skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This numbers don't give away too much because of subjective nature of "valued at" as well not actually knowing the mean or the variance, let alone the nature of distribution.

However what is impressive is that if you were going to do startup with YC, your chance of becoming significant company is about 10%. Due to nature of power law in these things, I tend to think, may be about 20% of other startups managed to become less spectacular but still successful and other 40% may be just sustainable to make a reasonable living(lifestyle business) and rest had to fold.
I'm getting sick of the word "Startup".
This blog post is soliciting feedback on the general idea before I go and do the work of submitting a formal RFC. For all I know, someone could have shot it down. Just think of this as step 1 toward the development of an RFC.
Some of the ideas involved were being used by NSA and GCHQ secretly before Diffie published.

Experts including Diffie who have discussed it with the mathematicians in question conclude that nobody else had a full working system for it before Diffie published.
That was one of the precedents I looked at, but I should definitely touch base with Heroku to see if they have any suggestions, too.
Let this be a lesson to us all: If you going to be a misanthropic ass, it's probably best not to use your real name.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding... does <ctrl>-<plus> not work for you?
Doesn't the 6% get diluted once additional money is invested?
Do it. Write the article :)
Seems like they've disabled gifting of free games for now.
Fig 1E seems promising, as it shows that the bound bases tend to be more conserved. That said, you are right that as far I could tell there were no direct measurements of transcriptional effects. Either way, it was a good read, and brought up a bunch of interesting questions to figure out next.
This is sort of a misunderstanding of evolution. It's not building to the most efficient or the greatest form of anything. It's spontaneous change that may or may not survive with no real reference to "the best."
There's no point in arguing against it. It's going to happen eventually whether you like it or not. Better to prepare now.
If you're going to torture somebody because they're a troublesome inmate that needs punishing, that's one debate and I can imagine some arguments for that.

If you're going to torture somebody who hasn't even been found guilty yet, that's a different story.
Mac Pros probably don't sell in the numbers that the Apple laptops, iPads, or iPhones sell.

But it is entirely possible that Apple feels the shortage of AMD GPUs right now, which could be one of the causes for the Mac Pro not being available.
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Unrelated to the article: I have taken a quick browse around this site. Their content and supposed mission is very appealing and something i have much respect for. However, as an organization that is fighting for digital rights i don't agree or understand why they use Google's surveillance code (analytics) on this site.

A similar site comparison would be Bruce Scheier's blog [1], which uses no 3rd party tracking code whatsoever.

Furthermore, they don't accept cryptocurrency donations and seem to push for PayPal. Disappointing.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/
In answer to myself, it seems Java continues to be inept at in-memory data security. See: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/20322/why-encryp...
> why would you invest a ton of money into quality photography and then cover it up with a watermark

I can't speak to Google Shopping, but Amazon requires a high-quality image before you can list a product. So if you spend money on the shot you don't want others stealing it. EXIF data and other non-watermark solutions are easily removed.
Who says I haven't.
Snowshoe spam is pretty common now, with a lot of the larger networks mixing in spammers with legitimate traffic (lookin' at you, ovh.com).

As it is right now, spam is just mostly a drain on network and human resources.

This attack would also target storage. Google has enormous amounts of storage, so I've no idea whether it would be effective against them or not. But, it would be very effective against any smaller service providers that tried to do the same image caching thing (which so far seems to be a roundly bad idea, IMO).

It would also open up the possibility of using Google as an attacker to take down other sites. If Google's servers immediately requested the image for caching, then just send out a few million messages to Google addresses, each one with a unique URL pointing to some big image file on some site you want to take down. Most sites will accept a query string after an image URL, so ... bob's yer uncle. As it is now, this isn't an effective attack because you need to get people to actually open up the email message and then click "Display images", all within a short period of time.
20 year old tech can avoid patent problems but I share you scepticism about the status of VP8/9.

Agree H.264 is cheap but I think you underestimate how cheap. Internet delivered video that is not subscription or pay per view is free!

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcweb.pdf

I'm actually sceptical that VP9 will be good enough and patent safe enough to dislodge H.265. From what I've read about Daala I suspect it will too late to the battle. I suspect hardware support for H.265 is already well under way that a convincing improvement would be necessary to stop H.265 dominating the next decade. The advocates for Free codecs need to forget about H.264 and focus on a compelling argument to beat H.265 and get their chosen answer into hardware developments NOW. In 12 months it will be too late if it isn't already.

That doesn't mean I don't appreciate the development of these and other codecs, they are a factor in keeping the license prices reasonable.
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This is something that really should be done under the auspices of the IETF. Folks interested in this should ask the IETF to set up a WG and they should include a generic network database protocol (or protocols) as one of the goals. Some people will just want to work out the URI issue but others will be interested in seeing through the larger issues.
So I admit I haven't skimmed the paper yet.

Is it as comprehensive a map of DNA-encoded transcription factors as can be had? I ask because I can understand the way DNA codes for proteins–as a software-head–but the article definitely gets me with this "second language" and I want to think more about how the overlapping meanings might have developed (and how that might be apply to digital code).

Other than "start," "stop," "intron," "exon," and "suppress" (aka disable), what do the transcription factors do in terms of actual cell proteins?

I admit that a really detailed description of cell protein processes will be beyond my depth. :)
I think the simplest way to buy litecoins as an American is to buy bitcoins using coinbase and then exchange them for litecoins on btc-e.
Is extremely wrong that a system trying to impose justice put its suspects under psychological abuse before trial, making them hate society, and therefore increasing the possibility of actually becoming criminals.
We hire developers who have no ruby or rails experience all the time at Shopify.
What's this? Yahoo logo's on the EmberJS homepage
Solitary confinement is torture. So, cracking or not, a bizarre response to a non-violent crime.
Where are all the trolls?
Google's an advertising company. Selling eyeballs -- or information on how to get more eyeballs -- is what they do.
It's interesting to think of it like that but that's basing your understanding on something else that's just not as complex.
yeah, OK, but again, it's not really an invasion of privacy bcause they get the mails and the URLs in the first place. If you don't want your e-mails read by google, you probably don't use GMail.
why is this better than making a subreddit?
Any source on that bit about junk DNA?

I just completed a reasonably advanced course on computational biology and I was still taught that although we have found noncoding DNA performing functions, the majority of our DNA is both noncoding and not used for anything (i.e. evolutionarily obsolete, transposons, etc).
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So, can someone tie this into 23andMe? Wouldn't it change what they looked for?
> but have recently seen some mvc apps where models/views/controllers are grouped together by function/name

Can you put links to some of those apps that use that approach?
Instead of watching a movie I spent my evening reading through this guys website and looking at all the amazing images. Very impressive.
> Your advice sounds a bit pretentious to me. Here I was under the mistaken impression that people should be themselves.

No, no they shouldn't. Not if that means "take whatever action they feel like." One should take purposeful actions which serve to help their fellow HN'er and maintain the tremendously useful tool that this website has become. They should refrain from actions which decrease the signal to noise, or otherwise decrease the utility of HN.

That's not pretentious. That's the just an explicit statement of the implicit communal understanding which made this site what it is.
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This guy built a classic run-of-the-river scheme, i.e. the main stream is not dammed. He built an intake channel off the main stream that flows into a forebay, where the penstock and piping system is installed. He also talks about putting a trash filter in the forebay, again a pretty standard thing to do.

Run-of-the-river schemes probably have the lowest impact on the local environment. I'd imagine very few fish would go into the intake channel.
All tracking cookie/email marketing/whatever other fluffy stuff aside, I'd love to hear about technical hurdles & challenges from Google engineers on this. Sounds like a very damn interesting/challenging task to undertake.
As another commenter mentioned, I learned about Martini midway through writing this.

I really like Martini - if it existed a bit earlier, I probably would have just used it and been happy.

That being said, there are some differences between the packages. First, Martini has great plugin support because 3rd parties can inject their arbitrary type into handlers. On the other hand, gocraft/web has nested routers and middleware, which are really important for my own projects.

This may be temporary, but gocraft/web also has faster performance because it does less reflection, and because it's router is O(log(N)) instead of O(N). (See https://github.com/cypriss/golang-mux-benchmark , especially as you add more routes).

Finally, I prefer a more consistent signature to my handlers. Martini optimizes for flexibility. And depending on how much you want to inject into your handlers, your argument list can get really long.

Overall, I think Martini is absolutely great and think it's one of the best Go web libs out there.
There is, in fact, a difference between "junk DNA" and "noncoding DNA," now that we see some noncoding DNA performing functions as switches, promoters, TF-binding sites (like the article describes), etc.
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I love how the CEO of Shopify is on HN getting talent the day he closes the $100m round. Thanks for Active Merchant, btw, it is awesome. Liquid is cool too.
Yes, with a subreddit folks will already be registered so there's no barrier to participation. On the other hand, because there's no barrier to participation then perhaps worse s/n ratio. But noise is better than silence.
If folks want to really understand the history, demographics, socioeconomic issues, and legality/zoning/civics of the Tenderloin, they should read this article: http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/arise-tender...

^ It's easily the most accurate, holistic, and honest piece on the Tenderloin I've ever come across.
Have you guys thought about an internship program?
Because modern science is Eurocentric? :p
I once introduced a fairly serious bug into our software. It caused, probably, a 40% drop in perceived performance. The bug was based entirely on me misunderstanding what one of the EE's told me. I fixed it in the next release and was lauded in a meeting for improving performance.
Ported to Chrome? That editorialized headline is kinda wrong. It's pNaCl. With pNaCl, you can have an Emscripten fallback, if you want.
Honest question... How is this different from what was discovered around 2007?

I ask, because insofar as I'm aware, the moment geneticians parsed the human genome was the moment it occurred to them that most (90%?) of the information was missing. (As in, information to make the remaining proteins that we build in our body.)

I vaguely recollect 2007 being the year where they discoverned and/or described how ARN can influence how ADN is read and turn bits and pieces of information on and off to use the same code to build new proteins. And another team the same year described how injecting ARN could allow to use existing ADN to potentially build proteins that aren't synthesized in the body.

So... How is this different exactly? :-|
I think the problem is that many people are here not for the tech, but the money. These same people probably would have gone to Wall Street had the investment banks not choked on their own greed. Lucky us.
I was also more emotionally affected by the poor quality collars than I am by most films!
A simple //comment would have sidestepped all of that and still clarified the number's purpose.
More bus blockades and the like. Doesnt make sense. Why would you say that. The visual minority of hoodie wearing hipster bag toting dude will be needlessly hated on even more mercilessly now.
Though I wish we could claim credit for discovering that, it's really the thesis of every startup investor.
How I am using technology to find my way in a foreign language
I am sensing some combativeness which is leading me to suspect you have wildly misinterpreted my intent. It is not my intention to make any assertion on morality in this comment, or the previous comment.

Part of my point was that the legitimacy of the grievance is a distraction. Due to its subjective nature, it cannot be computed (most reasonable people will often find each other in agreement, but this is still a distraction (and itself depends on the subjective. What is "reasonable"?))

Furthermore, actions taken by either party are again a distraction. We can talk about appropriate ways to resolve disputes, (I would argue, and I think you would agree, that threatening me with a shotgun is an appropriate response to an exceptionally narrow range of situations) but that is not what this discussion is about. The article is not about how to resolve the tension between the homeless and the 'techies'.

What the article is about is classifying the nature of the grievance techies have with the homeless. The article asserts the grievance stems from a form of Puritanism; Puritan-esque ideas about the intrinsic value of labor and the forms that contribution to society must take. The author implies that this grievance would be "not legitimate", and in fact I agree with the author. Still, the 'legitimacy' of that grievance is a distraction in the context of this conversation.

I am not arguing that the authors judgement call on the legitimacy of this grievance is incorrect. Rather, I am arguing that the author has dismissed the possibility that the grievance techies have with the homeless is much simpler (which does not* mean 'correct', 'legitimate', or 'moral'.)*

I cannot fulfill your request (in the final paragraph of your above comment), because I do not believe that a grievance is legitimized by the size of the mob. Furthermore, I believe the 'moral legitimacy' of the a grievance is not relevant to ascertaining what grievances a mob has. In fact, we cannot even begin to discuss that until we have agreed upon exactly what that grievance is. Agreeing what the grievance is must be a prerequisite for discussing the merits of the grievance.

tl;dr: The mob is techies. Noreen Malone believes that the mob has been riled up by some form of neopuritanism. I consider that possible, but I do not consider it the simplest explanation, nor the most likely explanation.
It might indeed change our understanding of specific point mutations, for example, but it won't negate any of their research, as far as I can tell. On the contrary, it will help them moving forward as we now have some basis on which to understand what is going on a little better in the steps between genotype and phenotype.
Production consistently rewarded fire-fighters without realizing they were in fact encouraging arson

This is delightful phrasing. I'm totally going to steal it. :)
Seriously this is not getting the attention it deserves. This is a huge achievement. When they started out the world looked a lot different but despite all the doubts and pressure from Microsoft they managed to pull this off.
Yes, let's all come together and help the city tackle the problem of drug abuse, an often cited precursor to becoming homeless.

I think cost and availablility of housing might have something more to do with it, seeing as rich folks doing drugs doesn't lead to homelessness nearly as much.
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So I saw the page and will probably sign up. However, there won't be a strong motivation for me to come participate unless there is a) A minimum threshold of folks who use it actively. or b) I keep seeing it in my feed. I visit HN and reddit every day and that is easier for me to participate in.
I guess someone has to bring it up, but a digital design school is not a startup.
Actually, solitary confinement is pretty standard in Denmark. And for that reason, the UN has even raised concerns about it. Not that anything has happened in this regard.
Work fine under linux (using wine):

Fallout: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...

Fallout 2: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...

Fallout Tactics: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...
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...at the time that we receive your USD from the bank, 4 business days later.

Is there really no faster way for coinbase to receive a payment? This doesn't seem practical, or rather it seems a bit too practical for a company that wanted to set up a one-way "pump" to profit by alternatively: immediately completing, or stretching out, transactions based on which action pulls value directly out of the customer's pocket.
Not one of the engineers here, but I hang out with them a lot. Exciting work being done in the fields of machine-learning, hardware (potentiostats), and all open-source. It's a small core-team that definitely has the hacker mindset.
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There's a sort of threshold around there. A startup can raise at $20m after Demo Day by looking really promising, but to raise at $40m you usually have to be launched and growing consistently.
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Maybe. But no private company has charged Svartholm Warg with anything in this case. He is only being charged by the Danish authorities. And Danish authorities are not exactly known for their ruthlessness.
Probably my first app because it launched me into my consulting career, which led to writing my first book, which is leading to my ideal lifestyle.
$40m is the threshold, but this is a domain with a pretty steep power law distribution, so their total value is a good deal more than that.
A lawyer has to produce a draft of a brief or of a contract in time to meet a deadline set by the client's schedule, so the work output just has to get done. But the draft brief or draft contract works best to meet the client's needs if it is developed after thought, and being just-plain-busy isn't the same as thinking.

Right, but this goes back to a point higher up in this thread.

If Lawyer A writes the contract from scratch every time and takes two days, but Lawyer B has a modular contract-assembly system she optimised earlier and just needs to make a few tweaks -- which will take two hours -- which lawyer will you pick?

That human nature thing again: we'd distrust the person who can get it done too quickly. (Though, we might be able to grok the situation enough to appreciate B's initiative and, especially if we wanted a lot of contracts, might be able to override our instinctive reaction that she hasn't had enough time to think about it properly.)
You're correct in that this is not what the paper is talking about. However, there is a third layer (at least) beyond the gene-coding, most-studied area, and the article submitted; epigenetics studies how gene expression is modified by histone modification and DNA methylation, basically different ways of switching gene expression on/off or changing the amount of protein made from a certain gene.
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This probably varies greatly team-by-team. After all, it's a big company. I interned at Amazon over the summer, too, and basically did the same thing you did. However, I did get a return offer at the end. Sounds like you were unlucky and had a bad experience with your team, and I'm sorry about that. But I will say that what makes the difference probably is communication. You were probably working enthusiastically and producing great code, but did your manager know that? Meanwhile, I wasn't so enthusiastic about my intern project (it was an accounting system, so yawn...), and I didn't really produce all that much code (it was mainly just gluing some existing systems together). Hell, for a whole week, I was blocked waiting for information from a team in India and spent the entire week working on a side project. However, my team had daily standup, and I always had something to say about what I was doing at the time and what I was stuck on. Perhaps you actually were good about communicating what you were doing and your manager just ascribed to the "time of butt in chair" method of measuring programmer productivity, which is unfortunate. But if you didn't, it's something to think about.