skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooooh, if antimatter is repelled by gravity, that means that cavorite actually is antimatter, and therefore possible? I've always thought that cavorite is the cleverest Science Fiction device ever imagined...
Ps: Anyone wanting to meetup this summer in the Valley, I'm more than willing. Let me know. My first time. Rmena123 at Gmail
If they were just sequencing your genome, that wouldn't be a problem, but they are giving you medical advice, they are telling you about diseases that you might get (without solid scientific basis) and they are or might direct you towards one drug vs. another depending on which pharma company they collaborate with
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http://www.dc312.org/
http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoEntrepreneur/

you're not trying hard enough... moving to another location is not going to help you
Floats are for math. Math includes computing things like 100! (100 factorial), the volume of the observable universe (~3.3* 10^80), or any other countably finite value, most of which are far greater than 2^128.

Fixed point is a special purpose encoding that is useful in many places (computer graphics and constrained simulations) when your range and precision are known and fixed. "Math" doesn't follow these rules.

Floats are good for math.
EBay Acquires Nonprofit Fundraising Tool MissionFish
I agree. There are too many road blocks for mobile apps to replace web apps.

Until you can solve the data input problem on mobile devices, and massive content delivery limitations by screen size, web apps will still rule.

When it comes to games, the computer vs. mobile device really isn't a fair comparison. They both solve different entertainment needs. One is an intense or shared experience need, the other is a casual time filler need. The concept of a portable gaming system is not new. Mobile games are just more accessible than previous systems.
The ultimate car mod: a VW with a jet engine
This doesn't address how to monetize a "mobile web app" - not a problem if you're just wrapping your marketing materials in a UIWebView like he recommends, but how do you make money off of a "real" app if it's "just a web page"? One-click purchasing through a store that already has your cc info is critical when we're talking about impulse <$5 purchases.

Anyway, this is just patently untrue for many, many users:
But you know what? My dad doesn’t care about the deceleration of a scroll and neither does yours. Not mentioning the “native experience” of my brother’s ZTE!
Yeah, dad doesn't care about "scroll deceleration", but if the app feels clunky and unresponsive, they do care and won't come back. Again, it depends on whether we're talking about real apps that do something or just wrapped-up marketing pages.
The vast majority of business applications don't need to be native apps. Once jquery mobile reaches version 1 lots of companies will be able to justify mobile versions of their websites that are stopped now by the price tag of creating a native application.
HP forges 32-socket Itanium iron
Southwest has Acquired AirTran
The Locker Project and Singly have been picking up speed since around the time of the Strata Conf: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/creator_of_instant_mess...
Is there any conceivable way to make such a system fail-safe?
html5 will steadily wire up the missing features over the next few years with WebGL, device API workgroup[1], notifications api[2], video and audio tags etc.

the problem is that vendors will have a conflict in implementing those features since they will compete with their native apps and app stores

Apple and Google will need developer pressure to keep them honest, and hopefully give us access to the appstore upside of distribution while writing to just the html5 api

[1] http://www.w3.org/2009/05/DeviceAPICharter

[2] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-html...
Actually, only Chrome does.

Example's can be found here: http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/notifications/quick/
I'm disentangling these two issues intentionally. While the companies that have been offering paid genotyping services to the public have also been making, e.g., risk prediction from this data, it doesn't have to be this way.

I'm suggesting where I think the regulatory hurdle should be placed.
>Even in Nazi Germany there were pockets of resistance and people like Sophie Scholl who gave their lives because of their ideals.

that's exactly the point. Once you really start to not being part of the evil, you live gets really impacted, to put it mildly.

>I for one am doing my best to resist tyranny in all its forms.

so, how do you refuse to take your shoes off and quietly wait for the TSA agent to complete groping a child ahead of you? You just don't understand what you're talking about. You still have Internet access, and it sounds like you aren't even arrested. You do your best "armchair warrior" style. Have respect and don't mention people who gave their lives in the same paragraph with "your best"

>I certainly won't write a backdoor or vote for anyone in favor of Patriot Act-style tyranny.

you may have already wrote it, yet you'd not be able to disclose any details about the NSA letter that instructed your so and to avoid committing the crime you must to continue saying "i didn't write a backdoor" :)
The Founder Paradox - should you share your idea?
RosPil is not about whistleblowing, they're better. What they do is they analyze public government purchasing tenders and try to stop illegal ones by filing official complaints and trying to publicize the issues. There are many reasons a tender can be "illegal" – e.g. if it does not contain enough information on what the government wants to be able to check that the bidder did the required work.

Alas, I have a feeling these guys won't last long if they're effective.
Well you are welcome then. Seriously, you won't be the 1st guest I have :-) There's a bus stop nearby (20 min to the beach) so you won't need a car and a supermarket. And that will be a good motivation for me to code too!
Just to be clear, we're doing this at cost. We're renting a mansion with cooks and servants and stuff.

And we own 0% of your IP.
By the way, it helps to atleast read what scientists found out about these reports before we build the whole discussion just on ideology
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-847T
Why raise money? We wanted to expand and move faster by hiring and finding office space. That takes a big chunk of money. Also, we are paying ourselves meager salaries in order to pay rent/bills, which also takes money. If we hadn't raised a Friends and Family round early last summer, we would already be dead. Raising another round was supposed to help us grow.
did you not notice the article's comparison between SSD drives and "hot/crazy women?" it was highly offensive.
Fluid Site Specific Browser for Mac Finally Hits 1.0
That's a nice explanation, without any of the bits I disliked from the original post, I appreciate it. :)

Essentially the benefit we're pushing here is cheap decoupling where in static languages you're having to set this kind of arduous plumbing up yourself, aye?
File this in the category of "questions I never would've thought to ask".

There is a fine line between being a blog and being a journalistic organization. Some argue the former is a case of the latter. In the latter, there is clearly an ethical obligation to disclose any conflicts of interest. Many journalists are either required to or choose not to voluntary (to avoid the appearance of impropriety) invest in anything they're covering.

So while bloggers may not fall under the same umbrella, ethical bloggers I believe would either avoid such potential conflicts of interest or at least disclose them.

It's a real problem here because the issue isn't simply the coverage itself but what companies get coverage and what don't. There's nothing to disclose on for a story that isn't written. For startups this is a huge problem.

What's more, I think AOL views itself as a journalistic organization. As such, I'd be surprised if Arrington's angel investments didn't run afoul of AOL's ethics policies.

Basically it looks to me like Arrington has gotten his big payout and he's not so much interested in his earnout. Basically, I think he wants AOL to fire him. He'd no doubt get some kind of acceleration on any vested stock or earn out and I think he'd be happy with that.

Whatever the case, I think for TechCrunch to survive and be taken seriously (as seriously as it ever was at least) it needs someone at the helm who, well, gives a shit. That isn't Arrington.
Motorola Xoom Looking Like Epic Flop
No, it's $500 if you actually get accepted and want to go.
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Jelly.io - control and launch JS environments from node.js
I was a hiring manager at Electronic Arts for a team that exclusively used Erlang. It's very hard to find Erlang talent.

Many candidates have used Erlang in an exploratory capacity and have no real experience supporting a production Erlang application under load or troubleshooting concurrency problems in a distributed system.

That said, it was great to see a lot of passion for Erlang. I enjoy writing it, and hope the language and community continue to evolve.
People thinking about doing startups do need views from different perspectives. The article is exactly that. It's not a moan, it's a pragmatic view from someone who drank the koolaid and is now seeing the reality, and shares it. It's probably something he himself would have wanted to read 2 years ago to have a more balanced view (even if he would probably have done it anyway!).

Yes, the article is not too positive, because the author is not at a great point. But it's far from a moan.

Also, some people doing startups do need encouragement, but some others need to be told that what they are doing is not valuable and they had better change course or go back home.
I was asking the guy who was saying he would do the same thing in Detroit. Maybe Detroit is cheaper?
WebP in the wild
"a bill banning U.S. tech companies from working with governments [except for the U.S.] that digitally spy on their citizens"
I don't think hiring a designer will solve your problems. The key is being able to articulate exactly what you want to create.

There are plenty of tools to make the design process easier: balsamic, 99 designs, off the shelf themes, etc
RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server to support Apple's iOS devices
How Twitter and Facebook Helped Everyone Catch Bin Laden
sure - its the predicting thats causing the alarm, check this out..
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-847T
Maybe I'm naive, but there's two scenarios:

1) This is a big deal, so he shouldn't be advertising the vulnerability until its fixed

2) This isn't a big deal, so he's giving the guy a hard time for no reason

So yeah, "warning people" doesn't cut the mustard with me. This is grandstanding.
I agree completely, as I know you are talking about electricians, plumbers and similar professions.

However, some of that stuff may have gone to china too, sort of.
What do you do if your dishwasher breaks? Throw it out, buy a new one. (Unless you can fix it yourself!)
TV? same thing.

There's also no such thing as a 'milk man' anymore either.
I don't think it was always like that.

I think it might just be the result of automation having increased the efficiency of production techniques.

The ability to create an abundance of products cheaply could(has?) cause(d?) a net increase in relative poverty simply because fewer trades are considered skilled (middle class).
When I visit your website I can't find out:

- What the app looks like -- there's a lot of talk about how beautiful, simple and well designed it is, but not a single screenshot;

- If it accept payments;

- Whether it is a complete solution. Will I need a server? If not, what's
"Ambur in a box"?

- A 1-2-3 storyboard of setting up, making an order, paying the bill;

- Whether it will work with my cash drawer, or my receipt printer, or my credit card machine, (or any drawer or printer or machine);

- What happens if my iPad (I'm the manager) breaks/is stolen/is low on batteries?

- Can my clients place orders using their own iOS devices?

And important stuff is hidden by the wall of text. For instance:

- Your app needs _no configuration_ when adding more terminals;

- Updates are free for life;

Lastly, a benchmark: http://checkoutapp.com/
Er, OK, so the idea here is that it's a bunch of different guys working on random ideas of their own and afterwards they each go their separate ways? If that's the case, it's not so clear from the web site.
First of all, building a 'notification system'
is incredibly easy, it's just javascript popups.

No it's not "just javascript popups". Notification systems are clean, and non-intrusive ways of notifying the user of an important event or alert. There is no such thing as "just javascript popups". It takes an understanding of both UX and UI to create.

Secondly - don't do popup notifications ever.
They are the antithesis of user intent. Nobody
ever 'wants' to see a popup.

I rarely "go with the grain", but I think Apple, Ubuntu, and a huge amount of web applications would say you're wrong. Users like to be notified of things, but they don't like to be interrupted. Notifications like this are the best way to achieve this.
NYT wrote a pretty good article a while ago on these guys: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/business/worldbusiness/29l...
It's official: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20058933-266.html
AT&T Makes Broadband Data Caps Official
The fact that a military academy was in the same town tells us pretty much nothing. Such institutions by their very nature are focused on external military threats. Pakistan's military has long had an obsessive focus on its Indian counterpart. Cadets at West Point don't spend their free time canvassing the town looking for suspicious houses or people. Cadets at the academy in Abbottabad were probably a lot more focused on Indian strategic nuclear forces than they were on the goings-on in their own town.

Now, that doesn't mean that some elements of the Pakistani government were not cooperating with OBL; it just means that talking about the presence of a military academy in the same town is silly.
Hacker News is an amazing way to market YC. Notice how it is a subdomain? He could have easily changed it to hackernews.com or something but why? It serves as a great way to get the word out about YC.
I don't like this style, mostly because they don't "stack".

Here's an example:

* User clicks on the good button, notification pops up.
* User clicks on the bad button. Notification still there.
* User clicks clicks clicks. Alert finally shows, but 5 times in a row.
Is the assumption that all seats do not get sold at a game/concert so people that already have tickets to the event can upgrade their seat just prior to the event starting - so you're trying to capture that incremental revenue that otherwise would have been flushed down the toilet?
Jacob Vorreuter has several projects open sourced at github that we used at Rupture (Electronic Arts.)

https://github.com/jacobvorreuter
(emongo, erlmc, dynamic_compile, etc.)

Jake was a long time member of the Erlang team, and a lot of side projects were influenced by pain points from our day to day work.
Fake "MAC Defender" antivirus app scams users for money, CC numbers
There are a lot of non-public facing services using Notifo for internal communication/alerts. We do have an app in the pipeline that is an offshoot of Notifo's tech, though... coming soon.

I'm sorry you thought it was such a terrible idea. It's hard to hear that coming from someone I have respected for a while and followed along with your successes with AR and CP.
Fine by me, get what you pay for. Just don't distort the market by charging other people to put bytes onto my paid for pipe.
That was from a show, and I imagine the same goes for guys. I didn't find it sexist at all.
I have serious doubts that you found a nice place for $10 a night. I went there for 12 days in Jan '09 and I found that the prices were ok, but they definitely weren't third-world. It's developed now and you pay accordingly. It also seemed to me that $500 was for the stay (not an application fee), which is a good deal for 10 days for the house in the pictures.
TechCrunch has already gone downhill. Arrington covers himself more than any other subject. Him investing startups will only exacerbate this.
A few months ago, Facebook and Twitter took flak for deleting the accounts of revolutionaries, as it was a form of censorship.

Thinking about it, I decided the action wasn't all bad. If those services are unencrypted, and operating in a regime that might compel them to disclose information (& hurt activists), it makes sense to delete the accounts. Let the people know they aren't using the right tool for the job. Not only would this act as an impetus for the creation of new tools, but it might directly save lives.

It sounds like Yandex found itself in a similar position here, but failed to act (or whatever). And now people will probably die or be ruined.

If you run a service that people could hurt themselves with, take a moment to think about what will be safe for the user— aside from what you must do to be safe/legal yourself. We live in a world where technology has created a new, more dangerous form of illiteracy.

A phrase that describes it in my mind: "Adults become children when they play on the information superhighway."
In his book on 9/11 and Al-Queda, The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright claims that OBL is actually not particularly tall and certainly not 6'6".
> 2) ... But a circle's area increases as (pi)r^2. That's an exponential increase.

No, no, no, no, no. "exponential" != "has an exponent". Exponential means the variable is the exponent, as in 2^n. The word you're looking for is "quadratic".
Am I reading this correctly, does everyone now have "Over 7578.763851 megabytes (and counting) of free storage." for any file type by just creating a Google account?
Why do people need there to be only one winner?

It's going to be both web and native. Performance matters and web simply aren't up to it for a long time to come. Even with WebGL etc.
Or pick any of the content creation apps at all, really.

Essentially, if your app is glorified advertising or a just a front-end to an online database, yeah, you can probably use the web. Otherwise, if there's more than just pretty, mostly static, graphics over the top of SQL, then you better go native otherwise your competitors will.

I see articles like this all the time that talk about "their mom" not minding such and such. Really, they are just talking about setting the bar low enough to step over it. My parent used a shitty virus laden install of windows xp for years, and crashing was just part of the experience, like a sticky lock or a worn screwdriver. Do not use others expectations as an excuse -- surprise and delight people. (dammit :-))
What the Marine Corps. and Enders Game teach about professional growth
Let's hope this doesn't affect the direction of the .net platform. There's been a lot of great change lately with more open source work, smaller and more frequent revisions in platforms such as MVC. I'd hate to see it fall to the wayside.
http://scienceray.com/biology/marine-biology/not-so-cute-dol...
i can't imagine anyone is actually excited about this. i'd prefer not to have formal rules here, with the exception that AT&T can punish their top 0.05% users by bandwidth usage. they want to turn the internet into a giant cable tv package because they know that as soon as they offer speeds fast enough, people will drop their tv subscription. i worry that traffic discrimination will come next.

do we have any solid numbers on how much this costs AT&T? i want to say it's a violation of network neutrality principles, but this could probably be argued on a much simpler basis that AT&T isn't attempting to save money at this point, seems like they're just price gouging now. SMS text messages are a good example here.
> I rarely "go with the grain", but I think Apple, Ubuntu, and a huge amount of web applications would say you're wrong.

I don't think you understand what a notification is. A notification is purely for informational purposes. Popups in general can sometimes be better than the alternative.
The IEEE problems are actually specific to x87 and the fact that x87 has extended precision in registers and single/double precision in memory. So your result can depend on whether the compiler spilled intermediate calculations to memory or kept them in registers. Luckily SSE doesn't have this issue. You get single or double precision consistently.

IEEE actually gives a consistent functional specification for arithmetic that fits purely functional programming pretty well.
Assuming 1kg of antimatter can be used to hover 1kg of matter and that your hoverboard could carry 80kg, should it's containment fail, it would detonate with the force of 3.4 gigatons of tnt. That's roughly equivalent with the entire present nuclear arsenal of the united states, and would cause 3rd degree burns out of direct thermal radiation over 300 kilometers away.

So, umm, no.
Screencast for making command-line SBCL applications with buildapp
That is incredibly sad. Surely if you care about CS, or medicine or law for that matter, you would find out as much as possible before-hand?

Figuring stuff out should be the number one priority of education. I think it should be a policy. Even if that wouldn't change much by itself, beauracracies being what they are, a few more people would take it to heart.
There is no govt.granted monopoly here.

The AMA is a government granted monopoly.

Regardless, could you further explain your analogy to net neutrality? I can't even imagine what combination of misconceptions about net neutrality and personal genomics led you to make such a comparison.

All they want is to be sure that a medical advice...

Personal genomics companies do not give out medical advice. They give out genetic information.

The proposed regulations would require you to get the permission of a doctor (or other clinician) before you can have your DNA sequenced, and the data would be available only through the doctor.
Google’s Android Market now has more free apps than the App Store
Hey Bugsy,

I was being sarcastic. However if there are enough people who want to do it I will look into making it happen.
The interesting thing is that, as you get further and further from Earth or the Sun or the centre of the Milky Way, the level of precision which is even useful becomes less and less. What is one light year left or right for a quasar 13,000,000,000 light years away? Floats, then, behave entirely appropriately in this situation.
I don't necessarily share every little detail of my future plans, or what I'm thinking... but in general I fall into the bucket of people who believe in being very open and transparent. And since the stuff I'm building is open source anyway, there are few - if any - secrets from a technical perspective.
My lab is a human cardiovascular genetics lab, so I'm familiar with these issues and I am also concerned. I read that report when it came out and was not in the least bit surprised.

I stand by my suggestion to disentangle concerns with giving someone their sequence (no concern--it's THEIR sequence!) from the concerns about companies offering quasi-medical services based on that sequence. The latter issue is perhaps analogous to practicing medicine without a license, although that is admittedly a bit of an overstatement since they're generally making predictions, not diagnoses. At any rate, the companies' behaviors are concerning.