skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make things when I have a reason to make something. I've done my time in OSS and bug killing and it's boring and a waste when you don't need the thing you're working on.

I did make something recently, but with my free time and not at work, because basically work didn't feel it was important enough to pay me to make it. So instead of making it at work I look for other noise to fill in the gap when i've been coding for 5 hours and need a break.

But making something for the sake of making? I'm sorry but i'll never be one of those people. (Well, anymore. I have a directory full of 1/4 finished projects as proof of how productive it is to just make stuff for no reason)
As to your last comment, JCVI already did that, synthesis is lacking for speed and cost as compared to sequencing today.
nice. would love to use gitbox but it lacks the most basic functionality of gitx. easy inline browsing of staged changes / diffs

you have to click on every file to open up a diff in order to preview changes before checkin
I'm showing my ignorance of rails here, but is it hard to do the 'russian doll' style of fragment caching that DHH describes? Are there any gems that do this?
It almost makes you think creating a successful blog would be easy -- after all, there's so little worth reading. :-)

Creating writing that's thoughtful, attractive, linkable, rewarding, and current is, apparently, a hugely challenging activity that even a billion people only manage to pull off a few times a day.
How does an early-stage investor review your financial plan?
The biggest problem has been and will continue to be interpretation of the results, particularly in human clinical sequencing. Especially as more data becomes available with advances like this.
Thank you. I will do so.
What if according to facebook, the brands you like correlate with mortgage default? And they sold that data to your bank, so now you can't get that house you wanted?

That's what you're missing.
Meh, it's more than just synthesis. Synthesis costs are falling faster than Moores law, too; but you don't get things like epigenetic modifications or packing for free, and that tech basically doesn't exist yet.
Let's solve that problem. How about a P2P wiki?
If you're working on a startup, you should be thinking about things like this. Particularly when you're working those long hours, it becomes important to ask why you're doing it, and if it's still working.

At least that's my perspective. When I started in business (at 26 years of age) the only thing I thought about was the work. In time, I learned that while I still like what I do at the office, there are bigger questions to be asked.
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Consider rewording the title, it makes it sound like the US Govt is saying that.
It's one part of a longer discussion. (Again, I try to break things up a little.)
The end of that article is very philosophical. It raises the Cartesian question of reality and free will:

Then it hits me. I may have dodged T. gondii, but given our knack for fooling ourselves—plus all those parasites out there that may also be playing tricks on our minds—can anyone really know who’s running the show?
Just to reiterate, it really hurts to see so many people saying "have your ID ready". From the very moment an officer pulls you over they will be anxiously watching your every move, hoping you're not the next one that attempts to pull a gun on them.

Reaching for anything when pulled over is the absolute worst thing you can do to an officer no matter how innocuous you may think you seem.

Please, just keep your hands on the wheel until they're at the window.
I don't like the fact that comments require connecting to facebook. Which might explain the lack of comments on the page.
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So what happens when you know what you love but can't do it?

This blog post assumes:

1) You know what you love to do.

2) What you love to do is profitable.
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Helpful site. The designs are not bad. bbubles is pretty novel -- might use it some time.
Not really. I don't want to have any kind of FB/Twitter/etc. account. I hate being forced to use it and that has kept me from using several apps/services
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I posted this primarily about the student loan portion. I have a lot of student debt which was well worth it for me, but didn't pay off well for many of my friends.

I really feel like there should be some real work being done to cap University budgets or a real plan to lower the costs.

I feel like part of the solution is definitely technology based. For example, instead of spending 12 weeks in a statistics class students could watch all the Kahn academy videos, then take some practice tests for 6 weeks, then enter a class and get an instructor driven advancement of the knowledge.

The school could better utilize classrooms and teach twice the students for the same price which should result in lower cost base. If administrators were responsible it could lower the cost of education.
I'm cynical.

Having 'up vote me' links is SEO servitude.

If the author was serious about this stuff then a lifehacker style post about how to do it in some cool cunning way is the way to go.

That article is generic advice, a 'read me!' title to the post and 0% content or hack.

Dis. Like.
python's base64 module works fine ;)
and yes, this is very inefficient (in more ways than one).
First, the outer xml is actually gzipped twice (once by the web server I'm guessing). The base64 decoded data is yet another xml file. (Which is only ~60K compared to the 80K encoded blob).

This inner xml file is another plist containing a dictionary that is primarily a large set of links to http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/*. Most likely to update app store / itunes app functionality. It also contains some configuration parameters (e.g. "<key>eBook-store-available</key><string>YES</string>").

None of it appears to be sensitive (and doesn't appear to list any of my apps). But, there could be an id in one of the links, so I'm not going to post it yet. I'm guessing that this was meant to be downloaded relatively infrequently, so the verbosity wasn't considered an issue.
Emphasis on "were all" as in, you and me personally.

EDIT: (Disclosure: I know very little about this subject and wish to know more.)
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Also, it is worth noting that this article is somewhat political which sucks because if you read past the political agenda of the author they make some interesting points.
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Ask HN: Any good tutorials on iOS geofences?
Hi, I am trying to implement geofences into an app I am working on. We are able to implement geofences but we can not get it to be very reliable and it kills a lot of battery. Are there any good write-ups on a good implementation of geofencing in iOS?
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I've been there, over consumed, then shut everything out for a while. The truth is, the author still has a bit to learn, I think. Seems like he went through a phase and is now on the complete opposite end of the spectrum he was once on. It's definitely a good idea not to get so engrossed by all the noise but I've actually gained a lot by reading news. I've tried and learned things I wouldn't have had I not chose to read a bit of news each morning. The real trick is to find balance in your life. The ancient Greeks had it right: life is all about balance. Going too far in one direction or the other is never good.

So I must disagree with this post. The trick is to strike a healthy balance between consumption and creation, not to cut one or the other out almost completely.
And alternative splicing.
Yeah, I'm guessing ARM will be ok with respect to GPRs (although I certainly haven't done any benchmarks).

Dug's FUBAR comment was just an attempt cram in as many acronyms as possible...of course the situation is improvable. ;-)

Still at CORE these days?
Lichtenstein, Singapore. Consumer capitalism is not tied to democracy. And it is consumer capitalism that is raising the world's desperate out of subsistence.

Democracy is a luxury good that rich nations purchase.
c99 makes this much, much easier than they think:

#define ARG_16(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,...) q
#define COUNT(...) ARG_16(x,##__VA_ARGS__,15,14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0)
#define PASTE2(a,b) a ## b
#define CALLFN(name,nargs,...) PASTE2(name,nargs)(__VA_ARGS__)
#define FOO(...) CALLFN(foo,COUNT(__VA_ARGS__),__VA_ARGS__)
WSJ is largely a mouthpiece / propaganda arm of Fox and the Murdoch empire these days. Some would say it's always had a strong bias toward, shock, surprise, Wall Street interests. There's a great quote somewhere by Warren Buffet if you can find it about the WSJ's editorial staff believing its own writing.

There are a number of information venues that are member/subscriber based, and which do relatively well: NPR, Mother Jones, the Christian Science Monitor, Consumer's Union. The Economist Newspaper (as it styles itself) has a rather interesting revenue model, roughly one-third each subscriptions, ads, and EIU. The last is the Economist Intelligence Unit, a bespoke research arm, though I suspect much of its work ends up in the public edition at least in the form of background and depth.

There's a great deal which could be written on markets and funding streams for information goods -- not just news, but arts, invention, data, and other works. Over the past several millenia, we've seen patronage, sponsorship, performance, publication, subscription, advertising (both direct and sponsorship), data mining, music sales (sheet, player roll, analogue recording, digital downloads), mechanical royalties, and other methods. Each has a profound influence on the nature, quality, and form of work produced.
I usually use a fake Facebook account (with a couple of other fake friends) first. And only after I see how the app is behaving and if I see a real benefit to give access to my real friends, I might consider logging in with my real name and Facebook account.
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From a cursory read of the PDF [1], it would seem that Mr. Nash was describing a stream cipher [2].

[1] http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2012/files/H03-Cryptosyst...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_cipher
What would be the optimal freedom combination ie. jurisdiction to domicile, another for hosting? What are the gambling sites doing lately?
"I think smartphone owners need to simply get used to the idea of owning outdated software."

Or... they could buy iPhones.
The author (Gene Weingarten) won a Pulitzer Prize for this story in 2008. [1]

The movie linked in the article is good, but I wish they would release the complete recording. I'd love to see it.

[1] http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2008-Feature-Writing
I like this perspective. There's just one problem with it: while many would likely find it sensible, most don't share your ability act in a rational fashion.

I'm of the mind that most people are overwhelmed by impulses; therefore, they choose what's immediately desirable, over what they know to be the right thing to do.

Then of course, my post isn't altogether that different from yours, in terms of its applicability to the common person. While I can ask folks to reconsider their motivations, and seek out the things they love, few will in fact do so.
Would it be possible to throw in a server, add a few grains of socket.io and make this multiplayer ? I don't see why not, and it would make it a much more appealing experiment.
Heh. Good stuff.
Sure – but it’s much harder to make that argument.

I do think that the Tweet dialog is awesome and fits perfectly. I also cannot see how the paperclip negatively influences usability. I just cannot. It seems extremely implausible to me.

When it comes to the Tweet dialog, Apple exhibited exemplar taste. It’s well done and none of the metaphors are wonky or introduce strange behavior. That is my opinion.
As a side note, from slide 49 on he talks about Google Maps embeds, and says if the designer removes the direct link from below the map you need to get the address, copy it, go to maps.google, paste it, search, find the right one, etc.

You do not need to do this. On the embedded Google Map you can just click the Google logo in the bottom left corner and be taken directly to a new maps.google page with the viewpoint centered exactly where the embedded map was. I even verified that it works on the map he was using.

TL;DR: Click the Google logo on an embedded map to view larger.
"It is in its forensic analysis of your thinking behind the model, however, where an early-stage investor really gets a feel for how you think and how you want to direct your company in the near future. Next, it is in how your cash will be used efficiently to accomplish the mutually agreed goals."

I worked for an Angel investment group and heard this from the investors often. That being said, I felt like many investors used the model to discuss the business in financial terms to make sure the startup management understood it.

What they really liked to see was the following:
We will get X revenue per person who signs up.
It will cost the business Y to get each person to sign up.

X > Y at some future point so we will make a ton of money.

X - Y is called contribution margin.

Total fixed costs must be less than (x-y)Xtotal users you are getting once you reach scale and that number should be very large so you have a large market size.

The investment round should take care of fixed costs and allow you to reduce the Y or increase the X over time to achieve the result.

Sticking to that logic, you can make a VERY simple model which most investors will like.

(I have a master's in finance and work for a mutual fund, I can make an extremely complex model but never would for a startup)
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True, and it's even somewhat consistent behavior among embedded stuff (youtube, vimeo, etc.), but in my experience most "normal" people don't know that.
I can recommend hamster-applet.

http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/about/
Great allegory except Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not a neuroscientist, so there isn't actually any evidence to back up that theory.
I can understand why you'd be cynical. Perhaps the "up vote" function is over-the-top. In my mind, though, it isn't that different from the Tweet and Like buttons at the bottom. I just want to spread the word. (The more people that read it, the better the discussion.)

As for the "0% content" part, I'd ask you to read a couple of other posts before outright dismissing it. Perhaps from there you'll get a feel for whether it's link-bait or something I believe to be important--and worthy of broader attention.
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"I've talked my way out of around 9 out of 12 speeding fines"

Wow you must be really good at that. In all my life I never managed to talk myself out of a ticket once I was stopped by the police.
I would add that the media's job isn't only to entertain you, it's also to keep you worried. Read/watch the news, and ask yourself "what are they trying to make me worry about today?" You'll be surprised.
Voice driven apps like Siri are one step away from being thought-driven apps, though. Full conscience interfacing is still a pipe dream, but word recognition from brain patterns already has proofs of concept.
Here is a graph that shows the fall in human genome sequencing costs over time:

http://www.genome.gov/images/content/cost_per_genome.jpg

It's surpassing Moore's law. Looks like pretty soon we'll reach the mythical $1000 mark.
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There is still an interface. Anything you interact with, by nature, has an interface. It's just become so intuitive you don't think about it, or need to learn it. It's just obvious.
Your interface has to be a metaphore for a real-world process.

Why?
Self-help books and workshops arm us with ways to trick ourselves into doing things we perhaps should, but generally don’t want, to do.

Maybe, but this is not true of Tony Robbins, one of the biggest in the business. His technique is to get you to dig down into what outcomes you truly desire and then redefine the emotional associations you have with the steps necessary to reach them.

He assumes you already know what it is you love, but that you're not working towards it because the steps required have either too many negative or not enough positive emotional associations. It's not for everyone but it's been excellent for me.
(For a beside-the-point point next to yours, I'll note that it's not just conservative Republicans we have to worry about inciting to war.) Anyway, I guess I'll repeat myself and expand the "et al.":

Meanwhile Canada et al. are free to do as they wish since they're not in the position to actually start something with Iran, and their words are just words.

I'm a US citizen, I speak out against these things as much as the next guy here (which isn't terribly much, I don't claim to be an activist). I have a lot of opinions I like to push for with varying strength, some very unpopular. One of them is that the US government shouldn't be speaking out and condemning Iran's decision to execute this guy. I'm not trying to shut anyone up personally (though I suppose by proxy I do want to shut Obama up personally (or anyone in the US gov. with a lot of clout) because it's so easy to uncharitably interpret his thoughts as official US stances); I am trying to dissuade an official condemnation from my country for reasons I've already mentioned. I didn't even mention a secondary consideration that the US does many of the same things and worse, albeit on a much smaller scale, and because of that one could argue it should condemn itself before condemning others. But that's also beside the point, and to me it's a weaker argument.
What is the answer? Regulations? At some point will the government step in to protect people and their rights?

I know I know.. the services are laid out and people know that their information is being sold. But does that mean it's right? Sub-prime mortgages were legal and led to a disaster. My fear is that not having a set of guiding principals in regard to privacy will result in over-regulation or some other bad scenario.
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When will workers share in Apple's wealth?
I'm not sure that's true, I think The Social Network actually spun him in a positive light. I found public opinion of him improved overall.
Having the same issue here.

And I'm guessing, from the submitted article, re-installing 'osx-gcc-installer' wouldn't work.

Hopefully, Ruby will work with newer tools soon.
I've had quite a few e-mails expressing similar thoughts in regards to programming news and my e-mail newsletters. Some people are getting sick of the trawl around Reddit, HN, Twitter, and the various sites, and instead prefer a curated, once weekly e-mail. It's not for everyone, of course, but it seems some people love trimming back!
I think you are confused. I've been in the security industry for about 10 years. Disclosing a vulnerability is not illegal. Over the years, some companies have tried to sue over this, but these censorship attempts do not turn out well.

Not only is it legal to disclose unfixed vulnerabilities, but it is legal to sell them. Presently, the biggest buyer of them is none other than the US government.
Dupe. Previous discussion just 8 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3573694
Now you're risking confusing correlation and causation.
To filter the overwhelming amount of readable content on HN, I personally use the http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=120 function. In fact, since the amount of voters have increased a lot, I think I'm going to increase the point cap to 200.
I like Skeleton[1] for responsive design, but for that type of responsive design (where it scales with every pixel, instead of resolution milestones like Skeleton does), Ingrid[2] is a new project I saw here recently.

I can't speak for Ingrid as I haven't used it, but with Skeleton, the only thing I needed to learn was a 960-like grid framework (which you should probably know anyway.)

[1] - http://getskeleton.com

[2] - https://github.com/robertpiira/ingrid
Which is especially odd since I'm positive I saw this article linked to last week on another site (which seems to be when the oldest comment was).

It was actually posted here too. See my other comment.
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Yes. I had originally mentioned, "I don't care because Google pays for my Internet connection and could spy on me anyway," but I edited it out because Google does not spy. :)

I think, rationally, I should be more afraid of what Google knows about me than a random person. I've used Google to search for things I wouldn't exactly want to bring up in a meeting with my coworkers. But I know what the procedures are for accessing personal information, and I trust my employer with my most private searches. (It takes a leap of faith to trust me on this, so I don't expect you to. But really, Google cares about privacy.)

When I worked at Bank of America, I always felt weird buying stuff with my Bank of America credit card because I knew someone at the company would have access to that information. But I don't feel that way when using Google Checkout / Google Wallet at all. I don't know why it is, but that's how I feel.
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Maybe everyone knows already, but aren't we trying to kill Hollywood?
Who's bashing what? The author simply described some caching techniques and got a tsunami of hatred from JavaScript, ahem, fans in response.
Whats really interesting to me is the possibility of Gatekeeper's flexibility flowing back into iOS. I've hoped for years that Apple would offer an official jailbreak which basically would make you click through a bunch of disclaimers and give you an easy rollback but then let you run non-app-store code. I know its very low probability but it shows that Apple is open to the idea of a middle ground on signed code. Maybe iOS 6?
Could anyone get the g:fuzzy_ignore variable to work with FuzzyFinder? Would love to have that filter working.
Requiring Facebook/Twitter/etc integration - even just for authentication - is a deal breaker no matter what your privacy policy says. I don't trust any company to manage my identity, nor do I want any company trying to do so.

Obviously many people are willing to use their Facebook or other accounts as credentials, but you will lose potential users/customers by making it mandatory. I don't know how many, but it's something you should consider.
This is a pretty awesome article, IMO. I agree not everyone is meant to be incredibly "successful." Success is rather subjective. In the end, for most people at least, the attainment of happiness is the ultimate goal of life. And if that means being a lazy pothead or whatever it may be, why the hell not?
Adblock plus, most likely, coupled with Antisocial filter and custom rules.
This blog post asks:

1) Do you love what you do?

2) Could there be profit in what you love?

3) Is profit the most important question?

Deliberatism isn't about telling people what to do. It's about asking questions in a fashion that might get people talking and coming up with their own answers.
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