skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really interesting concept. Whenever engaging in conversation about an app or startup idea, there's usually poor knowledge/idea transfer through solely text. Visuals really help, and I'm really glad LaunchSky addressed that.

Has there been much thought into placing ideas within specific categories? While I appreciate the feedback (good or bad) from anyone with actual startup experience who's gone "through the wringer," I would rather get feedback from an expert within the field or industry I'm trying to penetrate.
The person I'm responding to claimed that he learned the science from Reddit. I am not claiming he learned it in medical school. I'm claiming that there's no evidence he got it from Reddit.

> As far as "it's cool if a few people get sick..." Are you insane?

They know what they are getting themselves into. I don't have any problem with people who choose to binge drink or the alcohol manufacturers that sell that product. If people know what they are getting themselves into -- and they'd have to go out of their way to not know with this product -- I'm normally OK with the outcome. Especially if the probable worst-case outcome is a few months of suboptimal nutrition followed by a return to a normal diet. Nope, not insane.
What I'm getting at is the idea that we need separate laws for international services. Less about freedom and more about protection.
Well if you're going to put it on a desk and plug it into the wall... it's a less powerful, less expandable, vastly more expensive desktop. You buy special adapters for your extra screens/peripherals, and spend time with setup/breakdown every time. I personally hate to share wifi with a dozen other people in my office so I need yet another adapter for ethernet (some notebooks have this, some do not).

When you unplug you lose all that equivalent experience, and then you're on battery power... which sucks for powerful laptops. Working from a couch or whatever just seems ineffectual to my workflow. I can see media consumption working in that case, (not the latest games of course) but then you don't need the big beefy machine.

I really don't see the benefit of portability for a workstation. It's a luxury to me when I have less things to haul around. For work everything is either in off site backup or version control systems. Obviously that wouldn't work for something like video editing.. but then (and I'm not an expert) you'd want a bigass power hungry workstation anyway.

Regarding apple notebooks: Bluetooth keyboards are pretty much equivalent to Macbook keys, so most of my co-workers would just use that. The apple mice suck, so most would again use the notebook trackpad. External screens were used as expanded desktops with most work happening on the default notebook screen. Everyone was hunched over the laptop like it wasn't docked at all. This is my own limited experience, but it seems that in practical use, the limits of laptops somewhat encourage poor ergonomics.
I'd totally have a problem with this if it were being advertised as a highly tested, rock solid product rather than a nutritional experiment. Since that's not the case, I'm fine with it.
Any pressure against Microsoft from the above retailers/publishers would be equally against Sony and Nintendo, since Microsoft doesn't own the market in any sense of the word.

Since Sony didn't implement it, it's fair to say the pressure isn't that strong.
To be fair, if you ever trusted Zuckerberg then you were a "dumb fuck". ;)
Right, for me "chance that this does work" is valued somewhere around 5-25% right now. It is worth that chance for more people to try it and really see.
This isn't about Microsoft's bottom line, this is about the bottom line of GameStop, EA, Activision, etc.

And it's them that will make or break this choice. If they deprioritise the Playstation platform because it allows customers to sell used games, MS could still win out. If they back down and support the Playstation just fine, MS loses. So it's not even in Microsoft's hands.
The best place is probably the brand new Docker blog: http://blog.docker.io
What are you talking about? Nothing in either of their denials has been shown to be wrong.
Wired has already predicted that - Google Being.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/on-google-island/
Travis here, I'm a co-founder of Fireplug, the service offering retroactive "credit" for your article history on Google Reader.

Our service isn't necessarily a replacement for Google Reader but a way to track what you read and more importantly what you learn online. It's kind of like last.fm's scrobbler except we can go a little more in-depth because it's relatively easier to analyze text over music. Our goal is to help users establish and build their online reputation and what better way to do that then leverage the dozens if not hundreds of articles they read every day.

Love to hear any comments/concerns/feedback you might have, feel free to comment here or email me directly at travis [at] getfireplug [dot] com and I'll be happy to help.
Damn, these guys are too quick for me, I haven't even updated my driver for version 1.5 yet!

This is great news and excellent progress. Keep up the great work, Rethink team.
You are the one denying the words of Danese while offering nothing whatsoever to support your claims.

Oh really? How about this:

Nonetheless she is wrong to characterise the opinion of
the Solaris engineering team in the way she does. She is
speaking this way because she lost an argument inside
Sun, not because her view is representative of the views
of Sun or its staff in the way she claims. She, along
with many actual engineers, was an advocate of using GPL
for OpenSolaris but the need to release rather than wait
for one of {GPL v3, Mozilla license revision, encumbrance
removal} meant that this was not possible. I am still
furious with her for the statement she made at DebConf,
which was spiteful and an obstacle to a united FOSS
movement.

S. (Simon Phipps)

From:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110605051830/http://www.opensol...

If anything comes across as a 'fairy tale', it's the idea
that Sun would allow Linux to incorporate Sun's technical
advantages at a point where they were losing to Linux in
the marketplace.

As one of the first contributors to the OpenSolaris project who had many long and heart-felt discussions with various Solaris engineering and executives, I believe your assertions are flat out wrong. Jonathan Schwartz (CEO at the time) was fond of saying "A rising tide lifts all boats"

http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/a-rising-t...

Others have pointed out that this is demonstrably false as well. Have you also forgotten when Apple was considering integrating ZFS into OS X?

Your argument also seems specious given that the only "OS" that had issues with integrating DTrace or other CDDL-licensed technology was Linux. Apple and many others have had no problem integrating it. So if Sun was really not willing to give up their competitive advantage, why would they give away technology under a license that was reasonable for almost every competitor?

As others have also pointed out, not everyone believes that the CDDL and GPL are as incompatible as many would like to claim.

It's just like the silliness you see in the Linux kernel today where some kernel symbols are marked with a special macro EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?

http://lwn.net/Articles/154602/

If the GPL was strictly incompatible in all cases, then why is the extra silliness needed?
Explain me, how contributing to free software is not a public service? Programmers serve public in their own way, not everybody must directly help people in order to make a difference. Besides, if liberal arts students would have a passion for problem solving I can guarantee there would be much less public servants.
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Giving the information more quickly to one group rather than the others is a form of lightning-fast pump and dump.

Also, the sentiment numbers are rigged. The one phrase you can utter that will get your mike cut on CNN is: "The fix is in." Specifying a little abnormal bump up or down in the indicator, for a price, can be a very lucrative business, so long as you don't get caught.
Thanks, that worked :)
We have started with using DO for our test machines / intrusion detection boxes and were so happy with price/performance/ease of use that we ended up migrating most of our infrastructure over. We now have 45 boxes hosted on DO and couldn't be happier. The network reliability has been phenomenal so far compared to some of the other providers we've dealt with - Rackspace, SoftLayer, VPS.NET, etc.
THEN:

“The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.” ~St. Augustine

TODAY:

“The truth is like bitcoin. You don’t have to defend it. Well armed zookeepers are pissed and helpless.”

bitcoin- closing the gate against invading hordes of well armed zookeepers.
I look forward to the day when git is the defacto way to collaborate, and I'm so happy to see that GitHub is leading the way forward. This kind of stuff is great!
The problem I have with it is that, in all cases, any synthetic DNA could exist in nature. We can't even verify with 100% certainty that any given sequence doesn't already exist in nature. If it doesn't exist already, it could in the future, naturally, through evolution.
As you mention this is quite common in the U.S. These "high-risk" warrant teams are used all the time for serving narcotics warrants on non-violent offenders. They also commonly get the wrong address or the wrong suspect with tragic results. Take a peek at the map of botched paramilitary raids for a sobering look at what happens when the police screw up: http://www.cato.org/raidmap
They did more than bundle a browser, they gave OEMs financial incentives NOT to bundle Netscape.

The reason why Apple's dictatorial actions don't bother me is they're only a small part of the market. If I want to develop a mobile web browser, I can still use Android and have a market.

With Windows, Microsoft WAS the market.
I think that in verbal parley well-actually comments are a lesser degree of the same offense as shooting down someone else's idea in a brainstorming session. Not only does it tend to silence the first speaker by shaming, it tends to derail the larger conversation. In this written context, it's less of an issue, though nested comments do create a similar potential context.

Granted, sometimes you gotta break some eggs. But don't be surprised when the hen who laid that egg isn't to be happy about it.
Really? I've got to explain the difference between something touted as a health supplement / meal replacement and booze? (Which, if you'll notice, is covered in warnings and regulated out the wazoo.)
The US is not a "Democracy", and never has been. It's a Republic.

You conflate those two things at your peril.
Yea, the width is a percentage. It's meant to simulate a fluid grid. I'm working on a site right now that has a row of boxes with excerpts of longer articles. I would like them to all have the same height for neatness, but I don't want to set an explicit height because I would like them to resize to contain roughly the same amount of text at different widths.

So the :before pseudoelement on #container has a bunch of _'s and spaces that reflow like any text will. #element has the actual content, and is absolutely positioned to the edges of its parent.

So as the width changes, the text in the :before element reflows and expands #container's size. #element simply follows the size of #container. The :after pseudoelement is just there for decoration.
You're discounting verbal usage, which doesn't admit of any machine readability considerations.
Andrew, thanks for your hard work on cl-rethinkdb (https://github.com/orthecreedence/cl-rethinkdb -- anyone using Common Lisp should check out his client driver!)

Expect an email shortly briefing you on the protobuf changes for 1.6!
Although I haven't used Rethink in large-scale production yet, I have to say I like it about 10x better than Mongo. The query language alone beats mongo, but the server maintenance/clustering side of things is so much more well thought out.

Rethink has this air of being rock-solid about it too. The team worked really hard on making the core great at storing data, then built features around that. Mongo, after using it for many years both in production and personal projects, seems like it's all slapped together. The early-on technical decisions they made to get it out the door are still biting them in the ass to this day.

That's not to say there aren't some things Mongo is probably better at (especially considering how early-stage Rethink is) but overall I prefer Rethink hands down.
Just terrible - most of my Enterprise users can't upgrade.

Is there an open-source alternative to Chrome Frame?
Can Facebook Use Mobile Advertising to Drive Sales and Appease Shareholders?
I think the two strategies are not so much about Sony or MSFTs bottom line, but appeals to different constituencies.

Retailers do not want online DRM because they make most of their money from used game sales. Developers want online DRM because they make their money from first time sale only.
of course he would.
I'd be quite surprised if they went at this guy with anywhere near the ferocity they went after that idiotic IRS chief's testimony.
I know we're discussing the company, not the man. But I got a good chuckle out of this comment.
No. Natural DNA occurs in nature, much like a the alignment of magnetic fields may occur in some metals. Synthetic DNA has been designed by someone who sat down and said "Okay, today we're going to write DNA, it's sequence will be ACGTTTGACGTACGTTCAGTG....." and we're going to mix our newly designed gene into a larger natural DNA strand and this synthetic gene inside of the DNA will make this tree glow a very slight yellow-tinge, then we're going to sell that on kickstarter. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-plan... (the only reason they're using a larger DNA strand is a full strand might cost in the range of $100b-$1t presently)

This is not the same as what's been done more frequently for the last long while which was dissecting existing genes from other DNA strands (lets say gene XYZ from a starfish) and introducing it into a bacteria.

Also, this doesn't mean I agree with the new law. I think this motion is even more nonsensical than software patents we face today, and has already handed off all the wonderful innovations that the synthetic biology revolution has to offer to a nation who's pumping loads of cash into this sector: China.
"....to a new dimension?
I don't believe I've used ABS with Scala before. Shouldn't integrating ABS as an apklib solve this issue though?

Regarding AndroidAnnotations: https://github.com/excilys/androidannotations/wiki
TOS mention jurisdiction? Im sure its US soil somewhere
I'd never heard of Chrome Frame and had to look it up. Apparently it is (was) a way to run Google's web browser inside Internet Explorer:

> Google Chrome Frame is a plug-in designed for Internet Explorer based on the open-source Chromium project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_Frame
>Sometimes being the one guy who does want to do public service makes the difference, because all the other 'good hackers' are more concerned with one solution that will solve all the world's problems (which never happens) and making a quick buck.

Speaking of things that never happen.
A curious distinction. To me it appears as if the US is a constitutional democratic republic and an indirect democracy. The two terms are not in opposition.
Chrome Frame is open source. http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome_frame...
Chrome frame is the open source alternative to chrome frame.
And how does that work for software engineering thus far?

Quite well, in the long run. Ten years ago we had mountains of buffer overflow-ridden web software written in C++ being replaced by SQL-injection-vulnerable Perl and PHP. Twenty-five years ago the Morris worm easily found its way onto thousands of systems.

Now, tools like Valgrind help detect buffer overflows and other memory access problems, ORMs help prevent SQL injection, stringent standards are used for development of safety-critical systems (e.g. MISRA-C), and automated testing is much more widespread. Naive software developers still make naive mistakes, but as a whole, the industry is much better protected against known mistakes.
It doesn't look resolved to me, check the key fingerprint on any Ubuntu 12.04 x64 server droplet:

ECDSA key fingerprint is 97:d7:21:81:9b:77:34:bb:f1:8e:86:25:b0:47:6b:ff.

Also:
-rw------- 1 root root 227 Apr 25 2012 ssh_host_ecdsa_key
Oh I definitely agree with you there! LabVIEW was amazingly easy to just grab and run with,and I didn't have any issues with the language design. I think it's something with a ton of potential (especially for writing multithreaded code), it just needs to compile large programs faster (maybe precompile functions you import from libraries?) and shrink the default spacing between elements.

I wouldn't call LabVIEW open, though - isn't a retail copy close to $3000? (might be another reason it isn't as commonly used)
Which "democracy" isn't a republic? I don't think any country actually has direct/pure democracy. They are all republics and have representatives and Parliaments.

That being said, US could use a whole lot more "democracy" into its system. I don't think the delegate system works very well. Gerrymandering has also been abused for decades.
Stop Watching Us Quotes
Elon Musk wants to cover the country with charging stations that are free to use so that you can travel forever, for free. No more gas refills. Nine stations now provide free electricity for Model S owners, and the company has said it wants 100 along U.S. and Canadian highways by 2015.
I hope one day RethinkDB will be as wide-spread as MongoDB is now.
I've actually been using the Windows 7 / IE9 version of this for a while. There is a nice simple install w/snapshot that I utilized on both my Ubuntu machine and my Mac. It takes a snapshot before powering the machine so once your 90 days is up, you can just roll the snapshot back.

https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

Edit: I mainly use IE to interact with work's IE-only CRM/ticket system.
I've read unless you'vew already had a successful exit it hard to get funidng without traction. This artical talks about how much traction you might need. Also, assume your target market needs to be at least $100 million.

http://bestengagingcommunities.com/2013/02/09/how-much-tract...
The point of making the distinction is to emphasize where the power actually lies.
"In Chakrabarty, scientists added four plasmids to a bacte- rium, which enabled it to break down various components of crude oil. 447 U. S., at 305, and n. 1. The Court held that the modified bacterium was patentable." Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U. S. 303, 309 (1980), If I am reading this correctly.

EDIT: Sorry I re-read my original comment - I meant "synthetic modifications", not necessarily only to DNA, but to natural products in general.
Mobile + Tablet device dimensions
>I would venture to guess on this issue those voting in favor of PRISM and such programs are not more informed.

I'm pretty sure they would guess the same about you.
This divides the world neatly into two camps, those with the desire to participate in government, and those who do not, whilst simultaneously ascribing an unquestioned halo on those in the first group and jumping straight to the assumption that those in the second group are not prepared to engage in that system because they are too lazy, selfish or busy feathering their own nests.

I'd say the opposite, lawyers and politicians and public servants tend to be passive, arm-chair participants in society. They involve themselves mostly in ritual and horse trading, trying to figure out how to apportion shares of the existing wealth created by people utterly unlike them and to whom the only way they can relate is parasitically.

Meanwhile, back outside the structure of the government; people in the shadows are reinventing trade itself and releasing the very core ingredients of the products of their labour for free to anyone who wishes to participate.

Businesses are being started every day by people who hope for a better future. To better their own conditions through their own efforts as well as everyone else's also. They build products and make new things that are the source of all wealth in human civilisation. If you don't want what they have to offer you simply choose not to trade with them of your own free will and they will ask nothing from you by force or fraud.

The aforementioned vultures you hold in such high esteem on the other hand, deem themselves fit to distribute that wealth according to the baroque and corrupt rules of their game, which they do not accept a refusal to participate in by anyone alive on penalty of kidnap, assault and if it comes down to it, death.

You'll have to excuse me if I can't help but see your perspective as tragically delusional.
Looks like it's time for a fork.
And that's exactly why it's important to make the distinction. Calling the US a "Democracy" suggests the power lies with the people. It doesn't.
Well if you're going to be pedantic than so am I. The US is a "representative democracy" in that we collectively vote on those people who make decisions, the idea being that average citizen is a better judge of character than of policy.

So yeah, still technically a democracy, just not a direct democracy.
If devs are worried about used game sales, they should make better games
Cartoon Dining Out
A quick Google search for "patented disease alleles" suggests Crohn's disease, some forms of kidney disease, diabetes, and many more!
From what I understand PRISM splits the fiber coming out of the companies implicated on it's way to the backbone. This does not require the knowledge of the companies implicated. Since it's actually splitting the light inside the fiber, PRISM is a cute name.
> The AWS medium tested is a single core. The Azure is dual core. Context switching could account for the difference in preformance.

Redis is mostly single-threaded.

http://redis.io/topics/latency
It seems like the enterprise grade solution would be to checkout the svn or git repo some time in the next 6 months and then rebrand it to "your company name here" frame.

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome_frame...

:)
"Least untrue" - perhaps clocks do strike thirteen.

Doubleplus ungood.
I can confirm this on a Ubuntu 12.04 x64 droplet created 15 days ago.
What if your life is saved from the debilitating effects of an enzyme deficiency by a virally-delivered sequence which also infects your spermatocytes (1)? And that sequence is passed to your child?

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicular_immunology#The_effec...
Isn't the standard here whether or not these molecules exist in nature? Honest question.