skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the more interesting parts of 23andme, at least for me, was finding second and third cousins (likely) that I didn't know. Most of the actual medical tests are fairly non-predictive (1.5x increase in one study for something which is already rare?), but the ancestry part is something where having a lot of participants in a selectively-open database can be interesting.

I do really hope Halcyon (or another company) gets full sequencing costs down as low as they say they can. Then, sequencing becomes just a routine checkbox on blood tests.
Where's the accompanying news.arc?
Can someone explain to me why this comment was deaded?
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321Meet is the easiest way to share your screen with anyone who is online at the same time. Typically, you will call someone on the phone to discuss a sale or an issue and find out that you need to show them something - or - that they need to show you something. With just a few clicks - and no downloads - you will be in visual contact!

Clearly better than Webex or Gotomeeting. :)
This is a reasonable concern, but the reality is that:

$ telnet google.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.0

Is just going to become:

>>> use SPDY;
>>> SPDY->dump('http://www.google.com/);
Uh, where are the buttons? Specifically, Back and Menu.
Agreed.
1) Install Steam if you've never used it before on that machine.

2) Sign in if it's not set up to autologin.

3) Select any game you've ever bought on it

4) Wait for it to download if you've never played it on that machine

5) Play it.

Which means that for games you've played on that machine before it's just "Click on game. Play it."

Which is as easy as iOS.
I downvoted you because I felt that the tone of your comment is more aggressive than a discussion should be. It's just mean.

It's like saying to martian geologist, have you been to mars? If not, how do you know what rocks are there at all?

No, but that person has parsed data from probes and knows what s/he is talking about.

It's like saying that while planning a moon mission for the first time. Have you gone to the far side of the moon?

No, but we will.

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The thing you're advocating is dogma. This person has lived through a lot of things and can offer a unique perspective based on his experiences and the data in front of him.

So, why should you not listen to him?
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I'm having the same issues and for that reason I've moved back to Firefox 4, since it seems to have improved quite a bit since I moved to Chrome.

What seems rather ironical is that I only started having these issues with Chrome after they added the Flash-sandbox, which was supposedly made to stop Flash from crashing the browser. With the result that Flash is always crashing the browser, something it never did before.

Sometimes I think Google needs a bigger QA-team.
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Molyneux's question: Could a man, blind since birth who can tell the difference in shapes only by feel, given suddenly the ability to see be able to distinguish by sight those shapes?

Pawan Sinha's test: They took five people who had been blind since birth, performed the surgery to restore the sight, and performed the test which indicated that they could connect the tactile experience with a visual one no better than chance.

It's a very small sample size, to be sure, but to claim "they didn't actually test Molyneux's question at all"? Not sure which part of the article you missed.
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"It's flexible and cheap"

I don't know how cheap can this be considering there are processors 1E+10 times as powerful selling for <5 US$.
> Is that supposed to make it better?

If, by "it", you mean the accuracy of the headline, then yes. If, by "it", you mean the availability of the poison, then no.

We live on the largest planet in our solar system, if you apply the appropriate qualification; just like this poison is the second deadliest, if you apply the appropriate qualification.
It's not possible to interact using the touch panel if you aren't looking at the touch panel itself.

But I do that all the time with my Wacom Bamboo tablet, both with the pen and with touch input. What makes it impossible in the case of this device?
"Wink wink" has been long dealt with in law. If it's a device that is useless without the key, it'd wind up as a distinction without a difference if Apple really chased this down rather than hiring the devs. "Substantial non-infringing use" is the bar to clear in patent terms.
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rsync.net famously does (did?) the same thing, publishing weekly messages of "as of april 11, 2011 we have not been served". There was some debate about whether they could stop publishing these messages without violating the gag order.
there are many different things possible on [Mac] that can't be done on Windows

Like what?
"Again this is under the assumption your relationship is a truly functional relationship."

This being HN and all, truly functional means "no side-effects", right?
I was amazed by how motivated I became by being involved in the "November Startup Sprint" back in the fall so I think a more formal program could potentially be pretty cool. I'd move away from being a "YC Reject" program to a "Hacker News Startup Co-op".

I would open it up after interviews so that those who got interviews but don't get accepted can participate.

Accomodate all groups who want to participate and don't mess with the financing at this point. The financing talk gives me kind of a "no" feeling.

Have your weekly dinners and get speakers.

Have a web site where YCR startups can promote their projects.

Schedule and hold a Demo Day. I bet you'd be able to get a few investors to drop by or else watch the videos that will go up on the YCR web site.

By banding together, I think everyone will have a really productive 3 months, get to know alot of like-minded individuals, and have a decent shot at attracting some investor interest.

I live in Ireland and wouldn't be able to participate but I think it's a great idea.
Accepted applicants articulated their idea & company better than non-accepted applicatns as per YC scale.
If you aren't accepted by YC, shouldn't it be same as getting rejected from a VC?. In most cases VCs are investing in companies that are rejected by other VCs. How one perceives opportunities for an idea/investment, is very subjective. YC and YC Reject will not be same even though offer is similar ($12,000-20,000 for about 6% of the company).
>Seems its evil for the non-unionized to make money in education

College professors are tenured, not unionized. And considering that most schools hire adjunct professors and slash benefits to the bone, it's hard to argue that teachers are bleeding the system dry.

On the other hand, the school where I just got my Master's from just built a brand new 177,000 square foot rec center, complete with 3 story climbing wall. And we've proudly paid good money to bring the guy/girl who invented Zumba to teach a few Zumba sessions. On top of this, programs that bring recognition to "joe consumer" (college football, basketball, etc) want for not.

Also, much of PBS is not unionized. It's kind of hard to unionize organizations that rely on member donations to keep afloat.
Could a marathon ever be run in under two hours?
Is it really that hard to understand? Most corporations, almost by definition, must grow...often in multiple directions. They must expand market share in markets they already exist in and enter new markets they previously shrugged off.

Why "must" they grow? Where is the line drawn for "most" corporations? I have a feeling this sentiment is simply parroted as received wisdom.
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The article says the subjects were given similarly-shaped objects, not a sphere and a cube (as noted by comments on the article). This gives the impression that the question whether very rough differences in shape, e.g. sphere vs. cube, can be distinguished immediately after sight is restored is still unanswered.
> the only reason people listen to Peter Thiel is because of his credentials as PayPal co-founder and VC investor. There are a million people have an opinion on education and tecnology.

That million people haven't founded such significant ventures as PayPal is. That's why you call'em "a million", not by names.
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What 'human costs of these kind of releases'? Can you perhaps show me some evidence of the human cost of the leaks compared to say the human cost of the corresponding wars?
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For me, it comes down to a matter of needs. I was reading and writing before I went to school and it wasn't the result of educational software (actually my parents used the Glenn Doman method). So I don't need educational software or toys - I can teach my child reading, writing, speaking and basic maths on my own.

This extends quite naturally to conversations about sugar and, later on, alcohol. Children don't need sugary foods and sweets, there is absolutely no advantage in them, so why would I feed them to my child? When she's old enough to want a mobile phone because all the other kids have them and they're cool, the question is "why do you need a mobile phone?". Just because everyone else has them is not an acceptable reason.

Computers are designed to be learned, and it's easy to learn how to use a computer (especially something that's basically designed for the "normals" like the iPad). Hell when computers first came out plenty of non-technical professionals learned to use them in a very short period of time. I don't think there's any advantage, educational or otherwise, in exposing my daughter to that type of technology early on, so why would I? Simply because it's there?

I harbour certain reservations to do with development of imagination and fostering an early screen addiction (just the same as I'm concerned about sugar and alcohol addiction) that come into play here - but those aren't things that I can point at and conclusively say "if my daughter uses this, she'll be an obese xbox obsessed couch potato", but the reasoning of minimalist parenting and focusing on needs rather than wants I think builds a healthier child.
Perhaps, but YC costs nothing to apply and nothing if you are accepted, and a four year private college costs around 200k. That four year college often gives you largely impractical skills when it comes to employment. Why should we, as a society, try to choose differentiators that cost a ton of money for our students, instead of ones that are free?
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- Faster GC : GC hint API and more.
- New numeric types : float and float4 (very useful for Molehill in the future).
- Concurrency : Worker threads (shared nothing model) to leverage multicore CPU's. No more UI 's blocked when doing expensive operations.
- Stage3D : The API used for Molehill (that you know through the Incubator builds).
- StageVideo : Allowing full GPU acceleration (decoding + blitting) when used with H.264. Part of Flash Player 10.2 and coming to AIR soon.
- Threaded video pipeline : Will decode non H.264 streams on another thread, Net I/O will also be moved to another thread, all this bringing smoother playback.
"This won't change."

Of course it's a bubble. It's the law and finance that sustains it. Inevitably, it will change, and the asians may have to pioneer it.
Then you should probably ship a small device that a general computer, and there just happens to be some firmware / software floating around on the internet for it.
And this is why I just won't visit the USA anymore.

Don't get me wrong, I love the principles your country was founded upon, but somehow you turned into testicle grabbing sociopaths.
Anyone seen:

http://www.acceloweb.com/images/diagram_with.png

http://www.acceloweb.com/product_features.html (note how quick pages load)
I really hate to be this negative, but I confess that a post on "ingredients for a successful entrepreneur" would inspire a lot more confidence if it was by an author whose name I could readily recognize.
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Any comparison of the Microsoft / Apple wars to the iOS / Android wars needs to take into account one major difference: the presence of Steve Jobs.

Jobs left Apple in 1987, after which the company quickly became a stodgy computer company, a Dell wannabe. They lost their design mojo - anyone else here remember the dark days of all of the performas, and quadros and powermacs with impenetrable model numbers after the names? Beige boxes without any style running an increasingly creaky OS.

Jobs returned in 1997, and immediately the design chops came back, and the Mac's marketshare has been steadily climbing ever since, until today the Mac has enough presence in the US market that the platform is once again well supported by software and hardware vendors.

This time around, with the battle between iOS and Android, Apple is not as likely to drop the ball, like they did in the late 80s, early 90s. The end result, in my opinion, will be a market with two dominant platforms. Over time I would expect Android to become the budget choice with Apple picking off the high margin segment of the market. Indeed, this is the current market configuration that we see in the PC / Mac market.

Of course, the day is coming when Steve Jobs will no longer be at the helm of Apple. I would hope that the board has understood the lesson from the first Jobs-less period, by choosing a successor that understands the primacy of design for Apple.
The money to me was important as well as everything else YC offered. I wouldn't have applied otherwise. I can't afford to build my business without the seed money at this point. So it's either find a job, go back to school and/or look for funding elsewhere.
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but so valuable that past a point

That point is pretty high tho'. The thing is, that people who don't hire people usually don't understand, is that programming experience that organizations are interested in is only experience of programming to external requirements under external constraints, because that is what working programmers do, e.g. "write a program to do X on system Y by time Z", where none of those things are what you would have chosen yourself. Which is why it's a really bad idea to put on your CV that you've had 10 years experience when you're 21, the guy interviewing you has 10 years actual experience and he'll not be impressed.
Yes and that's what makes the equity trade worth it. The money is too small to justify giving up 5-10% if it wasn't for the quality of advisors (and their reputation) that you'd be adding to your company.
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Probably cost and lack of effort. Just look at the iTunes / App Store DRM. It can be removed quite easily, it's mostly there for deterrence. As soon as Apple could, they dropped DRM on iTunes audio files by switching to iTunes Plus (and before that, you could burn the songs to a CD and import it back).

You'll find a quite different story when Palm made the Pre compatible with iTunes through reverse engineering. The certainly didn't want non-Apple devices in the iTunes ecosystem and spent quite some effort to put a stop to that, even though it had nothing to do with DRM.
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I was already familiar with this research in relation to distance athletes. For marathoners, the difference is extreme. They typically have telemeres the length of people many years younger.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/phys-ed-how-exercis...
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I compared the prices of iPad2 and the education store has 0% discount on that. Whereas the link mentioned by OP has a USD 10 discount.
providing access to everyone for something by nature devalues it

Particularly true in education. Consider a hypothetical scenario where a law is passed that all CS curriculums across the nation have to be synchronized. Could you take the curriculum from MIT or CMU and simply drop it on Podunk U unchanged? Probably not. The only way to provide access is actually to lower standards.
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I was going to say the same thing. I'd really like to see what objects exactly they used.

I have a variation on the original question. Suppose someone blind has never touched a cube. However, he knows that a cube is an object with 6 sides of equal dimensions and 8 corners. Then his blindness is suddenly cured. If he sees a cube would he be able to associate it with the description of a cube that's already in his head?
How is that different? MS wants marketshare, Google wants marketshare, faster internet for everyone is just a means to an end: more people using Google services. I'm sorry for not buying into the Google-hype, but keep in mind they're a business like everyone else and they are in it to make money. If you ever need proof that Google is doing this for money like everyone else, just take a look at the history of their advertising services.
You're assuming that the schools don't in themselves add value beyond signalling.

Even after adjusting for academic achievement students from top-tier university do better post-university, as this broadly tends to hold true across subjects. Of course this could be purely be down to signalling effect, but if so it would imply signalling has as strong impact across all industries not just a handful of professional ones.
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>These platforms are much more compelling than any other OS was during the PC/Mac wars

Seems a bit like historical revisionism to me. RISC OS, Amiga OS and NeXTSTEP were all pretty compelling at the time.
Less true for tcp dumps

which I believe was the previous poster intention since he mentioned wire shark..

Also piping bunch of unix command will suffer a little of they
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3 years ago I created jobberBase, an open-source platform for building job sites.

It's fairly successful, there are hundreds of sites powered by it (others existed but disappeared in time), we have an active community, freelancers build custom extensions... it's a good environment.
However, we've never made any money with it and it has stagnated for about a year, in terms of development, because there aren't any incentives to continue to develop it.

I'm looking for options, because it's a pitty to just see it exist out of inertia and other people's interest.

What would you do with it?
How would you build a business on top of it?

Thanks, I'd appreciate any insights!

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I totally agree, and...people that state stuff without any more evidence than some sloppy written bullet points without any references to stats or scientific results is usually are BS. If you wanna state such, step down a few steps on the attitude-stair...
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You don't master it, so instead I will write about what I did to learn reasonable amounts of it.

I wrote lots of code, tried use it and then fed what I learnt back into the design. Repeatedly.

I read tons of other people's code. Large, running projects. Example code won't work.

Occasionally, I read books, but the only one I ever read all the way through was /Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days/ back in 1996 (and its title is ridiculous; I'm still learning every day).
"I'm 60. If I've got my figures right, I'll live at least 20 years, so I believe in the next 20 years we will see the first sub two-hour marathon," London Marathon race director Dave Bedford says.

Wishful thinking? How does his lifespan affect the probability of the 2-hour mark being broken?
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