skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starbucks coffee in the US is just as bad as Starbucks coffee is in Aus, possibly even worse because US customers seem to have much lower standards for coffee. Last time I had to drink Starbucks in the US I had to get 5 shots in a latte so that I could actually taste the coffee.
That's easy - the expanding gas!

Releasing pressurized gas absorbs heat so simply running the released gas through a set of A/C coils would provide indirect A/C or you could merely vent the "exhaust" (it is air, after all) into the passenger compartment since that "exhaust" should be very cold.
> The last post I saw on this mentioned that the security researcher did not responsibly disclose the vulnerability because he just knew they wouldn't do anything. Looks like he was wrong.

I'm the security researcher in question (and author of this post). What a company does when pressured by their customer base and what they do when no pressures exist are two very, very different things. Had I approached them with these vulnerabilities ahead of time, it's highly likely that they would have used their considerable cash reserves to strong-arm me legally into not releasing this data, and the issue would not have been resolved.

As I said in my original paper/slides, this was the best way to get the issue in front of hotel owners so that it could be resolved; this is the intended behavior.
Python vs. Coffeescript
I haven't made the jump from arrows to hjkl. My cofounder's keyboard is arrowless, but my HHKB lite still has the arrows. Maybe in another 5 years I'll make the switch.
But how many times did Carly practice and rehearse and sing that song in public before that happened? Dozens? Hundreds? And just to make it on the show Canadian Idol and get that exposure - was that luck? Or did it take a lot of courage and gut churning effort?

She EARNED that chance to be heard by Bieber. Luck doesn't and never does have anything to do with it. Luck doesn't exist. The word luck is just a way to discredit hard work and unseen efforts.
This header idea is great because then you only need to keep one strand and can toss the other, potentially quadrupling the amount of data storage (I'm assuming you can keep single strands of DNA stable).

[Left strand]

A = 00

T = 01

C = 10

G = 11

[Right strand]

T = 00

A = 01

G = 10

C = 11

Anyone know these guys at Harvard, b/c this might be a way to put, at most, 2800 terabytes in a gram? (I don't know how long the header sequences would have to be).
Can we encode all of human knowledge into the DNA of some organism? How can organisms access data stored in their DNA? Imagine being born with knowledge of every Wikipedia article, or even every website. What would that be like?
Just to give some context.

RedeConv is a electronic payment company, it does not offer any credit from what I saw like Visa does, electronic payment is a market that only recently the Visa brand began exploring in Brazil, offering prepaid cards for payments of employee meals (this is what Visa Vale is basically), providing means for this type of electronic payment and offering credit for payments are not the same thing in Brazil.

In this case the company in question to blame is not exactly Visa but Cielo that probably is just upset about losing market in electronic payments, which is what I believe RedeConv provides, Cielo began as a Joint venture between Visa and some Brazilian banks some years ago, the name of the company was VisaNet until it was renamed in 2010 I believe, the company is one of the most profitables in the Brazilian stock exchange where it's listed and its profit increases after every quarter, I personally own some Cielo stocks.

EDIT:
Eduardo, if you can record one or more conversations from merchants relating about that you can denounce Cielo to the CADE (the Brazilian equivalent of the FTC). Before doing that you should call a lawyer first so he can inform you how you should do it legally.
This looks amazing, but doesn't Apple explicitly ban this?
If you store data onto 50 DNA strands, can you always read back all the data from all 50 strands, or does one need to store multiple copies of each in case the sequencer can't "find" a particular strand?

If one does need multiple copies, it would seem that this method suffers from the coupon collector's problem [1] (i.e. to collect all 50 strands requires collecting 225 random strands on average), and that the retrieval rate could be improved by using a fountain code [2], which allows each strand to simultaneously encode data at multiple addresses, which would decrease the number of strands required to be sampled to only slightly more than the number of strands worth of data requested.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collectors_problem
[2] http://blog.notdot.net/2012/01/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Fountain...
You have made five comments on Hacker News. Three of them are extremely rude and vulgar (the language doesn't bother me, but the sentiment behind it does). The norm here is civil, intelligent conversation, which is the opposite of "It's because you're a fucking idiot." If you keep going this way, you're going to get hellbanned. Just a friendly heads-up.
Sure. These are practical things. And practically it can't.
hmmm, has anybody studied reading patterns of people when reading from a screen? It may be possible to fairly accurately estimate the probability of a section of text being read.

For example if there are 6 comments on display at anyone time and they are on display (without scrolling away) for 2 minutes, one might arrive at a probability of how much of that page was read, and how much time was equally spent on previous/subsequent parts of the page.

Especially when factors like, people tend to scroll text to be at the top of the screen to read it, or like me, highlight text I am currently reading with the mouse. Using these factors, we might be able to know what is/isn't read...

before improving something, try to measure it first!
DNA is 3D. Flash drives are 2D.
But the major difference between Bezos' strategy with Amazon and Zuckerberg's apparent strategy with Facebook is that Amazon was absolutely up front that they're willing to sacrifice short term profits for long term stability.

Amazon's initial shareholder letters were basically "Yes, we know we're not turning a profit right now, but that's because we believe in our long term plan". They also detailed what they were doing to make sure that their short-term spending was going to result in long-term returns. Amazon's letters and SEC filings were focused almost completely on this message: That we're spending money now to make a LOT more money in the future.

Facebook, perhaps due to the competitive space that they're in, really haven't done anything like that. Their filings have more of a "Deer in the Headlights" feeling than anything else, with mobile revenue being basically 0, and not adequately explaining the massive expense increases for Q2 2012. Those are red flags for investors. It's a completely different message from Amazon's.
Here's a creative idea to partially solve the charging problem. Have people buy the fast chargers for their homes, and then get listed in a database where people could stop by and pay for a charge on their travels. It would be like AirBnB but for charging electric cars.
I'm not so sure I agree with the definition of a nerd.

Are all nerds really socially inept? If so - what happens to a nerd that later begins to acknowledge that inefficiency, and alters certain behavioral patterns to appease the masses? Does he/she cease to be a nerd if all else held constant?
If you expect accounts to go from $0 to $1MM in a single deal, yes you need to send in the field sales cowboys. Your revenue will be chunky and hard to predict, and your business will grow slowly based on long sales cycles.

Dropbox will have million dollar enterprise accounts. They'll get to that size gradually, with a nice smooth revenue ramp, and without a financial model based on sales heads. The negotiation will be easy, because the customer will call them after too many people are expensing the product

Quantcast gets million dollar customers over the phone by starting with a $20k test buy. Less elegant than Dropbox, but not too shabby.

Nerds should be all over this stuff. These decisions get made in the earliest days by the founders. That's us, here. Investors love companies like Dropbox, and get a sick feeling in their stomache when they see a company based on field sales doing big deals.
How large is Twitter's userbase?
I think the difference now is, the negativity was dealt with by the community pretty severely. I lurked for a long time, then joined and now I rarely participate, in total I have probably been reading HN for over 5 years, and actively commenting for over 3. To me it seems like the community policing itself, and the individuals that helped have been overrun by a larger community that is apathetic to the negativity.
Which is a false dichotomy, if you use the right storage mechanism for your column-oriented DB, the comparable relational DB storage will actually be larger since it has to index every column to provide the equivalent of what you can do with column-oriented storage. Also, another myth he brings up is that you can't have complex joins with column-oriented DBs. It's completely possible.
PostgreSQL 9.1.5 released
How much of programming potential is innate? Is saying "I'm not built to be a coder" more like saying "I'm not built to learn a foreign language" (which is implausible and smacks of laziness if you're at least moderately intelligent), or more like "I'm not built to be six feet tall" (which is true for most of the world's population)? I'm interested in the truth here, not in just-so answers based on personal experience. Are there good scientific studies answering this question, and do they agree? And if programming potential is mostly innate, is there a simple test for it that doesn't take 6 months?
Well, our website sucks eggs. I used to maintain it, then we hired a supposed sales/marketing guy and he stripped out all the screenshots and removed anything that actually gave you information and replaced it with a bunch of gobbly gook that is supposed to resonate with the fully buzz word enabled manager types. And then he left "to spend time with his family" :)

I've been too disgusted with the result to actually fix it but it clearly needs some lovin. I don't suppose anybody wants to tackle marketing BitKeeper? Not a fun job given that we annoyed the open source crowd but we do have some neat technology.

Github is in a different space, we don't see them much. We do see git of course, but lucky for us some of the design decisions in git left us some advantages (see the facebook thread about 6 months ago).

I dunno about Ned, isn't he the religious guy? I'm more the grumpy old man :)
Putting the wallet on top of the phone is probably even better!
I find that understanding 'big company' politics is one of the most challenging ideas for developers to understand. One of the thing that Joe, the E.piphany sales guy could have done to head this off, would have been to immediately suggest an audience with the CIO the minute the VP of sales stated that her problems were ones that IT was working on but could was taking a long time to solve.

The politics of big companies can get really crazy and just like Steve, internal IT believes that 'not losing is as important as winning'. To IT, having a new company come in and solve a problem that they were spending months to solve would be the same is losing. The end result is that they are now perceived as not being a true partner to the business. They are just the people who plug in cables and who make sure the lights are on. For the AutoDesk IT department, this would be the same as losing.

Kudos to everyone for making this work if it solved AutoDesk's problems.

To everyone else, make sure to discover and get in front of all key stakeholders. Some of those stakeholders can be the person vacuuming the floor as you walk into the building.
I see there being two kinds of sales - the one where you just need to build a better mousetrap, and market honestly and clearly, and the kind where you force your sales people to get the names and phone numbers of the board of directors, and take them all out for lunch

One is Instagram style sales, one is Oracle sales.

Oracle Sales might not be best categorised as cut throat or stab in the back, but the game Steve Blank played was not fluffy - it was hardnosed and fully engaged with the politics of the world.

Just saying.
Yes, they also shared a belief that tea goes well with milk. Telling, no?

As if an agreement in some "overview of political systems from 1000 miles above" stance, means anything...

Not a very good idea to compare philosophers (or philosophers and pulp writers like Rand) from Wikipedia...
The 11K Club: I like the site design. I think the muted wood grain back ground is kind of cool. I have no idea what the site is for. The ToS scares me (The more people you refer ... the higher your chances of becoming a member ~ o_0)

Favilous: It looks like a bookmarking site. Solid site design and layout. Not too cluttered. I don't use bookmarking sites so I can't really comment on how it is different/better than other bookmarking sites.

Edit: Ok I see from posts here what 11kclub is. I'm not sure why user napillo is hellbanned but [s?]he makes a good point here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397318
> I'm the security researcher in question (and author of this post). What a company does when pressured by their customer base and what they do when no pressures exist are two very, very different things

Totally agreed.

> Had I approached them with these vulnerabilities ahead of time, it's highly likely that they would have used their considerable cash reserves to strong-arm me legally into not releasing this data, and the issue would not have been resolved.

I guess we'll never know will we?

Edit: To be fair, I don't have a stake in this either way, and I'm glad the end result is that they're taking the threat seriously.
Watch the video. The seller already had a good system installed, but break-ins kept happening. So he added this laser light show and they stopped. What I get from that is that you should use this system in addition to a normal security system. Schneider seemed to have missed that part.
I actually toyed around with this when it was first announced, sometimes the results are quite unique.

Check out this screenshot from cityofchicago.org, the 3D DOM looks strikingly similar to the Willis (Sears) Tower...

http://i.imgur.com/udact.png

[edit] Looking back, it's just the "G+" feature on any page...
Education would no longer be necessary or valued.

Experience and creativity would be what everyone garners to get a job.
oh, and not forgetting of course:

- "'n' things every programmer should know'"
- "why every programmer should learn [C|LISP|ASSEMBLY]"

And can we just have a new section for the zillions of new "essential" JavaScript frameworks "we must learn" that get built every week.
Doctor: You seem to be in good health, what again did you say you need me to do?

BizBrah: Well, I'd like to be several inches taller, and have four arms.

Doctor: I don't really, uh, do that sort of thing, if it were even possible.

BizBrah: Listen, this is a one in a million idea, I just need someone to implement it. I'm the idea guy, you're the doctor.

Doctor: It's not impossible per se, but none of my colleagues would actually attempt such things on a human subject. Perhaps you should read up a bit about the current state of medical science, and maybe become a doctor if body modification research is your calling.

BizBrah: I looked at what's available at the pharmacy, but it's all too hard to understand. I love tall people. I love the dynamic nature of juggling many things at once. Am I forever cursed to be uninvolved in the medical community because doctors keep shooting down my ideas?

Doctor: ...

BizBrah glares demandingly.

Doctor: Actually, I can help you out! The kind of doctor you're looking for is called a psychiatrist. I know a good one, here's his card.

BizBrah: Bingo! I'm a people person, persuasion is my strength.
How to un-strip affiliate links in Pinterest?
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I think it used to. Now I really don't know too many people who uses that term.
Yes, it's the closest to my current needs. But it's unlikely I will be able to use it currently as it's still pretty nascent and I don't feel comfortable just yet. Anyhow - I am looking to run some benchmarks on it next week.
There's a big security flaw on your iPhone.
To read the data out are they basically doing de novo assembly on the sequenced reads? How are they handling all of the errors in gene sequencing? How about assembly errors? Long repeats?
Can't Code? Learn Design.
Sadly I am starting to believe a invitation based HN would be the only solution to the problem but it comes with it's own set of problems. The biggest being that it would become an echo chamber.
I wish it had stuck.

In a related vein, I idly wonder if there's a project around intended to bring useful security to a practical Unix derivative. Nobody uses a big timesharing box any longer (for all reasonable definitions of nobody); and the protections mooted to keep "users" away from "wheel" are basically pointless and counterproductive in a world where attacks come from outside. Apple's code-signing is one reaction to this new reality; what's the current status of capability based systems?
Internet Explorer Script Interjection Code Execution
DownloadAll plugin from FireFox.
Trulia files S-1, plans to raise $75 million in IPO
I spent the time and read your post for reviewing Favilous* and I have no idea why you think there was nothing constructive there. Frankly, it looks like mostly constructive. Most of the comments are even in your format of 'I like this but this needs work' for goodness sakes. I don't know what you expect. If anything, they pulled a lot of punches.

I've had the exact opposite reaction as you. I disliked the old HN community. It felt like a circle jerk who would hype each other up and offer little to no constructive criticism. Products that clearly had no defensible business models or clones of clones that would rely on kickbum business execution to see any adoption. You still see the same thing today, but at least there is some dissent.

I'm glad HN is no longer a place where clones of other platforms cobbled together in a few hours gets praised as the greatest thing since the memristor.

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060022
Thanks, just changed it!
The Internet is not a hugbox. People launching products and companies need criticism more than anything else, because if they get it now, they can fix the problem before a customer or a funding source spots it.
I thought this was a really good point, especially in all of the other Facebook / Google threads where people parroted it.
oh, this is a reference to a Seinfeld episode. Elaine works for a clothing company that is trying to sell men's purses by renaming them "European carry alls".

Jerry: Hey! Officer! Someone took my European carryall!

Cop: Your what?

Jerry: The...black, leather...thing with a strap.

Cop: You mean a purse?

Jerry: Yes, a purse. I carry a purse!
I'd assert it is before they (or someone observing them) did write down their history. Writing goes back quite a ways, but the idea of writing down histories only goes back as far as Herodotus. Also, even if the histories are lost or only alluded to in later derivative works, the time period covered might still be considered historic (though sometimes considered traditional, legendary or semi-historic).

Pre-Roman Britain would generally be considered prehistoric, (Chalcolithic based on the Cornish sources of tin, or early Iron Age, but well past neo-lithic), mainly due to the lack of written histories. Not to say they didn't have oral histories, just that there is no record available for historical study.
When you're dealing with professional artists, or professionals in any sense, it's the difference between a 1490 and a 1510 that is what is fundamentally unquantifiable.
Remote debugging android browsers.
You may be interested in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
It's worth about 10 bottles of water!
This makes me sad. I have been self-taught PHP developer for 10+ years but after I "discovered" Ruby on Rails there is no going back.

For those of you who still thinks PHP is the best thing - don't give me bad karma :)
That's an interesting use case for Raspberry Pi. My team loves to play around with them. In fact we are about to launch an Open Source OS for it (the current Raspbian OS is weak at best). We're also testing various serially chained variations as well.

Bottom-line. It's really cool to see what this little thing is doing as far as innovation in the market.
If you'd like to see what it contains without the 4GB download, I've mirrored the contents:
http://mirror.die.net/misc/defcon-20/
Yeah, I get that from one of my teenage daughters, as well. Alas, it's the one who most needs to listen up.

At 28, you darn well better be taking care of yourself. However, I suspect you have not had to deal with adolescent children yet.
One quick way to change your behaviour is by remapping the arrow keys to a NOOP. Took be about two days of solid coding afterwords to completely change my habits and have been reaping the awards ever since!
Why warn him? Let them bring the hellbanhammer down.
You hit the nail on the head about what bothers me about HN, after 4 years of using it: "Its a place for Y-combinator folks to share links they are interested in."

news.YC is biased and will always be biased towards YC-oriented stories, which means it will never be as good as it could be. The status quo doesn't mean that news.YC isn't any good - it's just suspect and you have to filter everything through that lens - the story rankings, comments, and job posts are not ordered by merit, there is a sub-filter in place.

I hope there is eventually a start-up news site that isn't architected and gardened to benefit a small group above all else.

Disclaimer: I was a YC reject, and you can chalk it all up as sour grapes if you like.
Well then, if that was the case then Assange could just as well peacefully with the rest of the Ecuadorian delegation.

Don't forget that Assange is not and asylum "seeker" anymore, but that he has in fact been granted asylum. In other words, under international law, he is and Ecuadorian Citizen and unless Britain decides to transgress International Law and effectively declare war on Ecuador, no amount of sabre rattling will amount to anything at all.
Thanks, Laura! We loved having you visit.

For those looking to start contributing to open source, I highly recommend reading through the slides from Laura's talk: http://www.slideshare.net/lauraxthomson/hacker-school-gettin...
I think we'd be past "jobs" if it were possible to store and read memory in DNA with the human brain.
It's a phase. Like the bitcoin stuff. It'll taper off.
It's vim, so no need for a hardware mod. Here's a trick that several vim writers recommend; add this to your .vimrc:

" Disable arrow keys
noremap <Up> <nop>
noremap <Down> <nop>
noremap <Left> <nop>
noremap <Right> <nop>

It'll be super annoying for the first day or two, vexing for the rest of the week, then you'll just forget it's even there.
If all you want to hear is how awesome it is, then go show it to your mum. I'm sure she'll tell you how special you are and that you can do no wrong.

Your account was created a little short of a year ago. We are talking about how the newer crop is rude and sarcastic and how that has ruined the quality of the old HN and then you post this. There is no call for it, you could have easily worded your post to say "hey everyone thinks their idea is great, but sometimes we have to help them see reality". Instead you reinforce the very issue, that has caused the decline. Seriously it's sarcastic, condescending and rude.