skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It only goes through our servers if it's cross-origin. Normal http same-origin requests are left intact (and you can see it in the code). It's stated on the README but perhaps it should be more apparent.
Not the OP, but it probably has the same benefits, but it takes MUCH longer.
Despite having a very long wish list of things I long for to do, I am usually in for redditing, reading HN, sitcoms, booze and weed. I hadn't opened Sublime for past two months, neither read anything nor any activity faintly productive.

After reading an amazing article [1], I have beginning to feel an amazing happiness with everything I am doing now and it just so simple. The trick is to ask yourself every time you start doing something: "What I will be doing now, Will it help me in future in anyway?". Of course, you must not drag yourself to despise everything not related to higher gains but realize that life in the future is function of what you do now, and the decisions you make.

[1]: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/10/27/procrastination/
Three Ways Video Helps With PR
Overwhelmingly terrible idea. Routing your web site traffic through an entirely unknown third party server. Overwrite the global XMLHttpRequest object.

Please tell me this is a joke to show off terrible security practise?
As usual, the government is trying to meddle with companies. Read the letter, but make no mistake - the "kind" tone, especially when reminding how they did they best to get in touch, have meetings, help insuring compliance etc. is just a decoy. The truth is with "must immediately discontinue marketing the PGS".

The gov wants to decide what's best for the people. Should the people decide differently, using their wallets for example, this anomaly will be quashed.

This trend is especially strong in the medical field - gov approval required everywhere, then people wonder why medical things are so damn expansive.

I use 23andme and I'm happy with the information provided. I know it's not reliable - it's not a lab test anyone will use to base important decisions on, since it is not a full sequence of genes.

Yet, by being commercially available and easy to use, it is paving the way for commercial offers of full genome sequencing, which I damn well intend to use when they reach the $500 threshold.

However, gov actions like this one may very well make that impossible, making sure the only full genome sequencing offers there will be will be "FDA cleared" at a huge markup.

Suggestions to "medical" like companies - get out the gov eye. Move your business to Asia, the caribbean or wherever the gov will not get in your way like this. I want to keep using (and recommending) your products!
And a plea to programmers, handle \n, \r\n and \r. And utf8, utf16, and all the other common text encodings. It's sad that in 2013 it'sstill hard to read in a text file, so the burden is shifted to the user.
Why I’m okay with an Early Christmas | Michael Bastos, BSCS
A look at the Internet Explorer 11 Developer Tools
Nive history of the Amiga documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfTIrJu7NbE
I dearly miss Jay Miner. He doesn't get enough credit for the chips he put into the Atari 8-bit and Amiga computers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Miner
I've travelled places where a single note is worth very little, so I needed to carry enough that if they were USD could be perhaps $8K. Nobody seems to notice.

Money launderers can expect to pay at least 10% of face value in "fees," perhaps up to 30%. So if someone wants to launder $100K they might be willing to pay $20K to get it done. Let's divide the money among ten mules, and one of those gets caught or defects, losing $10K. That leaves $10K total, $1K per mule, for "travel expenses." That's enough for each to book plane tickets and take a few hundred back home.

For you and I, doing this would make no sense. For plenty of people in the world, it could be the best career opportunity they have. It's not really clear to me how we can expect to stop this, apart from some more obvious markers in bills to show up in airport (and seaport) scanners (imagine embedding the Audi logo using metal film in every note--something like that).
I understand the FDA getting pissy if I'm consuming/injecting a substance that may or may not harm me, but why this? I spit in a tube and get some results which may or may not be accurate. Go away, FDA.
I don't think it's a joke at all - I know lots of companies and people (myself included) who stress their culture and fit so much that technical skills often fall by the wayside. Sure, we want to know if you can code, but that can usually be figured out with a 15 minute white board test. If you're truly a pain to work with, unable to work in a team environment, or generally not collaborative, you probably won't get a job at my company.

Conversely, if you're a self-motivated learner, a good team member, and able to contribute, but don't quite have the technical skills we're looking for, we'll gladly take a training hit (usually 2 to 4 weeks) to get you up to speed on language X in exchange for an engaged and valuable employee.

But that might just be my company.
It's possible, we just make it easier. This library also make it seamless (you can still use jQuery.ajax). They can use this library and just change the proxy url.
Bit of a side-question but I have been looking for such a thing without really knowing what to look for: is there some kind of small and easy JS and/or PHP programm allowing to do some easy work on a tidy database? Pretty much like you would have a full excel table in a browser where you can add/modify/remove rows and columns? No need for all the excel formulae and such...

Thanks very much for any help.
Google Glass developers: We're still flying half-blind
In the very beginning of the 90's programmed a BBS and had it running under Desqview. In 1994 had to build a data bank accessible by modem, and based on my bbs to build it, but used OS/2 as multitasker, which made a big difference in stability.

In 1996 had to put access to that data via internet, and used the same OS/2 box for both modem access and an internet server with most of the usual services (mail/web/dns/proxy).

It was very reliable (really don't remember reboots, maybe it was mostly for upgrades), impressed me when i realized that i created a 16mb vector in that 16mb server with everything running normally, and loved WPS (not sure which today's desktop had so good integration with fs) and rexx (parsing without regexes was good, but later learnt how limited i was).
You don't need exact data, you just need enough. There's no doubt bad actors in the system, but do they characterize all of them?

The papers I read indicate that trolls actually often have "strong" patents, but like you said, most of those settle out of court, so you never hear about them. The ones that go to court are the weak ones, and those are the ones you hear about, which creates an image that all trolls assert bogus patents.

I mean even NewEgg, who've been spouting a lot of "We Never Settle" rhetoric admitted, in this very case, that they've licensed a majority of patents that were asserted against them. The coverage on Ars is a bit brief, but it sounds like out of 80 assertions NewEgg has taken it to court only a handful of times. To me, that sounds like the system is not imbalanced.

> If someone is ambushing people in the street, hitting them over the head with a pipe, and robbing them, I don't need to see a double fucken' blind study to decide that this needs to stop.

Or maybe the alleged victims claiming to be robbed are lying because they don't want to pay money owed to the alleged assailant and they're hoping he gets put away? Are you going to believe individual he-said/she-said cases or data?

BTW the parachute study sounds hilarious. Link?
Google: Doing Evil with ALEC
Start exercising. I found my quality of sleep increased dramatically once I did this, and even though I was still going to bed at 2 or 3 AM at first, it somehow made shifting to a more reasonable hour much easier once I was actually sleeping eight hours a night.
"How many years of experience do you have with public key cryptography?"

"All of them."
Oooh that's some cool stuff. Incremental Tree training is really nice!

I generally use random forests so I can control the subset sizes pretty easy. Its generally not worth me tweaking stuff beyond that. I am generally applying techniques rather than doing machine learning research so the gains are not really worth it for me.
but you could also hire a firm to do the same work. Few companies have on staff janitors any more. Instead they hire out to a general purpose janitorial firm. There are plenty of structures that incentivised people could find that would not violate or skirt any labour protection laws in a max salary scenario. How about creating a separate strategic consulting firm that hires the executives? Then contacting with that firm for the work the executives are expected to perform.
Ask HN: Help me to decide architecture for buidling my startup
I am planning to start my startup and it is kind of social app. Currently I am researching approaches to build my app, but there are too much to consider, so I ask for your help to decide my architecture. (below knowledge is from my research on topic)
My main concern is storing data.
- Use RDBMS. PostgreSQL, because I need location based features so I may use PostGIS.
- use Couchbase or cassandra. Why? because doing activity stream with RDBMS maybe slow due to joins. In NoSQL, most of the time I will not be able to use joins, so I will design denormalized tables for activity streams (maybe I am wrong) Also couchbase seems fast, and it contains memcached inside, s caching layer and scaling layer will be there on install.
As far as I understand if you use couchbase you can retrieve data in json, so it will reduce converting data to json in backend app. side, where I am going to use pythn/django.
- I need search so I am going to use elastic search, in that case couchbase can be a good fit, since they have a plugin for ES, which may boost development time.
What would you recommend? (I have never created such thing before, so my questions may seem to stupid to you)
If you have any suggestion please suggest, maybe I am thinking too much about performance and scaling, maybe I should just stick with PostgreSQL at the beginning.
you can use it as a proxy too http://korz.tomodo.me/http://news.ycombinator.com
This reminds me of a blog post in German [1] by a person who due to a software bug had been falsely diagnosed by 23andMe with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. (Fortunately, he was able to identify that it was a misdiagnosis.) It appears that in this case potential misdiagnoses aren't just a theoretical problem.

[1] http://www.ctrl-verlust.net/23andme-wie-ich-fur-todkrank-erk...
> For instance, if the BRCA-related risk assessment for breast or ovarian cancer reports a false positive, it could lead a patient to undergo prophylactic surgery, chemoprevention, intensive screening, or other morbidity-inducing actions, while a false negative could result in a failure to recognize an actual risk that may exist.

I cannot imagine someone getting surgery or chemo solely based on a 23andme heads up warning and without consultation with a specialist physician.

As someone working in medical devices, this dramatic language is extremely frustrating.
Create really good documentation. With lots of examples.
I think we agree...When I say OP, I mean the post that has been submitted for discussion. I was arguing from a "if OP is correct, then we should expect x,y in China" perspective.
He was involved with Crown Bar and Winston's, two "trendy" expensive LA bars that were popular many years ago.

From his website (KAGLEW.COM), about trademarks-
http://ale811.wix.com/restaurantgroupla#!Trademark-Considera...

"The name must not be descriptive"

"Stay out of the dictionary. If your prospective mark can be found in a dictionary, it has meaning and will be a poor candidate for a trademark."

That's cut and pasted from a document on http://patentax.com/ which also advocates bar owners patenting designs of chairs, shelves and dinnerware.
Yes it allows you to do back stuff. But it also allows great things as mashups, retrieving external content easily etc.
Which is why bitcoin is secure and liquid - great as a utility currency.

So you're saying the transaction costs of converting from bitcoin to any useful currency is really high and that we should see the unattractiveness of money-servicing costs as a security-assurance since script-kiddie criminals don't like seeing any portion of their free "money" siphoned away by the money-changers in the temple.
It depends on the disease, doesn't it? At this point (for some diseases) it's much more cost-effective to kill the patient that would have gone towards prolonging a state of suffering. Then send the funds towards Against Malaria or something else. ;-)
vince, i think you're missing the point. the video stream is an integrated part of the product
I've never seen this definition, but I've seen two different ones that were often confused: the division in North, Central and South Americas where Mexico belongs to North America, and the division in Anglo-Saxonic and Latin Americas where Mexico belogs to the latter.

Are you sure you're not mixing them up? I'm asking because I've seen people mix them up so frequently, in some cases you can even find notices in geoography books making this clear.
JSZip - Create, read and edit .zip files with Javascript
What about http://scriptogr.am/ or http://calepin.co/ ?

Also, I think the problem is needing a database to serve content, not to generate or store it. Many people would be happy with a system where the database is needed only by the author, generating static pages from the database content and then serving those even if the database is down. I even wrote a bunch of scripts to use Wordpress as a static site generator, before I switched to Pelican. With a little more work I probably could have turned that into a turn-key solution that would still insulate readers from database problems.
At the worst, I'm out 22 days of pay

22 days without pay if money is tight and you are bringing up kids can be devastating.
I remember buying a copy of OS/2 Warp from Grey Matter in the UK for £5 as a promotional version (required a version of windows to upgrade from IIRC)

Sadly the big problem was that it swapped like mad in 4MB which Windows 95 didn't. Doesn't sound like a big problem today but the extra memory would have been expensive at the time. In particular 4MB was a popular option on 386/486 machines arranged as 4 x 1MB which often filled all the SIMM slots on the motherboard so upgrading to 8MB meant buying 4 x 2MB SIMMs which doubled the memory cost.

For most of us at the time 4MB was a good usable amount of memory with EMM386 but the upgrade past that didn't give much extra functionality.
What do you guys think of this deal? Is it unremarkable? Is it cool, but you're not interested in analytics apps right now? Or is it awesome and you're going to buy it?
(Django vs. Rails).min = (Flask vs. Sinatra)
http://www.thatvideosite.com/v/94

Video without the other guys watching the video...
Author Brian Bagnall wrote a book about Commodore, from MOS Technology and the 6502 through the departure of Jack Tramiel and the Amiga years: "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore" (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/412006.On_the_Edge). This was published in 2006.

The book was then later split into two halves. The first half, very heavily expanded, was published in 2011 as "Commodore: A Company on the Edge".

As of 2013, the faithful are still waiting for the second half, "Commodore: The Amiga Years". Bagnall missed his deadline for the update and has now moved onto another project. (https://twitter.com/BrianBagnall1/status/390845357979992064)

I re-read the first half recently while waiting for the second, and I thoroughly recommend it. As of yet I've resisted the temptation to get the 2006 book to see how it ends.
Why? remember your product will function exactly the same. It just makes more thing possible.
My goodness. :)

Those two games were the ones we played by far the most as well. Just throw in the game Gravity Force there and you have a winner!
> I know it's not reliable - it's not a lab test anyone will use to base important decisions on, since it is not a full sequence of genes.

If they made that more clear, then they wouldn't have had to send the letter. It's why you see "This is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease" on all the non-FDA-approved supplements/energy drinks. My money is on them paying the fine and scaling back the marketing.

The purpose behind these FDA rules are to make sure things aren't marketing as "cures" when they aren't. People's health is serious business; there's no room for failure. If 1.0 doesn't work (or makes things worse), then the people that need it might not live to see 1.1.
Oh, calm down Rand Paul.
There is another emergency use app in the Apple App Store here is the USA that's called iHelp Plus. It has no connection to the app described in the article, which doesn't seem to be available in the USA.
Does the user need to approve the recording of your face and screen? If not this could be a serious problem when someone with a mildly-nsfw app (but acceptable to app store) decides the record all the naughty stuff their users do and blackmail them.

puts on tinfoil hat
This is a truly fascinating read. It was linked in the other story about OS/2, and I couldn't stop reading. Apparently it will turn into a book, looking forward to buy it!

Author’s note: The Demo Scene is the latest piece in a
long-running Ars series on the history of the Amiga. The last
installment in the series ran in 2008, but professional
obligations for the author caused a delay. More chapters are on
the way—emphasis on chapters. The ultimate aim is to compile all
the parts of this series into a book. Stay tuned!
I vaguely remember reading that in his book and was inspired to see if anything has improved since then. My interpretation is "no" nothing has improved on that very specific front since the 60s.

Note that you'll get plenty of replies about completely different question, like "does the math work without spin?" and the answer being "no". And some defeatist commentary (if you've ever heard of the "shut up and calculate" interpretation of QM...)

It intuitively seems to have something to do with symmetry and the finite speed of light and maybe dimensionality and the quantization of angular momentum. I have no intuitive explanation of the peculiar behavior of a spin 1/2 particle as it rotates thru 720 degrees. At least not in three dimensions.

There's been several Nobel prizes for the "what" and "how" and whoever figures out the "why" will likely get a prize someday.

Traditionally in physics new theories require what starts out as weird math at the time. So it'll probably come from automata theory or cryptology theory or whatever rather than yet another real analysis discovery or yet another statistical analysis.

If you want a spooky smoke and mirrors faith to latch on to, I am a big fan of "every form of Math ever invented can eventually be applied to Physics, even if it takes a couple centuries to figure out how". Nothing wrong with having peculiar faith based ideas as long as they don't interfere with life.
Please don't use this. JSONP and CORS are the accepted methods for cross origin requests.
I have fond memories of OS/2 from the summer of 1995. At the time, I was a undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, and IBM needed summer intern testers for a product they were calling "OS/2 Lan Server Enterprise". OS/2 LSE was IBM's effort to re-platform OS/2 LAN Server on top of OS/2 DCE (in development on the lab next door to LSE). The general idea was to provide a way to scale up OS/2 so that it would interoperate with other DCE-based systems (mainly RS/6000 AIX, IIRC).

Anyway, the machine IBM gave me to use was a PS/2 Model 80. This was a 1988-era machine that had been brought to the semi-modern era with 20MB of RAM memory installed via several MCA expansion cards. Against my best expectations, the machine ran well, despite the fact that its CPU was at least 10% the speed of the then-state of the art.

From what I remember, the OS/2 LSE product itself was fairly solid. However, the biggest memory I have from that summer was the afternoon we spent playing around with the Microsoft Windows 95 beta disk we received for compatability testing. Towards the end of the afternoon, we tried to DriveSpace (compress) the disk. We got bored during the wait for the compress, so we pulled the power on the machine thinking that would be the end of it. However, once we powered the machine back up to install OS/2, Windows 95 just resumed compressing away like nothing happened. A few weeks later, a friend and I went to CompUSA for the Windows95 launch. Even at midnight, there was a line out the door, winding past the Windows 95 boxes, then the Plus Pack, then Office 95, and then memory upgrades... Didn't hear much about OS/2 after that...
WD announces WD Black². 100GB SSD + 1TB HDD hybrid
Totally agree about that, company culture is really important.
You must be a team player, nice to work with, self-motivated, independent etc...

But """work on your "being a guy that a CTO would want to have a beer with" skills. That, combined with a bit of networking"""

Just sounds terribly wrong.
Here in Albuquerque we have a gentleman that creates three dimensional fractals, displaying them in a planetarium every first Friday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23PkofT0MBQ
Is there a list of government agencies IP addresses? I would like to block them from accessing my sites. And write in the ToS that they are not allowed to browse and read more.
It's just your cross-origin traffic, which is not possible without this library, everything else will behave exactly the same.
7 Rules for Marketing a Startup
Just a simple guide for getting started with git. no deep shit ;)
In what way does ZODB depend on Zope? It has a dependency on zope.interface, which is pretty minimal, and seems to be widely used outside of the Zope Community (e.g., Twisted).
Vista all attempted browsers (tried FF, Chrome, Opera)
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This has a huge usability flaw: if I write a short word and press space (which is very common), the recommended word gets put in instead of my short word and then I have to backspace it. Kudos for the effort but I don't see this being very usable.
Why declaring globals is better than exporting
Excellent point. The original version of the slide had two extra boxes labelled "lender of last resort" and "open market operations"... :-)

Thanks for the motivation to perhaps write a part two to this post.
It's buggy -- works if you type slowly, but if you type fast, "testing", for example, it completes the word "term" instead.
Most databases have a companion GUI tool that will allow you to "edit" the database visually; what DB are you using?

pgAdmin (Postgres) - http://www.pgadmin.org/

MySQL Workbench (MySQL) - http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

SQL Developer (Oracle) - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-develo...

I strongly recommend learning some SQL though; this will give you the ability to bulk edit columns and apply formulae.