skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jim Kent famously wrote GigAssembler, the breakthrough program that allowed the publicly funded Human Genome Project to successfully assemble the full human genome just 1 day ahead of their corporate competitor Celera, in 2000 while pursuing his PhD in Biology at USC Santa Cruz. He was 40 years old at the time. Without his incredible programming effort, it is very likely that Celera would have attempted to make the human genome data proprietary, and we would be looking at a dramatically different landscape in genetics and medicine today.

I am putting off grad school indefinitely, and this story always inspires me that I should go back one day when I'm ready.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Kent
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/13/science/reading-the-book-o...
As I understand it, one of the problems with California's referendum system is that there's no built-in requirement to fund the initiatives. A referendum system might work better if every initiative had to provide for its own funding, and/or the state constitution required a balanced budget.
I never realized they were the same thing. To think I've been missing out on Daring Fireball's useful note-taking features all this time.

Edit: I suppose a more suitable and direct answer to the question would be to quote John Maynard Keynes: When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
Yes definitely. The driver implements the normal Nova API behind. Because it does not change the Rest API exposed from Nova to the outside, I guess there won't be any constraint to be used with Heat as is.
Wow, there are a lot of issues with this article.

First off, startups don't represent all of Silicon Valley so to say this is a valley problem by using startup-only-centric data is disingenuous at best.

I'll admit that I find the lack of diversity amongst founding teams problematic but this article doesn't raise any kind of awareness to the source of the diversity breakdown. The author just jumps to a broad, unsupported conclusion so quickly that it undermines any actual rational, legitimate discussion of the topic.
This feature has been added. Wait for the app to update. Refresh. Press ESC to get into escape mode. Now you can type any curl command. Most options are supported. It works just like bash. When you hit enter, the command will be converted into a request and executed.

Soon, it will be possible to go the other way around as well, i.e. convert a request to curl.

I hope this will be helpful to you in the future.
Note that this is a separate story from today's furor about the NSA obtaining American phone call metadata.
U.S. mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program
"89 percent of California companies that got crucial seed funding were founded by men. What percentage were all-female founding teams? Just three percent."

Sure, but what was the prior distribution of teams seeking funding? If only 1% of the teams seeking funding were all-female then it could show a bias in favor of women. I doubt that is actually the case, but just showing a skewed distribution doesn't prove sexism. I could make a similar case to the race issue. I don't know how to interpret the last graph, but it does appear to show some genuine bad news for African Americans. How to fix it? I don't know. Infographics might not be helping a whole lot, but if there is a serious issue that they are raising awareness towards then it's a good thing. If they're crying wolf for a non-issue then it's a bad thing. I suppose it's up to the individual to decide for themselves, but I hope they are more thorough in researching than just looking at three infographics.
Gruber seems to have moderated somewhat, and while he still does the snarky "winning" thing and is abnormally interested in marketshare/profits, I would not be surprised if an Android version comes later.

His prior partner in spirit, Arment, however, has only entrenched more than ever in his bias.
Because discriminating based on anything other than merit puts you at a disadvantage. Hence, yes, an all female company for the sake of being all female should be more likely to fail.
DF isn't blacklisted. I read (and actually quite enjoyed) "Google Versus" that was posted here three weeks ago. Additionally, a search reveals other decently upvoted DF submissions within the referenced time period.

Nice to see DHH spouting off some stuff. (I'm sure he'll apologize as soon as he realizes he and Gruber are simply confused) [DHH : HN :: Adrian Chen : reddit]. They ought to just leave well enough alone. Everytime they open with a blanket dismissal and comment on the participants of a site like reddit or hacker news, they really just make themselves look like angry resentful people.

I swear to God, I hope I never have the ego and name recognition that these people do. The paranoia that must cause someone to worry about their site being blacklisted from here and then assuming that a project they're involved with is ALSO blocked... is just a tad amusing. (And then taking to a soapbox without bothering with a 10 second search to confirm)

edit: Sorry if I got fired up, I'm having a hard time adjusting to my amazingly changed life now that I have yet another "gorgeous" "easy" note taking app that only works on one platform and doesn't sync to anything useful.
It's probably simple: "Is this hearing of the same security level as the information being requested? No? It's public with the press writing about it? Deny. Deny. Deny."

The fact that the article posts a VIDEO of the hearing further strengthens my idea that they'll never admit to CLASSIFIED projects during public hearings.
Whenever lightening strikes you with a new idea. Same lightening hits 100 others in different parts of the world with same idea #realstory #universalfact
They're using a pretty fuzzy definition of "core", but otherwise this is a great post. The only thing lacking is comparison to bare metal servers with similar specs (as was mention in the EC2 gripefest the other day).
The National Security Agency and the FBI
are tapping directly into the central servers

and then they're

extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails,
documents and connection logs

from...

Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk,
AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.

and it gets better

Dropbox, the cloud storage and synchronization
service, is described as “coming soon.”
Uhm, I was trying to be funny. You're assuming I have the social skills of a potato.

I suppose what I've said is pretty clear. I'm no saint and I'm sure I am in some ways a little sexist (although I hope less than average). Yet I don't want to be called especially sexist, or have a group I might be part of be accused of being fundamentally sexist. Sexism is a spectrum.
Another fun read is the listing of original developers of Mathematica in the Addison-Wesley "Mathematica" book and what they worked on.

http://omohundro.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/wolfram88_mathe...
Hyperbolic statements like that are silly, and just make it easy for skeptics to dismiss privacy arguments and their proponents as paranoid kooks.
That's an odd question because it frames people exercising freedom to choose what they spend their own time on as unreasonable.

Do you choose your own activities, necessarily not choosing others, out of spite?
As mentioned by the comments on twitter, DF isn't blacklisted on HN (last link to it was 2 weeks ago, not months ago as claimed).

John Gruber has presumably just mistaken not being popular for being blacklisted.
<giggle> God is perfectly just.
Sorry to nitpick, but I got hung up right at the beginning with his "truthy" function.

It returns true on values such as NaN, zero, or an empty string. I don't think I'm alone in considering those to be "falsy" values, for example:

http://www.sitepoint.com/javascript-truthy-falsy/
That seems like a pedantic point. I don't think the part after the "from" in the first line of the parent comment really matters that much. Is anyone stopping the "certain demographics" in question from doing anything?
I'm probably going to be booed because It's not politically correct to say this stuff... but so what?

Why does the NHL only have 5% black players while the NBA only has 17% white players? Is it that white people don't have the necessary height or that black people don't have the required thigh muscles? No, obviously not. There are just cultural differences that have lead to certain groups being over/under represented in different areas of the economy. It doesn't require there to be a grand conspiracy to keep non-whites out of SV! I don't even thing you have to go to a Larry Summers type of explanation.

What's the solution? Should we force the NBA to have at most 10% black players (and the NHL to have at least 10%) to be more representative of the population? Should we force investors to back startups that have female founders? Should we force ourselves to stop listening to Miles Davis? We're starting to realize that affirmative action doesn't work and actually creates negative outcomes (see work by Thomas Sowell for example).

Yes it obviously shows that there's a difference in the allure of SV to different groups of people.. but you could also cut the data and see that SV funding disproportionately goes to people with STEM degrees (the poor liberal arts folks!) At most this should be categorized as interesting.

Also the final stat in the article "women make 49 cents for every dollar men make in Silicon Valley" is ridiculous. Obviously, as we've learned, the composition of jobs taken by men and women in SV is different. That's going to be represented in average salaries.

Motherjones as usual seems to be trying to create a controversy where one doesn't exist.. or at least way, way, way downstream from where it truly does exist.
> When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" -- Heller, author of Catch-22
Smoking Alcohol: The Dangerous Way People Are Getting Drunk
I just don't get this app. There are thousand alternatives cheaper or free.
CSP to the Rescue: Leveraging the Browser for Security
HN will sometimes bump newer posts up to the top temporarily, so it's not necessarily getting upvotes.
I think a representative system where we select representatives based on area of influence rather than geography could work well, with the option to override our representative's vote on our behalf on specific issues.
I'd 's/mentioned/emphasized/' . The first 1.7 paragraphs read like they're straight out of the WSJ.
The Decision Elf: The risk not taken
I'm using PiSNES, which is based off SNES9 + DispMANX. makes it run really smoothly
Well, Vesper is on the front page right now, so I read the question as "DF is blacklisted, so why isn't Vesper?". I believe he presumes that HN has a personal dislike for him and any project he is involved with.
Picture of Sean Parker's wedding
I was thinking for some time about this text and there is one thing that's been bugging me. This is one sentiment that could be applied to most jobs out there:

> We call ourselves web developers, software engineers, builders, entrepreneurs, innovators. We’re celebrated, we capture a lot of wealth and attention and talent. We’ve become a vortex on a par with Wall Street for precocious college grads. But we’re not making the self-driving car. We’re not making a smarter pill bottle. Most of what we’re doing, in fact, is putting boxes on a page. Users put words and pictures into one box; we store that stuff in a database; and then out it comes into another box.

You can compare this to dentistry. It's a highly regarded profession and the wages are really good. But most dentists just pull a tooth out or drill it and put a filling. It's not rocket science, and when was that last time a dentist made a recipe for a new type of filling? And the profession itself didn't make really huge leaps in the last hundred years. My hour as a programmer in croatia is worth around 10 USD. A dentist gets 20 USD just to look at your teeth and charges 50 USD for a white filling which they can do in under an hour.

One more thing. Lawyers, dentists and some other professions have associations that determine minimum prices "to assure high quality of work". Something to think about.
Get those parentheses on the same line -- they get lonely all by themselves!
Ah yes, the line where we pretend the government isn't run by special interests and the game isn't rigged.
Well, he kinda left out the negation that would make that make sense:

""Hacker News hasn’t had a single link to Daring Fireball in months, so I presume DF is blacklisted. But why [not] Vesper?""

but he didn't say that... Besides, he's still misinformed either way :S
Stop Freaking Out About the NSA
> Turns out you don't live in a vacuum ¡social context!

Is that social context that women are considered purely emotional creatures incapable of logical thought? I ask because you seem to be suggesting that women should get a pass for emotionally-charged reasoning whereas men shouldn't.

I do hold women to high standard of discourse (GP's term) and I find that they meet it with the same frequency as men.
Hear, hear. And while we might not be able to fix a problem without understanding causation, we certainly can't find the causations without first recognizing that there is a problem.

Is lack of diversity in our industry a problem? I share a strong hunch that it is. That's enough for me to want to talk about it.

So bring on the correlations, the symptoms, the graphs without solutions. Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
A couple of points:

1) there is a point at which a distribution skews so much one way, that it at least warrants discussion.

2) By "different fields", I assume you refer to technically driven fields. Though I do agree that some fields probably do sway towards one gender more than the other, there is a wealth of research that indicates that the astonishing lack of females in almost all technical related fields is probably due to a number of factors that can be accounted for and adjusted to. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing#Factors_cont...
"It seems pretty clear that the NSA engages in bulk collection of databases which _might_ someday contain something interesting, and only considers it "interception" when they query their own DBs."

Interesting. Along those lines then if you were to make a clone of someone's hard drive but you actually didn't boot or access any of the information on the hard drive I wonder what law that may or may not break? You seem to be guilty of cloning a hard drive which may not be the same as stealing anything in particular that is covered by the way a law is written.
"Feminist" is such a broad brush that labeling something "anti-feminist" isn't very useful.

But you're still right—like anyone, my biases can color my judgement of things, often causing me to prejudge a written piece based on its author. This time, I was right; often, I am not.
Ok thank you for taking the time to reply. I was just wondering if I should find someone to work with or focus on learning programming so I could make a prototype myself - just not sure where to start
is this because with https it's not appearing in his referer logs?

[if i add this line i get back above the copy comment! page ranking seems to depend on number of lines in post?!]
Gwern is selling his soul in BitCoins
A lot of these examples are wrong...

function double(n) { return 2*n; }
map(double, [1,2,3])
//=> [1, 4, 9]

should be => [2, 4, 6]

function greaterThan(l, r) {
return l > r;
}
greaterThan(5, 100);
//=> true

should be => false

maybeGT(5)(10000000);
//=> false

Based on your earlier declaration of greaterThan this result is actually correct. The curried application ordering is also correct and flip is unneeded.

schonfinkel(function(a1,a2) {return [a1,a2];})(1)(2);
//=> [1, 2]

I would proofread the rest but I am about to be late for class! =O

Edit: since i'm going to complain I might as well say something nice as well. I did like this article example correctness aside, and I hadn't seen that implementation of pipeline before! Much awesome. =)
Wikipedia says there are two separate things called the uncertainty principle and the observer effect. It sounds like this article is about the latter?
Elastic IP routed to a completely unrelated host for a few minutes
If that is what he meant, it is almost still just as silly. Just because we (allegedly) don't like the guy's blog doesn't mean that it only makes sense that we should dislike something else that he is associated with. Not unless he thinks our (alleged) dislike for his blog is not merit based, but rather some unfair form of persecution aimed at him as a person.
NYSE's RLP program is for consumers; market makers my be providing liquidity for it, but certainly aren't taking (except if they handle customer orders as well). Market Makers by definition tend to provide liquidity; most are obligated to keep a bid and offer on each stock they make a market in available at all times, and they get a few benefits like not having to locate shorts.
> may not be ascertainable for certain demographics

Hold on. This is the sort of racial pleading that we need to get away from as a society. While racism is still alive and well in places in america, i find it hard to believe that colleges, companies, and dreams have somehow left minorities by the wayside.

Children often follow their parents in profession. Let's be clear that a lack of minority engineers does NOT indicate engineering is closed in any way shape or form to minorities.
So if I'm using a US based hosting provider for my customers websites, their data will be extracted ?
Good read, nice intro into functional programming. Thanks!
Originally, I disliked C++ because it was poorly supported across platforms.
You had this level of standard support on one platform, but only that level of standard support on that other platform. From STL to every other useful library.
It made things difficult to port.
But that was long ago, before I stopped using C++. Things may have changed since then. Platforms have become fewer and far in between at least.
C is widely implemented on all platforms and in fact, most platforms have large chunks implemented in C.

The other thing is about class-based languages. They are great for implementing hierarchies of concepts, like GUI toolkits and a few other things. But, they do promote bulk and it's not rare to have a lot of object thrashing. That's not specific to C++, though.

Third, system-level library are often exclusively exposed via C libraries. Core things like BSD sockets, POSIX threads, memory management. Yes, you can wrap them in C++ or use C++-based libraries that add sugar on top, but more often than not you end up wondering "why don't I use the system APIs directly?" You often feel like you have to jump through unnecessary hoops when you don't.

Just my opinion, of course.
I would use C++ if there was a good reason for any particular job. It is just not my natural inclination.
Whenever something happens that people want to explain away, some new technical term pops out into the public discourse. It's impossible to predict what the next phrase will be, but the pattern is consistent and it's always interesting.

You take a phrase with a legitimate meaning in a technical context and say it over and over in a non-technical context. It makes everything slippery. People have to jump through mental hoops to integrate the new terminology, and you get all this wiggle room to nitpick whether some argument applies to it. You can claim it means something technical and specific if you need to, and continue to use it vaguely when you want it the other way.

I don't have a ready list of the most recent ones I've noticed, but "weapons of mass destruction," "enhanced interrogation," and "enemy combatants" are some good oldies. "Wardrobe malfunction" too.

Anyway, I never would have guessed "metadata" would join the ranks.
Since Smith v. Maryland (1979) the standard has been that you don't have an expectation of privacy in the records of the calls you make (as opposed to the content of those calls), on the grounds that you necessarily share that information with the phone company.

In the future, I hope that the legal interpretation of privacy is changed. Just because we entrust a company or individual detail of our lives does not mean we should give up all privacy interest in those details. I'd like to see a roughly similar right to privacy with regard to our transactions with commercial agents as with legal or medical agents (i.e. attorney-client privilege and doctor-patient confidentiality). In other words, employing an agent to act on our behalf should not automatically remove all privacy of that act.
The NYT tends to criticize Obama less harshly than the WSJ. Of course, the exact opposite was true during the Bush years.

No American paper commenting on the more interesting issue of why it took a UK news organization to uncover this.
BaconBizConf 2013: Bootstrapping Sketchnotes
Would be time for a call on VCs and Incubators that a sustainable future for the web would mean fostering startups that rise the convenience of privacy tools.
Publication today may have been stimulated by yesterday's news.
Play And See Our Privacy-Free Future Up Close
Note link at the bottom to the powerpoint slides in question:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal
(The blog was posted 4 hours ago and it's already dropped to the 4th page; people don't like Docker?)

I would really like to see the Docker provider for Vagrant happen. Vagrant is so easy to manage, and it would make Chef/Puppet provisioning easy. It also makes cross-platform and EC2/DigitalOcean deployment easy with their respective providers. (i.e. you can deploy an image to EC2 that then runs Docker containers)

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/404
To be fair, a lot of these companies may not have the funding to hire paid employees. It is also often more of a burden on the technical manager to manage the interns in the first place.
It really is good experience for the intern, and if they actually had experience in the first place then they likely won't be applying to unpaid internships.
In addition they simply suck all traffic from major providers. Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
The New York Times is known for being incredibly loath to criticize Obama, particularly on issues related to due process, wiretapping, the PATRIOT act, the "state secrets" doctrine, drone assasinations, etc[0].

The fact that Obama has been doing this isn't news; the fact that even the NYT is coming out and criticizing him for it is.

The Wall Street Journal has historically been the polar opposite, from an editorial perspective.

(Also, the other significance is that this is the editorial team, whose purpose is to opine - this is not the news team, which are supposed to attempt to remain 'objective').

[0] Basically, a large part of the foreign policy for which Bush was criticized during his presidency and which Obama has doubled down on.
What sort of threats does the NSA give to these companies so they participated without any leaks? Just curious what the penalty would be if the NSA approached me about sucking down my user data and I refused.