skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose if you are shipping proprietary binaries, then yes. But otherwise it's effectively GPL'ed.
In the UK I'm extra-unfortunate as no carrier picked it up, so we were all scratching our heads as the update got delayed for months for "carrier testing". The update made an absolutely huge difference, living without it was painful and apart from the huge delay, Motorola's handling of the situation was just terrible, their interactions with customers and the information they were giving out was all just very badly managed.
"1337 5p34k was invented so you can not be traced via your vocab/grammar/spelling/phrases etc"

What about txt msg spk?
http://www.ted.com/talks/anders_ynnerman_visualizing_the_med...
How are you seeing the vote count? I don't see a way in my profile to turn it back on

[Edit to add] It's a serious question. Parent refers to downvotes of GP post. That makes me wonder if there's a way to turn the numbers back on. Something I would very much like to do.

Why the downvotes?
LSMs support ordered access. The implementation performs an ordered scan on each .sst and merges the results.
Maybe they only do the genotyping and other people can handle other aspects of disease prediction and prevention. Knowing something doesn't predict something else is just as good as knowing it does. In either case you need more information, but you've learned something.
I was with you until your last paragraph. You're not a "crankpot" if you're pushing for rigorous scientific research and transparency. Yes, there are currently identifiable alleles that indicate specific diseases or predispositions, but there are a whole multitude of factors beyond the basic, linear assembly of nucleotides that contribute to the development of a disease – epigenetics being a big one at the moment.

The tech is definitely cool and a step forward in delivering a detailed and granular view of disease predisposition, but that view certainly does not give you the entire picture.
Objection, asserting facts that are not in evidence :-)

Some folks will tell you that death is merely a transition to an alternate form of living. Some folks will tell you that if your cells are cryogenically frozen can get defrosted later. Both ideas are taken on faith, they may both be true, they may neither be true.

If someone reading this is pursuing a writing career in fiction I would be love to read a story about a bunch of souls, who have died, have had their mortal remains frozen, and now as dead people been able to see that there is an afterlife, but they can't go there because their mortal remains might be reanimated and they would go back, how they deal with it and what they do. Do they figure out a way to 'break' the cryonics system, allowing them to decay and move on? Do they go insane stuck between heaven and earth? Do they wander the planet vicariously living through other people's experiences. Maybe a TV series in there somewhere.
Agreed, to a certain extent, though I'm not sure that I'd go so far as to call it juvenile. All news outlets have an agenda. Some try harder than others to keep that agenda out of their headlines. Others... don't. I'm not saying it's great, but it's to be expected, I think. While I wouldn't really call HTC an "underdog" in the normal sense of the term, painting them as such in a fight against Apple isn't totally off-base.
I have mixed feelings about this. I don't like to tell other people what they should or should not be doing. It's rude.

Maybe that's just me, but I also have never heard of anyone using the "Invite to Gmail" feature (at least since registration is open to everyone).
For "in the world" it may be between Vancouver's Sam Kee building http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building and Pittsburgh's Skinny Building. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04151/322795.stm

Vancouver's building is thinner at the first floor, but has overhangs on the second which increases its width.

Edit: Hmm this is for "commercial" properties so there may be thinner houses.
If I were to guess it was the same methods they used to "catch" Manning. From my narrow (but not inexistant) knowledge of hacktivism arrests, it always reduces to someone feeling lonely/overtrusting someone on IRC/Jabber.
What geeks think of as "full disclosure" is thought of as "cyber crime" or "cyber terror" by some companies and agencies. Things have changed a lot in the last five or ten years.

So, be cautious and get legal advice if you do decide to disclose anything, and understand that while geeks mainly just want to share what they found and help fix it, that others may accuse you of being a criminal, or worse a terrorist if you do that.
Don't be silly. If a murderer burns the clothes in which he perpetrated the murder, he's not 'destroying evidence' in addition to being a murderer. Something must first have been determined to be evidence, before destroying becomes a criminal act. Neither are you obstructing justice by hiding evidence.
The article seems to imply this is due to a new feature introduced by the SublimeVideo team which really isn't the case. They've simply added support for the fullscreen API that has been added in Safari 5.1 (and is coming to other browsers--something noted only in the footnote).

Not that I'm down on the Sublime Player; but this is a browser feature that they could have been coding for all along (as the specs started to surface months ago) and now "just works" because there's finally a browser that implements it.
Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge
One of the examples I normally bring out for this is the case of me being told off by a teacher for insisting that my spelling of a word was correct and theirs was wrong. This (excuse for a) teacher insisted that it had no bearing at all that my spelling was indeed correct, and that I was in the wrong for disagreeing regardless. Needless to say, I adopted a slightly different teaching style.
No he is right. They also need to continuously innovate before somebody else, for example, comes up with say a better storage scheme.
That leveldb has been discussed several times on HN in the last two months. I just didn't break out the links from the search UI.

Downvoters: links to previous context are generally considered a good thing here.
It's important to teach children to obey authority figures. It's also important to teach them critical thinking skills and learn how to detect when a thing is arbitrary. However, instead of teaching the child to disrupt the authority in place, I think it is preferable to teach the children to obey unless there is a moral imperative against doing so.

For instance, while your son's teacher may assign him some silly work, while there is no reason to do this work other than the teacher said so, he should learn to work within the framework and do the work anyway because he is subject to the teacher in his current circumstances. If the teacher, however, assigns him to physically harm another student or participate in another morally objectionable act, he should refuse to comply. Things go much smoother this way than they do if people are constantly nagging and arguing over things that really have no incident; much energy could be saved by both your son and his teacher by compliance with non-useful but non-harmful requests rather than disrupting the flow of instruction and encouraging further disorder and disrespect to authority.
Which is what I point as being interesting.
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That is unilateral disarmament and a huge barrier to entry for every new startup.
I've been hearing this for a couple years, and I even had some people mistakenly telling me they don't get a MacBook because they think it only runs Apple-approved software.

I don't really think it's gonna happen. "It runs Windows" is a major selling point for a lot of people I know.

But I'll be the first to jump ship if this ever happens.
I'm not at all a computer security professional(considering getting into the field, though) but I can't help but wonder if this mars DEFCON's image by having this guy there.

I see your car accident analogy, but Aaron's probably accepting money to be on the panel. Why should they pay him when they know his reputation is tarnished?
I love creativity like this. The whole stairs into the bottom with a ladder between floors is pretty cool too. Presumably you could make a one-motorcycle garage underneath.
An interesting development a while back that I'm surprised hasn't received more attention was Oracle's release of a SQLite-based interface to BDB:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overvi...

It's essentially drop-in compatible with SQLite, but with added concurrency and speed for most operations. (The concurrency addresses a major issue usually keeping SQLite as a prototyping/single-user-only option in web development.)

With LevelDB as a BSD-licensed alternative to BDB, I wonder:

(1) How would the LevelDB-vs-SQLite benchmarks change against SQLite+BDB backend?

(2) Could a SQLite fork with a LevelDB backend get a performance boost?
You could try using https://www.odesk.com to look for designers or developers. If you're looking for a step by step, I suggest http://www.launchbit.com/
Eek, that's pretty bad. At least I had both Sprint and Samsung to bitch at.
Remember getting letters as a kid? Rare missives in good or bad handwriting from a relative, or a correspondent: one of my favorites, the clerk who mailed a new wind-up key for my lego motor.

My 6 year old son just asked to check the email account we set up for him, there are over a hundred messages from relatives.

Email FTW.
Consider it for a moment. Why am I thinking that? Is there good reason to doubt? Are they wrong? How can I find out who is right? Etc.

Seek answers in the data and if there is no data, get some.
All this talk of culture got me thinking of Zappos and all the great things that Tony Hsieh & his team are doing there. Although Zappos is equally serious about their culture, it's interesting that it seems very different from Bridgewater's - or is it? Both are incredibly successful, quirky companies run by very strong leaders with a lot of charisma, totally dedicated to their principles, companies and corporate culture. Comparing the cultures of these companies would be very interesting - maybe something for a journalist or blogger?
Found this through Google. Client Side Encryption for DB http://getsecretsync.com/ss/
I used it on a recent website project. It worked great for small forms (3-5 fields), which needed rounded corners and drop-shadows on the fields. It did not work so well for our dropdown navigation menu, things just seemed to be complicated when combining all the show/hide/hover css for that with the PIE effects. (So we wound up using traditional non-semantic markup for rounded/shadowed background images on the menus, but kept PIE for the more straightforward form fields).

Others have reported problems of slowness when used on too many elements in a page, but we never experienced this (because we didn't have "too many" elements on the page).

If you're already familiar with how to make IE-compatible shadows/corners by faking it with background images, I'd probably just stick with that. But if you want to forge ahead with CSS3 but also have an easy drop-in solution that gets you 80% there on IE, PIE is a good choice.
But the lulz were so loud that I could not hear the core message. They were certainly not primarily activists. At best, that was a scant moral cover for what was basically mass vandalism.
I thought this had something to do with the indie game VVVVVV, like Zork's Z-machine.
Bad hivemind. BAD.
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Exactly. BDB is GPL with an (non-publicly priced) commercial license to embed in apps, and LevelDB is BSD. With LevelDb, one of the most practical use case of a serverless db - embedding it in a client-side application - isn't crippled by it's own license.
The tech is definitely cool and a step forward in delivering a detailed and granular view of disease predisposition, but that view certainly does not give you the entire picture.

23andMe makes a very good job of notifying you about this per disease they have markers for.
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"It would be hugely lopsided in favor entities with lots of money"

Much less so then the current system. Much of the uncertainty and potential liability for small businesses would disappear. Unless your small business is a patent troll but then that's a feature not a bug.

"the value of your invention to you (but not to potential infringers) is bounded by your cash on hand."

This is both false (you are bounded by the cash on hand and the value of things you can use as collateral for loans or equity) and no different then the current case where you are bounded in the number of lawyer hours you can afford.

If I find an enormous diamond that is worth $20 million dollars but it costs more to have it properly appraised and marketed then I have cash on hand, trust me I will raise that money and sell it near full market price. I may not get 100% of the proceeds but you'll have a hard time convincing me that the apprisal system is incredibly biased against people that find diamonds.
Its just a guess based on how things are moving. Won't be the first time I've been wrong about Apple :)
I hate to be the guy asking for more features... but wouldn't it be cool if we could flag the title of the link separately from the link itself? Often there are good links that are less than optimally titled.
I think it could!

On a recent contract for writing e-learning materials I had an editor who was herself a subject expert going over the words, references and the actual pedagogic design. Then I had the multimedia team suggesting changes and sequencing the material.

I'd say the original writing was 40% and the response to editing was 60%.

PS have a look at the image they used on the top of the article... I've got an embarrassingly large number of those books...
I don't think it had to do with the constitutionality of the issue for the MIT hackers, but more the practical issues that arise from them sharing with the public security loopholes before they were fixed.
How is information a crime if you're not in the government service?

No, seriously!
One of them is already getting attention so hopefully they will notice (you know how it is), the other one has literally only affected me as far as I can see and I haven't put together a minimal test case yet. It's a weird one!
Blogger comments suck!

Here's the money quote:

I'm officially quitting that job on national TV

The use of the word 'job' there implies The Job, not 'the job on the project', hence the overall confusion - people taking the words as said, not as meant
Eh, I just flagged the whole thing. No loss in this case.
If you look at iCloud and Ubuntu One, both of those services have Dropbox-esque file storage as one of their features, but they also store and sync things like contacts, settings, and other pieces of data. Dropbox may be planning on doing something like that, with the added advantage that they aren't binding their stuff to a specific OS or platform.
Not this. My job as a web developer is to create a great experience for the users of my sites, which often includes beautiful design. Saying "the users won't know or care" comes off as very arrogant -- how do you know that?
Also, don't forget about the copious amounts of manpower necessary for a proactive customer support team.
So... what's your point, really? What's wrong with taking a successful product, and making a similar product to compete with it? Android may have quickly morphed into something more iPhone-like in the wake of the initial iPhone launch, but why is that seen as "cheating"? Why is "clone" a bad word? I think it's a great word. You don't like Apple's walled-garden approach? Fine, now you have competition, alternatives, and choice.

And hell, it's not like Android has been playing catch-up to iOS in the years since. There are some pretty awesome things in the base Android system that you still can't do on iOS (accounts manager, overriding the default app for just about any stock Android app, removable storage, etc.), or things that Android had first (multitasking), or things that aren't even in a stable iOS release yet (proper notifications) that Android has had for quite a while.

Now whether those features are protectable as IP or not is another matter but if they are it's no surprise that Apple would want to enforce such protections.

I just don't buy that world view. Yes, Apple is required to do whatever it takes to legally increase shareholder value. But in this case, it just amounts to an attempt at stifling competition. It's bad for the other companies, and it's bad for the end customers. Hell, it could be bad for Apple, too, if there's an import ban.
My mistake, it's not something I've been following closely - I was under the impression there was debate re: their existence.
>The two MIT officers and Special Agent Pickett then tried to stop Swartz, who jumped off his bike and ran away, only to be caught and handcuffed by the Secret Service Agent, according to the report.

RUN FASTER. I really can't stress this enough. The reason he got caught is because he didn't run fast enough. If you're going to do stuff like this, LEARN TO RUN FAST. Cops are fat and slow. You can usually get away from them, especially in a place like MIT.

http://i.imgur.com/2pMx2.jpg

Look at that kid! That is not a fast-looking person. Run faster, guys.
I'm sure this has been answered before

Something like that...

http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-develop-an-idea-into-a-start...

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-get-an-idea-dev...

http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-way-to-build-and-execute...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199825

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

Can I just hire a web developer, or do I have to offer them a piece of the action?

You can setup whatever kind of arrangement you can negotiate with someone. Just hiring somebody straight up, no equity stake involved, is certainly one option. Whether or not it's the best option depends on a lot of things. Is this idea something you see growing into "The Next Big Thing" ala Facebook? If so, you might want one or more actual co-founders to help get things going. Or is this just some "4 hour work week" inspired idea to bring in a few hundred bucks a month of passive income? If it's the latter, it might be best to just pay to have the development done.

The other option, in any case, is to buckle down, learn to code, and do it yourself. Actually, taking a stab at doing it yourself, first, might not be a bad idea period. If you do hire somebody, whatever you do can act as a prototype, proof-of-concept, whatever, and help whoever you do hire, to understand exactly what it is you want. Same for talking to potential co-founders, investors, etc. A demo you hacked up yourself is better than nothing, or just a powerpoint deck.

If you don't code at all currently, go pickup a Groovy on Grails, or Ruby on Rails, book or tutorial and give it a whirl.
It's unfair to assert that not making things look the same (like using something e.g. CSS PIE) means we're not supporting these browsers.

Making your site work in IE6 is one thing... making the experience nice and fast is another... but it's impractical to make sure the pixels that you see in IE6 match the pixels you see in Chrome.

> There's a simple equation here- if you don't support IE6, you lose business from people that use it.

The equation is not so simple after all. And it means that you're responsible for delivering a good UX, not antiquated notions of identical rendering.
What adverts are you speaking of? I don't recall seeing an HTC phone that blatantly ripped off the iPhone's design (and actually HTC had been doing touch based phones since before Apple, see the HTC’s Touch P3450 for an example).
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The vast majority of People are good yes. The main problem is that most people stop caring too quickly. On a multidimensional empathetic scale they stop caring with a nigh exponential drop off the further away from the this and now the other person is. Once someone's genetic and then phenotypic expression is far away from theirs, once the spacial, chronological and cultural locations etc. are diverged; people stop caring enough. Sometimes the person that they do not care about is their future self.

The keyword is enough. Certainly if everyone was too empathetic that would neither be good. But I do think the world would be a better place if more people did not set the line of when to stop caring and empathizing so close to Now and Me. If they picked a slightly less steep atttenuation function then we would not have so many perfectly good people that were bigoted Xist bastards when it came to topic X. or peopele who were just following orders. or just having a bit of fun. or well at least it is not me. or on and on. for example.
Clearly, said employees need a video of Steve Yegge saying this in 2011 to realize they're working on meaningless stuff. xkcd #137 five years ago came close to marking the point, but it took Steve on Youtube to really drive it home.
Don't forget Craigslist either. It's hit or miss, but definitely a resource worth considering.
I am reminded of Richard "Hamming code" Hamming's quote:

"What are the most important problems in your field? Are you working on one of them? Why not?"
I interviewed with Bridgewater, it's definitely true about the personality tests, I was given two of them and they asked me questions about my results and what I thought about them. It was really obvious they were looking for a certain type of person... definitely someone who was maleable.

They then asked me about a time where I disagreed with a superior and how I handled the situation. I told them that every situation is different and that to me... there's no one right answer. I don't think they liked that response. Needless to say I didn't get the job, despite the fact that I aced all of their quantitative questions. It really is all about the company culture to them. Either you fit the cult, or you don't. I'm sorta glad I didn't.
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Any field of science should be talked about by someone who has a deep knowledge of that field. Unless he knows Evolutionary Psychology, Anthropology, and Economics very well, making generic comments about all these fields isn't a good way to prove his very point on science.
This is really funny -- I actually went to purchase the book "Web Form Design" that is referenced at the top of this post. It linked to the publisher's site, and when I tried to buy it, they asked me to register with email, password, etc. So I went over to Amazon instead and bought it there!

(I realize that Amazon requires registration to purchase as well, but I already have an Amazon account of course -- but the publisher is not Amazon and if they had allowed anonymous purchase I would have gladly given them my money instead, in which case they probably would have made more profit on the sale).
All large organisations work like this, although the culture in this company seems to be more aberrant from the norm than usual.

Beyond a certain size [1] a company can't get by on the personalities of individuals and has to officially define the major elements of its culture in policies and the like.

Hackers tend to dislike these policies because they (hackers) tend to be fiercely individualistic. But large organisations need (the vast majority of) people to follow rigid rules [2].

[1] e.g. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance
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