skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon Fresh: Same day deliver on thousands of items
IVF doesn't actually change the genetic makeup of the sperm or egg in question. To do so would create a genetically altered human.
I started writing a bit on contracts, but it was 2am and I really wanted to be done. (I thought I had a little more time between then and HN front page.) You're right, though, I should at least give it a shout and let people know about it.
It's hard to tell whether HGP was a waste of money (trying too early to do what would inevitably be cheaper years later) or whether it really got us to today, faster. Certainly many researchers were gainfully employed.

Obviously, we should expect that some portion of the funding actually had lasting value. But some of it was bridge to nowhere economic stimulus, scaling up old tech to cover an entire human genome (which obviously has some potential value as well - getting more people into the field, sooner).
I'm certain all 37s employees have access to the production database anyway; they're still a fairly small company.

The only real additional risk here is running non-production code against live data; e.g. the risk of a feature branch sending extra email to customers. Given the nature of their products this is probably manageable, assuming they don't run batch jobs (via eg. resque)
Doesn't this require monitoring of blood levels? How could an average person order it and know they're healthy?
Very intriguing platform with great initial traction since launch. Robust feedback on LaunchSky could really help sharpen focus and skip a few concept iterations when initially designing a product.
"The liberal use of fluorescent colours makes it an eyesore. Apply (or Ive) simply does not understand graphic design anymore."

I take it that you are a world authority on graphic design to cast such aspersions. Up there with the likes of Vigelli, Brody and Müller-Brockmann?

"It's a disaster of epic proportions."

No, it really isn't.
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OP here. Feel free to ask any questions.
Firefox lost it due to bad memory and plugin management (what I remember reading), and Chrome came in the right time when people were looking for something faster and snappier. After that, Chrome's developer tools outstripped firebug too. And they were faster in implementing a lot of HTML5 features.
But I think firefox is making a big comeback now. They have made their browser much faster and there is a lot of exciting work happening on their developer tools. I'm slowly getting frustrated with Chrome on my android, and firefox seems far better on it. I was stuck to Chrome due to the sync, but I am considering moving to firefox for desktop and mobile.

I'd also like to say that Chrome is in no way a standard and shouldn't be considered as one by any developer worth his salt. If you make a website that doesn't work as well in firefox, you have lost my respect. (unless you are doing a Chrome experiment or something).
Going back to Vista, Microsoft initially pushed the translucent window chrome with its Aero theme. The borders were increased to provide larger targets for resizing, and the translucency made the window feel lighter.
Even with the blurring that provided a frosted glass feel, it made everything feel busier. Windows 8 backtracked on the looks of Vista and Windows 7 by de-emphasizing the glass. This was done to make desktop apps feel more like Windows 8 apps, to reduce battery use (although they still use a 3d compositing engine, so I don't know that there is actually much of a difference in power use between glass and no glass), and to declutter the experience.
iOS 7 doesn't feel de-cluttered to me. It actually seems to borrow most of the things I disliked about Windows Vista and 7 in terms of visual distraction when they use transparency. And then they flatten the UI so that elements like buttons have less visual distinction from static content.
For flat UI done better, look at Windows Whistler (Windows XP betas) running the Watercolor theme. http://mirror.stisitelkom.ac.id/files/PC%20Media%20Repositor...
While some things have been improved over the past decade, it's interesting to see UI design return to some of the visual feel of this abandoned theme, but with more clutter. I'm not going to say that Watercolor is perfect, but its strength was clarity, something that seems abandoned in most "modern" designs.
It appears that I'm not the only one who sees the similarity... http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/046/9/d/windows_phone...
I'm a fanatical user of Instacart, and I've been waiting for this day to come for a while.

The great upside of not having business relationships with their stores is that they can start undercutting them on easily-acquired generic products (toilet paper, sundries, produce, etc).
Someday, Google will know what I'm going to Google before I Google it.

I just can't imagine this being the case. I don't search about a subset of categorizable things, unless Random counts as a category. I'm sure neural networks could be used to pull some data out of what I search - but not enough for me to never search again. Not enough to satiate my curiosity.
if you want showiness and intentional manufactured drama, I would go with "unveiling".
Quasardb "Zeno" 1.0.0 released: very high performance datagrid
They lose my entire VPS too but I always think it's my job to backup my data (they have automatic backup, which costs a bit extra).

And they did credit me for their fault so I think it's fair enough.
Really good input - sorry about that. Unfortunately, this is NOT referencing an IPO :)

I can't seem to change it on my own, will try to get in touch with an mod.

If there is a mod reading this, please adjust the title to:
"Starting from HN Post, LaunchSky now open to the public"
From the Ensure FAQ @ http://ensure.ca/en/faq/

"
>For how long can I use Ensure?

Ensure products deliver complete and balanced nutrition that is always beneficial. There is no time limit to using Ensure products. In fact, long-term use is encouraged if you’re at a nutritional risk (for example, if you’re an older adult).

>Can Ensure replace a meal?

Yes. Ensure products are complete and balanced, when used in appropriate amounts they can be used to replace meals.
"

I believe it is also used in hospitals with a feeding tube for long term sustenance however, I'm not finding a great source for that with a quick google.
I would have suggested some quiet beaches in the west coast of India, but Internet connectivity can be a bit of an issue.
Ensure's goal is as supplement, or to fight food-related diseases (diabetes etc).
Solyent's goal is to provide every day healthy food replacement for regular people.
0. make sure the server is reasonably secured and software is updated.

1. configure backups to be stored on another machine. backup config files, too. and make notes on how you set things up.

2. run a link checker / load test script against site while running `top` in a shell and see if there are memory / CPU / IO bottlenecks.

3. make sure you have a quick DNS server, DO NOT run DNS on same machine as webserver.

4. monitor your app, not just ICMP on port 80.

5. be sure to install fail2ban.
I love the way that the various ISP blocks on The Pirate Bay have resulted in people apparently using Google search as an abstraction layer over the DNS. How long before the search equivalent of DNSSEC?
Copyright lasts an eternity longer than patents do. Are you sure that's what you want?
Some have raised the idea that, if surveillance data on everyone were publicly available it'd be OK. The problem is that this will never include everyone. At the very least all government employees, from the President to local cops will be excluded. Beyond that there will be whole groups with varying degrees of influence who will be outside the system.

I came across an example of how this works a couple of years ago when I came across a toddler left alone in a car while strapped into her car seat. This was at the local post office. It was easily 110 degrees outside. The car was not running (no air conditioner). After about 15 minutes the mother came out of the post office. I confronted her. She saud there was nothing I could do about it. I took down her licence plate and called the police. My jaw dropped when The cops told me they could not help me. Her licence plate was protected because her husband was a cop. They claimed they could not get any data on that plate. I was fuming. I called again and asked for a supervisor to come and talk to me. Two cops came to my home. I had them interview my kids --who were with me and saw it all-- to get the facts. I got the same story. I told them that this kid could have died and that I was sure the cop husband would want to know about it. I got the clear and distinct feeling that pushing further would have had potentially negative consequences for me. I had to balance the my indignation with the potential to piss off the brotherhood of cops and my family's well being and safety. I dropped the whole thing and threw away the number. I know people who were cops in other countries ad have heard enough stories in the general vein of "fuck with cops and you'll regret it" that I had to opt for self preservation.

My point is that there are sub-societies that do not live in the same reality the rest of us enjoy. The idea that surveillance would be applied and disclosed equally is, in my opinion, not aligned with reality.
This issue and future questions described in these comments and comments posted across HN regarding PRISM NSA suggest the possibility that it will become illegal to raise questions that arguably threaten DHS, NSA. Something like the law against threatening the POTUS -not allowed by the 1st Amendment.
Not if you want to search for it.
#3 - recall that the NSA was the contributor of Security Enhanced Linux, which is part of nearly every distro now.

I think the chance of it containing a backdoor is low, though. It's been reviewed by any number of top kernel developers since it was published.
I was just testing the site like at 10:00AM and I just realize that I have been listening and coding with the "Up Tempo" station for about 40 min.

This is nice.
The Future of Train Travel: Life in Hyper-Speed
I switched to these guys after my reserved instance ran out at AWS. I was paying $50 a month for EC2 small, which was super slow. Since switching to DigitalOcean, not only am I paying $10 a month, but my site feels much much faster now. DO wins because IO is very fast on the SSDs. By comparison, Amazon's EBS is glacial.
Why on earth would they name their company/product that? Or am I just missing the joke here?
My experience has also been great so far, superb performance and great pricing.

It's also very nice to see them roll out new features on a pretty quick phase.
If you conclude that those four votes mean that nobody can think that he's vile, you're the ignorant one.
This really sounds like hair splitting to me. Along the lines of saying "well, your software patent is for a program that is stored on a GMR disk platter. Mine's stored in NAND flash, and that's never been done before!"

If the sequence is logically equivalent but stored on a different medium, how is that novel? The invention of the new medium or new techniques for transcribing between media may be, but the sequence itself isn't.
Tiny Tiny RSS Client for Java-ME (J2ME)
There is now a (mildly half-assed) blurb on contracts, not that fogus was likely to feel left out otherwise.
I wouldn't overthink it, it may have just been for fun, like something that came out of a hackathon or that an intern wanted to do.
Why Flickr is more valuable than you think
Isnt this a general behavior of typical stereotype american?
Most of them believes America as theland of the law and anything else is savagery.
I think that's what their move is. Having raised $100 million, they are in a spot where they can aim big.
If the drugs were in plain sight then the police could get a valid conviction for them...
From what I understand, Myriad's test involved synthesis of cDNA (which we scientists refer to as "complementary DNA", not "composite DNA" as SCOTUS does). This is still covered by the patent. However, any test based on sequencing the genomic DNA, for example, would not violate Myriad's patent. Genomic sequencing of these genes was previously a violation of the patent. This is definitely a step forward.

In the long run, Myriad is hosed because they no longer own the sequence, including analysis. Any diagnostic not using reverse transcription of the mRNA does not violate Myriad's patent. This includes synthesis of any non-cDNA polymer, such as XNA.
Depends on how much money is at stake :)
Matter over Mind in Machine Learning
Thank you for your response.
I'm looking forward to see it.
You're only licensing the patent from your parents anyway.
Anyone else thing this is fake? I keep seeing the same endless repetitive searches.

"NHL Playoffs"
"Apple iOS 7"
"MacBook Air"
"Chicago Blackhawks"

Nice try Apple/NHL!
Something people don't seem to be considering. Even if an encrypted communication is secure given today's technology and/or willingness to expend effort and resources, it becomes more readily accessible over time and decryption capabilities increase.

If and as communications are being recorded wholesale, how long until that encrypted communication is within ready reach of an unintended recipient?

In considering your security, you need to think not only of the present but also of the future.
Happy Do customer, really nothing bad to say about them (yet). Been with them for couple of months now. Reminds me of slicehost, but with much much better price.
And a "meteor" is something that's "suspended in the heavens".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
OWASP Updates Top Risks Facing Developers
So long as the target you are deploying too can't also get pulled from in the mean time you can amend commits all you want and push as often or as little as you want.

There is no need for junk commits.
Another possibility: the kid is a teen parent...
You're right. The Docker community has grown from a core of people who are naturally excited about containers, and typically have been tinkering with them for years. So most of the early material is biased towards the "how" rather than the "why". Now that the community has grown in amazing ways, we're working on changing that.

I gave a talk last week at the dotScale conference [1] about the high-level motivation behind Docker. The video should be available soon.

I'm also working on a series of articles on the design principles behind it - separation of concerns, static vs dynamic dependencies, why developers never use system packages, "real computers all the way down", thinking of the internet as one giant unix computer... Basically 5 years worth of obsessing over this particular subject :)

[1] http://dotscale.eu
For me, at least, that's true. But then, I've written a lot of words in my life.

Now, I will plan the documentation away from music, and I'll edit it away from a computer, but music gives you a "permission to suck" and just get words on the paper. Once you have words on the paper, you have something that can be molded.
Definition of Design Terms
Yes, i'm sorry for being dismissive. The industry push toward hybrid and electric cars will definitely be benefited by Tesla's sole engineering prowess, and we will all benefit in at least 20 years. But you bring up another great example! The personal computer.

From more efficient personal entertainment to not having to retain information, the personal computer has enriched our lives in countless ways. We would all be much worse off without the novel inventions that made it such a success. (Please excuse my snark, I know the PC has had positive impacts, though I believe many are overblown)

Unfortunately, the pollution caused by the production and disposal of personal computers has not only become an ecological disaster, it's destroying the health and habitat of human beings around the globe. The biggest challenge today is not in creating a new gadget, it is how to clean up the damage done by the industry and prevent it from continuing.

I'm not saying you should stop focusing on your start-up and flipping it for cash in the Silicon Valley Gold Rush. I'm saying, if no good hackers focus on solving the problems that affect the general public, the cash you make will be invested in purchasing a habitable plastic bubble to live in.
If you don't feel sick... Although I'd just go to the doctor for a checkup.
Really? Say goodbye to the promise of synthetic biology then!
> "the design and implementation of correct, efficient, and scalable concurrent software is often a daunting task"

A few years ago, I had to help our EEs write some testing software in LabVIEW. I was blow away by how elegantly it solves concurrency and fault tolerance to bad data. It took no extra design to utilize multiprocessing and multithreading hardware. All of the deadlock and race conditions problems that threads introduce were a thing of the past.

Has anyone else had a similar experience? Why don't more people use LabVIEW or languages like it outside of data acquisition?
People would be paleo ;)
Not impressed. I manage to eat a healthy (and tasty) diet cheaper than that, while spending minimal amount of my time in the kitchen.

Vegetables steamed in the microwave take less than 5 minutes to prepare. (More on my eating habits: http://blog.tasuki.org/how-i-didnt-stop-eating-food/)

I think eating only Soylent exposes you to a significant risk of missing something vital that we usually get incidentally from regular food.
I wouldn't call myself successful yet, but I had mostly stopped writing stuff by hand. I started working in a new place a few months ago. This new job involves a lot of planning and meetings, which requires note taking. I noticed how bad my handwriting has become. I wouldn't trust my handwriting for leaving notes for others.
You are a transformative work based on your dna anyway.
Just when just finish my Scala libary... guess I need to find some time to add theses and release to the public.
I agree, but CoFounder's Lab is not the only opportunity for such online and event-driven meetups for cofounder dating. In fact, I've been to numerous co-founder dating type events as well as websites that attempt to do cofounder matching. Those have been around for well over a decade... you'd expect to see some influence there with those events in the data. Unless you're doing something radically different that will shift it away from friends / family / coworkers / colleagues, I'd expect the ratios to stay about the same.
Or just an opinion, which is what you have. It may be right, but until you have used it in anger, you must at least entertain the notion that it could very well be wrong.
Thanks for the kind words -- if there's anything you think we can do to better the experience for the users, or more importantly: get a better sense of validation for the ideas coming through LaunchSky, we're all ears.

Please feel free to email us: info@launchsky.com

We've been known to give free submissions credits for feedback :)
It's a matter of practice. I've seen quadriplegics do dictation just fine. You just have to train yourself to think a different way. This may not be an efficient use of your time. (I find that I can do dictation, but it takes much more effort than typing.)
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Tesla exists because environmental groups managed to get subsidies, tax credits, green-grants and (as terrible a feather in cap as they are) trade-able carbon credits.

Also in 20 years electric cars might be the norm for new cars, but people are still driving >50 year old cars today, unless some one manages to pass a bill where the government buys everybody's ICE cars for some ludicrous multiple of their value most cars on the road will still be running on petrochemicals.
ReCaptcha AngularJS Directive
All too true. Hopefully these tools we've been able to build and refine over the years will help lead to further advancements in 'green' computing.
I imagine their long term vision would be to allow better collaboration for all types of data-based projects (whether code, or geo data, or books).

In the short term, any small project like this that makes GitHub a little cooler is fair game.
Any feedback is welcome!
I'm not going to pretend I know what I'm talking about because this project was VAST - but would't a mkv type solution over P2P (BitTorrent more specifically) been more practical? I can't help but think they tried to make it too complicated and it just collapsed, not much different than your typical startup.
While clever, this reference doesn't exactly make the name more appetizing.
RethinkDB vs. MongoDB? They seem comparable. What is the big picture difference?
Glass stops antisocial drinkers from looking that their phones
People who have to live for years with a gastric tube rather than chewing their food to eat it (for example, some quadriplegics, like my late dad for the last six years of his life) life largely on Ensure or one of the very similar products from competing companies. Liquid nutrition products are very time-tested products, into which many hours of clinical observation and laboratory experiments have been devoted.
How mobile banking should look
I'm a little baffled by the suggestions of a whole new protocol to fix this: it seems to me like there's a really easy solution.

Just say no to people who want to buy links, or votes, or ask you to take down links. Throw those e-mails in your spam folder.

I say this not as a Googler but as someone who struggled with boundary issues as a young adult, where people would ask me unreasonable things and I would comply or I would ask them unreasonable things and burden them. It is not your responsibility to feed someone else's family, unless, of course, you want to. It is not your responsibility to undo the link penalties that some spammer racked up with black-hat SEO, unless they're damaging your own site's reputation and you want to do something about it. It is not your responsibility to fix the web, unless, of course, you have a concrete improvement that you can convince people to try.

It is the SEO's job to find ways to add value without pissing people off. It is Google's job to keep their product useful enough in the face of people that want to abuse it that you keep using it. It's your job to make decisions that advance your interest without trampling on the interests of others.

BTW, Google's tried several attempts at verified authorship protocols, one of which I worked on:

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/11/17/fat-pings-what-are-they-why...

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/authorship/index...

https://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/

They usually fail for lack of adoption. It's very difficult to get people to buy into a system that makes them do extra work for the general health of the ecosystem.

Also FWIW, if I were to leave Google and found a web business, I would spend very minimal time on SEO, despite knowing (in broad strokes) how the ranking algorithm operates and having a huge leg up on the competition. Why? Because there are several hundred people inside Google changing the algorithm, and just me on the outside trying to adapt to the changes. I'm far better off aligning my incentives with Google, so that all the work they do benefits me. I'd do this by providing a compelling enough experience for users that they keep coming back and talk about the product on their own accord, not by trying to force them to talk about it. Then all of Google's evals, metrics, etc. would say that my site should be on top, and so they'll tweak the algorithm to adapt to me instead of me tweaking my site to adapt to the algorithm.
Also believed IPO at first sight, +1 for changing title.
That is awesome. Thanks. You might want to post this on the SO question I asked.
This sets the stage for a simple way to overturn any cDNA patent. Somewhere in the body of any person infected with a retrovirus such as HIV exists a completely natural molecule of BRCA1 cDNA.