skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I paid for 23andme last year during a sale. I have a few markers that are in the 'you'll probably get that' category and as of yet, I haven't stressed out about any of them.

However, if I go to the doctor and he says I'm at risk for environment factors for that, I'll know there's some serious shit to think about.

And it could save my life!

If you understand probability, then the data on 23andme will not destroy your life. It'll merely give you an additional warning sign of things to really pay attention to.

And if you choose, you can ignore it altogether.
WakeMate (YC S09) on building their business and their Y Combinator experience
It may vary from nation to nation, but under US law the relevant act here is the Sherman Antitrust Act, which deals with single-firm anti-competitive behavior.

We'd have to wade through a lot of case-law here, but if you'll permit me the ability to speak without excessive sourcing (most of this can be found supported and sourced on Wiki)...

The courts have made a distinction between an innocent and a coercive monopoly. Where innocent monopolies, as you may argue but I disagree, are what Apple has in the music player space. These are not illegal. It would need to be shown that Apple has conspired in some way to grow and maintain their market position in a way to be detrimental to consumers and other producers.

Now on to whether it is a monopoly or not. This page can be helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Monopoly_versus_compet...

Right now another consumer electronics company could: a) produce a new unit with a high quality software, b) sell it at a competitive price point to Apple, c) create a product very similar to the iPod itself, d) there already exist many other competitors. To me these factors suggest Apple does not have a monopoly but a very successful product.

And I'd submit as noted above, even if you found Apple to have a monopoly, I do not believe it would qualify as coercive under US law.

As noted in this thread, market share is not so much the issue, as barrier to entry.
What does HTML5 have anything to do with it? Many times you get linked straight to a movie file and the browser is expected to either play the file or download it (based on mime-types).

If they are disabling the Quicktime plugin on OS X, then at least just download the movie file even if the mime type is "video/quicktime".

The error screen they are showing now is scary enough that most people will abort out of it.
Thanks for the info. I just updated the blog post with this.
@dhimes - I think the point is that valuations are something others apply. In the case of a stock offer (where the company and the issuer are - presumably - working together for their mutual benefit) disclosure tends to be far deeper and more detailed than it is in a case where a hostile, and possibly devious party is attempting to inflict/extract maximum damages. So it's not about lying, per se. Rather, it's about providing the least information possible, and letting the negotiations center on the whatever value the plaintiffs can infer from that disclosure.

It's also worth remembering that the value (which is always changing) is based on factors beyond FB's knowledge or control. Given the opacity of GS, no one outside of that firm really knows what related transactions they may be a part of that are also contributing to the value they place on FB. So even if the Winkelvi did have all the information that GS had, that still doesn't mean they'd be able to value the company in the same way. In other words, they're just saying "well, if GS sees more value than we do, and for reasons we don't begin to understand, we want a piece of THAT action - even though we'd already settled for a different price before they got involved."

It's a bit like selling your house to a guy who fixes it up, then flips it for even more money, only to have you sue a year later to "correct" the price you received. In a word, absurd.
First Earth-Space musical duet in honour of Yuri G [video]
CoffeeScript now has a Google Group
Why would I use this?
5 week startup primer biz course for founders with CS backgrounds only
Alchemist Series (www.alchemistseries.com) is piloting a 5 week primer for CS founders on issues around starting up venture-backed biz. Only taking 15 people for this pilot, and offering a deep subsidy (only $250 vs. retail price is $750). In Palo Alto. Starts Monday, April 18. Good venue to meet other founder types with CS backgrounds. http://Conta.cc/fW9DlJ
Damned if you do,Damned if you don’t
I'm conflicted on the signified, maybe because I'm conflicted on the signifier. I would be less conflicted, I think, if Apple products really did "just work" as so many Apple adherents purport. But from my experience, it's just a matter of degree, i.e. Apple products "just work" more often than MS products do, but not that much more often anymore, and when Apple products don't work, they don't work harder (or maybe it just feels that way because people have so little experience trying to get non-working things to work?).

On a more abstract level, it just feels weird and maybe subversive to characterize the restriction of choice as freedom. I mean, it does make a sort of sense, esp. after taking human psychology into account in that restricting choice to a manageable level might make it easier for people to make decisions. But it still feels weird. Maybe it just exposes "freedom" as a flawed concept, and a tense balance between orders of magnitude-larger forces is all there is. That's a weird Lovecraftian world to live in, though.
How about that! If they are hiring, they must have a plan, a vision, a dream for the company. The question is, what is it? What can they do to get our attention again?
Ten Risks of PKI: What You're Not Being Told About Public Key Infrastructure
Agreed. But inevitably some poor chump (Dell?, HP?) will come out here with a device that is priced lower and people will buy because they think they need one. In the high-end market there won't be much competition, but this chart speaks to the overall market which of course gets diluted by cheaper players.
Securities laws were obviously not intended for a mediation context. Innocent investors buying stock from an issuer presumably trust that the issuer will be truthful about the value of the stock and about the material facts that affect that value. No such trust exists in an adversarial context where it is presumed that, in negotiating deals, it is every man for himself. Moreover, if securities laws applied in this context, then parties would need to do Regulation D/blue sky compliance to ensure that they were not sued after-the-fact. This is wholly impractical and would basically negate the ability of parties to settle by offering stock or other forms of equity to one another. In all the many years since the U.S. securities laws were enacted back in the early 1930s, these laws have never been applied in the manner suggested by the Winklevoss brothers. Since the issue is one of what Congress intended in enacting those laws, the failure of anyone even to raise the issue for so long a time is a good indicator that Congress never intended them to apply to this context.
This article is horrible.

It's a superficial story about Peter Thiel and Founders Fund framed as a controversial argument about the value of higher education. It really doesn't do anything more than pose the questions and include a few quotes from Peter Thiel.

Techcrunch trolls the internet once again.
Every business is not a chicken and egg scenario just because you have a few users.

In your case, you need a critical mass of users within an area. Each area could be separate and far from each other. Ask people to try out your app at a ball game (e.g., SF Giants v/s LA Dodgers).
This pretty much means I am going to have to delete Chrome from all the machines and either use IE / Safari, put Safari on the Windows boxes, or go with Firefox (and hope they don't pull the same stunt). H.264 is used for teaching material and I would like to use one browser on both platforms. No, I will not login to every new account and setup specific sites to set as "safe".
Google Translate is getting pretty darn good at what it does. I'm curious to see how this compares.
I'd like to throw excite.com onto my list.

Their TV Listings page is one of the easiest to use and best I've ever seen - merely for its simplicity and amount of information with all the shows:

http://www.excite.com/tv/data.jsp
At first glance I thought this was going to be a Libya domain name comment instead of a correct language usage comment.
But MS would argue, as Apple does, that they did this in the interest of the customer. Frankly, some of the things they were accused of, such as bundling IE, were absurd. Sure MS should have been more open about the fact that it really wasn't necessary, but bundling a browser is a requirement for a modern OS -- even as of 1998.

In any case, these are all religious as this point, and me proving your God is wrong is something one can't easily win.
I don't know how the system would work from a technical perspective, but I can think of a few use cases from the past couple of months that fit very well. For example, all the reports coming out of the Japanese media/government. Now that I think of it, anything with time-critical data would benefit from this.
Adobe Shows That It Gets the Tablet/Computer Connection
You're allowed to have a monopoly, you're not allowed to abuse it. If Apple ordered mp3hardware stores to stop selling other brands or Apple would raise it prizes, that would be abuse.
Education should not be about immediate and obvious use, true.but at least it should be about long term use.

So when people learn history, for example, they should get some stories that help them define their national identity, in the long term. but if they just learn a bunch of dates that they forget a short time after the test, they just wasted their time.

Does math, as taught today, have long term value? for non technical people, i'm not really sure.
Flash on mobile is terrible for battery life and its implementations, so far, are shoddy.

Silverlight on mobile though has been pretty excellent. Curious if Apple would allow Silverlight on their platform? Probably not.
And now that both sides have made mutually contradictory and equally unsupported statements, I believe the first round is a draw. Galactus will have the honors in the second round. Proceed, gentlemen.
I disagree. I expect a professional to show up with the tools of their trade, and be ready to work.
IBM introduces new graphene transistor
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What is a General Manager?
I hear ya on the heat thing. It does get hot... and I don't even live in the hottest part of the south. For me, though, it's worth it... I despise being cold, so I'll take being a little hot & humid in the summers, over freezing my balls off in the winter. But I can understand why some people wouldn't want to deal with the hot/humid summers here.
I've never had a problem swapping SIM cards on ATT. Not sure if it's "supported", but I've done it in the past. The only phone where I've run in to restrictions was the iPhone. They ask you for the IMEI because they show "your device" in the ATT portal. I don't think it's used to restrict your access.

Not trying to make an argument out of it or anything :) but I figured since you're a T-Mobile customer, you're already in for a rough ride :( Thought I'd try to offer some consolation as we welcome you to the support group... I mean, network. Yeah, network.
It handles QuickTime and Java the same way it handles Popups. It puts a yellow bar at the top asking for permission to "Run this time" or "Always run on this site".

Hit the "Always run on this site" button on Apple.com and your internal sites.

It's now "ask for permission to run" instead of "always run". It's in the same boat as intranet sites needing popup permissions.
Is Tigers Woods' Avatar The Real Master?
Ask HN: Best way to find a mentor
While the aspiring techpreneur tries to make things and hack projects together, what are the best ways for he/she to find a mentor to supplement the learning?
It might warm your heart, but this is not a success story. It shouldn't take a judge noticing malicious intent to stop this kind of behavior. In fact, intent, malicious or otherwise, shouldn't matter. The system should be fixed so that filing any frivolous suit is an expected loss. Noticing and dealing with the worst offenders who are filling loads of frivolous claims is just a kludge fix.
A Brief Year History of Manned Spaceflight
Wow. Only 50 years, and look at how fast we have progressed in experience and knowledge. Imagine a 100 years from now...
Personally I wonder why the IMs were not revealed until after the settlement.
I used to work in Brunswick, Georgia and then, for a longer period, Jacksonville, FL, and moved away at the first opportunity (wife got her PhD and we decided to go job hunting so we drew a line roughly following the Mason-Dixon line and then down east of Texas and said anything outside this area). I turned down an out-of-the-blue job offer in Columbia, South Carolina, because of this and we ended up moving to Ohio (near Cleveland). Now, 8 years later, I'm still glad we did it (though I'd rather live on one of the coasts... where I am in Ohio, a fairly prosperous, educated and liberal portion of the state, is much better than people outside the state might imagine).
Great Program...highly recommend it.
for all the reasons given above. It's not just networking, but you learn a lot building (and hopefully pivoting) something with people from other disciplines.

I think the key to a good experience is picking a good team.
look at the people more than the idea
...after all, ideas don't matter, right? :-)

Specifically,
devs: use technology you know well.
mkts: beyond being a powerpoint ranger, explain what you did. The rest of us see this marketing crap as a mystical art...or just crap:-)
designers: if you don't know how to code, try to pair with a front-end engineer.
if you do know how to code....call ME!!!

my two cents...
If that were the case, why would Sony be willing to drop it? It's not like the case was ever about just Hotz, because Sony knew from the start they would never get any significant damages out of him. It was about publicity and precedent.

In trying to establish personal jurisdiction, Sony got to dig up basically all the dirt on Hotz. Even though they claimed several times to have found a "smoking gun", they never did, and they could tell that they weren't going to in the full discovery process.

Neither side could risk a trial, because it would have been solely about nuanced interpretations of laws that weren't written with modern technology in mind. The outcome of a bench or jury trial would have been essentially random, and a long appeals process would have been necessary to truly settle things.
Meh, I preferred the old playboy interview with him in 1985, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:77cJqxW...

Here's the Standford 2005 talk the article mentions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
Which is what Intel did to AMD.
I like Wu-Tang as much as the next guy (heck, I named a project after them: http://fitzgen.github.com/wu.js/), but this article is completely devoid of content.

Flagged.
Show HN: Just launched QuikPiq beta - Finalist from Canada's Next Great Startup
Website: http://QuikPiq.com

QuikPiq is a Web & iPhone app that lets you get friends opinions by creating & sharing photo-polls with your social network from wherever you are.

We started building this after seeing people use pictures to ask questions on Facebook and Twitter; things like "What should I wear?" and "Which shoes look better?". Some were actually photoshopping several images together and putting numbers on each choice to create a makeshift poll.

QuikPiq is our solution to that messy process and we're making it fun. It's a social app that lets you give and receive opinions on things your friends are buying, wearing, etc.

We entered the idea into our university Concept Competition and won 1st place (beating a few MBA teams) and were finalists in a competition called Canada's Next Great Startup. This is our MVP and we're in beta, so any feedback from the HN community is greatly appreciated!
Clickable link: http://QuikPiq.com
There are perverse effects in the market which make health care more expensive than it needs to be, and there are advantages to universal coverage. Atul Gawande's piece on McAllen, Texas is recommended every time this subject comes up, as well it should be. It is also enlightening to read up on and understand the major moving parts of the recent health care reform bill - namely, 1) the universal mandate/subsidies, 2) coverage requirement and pricing reform, and 3) health insurance exchanges. Each has a reason to exist, and it's hard to make it work without the others.

Health care is not a widget. It is not a resource. It is a service, a service that directly affects the quality of life of your average citizen, that directly affects how well put together your work force is, that directly affects the likelihood that you or your business will be pushed around by something completely beyond your control.

We are currently running that service extremely inefficiently.
I'm going to only cover the desktop/laptop space. This approach actually makes a lot of sense in the smartphone/tablet market, especially with all the multi-core chips coming out.

It's true that the bare minimum that a codec needs to do is take an input bytestream and output it to the various output(video and audio) bytestreams. So, for a hardware accelerated video, this is pretty simple-all you need to do is pipe your input stream to the hardware, and that will handle all the magic of getting it directly out to the screens and speakers. However, for non-native hardware accelerated codecs(i.e. not H.264 or MPEG-2), this process involves a lot more hardware and software to actually get something to the screen.

The non-native hardware accelerated codecs need access to(at a bare minimum) the sound and video system APIs. Unless the codec developers are certifiably insane, the codec will be using DirectX(for Windows) or OpenGL(for everything else) to handle the actual writing to the screen, especially if you want to use the video hardware for faster decoding. While it's possible for browsers to wrap those API calls, it just makes a lot more effort on all developers involved, and doesn't really get you much security at the expense of both complexity and performance. So it makes sense for any codec to have access to the lower level APIs for displaying things to the screen.

Sandboxing the process should be possible for the file inputs, but I'm not sure if it's really possible for file outputs in the cases where the codec is using a system-level API.

EDIT: After reading what I wrote, this is a good argument for the browsers themselves wrapping the codecs and placing them into a sandbox. Unfortunately, that will never happen, because of the legal minefield that almost all have right now...
MTurk + Facebook Translate + Rosetta Stone = hit
I once saw pg comment that it was the simplest solution that worked. Granted, pg's primary role is not as a web developer, hence his simplest solution is not what mine would be.
Is Tom Mrsic-Flogel, the lead researcher, any relation to Janko Mrsic-Flogel who is credited as programmer on some early '80s videogames and as musician on many later ones?
A Smart-Phone Camera that Offers More than Megapixels
Visualization Shop Bloom Announces Seed Funding Round, Led by Betaworks
Study: Facebook Photo Sharing Reflects Focus on Female Appearance
I think that's a too blanket statement. What do you want to do with the list, a map or a fold? In the former case, what is the cost of the function application?
Plain-text formats have always been slower for things that are not plain text. But even 30 years ago, when computers were even slower, Unix designers decided plain text was still the way to go, because it was easier to debug and easier for humans to work with. No specialized tools required, no poring over hex dumps. HTML won over other document formats. JSON and XML won over other binary formats. Any coder can look at JSON and see what is being transferred, without the aid of anything but a text editor. Plain-text marshalling formats for binary data (e.g., base64) are still useful for pasting data into an email or adding ssh keys to authorized_keys with "cat >>".

This is perhaps a long way of saying that I don't expect that having tool support makes SPDY any nicer.
For those who don't know, the founder is Luis von Ahn[0], a CMU CS professor. I know someone majoring in computer engineering there who's taken one of his courses, and apparently he's a very engaging instructor as well.

0: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/
When Laws Prevent Startups From Competing
Madhuri Dixit FOREVER
That's just the kernel source, which has been available for quite a while. It's the userspace code that people are clamoring for.
Head Tracking Allows Glasses Free 3D on iPad
Link injection on hacked WordPress sites – Blackhat SEO spam
It's fairly easy to find supporting information for the galactus view e.g.:

http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php
Getting a bunch of session errors
Every Unicode character shown once per frame as a 33-minute movie
Client - Developer relationships
Show HN: Just launched Bzzy for Android - Simple text-message autoreply.
The app is free for April for Distracted Driving Awareness month.<p>Overview: http://www.bzzyapp.com/<p>Bzzy is simple, smart, and customizable. It tells your texting friends to 'buzz off' for the time being, and why. You select an activity - driving, flying, eating (or your own custom activity). Bzzy does the rest; turns off your ring-tone and alerts texters that you’re incommunicado. It even tells you how many texts you received while you were occupied.<p>Bzzy helps you stay focused, but still stay in touch.
Copy-on-write B-tree finally beaten.
Seems like Mixergy is down atm.
I agree politicians avoid upsetting the majority. Large SSL sites will simply get permission/transit after setting up similar surveillance infrastructure. Small companies that explicitly go out of their way (with custom software, even!) to avoid knowing what their customers are doing - well, who knows?
ok, being poor does actually suck. I grew up poor. It sucked.

But perpetuating it is the real problem. Property rights are the cure, not socialism. Hernando de Soto states the case well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_Polar
Download this, download this (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf), and block some play time.
Not that I've seen before, though I admittedly didn't spend a lot of time researching this.
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Show HN: My app finds the word you've been trying to remember all day
3d is over-rated. agree or disagree?
your biased assumption is that under the $350 bill that the middle party that has to bill the insurer does not get paid..

Part of the bill inflation is the multiple payor billing system costs itself..non-insurance bills do not have that costs.

What would bring it down instead of universal insurance universal payor billing..it was one of Mrs Clinton's HealthCare reform bullet points..form years ago..