skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon sell as Motorola unlocked for $7.99

http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-C139-Prepaid-Phone-Tracfone/d...
People just paid $1 million for bitcoin mining
I do a bit of magic (the performance art, not the card game) and attend lectures. Typically it's just a guy with no tech demoing new effects and methods. At the end they always sell lecture notes. It's a detailed overview of everything they did that night and it's usually indexed well so I can jump straight to a particular effect I want to learn.

I really enjoy this approach. It allows my to pay attention without worrying about remembering or note taking during the presentation and still allows me an almost perfect reference.
It's also available as an mp4 video if you remove the type=GIF param
HN encourages you to write a blog post and submit that, yes.
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If you are capable of storing a backup more safely than the countless google datacenters, I would assume setting up an SMTP server is the easy part.
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No.

Micro-array analysis (as opposed to the Exome sequencing they are starting to offer, which may be useful for BRCA diagnosis) focusses on frequently occurring single nucleotide polymorphisms (substitution of one base for another). The majority of these are benign.

By looking at lots of commonly occurring variants it is hoped that they can map regions of the genome that may harbour other mutations that may actually have an effect.

Baynes et al., 2007 [1] showed that none of the commonly occurring SNP's in BRCA (> 1-5% of the population) have a significant risk in cancer.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17428325
Ask HN: Would you hire me?
I'm asking this on behalf of all those who don't come from a programming background. I often hear you don't need a CS degree to land a job as a developer. This isn't about me specifically, but anyone in a similar situation.

My background and a couple relevant links:

-28 years old with a Finance Degree from a non-Ivy league school

-Spent the last two years living overseas teaching English and learning to code

-Fairly well versed in html, css, javascript, and PHP

-Just getting started with Ruby

blog: http://fajitanachos.com

github: https://github.com/fajitanachos

stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/1180335/fajitanachos

Would you hire me (or anyone with similar credentials) for a junior dev position?

Also, I wanted to make this a poll but my karma isn't high enough. A simple yes/no would be appreciated.
So how does this compare to Android/iOS dev experiences? Other JS+CSS+HTML developement?
Maybe the problem is that we don't have open access to published scientific papers.
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Sorry seems like the Amazon ELB isnt playing nicely. Working to fix.
I want to use them; but they can't take $US without a US bank account (we have a $US UK based bank account) or do Amex yet. Hopefully soon.
Did you try out Recurly? I'm curious to see a comparison (on the zero hassle part especially).
Well, if we develop good enough exoskeletons maybe even people born without brain could reach adulthood and reproduce.
"Water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink". I have definitely been through similar periods in my life. The problem with having a volume of superficial "friends" is that it artificially covers up our loneliness to some degree, which makes seeking out more intimate relationships less of a priority. It's the emotional equivalent of attempting to live on fast food: it makes us feel full, but leaves us starving for what we actually need.
"Anyone know how to prevent googlebot from spidering my comments? I don't want an IRS audit."

Unplug and go live in the woods. Everybody wins.
My only real interest in number theory is applied number theory; i.e. the basis of many schemes of asymmetric cryptography.
Prezi gives me motion sickness. I don't see the point.
I tried making an animated gif CAPTCHA a few years back, relying on persistence of vision (to try and get round the whole screenshot and process botting issue): http://sandbox.palmnet.me.uk/gifcaptcha/index.php

Ended up with roughly 75% correct human responses and 40% correct using a bot. Which are pretty poor stats for both sides of the equation.
Don't people from nigeria offer captcha breaking services for something like $1/thousand now?
That's physics, not mathematics (let alone number theory).
Needs to die? What are you talking about? Obviously administering tests that haven't been shown to be effective prophylactically and can even cause harm to a given population is a stupid idea. That's why we do research and weigh benefits/risks. That's like saying antibiotics need to die because many times they don't work and can cause resistant strains, when the problem is that physicians often administer them incorrectly.

Appropriate preventative medicine supported by research and numbers is so, so important.
From what I've read it only accepts certain commands spoken in a very specific way for example "OK Glass, Take a Picture" works but "OK Glass, Take a Photo" doesn't.
source:https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/ZLV9GdmkRzS
See my cheat here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5702208
The drunkard’s search
I find it revealing that the authors go from a study which demonstrates (according to them) a general drop in IQ, yet make what appears to be a big jump in pinning the blame for said IQ drop on the societal trend of the less educated having more children than the more educated.

I get the feeling this is geared more for press and controversy than a real scientific conclusion.
The new class of computers the size of a grain of sand.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5567102
Looks like you are using HTTPS Everywhere? Try disabling it or click the icon to load the insecure script.
Mysql to postgres migration tool
Why these kind of payment services take quite long to add a new country?

What procedures are there?
mission accomplished: http://imgur.com/7YJ8GpU
Interestingly I saw the news tonight here in New Zealand that BRCA test is paid for by the government if you have some risk factors for breast cancer (I believe they mentioned having two relatives affected by the disease).
Interesting point, and eventually things may move that way. It may become as transparent to the users as changing channels on the radio. But for now we're still at the stage where there isn't enough device cross-talk to afford us the luxury to do away with meaningful / memorable domain names (much like how many new radios still need to be tuned in to our preferred stations). We print website addresses and place a great significant on the address bar - so it makes sense that a domain name should fit the product.

While QR codes, mobile apps and search engines are mitigating the need for domain names - I don't think we're quite there yet.
Agreed, this is a massive pain - I'd love to start using them but I need to bill in USD, and getting a US bank account from the UK is a big unknown.

I spoke to them at their hack day in London at the beginning of April, and they said they expected to solve this in 1-3 months. So hopefully within the next 6 weeks if we're optimistic!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1014203/best-way-to-use-g...

It's really easy to fallback to a local copy if the CDN server is down.
Why not? If it can grab all 20 frames, it has 20 times more data than it would normally have to solve the captcha.

Even if the captcha recognition's success rate is only 5%, its overall recognition rate is going to go through the roof.

You also get to do something you can't do with static captchas, compare the results. If 70% of the frames recognized the first letter as A, it's likely to be A, and so on.

As the letters move, they briefly do the really hard task of segmentation for you.

If there is any incentive to crack this captcha, it will be cracked very soon if not already, it looks like a very easy one to write.
How is the Flynn effect related to this? As I've understood it, the average IQ has, since the turn of the century, risen by around 20 points.
Wait, so let me get this right: This is a Linux local privilege escalation 0day that works on (most) kernels ver. 2.6.37 to 3.8.10?
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I got my invite last week and integrated it over the weekend, but I need to hold off until I can accept USD.

According to John at Stripe "Unfortunately, right now you'd need a US-routable dollar account to accept payments in USD. We're planning on having better native support
for charging USD in the future, but have no timeline on it right now."

I'm planning on opening a US bank account when I'm in SF in August, if anyone knows how I can do that from Ireland instead let me know.
I tried to use it but felt it was so slow to write your ideas that programming got boring (no advanced loops/generators, no list comprehensions, lambda functions aren't used very much IIRC). I'd probably stick with Python unless performance matters.

But OTOH it really "just works" out of the box.
So nice to see € there. But I would like to know if they have any roadmap for expanding to other countries. I'm from Spain and about to start a business, and I would love to set up payments with stripe and would like to know if it will be available in my country when we launch. Any information?
Quoting rom there, to TL;DR'ers:

"Don't just read about the phone itself. Read to/at the end, where Bunnie describes the environment where this phone and things like it are coming to be"
I don't see any mention of that phone being unlocked...
Without money or credibility it's quite likely that you'll find yourself still doing the startup grind in two years, without having raised money or not even having a company with paying companies. During these two years you'll also find yourself only being able to work on your dream startup 30% of the time, because you have to get money in for the remaining 70% with things you don't love doing.

So probably better selling that $200M startup and then start your dream business with $10M in the pocket?
This is a great point, I agree completely.
It's a private beta, but it only takes emailing them to get in.
she's credited in the byline
Technically you can buy a phone even cheaper (trade for a bottle of beer, ebay, etc). The point is different. If you can find the schematics on the Internet you can potentially build it yourself.
Why should I go or not?
It can be done cheaper, too, and will be, since there is a large user population in Africa/India/etc whose only problem with a $12 phone is that it costs $12 too much. Eventually they'll be cheap enough to put in cereal boxes. (That won't happen, because brightly colored bits of plastic have higher perceived value than crippled phones among people who buy cereal, but they'll still be lifechanging devices in much of the world.)
You are both correct! ;-)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5703681
These studies measured reaction times. There's only a negative .31 correlation between reaction time and intelligence test scores. Just chewing gum lowers your reaction times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_time#Mental_chronometr...

Actual intelligence scores have risen each decade:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

Also, the "We" in these studies is no longer just a narrow range of middle to upper class white males. If you look at sub-groups, most likely everybody is rising even when the overall average might be declining.

This is what happened with SAT scores since the 60s: "SAT scores don’t decline because students get dumber; they go down because more students take them." http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/blog/average_...

So the question is, have reaction times gotten slower because of more people being tested, or other factors? I'd imagine in decades past, participating in a psych experiment was a more "special" occasion warranting heightened attention and performance than it is today.
Crouton is interesting and I can see why people would like it. It's just I couldn't invest long term in something that requires effort on Googles part to support as they could drop support at any point.

Haven't heard of Chrubuntu I'll definitely check that out thanks!
Or maybe we should accept that security ultimately doesn't matter.
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Can a mathematician explain the significance of this result please?
You say that you're fairly versed in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, a little bit of Ruby - so you might have other domain knowledge (a lot of us do), but you certainly seem to have a programming background as well. Maybe you didn't notice ;)

I don't see why a company looking for the skills you have would not hire you.

When I was running my startup, most people didn't have CS degrees. Most of them did have, however, an extensive programming background in that they had been hacking since early adolescence. All in all, I would still hire like that today if I had to make those choices again: choose people who like to code and still do that a lot in their spare time.
I guess adding multi-currency is another level of complexity, but something that I think users in Europe would want. Also exchange rates stuff probably has regulatory stuff with it too.
I don't see anywhere on the stripe interface to add a 2nd bank account for a different currency.
Does anyone have any tips on what banks to open a US a/c when I'm there next (I don't have a SSN).
Mathematical formulas are designed to be pretty, not suitable for computation
If by concrete you mean business case example, it comes up a lot in "the last three people to modify this record were..."

Security audit trail type stuff "Why is this salesguy apparently manually by hand downloading the entire master customer list alphabetically?".

This isn't all doom and gloom stuff either... "You're spending three weeks collecting the city/state of every customer so a marketing intern can plot an artsy graph by hand of 10000 customers using photoshop? OMG no, watch what I can do with google maps/earth and about 10 lines of perl in about 15 minutes" Or at least I can run a sql select that saves them about 50000 mouse clicks in about 2 minutes of work. Most "suit" types don't get the concept of a database and see it as a big expensive Excel where any query more complicated than select * is best done by a peon by hand. I've caught people manually alphabetizing database data in Word for example.

Another thing that comes up a lot in automation is treating a device differently WRT monitoring and alerting tools if a change was logged within the last 3 days. So your email alert for a monitored device reads contains a line something like "the last config change made was X hours ago by ...". Most of the time when X=0 or X=1 the alert is because ... screwed up, and when it isn't a short phone call to ... is problem isolation step #1.

This was all normal daily operations business use cases, aside from the usual theoretical data mining type stuff, like a user in A/B marketing test area "B" tends to update data table Q ten times more often than marketing test area "A" or whatever correlation seems reasonable (or not).
If that argument is used to defend against arguments of bad design decisions, in spite of years of research by many other well renowned computer scientists that went ignored, then yes.
Yes. Even though I'm in no position to hire, your works looks decent. You show interest in developing yourself when it comes to new languages. And 'judging' from your photo, you look like a kind well hearted person (some people might ask me how on earth I could say such a thing - I don't know, it's just a gut feeling).

You also seem to have the motivation which is very important.
It is pretty much web development. My method is to shrink a browser down to mobile size and create something in HTML/CSS/JS as if you were creating it for a mobile browser. If it works as a web app, it should work as a FirefoxOS app.

You can download the FirefoxOS simulator as a Firefox add-on for free to have a play about with it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-os-si...
If you add three large primes I don't see how you could quickly reverse that process. May be possible that several set's of 3 primes also sum to that number so you would need a process for finding all of them.
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Why have a peer-reviewed journal when we can talk about the documentary?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

Jokes aside, I guess I will have to read the article, would this not been the case from the beginning? How drastic are changes in IQ averages over hundreds of years? Is it possible that there highest IQ holders were not a very slim strata of society, or are we to suppose over time that the margin and spread is getting wider?
They need to do something to make the locally installed app experience a little nicer (for developers, I mean). The 2 manifest file thing is a bit awkward.
Unless the activity is demonstrably harmful to others nobody should have the right to actively limit or prohibit anybodies access to anything. Much less criminalise. How can it be moral to interfere with someone's autonomy like that? All we have the right to do is educate about the dangers and then help if help is welcome.
That's correct, which means stonemetal's comment is true only for non-math code, but 99% of the code out there is not math.
What should be I doing to handle thousands of quick and short lived connections?
I got my UK invite over a month ago, I still haven't implemented it because I hadn't realised you needed SSL.
I haven't had a problem. Have you reported the crashes and hangs?
Site was down again. But read the content from the cache and it looks more of how to start developing on Firefox OS post than an user experience of the OS itself. Of course it does talk about the experience of developing a simple app, but doesn't give a view of the user experience. I wish it gave a comparison. Besides that the Firefox OS platform looks interesting and attractive given every web developer can be an app developer on Firefox Os.
A Hacker's manifesto.
motion? just take a single frame and OCR it!
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm learning a little more every day.
Briefly ...

To a large extent the primes appear to be distributed in a manner indistinguishable from randomly. There seems underneath to be no reason to believe that there are results like this. If they were random then there might be numbers that cannot be expressed as the sum of 3 primes, but somehow every number ends up so expressible.

Why should that be true? Indeed, is it true? This result says it is true, but we really don't see why.

Understanding how the primes are distributed may have far-reaching implications for cryptography, and possibly even for solving things like the TSP. We just don't know, just as we initially never suspected that public-key cryptosystems were possible, and would involved primes.

Random matrices is another area where a lot of research was done just because people found it an interesting problem, and now there appear to be deep connections with practical physics that may allow us to further bend the world to our will.

Sometimes it's the chase that's exciting, never knowing what may turn out to have world-changing implications.
Agreed. This was very confusing and does not seem to be explained very well anywhere.
It is amazing that we can produce phones and sell them, profitably, at around $10.

Chinese manufacturers can do cheap. Now they just need to do "quality" (which will raise prices a bit) and "innovative". Once they get that cracked they'll take over the world.

From my ignorant uninformed perspective there are some weird cultural things going on. Why does China shovel out very very cheap goods? There are a small number of Chinese companies making quality products for the west, but not many.

There was a photo-article submitted to HN a few days ago. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5697968) (http://m.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/05/chinese-diy-inventi...)

It's surprising the number of people making potentially dangerous things by themself out of bits and pieces in their backyard. And seemingly re-inventing a bunch of stuff while they do it. Many of these are the kind of things that would be done by universities (if they didn't care about health and safety).
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With this implementation you don't, but it's not hard to construct it such that there is no single frame with enough information to construct the whole message. If you screen capture there are several frames where you really can't tell what the middle letter is, but it's obvious what the message is.

The real issue is a computer can compare the images individually and combine them so if it get's 'G_G', 'GF_', and '_FG' it's going to assume 'GFG'.
> All you've pointed out is exactly what I've said; it's fine for small things.

Except that's not what I said.

Go can be used for big things on the web. Google uses it for dl.google.com; SoundCloud uses it; amongst many others.

What I am saying is that there isn't a defacto "kitchen sink" framework for Go, but this does not stop large applications from being built.

The same tools for small sites scale nicely to large ones in Go.
Great to see Stripe expanging in Europe!
We at Sellfy (http://sellfy.com/) just rolled out GPB support for Stripe UK users looking to sell their downloads. I guess the Euros for Ireland are next.
We are talking about migration plan here - eg: moving from gmail to hotmail without losing your data, or better transferring them to your new provider.

In any case, your data may be physically safe in Google datacenter but you are still one Google policy breach away from losing your access to it.
i think i would rather build a binary for each platform and run as fast as possible than to build once and run slow on all platforms.
I think NACLC is necessary but not sufficient for most important roles (either executive or operational; devops/ops, or developers in an environment without good dev/ops separation). In general any process which PFC Manning could pass is insufficient for personnel security screening, and any process which is one point in time vs. ongoing is also insufficient.

Maybe not for a shoe salesman, but for something technical, sure. Maybe not for some crappy social game, but for a platform, or anything touching finance, or anything security related (other than purely exploit development on public code).
As a WPF/C# developer it sure seems like Microsoft is trying to ditch their developer base.

It should be obvious to anyone, that when you throw your developer base overboard like that, those soaking wet, pissed off developers aren't going to be inclined to swim to your "new" boat.
Thanks for the kind words. I wasn't really posting to try and land a job (though it'd be nice). I just wanted to get some feedback that I'm headed down the right path.
I once went to an IDEO talk and noticed that all words in the speaker's Powerpoint are capital letters. After the talk, I asked the guy why he made it like that and his answer was that since capital letters make it harder to read, you would force yourself to write concisely on the Powerpoint. He also mentioned that many people inside IDEO follow this rule.

Badly made Powerpoint is just useless while 6-page memo might be too time consuming and inconvenient. Capital letter approach could be a good compromise between those two.
You don't even need to be a particularly smart hacker. Even just dumping a screenshot of the page [1] using phantomjs gives you a relatively legible image.

[1] http://blog.mclemon.cz/apple-nucaptcha-easy-to-break
Android is just Linux, Go works perfectly fine on it. Go issues syscalls directly and doesn't use libc for that (it uses glibc for name resolution, but with cgo disabled it doesn't do even that).

Minux did an iOS port, it's not part of the official tree because an iOS port required a rooted device. Perhaps this might have changed as with two word funcs, the Go runtime doesn't do runtime code generation.