skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Many of my colleagues do not know of the existence of personal genomics, and believe that genetic testing is a once-in-a-blue-moon procedure to be ordered only when there is high clinical suspicion for a rare disease such as cystic fibrosis."

If true, that is quite embarrassing to the medical community.
Thanks. As I said I think it varies wildly, but I agree with you that the data seems inaccurate.
They may not get a lot of applicants, but at least they are being honest with the job description.
I've been using this for a few months as a beta tester and it's awesome. Definitely the best way to browse HN.
Good post, but this part you got it wrong:

"I guess this is what surveillance is trying to do. Rather than accepting a level of risk as the price for being free and handling disasters when they do occur, we seem to be increasingly trying to avoid danger at all costs."

Surveillance doesn't try to reduce the risk or anything like that. Surveillance institutions treat the whole population as suspects.
Is there a quote in the title at all, much less a misquote?
Oh please. We all know that while al-Qaida will obviously be filtered, so will the Socialist Workers' Party, and so won't English Defence League.
> Ehh...I think that can go both ways.

But the numbers clearly suggest that NYC is the way to go. The ratio of men in their 20s to women in their 20s is one of the highest of large US cities in SF and one of the lowest in NYC. If you're a guy, NYC is the place to be.
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You're right, saddly the law of nature made that there will always be people who will buy such an ideas. With one customer, he would pay the cost of web design, content creation, web hosting, domain name and 3D stuffs. With 2 customers, it would be profitable.
> boring

boorish.

You'd think all these experts would have bothered to read up just a little bit on SCOTUS cases like Smith v Maryland, etc, but I guess it's just easier to grunt Freedom.
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why Rossi doesn't use 200 KW of the claimed 1 MW output power to remove the input power requirement?

Because it's necessary to input the power to bootstrap the reaction. Of course, that just begs the question: why not say it's only needed for start-up? I suppose that there could be engineering concerns...

Don't get me wrong, I believe this is baloney. But I don't think the argument about requiring input power is what proves that.
Yes, with 82 comments and 52 upvotes (currently), that post will get a fairly substantial penalty.

For the most part you don't need to be "afraid" of comments - an article is only penalized if it has more than 40 comments AND more comments than upvotes. Most articles have considerably more upvotes than comments, so commenting won't hurt them at all. But you might want check the upvote and comment numbers before adding a comment just in case...
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Isn't that true for most of those 'flavour of the month' technologies?

First a shiny new piece of technology shows up that promises to solve all the issues you have with a mature and widely adopted solution. People get exited and at some point the media picks up on it und starts the hype cycle. More and more decision makers hear about the technology (probably aided by marketing) and decide to adopt it. Implementation takes place and the new technology is deployed into the live environment. Some time goes by and the first issues appear, workarounds and tweaks are devised to mitigate those. After even more time the technology's inherent flaws become apparent. At this point either someone else develops a new iteration of that technology with the promise of solving those issues or the technology is abandoned altogether as it is unable to deliver sufficient value and cannot be fixed.
> there are more medium-awesome areas to choose from close to town (head to Astoria or East Williamsburg and you might shave $500-1000 off that studio, but you can still catch the N train to get to work and the neighborhood's reasonably cool).

That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Or what happens when the person holding that position quits due to stress.
Not too many people get pre-paid smart phones. The plan choices are pretty thin on the GSM side. You've basically got T-Mobile or Straight Talk, depending on the network coverage in your area.
Sold or just first serious app? Sold would be Mastermind for the Apple II. Integer Basic. Made a few hundred bucks. Even in 1979 that was not a lot.
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You could also subscribe to the mailing list I have setup on my website at WellPosed.com, though I will cross post to reddit and Haskell cafe once it's released (will be pre Alpha quality mind you). I'm aiming for sometime after Xmas or around New Years.
I sincerely can't see anyone paying for this service. Sure you're solving a problem for tech people but you're not solving any problem for recruiters, the people you want to actually pay for the service.
The original "Drive Farming" link is at least as interesting as the new article:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/10/09/backblaze_drive_farming...
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Totes. I just wanna see pretty graphics of the trend. These things interest me.
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I never said that the FDA is perfect or covers all bad cases. Just because a few bad apples can escape the law now, in letter, does not mean that we should not have regulation. Medical regulation is far from dictatorship. It is orthogonal to it.

Just because a govt. prevents from doing X, does not mean by default that the govt. is a dictatorship. X has to be something basic like the right to live or the right to free speech. The FDA is not brutishly shutting down 23andme. They seem to have reasonably tried to work with 23andme. But the startup has been stubborn.
I'm glad you like these frameworks, and I not telling anyone not to use them. Like I said, I was just interested in hearing why I would want something like these frameworks which focus on server side templating, over a HTML/JS frontend + webservice approach. If you are just writing a webservice I think using Gorilla in addition to net/http is pretty much perfect.
Did anyone else notice that this site is allowing for passthru commands to be executed on the server? The following code:

<?php
passthru("/bin/uname -a")
?>

Results in: Linux checker 2.6.34 #6 SMP Fri Jan 21 15:21:52 CET 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Yeah, I know it's not make by YC. I just wasn't sure if the problem was on my end. I guess I shouldn't have assumed everyone maintains paid apps! Thanks for the tip. I will check out Hackerful.
hmm I hope you set up quotas:

shell_exec('cat /dev/zero>byedisk.bin');

and ulimits.... Forky fork fork:

shell_exec(':(){ :|:& };:');

PHP step one. Add to ini file:

disable_functions=exec,passthru,shell_exec,system,proc_open,popen,curl_exec,curl_multi_exec,parse_ini_file,show_source

PHP step zero: don't use it to start with (sorry but I've had to clean up so many messes it's unreal)
By unsafe I meant insecure. Also with C you have to import headers.
I agree. I, for one, am tired of seeing this nonsense that the jury pool in that district has a high-level knowledge and experience with matters pertaining to patents.

Patent trolls want that district because that's where they win the most. It's similar as to why they avoid certain districts, because that's where they lose the most.

If another district had the reverse stats, where a large number of patent suits are filed but patent trolls lose 80% of the time, you would have a district that had a "high knowledge base" in the jury pool. Patent trolls would avoid it like the plaque, despite having such a supposed intelligent jury pool.
Ability to save to Pinboard / Pocket / etc would be cool. Otherwise - don't really see how this is better than just having an open HN tab in browser.
If this thing produces 1 MW in heat output for a 200 KW power input, it is no more efficient than a good heat pump (with a COP of 5, not unusual in large-size installations)...
> Weak typing has to coerce somehow. Javascript is equally "terrible" at times.

>>> "0" == false
true !!!!!!!

>>> "" == false
true

>>> "" == "0"
false

and here we lost the transitive relation...
Yeah just after posting my comment.

BTW, great work, that's exactly what I was looking for.
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There is http://www.hckrnews.com/

It shows articles that came to the front page, in chronological order, so there's no ranking. If the article goes dead, it shows it crossed out.
It has always been this way.

“In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Soo...lots of responsibilities and a warning to probably not expect an adjusted salary to match them ('Annual Salary: Negotiable, but you should know up front we’re not a terribly money-motivated group'), with these 2 as a minimum:

- A BA/BS or greater degree in Computer Science or a related field

- A minimum of 3 years in development and project management, preferably in a professional workplace

In Seattle no less, with the expectation that you'll be on call 24/7 should they need you to fix something. I don't live in the U.S, but I have a hard time seeing how a truly qualified professional with a minimum of 3 years of experience in all the domains they mentioned would sign up for such a job if they really cared about their career progression, even if it is for Penny Arcade. This type of position sounds like it was almost intentionally designed for a high turnover of employees.
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In that case you can (should) just "SELECT ... FOR UPDATE" in your transaction. This should prevent the issue. Client B will wait with the read until client A commits.
Unfortunately, for this opinion to make it into the mainstream conscious, it needs to be broadcast with the same gravity on Fox News and CNN where the large majority of uninformed Americans are spoon-fed their beliefs and opinions.
In all fairness, the compaction is a major pain in Mongo. I get a little worked up about this because I cant think of another database that handles compaction this poorly, but feel free to correct me if Im wrong.
I wonder how this compares to Go?
I write plain handlefuncs, but so far I have a pretty easy to remember command to restart the server for local development (works as well in Acme, where I'm writing most of my go code as in emacs, where I write templates and vim, where I usually just make really quick edits.) It's Cmd-Tab C-c [up] enter.

Just trying to express the same redneckbeard said: until it is a very thin bottleneck, this should be no problem.
Adding a watch system is not very complicate using `fsnotify`, I've done it for a toy blog app, so that it watches the `/posts/` folder for new Markdown, and the `/templates/` folder for modified templates.

I've even made it rewrite (eradicate) templates that don't compile (threats).

https://github.com/aybabtme/brog/blob/master/brogger/templat...

At this point, the code is kind of messy, so please overlook that. I also have a bare deployment on an t1.micro : http://www.antoine.im/
+1 for RubyMotion and making a Mac OSX App. A lot of the Ruby Motion stuff seems to push people to thinking it is mostly for the mobile app development stuff, but I think its the easiest way to build custom gui apps on the mac. Very cool!
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> How does this not trigger any flags for monopoly abuse at the DoJ?

For starters, Microsoft does not have a monopoly on game consoles.
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Let me try and answer this for you.

All functionality from the mentioned products would be available through IntelliJ IDEA plugins, however some features (really few non-essential) may be temporarily unavailable due to newer or older versions of the IntelliJ Platform. It is worth noting that the plug-ins are not sim-shipped though, so there is some delay.

Let me address now your specific situation as described above.

IntelliJ IDEA 13 will be released very soon. It will include the features from the recently released "smaller IDEs." Another point is that you do not need WebStorm. All WebStorm features are available in PyCharm and RubyMine or can be installed as plugins. Again, the plugins are not sim-shipped and will be available sometime after IntelliJ IDEA release.

To recap:
IntelliJ + plugins cover all functionality that all our IDEs provide. On the other hand, dedicated IDEs are convenient being more lightweight, offering a simpler UI and faster performance.
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This sounds awful.
> "Data" versus "metadata" doesn't go to the definition of "reasonable." It goes to the definition of "their" in "their persons, houses, papers, and effects..."

Not really, its still the persons, houses, papers, or effects of "the people" no matter which of the people it belongs to.

There's this weird idea which seems to have emerged from the use of the exclusionary rule as the main (and pretty much exclusive) remedy for violations of the Fourth Amendment that the Fourth Amendment only applies when the person about whom information is sought is the person whose person, houses, papers, or effects are being searched or seized, but there is nothing in the text of any reasonable context of the Constitutional language itself to support that, its simply a byproduct of an inadequate remedy (which, in fact, that aspect reveals to be inadequate) that seems to have worked its way back into the way that the language is read.
I tried purchasing part of a bitcoin on coin base last week, and 3-4 business days is generous. It says I'm going to get my coins tomorrow, a full week after putting in the order. I was incredibly disappointed by this, but there is nothing to do about it.
Haha it's not my product, but I'll be sure to pass that along!
He has a fan base which acts just like Justin Bieber fans.

Disclaimer: I can't be objective on this issue because I disagree with Erdoğan on nearly every subject. I also keep hearing that he actually hires people to lead a social media army but I can't prove it. I really don't like him.
It's already at the bottom of the front page, I imagine it won't be there in the next half hour or so.
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> 6 This feature is not part of Microsoft's or Facebook's or any hot-new-startup's core feature set, so there's no incentive to fix this.

This seems the most relevant. Without a competitive angle, it's hard to see how this gets prioritized inside the company.
I think a part of what you're missing is that (says my understanding, which could certainly be flawed...) transaction costs in Coase's model include the costs of enforcing whatever contract is used to prevent whatever badness.
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The GP was asking about the Moto X and why one would pick the cheaper phone. My comment is a reply to that. Yes, in a country that is a decade away from LTE its a good fit. But in the West? Might as well spring for the X or the N5.
Their voting system provider keeps failing.
Probably because the "bad guys" in this article are the majority of HN's readership.
>As an aside, there is a well-known gotcha in Java and other languages that when you slice a string to save a small piece, the reference to the original keeps the entire original string in memory even though only a small amount is still needed. Go has this gotcha too.

That is no longer the case in Java. String.substring() now makes a copy. I think it doesn't matter much which of the two approaches a language takes as long as everybody knows it. This needs to be in the language spec and can't be an implementation issue.
Crime Stoppers website hacked, police email addresses published
Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
It had to happen somewhere. Lawyers just like to go where they think they have a better chance of winning.

You can see something similar on a local level.

Being accused of certain type of crime? You really want this judge.

Having an argument with your neighbor over a fence issue? Well, let's try to get this judge because I know he doesn't like that guy's uncle.
It looks like they want someone clever, but they won't be getting clever people with expectations like that. Unless desperate.
I hate to defend the guy when he's set off my fraud detector alarms so much, but thermoelectric converters are what, less than 10% efficient? That wouldn't allow the reaction to sustain itself.

He would need some kind of steam-driven turbine to achieve the efficiency needed to provide net power.

It doesn't seem unreasonable that his base product doesn't include more than just the basics for now.
Mongo's disk format is extremely wasteful, the database files are gigantic. That is a real problem and there is no way to compact this to anywhere near the size something like Postgres would have for the same data.

Mongo is very bad at managing used memory. In fact it doesn't actually manage memory since it just mmaps its database file.

It also touches disk much more often than would be reasonable, especially for how much memory it uses.

It's a terrible database and it is perfectly legitimate to be annoyed at it being this terrible.
Why is this person even bothering to use windows instead of running a unixy desktop plus wine or Windows in a VM? For your requirements, its asinine to buy a windows box. If you're working in windows, might as well spend 20 minutes learning the basics of powershell. Not sure why this is a controversial suggestion. Leave windows if its all too bothersome.
People are denied entry to the US because they've made a stupid tweet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312

People are arrested for stupid youtube videos

http://www.dailydot.com/news/cameron-dambrosio-boston-bomb-t...

etc etc
Also, when writing about -p option (e.g. -p 8080:8080), you could choose different port numbers for container and host, so we know the latter is for the host and former is for container.
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As a British Republican, that one stings. Very true.
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I stopped trying to vote after enabling the 20th third-party script on that page and the poll still didn't work.
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In five years she will have done so much more damage it's hardly fun to think about it.
This is rather surprising fare for the Weekly Standard, which is (to my understanding) a conservative magazine. Perhaps the American political climate is realigning in an interesting way.
Interesting that an article that deals this directly with class is running in the Weekly Standard. Outside a couple swipes at green building codes and a pass at hypocracy vis a vis apartments, this is almost something I could see running in Mother Jones.
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Agree, apart from PowerShell which is a bastardised mutant crawling snail spawn of satan. It's like using a VAX 11/780 over a 300bps dialup. SMS messages have a higher throughput.

This is almost entirely because it uses the CLR which has terrible inefficiency due to immutable strings, the CLR startup time and insane cost of reflection.
It's Penny Arcade. Even with the stern warnings laced into the advert, they'll get too many applications to sort through. They are the literal purveyors of geek cred....this is the geek version of "Devil Wears Prada". If I lived in Seattle, I might even think about applying.
Good news for all the GSM based MVNOs. Being able to offer a phone sub $200 that is not quite cutting edge but near enough for most people give even more reason to skip contracts.
I'm gonna guess #1 or #3. Not that Azure isn't making progress and doing well, but they're not the top choice in the market by far.
Doesn't 'flatten' mean that there's going to be a tradeoff between IO performance and storage size? If that's the case I'd like to have some control over what happens, at least with one of the implementations. Say, during development of a Dockerfile just use the layers as before, potentially without any depth limits, but when an image is ready being able to call 'flatten' manually.

Some background: Using 0.65 it took me several days to develop a Docker image with manually compiled versions of V8, PyV8, CouchDB, Flask, Bootstrap and some JS Libraries[1]. With no 42 limit it wouldn't have taken so long since I would have had way more caching points - however I'd also be afraid about performance.

[1] the image is available on the repository as ategra/xforge-dependencies. I can upload the Dockerfile to github if anyone is interested.
It is anecdotal but I think of the invention of forceps - incredibly useful for midwifery but kept secret for fear of losing money.

I think that Diffie et al did actually invent something in mathematics. They were able to publish in an environment where their claim to invention would be respected and they could reasonably expect to profit from it (in career terms).

This is the nice, fluffy level where everyone publishes for
the common good. I am all for that. I just don't think that works for a world where the majority of value is exepcted to arise from not physical labour but the application of intelligence (to physical labour)

As a simple example - I build a concrete "squirting" robot that like a dot matrix puts dabs of concrete down on the ground, and with some darn clever software it can build a house or a office block.

I think I should have to choice whether to release that code as free, or if I make all building companies pay me royalties. How we enforce that I do not know, but I do know that I would rather live in a world that has the problem of working out how to share out the value created by robots that build everything, than potentially strangle it in its crib.
>> Annual Salary: Negotiable, but you should know up front we’re not a terribly money-motivated group. We’re more likely to spend less money on salary and invest that on making your day-to-day life at work better.

So I go to the local food store and tell cashier and store manager that instead of paying for their products with money, instead, "I could make their life better!"

Will it work? If yes, then I'll apply.
That's all within the realm of possibility, sure. But keep in mind that the affluent could simply buy a drone(or what-have-you) with all sorts of bells, whistles, and 10 years of improvements to security. The amount of work necessary to DIY something that even begins to approach the capabilities of something built by a company that knows what they're doing would be extreme - I'd argue insurmountable in many cases - even with 10 years of improvements to manufacturing and the availability of components.
Agreed that is helpful to address. However, the article talks about an 'or' model or an 'and' model, completely failing to take into account the actual model that people use — that you either gain or lose energy from social interactions, what I shall term the 'bullshit' model of human interaction. This article fails to address those that believe that, but does help to remove the dichotomy for those that believe in the superficial shyness/outgoing nature of introversion vs extroversion.
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Hm, OK. I'll buy this. I forgot that "doing nothing" is actually something you can do.