skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights
You see how easy it is to make fun of Americans? :-)

It is like Putin deciding to give Snowden asylum. Free poke at the gorilla, look he can't reach over here and hit back.

Of course a more open dialog is good, but nobody, especially the Russians or Chinese actually want a world government. That would take all the fun out of being a dictator.
> Calling the emergency when I come out of a piss-filled elevator to a body convulsing on the floor on the platform is not an emergency?

Yes, it is, and good for you for doing something. Minus the piss-filled elevator part, which is an irrelevant detail.

> And when I am attempting to bring small children through a public service elevator where there is real risk of infectious disease?

No, it isn't. The difference between these two was pointed out to you elsewhere, and now you're just being obtuse. Take the stairs. They're good for you. There are foldable strollers. I have a toddler and we love the stairs. He makes a game out of them.

I feel like I'm teaching second grade here, but an emergent situation is when someone is in immediate danger. Someone having a seizure is in danger. You using an elevator with contaminants in it is not an emergent situation. You probably need some education about when it's appropriate to call 911, as well.

> You're deluded.

Sigh.
Not yet, since i am planning to rewrite it from scratch. My first (current) implementation taught my how to use backbone.js, bootstrap, coffeescript and node-webkit to crank out a crossplatform desktop application.

Now that i learned how that stuff works under the hood (my main reason to roll my own client), i am planning to build everything in a sane manner an then release it.
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No, the proof is the lack of trust of all world in the Wall street greedy and unstopable bankers.. and the mess they do in good economies all over the world(not only domestic) because they dont know when to stop.

If US want to keep them its a choice they make, the problem its that other countries cant do nothing about that, even if this stupid behaviour is affecting everybody else and burning down the middle class all over the world
Looks good, I’ve added it to the list of options for the poll.
Doesn't work on HTC One running Android 4.2.2
> I am enraged that I have to pay for such a horrible rider experience, that I have to subject my small children to the horrific conditions of the BART elevators, their filthy cloth seats and their terrible customer service.

You don't have to. You choose to. Assuming this enrages you, you should probably stop doing it. There are other transportation options in the Bay Area besides BART, including busses (many of which can transport bikes), rental vehicles (including ad hoc rentals like ZipCar), and owning your own vehicle.
Were you aware that 23&Me also had an exome sequencing pilot ? https://www.23andme.com/exome/

That addresses the "resolution of testing that 23andMe can provide".

The other point is that humans cluster into a small number of haplogroups, and with a small number of WGS or exomes, we can impute many things on the other lower-resolution data based on the fact people are very closely related.

I'm not defending the current approaches (GWAS, etc). They are known-broken. Nor am I defending exome sequencing - also known-broken.

Anyway, it's trivial now to do 1000+ genomes at 4X coverage, which gets you many of the rare variants.

Of course, at the end of the day, the current approaches are unlikely to unlock the full medical potential of the genome. Most people studying genomics and health have very limited mental models of how cells and tumors and organs work, and none of the existing methods really do anything beyond correlation analysis on noisy data.
"Dark UI" makes no sense. We don't need another dumb, uninformative buzzword. Crap like "responsive design" is bad enough.
Another thing to consider is that most bitcoin mining and now the biggest exchange market are both in China.
Furthermore, unless you get stuck out multiple times a week half the rent cost still puts you way ahead.

QFT. The thousand-plus dollar difference in rent buys a heck of a lot of "I got stranded" Uber/Taxi rides.
Mr Chung is absolutely 100% completely correct that there is a long game 23&Me is playing. Their current business is really just wading in the shallows and being prepared for the big wave, while everybody else is still lying on the beach.
Fire in the Blood: an inconvenient truth ( Documentary on Drug Companies )
Alright, if or when you do release, could you let me know? My contact info is in my profile.
And yet people commit suicide by deliberately inhaling those "safe" exhaust fumes.

Carbon monoxide, man. It's damaging stuff.
I fail to see how this is a "dark pattern". Apple is a company that stays in business by selling you things; they are not your friend that builds great products and services and gives them to you for free. Of course they will create things aligned with their interests. Is this manipulative? Sure, it can be after a point, but not this example. Are there examples of manipulative UI patterns? Yes. Microsoft forcing you to use IE comes to mind or pre-checked newsletter signup checkboxes.
5,000,001+ 12 people.This is funny
he told me he was the CEO of a company that made screws. He offered me some career advice. He said that every time he got a new job, he immediately started looking for a better one. For him, job seeking was not something one did when necessary. It was a continuing process.
"...once you do this test, you are legally obligated for revealing results to the insurance company you plan to be insured with."

Got a citation for that?

If that's true, then getting a 23andme test could mean price gouging for anyone looking for life insurance, disability insurance or long-term-care insurance. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...) prohibits employers and health insurance companies from genetic discrimination, but there's a big loophole for other types of insurers to. More information: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/01/17/169634045/some-ty....
I got interested in D, so I borrowed Andrei's book from the library. The talk is that the publication of TDPL marked the stabilization of D version 2. I tried out the examples in the first few pages of that book. An example in Chapter 1 itself didn't compile (page 8). Well, is that what you call a stable language? I don't want to waste time when the API is still changing so much. I thought, I'll come back may be for D version 3.

[edit] Oh BTW, the Pragmatic D tutorial is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
I dunno if that's worth the effort; more and more businesses I see are using Square on a phone or tablet to take credit cards. But good luck.
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Because something is legal doesn't make it right... Google it...
Acer Travelmate:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314...
And needs to lock when saving, so you can't have multiple users saving at once. It only works for single authors.

Fine for a default though. As long as you can switch it later.
Your original story was that you use the emergency call button every time you use the elevator. You later added that the most recent time you used the elevator, there was a someone convulsing on the platform floor.

No one has suggested that the latter single incident was an inappropriate use of the emergency button, what people have said is that the former, recurring use was inappropriated.

> Complaining about this is "on no plane of existence rational"?

Complaining is not the isssue. Using the emergency call-button for those complaints when there is not an actual emergency is the issue.
And once you're in prison for fraud, you can even make a small wage from manufacturing license plates. Win-win!
> It's actually quite easy for people to not live in the central city, which is why of the 7.15 million people in the SF Bay Area metropolitan area, only a little over 800,000 live in the City and County of San Francisco.

I thought the article proved that people don't live in the city because there isn't enough housing and/or it's too expensive, not because it's easy to live outside the city.
"...is able to remain stable in the long run."

How sure are you that there won't be any significant breakthroughs in bitcoin-mining math/tech over the next 30 years? 100 years?
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Well, I believe that people should be left alone as often as possible and should only be interfered with when urgently needed.

But I also believe that commanding wealth comes with responsibilities, and if some people are not willing to act responsible, they might need someone(the public) to remember them and take some of that wealth to build schools, universities or the like.

I am not saying that Mr. Hiltons wealth should be seized and randomly given to people on the streets. I am certainly not of the opinion that todays western governments are super effective either. But if I have the choice of having Paris spend that massive fortune or the government, I would opt for the government I am afraid.

If Larry Ellison decides to build himself a big pink bouncy castle the size of Oklahoma with his Oracle money he is free to do so and thats fine by me. He earned that money, he is free to do with it what he likes, I don't have to like his choices, but I won't interfere(not that I could anyways).

If someone earns his money by being born and decides to spend it on the big bouncy castle I am not fine with it. If most of what he would have inherited was taken by the public and he still manages to amass a fortune that is enough to build himself that bouncy castle, he is free to do so, and I won't interfere. He made the money,its his choice, not mine.
OTOH you can shrink a pie chart without losing information.

Although I agree they are generally bad

http://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Pie-Charts-Are-Bad/
Change isn't intrinsically bad. Change is bad when it removes characteristics of the neighborhood that caused people to move there in the first place.

Isn't this NIMBYism, just from a different demographic?
Of course, I'm sure any military actions regarding Taiwan, the Spratly islands, etc, isn't going to need any kind of UN approval since they're already Chinese territory that has been unjustly annexed by foreign powers.
Well, Ruby isn't really homoiconic. I can't speak for OP, but to me, if a language isn't homoiconic, it can't be a Lisp.

Lisps don't have to have parenthesis-based syntax, but the grammars should be close to context-free (like Lisp's is - most of the language can be defined by two production rules). Ruby's grammar is nowhere near as simple.

Compare:

Lisp: http://cui.unige.ch/isi/bnf/LISP/

Ruby: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/663027/ruby-grammar
Uber Hack - Dead battery on your car
I did this yesterday and thought I would share.

Next time your car battery dies, instead of calling friends or a tow truck, call an Uber and have them run the meter while they give you a jump. It will cost you around $8 instead of the $50-$75 a tow truck will cost (caveat: you most likely will need your own jumper cables).
> "The thing that got me to change my mind was some blogger article that was going through their TOS/PP and realized that once you do this test, you are legally obligated for revealing results to the insurance company you plan to be insured with."

This isn't true.
13 x 5,000,00 = 15,000,000

Almost impossible.
Even if Sundeep were at fault, at the bare minimum, D.O could've informed him that they are shutting him down. Also allowed him to get his files back. Neither of this is hard to do, even for a $5 host.
I'm not sure, however, one of the things Bitcoin advocates tout is the limited inflation, which seems right in line with what he says is needed.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply
I have five. A couple months ago I thought about getting into ASIC miners, but a look at the numbers made me decide to not bother - nothing in the range I was willing to spend was likely to turn a profit. So I took the money I was willing to spend and bought four BTC from Coinbase. Then when the price crashed after the Silk Road bust I got a fifth for a bit less. Now that it's bouncing up around $150/btc I'm kinda wishing I'd bought more - if there's another drop I'll probably move myself up into the 11-50BTC range, then keep sitting on them.
> No, because he created $10,000 of value for society (In this case, an album.) On the other hand, creating $10,000 of paper bills does not create $10,000 of value for society

I disagree. Paper bills and bitcoin provide value for society, as a convenient and fraud-exempt (at least for bitcoin) means of exchange.
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Agreed. The blog author misses out on a very essential part of Google Search, if he wants the best Twitter result, he'll only have to include 'Twitter' in the Google search. An added bonus is of course that the top non-Twitter results will be right there, maybe even some information about BS claims on Twitter.

How odd such a pointless and short blog post has made it this far up on HN.
That seems similar to that strategy that says you need to commoditize your competitor's products and cash cows (especially if such a move doesn't affect you in a big way).

The dollar is a sort of "proprietary currency" owned by one "monopolistic" country now. The goal of a "competitor" would be to create an alternative that is very open and decentralized (anyone can use), to disrupt that country's power and control over the world through its currency.

Sounds good to me.
Still no rule against it is much better than an unenforced rule against it.
More than U$ 10,000.00. IMHO
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Games Are Not Startups
If you liked this article you might like Challenging Google’s Search Engine: http://blog.databigbang.com/letters-from-the-future-challeng...
For that budget, I’d suggest buying a second hand MacBook Air. Looking at the listings on eBay, you could get a pristine one with 13" LED backlit screen, 1.7Ghz i5 with 128GB SSD, 4GB RAM, and with a fresh battery. The MacBook Air is a slim laptop with long battery life, and using the standard OS, you can run all the POSIX apps you could possibly want (or just install a GNU/Linux distro, which the machine is very compatible with, drivers and everything.) That generation has 7 hours of battery life, with WiFi turned on.

Otherwise, what you’re describing is an Ultrabook, and you won’t get a new one for $500.
That's plumbing for you...
+1 for link but no I am sorry no citations I was looking for the same article but I cannot find it. Basically the reasoning behind it was that a DNA test can potentially reveal some information to you about your eventual future diseases. Now when you sign up for life insurance you are legally bind to tell the truth and tell everything you know about your health status. If in some limited scope of course you will get into lawsuit with health insurance company, its possible they subpoena 23andme and get the information you initially had access to. That was the point.
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I guess higher order functions and symbols are the remaining Lispy bits.
Mine doesn't (Roadrunner). I run my own SMTP server off my cable modem. I have no problems getting incoming mail. Outgoing, however, was a pain because so many SMTP servers block mail coming from dynamic IPs. It annoys me to no end. I understand the reasons for doing it, but it annoys me to no end. I had to set up a small satellite server on a static IP that I route all my outgoing mail through.
> I thought the article proved that people don't live in the city because there isn't enough housing and/or it's too expensive, not because it's easy to live outside the city.

The article didn't prove anything, it started with mistaking anecdote for data, and proceeded to tell a just-so story to explain the anecdote, and then make a series of value claims about what needs to be done based on that just-so story, explicitly grounding those claims in at least one false fact claim (that the three high population bay area cities are the places with "the space" in the bay area to accept a disproportionate share of the region's growth.)
This sounds a lot like the message from the book "MindSet" by Carol Dweck.

Her premise is people have a "fixed" mindset or a "growth" mindset. (I'm not sure of the terms; the book isn't here with me.) The main difference is the growth mindset sees everything as a learning opportunity (like Adams talking about putting the manure in a garden and hoping the cows come back) whereas the fixed mindset sees everything as a test of ones abilities.
The funniest about this is that nobody seems to get it's a joke. That means they probably did it some time in the past :D
Then why does startup advice emphasise the importance of being based in a university town?
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I guess congress can now say Mission Accomplished!
Alright. If people are getting value out of these public notices, keep 'em coming. :)
On the contrary. Historically, cities are designed to be cheap and high density. The expensive part comes when people expect the same housing standards/square footage as they would get in the country.

Whilst I've never seen San Francisco for myself, it sounds like they are trying to buck the trend and go for expensive and exclusive (as you say), with various complicated planning and zoning laws. It is definitely against the norm however.
definitely faster and cheaper than a tow truck -- smart thinking.
Well after seeing those "postcards", cartoonish is becoming clearer. As a child in SF, I remember each neighborhood changing ONLY as you got to the center of each hood. There used to not be any strong demarcation lines, if that makes sense. Perhaps that's grown out of the overpopulation?
Most of the time, that isn't true. Hardware failures are (barring quality control issues) independent, hash collisions are not.

For example, if you assume your hash will not have collisions, and design your hash table without any mechanism for coping with one, and it happens to have a clash on "Jones" and "Smith", your address book app will become unreliable for a rather large fraction of your users.
I've stranded some fractions of a bitcoin in wallets I have the addresses for. IE probably < $10 worth that I got for free from some random websites or something once.

At various times I've wanted to buy some and store them properly, but buying them was too much of a hassle. Especially with all the personal information exchanges make you give them. I got kind of turned off when I realized the only way to convert cash was to know someone. (The primary thing I though they'd be useful for was paying for a VPN subscription.)
Ask HN: How risky is starting a photo sharing service?
I wanted to get some opinions from the minds here at HN: how risky is it to start an anonymous photo sharing service? With abuse including pornography and copyright concerns, what risk am I putting myself in? Would a mechanism to report abuse be sufficient? Am I in legal harm by offering a service, even if it is policed?

Thanks!
I found the practice of getting money to a place where you can buy bitcoin was an excellent lesson in the utility of bitcoin.

I'm a New Zealander who earns predominantly US dollars, I was an early adopter of bitcoin not as a way to get rich, but because I have been stung for fees so many times.

Nevertheless, despite the fact that I have been prepared to accept bitcoin for two or three years. I have yet to be actually be paid in bitcoin. I request payment in bitcoin, They ask what bitcoin is, I explain, They scream in terror because it's an imaginary drug money ponzi scheme and pay me in something else that stings me with fees (and now, due to new anti-money laundering rules requires more forms of ID than I actually possess)
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Here's at least one: I've read some rebuttals to the "ethnic theory of plane crashes" here: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety

and here:

http://askakorean.blogspot.no/2013/07/culturalism-gladwell-a...

Put it simply, Gladwell seems to form a theory, then find enough facts to support that theory. But that's not the way to do proper research.

In this case, had he actually consulted with pilots, koreans, and finally korean pilots, he might have ended up with a different conclusion (let alone now have made so many trivial errors in the text).

He could also have compared accident statistics and looked at how many accidents could be attributed to poor CRM in different countries. But again, he didn't do that.

He mentions that CRM training is used nowadays in all airlines (to improve crew collaboration) but fails to mention that the accident that sparked the focus on CRM (the worst airline accident of all time) was caused by a Dutch captain, from a country with a low power-distance index (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster)
Oh well. At this point I'll just point to the Dockerfile and say run that :) It takes less than a minute!

Or if you want a private instance I will make no guarantees about just send me a note. I'll be happy to provide it on a subdomain of your chosing.
The title of this article doesn't seem to match it's content. This feels like a rant by a game designer about games developed by non-game designers.
I love this quote about art and engineering, music and film. Spot on. So as a startup founder, filmmaker, musician - here's my question: how are you ever gonna get these blockbusters/chart toppers without taking a chance. The biggest film in the U.S. right now (Gravity) is by a Mexican filmmaker who made arty films like Y Tu Mama Tambien and Children of Men - not hollywood stuff. Really breakout, worldchanging, consumer, Apple-style stuff is made by weirdos, punks, poets and freaks. With all the capital A16 has to deploy - why not create a fund for some of the crazy ones?
Glad to see someone mentioned these!

Making your own irb console is dead easy:

myfile.rb

require 'pry'
class Stuff
def initialize
binding.pry
end
end

Stuff.new # diy console

Also, awesome_print is a lifesaver as well...

One tip I do have is: be careful when "prying" you don't want to accidentally ship a "binding.pry" into production (*I did it to our staging server once-- both hilarious and stupid)
Now it's upwards of 75M even if all voters are at the lower bounds of each range.
The experiments were conducted on mice so probably have little applicability to humans. For what it's worth, the experiment used mice housed in cages with access to a running wheel for 30 days of voluntary excessive. The control group did not have running wheels.
I subscribe to objc.io, iosdevweekly.com and nshipster.com.
Even if they are untruthful, there are surely multiple bitcoin millionaires from Hacker News. Bitcoin was announced here multiple times in the very early days.
> Hmm...I wonder if there are any currencies which currently exist which fit the bill...

I expected your next word to be "gold."