skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was way beyond in multimedia capabilities at a point, but that edge was quickly eaten away by the raw power provided by the 486, and later the Pentium, combined with the modular PC architecture.

The Motorola 68k-family were beautiful processors to program, but unfortunately they didn't manage to scale compared to the x86. Commodore never made the jump to PowerPC.

The 1200 was a nice machine, but it was just a bit underpowered in every department. It had a 68020 rather than a 68030 (which meant no MMU), 8-bit sound rather than 16, no fast-mem (memory reserved for use by the CPU alone), and no chunky graphics mode (which had been rumored before its release).

The last point was a bit of a death knell for any kind of serious graphics performance. The planar bitmap model had worked ok on the older models with a maximum of 32 colors (5 bitplanes), but with 256 colors you had to do 8 writes to set a pixel. The bitplane model worked great for sidescrollers and similar games, and also for rudimentary 3D games with the help of the blitter co-processor, but when PC games started to do texture mapped 3D in VGA, the Amiga 1200 was left in the dust.
How do you think 23andme should answer that question?

There are at least three different products in the space and to claim similarity would be to likely invite over-regulation:

- "full scan" companies, that do a full genetic scan and do not limit the scan to SNPs

- personal genomics companies that focus on SNPs

- medial diagnostics like the MSAFP test
Would this also mean that tech companies located in the valley have a higher likelihood for success and a better exit because they surround themselves with better investors/mentors?
The Bitcoin network is currently more powerful[1] than the entire top500 combined.

[1] At least, that's what they tell me. I suppose it depends what you define as power.
I grew up in a house whose street address (before 911) was "House 313 behind the School". UPS was happy with that address, but other delivery carriers had some issues.

USPS didn't do home mail delivery, so the PO Box we kept was fine for them, but a lot of folks insist on a "physical address" and didn't like "House 313 behind the School". 911 has changed this in rural communities by giving a street address that means something to the police & fire, but means little to the people living there.
A bit offtopic for HN, but it really does drive the point home: Football? Boxing? Hockey?

These are blood-sport.

There may be a technological solution, there may be a rules-revision solution (hockey in particular does not need to be brutally violent to be a good game) but the current approach isn't right.
To quote Liar's Poker: "How does money move around the world...any which way it likes".
"Big rarely means agile. Even so, there remains in New Zealand a fast-moving fat man who is causing an immense amount of trouble to anyone who ever troubled him."

Good opener.
Another title: Why the future of America is not bright.

The Chinese computer engineers can go out and assemble this thing from spare parts in their city.

Americans would have to order through five different middlemen and face language interop issues along the way.
Yup, full time remote for 4 years here, and having a work space separate from your regular life is really crucial. The cabin fever problem never goes away; plan to be active outside your domicile outside of work hours.
23andme should not be used as a replacement for a doctor. It would have been a shock to see the results, yes, but the next step is confirmation from a doctor.
You're assuming that the confusion isn't intentional. It is, to make people sign up for Google+ while disguising it as a identity service.

And more and more normal customers seem to be noticing, especially on Youtube. Here's one woman crying about about how the confusing G+ prompts lead her to lose all her uploaded videos. (Warning, strong language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccxiwu4MaJs
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> is there an institution or subculture in the world that is more meritocratic than Silicon Valley?

Obviously professional sport. Especially "one-dimensional" sports like running or swimming. The "best" runners in the world are so named because they consistently run the fastest. There are some qualifiers in terms of who has the time and money to train, and access to coaching, but all in all it's highly meritocratic.
One interesting point to notice is that since bitcoin's inception there have been numerous bubbles, yet each time the value after the burse is slightly higher than before the bubble.

So my guess is that bitcoin will continue to appreciate upwards with periodic bubbles.
This is a very strange hardware race.

What are they going to do with all this hardware worldwide when the entire chain is finished in a couple years?
Definitely do serious recon on what type of connectivity you will have wherever you're going. I did a month in Europe a couple of years and I was caught off guard by how much of a crapshoot internet access was. Luckily I was not remote-working at the time, otherwise I would've been screwed on a few occasions.

I'd recommend scoping out short term apartment rentals or the like (Airbnb might be a good bed). That way you might be able to get better internet access, as well as access to a host that can give you advice on exploring the city/country you're in.
Kickstarter projects are often lofty goals to make an app that people think they can build in a few months, but they forget the "take a wildly pessimistic guess and then double it" rule of estimating software costs. Project failure happens. A lot. About 70% of the time in fact (where "failure" means over-budget, or late, or not to specification, etc. Not just undelivered).

Sidenote: The update mentions spending "countless dollars". If there's one thing I know about money, it's that it's eminently countable. If the project starter has spent all the Kickstarter money he should know exactly where and on what. Whether he chooses to share that information is up to him, but implying it's all gone and he doesn't really know where should be ringing alarm bells at Kickstarter HQ.
I'm an architect (of the building kind) who has worked across countries (though not Japan). I have to concur that one of the things which most frequently dictates what gets built is half-baked rules by mortgagers and financiers.

This article also conflates the 'average' and the 'architecture' (as seen on arch daily) which is very much atypical.Though even with the average there is a stronger actual interest in space than in the west (probably due to actual exposure of average people to different spaces). For instance, I remember looking at the website of a mass house-builder in Japan and the big item being advertised was a 1.5m (approx.) half-height 'nook' space in your living room. This would never happen in the west (most people would think 'whatever would I use that for?'.
The New York Times is creating a new data-driven journalism venture
The simplest way to do OOP in C is to create modules with opaque handles.

Below shows how i use string and string list "classes" in C.String list "class" inherits string "class" seamlessly.

https://github.com/mhogomchungu/zuluCrypt/tree/master/zuluCr...

respective easier to read header files are below:

https://raw.github.com/mhogomchungu/zuluCrypt/master/zuluCry...

https://raw.github.com/mhogomchungu/zuluCrypt/master/zuluCry...
> "As for [...] Indians; I've never heard anything but positive stereotypes about them when it comes to programming."

I find that incredibly hard to believe. There are a lot of racist ideas and stereotypes surrounding Indian programmers. For just a small taste of it, coming from or perceived by this community, search "indian programmers" with quotes on hnsearch. Pages and pages of people either making negative generalizations about Indian programmers, or pointing out that other people make negative generalizations about them.

This community tends to put a damper on that sort of thing, so rest assured that there are plenty of people who have opinions a lot stronger than they are willing to voice on this site.
(Sorry for the late reply)

It was unexpected for me, but I think it is important for us to understand that it wasn't unexpected for everybody. It's kind of like if we found out that Gitmo really wasn't exceptional. That would be important.

It would imply that this something is a standard practice, many groups are aware of it and for some reason, over time and through many events, they've decided it's the best policy that they can hope for (or else they would have blown the whistle earlier).

It means you should consider changing policy carefully, because the policy was put in place (and stayed there) not on a whim but rather after some consideration and re-consideration. Unless you think that all of these groups are filled with horrible people whose only aim is power and control you might have to allow that some of them have different insights into the problem from their experiences.

Please understand that I'm not defending anything- just showing how it could be important to learn this type of information.
as a self-taught coder who's taking a CS course I can certainly appreciate the value of each.
You should probably update the "Copyright 2011" note in the footer ...
What SEGA games have you been playing? Very cool!

Funny how most of the comments mention giving up video games altogether and you mention getting back into them.
The chain will never be finished. Mining will (should) go on forever. This hardware will only become obsolete when Bitcoin's proof-of-work is changed from SHA-256(SHA-256(x)) to something else (which might happen in a few years/decades, but until then the hardware will have largely paid itself off).
As another remote worker who primarily chose remote work to spend more time with his own daughter, I just wanted to offer you a big kudos for making the same choice.

Also, spot on with the biggest problem, working with an otherwise centrally located team.

My biggest issue is that, and also the fact that while my office is technically in Mountain View, my home (and hence, primary work location) is in the Annapolis, MD area, a few hours removed from theirs. As a result, while much of my time is respectful of the time difference, every time I work with someone new, or less considerate, I invariably get calls when I'm just sitting down for dinner, or 10 minutes after I've arrived at a bar, etc.

I don't generally mind, but I always worry about the perception every time I'm actually unavailable and that if it happens enough, I'll be seen as problematic. I'm told I'm overthinking it, and despite the fact that I'm generally more productive than the dev team sharing an open office plan, a lot of that advantage is mitigated by having to wait on meetings, etc.
Show HN: WiFi kitchen probe thermometer that logs to DynamoDB
My take on China's embrace of Bitcoin is not that it will help it with police-statesmanship, but simply that they really don't like the USG dollar, and would love if the international monetary system made a little more sense. Right now, Japan, Germany, and China (mostly) buy enormous amounts of US treasuries at tiny/negative interest, only to see them defaulted on little by little at the pace of inflation (which is of course paced by the USG). China doesn't really believe in fiat currency, definitely not at the state level. They should know, they invented paper currency back in the day. Instead, they buy precious metals (and other metals, they stockpiled copper during the gold boom a few years back), and I think they see something very similar when they look at Bitcoin. They see gold 2.0, at any rate, a contender to become the world's reserve currency, only with better liquidity than gold, less inflation (you can mind more gold into existence, but Bitcoin is capped at 21 million), and harder to forge.
There is a huge difference between saying "tech industry, you are so innovative, why don't you look at this problem and see if there is something you can do to fix it" and saying "tech industry, you are racist, sexist, misogynist, and you should be ashamed of yourselves". I am all for the tech industry finding solutions to hard problems, and I am all against the tech industry being blamed for something it did not cause.
If you apply that standard to other products, such as software, what happens? If you cannot distribute software that is certifiably bug-free and algorithmically correct, that is warranted to be fit for a specific purpose, what happens? If you cannot sell a car if it cannot go 70 miles-per-hour, consuming fuel at 50 miles-per-gallon, and have zero fatalities in a head-on collision, what happens?
are functions being passed/returned as closures?
So I'm guessing that the technical folks in the company send a link to this page to their CEO in order to convince them of the purchase?
That's for a false positive, sure. But who goes to the doctor to confirm a false negative, that 23andme says there's no reason to worry about? The list of negative results is going to be huge, in most cases.
This seems incredibly similar to the claim that: all can make money, as long as you work hard!
Is that really true? Think again...
The problem, I think, is external to SV. It's not that women and minorities find themselves blocked within SV - it's that they don't get into that path in the first place. The problem starts long before someone gets the opportunity to drop out of Stanford CS to pursue their dream of selling Facebook for Cats to herd-mentality VCs.
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That's a risk you take with getting your DNA tested. Are you prepared to handle the results (right or wrong)?
Watch out for this new Apple ID phishing scam
I'm a recent law graduate researching warrant canaries. Is there a contact at your company I can be put in touch with?
The end is to sell her book, which is published tomorrow.
Imho, you should call it the CIO page instead, but perhaps that varies depending what kinds of businesses you're targeting. In most medium and large enterprises, the CIO will have budget authority to make these kinds of decisions independently and the CEO will never be involved at all, unless the topic of backups & DR arise in a board or audit meeting.
From the Hacker News Guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Under "What to Submit":
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Since it's being upvoted, then I guess it's gratifying enough people's intellectual curiosity.
I assume the OP has little understanding of how VCs work? Vetting Software.. lol..
Man thank you so much ! I didn't know they offered the option to use your own domain name. I will definitely give it a try since it's very affordable ($40/year in my case).
The FDA just wants to make sure that 23&Me's tests are accurate, which could actually lead doctors to trust them more rather than replicating them at the patient's expense.
Yes, I'm sure :-)
It's quite unusual, though.
I've sustained between 2 and 4 concussion in the past 6 years. 2 were clinically diagnosed and I self-diagnosed 2 more after smaller accidents that had similar week-long symptoms. All occurred during soccer practices and games.

The prospect that I've done cumulative lasting damage to my brain absolutely terrifies me. Similar to the way a model would be terrified if they sustained burns on their face. My brain is what makes me money, my brain is what makes me proud, my brain provides pleasure through reading, writing and programming. It's horrifying to think that I've somehow caused my brain to be performing at a lower level than it would be otherwise.

I don't know why I'm writing this. It's just scary. I still play sports (no longer soccer) and bicycle everywhere but I'm far more careful and reserved than I would be otherwise.

Be careful out there, wear a helmet, and take care of your brain.
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One note here, if you're using Google Apps, moving should be a breeze as you can just change your MX records. However, hosting your own email could be painful.

For me it is especially great since my primary email is an alias domain on Google Apps, which means i can move my primary email off of google apps while keeping my google account working (also grandfathered into their free plan).

So switching email is just the matter of picking my own host. That could take a while, however.
Anytime. Good luck with everything.
I thought folks on HN might be interested in something I built and documented on Adafruit's site, it's a probe thermometer (for monitoring what you cook in the oven) that logs temperature data over wifi to Amazon's DynamoDB service. The hardware is based on an Arduino nano (similar to a full size Arduino Uno) and Adafruit's breakout board for the TI CC3000 wifi chip. I made a simple webpage to query DynamoDB directly and visualize the temperature data with a trend line for predicting when food will be at a desired temp.
Sorry but this computation is being done to secure the network and secure a wealth estimated at around $10bn at today market prices.

I don't think it's unproductive at all.
I have started the painful migration from google slowly, we hate change but I am doing it slowly. This is what I am using as a replacement:
Gmail----> back to my old yahoo account

Search----> Bing

Drive ----> Dropbox,Ubuntu one

Picasa ----> Dropbox

Gtalk ----> whatsapp, Skype

Chrome ---> Firefox
Because it forces the inventor to publish, they are a lot better for society than the previous protectionist default, which was relying on keeping trade secrets.

Part of what is interesting to me about open source is that it provides a system of development that is pretty competitive with the established protectionist models, so I am watching the open source hardware scene very closely.

To me the question isn't whether patents are good or bad in some absolute term, it is more whether they are becoming obsolete for many situations.
Writing a parser isn't a terribly interesting or difficult part of writing a compiler. You can describe a simple one in a page of pseudocode. If you really are interested in writing a compiler, I wouldn't get hung up on this point.

If you want more depth, you probably want to pick up a compiler textbook. I liked "Modern Compiler Implementation" (I've used both the C and ML versions) in my undergrad.
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related: times roman font has announced a shortage of periods as reported by steve martin.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1997/06/09/1997_06_09_110_T...
Any hints on easter eggs on the site that you don't provide instructions for? I tried your name, the project name, etc.; disappointed there wasn't more to discover.
Just a quick thought. I do not have a background in information design or health at all. But for me, what would be a lot more useful is the _one thing_ that I should focus on in terms of my health. "Focus on getting more sleep." "You're eating too much." "Walk more." "Change apartments."

I know most people have more than one thing that they need to do with regards to their health. Health is interconnected and negative habits (poor sleep) lead to other negative habits (poor diet). But that works on the flip side too. You sleep more and you walk more so you eat better, etc. By improving one thing you're likely to improve the rest.
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I propose a meeting budget. Each manager gets a meeting budget of X minutes per week. Once you're out of budget, no more meetings, unless you want to purchase more minutes with real cash. That cash pays whoever you invited to your meeting.
You can still do automated transactions from your hot wallet - human intervention is only required for transactions that exceed the size of the hot wallet.

And merchants who don't make enough profit to pay $20-$30 an hour to put a human in the loop can have a payment processing company do it.

Don't get me wrong, if you think bitcoin websites have done a superb job at securing their hot wallets [1,2], you're welcome to keep all your money in a hot wallet where it can be 100% cleaned out without a human lifting a finger. Good luck with that.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0
[2] http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-2.pdf
My take on this, and I have spent some time in SV working at a startup in Redwood City, is that SV does NOT attract the best and the brightest. Instead it attracts a gaggle of me-too-ers who apply cargo cultism to ape the successful companies. This actually has the effect of REDUCING innovation because the startup culture is afraid to try new things, afraid to build on something tried and tested in the MidWest or New York because they are worshiping at the temple of Sandhill Road.

It is not just an issue with women (who the article quite rightly points out, have a great track record of starting successful businesses) but it is also an issue with age and with experience. SV often rejects people who are not young enought purely for ageist reasons but it also rejects those who are too experienced, too educated. The kind of people that built NASA are persona non grata in SV.

There are still some smart people coming out of SV because of Stanford and UC Berkeley being there, but if those two schools moved away, the whole house of cards would collapse.
Whale Communications, before they were purchased by Microsoft, had a hardware solution where a shared HDD disk was used to physically switch it between 2 different hosts to enable file sharing in a shared directory. would be almost perfect to secure the hot wallet of a BT service. MS seem to discontinued the product. I wander if something like this still exists from another vendor?
No one expects from a non-funded startup with 1 engineer on board to have all the security figured out.

However, if you are VC funded with 10 engineers on the team, this is inexcusable.
Sorry, statistically speaking the difference in results of interviewing and not interviewing are insignificant.

I have a feeling that eventually there will be a Vangaurd of startups that will massively outperform traditional VC/incubators due to reduced management fees similar to index funds vs. regular funds.
>you would not take serious action in any condition based on an cheap DNA test, would you

You might not, but some would. Some people take serious action based on what a psychic says. We are in the minority here.
Also, apparently women from other countries didn't get the memo that the tech industry is sexist, and they come in droves to Silicon Valley to kick ass and chew bubble gum.
Just a hunch, but maybe you had the cell selected and tried to copy that, instead of selecting the text within the cell?
The simple answer is that 23andMe is for informational purposes only. I don't go any more or less to the doctors now that I've results from 23andMe. It is cool information, yes, but that's it.
Just another altcoin, with a twist.