skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most 'good hackers' are wasted in Silicon Valley. You're right in that you can accomplish a lot more good in the world by focusing on solving problems at a higher level of abstraction than ground-level work, but at the same time most people working in tech aren't focusing on problems that are anywhere near as important as those that public service tackles.
My first 100K+ on the App Store(s)
Elezioni Presidenziali in Iran: silenzio della stampa internazionale
With Tesla you'll help rich people use less gas.

With Tesla, you slowly eliminate gas and help the environment. Imagine in 20 years a world where Tesla cars are the norm, all electric, travelling forever, no payment for gas, free charging. That is an incredible world change and shift.

It is so much more than helping people use less gas.
> Everything else is barely noticeable except for some performance numbers.

Did you type that with a straight face?
Soylent International
I'm mostly impressed that they just pick up the phone and call. Must've been a not-very-experienced NSA employee. Or NSA performing social engineering scams, but I doubt that.
> In practice, this would be limited by the 14th Amendment. The prohibition against slavery trumps patent law, period.

The prohibition against slavery and involuntary servitude (except as punishment for a crime) is the 13th Amendment, not the 14th Amendment.
I have had 0 downtime so far (2 months), and I've been monitoring with Pingdom with 1 second granularity. Which data center are you in?
A comparison of Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores
No, I principally think than biosubstances should not be patentable. The fact that DNA was generated artificially doesn't make it somehow magically different from the natural one.
The Supreme Court’s Bad Science on Gene Patents
Let's make this now.
Hm, what’s wrong with just calling? It is probably the easiest way to find out whether someone is generally willing to cooperate, and if they don’t, the NSA doesn’t lose much either?
Mostly true. If you note the exceptions, life insurance is exempt.
I wonder if the endgame to Snowden's exile will be him being accepted into NZ, and taking refuge at Kim Dotcom's estate.
Really? For me it was the Pirate Bay and Kate Upton.
Crumbling schools, decaying churches and rusting prisons lost to time
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-13/the-supreme-court-s...

it is not the scientists who removed the introns from the officially unpatentable original DNA sequence to make the new, patentable cDNA sequence. It is nature itself, through the magic by which pre-RNA, which includes the introns, becomes messenger RNA, which does not. The Supreme Court described this process by saying, “the pre-RNA is then naturally ‘spliced’ by the physical removal of the introns” -- that is, the introns are removed as part of the ordinary process by which messenger RNA is created. The role scientists then subsequently play is to take the messenger RNA and use it to synthesize the intron-free cDNA.

To put it much more simply, there is nothing that a 6-year-old would consider “invented” about the patentable cDNA. It is nothing more than the messenger RNA flipped into a DNA sequence that omits unnecessary elements that nature already excluded. The sequence that codes the proteins is just as naturally occurring as the original DNA itself, which the court held couldn’t be patented because it was naturally occurring. The distinction is, to put it bluntly, a lawyer’s distinction, not a scientist’s.

(by Noah Feldman, a professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard)
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Isn't this reply sort of a meta-well-actually comment in itself?
There's a map for that
This is the first time I realized that the secondary indexes in rethink are expression based. That's amazingly useful.
> Clock speed isn't everything. Example, word split the text
> of Alice and Wonderland. Intel Core 2 Duo, 2008, 2.40GHz,
> 1434 operations per second. Intel Core, 2011, 2.20GHz, 2674 > operations per second. Clock speed is down but operations
> per second have nearly doubled. Trend is continuing.

Errr, 2008 -> 2011 = 3 years. And a doubling of "performance" - thus a halving of Moores law. This is real evidence of a massive slowdown in hardware growth.
Doesn't sound very Paleo to me.
LaunchSky
Nice writeup, wish this existed back when I worked with Clojure. The migration away from clojure.contrib caused quite the mess. Back then (about a year ago), looking for a function you want (things you would expect in the standard library) was like this:

00:05 Found it in clojure.contrib

01:05 Figured out which standalone library it has moved to (or conclude that it has disappeared)

01:15 Figured artefact/group ID and current version out

That was a bit annoying.
Who has time to build a $1M system and only potentially get paid for it? I know the basement Lisp hacker[1] probably thinks he could cobble it together in a weekend, but the reality is that these are huge systems. How could you get a team of people to build a system with a $1M budget without knowing if they'd ever get paid? How would the bounty be awarded? How would they know the winner produced software that is up to snuff? Would there be multiple parallel betas? Would this system encourage people to cut corners? Would the person choosing the winner be able to just give their buddy the prize and turn down everybody else?

[1] at this very moment I'm in my basement, hacking on some Lisp
Not every policy problem admits to an engineering solution.
We are using a Cisco based network and working closely with them to build a resilient network architecture. We've already encountered a number of bugs within Cisco's platform that have surfaced and are working closely with their TAC to escalate and resolve them permanently not only for DigitalOcean but all providers world wide.
Haters gon hate. It's what we do.
WWDC
iOS7
PS4 vs Xbox One

Yup I'm still in the loop.
Running to the heart's discontent
What are we not being told about PRISM?
I really like the idea but am hesitant at this early stage to buy soylent. If the general impression is still good after it has been on the market for quite a while I am pretty sure I will order. I don't think I could switch completely, but it sounds like the perfect food to have when you just don't want to invest time to cook something. This would definately be better than to just have a pizza.
Honestly, no, it should not be patentable. This is entirely equivalent to a software patent.
I went and took a look at the walkthrough for GAE[0] and Azure[1].

Azure offers the ability to push to, say, GitHub and have that result in an Azure deployment. For some users that might be a really nice feature, as it ensures they don't end up with code deployed that can't be browsed in their "authoritative" code browser.

Of course, they're both very similar to what Heorku has done more or less since its inception.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/push-to-deploy

[1]: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/common-tasks/p...
hey

i could not find a good article about rethinkdb in production.

Can maybe someone share some thoughts about using rethinkdb on a database heavy web e commerce shop?

thx!
What you linked to wasn't the HN 'manual'?

In the actual guidelines found here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html it doesn't say anything about well actually comments. It says be smart in your discussions and don't just get opinionated, it says to present facts and actually address the thing that you're arguing over. I believe having proper arguments and discussions is one of the core things HN is about. It lets people learn and see other points of view. If you don't like a comment just downvote it.
In Europe you can secure a copyright on a photograph of a work in the public domain (e.g. a Rembrandt). Provided that you've kept the source away from cameras, you can enforce your copyright on the grounds that any instance of "your" image were either copied illegally, or created illegally.

The same does not hold true in the US, thanks to Bridgman Art Library vs. Corel

"Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999), was a decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled that exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be protected by copyright in the United States because the copies lack originality. Even if accurate reproductions require a great deal of skill, experience and effort, the key element for copyrightability under U.S. law is that copyrighted material must show sufficient originality."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_....

Of course, this is one ruling by one court. It could be challenged. In the meantime, it looks like the SCOTUS has taken the view that copies can be yours, even if the original isn't.

The practical difference is that the originals are in the genetic makeup of billions and circulating freely, whereas notable paintings tend to be unique and tightly controlled.
http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/download 404
Not to mention that ten of us (at mid-level) could basically fund an activist if we really believed in it enough. A hundred of us, together, could fund lobbyist. (I'm talking including expenses, of course.)

And frankly, if ten thousand of us were willing to pledge 25 dollars a month, we'd have enough money to have a place at the table.
How I Made the Django Admin Scale for Stik.com
I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of Soylent against Ensure Complete. They seem to be very similar in intent: http://ensure.com/products/ensure-complete-shakes and based on the nutrition information for Ensure Complete from that page and the rough description of Soylent (http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424) I do not see a major difference.

It would appear that to get the same nutrients as Soylent I would need to drink 4 bottles of Ensure Complete per day. From the Abbott store they are $41.99 for 16 bottles: a week's supply works out at $73.48. Very close to Soylent pricing.

What makes Soylent better?
Reflection Against OOP Principles
Because they're the NSA and likely assume that everyone will comply.
It is called Go!
I love DO, favorite hosting environment ever. Still use Linode for some stuff, but only because I don't want to go through the headache of moving it.
If you're in the city of Salt Lake (Utah) I could.
Thanks for the follow up! +1

>law

If it is a straight rip-off then the law should protect (at least in the west), but if it were just used (for learning or adapting from) then it could be exceedingly hard to prove or even know about. I suppose what I would be most worried about is if it were leaked such that anyone could use it on any platform without paying. Who would buy an apple TV if you could run it off your raspberry pi? (I know the analogy doesn't quite work-- aTV is decent value as hardware-- but as a start up I will have higher costs so higher prices).

>flash dump

This is why you encrypt the private data on your flash :) Decryption codes can be stored in the processor (it's been a while since I looked at the system- I'll have to look again, but it seemed solid). So that means they'd have to either de-solder the RAM while somehow keeping it freezing cold too, or use an electron microscope or something on the CPU. If they are that capable then I'm sure they could just rewrite the code themselves without my 'help'. I'm not sure how much security compilation would offer, and if the details of that matter, that's something I should look into further. But the above seems pretty solid AFAICT.

>samba in a chroot/jail/etc

Thanks! This is a great idea. IIRC it is possible to break out of a chroot, but (IIRC again) not BSD jails.. so that could be a great option down the line if I am able to use BSD. It adds a fair amount of complexity legally (although it seems sound at first thought) and technically though (can they be hacked?), so perhaps one for later.
Hi, I'm the CEO of DigitalOcean and we are not operating on a fantasy revenue model. All of our unit economics are positive and we are certainly here for the long haul with a sustainable business model.

To answer your question directly, and without knowing the exact cost structure of our competitors, I would have say that we are generating less margin per unit but we are overall sustainable and growing healthy.
Would love to hear details on how it protected you.
Functors: Values with context
The typing of the complete address within google (e.x. weather.com) instead of the address bar still amuses me.
Inspired by the article I signed up and spun up a 512 mb droplet. It eventually came up(although took alot longer than the advertised 55 secs). Felt very sluggish, or maybe they run alot of startup scripts on boot? I tried running "top" and it ran a whole bunch of unfamiliar looking commands using 96% CPU. So I destroyed the droplet and wanted to try a 8gb/4core droplet. In the interface it says it was created in 173 seconds. But now 10 mins later I still cant ssh or ping the given IP. So while the pricing is definately good, and I like the idea of SSD-only storage, my first half-hour impression of the service was that it seems a bit rough around the edges and not something I would want to bet my company's hosting on.
Javascript + PHP = Real-Time Stock Quote App
No, I don't think you can reason that. The brain is engaged in so many simultaneous activities that it is nearly impossible to count or even categorize them. Our understanding of how we think is very poor, and the brain very robust. Moreover, brains and minds are so variable that exception is the rule. Talking about what works for you and making something that helps you (and may help others) is great, but framing it with dubious extrapolations is, I think, misleading.
Always try the handle, if its not locked, walk on in. Now that they see its locked, they'll break the lock.
Whatever you think of Github you gotta admit that they are machines when it comes to adding new features to the site, the pace is fast and steady.
My working assumption is the NSA has God power and root on everything and everyone. They do not need to call anyone. This is timely PR posturing that NSA is mortal and deserves our sympathy and further budget aid.
just package the deal as a general service health status, which may or may not include certain operational events (you'd have to trust the ISP about the canary anyway).
I'm a little confused (though the service looks nice and works well). Do people not have their own music they prefer to listen to, or a dozen other ways to stream customized channels?
So... expect numerous patent lawsuits in Kentucky?
Why Businesses Should Use Social Media For Relevance Connection
slava @ rethink here. This is entirely our fault -- good docs are really hard, and we're working on it now. We should have much more comprehensive documentation up in a few weeks.

This has actually been one of my biggest frustrations -- there is an enormous amount of really cool stuff in Rethink that's relatively poorly documented, so people can't find out about it. I'm really looking forward to fixing this soon.
As the conditions you set out exclude any/all covert surveillance and collection, you're essentially saying intelligence gathering shouldn't exist. Your profession of non-radicalness notwithstanding, that is exactly what you are and you should state that upfront so that you don't waste any more time pretending to be involved in a good faith discussion about how to reasonably conduct a secret intelligence program.
HN comment pages would be pretty darn empty without well-actually comments.
Felix’s “Node.js Convincing the Boss Guide”
Exactly this. It may start with "rich" people, but eventually can become the norm. There are so many examples to support this, I think it should be enough to just mention the personal computer.
good to here!
How do you know if this caller is from the NSA for real? I could get up to all sorts if mischief. Either I can make the NSA look bad, or I can social engineer my way into ISPs by pretending to be the NSA. Good on this ISP though!
The fact that it doesn't have retina display killed it for me. It's disappointing.
"their crop cross-pollinates with yours, and now they own the seeds of your crop!"

It sounds like you picked up some inaccurate propaganda there. Might want to get that checked out.
There are a number of customers using RethinkDB in production now. We'll be announcing them closer to the end of the summer and will write up case studies (not in the business-y sense but in a tech-y sense) that will give you an idea of how Rethink helps people solve problems in the wild.
In what way is this sympathetic to the NSA's budgetary needs?
Note that it's also hacker mentality to always seek for greater leverage and spend some extra time so that you can squash a million flies at once. It's not a bad mentality but it's not the only one.

To change the world it's necessary to do small work, too. It's like where one brick layer sees himself building a brick wall and his working pal sees himself building a cathedral.

The thing is that we only need so many people to build Nanosolar or Tesla Motors. But there are a lot more people than that and everything is interdependent in the most unforeseen ways, so you can't rule out anyone. That great elementary school teacher might be needed to connect with and set the right course for a hacker kid today who goes build the proverbial cold fusion in 2050.
Case study: Betting on Responsive Web Apps
First user in France banned from Internet for piracy
Our Backbone Stack (Coursera Javascript)
Why did the author mention core.typed, but leave out core.contracts?

https://github.com/clojure/core.contracts
Looking at Ensure, I don't get the impression that you're supposed to be able to live entirely on it.

It looks more like a meal substitute (liquid nutrition bar) than a food substitute.
Naturally Occurring Human Genes Not Patentable
And it's much worse since then, because Sandy Bridge -> Ivy Bridge was only ~5% and Ivy Bridge -> Haswell is only another ~5%.
I agree. I can't imagine it is better than Ensure but, I'm not doctor or nutritionist. Ensure has the exact same intent and has been used, tested, and refined for ~40 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensure
Learning to Code: "Coding is hard. Coding has always been hard"
> Someday, Google will know what I'm going to Google before I Google it.

They will not if you use https://duckduckgo.com/ :)
Mine is in New York. Pingdom is configured to 1 minute resolution and I had 54 minutes of downtime in the last 30 days. Maybe I need to take a snapshot and spin up another instance. Thanks for your reference point.
Half of the ‘countries’ on your list are UK territories and 5 out of 206 countries does hardly a norm make.
Because it's people!
I also wasn't so enamored anymore with the idea of spending lots of time on software to help people bill each other. Silly of course, as it's a real need, but I realized it just wasn't where my head was. Could I have made the business work? Maybe, but it would've felt like nothing but work.
Your ignorance is staggering.

He voted that the police should not be permitted to take your DNA just because you were arrested.

He voted that government should not be permitted to take your property and give it to another private entity because it will generate higher taxes.

He voted that the police should not be permitted to enter your property with drug sniffing dogs without a warrant.

He voted that authorities scanning a home with an infrared camera without a warrant constituted an unreasonable search.
Immigration reform and fear of competition
Facebook's React vs AngularJS: A Closer Look
Not just the BBC. Everyone did that.

Read about how Groucho Marx's grandson saved "You Bet Your Life" from NBC's trashing.

Even into the 1980's Ted Turner made a large part of his fortune by buying the back catalog of movie studios who saw almost no value in their archives. Turner saw the value of playing these old films on cable and video tape sales.

EDIT: forgot this link

http://boingboing.net/2013/03/12/the-day-my-grandfather-grou...
I used the LAMP stack (in beta) with a low traffic site running PHP5 + MySQL5. Nothing too fancy.
I doubt they really care about HN's opinion given the vast number of criticisms put forward, but I do really hope that they'd post more product information, perhaps more of the science, more of the research. Again, as I've said before, hiring a few more relevant scientists would help with their credibility, and might it be possible? -- improve their product. That is all. May there be no more flamewars.

(Granted, I've stopped following this story, so my information might be way out of date)
I am curious if anyone has any insight as to what GitHub's strategy is with this move?

It seems that they are steadily tracking towards a browser-based cloud IDE. GitHub also seems to be a popular choice for devs hosting their blogs. I wonder if they're hoping to be a more all-round app hosting service?
I'm getting a few broad categories:

Weather
Golf
Basketball
Celebrity gossip
TV show

It would be interesting to see what HN readers are searching. Rather, it would be interesting to segment further into what a specific region / group is searching.

Edit: I was just searching for Markdown on Hacker News[1]

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Amash to Clapper: “Perjury is a serious crime”
A new business for Instacart: Instacart Plus
Is this what the NSA uses?
Gov.uk: how geeks opened up the UK government
Designing Better Materials for LEDs
The screensaver does not come preconfigured with this visualization.

You need to go into Options, and copy-paste the URL of the OP into the field there.
Perhaps the real difference is that good hackers that aren't "libertarian" (in the way the article intends the word) are more difficult to find than, say, administrative assistants with the same characteristics, and so even NSA contractors end up hiring them?
What if William Shakespeare had been a power Facebook user?
I wonder how many would actually comply to such a call (before this whole PRISM thing came up) and how it would move on. I mean - why are they calling? Do they expect them to spell out their root passwords?
I fix and tune cars - I'm in my Honours year of a motorsport engineering degree. Right now I'm working on dramatically reducing the weight of my Citroen C5.
They wouldn't need to sterilize the children, nor would the corporation be interested in that. Just think of the recurring revenue!
I'm guessing that this isn't referring to an IPO and a more accurate title might be "LaunchSky now open to the public"?
Hi. Thanks for offering this. One of the many (I am sure) projects on offer.

My project is targeted at the Market Research industry.

a. There is a survey programming compiler, written in yacc (bison)/C++.

b. I also have a cross tabulation engine (another compiler part of the same project), which presents a web interface for Cross tabulation engine (I am using webtoolkit.eu).

The survey compiler can currently compile to UI front ends like:
ncurses, webtoolkit, wxWidgets and gtk. The GUI frameworks are all in a very nascent stage. I have also been experimenting with emscripten and using frameworks like dojo and dojomobile. I have been able to get dojo working.

There is also a Random Data Generator, built on the Survey engine.

There is work to be done in the Cross tab engine as well. There is a branch where I am experimenting with SSE instructions to speed up the engine.

Scope of work is wide and I can get help you get started with anything you find interesting to work on. The project is open source and hosted here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtcc

website: http://qscript.in

Active git branches: nc, web-questionnaire-2, rdg, xtcc

You can email me at "nxd" underscore "in" at yahoo dot com

Unfortunately we are a single person startup and no funding, everything is being done my me at the moment. If you are looking for something like this to start an interning/job relationship, then this might not be the best project.

Thank you for your offer once again and hope you get something that is a close fit to what you are looking for.
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