skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally! I think your example is a good illustration of the difficult questions we will face as genetic screening becomes more and more practical and affordable, thanks a lot for sharing. (I can't help but wonder what you would say to a doctor that tells you, "So do you want me to press this little button to make sure your children won't have the same condition?")

However, it might also be that in the long term, the quality of the gene pool objectively deteriorates. Taking it to the extreme, imagine if nobody can grow older than five years without medical assistance... I guess this is also something we should consider.
It's not a shock wave, it's a shallow water wave (because the wavelength is much larger than the depth of the ocean). The speed depends on depth [v = sqrt(g*H)]; for typical deep Pacific (5000 m), that is ~220 m/s or 500 mph.
Its an interesting thesis. I too have noticed that there are many fewer 'tech billionaires' in NYC than in the Bay Area. But the investment percentages of money are what really seem telling to me. People tend to invest in what they know, and if banking and trading are the things that made people wealthy, they are more likely to invest in new banking/tradiing schemes than tech schemes which they don't have a deep understanding of the mechanics for.

We hit this cognitive wall here in these discussions all the time, which basically is the difference between how difficult something looks versus how difficult something is. And while I've done some Angel type investing in the past I only have done so with other tech startups because that is something I've done from the ground up so I really feel like I can understand it, but I would never feel comfortable funding a new trading scheme or HFT algorithm because I could not dive down to the bottom of the idea if I was uncomfortable and re-assure myself. It would feel way too much like the gambling it is and so I don't do it.
Ask HN: Your Early Twenties
New grad here. I've got some opportunities lined up but nothing firm yet; Worst case scenario I will continue working on my things which have some passive income.

I'm curios to how your early twenties were.
In terms of going in to "the real world", getting a job etc..
Were you clueless? If not what were your options?
> Why do people so willingly submit to injustice? Weakness. People submit to those who they fear are powerful enough to harm them.

That's bullshit. Let's take the late Steve Jobs. While his psychopathic tendencies have probably evoked fear within Apple, it does not explain his influence on the general public outside of Apple.
Unfortunately, the grandparent didn't emphasize the "at what they do". They are literally better at being more popular and figuring out how to get people to give them money than the rest of us. This may not be "better" in the engineering sense, and it may be undesirable in the abstract or ethical sense, but it is the differentiator that separates them from "the rest of us".
IIRC, last I checked max length was 320.
Ah yes - I remember the great Pownce invite economy of 2007. Meanwhile, Jaiku was where we all threatened to move whenever twitter went down (again, some more.)
I really hope people don't follow this. In my experience this ends up with a question I find offensive, something like "What can I find for you today?" Which implies I'm not capable of reading an isle sign myself. I find this particularly amusing when I got into retail stores I've worked at before and I know exactly where what I'm looking for is.
think roman numerals. or hash (tally) marks by five.
Who says it will crash? Could run very nicely, printing a list of prime numbers, or write poetry, or anything else that undefined behaviour encompasses.
It is two distinct concepts, both important. The one concept is the use of a positional or "place-value" notation for numbers.

Place-value notation means you use a base set of symbols, and then the position when using multiple digits is a multiplier. Compared to say Roman numerals this have the advantage that you can write arbitrarily large numbers. (The Romans didn't have a symbol for numbers larger than 1000, hence larger numbers became cumbersome to write.) More important though, arithmetic is much simpler using a place-value notion, because you can place numbers vertically and then perform the operation on one row at a time.

Place-value notation requires a symbol for "nothing at this place", the "0". The post is about the oldest known use of "0" in a place-value system. (Which probably means the oldest use of a place-value system per se, since you cannot have a place-value system without "0".)

However, using a place-value notation like decimal notation does not mean that you have to accept zero as a natural number. That is a separate issue.
> There's no room for violence in the future

I'm sure humanity will find some
This is great. I started working on something very similar to this a few weeks ago. Your project is much more mature, so I may end up contributing.
I know you're the type of person who publicly tells their former employer, "Choke on a fucking taint, Google. Choke. On. A. Taint."

You shaved off the enclosing context: $100M payouts to nontechnical executives when regular engineers can't even transfer without permission of the perf-industrial complex. I'm sorry, but I just can't defend a company that behaves that way. Seriously, you think it's okay that engineers have to deal with phony scarcity ("calibration score" and "headcount" nonsense) when non-technical executives make several hundred times more?

I think you're arrogant, disrespectful, and that you over-simplify problems to an absurd degree.

It's more that I don't have patience for junk complexity that exists only to keep power for those who don't deserve it.

Did yours have a lot to do with Google Maps responding quickly to an emerging tragedy?

Yes, actually. It's good that they updated their map quickly. If they paid the same respect to internal problems, they'd be a much better company.
You need a soulmate and a project. Find the right partner to make projects and have fun. The rest of the data: age, situation it doesn't matter at all.
Ask HN: Silicon Valley Graphics
I recently read an article (I think it was on wired.com) which had some really amazing graphical artwork of SV geography, showing the locations of companies etc. I can't seem to dig it up though, does anyone have the link it?

The graphics were kind of like a modern version of this: http://www.grow-california.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/siliconvalley.jpg
You misread it - it says a rare disease is a condition affecting fewer than 200,000 patients in the United States., not 1 in 200,000 or fewer (in other words: those rare diseases aren't that rare; according to this definition, 1 in 1,500 people can suffer from a rare disease)

So, the math should be 7,000 rare diseases times at most 200,000 sufferers per rare disease = at most 1,400,000,000 sufferers for all rare diseases combined. The actual number will be way lower because many of those 7,000 will be much rarer, because some people may have more than one rare disease and because there simply aren't that many people in the USA.
That's a pretty unfair standard; no psychological statement is true of literally all humanity, and only someone very naive would try to generalize that broadly. I don't know the author at all, but I'm willing to give them that much credit.

Let me try to reframe his point in a way you might find more palatable. When you feel anger, it's an opportunity to learn something about yourself--an opportunity that most people ignore. You'll always feel like you have a good immediate reason to be angry because that's how emotion works, but those explanations are often retroactive and superficial; they don't point toward a change in the world that would make your anger go away. Projection one such failure mode, and a very common; so common, in fact, that many people would do well to check themselves for it every single time they feel anger. The author illustrates his point with a concrete example.

Perhaps none of this is useful to you personally. That's fine. But you aren't representative.
Especially since this is extremely easy to do, it’s just three DNS queries away (plus one in case of CNAMEs).
I don't think this is good advice.

From a previous startup we saw a ton of signups like, "john@gmail" and the like. Obviously this person will not get a validation email -- and in all likelihood will not be able to log in to his account when he returns. It's best to catch him when he's entering the information.
Ummm, I was politically aware during all of Watergate and followed it closely, except for the month of camping in Colorado when we heard, upon coming down from the mountain, that Nixon had resigned.

Things were nowhere near that bad---I think you're confusing a coup with refusing illegal orders, and no doubt relaying them to the Congress, and I note that Nixon simply resigned, didn't even have to be formally impeached---and while it's again just my unsupported opinion, the threat to the Republic from the Watergate break in et. al. (which included the IRS refusing to follow Nixon's demands) is much smaller than this IRS scandal, which very possibly threw a presidential election, and has pushed a large fraction of the polity out of the public square. With no one believing any of this will be corrected; heck, the IRS abuse is still going on.

Frankly, I'm reluctantly coming to the opinion that unless the IRS is clubbed like a baby seal, the Republic has fallen.
Or Tumblr could have gone under. In which case it would have been moot.

At least this way there's now some focus on the NYC tech scene, which I think is pretty exciting.
Only ticket I've ever seen about email validation was that a webapp was refusing to accept a customer's valid (and already registered/paying money in another system) address.
Old Battlebots story, when my team was competing we would talk to other teams in the 'pit' area. There were a number of teams that kept everything covered up and hush hush
until their first fight. Then there were teams like mine who would tell you anything you wanted to know about our bot. The stealth guys never did well in their first appearance, and if they came back the following year and stayed "stealthy" they didn't do well then either. It was the back and forth of multiple ideas and questions that helped people prepare for something which was essentially part chance, part strategy, part build quality.

Over the years Startups seem to have a similar path. I've known some which were ok but started out stealthy, but most that start stealthy seem to launch, and then pivot after getting some real world experience and feedback. The ones that are pretty open seem to come out swinging and they already have answers for most of the questions thrown at them (which gives them credibility).

Perhaps notable, perhaps not, in the 30 years I've been watching I have yet to see a single startup that was open and that resulted in someone else "scooping" them and getting the prize. But I have seen startups that execute poorly not move fast enough once their market is proven to avoid damage by a nimbler opponent.
The Babylonians got by using a place-system without zero for a long time. People relied on context to disambiguate.

(It probably helped that with a base-60 system, one was six times less likely to have a zero.)
What do you mean? Could you elaborate how my startup is now in fact different than one hour ago before the post?
The complete correctness of sorting in Agda
Not only that, but a marvelous scientist whose name carries enormous credibility and respect in the field of computer graphics!
Sounds like some kind of motivation/identity crisis or burnout syndrome.

I have a proposal that might sound strange and maybe you cannot do it for family reasons or whatnot... but it worked wonders for me and I think it's worth sharing.

Have you ever heard of Camino de Santiago? It's a pilgrimage route across Spain and I walked that when I was in some sort of personal crisis and I needed to clear my head and figure out my life.

The point is that you get out of your environment and your 'normal life' routine and you just walk. No plan, no pressure, no distractions (I did not check my email for weeks) and you just walk, enjoy the sun and rain, meet new people, think about what they have to say, enjoy occasional dinner and wine with your co-pilgrims.

It's difficult to explain the experience but the thing is that things start to happen in your brain and you start to see everything differently. I came there with anxiety attacks and one month and 750 km later I felt like a different person, relaxed and full of energy, ready for new adventures.
Well done Ryan. I felt like you read by mind. We are in the middle of incorporating many of these points into our design process.
I read sections about email validation in 1998 in moldy thrift store PHP hardcovers. Why is an article that is slightly worse than these historic artifacts on the front page?
Yep: there's no better strategy to kill my interest in buying from you.
Very interesting!

Of course, reading "Those who can access JSTOR can find some of the papers mentioned above there" demonstrates once more that, alas, the digital divide still exists.
Thank you for explaining how you read my comment.

I didn't mean anything around the page loading, just that simply was interested if people found the story of the girl's experiences heavy to read on an emotional level. Thus I was interested if I am emotionally weak dealing with this compared to others, why that is and if it's normal to be so shocked by something.

Perhaps I should just not have said anything :)
Sure, if you're in the US. I'm in the EU trenches and I can tell you that there are a lot of parties like it's still 2005 over here. (edit: plural grammar error)
Why You Need Continuous Optimization
Well it was good enough fool the GP into complaining about it, so not bad. ;)

Also, listen to what edw519 has to say.
Data Grid for Laravel 4
As SonicSoul commented on the 12th of April, this will be published early next year. Or weren't you paying attention?
Speaking as a new grad: I've got a job lined up, but by no means does that mean I'm not clueless. I feel like I was handed my diploma, and suddenly the door behind me closed and in front of me a dozen doors opened, each leading to a dozen more.

The sum of my knowledge and experience feels more proportionally infinitesimal than ever before. The last time I felt like this was my second week of undergrad, which predated the best four years of my life, so moving forward I'm incredibly scared and incredibly excited.
This is exactly how I feel. The circumstances I live in are much worse than I could be the ones I could be living in (I'm currently living in the back of my Honda Civic, parking somewhere in Palo Alto or Redwood City), but I don't care. I've honestly never been happier. I'm doing what I love, building something I feel is sorely needed, and that's all that really matters.

I sleep better now on the air mattress in the trunk of my car now than I did working a mind-numbing job and sleeping in a king-sized bed.
It's featureful because it's old. Who routes email to UUCP any more? Just look at the sections of 5322 that are devoted to "Obsolete Syntax".
> openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -v2 des3 \

> -in test_rsa_key.old -passin 'pass:super secret passphrase' \

> -out test_rsa_key -passout 'pass:super secret passphrase'

Is there a way to do this without including the password on the command line? Because somehow I don't think having your private key's password in your .bash_history will improve the security of your key.

[edit] Oh I see, just don't specify and it'll ask. I get that he's doing this with a sample key, but you just know someone's going to scan through this and do that command on their real key.
I understand, sometimes they are just obnoxious and that's just not how you want to shop. I definitely see what you are saying.

I think this is why online shopping has been so successful. Amazon reviews are actually a great way of figuring out what is good and what is bad, in a totally objective way.

You don't have offend or say yes or no to anyone.
Jaron's argument is that you should get paid for your job even if it doesn't suck. We've kind of forgotten about this idea and now we only pay people for things we think of as work. In reality, social networks would have no value without curation, and thus all of the wealth that's created on Facebook should actually belong to the individuals who created this massive information store. It is ironic that Big Data is impossible without humans, and yet, Big Data is almost invariably wielded as a weapon against humanity (particularly in the case of the ridiculous insurance positions which Jaron compares to a risk-focused version of Maxwell's demon).

Jaron says that if we're all going into a new socialist utopia, that's awesome, but if only some of us are entering a new socialist utopia, on the backs of others, that's bad.

That's a sentiment that is, at the very least, worth considering. The argument Jaron is making is definitely a long term argument, but I'm happy someone is still thinking about the future.

Again, I don't necessarily agree with him, but I think he has a lot to say of considerable value.
I wish more sites would use a validation email. I get a good number of emails for people that have my (real) name but use my email address on gmail (since I have the same name) to sign up when they don't want to recieve emails from the site. Thus I get to enjoy them. When the site sends a validation email I just ignore it and never hear from them again.

As a side note, be cautious of using such a tactic. I have recieved their logins, CC and Physcial Address information because of this.
"Another way to put it is that there are lots of billionaires, just no tech-billionaires." False.

From your hedge fund list, at least James Simons and David Shaw are tech billionaires and probably some more that I don't recognize. Also, one of the most successful NYC tech billionaires your forgetting: Michael Bloomberg. Although all of these guys are finance/tech it is still tech.

Comparison of the size of venture capital funds is probably accurate, but that is changing as well.
Backbone.js for large scale applications - applying UI Architecture
I don't think callback spaghetti is an absolute requirement of programming in Node.

I think this article says it quite well: Callback Hell is a Design Choice : http://blog.caplin.com/2013/03/13/callback-hell-is-a-design-...
At https://starhq.com we've made our roadmap public (link in footer) and let people vote on items to bump up their priority. The response has been overwhelmingly positive. However I've found it important to use the number of votes and feedback as a guide, with us making the final decision on what we roll out and in what order.
Yes, I wasn't going to buy now; however I'm not convinced Haswell will make that much of a difference. If an ARM Chromebook (Samsung one) cannot do more than 7 hours, I don't think Haswell will. But I might be wrong. If they manage to make the Pixel with 15 hours battery I would buy 2 and die happy. Coders like me are exceptions though, but luckily we have things in common with the Apple macbook (designers? or is that old?) crowd; high res screens and power in a comfortable, good looking package. If they could only add battery life in there...
Probably Microryza: http://microryza.com
Top startup spoofs you need to see now
I've delegated my iPhone 3GS to extra iPod Touch status. I must say it still holds it's own with speed. Some entry level android phones still can't match it's UI responsiveness. It's a great phone/device.
The story seems relevant due to recent news articles about people printing guns. It makes me wonder about what other printable items will be criminalized. Also gets me thinking about the materials used by 3d printers. Right now plastic is the most popular, but who knows, maybe someday it will be "goop".
I would expect more of a random walk. I suppose that very slowly genes would mutate by themselves, but as far as having certain genes spread, two kids multiplied by 50% chance equals the same number of people with the gene, generation after generation.
Great writeup. I just switched all my services to factories yesterday after a talk with another developer.

One question though, is there any additional overhead to a service vs factory?
I think it should be evident at this point that we're in the wrong venue for this conversation.
Fun fact: Outside Apple, there were plenty of people who criticized Jobs.
Apple trolls us with ‘iWatch’ tease in latest iPhone music ad
Maybe it is less resource-intensive to actually send an email rather than use a heavy regex to validate the email?
still there is a difference between validating * @ * . * and trying to check if parenthesis are matched correctly.
school kills creativity, no way out.
> Of course you could apply strict conventions to make it maintainable, but at that point you might as well be in a statically typed language working at full speed in an ide.

Not really. We do the strict conventions thing and have had a lot of success with it. Being able to run in a browser is a huge, huge advantage. If I had a nice statically typed language that gave me that advantage as well as javascript does, I'd probably switch to it, because by inclination I prefer the compiler to do more work for me, but there's no way I want to leave behind having my code work for anything with a browser and f5 to see my code in action.
But hardwiring micropayments would probably be an equitable distribution of wealth, at least more so than what we do now. And it resolves the privacy concern; if I can pay you for access to your information and I want it, I can, but if you price your information beyond what I'm willing to pay you get privacy.

That sort of system of consent for spying is one potential equitable way to distribute wealth.

The most quixotic thing about Jaron is that stance on copying, because you can tell from an engineering perspective it still vexes him. His viewpoint is that when someone "copies" something over a network, you're not actually copying as there's only one logical copy (Apps in iTunes all deploy from one master copy, there aren't 500Million individual copies of the Facebook app, there's one app and 500Million caches) but that's playing with semantics as far as I can tell. I believe Jaron still wants to enter a socialist utopia, but only if we can all go at once instead of just the rich folk.

Again, I don't necessarily agree with what he has to say BUT I do want to help clarify his arguments, because I think they're worth exploring.
This website is a textbook of bad design... They forbid zoom in mobile browser but restrict the viewport... Can only see the left navbar and 5 words from the article
If there are 7,000 diseases, each affecting 200,000 people or less, the largest estimate would be 7,000 * 200,000 = 1.4 billion.

Your math is funky.
And likewise, it amazes me that people think that for all their efforts at combating filters, captchas and the like, that the most nefarious of spammers aren't stripping off "+token"s from email addresses.
I saw a show where people make skeleton models and they used a type of bug to clean off the bones. Using certain chemicals would make the bones rubbery, whereas the bugs would leave a perfectly clean bone.
I've been building this service. I know last time we showed up here there were a lot of questions re: expertise. I'd be happy to try to tackle some of our strategies
Of course - I doubt anyone (smart) has ever claimed that to be the case.

However, they can, if implemented correctly, tell you if the email address is syntactically valid.
Are you trying to godwin without godwinning? Please don't.