although now boxes with those features/size/price-point are much more common.
I have a 2.0Ghz MBP 2011 sith stock SSD 128GB. It has been a month since I bought and I have never seen the hourglass.
The only downside is the suicidal feeling when you try to use another computer.
Love your website but you have some serious pixelation around your logo. You should consider changing the logo from a transparent png to just a regular block with the green background. Also, you should ensure that there is no fragmentation there.
this is already being used on production sites like shopify (the admin interface)
I thought the journalists own experience when HSM validated the idea and gave it sufficient credibility to start a discussion. I am curious. In this age where we talk about gamification etc, what is the underlying approach in HSM?

I wonder if HSM offers an alternate way to socially validate oneself. e.g. the HSM offers an outlet for people who still want to be around their friends, and still want to enjoy themselves, but would rather have a Sunday without hangover. i.e. HSM works just like formspring.me or MySpace.

Or is HSM approach a easy way for people to see that they can reinvent themselves and pry people away from their dependencies by voluntarily quitting for 3 months. The end of the process seems to be one where some people no longer see why it is necessary to go back to their old ways. This is the YC model where people effectively learn new skills over 3 months in a new environment.

Perhaps blogging is a way of letting people express themselves in a different manner, one more cerebral, perhaps a more introverted one where there is deeper self analysis?

What else can we learn from here?
The home button does need an off switch. Your objects are nothing some good design couldn't solve. For example, allow parents to explicitly enable toddler mode for specific apps in settings. Also, allow multiple versions of exiting toddler mode -- requiring press and hold for one second would avoid inadvertent exiting like my son has a tendency to do, while press and hold and password would mean that you can effectively lock your iphone so your toddler can't make phone calls / delete email.

I got my son an ipod touch when he was about 18 months old so he could watch movies on long car rides. All the points mentioned are dead on from my perspective. I'd also add two points:

- don't rely on audio instructions. a parent noticing that a toddler is getting frustrated may not have heard the "pick the thing with the same initial sound" instruction. Put the text on the screen.
- the best upsell is more content. Toddler Teasers Shapes does this really well. They built a complete and engaging game, and offer upsells of more content like colors and letters in the same game format.

Actually, toddler teasers does the whole experience really well. The splash screen has text "triple click to access settings" and only one big button at the bottom that says "play". The additional content is accessed through the settings screen.