skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lowering the cost of basic biological research
There are also some pretty cool instructables for making your own lab equipment. I recently got to see the OpenFuge and its designer at the Maker Fair a couple of days ago. Hopefully this will lead to DIY bio research in peoples garages.
I've had an iPhone stolen in Dallas. I tried to show them iPhone "Find my phone" feature they would not send an officer to investigate claiming that the number was only accurate to 500ft.
BitTorrent Chat - Private instant messaging via secure, distributed technology
Self defense?
Bingo. Likely many more cities and counties will go bankrupt. Mid-level employees across the land have been promised a retirement payout the equivalent of $1M+. It would take $1M+ to buy the annuity that would cover their pension.
I wonder if there's a way to set up a "I'm dead" message that would post when you're dead. I dunno, maybe have an app check the SSN/NID status to be 100% sure, then post a prerecorded message...
A story from a friend:

His friend died and all of his accounts went silent along with some grieving notes.

Then, a few months later, the deceased's account was compromised by a spammer. Posts from a spammer posing as a dead friend is about the worst kind of spam I can imagine.
Its sad you didnt get the love on your submission; you changes are very neat and having word2vec inside gensim feels like a really awesome feature.
Probably an easier solution, but I edited globe.js in the JS Console to use one with the state borders[1] that I found found used on another globe

[1]: https://s3.amazonaws.com/SocialHarvest/world.jpg
Well said.

I've done the same with the Account Executives where I work. Some get it more than others, but most only get it part of the time. Still it's better than nothing.
It's not that your app doesn't have value. It's that the marginal value compared to a free app is small.
LED light quality and the consumer market (avoiding insider jargon)
Donate a bitcoin to the NSA? I want to be your friend.
It definitely blew my mind when I first read it, but I think its also gained a big cult following creating a lot of hype. I thought about it a lot for a few months after I read it, but I certainly haven't thought about it in over a year and it definitely hasn't shaped the way I think about things now (at least not that I'm aware of). If you haven't taken the math behind it, its awesome and you should definitely read the first 14 chapters if you're interested. But after that, its basically a bunch of Hofstatdler's musings on DNA and AI, a lot of which seems outdated and like a lot of speculation (the book was published ~25 years ago).

Then again, most books I've read I forget about much sooner than a few months. If you want a good read, go for it, but its not some holy grail that will change your life forever.
I'm using Evolution on imap now and it sucks. I'd been using mutt for many years and decided it was time to try a GUI client now that most emails are fairly graphical.

Evolution will routinely chew on my disk for over thirty seconds before starting up, for no clear reason. It pops up strange error messages about host resolution when I know the host is up just fine and quite reachable. It doesn't atomically handle email moves, so I've closed the client and later reopened it to find messages I've moved right back in their original places.
That may be the case.

My fear and suspicion however is that "Al Quaeda" has become a term that is applied whenever there are "people, who happen to be Muslim, who shoot at 'us'."

That may not seem like something that is worth worrying about, but I think it is. When we apply the term loosely like that we aren't just applying a term carelessly. When we do that, we are attributing all the past crimes that we associate with that name to the people that we are calling "Al Quaeda", whether they had any involvement in those past crimes or not. We are further creating a situation where "Al Quaeda" can appear from nothingness, with no connection to previous "Al Quaeda".

Hypothetical example of why I think this is dangerous: If we (for whatever reason) invade Malaysia, and Malaysian Muslims start shooting at us because we have invaded their country. The moment we apply the "Muslim who shoots at us? that is Al Quaeda" logic, those Malaysian Muslims then, in the eyes of the general public, inherit the crimes of Al Quaeda (say, 9/11). All of a sudden we aren't in Malaysia for "whatever reason", but because those darned Al Quaeda (you know, those "9/11 guys") are there, and they must pay for their crimes.
Agreed. To me it's either when you are at the minimum size of a numbering system with discreet quantum. Also yo ucan do a cross hair with the middle pixels empty so I guess that would be infinitely small, and a closed crosshair would be 1.

:)
I can imagine I would have said the same had I been doing "web development". The way some stuff works on one browser but doesn't on another drives me mad. It is as though web programming is not about logic, but about just knowing how to get stuff to work on the browsers.

I think the fact that we've all grown used to pretty UI and are design/experience conscious means there are more developers spending their energy in prettying up stuff, making it mobile friendly, etc. which not everyone enjoys - though looking at it after its done might still give some satisfaction.

On the other hand, I still enjoy writing scripts to help me with tasks, figuring out a nice algorithm to solve a problem, etc.

If you have a 60-40 mix of stuff you don't enjoy and stuff you enjoy, I think that is OK. If that 60 grows to 70/80, makes it really tough to stay motivated.
http://www.deadmansswitch.net/ is what I wrote years ago to do it. Make sure your messages don't scare people too much, in case you forget to check in/don't get the emails, though.
Just gave $200. Thank you for fighting man. I've fought the feds, I know it's tough.

Consider accepting bitcoins, if you don't already. (I didn't see a bitcoin address on the rally.org page).
Qwest CEO who resisted NSA spying is out of prison, "vindicated" by leaks
>"and hope I don't get black bagged to your fancy Cuban torture prisons if I ever cross into the USA."

Oh give me a break with the hyperbole. The NSA likely doesn't give a fuck about your activity of pissing and moaning on hacker news.
I think the article had a good hypothesis: the duality of gentrification (there is no way Oakland can't gentrify given the price of living in the City) and that the other half of people in Oakland were hit unreasonably hard by the recession. A little microcosm of growing economic inequality.
> "I don't see how you've proven the illegitimacy of my analogy."

Simply put: there are established and agreed upon ways of determining whether somebody is a member of North Dakota; it isn't an association that can be created retroactively or without proof.

Furthermore, I can claim that I am North Dakotan, but I simply am not. I can claim it as much as I want, but it doesn't make it true. With Anonymous or Al Qaeda? Claiming membership seems to be all that is required.
Oh I didn't mean to come across as so negative. I just meant, if you're going to switch jobs every few years, you shouldn't expect the benefits of loyalty like getting more vacation time or vesting your matching 401(k) contributions etc. Or maybe even getting good training, if the company has so little incentive to invest in you.
Google itself doesn't scare me; it is really just team vs. team. I think we've got the best product and engineering expertise for this market. Clearly I'm biased :) so I'd encourage anyone to try Tumult Hype and let us know your thoughts (we've got a fully functional 14-day trial on the site).

While Google hasn't announced pricing, it is probably safe to say it is going to be free. This is a business for us, so we charge $29.99. I don't like competing against free, but that just means we'll be continually pushed to provide that much more value!
Great visualization, but it really needs labels or some other means of figuring out what city the columns are referring to.

What is the third large spike on the East Coast? I assume the two more Northern spikes are Boston and New York.
Sometimes the prisoner's dilemma can come to a happy conclusion by making it not the prisoner's dilemma---e.g. constraining the other's choices. http://cheaptalk.org/2012/04/20/consider-the-equilibrium-17/
Not directly related, but the author mentioned Winston, which made me think: who are these people using Node.js that don't need log rotation? Winston doesn't have built-in support. The only logging library I've found that supports this without extra effort is log4node.[1]

[1] https://github.com/bpaquet/log4node
Can entrepreneurship be taught?
I'm just saying that big companies can't count on their benefits to be tempting the way they used to. Stability counts for a lot! If they're perceived as less stable, a big part of their bargaining position is compromised.
Your comments all assume the companies involved in this relationship are all rational and good actors, and illustrate the double-standard companies have. They expect complete loyalty and "reliability" (your definition), but don't offer employment contracts to reflect this; in fact it's almost universal that employment "contracts" have an "at-will" clause. To me, that is a statement by the employer that they aren't interested in a long term relationship, and I shouldn't expect one.

Not to mention that in companies of any size, the reality is that "the company" is actually a lot of smaller companies run by a middle-manager who himself has his own (frequently corporate-political) motives for doing things, and is fickle.

To act rationally on that premise isn't unreliable; it's self-preservation.
Union Pacific Railroad Turned To The Industrial Internet To Stay On Track
Yup - I read the post and immediately thought of Dan. Free kills everything.

One "solution" is to write great apps that no one else can make, like Amazing Slow Downer, and charge a premium price ($15). But not every app is that "significant," so we end up with twenty guitar tuner apps, or Tabata apps, or whatever.
I've mothballed my blog
I submitted this earlier when it was in the WSJ and not the WaPo - http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/09/27/nacchio-its-life-on-mars... - but this link adds more about the "vindication" et cetera.

"Mr. Nacchio said he still believes his insider trading prosecution was government retaliation for rebuffing requests in 2001 from the NSA to access his customers’ phone records. But some of the evidence he said he wanted to use was deemed classified and barred from being introduced.

An NSA spokeswoman declined to comment."
I've been waiting for something like this-- with the right implementation it could be a huge success-- but there's lots of room to get it not-quite-right.
There is a subfield of HCI entirely dedicated to thinking about the problem of death in the 21st century.

Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatosensitivity

The seminal paper: http://www.chi2009.org/altchisystem/submissions/submission_m...
While I loved the first few chapters of the book, and they were mind-opening, I found the explanation of the proof unsatisfactory. As I recall, it was mentioned in the preface that the book will give a complete outline of the actual proof. I did not find this to be the case, the outline seemed to jump quite a bit from one thought to another leaving me with more questions about the proofs than answers. I still do not understand the proofs (though I now nearly understand an analogous result in computer science via Jeff Ulmann's book).
> Oakland needs help, robbery and crime in general isn't going to drop until someone starts to care.

This.

Why have moderators changed the headline?

Oakland is #1 for robberies in the country. People need to know this. To accept it for what it is.

Sweeping the discussion away with a politically correct headline is part of the problem.
It's possible that laws have to be passed to prohibit it, in which case ex-post facto prevents the current and past practices to be prosecuted.
I'm in total agreement. I find programming just so fascinating and beautiful in a way that's like nothing I've ever seen or imagined. I find everything so sublime, and I'd still say that at 2am at the end of an 8 hour solid programming session.

I'm much newer to this (one year and still studying) but I really hope I can feel this way for the rest of my life.
Why shouldn't they be? They had a hard time finding a job in the first place, and read nothing but stories of how companies are laying people off, starting at the bottom.

I'm on the border of GenX and Millennial (depending on where you look), and I would definitely say I feel no corporate loyalty. I worked for a large Fortune 50 retailer during the era of their first layoff, and I felt the blade whiz by me, knowing full well I could easily have been let go. Likewise, being a tech worker, I was in a cost-center and not a income earning group, meaning I was always subject to cost cutting and belt tightening. I felt like a number (even my network logon was a random string and not my name - admittedly for security, I get that), and why would a number feel loyalty to a megacorp?
The Link between Clojure-in-Clojure and Typed Clojure
A couple Swedish online computer retailers now have storefronts in the countries largest cities where you can opt to pick up your orders to avoid paying the shipping fee (the storefronts have nothing to browse, just a window to pick up/pay for orders), and they do this with the most common stock.
Only a year, are we sure about that?
Too much police "enforcement", you mean: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/investigation-reveals-east-bay...
I have a friend who died a year ago and I still keep her in my Gchat. I don't want to remove her.
The implication that this was Democrat led or is a remotely partisan issue is highly amusing.

It's like my cousin who I debated wiretapping with 10 years ago. Now he's an enraged as I am and pointing it at Obama and all I can do is laugh at his short sighted anger.
Is there anything more to the site than a sign-up form? :(
Take a Motrin PM right before going to bed, once a week, this will give you a good night of sleep without any side effect.
You can buy them at your local Walgreens/CVS.

This is a temporary fix. The long term fix would be a drastic change in lifetime. Maybe living in Paris, working 32 hours a week, 2 hour lunch break might set you on the path to recovery.

Cheers!
At it's core, what is programming? It's the skill of being able to leverage turing machines, symbol manipulators, to an end.

In a world being eaten by software, in a world where information is on its way to becoming the most atomic unit of value, it's hard to imagine a more profound and useful skill.
https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/security-patrol-for-lowe...
All I saw was a bunch of arrows that made no sense. If you're going to put big attractive attention grabbing images in your article they should probably explain the point 'cause they're pulling all my attention from the text and making me spend bring capitol on deciphering them instead of just reading.
How DCTech Is Bringing Democracy Back To Politics
It would be nice if there were an easy way to hit the population center instead of geographic center of a nation in webgl-globe, at least. That big spike in the middle of Siberia puzzled me at first.
Text to speech on Chrome
That's one tiny company that no longer exists, and another that doesn't do information security.
I agree. Now change the tile of this article to, "A distant friend died two years ago and I didn't know about it." And no one clicks.
Treating Millennials with respect and professional kindness will endear them to stay by your side and be less likely to jump ship at the drop of a dime.

How is this specific to any generation? Is the implication that there is a case where it is okay not to treat people with professional kindness and respect? I don't know who coined the phrase "people quit managers, not companies" but it has been around for quite some time.
I wonder what would occur if EU privacy laws were weakened so that no violation would occur.
Samsung's ChatON app hits 100 million users
Up until now, how has the typical animations you see on landing pages been achieved? Is it all manual animation via code?
I have not scientific, references, ... but I think if 10% of the money/effort that has gone into the drug war went into robberies it would be stamped out.

It cant be hard to find a cell phone, it has a connected GPS, mike, and camera.
I'm afraid your cynicism is at least partially misplaced. Apple has now made it so that iPhones can do exactly what you say. If it's protected with a passcode already, you can't wipe the device. If it's not, you can remotely lock it until and unless you recover it. See: http://www.apple.com/icloud/find-my-iphone.html
Play Framework: Democratizing Functional Programming for modern Web Programmers
How does the proper defense scenario play out with a gun?
Someone pulls a gun on you to rob you, and you then pull yours out without getting shot? Once you do pull out your gun, do you shoot the robber(s)? I find it hard to imagine any of this working out very well.

Or is the possibility that you may be armed supposed to act as a deterrent?
Just what I need, for my phone to be dead at the end of the night and not only can't I call a friend to get a ride home, can't unlock my apartment, and now I can't unlock my bike either.
Washington, DC
It's probably not that earth-shattering if you already have an appreciation for the beauty of mathematical patterns and thought, but if you're a 19 year old college kid like I was who thought he hated math, it will definitely cause you to rethink your position.

Keith Devlin's popular mathematics works also have much the same appeal.
We have been working on this for about a year.

Basically, the biggest technical and design challenge was the battery life.

We wanted to make the lock in a way that the user does not have to charge the lock/battery nor has to worry about replacing the battery at least for a couple of years.

To accomplish that, we had to look across all of the components that consume power. On the radio side, bluetooth LE solved that problem for us. Since we are sending data in bursts and the amount of data transferred is so little, the radio power consumption is almost negligible. We also use an ultra low power micro-controller with intelligent power management to low power consumption when the lock is not in use. The biggest power sucker was the mechanical actuation system. So that became more of a mechanical design and engineering problem. Using a solenoid was our of equation. There are extremely inefficient. We design the lock so that the actuator movement is minimal and is driven by a very low power motor. However there was one last issue. Most of the off-the-shelf batteries leak energy and deplete even if you are not using them after a 1-2 years. We are now using an advance lithium battery technology that has a very high energy density as well as very low leakage rate (This technology is commonly used to power sensors in remote sensing and telemetry application)

Eventually when the battery level drops low after a few years, you can notification on your phone and you can then replace the battery.
I have a friend that died 11 years ago and still have him in my address book and have a birthday reminder for him too.
Following Tesla, Nissan announces 'No charge to charge' for LEAF EVs
> I'm not going to turn to robbery if I lose my job.

Of course not, neither am I. Of course, I'm a white-collar professional, in an in-demand industry, with savings, and consequently, even if I had to really scale down my career level to make ends meet, I could definitely find a job.

On the flip side, if I was largely unemployable aside from menial jobs with long hours, low pay, and lousy job security, and then I lost my job, I'd have a lot fewer options. I would seriously consider doing robberies where I can make more money with less effort, assuming that the risk was fairly low.

Why is it so crazy to think that some people who steal would do something else if they were given the opportunity for real advancement?
I also used the same data in a 3D visualization with the Oculus Rift. You can check out a demo here: http://youtu.be/dgMOdzfoPgs?t=31s
I wonder if sleeping in a comfortable chair (recliner-like, or just large and soft), or a couch with high and comfortable arms to put your head on, would be less likely to trigger the pains and anxiety. Maybe being horizontal has come to be associated with your pains (mental). Or maybe being horizontal changes blood flow or breathing (physical). Worth trying anyway.

I used to use melatonin, worked pretty well. That was for shift work and daytime sleeping.
Clearly illustrated by his post.
A new version of the Google Analytics App for Android
Highly tone-deaf. Why don't they just learn Rails, right? Growth-hacking knows no race nor economic strata!
One factor is that the advent of the 401k in the US broke the contract a while ago. Retirement isn't bound to any one company anymore. This is the first generation to enter the workforce with bosses that never experienced what its like to have a pension. All of their seniors are free agents too, and this does have effects. Loyalty to the worthy manager, yes, but definitely not to the company as some sort of a long-term benefactor.
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>I'm not going to turn to robbery if I lose my job.

I honestly don't buy this, but even if you would personally starve to death rather than steal to obtain food, the vast majority of people would not. Crime rates increase as legitimate ways to make money dry up; the statistical trend is real and the implications for human nature cannot be ignored. Wishful thinking about human nature and just teaching people not to be bad will get you nowhere.

It is a politicians job to see things at an aggregate level and address public health issues at that level. Discussing the lack of jobs and legitimate avenues for making money is exactly the appropriate response that a politician should have. If people need a moral kick-in-the-pants, perhaps their pastor should provide it.
the first two links on that help center page result in 404s: "In Quick mode, you ..." (https://support.google.com/webdesigner/topic/3227054) and "... animation, Advanced mode lets ..." (https://support.google.com/webdesigner/topic/3228643)
Not necessarily, they could string Keith Alexander up for repeatedly lying to Congress, if they wanted.
Optimizing for hinting has been rendered pointless by the fact that people zoom around on mobile devices.

You can no longer expect bitmap pixels to map to device pixels in any reasonable way. (Heck, just turn your desktop browser zoom to 90% or 110%.)

There was a time for hinting, but it's long gone.
hah - yes. shouldn't comment mid pull request
What's the advantage over a traditional lock?
And before Facebook, people's reach to many of their friends was exchanging a postcard once a year.
Safari could not get internet
To reset the device or turn of Find My iPhone, you now need to enter your Apple ID password.

You've always been able to remotely disable.
I haven't been able to find a link to download the source code, and the web page doesn't mention the license anywhere. I think you may have misinterpreted "free software". In any case, thank you for trying to help.
I live in Berkeley. My girlfriend and I were robbed in Oakland at gunpoint in June. We reported everything to the OPD. My iPad was sending out information about its location for weeks. I forwarded that information to the OPD. The detective assigned to my case never called me back. We don't go to Oakland anymore unless it's passing through via BART, nice restaurants and other culture be damned. The amount of enjoyment I get from seeing your cool new funky band and trying your cool new food is dwarfed by the amount of shit feelings I get when dealing with having guns pointed at me and an unresponsive police department.