skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. DNA is fairly easy to duplicate though, right? Wouldn't that allow an exponential speedup?
So you've never even read her then ?
More ad-hominen and no substance. Yawn ...
The movie analogy is interesting, because you can see the way people have evolved techniques to handle the grossly different movie products:

rotten tomatoes aggregates professional reviewers to give a general score

imdb lets people see the entire body of work by directors, writers and actors. So people will see a movie by a director they like the same way they'll pick up a book by a writer they like.

and then you have companies like Pixar and Disney (same, I know) that exist on brand. People will see the movie because it's a Pixar movie and they know what to expect (or not expect).

but what is even more interesting about the movie analogy is that with all these tools for discovering movies, box office take seems to be a function of advertising budget than anything else (to the point where they believe that movies have to hit a certain take on opening weekend to be successful at all).
>1. Are users of .onion services protected from the server just as well as the hidden service is protected?

An .onion server, AFAIK, might have the IP of the end point your traffic ended up going through to reach the .onion server, but not of the point of origin.

The vulnerability with Tor, as a user, comes from folks operating the Tor nodes. Adrian Lamo, the guy that sold out Bradley Manning, was running Tor nodes at one points (that's not how he got wind of Manning, but my guess is he wasn't running the Tor nodes for altruistic reasons).
> seems to say "I'll pay attention to you for now, but I'm really hoping for a distraction.".

I put my phone on the table b/c I'm not 100% comfortable (rationally or not) with a device emitting radiation near my genitals for hours at a time.
A word of advice for those living under truly oppressive governments - do not connect to Tor directly (nor to a Tor bridge, to be on the safe side). Get a cheap VPS/EC2 abroad and use SSH tunnel to connect to that and from then onwards - to a Tor bridge. The reason is that, if connecting to Tor directly, security services will be able to figure out you are using Tor (although not what you are using it for) and may take an interest.
1) yes, in fact more so, because they rely upon no fixed keys

2) there is zero reassurance, there is also zero reassurance gmail isnt sending all your mail to the NSA, etc. TOR helps you ensure you can keep you tormail and your clearnet identities as separate as possible, alternatively, run your own service.
You are a better man/woman than I, then.
I've often thought that Starbucks should sell fractional shares a long with their coffee, thus becoming the biggest ponzi scheme in history.
No, we tested rigorously. It just makes us really scared to release an update.
My Ford truck came with a forward-facing red LED on the dash that blinks when the truck is off. As far as I can tell, it has no purpose other than to serve as a fake car alarm.
You can't complete non-flash projects by yourself?
On sites with classified areas, they'll often have little individual cell phone lockers right outside the turnstile to the limited area. Drop in your phone, lock it, take the key. That would be a much better way to control the phones.
So you see no difference between sharing a preference for popular drinks and agreeing on philosophical matters that often have to do with life and death ?

Let me guess : A Kantian or some other relativist perhaps ?
'1) 5 years of a 512MB Smartmachine for per lifetime account. Not lifetime. 5 years. Because lifetime is not a "legal" or "financial" term.'

He might want to have a chat with a lawyer. Glad I have never had to deal with joyent.
Does this really make that much difference? I kind of view the hjkl vs arrow keys like I view the standard debate about motion commands vs. the mouse.

Lots of people say they are faster using motion commands, and I know I use search motions 85% of the time. But if I want to go somewhere that's visible on the screen, the mouse is almost always quicker. And I've used vi and derivatives for 20+ years now (although obviously they initially didn't have mouse support :-)).

Similar for hjkl, especially if you use single cell motion mixed with whole page motion (Fn-arrow on a macbook), I just don't see hjkl + ^D^U being quicker. It seems more like something that might be useful every once in a while, but not terribly useful 100% or even 50% of the time.

EDIT: And the book says this:

"type the number of characters or lines you want the cursor to move, followed by h, j, k, or l. This technique cannot be used with the arrow keys: left, right, up, and down."

Which is not correct.
search http://www.tatamotors.com/search.php?query=airpod shows 0 results !!
Steve Mann's unanswered letter to McDonalds' Head of Customer Services
One possible solution (that you might already be doing) is to make the value of the vote proportional to how long the user has been a member, especially down-votes. That solves the problem of more recent arrivals not having the same qualities as the original members.

To be very clear so as to prevent conspiracy theories, this is something that we never did on reddit because we didn't want to put that much power into the hands of the older users. However, HN has a different philosophy and it might make sense here.

To say it one more time, reddit doesn't do this and never did.
It's even better - it would be a steganographic stegosaurus.
Maybe it's just a difference in interpretation of language, but for me, a fast food joint is definitely NOT a restaurant. The tone of the story also clearly implied it was an actual restaurant, nothing fast about it.
Sam and acme are both very good; they're weird, certainly, and very different from editors before and since but they are quite nice to work in. At least the equal of vi.
/r/ronpaul

As you might expect, a subreddit about a politician with (in)famously devoted followers attracts its share of strife. It can be difficult to distinguish legitimate arguments from flamebait, and there's no shortage of people eager to take any bait offered. I should note that I'm not actively running the moderation bot at the moment.
I'm a developer with extensive experience in building technology solutions and scaling them at all levels, from Fortune 500 all the way down to hobby game (400,000 lines of C / Lua) with a couple of thousand users running on a single PC. I love all aspects of building up a platform and can't get enough of it.

I'm drawn to the idea of being a technical co-founder and even have the financial resources to take a calculated risk on equity over initial income for a good amount of time. I don't live in CA, don't particularly want to move, and really struggle with these online "find a co-founder" sites when it's so hit and miss.

I feel like I have decent business sense but would prefer to spend my time building rather than dealing with VCs and fund raising and board meetings and paperwork so I just focus on small sites making "pocket money" and let the bigger opportunities pass by.

I guess my point in all this is that it isn't just "none technical co-founders" struggling here. This whole area of "partner discovery" is still wide open for someone to come along and find a better way to do things. Do any of the VC companies themselves do any kind of "partnering up"? If finding a technical co-founder is a challenge for so many people then perhaps there's a way for would-be leaders on the technical side to make themselves known to VCs up front, complete whatever interviews were necessary and let the VCs (or another 3rd party) do the matchmaking at a deeper level than just filling in forms on a site? Definitely open to suggestions in the meantime...
And a BizBrah who was somewhat versed in the medical vocabulary would have the ability to research a problem the dotor says is not possible, provide a link to an implemented solution, and the whole project benefits.

The medically educated patient knows just enough to challenge the patient rather than blindly asking for the imposisble
This just in, it's still PHP.
Ask HN: is there a "Yesterday's HN" app?
The comments on Hacker News are often better than the article linked to, and I've found the oldest articles on the front page often have the best insight.

This makes me question how many times I've missed excellent discussion by reading new articles too soon.

Has anyone done a Hacker News portal / app that shows "yesterday's front page" or "yesterday's top links"?
Well, the effect doesn't preclude the possibility that there are connections you specifically want to avoid. My point was just that the value of the social network is the connections - Facebook would be even less useful if none of your friends were on it in the first place. Managing who sees what in a way that jives with social dynamics is still something these networks are figuring out. Charging $50 is far more likely, however, to keep out my unemployed friends than my well employed parents.
To the conspiracy theorists freaking out about Trapwire, here's the real story
Serious Security Flaw : iPhone Bug Allows SMS Spoofing
I work with a car dealer and he said that one cannot import a Tesla to Canada. Anyone know why? Thx
Ooh, the Tor darknet. I went there recently out of curiosity. You can get used to doing everything over Tor quite quickly, if you use it for everything you don't really notice the latency.

Yes, Tor has CP, but I didn't look for it so I didn't find it. Same with all manner of other illegal content, pretty sure it's there.

I2P and Freenet are more interesting than Tor, though, because they are truly P2P. Freenet is basically a distributed hash table (DHT) for HTML, CSS, image, and other files. It filters scripts and cross-origin requests out of HTML before serving them. I2P is like Tor, but everyone's a relay node (truly P2P, no central origin), and it's faster, but I haven't tried I2P. I have been on Freenet... it's slower than Tor!
It has not been tested in court yet, however the theory is that safe harbor laws apply.
Angel.co introduces a new job matching service. Salary and equity info.
Leads me to wonder if the current "garbage" sequences in our own DNA could be encoded information that we were meant to decode - and by that I mean that that information may not just be entirely genetic code.
Zoomstra pivots towards marketing automation & lead nuturing
US only right now, but we're looking into others soon. :)

(Thanks for the button comment. Good looking out!)
Hence the quotations, we'd be past the traditional 9 to 5 and in pursuit of loftier ambitions.
I don't like Hacker News so much now because the hacker part seems to be slipping away and this place is becoming more of reddit news type :(
You can do quite a bit in Linux with CGroups and SELinux. Projects making good use of those are Fedora, Systemd and Chromium browser.
As gchpaco points out, both sam and acme are pretty usable. Acme makes a good enough programming editor that I use it for all my coding at work, while I keep a tarball of the original sam port on a server for those times when I have to use a system with a crappy version of vi and no admin privileges to install something better.

Oh, and you can run Vim on Plan 9 now. But it's kind of like visiting a foreign country and eating only McDonalds.
Just to extend this statement a bit. There's 2 related but different skills in design. User Experience and Visual Design.

Visual Design is one of those things where the best designers do have a innate artistic ability. There is a certain level of talent in this area which you're just born with.

UX however is a skill which can be taught and learned and is a phenomenal skill for a product guy, learning to do Information Architecture, UX etc. is very doable.

BTW Not all visual designers are good at UX. Those that are talented at both aspects of design are pretty much unicorns.

A spot to get started
http://www.uxforthemasses.com/ux-books/
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/
I'm sure that the author of "A plan for spam" (introducing the idea of bayesian filtering to recognize spam) can find a way to classify nasty comments.
Does anybody know how to escape their horrible "mobile" version that they force onto ipad users? It can't even be zoomed :-(

More and more often I find myself not reading articles because someone thought it would be a great idea to create a non-scrolling, non-obvious, paginated "iPad format" with additional misleading and unintuitive buttons looking like native ones but doing something different.

Sorry for the rant.

EDIT: so you might as well access the original at http://hms.harvard.edu/content/writing-book-dna instead of the ad-ridden regurgitation.
Per that page:

"Some software supports the use of the number sign (#) as an alternative to the semicolon for indicating comments."

What's the 'official' definition of the ini format and what's really not allowed?
Thanks for your response, I appreciate you looking into it. As I say I'm a huge HN fan but with the growth of the community there has been a sharp rise in people seeking to make a name for themselves and seeking to criticse rather than critique constructively.
I just received an email...I don't see any official announcement but it appears to be new.

It's very interesting that they disclose equity provided to the employees. Has anyone seen this publicly disclosed before?
> the U.S. is frequently the opposition to extending copyright durations

Except when Mickey Mouse comes up for expiration.
Especially one seeing many improvements.
Yes, the AT rules are unique.

No, Gandi doesn't have to just do nothing to warn you and let you sort it out afterwards.

They have at least two options upfront:
- Do what the other large international registrars do: give a fuck about the rules and just cancel the domain.
- Actually tell the customer two months before and get them to explicitly cancel the domain.

Or, option three: do nothing and just 'billwithdraw' the domain (this is what gives the domain back to nic.at to handle the renewal), causing lots of pain for the customer.

Not saying that the AT rules are super great, but most of the blame really is on Gandi here.
News will always be biased, my friend. For as long as it is human generated.
Yep.

More irony is ironic: there's no Kindle reader for Linux, which is one of the platforms on which vi/vim are most likely to be found.

Thanks for nothing, Amazon.
I've only been here for a couple of years and while I recognize that online communities always basically go downhill as more people are added, I suspect there is another issue at play: startup fatigue.

Everyone and his mother's brother is launching a "like X but with Y" startup now. Unless yours is something really special right out of the gate, it just gets lost in the noise and is easy for the non-trolls to ignore, resulting in a situation where the only feedback is not helpful.
I'll check it out. Next up, doing away with POSIX.
And on Linux?
lots of words that could have simply been the last paragraph.

Of course, G+ isn't really a ghost town - it just isnt' anything like facebook. The only valid point is that app.net probably won't succeed - though I disagree that it won't change anything.

I think, as someone pointed out a few days ago, that app.net will convince more startups to start thinking about charging from the get go as opposed to being free to build up critical mass.
I think the cause is simply growth.

Absolutely, the more the original community is diluted, the more anonymous people feel, and the less restricted they are by perceived norms (as there are none). You can see this in extreme form on some forums like Kuroshin (remember that?) which have been abandoned to the trolls and are now overrun.

The problem with most systems to control quality is defining what is good, and what is not good. That's not a simple problem and I'm not convinced you'd ever be able to get a crowd to decide on it satisfactorily - there's a reason that mass-entertainment panders to the lowest common denominator, and a crowd's votes are likely to trend the same way and any automated system is subject to gaming and the ignorance of crowds as soon as you let a lot of people have input, however small.
Another solution used by sites like reddit or stackoverflow is to segment the communities into small enough groups to be self-policing.

Another approach I wondered about recently was along the lines of 'A plan for Spam' - it'd be interesting to use the massive comment base of HN to build up some sort of corpus of good and bad comments and apply Bayesian filtering to comments. You could use this to:

Set an initial point score for comments based on their content

Weight comment votes from users who consistently scored highly

You would have to seed the corpus of course, and let it learn from trusted users' votes, but otherwise this sort of system would in theory continue to work as long as there were enough good comments being posted.
I'd like to make a somewhat unrelated observation as a new user and someone who is new to programming.

I've noticed a submission might get a huge amount of upvotes yet the highest voted comment goes against the article/post submitted.

I understand there are a few things that could be going on: you can learn from bad articles/posts; those who like the article/post submitted find it unfair to downvote just because they don't agree on a contentious issue; or it becomes a what side can out-vote the other side (the one against vs. the one in favour of the submission).

Is there a commonly held view on why this happens? Sometimes I click upvote to save an article I've not read yet, not necessarily because it is a great or good article. However, I also sometimes click upvote because there is a comment inside it that I find very enlightening. Would it help at all to be able to save comments like we 'save' submitted articles? My apologies if this is too unrelated and meant to go somewhere else (email). Please let me know if this is the case. Thank you!
Why not simply limit the size of the community? Heck charge a membership fee...

Making it invite only would have (IMHO) improved things a massive amount. Have people do a test to gain entry.

Any community that is free and open will just deteriorate over time.
I assumed that the microfluidic chip speed listed would include parallel processing.

Even if it doesn't, you'd still need something like 5,000 experiments in parallel for it to take less than a month...
> Yes, Tor has CP, but I didn't look for it so I didn't find it. Same with all manner of other illegal content, pretty sure it's there.

My assumption is that the open web has it too - but given tor isn't a single place with a directory to everywhere, I don't see how you could stumble on it accidentally at all.
You could use it to automatically get firmware and software updates. One likely way of doing it: use git to list out tags and branches, find most recent one with appropriate text in the name. Then check out the data from that revision, and use it. Maybe delete the local git stuff afterwards (since you don't need it any more). Or, better yet, archive the data from that revision.

You might not necessarily supply this solution as part of a product - but if you work somewhere that has a lot of devices to manage, you might want to do this kind of thing yourself, internally. And if you're going to then take it seriously, you'd want to keep previous revisions of all your stuff around, making it easy for you to roll back to previous versions. Files with history, and easy rolling back to previous revisions... git isn't the worst possible way of doing that.

(I've seen this sort of thing done with perforce, pretty much exactly as I describe, to deliver updates of internal tools and manage test builds of products. Daily builds of tools and products get checked in to perforce each day; most days, QA test that day's build results; if a a given day's build proves not to be a big pile of crap, they tag the corresponding revision. Then you can use perforce to find half-decent historical builds, and retrieve them. The place I saw this done at had a little tool that somebody had written to put a friendly GUI face on this process.)
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On one hand, it seems like having the value tied to the voter's karma would make more sense, since someone here from the beginning with little karma says very little about their contributions or judgement.

On the other hand, either of these solutions seems destined to increase the inevitable echo-chamber herd mentality groupthink that already tries to creep into any community.
Mind providing a link? I briefly looked at Tor's FAQ and couldn't find anything on that.

Also, a business entity wouldn't help in the chance of criminal investigation, which means the money spent creating a business entity would be for naught.
This article is incredibly misleading. First of all there is an inconsistency. The headline says they stored 700 terrabytes (4.4 petabytes). It then later says that they actually stored 700 kilobytes (Their book) and that they did made 70 billion copies (44 petabytes?). The main thing is that storing 700 kilobytes and then making 700 billion copies is considerably less useful than storing 70 billion terabytes outright. Aside from that though, this is awesome, and a huge step forward into promising and uncharted territory.
Plan 9 pops up on the front page from time to time, and I see a lot of people expressing a lot of misconceptions about it. I know there are at least 2 or 3 other Plan 9 users on this site, and they help try to clear up some of the questions.

I've done quite a bit of poking around in Plan 9, but of course I don't know all of it. I've hacked in the kernel and worked on the 64-bit version as well, I've fooled with the compilers, and I've hacked on the window manager.

If anyone wants to ask questions about some aspect of Plan 9, I'll do my best to answer--and if I can't, I bet others can jump in and take over. It would be great to clear up some of the misconceptions, myths, and FUD!
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My parents' Ford minivan has the same thing. The flashing light, part of the same panel containing the low-fuel and check-engine lights, reads simply: "THEFT"
Pleasing to see regular iteration on PHP 5.x after the weirdness around PHP 6.
How about weighting votes from veteran members more, and if new members consistently vote similarly to veterans, their votes are fast-tracked to being weighted the same?

I can see it bubbling up quality content without punishing promising new members.
Just adding: CBSS (now called Alelo) is a Visa company that operates Visa Vale cards. Cielo is a gateway, actually we are Cielo partners, never had a problem with them.
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I used to keep messing up git till the time I studied the internal model. As long as you imagine a DAG and where the refs point to in your mind every time you execute a git command, you are good. Not that I am complaining - it is very powerful and tends to gets easier with use.
Having been on the dev side of the conversation with many (mostly MBA students), I can agree with you here. However, this is only one suits v. nerds issue.

Often, I can see that the idea will be large-impact, but the job itself is boring. Sometimes, it's even a simple CRUD app you could Build in a Weekend* but hmm... what I'm doing now is quite exciting so.. "I'll pass. Btw, if you learn Rails, you could build it in a week or two yourself".I can see why this gets people angry. But it's the way demand-driven markets work.

The other side to the coin is that if you knew a little about programming, you could make your project (at least sound) a lot more interesting. (It's a CRUD app, but it needs to be always consistent, and we're trying to offer a zero-downtime service with queues for when the data store goes down, yada yada).