skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Line2 is $15/mo and it offers a pretty good service including desktop clients. Oh, did I mention they offer unlimited calls and texts? I'm using it for business - I ported my toll-free number to Line2 and I get unlimited calls and texts (!) with toll-free number. Yes, you read this correctly - I can text from my toll-free number and I can receive texts, too. The only thing they suck at is offering an API.
Moore's law is about semiconductor transistor count -- why would it have anything to do with magnetic storage?
Not necessarily endomorphisms, though, is it?
I'm pretty sure that the bacterial flagellum is effectively a mechanical gear:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_locomotion_in_living_s...
Perfect equity splits
Firefox: "about:config" and "media.peerconnection.enabled = false"
West coaster here: as someone who watches all the NY health + technology activity form afar, seems like HealthDevsNYC is the place to be.
He's explaining that he never accepted their TOS in the first place, because he never did anything that required him to.
Yes, I think you are right. I do work from home quite a bit but I don't think I could convince my current employer that telepresence is a viable option. Maybe I need to find a new employer...

All that said, to afford land without a mortgage in BC I'd have to move so far north that I it wouldn't be much fun at all.
Is this the future? More private companies will stay private?
You need consistency (distributed mvcc), row-level locking and scale-out architecture. Clustrix might be a better fit for the workload. Clustrix customer Twoo.com has 336 core deployment (168 master, 168 slave, 21 nodes each), they have millions of users and billions of transactions per day. Their application still thinks it's talking to a single MySQL database and they don't have a DBA and they have never thought about shard keys etc. We in the database industry should be solving these problems for you.
Hey Aaron, I'm the OP, and CEO of Sift Science. Sorry that your experience has been subpar. I'll follow up offline.

I think there's some confusion -- we actually do have a global machine learning model, which is what customers will start with if we haven't received any labels (training examples to learn from). But, your mileage may vary with the global model. We think it's a starting point, but that fraud differs from site to site in subtle ways, and to be truly effective you need to have your own model. This is why training examples are so critical. Once we receive enough training examples, we're able to build a model specific to your site.

That said, I'll be the first to agree with you -- we haven't done a great job setting the right expectations and messaging, especially on the point above (that your mileage may vary with the global model). We've been working hard to improve this, and there are now several reminders in the console, and an introductory tour, that emphasize the importance of a thorough integration with labels to achieve best results. With machine learning especially, bad data in = bad results out. Also, our first UI/UX designer started a month ago, and improving this experience is a top priority.

With regards to making fraud facts more functional and actionable -- we actually do provide reasons we think a user is suspicious in our web console and API (see https://siftscience.com/docs/getting-scores). But, there isn't an "aggregate learnings" page like what's presented in the blog post -- that's on the 3-month roadmap.

Again, sorry for the subpar experience, and I'll follow up with you separately. We have a very technical product -- we're working hard to abstract the complexity, while making sure we set customers up for success. We've also been overwhelmed with customer demand, and have been scaling the team to keep up (7 FT employees two months ago, 15 now). That said, no excuses. Just know that we're not happy to hear about experiences like yours, and are working hard to make it right.

Thanks,
Jason

(EDIT) Aaron and I just had a good phone call -- we're going to make things right.
tl;dr your system is more complicated than you realize, so scaling it will be more complicated than you think. Also, MongoDB's write lock is a pain in the ass.
"opening things up" is definitely going to help, and is a huge part of the philosophy of my nonprofit science research org (our first project will be taking an anticancer through preclinical). There are, however, a ton ton ton of biological issues that still are, open or not, difficult to surmount, sometimes not even having to do with the cancer itself (bioavailability, side effects, etc).
The narrator says that octopuses are colorblind and also says they use sight alone to camouflage based on their surroundings. How is one to reconcile these claims with the fact that the octopuses clearly take on the color of their surroundings when they camouflage?
Nineteen Year Old Finds A Way To Clean Up The World’s Ocean
With same tabs open for the same amount of time, Firefox uses significantly less. I hate to say this, but Safari beats Firefox, which makes it the most efficient browser on OS X.
> The goal of a conference is to advance the field. The goal of a party is to have fun. The goal of a conference is not advanced by organizing a party, nor is the goal of a party advanced by organizing a conference.

That is nothing more than your personal take on what a conference should be. The reality is that many conferences aren't like that. It is no skin off your back if other people have a different idea if what a conference should be, and implement their vision of a conference.

Nobody is saying you have to go enjoy a party-like conference, and all I am saying is that you in turn should not tell other people that they shouldn't.
That and the NSA chip, you'd be crazy to buy one.
You can make them properties on a global object, so that using an invalid event name is at least a runtime error (when you try to bind to an undefined event) rather than being mystified about why the event never triggers.
ooooh, is it time to play internet detective? 'cause reddit has such a stellar history guessing the real motives of people.

with the absence of any other information at all, this user must certainly be a shill. the logic checks out.
Absolutely, conferences would be great places to break the ice. But if you've ever been to a tech conf. you know that most of the people in the room are terrified of talking to others.

I was for a while and still am. Where I've been able to thrive is online where I can craft my message perfectly.

And after the first person said yes, I've realized how easy it is. It is a truly slippery slope.

The possibilities are definitely endless - and the industry is like no other :-)
This. 100%. Self-Discipline.

Making a game plan, Keeping a schedule, completing your projects.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering - For he is both the marble and sculptor. -Alexis Carrel
Pretty awesome! AI is pretty good.
I wouldn't classify this as "nuclear grade", not in the least. I've seen the gentleman in the cubicle next to mine use more sophisticated simulations than this to model whether there will be fresh coffee in the pot when he gets to work.

In fact, I was surprised at the simplicity of the technique they demonstrate. Logistic regression is a very powerful method, but it is generally chosen because it is simple to implement and both fast to train and reliable to train (there are no issues with whether or when it will converge).

Of course, as is almost always true of machine learning, knowing how the mechanism works is almost completely unhelpful to duplicate the results. Although this technique is does some pretty innovative things, it would be pretty trivial to achieve the same quality results if you didn't know their technique, but you did know what the feature set was (including any preprocessing and cleanup done on features). However, this system seems designed to give good enough results with extremely agressive performance SLAs, which I suspect is very nontrivial indeed.
It's not hard for me to imagine a person normally not interested in Reddit, but who feels very strongly about non-proprietary email systems.
I see the previous submission of the canonical URL,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349590

with many interesting comments, has already been forgotten.
Are you seriously saying it's okay because you got three whole hours of sleep?

5-6 sleep cycles is healthy. Three hours is like 2.
Russia's Cybercrime Market Reaches $1.9 Billion
More of a motor than a gear.
it's worth mentioning that just because a mutation is seen across cancers, it may not necessarily help us cure it. Like, for example, if the downstream effect is "increases mutation rate". That's kind of "well I can see how this causes cancer", but targetting it would be too late.
>You can't expect Facebook to allow products which deliberately violate their TOS to be hosted/promoted/advertised on Facebook.

I certainly can (and do) expect humanity and rational thought to take priority over cold application of The Rules Über Alles - and any instances of the latter deserve to be called out for the silliness that they are.

Further, it's not like Facebook didn't know about this until now. Social Fixer used to be called Better Facebook until Facebook tapped them on the shoulder and asked them to change the name last year.
That's what I was thinking too. The only thing is that this process is running on an AWS instance, so it would have to be on Dropbox's VPN or something to have any such access. Either serendipitously or intentionally, I hope these boxes don't have any connection to anything sensitive.
There's no such thing. Tequila is nasty poor man's liquor, only made palatable to yuppy palates by insisting you can only enjoy it by inbibing in a taste bud numbing cocktail of salt and lime juice before you drink it.

That said, I enjoy a good (=nasty) tequila every now and then. Just like I enjoy a good glass of paint thinner aka Moutai on occasion: give the ol' taste buds a little workout.
That's not $1.26, that's about $5. The actual postage to ship something that small would be $1-2, but they're charging $5, which means the shipping cost is really just a way to make the purchase price look smaller.
"Time Travel: A temporal challenge faster than light travel can solve!"

Sorry to be snarky but my point is that it may be plausible that really strong AI could solve the cancer problem but that it doesn't matter.

The point that both AI and cancer are much harder and much different problem than even the optimistic researchers in the fields imagine (why they're still optimistic).

Most of the time cancer cure articles are met here by someone who posts a link describing how two side of even a single tumor will often involve substantially different cells with substantially dynamics. And each of these dynamics is a real challenge to the human (and the challenge varies because each person physiology varies more than is common recognized[1]) . A strong enough AI could be sending drugs separately to each side of the tumor, yes. But the AI would have to figuring out the dynamics of those particular cells. And I mean those particular cells, not the other cells kind of like them in some laboratory (yes, the presenter deals with this issue but I claim it's harder, much harder than he claims).

Basically, there is no AI of sufficient quality to have the flexibility to figure out each person's cancer. There's nothing flexible enough in theory so there's nothing to apply. Modern AI can recognize a lot of patterns and can use fixed rules to solve problems but it's far from the human ability to put all these things together. And our human ability here is, itself, not up to the challenge. You can have a fifty experts treating a single person's cancer and the chance of success won't go that much, etc.

[1] See: http://www.anapsid.org/aboutmk/biochem.html etc
Statamic tries to blend the best of both worlds (client-friendly UI + no database): http://statamic.com/
Consider it done. :)
The guy keeps posting this, but it's a fake scam site with ads asking for bitcoins. Which, as he said, he is not taking donations: https://twitter.com/davehakkens/status/378204427363946497
Yup, a lot of folks at the office enjoy skimming hacker news, ars technica etc. The number of people capable of actually signing microcode even in a company of 100,000+ is pretty darn small though.

You'd actually be surprised about how much effort goes into hardening things against attacks like those these days (timing attacks, differential power analysis etc). There's a lot of interesting work around on the best ways of mitigating those risks.
"Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex."

Talking about sex or using crude sexual humor is NOT sexism. It may be inappropriate for a professional environment (especially if kids are around) but it is not sexism; there is no discrimination nor an intent to put someone else down.
Okay, but driverdan was saying "people can adapt to less sleep" not "I have adapted to less sleep." As if it's reasonable to expect that from people in general when, empirically, it's not.
"Sigil is a deterministic identicon generator originally created for Cupcake."

ok...

...click over to Cupcake to see what's up and can't figure out exactly what it is before the page break...where I find that:

"Cupcake is part of the growing Tent ecosystem."

ok...

"Tent is a protocol for real time communication and personal data storage. Tent is decentralized like email so you can communicate with users on every Tent host. There are no proprietary APIs or central authorities that can limit users' speech or apps' functionality."

now we're getting somewhere -- also, Cupcake appears to be $5/mo

for more info: https://tent.io/

Despite reading HN almost every day, it's still really hard to keep up with stuff.
Perl is definitely for free thinkers.
It is less efficient. But you are now obviously trolling, posing arguments that no rational person could possibly accept. "So, a few more keystrokes for each command, repeated for each such command. So what? Are you in a hurry to get somewhere? Do you want to live forever?"

I said no such thing. I said a keypress is more efficient than alternatives, and thus more efficient and faster.

Please reconsider who an external observer would mark as a troll in this conversation. But in fact, I don't think you're trolling, you just hate vim, and that's fine. And I like vim, and that doesn't make me a troll I hope.
A more interesting event will be when crewed spacecraft "pass" the Voyagers. Betting this won't happen is basically betting that humanity will destroy itself.
"Like who you work with: In life, and in business, surrounding yourself with people you enjoy makes difficult times easy."

A very underrated statement. This really matters. No matter what you do in life, it always comes down to the people you do it with. E.g. People don't leave a company, they leave their boss. People don't leave a marriage, they leave their spouse etc etc.
I'm from Germany, so I see what you mean -- in Europe, especially central and northern europe, there's hardly any need to share files physically. But alternatives are necessary in times like these, which is why I'm glad things like P2P-services exist.

I guess you could say I'm merely planning for the future. Not that I wish that I'd ever actually have to go about sharing data via physical mediums, but I wouldn't exactly bet on it.
The general public is footing the bill, there is nothing wrong with giving the general public some periodic status updates. This could really only get confusing if you read no further than the headlines.
Jameson, aka the whisk(e)y for people who don't like whisk(e)y.

It's smooth, soft and pleasant, nothing like the nasty, grating stuff they produce in Scotland. A favorite of mine, for sure.
"Person puts some characters in the query string, and the web application reads it. Nothing fancy." I just described SQL injection.
And as long as we're on the subject, these "sleeping" and "eating" things you keep doing aren't exactly driving shareholder value, either! Get back to work!
But those wrong things are somewhat diluted by the Coke, quite literally. Not worth wasting good whiskey on a Whiskey and Coke.
thanks for this. I didn't know about this... I'm looking for an "outside scientific advisor" to audit my anticancer compound research project. I think I'll be contacting these guys.
I saw a small clip of Steve Jobs talking about the same thing [1]. One of the advices that surprised me most the first time I've heard it.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI
Makes me wonder. Suppose someone holds some sort of gear-patent and it turns out the gear-structure is used by organisms that predate mankind (or are older than the patent at least)...would said patent become null and void due to "prior art" or is it sufficient that the manmade gear lives in another application domain?
The copy on Cupcake is intentionally vague. Most of the apps powered by Tent don't exist or haven't been released yet, but will start coming out soon. We've been working on a Dropbox-type app that's powered by Tent, for example.
Just because thousands of people would volunteer to go doesn't mean someone will pay for the trip.
e.g. Our arms are levers. Bacteria flagella are rotary bearings. Etc.
> Only one of the above claims can be true.

Really?

> Assertion: vim doesn't have modes.

No,it is not an assertion that vim doesn't have modes, it is an assertion that you don't have to change mode to do some things

>I feel like I'm discussing whether there was a literal garden of Eden with a religious True Believer. True Believers famously make claims they haven't bothered to compare to reality before speaking.

Guess who is this True Believer
Absolutely disagree. Startups are a pay-it-forward economy: people help you out with advice for free, but in turn you are expected to help others out for free.

Plus, teaching others is one of the best ways to learn things for yourself.
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Amazon is virtually never the best price on items <$5. They carry very, very few items in that price range outside their "addon" program (items that only ship with $25+ in other goods) -- what you linked is an ad for a product sold by another store.

eBay, Alibaba, or contacting the wholesale division of any of the stores you get searching "bulk flash drive" on Google would be a better idea. They start around $2.50/drive retail with your logo custom printed, so you can do much better wholesale.
I would be quite impressed if NSA had the ability to write microcode updates themselves. I'd imagine they are not exactly trivial and require intimate knowledge of the actual silicon.
A generic desktop CPU maps a fairly standard set of generic abstracted peripherals to it's address space, but if you're really focused on your specific embedded system needs (as Apple has plenty of capability to address), you could use that extra space to map specific system peripherals. More than 4G worth of space? I'm not sure. In general though, the 64bit address space would make for fewer constraints as you consider mapping in peripherals. Maybe you assign different sections of address space even if you manufacture a SoC with different mixes of those peripherals actually present on the die - but you won't have rearchitecting the chip as much when you go between mixes.

The other thought I have is you might want the option of pushing iPad memory out past 4G within the lifetime of the A7 (or soon after in a follow on A8 and Apple wants to spread the technical pain of the transition a bit).
It might not be a conscious decision for them. Their brain might automatically change their skin color to their surroundings, but that's a complete guess, I just can't imagine looking at something and "telling" my skin to change to that pattern and color.

This article suggests that octopuses see polarized light which might be one key to mimicking color. http://io9.com/5804055/squids-and-octopuses-imitate-color-de...
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I didn't read that as the extremists being anti-sexists. In some recent threads on these topics, I've seen some excellent reasoned thought from the anti-sexists and some extremely childish behaviour from people with the opposite opinions.

It could mean either, or both, with or without justification. So, no reason to get irate.
Conference attendees are still paying customers. Giving them what they want tends to result in repeat business.
It's pretty hard to develop an app that modifies the way a site is displayed to logged in users without being logged in to the site yourself...
This type of environment is not exclusive to banking. Both doctors (during internship and residency) and lawyers (during the first few years at big firms) go through similar experiences.
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Its one thing to spend 45 minutes on something, its another thing to use a blog hosted on an official company website to talk about it. Company blogs should be used for company business; personal blogs hosted on separate websites should be used for personal business.

Potential customers could be reading company blogs. I would be concerned if the CEO was spending time ruminating about startup philosophy on those blogs to potential customers.
And there is also this, where Dave says specifically that he is not taking donations: https://twitter.com/davehakkens/status/378204427363946497
No, it converts the proton concentration gradient into mechanical energy.

The ATP synthase also works that way. The ADP and Pi are mechanically squeezed against each other in order to create the covalent bound.

See the last two videos of [0] for the general process. The first three focus on details.

[0] http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/category/slideshows/atpmovies
This is something I've considered pushing for at my company. Any pitfalls you encountered? Did it reduce db size on disk as much as their marketing claims?
We hear similar stories from the field here at Cloudant. Distributed databases, scaling clusters -- that's hard stuff. Nice to see such a thoughtful post.
About to incorporate, my father wants in.
To begin, I'm about to incorporate my business. Shit hit the fan in a good way. <p>My father, who owns his own company is very supportive of my whole endeavor. His company pays me a salary because I'm actually a director, even though I do absolutely nothing. I've used that cash to support myself and further my business.<p>My dad is starting to express his belief that he's the one personally funding me, even though I'm using my legally-earned salary money.He says he can pull the switch whenever he wants and cut off my salary. (all praise his mighty patriarch)<p>2) I told him at one point last week I was about to make a call to get the incoporation going.I just needed to call my lawyer and say "go". At that moment, he told me that maybe he should be a director of my company because he foresees putting in money in the future that he could potentially reinvest if things work out.(Wait, what) I asked him if that's what directors are for and he pleaded ignorance. I went to my office later. He shows up out of nowhere and then tells me that since I own 13% of his company, and that he sees no reason why he shouldn't be able to benefit from my probable success. (Because hey, I ASKED HIM to make me a director of his company and to give me shares, right? No. Never asked for a cent or any position in his firm)<p>Anyway, so I look at him and say "well shit, so now it's about reciprocating your generosity"? . He stormed out and told me he didn't know how to deal with my idiocy.<p>Apparently, I offended him . He then comes back and says, "you know what?! You're right, you own 150% of your company. Enjoy".<p>I mean, don't I? <p><p>I just can't figure out why my dad, who has nothing to do with software and doesn't even fully grasp what I'm doing, wants to be a fucking director of my corporation.<p>Do I owe him something?