skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay sorry let me redo that post:

>The only thing i disagree with is "unguided". Instead of carving with a knife monsanto carves with dna.

What I meant was the original creator of the plant did the carving/guiding but the farmer is only growing it in a relatively ordinary manner. Perhaps he sprays some weed killer on it but he's not elaborately guiding the plant. (An example of such guiding would be making a topiary in a patented shape.)
Small follow-up question: I'm curious how your sample size calculator chooses its value. Traditional power analysis asks for two proportions rather than for a proportion and an effect size. So the sample size for a positive effect differs from that for a negative effect (from the same baseline). I'd imagine your tool would conservatively present the larger of the two. However, it seems to present something near the midpoint of the two. Is that the intention? Or is there some other statistics being used here?

(For example, with an 8% baseline conversion rate, a 1% absolute detectable different, 85% power and 10% significance level, your tool says 10,583 per branch. R's `power.prop.test` gives sample sizes of 11,182 for a positive change (8% vs 9%) and 9,974 for a negative change (8% vs 7%). The exact midpoint is 10,578.)
Bloomberg users’ messages leaked online
It's good to have diversity in the market, and you should use whatever service you want (I don't really see anything in the article to suggest that merging storage quotas is a benefit over dropbox, anyway, it's just a simplification of split storage limits that I know has confused at least some people), but you're reaching with those examples.

Both the Maps API quota and the AppEngine price changes were not consumer product changes, and the free Google Apps account change wasn't taking anything away from anyone, it's just no longer offering a free tier for future consumers. The only people with room to complain on that one were the people on HN that day talking about having clients in the pipeline that they'd now have to add an extra charge for because there was no warning, but if you already have a free account, there's nothing to "fall for" but making an assumption that you would be able to sign up for more free accounts.
Please don't make comments like this.
Distributed software has its own pain points in development and testing, but SFAIK BigTable and MapReduce nodes run on commodity hardware running a flavor of linux.[1]

[1] This paper seems to support that: http://int3.de/res/GfsMapReduce/GfsMapReducePaper.pdf
It sounds like the primary reason for the ban on this technology is that the green lobby doesn't like it.
The saddest "disease" ever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitalism

Babies died simply because they were not held enough.
And if they weren't such aggressive lobbyists, I would agree with you. My original point was that they are much more deserving of close scrutiny at this point than any YC-backed company. Do you dispute that?
Our brains detect grammar errors even when we are unaware
There is a -1!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8GOytc32RE
It's like Stephen Harper knows he's running out of time, and he's trying to screw up as many remaining parts of the Canadian federal government as he can before the end.
Planting Your Own Legally Purchased & Grown Seeds Can Be Infringing
You should do neither of those until you've built a solid, lasting, stable, intimate and trusting relationship with someone.
There are several good reasons to reject the argument that costs make massive government intervention necessary.

First, a good telescope in the days of Galileo or an electric generator in Tesla's were still pretty expensive high-tech toys. They got financed through private means anyway.

Second, the number of subfields that truly demand massive capital investment is small, and mostly confined to physics. Many, if not most projects these days can be conducted with a few graduate students / postdocs, who are paid close to minumum wage and use existing equipment. Still, this kind of "cheap" research is nonetheless conducted overwhelmingly with government funds.

Third, money doesn't guarantee quality. Major scientific advances of the past were achieved not so much by people who were very well funded, but rather who had leisure to think about their field in novel ways (Maxwell, Darwin, Mendel, Einstein etc.). The constraints, stress and uncertainty of the grant-award process are not conducive to a similar environment.

Finally, increased costs are also a symptom of lack of innovation [1]. Maybe we're just on the final legs of existing logistic curves and have no new ones to latch on to?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
>Available memory (4kx2 socket buffers; you do want connections to be as fast as possible no?)

When 1U commodity x86 server built on C602 Intel chipset can be packed with 768 GB RAM..
Thanks for the heads up. I'll get it fixed asap.
Sorry, as opposed to we must always show them princesses to give the girls the right role models?

You are for this?
I've never worked with templates. Do they require you to write the function for use with templates, or can you use templates to pass an object into a function which was designed for another specific type of object.
Based on my limited understanding of compilers, I do not see how you could efficiently implement duck typing without some type of JIT compiling.
Game video capture: the ideal codec
Family. Religious groups. Neighbors. Sports (participation or fandom). Volunteer at a nearby school, shelter, or community center. I've even done a meetup group that was pretty successful.

"We try things. Occasionally they even work." - Parson Gotti, http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F109.jpg
Those limits only seem to apply to Google Apps for Business accounts.
Maxwell didn't come up with anything himself [...]

Maxwell "invented" the displacement current:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement_current
Whole Food Organic Vitamins
Hehehe, haven't thought of it this way...
New York attorney general: What is Apple doing to stop phone theft?
Airships are slow and have a small payload. Thus, ships and rail on one end and jets and trucks on the other.
Dyn Acquires Mobile Dashboard App Trendslide
My external http monitoring had no issues accessing my websites on linode. I do not user their DNS though.

[Edit: My nodes are in the Dallas Datacenter]
I actually recently went to an ATM to deposit money, which I haven't done in a long while, and was pretty confused not to find any envelopes available.
Some of us should probably reach out to them. It does sound like a fairly straight forward app. Might even be a good hackathon project or fun size project which doesn't necessarily need to have monetary rewards.
How does creating a 128 bit quality mp3 fight piracy? Flood the space with mediocre copies? It is all over the pirate bay.
Pingdom detected no downtime for beeminder.com, hosted in Linode's New Jersey datacenter (I think).
I'm in the same boat. I'm also have attracted a lot of, how to put this, people who use other people, since I'm not good at standing up for myself, so that, therefore, makes wary of people.

My belief is being social is a skill and I have to learn to get better at that skill in order to attract more normal people. I've been trying the following recently, although I haven't had enough time with any of it to know how well it will work, but just to give you some ideas:

lang-8.com - this site allows you to correct English of people trying to learn it. You can post a journal as well in another language you're trying to learn. My hope is that speaking another language might change the way I interact with people in my native language. But also, people there are very friendly, since you're helping them.

mmo games - trying to get into eve online. Maybe learn to establish relationships that way.

teamspeak - this has an online chat I've been using to practice smalltalk.

I tried a psychologist as well, but his philosophy of life and the way he related to me seemed so goofy that I quit. Also, it was quite expensive for what I got out of it.
sorry to offend your delicate sensibilities.
Sequel, for the same reason I say fibee for FBI. Oh, wait.
That would certainly be an interesting project, although the performance implications on a mobile platform may be an issue (although that's becoming more moot with each generation).

In this case, however, our goal was to take common, familiar interfaces and idioms in Objective C, and make them safer/more powerful.

Something more like channels-like would be quite useful, but it would likely be published under a different project.
You'll be interested to hear that the digital analytics team at the Obama campaign sometimes made use of your tool for sharable A/B calculations.

I even built a bookmarklet for quickly grabbing numbers off off of a page (usually for Google Analytics data) and passing them to your calculator. https://github.com/yahelc/ABBA-bookmarklet
Maybe it's just me, but this seems like a very... convoluted process.
A note for the non-Canadians reading this: NRC is a government agency which does "in-house" research, but it is distinct from NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR, which provide funding (almost exclusively via universities) for research into the sciences-and-engineering, social sciences, and health.

I'm still not a big fan of this change, but it would be incorrect to read this as meaning that all government-funded research is limited to "social or economic gain" projects.
I doubt it. Not only would that involve generating a different watermark for each person with access to the code, but in doing so you also raise complications for source control. Additionally, it is almost impossible for developers not to notice if supposedly identical files are not identical, not to mention the fact that implementing the type of system without the conscious corporation of the developers seems impossible.
From the #linode IRC channel, caker (CEO) states it was a segfault in bind.

13:53:14 caker@ : They operate completely independently, other than loading from the same zones. This looks to be a segfault in bind itself
Detroit emergency manager says city 'clearly insolvent'
Can't you do the one-way import with Picasa?
The previous offer was made here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640700

10 cents (USD) per GB, per month, for life. Their only caveats are a minimum of 50 GB and that you must pay annually, meaning you pay $60 once a year. Payment by credit card or Paypal.
There are a lot of apps that could be used this way. I think http://lift.do might work well for this. And I know of people using our own http://beeminder.com for things like this.
That works as long as people get it.
Sure. I find the Mail app to be ugly when compared to Gmail and more frustrating to use. Chrome seems to handle text much better than Safari, and the syncing is more convenient to me (because the tabs sync with my Android/Linux devices as well probably). Apple Maps seems to give pretty poor directions relative to Google Maps (just last weekend 2 of my family members got lost on their way to a family party because they used Apple Maps and it took them to the opposite side of town). Everyone using Google Maps made it just fine. Siri's voice recognition feels much slower and less accurate than Google Now.

Any major apps I'm missing?
The Cons have never been overly concerned about collateral damage. (And have been stung by government-critical environmental findings enough times as-is.)

It's a government that's made it explicit that it does not govern on the basis of scientific findings.
I disagree. AT&T apologized to their impacted customers & changed the function that was exploited. (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/att-explains-ipad-s...)

As with all security problems- a mistake was made and then exploited. It's reasonable to assess the situation and ask if they did all they should. It's also reasonable to assess their failure. But they didn't just call weev up and ask him if he wanted the data. His partner took it and then Weev seized an opportunity to gain some attention.

It is not too far to call this victim blaming. This could just as easily happened to any upstart startup or fortune 1000 company.
Thanks kriven. Actually that's the #1 requested feature. So I definitely plan to add that.
Excited to try the iOS implementation. Is a desktop client (OSX, Linux, etc) for RedPhone feasible? I understand (I think) that RedPhone doesn't use usernames, but instead uses your phone number as the identifier - but I'm curious if that's a structural restriction at this point. Every time the issue of secure communications comes up the issue of what program to use comes up as well. There aren't a lot of good options at this point. Jitsi seems to be the best people can suggest.
True, an agency can't do much about a product. But they can produce content that will attract links. And they can find people who should be linking to you, but aren't because they haven't heard of you.

That's what the best ones like CitationLabs and Eric Ward do.

A really good SEO can produce 100-150 truly earned links a month. But that would cost you $15k/mo and most clients aren't willing to make that kind of long term investment.

Why won't they invest is a question for another thread, but I suspect blackhats have created a "market for lemons."
They want to run a credit and driving records check.
America has a strong environmentalist lobby that would like to kill GMO research and put agriculture back into the Stone Age. Monsanto needs a powerful lobbying arm for defensive purposes. A hostile government could hound them out of existence otherwise either through new legislation or through executive action by the EPA and USDA.
The science of loneliness
Lately, we've been using the incredibly poorly named Ruby ORM Sequel.

Since, in our office, SQL rhymes with "equal," Sequel rhymes with either "seek well" or "neck will".

Oi.
From libertarians to environmentalists to any kind of anti-authoritarian that doesn't serve the interests of the establishment.

Who do you mean? Who is being called a terrorist?
Sorry- I was being sarcastic.
Confirmed. I wasn't able to access my sites for like 5 minutes.
Honestly the best thing you can do is go to www.khanacademy.org and finish all the math videos he did and all the math exercises on their. You will be a math professional or close to it lol
"Over the past few years, the Canadian government has been lurching into antiscience territory. For example, they’ve been muzzling scientists, essentially censoring them from talking about their research. Scientists have fought back against this, though from what I hear with limited success."

The government has not muzzled any scientific research: It is posted just as it always has been, uncensored and without any approval process.

What they did do is essentially try to reign in government paid researchers who were looking to make a name for themselves, often by providing dire sounding, attention grabbing soundbites from preliminary research to a media too ignorant to understand what they were being told. I think all of us know that the general media is horrendous at reporting on research, and when they had a complicit partner in crime who is interested in seeing their own name in print, things get ugly.

If you work for someone, they often have a say over what you do with your work. There is nothing particularly surprising about this, and the Soviet-style descriptives -- almost all of it politically motivated -- does nothing to clarify the situation.
Isn't having two independent name-servers supposed to prevent this kind of thing?
Nice job, like the minimalist UI.
Its a search engine. Built using Go. By yours truly. (:
What if you leave a laptop sitting in the middle of the street with no identifying information on it and no password required to login. I would argue that picking that laptop up and keeping it isn't theft but rather simply FINDING it.

In this case AT&T put the laptop in a brown paper bag (in the middle of the street) and then were shocked, SHOCKED that someone would open it up to see what's inside.

EDIT: Security through obscurity is no security at all.
Just a small note. In the definition of the Cons class, the iterate method is calling each time to len before proceeding, and that is terribly inefficient.

def __iter__(self):
current = self

while len(current) > 0:
yield current.head
current = current.tail
UDP, or better still SCTP, would be a far better protocol for this use case; having said that there are legacy issues with NAT, protocol support (e.g. IMAP, websockets). Having said that multi-homing is coming down the pipeline, the real pity is that the devices that could most benefit from it, mobile computing, largely refuse to support it; i.e. iOS and Android. Maybe pushing the firefox guys to support SCTP on their OS / websockets implementation would force the other parties to the table... Maybe a user space implementation on top of UDP would be the way to go.
Sure, but that doesn't excuse the thief. In a 'just' world the thief would go to jail and AT&T would suffer fines, private lawsuits. The people responsible for the lack of security would also be fired.
Wow this bookmarklet is awesome! I'm going to start using it. Thanks!
I was working professionally with Oracle and MSSQL databases (with way bigger focus on the latter). I did some freelance projects with MySQL databases, heck, I managed to hack some small things on Pervasive once or twice.

PostgreSQL was always an outsider which I had ignored, but in my recent position PostgreSQL is the main database engine for our whole stack. It took my about a month to get used to the differences in the syntax and PostgreSQL related stuff and I'm amazed about the features and quality of it, especially when you remember that this is a free and open source database engine.

On the other hand, if PostgreSQL devs would start a Kickstarter project for PGSQL specific version of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, my both hands (and feet) would pay. I had tried Database Visualiser (paid version), PGAdmin and few others, but none of those as is even close to the capabilities of Management Studio.

Does anybody maybe know any alternative or have any tips to share?
I use Linode DNS and I saw no issues from Pingdom either (also in dallas).
> I specially want feedback on how moving around the page feels.

So you're saying it's possible to move around the page?

> And no, Nuuton is not dead. Its more alive than ever.

What is Nuuton? (strike that, answered above)
Cool! This produces compatible output to node's crypto.pbkdf2 API[1].

[1]: http://nodejs.org/api/crypto.html#crypto_crypto_pbkdf2_passw...
we definitely experienced this at matchist, and it has made us waste valuable months. now, we don't build ANYTHING unless at least 3 customers request it and unless it will affect the bottom line (no fancy feature upgrades)
writing custom drivers for each NIC is a blocker. Could 10M be achieved with raw sockets?
Nothing was "exploited" since the information was made freely available to the public with no restrictions. Had there been ANY security at all then he might be charged and convicted of hacking. But he wrote a scraper for an unsecured web service. That CANNOT be a crime in a moral sense and it's a travesty that it is a crime in a legal sense.
Developers redo Satoshi Bitcoin software
If I'm dead wrong, explain me how Branch.com is being successful as a "good web conversations platform" with a single thread layout. Plus, explain me their decision to make Branch "better and simpler" (http://bulletin.branch.com/) by removing their branch feature (creating new conversations as a reply to a comment). They just abandoned their only threading feature (heck, their company is named BRANCH), to make the experience better.

I'd also like to see you explain how Google+ made their Disqus competitor with single threads. Are Branch and Google also dead wrong?
Sources Report Facebook Home phone discontinued after fewer than 15K Units Sold
Feedback for how things are placed in the page. The search ability is not available for the test. Soon, though.
fwiw I use the dallas datacenter, linode dns, and pingdom said I was down for 11 minutes.
"Did God want us to die when we got stressed? The answer is no. What He wanted is for us not to be alone. Or rather, natural selection favored people who needed people."

These are both the same thing though. Essentially we're herd animals, and as such we're designed to die if we aren't contributing to the herd. Probably so that if we can't pass on our own genes we can at least increase the chances that someone with similar genes can pass theirs along, by virtue of not wasting resources.
Ask HN: What questions to ask potential customers to validate idea?
So I have been working on a prototype for an idea but have not talked to a single potential customer yet. Seeing the posts on HN about (e.g. how important it is to sell first, build later), I am wondering what kind of questions to ask to engage these potential customers. Some background info:

- THese potential customers could be hiring managers or recruiters in a very niche industry.

- I know these potential customers to an extent that I have dealt with them in the past related to my field.

- I am sure if I get them on the phone/email, most of them will respond.

So how do I go about it ? Any ideas ?
Isn't this exactly what Lift does?
XSS vulnerabilities all over the place. No validation performed at all?
Example; http://www.duetapp.com/demo/#projects/3/tasks/30
I think the problem with the new version is that it's too specifically designed to be attractive to men at the expense of every other aspect of the character.
In my opinion, you shouldn't trust any single provider. Google is a good option for one of the copies (encrypted, of course, if you want any kind of privacy).
I think releasing it on Spotify would have been better: satisify the people who want to listen to it early.
Declan, weev took proprietary information from one source and was not authorized to do so. He then gave that data to the "journalists" at Gawker.

How does this not qualify as stealing and releasing -- especially given Gawker's fiasco with the pre-release iPhone. Am I missing key points here?
Not especially keen on the color scheme, I guess. I don't have much of an opinion on the rest of the layout, unfortunately. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
Any plans of adding Digital Ocean to the list? Looks like a cool service!
Congratulations on the launch...5 months is a long time and as a few said here it's easy to give up during this time.

I would suggest give it a little categories grouping and let people filter things through their preference. A way to filter through the person who quoted this wouldn't hurt too. More power to the people and they feel good.
Didn't experience any loss of connectivity from my VPS hosted in their London DC.
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How about this: I want a way to consolidate my paid for space. I have 1TB of Drive and much less (100GB) with Dropbox. I'd like a way to put files that I need highly available (almost universally small files) on dropbox and big files that I care less about on Drive; without two completely separate directory trees like I have now.

I've considered trying to set something up with fuse and a union filesystem, but the effort for that exceeds the value it would provide for me.
If you share a folder publicly or with an individual, they cannot download it all in its entirety either. The files have to be downloaded one-by-one. Makes it very toy-like for business usage & sharing large collections of documents/files.
Seconding this. I came here to post something similar. It'd be like having a George W. Bush quote to start it off. Better off with something more classic. Maybe something really classical from Rome or from Lincoln or whatever, but Ayn Rand is that polarizing.
Your numbers assume TCP will always be the dominant connection-oriented protocol.
Just read "Never eat alone" and it has changed my thinking significantly.
IIRC he has stated that he misjudged the demand for Appointment Reminder and ended up selling less than he had hoped.