skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's mostly because Google just works "out of the box" for what I need, but also because in order for OpenDNS to associate a dynamic IP address to an OpenDNS account, you have to run some proprietary software[1] to notify their service when your IP address changes. It looks like they don't have a Linux client available, and to spend the amount of time trying to get a set up like this to work for me, I could probably just as easily set up DNS caching on my home server.

[1]: http://www.opendns.com/support/dynamic_ip_downloads/
The Dyson ones I've seen have only ever shot cold air on my hands and pushed my hands against both sides of the dryer. Maybe they've been horribly misconfigured at all 3+ places I've seen them at, but in my experience they've just been less effective and less sanitary than both traditional air dryers and paper towels.
>I never understood why people exaggerate so much Android's fragmentation problem, when the world's most fragmented platform, the Windows PC, has demonstrated it was not an obstacle to market domination...

It's easy to understand. While it is definitely an irritant for developers and users, the most noise about it seems to be coming from the Apple camp, who go out of the way and spend considerable effort in documenting the fragmentation and then escalating it to being the end of the world.

Take the only other blog post on the site linked.

http://pxldot.com/post/17983848516/one

The author talks about why he wants to write for the blog.

>I want to talk about numbers, and design, and Apple, and simplicity, and productivity, and life. Maybe there will be a unifying thread, but it’s entirely possible there there won’t be. The world is too big for me to commit to only a single piece. Even if this sharpens the pain of only being able to faintly cover any given topic, I am the sum of my passions, and what I create should be the same.

And then starts off not by talking about Apple, but how their competition is bad. It's nothing more than an attack piece to feel good about his/her choice. Why else would anyone who is obviously not very interested in Android as a user or a developer go to so much effort?

Not to mention that the fragmentation meme was started by Steve Jobs himself in an Apple earnings call, and all the Apple blog circles picked it up and went from there.
Just to pick you up on one thing, we have sequenced thousands upon thousands of genomes since the human genome project finished.

For example there is the 1000 genomes project [1], and a project I am working on is sequencing about 100 ovarian cancer tumor / normal pairs. Most of this sequencing is complete, its the bioinformatics that takes the time.

GWAS studies (studies of correlation between disease and common SNP's) have not told us much that is actionable, but have provided us with "low hanging fruit" for further study, which is valuable.

Its very early ways, but genomics will completely change the diagnosis and treatment of cancer over the next 10 years.

[1] http://www.1000genomes.org/
yes! (so many interesting things can be done once you have a nice way to get ahold of proper zone info via a sane api / library)
A successful example of code sharing: ModelDB (http://senselab.med.yale.edu/modeldb/) , a database of neuronal models and mechanisms. It contains lots of validated, reviewed simulations that are now commonly shared in the comp-neuro community, making it extremely valuable.
You guys should checkout: http://thinkst.com/tools/cr-gpg/
We do the some thing, but hook into the DOM to blend it into the interface.
(we have users across win/linux/osx so its been doing pretty well considering its hacky birth)
What is API Evangelist?
Client-side encryption on the WWW
Well at least it is some great idea to look into. Although M$ has a habit of copying other people's idea and make it WORST.

Another day to go before Windows 8 CP.
It's 2012 and we just finished a project using SOAP, within budget and time-frame, and the client is more than happy.

No, I refuse to believe the future is determined by some cool startup.
I had the same solution, just different heuristics..

http://pastebin.com/VfdmgwSA
Unity has UDP sockets and yes all good games that require fast real-time action need UDP. Adobe had it partially in their latest Flash Media Server RTMFP protocol but it was very limited.

RUDP or Reliable UDP is the best of both.

Here's some great info on UDP vs TCP and only using one or the other:

UDP vs TCP
http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/udp...

Characteristics of UDP Packet Loss: Effect of TCP Traffic
http://www.isoc.org/INET97/proceedings/F3/F3_1.HTM
Who care how many people are using your product? The purpose of a business is to make profit for its owners. I'd rather have a business that had one customer that made 10x profit than one that had 100M customers and and made 1x profit.
This is correct, I'm the creator of jsonlint. It actually uses zaach's implementation of jsonlint in JS, now.

Fun fact: jsonlint uses an html5 cache manifest, and can be used even while offline.
Characteristics of UDP Packet Loss: Effect of TCP Traffic
UDP vs TCP for Game Development
Check out apigee.com if you want something more refined.
If I'm cold calling someone for money and mentorship I feel like the pressure should be on me, honestly. At this point I'm the only one with something to prove, the angel has the luxury of being as picky as he or she wants to be.
How ironic that a Murdoch newspaper is "exposing" breaches of privacy.
I think people would probably build their own communication protocol on top of UDP but not at the level of TCP, if they were given UDP support.

I'm not saying that's good or bad.

Back in college on a distributed systems course, one of the projects was exactly to build that because the professor wanted to produce somewhere between UDP (more than) to TCP (less than).
Kickstarter's really taken off.

Has anyone given to them recently and can comment on what they found compelling about the user experience?

I wonder if there are lessons that Kickstarter took from IndieGoGo and similar platforms when designing their product pages. Anyone have ideas?
If you're not talking to web browsers, you could replace WebSockets with any bidirectional medium, e.g., zeromq.
YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music
Let's say we cut minimum wage in half. How many jobs are going to be created? If it's not profitable for the business to hire a worker at $7 an hour, is it going to be at $3/hour? That's a business with crazy low margins.

Pretty much right now minimum wage workers usually do service jobs (fast food, waiting, etc), household chores (cleaning, landscaping), farming, or no-skill manufacturing.

No-skill manufacturing is largely dead in this country. Changing the minimum wage won't change the fact that you still have to follow environmental and safety regulation. That is expensive in its own right. You also can pay $3/hour in a different country and get good people. You can pay $10-15/hour and get great people. If you pay $3/hour in the US, you are going to get the people who can't even get a minimum wage job. I doubt a lot of companies want to hire those people for any price.

For service jobs, you usually have a fairly fixed number of people. If McDonalds has 3 registers, they already have 3 cashiers at lunchtime. Lowering minimum wage just hurts all those people because the pay will be less. It won't create many more jobs.

Farming could see a big increase in people, or at least a big increase in paying people on the books. A lot of migrant farmers are paid off the books below minimum wage as is.

So where is this giant pent up demand for hiring $3/hour workers? All I see is a marginal increase in jobs, and a massive decrease in wages for everyone else near the bottom.
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversation
Because this won't improve their lives one bit.

Proof by assertion is not terribly convincing.

Not every transaction that is marginally beneficial to both sides is movement towards a global optimum

"Marginal" is more than zero bits.

Think about this: is this suggestion going to provide the poor with true social mobility?

I could easily see that happening.

Is this something our society can be proud of - poor people working for machines, as machines and getting paid by machines?

Even in those ridiculous terms (applicable to many white collar jobs), yes, compared to common alternatives like panhandling or selling drugs.

Why not suggest a mechanism by which tech companies can truly offer the poor a hand that will last for generations and create a better society

Go for it. In the meantime, stop standing in the way of people who are trying to improve things because you don't think they're improving them enough.
Steve Jobs was right: Dropbox is a feature, not a product
Why France once wanted a single currency with the US
I suppose that boils down to prescriptivism vs descriptivism debate. I'm a prescriptivist in that case: there's Roy's thesis that defines what he meant by REST, and if an API (no matter how useful and successful) doesn't fit that description, it should be called something else.

I agree we need a good word for those HTTP-but-not-quite-REST APIs. I simply call them "HTTP APIs", but maybe SIMPLE, NoRPC or REST 2.0 will take off ;)
How can "ever new approaches" be already "known to be less effective"?
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Was there a reason for linking in at page 2?

First page, for those that didn't realise: http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2012/02/25/a-close...
This might be a poorly written article, but it does lead to an interesting question - what does Google expect to get back from offering a DNS service for free?

They couldn't keep group archives up due to the "maintenance overhead", so they are cost-conscious. They are way beyond being "no evil", so this is hardly a charity for a greater good. There must be the reason.

Changing the privacy policy is a very simple thing to do. Today they don't recycle any DNS info, but - click - and tomorrow they suddenly do. And being in the business of cross-correlating anything and everything, I can't imagine how tempted they are. So the question is this - should they announce a change to the privacy policy, how many sysadmins and laymen will get off their lazy asses and switch away from Google? And how many would notice the change to begin with.
The link to that newspaper article says "story no longer available".
I thought i was the only one who see this. Why haven't the blog been updated to something much more useful?
Homographs and Chinese NLP
فيلم الانيمي الكوميدي The Muppets 2011
http://t7melsoft.com/ar/26-02-2012/191.html
http://t7melsoft.com/ar/26-02-2012/191.html
تحميل فيلم الانيمي الكوميدي The Muppets 2011
I can point to games that I did not buy specifically because they had horrible DRM. Most notably Crisis 2 and Spore which I had reordered and then canceled after I read how bad the DRM was. Granted the fact they both got many poor reviews also helped that decision. But, DRM costs company's significant amounts of money to deploy and also costs them sales.

Now done well or even just unobtrusively DRM clearly can work, most notably with consoles, phones, and Steam. My point is simply buying 48, hours which is considered a success in many DRM circles, does not mean you actually benefit monetarily you need to look beyond time to crack in expectations that it will be cracked and how enticing you can make the guided cage. It's possible to make always on DRM orders of magnitude harder to crack but doing so will cost you many upfront sales some of whom will wait for that first crack unless being online is already inherent to game play.
Easy-to-use PGP for Apple Mail
Tangentially related: How does one write 'modern' LaTeX today? What packages/tools do people use to ensure their documents work properly?
The case for books
Your point is a bit inflammatory, but it's at least actionable. If what you're saying is indeed true, then we're not looking at a technical problem; we're looking at a social problem.

Social problems cannot be solved by technical solutions.
Not directly, at least.

During my PhD, I worked on a system whose idea was essentially to make the process of getting to the raw data from the figures easy. Scientists would be hooked by the ability to quickly create data analysis one-off scripts, but the system also kept track of the data (and the scripts required to get to the data) transparently, so it was as easy to create a "reproducible figure" than it was to create a "figure". Think 'integrated, transparent version control for data analysis and visualization'.

It works well, and some people like it. But the social problem remains: you really want network effects to kick in.
China required this in 2007. EU didn't move on this until 2009.
Taking a Step Back from ORMs
So, it appears this is a fundamental dishonesty with "publishable" science: that it becomes an ego trip for some scientists who like to overstate their results. While a groundbreaking discovery is sure to be scrutinized to the most minute detail by the community, an average "incremental science" paper will not, and will probably be published even if it contains errors. There are many published papers with unintented but grave computational errors that render even their main findings invalid, and oftentimes they are not retracted. This attitude should change, with people admitting that sometimes mistakes are only human, and they do not diminish the contribution of the research.

Complete data sharing would be a huge leap for science: Imagine all scientists digging into every experiment ever made for, say, cancer or HIV research and discovering hitherto unknown correlations, new interpretations of the data etc. It would provide huge shortcuts, given how many experiments get essentially repeated over the years.
Sit back and enjoy the royalties for years.

Apparently, that's not the case anymore for educational book writers. The article states:

Today, royalties are a thing of the past for most writers and work-for-hire is the norm.

...and during the article this new state of affairs is mentioned quite a few times, and loathed.
I don't know, is it? Are there any specific features that we can point to and say -- "that's a Lisp" and "That's not a Lisp." Or is categorization instead primarily dependent on pedigree? If so, why do we care? What usefulness is this distinction aside from pedagogical purposes?
Ah, but the rate at which biotech is become accessible isn't just growing, it's accelerating.

The DIYbio movement/subculture/etc. has been growing for the last several years, but recently several serious hackerspaces have sprouted, providing not just knowledge and expertise but also equipment and materials.

If you're in NYC check out Genspace (http://genspace.org/) in Brooklyn, and in Silicon Valley the Biocurious (http://biocurious.org/) space is excellent.
Starting a business is extremely simple and very cheap (except CA, where it's $800 minimum per year, which is ridiculous). Look at Nolo Press books for legal questions you might have, or pay for lawyer consultation.

Keep in mind that if you like in, say, CA, and start your business in VA, you 1) are on the hook for CA taxes so long as nexus is established (primarily, if you live in CA) and 2) have to register as a foreign entity in any state in which you conduct any business beyond sales, otherwise you lose the legal protection of a corporation.

I always point these out to people because so many start companies in NV or DE, but it's all pointless once examine the legal implications. Unless you're a big enough company to have staff lawyers, you almost certainly don't want to incorporate outside your home state.
I think it was the first commercial computer to support it, but much of the theoretical groundwork wasn't really figured out till 68 and 70

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=363095.363141

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=356571.356573
Does Memory Reside Outside the Brain?
They've tried. For legitimate competitors, Apple has them outgunned in terms of selection due to all their deals with the labels and such. For illegitimate competitors, Apple has a comparatively huge budget for design/UX.

The "isn't worth it" actually goes the other way at this point: it's isn't worth pirating anything you can get from iTunes. Most of their customers are perfectly capable of pirating stuff, but it isn't worth their time compared to grabbing it from iTunes.

I'm not saying nobody will ever compete with them or that people don't still pirate anyhow, just that they're more than capable of competing with free. They've been successfully doing that the entire time, in fact.
I get this message "Hacker News API access request exceeded. Please try again later." Initially i was able to see the "new" items but not anymore.

Edit: I was able to view the "top" items. When i tried to view the comments,app took me to the actual article instead of comments.
Looks simple and neat. This is a good start, I like this so far.
"The point of publishing a method is so it can be critiqued; I think the same should hold with source code. "

Except that source code can sometimes obfuscate the intent.

It's probably better to provide pseudocode. Don't provide source code for your binary sort, say you sorted the data and say on what it was sorted, and let other people use their own preferred sort implementation.

Especially since other labs may not use the same equipment, libraries, languages, etc, so source code may be useless.
Looks very pretty. I'm an iOS guy - I've never envied Android but would like to try a Window Phone 7 sometime... It's a fresh look.

I don't have a Windows phone, so I can't test it. So my only critique could be about screenshot #2: Why so much wasted space on the bottom?
I don't consider actively exploiting the poor as "not improving their lives enough". Neither do I consider marginal benefit a positive if it comes at the cost of exploitation. Thirdly, I don't see anyone moving from selling drugs to doing menial mechanical turk work. Lastly - I'm not standing in anyone's way. By all means - go and try to turn America's poor into Silicon Valley's drones rather than invest in their future. In China's sweatshops I can at least be fairly certain that the workers are greeted with a "hello" in the morning. Perhaps someone is even concerned if they don't show up for work. If you want to build hi-tech services on the backs of people who don't get even that - go ahead. I'll be marveling at the this new turn hi-tech capitalism is taking, while sitting in my armchair sipping tea and reading Charles Dickens.
Thanks. I will look this up for future versions. Annoying to have to bridge it myself but better than my current solution (which is actually the suggested solution when looking on stack exchange at this exact issue :/ )
".. would accept POST requests of victims' names/pictures ... at that time pull up an image of them on X and print their name on one page of the death note ..." (emphasis added)

Like I said, this depends on a bit of a loose definition of "mind", so it might not have worked at all.

Here is the exact wording of the rule in question: "This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person’s face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected."

It specifically appeals to the (somewhat hazy) concept of mind, which would imply the prerequisite of some sort of sentience. However, the rules are not absolute, but rather based on Ryuk's imperfect interpretation (Ryuk didn't know a priori how certain experiments would turn out, like writing causes of death before names with the FBI agents); thus, the use of "mind" itself isn't so important, as it merely implies that Ryuk's experience is limited to sentient beings, which should be obvious.

In other words, there isn't any way to know whether a death note could be used in this way without testing it on a "real" death note (or having the authors write canonical material on it).
Even Google got bitten by that one during the Oracle lawsuit.
No need for the caps, friend.

(First of all, there isn't much vitamin C in meat, unless you eat liver.)

Obviously vitamin C in food would be unaffected, but the way people eat may well be if they think they are vitamin C proofed. Vitamin C is added to everything these days, and this would likely stop happening in a post-patch world when its value as a health gimmick diminishes. Intake of fruit and vegetables is already poor.

So although it is likely there will be a reduction in scurvy cases initially, there may be a resurgence when changes in dietary habits/food production occur and are misapplied in people who are not patched.

Post-patch this becomes a problem we created, inadvertently or not. I disagree that this situation is ethically OK.

There are numerous examples of paradoxical/unintended trends in public health:

1. Increasing incidence of HIV infection in developed countries in some communities, possibly due the notion that the disease is now easier to treat.

2. Outbreaks of polio after apparent eradication due to isolated anti-vaccine communities.

3. Increasing numbers of multi-resistant bacteria and even new infections arising from widespread indiscriminate antibiotic use (by doctors and farmers).

4. Patients who develop a false sense of security after a negative test for a mutation predisposing to breast cancer, then don't participate in routine screening (which is why anyone who has such a test should receive professional genetic counselling).

I don't think there are any fire and forget interventions where human health is concerned...
> it becomes an ego trip for some scientists who like to overstate their results

I think you're looking at this the wrong way - while some scientists might indeed be doing it for the "ego trip," the vast majority are just trying to avoid being swallowed whole by the vicious academic research environment. Reaching the position of tenured professor at a major research university is extremely challenging.

Now, I'm not suggesting that what they're doing is right. I'm just saying that one needs to dig further to find the root causes of these problems.
Well, no worries. I was on a school computer with an outdated version of Chrome.
There is a difference between reproducibility and repeatability. Reproduction is an independent experiment producing commensurate results. Repetition is the same lab repeating the experiment and finding the same results. Sharing code actually reduces the independence of experiments. Worse, sharing buggy code introduces systematic errors across "independent experiments". Scientists already deal with similar issues due to a small number of vendors of various tools, but software is pretty different. Systematic measuring biases can be detected and calibrated, but software bugs rarely lend themselves to such corrections. Because science depends upon independent reproducibility and NOT repeatability, there's an argument to be made that blindly sharing code is actually detrimental to scientific reproducibility.

The real question we should be asking is whether opening and sharing these code bases will result in an increase in quality that offsets the loss of experimental independence.
The embodied path to creativity
Looking at the compile script for my CV, I'm currently using latex, bibtex, and xelatex, along with sed to work around some nasty bibliography implementation issues.

LaTeX really needs to be just revamped whole. I haven't been following the development of LuaTeX or LaTeX3, but I hope that's what they both do. The syntax needs to be simplified, concerns that no longer exist thanks to improved hardware (such as super-optimized algorithms for hyphenation) need to be discarded, and all of the popular 3rd party packages need to be integrated into a single, cohesive piece of software.