skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain this divide further?

I thought the idea was that telomeres are like chaff that the DNA drops over the course of many replication cycles instead of losing "more important" bases of DNA. In that sense telomeres might protect against loss of function (cancers). I did not know they prevented non-homologous end joining, but see how they could. I take it non-homologous end joining could lead to gain of function (cancers).

So what is the divide? Do some people think that telomeres protect cancer?

A comment above (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4846137) suggests something like this. First a cell is converted into a cancerous state, perhaps even due to a lack of telomeres and subsequent loss or gain of function. Then telomerase somehow is upregulated. If there was some error correction process (to correct the loss or gain of function cancer), could the sudden increase in telomerase and telomere length prevent that error correction from occurring?
"Ask" is a verb, not a noun.
Fantastical for iPhone - The fast and friendly calendar app
Nice, but that screen resolution is awful!

How did 1366x768 ever become acceptable?

I know it's a 13" screen but still...
Jquery.snipe : a lens-like zoom plugin, written in CoffeeScript
Position Independent Executables (PIE)
aTech Media has had Point free for a while. AFAIK it supports about the same features.
Hack could let browsers use cloud to carry out big attacks on the cheap
The home page's latest blog post is from June 2011 and is titled "DNSPod.com is returning to normal". I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
That's fair. I'd still bet that if you counted up the amount of writing and world building that went into Fallout 3 and compared it to any SNES RPG, you'd find dramatically more "worldbuilding" and "depth" in Fallout 3, but I don't have data to back that idea up, so it is what it is.
DRM error causes problems for legitimate Game Maker users
http://imgur.com/NnAbH
I think the point is that using saved passwords means you don't have to catch the user when logging in, you can grab the password at any time. (Assuming an XSS attack exists of course.)
I agree with raising the price up a bit for this app - a security app that sells for a lower price gives off the impression that it's not very secure (imho)
I've never thought of HN as a marketing platform. It's a place for Hackers (perhaps the "news" fails to encompass the full site) to discuss PG's concept of hacking entrepreneurs. Far too many Show HNs target developers.
Teach HN: Proposal
What if there was a "Teach HN:" syntax for full tutorials about how to build products. As a beginner programmer, normally after I see a cool "Show HN:" I start scrounging around trying to figure out how they built it. I think it could be useful to the community to share and vote up tutorials which are good. It would also be valuable to be able to search only tutorials. Just a thought.
I found this part particularly interesting.

> If it's not just putting a bunch of smart people in a group that makes the group smart, what is it?

> Finally, and most surprisingly to us, we found that the collective intelligence of the group was significantly correlated with the percentage of women in the group. More women were correlated with a more intelligent group. Interestingly, this last result is not just a diversity result. It's not just saying that you need groups with some men and some women. It looks like that it's a more or less linear trend. That is, more women are better all the way up to all women. It is also important to realize that this gender effect is largely statistically mediated by the social perceptiveness effect. In other words, it was known before we did our work that women on average scored higher on this measure of social perceptiveness than men.
Helps developers who are shy about sending invoices. It's so common, even including its developer:

> please let us know what amount you would like to pay every month. http://createmyinvoice.com/pricing

Feedback: The pdf looks nice! I worry about parsers not getting things right
(and, er, me not getting things right for the parser, typos, mistakes etc.), so this scares me a little. Plus, the "5 invoices" is also "5 attempts", discouraging trial-and-error to get it right. It would be great if you could somehow address the developer problem, of asking for money, by closing the gap even more. It does help already, great if it could help more - that is, focus on what will help someone accomplish their task, not on the actual code or product, what it does, how it does it. Just changing the process or steps might help; or changing the copy on the website (the way it's presented).

e.g. If it formed a buffer between you and the customer (like a secretary), so you just state the straightforward, factual information (no stress!), as if talking to a friendly ally (who is on your side!), and then it takes care of the rest of it - including sending it. But if you went that route, there needs to be a way to check it. Sending incorrect invoices is also scary!

EDIT I don't mean the parser fails to parse in a technical sense, I mean it didn't do what you wanted/expected. It's pretty common (think: regex problems).

EDIT2 I was thinking that a markdown-like syntax might work well, because more familiar - but then I remembered that I often test my markdown to check it does what I think. Same issue.
Show HN: TwitBuy - My first weekend project
This is the first weekend project that I have shipped, it is very buggy, but my initial intention was just to learn how to use the Twitter Search API and it sorta turned into a little project. I'm just glad I finally shipped something in a couple nights, and now its on HN, ergo now its real.

aadilr.github.com
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Wow, forking and shorthand are great features! I had no idea from your homepage. Maybe I'm not your target audience but you should make that clearer the moment someone lands on your homepage. ("Why we're different and maybe better than AllRecipes or XYZ: ...")
I clicked the article to check that. How depressing :(
Akash, simple and smart service.
And that's why you should have tests :)
Here's one today, in Austria.

http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/6283/raided-for-running...
Oh, Well then let me share this.

A few weeks ago I got on the front page and within a 24 hour period was hit with 29,000 unique visitors with 38,000 page views. The page itself is image heavy with 1.3 MB on first load. I'm running Wordpress with the Quick Cache plugin by PriMoThemes. I'm hosted on a shared 1and1 server.

I've been hit before and went down, that's when I installed the Quick Cache plugin. Also 1and1 moved me to another server at some point but I'm not sure if it was before or after. Either the cache plugin is really good or I'm on a rockin server all by my lonesome. Or both.

If you're self hosting a wordpress site grab the Hyper Cache plugin or the very very simple Quick Cache plugin by PriMoThemes.

http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/web-tutorials/wordpress-c...
7 Simple Interview Prep Steps For Geeks
Netflix Gambles on Big Data to Become the HBO of Streaming
Having worked in starting up new communities anything that makes the prospect more "real" tends to work as you described for one portion of the population but is usually offset by a spike in withdraws as well. Once people are faced with a final commitment point the end result seems to trend words a small decline. How much of that applies to the car market I do not know,
Or trapping overflow/underflow.
Yes, Beagle 2.
I wiped my LinkedIn profile. I have no problem with them as a business, but this touches on one of the things that's been getting to me about "social" (and I will bring this around to education) over the past few years.

There's an inherent exploit/explore tradeoff in "social". Or, more to the point, are you going to document social relationships or improve them (in spite of the fact that there are powerful people who don't want improvements to occur)? There's a lot more money and less risk in the former, but I'm more a fan of the latter, because that's where the great companies come from. Which is why I like Meetup a lot (with its unusual focus on growing the social graph) and feel more tepid about LinkedIn. They're a great company and they've executed well, but their model is still stuck in the old, broken, credential-and-resume way of doing things.

Since my colorful Google history has (against my will) been exposed to public digestion, I'll admit that what started that fracas was a document-vs.-improve debate regarding Google+ that I, unwisely and half-unintentionally, got myself caught in. (I was on the "improve" side.)

What on earth does this have to do with the Ivy League and college admissions? Well, this talk about "disrupting" education through online courses (e.g. edX, Coursera) is really about improving social and knowledge graphs, and that's really exciting. Admissions officers just document; they take notes on who looked impressive at a young age. I see admissions as a less interesting problem with time. If our generation does its job, no one will give a shit about college admissions in 30 years.
So I was in Best Buy the other day and asked a Microsoft rep who was there touting Windows 8 where the Surface tablets were. He said they only sell them online and through their store. Why is that? Perhaps they would sell more Surface tablets if they had them visible in a Best Buy where a good portion of middle America demos new electronics?

On another note, why is the Nokia Lumia 920 an AT&T exclusive? If they want their platforms to become more popular, why do they hamper their access so much (the same can be said for Nokia who are supposedly in trouble)? Most Windows phones available from carriers are pretty lackluster. The only ones that catch my eye are the Lumia 920 and the HTC One X.
I'm a bit late to the comments here, but this is terrific! Thanks Mike.

One suggestion (take it or leave it): Consider adding some sort of simple rating/voting system to the list of resources.

One of my great frustrations with "big lists of things" is that I have an inherent need to evaluate all of them so as to make sure I'm not skipping something important. If I can filter the list a bit -- by seeing, for example, "200 people rated this component as excellent / up voted / etc", that helps. Likewise, it pushes the less-good stuff to the bottom of a section so I might not feel so bad for skipping it.

Just a thought. Either way, awesome resource and thanks for putting it together. Le Bookmarked.
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It's a list of calendar dates, not an actual timeline.
Stress test, load test before launch!

It doesn take more then an hour, and you quickly know what your upper limits are, and where the bottlenecks are.

I use gatling in favor of JMeter:
https://github.com/excilys/gatling
Final Fantasy, depth? I lost track after the 6, but they are like the most linear RPGs in existence.
Yes but it also has a package manager and library repository with over 5000 idiomatic Clojure libraries. A lot of projects would not even have to use Java libraries.
We need a community fund that can be used for things like this. The equivalent of a hardship fund with an aim of protecting our internet freedoms. It's good for the world, it's good for us individually, and it's good for business.

Everyone throws a few €£$ in a pot and a few volunteers administer it and do a bit of due diligence to ensure cases are valid. I guess in the US this is the EFF, but there are plenty of cases outside their remit.

It'd be like social security but for legal battles - but I don't think contributing/not should entitle or exempt anyone from funds.
Yes, but the IP trail is from dealer A to gmail.com and dealer B to gmail.com. Along with non-dealer C through everyone else in the world.
HealthTap buys Q&A site Avvo Health to bulk up its community of online doctors
Thanks very much, we're busy adding support for more languages right now and Python / Django is at the top of the list.
The funny thing about translations (or automated understanding of text-snippets) is that it gets easier when you know the subject domain since it removes a lot of ambiguity in the individual expressions. So it might be feasible for a translator to make a good guess about the topic, but I don't know wether google translate attempts that.
Agreed, web sites today pretty much demand far more resolution than what we had in the 1990's. I imagine it's cheaper and that's why the trend has gone this way but this is a pitiful trend. I think it might be lower than new smart phones.
Every time I read this I have to think to my self how silly it is to lead an article with
Some things (particularly components like trackpads and Wi-Fi chips) take some fiddling to get working

Thats total balony, trackpads and WiFi have been well supported in Linux for almost a decade. It is _rare_ to find a labtop that when you install la fresh modern distro on it , things don't work. Yes every now and then you get a vendor who insist on doing something different, but most of the time its a synaptic track pad ( well supported ) and a Broadcom or Intel WiFi card ( well supported ). I can remember back in 2004 taking my Government Issued Dell laptop and installing Fedora on it and everything working out of the box.
Lone hackers are not a myth. There are definitely people out there who do incredible things entirely or mostly by themselves.

It seems to me that question is orthogonal to the value of community for a language. If anything, a strong language ecosystem empowers lone hackers, and I suspect most good ecosystems benefit greatly from the contributions of lone hackers.
I've never tried ArmA with a TrackIR setup but it sounds like it would be kind of annoying, i.e. when moving your head, your screen obviously stays on the desk, so you end up turning your head and looking at the screen from the corner of your eye. I'm sure you can adjust sensitivity, but it sounds pretty awkward nonetheless.

In the case of having the head-mounted display, it makes perfect sense. The immersive experience in first person shooters would benefit tremendously from that separation.

I suppose it's a good idea to let game developers experiment with the various control schemes, just as they did early on with defaults key mappings. Eventually it landed as WASD, Ctrl for crouch, space for jump, etc. I remember using right-click to move forward, inverted mouse, ZX for strafing...

I just have the feeling that "looking where you want to aim" is the totally wrong approach and look forward to game developers settling on a quasi-standard of how it should all work, just as they eventually did with keyboard/mouse mappings.
Coincidentally both strategies were implemented by Apple, or sort of. Anyway, seems like Redmond's photocopiers have been running like crazy lately.
You can get very nice, lightweight laptops that run Linux perfectly for much less, even from Dell (such as the Dell 14z which was only $300 on black friday). The main tips are to look for laptops that don't have dual graphics cards (nvidia optimus - although it will still work with http://bumblebee-project.org/ ), and google for the laptop model plus "linux" or "ubuntu" to see other folks' experiences with it.

The main issue now though are the new Windows 8 tablets (the Pro ones that mostly are not out yet) - we'll have to see how well they run Linux distros.
Rate would be tech startup successes per student. Of course I agree that the rate for academic environments would be greater than zero, and some great companies too.

I was asking for a rate comparison vs YC.
The proposed "inner ring/outer ring" admissions solution is interesting. The inner ring of admission slots (say 20%) are filled purely on academic merit metrics (NMS, GPA, SAT score, etc), then 80% of slots are filled based on dumping everybody else who meets some much lower cut-off on those academic merits into a lottery for the remaining admissions slots.

I'm not entirely sure the author appreciates the likelihood of various strange outcomes using a purely random lottery for admissions, for example "outlier" admissions classes that heavily over-represent one racial/gender group by chance.

Another rather damning point of the article is that university admission officers may be spectactularly unqualified to actually make admissions decisions. But I have been privy to the admissions decision process at the graduate level and bucketing applicants into the "will succeed" and "will not succeed" and "who knows" bucket usually winds up with a rather sizable number in the "who knows" bucket. So maybe the critque on the admission officers should be less worrisome than presented. I think PG has made statements that one of the biggest problems with YC applicants is that there just isn't an easy way to look at many applicants and make any reasonable determination about whether or not they could create successful startups.

Anyway, this is an excellently thought-provoking article and thanks for bringing it here.
Best I can figure, this will cost you around $180K for 44TB for three years. I think that's actually a very low estimate. The pricing is confusing. :-)

A Dell MD1220 with 24 Crucial M4 512GB SSDs will run you $12,600. That's 12TB. Multiply by 4, enable compression, etc etc.

You could buy two of those setups, pay for power, cabinet space, and bandwidth, have a ridiculous amount of IO available, with single-digit millisecond latency, pushing 6Gbps and still have money to burn. And it'll take you (much) less time to unbox and setup than it will to push that much data up to AWS.

Granted, this new service is probably only 50% more expensive than hosted your own, and if you have zero IT staff, it might make sense in some scenarios, but it's definitely not a no-brainer.

It doesn't need to compete with Terradata. It needs to compete with Dell, and in that field, it's still the more expensive option by a significant price margin, as well as being (odds are good) at least a couple orders of magnitude slower.
I know little about the Tor community, but is there any verification of these sort of claims?
DefCon20 Slide Video auto-download-command ~ works any RSS with media enclosures
Same goes for session cookies and the 'good thing' about session cookies is that an XSS attack should work anywhere on the domain, rather than just the login page (assuming it's not a website with a login form on each page).
It's great to see Dell doing something that resembles innovation, and it's great to see laptops that can run Linux out of the box. But honestly I just don't trust Ubuntu after they built advertising ('online scope results') into their interface. How much more will they cripple their distro as they struggle to monetize? I understand Ubuntu is free, but this fact doesn't benefit the end-consumer much because Microsoft gives Windows to OEMs for practically free and the cost of OSX is irrelevant.

Most people who should be using Linux know how to install it on a wintel machine. I'd rather see Dell put 100% of its open source effort into releasing Linux-compatible drivers for all its laptops instead of marketing niche products.
> Some things (particularly components like trackpads and Wi-Fi chips) take some fiddling to get working.

Trackpads and wi-fi has been working for me for a long time(not implying this isn't a problem for many people), but what drives me completely insane is the video cards. If you are planning to run linux, seriously re-consider buying laptops with hybrid graphics. The graphic card might or might not run, the card switching will most likely not work, but you can ignore it since you can work with the intel card, right? Well, no. Most of the AGP, whether used or not, will eat up power, the fan will run at full speed and your laptop's behind will be hot enough to stir fry some veggies.

If you have a laptop with hybrid graphics, and you can't make it work, just switch off your discrete card.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HybridGraphics

Laptops in general, and linux laptops tend to run hot. However, don't mess with power settings a lot. Putting harddisks on powersaving mode(refer hdparm) so that they become idle puts unnecessary strain on the disk. You can try out experimenting with cpu frequency(cpufreq-set).
Like it or not, nonreplaceable CPUs may be the future of desktops
Yup, when the massive snow storm hit Baltimore 2 years ago their murder rate for that month was a historic low. As soon as the snow was cleared the crime rate returned to normal.
Just another thought on this. We had an American in F1 just a few years ago. Scott Speed drove for Toro Rosso. Unfortunately I think he was mediocre and drove for a mediocre at best team. American Alexander Rossi tested for Caterham F1. And American Conor Daly is enjoying success in GP3.
Thanks for the feedback.

Cucumbertown is very UX focused and from our research we came to a conclusion that our “aha” moment is to get you to the fastest possible way to write a recipe and give you that bout of joy. Now being hackers, we’d want to see forking & stenography in front of us. But that’s been a struggle we’ve been trying to showcase between simplicity to the “aha” moment and differentiation with others. Our primary audience comes to Cucumbertown because they are frustrated writing recipes in dropbox, google docs, wordpress & tumblr blogs as “blobs of text”.
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Where do any of the posts, documentation, or other information suggest that any part of this would be closed source?

Asking because I will update that mistake immediately, so I could use a pointer or two.
What if the guy had an open Wifi router? And the neighbors downloaded a movie? This goes to show law enforcement does not know what they are doing.

I run a node as well and noticed other (far less severe) downsides of doing so. Registering on certain forums won't work and purchasing games on Steam doesn't work. These parties just blacklist the entire list of IPs published running exit nodes.
Nice try but, dang the hardware is limited. I have XPS 17 that's heavy, but several times more powerful. I'll continue to run Linux on my Dell in a vitual machine...
It's also on my Linux.

So this is not an "Apple" article at all despite the "Mac" in the name. It's a FreeBSD article.

How did FreeBSD stuff get into Linux though?
It's a bit unfair to say that given that both the Surface and the Lumia are quite original.
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Kineticons: Using Iconographic Motion in Graphical User Interface Design
The story of sports in America is the story of television interests. The reason the media doesn't promote F1 is that they cannot control the sport from that point of view. What TV (other than specialized channels) is interested in a sport in which half of the races happen before dawn (in Asia)?

The only sports that do well in America are the ones with a powerful league that can control all the TV rights and make the necessary deals with TV networks.
Nascar is low-tech in many ways. The car bodies must fit production sedan templates, so the the chassis is welded tubular steel instead of carbon monocoque like on F1 or Indycar. The engines are carbureted instead of fuel injected. There's no turbochargers (although Indy just got those back this year as well). There are strict rules about spoiler size and type.

They do make extensive use of sensors and telemetry, but the cars themselves are pretty retro.
That's the magic of open source.
What is the steam rising from below New York City streets?
Well the SSL certificate isn't valid so that's not a good start!

I think the certificate's valid, they're just not sending out a required intermediate certificate. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence though.
The GOP technology talent gap
no email parsing. we use a free mailgun plan for that
Nq
This is what I was thinking myself. What's to stop people from going after such immortality? They might very well give an arm and a leg, those on the outside are going to feel maltreated, and might even start a revolution.

As far as the "immortality" for these jellyfish go though, they are rather easy to kill. They can't even eat a whole prawn egg, and their water temperature has to be just right.