skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they get it right in the short term, and I have my doubts about that as the problem is very complex, and I don't think the people at Fed right now are competent enough to solve it, there's still huge potential in the future for the Fed to screw it up, having this much power over the economy. The economy shouldn't rely this much on a single entity, especially one that isn't even accountable to the people.

All the more reason to have full periodic audits of the Fed. Now if only Harry Reid, the guy who's been asking for an audit of the Fed for 2 decades, and now surprisingly refuses to allow the bill on the Senate floor, would finally allow it.
> Someone should explain why Linux has been the latest of the big operative systems to have a user-friendly app store, when they were the first to have one with apt-get!!

I think you answered your own question. Package management (together with distribution policies to make those packages work together) has solved this problem for Linux already, for all software packageable by distributions, which includes pretty much everything needed to make a usable system. An "app store" just makes it easier to get one-off non-redistributable proprietary apps, which Linux historically hasn't cared much about until other OSes started to, at which point a few Linux distributions started wondering whether catering to proprietary app developers would make the system more popular. (Personally, I'd argue that apps follow platform popularity, not the other way around.)
This HN title reminds me of the type of headline The Onion used to be famous for.
Here is a little post I wrote regarding freelance marketing.
http://orangethirty.blogspot.com/2012/08/freelance-marketing...
Long time reader, first time commenter. As someone who backed this Kickstarter, and considering some people are mystified as to why you would want this, I thought I might be able to provide some insight:

As an owner of a 128 GB Macbook Air, space is at a serious premium. An extra 32 GB or 64 GB would go a long way. I'm also on the go a lot, taking my laptop to and from work, using it on my commute, etc. Now, existing USB memory sticks, however little they protrude from the port, are always going to be a concern: they may fall out, or get snapped off in my bag, not to mention they use up a valuable USB port (I only have 2 after all). A miniSD-to-SD adaptor also isn't suitable: like an SD card, the adaptor would also stick out, making it likely to snap off or come out in my bag if I leave it in all the time, or for me to just lose something that small if I take it out all the time. This is especially an issue when, for example, I reach my stop while I'm in the middle of work and just have to close my laptop and put it in my bag without having to wait to eject a disk.

This product is clearly not for people with integrated miniSD card readers in their laptops (which is great for those who have them), and it's also not for people who leave their laptops at their desk all the time and can just use an external drive, but for someone like me this is perfect. I get the extra space, it doesn't use up any valuable ports (I rarely use the SD card slot), and it's not going to get lost or broken.

Possible uses for this extra space: (for me personally) I'm going to redirect my Downloads folder to the drive, and also use it to as a temporary backup when I'm on the go.

Just my two cents. £20 is a steal. Some people may think this is too expensive, but the laptop cost me £1000 when I bought it, and this £20 allows me to permanently add an extra 50% hard drive space without having to do something like void my warranty and swap out the flash memory. What's my alternative? Buy a new laptop? No thanks.
The photographer has a TEDx Talk about this project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y4GCM60Vak
I concur. Signed-in reddit is very slow. Signed-out reddit is better but still feels slow. Perhaps I am spoiled by Facebook, Google & co.
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The lack of any sort of physical connection to the NVIDIA GPU's display outputs is the fundamental feature of Optimus. Switchable graphics existed for years before Optimus introduced (and was usually usable under Linux without issue), but it was largely a niche feature because of the usability drawbacks.
Pioneering 'embedded PC' standard enters its third decade
As someone who started a startup during undergrad at Georgia Tech, and received some funding from the university, it's nice to see these kinds of efforts.

But the shocker was when I saw "weekends". This initially sounded like a full-time thing, which would be amazing. And why not have some more hard deliverables and have it count as a 3-4 hour elective credit?

As for "You do have a chance but you would need to find a technical founder yourself."

Harsh. Georgia Tech has a ton of great minds on campus. Setup a site with the CoC allowing students to create a simple profile and express interest in potentially pairing with others for Startup Semester. Like the "I'm looking for a job" checkbox on github.

(For those reading this, Georgia Tech also has an incubator called Flashpoint http://flashpoint.gatech.edu/ )
I actually encountered a Toshiba Satellite circa 2002 a few months ago with a Pentium 4 that was running fine and the HD didn't even have any smart sensor malignities. The thing ran slower than dirt, but worked fine.
This comment has absolutely no place in this thread. This wasn't the appropriate place to inject your politics.
From the guidelines:

> Be civil... When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names
Ask HN: Academia or Startup/Industry?
The title pretty much says it all. At some point in the life of a phd student or postdoc, one has to decide whether one wants to follow the academic path, or switch gears and work in the private sector.

I am a postdoc in nuclear physics at an renowned US institute, but my time there runs out. So I am in the same spot. It is easy enough to ask people who choose the academic path, but that is certainly one-sided. Since I, personally, wouldn't want to work for a big company but rather at a startup where I have some impact, I hope this is a good forum to get some insights.

So, who here had the same decision to make? What made you decide? Money? The possibility to create something by yourself?
Did you feel a "calling" to start or work at a startup?
Did anybody regret it?

The other question would be: Is there actually interest in physicists?
> My first answer is that it's because Democrats don't campaign on these things, stuff like homophobia.

Oh really? A cite would be nice.

The official Republican position on gay marriage is exactly the same as Bill Clinton's. Obama had that position until about six months ago.

Are they anti-homosexual?

> not to mention Wikipedia tells me their general opinion is that Obama is going to hell for being "the antichrist".

The occupy folks have a similar opinion of Obama these days and no one suggests that they're not good democrats/leftists.

Yes, there are some intermural arguments, but when it comes down to it, they're democrats, as are the Larouche folks and a bunch of other wackos.

> The wider answer is simply that people don't hear about these things as much. ... End of the day I've heard plenty of data points for Republican wackos, and few for Democrat ones, so that's where my opinion comes from.

That's a very different argument. (Data point - would you say that The Guardian reports everything of interest? Or, do they have a position that they argue?)

While your opinion may be understandable, it isn't actually based on reality.
IMHO, Gnome2 was great, but since then its all gone downhill. Still cursing Ubuntu for Unity.
This is an awesome study because it highlights the fact that bacteria can sometimes evolve at lightening speed. Whatever antibiotic we can come up with, bacteria will be able to rapidly evolve resistance to it. Without serious investment in the development of new antibiotics, humanity may suddenly find itself vulnerable to bacteria disease once again.

I just wish they had come up with a better title. Resistome? What the hell does an -ome really mean anyway.
I may have been slower than others, but my weekend time at GaTech was spent on laundry, groceries, and lots of CS homework.

Just give them some money and the summer term to focus. Being clever just makes this harder.
6dgr of mobilisation - social networking for real-world problems
Ask HN: how do you stage/push your code?
I was wondering if you could share some best practices for staging and pushing code. Thank you.
As I see it, there are only two reasons why the SD card doesn't go all the way in in an Apple laptop:

* So nothing can get stuck inside.
* So valuable space isn't used up inside the computer. The motherboard in a macbook air is tiny. The extra half-height of the SD card that would be necessary for it to go all the way in is significant.

Either way, as it stands Apple hasn't provided a spring-loaded mechanism, so they have to do something like this. They only made the removal tool by popular demand: in the Kickstarter they were just advising use of a paperclip, which seemed reasonable. Over-engineering is always a danger, especially when you're fighting to just get a product shipped.
I hadn't considered the relationship between GPL and patents. I'll have to read more. Off the top of my head, I don't understand how anyone who went to the time and expense of getting a patent could ever jeopardize it with a GPLv3 release, since there's no bright line between a version of your program and a completely separate program that merely links enough code in to get a free patent license.
So, how 'bout a day off just for The Entrepreneur? On which he not only doesn't have to work, but he also gets "paid", i.e. the mechanic down at the garage, the Starbucks barrista, the immigrant office cleaner who empties his trash and polishes the very toilet bowl he uses as a meditation perch for composing his next blog post -- let them all work for him for a change, and for free, in his honor!

Being as he works so hard (heck, if you think about it, he's practically the only one who's really working) the other 364 days of the year, and has virtually no chance any upside as a reward for all his selfless toiling in their service.
From my days in Ubuntu... I remember that when I was installing some programs, it was asking me for dependencies. That's not user friendly.

The App Store is user-friendly. Do you want that program? Download it! No worries of dependencies. So it doesn't matter if it's proprietary or not. It's a matter of user experience and wanting to make it easy for non-techies. They have improved a lot but it's sad they weren't the first to make that change.
Yeah, they seem to strive for quick user base growth. Probably to show nice hockey stick on Dublin Web Summit ;) But I agree that it could be done in a more friendly way.
Not that I feel a particular way about it, but he is the President. People tend to care what he says. Just sayin.
I guess you're using some sort of Bittorrent-like distribution scheme to download large files in the background?

And also perhaps support for truncated history like shallow clones in git, so a 1 GB movie file that has undergone 30 revisions doesn't take 30 GB unless you somehow indicate you actually care about those 30 revisions?

It would be nice if the site included more information about the specific pain points you're seeing with git on large projects with binary files, and the ways that grand will make life better.

It's an interesting product, but the information's a little too vague for me to sign up just yet.
The US healthcare "market" is completely distorted ranging from no one having any idea what anything actually costs, multiple layers of disintermediation from consumers to payments, a doctor's cartel that keeps numbers low thereby increasing compensation, but giving an incentive to replace them, income not based on outcomes, the government spending ~50% of all healthcare money but everyone ignoring it, and the list goes on.

Atul Gawande's articles in the New Yorker are fascinating insight into how things really work - full list at http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/atul_gawande/search?c...

Some highlights:

Reliably delivering care (and cheaper) http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_...

Pit crews http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/05/atul-...

Hot spots http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_...

Costs http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/12/the-c...
You're not replying to what he said, you're replying to what you think he said. He didn't say that founders "risk their lives in the same way soldiers in a war do"; he said, "A start-up changes a person in the same way a war does."

Sure, war can change a person in ways that a start-up never will -- if a soldier loses a limb for example. But do you really, honestly think that andrew was trying to imply that start-up founders might lose limbs? Or do you think he could have been just speaking to the point that the constant stress and frequent highs and lows of running a business can have a powerful effect on someone's personality?

There have been a lot of threads recently on how to improve HN. Here's a good one: let's try reading other people's comments as charitably as possible, and respond to that, instead of imagining a point that they weren't making and then arguing with that.
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From memory, the Ubuntu Software Centre (under its former name) also pre-dated the App Store and variants.
I received a Master's in Entrepreneurship at Lund University in Sweden. I am not sure how I feel about it honestly. The big advantage was being in a room full of people who wanted to do stuff. The negative side was the course was trying so hard to balance the study of entrepreneurship versus actually doing something. It leaned very heavily towards the study in my opinion and the doing was exceptionally undervalued. What exactly one would expect from a master's in entrepreneurship, I am not sure, but I honestly expected to get my hands a lot dirtier.

I don't know what other programs are like across the world, but I think a focus on actually doing stuff rather than simply studying it would be nice. Our thesis equivalent was a business plan, which is a grand set of ideas graded by how good it sounds and well reasoned it is. There was little value in actually going out and creating and testing.
I think it might be great for kids, from what I've seen most teenager these days don't use computers a whole lot anymore and rely on their phone as primary internet device (for messaging, chatting, email and browsing). So they might stumble upon the possibility to make their own app and play around with it, creating a HelloWorld app and so on. That's how you get them hooked.
I think the tools fill different purposes, so integration with JSIL is absolutely a possibility in the future. I did not do any speed comparisons, I just translate what you write in C# to the equivalent script, so if you write a fast script it will be fast, if you write a slow script, it will be slow :)
Wow, that sounds quite scary. I'd love it if you did release the source though, it'd be a great project for me to build an interactive version. (Whether or not it would get further than any of my other side projects is another matter :) Anyway, my email is in my profile and I'd be very interested if you did release something.
The Linux desktop will never succeed as long as nobody can profit from it. As long as Microsoft prevents the distribution of Linux through tithes or threats of patent litigation, why would anyone spend a penny making the desktop look better?

edit: sources

http://www.informationweek.com/windows/microsoft-news/micros...

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090619161307529

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331462,00.asp
You are still being excessively vague -- for reasons which I presume you don't actually wish to debate this topic.
Precently, it provides:
1. Generate HTML from sexp.
2. Nested scriptlets <% %> and <%= %>.
3. Process GET/POST request parameters.
4. Access cookie.
5. Access session.
6. URL redirect.
7. Page forward.
> But overall, I've found it interesting how little G+ comes up in discussions about Twitter and App.Net.

Probably because it's completely Apples-to-Oranges. Twitter/App.net is for short status updates. I deeply value the enforced brevity. G+ posts tend toward blog-style bloviating; the use cases really don't overlap.
That isn't what Gnome shell does - many window managers can do that and it is mostly useless to me since I have so many windows (that are the same) open - taskbars work easier.

The useful bits of Gnome shell show up when you press the Windows key (far easier than trying to find a spot on a dual screen setup). Sure you get the window selector, but far more usefully you can start typing stuff and it finds useful matches (apps, contacts etc). It also has a nicer notification system, as well as improved 'tray' (whatever they call it).
You need to ask for a new one, with its own key pair (and the old one will be revoked).

As for a possible attacker that found your card:

The card has a PIN and locks out after three failed tries. After locking out, you can only unlock it by going to an IRS office where they authenticate you using photo/fingerprint/etc and then using their machine and inserting an unblocking code that only you have. If you don't know the code, you need to ask for a new card.
-ome is a name given to a total set of members of a complex biological system. So we have genome (all of the genes in a cell/species), transcriptome (all of the mRNA in a cell/organism/species), proteome (all of the proteins in a cell/species), metabolome (all of the small metabolites in a cell/species), etc.

Accordingly, resistome would be set of all the genes providing antibiotic resistance to bacteria.
Give customers a smooth ride to your bank account
One thing I've been thinking of lately is whether there are technologies that could fundamentally change the incentive structure of the US healthcare market to be more in line with patient interests. Are there technologies or attitudes or approaches that could make feasible new business models that would accomplish such a change?

I don't know, but it's something that's been on my mind.
In-fighting instead of making a good Linux desktop killed the Linux desktop.
It's likely there would be less need for JavaScript debugging.
The last three times I've contacted Kaiser (In California) to get a doctors appointment, (Once, when I had stabbing chest pains and my left arm had gone completely numb - I seriously thought I was having a heart attack) - their expert system (staffed by a human, still - but that will change) - asked me a series of questions, and came to the conclusion that I didn't really need to see a doctor. "Drink some tea with honey for a cough", "Stretch your arm, and take breaks from the keyboard" for the numb arm. Oh, and "Stress Pains"

So - some significant number of doctors are already starting to be replaced by the experts systems at Kaiser right now.
Hey man!

You forgot the fact that despite the push to fix insurance, the price of pharmaceuticals won't be pushed down anytime soon. Since the cost of health care has much more to do with the drugs than what hospitals/doctors charge, but nobody likes it when that is mentioned.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/us/08lobby.html

If anybody can find a relatively recent estimation of how much our medicare obligation is pharmaceutical spending, I'd love to see it.
This is the result of a machiavellian genius. Maybe it was just my imagination, but I could see /imagine him laughing on the kickstarter video.

In any case, I would not do daily backups on an sd card.

Maybe I could pay for an sd adapter with S.M.A.R.T support, and a red led. I love red leds.
I know you were just giving an example, but any practitioner who relies on a computer to interpret an EKG is not one I would trust. Many times my own EKG interpretations are far, far more accurate than whatever the monitor thinks is wrong
So this scientific article belongs in the scientific article-ome?
In the C-based languages that you apparently familiar with there are several control statements that aren't expressions like for, if, while, and do. For example, here is how you can use the if statement in C:

if (a >= 0) {
printf("Positive");
} else {
printf("Negative");
}

The if control statement in C can only be used to induce side effects, such as printing to stdout, it can not be used for functional programming. On the other hand, Lisp is an expression oriented language, so expressions such as if can be used as values for functional programming:

(if (<= 0 a)
"Positive"
"Negative")

The same principle applies to the let statement. It is an expression so that you can use it without ever resorting to creating mutable state or inducing side effects. If you allow emacs to automatically handle the nesting involved with your statements, then there it shouldn't really be an inconvience. However, when you need global mutable state use def:

(def x (Math/sqrt (+ 256 (* a a)))
(def y (Math/log (- (+ a b) (/ 1 (+ (* b b b))))
(prn (* 2 (+ x y)))

Clojure encourages good practices like avoiding local mutable state. That said, if you want to you can always create your own local environment to declare local mutable state:

(defmacro defun
[name args & code]

`(defn
~name
~args
(with-local-vars [~(symbol 'e) {}]
(let [~(symbol 'def*!)
(fn [p# v#]
(var-set ~(symbol 'e) (assoc (deref ~(symbol 'e)) p# v#)))]
~@code))))

Here is an example of code like yours using this macro and a local environment called e:

(defun func
[]

(def*! 'x (Math/sqrt (+ 256 (* a a))))
(def*! 'y (Math/log (- (+ a b) (/ (+ a (* b b b))))))
(* 2 (+ (@e 'x) (@e 'y))))

You could probably make that look nicer using macrolet and by definining other new macros and operations.
Hey dpeck, glad to hear your views on Startup Semester. Just to put our side in perspective as well - Startup Semester was the result of two undergrads at Georgia Tech who were frustrated at the silos of "schools" that never work together and a culture that seems to look forward to "getting out". We spent all of the last 3 months putting this program together for less than $50 with the goal that we ourselves would be able to learn from it and simultaneously benefit the community.

To answer your concern more directly, our long-term mission is to create a physical entrepreneurial hub on campus that all majors are welcome to participate in. The purpose is to connect the entrepreneurs of all the schools at Georgia Tech - Industrial Design, Computing, Engineering, Business etc.. - to really build great products and businesses backed by an effective cross-functional team. In our experience, we've never encountered a senior design team with business students, designers, and engineers working together. We may be wrong, but it definitely seems like students are agreeing. At the very least, we're hoping this program could help us, and perhaps a few other misfits like us. :)
What is preferred?