skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep big backups locally.

"The only secure computer is one that's unplugged, locked in a safe, and buried 20 feet under the ground in a secret location..."
-- Dennis Huges, FBI.

The same goes for USB disks. I prefer to have one of my backup drives inactive most of the time and out of plain sight (in case of theft from my home).

Because he was a mac user, he should've been using Time Machine. It can be hosted on a network partition at your home so you don't even have to remember to plug in a backup drive. And in OS X 10.8, you can assign multiple disks and it'll keep them all up to date if they're accessible at the time. So one can be on your home network, another at your work network, and yet another on a physical drive that you can keep locked away in a safe or something. Just pull it out once a month to back up all your macs.
"Discussions online should be as fluid as if face-to-face."

IMHO, (or maybe "for my purposes") discussions online have been plenty fluid ever since the forum was invented. Beyond that, the quality of discussion depends on the people in it.

Also, (quality) discussion is content, and the big feature of real-life conversation is that there are either no middlemen, or middlemen who get dumped in a snap when they make shenanigans. That is a minimum requirement for anything worthwhile on the web, too, where resources are even easier to come by. If there was a single site where all discussion took place, that in itself would be reason to boycott it. My advice would be to make (or improve) apps and protocols, not websites.
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Ask HN: IT on Cruise Ships?
Just a curiosity I've been thinking about recently. Do cruise ships have a staff for technology purposes? Is this something a college student would be able to try out for short while? I think it would be an interesting experience, does anyone on HN have any history with something like this?
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Awesome just what I needed for my next project. Surprisingly works amazingly flawless on iPad 2; user wheaties had to have to slowest computer in the world;)
Personally I think all web services should be using aliases (so you don't login with the username that other people see) and pass phrases rather than passwords.
"Porting the data" isn't the problem. Porting your friends is. Nobody is on Facebook because they have all their data on there - they are there because their friends are there. The issue of writing the software, even the issue of data export, pales to total insignificance next to the problem of exporting the network effects.

I didn't say that many open source implementations exists, just that many implementations exists. Diaspora might be a good candidate for a software stack, but the point is that having some social networking software is utterly pointless if you don't have a way of getting users onto it.
9 Scientists Win Yuri Milner’s Fundamental Physics Prize
"That said, the "For now." is fearmongering."

> I'd say saying it's FUD is playing for time.
Interesting, what exactly happens in your chromebook?

Anyway, pastebinned:

http://pastebin.com/Ff2vQWRh
No, there is no education part. Everyone will learn on their own. There is StackOverflow, online manuals, tutorials... And there is no charity part. I don't like charity. The idea is to tell the kids that they can start their own company. That's why I call it incubator. And I think it is important to have more than one kid. Again like in Y Combinator.
The Ouya debate: Who really wants indie gaming hardware?
Tell me I don't have a webcam connected and inform me that this site requires one, and possibly wait for me to connect one.

Right now, I get the permission bar, click "accept" and it fails silently. And the "none" thing is really just a bad taste; you don't offer UI elements when they don't do anything.

(I didn't try, but I think that permission dialog wouldn't even recognize it when I connected a camera after it opened)
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

And you know that there are extremists everywhere in all groups?

I'm glad you think she's an extremist. I think she's an extremist. I start to wonder whether people on the whole share this view when people like Rosin get to speak at TED conferences and are invited to present at think-tanks like the New America Foundation. Is it just because these organizations are "open minded?" Well, take Rosin's "The End of Men" article and try replacing "men" with "black people" and "women" with "white people" throughout the article, and speculate on whether The Atlantic would have published it:

"What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to white people?"

"White people live longer than black people. They do better in this economy. More of ’em graduate from college. They go into space and do everything black people do, and sometimes they do it a whole lot better. I mean, hell, get out of the way—these white people are going to leave us black people in the dust."

I'm guessing that the author of such a piece wouldn't find an audience at TED (which bills itself as the curator of "ideas worth spreading"), or think-tanks like the New America Foundation. But apparently enough people find Rosin's ideas worth considering that she should get an audience at such venues.

Should we be wary of all christians because there's some who think all religions that don't match there's should be banned? Should we be wary of all muslims because some think it's OK to kill for their religion? ...

These are all great questions. Here's another one: should women be wary when a birth control hearing on Capitol Hill has a predominately male panel? I would say yes.
Sure. There are teams doing it every day right now, with clinical patients. It's still research, but we are pushing variant calls back into patient's medical record to help make treatment decisions.

From a complexity perspective, not nearly as much as you would think (by which I mean there are many software tools that already do this pretty efficiently). The day-to-day problems are much simpler (and more standard IT) than you might think. For example, you can safely assume that finding variants is done. Now, where is the source of drugs that are in clinical trial or in approved treatments for a specific mutation. Can you get that in front of pathologists quickly?

You probably want to take a look at The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. They are sequencing normal and tumor tissue from patients across a large number of cancer types and making the resulting sequence data available for research.

Edit (additional info):
It does NOT take a month to do this sequencing and it is getting tremendously quicker every day. The MiSeq from Illumina can pump out the fastq file from a normal or tumor sample in 24 hours (and it can do something like 96 samples at a time, but I don't know if people push that in production).
Remember the BCG matrix? I think Microsoft is desperately trying to keep Windows in the "cash cow" quadrant, while the consumer is starting to look at it as a "dog." For teens and people in their 20s, Windows is the OS that your mom and dad use. I just think the product has run its course. Just like GM couldn't revive Oldsmobile, Microsoft (the GM of the software world) can't revive Windows. Android and iOS already own the tablet/handheld space. That war is over, unless Apple and Google seriously stagnate. Microsoft had more than their fair share of shots at winning that and failed miserably, because their approach was always one of expanding lock-in to Windows rather than really building stuff that people enjoyed using.
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Korea was once a part of the Japanese empire and according to older members of the Korean community in São Paulo* the Japanese governor outlawed Korean martial arts and promoted Kendo and Judo at schools. Korean Kendo is known a Kumdo.

Koreans are also crazy about archery, shooting and badminton, sports in which they generally go well.

*I used to live in "Bom Retiro" neighborhood in São Paulo which is a center of the Korean community here, they said me that exactly.
Not true. Join a startup. Or better yet, learn how to sell yourself. You'll never need a degree if you can sell your passion.
But the idea is to build their own business, not to get a job.
Worked smoothly in ff beta but my first impression was ruined because halfway through the demo the images were flipped upside down for some reason and remained like that regardless of which effect I selected. Page refresh reset it.
Are Investors Getting Anti-Social?
Probably the wrong place to ask...

Why does <input type=date> display the field in format MM/DD/YYYY in the field but the value property is formatted in YYYY-MM-DD?

Is the former a localization setting and the latter the standardized format? Is there any customization available? Also, no input[placeholder] support.

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/dUc5V/3/
What Causes The Blue Screen of Death [HUMOR]
I enabled the guest account on my Mac, but auto-login in non-admin account is a good idea.
I agree with you, but Jobs always said he wouldn't add HDMI to Apple's laptops because of license fees and rigidity of the standard, IIRC. Jobs never said anything against SD or EC.

Though I agree it is useful, I doubt HDMI would make it under Jobs.
They're already unable to handle other subjective requirements like "non trivial" and still struggle with the slightly objective "prior art". I don't think adding new subjective definitions would help.

In my opinion the biggest problem with patents is that it's impossible to put the theory in practice no matter how great the theory is. On paper, patenting only non-trivial ideas sounds good. On practice that rule simply doesn't exist because it's impossible to define objectively.
Yes, they def. have IT staff.

I live in Charleston, and we have a weekly cruise that comes in, so I'm friends with a couple of people that work on it.

They have to sign 6-9 month long contracts, and TBH, don't seem that happy. They can only get off the ship 2-3 days per week, don't necessarily get to pick where they get off, have to work 7 days a week (i.e, no days off), don't get paid very well, etc.

The plus side seems to be a huge community/"high school" atmosphere and getting to travel a little bit.
I pay for bookmarks (pinboard), even though I have a free alternative right in my browser.

A paid Facebook would likely look different than today's Facebook, both in features and in financial organization, but it may be a more predictable and sensible investment.
The fact his experiment obtained is simply that there are cheaper and more expensive likes. You don't dispute that I hope? So it's obvious to me because of experiment of his. It would be strange if the prices didn't match the fact, which would mean that he was tricked. But they actually did. I support you if you are curious what produces the effects, I just claim that the article doesn't give any information about that and that from information he gives, everything fits -- the prices matched what he obtained.
John Carmack, Kudos to Valve but Linux is Still Not a Viable Gaming Market
You happen to be looking at Germany at a convenient time in history. 150 years ago things weren't so clear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany). Even 20 years ago things were different (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification).
"It has never won a medal at the winter games" is pretty misleading, given that India is largely a 'summer' country - in fact, it's pretty much just European countries, US and Canada that win medals at the winter Olympics. And while India's been to most of the summer Olympics, it's only been to 8 winters.

If you look at the medals won, it's clear that it's a very eurocentric competition. Apart from China (who go crazy for cold war reasons - the article disingenuously uses cold war countries for comparison), all the high performers are euro culture. Sure, Japan won 400 medals overall... but Germany has 1500... and even Finland has nearly as many summer medals as Japan.

Apart from China, who has invested heavily as a matter of pride, non-euro culture countries generally don't do well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_ta...

Also, to be pedantic, the first sentence of the article is incorrect: Bangladesh has won zero medals.

I don't think it's a bad essay, but these were a couple of points I noticed.
No it doesnt. Not only i personally not care about all the "be the first of your friends to like this post about deadly car crash", there is further no "infrastructure" that internet relies on when it comes to facebook. To me and billion other net users it could dissapear overnight and i would see or feel the difference, other than websites would get little bit cleaner. Google, on the other side feeds website owners with monetary gains by leasing space from them for adsense. If that would get shut down, i would assume many could not afford to continue with their websites.
Macs have Time Machine.

I found that grabbing an external HD and plugging it in started time machine right up. I do that every week or so.

(Which reminds me, I should go do that in a few minutes!)
What definition of wealth is being used here? If wealth just measures value of assets over debt, then there can be a huge difference in quality of life between two people who both have approximately zero wealth.

My guess is that such a definition is what's being used, and really what's being polled here is understanding of the relationship between income, consumption and wealth (surprising conclusion: most people aren't very good at anything involving math). Of course people in the bottom tiers will have almost no wealth -- they spend their entire income on consumption. People responding to the poll are probably thinking of things more in terms of how resources should be allocated. It would be more interesting to see some measure of consumption among the various tiers.
I think you meant to say:

"While I appreciate the effort that's gone into this, I don't think the 3-D transition is an effective user interaction element because <insert reasons here>".
I must have seen polls like this 5 times in the last year. They don't reveal much except that people are very bad at comparing large numbers with small numbers.
FreeGate? Wasn't that the company that thought the way to build a manageable router appliance was to take FreeBSD and rewrite all the software to use a custom built database instead of their existing config files (without /etc/passwd, /etc/hosts, etc)?

Didn't that mean replacing a large body of stable working code and engineering knowledge with fresh stuff with unknown behavior possibly understood by no more than one or two people in the entire world?

Didn't that cause recruiting headaches, quality issues and schedule slips causing them to almost entirely miss the window for their product?

I'd think it a bit disingenuous to call that company a success. If anything they should serve as an example of what happens when a company's technical leadership identifies the wrong problem to solve.

Edit: there appears to be a timeline here http://www.freegate.net.au/news/press_releases.html
with plenty of mention of funding and partnerships starting in 1997 but no announcements of actual shipments or sales.
Every Verizon and AT&T store I've been into had an entire selection of working Android models.

The Wal-Mart I last went into didn't have any working phones at all on display, so why anyone would go there to see what they're like, I don't know.
In what way are they stuck on iOS?
To me TED feels a bit like going to church, just replacing the Bible with technology in a collective experience.
I redesigned Yahoo
This seems like a good idea but there are a couple of issues though:

1. I believe from anecdotal evidence most young children start serious preparation so that by their teens, they would have to have a significant portion of their technique mastered so that talent can start playing a significant role. However, I am not sure how easy it is identify the kids pre-teenage.

2. Investment costs: Importing a group of people just for the sole purpose of racking up medals (non withstanding the inherent creepiness of it) will be tremendously expensive. How do you justify the expense if the children don't want to do it eventually?
It is definitely true. If you manage to build abstractions that don't leak in the wrong places, it'll welcome changing requirements very well.
I noticed now that i have been hellbaned. How to get unbanned?
My main account is 800+ days old and i have not been a lot active on site mostly lurking. But today i wanted to help somebody by pasting link here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4338681

But i noticed that my link is not visible from another browser. I do not know why but i have been hellbaned.
>Of course, anybody who has actually built anything knows that what he actually did was "decide how something should work". You do this dozens of times when putting out a new product, and it's not in any way a big deal.

Sounds like a very useful feature to me, and something that competitors or previous products did not had.

And "deciding how something should work" sounds like a perfectly good description of an _invention_.
Yes agreed and +1. I believe it was Warren Buffet who said: on stock exchange, every long term investment is a missed short term investment.

But obviously you wont find a person in his her sound mind (not to mention financial guy) who would say: hey lets buy now and even if it goes down 40% thats fine we are in it long run... (lol)

Besides Facebook is a special example. It was banksters fraud perfectly executed. Yes Facebook makes money. Yes, it is self sustainable, yes it will pay off all its debts and creditors. Yes it doesnt go anywhere. But the overbloated IPO price with this PE was a freudster move. This stock belongs to single digit wagon. When it gets there, then consider buying for a $1 or $2 pop accordingly to good Q, but until we get there respect your money for God sake!
Facebook now updates its code twice every day
The Linguistic Interface
It's probably localization, yes, since to me it shows up as DD-MM-YYYY.
I think you're missing Patrick's point?

You could describe an alarm clock as a mechanical device which steadily advances its state with passage of time, and for which you can set a trigger to start making mechanical noise at a certain pre-set state.

Or you could start off with "Joe, a young adult, is having trouble appearing on time for his white collar job, which he want sto keep and succeed in, but can't because health problems/kids/partying are keeping him awake at night, so he can't reliably wake up in the morning. This device will make him get up such that he has enough time to get into the office and be a good employee in the eyes of his boss".

Closer to home, hacker news is not a visually desaturated lisp-coded online forum thingamajig, hacker news is a place for tech/business hackers to meet and talk shop. Quora is a place for knowledgeable people to make a measurable, satisfying difference by spending 5 minutes to answer a question.

Who are the people with the problem? What is the problem? You won't get traction without solving these questions.
Thanks Ivan, definitely I would like to discuss, I just sent you an email.

I agree about hands on education and those are the two things I would like to teach (and Arduino eventually).

Hacker space describes well what I have in mind.

I will have some cash of my own but not much. In Turkey, it may be possible to get funding from local government. I need to do more research.
Tutorial for building Rubik's cube using CSS3 3D transform
"because he wants to port xscreensaver code to iOS."

fixed that for you.
No HEROKU support during the WE?
I wanted to start a support ticket, went to their support page and to my surprise couldn't find the link/form to create a ticket.
I sent an email to support at heroku and received an email back stating : "it is currently outside of our regular support hours. Support hours are from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM PST Monday through Friday, excluding U.S. holidays."

Shouldn't one expect a 24/7 support from a hosting company, especially for critical issues?
> Another point that is missed is the Indian diet. A large portion of the population is vegetarian ( and not all kinds of meat are eaten ).

Could you clarify further what proportion of the population is vegetarian? Surely, there are high protein vegetarian diets (say something concentrated in Whey) that athletes could do?

> And Indians are foodies that like to eat spicy, oily food etc.

Not sure how this is relevant. Assuming that there is a inherent cultural bias towards spicy food, it is not that difficult for a competitive athlete to go on a stricter regime while working towards victory.
GHC's new cutting-edge dataflow-based code generator
Firefox got support for getUserMedia in July... https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/getusermedia-is-ready-to-r...

Using Nightly go to about:config and enable the media.navigator.enabled pref, then you can test it out at this page: https://people.mozilla.com/~anarayanan/gum_test.html
I'd be interested in what the reporting structure under Forstall really is like. Jobs said Apple is run like a startup. But 1000 direct reports does seem unrealistic.
From http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/033626....

There are over 10 stratum one's that advertise LI=1 as of Wed Aug 1 14:18:51 UTC 2012. Unless this changes another false leap second could occur on August 31, 2012

So yes this was happening on July 31st but may happen as well on August 31.
Especially if he's local. Florida's public schools are terrible and from what I've seen have gotten even worse since I graduated high school.

I was born in upstate New York, moved to Florida when I was 9, over the summer between 3rd and 4th grade. Everything I learned in 4th grade in Florida was a repeat of what I learned in 3rd grade in New York.
> Amidst all this parents feels their kids are better off studying and getting good jobs to make a living than doing something like sports which don't offer much incentive to make a comfortable living.

Seems reasonable to me (but I went, studied, and got a good job instead of going to sports).
I was careful to specify: "simply [a] personal opinion". A business decision not to support a platform is not that.

I was also careful to specify: "If your app is worth a damn". Call of Duty is not worth a damn. I'm talking about meaningful apps that actually making a difference.

I was specific, because the opinion is specific. If your app isn't worth a damn, then it doesn't really matter, does it? It's a toy, nothing more.