skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, not sure what to tell you. Check the country you have specified in your account settings too, it has to match. All I can say is that I was able to create a "US Google Account" where my country said "United States of America", but was denied when I tried to access Google Voice. My Tor endpoint was in Russia. When I directed Firefox to use an HTTP proxy with a US endpoint, Google Voice fired right up and let me choose a phone number. Hope that info helps somehow.
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Broadly speaking, I would consider the burden of proof to be on those who say that things in concentrations measured in small numbers of parts per billion are really bad and worth panicking over. It may be, it can not be ruled out, but the list of things that you routinely consume, that you can't help but consume, at similar concentrations would blow your mind.

Heck, a complete rundown of every microorganism you just ingested the last time you took a breath would blow your mind. (Mine too. I'd love to see it.)

The world is a dirty, dirty place, and always has been. You aren't a wilting flower, you are the product of billions of generations of organisms that survived, all of which except maybe the last three generations lived in a radically dirtier world than you do. I'm really not that worried about ppb pharmaceuticals in my water; if I'm going to go that route I'm going to finger my food for things like hormones and antibiotics long before my water.
It more likely reveals that "Doug" and "Jules" are the same 14-year-old in his mom's basement.
We're exploring around more meaningful location (like knowing that you left home, walked to your car and then drove somewhere); new gestures, and predicting the next likely action that the user will perform.

We haven't thought that much about business models. We're looking to see if this provides value for developers.
It will be very hard, given that the funding models don't necessarily align right now, but I think there is an opportunity. There's definitely an opportunity with small biotech, where there is need, but often no resources for specific project. FWIW in some areas, distributed research is becoming the norm just out of necessity.
Ed Bott's article + this one are the digital equivalent of penis-length-measurement contests. Why is this cheap attempt at acting like Sherlock Holmes on the front-page of HN ?

I am an intern @ MSFT. I use win @ work. Windows+Ubuntu on my home box and load up FreeBSD in a VM (on my home machine) from time to time and used a Mac till very recently (it died not very close to a refresh of the MBP lineup to make it worth waiting and not too far from a refresh to buy the one on sale at the time).
Apple predicted to 'strike back' at Google with purchase of Nokia or RIM
Not really the same, but Angband is quite well regarded (seeing as how Nethack has already been mentioned).
Unfortunately GovCloud users will have to do without FreeBSD for now, as I'm not allowed to create AMIs there.
Plan 9 was a very interesting OS, but it always gave me the impression to be too desktop/workstation influenced. While you could have your heavy lifting carried out on big processing nodes on the net, it depended on having the same one-size-fits-all OS on all boxes. There was a time when we envisioned powerful computers running powerful software on every desktop. That time has more or less passed - most people now are very happy with the browser, the modern equivalent of the 3270.

And I have to tell you that being able to sit down at any 3270 in any company building and to have access to your stuff readily available was, in several ways, a better (if uglier) experience than what desktop workstation provided.

Plan 9 also committed the cardinal sin of being different for the sake of being different. You can build a better Unix without making "vi" a MIPS emulator.

We invent things that are ahead of their time. It's a shame so much of the technology is lost when that happens.

As for the Fortran 77 thing... Well... They have lots of code that has already been written and tested. Do you really want to port it to something else? Besides, legend says F77 compiles to very efficient code.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-10-drugs-tap-wat...

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Troubled by drugs discovered in European waters, poisons expert and biologist Francesco Pomati set up an experiment: He exposed developing human kidney cells to a mixture of 13 drugs at levels mimicking those found in Italian rivers.

There were drugs to fight high cholesterol and blood pressure, seizures and depression, pain and infection, and cancer, all in tiny amounts.

The result: The pharmaceutical blend slowed cell growth by up to a third suggesting that scant amounts may exert powerful effects, said Pomati, who works at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
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Wow, thanks for the detailed answer.

I remembered from the time that I was using prgmr that you were moving to Coresite, but I must have gotten the details mixed up.

My problem with he.net is not about their peerings. They have a large number of peers, but their problem is that their network can not actually handle the bandwidth they are selling. Some time ago I had to upload about 120 GB of data to the Internet Archive and because of HE's cheap pricing the transfer of course got routed through them. Throughput during the day was averaging 100 KByte/s and only reached 2 MByte/s at night.
sorry; I plead Poe's law. I've seen a lot of people who wanted data centers in separate parts of the world before they even had so much as offline backups. I've had some customers who wanted multiple locations instead of RAID. "well, when the disk fails, we'll switch to the backup location" me: ??!?
I think it is obvious by now that the world is not moving over to Google Plus. This service is most likely going to be on the same route as Buzz.
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Results The amount of TV viewed in Australia in 2008 reduced life expectancy at birth by 1.8 years (95% uncertainty interval (UI): 8.4 days to 3.7 years) for men and 1.5 years (95% UI: 6.8 days to 3.1 years) for women. Compared with persons who watch no TV, those who spend a lifetime average of 6 h/day watching TV can expect to live 4.8 years (95% UI: 11 days to 10.4 years) less. On average, every single hour of TV viewed after the age of 25 reduces the viewer's life expectancy by 21.8 (95% UI: 0.3–44.7) min. This study is limited by the low precision with which the relationship between TV viewing time and mortality is currently known.

...I'm pretty sure the problem is spending 6 hours a day lying on a couch, not watching TV in particular.
are you sure it was you and not the Internet Archive? I haven't had trouble pushing my advertised capacity even during the day.

At the location i'm in, they do have all kinds of broadcast spam, though, which is at best, highly unprofessional.

We're slowly moving a bunch of our xen hosts from svtix to coresite, because we want this lump of servers to be on the same network, and because we're about to make a co-lo push at SVTIX. In the future, it's unclear if we will continue to buy more racks at coresite as we add more xen servers and keep svtix co-lo only, or if we will put another batch of xen servers at svtix.
Just one example, but the asp.net mvc source/reference implementation is available under a liberal license and plays nice with mono.
This announcement likely explains the administration announcement that it was shutting down 800 data centers[1] a year or so after announcing that it was going to ramp up its IT effort.

I imagine Amazon provided a compelling argument for using their infrastructure with certain security guarantees in place.

Just the cost savings infrastructure/software/platform normalization across the govt would be significant I imagine.

Best of luck to Amazon.

[1] http://computerservicenow.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/obama-adm...
Yeah, I caught this hanging out at the bottom of the list too... Immediately set to thinking how I'm gonna have to go rewrite the dozen or so bookmarklets I've written to support FF6
Figure out how much you would get at a non-startup. Call this number X.

Figure out how much equity you get per year (i.e., with four year vesting, divide your total share by four). Call this number (a value between 0 and 1) Y.

Figure out how much the company is worth (this is often the hardest part). Call this number Z.

Ask for at least X - Y * Z in salary.
Yes, I confirmed it by transfering the data to a VPS hosted at Freemont (just as slow) and by transfering data from another host (that thankfully did not route via HE) to the Internet Archive.

The Internet Archive can be a bit slow sometimes, but given their budget I think they are doing fairly well.
So... one guy did all this, it was inappropriate, but you're keeping him on board?

I think the purpose of this blog post was to try to reclaim this*'s reputation after the incident, but for me it just solidified that i should never, ever use thiswebhost.
And as those countries develop, generations will grow up familiar with a certain brand. e.g. see Toyota Hilex and Coca-Cola.
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What kind of average family is buying an $80 cellphone? The majority are still going to use cheap used phones shipped in from the EU, or discarded by the richer members of their society.
In the gem file change the rails version to gem 'rails', '~> 3.1.0.rc6'., then run bundle update. I also had an issue with the rake gem and resolved it with gem uninstall rake. Evidently the rake gem gets installed twice or something. Note, I am using Ruby 1.9.2, rvm.
Although RackSpace is expensive I have never had anything but great support from them. I recommend you escalate your issue as this extremely out of line for them.
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Yeeah, that bit about where I said I wasn't a customer of them.

So, I'm mostly just talking about the responses I see on the status page and their follow up.

As a systems dude I prefer seeing a detailed response after the incident rather than excuses.
"We have seen the video but have been unable to replicate the experience it shows," a Facebook representative told CNET in a statement. The company also once again detailed how its display-filtering technology, which surfaces news to user feeds, has built-in safeguards to keep potential spam out (emphasis mine):
"Newsfeed is an automated system that is designed to deliver the most relevant content to you and your friends. The technology evaluates hundreds of factors, including your relationship to the poster, the type of content, the click-through rate (where appropriate), and people hiding similar posts from their feed. In real time, it decides what to display to you and what to filter for both Top News and Most Recent. It also includes systems that attempt to identify and block spam. Links have a history of the most abuse and are given the most scrutiny. As a result of all of these factors, a given link may be shown or filtered to people differently at different times."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20093213-93/google-facebook...
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I've been with thiswebhost for a number of years now, and Jules has always been the one to answer support tickets, fix server issues, write blog posts, talk to people on twitter and facebook, etc. Running a shared hosting business in the way that they do can't be very easy, so I suppose it's not always feasible to hire full time customer service staff. The latest post addresses that, and explains mostly everything that went wrong with this ordeal.
Additionally, to quote _why: "When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create."
I don't get that impression for plan 9 at all. It included lots of features that suggest it was designed for heterogeneous clusters. Like simple convenient cross compiler support. You could run mips, your office mate could run sparc, and you could effectively and somewhat transparently use both to get your work done. I think plan 9 was actually trying to transform the network to be like your 3270 example.
Is it just me, or does the narrator's voice sound slightly robotic?
You're right, but it's not relevant to this discussion.
How do we stamp out ignorance? That's my question.

I call pedantic troll. Don't feed them.
This sham agency isn't in New York city by any chance, is it?
I'm still impressed that neither blog post by This addressed why Boris' account was seemingly baselessly suspended (which ultimately led to the Go Fuck Yourself comment), since all he did was inquire about the PayPal dispute. The revising of their Tos Is a great step forward, but that point alone remains really troubling.
Have you considered using a debt collection agency? On the first consulting gig I ever did, I was owed $10K by a client who refused to pay. After months of patience, including offers to let them pay off the debt over time I went to a collection agency and got the lot back in a court settlement less $1k in fees for the agency (which at least was tax deductable).

I should mention that this was in Australia and I had a pretty solid contract. So this may not apply to you, but the debt collector took the hassle out of chasing it up and I didn't have to get involved in the court proceedings. It might be worth a look.

For anyone who's contracting I'd recommend a few things:

1. Always have a contract and make sure you get advice before you sign it.

2. Don't be afraid to change or negotiate terms if you need to. Look out for excessive IP restrictions and restraint of trade clauses.

3. If you're doing per-diem work, get signed weekly timesheets. They're a legal record of work done.

4. If you're building a product for a fixed price, contractually define milestone payments and ideally get a partial payment up front.

5. If a client can't or won't pay at any point, stop work until they do!
Women's quest to be 'romantically desirable' conflicts with scientific pursuits
Doesn't work on Leopard (10.5) if you stay a wave or two behind like I do. Drat.
From a customer/outside perspective, I absolutely see how you are coming to this conclusion, but if I suddenly handed you the checkbook to that company, keys to the office and said "Keep this place running, keep making money and keep paying these 10 salaries" your conclusion would probably be different.

I am impressed that the company had the foresight to realize that the people they currently have on suck at CS and need to be replaced with someone better at it.

That is a very self-aware decision.

Also you can't cut your nose off despite your face. Jules is clearly a talented tech lead and you can't boot the only guy out the door that understands the inner workings of such a technical company/service.

I am impressed with how this small company is dealing with this; they are doing the best they possibly can.

The proof will be in the long-term-pudding for sure, but I think these are all sensible moves.
Ask HN: Realization that i am not a "Programmer"...
So after graduating from school I started a job a few months ago as a developer. I have never been a math/logic oriented person always a word/idea person if that makes sense.. But I never thought it would be a big deal, but now after a few months 5 days a week looking at code it is becoming apparent that my strengths do not lie in this area..

I really enjoy learning about technology and discussing it with others and giving advice, ideas, improvements etc.

Anyone else ever come to this realization? What did you do about it?
And Google advocating for more android developers here in kenya helps. In fact they have a dev conference next month in Nairobi and Android is one of the topic list(plus GAE,GWT, chrome).
I just had a burl at the site, and threw in a couple of techniques that I would be interested in, or figured should be generic enough. The site seemed empty: Microarrays (error page), mass spectrometry, protein purification, NMR, PCR, biostatistics, bioinformatics.

Are there currently any open projects or facilities renting themselves out?
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I think this was hand-waved away with the admission that Jules is terrible at customer support... the implication being that he was on a rage-bender and nuked the account.
Unfortunately (and I mean that, I wish this style worked better than it does because it is so easy compared to real experiments), that style of experiment is well known for producing useless results.

Think about it; if the water was that poisonous, such that 1/3 of our celluar growth was being eliminated, we wouldn't be speculating about whether our water was killing us, we'd know and long since have taken some sort of action. The strength of the real signal is bounded by the fact that we have millions upon millions upon millions of real people consuming these things every day. Reality always trumps both theory and experiment, and don't ever listen to anybody who forgets that. An experiment that shows an enormous signal, which we can observe in the real world can not possibly be occurring, is far more likely to be a flawed-beyond-usefulness experiment than a real reason for concern.

It is, however, a great way to get in the news.

You get the same problem when some people discover that X causes cancer, except that if you take their results seriously you end up with (metaphorically) 245% of the population dying of cancer X by the time they are 30. Except we don't. Hidden dangers can only be so dangerous.
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oh man, this. So I've been doing contracting forever; usually direct to smaller companies or through a middleman who was also pretty small. And most of the time, smaller companies are pretty good about paying on time, and pretty responsive if you say "Hey, this is really important to me, I've gotta pay the power bill." (my power bill, well, let's just say it could buy my car every month.)

At my first contracting gig using a body shop way larger than I was, well, they'd kinda sort of start thinking about paying me 30 days after they got my net 30 invoice. This /really/ bothered me. In fact I made a lot of unprofessional noise to the client, and ended up staying home, once, until they paid me. The thing was, I was really worried that they weren't going to pay me at all.

It did not occur to me that this was just standard operating practice, and that they were planning on paying me; they just wanted to stretch it out a bit.
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Windows 8 the new Operating system of the Microsoft under construction has been leaked and we are giving its download link for our readers who are interested in testing it and checking it out.

Note: we haven't tested it on our own but from what we have heard out it is working fine and will make an update here shortly and probably a review of it also once we test it.

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Here is newest (leaked) build of upcoming Windows 8 Build 7955 Milestone 2 in 32bit version. Windows 8 refers to the next version of Microsoft Windows after Windows 7. Scheduled for release around 2012. At the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that it would be including support for system-on-a-chip (SoC) and mobile ARM processors in its next version of the Windows operating system, which is expected to be called Windows 8.

Read more: http://www.newtechie.com/2011/08/download-windows-8-build-7955-milestone.html
People seem to be missing (or ignoring) the fact that this software doesn't direct police to arrest people before they've committed a crime. At worst, they end up questioning some people who wouldn't have otherwise been targeted, and those people might be arrested for some previous offense (such as a bench warrant). With that in mind, this is really nothing like Minority Report at all.
The project is pretty good but not quite polished. For example the UI could be improved. There is no indication that anything has happened after signing up an account other than by checking the server log. The messaging system could use some work. Entering in a user name for the message recipient is kind of buggy.
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I wholeheartedly agree on points 2 and 3 - In fact, I've known scientists that were loathe to send BLAST jobs out to external servers.

Another point is that I've yet to see any core facilities that are running idle. Our core facility mass spec guys are running 24/7, and that's not even taking into account the time they lose to the instrument screwing up. In fact, it'll be hard to see some of the high end equipment running under heavier load – it's all just too fragile.
>People all to often attribute the actions of individuals inside a company as the actions of the company. The two are not the same.

ok. So how or who performs "the actions of a company" if not the "individuals inside the company"? Especially if these individuals are explicitly given access to official twitter account, etc... of the company.
But lisp is a pretty interesting XYZ to blather about, you must admit.

I'd rather a million lisp stories than all the non development related human-interest/social-studies stuff that often winds up on the front page ;)
I wish(I'm in NYC). They are in San Francisco.
"I would like to remind people that contacting us with abusive e-mail messages is in fact illegal and we will be taking the appropriate steps to forward these messages and information gathered to both the relevant ISP’s and law enforcement agencies."

So criticism is still not tolerated it sounds to me that these guys still dont get it.
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This guy is far beyond the reach of debt collection agency. He has multiple active civil cases re: money owed. His own former lawyers have been owed money to and have obtained default judgement against him and yet have not been able to collect money as of my last conversation.
I balked at it too, but then I really thought about it and I only care about this in a handful of apps so I just set each shortcut separately. I think I did iTerm2, Chrome, TextMate, and a few others.

It's interesting (for me) that others are doing this too though. I didn't do it because I lost something accidentally - really which apps don't ask you to save important things? - but because I wanted to embrace Lion's hidden Dock lights, which I enabled. If it shouldn't matter if an app is running or not then I shouldn't have to quit so I'm trying to break the habit.
Terrible is not the right word, 'unthinkingly destructive' perhaps.