skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One wonders if IBM currently has a still-active support contract for that box.
Interesting idea, but if this was the case I'm sure they wouldn't bother writing javascript which ajaxes timestapms of your clicks to their server.
The problem with your argument is that most plants don't actually have larger genomes. Just some of them. So, if we found a plant with a small genome that synthesized a large range of chemicals, than we could simply assume that the plants with larger genomes aren't getting that kind of benefit. And that is indeed the case. Nobody has found anything phenotypic in these large-genome plants/fish that shows them to be more complex or anything.

My PhD is in Biophysics, my BA in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, although I don't work in botanical bioinformatics, my education provides me with the tools to make rational decisions based on data.
SendHub team - I'd try to get the developer behind GrowlVoice (http://www.growlvoice.com) to support your service or come up with simular Menu Bar interface. It's been one of the most popular paid apps in the Mac App Store for a long time. They provide best way to quickly interface with GV from your Menu Bar on your Mac.
All the more reason to throw it actually. Then let them throw it back and one way or another we can all stop living in glass houses.
Don't forget the data caps.
it's probably much cheaper and quicker to roll fiber out in multiple smaller cities then in one giant city.
And how are the affected people to know that such information has been shared, if you can't even make a FOIA request?
I tried oh-my-zsh for that, but it was very slow to start up. I went back to fish when I realized that I had basically set up zsh to act exactly like fish.
This is definitely one of those situations where when the big telcos heard about Kansas - they were prolly thinking..."meh...who cares about Kansas".

But it feels like every few weeks, Google makes a new announcement. This is definitely going to shake-up the entire ISP market in the US.

I am happy for you guys - I no longer live there, but when I did RoadRunner wasn't TOOO bad.

I guess Comcast is the biggest offender and I hate to see customers taken advantage of.
Half the time with same amount of bugs? I consider low bug-count as part of the requirement for "predictability", since a buggy product isn't considered finished.

If you're talking about someone who consistently hits their deadlines with a low bug count, vs someone who gets it done in 1/3 of the time, but 1.5x as many bugs, I would prefer the person with the longer but more predictable times.

As well, if the entire team is targeting 6 weeks, and the unpredictable person finishes their task in 3 weeks, then it means that the entire schedule gets out of joint. I would prefer the person had better insight into the task and say it would take 3-4 weeks, so that other work could be properly scheduled.
I've seem similar result with Perlito here http://perlito.org/
But it's very exciting that you're building perl with LLVM!
I'm surprised the article suggested BUGS instead of JAGS. JAGS has pretty much all of the features of BUGS (except a GUI) and is open source, cross platform, faster, and easy to run batch jobs from the command line. I've been using JAGS pretty much everyday for the past 1.5 years for a research project I'm working on and have grown quite fond of it. Before that, I was using BUGS for 6 months and was in a living hell with how slow fitting models with it was. Since switching to JAGS, my productivity has increased by several orders of magnitude. I'm primarily using it for analyzing Markov Chain Monte Carlo models of behavioral data where standard nonlinear optimization techniques (such as MLE and MAP) are impossible to use.

Here's a link to JAGS's homepage:
http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/

There's also PyMC (which can do similar types of analysis).
https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc
> That sounds like a battery to me.

Not when the public thinks a battery is something you can buy for a reasonable price. This reminds me of the solar panel business, where the driving market issue is not cell efficiency, it's cell cost per watt. A panel that produces more watts per dollar will usually beat a panel that's more efficient at capturing the sun's energy.
I'm really excited that they continue to expand.
Daft Punk Is the Apple of Dance Music
I guess I was comparing it to other countries I've worked in with one dominant religion (and stories about Israel from other people, where if you're not Israeli or at least Jewish you're fairly excluded...). All of the Mormons I've met (admittedly, outside Utah) have been positive outliers as individual people, but I assume when you have a larger sample set there is the normal range of human variation.
Mashery has developers but not the enterprise, so now intel can leverage its relationship and build on the offerings
Yeah, the backward-compatibility lengths that IBM goes to are something amazing and wonderful to behold. I think a lot of developers these days don't appreciate the crazy work that into supporting bytecode from before they were born.
Colorado River tops most endangered river list
It's sad that samsung would do this... Is it commonplace for companies to do this?
One thing that does not seem to be often discussed is that CISPA data can be used to investigate and prosecute crimes. Specifically, crimes involving harm to minors or serious bodily harm.

No one likes to see adults or minors injured, but this inclusion is at odds with proponents' claim that it CISPA is only "for cybersecurity purposes". Even the House Committee on Intelligence's own FAQ seems to contradict the bill's text in its first entry:

http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/f...

"Serious bodily harm" isn't a term which just covers terrorist acts; it covers things like automobile accidents. One wonders if data collected under CISPA could be used to find and prosecute drunk drivers in a National Park -- hey, it prevents serious bodily harm and it's on Federal property, right?

Other claims that the bill's language is too broad and needs more work:

http://www.legislationandpolicy.com/747/cispa-and-the-need-t...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislativ...
Use an OpenPandora as a boot device
Intel Is Buying Mashery To Get Deeper Inside The Data Center
That error message seems to just be Google's default 500 error message page; even when it is an API request that fails, even if the API is specified to return errors as some kind of JSON or XML, you get that HTML page in response. (I know this as Google's OpenID+OAuth pipeline has been failing occassionally for the last month, something I've been trying to get them to fix on the Google Federated Login API mailing list.)
The one thing they did not mention was the battery weight and size. The biggest barrier for electric cars and other battery uses is the ratio of energy to weight and size.

Today, this ratio enables about 70-100 miles travel for an electric car with a similar weight and size as a gasoline car.

will be interesting to follow this initiative.
This is reassuring, if a bit scary. I'm at a successful mid-size post-'startup' company now and things are still pretty broken.

What size do things stop being broken? At 50 employees, are things broken? How about 100? 200?
Not really. w1ntermute said "racism is still widely prevalent in America" which to me means "racism commonly occurs in America". But vowelless said "the only place I experienced less racism than the US was Canada" which to me means "of all the places I've been, America is the second least racist place... second only to Canada".

I'm pretty sure the two said very different things... possibly even totally opposite things.
Me too, me too. So disappointed.
The HTML5 player doesn't have a fullscreen button in embedded videos.
It's unfortunately on the one hand too beholden to POSIX shell behavior, while still being too different from mainline Bourne derivatives. I've tried it a few times, and the cognitive load is too extreme for my 20+ yrs of POSIX brain-damage to work around.
Minor nitpick is charge time at a supercharger would remain 45 minutes. You'd need some kind of miracle superduper charger to deliver that kind of current. A cable that can handle that kind of current would be kind of unimaginable for the average civilian. It would resemble a telephone pole. Not the wires on the pole, but the pole itself.

A stereotypical thermodynamics class assignment was something along the lines of assume your 10 gallon gas tank is filled in a minute at the gas pump through a little half inch gas nozzle. Now calculate the thermal energy of that nozzle assuming perfect combustion in megawatts. Then given that the gas nozzle is about half an inch, look up what diameter copper wire would be required to transfer that kind of energy if it was electricity. The answer was pretty stunning.
Anything can be roped into "actual attack." Remember the actual language of the bill, since you read it: "theft of intellectual property." What the hell does that mean?

Of course there is no oversight aside from the people who are making requests, so the idea that a company would actually be penalized for releasing info "unreleated to cyberthreats" is laughable at best.
I'm surprised to not see a reference to reddit's /r/EntrepreneurRideAlong -- was this inspired by /u/LocalCaseStudy?
It is a really bad deal because it eliminates municipal ownership of the infrastructure that would facilitate competition. Instead they are installing a new monopolist which will only seem to improve things in the short term.
our startup just got google fiber TODAY courtesy of brad feld! http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2013/04/the-feld-fiberhouse-...
and I pay around 80 in TN for 25 mbps
Crunchbase shows the company took $270k in seed 3/1/13. Why would you take the seed funding when you were doing so well?
Clients who won't pay for retainers (with optional SLA attachments for emergencies, if required) shouldn't make public quips about their contract developers being at the movies. The market is such that I do not have to be available 24/7 for $100/hour, billable in 15-minute increments, no matter how much startup CEOs wish this wasn't the case.
> First, I don't know if Brendan is pro-Gay, anti-Gay or agnostic. My assertion is that with one data point (a contribution to the prop 208 campaign) is, by itself insufficient deduce his actual feelings.

I don't mean to reply to this too pithily, but some pith kind of fits here:

When you hear hoofbeats, assume horses, not zebras.
>New York City, by the same logic, sits on top of a mega-region that runs all the way to Georgia (though there are soft borders around Washington, D.C.);

It's not quite there, but this reminds me of the Sprawl:

>In William Gibson's fiction, the Sprawl is a colloquial name for the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis (BAMA), an urban sprawl environment on a massive scale, and a fictional extension of the real Northeast Megalopolis.... The Sprawl is a visualization of a future where virtually the entire East Coast of the United States, from Boston to Atlanta, has melded into a single mass of urban sprawl.[1] It has been enclosed in several geodesic domes and merged into one megacity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sprawl
The full service is very common in non-tech niche segment who value the importance of website. Most of your time will go into acquiring customers in your niche: Convincing why prospects need a website and why should prospects buy from you?

A minimal setup will be to have a partnership between two people. One spend 80% of time acquiring customers and second one spends 80% of time delivering service. With experience and traction, your cost of customer acquisition and cost of service delivery will go down.

DIY is pretty much dead as a starter in such niche segments and typically will attract clients looking for lowest cost, i.e. high unpaid overhead.
> But lutusp was shitting all over the submitter for dropping the almighty "design" word from the title and then claimed this is not an article about a battery but only about a design for one.

Yes, but guess what? That's true -- it's not a marketable product, it's a laboratory curiosity. That difference mustn't be dismissed. There are any number of research developments that never become products for reasons other than their theoretical properties.

> Isn't that how bleeding-edge innovation works?

Not exactly. If if were, a solar panel that converted a higher percentage of the sun's energy into electricity would beat a panel that produced more power per dollar. But in reality, it's the other way around.
Gongkai: an alternate open ecosystem that built a $12 phone
Broken for me. The question page at the end didn't have a submit button (just oddly quoted: Preparing results..."), and when I submitted by pressing <enter> in an input box I got a "connection reset" error from Firefox.
Is Facebook Connect Worth the Risk for Major Sites?
The fact that this is close to Bluffdale only helps support (just a little bit) the likely thesis that Google has decided to ally itself with the US surveillance state (which is probably has little choice about anyway).
Contributing the vast majority of revenue for the company has something to do with it.
Aborting. "Premature disengagement of umbilical on second stage"
If you don't need delegation, there are a number of simple but secure methods: HTTPS + token via Basic auth seems quite popular.

What simple but secure methods are there where delegation is required? Is there something simpler than OAuth or AWS style signed HMAC?
Son, disruption is exactly the antithesis of what motivates these folks to use these machines. The bombs may fall, the solar winds may fry the network, but that blasted 402 will keep clicking and ticking into doomsday given the opportunity and maintenance.

You probably don't even support IE8 anymore. :)
I like the way that the stuff you think you need is rolled up into a single "pull, make the change, push" yet the stuff you don't see any value in is spread out into having to open the application, go to the site, get things wrong etc. If it's browser-based, could you not simply have a browser link to to "Add ticket" to replace most of the first 6 steps?

Also, "type in a bunch of bullshit on a long form and submit that" - like I say, I don't know Jira, but I doubt that it forces you to type a long bit of bullshit. I'm sure that "correct spelling" would do. And I'd also expect that you'd be doing something similar in your source control system so that someone looking through the code at some point in the future can see why (or when) the particular change was made.

And how often do you make this kind of change as opposed to actually working on bugs/improvements that are coming in through JIRA?

I'm sure that there are occasions when your tool gets in the way of getting the work done, but from your description I'm not sure it sounds like it's a major inconvenience most of the time, which needs to be balanced against the benefit you get from having a centralised place to track, prioritise and allocate the work.
Just announced on the stream: Abort for the day, at about T-12 minutes. "There was a premature dislocation on one of the umbilicals on the second stage."

"There will likely be a 48 hour re-cycle"
Why isn't the iOS app compatible with the iPhone 4? Is it really that processor-intensive?
You are three seconds earlier than me lol. I tuned in 40 seconds ago and was like "oh it's canceled just now? Just like that?" and listened for a few seconds more to be sure.
They had to abort for the day because of a premature detachment of an umbilical cord to the second stage. Damn.
"Hire People Bothered By Suck" And Other Insights From GitHub
More than you think.
Here we go with you again, tptacek.

I have far fewer karma than you, and have been on HN far fewer days, but I'm not stupid. And I know that your hypocrisy on every single HN post regarding CISPA is reaching an intolerable level.

Your rhetoric is flawed at a very basic level -- you claim that the EFF and other institutions are not telling you the complete truth about the bill and advocate it with such ferocity, yet, even you fail to present valid arguments.

You use smoke-and-mirrors tactics to distract readers from the real point -- which is not whether anti-CISPA institutions are telling you "the whole truth" -- but whether CISPA infringes on the Fourth Amendment. The bill has loopholes, and the traditional unclear and tangled legalese that is all too prevalent in bills such as these only ensures there will be more to come.

Sometimes a vocal majority can be wrong. But that doesn't mean you should discredit their rhetoric, because it's valuable. If we all did what you said, we would be likely still be living in monarchical England.
They aborted, no launch today...
How could it? Google would own the infrastructure in the city making competition extremely difficult. New monopolist, same as the old monopolist.
Yep. I completely got it backwards. Thanks for the correction.
Fair enough. Is a prototype flying car a design or a product? Can I get one -- not the design, the product?
>that doesn't somehow make someone donating to a cause they believe in a murderer.

Woah woah slow the fuck down. That is not what I said. I said that supporting the actions of organization X which does Y with your direct financial contribution means that you have supported Y in some way, however small.

That applies regardless of who you are. It doesn't matter that Mozilla might be a great place to work - it puts him in the same company as the guy that runs Chik-Fil-A. Giving money to a company that does bad things means you have supported those bad things. Doesn't particularly matter whether you like this fact or not, because it's true.

I'd argue even more that it applies when you're the CEO of a large company. $hate_organization can now legitimately say that this Mozilla guy supports them. Great press right!?

>I mean, if you think somehow boycotting Mozilla and trashing them in public will help advance some social cause you believe in, then go for it.

Which I also didn't say or advocate.

>That's the kind of behavior you're advocating here: Blatant, unflinching intolerance in both directions.

Which.. I also didn't say or advocate.

Please read what I actually said and not what you want me to have said. I didn't advocate boycotting Mozilla, and I drew no conclusions other than "This is uncool, and being related to the company in such a position now drags their name into it, and it makes perfect logical sense that a company may choose to distance themselves from a person in such a case"

Roughly half of your post is a damn lie.

And another thing, if you don't think that being told by evangelicals and conservatives and other hate groups that you are wrong and terrible and evil all the time doesn't contribute to suicide, you're out of your damn mind. I can't tell you exactly what message at what time might cause someone to snap, but I can very well say that every one contributes somehow.
Google Fiber is coming to Provo
Provo, Madison, Boulder seem like pretty ideal candidates for this kind of thing -- techie, fairly small (well, Boulder is borderline), relatively sane local government, good potential takeup.

KC actually seems like the outlier, due to size and a larger range of incomes/education.

Bellevue, WA might work, too, or college towns like Blacksburg, Pasadena, Cambridge, Urbana-Champaign, and near some of the National Labs. (Is Huntsville still an outlier for the state?)

Orlando would be interesting, or even the Disney-specific district, due to tourism, along with obviously Las Vegas. Selfishly I'd love it if they did Hawaii.
You should have mentioned OpenVMS (VAX/VMS), it was the biggest rival of Unix back in the DEC's glory days.
> We've been living in different universes then.

Well, I was doing multi-platform C development across all major commercial UNIX vendors and NT on those days, what about you?

> With NT4 they moved graphics drivers into the kernel, and these were crashing often. NT3.5 was stable in this regard, although dog slow.

At least they did work, not the same could be said about Linux and BSD distributions with their open source drivers 10 years ago.

> And that's just the design decisions - the implementatin was also abysmal; there were remote exploits published daily in those days, and only half of them were through IE (which had no reason to be bundled into the OS except for MS world domination plans, but as it was and was unremovable, it was a convenient attack vector.

Windows problems with security were no different than any other desktop operating system before it.

As for being the beloved target for hacking, it happens with every system they see value into cracking, as the increase in mobile malware shows.

> And don't get me started on concurrency bugs that I reported to MS on NT4 and as of Server 2003 were not yet fixed.

Are every single bug fixes you report to open source projects fixed?
Hmm. I might be wrong! Everything I'm looking at online seems to suggest I should have one. But they only sent me one!? I dunno.
> Faithful recreation as a core value?

> Lack of ui/ux contributors?

It's really both of these. For a long time, the constraint was fidelity with BeOS R5, which kept focus on an achievable goal.

However, there has been some interest in making UX/UI improvements; the problem seems to be that there just isn't much (if any) design/UX expertise in the open source community.
To the editors: yes this title is altered from the original blog title. I thought the description in bunnie's tweet was better https://twitter.com/bunniestudios/status/324624996259475456
This is an important point that will be ignored. But who cares since we can to sign into our facebooks with fiber internet, right?
> "Serious issues like abortion must be approached with more care than you are offering it"

The same can be said for same-sex marriage and related issues (polygamy, civil unions for widows/widowers who don't want to remarry, the imposition of religious definitions on secular society OR secular definitions on religion, and so on.) Can you give me a good reason why the benefits attached to marriage should be attached to family A but not family B? Does your reasoning hold up when introducing family C into the mix? What if one family doesn't want to use the term "marriage" but another does?

Take my family: I live with my wife, my son, my sister, and her son. I'm responsible for both children during the normal work day. It seems reasonable that this family arrangement should allow us certain benefits which are presently tied to marriage, like access to my nephew's school records and being able to schedule medical appointments for him.

As the rest of your comment demonstrates, if you choose certain terminology, you can make complex issues appear to have obvious and simple solutions. The question of how to legally define family relationships deserves far more care than it's usually given.
Anyone familiar enough with such things to compare its theoretical or practical abilities compared with the seccomp/namespaces/syscall filters/selinux world? I mean besides their horribly disjoint nature.
And even our old Windows shell...
10 great talks about talking
Except that the "new monopolist" is currently thrashing the "old monopolist". It's almost like they are having to... compete.

Also, they bought out a municipal fiber outfit. They're not kicking competitors out. They're just completely outclassing them.
Does the EFF lobby though?
It's not the puppy.

People used to game Google Adsense by putting their own images next to the adsense blocks in order to get more clicks. MFA sites did this so much, Google banned the practice of using images next to their ads. This is the same result.