skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it looks cool, but if the service gets really popular, I wonder if they will be able to scale it well. IE: Will they still put the time and effort into finding you dates or will they replace it eventually with an algorithm that automatically finds you matches.
I think one problem is that pg has a secret blacklist. Anyone on this list can comment but their comments are hidden. This is very underhanded and cowardly. If you want to understand the decline if hn look at the people running it; not just the users.
Would Kaggle be a good fit to help solve this problem?
I disagree - I think as websites & web applications become more and more complex, we NEED to distinguish the 3 separate discipline: design/client-side/server-side.
Don't worry, you don't need to be married to HN. There will be something else replacing it, probably giving you exactly the kind of community you look for (because, simply, you are not the only one).

I hopped from slashdot to digg, from digg to reddit, and from reddit to HN. It's just another link in the chain.
The things I always wonder about TOR: Won't I look like someone else's computer? Is it possible for me to get in trouble for because someone else's traffic exits from my home network?
Hi,

Seems great.

Do you only track the US market ?

(you should change the position of the logout button, currently just after the search field, like a classic search button :) )
I think you're misunderstanding things a bit. In the context of DNA as a data storage medium, it no longer functions as a "building block of life". It'd be like taking some binary image data and overwriting it with binary audio data. You can still technically interpret it as image data, but it's just going to be a random jumbled mess, and will probably error out immediately.
Why exactly does an update to a language make you sad?
During a job interview I was asked what would be a personal goal of mine in the next five years, and my answer was 'understand completley all the technical postings I read on HN'

Today, there are less and less technical posts, and more fanboyism, rumour, gossip.

I guess Gail Wynand took over YC ---- Let's let Roark back.
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They might not have used a "coding" scheme at all, if they were interested in characterizing the frequency and types of errors.
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Most car manufacturers have production plants in the US. I live in Alabama there are Mercedes, Honda and Hyundai plants. BMW is in South Carolina. Toyota Prius is built in Mississippi.

The land and power are cheap, the wages are reasonable and there is not a lot of union activity.
> <insert functional language here>

Common Lisp is not a functional programming language.

> <refute any claims>

So we should ignore decades of experience and even simple rationality in favor of wild, unsubstantiated claims by a wheel-reinventing author?
A couple questions.

1. Are users of .onion services protected from the server just as well as the hidden service is protected?

2. What reassurances are there that tormail is not a honeypot?
The middle option is (was?) learn Flash. You get a bit of both sides and can complete projects by yourself.
I wish there was a way to end this meme, so people didn't keep saying the same dumb thing every time: Changes to Plan 9 are continually integrated, with a new ISO being generated every day. Inferno lives as a Mercurial repository these days, and it too gets updated frequently. In Plan 9, for instance, they recently added a better bootloader and support for timed semaphore acquires (and after that patch, you can now build Go for Plan 9). We even get ports to new systems from time to time, like the beagleboard or the gumstix.
I spent most of my time playing with other kids around my block in the park, and just hanging out in the arcades, shooting pool, bowling, playing video games together, watching movies, or just wandering around the streets. When I needed to contact someone, I'd actually walk to his/her house and ring their bell
One of my friends from University developed quite a bit for Plan 9. It's nostalgic to see this again.
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I've got a few trillion cells in my body that say it's incredibly stable.
that's irrelevant since you have 2 strands that are mirror copies of each other. just prefix your data with a single A, if it's read as a T, just invert the bits of the rest of the strand.
ah. You don't seem understand plan 9 OR capabilities. Cool.
Some sort of quick-release valve as with LPG?

Not sure it's sufficient considering the kind of pressure you'll need in the tank to store an amount of energy worth using.
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Until you need a replacement part, and they're out of production...

For a discontinued car (or, a car made by a defunct company) to still be drivable, there needs to be a sufficiently large community of enthusiasts around it that have figured out how to fabricate the parts that are no longer available.

Now, this has certainly happened. Lots of cars from the 1920s and on are still on the road, and a cottage industry has sprung up around keeping them running. However, the defining feature of these cars is that a substantial amount were sold.

Getting parts made in the future for a very unusual and technologically advanced car like a Tesla if the company is no longer around is going to be very expensive indeed. It will cross from being a daily driver to being a project car, and the owner will need to be very dedicated to the project.
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Out of curiosity, what subreddit is it?
Some suggestions on contacting people on Dribbble:

1) They probably are busy, especially the good ones. A lot, if not most, of the requests I get from Dribbble are from people who need someone yesterday. I mark myself as "hireable" even though I work a full-time job in case someone comes to me with a project I'd really like to take on, but even if I were freelancing entirely, I'd probably have other projects on the docket that yours would need to wait for. While I realize sometimes you can't help when you need someone, I can't with good conscious take on a new project right away that's expecting an equally quick turnaround time.

2) I've gotten messages that have said anything from "Hi I'm so-and-so, and I saw your portfolio and wanted you to make me a website. Please give me your rates," to the way it should be done:

"Hi, I'm so & so with Project X and I am looking for a UI designer to do some visual work on our website with HTML/CSS. At Project X, we're _mission statement_ and I believe your skillset would really amplify our appeal. We have this project scheduled to start in a month, lasting 3 months with the possibility of contract-to-hire. You would have the ability to work from home or in our beautiful office downtown. Reach me at _contact details_ in the next two weeks if this is something you're interested in. Thanks!"

The latter a) tells me who you are and what you do, b) tells me exactly the work I'd be doing, and where I can do it c) gives me a little ego boost, d) sets hard project dates and future possibilities, e) gives me a deadline by which I have to reach you so that you're not waiting and wondering.

The former forces me to take time to Google you, your company, your mission statements and your products so that I can get an idea of what I can do for you. I also don't gather anything from "make me a website" - do you need PSDs? Do you need a designer and a front-end dev? Do you even know what you need? And ..

3) Also never assume a designer has "rates" outside of any designer-as-consultant fees. Every project is so different and designers wear so many hats, it's pointless to try to put something in stone. You have a budget, tell them how they fit into it.
This is a flawed comparison because you do not need to "become a doctor" or read up on medical science to know that there is currently no way to get another pair of functioning human arms on top of the two you already have.

By the way, there are surgical options to grow taller by lengthening the limbs [1]. I'm not a doctor.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Health/york-man-grows-inches-surgery/s...
What if people who up-vote nasty comments don't really do it consistently, they just vote a lot? Maybe votes need to be precious, so people use them more carefully. Slashdot addressed the problem by limiting the mod points available and introducing meta-moderation. Meta-moderation won't work in an up/down voting system like this, but limiting votes, for example to a certain number per day, is a powerful option. You could even have tiers, where people with more karma would get more votes per day. Maybe every 100 karma points gets you an extra vote per day.
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> Won't I look like someone else's computer?

The IP address seen by a server on the regular Internet that you contact through TOR is that of some exit node.

> Is it possible for me to get in trouble for because someone else's traffic exits from my home network?

Not unless you run an exit node yourself. The standard TOR client software does not launch an exit node by default.
The idea I'm currently investigating, in case anyone is curious, is that votes rather than comments may be the easiest place to attack this problem. Although snarky comments themselves are the most obvious symptom, I suspect that voting is on average dumber than commenting, because it requires so much less work. So I'm going to try to see if it's possible to identify people who consistently upvote nasty comments and if so count their votes less.

Interesting - also, if it is as you suspect and voting is easier and thus part of the problem, perhaps adding more friction to the process of voting would be useful. Something like having to spend karma to vote, or having a limited number of votes per day to spend.
Jason Hoffman says 5 years or full refund for lifetime Joyent customers
I don't think the message us technical guys are trying to get across is that you need to become one of us and strive for the full ability to implement your idea all by yourself. Hell, the less people that are awesome programmers the better, keeps us in high demand.

After my experience with a very-non-technical co-founder before, I dont think I would ever again agree to work with someone who couldn't at the very least know how to read the source code and manually tweak database entries. Working with someone who has read the basic rails tutorials makes it infinitely easier to communicate and mutually understand technical and temporal restrictions on a product in development.

I'm a programmer, but I sure as hell read Inbound.org, dribbble, forrst, and other sites besides just technically oriented ones so I at the very least can use the same vocabulary to describe and understand what a a partner is doing and why they're choosing to do it that way. I expect anyone I work with to be similarly versed.
This is the inherent problem with free, open Internet. I would not change it one bit. Unfortunately, Hacker News is only one of many places like this. It's the same reason I left Stack Exchange long ago.

However, I do feel your pain. I think it is disgusting that people have plenty of time to destroy your hard work, but have not time at all to offer the tiniest bit of encouragement. I've noticed it happening more and more often as well. I'm just not sure why people cannot simply be polite to each other.
Great post, I used to work in manual labor. There are issues with mental fatigue in software development that affect work/life balance more so than physical fatigue, but in general I agree with you.
Previous submission of this interesting article (with no comments):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4392466
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I dispute your premise that the lifetime plans somehow threaten Joyent's existence as a going concern; if the infrastructure of the lifetime services is difficult to support within Joyent's current business, I'd prefer that they honour the spirit of their promise instead of pretending that they promised something different and hoping that lifetime customers go away.

And again, I'd suggest that you get working on that time machine, because your powers of 20/20 hindsight are truly remarkable.
Yes, if you're set up to allow traffic to exit from your computer. It is possible to set it up so you only serve as one of the "internal" layers.
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I think this is Elon Musk defining a "problem" which he knows he can solve successfully. By defining the problem as "can we sell 20k cars/year", he'll be able to point in 6 months that "yes, we did sell 20k cars, and in only 6 months".

The big open question (which Tesla doesn't want to set as the benchmark for success) is selling a mass-market car (the next one). I'm confident Tesla can do a 50-100k unit/yr high end product ($40-100k) on its own, eventually, but building a $20k car and shipping hundreds of thousands is a different matter.
A POV of "repeatability" which is missed: It's not so much that you're buying a repeatable $4 item, it's that you're paying thousands of dollars for something instantiated over and over. You're not so much buying the individual drink as buying into Starbucks. You've made your evaluation, considered the options, and settled on a product for which you are going to shell out a pile of cash, using it for a long time (in $4 20oz increments). This vs. apps which, as you note, requires evaluation every time with a different experience for each $1. The "coffee vs. app" comparison would only be valid if every time you bought a drink you weren't quite sure what you were getting, knowing that there was high odds of chucking it on the first sip; you wouldn't be buying many of those either. The coffee analogy matches more the device you're running the app on: same device, used in small increments daily, with a little surface variation (the apps), for a very long time; this matching more that you're buying the Starbucks experience for $2 a day, and swapping out toppings/flavorings (apps) for another $1 or so.

BTW: the correct order is "short black". "Tall" isn't their smallest size, the un-advertised "short" is. They may not have the proper cups (as most customers don't know they exist), so you may get a free upgrade to "tall". As for "black", why would anyone want to adulterate a perfectly good coffee into a milkshake?
Only if you choose to be a Tor exit node. And you have to set that up explicitly.
Nah facebook stopped being useful once my dad and aunt would read and post stuff there. It turned from a hangout at a friends place into sunday supper.
Let me know when they release a decent editor for it...
That, and assign a couple people he knows well that will make similar good judgement calls the same privileged, that way you increase the amount of work being done.

I think a method like this is necessary, as I really don't think you could determine post quality with an algorithm itself. You can't automate that type of intelligence.
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tl;dr (most important):

Facebook's stock is not likely to bottom until one or more of three things happen: 1) revenue growth reaccelerates, 2) margins stop declining and start expanding, 3) the stock falls to a level that is objectively "cheap," at which point value investors will start buying it. We're a long way from that level.

Also, he is very wrong about Amazon (comparing company selling products that is not a matter of trend, but rather a matter of, for lack of better wording: life or death). But I understand he just tries to BS his engineering team by telling them "work hard like Amazon emps did and we will be fine and stock will go up", which, as you know, is not a case here.
You can chose whether or not to be an exit node, so nobody else's traffic will exit through your connection if you don't want it to.

If you do enable it, my presumption is that by demonstrating that you have tor running you can show that traffic from your connection is as likely to not be you as to be you - but I'm not sure if this is backed up by law, or has been tested in court.
But you can also embed interesting information into an image without distorting the image itself (much). Similarly, the DNA of most organisms have a ton of garbage space that could be used to encode information without hurting the organism.

Not saying it's practical or desirable, just that it is possible.
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Flash drives also have all of the necessary equipment for it to be read. I wonder how much data per gram the actual storage part of the flash drive actually is. I doubt it's better than DNA, but I think it might be disingenuous for the article to be offering the analogy to hard drives without taking into account the extra read/write hardware.
Yeah, the slashdot approach to mods might also be worth looking into. They do a sort of randomized statistical moderation thing that makes its less autocratic than other schemes, while still retaining the human nuance.
I notice that the article fails to mention how long it would take to extract all 700 terabytes of data...

Assuming 5.5 petabits stored with 1 base pair representing 1 bit, we can extrapolate the time required to extract the data based off the time taken to sequence the human genome (3 billion base pairs).

5.5 petabits / 3 billion bits ~= 2 million, so theoretically it should take 2 million times longer to sequence the original.

3 years ago, there was an Ars Technica article about how it now only takes 1 month to sequence a human genome[1]; the article now claims that microfluidic chips can perform the same task in hours.

Assuming 2 hours (low end) to sequence the human genome:

2 hours * 2 million = 4 million hours = 456 years, give or take a few years.

So, maybe not so great for storing enormous amounts of data. But if you want to store 1 GB, it would only take ~6 hours. Not too bad.

[1]http://arstechnica.com/science/2009/08/human-genome-complete...
When was there even any doubt about it? Britain has been aligned with US imperialism for decades.
can someone tell me how to get this to actually work? I'm on firefox 15 and I don't see this feature?
All of this falls under his part 1, which I agreed with.
Then who would be in charge of creating new knowledge, and who would put it into our brains or DNA? Knowing everything humans have discovered so far would only change the type of jobs we would have, we would still need to have jobs though.
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strange I think the submission has been flagged for no apparent reason ?
What device currently out there does display the from/reply-to?

Spoofing the reply-to or what number a message came from is easy, and has been used before to fake post messages to peoples twitter account for instance, same could probably be done with Facebook if someone has the SMS feature turned on.

I don't remember any of my phones ever having a feature that allowed me to see the Sender/Reply-to for any text message I've received. One thing I do know is that I trust SMS about as far as I trust my carriers and I don't trust them at all. Even if a "bank" were to text me I wouldn't use the information provided in the text to make my next move.
I would guess that anyone who describes academic papers as not being full of "crap" or who describes source code as "beautiful" has read neither.

To learn something, I read books, like textbooks. But maybe that's just me.
Slashdot has been doing something similar for a while. I like their commenting system.
Free as in beer, not free as in freedom.
Well I might be able to afford that. Thanks!
This really isn't pre-history since there are Sumer tablets that are dated around 2500 BC. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_Luenna_Louvre_AO423...
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I really liked their paper. Its a bit less over the top than the extremetech guys but hey, that is the difference between pop journalism and science.

Clearly with some form of fountain code or LDPC codes you will be able to get the data back, but what struck me is that I always thought of DNA as relatively unstable, in the sense that cells decay/die etc, but the fact that just sitting there, DNA which isn't expressing various proteins under the influence of other cellular mechanisms, well it just sits there. That was new for me.

When I showed it to my wife she pointed out that the sourdough starter she has been using since we were married was from her grandmother, I joked that the next megaupload type raid would have to sequence all the DNA the found in a place to figure out if Shrek3 was encoded in it somewhere. That would be painfully funny I think.
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So, we could end up with a (drum roll please) stenographic stegosaurus?

Edited to add: Ruined my own punchline. Steganographic stegosaurus, damnit!
I posted a friend's start-up here (she wants traction), and her effort was summarily eviscerated. But not until after I'd already sent her a link to the thread. I feel terrible about that now. I think nasty comments tied with a product or site announcement might be a low-of-lows to look for? Or at least finding site announcements might be easier than finding "all nasty comments" and then evaluate that subset first?
I believe the strength of the joke lies in its cunning lesson, not in its details.
1. In the sense the server does not know the user's IP address so far as I know, yes.

2. No idea.
FYI this is all I get running chromium in linux: http://i.imgur.com/7FUlr.png
Yes, this is something that is covered extensively on the TOR FAQs. They actually recommend you set up a business entity to limit your liability.
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Breach of Contract by Big Business: A slippery and rapidly declining slope.
1) When you buy software, you often aren't paying for the brand. As was stated in the original post, purchasing software is often done blindly and is a total gamble. Given that the brand of most software is worthless and the cost of production is nothing, where does the value of that software come from?

2) Granted, there are some arbitrary restriction on cars, but they are still a lot more open than software. You can easily alter them, fix them yourself, etc. None of that is remotely possible with commercially-distributed software. I can't just fork Tweetbot, add in support for Orkut, and redownload it to my phone. However, if I want to install a better radio into my car I can. Software (especially on mobile) exists as an immutable "black box" that you have no access to other than the user interface, and that makes it less valuable.

3) No one is arguing that it is inherently wrong to charge for software. People refuse to pay not because they are principally opposed to it, but because the average price of an app in the app store is far below $.99, and thus $.99 seems like an inflated price.

4) It's true that apps like Photoshop are valuable, but it's apparent that their prices are absurdly inflated. Pixelmator can make an app with 90% of the functionality at a little over 2% of the price. Is that 10% extra functionality really worth all those hundreds of dollars? For most, it isn't. The same can be said of apps. Sure, that $.99 app is cool, but this free one does 90% of what the paid one does. Is that 10% extra functionality really worth all those dozens of pennies? For most, it isn't.