skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do top links get up-voted in the first place if not on the "new" page? So isn't the question "Who reads the 'new' page?" more relevant? (Whouldn't "Who" also refers to those who up-vote the posts that make it to the top of the list?)
oh yeah that too. +1 That name is ... ugh lol
Why exactly?

Did you watch Gattaca and think to yourself:
"That is the type of world I want to live in!"

It just seems like there is some small chance that sequencing everyone will make the world better, and a much larger chance that it will make it worse.

Do you believe that your data is secure with them?
Physicist: There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster
I tried a lot of different readers prior to and after the reader shutdown, and Bazqux was the only one I found I could live with.

Very fast, has search, is consistently up, keeps the familiar UI and has no problem with my 1,000 item/day habit.

Worth the small expense.
Yes, mostly.
For those who periodically ask why a start-up needs someone with HR skills, here's a good example. While the HR person may not be needed, the HR person can handle things like release forms, exit interviews, care and feeding of the remaining employees, etc. -- the first 2 may not be required, but "care and feeding" certainly is.

Some CEOs can handle this, but most probably can't, due to time or temperament. Some companies may not need this, but most probably do. . .at least to help with the initial shock and/or readjustment(s).
Seems to be down at the time of my comment. Hope it comes back up.
[Other] feedlier (http://www.feedlier.com) A simple & clean way to aggregate feeds. It's a side project, so I'd appreciate any feedback on the site as well!
I read "new" once in a while, and more than often find more interesting posts than ones on the main page.
Mostly posted to highlight the response of the Ruby facebook admin. Who, while in a position of completely unofficial power, is still de facto representing part of the Ruby community on the internet and whose comments are, quite frankly, part of the problem of misogyny in tech.
> No, that's not what I said. I said people pay the Red Cross to do what it does: but the amount paid in must be at least as large as the amount spent by the Red Cross or they won't be able to continue doing what they're doing.

that's still not profit. That's breaking even.

> Was the local fire department a for-profit corporation?

A for-profit corporation. a privatised fire service. Because socialism is evil, supposedly, in this rural town, paying the fire fee is a voluntary choice, not an involuntary tax, and thus the fire service made sure nobody was going to die and then stood by and watched the house burn down. Because the family had opted not to pay the monthly subscription fee.

> So you missed the part where I explicitly said that people pay the Red Cross to help other people.

when what you wrote is right there and you haven't even bothered to edit it to fit this lie, saying something like this is a bit on the absurd side.

I'll put what you actually wrote, here again, for your own benefit.

> In a sane world the Red Cross would be a normal corporation that was selling the service of helping people.

and so

> You know that it is very dishonest to put words in other people's mouths and accuse them of taking positions they have not taken, sir.

It's dishonest to switch your positions at your convenience and make an accusation like that. It's stupid to do this when there's a visible record of you having done so.

OF COURSE you can say explicitly that you've changed your position, and that you've realised you were mistake in your view of the word "profit"
but somehow I don't think this is going to happen.
I think the Digg Reader is really quite nice. Was very snappy when I was trying it out and the UI is good. I like the ability to mix in popular stories without it taking over my own subscriptions. If I hadn't written my own already (Stringer) then I would be using Digg.
is it open source? what did you use to build it?
I wouldn't hold your breath... that beta ran a few samples in (I think) 2011-2012, but I haven't heard of anyone getting an exome processed after the initial batch. You're probably better off sending a sample to one of the commercial sequencing companies.

I'm sure someone on here has more info about it than I do though...
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That's the limitation that's relevant to the name "non-profits"; there are several classes of tax-exempt non-profits, and that's the shared feature that makes them "non-profits" -- not that they don't have excess revenue over current expenses, but that they don't return profits to shareholders.

But all of those different categories of tax-exempt entities have restrictions on the activities they can engage in and still retain their status, correct? So the limitation on activities is a relevant limitation for this discussion.

All of it is put aside for future use.

Doesn't that seem inefficient? Surely there are more profitable ways of using at least some of that excess than just putting it aside for a rainy day.

Nothing stops you from forming a regular corporation and trying to do better than the Red Cross at what the Red Cross is intended to do. I suspect you'll find that the "burden" that you are talking about is far less than the benefit you would get from 501(c)(3) status. If that wasn't the case, no one would be starting 501(c)(3)'s.

Of course; that's obvious. If we as a society choose to play favorites, obviously that skews the playing field. But skewing the playing field doesn't make the existing Red Cross more efficient; it just transfers the tax burden to the hypothetical corporate competitor. That's not an argument for making the Red Cross a nonprofit: it's an argument for doing away with the skewed playing field.

In other words, the relevant comparison is not between the existing Red Cross and a hypothetical corporate competitor in today's world; it's between the existing Red Cross and a hypothetical corporate competitor in a sane world where society does not play favorites by giving special benefits to certain types of activities. In that world, a corporate Red Cross that didn't have to restrict its activities to meet some arbitrary social requirement might do better at helping people than the existing Red Cross does.
> I suppose that the code "f", invokes f with no arguments rather than returns the method with name f also complicates things

Why should it? "a.f(b, c, d)" is just "(apply #'f a b c d)". "a.f" is just (apply #'f a). "f" is just (apply #'f).

This assumes that you know the type of f, of course (f could be a string, which should't be applied). But that's not really much of an issue - you just do something like

(define (naive-evaluate f)
(if (applyable-p f)
(apply #'f)
f))

where "applyable-p" checks if "f" is a lambda term that has any free (unbound) variables.

This isn't the most efficient underlying implementation, but you get the idea. From the perspective of the lambda calculus, OO is dead simple.

On a side, note, writing this example out reminded me of how much I really miss writing Lisp every day..... :'(
Foul language!???!? SOMEONE WRITE A BLOG POST TO PROTECT THE HELPLESS WOMEN!
NetNewsWire just came back to life with a beta release of version 4:
http://netnewswireapp.com/

I just started using it, but so far it's been a really wonderful switch.
Huh, all ios so far. Maybe me and my coauthors should start and Android developer blog.
I'm actually surprised with the lack of non-webapp RSS feed usage. RSS has been around for such a long time and people moved on from desktop applications to webapps?

Personally, I use Thunderbird and newsbeuter since I've used them for such a long time and old habits die hard. When Google Reader was relatively new, I tried switching, but it never stuck.
This is very interesting... how is GWAS or exome sequencing broken?

Wikipedia says about exome sequencing that's a "cheaper but still effective alternative to whole genome sequencing."

I have some basic knowledge of biology, but I'm don't know anything about sequencing... do you have some details?
Yeah totally agree. Can also lead to very unreadable sass files to if your not very careful. Whilst teaching new devs where I work we ask them not to use @extend until we suggest it one a few reviews have been done.
My brother is a CHP officer and they have the same type of arrangement. They get paid out vacation, sick leave, etc if they don't use it. But then they end up getting double-paid. You get paid because you worked and then you get paid again because you didn't take vacation. if they USE the vacation, then they only get paid once (no work pay + vacation pay).

There should be a vacation cap. Once you hit the cap, you can't accrue any more. The cap should be 2 years worth of vacation. You should never get paid out vacation. It's a benefit, not an entitlement.
True, but the specific analogy basically means that you wait until it all burns down at least.
I'm guessing the NSA intercepts all unencrypted SMTP traffic and uses the From: and To: addresses to build up your 'address book'.

So here is what you do:

1. Set up two servers in two separate countries which you think the NSA will be intercepting traffic between.

2. Send random emails From: your@email.address and To: random@email.addresses between the servers - the receiving servers should not relay the messages, just drop the mail on the floor.

This should fill the NSA's 'address book' of your contacts with noise. They will have the valid data, but they will also have a bunch of garbage.

Just make sure you don't send fake email between yourself and any known terrorists, communists or people who dress funny as the NSA may start paying more attention to you.

I'm sure others can think of other interesting variations on the theme.
The Burden Of Realism In 'Grand Theft Auto 5'
Hoe is a gardening implement. Like rake.
Get a used (prev. gen) MacBook Air off of Craigslist.
I run a very non-busy website on my home server. Its got ads so I guess its a business. Seems petty to ban such things. (Not on Google Fiber)
Omnom, which has the advantage of being able to read any kind of online content, not just RSS/Atom (it can read from APIs, scrape sites, etc). It's extensible and configured in Ruby:
https://github.com/tombenner/omnom
That's pretty funny from the admin guy. He describes the person who posted the piece as "politically correct thought police", and then right afterwards threatens to ban them if they post anything else "like this", i.e., anything whose politics he disagrees with.
Ask HN: Advice on applying for jobs in the UK
Short backstory:
I am in US, trying to get to the UK.

I would like to get a working visa but need a job first (catch 22). I am a developer but don't feel like I have anything 'special' to offer.
I am not confident (even submitting this scares me a little) but I am capable.

When I see the jobs that I would apply for (there are many) I just don't know how I am supposed to approach them.

Has anybody emigrated?

Is it worthwhile applying to all the job ads?

How do you bring up the part about needing a visa?

Is there a specific set of companies that are more open to this?

If none of the above what should I bury myself with learning to become desirable?

Depending on the details I could answer them here but otherwise my email is in my profile for those who would like to reach out.

Thanks in advance.
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Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz gives a basic explainer on the most important things to know when integrating video into your SEO.
>>the new discoveries of gold were usually marginal vs the actual worldwide gold reserves

I think 17th century Portugal and others would have something to say about how "stable" commodity monetary systems are over long periods of time.
Histogram so far:

http://quickhist.onloop.net/AOL%20reader=4,Blogtrottr=1,Bras...
It has a bit of preachiness that makes me suspicious how accurate it is. I wonder what less appealing regrets she filtered out. Also, it's on the same site that says "Many of these mantras still exist, but it is very difficult to find those who can chant them accurately. This is actually a safety measure because if the wish-fulfilling mantras were easily chanted, there would no doubt be many people who would misuse them.".
Bug report (can't find a bug tracker anywhere): The "Notes" panel can't be moved with click and drag.

Chrome 30.0.1599.66 on 64bit (Arch) Linux.
Wow, what an idiotic response by the FB group admin at the end of the post.
Wasn't something like this the premise for a character in Stargate Universe? The math wizz kid gets recruited because he solves a puzzle in a game they thought was impossible.
I agree with everything that you said however consider the possibility of every residential building being bought out and replaced with a server farm along the locations where googfib is first being laid out. I think we can understand why google doesn't really want that right now?
Useful tool to test your domain:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html

Not all things are there, but fairly useful to test that from user point of view.
use goread.io

Code is on https://github.com/mjibson/goread

Looks just like the old google reader and works really well! ;)

Hope it works well for you!
Agree with the Android UI. After working with it a few times, I find it quite intuitive.
600GB is a pretty good number, but I'm amused by that example. "It's almost enough to leave a single TV tuned to a standard-definition channel and do nothing else."
I hate to even interview people that stayed in one job too long. They tend to be weak candidates.
This is really neat. If you make it open source and add some customization options it will be great.
gReader with Feedly as a backend. Android app, good offline support, everything I liked about Google Reader.
Where I come from, the word "hoe" is a verb, meaning, "to paddle," as in a canoe.
I haven't had a chance to put it up on GitHub, but this is an excellent idea. There are so many sub modules that can be contributed by users - like Google calendar, Gmail unread emails, and Facebook notifications. I've been working on this for a few months as a hobby project, and haven't had time to do all of them.

SublimeDash is currently using JavaScript, jQuery, and PHP to access the weather, stocks, and news API.
Given that the US seems to be preparing for war against China, these comments are unsurprising.

http://yalejournal.org/2013/06/12/who-authorized-preparation...
Algentis companies are our favorite kind of client. We'll save you $2,000 / year per employee if you switch from Algentis (you won't have to pay any more algentis fees) and you don't have to change your existing health insurance (ie everything about you current plans, pricing, insurance cards, etc stays exactly the same). Best of all, it will only take you 60 secs to switch. We just need your policy numbers for your insurance, and then we'll set up payroll for you outside of Algentis -- usually through ZenPayroll, but can do it with whoever you'd like.
There's a big difference between "foul language" and that which is offensive, inconsiderate, exclusionary, and generally sexist, having the result of making women feel unsafe/unwelcome in this space.

Check your privilege, dude.
Of all of the unconstitutional things Obama has been alleged of doing, blatantly disregarding the Constitution's allocation of the power of the purse to the House and unilaterally raising the debt ceiling to placate the "international financial community" would undoubtedly be the most egregious. It would effectively be a coup d'état and the right's hand-waving about Obama being a dictator will have become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
So you don't think there's any merit to the argument that women might not want to work with a piece of software called rape-me?
Obviously this piece focuses on what we should do politically, which is necessary and important, but in the meantime, we can also try to do things that technologically "restrain" them.

Getting everyone to use gpg probably seems impossible. But if we're talking about getting the reforms listed in the article through both houses and the executive (or at least the courts), getting everyone to use gpg doesn't seem so bad.
even your comment was more revealing than the article itself.
Wherever food seemed to be, I imagine.

Google "wolf run hours per day". Where do they run?
I think that the depth of the hypothetical that tdees postulates has eluded you...

it would not be Obama who has a Constitutional/Legal crisis...

it would be the United States.

It would be, quite literally, US Law mandating the violation of ...

US Law.
Yes. Filter gem names to block terrible, woman-hating names like retarded, therapist, hoe, and sex. A rake is an immoral pleasure seeker[1], better get rid of that one too! That will fix your community's problems, Ruby, because that's totally what the problem is! You nailed it!

Or rather than a bunch of dudes blogging about how to fix the problem, we listen to the women for once and not treat them like a tiny snowflake, ready to melt if they read the word fuck. Christ almighty. Nothing perpetuates this sort of shit more than male voices of authority saying "women can't handle a gem named 'bj'! We're assholes if we let it stand!"

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5H5r4_CoJo

Edit: Good, this pile of shit got flagged off HN.
GWAS is... well, GWAS is just a technique to find statistical correlations between genotypes and phenotypes. It's a very limited (powerful in one way, but limited in many others) way to approach the problem of "to what extent do mutations in DNA cause phenotype changes". It requires fairly large sample sizes to do reliably for diseases which don't have a really strong (mendelian or otherwise) signal, it's fairly poor at working with pairs or larger # of interactions between genes, can't do much with genes and the environment, and is a really simiplified model of how organismal biology works, anyway.

there are a few issues with exome:
1) exome prep is a big issue in itself
2) exome leaves out large regions which are likely to be important in understanding many aspects of human biology

At this point, I'm speculating:

even whole genome sequence at relatively high coverage per individual * large # of individuals is likely to not explain all the aspects of organismal biology. There appears to be a fair amount of state that is transferred from a parent cell to a child cell during mitosis that is not expressed in our current DNA assemblies. The whole chromosomes themselves are complex, enormous structures that undergo massive rearrangements during the various phases of the cell cycle... yet are still capable of maintaining tons of epigenetic state. Very little or none of this is really being analyzed in a systematic or rigorous way, which is frustrating to see because, as somebody with a training in human molecular biology, all of this has been KNOWN FOR DECADES! I mean seriously, Chapter One of Molecular Cell Biology, please!
It's not clear that sexual or vulgar language (not sexist, generally, just sexual) is really the most important thing at stake for women in the profession. Probably they're more concerned with sub/unconscious bias, impostor syndrome, or, you know, actual outright abuse. Just a guess.
A bit pedantic, but I'd like to defend endurance running - comparing 2 mile runs to really pushing yourself with HIIT is unfair. At 5mph (a slow pace) that's only 24 minutes, which is usually not enough time to even experience a runner's high and about when you get settled into a rhythm as a distance runner.

If you only have 30 minutes you're indisputably better off sprinting.
I used to build mixed-income housing (one third subsidizes public housing units, one third 80% of area median and one third market rate) for a private partnership to redevelop Chicago's public housing. I can tell you this...fail. Does not compute. Does not work, socially or financially. The best thing to do is to give mayors the ability to buget city planners
Instead of "funny" you could also say "hypocritical"
We are the 'X' of 'Y'
The 3D printed hand that could change the world
Gov’t moves to keep NSA surveillance lawsuit away from Supreme Court
... and it's not even on github anymore. https://github.com/CMSgov
From the Facebook post:

"However, I really don't appreciate the co-opting of male spaces (i.e. software engineering) in to some politically correct thought police "safe space"."

I'm amazed that someone would say this.

I don't know about you guys, but I don't want software engineering to be a "male space." I didn't start programming because I wanted to spend the rest of my life being surrounded by mostly dudes.

This just really struck me because a lot of people say things like "I don't think software engineering is hostile to women." This guy, on the other hand, says "software engineering is unfriendly to women and I like it that way."
[other] Rolled my own with a friend at readuction.com

We wanted to filter out the noise from our feeds, so this reader gives you only a selection of your news.
I am lost. So upstream costs more than downstream?
Its academic papers and discussion from the maintainer like this that makes open source so great.
This is the dumbest article I've seen on HN in quite some time.
I think this article radically blurs the line between personal and professional space. Is the entire gem repository a professional space or a personal space? To my mind it's a bit of both. If you believe that self-expression is allowed in software development then I see no reason to constrict the entire space of gem names to those allowed in the author's conception of the professional realm. That's just silly.

To further extrapolate from the a small sample of the gem names to an overall problem in the software community is again a problem. I don't think gem names are the reason women are uncomfortable in tech - I don't even necessarily believe that sexism is an endemic problem. I do believe there's a gender bias in technology - the numbers are undeniable. However, I still don't necessarily buy that this is due to sexism. There are plenty of other potential reasons there are fewer women in tech than just sexism - social conditioning, selection bias, people in tech are perceived/portrayed as socially awkward, etc.
Most NIMBYs don't want to see more development. Not to put words in potatolicious' mouth (err, keyboard), but I think we both want to see more affordable housing (and therefore more density) in Seattle's core.
With your scale, I want to answer "Yes, sometimes" ... somewhere between most of the time and rarely.

If you had ranges of percentage as vote options I'd vote for the range that includes 50% of the time.
To be fair, rape-me is over the top. Sex being bad though? Do women hate sex? When did sex become misogyny?
:(
Never, ever give more than 2 (or 3 weeks if you're like senior staff) weeks notice. It's not your obligation to make sure the company is run well. You should also look out for yourself because no company will ever look out for you despite what you tell yourself. This is a shitty article.
Yup my bad, I just multiplied 316,856,000 by 0.0001 without dividing by 100.
I have three 25" monitors for web development, and every inch of each is used up by my work. I could probably fill another three with just a single site's development windows, instead of tab switching.
What Crisscross is trying to say is...

Even if you buy assets from a government in turmoil...

what is the likelihood that any new government emerging from that turmoil will allow you to keep the assets you purchased?

Historically... the odds have not been favorable to investors.