skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't recommend this. Tried it and ended up worse off when the market took a turn. Would have been better off putting the savings into business expenses.
To my knowledge yes, but it was reduced in the last batch.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/11/26/y-combinator-reduci...
I used to look at Steam as a good example of DRM; works, does what it says on the cover, cross platform, etc.

Then I bought 'Dwarfs!?' for OSX. I painstakingly downloaded 1.5GB on a third world connection. And it didn't work. Not just "had issues" or "crashed sometimes" but literally didn't even start. Multiple complaints through Steam forums, the developer's forums, etc. came to nothing. Emailing the developer personally with an appeal to resolve the issues also came to nothing.

And they have a 'no refund' policy.

What a scam!

As much as I love Bitcoin, here's an example of a situation where credit cards provide some protection for the consumer; I can issue a chargeback on the transaction.
One of the fun facts about IQ is that it seems to be highly genetic, but not particularly hereditary. There's a .76 correlation for identical twins separated at a young age, but only .22 between a parent and child, when the child was lived apart from the parent[1]. Compare this to height, which is much more heritable[2]. So they'll probably need more than the 10,000 samples they needed to find height-related genes. It'll be interesting to see the findings.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#Correlations...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study
DB, can you send me your email?
Bottom-posting, due to its falling out of favor in the mainstream, has become a shibboleth that signifies a certain degree of competence with technology and Internet communication in general. While I'd certainly prefer it if everyone I corresponded with followed proper quoting etiquette, I have to say that it's also fairly convenient to glance at an email message and immediately be able to infer with reasonable confidence what level of expertise to expect from the stranger on the other end (at least in the context of public technical discussions).

Meanwhile, I'll keep trimming quotes and bottom-posting, whether or not anyone else is doing it. It just makes sense, damn it. I know it's a losing battle, and I don't care.

See also: users/MUAs that send HTML only instead of multipart/alternative or just plain text. I read mail with Mutt, and when I open a message and see nothing but angle-bracketed noise, it's almost guaranteed to be an unwanted marketing message or solicitation from some online service I've signed up for in the past. The visual garbage makes it easy to just tab to the next message in a split second without a thought. On the rare occasion that it's something that I actually care to read, I can pipe it through Pandoc to render it legible with a couple of keystrokes.
I think it very unlikely that the NY Times has a physical fax machine spitting out paper. Just because a US enterprise accepts faxes, these days they probably have a fax server in the cloud and get email attachments, etc. I find it hard to believe that at the NY Times fax volume, humans are poring over glossy, fading fax paper, or that the entire fax reception system comes to a halt when something runs out of paper.

Alas, the impression left by that article of the Bento lunch company is that they are printing 30,000 faxes a day to paper. It is hard to see that as being economic, but if it is true, then an electronic fax server system should be a great startup in Japan.
Open-source counters most of the issues around monoculture. Remeber that the first browser wars occurred between two closed source products.

In fact, I think that a single OSS project is far more effecient than attempts at standardization across competing products when it comes to user-beneficial innovation.

Look at the open-source UNIXes. Nearly all the value-add has come from cross-pollination of "proprietary" and not-yet-standardized enhancements, which are consumed by users and application vendors targeting those platforms.
Because of course a blog titled "Solutions to 5 Major Problems in Physics" wouldn't be talking out of its own ass. Among other things claimed to be solved on there are problems related to dark energy and quantum gravity.

Perhaps the sarcastic tone is too much, but "peer review" (flawed though it may be) exists for a reason. If there's a paper, you should link that instead, and if there isn't a paper then maybe that tells you something. There's too much crap on the Internet and it makes it far too easy for a layman to be led astray by almost-but-not-quite logic. I don't know if your link is an example of that or not, but I've seen far too many blogs that claim to have solved some big mystery that's alluded great minds for the last several decades, but yet somehow their work remains unpublished.
How VCs decide to invest in your startup
Harlem Shake Infinite Loop
> Google has maintained a PHENOMENAL rate of development on their own browser.

Right, this is Google now, not Google of 2018 or Google in 2030. Nothing prevents Google from saying, oh well this sucks... Let's kill Chrome. Or shift manpower to something else, slowing down rate of development.

Also I don't understand what is your point, this argument was about WebKit, not Chrome.
If top posting is so awesome, why aren't the comments on his blog above the text?
I never miss a chance to pimp Sauce to everyone I can. I love that service, it's stupid fast and as simple as launching any other app. We're going to be purchasing a paid account next week to do more extensive testing on some sites we are building out.

It's a startling upgrade over using Adobe BrowserLab or local virtual machines, which were our previous strategies.
Especially since the US government doesn't need a warrant to go through your email.
this is why jcoulds will be supported soon.
And that monolithic mono-culture was NOT able to evolve to reduce power consumption in a reasonable timeframe. It wasn't even a big priority, since nobody expected x86 to be in a person's pocket, ever. (AFAIK). It took an outside player, ARM, to drive the debate. So it's pretty much a validation of what Mozilla's saying.
This bill is nothing like SOPA and whoever is campaigning on this basis is doing a massive disservice to themselves because people can tell the difference.

CISPA is just a continuation of clear "wiretapping" landgrabs by the US Federal Government, in this case using the basis of "cybersecurity". The US government have been trying to do this for decades and they will almost certainly succeed, no matter the resistance.

What is new is that it seeks to indemnify specific third parties who wiretap or even hack on their behalf.

As for the current version of the bill (H.R.3523.RFS), apart from the obviously broad language, there is only one section, on the use of information, that I would be greatly concerned with if I were a US resident, Section 2.C.1 (specifically part A):

LIMITATION- The Federal Government may use cyber threat information shared with the Federal Government in accordance with subsection (b)--

`(A) for cybersecurity purposes;

`(B) for the investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crimes;

`(C) for the protection of individuals from the danger of death or serious bodily harm and the investigation and prosecution of crimes involving such danger of death or serious bodily harm;

`(D) for the protection of minors from child pornography, any risk of sexual exploitation, and serious threats to the physical safety of such minor, including kidnapping and trafficking and the investigation and prosecution of crimes involving child pornography, any risk of sexual exploitation, and serious threats to the physical safety of minors, including kidnapping and trafficking, and any crime referred to in 2258A(a)(2) of title 18, United States Code; or

`(E) to protect the national security of the United States.

What does "(A)" mean and why is it present when both "(B)" and "(E)" are already present? Without further highly specific legal binding, "for cybersecurity purposes" is far too broad an entry for the use at which the information may be put!
> Corporations don't commit crimes, people d

but but corporations are people ?!? they said
Seven Tesla owners are doing a convoy to prove NY Times Broder wrong
You don't even have to be old to have this problem. I'm 31 and wear hearing aids due to tinitus -- $4000 for far less sophisticated tech than is in a phone from a decade ago. The medical devices industry is a total racket, but IMHO hearing aids are the worst of the worst.
When someone reduces human intelligence to one number, that is really a good indicator of that someone's intelligence. We don't know much about intelligence except that it is diverse. There is a bunch of excellent ideas about intelligence, talent and creativity in [1]. I particularly liked a bit where current model of education is compared to strip mining of Earth for commodities i.e. only small fraction of human talents is developed while others are ruthlessly squandered.

[1] TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson, "Do schools kill creativity".
Elon's response: Tesla Road Trip
Completely agree. Think less craft and more art - a unique piece for each client at a unique price.

And may I say the 5-10x increase in prices is too low - ikea will sell me a compete kitchen for 2000 ukp. If you sell a hand made kitchen for less than 50,000 ukp you are in the wrong place. (Incl labour and the cut to the architect)
Just a side note - I think you can monazite this if desired.

If you created a way for a company to easily define levels that mimic their typical workflow it would be a great on-boarding tool for new employees, a great interview tool and also a great reference tool for 'i need to do X, how does the company prefer I do X?'. I can definitely see this justifying a subscription fee for a lot of companies.

Awesome work! I really wish this had existed when I first learned git.
If true, "Works best with Chrome" / "Only works with WebKit" etc would simply show that today's web developers are even bigger bozos than the ones from the 1990s.

So, what we learn from history is that people don't learn from history: they just repeat the same mistakes over and over.
Look at some of the big picture statistics for worldwide poverty, health, lifespans, violence, freedom, corruption, etc. Nearly all of them are moving in a positive direction, in some cases dramatically so.

To me the only really worrying long term trend is environmental impact. We might be consuming our planets resources at an unsustainable rate.
http://twitter.com/DanielleMorrill/status/302941928704602113
Guessed? I knew.
Microsoft Is Losing $2.5 Billion a Year by Not Being on iPad
To me, this suggests that the trait is highly combinatorial, involving potentially large combinations of polymorphisms instead of individual loci acting relatively independently (in an "additive" fashion).

Of course, such combinatorial traits are much harder to tease out of data.
http://www.docracy.com/tos/changes provides part of this. They constantly crawl the various terms of service for popular sites and generate diffs. Using something like that it would be pretty easy to get an email every month of the things that have changed in services one uses.
There has been plenty of controversy over the meaning of IQ tests in the first place. One complaint is that they test cultural knowledge more than intelligence itself. Naturally, there will be some correlation between the two, but my point is that a great deal of what IQ tests test may be learned knowledge. While your ability to learn that knowledge may be related to intelligence, it does not follow that all intelligent people will score highly on a particular IQ test. Intelligence may be heritable even if IQ test performance is not.
"Cash", or paper money, started out as IOU's for gold, and issuing extra expecting most people to not collect more than you could pay was always a possibility.
iirc, they recently opened up a read only api.
Show HN: Windows Store logo generator
Obviously this won't be the case for our generation.

It won't? I often wonder what new technology my kids will get into in 30 years that I won't understand or care about. Obviously, it is different for geeks as we tend to keep up with technology better than the average person, but it seems naive to think that our generation as a whole is resistant to losing touch with the bleeding edge.
Setting up a Raspberry Pi-powered headless media server and NAS
Lunchy, a friendly wrapper for launchctl
For my home accounts I wrote some python SQLite mash up that tracks different bank accounts (no Bayesian analysis that is nice). Produces reports, google pie charts etc.

For my business I use an online tool freeagnet.
It is awkward to use and I have not successfully downloaded my own data, but it took no training g to use, takes a few minutes a week to keep up and it auto calcs taxes and so on

If you are running a business and have time to learn text file based double entry program's that have limited tech support, you should be in the accountancy industry.
Just so you know, because I take particular pride in it, I throw some of the best parties in tech. If you've ever been to a Twilio party, or various unnamed events/dinners or SXSW stuff, you'll know. No hard feelings, but you'll have to find some other turn of phrase for saying I must be a boring conversational partner for people who would rather turn off their brains. BOOM!
I myself am losing billions per year by not owning Apple
Take a look at http://quetzalcoatal.blogspot.com/2013/02/why-software-monoc.... The author points out how GCC's monopoly, though open source, forces clang to copy its implementation quirks almost exactly, because it's been the de-facto standard for years. Open-source doesn't automatically make the problem go away.
I think Amazon accepting BTC right now would be a disaster, the value of BTC would have to shoot up very fast and high, and the resulting instability would look awful and then Amazon would be forced to remove support for BTC making a massive PR problem for BTC.
If they find specific genes or non-coding RNAs with relatively strong associations (a big if), drugs could be designed to alter the expression levels of those transcripts.

Since it is unclear how much of IQ is determined by the "macro" structure of neurons and synapses and how much is caused by intracellular events, it is really impossible to say how much an intervention could do to increase intelligence. The current state of the nootropics field, however, is not very encouraging.

In any case, I would not pin my hopes on gene therapy. The hurdles that would be required for regulatory approval of "cosmetic" gene therapy (as this would be classified) are nearly insurmountable.
Top-posting for a one-on-one thread is perfectly fine, unless you need to illustrate the specific text you are replying to (which I frequently do). When there are more than two people, though, there are other issues to consider, like the fact that some messages might not have been received by everyone (e.g. due to spam filters).

The problem with top-posting is that the quoted text basically becomes useless. Why even bother with it?
Fraud is a crime. When it involves enough money (amount depending on jurisdiction) people are supposed to go to jail. It is my understanding that the amounts involved here were significantly above those required for any jurisdiction.
Interesting view, but I wonder if it applies on so large a field the author seem to believe. Piano may be a good example: some wrong notes can be bugs but if the kid do not enjoy playing music and take it as a chore, no amount of bug fixing will help.

Same for math, no-one said everyone must love them, because it is not that lovable, and to be good at it math lover have a head start. So before getting to the learning disability bug fixer you might want to make your kids fall in love with math or grammar or whatever.

That's how I remember my love affair with math: one day a math teacher did trigger love for math in me. It was a mix of telling me I was good at it, showing me how powerful and wonderful a machine it is, and so on.
You should add some instructions in the beginning. I'm on a laptop and had a hard time understanding the objective
Google wants what's best for Google, Apple wants what's best for Apple and Microsoft wants what's best for Microsoft. Since all three are grasping multi-national capitalist corporations with a fiduciary duty to shareholders, that's to be expected.

Since "Mozilla is a proudly non-profit organization dedicated to keeping the power of the Web in people’s hands" then it is able to do things differently.

However, users are basically self-interested and short sighted (basically "how fast does a tab load") so just being morally superior isn't a win ;-)
Or go even more meta, and design a modern way of marketing to older people.
Healthcare spending in the US is something like 15% of GDP. It's a trillion dollar industry. Think health insurance, pharmaceuticals, nursing, dentistry etc.
Looks like a nice set of programs, especially since being able to run your accounting software over SSH has certain advantages. Does anyone here have experience with using Ledger with multiple currencies? My current FOSS accounting tool of choice, GnuCash [1], I chose in large part because of for how well it works with multiple currencies.

[1] http://www.gnucash.org/
Super magnet man sells rings magnetized both ways. Here are the ones magnetized across the diameter:

http://www.supermagnetman.net/index.php?cPath=56

I've placed two orders from this site over the past 7 years and it went great both times. The magnets are incredibly strong. These rings will definitely be in my next order

I would hesitate to wear a solenoid, due to the induced current from magnetic fields.
I'll be honest -- that was hard to understand. I don't know the low-level plumbing of git very well, which is why I made a higher level tool like this.

Do you think it's important for beginners to understand all these subtleties? I think I could maybe eventually introduce them, but for the first level on the first screen, I don't think throwing a bunch of concepts at them will help with learning. Feel free to re-open the task if you disagree
They are entire snapshots of the repository and a single (optional) pointer to an ancestor commit

Nit: A commit can have multiple ancestors, as in a merge.
Interesting but how to get other code in there is not so clear. Could be useful as an educational tool, with nicer defaults.
You say that Chrome is way out in front of Firefox. Can you please back up this assertion?
From the original post (emphasis added): "we currently have 2x as many female interns as male ones who have signed their offers to join us"

From this post: "Even though we all knew it wouldn’t last as acceptances come in (it already hasn’t held), our team enjoyed a brief moment basking in the future that we (and all educators around the world) hope to build"

They never said they extended offers to more women than men and they never said the actual class had more women than men, they simply highlighted a point in the process that had more women than men and used it as an opportunity to be optimistic about the future.

But thanks for using math and stuff to enlighten us all.
I think he is just depressed that if the self appointed most powerful government in the world can't do anything to curb the behavior of these banks, then we have no hope in stopping them.

In other words, Breuer is saying the banks have us by the balls, that the social cost of putting their executives in jail might end up being larger than the cost of letting them get away with, well, anything.
Email is broke to the degree that we have to think about this. Maybe even more.
And people will wonder why the jclouds machines get filtered.

It's not the "where". It's the "what".
> and the best solution is to take the effort to add a "state of the discussion checkpoint", list out all of the working assumptions and conclusions so far in the thread and state them explicitly.

That's indeed the very best way to deal with it. But the problem (as this comment nicely illustrates, being bottom posted under a small bit from your excellent comment) is that such effort is typically deemed to be too much work. Communicating well takes an extraordinary amount of time and the speed with which most internet communications take place precludes quite a bit of the work that should go into it.

This leads to quite a few misunderstandings and has ignited many a flame-war.
How to Save Science
Punkscan: scalable web application fuzzer
I just used it to download a clip from Youtube, it works like a charm! (Tested on OS X 10.8.2. Google Chrome 24.0.1312.57)

However, the process could be made clearer on the website and in the app. It would also be nice to have a (contextual) menu item or button in the app to show a file in the Finder. Now I had to search for the media folder.

Also, the installer placed the folders 'MoviePileMovies' and 'moviepile_assets' in the base level of the user directory. I think it'd be more logical for 'MoviePileMovies' to go in the 'userdir/Movies' directory. And can't the 'moviepile_assets' folder be placed in the app package, or in the 'userdir/Library/Application_Support' folder?

EDIT: I took a look at the Kickstarter page, where I found this:

"MoviePile is a Java application, which means that it's cross-platform. You can use it on Macs or Windows or Linux. The sky's the limit! That said, a significant amount of effort will be put into making it seem like a native app. Do you use a Mac? It will feel like a Mac app!"

Sorry, but right now it looks and behaves nothing like a Cocoa app. It doesn't utilize the Mac menu bar. Buttons and menu aren't where a user expects them to be and they're styled very differently – the dark flat UI isn't conform the Apple HIG. For me, that's not a big deal, I'll continue using the Finder and VLC to manage and view the files. However, since you're aiming at average consumers, I feel I have to tell you that you're going to run into problems if you keep this a Java app: many OS X users don't have a Java runtime environment installed.
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Until they need commenting. I would think hosted wordpress is the more natural fit for most posterous users than github.
We know that a getting started guide is essential. It's a high priority for us and we actually worked on it today.
>"cosmetic" gene therapy (as this would be classified)

Since higher IQ (at least up to a point) correlates positively with good health and other desirable characteristics including overall happiness [1] would this really be considered "cosmetic"?

[1] https://journals.cambridge.org/action//displayAbstract?fromP...
State of the Web and Mobile 2012
It would probably be a good idea to tell us what this all means. http://nuuton.com/
In that case if you are concerned with the source of your investors money (and I believe strongly that you should be) you should probably read this:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/3286-face...
They should of just used nodejs for routing.
I would personally use require, it has more momentum and is in more widespread use. While that is not the only reason you should select a tool, in the case of require it translates into more people ensuring that all of the third parts js libraries work with it. The biggest advantage for closure is the minification tool and require can use it.
Learning Modern C++: An Interview with Barbara Moo