skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a marketer/coder myself, I should have elaborated! You're right. If you want to build a succesful business there is a massive amount of validating, marketing and PR involved. In fact, building your app is the easiest part...
I switched from prgmr.com to DO recently simply because of the additional RAM (double) for the same price. I really like prgmr.com, and have been a customer of theirs for years, but the new machine is simply much faster (and the network latency is also much better).

Of course, this would probably be true switching to a new VPS provider after a few years of being on the same box.

One thing that's unique to DO in this regard, though, is that their onboarding process is super smooth. I was up and running very quickly.
You have your facts wrong. The iPod touch came out after the iPhone, and previous to the iPhone there were no devices out there that had the same design. Everyone was making stylus or physical keyboard based smart phones before the iPhone came out. Virtually all the major players in the smart phone market universally panned the iPhone for taking the major risk of having one large screen be the main means of input. Boy were they wrong.
Prosecutors want to be able to remotely brick smartphones
I used to work as a machine/computer vision engineer but that was before the web was big so the image retrieval opportunities didn't exist.

I worked mostly in small specialty companies doing inspection systems (sorting, metrology, controls, robotics) and then for many years at HP in manufacturing. In those positions computer vision was part of the job so it often didn't show up in the initial keyword searches. Most of the jobs required some additional skills, most often optics and some controls or automation.

If you broaden your search to include robotics and automation you may find more. Also, medical imaging is fascinating and of course there's defense but I didn't want that.
I think you may be able to get away with saying "we aren't allowed to divulge information regarding FISA requests". If you say that to everyone who asks.
Wondering if this news is true or just merely a marketing/publicity attempt...
"In other words, they were all lying to the public and, under our new relativistic world, a lie told by everyone is treated as the truth."

That sounds terrifyingly like something out of "1984".
That would be the perfect date to sunset chrome frame.
China Unveils Secret Quantum Communications Experiment
UML in Practice
PCR is not covered by the patent, only reverse transcription of the processed RNA molecule to cDNA. There are many flavors of genomic PCR that are fine under this interpretation, including a rapid SNP-detecting digital qPCR.
I thought path texted all your contacts if you don't watch how you sign up.
It's not pedantry. Calling this country a "Democracy" suggests that the citizenry has the power. We don't.
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Perhaps there's a market for a serendipity app that occasionally suggests new experiences. "I see you're out shopping for Father's day -- how about taking a break for some rock climbing on your way?"

PS: Do you have a reference for people of below average intelligence thinking only in terms of analogies to familiar concepts? It seems plausible, but I'd be interested in any studies done.
I've noticed some people will use the terms "black hat SEO" and "white hat SEO" to distinguish between sleazy and not-sleazy SEO practices.
"Flat" is the name of the style. It doesn't always literally mean flat.
I use a PHP GPL app called Imperium. Meets legal requirements and provides financial reports for my CPA.
My company is always interested in talking to engineers with experience in computer vision and machine learning. We're in the advertising industry, doing large scale automated video content classification. Drop me a line if you're interested - email is in my profile.

Where I work: http://set.tv
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Cool stuff - had not heard about the 3D rendering linked in the article either. These are not trivial features to implement or maintain and seem to have a somewhat narrow audience. GitHub has such an amazing team and the core functionality seems pretty complete. I wonder if the "ship code" ethic and loose management structure (both of which I think are great) will inevitably lead to a bloated, feature overloaded product eventually. This has happened so very often in the past to others. So far they have been pretty good at closing down unused features.
swimmingly well, hah, hah
NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Has a Higher Approval Rating Than Congress
Oh geez the point is they use it for practice. Nobody is advocating (and it wasn't the point of my comment) that a situation is setup for that purpose.
I'm currently using EC2 with RDS primarily because RDS provides major benefits to a non-DBA like me.

Given that I would prefer to keep using RDS, and the network latency etc., any thoughts/advise on how DO-RDS would perform compared to EC2-RDS, with everything being in N.CA/SF Zone and using comparable EC2/DO instances for running my app server?

Alternately, is there an easy way to benchmark RDS i/o from EC2 and DO, both running Linux which can help in making this decision.
For future reference, you can insert Excel tables (the type that do math) into your Word document. The magic of COM!
I would contend[1] that the biggest problem is actually the Senate's not directly representing the states. This has caused quite a bit of foolishness from the Senate (particularly for regulation implementation). The House is more a problem of districting psychosis. I don't think the House was ever really that pure[2].

1) I'll skip the whole republic / democracy argument until there is an actual democracy in the world.

2) read some stuff from the early 1800's, some Representatives didn't have a good opinion of those they represented
For a long time I was critical of MS for forcing developers to use their VirtualPC VM's because it just wasn't realistic: people use VMWare and VirtualBox as well as Macs and Linux. It was always an example of MS's frequent "plays poorly with others" behavior. Kudos to them for making it right.
This is super cool. Thank you! I have to admit I don't get the joke about crickets...
Anybody familiar with the architecture of Chrome Frame? In terms of how Chrome/Chromium is integrated, I'm wondering if it would be viable to maintain a fork of the Chrome Frame code or if there are "concessions" made for Chrome Frame in the Chrome/Chromium code that, if they go away, makes it impossible for Chrome Frame to function.
Wormhole pub/sub system: Moving data through space and time
Starting Stormpulse turns up nothing for me in Google. Could you link me? I'm super interested.
The Necessity of Hybrid Business Intelligence
I'm really curious about what they've come up with. The only practical way I can think to do this given what we have today is to swap cars.
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> I've got to explain the difference between . . .

My point is merely that I'm fine with people choosing to do risky things as long as the risk involved is obvious. I'd be a little more comfortable with this campaign page if they made slightly less grandiose promises, but for the most part I think the people ordering it will be aware of the shallowness of the testing so far and can decide for themselves if that is a risk they are willing to accept.
SEO = gaming search engines = negative behavior.
Since there is now basic authentication, I can finally finish up my Heroku add-on for RethinkDB this weekend. If anyone would like to help me test it, send me an email at cam@camrudnick.com.
Sure!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bootstrapping+stormpulse
Or swap batteries. They could have stations ready with filled up batteries and swap it with the depleted battery.

Elon alluded to it already: http://green.autoblog.com/2013/05/14/tesla-model-s-battery-s...
See LMGTFY link above.
I don't think I understand all that.
Would you mind precisely defining what you mean by "republic"? Growing up in the UK, I was taught that a republic is a country with a non-hereditary head of state. Under that definition, the USA would be a republic, as would China and Russia, whereas countries like the UK, Spain and Thailand would not. However, it sounds like it has a subtly different meaning in this and other online discussions and I'd be very grateful for help in understanding that meaning.
Check out any other Python framework and they may have a decent api, but on the inside it is messy and confusing.

This is a really disingenuous generalization. If it's not Flask, it's messy and confusing? Telling every framework developer who's not the author of this one library that their code is crap not only isn't a great way to be taken seriously, it's wrong and just kind of mean.
I'm using InvoiceFox (https://www.invoicefox.com/) these days. It's really cool because it can remember all the different clients I have so I can just click "Invoice Company X for Y" and it also does some analytics of earnings and payments discipline.
Far more dangerous when American citizens allow it as well.
I wonder if it's anything like Shai Agassi's vision
http://www.ted.com/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html
Why don't we just have turn based trading with turns of 1 or 24 hours and then have a blackout period near turn ends when relevant information should not be divulged?
In my experience most 'hackers' I meet fall in two camps concerning 'moral causes': 1) too shy / world-strange to even find a cause to fight for, or 2) too obsessed with and paralyzed by a kind of perfection that keeps them from diluting their views to make some practical change.

I've often wondered what my place is in this, and if I can contribute in connecting these hackers, often very skilled and capable, with something 'bigger' to fight for or work towards.

Instead, most talent around me works on silly apps and the next big startup (some restaurant finder, no doubt).

(I'm not being condescending, by the way. I feel that it is not my job to judge people for their choices. But personally I want to do something that I consider worthwhile in some 'grander scheme', and it frustrates me to see talent wasted, but only wasted from my personal point of view)

Any ideas on how to get hackers 'involved'?
Interesting that Windows Azure comes up at the top not only purely in performance but also in the price performance ratio as well.
The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to servers of tech companies
Amash has been a great representative for Michigan. I'm extremely lucky to have him as my house representative. He campaigned on complete transparency and posts writeups and explanations for every single decision or vote he makes. I'm not completely sold on his libertarian views, but these days I value a politician who doesn't lie to me over their political ideology.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Haskell hipster and I personally think that people trying to advocate that language and FP in general do themselves a huge disservice by focusing so heavily on monads and other type calculus concepts in introductory contexts.

1. Monads are a means to create ordered evaluation in a system that does not guarantee it as part of its execution model. You wrap actions in other actions so that the act of unpeeling them results in computation occurring in a predictable order. (not grade-school, but I do think it's more understandable to a non-FP aficionado)

2. They don't. Things always happen in a predictable sequence in C/C++.

3. See 2.
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I guess I'll polish it up and move it to github, been pushing to private bitbucket.
Now would be a great time to write to your Congressmen to inform them of your (and your friends'/neighbors') displeasure.
Many European democracies, such as Sweden, Denmark, and of course United Kingdom, are monarchies. We don't have presidents, but kings and queens. Not that it matters that much, since the monarchs have very little real power, and usually the prime ministers have more of the same role as the US president. One difference is of course that the prime ministers are elected by the parliaments and not directly by the people.
Well they have a file system(git), now they add ways to interact with data, up until they create a fullblown operating system. Something that Google is already onto with ChromeOS.
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Dyn's throwing its first ever user conference in New Hampshire. This is the link for that.
FDA calls on medical device makers to focus on cybersecurity
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I suspect you are a troll, but I will respond anyway...

Sequence space is very large. There are only a total of 8 million US patents. There are 16 million 12-base-pair nucleotide sequences. To patent the sequence space of a functional product and regulatory region would require more patents than there are molecules in the universe.

Also to patent something you have to show use.
The Astronomical Math Behind UPS' New Tool to Deliver Packages Faster
Reminds of the days when Compaq etc built their own chipsets. Of course I am not expecting them to do it now, but I do wish they were still as willing to fix BIOS bugs.
You got me. Saw the Invoice-o-matic. Saw the FreeAgent link. Evaluated the product. Loved it. Signed up.
I know, but I still want to take it seriously, and thank you for your criticism.
In the end, the publishers will go where the consumers are. And if we judge by the titles available on the PS4, I'd say that Sony has a pretty good hand right now.
With the tablets there was a time (roughly a year) when Apple was the market.
Wow, what's the $860 for, hosting?
Even if they knew about the program, they couldn't have said anything because of the gag order part of the National Security Letter they were handed.
While I'm not disagreeing on the quality of Flask, "x uses y, so y must be stable" is the same kind of argument as "Facebook runs on PHP, so PHP must be blazing fast." Yeah, there are large web companies using all sorts of tech, but what else they're using alongside it and how they've adapted it to their needs make this sort of commentary questionable at best.

It's definitely nice to see other responses here that are from people who are, first hand, using Flask in high-traffic live deployments. I'd just be careful about drawing conclusions based on who has it somewhere in their stack without any context.
The viability of this strategy depends on whether the Chrome/Chromium bits will continue to integrated with the "Frame" bits. I'm not getting a good feel for the architecture from just a quick glance at their repo, but I'd definitely like to find out how viable, long-term, a fork might be.
If you are married to a specific business model (selling applications) then yes ... maybe you are stuck on iOS.

But, people are definitely making a good living pursuing other business models for software on the web, Android, etc.

Some people even make money selling games on open platforms (Minecraft is an example off the top of my head. There are several other PC games that come to mind.)
The current Model S, as far as I can tell, is in no way ready to do battery swapping in a reasonable amount of time. Could be, though; what do I know?

EDIT: now that I look at the link you added, I stand corrected. From the exploded diagrams, et. al., that I saw it didn't look like it could be swapped out in five minutes. Tesla's designers obviously disagree. :-)

And now that I view the link on a desktop browser, the one who posted it speculates that it's car sharing as well.
I agree to a point[1]. The establishment Republicans will give the NSA a pass along with most Democrats (no waves for our guy). The younger Republicans are going after all three current scandals pretty hard (Benghazi[2], IRS, NSA). Plus, there is the distraction of the Immigration reform bill[3] to contend with.

1) although FBI Director Robert Mueller got some very nasty questions on NSA and IRS today (Jun-13-2013)

2) this is going to keep coming back until there is some clarity of the timeline

3) I wish the Senate was working on something to fix immigration instead of crafting a bill that won't pass the House and will give talking points for 2014
This is a fantastic collection. Thanks for sharing this!
I can't comment on linux but I've had no issues with Azure using windows, in fact I would say its fantastic. I been have using cloud services web/worker roles, messaging, blob and SQL azure too...
I have been also integrating cloud TFS publishing, and automated deployments. Its been a dream so far.
I am looking at the elastic scalability block also for scaling out and in, it all looks great.

I mean transitioning from staging to production is just a virtual IP swap, sweet...

So if you get your setup right and go with the Microsoft cloud setup I think its smooth sailing.
That is basically a continuation of the Room 641A concept.

There are a few problems with that theory when you consider that these companies are using SSL now. They cannot MiTM data from a beam splitter and we know they are not actively MiTM'ing traffic from a spliced cable with their own private key signed by a cooperating CA (doing this would be noticed quickly if they tried it en masse). If they have the companies private keys then they could be passively decrypting the traffic, unless DHE/ECDHE were being used. If that was the case then they would need the companies private key and the ability to do an active MiTM.

I don't doubt that they are doing something, but I don't think we have enough information yet to say what. Hopefully further releases will shed more light on this.
As a developer, not giving away RAWs would be like giving them the site but not giving them the source code
Exactly. Someone really needs to have very tilted perception to not see the perpetrators at this moment.
The phraseology "recharge your model S" leads me away from the notion that it's it's a swap, perhaps they've found some way to treat the batteries as super capacitors?
There's no proof to suggest they knew otherwise. Anything stated thus far is speculation. All that's been shown as "evidence" is a slide with company logos on it and some statements from the NSA which claims to collect "Facebook" data, which could really mean anything. Plus Google openly submitted a request to allow them to publicly disclose the number, type, and scope of NSLs it receives. I have more reason to doubt the Govt than these other companies.

Also, given the name "PRISM," isn't it pretty obvious how this program worked? Think about it... What does a prism do?

Meanwhile, Verizon and ATT have been completely silent and government representatives are making up new definitions for the term perjury.
Robert Mueller, man who is incompetent to manage his personal online banking, wants to lecture us all about the importance of electronic surveillance.
This is also such a terrific "well-actually" I'm glad he broke this non-existant rule. It is absolutely maddening to hear people misinterpret the 3/5ths rule, and I'm convinced basically no one in this country understands it.
My personal favorite is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-...
Despite my snark, I do understand what you're saying. It's the "as long as the risk involved is obvious" part that bothers me. Soylent has had a presence on sites like Hacker News, so we kind of know what it's about. But not everyone does. And I really do believe that honest food labeling is very, very important.

They're passing this off as a cure. That's what really irks me. None of the presentation I've seen so far communicates "participate in our experiment!" It's all stuff like "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." That's a health claim they simple can't back up in any reasonable way. And it's a claim that many people are likely to assume is true! Not everyone will dig into the site and see that Rhinehart has a background in engineering, not nutrition, and that these claims haven't actually been backed up at all. You and I might know to do that, but many people won't. Which is why we have food labeling laws in the first place.
But... this was always my go-to joke for handling IE issues...
Man Calls Police, Complains Prostitute Lied About Her Appearance
I am just curious: don't you think that Ellsberg's actions had a positive effect on our society? I actually don't know anyone who with hindsite does not believe that what he did was in the public interest.

I think that the point is that whistle blowers put themselves in harms way because they believe that it is important for the public to know specific information.
I wish they would just make HTML previews work instead of hardcoding specific use cases with 3d models and geodata.

Eg why can't github just let visitors preview this html file: https://gist.github.com/dergachev/5769111#file-index-html

For now, I have to link bl.ocks.org, which is nice but far from perfect. And check out http://htmlpreview.github.io

(I understand that there are security concerns, but I'm sure they can be addressed with an iframe or by clicking an external link)
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Perhaps hackers tend to be a little more structured and in-crowd, or downright strangers to most of the world. I'm not sure. Or perhaps hackers can easily be distracted by any type of problem, no matter how trivial, no how much it benefits others over them, or no matter how insignificant it is. I think the latter is true very often.

The hackers I do know tend to be, generally speaking, wonderfully excited by problems presented to them, and have a childlike exuberance solving them. They are 'moral' individuals, but often seem to be unburdened by 'grander scheme' questions.

My uncle, for example, had a really important job but got paid relatively little. He was just... happy and never bothered to ask for a raise.

I've been trying to think of ways to 'prod' hackers to solve these problems that are 'bigger' in a way, but often still relatively trivial to solve.
Atoning for the Sins of Empire
Are they going to still make it available for download/installation or will this mean nobody can install it once they drop support?
Solving the password problem?
As I pointed out to shmerl above, sequence space is very large, and in general sparsely populated. A functional gene product and regulatory sequence is often thousands of base pairs. 4^1000 = 10^600. There are only 10^80 molecules in the universe. So if you have done truly de novo design, you can be pretty sure it doesn't exist somewhere else by random chance.

That being said, I think that even if you take a natural gene and modify it meaningfully - that should be patent-able. For instance, if you take an enzyme and engineer a version that doesn't degrade as readily, or has much better activity, that should be patent-able, don't you think?

EDIT: There's a good deal of prior art regarding numbers. As for patenting molecules, we allow that all the time... drugs, compounds, etc. Because they are discovered as I describe above.
I wouldn't go as far as calling it scarcely usable, but EC2 does add some overhead to running redis. I've been using it on EC2 for over 2 years (some of the metrics in the doc you linked are on my machines BTW :) ), and you just have to find workarounds for persistence because of the high fork times - it adds a bit of complexity, but a dedicated slave for saving is not that big a deal, and can reside on the same instance as the master).

We've recently moved to m3 instances and the problem has completely gone away, hopefully Amazon will migrate all instances to use HVM.
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I agree that that sentence is very unfortunate. It's in total contradiction to what they say below, which is that Soylent has not been evaluated by the FDA to treat any disease.