skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting. I believe it's going to be a crisis, at least here in Canada, where our boomer bulge is the largest in the world.

Much like our southern neighbours, our soon-to-be-retirees don't have much in savings, and the vast majority of their net-worth is tied up in their homes. Unlike the US, we haven't had a housing price adjustment yet. So these boomers are counting on having the current value of their home as their future retirement fund. But as we've learned, that number may as well be fairy dust until someone hands you a cheque.

So what happens when these boomers go to retire, and they find out nobody can afford (or wants) to buy their $500,000 McMansion? When every boomer actually has half, or worse, the amount of money to retire as they thought?
Am I the only one who wishes they would charge for this? I'd love to start using it, but I don't know what their business model is or how they'll be using my data, so I'm far less inclined to start. If it were 5 or 10$ (or even more?) I'd honestly and happily give it a try.
I’m not sure if you can use the App Store upgrade channel without an Apple ID, but you can always download the update separately:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1571
"The circuit" gets me all the time. Sometimes I don't even know why I'm checking email/twitter/reddit that I checked only a few minutes ago. I just blocked reddit and youtube as an experiment to see if I can be more productive without them.
Why not scroll continuously in the reading list? The gestureness of the scrolling behavior seems jarring to me.

I'm also curious to see how many gestures new users are willing to learn. I count five, which seems like an awful lot.

Very slick, though.

PS: I notice what you did with the first image in the app store screenshots (having a slice of the second image on the side). Very clever. Shame there's no way to measure whether that works.
I'm not sure I understand your question. My suggestion is to seek out copy to rewrite by mining projects posted on HN, take the initiative to rewrite it and then present the new copy to the project owner. The project owner can use it as they see fit or not at all. But it may open up doors for actual paid work or at least provide testimonials, references, examples to show potential paying clients and demonstrate some value. Perhaps it won't work. And it may help to prove whether there is a viable market or not.
Or (perhaps more realistically :) point out that you're more likely to have other people use your photos if you publish them with a license instead of making people contact you about rights.
> (Edit: is this _A_ DHT, or is the idea that if you build your program to use Telehash, you are creating your own DHT that is only used by currently-running instances of the same program?)

I had assumed the later, but the existence of telecast.org:42424 kind of points against it. It's possible that we've got both going on.
Ask HN: What happened to OpenID?
What happened to the OpenID login options? I've been a way for a while and have clearly missed something...
Competing Views of Competition in Apple-Samsung Trial
What will it cost you if it goes away? We're not talking about changing e-mail hosts.
I have found ever since upgrading to Mountain Lion that waking up is iffy in general. The login screen displays, but it can take anywhere from 10 seconds to several minutes before I can type in my password. Sometimes it takes so long I just force the machine down and reboot instead.
So, um, if they "own" the genes, do we get to sue them for a lethally defective product which is infecting millions of people worldwide?

Or wait, if you posses "their" genes, can you make them take them back?

Ugh. The sheer stupidity of the legal system sometimes.
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The talk itself is well worth the 3 hours.
About two years ago when trying to make a zoomable interface work in IE some colleagues and I discovered it has a wonderful set of transforms you can apply to any element, with a much easier syntax than CSS. I think they were based on / part of VRML? We were amazed that it was so easy to do any arbitrary 3D rotation, stretch or skew, and even more amazed when we read up and found it had been there since about 1996.

And then we found this functionality had been removed in IE8 :(
In the absence of some codified standard, it's not going to be possible to adjudicate a lawsuit. Do we understand every mechanism by which a building can catch on fire? No. But we still have a National Electric Code that specifies, for example, what size wire to use for a given load. If you install wire that's too small and it overheats and causes an electrical fire, you can be sued.

I think likewise if your app contains some known vulnerability, like you don't sanitize your database inputs, there should be a way to be held legally accountable for that.
Maybe in part, but I think for the majority of people thinking positively about a situation results in a nodding of the head and moving on. Most don't find it interesting or adding to the conversation to just write, "I agree because of what you said or because of X, Y, and Z."

If you disagree, however, there is an emotional tendency to want to argue or lash out(especially under the guise of partial or full anonymity). Arguing makes for a more interesting read or prevents the 'yes' mentality.
I look forward to the QuakeCon keynote every year. Anyone who engineers software should really listen to Carmack.

Also, this article's kind of silly... there's almost no discussion? Just watch the video.

EDIT: I guess it's not so much an article as a sharing of info. Still. Watch the video.
Does anyone know if this fixes missing icons? My MBP 2011 will come up with the wifi or other random icons hidden (I can still click on where they 'would' be and it'll show me the wifi networks, for instance)...
So does this mean if someone is found to have BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes then they have to pay Myriad Genetics Inc a license fee? Maybe we all need to take out licenses just in case, otherwise we'll get those patent trolls writing us nasty letters...

(This is a totally disgusting ruling by the way... another win for putting money over the life of fellow human beings)
Yeah I can understand your point. Actually, design conclusions should never be patent-able in my opinion. The rounded corners, more than just design is an obvious conclusion, no matter what you do, because sharp edges tend to chip off when dropped off from great heights, so you need a smooth radius in the corners to prevent that from happening.

Another patent war I can foresee (maybe in the future), that involves an obvious design conclusion is the Wheel hub motor (which is the future for most electric cars). Google for 'Protean Electric', these guys have patented an obvious design conclusion for a wheel hub motor. Something like Apple did.
I think that software is far easier to control than hardware. Physical products, after all, are subject to the infinite vagaries of reality. Yet, somehow we have managed to make sure that physical products work reasonably well and are reasonably safe.

Holding developers liable for foreseeable bugs is perfectly reasonable. After all, the flipside to 6-figure salaries is that they should expect to be held responsible for their work product.

If you're not confident that you understand all the avenues by which software can be compromised by attackers, how could you possibly be at ease with the idea that the law would presume vendors could secure their code before shipping it?
The law would not be that specific; tort laws usually are exceptionally broad and leave the details to courts to determine on a case-by-case basis (because in torts, every case is different).

"but let's not excuse vendors who ship flaws readily apparent when their product was being developed". But who's to say what is and isn't readily apparent? How'd you do on the Stripe CTF? Last I checked, only 8 people got the last flag.

If only 8 people got that flag, then it's not readily apparent. Juries are not as dumb as the media makes them out to be. McDonald's verdicts aside, juries can and will understand that something that was only picked up by 8 uber-hackers is not a security flaw a normal developer would be expected to know.
For mathematical equations & symbols in browser, checkout:

http://www.mathjax.org/
I'm really hoping the Exchange bug is fixed. Has anyone tested?
One of the things I've been persuaded of is that software writing is fundamentally a non-scientific activity. Outside of the time and space constraints for a given subsystem, the craft of software is almost entirely subjective and limited only by mental capacities and flaws.
That's an excellent explanation of what's actually going on in this situation. Thank you.
Also most project are developed by a team with designers, developers, Q&A and they have a project leader etc. etc.
the outcome of their work is a collective responsability.
There's already 2 discussions with a lot of comments on this subject if you're interested :

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4329122

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391249
Foreigners Allowed–Hotel Registration Tutorial (Chinese state security software)
The decision clearly tries to support the way biotech companies make money. I know lobbying is allowed in U.S.politics, but I thought it was a felony to 'lobby' in a court?
> In your arguments against presales, you haven't said why you think that the other way is better. What's your reasoning?

In the traditional approach, reviewers who have no economic stake review a book or an excerpt and let the public know what they think. In most cases the public can assume the review is objective.

In an approach like this one, an author uses pre-orders or advance payments as evidence for the book's merit. But those pre-ordering haven't yet seen what they're buying. The problem should be obvious -- the author can say, "My book must have merit -- look at all those who have ordered it in advance of seeing it!"

Again, I am not saying any of this applies to this author or this book -- it's completely hypothetical.
They don't. But two losing games (the parents) can be combined to make a winning strategy (the beautiful baby).

(I read the whole article til the end waiting to see what this had to do with genetics. It doesn't.)
Same here: with Lion - open lid, type in password.

Mountain Lion - open lid, push first character of password, no response? keep trying again until asterisk appears, then type rest of password.
But aren't the founders the least likely to be happy and productive in a bigcorp setting?
I'm not very good at this stuff, but I don't see anything wrong with the graph. It hovers around 0. A Brownian motion starting which starts at 0, will, at time T be normally distributed with mean 0 and variance T.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Random_Walk_example.svg

Some of them go up, some go down, but all will cross 0 infinitely many times, and all the paths averaged will equal 0.
Any idea how to open non-US requester account?

Right now amazon will only let you signup - if you have US billing address :(
* there is consensus on what represents "reasonable food safety" procedures. *

There really isn't. Food safety laws vary from state to state, and from country to country. The only real common ground is that refrigeration of food is required.

This will be incredibly difficult for software because of the wide variety in types of software.
Not really. There are more varieties of food than there are of software. Facebook, twitter, and groupon are all really just variations of CRUD applications for which we already have best practices.

Large software vendors will see this as an opportunity to hamper smaller software developers by lobbying for ridiculous requirements that have little to do with actual security and everything to do with codifying expensive processes that big businesses already do.

Well, yes. Such is life. Once an industry starts to become mainstream, tort liability starts to rear its ugly head. It is the third immutable law of life (after death and taxes).
The Problem with Google App Engine and one Alternative
Ok, but you didn't address my point about concert tickets et al. Obviously you pay in advance of seeing the concert, or attending the conference, and sometimes these things get canceled.

It's reasonable to expect money back, or worst case some sort of "raincheck" in case of a cancelation or delay. Same applies to ebooks in my mind.

"Public enthusiasm" doesn't pay the deposit for a concert hall or conference center, right? Why should an author not get paid in advance of the effort of writing a book? [Hint: authors already figured this out a couple of centuries ago - thus the publishers' advance]

So it's not really a question of money changing hands, it's just whose money, and whose hands.
Well, flying cars do exist:
http://bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/technology/view/2022081...

To be less of a dick: I did put in a caveat of "if humanity wins" - my sort of catch-all term for avoiding the collapse of a global civilisation that arguably has been in existence since, well, Gutenburg, or possibly Newton.

But the idea is that the available-at-one-point-to-one-socieity-sum of human knowledge has been only expanding since a given point (the burning of library of Alexandria would count as a net loss of knowledge so it does not go far back this idea), and that if it is to keep exapnding we are going to solve something. Maybe cancer, maybe flying cars. Maybe something else.

But there are only two directions - up and down.
I am hoping for the up. I can understand the doubt. We humans are real good at screwing it up. But ... I think the scientific method is permeating enough societies that even if Western world collapses, India, Brazil etc are likely to be independant civilisations themselves. (I have had pleasure of working with many Indian natives over here, and their generation is going to want some serious changes back home.)
while we are on the topic of minimally viable *, can we also write an article on minimally viable revenue. you know just enough that you won't go bankrupt today and not more than enough to keep you floating tomorrow? that would be an article i would read
Hi,
I am a big movie fan,especially indie movies.
To answer your first question I like the idea of a way of helping me find movies that I may never see or hear of.
However, I am a little confused about how the whole thing works. I think you need to be clearer on the landing page regarding what I as a potential user should do.Should I register first, should I begin by searching a movie related to my mood.

So to answer your questions I think the problem you are trying to solve is an existing one, but there are current solutions to it e.g currently, when I am looking for a good movie I go to metacritic.com and search for the highest rated movies. Anything I haven't seen I usually try and watch.

I hope this helps.Best of luck!
And if the parents aren't homozygous it could be attributed to recessive genes. Same reason why two brunettes can have a blond child.
He's basically asking for an advance directly from his readers. The flipside, of course, is that he must also return this "advance" if no book is made available.
I think I understand now. Thank you!
They should go back to that Metallica logo they had in 1980.

Nothing says corporate dominance like thrash metal font.
And if the parents aren't homozygous it could be attributed to recessive genes. Same reason why two brown-haired parents can have a blond child.
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BlindType was purchased by Google and as far as I can tell implemented into the stock keyboard as you can touch type without looking and it will successfully correct the words.
I came to that same conclusion a few years ago. Sometime in college I was pretty happy, felt I was making good progression on real knowledge in a field. Now, a few years later - I'm not sure what I know is real and true, which are high order approximations, and which are flat out wrong, but still right enough to not cause too many problems.

an example: in grade school you learn how to mix colors, primary colors with paints, etc. then a little later, in middle school you learn no.. for light based, its not the same type of addition. then a little later you learn there are like an infinite possible primary colors - then a little later you learn color is actually a frequency or combination of frequencies, and you start asking yourself if your friend detects these colors the same way you do. does red to you really look blue to your friend.

it just gets weird.
Yes, but no luck...
If you made this as a 'Farmville' style game, I think if I called it 'Startupville' that name would convey ostensibly everything that I would like to see in a game like this, I guarantee you that you'd at least be able to monetize me through advertising. This might be out of scope for what you are suggesting though, but I'd definitely be interested in seeing it done. I've had this idea for a long time, but I always manage to convince myself that I'm just weird and that my tastes for games don't reflect an addressable market of who's size would make it worth my time.
Imagine if instead of Game B being dependent on your cash balance, let's say Game B is blackjack and your chances of winning depend on the number of 10s/face cards that have already been played.

If the collective number of 10s/face cards already played is <= 25%, you have a positive chance of winning and you play blackjack.

If the collective number of 10s/face cards already played is >= 35%, you have a negative chance of winning. You switch to roulette until the balance of 10s/faces works back in your favor.

I think that could be a winning strategy when playing blackjack and roulette together. LOL

Edited to add: I think the author's point is that there are games where you can calculate your chances of winning "this hand" even though your chances over time are negative, and you should avoid playing (switch to something where your chances are better) when your chances are low. Which is a bit of an obvious point for such a long article filled with graphs.
I just upgraded ~30 minutes ago, still at 98%. It's a good sign, but I was worried when there was nothing about it in the notes. Will report back when it's closer to 50% or so (I've been getting ~4-5hrs after a typical 8-9).

Edit: So far with half brightness and daily apps open (Mail, Safari, iTunes, Terminal > vim, TextMate) OS estimates 7:39. It feels like it's still going a little quick, but I could be wrong as I don't always leave iTunes or Safari to do their business.
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If Myriad's process does in fact change the chemical structure of the gene and it is the altered structure which is able to be tested then I see some merit in their argument.

That is, if it is the altered form which is protected, rather than the gene in its basic form.

I would have to read the full judgment to get a better handle on the case though.
I'd exclude Imgur, as last I checked, it wasn't making much money (perhaps even a loss?). Also, Github and DuckDuckGo both took significant venture funding from a16z and USV, respectively. They both grew a substantial userbase (and the former a revenue stream) before taking venture funds, which is a different model for venture funding than is popular today, but they both decided that they needed venture funds in order to realize their ultimate goal.

On a related note, I would consider companies that are bootstrapped by fairly wealthy individuals/angel investors to be a separate class. They're still often backed by former founders of successful startups that had exits (so in some sense, they were able to fund their startup because of previous venture money).

An interesting question is how many companies are founded by individuals with next-to-no capital and take no venture money at any point in their life cycle. It's a different question from the one that GP asked, but it's a far better metric for something we like to pride ourselves on in the tech community: mobility/meritocracy.

We're definitely in a different place than we were in the 90s, when venture money was needed even to get basic server access (today we have plenty of IaaS/PaaS/SaaS companies that reduce the costs). Now, it's possible for someone to create the beginnings of the next Facebook on a student's budget. But that's different from being able to create the next Facebook on a student's budget (ie, without taking any venture money).

I agree that there are still examples even with my stricter critera; they're just less common at the moment.
I wish they would remake this. I've been forced to use their wireless model http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/trackballs/wirel... , which isn't bad, but is a little small.

Trackballs are especially useful in a cramped desk space situation.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the landing page and the UI/UX work is a big piece of work that I need to get done. You mentioned metacritic...how easy/difficult is for you to find a indie movie there...and find a source where its available to watch?
Here's more detail into the process for compiling a similar book - Startups Open Sourced: http://www.startupsopensourced.com/2011/05/01/startups-open-...
I can understand patenting a technology for identifying these genes, but the genes themselves? This is ridiculous. Isn't there a way for someone to identify prior art and have the patent voided?
Software need to be sold 1000x ~ 10000x more expensive to overcome this law.
Yep.

Also, the smarter you are the more you tend to doubt yourself. Whereas less intelligent people tend to have more confidence in what they're doing.

Bites me in the ass all the time.
This has been a huge issue on my mid-2010 MBP and others have reported the same on Apple forums. My MBP has been overheating, throwing up artifacts all over the screen and freezing requiring a hard reboot. So far so good though... fingers crossed.
At the top left corner, I think the text "menu" should be replaced with "Start" and dropdown icon should be replaced with the icon found on windows start button (the MS logo)
The main problem I have with input auto-completion is that the majority of times I'm using my phone to type, I'm using non-dictionary-but-meaningful-words (e.g. street names, foreign language terms) and the autocompletion usually just gets in the way. I've yet to see a system that addresses these kinds of usability issues.
As are many people at The Verge, great publication started by some cast-offs from Engadget iirc.
Just to be clear, this is a real question. I'd like someone who likes and uses buildout to engage in a constructive discussion about its merits.
> The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

The thing I like about John Carmack is that he really appears to live this through and through. I can't say I know him or have worked with him or anything, but whenever I read something like this of his, I enjoy the fact that it is virtually free of ego and posture. He doesn't proclaim or state - he tries things, explores things, and talks about what he found, his successes and failures, and the next hill he wants to climb. He openly admits when things are more challenging than he thought they would be or if something he worked on didn't turn out how he wanted it to.
Exactly. PayPal would also step in and refund if I flaked out on my side of the deal.

It goes without saying, I'm pretty certain I'm going to make a LOT more money in sales once the book is ready (immediate gratification). So it's in my best interest to get this out the door soon.
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Turning Airport off and on doesn't seem to fix the problem for me, so I have to close the lid. My father's MacBook on the other hand only gets fixed when you turn off/on the Airport from the menu bar.
Microsoft's logo is not new, it's from 1995