skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covestor raises $12.75m Series B
This was resolved, thanks for highlighting it, need to get this uservoice entry updated.

Also we launched two factor auth recently.

We take security very seriously.

Thanks
What was the url for the HN clone for app ideas
...i didnt bookmark it and cant find it. thx
What's new in Node.js this week? Big performance gains, crypto fixes, more
Colo is for customer facing systems (we sell software as a service). In house is for helping run the factory and staging / dev systems version of colo systems.
Two Canadian Startups Who Are Bringing Farm Fresh Produce to the Kitchen
What if you engineer a completely novel protein, with novel regulatory sequences, for a novel function? Should you be unable to patent such an invention?
It's a lot of food that you pay for in installments throughout the year. They deliver it at Christmas time so that you don't have to worry about laying out a lot of additional money for food at Christmas.

Yes, it is groceries on layaway.
That's true... but I imagine if they extended it that far, reproduction rights of the child would be included in the license. Unlike corn, I can't imagine many parents would agree to sterilize their children just to include some synthetic DNA sequence. Even if the parents were very desperate (because of some genetic problem), they would still want their child to be able to reproduce.
Anyone have any idea if their landing page is some kind of template? I have seen it used before and would love to play around with it if it is available somewhere.
The process of making cDNA libraries (with and without robots) has long been solved. Usually in order to get a patent you need to prove "usefulness" which is not really automatable.

And if you want to read my writeup (which is slightly geared toward explaining the biology from simple first principles, http://www.indysci.org/mission/onpatenting.html)
@rexreed Yes that's true that's how founders have been finding each other historically. Keep in mind that many in the survey were pre-CoundersLab. We're not into putting out research as a marketing tool, we're doing research to help entrepreneurs understand their world, trends, get informed and be successful. I think this piece is a testament to our culture of being true, not just pushing our agenda.

Back to your point though, I suspect (and am betting my business on the fact) that when we do this same survey in 3 or 5 years from now you'll start to see CoFoudnersLab show up on the chart; we are too new, and it takes time for teams to come together and launch startups.
I'd go so far as to say sensationalist hyperbolic link-bait titles are a similar brand (FUD) of spam polluting the web.
We see the same kind of behavior in corporations all the time. "Sony" is both "Columbia Pictures", which wants to put invasive DRM in your TV, and "Sony Electronics", which wants to sell TVs without DRM so more people buy them.

And you can just look at the NSA's guide to securing Red Hat Linux.

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf

It's not substantially different than the information you'd find in any other book about security. Anyone is free to review or comment on it. I don't find it plausible that the NSA would hide any tricks in that document so they could track you. At best, they might omit information, such as knowledge of a 0-day exploit.
More important than the "how" of for loops is the "why".That chain will be like this:
for loops->startup->changing the world,really?->"NSA news"
Modern machines is my guess. Many other cloud providers and hosting companies are running machines from a few years ago. I don't believe the price has stayed competitive to the power, so DO is effectively arbitraging the price difference between 2010 machines and 2013 machines. That and their API makes it really easy to spin up more machines than you need, leading to some dead weight that doesn't harm your neighbors.
This should give Myriad a new incentive to develop less expensive tests for this gene. They should already have a head start.
Wait, what? WPScan is a standalone Ruby script. You run it against a Wordpress site. There's nothing to install on the WP website in question. You can even run it against public WP websites if you wanted to (although I imagine you might get some sternly worded letters from some).
Have you integrated something like Puppet or Chef into your workflow to ease the pain of spinning up specific servers such as app, db, workers, etc.?
"In the long tale of history..." may resolve your concerns?
DuckDuckGo also isn't very good at troubleshooting queries. For example if I'm having a problem configuring my wireless card, DuckDuckGo won't return anything useful, but Google will find some mailing lists and/or forums answering the same or a similar question. It's getting a lot better, though.

It's great for everything else though.
What I think you meant, though, is can they factor the product of two large prime numbers (where the original primes are unknown to them)

D'oh... yes, of course, that's what I meant to say. Sorry, too much on my mind right now!
According to the polls I'm not supposed to trust Congress, but I do think most of them know the content of their own minds better than Obama does. If a particular Representative was too dense to understand the first presentation, the officials should have dumbed it down and given it again. They report to Congress, not the other way around.
Assuming they are reading it from the floor of the House (or Senate), it does protect them from being prosecuted: "and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."

They would be subject to whatever punishments their fellow Representatives (or Senators) decided to impose (including possibly expulsion).
The best sound to help me concentrate would be some sort of ultrasonic repellent to keep people out of my office (unless absolutely necessary, of course!)
I am curious if there are any IOPS comparisons between DigitalOcean and real hardware (spinning disks)? Currently we run our Postgres instances on EC2, but are looking to move to get better IOPS. The question is: SSD-based VMs or real hardware? Cost is also a factor which is why DigitalOcean is a contender.
Rosy tinted? I said "because I don't think patronage is the ideal", and only argued that it was good at preventing "publish or perish" for the third, fourth, etc. tier scientists. Thinking more about it, that may have been because it didn't give those scientists the "publish" option.
So as long as they hold the trial on the floor of the house, we're good...

More seriously (I hope) that does sound like it should be sufficient protection and I'd love to see her exercise it.
I cant hit my machine (dallas) either. SSH is dead
Buddy launches 'Sound as a Service' & Lady Gaga investment
- it could fall in the hands of Mitch Mcconnell, John Bohner, and ...James Baker!
Staring at Zero
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pizza+in+pasadena%2C+ca

Maybe not quite the same, but I've seen incremental improvements in the months that I've been using DDG.
Related further reading for trainwreck geeks:

EDS (now HP) infamously botched a 1-year ~50million-turned-4 year-multi-hundred million dollar CRM project for BskyB a decade ago, and eventually lost a years-long lawsuit.

http://www.linklaters.com/Publications/Publication1403Newsle...
I'm reading Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series right now, and I'm struck by the comparisons he makes between Soviet and Nazi military doctrines. Essentially, the former is controlled by individuals too paranoid to allow for any initiative on the part of individuals under their command, while the latter actively encourages initiative on the part of commanders and dog-faces (grunts). One side effect of this is that German soldiers get away with much less deferential behavior. The result are seen both in previous battles between the two, and with the conflict against the Lizards (invaders from another planet with a much more restrictive bent than even the USSR) where the Nazis generally perform much better given their technology.

I wonder if a similar level of encouraging initiative exists in technology due to the fact that there's a low ceiling on how far you can pass most decisions up before running into nontechnical persons. Looking at it from another side, technical careers might allow for more initiative simply by the ability to enter the market via unconventional means.

Unconnected to the above, it seems to me that these sort of leaks are easier to perform versus a lot of political actions especially with the technical skills of leakers. Leaks' effect per unit of time to follow through surpasses most anything else I can think of. The only real downside is the resultant criminal penalties. Infodumps like Swartz's are similarly relatively easy to perform.
Absolutely. I'm not suggesting they don't have smart people, just pointing out that they don't have all of the smart people. Or at least that's my presumption.
You can't trust anyone or anything, anymore
[Yep](http://status.linode.com/)

> 13:48 EDT: We are aware of a networking issue affecting service to our facility in Dallas. Our network engineers are investigating this at present, and we will post an update as soon as we have more information. We appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this.

You might be wondering why Dallas networking being offline means linode.com is offline. Me too =(
> Someday, Google will know what I'm going to Google before I Google it.

> It's going to see a pattern of what I watch on TV, the websites I visit during the day, and on my phone, who I talk to, where I go, what I do, the kind of business I run, the products I buy, etc, etc.

> Or will this all be in front of my face as soon as I put on my Google Glasses?

This is the whole premise behind Google Now, which on its current incarnation is merely the tip of the iceberg.
Agreed. Metro is not a step I had expected MS to take. The first few iterations in that video were more along the lines of what I had expected from MS. You could probably argue that they took "flat design" too far, but you can't accuse them of not taking any bold risks.
Physicists on Money
If you want an income, develop iOS apps.

OK, but now we're far away from just pursuing passion. Now it's do some work for the money so you can afford to do the things you really care about. Which is fine. I suspect that's how it works for most people.

I'm curious, though, how _you_ managed to achieve a successful business. Did you have to work on things you didn't care about in order to fund what ultimately became a self-sustaining company?

Did you manage to create a successful product by imagining the problems of others and offering a solution?

Do you have recurring revenue, or is it one-time sales of a product?
Relevant: Idaho farmers sue Monsanto over GMO wheat

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/06/12/2613756/idaho-farme...
This sounds like a great explanation of an additional reason why the NSA collecting billions of communication records is harmful to civil liberties. It empowers prosecutors with no proportional aid to defendants.
This is great. Thank you for posting.
Undercovers tend to target the individuals in the mass who are more well-prepared. Plus, it can be used as evidence of intent.
This is fundamentally incorrect. Only Online Services Division (Bing) loses money. Everything else makes money, and Windows definitely makes more than "a little bit."

Operating Income by Division FY13 Q3:
Windows: $3.46 B
Server and Tools: $1.98 B
Online Services: -$262 M (loss)
Business: $4.1 B
Entertainment and Devices: $342 M

It is interesting that people perceive so many businesses at Microsoft as "failing" even when they have healthy income and growth year after year.

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...
can you explain why?

patents incentivize innovation (supposedly). no one invents their own genes.

if someone wins the genetic lottery and has a gene that confers immunity to X, they get to monopolize the distribution of that immunity?

why?
"I don't know about the various comments here about createspace isbn's. That's what we went with, and small bookstores and Barnes and Noble stock the paperback version. (Although I don't know if B&N have it in their stores, but you can buy the paperback version online through them)"

Right. It's carrying it in B&N physical stores that's an issue. They will put it up on the website or allow a customer to order through a store.

B&N won't stock books printed by CreateSpace in their physical stores. And, as long as you have a CreateSpace-owned ISBN, only CreateSpace can print the book.

That said, for the vast majority of self-published authors, it's sort of irrelevant. B&N won't carry their books because they're not selling well enough.
What happened to linode again?
cDNA is a piece of code (a software) and as such it should be protected by copyright laws, but not patents.
Shameless plug:
I also wrote a free site for invoicing and it has the ability to include vat reg no. One of the pages that isn't published yet is the invoice designer, which looks very similar to invoice-o-matic. Nice job by the way! The main difference on mine is the ability to save invoices, aging and reporting. http://www.timetrackturbo.com
Not that much of an exception.

Countries where Police do not carry guns as part of normal duty:

UK

New Zealand

Japan

Norway

Iceland

Cook Islands

St. Helena

Falkland Islands

Pitcairn Island

sources: http://www.policespecials.com/forum/index.php?/topic/32618-c...
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/50601024
Like many of the comments below I don't agree with this statement.

I have been at several mid to large sized private companies and have watched at least 4 $30mm+ projects go up in smoke over the years. Fortunately I have not been involved in any of them directly but I got a front row seat. Surprisingly more then half didn't result in extensive turnover of the key parties involved.
I am unable to affirm those details on my own knowledge or even my own belief.

I wish more public officials would show this kind of honesty, esp. those voting on new laws and regulations. I am waiting for the first politician to come foward with a "I have no idea of this stuff, can anyone of my constituents explain to me how and why to vote on that" message.
While the second part is a bit disappointing. Does that mean if you manage to successfully isolate a natural version of a patented cDNA, then that patent becomes effectively invalid?

In practice this might not be the hardest thing to do. Do you like someone's engineered version of a gene? Then transform some randomized libraries into cell cultures (or add mutagens) and keep fishing until you extract a "natural" copy that is the same as the patented cDNA.
Share files between devices without saving it in any server
Three Things I’ve Learned From Warren Buffett
Shamelessly stolen from kottke.org (http://kottke.org/13/06/physicists-on-money), who also links to this one: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbourj/money1.htm.

But, as a vehicle for me to ask HNers: anyone know of any money with a Computer Scientist on it?
KAT.ph Goes Down Following Domain Issues, Switches to Kickass.to
> A non-profit might put enough pressure on a company to stop polluting groundwater or destroying fragile ecosystems.

The most fulfilling thing I've done in my life so far (other than starting a family) was helping to represent an Illinois village devastated by water pollution from a former industrial site. It would be amazing if some hacker would come along and figure out a cheap way to keep heavy metals from leaching out of industrial sites into water supplies. But in the meantime, maybe we could use some hackers that used their skills to help raise public awareness of the issue, put pressure on governments to stop cutting their environmental disaster cleanup budgets, etc?

I agree with jdietrich on this point: hacker skills are an incredibly big lever. The skills that programmers have: being able to decompose problems into constituent parts, apply reasoning to solve those sub-problems, and combine the solutions into a working whole, are skills that can be leveraged in any facet of life. Combine that with the ability to pitch (a skill which hackers turned entrepreneurs must develop), and you have someone that can contribute meaningfully in lots of different domains, even if they don't end up making a world-changing invention.
What will the sharing economy cost US?
Michael Crichton's novel "Next"[1] was a fantastic exploration of the implications of such issues being brought up here like: liability when the infringing patents are in you, in animals, in human-animal hybrids capable of human-level intelligence, and how the world deals with life when Man plays god.

Another excellent book on the ethics of bio-engineering and patentability is the true story, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks."[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(novel)
[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/1...
Able to? Yeah.
Should you? NO.
If you're an actor portraying a specific time period, sure.

Its not like people don't know what it means (unless you're a child) or what its about or what it meant historically...
I take this ruling as protection from infringement if a synthetic sequence happens to emerge naturally.
This doesn't sound sustainable. Four years from now, DigitalOcean will have a mix of machines just like the other hosting providers.

(Google Compute Engine is in the same position because right now they only run on Sandy Bridge.)
My thoughts exactly... can someone just do this so I can use it? :)

*Update: This works awesomely. Just pop in the URL. https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver/downloads
I don't see why you can't just have a post-commit hook to compile.
Bill Gates : Three Things I've Learned From Warren Buffet
Very sad. Silicon Valley is not what it used to be (a major reason why I left).

FWIW, "Silicon Valley" is only a subset of "hacker culture".

That sort of anti-social and anti-societal aspect has actually become more and more mainstream, as we see the success of YCombinator and the greater popularity of reddit, etc. but there definitely is a dark side to it, which goes beyond passive or active promotion of "jailbait" and to the core of our own identities as human beings.

I think you're over-generalizing. There are plenty of hackers who are total hippies (see: rms), and plenty who like to make money but also like finding other ways to make the world a better place (see: most Open Source hackers).

Many software engineers I know seem far more concerned about the precise incoming dollar volume than very many people I know from my ostensibly "elite" background

"software engineer" and "hacker" are not synonymous, FWIW.
A friend who once worked at a bookstore once told me this.
The way he put it was: publishers want their books to take up a lot of shelf space so there is less room for the competitors.
Isn't all synthetic DNA based on natural DNA?
I believe "meteoric" implies a quick fall. A light that burns brightly, but disappears quickly. Not sure the data warrants the use of that adjective in this context.
I made money through a lot of sketchy black hat SEO endeavors. Things like content farms, making specific product pages from Amazon categories and working off referrals. Affiliate marketing. Legitimate SEO work.

All of that shit crashed. It was too much to maintain, but it was fun while it lasted.

Right now I saved up money from my job, quit it, and I'm working on my business. I live off of $600/mo total. $350 for tiny room in a place with roommates, $150 for food, rest for transportation.

I have not achieved anything remotely close to a successful business. If I ever need money for rent or food, I'll do a freelance gig or two.

It's shitty, but we're all going to make it brah.
I have a very hard time believing that building your own custom CMS is the right direction unless there is a very specific business justification, or valuable feature that does not exist and cannot be added to an open source project that is already been created.
The removal of aristocracy and the establishment of a Republic were extremely radical acts. Even in countries like England, where the merchant classes were on a dramatic rise and parliamentary rule was expanding in scope (and for which it was seen as a wildly anarchic state by most continental nobility), aristocracy was still fundamentally dominant in many areas of life -- which is why there was an American revolution in the first place: non-aristocratic colonists were excluded from most political and military appointments in the Kingdom.

The fact that the founding fathers didn't have a holy call to abolish private property doesn't mean they weren't "radicals" -- that's a revisionist view with modern undertones.

(and on the bloodless, I can assure you that the Civil War was as bloody as most revolutions. It was exactly out of horror for the consequences of that event that most English political movements self-moderated themselves since then, trying to maintain their fights mostly inside the boundaries of parliamentary rule.)
Microsoft has 12 billion dollar businesses. Apple has 6. Google has 1 or 2 I think (although I can't find a source for that).

Sources:
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsofts-billion-dollar-bus...

http://www.mediabizbloggers.com/group-m/Is-Radio-Apples-Seve...
Seems already down?

For anyone wondering:

http://blog.foursquare.com/2013/06/13/say-hello-to-the-fours...
Please check out PyPI result page https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=flask&sub... it shows more than 400 related modules. Think it looks pretty serious.
Check these out:

http://stevenyue.com/2013/04/15/linode-vs-digital-ocean-perf...

http://bigjocker.com/wordpress/?p=121
DigitalOcean is my fourth host in four years. I just spent two years with a company inexplicably named Reliable Hosting Services before I switched. Switching hosting providers is surprisingly easy, since I just replicate out my DBs and then eventually switch the primaries over to the new host.

My gut tells me that DigitalOcean has at least a couple years until I have to even think about comparing to other hosts again.
RethinkDB 1.6 is out: regex matching, new array operations, random sampling
Then you do not understand my objection.

ChikkaChiChi said "We (meaning the tech elite) are first army in human history, ..."

What makes this tech army categorically different than that of abolitionists?

Don't Barlow, Gilmore, and Kapor, founders of the EFF, count as "wealthy and well-educated members of the ruling classes" just as much as Garrison and Tappan, founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society?

"People like Locke or Voltaire had little or nothing to gain"

You veer into a trap with that viewpoint. Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery, and fought against slavery and for equal rights. He had much to gain in his effort, including love and marriage. As a side-effect of doing so, and as a mechanism for achieving that goal, he gained political and social power.

ChikkaChiChi said "less concerned with the acquisition of power and control", but that balance point becomes a subjective view. The only people that cannot fit those constraints are either 1) those with power and control but who don't want more, and 2) those who have no power or control, and therefore neither you nor I have likely heard of them.
I expect that the lack of a clearly defined "what they were trying to do" was a large part of the problem.
What tech companies have an R&D budget of $125.6 billion[1] dollars a year? And that's just what's on the books. Who knows what is classified, "for our own good."

[1]Projected US Gov't R&D spending - 2012: http://www.battelle.org/media/press-releases/battelle-r-d-ma...)
In the name of saving cost.

Tapes were (and still are) really expensive. at the time the BBC were really strapped for cash (as ITV were not long after.)
Ah, didn't realize it was a year old. I was just going through your blog and thought this was interesting! Agreed, changing global state is bad. This is an exceptional thing to do.