skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article linked in the Mixlr blog post (http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/thecaucus/2013/11/18/another...) seems to tell a different story. From the NYT's perspective, it seems that a significant number of people had problems even hearing the audio stream. The way the NYT article is written implies that many of the listeners, rather than the 0.1% claimed by Mixlr, experienced problems. And it wasn't due to trolls, but rather the basic problem of people not even being able to hear the audio.

I don't see what the incentive for NYT to overstate or mischaracterize things, unless just to cast Obama further into a negative light, so I'm tempted to believe what the press says over what a self-motivated startup CEO would write. The NYT article makes no references to trolls, but rather what seems to be valid claims from would-be listeners that they can't access the audio stream.

If the audio problems were truly experienced by the insignificant minority, and a small number of trolls caused the majority of problems, then why was the article written in the NYT as if the glitches were the primary story, rather than the content of the broadcast (which is not even covered in the NYT article). The truth is somewhere between the NYT article and Mixlr blog post, but most likely weighted more to NYT's side.

I think Mixlr should thank their lucky stars that the blame was placed on OFA and not on them. In fact, I would be thankful the Mixlr name didn't even appear in the article. Had they not written the blog post, no one would have associated the event with their service. Having the president use their service serves as a good reference, but this one teleconference would not be what I would consider to be a positive testimonial.
Dismissing something via Godwin's Law is always a cop-out.
History rarely corrects this kind of story. Gates will be remembered as an innovator and as a great man of his time, who was altruistic enough to give away most of his fortune and dedicate his latest years to humanitarian causes. The chokehold Microsoft created in the 90s IT industry will be a footnote in History.

For a reference of this kind of History effect, compare the common man views of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. They shared the same period in History, and worked in the same field (the electricity boom). Edison was the astute businessman with shady tactics but also with public success. Tesla, a brilliant scientist, produced the still unchallenged fundamentals for electricity transmission and for AC electric motors. Which one is considered the epitome of innovation? The shady acute businessman.
I don't live in the US. I turned down a job at Google not because of anything to do with Google, but because it means living and paying taxes in the US. I work remotely from a tax haven, have no debt, and I'm on track to retire with a million in savings by my mid thirties. You'd have to make a quarter million a year to pull that off in the US. In Panama I can do it on a lower salary than what Google pays. I have freedom and you have big brother and big banker. You can't pay me to accept a green card to the land of "freedom and opportunity."
Maybe it's like the conference speakers. Now that everyone's getting flack if their conference doesn't have female speakers, but there's only a handful of successful female leaders in heavy rotation in the media, they can't go to everything so they inevitably turn stuff down.
I agree: A bit more background information would be good. But I confess I am interested.

I fooled around a bit with a nucleotide sequence of Homo sapiens mRNA for prepro cortistatin like peptide, complete cds.|len=368, as taken from http://www.genomatix.de/online_help/help/sequence_formats.ht...

ACAAGATGCCATTGTCCCCCGGCCTCCTGCTGCTGCTGCTCTCCGGGGCCACGGCCACCGCTGCCCTGCC
CCTGGAGGGTGGCCCCACCGGCCGAGACAGCGAGCATATGCAGGAAGCGGCAGGAATAAGGAAAAGCAGC
CTCCTGACTTTCCTCGCTTGGTGGTTTGAGTGGACCTCCCAGGCCAGTGCCGGGCCCCTCATAGGAGAGG
AAGCTCGGGAGGTGGCCAGGCGGCAGGAAGGCGCACCCCCCCAGCAATCCGCGCGCCGGGACAGAATGCC
CTGCAGGAACTTCTTCTGGAAGACCTTCTCCTCCTGCAAATAAAACCTCACCCATGAATGCTCACGCAAG
TTTAATTACAGACCTGAA

After some (random) clicking on some nucleotide spots this sequence got me this, assuming that the "standard" genetic code handles homo sapiens mRNA:

ID VIRT5672 Unreviewed; 66 AA.
AC VIRT5672;
DE Translation of nucleotide sequence generated on ExPASy
DE on 20-Nov-2013 by 87.150.48.254.
CC -!- This virtual protein sequence will automatically be deleted
CC from the server after a few days.
DR SWISS-2DPAGE; VIRT5672; VIRTUAL.
SQ SEQUENCE 66 AA; 6E48167C288239C3 CRC64.
GARHWPGRST QTTKRGKSGG CFSLFLPLPA YARCLGRWGH PPGAGQRWPW PRRAAAAGGR
GTMASC
//

Sequence in FASTA format

>VIRT5672
GARHWPGRSTQTTKRGKSGGCFSLFLPLPAYARCLGRWGHPPGAGQRWPWPRRAAAAGGR
GTMASC

What (concrete) applications does it have except being a theoretical transcoder?
Every state has established law. Delaware has what are called "chancery courts" which are dedicated entirely to business issues. The laws and courts are great for specific types of businesses, i.e., those with outside investors or that are primarily B2B.

For small businesses, Delaware is not only an overkill, it's the wrong choice. A large business can deal with legal nexus in multiple states (Delaware, and where they actually operate) but the cost of handling multi-jurisdiction legal expenses will quickly kill most businesses. Moreover, while Delaware's chancery courts are great at robotically following the established law, they are absolutely horrible for matters involving discretion or equity (legal equity, a concept essentially meaning "what is right"), which is quite ironic, since "chancery courts" were originally courts of equity, not law.

Incorporating in Delaware also does nothing to avoid local legal requirements--you still have to register, as a foreign business, which in many states means you lose out on the tax breaks or other programs that are only available to local companies. (California has a few.) You also remain subject to the laws of the state in which you actually do business--and legal disputes can still be subject to the laws and courts of the state in which you actually do business. (Forum clauses aren't ironclad!)
In the specific case of a law degree, for most people the sole purpose of the degree is to get a job as a lawyer, so if they are not able to find such a job then they receive no utility from their level of education and so are overeducated.

In general I dislike the concept, as it's usually used to decry education that the author sees as pointless, rather than the recipient of the education.
"Overeducated" =/= lawyers. Society isn't "fraying," either — it is a time of accelerated change brought on by a number of factors such as globalism, the Internet, and so on.

Distribution of wealth and the purchase of politics are serious problems, but this article doesn't seem very on the mark.
Hmmm, are you saying that you can predict the exact protein that, say a human cell, will produce for every DNA sequence. I had the impression that the whole mRNA + ribosomes process is extremely complex and poorly understood.
-----SPOILER ALERT-----

Children are being tricked into unknowingly fighting wars for the US military? Really?
That's a bitter sounding opinion. Sure, the things Facebook creates may not be what you consider innovative but it's pretty clear there are lots of people there creating new technology https://github.com/facebook?tab=repositories
The browser implementers completely punted on making HTTP authentication usable: there's no friendly way for a user to logout, for the server to force a logout, for the user to change a password, etc. All of these were well known and discussed from day one but they weren't seen a priority by any vendor and most web developers went with usability over security.
A pencil you can use to shake the world and play violins, nice.
has your daughter gone outside, watched a movie, watched a tv show, took the bus, went to a sporting event, etc?
Pandora does this. A nice way to make money as a relatively obscure artist on Pandora is to be acoustically "adjacent" to some extremely popular band.

ifyoudig.net seems to have a very small popularity bias compared to e.g. Spotify though, so that's nice.
Facebook innovates - https://github.com/facebook
95% of all code makes me cry. The other 5% are white space.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, back in 2009/2010 is was common to run scripts to "autofollow".
They're $400 but I've found that these snoring earplugs - http://www.earplugstore.com/snproinwhnom.html - plus any kind of over the ear hearing protection/headphones for shooting - do the trick and can fight almost anything. For me it's airplanes that I usually need them for. The most common thing I use them to fight is loud flight attendants, esp if you are sitting at the front or the back of the plane.
I believe all the details in this article are already a part of the account's public profile anyway: http://mixlr.com/organizing-for-action/me

The only thing not included is how long they are a member or what they pay, though the latter can be assumed since there are only two tiers of members (free and $10 a month).
At least from the post I read, they seemed like they wanted to keep them as a customer. If that's the case, I don't think your approach will quite work ...
>> Actual, bokeh is about the quality of the blur.

Yes, you're right. But most people tend to treat out-of-focus blur synonymously with bokeh (the quality of the blur) -- they're related but not the same. In this particular library's case, I think they're talking about out-of-focus blur, not bokeh.
Well, ObjectMentor got paid, someone at the company got to tick a box to say that developers had been given appropriate training, and we got a break from real work.

Corporate training is an odd business, it has to be said.
How to Recharge Cars on the Move
The unfair question we ask of athletes with brain injuries
Yeah Sony is evil too, but less so in my mind. Patent abuses are something that hits close to home for me.
What does 'large datasets' mean here?
We are building a visualization service to abstract users from fiddling with d3 and other libraries. We want users to be able to use all of viz libraries out there with just providing data input and tweaking settings, so this looks interesting.
Inequality is actually down, but hey - believe whatever you want.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/11/world-inequality-is-do...
Well this really sucks the llama's ....

Thanks for all the skins and memories!
Ask HN: Has my IP been banned from HackerNews?
I can't access HackerNews since last night. Any page I try to access gives me the error (502) message below:

"Yeah, that didn't work. Try again, perhaps later?

Web server is returning an unknown error

There is an unknown connection issue between CloudFlare and the origin web server. As a result, the web page can not be displayed."

followed by a Ray ID, my IP address and the CloudFare Location.

The only unusual activity I had before that was that I changed my password and that I am trying to code a script to get some data from my submissions and comments here.
With the recent switch over to enhanced campaigns this year I'm not even sure looking at a successful past campaign would be that great.
So you want me to agree that it's a problem that the male to female ratio isn't equal before you've proven that the inequality is brought about by a bad reason as opposed to a natural and just reason? That greatly reduces my frustration as to why I'm not on board with any of this.

edit: "lets try to fix the disparity through social change" ...as soon as you do the due diligence and convince me it's broken first. Evidence of disparity in no way tells me there is a problem in need of being fixed. It's a lazy way to try and get people behind a misguided white-knighting movement.
Instagram comes to Windows Phone Store without in-app image capture or video
Oh, this is quite cool when you're in a corporate environment. It originated from servers (iRMC and others) and is now a cheap alternative to additional hardware monitoring cards.
I am not into flying, but last time I was a passenger I remember that a helicopter engine needs a certain cooldown time after landing which could be around 30 minutes. In this time the engine needs continue running. My guess is that the electric motors in the Volocopters do not have this requirement.

But again, I am not a helicopter specialist.
My problem with Paper is the undo/rewind function. It really is frustrating to use and often doesn't work as intended. There is a long thread on their forums about it but they insist this is a minority problem and they know best.

I get the feeling that much of the development is focussed on concept over function.

Then there is the price gouging. You can't blend unless you buy their stylus. And their 'active' stylus doesn't even have pressure sensitivity even though they claim they have been developing it for over a year. All you get for your $50 is palm rejection, blending, and a novel eraser functionality.

I think I will stick with my simple Bamboo stylus which I already own and doesn't require charging and lament not being able to blend/smudge.

I also own Bamboo Paper, and Procreate - while I have gripes with Paper's business practice, I can't get the same results with either of the other products. The watercolour, pen, and pencil are superior in Paper. I can't even get an effective watercolour in Procreate at all.
Security is all about pragmatism: is it more likely that Facebook / Google will be hacked and not deal with it quickly or that users will react to incessant password nagging by using weak ones? When someone's account is compromised, is it better if they have to change one password or hundreds?
InstaGramma's Cartoon
How Twitter Improved JVM Performance by Reducing GC and Faster Memory Allocation
Report Shows Apple App Store Still Reigns Supreme in Marketing Opportunities
What's the Ray ID?
EFF: Encrypt the Web Report: Who's Doing What
From a quick look at it, it seems they are just fishing for investors. They have a cool looking prototype and use "green" in their marketing a bit too much. I couldn't find any studies or more detailed explanation justifying their design vs the traditional one.
He is one of my lecturers at university and god damn awesome at what he does. cheers
Automatically sort all your Python imports using isort
I'd call that pessimism. Or life. But not hating.

Urban dictionary definition of hater: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hater

A person that simply cannot be happy for another person's success. So rather than be happy they make a point of exposing a flaw in that person.

Hating, the result of being a hater, is not exactly jealousy. The hater doesnt really want to be the person he or she hates, rather the hater wants to knock somelse down a notch.

I don't think his comments are really to do with not being happy about a persons success etc, it's nothing personal, he simply did not believe the idea would take off.
Women have babies. Doing that has a profound impact.

Think of that fact as a marketing funnel. Some number of women will make a prioritization decisions. Some will choose to focus 100% on child rearing. Others will focus on career. Other will balance both.

Of the women who focus on career, some are in work environments that are family-friendly and will thrive. Some strive. Others are in environments where not being able to do hackathons or do conference calls at 9PM will close doors to career advancement.

Unless you're a well-researched person who can cite real research, genetic arguments are just anecdotes or vague facts interpreted through a journalists' lens. We should focus research in this area on the anti-patterns -- house husbands. What happens to men in their careers when they take a few years away from the workforce? My guess is a story similar to what we see with women.
According to the article, IBM and Microsoft are notable for their portfolio size and lobbying budgets:

> And few firms have larger software patent portfolios than Microsoft and IBM. These companies, which also happen to have two of the software industry's largest lobbying budgets, have been leading voices against the expansion of the CBM program.

I can believe that IBM does far more software patent lobbying than most of the firms whose core products are not directly software related
The cost of Title III crowdfunding - raising 100k costs 138k
It's more accurate than 'overqualified'.
Full text http://pastebin.com/z7XxVHVx
Indeed. However, the typical accepted JS style, especially with NPM modules, is lots of tiny dependencies instead of a few large God dependencies.

Which will lead to what looks like fragmentation, but really isn't.
I'm with God. Surrender.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\WEALTH.TXT

ld soon be disgusted with the war; and they are unable,
from not well knowing what taxes would be sufficient to produce the
revenue wanted. The facility of borrowing delivers them from the
embarrassment which this fear and inability would otherwise occasion. By
means of borrowing, they are enabled, with a very moderate increase of
taxes, to raise, from year to year, money sufficient for carrying on the
war; and by the practice of perpetual funding, they are enabled, with
the smallest possible increa
Reading comprehension fail on my part!
Globally, yes.

This article was about the US. Things aren't going in the same direction globally as in first world countries.
'There is not a single thing about Facebook that deserves the label "innovative." '

Trolling? Or merely ignorant?

See e.g. http://prestodb.io/

You might not like FB, but to claim there is not a single innovative thing they've done is laughable.
I think I need a citation for "...less of a threat than people doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons." Offhand, I cannot think of any societal-scale examples of anyone doing "the wrong things" for anything other than what they perceive to be the "right reasons".

For example, the Chinese internal intelligence services were likely not attempting to "ruin [anyone's] lives"; instead, they were probably trying to limit the damage a purported "human rights lawyer" could do to their society's stability. Unlike you, I have no doubt that United States (or any western) intelligence service would use similar tactics for similar perceived ends.

And if you want evidence of that, I'll just point you to the entire discussion of the justified use of torture after Sept. 11, 2001.
Google kills Currents
You mean, imagine an iPad too hot to touch.

Because we always optimize for performance, keeping battery on the bare acceptable minimum. With the newest trend to also seal the batteries to ensure that the device has a limited useful life.

While I often cringe at how terrible batteries are, the alternative wouldn't be that attractive for mobile devices either. Because we wouldn't have had the same focus on low power if we had decent batteries.
Printing of 3D Bio-ficial hearts could be less than 10 years away.
Although I'm not using winamp any more, for at least 5 years now. This makes me really sad.
It's a different one each time. Some examples:

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I use fairly high-end Sennheisers with semi-open backs and big ear cups at home. I find closed backs too isolating in most work environments, and these are not actively anti-noise, so these won't work without music playing. They are also too big and too expensive to carry around.

When traveling or at customer sites, I use MEElectronics IEMs. These are reasonably priced, so I'm not worried about breaking or losing them. They are great on airplanes. They are small and often go unnoticed. The over-the-ear memory-wire configuration stays securely in my ears. I also use Comply foam tips and keep some extras with me in case the headphones end up on the airplane floor or some other place I don't want in my ears.
Patent reform votes happening right now in House Judiciary [livestream]
Thanks for the list.
All companies I will try to avoid in the future.
Look at all the LLCs and the obvious trolls on there.
Google launches Play Newsstand: A hybrid magazine store and RSS reader
True, but he seems to have a moral conviction that proprietary software is wrong, and hence doesn't like JS much as it is a vector for automatically download and executing proprietary software. So I was exaggerating, but there is some truth to my words.
Thank you for the music, WinAmp.

Edit: Will this affect Shoutcast?
These data refer to worldwide inequality, while the article speaks to American inequality. The former is significantly skewed by the rural-to-urban migration of India and China as they rapidly modernize.
Why does it have to shut down, cant they just not release new versions?
Every time I read about this, I'm reminded how out of the ordinary my stock options appear to be. I was granted an amount of stock options after ~1 year at the company. They represented about the average % of the total pool that I'd expected. Our company has about 20 employees, 3 founders, no execs. I'm the #1 employee, in terms of salary.

But, my stock options have no vesting period. They expire, and I lose them entirely, should I ever leave the company. This is the same deal everybody got. I've never really understood why they were done this way, it seems rather unusual?

It's always felt like a hook, an ugly way to retain people who've already been there a long time. I've been working with the company for 3 years now, but if I left tomorrow, I'd have no equity to show for it.

Does anyone else have stock options like this? Is it normal?
I've kept a post-it under my keyboard for years with "How do you keep a security auditor busy?" written in a pigpen cipher.
This disingenuous -- he was complaining about ads targeting children/teenagers rather than ads in general.
Do you really think History (as in the practice, not the story) will continue to follow the same rules post-internet as it did pre-internet?

Modeling the future path of that field on its past mechinations seems silly to me. Any sensible model of future history, I think, must be built on novel, untested understandings of the new physics of information, to have even an outside chance of predictive power.
Ask HN: What should I do in San Francisco?
Morning HN!
I had a YC interview for a project I've been working on. Didn't get selected, unfortunately, but what can you do? Anyway, I have about a week to kill until my flight on the 25th, I was wondering what I should do. I checked Eventbrite but there's not much going on, I was hoping "the community" could help give me some ideas.

Thanks for your help!
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>> It's really just meant to be an evocative metaphor... :-)

Gotcha - me not liking a name is just my own personal opinion. The library itself is interesting.

You can't please everyone all of the time. ;)
There's nothing free on Heroku,especially when your app is freezed after 1 hour of inactivity. Heroku is quite expensive, while it helps for ruby devs or node devs, i dont see the point for python devs especially when python deployement is as easy as php.

I personally use alwaysdata for my python apps,it support Django/Flask/Bottle... through Wsgi and has SSH access for around 9€. (supports perl/php/ruby too). On the rdbms side mysql/postgres/couchdb/mongodb included. You can do git deployement.

I tried AppFog but frankly the service sucks,deploying large apps doesnt work , no ssh whatsoever and i find it strange to have to do tunneling to access a db server from the outside ...

And you can create 1 free account on alwaysdata to test stuff out.
Tell'em Steve Dave
http://smodcast.com/channels/tell-em-steve-dave/
This looks interesting!

But I think it'd be better if DEB repository is signed...
Because no one wants to pay to keep it up?
There is https://github.com/peterskeide/bones (I'm the author). It's by no means a large codebase, and it's not finished, but the goal is to give you a decent starting point with some hopefully useful idioms to build on.