skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL, but making copies of the genes in question via growing seeds should be fine because the gene is protected by a patent not copyright. If you're growing seeds with the genes in them I don't see that that actually IS a violation of the patent because a necessary part beyond the expression of the CP4 EPSPS gene in the plant is the process of spraying them. For this specific case if you don't spray I don't think the patent is infringed upon.
Strava KOM's powered by Redis
Pinboard API Tax Proposal
Plex client for the Raspberry Pi
Non of the demos worked on my Android(2.2) and only the bunny demo worked on my ipad(latest)
Work Experiences – From Large Corporates to Startups: To Each Their Own
I've always just had packages shipped to my place of employment or even a neighbor/friend if there was some problem with shipping them to my residence. Do services like Bufferbox or Swapbox have any advantages over these practices?
The most interesting part of that post ties with something that Richard Dawkins likes to remind us :

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia."
Indeed, but of course email typically has a limit on the size of the file you can attach (for good reason).

In Outlook.com (was Hotmail), you can send a large file by sending a link to a file in SkyDrive. You don't have to upload the file to SkyDrive first; it's just an extension to the "attach file" feature within Outlook.com.

GMail has a similar integration with GDrive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronos
The should put RasPlex on it http://rasplex.com
Any chance you guys released that as open source? This is exactly what I want. Would be even better if it animated the boxes, so that the users eye is drawn to what you're showing them.

All these projects are really impressive.
The Patents I Never Filed
I heard somewhere that plain old CPR was very unlikely to help. Still probably better than nothing if someone is there with their heart not beating. Does this go along with your stats?

EDIT: By sheer coincidence I found my stat about CPR while commenting on another thread. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die...
2 miles per hour is very slow. Average according to Wikipedia is 3.1, a bit more for younger and a bit less for older individuals.
I don't see how this is related to Hacker News.
On the about page, they suggest making a pull request if you want to add to it, so I guess it's a work in progress.

Repo is here: https://github.com/overthecs/overthecs.github.com
And, huh, those aren't exactly at the forefront of advances in technology. And they are not necessarily cheap either.
Bitter Pill - Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us Part 1
Can it really be called cherry picking if you only pick one cherry? At least make an effort.
Every time someone break stuff to "fight spam" I can only conclude it is one of two things: on purpose unethical behavior, or incompetence.
Yes. I scanned the first hundred or comments on the post and none said that the experience on Reader (and Twitter) is owned by the reader, while the experience Google + (and Facebook) are owned by Google (and Facebook).

I do not want to share my reading activity with everyone. I just want to sit here on the corner and read. So why make it "social"?
before clicking on this post to read it and even still after reading it I think the true reason for this can be summed up in a single word "Litigation"

As someone who has been in court rooms and seen the amount of litigation that businesses deal with in America I would find it hard to believe it does not play a significant role in the higher prices than places where Class Action Lawsuits and Ambulance chasing attorneys aren't the norm
This article didn't seem all that great. It just claims "the prices are higher" without any substantive recommendations on how that problem can be solved.

Nonetheless, it does make one interesting point:

This is a good deal for residents of other countries, as our high spending makes medical innovations more profitable. “We end up with the benefits of your investment,” Sackville says. “You’re subsidizing the rest of the world by doing the front-end research.”

In other words, the low prices for health care found in other countries is, in part, subsidised by the American consumer. As a result, it would stand to reason that if price controls were implemented in the U.S., it could result in less medical innovation or rising prices elsewhere in the world.
So you're saying that in the startup world, where companies are smaller and each employee matters more, companies should do less work when trying to validate candidates before making offers?
I always wondered if we could run a 'medical service' that was a viable 'public service' alternative to spending time in the military or peace corps. Basically let young people volunteer to be health care workers, give them training, and guaranteed employment for 4 - 6 years. At the end of their enlistment they can go out to the private health care system or other jobs.

Can you imagine the horror of spend a billion dollars a week "invading" a country like Afghanistan and having a 100,000 health care workers on the ground making everyone healthier?
Libraries work ok.

Re police: just reading an article over at popehat.com about how a cop framed someone for a murder and sent her to death row.

Re roads: here in Massachusetts we've got toll roads that spend 80 cents of every dollar collected...on paying the tolltakers.

Re army: take a look at the defense budget some time.

There are some decent arguments in favor of government, but you picked some of the worst.
What makes healthcare so expensive (Infographic)
2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings
Yes, that is a basic tenet of firearm safety. However if an officer delays drawing his weapon until he is ready to fire it can be too late. You cannot fire a holstered weapon.

I am not certain about the exact distance but I think a hostile person brandishing a knife within 20 or 25 feet is considered to have an advantage / pose serious risk of death (able to inflict serious trauma) over an officer with a holstered weapon. (In NYS)
I went to the ER here in Dallas a couple of weeks ago because of some chest pains I was having.

The good news - it's just some stomach acid. ER doctor prescribed Prilosec OTC and sent me away.

The bad news - $4,500 in medical bills for 3 hours spent in the ER. Most of that was spent watching TV waiting for the results of blood tests & x-rays to be announced.
Right. In this case they had probable cause to believe his wife dying somewhere in the house.
The money, easily. Have you not been around people for long?
Sure! I would imagine the unsecured part would be useful for distributing certs to new users or allowing them to sign up and request a certificate, in the first place.

I have been missing a way that OpenVPN certs, configs, and instructions could be distributed to users without obscuring their general usefulness as SSL certs. Thanks!
The policy in these large IT seems do often be : "don't do anything, it could go wrong". The long term damage is worse but the policy stays because, that way, there is no one to blame (or might be MS for security leaks in IE6 in 2013)

I'm not saying that the issue only came from IT. A well prepared plan that went wrong should be considered a necessary evil.
Also, this article doesn't explain the price of MRIs at all. Is the price higher due to higher worker costs, more expensive machines being used, more expensive facilities or more pricing power on behalf of the providers?
"Today there are fewer and fewer kids getting into programming because consumer devices are locked down and don't come with a way to program them."

I honestly doubt this is the case, I would expect more and more kids are getting into programming because it has become so widespread and easy.
Thank you so much!

I wonder, is there any website, community or maybe even webservice with book annotations, clear and brief? I think it wouldn't be a big exaggeration to say I'd prefer a quality brief for at least 80% of books I read.
Great comment from AJ Kohn on that thread (I don't know how to link directly to his post, unfortunately):

The Reader interface was pragmatic and efficient so it appealed to those, like me, who are information consumers.

At the heart of it all are two main points:

Time-Shifted Consumption and Deliverability

It's never been about having real-time access to information. It's about time-shifting the consumption and knowing that I will see that content at some point in time if I desire.

Feeds are to Reader as Season Passes are to TiVo. (As an aside, the latter is the model that should have been marketed to users.)

Using other methods such as G+ or Twitter or Facebook or any other mechanism that tries to find, shape and filter the information based on interest etc. are usually not comprehensive and rarely allow me the comfort of knowing I can rely on reviewing whether or not I value that content.

In short, I might not see it fly by in my stream and curation services might remove content that I may enjoy.

=====

In the same thread, Rob Ferguson writes:

Not specific to Reader, but regarding RSS (even Twitter to some extent), the multi-feed publish/subscribe model allows people to create separate feeds that each represent a facet of their personality, something they want to say. While the single-output model of G+ or Facebook has some advantages, e.g. seeing the 'whole person', the trade off is that you can't really specialise or segment content.

=====

Nelson Minar writes:

So I'd say the main value of Google Reader in the last year has been the very fast centralized feed crawler, along with its API that made it easy to put more modern UIs on top of Google's RSS reader infrastructure
^^THIS^^
As a French citizen who's enjoyed the goodness that is subsidized health care, it needs to be stressed that all this has a cost for the country.

The vision that taxpayers support a system where everyone is granted access to next-to-free / affordable health care has a natural cost in certain areas.

Sure it's great when you're both poor and sick cause you get to be treated like everyone else, you get the day care for your kids, you get the MRI's, the cancer treatment, you're being taken care of at the ER etc.

But at the same time, everyone has to realize that this has a cost in terms of taxes. Taxes for companies, home buyers, CEOs, businesses, cigarettes and alcohol, gas, etc.

It's the old chasm between putting the emphasis on the individual or on the nation/country as a whole. America has traditionally favoured private/capital-oriented solutions so far for most of its services (postal services, health care, public transportation, part of its schools, water, electricity, Internet infrastructure, etc.) and was thus able to keep the burden of taxes lower for individuals.

If it were to move to a system where everyone pitches in for cheap state-driven services, the money would have to come from somewhere and it would be sure to somehow stifle economic growth in certain areas (see the economic situation of France or other countries where the involvement of the state is still strong).

TL;DR: The idea of cheap MRI is nice on paper (and I believe it to be awesome in practice), but there's no magic wand to make that happen, the money has to come from somewhere and it requires that a whole country accepts paying more to the state to get more at the other end, a paradigm shift that will be tough to swallow for the USA given its economic culture.
Useful in a pinch, but I would not recommend using these. Make your own. If you plan on using the language, making your own cheat sheet is the best way to learn it. By the time you are able to make one, you know what you use, what you always forget, and what is obscure, but important enough to need a quick refresher.
I thought the implication from the comparison with other countries is that it's primarily pricing power: i.e. profit for the providers. But I agree that the article doesn't address the title very directly.
The sleep thing is a very bad argument on issues of death. I don't know about the rest of you, but I was always under the impression it's normal to drift in and out of various partial forms of consciousness immediately before, during, and after sleep. If dying was like sleeping, it would include the occasional moment of waking up to notice how comfortable your blanket is, roll over, and fall back adead.

What does it mean to die if I upload your brain and make another process of yourself? Is death related to the body or losing consciousness?

Well, that mostly depends on how you've defined "to die". I can easily imagine that the neo-Victorian Phyle will pass a law banning brain-copying after clinical death as an abomination, for instance. The thing about playing God is that you have to start writing your own rules.
Not to mention https://github.com/lehoff/chronos , a very useful library.
The downvote is amusing. Care to engage in an interesting conversation rather than resorting to drive-by-downvoting?
I guess I touched an sensitive point with the Google fan boys here. Sigh.
The Chromebook Pixel review
Tools like this can make a lot of ops housekeeping stuff easier, like log roll ups and deleting old backups and so forth. One doesn't want to depend on particular machines being up; but on the other hand, there's not a 99.999999% uptime requirement.
I would strongly encourage you to undo the backspace capturing and just allow my browser to go back in navigation the way I like it to.
I left a comment on the original blog which I'll also paste here in case people want to understand what happened.

"Hi Nathan, my name is Matt Cutts and I'm an engineer in the search quality group at Google. Thanks for asking about this; it helped the indexing team uncover an issue in how we're indexing Craigslist, and we're in the process of fixing it right now.

To understand what happened, you need to know about the "Expires" HTTP header and Google's "unavailable_after" extension to the Robots Exclusion Protocol. As you can see at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/robots-exclusion-prot... , Google's "unavailable_after" lets a website say "after date X, remove this page from Google's main web search results." In contrast, the "Expires" HTTP header relates to caching, and gives the date when a page is considered stale.

A few years ago, users were complaining that Google was returning pages from Craigslist that were defunct or where the offer had expired a long time ago. And at the time, Craigslist was using the "Expires" HTTP header as if it were "unavailable_after"--that is, the Expires header was describing when the listing on Craigslist was obsolete and shouldn't be shown to users. We ended up writing an algorithm for sites that appeared to be using the Expires header (instead of "unavailable_after") to try to list when content was defunct and shouldn't be shown anymore.

You might be able to see where this is going. Not too long ago, Craigslist changed how they generated the "Expires" HTTP header. It looks like they moved to the traditional interpretation of Expires for caching, and our indexing system didn't notice. We're in the process of fixing this, and I expect it to be fixed pretty quickly. The indexing team has already corrected this, so now it's just a matter of re-crawling Craigslist over the next few days.

So we were trying to go the extra mile to help users not see defunct pages, but that caused an issue when Craigslist changed how they used the "Expires" HTTP header. It sounded like you preferred Google's Custom Search API over Bing's so it should be safe to switch back to Google if you want. Thanks again for pointing this out."
As he said, "On(ly) in the startup world . . . " In the rest of the business world, that would be a decent mid-size company.
Dropbox Bought Mailbox Because It Wants To Be More Than A Cloud Storage Company
To that I would add it gives them time to observe the scene and mentally begin work. It's not the same in seriousness, but when I was to solve an urgent IT problem I'd sit down, adjust the monitor, and roll up my sleeves before typing anything. And recently, when my baby son was falling down some stairs, I found myself calmly walking to the stairs and catching him right before he would have landed on his face. Looking back, I wondered why I didn't run since I love my son, but I realized that I might have slipped on the tile floor or dropped him in my haste.
Oh, another question, what happens when the kiosk is at capacity, or something doesn't fit? Even if you reserve space in the kiosk at the time of order, packages can come in different sizes than you expect, and even then, the delivery men might collectively load the kiosk in a non-optimal way.
thanks Alastair and Regan for visiting us.
But it started two years ago: http://www.mailboxapp.com/story/ and http://www.crunchbase.com/company/orchestra
How to navigate the challenges of sustaining a startup news site
> [Chrome] also installs (silently, without permission,
> and for reasons unspecified) a Firefox plug-in, and it
> reinstalls/reactivates that plug-in even if the user has
> explicitly chosen to disable it.

Could you elaborate more on this? Most of my machines have both Chrome and Firefox installed, but I don't see any unexpected or Chrome-related plugins in Firefox. A web search for [chrome installs firefox plugin] also turns up no relevant hits.
There is truth in this, and always some tension between users and IT/corporate security.

But the bottom line is that the machines are there for work, and a single security problem caused by a single careless/uneducated user can cause devastating consequences for the organisation as a whole, so I find myself increasingly taking the IT guys' side on this one.

Put it this way: the employee who wants to install Chrome because it's their favourite browser or to bring their own device because they don't want to carry a second company one probably isn't the employee who's going to get paged at 3am and then spend all weekend reinstalling clean images on compromised machines if there's a security breach, nor the one who is going to have to explain to senior management why the company has lost $6M this week due to downtime because the recovery had to happen during business hours.

So unless the user wanting to break the rules is willing and able to underwrite all potential losses to the employer, which they aren't, it is perfectly reasonable to not only restrict what they can do with the employer's systems but also to penalise them severely if they try to circumvent those rules.
Technically you're both wrong - both chef and git use ssh as an underlying transport.
RangeCountTree - A Binary Search Tree for range intersections in Ruby
That's an interesting matter and people comment on it. Related enough to HN for me.
Here's a very nice Common Lisp quickref for anyone else who might be into it: http://clqr.boundp.org/
This Planet Money podcast gets into it somewhat: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/26/172996963/episode-...

Part of the problem is that few people even know what the prices are.
HN would really benefit from some sort of 'supervote' mechanism, that could be used once per thread or something. Because it takes effort to elaborate and tie truths together in a succinct way, effort that unfortunately has to be wasted on every half-assed outrage thread, with the resulting comments such as this one ending up on the same footing as the standard "no yu" and "it is what it is" ones.

Thank you.
Health care taxes on cigarettes... morbidly hilarious.
This article is from 2011 and mentions a 25-kilowatt version by the end of the year. Anyone know of any updates?
Kind of like how we break a lot of our legal system to "fight child pornography". Yes, they're both bad things, but fighting them cannot come at the cost of breaking otherwise perfectly legitimate and functional endeavors.
More like 5 words:

Litigation
Profit Center
Supply monopolies (of hospitals/providers vs insurance)

See: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2136864,00....
0. is a solved problem: this Kickstarter is for a library, not an application. There are already native libraries for git, so go ahead and go crazy and get busy developing, via libgit2, egit, ngit, objective-git, or any of the others.

You come off as tyrannically dogmatic without having any real use case- you're poo poo'ing a web platform without any expressed reason for wanting a native stuff aside from it being native. -1. (And, humor, the native stuff exists.)
You rarely see an animated gif used for a practical purpose. It's usually followed by hysterical laughter. At least that's usually the intent.
Pretend for one yoctosecond that you work at Google, disagree with the decision to shut down Reader, and are in a position to try to make the product you're working on help fill the void.

So, Google would allow another team to create a clone of what they shut down after all these years? Their excuse was that they need to focus on fewer products
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Installing to a user folder doesn't make the system any more vulnerable to attack. Malware could easily put itself in the same place with or without chrome. Malware can also load programs from a secure location and immediately inject themselves.
This is particularly frustrating to see as I'm jumping through hoops to get myself health insurance while running my own startup.
Who says it's a rails app? I run a couple raw-rack apps that hum along just fine with very, very occasional updates.
Wrong guild: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/036480.html, http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/would-tort..., http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/fall05/html/disc_myth.php, http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2010/09/07/the-true-co..., http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732409640457835...
Interesting. Right now I'm looking at a Firefox plug-in called Google Update 1.3.21.135 in Firefox, which I recently disabled (again) because it offers no uninstall option. I certainly didn't put it there myself, nor have I ever knowingly approved it. I just checked, and a similar plug-in has been installed on every other machine we've got handy. Is it possible that you've got something installed that somehow blocks this? It's been happening for years for us, causing much gnashing of teeth.

[Edit] Here's a link describing the plug-in: http://superuser.com/questions/156913/what-is-the-google-upd...
I like the idea of transparent pricing that some surgery centers are implementing. One example is the Surgery Center of Oklahoma which simply displays the prices of their procedures on their website.

This way, people can make informed decisions about their health and purchase procedures at rates far below what is charged through insurance.

"Transparent, direct, package pricing means the patient knows exactly what the cost of the service will be upfront. Fees for the surgeon, anesthesiologist and facility are all included in one low price. There are no hidden costs, charges or surprises."

http://www.surgerycenterok.com/pricing.php
This is also true for android apps.

They ask for permissions that are very hard to figure out as a user.

When the user is faced with two options:

1. Click Ok and get started with this app that looks cool.

2. Click No, and go back to the previous screen without the app.

The choice becomes pretty obvious.

My wife simply ignores it and clicks ok. I'm sure most users do the same after the first or second app they install and from then on it becomes a reflex response. Install. Ok. Ok.