skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, on another note, I hate to be, "the man", but by re purposing chemicals and tools for biotech you risk introducing ALL kinds of bias.

How does using an over the counter laxative impact bacterial transformation? The active ingredient that causes transformation might be the same (or it might not) as that used in the lab, but there may be other chemicals which impact the process, or worse, contaminants at a level which is totally acceptable for human consumption but not for biochemistry.

Can he guarantee his pressure cooker autoclave works, and if so how? What about feeding bacteria boiled potatoes - are there other chemicals in those potatoes (which have been absorbed from their environment, during transport, in storage etc) which could impact bacterial growth or function in some way? How would you know? Would they even be consistent - who's your potato vendor?

There are already FAR too many unknowns in biology, adding more through the risk of inconsistent experimental design and tools feels like a poor direction to go.
We should do one in Frankfurt... sadly its so hard to find out how many people from an area actually read HN.
My experience posted before

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3314170
yep, couldn't agree more!
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wow, now I feeled cheated
Regarding denial of service, does that not apply to any identity provider? OAuth, Facebook/Twitter sign in, all suffer the same problem. Perhaps I have too much faith in their systems, but I don't imagine downtime occurring in reality.

You are correct in assuming you can't use your hotmail address when Gmail is inaccessible, unless it was planned beforehand. As in, you can auth a second identity provider for the same account - which would be possible, but not as an afterthought - so probably useless.

I guess a careful read of their T&C's is a good idea, but what would you envisage as warning signals?

Spyware, well, if users signed up using gmail, google would know. That's most users anyway these days. But you're right, in using google analytics I'm providing them all this information anyway, so perhaps I'm less concerned.

Personally, I think the benefits outweigh the problems you've raised, but perhaps I'm being an optimist. If something did happen down the line, I would have to issue all users with a new password down the line, that would be frustrating, but not the end of the world as a mitigation strategy.
I personally can't wait until the freemium model finally dies. It is extraordinarily difficult to pull off despite how popular it is and creates desperate decisions like this.
Even better - loser pays the winner the exact amount they paid their legal team. By their own admission "at arm's length" so to speak, that was the value of the litigation to them.
Thanks, that's a better way of phrasing what I meant. :)
Time doesn't scale
personally i have decided to wait until this is published in March 1st, then read reviews (if people can read through 608 pages that fast), before deciding to order this. the thought of reading 608 pages in this day of 140 character tweets makes me shudder. why couldn't this be turned into a pay per view movie? that would be faster to learn it all. with a companion login website to take notes & track your startup progress, like lean lauch pad is... just my incorrect personal opinion
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No, the reasonable thing to do (and the good business practice) would have been to in some ways limit or revoke their access to the API if they didn't pay. That way, if they miss the mail and / or choose not to pay, they lose service but no more.

Keeping up the service but demanding money with force would make me incredibly wary to do business with them. It's destroying trust and goodwill, and pretty much guarantees that, were I in that position, I'd be looking for alternatives with whom I could have a more healthy business relationship.

Need to make money off what used to be free? Fine, but be polite about it. A business operates on the good will of its customers, who they've just annoyed.
I think the point is that malware has the ability to put itself into your system in any way once it has access. that might include ways in which your removal software won't be aware of. the only "safe" option is to revert to a state previous to the malware being present. if no state like that is saved, then a reinstall from scratch.
>I never got involved in the "politics" of Wikipedia; I just care about making the content better for personal use. Maybe this is where this guy went wrong. Simply editing articles is not a waste of time, even if you're the only one that reads them. At the very least it helps you.

I'm also a low-level wikipedia editor; you have been extremely lucky to have not had this trouble, my friend. In 98% cases, it has been great; but when there is a disagreement, the debate can quickly get out of control if the sides aren't willing to compromise. For instance, try making an edit on the page for the Monty Hall Problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem.
What's the current state of D, in relation to compilers and libraries? Did one compiler/version and one standard library have won already?
Ask HN: how to find HN user's submissions sorted by newest
Is there a way to find all the newest submissions from a particular user?
For example:
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=patio11
but sorted by newest.
There's ways to develop dna, organs, bones, etc.

The 'browser' somewhat exists; the minor 'javascript' quirks can be tested in some of the 'browsers'.
Sigh. It uses OpenID and yet it gives you no option to put your own URL, and if you use Google Apps for your email, you have to use it as your IDP. How I love the corporatized web.
I'm usually sympathetic to that argument, but the origin of 'begs the question' is philosophical jargon, and the misuse of it perpetually reproduces itself from people hearing it being used properly, not understanding what is being said, and trying to parse the phrase to figure out what it means.

Since the phrasing is anachronistic, there's really no chance that they'll come up with 'asks you to accept as true' for 'begs,' and 'the conclusion' for 'the question.' But honestly, if you mean to say 'brings up the question' you should just say it, instead of reaching for an anachronistic pithy phrase or buzzword.
Funny that Bagcheck is listed as a "good" example.

I was just commenting to someone as to how confusing that site is. There's a box next to the "JOIN" / "SIGN IN" words in the upper right, that is positioned next to those words (as if those words are the label for the text box).

So you start to key in your name, to join, and a bunch of choices are displayed. If you select one (even your own), you are whisked away to another page that isn't even the join / sign in part of the site. You are no closer to being signed in than you were before. And actually further than if you had clicked on the label for the text box that says "sign in" (which is actually a button or a link, although not identified as such, unless you happen to mouse over it).

Ends up the "join / sign in" text box is actually a SEARCH text box.

yeah, real simplified. Put the word "search" in there. geesh.
That's true, but what prevents the states from earlier times from having been compromised as well?

(There appears to have been some confusion on my part here. When reinstalling the operating system was mentioned, I thought only of doing it from scratch. If there is a way to reinstall the system but keeping your files, it should clearly not be used in this case.)
I don't think this is totally unreasonable. From their point of view, they offered a perfectly reasonable alternative to paying, which was ignored.

By ignoring (accidentally) the original email, the message sent back could be interpreted as: "We're not implementing your link back, and we're not paying for your service, but we're still going to use it anyway".

Wait, what? So - if I ignore an unsolicited email, that suddenly becomes actionable if I don't do what the email says? I have a hard time seeing how that is not totally unreasonable.

The only reasonable nuclear option for them that I see, would be to simply terminate the user account or service, if they did not respond.
Most users don't have an automated process that regularly performs full backups of their hard drive, so reinstalling the OS is painful. Hopefully software will solve this problem permanently for us in the near future. Until then it will be too much of a bother for most users to set up an automated full backup process.

Even as a software developer who's familiar with technology, I don't do full hard disk backups for my personal machines. It's just too much of a pain, and I've decided to take it as an acceptable risk.
I suppose he meant, as opposed to standard compliant libraries. For hash tables there's search.h for example. But there might obviously be other reasons like feature set and so on to pick a different library.
I have enjoyed writing Scala code, but I'm pessimistic enough about its longevity that I haven't been doing any side projects in it for a while.

What do you think will replace it? I don't see any real candidates.

Java would be dead (in the sense of Cobol being "dead") by 2014 if not for Scala and Clojure. And what holds back contenders like Ocaml and Haskell (which are great languages, but I don't see growth in them in the next 10 years, although I wish I did) is the lack of libraries. Even though the average Java developer shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a computer, there are still thousands of well-above-average Java developers (now moving to Scala) who are writing great libraries.

In 2020, we might see something related to Go replacing Java as the mid-level/VM language of choice, and that might produce a "GoScala" or a "GoCaml" with access to Go libraries, but we're a long way away from that.
Seems to be working fine for me.

I occasionally get gzipped data back from Wikipedia (even though I explicitly set Accept-Encoding in the proxy) - I think it's due to their intermediate caches not respecting the Vary headers. I plan on adding gzip support soon to rectify this, but until then, you can get around it by adding ?foo to the end of the custom URL.
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Duckduckgoing 'network manager static ip' really came up with a variety of reports. But a good number of explanations how this is supposed to work as well, in the top.

I'm sure you tried a couple things before you decided that it's just not working the way you like it, but for me it seems that static IPs, your way, should be no problem [1,2,3] with the on-board tools.

Sound: Never had that (or any related) issue since I stopped running weird apps under wine and I light a candle for Lennart every other day for a sound solution that just works in my world, whatever I throw at it.

1: http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager#Enabling_Interface_Man...

2: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/man5/NetworkMana...

3: http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager#FAQ
or worse, maintenance. I've known guys who's only job is to eyeball a system and if there are any problems, then call up the developer in the US.
grepping for "foobar" is very different from finding invocations of the function named "foobar". Cross-file search and replace, which is doable from emacs, is different from refactoring. I love emacs and unix, but sorry, it's not an IDE. Intellij, now that's an IDE.
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Apple often features apps of poor quality and it's not always clear why (e.g. games with 3 stars developed by big names or indie apps not working as they promise). So, yes, I understand why people are surprised.
THe thing we're shocked about is that apps could access our address book and upload them wholesale to their servers without our knowledge or permission. That's a huge privacy violation.

Facebook knows about the connections I've told it about, or others have requested and I've approved.

Yes, it may be useful - but the address book on my phone is quite personal, and not something I would hand over to a 3rd party readily. There are people in there, let's say, who I wouldn't WANT people to know are in there. There may be people in there who hate other people in there.

So.. they can take my address book and do what they want with it? No amount of "cool stuff" adds up to allowing a 3rd party company to have the contents of my personal contact list, sorry. This is really bad.
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Time doesn't scale, but does creativity? If art and innovation is rewarded more than productivity, what will happen to those who can't deliver on those premises?
I've been using http://www.backblaze.com for a while now and it's worked great so far. It's not a full hard disk backup, but essentially everything non-system.
The tutorial would be great. It might also be a good opportunity to fix some bugs in the collision detection. I had a block disappear into other blocks that were 3 or 4 layers high. I could hear it keep falling and it finally hit the floor, which was interesting because there were several other blocks it had was passing through in those layers.

This was done without continual "wild" rotation. I was trying to complete a rotation immediately before it passed into the first levels of blocks, but then just observed once the block disappeared.
It is sorted by newest, is it not? Certainly that page has the newest at the top and they progress in strict chronological order.
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That's an unfortunate, sad story.

However, in situations like this where you might have some legal leverage, it never hurts to attempt some sort of negotiation. He could, for instance, negotiate himself into some sort of production position in the upcoming shoot or on some other set.

This is going to sound really harsh: Aside from nepotism and sheer luck, people do really make it in the film industry based on pure will and this could have been his opportunity. However, in the end he murdered his darling and packed it in. With an attitude like that (harsh, I know) his chances were slim. The film industry is not a meritocracy, and his art alone would not have carried him to success. He needed to hustle, in both senses of the word.

If he did try something like that, then I feel doubly worse for him, though.
"If you don't use NetworkManager, a number of programs will refuse to connect to the Internet or behave in various weird ways. More so, a lot of system services now depend on NetworkManager and won't start unless it is running. And if you run NetworkManager, it starts periodically messing up any local system configuration. So you're basically bound to use NetworkManager. "

...

"The effect of all those changes are numerous. For one, it is no longer possible to run the system without a graphical user interface unless you plan to invest a huge amount of work and to throw out most of your system support. If you want to get vendor support, this is not the way you will want to go."

Not true. Ubuntu Server does not use a GUI. Nor does it use Network Manager.
It really isn't anything like extortion.
By downloading a film, even if you don't pay for it, you are contributing capital to that film. You'll cache the the plot, characters, actors in your mind and likely talk about it with your friends & collegues --in social situations re-enforce the film's value and reify the investment others have made by paying for the film.

If you don't see the film, and one of your friends has a film reference you don't recognize, you're actively not helping the film monopoly since the time your friend invested in the film has no value to you. In this way, you're denying the network effect.

The films don't need everyone to pay for it, only a fraction. By pirating a film, you contribute the most important thing you have: your mind and social attention.
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This follows the standard format of these complaints. If you read through it believing the author is a true expert then it seems like Wikipedia is crazy. If you read through it believing the author is a crank, then Wikipedia is doing a fine job.

I'm not even sure the guy isn't a crank, but if he isn't he needs to understand that Wikipedia needs a system that takes cranks into account. If he's simply a false positive on the crank detector because it turns out that everyone else is actually wrong about this historical event then he'd have to demonstrate that the cost of false positives outweigh the good to effect a change, not just go in a huff because his pet subject isn't presented in the way he would like in Wikipedia.
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Very, very few of us follow any sort of engineering-like practices. "Engineer" has real and meaningful connotations that almost no software developers follow or can follow.

Engineers have certifications and legal consequences to turning out a complete turd. If a PE signs off on something that catastrophically breaks, they can be legally culpable. With very rare exceptions, "software engineers" just file something in Bugzilla.
Cool! I may consider trying it again. Are the gcc or LLVM compilers up to date these days?
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ruin your life with litigation might be illegal in some jurisdictions.

If he threatened him with a criminal threat, ie "we're going to send you to jail if you don't pay up," that I know is definitely illegal and I've heard of lawyers threatened with disbarment for it.
The loser paying for the winner's costs might alleviate the problem a little.
I actually tried this a bunch of times in vegas. The most I ever walked away with was $50. It's the green and runs on the losing color that kill you. Better off playing conservative in a game of craps with a big float. :)
How soon can we expect to see an editor like this that is robust enough to no longer be a proof of concept?
It seems like the best course of action here would have been to take down the website... and then just finish filming anyway. It wasn't actually worth it to the studio to send somebody there to confirm that filming had stopped. They were just tying up loose ends and getting rid of online promotion that was competing with them. If the film was really good and got a distributor, then there would have been a bigCorp there to swat away this frivolous lawsuit. If not, then it would have just flown under the radar.
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Is it really so hard? :)
Nice hack for Firefox 11+
Show them the email in nice, big, centered letters after they sign up and let them edit it. I think it was Luke Wroblewski who said this approach reduces misspellings to a ridiculously low number.
As I say in the first sentence, those anecdotes were why I started in the first place.
Apollo 13 holds the record for furthest men have been from the earth.

If we're looking for the furthest any inividual has been away from the nearest second human, we're looking at command module pilots. I think that record goes to Michael Collins, from memory.

Furthest from nearest humans on the earth's surface is probably unknowable; my bet would be on a liferaft somewhere in either the Pacific or Southern oceans about 100 years ago, and the poor individual concerned not making it.
Well, I run a pretty no frills Windows 7 installation (no animations, black background, use Black Viper's website to make sure I'm running the bare minimum services and processes). No idea if that even does anything, not a hacker here. But if I'm stingy with the backlighting I'll get between 5 and 5.5 hours of "normal" internet usage.

So it's not as good as advertised, and doesn't seem as good as when OSX is running. That said, it's still relatively great hardware; there are quite a few Windows 7 laptops around my office, and nobody is bragging about how great their battery life is.
Not only is it frivolous, he should have recorded it for a countersuit in districts that have anti-SLAPP legislation.
You are wrong.

>Nobody uses it with that meaning anymore, the phrase has taken on a different meaning.

I hear it used in its original meaning as often as I hear it being used in the other way. Losing the original meaning would be a bad thing, because it describes something that is difficult to describe, whereas 'asks me to ask this following question" is just a wordy, empty transition when usually the entire phrase should be replaced with "so."

>[So,] just how far away can you get from our world of generic convenience? And how would you figure that out?

better?
Yes, I've been down that route with setting things in network manager config and had them wiped out when doing Ubuntu updates.

The real problem here is that if you set multiple static IPs in NM GUI it will lie to you and tell you that it has done it when it hasn't. This is pretty dire UX.

The audio issues with spotify were from running the native Linux client, oddly the volume control in the Windows/Wine version works fine with alsa (although a recent update to spotify seems to have broken wine compatibility almost entirely).
A great series of articles, well-written and informative, while not being zealous in any regard.

There wasn't much new to me in the shell-focused parts, but there's some great VIM advice hidden in there.

Despite the great VIM part it covers a lot of topics that should be common knowledge for people developping on unix-like operating systems (or at least they should've heard about them).
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I thought it was illegal in all jurisdictions?
Yep, we've used DBus also on the server end: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/interprocess_communications_in_mid...
Yes, you're right. But a whole bunch of people don't need or use things like automatic refactoring, and more often than not write better code than the people who do.
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Cool, thanks. Will add a link to the story.
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It does imply agreement if it's the only viewpoint being presented.

When he says that OSX used "some of the software that Apple had bought from NeXT", that's not a quote from anyone, it's still wrong (or grossly misleading at best, when the main reason to buy NeXT was to get the operating system). He could have asked anyone familiar with the topic, and he would have gotten the correct answer, which is that OSX is a direct descendant of NeXTStep.
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