skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This raises a good point - perhaps I'm not looking for a patent, but rather a copyright. My goal is to ensure that the only legal owner of my particular genome is myself, and thus I can authorize who can possess a copy of it and issue 'licenses'. In fact, the more I think about it, the concept of patenting a particular genetic code is akin to patenting the contents of a book; it just doesn't apply.
N.S.A. Chief to Release More Details on Surveillance Programs
You still can't run OS X on non-Apple hardware can you? I'd love it if they changed that.
The creator of Ensure know that the products are used for force-feeding. It happens with anorexics all the time.

EDIT: But kefs makes a good point; you think you're making food and then you find out it's being used for something that you strongly disagree with. what do you do? Take the money? Or don't sell to certain markets?
I had been using these to game my Dropbox account:

1. Configure the VM up the point of signing up / downloading the client.
2. Change the PC Name & spoof a new Mac Address in the VM.
3. Sign up under a referral code.
4. Rollback to the snapshot in step 1.
This is why you're going to start to see a shift away from centralized cloud applications like Facebook towards more federated models. The federated model is the only workable compromise between the security afforded by completely peer-to-peer solutions and the enormous convenience of completely centralized solutions. That's why every single protocol still in wide use after many years of existence is either a federated protocol or a variation on federation (SMTP, XMPP, IRC, DNS, and to some extent, HTTP). The internet by its nature is a federated system.

People will be more inclined to trust institutions with which they associate in real life with their data. I don't mind if my company, of which I am a part owner, houses my social data, and federates with other co-equal organizations to generate a public social graph. I do mind that a company in which I have no stake and over which I have no control houses that same data (i.e. Facebook).

I think someone will come along, Diaspora or someone else, and create a viable Facebook competitor that is federated and it will take off for this very reason. It has to be as good as, or better than, Facebook as a platform for it to succeed, but it is not impossible.
There is something seriously wrong with an economic system where 2 seconds makes that much of a difference.
You can't screw it up they says, it so easy they says... well then why this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/134882/undoing-a-git-reba... and this: http://ocpsoft.org/tutorials/git/use-reflog-and-cherry-pick-... and a gazillion more just for that one command; 'reflog'... type --rebase vs --merge and let your head explode with the rest of us n00bs.

The truth; Git is hard. My opinion, I want to write code and keep it somewhere. I'm not a professional developer and I want to contribute to open source in my free time. That means git || hub, generally. It would be awesome for Github to make git exploration from the browser easier. Yes, I pay github every month and I am happy to do it.
Through the right prism
The URL indicates that it's the "hot trends", which implies that it's the currently popular searches. I agree, there's nothing here that seems to indicate that this is showing real-time searches. It's just a way to visualize the current hot search terms.
Looks great, may want to consider boosting the greys across the board. Looks like this was designed on a Mac which has a great contrast ratio, but even then, it was pretty hard to read everything.
Good point. In fact, forget all this stuff with compilers and operating systems. Let's just post articles about basic combat training here. It seems much more practical.
Lots of these things are amenable, at least partially, to technical solutions.

Example: A major problem poor countries have is that donors donate medical equipment, but the healthcare systems have no ability to maintain or sometimes even not the knowledge to use that equipment. There is a ton of equipment that could be easily fixed, or even just unpacked and used, that instead sits gathering dust.

Don't you think something like that is amenable to a technical solution?
If they're going to lie about the existence of the program, I don't see why they can't lie about how much it costs too.
Seconding the emphasis on "Internet != Web" being more true for the 90's user. It wasn't until 1998 or so that the family computer transitioned from an dial-up shell account with 5mb disk quota (crl.com, which no longer exists) to SLIP/PPP with NetZero. The Web experience via shell account was Lynx-only, and Usenet was still a major source of information, albeit it was riddled with trolling and spam by then.
The only thing weird I found about this, is the win8 ie10 vmware for mac on microsoft.com comes with a boot virus, or so says Avast. It reports it has Kampana-37XX. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/wXOu3uJ.png
More suggestions for you based on what I see in your playlist: Zero 7, Nujabes, Little People, Ludique. Followed you on spotify :)
There are various dataflow languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming#Languages
We are working on that for Jobzey.com and have a rough version (about to be pushed live). Were you interested in subscribing to such a service or building something in the space? If subscribe, I would love to chat about some details as we are actively trying to integrate this. Drop me a line at mark [at] jobzey [dot] com
The $200,000 software developer: We can build him, we have the technology.
Demographics of the world
cDNA is not used for most of the genetic tests (it was back in the day, not anymore). A lot of companies like Ambrygen and GeneDX use gDNA(genomic...i.e naturally occurring) to report the mutations. Hence, its a huge victory.
I didn't make that comparison. I compared citizens to a search engine's loyal users.
Do we get to learn how to use sockpuppets to promote something?
> can't rely on Google in the enterprise

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.

I think some people read that as "Hey, that's a nice software ya got there, buddy. It'd be a shame if your dependencies went away. Good thing I got this service contract right here..."

As much as I hate to admit it, sometimes the policy to never use 3rd party software without an explicit support agreement is quite sane. But this is also a good argument for why open source and minimal complexity are good choices.
If we are being pedantic, then the US president is not elected directly by the people either. Presidents are elected by the electoral college.
In my experience, no, it really does not. Go ahead and try it anyway, though, you may find the process enlightening. There's nothing quite like writing a careful and reasoned argument only to receive an instant canned response that patronizingly talks down to you and simultaneously supports all possible views on an issue.

I've contacted my state and national representatives dozens of times over the years and have found that methods of contact seems to get noticed by the staffers (who are in most cases the only ones who will ever know that you contacted the office) in the following order:

Email - generally ignored or deleted, may or may not even get a canned response. I've heard state legislature staffers claim that they can get upwards of 10K emails a day about certain issues - there is simple no way they have the capacity to sort through them even if they wanted to.

Letter - a little better as someone actually has to open the letter and stick the form letter response into the envelope. At least the politician's staff get an idea of how many people are for or against an issue this way.

Phone call - even better. You talk to someone and are an actual person to them. In most cases they will claim to actually record a position (for or against) to be tallied for the politician.

In-person visit - best of all. Nothing gets the point across like crowding their office with bodies. In my experience you are unlikely to get to speak with the actual politician, who often will hide away from their office when contentious issues are up for vote so as not to interface with the public. Some are better than others here, obviously.

This is my experience only, perhaps you're politicians behave differently. But I am quite sure about one thing - sending email is a waste of time and gives you an easy excuse to think you've done your share. If you care enough to want to get in touch, at the very minimum pick up the phone and call.

ETA: I've also typically seen that regardless of the amount of pressure applied by the public for one side of an issue, nearly every politician will simply vote the party line anyways. They know where their bread is buttered, and won't go against party leadership. I've watched legislators look over at a senior party member and be signalled which way to vote when their turn comes up. I don't think anything I've done or said to my representatives has had the slightest impact on their opinion or voting record. That's just how the game is played.
The Secret To Living A Happier And More Fulfilled Life
They're not selling it as an untested, risky, experiment.

They're selling it as tested, as safe, as suitable for anyone, and as something that will put you in optimum health. It's sleazy and scummy.
Switzerland is a direct democracy.
http://i.imgur.com/8STooks.png ?

edit: Ah, I see after clicking it says, "Donate to support the development of ievms". Wasn't criticizing, just curious what it was for.
We said the following in grade school on a daily basis, long ago.

"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Finding democracy is an exercise left to the reader.
I still have no idea what core.unify does.
The information isn't coming from insiders though. It's statistical data collected by third parties.
> and they'd have to go out of their way to not know with this product

Can you show me where "experimental" is used on the crowd-funding page? (https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body)
If the 2,000 toll of terrorism is an issue, you should also campaign for strong state control in other areas of your daily life, such as commuting to work, or stepping out of a shower; statistically, two points in anyone's day when they're most likely to die.
My impression is that Linux is not some weard system that nobody uses anymore. Now it's a weard system that this or that person uses because they like to be different for difference sakeness.

I wonder how many more users Linux must gain untill people perceive it as something normal that they can just use.
Um...er.....I do hate to say it, but you've kinda proved the point of the post you called useless.

Ironic that your post is equally useless, but much longer. So, even more than "utterly useless". Which suggests that, yes, you do need to move on with your life.

Now, I have to sit and think about how useless this reply might be. See what you have started?
Supreme Court Bans Protests On Its Grounds
get familiar with openvz - linux containers that allow to configure network interfaces, dynamic resources allocation, etc

Example from http://openvz.org/Basic_operations_in_OpenVZ_environment:

[host-node]# vzctl create 101 --ostemplate fedora-core-18-minimal
[host-node]# vzctl set 101 --ipadd 10.1.2.3 --save
[host-node]# vzctl set 101 --nameserver 10.0.2.1 --save
[host-node]# vzctl start 101
Yes, this gives "elite" traders an advantage over the only-somewhat-elite traders, but I would suspect that most sane traders who aren't doing hyper-HFT-type trading will be unaffected. So it's a meh for me.
Mocl release date announced (Common Lisp for iOS & Android)
Hah! I was thinking the same thing. Kind of timely to release this visualization.
There is still a ridiculous amount of enterprise web apps that are built for IE.

Just saying "switch to Firefox" or "change products" is simply not an option.
Hotfix or not
I almost wonder if there is a bot that changes post titles to match the <title> or <h1> of the linked page.

What you could do is write a blog post about your launch, with some interesting statistics or results LaunchSky has driven so far, title the post to whatever you'd like to appear here, and then submit that to HN.
"Dictatorship of the majority" vs "Rule of law" http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democracy_vs_Republic
I was attempting to say that typical management stereotypes create an image of a person who either deals primarily in perceptions and impressions and only secondarily in facts and truths; or of a person who is so concerned with either being busy, or appearing to be busy, that only superficial communication and (mis)understanding is possible.

This is not necessarily an assertion about the extent to which particular individuals act out these stereotypes, or even a criticism of those who do: the situations that people are put in are often very difficult, and it is not obvious how one might ease the systematic dysfunctions of our institutions and organisations.

Furthermore, to say that the systems that we inhabit are imperfect and dysfunctional is to state the obvious: utterly uninformative without some sort of exploration or discussion of the whys, hows and wherefores. Fortunately, we have several models that we can apply to the analysis:

Any attempt to route significant information flows through a lossy and bandwidth constrained channel such as the human brain is bound to suffer distortion and loss. The dysfunction is with the system; indeed, any system that attempts to move the power to make decisions any sort of distance away from the sources of information which that very decision making process requires, without making adequate alternative arrangements. Indeed, if you look at Hayek's take on the free market economy, the main magic is in how prices signal the imbalance between supply and demand, and, indeed, we see analogous attempts to summarise key information through statistics where stereotypical and long-lasting information flows exist. However, it is less obvious how to summarise and/or compress idiosyncratic and short-lived information in rapidly changing and evolving circumstances.

How to fix this? Software and Information Technology is supposed to be a major part of the solution, but I have seen little that promises the paradigm shift that (more than likely) will be required to achieve the orders-of-magnitude improvements that we seek.
So I guess it's up to us non Americans to convince Google that it is in it's own interest to not be a direct conduit if private information to Governments
I was not assuming you were naive or fresh out of university. I was assuming however you came from the consultant's perspective.

I am sure that you must recognize, that when people complain about ERP implementations not fitting, they refer to implementations that you describe as "model"?

I come from the other end of the spectrum, making my first steps building business-process relevant tools while employed in various functions. What really shaped me was having carefully discussed the requirements, building it as specified, then being called because "it is not working", and realizing then and there what the actual business logic was, and how deep it was buried and how dysfunctional it all would have been had I insisted that I had implemented as specified.

I'd say (to the consultant profession in general), grab the proverbial pistol and flashlight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_rat), and go down the rabbit hole, because that's the only way the job can be done right.
Actually, I would love to see articles about using computer vision from drones to reverse engineer police crowd-control tactics. Or running live simulations during protests of what the police are going to do next.

Besides, we'll need all those compilers and operating systems when we re-program the robots to fight the system! /snark
I think they have been throttling pitch submissions and user invitations, to manage the rollout/launch. Presumably after they got to a critical mass of of users and ideas, they could start categorizing.
Do these still have time limits on them?
The Architecture of core.logic
How to Build Company Transparency and Reduce Email Using WordPress P2
A new kind of password cracking
There's an old scam that's been going round, where a person calls up a mark claiming to be from their bank.

They say that there are some security issues with their bank account and for security reasons, they should call the phone number on the back of their credit card.

The mark hangs the phone up, but the scammer stays on the line and plays a dial tone the line, when the mark picks the phone up, they hear a ring tone and then dial the number. The user thinks that they have got through to the bank, but really they are on the phone to the scammer.

From that point, they scammer has the mark's trust and can do all sorts of damage.
I don't understand the problem; Chrome can be installed on XP without administrator privileges, isn't that enough for Entreprise users?
Highly-competent in private/classified, highly incompetent in public, is the ideal balance. Although it does affect recruiting, so "highly constrained by morals and ethics" in public is probably better than generally incompetent.

It would be interesting to see what a "we are really professional, but generally law abiding" intelligence service could do.
Nah, it makes no sense. You could just artificially create transactions and finalize trades every hour anyway.
Since GitHub is starting to feel Emacs-like, why not go fully in this direction? Add a "dotfile" repository for everyone to manage their own client-side JavaScript extensions for Github that would be loaded by default. And then let people collaborate, share and create extensions and "configurations". Want a better map? Fork the official one and modify it. And then let others fork from you.
I changed django admin's base.css:

#header {
... css ...
background: <whatever color you want>;
... more css ...
}
The Coursera Store: Supporting Education for Everyone
But then they wouldn't come forward as fast as they did to boast that their companies are sparking clean... That's lying.
Khan Academy Cryptography Challenge
First verified (= you only have to trust coq small kernel) proofs of four color theorem and Feit–Thompson theorem is enough for real-world? ;-)
I call bs on this one, time will tell. Lennard Zwart is a guy who clearly has an economic interest in playing the 'don't host in the US' card. He wrote another article in 2012 about this with the same angle (see below, hit google translate if you can't read Dutch) and is totally vague about the call, does not explain why a C level exec would receive a call like that and did not report on making the required effort to verify the caller was indeed from the NSA.

http://www.isptoday.nl/opinie/overheid-moet-duidelijkheid-ge...

I've received a number of calls over the years from people claiming to be law enforcement, and a whole bunch of email to boot, only a very small fraction of those were actual law enforcement on sanctioned missions, the rest were just impersonators and to do a first round of verification is par for the course in cases like this. "She said so" is not nearly good enough.
Can this approach (especially the nesting of grids in the table example) be taken with bootstrap as well? Wondering if anyone has any links to a similar post showing how to leverage bootstrap in a similar fashion.
It's an interesting story but the phone system doesn't actually work that way.
Wow, this is terrible news. They can push Chrome for Business, the Chrome MSI Installer, and Chrome Legacy Browser Support all they want, it's not going to change the minds of countless IT departments that still demand IE. Come spend a week here in Nashville, the healthcare mecca of the US, and you will discover that quite quickly. Sometimes you just can't fix stupid, so you have to instead find ways to get around it (e.g. Chrome Frame).
How would access to an FTP server that serves all the data one wants not be considered "direct"? I really doubt NSA analysts need shell access to do their dirty work...
edit :: missed the joke ... doh!

While I understand the cynical sentiment (and mostly agree with it) -- I can assure you an email to your congressperson will get a response. Wife used to be a staffer several years ago for her district's rep and would look for trends in emails and then pass those off to the rep and his writer to handle responses.

Sure, an email might not seem like much, but enough of them will at least require some sort of consideration.
Getting started with twitteR in R
Far be it for me to jump right into the fray between you and the 2 highest karma rated people on HN, but here here are my 2 cents:

MVP: focus on one aspect of your idea and just do it. From the ideas you gave above, I see winter and summer MVPs (snow removal, grass cutting) If you have a site ready to go now, go for 'www.grassbegone.com' and get a site out matching grass cutters with lazy home owners. Do the research while executing. If you don't have a site ready, spend the next few months developing www.snowbegone.com, learn marketing (from patio11 - hint, you're not charging enough) and launch at the end of autumn and corner the snow removal market.

Neither will get you funded now but I would bet money that what you learn would put you into the section of Guy who is now able to get funded.

Or you may end up like patio11 and make your millions without needed funding. Or you could end up like tptacek rich, acerbic and full of knowledge.
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DI.fm has a pretty good ambient station
Is this how we can apply for government jobs too?
That's why I said "we" ;)
In Russia, Google search YOU!

Sorry, I had to.
CreativeLive, "Secrets from Silicon Valley" - SF 6/20 6/21
If you are in SF, Creative Live is now producing video from their two new studios on Potrero Hill. Next week they are filming "Secrets from Silicon Valley". Live speakers include names you know... (http://cr8.lv/ssv_cl.) If you have a business and business challenges, you can be one of the about 20 people in the audience.

Here is where you can apply: http://cr8.lv/ssvaudience
> Federal laws are so numerous and complicated that even the federal government cannot NUMBER them. they literally can't even count them all.

This is just a meaningless thing to say. The reason for the difficulty in answering is because the question ("how many laws are there") is flawed because it implies a static number. Some rules are temporary (e.g.: a safety zone around a small area for X hours while underwater explosives are used for dredging from June Y-Z). They receive temporary CFR citations that start with T and they expire when they are no longer in effect.

The number changes, it's not "uncountable" -- this meme needs to die.

Oh by the way, these are also by and large submitted to the Federal Register for people to have a chance to read and submit comments and request public meetings.
From the crowd funding page:

> For anyone who struggles with allergies, heartburn, acid reflux or digestion, has trouble controlling weight or cholesterol, or simply doesn't have the means to eat well, soylent is for you.

> Soylent frees you from the time and money spent shopping, cooking and cleaning, puts you in excellent health,

> By taking years to spoil

> The founders and scores of DIYers have been living on Soylent for months and there is much evidence that is considerably healthier than a typical diet.

There's no mention on the crowd-funding page that this is an experiment.

I tend to agree with you - people can do what they like with their bodies and this product would fit a lot better if it was sold as an experiment, with access to discussion forums and etc.

I notice they now have a disclaimer on that page.