skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is related to the news from 8 days ago (time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litigation):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3081281
Hi, thank you for the info. The project is well funded(equipment is therefor isnt much of an issue), the problem is not with money but with professionals. The guy just finished university, and they ask him to conduct this project. There are not many people here who know this stuff, neither the biological aspect nor the programming. And I guess they don't want to hire foreigners, i am not sure why. You see, horses are so important here, you can even get a sentence for killing one. So maybe it has something to do with foreigners thing.
Fun article, but what about anti-aliased circles and thick circles?
Investors don't sign NDAs.
The detail in the yellow sun is awesome.
I'm actually trying to get into bioinformatics myself. Here are some of the resources I've been using:

- Khan Academy (Biology, Chemistry, Statistics, Probability)
- Molecular and Cell Biology for Dummies <-- includes overview of lab techniques like PCR and electrophoresis
- Bioinformatics for Dummies
- R Cookbook
- Molecular Biology of the Cell <-- expensive textbook, very detailed

I was pretty surprised to see a lot of stats being used. I'm sure other people can recommend better resources for bio-hacking instead of bioinformatics.
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Nullege is still great search engine for python code.

http://nullege.com/
Can anyone find the part that controls whether a missile door is red, orange, or purple?
Most of the angel groups I've looked at won't sign NDA's. They expect you to be at a point where you are ready to disclose your project.

As much as we want to be the first to announce or offer our idea, producing a good product is far more important. The honest truth is that you will have competition, no matter how secretive you are. You can't hide the idea if you want to make money.

I agree with abbasmehdi's comment.
The GR effects here is on the scale of 1e-15s, i.e. several orders of magnitude less than observed 6e-8s. 7 orders of magnitude is "negligible" as GP correctly stated.
I wouldn't ask an investor to sign an NDA. I was just a jerk and didn't trust or even respect anyone.

So immersed with my 'perfect' idea.

We all learn.
From the looks of the comments, as well as the frequent references to "written, but unread" memory, this appears to be a dump of the US release. The original JP release was for the Famicom disk system, which had more sophisticated music playback, as well as a three save slot support (similar to Legend of Zelda) instead of passwords. These bits of vestigial code/memory likely still exist in "dummied out" form in this US based source.

IMO, Legend of Zelda source would probably look similar. But by that time, Nintendo of America started support for battery based save states, so someone more experienced in NES hardware might want to compare and contrast the two codes bases to see how much Disk System code was salvageable for battery based backup purposes.
Think there is room for one more player in the market. Think Amazon, Facebook, or a partnership between the two could really make a splash. Eventually when the HTML5 frameworks become more developed and there's more fluidity between the app stores, who knows how that will change the landscape. But I don't think Microsoft can move fast enough anymore to compete in the ever quickening marketplace.
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I recommend watching Steve Yegge's excellent presentation at O'Reilly's OSCON Data. He points out a number of books in the video, but in general this is an excellent talk about preparing to solve hard problems in bio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8
I hope Google open source the code behind Code Search. They don't have to release all supporting libraries that are specific to Google's infrastructure though. Such that those of us who actually use the service can figure out a scaled-down implementation to serve ourselves.
I'll often just do a GitHub search. If you're looking for something mainstreamish, there's probably some kind of public code using it on GitHub
I am not certain if you saw the edit I added to my previous comment (I added it reasonably immediately, but you also responded within 10 minutes, so maybe you missed it), but I believe it addresses some of these points; I will restate, however, more directly targeting this post, just in case.

Google doesn't seem to try to make things sustainably, and in this case didn't even try their bread-and-butter business model (ads), possibly because to them the result would have been "chump change", whereas to a smaller company it might have been "enough to man a few bright people" (which I'd argue is enough to have something great occur).

I'll add, though, that these services Google (or the VCs whose money is being used in an unsustained burn) is providing "for free" are coming from somewhere: from other projects, if nothing else. In the end, everything has a cost, "there is no free lunch", yadda yadda.

Regardless, point taken that as a user who only cares about that one specific feature (which I admit my arguments skewed towards), it might be the situation where a large company burning money into a pit for six years may actually cause more money to be thrown at a small problem over the lifetime of that problem than a sustainable market, and therefore we might be glad in some twisted way about that. ;P

I still feel, however, that from a market-level, projects like this are bad for everyone, in the same extrinsic way that we look at people using seemingly cheap materials like styrofoam and partially-hydrogenated oils to build empires that eventually have seriously bad costs; put simply, I look at Google and VC-backed startups in the same way people look at companies polluting the atmosphere and contributing to global warming. (and yes: this is now pretty abstract, but I feel this conversation started getting to a position where the abstract-ness was fun.)
I'll follow this up by saying I've had my early adopters very happy to be "getting in on the ground floor" (as they put it). I believe some will find this as the leverage they need to become successful, or at the very least have one up on their competition.
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Gel electorphoresis might be fun as well. At least my first run was fun for me :)
You can completely turn windows off as well. God bless hyper visors.
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It's interesting that the year 2000 way to do stars would be to have a full, empty, and half star GIF, and just to display however many stars you need by doing a loop.

So, when this article says "The goal is to avoid having a sprite that looks like this" where the sprite has all the values of stars in a line... why did people switch to doing it that way in the first place? Like the article says, it's a pain to maintain, has lots of pixels, and is not resizable.
Alas, that's a character encoding; not a platform-specific bits-per-byte setting.
I'm not sure they should be treated differently, but that only hits on some of the edge cases of trying to legislate down the impact of money. I don't claim to have a solution, but I think it's useful to try and define the problem before you get legislation run amok.

To reiterate, the broader issue is one of money having more influence over policy than the interests of voters, and this story is a good illustration of that. I think a good place to start would probably be to raise the standards of transparency.
Because then you'd have a buffer overflow in 2153 when we're using 512-bit integers.
A play on the phrase bi-curious? Wow.
Interesting overview, thanks. It would be nice to have a follow up post with some examples of running Parallelism is ruby via some of the mentioned Ruby Implementations.
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I've written any paper I've worked on in the last 7 years in LaTeX as soon as it gets over 5 pages or has any math of any kind in it.

I'm currently writing a book with a publish house that uses Word templates (dear god!) and it really sucks. =)

Here are a few pain points you need to solve (esp. for academics):

- All the formats: If you can offer all journal/conference formats (especially those that don't have LaTeX formats), you would be a godsend.
- WYSIWYG -> LaTeX editing: Sometimes you don't want to handle all the boiler plate.
- Integration with reference software.

Pain point for book houses:
- Converting their carefully designed styles into LaTeX templates and back again. Can someone design up a doc template in Word or whatnot, then bring it to your site and make a LaTeX template from it?

A few questions:
- How does your collaborative editing work? Can multiple people work the same file at the same time? Also, it is pretty rare that this happens in my experience - most papers are written by one person with some help from others.
- In the end, without formatting or the other things mentioned above, you've got a place to store/share LaTeX docs. Given that, your pricing is a bit odd. However, with the features listed, I think it'd be a great product (at an awesome price).
For the example projects I gave the sales prediction one is growing the fastest, followed by the mechanical failure predictor. The sales prediction software should be 1.5 years to break even, the mechanical failure one probably a little longer. The other ones will fund my next TV / Macbooks / Holidays etc ...

My customers are usually start as friends / acquaintances / random business people I meet, then spreads through word of mouth.

Sorry if it's vague, let me be give my most recent example (The sales prediction software). I have a friend who is a manager of a small supermarket chain in New Zealand, I ask virtually every business owner I meet (anyone anywhere, including random people I meet on the train), a list of questions, one of which is "What is the biggest problem in your business at the moment" ... he said "Inventory Management". We got talking about his purchasing process, how he orders, what determines the levels he orders, all those sorts of things. I tell them to treat me like an idiot, this gets us to the root cause of the problem faster and also builds a good dynamic if I 'admit' I'm dumb ... I become less intimidating.

I then build MVP, iterate rapidly based on their feedback. MVP (v2) is always quite different to MVP (which is why I dont spend a lot of time on MVP)

Quickly my supermarket buddy is talking to his supermarket buddies saying "you have to use this software" ... so I make my customers do the selling for me. Kind of cheeky I know, but hey, it works.

I'm by no means a pro ... I have build a good 20 other projects that have all failed miserably. But leant from them all, and as I said in an earlier post, I have the sheer bloody minded determination that means failure can punch me right in the face and I will always get up again (haha)
I thought I was seeing some screen shots from Mac OS X.

see: http://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=Mac_OS_X_Unle...

Please note that the above book reference is written in 2001.

I think they have incorporated many features from Sysinternals' (now part of Microsoft TechNet) famous Process Explorer.
Well, if you do it that way you can change the whole rating by just changing the class name, after you set up all the background-position rules for all the different rating classes. I guess that's why?
> In the realm of news, almost no one knows who Dennis Ritchie was.

I can attest to this. Here at work we work almost exclusively in C (embedded devices) and my boss had no idea who Dennis Ritchie is.
Maybe you're thinking of a different xmalloc than I am? I'm talking about the one from libiberty, which is exactly a way to "rig malloc to blow up when it fails". (edited:) Or do you mean that xmalloc isn't a reliable way to do that because some piece of your code might call malloc instead? Is it better to depend on some nonstandard behavior from the standard library?

I think there are only very rare cases in production code where it makes sense to check malloc's return value and try to recover, but they do occasionally exist.
I would consider some sort of free version of this app, so people can join without risk. Maybe make a version that limits you to 3 friends for free, or unlimited friends for $1.99?
It should be a good time. We hope to get a few programmers, designers, artists and anyone else in the area who's interested in meeting like-minded people.

Tonight we will hold an icebreaker. We will also be forming teams. Tomorrow night marks the end of the hackathon. We will have presentations and vote on an audience favorite.
P.S. Imagine how hard it would be to break into someplace that had full networked HD video surveillance and was able to track the identity and location of everyone in the building by monitoring their characteristic kinematics.
I was hoping for an article about fixed point combinators in Combinatory Logic. My Smullyan addiction caused me to feel quite disappointed in an article about early-to-bed, early-to-rise sociology.
I just think individuals should be treated individually.
I'm interested in knowing what you found to be the best resources for building your first iOS app. Did you use anything like PhoneGap or just Xcode? I have been looking at making an iOS app and while there are lots of examples of how do specific things, I haven't found any good overviews of how to properly architect an iOS app or what if any framework to use.
No, I'm thinking of the exact same thing you're thinking of, and I'm saying the "xmalloc" solution looks like it does the same thing as simply rigging malloc to blow up, but does not do so consistently (because "x" malloc isn't going to be used consistently).

I think we agree about explicit malloc return value checks.
These changes are both awesome. Particularly the one to submodule update. I have a project setup where not everyone has access to all its submodules. Prior to this, people would have to manually run update for each submodule they were allowed to access. Otherwise it would fail part way through on the ones they didn't have access to. Great news!
I really like the simplicity of this approach. It reminds me of late 90s, when I used Makefiles to compile complex web pages from a set of templates.

But it seems like static site generators became a fad recently, like Rails a few years ago, and this makes me slightly skeptical. It's always suspicious when somebody claims there is only one right way to do something. When it comes to me, feel free to have a backend for your blog. This certainly has some advantages, just don't forget about performance.

Or just use a hosted service. TMTOWTDI.
Policy conducted more or less between industry groups and the csar to the exclusion of everyone else. That this person is called a czar - from Tsar, and ultimately Caesar - tells you all you need to know. A life-long bureaucrat and academic who doesn't seem to have held elected office in her life. Shouldn't policy concerning knowledge (rather than intellectual "property") be decided and developed by the people's representatives in conversation with the people?
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It's really just a matter of basic honesty to admit the consensus dating (1550-) up front. The 11 critical comments you're following from the linked article all fail to do this.
asprintf. It's so much easier to write

asprintf(s, "%s.pid", progname);

than

s = malloc(strlen(progname) + 5);
strcpy(s, progname);
strcat(s, ".pid");

and it avoids errors in buffer-size computation too.

(Unfortunately asprintf isn't C99; but you can construct it easily out of vsnprintf: http://code.google.com/p/libcperciva/source/browse/trunk/uti...)
I was about to comment on that but I thought I would be too down-voted!
Given that unelected judges often seem to have more respect for liberty than elected Congressmen, I'm not so sure.
We're talking about the Amazon basin, much of which was probably farmland prior to European influence. According to the archeological record, that region may have grown enough food to support millions of people. That's a lot of land, which then converted into dense rainforest.
Using the ternary operator to return a function pointer, that is then immediately called, where the functions in question are stubs to system calls and have identical declarations.

As in, specifically:

if ((Lflag ? chown : lchown)(p->fts_accpath, s->st_uid, -1))
(void)printf(" not modified: %s\n",
strerror(errno));

It was a moment of enlightenment.
honest question: how will you differentiate yourself / market your app better than a group texting app?
Speaking of focus, we went from

"Organizing Worlds Information"

==>

"Organizing People in to Circles"

Indeed exciting times!
Sure, the first zombie apocalypse will start this way but it is so cool! Big props for starting this.
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In my mind Stealth doesn't mean TOP SECRET no one can know.

It comes in degrees. Your investors probably know, you share your idea with people you trust who can give you feedback and could even have paying customers/beta users and still be in 'stealth' mode as you try to find product market fit.

Stealth mode means you haven't announced anything publicly. Getting customers, investors and advice privately is perfectly okay.
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When the point is that we're not having a meaningful conversation, it's not a big loss. It's actually the first responsibility of the original article to be competent, but I digress because yes I did read the post.

It proved idiotic. To talk about Y Combinator as the old guard betrays such a deep lack of understanding about the way startups impact society that the entire point (99% should boycott or something) is meaningless. Also, this post is by someone who built a business talking about Facebook, essentially uncritically, making it in a unique position of deeply incorrect and also hypocritical.
Buy these countries?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gdp+of+benin+%2B+togo+%...
I think I'd rather just install Varnish than try to reinvent it in my ngnix config. As a bonus you'll get faster serving of static assets too.
Speed, maybe, but whenever I use my iPhone or Droid Incredible for web browsing and multitasking, I miss the WebOS app switching interface something terrible. It's the best handling of multitasking on a mobile device, period.
Hello Mike,

Who would you target this product at?
http://goo.gl/Oue0b (the top one)

How would you reach that audience?

All feedback is welcome. Thanks :-)
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Yeah I was about to say: nothing can possibligh go wrong... Possibly go wrong. That's the first thing that's ever gone wrong...
Maybe. Ask the user for a couple artist/song he likes. And then, try to find an existing user who liked these songs. So, implicitly, the new user could follow that existing user and get his/her recommendations. Does it make any sens?
Right to the point, just as every loves it.
No, you'd have a truncated string.

You really think we'll be dealing with 512 bit integers in 40 years? This is code that's turning integers into decimal strings.
asprintf is very expensive; one tends to use snprintf all over the place in ones code.

Not disagreeing with you; asprintf is a good thing to have around.
For the bug:

Create a new account, play a little with it. Then go in your account page and add your phone number and email.

Then, click back in the main screen. There should be a textbox added explaining that you can send an email to automatically add a task. Inside this textbox, there are some a href=mailto escaped.. I think it might not be supposed to be in a textbox at all.
As a college student in the Valley, I really appreciate your perspective. Its quite easy to get caught up in the rush to do something now without realizing that I have a life full of opportunities ahead of me.
I can deal with having a less consistent, less beautiful interface than WebOS had, but I honestly find it very difficult to go back to Android/iOS's form of multitasking. Handling tabs in browsers makes no sense, I can't switch between applications quickly enough, and worse yet if I'm trying to copy information from one application to another (and copy/paste doesn't cut it).

I remember seeing a jailbroken iOS version with WebOS-style multitasking, that I'm going to have to look into once my Pre bites the dust.
The Texas Instruments C55x DSP has 16-bit bytes. See the compiler documentation at http://www.ti.com/litv/pdf/spru281f section 5.3 if you do not believe me. This DSP has more unusual properties:

type size (bits)
------------------------------
char 16
short 16
int 16
long 32
long long 40
float 32
double 32
pointer (data) 16 or 23
pointer (function) 24
In one way, I really agree with this initiative.
I'd like to raise a counter argument, about replication, though.

In a nutshell, if someone has to reimplement the code, from the details in the paper they've read, its a great check that the original author isn't just reporting the results of subtle bugs, or particularities, in their software.

Its true that opening the source allows other researchers look for bugs in the code, and that's good. But such checks are inherently less thorough than instead having another group replicate the results, in a separate environment, just working from the published paper details.

One objection to this 'clean room' replication, is that perhaps its not practical to re-engineer the code that was written for a paper - thats just too much work. But that's basically saying "well, we cant replicate the results of this paper, its too much work" - generally, that is not the way you want to go about doing science. A cornerstone of science we are willing to accept slower short term progress, in return for more certainty that what we are doing is correct (and hence, hopefully, faster long term progress); painstaking replication is a key part of this philosophy, I think everyone agrees.

Consider the neutrinos: they did an experiment; others are trying to suggest reasons for the surprising results. In the unlikely event the result lasts, other scientists are going to want to redo the experiment. Ultimately, its not enough to analyze the data, or experimental setup; you want to replicate, and ideally, from the ground up - in a different lab, with different equipment - and, with different code to process the results.

Now, maybe the manifesto is aimed at a world where its not possible to replicate based solely on whats in the paper - perhaps there's just too much detail that can't be included: and hence, a lot of the 'science' is inherently tied up in the detail of the code. I'm sceptical about whether thats a good way to do our science - but if we decide to go down that route, then the 'paper' as publication, the de facto unit of scientific output, is something we will also have to really rethink; and reviewers are going to have to be responsible for signing off on the code, which they don't generally currently do.

I think there's an argument, currently, for telling people "I could give you the code - but it'll only take you a couple of days to write your own code to replicate the results, and it'd be much better if you could do that" - but I'm sure this varies drastically across domains.

I'm not sure where I stand overall - but I don't think its black and white.