skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perl seems to be used in Bioinformatics, because there are several books out there discussing the application of Perl:

- Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics

- Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics

both are published by O'Reilly (I haven't them, so I can't give a recommendation. Also I don't have any contact with the field of Bioinformatics.).

A search on Amazon reveals quite a lot of books on the combination of Perl and Bioinformatics.

There is another book which sounds interesting:

- Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills (O'Reilly)

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565926646.do

It also appears to discuss the question why Perl is used for some things in Bioinformatics.

The same author (Cynthia Gibas) has written an introductory article:

Computers + Biology = Bioinformatics

http://oreilly.com/news/bioinformatics_0401.html

I can't tell you if learning Perl will give you a competitive advantage in job applications, but I have enjoyed learning Perl very much :)
Logo: The Board Game?

I think you'd be better off just teaching them Logo instead.
Would you mind providing some "grand order of things" hand-wavey estimate as to when exactly the public can expect to have Fast Ruby ™ © ®?

Also, will it the very same Ruby we all know, compatible with everything? i.e. will it be the Christmas I envision?
I use the nvidia drivers and have the same problem.
Not just HN. Americans in general. And of course, the very paradigm you cite (David & Goliath) is Biblical, meaning it's been popular for at least 2,500 years, give or take.

Humans are confident, fighty creatures who like to beat the odds. Or at least, they like to think of themselves in this way.
Yes, generics are not (yet??) possible in go
I read history books but also, many others. One of the best classics Sci-fi I've read ever is The Riverworld saga by Josep Filip Farmer. I barealy guess another serie can match the awesome of this story, maybe as some hackers point out, The Foundation is another great series and will entertain you a lot.
I still dual boot Windows to play League of Legends.
Do you really care about Valve's reasons? Let's just shut up and let them use their industry muscle to encourage Linux gaming, and in the end we will all win.
Yes...you should only be worried if they added some anonymous background job replicating your mongo instance somewhere else for 'support' or something.
IBM Watson: How the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer was born
Ten years ago, a report like this would have been greeted with something like "Detroit is in decline? In other shocking news, it's raining in Seattle." The vast majority of people don't care about long, ongoing stories that they know the basic story of until there's some notable event that makes it news right now, which in this case is the bankruptcy.

I would expect they've been reporting on the various aspects of the problem all along -- that's what local papers generally do year in and year out. It's just no one cared about consuming in one big report like this until it became a notable event.
It depends entirely on the size and power of your military.
If there was ever a competitor that deserved to be crushed, it's Microsoft.

I'm all for this. If Microsoft wants to turn their OS into a consumer toy or a corporate tool, go ahead. I'd love to have an open-source OS that happened to be a first-class gaming platform as well, where if there's problems with performance, companies like Valve has a recourse: patch the OS.
App server response time (New Relic measurement). I haven't looked into DynamoDB.
Pretty quiet in the mornings, but past 4pm or so we (10 of us) usually put on the speakers and start listening to Pandora.
Yep, you can't yell, "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
Entirely anecdotal.
Say hello to your JSON clone.
This would be mine
http://reminderof.me/json/ruggero

Do you see the advantages of having such a clone to synchronize the content where you get mentioned?

Example use case:

When you mouse over the link on my name on a random website you see all my up-to-date contact icons.

When you mouse over my name on a different website the same icons appear

When I change my contact all the random websites mentioning me stay up-to-date and reliable content.
Yeah, I was given a poulsbo netbook as a "present" few years ago.. at that time I thought cool, intel has great linux support... not!
I'll stick to NVidia for now despite all the fuckyou they get.
What are you talking about? I run Windows 8 at home and install non-App store software all the time.
First look at Garmin’s new FR620 & FR220 GPS running watches
>Reddit has always been against "doxxing" people

That is verifiably untrue.

Reddit admins permitted the Boston bomber witch hunt to continue and didn't issue an apology for a full week. Reddit had wrongly and emphatically accused a missing student of being the perpetrator.

Reddit admins permitted the continued doxxing and harassment of a preacher who left a bad tip. The reddit CEO previously issued a statement saying "We do believe that doxxing is a form of violence, rather unique to the internet. " yet allowed the preacher harassment to continue unabated.

Compare that to ViolentAcrez being outed where the Reddit admins immediately instituted a site-wide ban for the story.

Reddit is entirely arbitrary with who it chooses to protect from doxxing, and why.

For more on reddit's fluid doxxing policies see:
http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/04/reddits-doxxing-paradox/

http://www.popehat.com/2012/10/17/follow-up-a-few-questions-...
> This is a non-issue most of the time.

That's true. Most of the time.

> Outside of a few subreddits, reddit moderators are just random people, not reddit employees.

You're missing the point. If a moderator censors content, and if Reddit doesn't have a policy against censorship, the fact that the moderators aren't Reddit employees is irrelevant. Neglect shapes policy.

There are only a few things that Reddit (Note: edited the following) will aggressively prevent as a matter of public relations, among which are threats against people, the dispensing of medical advice, and libelous remarks. Those are aggressively acted against. And a few others -- for example, Reddit just today banned a subReddit that planned to try to locate a Washington shipyard shooter that allegedly escaped. Reddit got a black eye over a similar subReddit that searched for the Boston bomber suspects and wrongly accused someone innocent, so they're not going to allow that to happen again.

The Reddit moderator who censored me made that argument also -- he wasn't a Reddit employee, so it was wrong to call it a Reddit problem. There are some ways in which that's true, but there's no impenetrable fence between Reddit policymakers and subReddit moderators who aren't employees of anything. I had to explain this to the moderator using Galileo as an example -- Galileo wasn't ever tried by the Inquisition, he was just walked through a room full of torture equipment and told to shut up (greatly simplifying a complex story).

But the moderator wasn't very bright and I don't think he ever got it -- he just wouldn't tolerate any criticism of psychologists or psychology, and if I criticized psychology again, I was out. I'm familiar with the typical intellectual gifts of those who think psychology is a science, and I realized nothing could be be done. And that was the last time I ever posted to Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/user/lutusp

http://arachnoid.com/psychology/reddit_psychology.html

> ... but it's not at all reddit's fault that it happens.

In fact, in fairness and in the eyes of the law, it is. If Reddit doesn't have a policy against it and doesn't act against it, it becomes corporate policy de facto. There are any number of examples in case law where benign neglect turns out not to be so benign.

The reason I haven't tried to do anything about this is that the moderator has speech rights also, and the fact that he doesn't know anything about the topic is not a meaningful argument against his right to express ignorance -- that's a right he certainly has.
In other words, one cannot really explain why the Western Roman Empire fell if he cannot account also for how the Eastern Roman Empire managed to last another thousand years.
Definitely liking the direction that Garmin is going with their devices. After initially sticking solely with ANT+, they are starting to incorporate Bluetooth Smart and wifi
Thanks for the contrarian perspective. Sure, there's the pain of dealing with drivers and settings and tweaks with Windows, even with Win7, but it's certainly not any worse than getting Linux to work.
The trick is to make friends with your neighbors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dumpling_Island
Meaning that the derivation of pleasure from indignation is finely honed social trait. We actually like to police ourselves.

So ironically, the "righteous individual against nefarious powers and / or the establishment" turns out to be a mechanism for preserving greater social cohesion.
Maybe they value others opinions/encouragement/feedback. A degree of insecurity isn't necessarily a bad thing, it can stop you making mistakes. I wish I'd taken some of the questions of my friends at school Why do you want to get a degree anyway? more seriously years ago.
Through My Eye, Not Hipstamatic’s (2011)
Guess it's a different viewpoint. Does everything need to dominate other areas? Why not focus on one thing (in this case question-answer) and simple become the best in that area?

I prefer if companies and sites focus on becoming the best in their area rather than continually pivoting to seek more eyeballs/profit.
Who are "the SAR folks"?
Does anyone have tips for buying cheap land in general for camping and maybe building a cabin? I've always been curious to do that but I've no idea where to start.
I'm reminded of the Reddit Fantasy: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditisland
As a Swede; yes, that does sound a bit weird:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
I never wanted to leave college. Why leave--it's fun and
the social benefits were unbelievable.

Although, I think a college degree is overrated. I truly
believe a determined individual can use the Internet
as a substitute for a college degree, especially Programmers. When I went to school I thought General
Education requirements were a waste of time, but as I
aged, I'm glad I was exposed to philophy, and psychology
courses. I'm amazed how many people go through life
not knowing what the Placebo Effect is.(yes--Strunk would
be mad, but tired.).
> I meant they are exercising their own rights by not allowing it.

If you mean the moderators, yes, I agree to some extent. I think it's bad form to contact someone privately and threaten banning if they don't stop dissenting from popular views, but it's not an earthshaking issue either.

> Too many flaming liberals.

Too many flaming whatever. Too much heat, not enough light.
One thing is wanting to get users to use Metro more. It's another thing entirely to force them to use it exclusively by removing any other option.

Desktop apps can do many more things than WinRT apps are allowed to do. There are thousands of business critical applications running on desktop that are likely rarely maintained. These two reasons alone should convince you that Microsoft would be stupid to remove the desktop.

The blend of Metro and desktop is not meant to kill the desktop. It's simply a bet on hybrid devices (like Surface, Yoga, etc.) becoming the norm in years to come.
"Search and Rescue"
Read the GP two up...

Actually, Reddit doesn't have free speech. Reddit moderators are famous for enforcing their personal views by banning, or threatening to ban, people who express dissenting views. The level of censorship is so high that one wonders whether those doing the censoring even understand what free speech refers to.

He's mocking the comment
Ex-Soviet Programmers Take On India in $48 Billion Market
What are some of the open source libraries you're thinking of? gettext?
Haha, I don't think a 3-year-old would be able to learn Logo :)
That may not currently be a problem, and as I'm not a psychic, it may never be a problem, but it's certainly more likely to happen from over-taxing the top 10-20%, and/or overtaxing businesses. History has examples of a nation trying to fix its financial woes through taxing the rich, and generally, the rich simply leave.

Currently, Americans are renouncing their citizenship at record levels due to FATCA[1] and emigration from the US is at elevated levels since it spiked in 2009[2].

[1] - http://money.msn.com/now/post--more-americans-are-renouncing...

[2] - http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=us&v=27
Ack, sorry for the confusion.

I mean that if your users are waiting on jobs, they get the result when `encode time` + `enqueue time` + `wait time` + `dequeue time` + `decode time` + `execute time` is completed.

Even though you might not need raw 1000 jobs/second throughput, your users will still benefit by reducing `wait time` + `dequeue time` + `decode time`, which goworker does.
Researchers steer light in new directions
i can understand why they're investing in companies like palantir. and hardware like pure storage seems like it could be useful too; similarly cloudera/mongo for data handling. but why have tendril got so much? http://www.tendrilinc.com/ or apigee? http://apigee.com
Right answer, wrong justification.

Reddit has property rights, which allows them to control their service. The also have free speech rights, but that isn't what is being excercised in this case. IMHO.
Computer algorithms create and 3D-print a terrifying, 'Alien'-style altar
Mobile Is the Future, but Not in Gaming
Not it isn't.

In order to be in the top 1% of income your household needs to have earnings of around $380,000 a year. Unless your definition of "haves" excludes households like that, there is an upper limit of $380 a year for "have nots" in order for your statement to be true. There aren't very many, if any, US households with income of less than $380 a year.

Of course, on HN I wouldn't be surprised to hear that $380k/year is working poor.
Okay, I think that's a fair interpretation, and there's some truth to it. Moderators are also voices and also have speech rights. This particular moderator contacted me privately and threatened me with banning if I kept dissenting from a certain popular view. The fact that it was a private communication made it more of a gangster tactic than free speech.
I'm afraid I can't - sorry. Keep an eye on the mailing list or follow me on twitter (@ChrisGSeaton) though.
Had they sourced out a phone they could sell for 400 dollars, and maybe bumped up the delivery time to around Christmas, and used Kickstarter instead of Indiegogo, I think they could have been very successful.

For myself, and I'm sure many others, spending 800 dollars on a product I won't see for nearly a year is a bit too much...
This serves as your daily reminder that modern CSPRNG designs don't rely on a single entropy source, but rather mix many sources with hashes or block ciphers into entropy pools.

It would indeed have been bad if Linux (insanely) had converted to relying entirely on RDRAND as a replacement for the devrandom kernel CSPRNG. But no OS I know has done anything like that.

Even at 32 bits of entropy (which is an extremely unlikely conspiracy theory, as Schneier says), mixing the output of RDRAND into the rest of the entropy available to a kernel would still be a marginal improvement. For instance, it would mitigate some concerns about cold-start entropy for solid-state machines without real entropy sources.

The fact that OS CSPRNGs were unlikely ever to have trusted RDRAND directly (even if wasn't backdoored, what if someone screwed up? That too is somewhat unlikely, given that Paul Kocher's Cryptography Research reviewed the Intel HWRNG. But still...), and the fact that it's such a high-profile place to put a hardware backdoor, leads me to conclude that this is an unlikely vector for hardware backdoors.
So Reddit is responsible for subreddits when someone gets accused by a mob but weapons manufacturers are not responsible when their guns are used to murder.

I don't believe this, I just find the serendipity ironic.
How Twitter Can Help Gamblers Beat The Spread
>You have a strong political opinion, and an inflated sense of authority."

But he's correct. It's one of the most ridiculous arguments perpetuated. Comparing a city (or a household) with an entity with the capacity to print the currency in which its debts are denominated is nonsensical. Solvency and bankruptcy are a not an issue for the United States. The constraint is inflation.

The whole country can't stop spending at once. The sooner people realize that public deficits create private financial assets, and hence are necessary during recessions, the better we'll all be.

As far as your article, anyone who considers "unfunded obligations" to be debt is not worth listening to.
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Reddit has said over and over again that they won't police content on their site, unless it is one of a few things, doxing among them, or it is illegal.
There are only a few things that Reddit really must prevent, among which are threats against people, the dispensing of medical advice, and libelous remarks

No, they really don't have to to do any of those. The ToS absolves Reddit Inc of pretty much any responsibility for user action. Section 230 of the CDA -- also known as the Safe Harbor provision -- prevents you from suing Reddit Inc for libelous, insulting, defamatory or otherwise unwanted speech by their members. You're also going to have an uphill battle if you want to go down the road of medical advice -- A "reasonable" interpretation of advice given from an unauthenticated source (ie. not a real, living breathing doctor with their MD behind them) is that you shouldn't follow it.
Mozilla Firefox 24 Is Now Available for Download
Try running Minecraft. It's an unsigned binary so Windows "helps" you by hiding the 'Run Anyway' under the more info warning.
I agree that he's certainly not doing this for the Linux community purely out of the kindness of his heart. But why should he? He's running a business and has to choose the profitable products to develop. Up until recently, Linux gaming has not had a huge amount of potential profit. It still might not for that matter.

If you watch his presentation however, he does talk about a lot more than just the fact that the Windows/Mac app stores are all trying to take a cut. One of the key points he makes is that the largest proportion of innovation in the gaming scene is happening/originating on PC. Digital distribution, social gaming, free-to-play, community generated content and markets, etc. All these were primarily instigated on the PC, but are potentially in danger from closed, captive marketplaces.

Are people going to generate new hats for Team Fortress (to pick a simple example), when the approval process for content in the various app stores could hold it up for weeks or months? If another innovation such as Social Gaming (farmville, etc.) were to come along, but all the platforms were locked down as to what features they can enable for the users; would it ever take off as a business model?

So yeah, he's certainly doing it out of self-interest for Valve, but it's about far more than just the monetary cut they take. It's about the freedom to develop new and innovative ideas on an open platform without worrying about whether they'll pass the inspection of some opaque 3rd party authority.

PS: It's quite ironic to complain about a person making good logical business decisions on a forum dedicated to startup companies, where the majority of people are trying their damndest to make their own businesses work...
I think the writing is already on the wall that the Microsoft App Store is no threat to Steam. The Android market, maybe.
Publishers hate low RPM
An interesting stat to see would be different OS's or hardware models per person or IP address. Here there are a few graphs that I would be in multiple categories...
I would put "clearing a space or even making a concrete pad for a helicopter to land" and "checking cell phone coverage, if any" high on the list of first things to do.
Doesn't matter, that mod is expressing his speech not the speech of Reddit Inc. That mod is entitled to be a douchebag if they want to be.
Jolla’s Sailfish OS Now Android Compatible
But then you have the power to make it abundantly clear that you don't want answers that depend on jQuery. If you do get a "but you can do this with jQuery" without also supplying a pure javascript answer, then downvote.
This isn't even a valid comparison.
LXC, Docker, and the future of software delivery (LinuxCon)
Trebuchet - Launch features at people
Maybe, but don't slide decks give you the chance to sell what you've built? Maybe you need the time explain the bigger idea of what you're doing when during the hackathon you only completed 25% of it?
Collapsing 4D Star Could Have Spawned Universe
This is awesome good luck!
This is awesome. Forwarded to my wife :-)
Those islands cost in the millions... but there are some sweet ones up north that are cheaper than a downtown Victoria condo.
The article says that briefly. Didn't you read it?
That applies to some of the hard sciences (more precisely: engineering, as well as some branches of physics and chemistry), but not in general. PhD students in biology earn around 1400 after taxes; a philosopher or what have you is lucky to make any money at all.
Around Lake Merritt in Oakland is nice, particularly Adam's Point and Grand (Northern Shore). It's a little far from the BART but definitely walkable. It does get more ghetto the closer you get the BART stations though, at least on Oakland.

If I had a family and needed to get to SF easily I would strongly consider Rockridge. It's a bit more highbrow than the rest of Oakland so it won't be much cheaper but you will get what you pay for. It has it's own BART station too. Berkeley is cool too but it's a college town. Any of the East Bay BART stations will get you any where in the city in about 15 mins and it won't be crowded since it's a reverse commute.

The only downside of living is the East Bay is that BART closes at 12:30ish. If you see yourself being out later than that it's about a $40-60 cab fare back. There is a late bus, but I have never ridden. I have heard mixed things about it but I just always assumed it would be a disaster.

I will so though, if money were no object I would live in San Francisco. You will probably be slightly envious. It's just a much better city in my opinion.
I feel like the arstechnica article was a terrible summary of his presentation. The main point is that he feels like the proprietary systems (App Stores and consoles) restrict innovation. All of the innovative stuff in gameplay over the past 10+ years have come from the PC; digital distribution, free-to-play, MMOs, etc (11min). He feels like the next extension of this is user-generated content. Since Microsoft is going in the App Store direction and the epitome of open software is Linux, that's the direction he wants to go.

He recognizes the struggles with Linux (and with gaming PCs on the TV) adoption for gaming and is working to clearly identify and fix them.

It sounds like he's moving away from Windows to address innovation and gaming PC adoption on the TV (and similar ideas). While Microsoft might not take away the Desktop, they certainly aren't making it easier to do custom things like booting to Steam or creating a controller based input/abstraction (that's simple for a non-techie gamer to setup and maintain).
Here is a technical overview:

https://lwn.net/Articles/518988/
Every bored teenager I've met was absolutely respectful of signs and, authority in general...
> One really weird phenomenon is that locked cabins tend to have more vandalism problems than unlocked cabins with a guestbook for visitors.

An old joke is this: If you have something you want to get rid of, put it by the curb with a "FREE" sign on it. If it is still there the next day, put a "For Sale" sign on it and someone will "steal" it that night.