skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bacteria are constantly mutating and looking for new ways to kill us. And since antibiotics are over-prescribed and being added to livestock feed as a preventive measure rather than to treat animals that are actually sick, currently available antibiotics are losing their effectiveness.

Drug companies are no longer doing research on new antibiotics, because antibiotics actually cure things and hence are not profitable. Today's drug companies are only interested in treatments that last a lifetime. Pfizer was the last drug company doing research into new antibiotics, and they closed that division because it wasn't (and wasn't going to be) profitable.

I think the fact that drug companies and medicine in general are not focused on important problems, but only on profitable problems, is a major issue we should be addressing. See the recent Frontline documentary "Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmar...
And Mint was purchased by Intuit, which already had the backend integrations for years due to Quicken.
Google Scholar has a reasonable interface, but I find its actual content to be unreliable at best. Downloading references in e.g. BibTeX format, I almost always find significant errors, sometimes in relatively innocuous fields (different formats of a conference name, etc.) but other times in more important fields (authors' names).

It's a great tool, and I use it all the time, but it's certainly no replacement to a properly-managed bibliographic database.
"At no point does the author mention the government and at no point does he mention making every aspect of your life public." That's correct. I made the root post for this particular comment thread, and I consciously expanded the discussion to include broader questions of privacy. That's why I began by saying that the author's explicit claims were fine, but that I also noticed a possible subtext. We're not declaring the author wrong, because he never explicitly said the things with which we're now disagreeing. We're stating a position that some people hold, then disagreeing with that position.
Ask HN: Thoughts on an MS in Data Science?
My university just announced an 11-month professional masters program for data science: http://people.virginia.edu/~jjh2b/msds/

Is it worth it?
Wipebook by Frank Bouchard — Kickstarter
I use it on Mac every day. The regi client is not required on the Mac version and it works just fine. I don't understand how you can make claims without even trying
I spoke with Nima about this a few months ago.

He isn't saying that sometimes all probabilities don't add up to one, he is constructing a physical theory without assuming that as a precondition.

It is a consequence of the theory and develops, but he said that if he can explain unitarity in terms of other phoenomena, then there is probably something more fundamental happening, possibly new physics.
vs email attachment
I think snapchat's timeout feature is a novelty that attracted users, but people ultimately just want to send private messages to their friends. Not everything needs to be broadcasted, and that's part of the OG instagram userbase - people that wanted an alternative to the facebook feed.

What's wrong with texting though? My friends and I have been texting and group texting images and short video for years. Why do people like having an app for this?
Where is Twitter with Vine Direct?
Echoing other commentators' sentiments that Shopify is a remarkable company:

Last year, we found out that a group of folks at Shopify were using my company's product, iDoneThis, when Tobi Lutke (CEO) emailed me about a customer service issue. They were by far our highest profile customers and we were super amped to have them. We thought, how cool would it be to visit Shopify up in Ottawa, get to know them and see how they were using iDoneThis?

I emailed Tobi and basically invited ourselves up there to visit with them. He not only said yes, he got excited, told me that he thought it was an awesome idea and that he wished he'd spent more time with customers in the early days of Shopify. They made space in their office and everyone on the team made time to talk with us, and we ate lunch and hung out with them and talked iDoneThis and Shopify for a week!

My co-founder and I were blown away by how good those guys are. Meeting the team was the kind of experience where it's just like, man, those guys are really good at their jobs and they're doing it their way. The culture had a distinctiveness and authenticity that made the concept of "culture" real to me. Shopify is an original. I joked that we had to leave Silicon Valley and go to freezing cold Ottawa, Canada, to learn about how to start a company.

And we became friends--I still play Starcraft with one of the engineers there and email and hang out with others when they visit the states. Because of the Shopify guys, we have a bunch of Ottawa-based companies that use iDoneThis and when we raised a round, Tobi invested in us, too.

Our visit counts up there as one of the best learning experiences as a company and it opened my eyes as a founder to what entrepreneurship could mean.
A Girl Who Can't & Did
I recommend reading weekly magazines for exactly this reason. The longer time to publish also affords better perspective than the 24 second, Twitter-fueled, cable/internet news cycle.
the blog's hosted on tumblr? hm..
I took one, and I learned more on internet than these sites. If you're commited in learning, there is already everything online for free and you will quickly "get the hands in the dirt", which means actually doing what is interesting.
So, imho, this subject moves so fast, that by 11 months you'll have to learn new things.
"use single quotes instead of double quotes (to save shift keystrokes)"

as in pressing the shift key on your keyboard? That may apply to the english keyboard layout, but not other country's keyboard layouts.
R: The good parts
The problem now is not the tv anymore. I grew up and have now to deal with the distractions of this age and time.
On Balance, or Why Privacy Is A Red Herring
Just stick to reading HN. If outside news is significantly important, then it'll reach HN too.
So what source is there for "what you actually need to know" news? Something that's not afraid to say "today's need-to-know headlines: none." Something that keeps track of the status of significant long-term stories even while they're not catchy, knowing that something is happening, and predicting it will be a big deal again later. Something that dispenses with the "sensational but not relevant" stories. Something that might have a modest price tag attached, to dispense with the necessity to grab maximum eyeballs daily to sell ad space. Thoughts? Future YC candidate maybe?
vs WhatsApp
I also love the Economist audio edition. I listen to it during my commute, and mostly get through it each week. It kept me sane on a horrible commute with my previous job.

They have a separate digital subscription, if you just want the website and audio edition. It is included in a print subscription as well. You can buy a single week, if you want to try it out.

Highly recommended if you want to ignore the advice of the OP.
"I am going to write an app that allows the user to send pictures to their contacts!"

I guess one must have a fair bit of userbase karma + mystique to successfully reinvent the wheel, to make a funnier-to-use wheel that actually gets used.
vs Path
Gnucash comes to mind.
He probably had to go to lunch, and it was faster to stamp "Approved" than to justify disapproval.
Summary:

If we publish our home brewed content without watermarks and it is lifted off google and used to compete against us, we have no effective recourse.

Detail:

In our company, one advancement track is from Customer Service to Products. It seems like a good and obvious thing to do, but typically photos and product materials in our space are produced by teams without direct experience helping customers make CPAP equipment work for them. We often find that the stock images and materials available to us are ineffective for internet customers, as they are often designed to target physicians and the owners of traditional brick and mortar CPAP retailers.

We have spent a lot of time and effort to do better. I believe we have. Our product presentations are end CPAP user driven and focused. We view both the images produced and the knowledge that produced them as an earned competitive advantage.

We've had instances where we woke up to find anothercpapco.com copying our product catalog verbatim. I think software patents slow innovation and that the DRM situation in the music industry is bad. Yet, I made the decision to water mark our images in order to prove them stolen.
> "Ergonomic" has become a great buzzword. These keyboards are not ergonomic.

"Ergonomic" is not a binary switch. A thing is not simply "ergonomic" or not. And more importantly, what is ergonomic varies based on the user. For the author, these keyboards are presumably more ergonomic than alternatives. For you, they might not be.

> Note that you WILL still get RSI from using these keyboards.

That's a rather strong claim, especially considering that many people never get RSI even from standard keyboards.
I would prefer my images not have watermarks, but I'd also prefer the best images. This seems counter to that goal. I know some merchants like Newegg invest money into having their own photos done and it is very valuable for making it clear what connector components have and the like, but this makes it not quite so valuable to them since others could pretty easily reuse the images without being caught and without quality loss of watermark removal.
What's odd about that? Tons of companies use Tumblr for their official blogs?
What NORAD Santa can teach you about customer experience
Image editing within the same application that sends the message is a real benefit vs. just sms-ing an image.
His account on the plagiarism story. http://www.dobelli.com/book-corrections/taleb

It's definitely easy to see his book as heavily influenced by Taleb, but I supposed everything would be correctly referenced to Taleb — I never actually went to check references. Despite that, the book is a great summary of thinking biases and is clearly explained.
I'm no patent expert, so why did we go from a "first to use" system to a "first to file" system?
It seems that if we were still the former, this wouldn't be an issue, correct?
There were obviously people before YogaGlo using this camera angle, otherwise they wouldn't have gotten the cease and desist. Now businesses (focusing on legal instead of product, which is one of many big misses with our current patent system) can and often must file patents to ensure someone doesn't come in after them and patent something they've been using for years.
"Do most people have something to hide that is so shameful, so damning?"

Have you ever complained to a friend or family member about your boss? Then the answer is yes.

Have you ever said something really embarrassingly politically incorrect? Then the answer is yes.

Have you ever possessed an illegal drug, including alcohol while underage? Then the answer is yes.
I posted this comment, it will never make it through moderation, but someone will have to read it.

This patent is absurd and has disastrous potential for our already broken patent system for all industries, not just instructional fitness. This just goes to show you how delicate your company is that you feel you need to patent the camera angle that you use when filming a live event. How about stop wasting money and time on frivolous patents and start working on making your product the best in the industry. You will make more money and ultimately have a happier customer base than going around bullying your competitors. GG.
I question how far the Bitcoin industry can develop without government regulatory agencies getting involved. Granted I don't have a deep background in financial systems, but this seems like more than a remote possibility.

I see a parallel with Bitcoin and the financial system to Uber & Lyft with traditional taxi/limo services. In Seattle, both Uber & Lyft are being hassled by the city since they don't fall under the regulations that apply to taxis and limousines. And truth be told, I think that Uber & Lyft are going to see the regulatory matters eventually impact their operation, rather than going away.

And that's just working at a local level. Payment systems on a worldwide scale? Seems commensurately high-risk, high-reward at present, where the "high" measurement is significant.
Everyone is comparing this to Snapchat or Twitter, but what about FB Messenger? Competing with another Facebook entity, but I guess FB wins either way now?
How many of the "Github created repositories" are useless altcoins that only mention BTC in the copyright message?
Thank you!

Codebrag is based on our open-source Bootzooka project https://github.com/softwaremill/bootzooka - a quick-start base for AngularJS+Scala(tra) projects.

The technology stack is JS (AngularJS, Grunt) + Scala (Akka, Scalatra, Rogue) + MongoDB.
not that I have tried, but I was always wondering how Cloud66 compares https://www.cloud66.com/
I died @ "Unplug me! Make me Freeee!"
New Globocan World Maps - Estimated Cancer Incidence, Mortality and Prevalence
Not having to manage and deal with all the images people send you all the time is not a novelty. Smartphones all assume that every picture you have on your phone is a prize that you want to save forever. Snapchat gives people a way to send pictures that just avoid all that.
Thanks, I had no idea. I guess legal immigration isn't talked about nearly as much as illegal immigration.
The VC's are looking to invest in people selling shovels, not panning for gold/speculating on price. They've built cryptocurrencies' naturally high volatility into their expectations, and are looking for ROI on service fees.
Lagoa Will Revolutionize 3D Design and Maybe Even E-Commerce
> The maker/producer/distributor should provide advertising materials and they usually do.

They usually don't. To be more specific, their photos always suck.

When you're buying something online, photos do make the difference and having good photos is what makes people click on BUY.
Not to distract too much from how terrible the subject matter of the patent is, but can someone explain why they decided to put the "system for" claims separate from the "method for" claims? There is some small fee associated to each claim, so why aren't each of these claims written as "a system or method for ..."
Bitcoin needs more effective mainstream marketing and with $25 million in depreciating dollars, I really hope that Coinbase is the entity that brings Bitcoin to the masses.

I would strongly suggest that Coinbase do an endorsement deal with William Devane and start buying ad spots on FOX News. The script is simple. William rides up on a horse and tells viewers:

I just feel so much more secure knowing that I own Bitcoin. And you can't print Bitcoin. Don't you just love the feel of Bitcoin?

I buy my Bitcoin from Coinbase, because I trust them. No gimmicks. Coinbase will beat any price of any Bitcoin and at any time. Just call em. And Coinbase transfers my Bitcoin in 10 days or less, faster than anyone else. So protect yourself from the problems of the world. Invest in volatility with Coinbase.

With such a compelling commercial[1], there's no reason we couldn't see BTC $1 million.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCJCcnhbmr0
Came here to say exactly that. Kudos to the original author! But just having made this and open sourced it makes them awesome enough, they don't need to puff themselves up by using easily disproved superlatives.
Instagram to introduce Face Detection and Verified Accounts
How to Scale Meteor?
The best thing about this update might be that we finally get pull-to-refresh on the home feed.
I live in Toronto, get door-to-door delivery, and am most definitely not in an affluent area, so I wouldn't even say that you assumptions hold true to Toronto.
Nice but I really dislike the website for this. I don't know if there is a term for that design but I hope it doesn't become popular.
Entrepreneurship is a coin-flipping biathlon
It really depends how you set it up, though-- for example, Digital Ocean provides their own image (http://www.andrewmunsell.com/blog/dokku-tutorial-digital-oce...) that provides a one-click deployment of Dokku, including all of the SSH key setup and stuff. Minimally, this makes it easier to start up a new Dokku instance on a new version and push your apps to the new instance before you destroy the old one. In my experience, Dokku has been fairly easy to use (minus a weird Nginx related issue I had that was a side effect of the length of my app names).

Docker (as well as Dokku) still aren't 1.0 or deemed production ready by their respective authors, so you still should always investigate both products before using them. But it is really cool to see products like Dokku and Flynn being created and maintained, since it makes deploying apps so much easier.
After google killed off ig, I switched to my.yahoo.com. It's an 85% solution.
Ask HN: Does it help to state how many users you have?
It's a common practice I see around in SaaS products, on their landing page they'd put up a live users counter or simply make a statement that you'll be joining for example 200,000 happy customers

Does this help increase conversion rates?
Pretty interesting meeting.

Seems to cover more than just bitcoin, and includes the reasoning behind Assange's drive.

Highly recommend listening to the actual audio file (its linked in the article):
http://wlstorage.net/file/cms/assange-schmidt.mp3
asm.js really shines for usecases like this, the fact that they did the port in a week is truly remarkable. GFX/Audio/Multiplayer all works fine, but loading times are pretty slow on Chrome, but for a first version this seems great.

Edit it seems pretty playable in firefox and chrome, don't notice much of a difference performance wise. Now please make a reverse case for PNaCL and pepper.js and we can all get really excited :)
Yes! Allowing the local python/ruby/... groups to use their space is much appreciated! Congrats to Shopfiy on their continuing success!
I first encountered this line of reasoning in Bulgakov's excellent 1925 book, Heart of a Dog when a doctor advises one of his friends:

If you care about your digestion, my advice is—don't talk
about bolshevism or medicine at table. And, god forbid—never
read soviet newspapers before dinner.

It seems to me that it has long been known that unactionable information is not good for you.

Curiously, another HN reader expressed the same [1] feelings about HN.

[1] http://anton.kovalyov.net/p/soviet-newspapers/
It's dual licensed. There's a proprietary/commercial license too.
I am really confused, what am I looking at? what widget? Placed where? Why? Why do you want my email? what is this??? how did this get 9 points without anyone asking?
IPhone factory conditions 'not to blame for 15-year-old worker's death'
On the western edge, I found some context about various books and papers linking up Hindu migrations into the Horn of Africa, particularly Egypt. Most of what I read about this was offline, so unable to provide additional dope in here.

Here is a write up listing some studies and names of books to consider:

http://amlanroychowdhury.webs.com/antiquityofegypt.htm

For far eastern links, read about inter-marriages and relationships for a period of over two millennium between Ayodhya(India) and Seoul (South Korea) [1]. A search on the Kim clan and Princess Heo Hwang-ok and the spread of Buddhist/Hindu culture right up to Japanese coastline can be inferred.

This is kind of the spread of Hinduism in South East Asia [2] before convertists of other religions (like Muslims or Christianity) emanated.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayodhya

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism_in_Southeast_Asia
The Incredible Brew
Another Ottawa developer here. I went to a few OCLUG meetings a decade ago (when they were still at the Main library branch) but I've been meaning to check it since they moved it to Shopify's offices. I think it might be fun going to OCLUG meetings again. :)

They're a paragon of the developer community and they host a variety of developer-related events on a regular basis, for example the recent Random Hacks of Kindness[1] event.

I've been dabbling in Go lately and Shopify seems like the only place in Ottawa that's using it to support their bottom line.

[1] http://rhok-ottawa.ca/
Cloud66 is Rails-only, whereas Dokku can use Heroku style buildpacks for any language of combination of processes.
News in the UK has several problems.

News papers are either horrible - I cannot describe just how vile much of the UK news press industry is. The decent newspapers have tiny distribution figures. The Guardian, for example, has a circulation of under 300,000 people. Obviously, more people read it, but still, that's a tiny figure.

UK news allows the agenda[1] to be set by spin doctors. We frequently has stories about how a politician "will announce" something - the speech has been released by publicists before it has been given, allowing the speaker to set the tone of the coverage.

I don't know why that's allowed or why they do it. It's incredibly frustrating.

And there's very narrow window of what is or isn't news. A blond white girl goes missing? We'll have wall to wall coverage of it for weeks. A non white person, or a boy, goes missing? Not so much. Compare, for example, the Soham coverage (two white girls killed by a caretaker at their school) with Adam Morrell, a boy who was brutally tortured and killed.

For years I read about agents that would go out and find news items that would be interesting to me. It still hasn't happened. I would pay money for something that works for me:

1) Return items that match some search terms I give. I'm interested in news items about mental health, even if it's poor coverage of a news item that mention MH in a stigmatising way.

2) Suggest items that I might be interested in based on my reading history, and what I am or am not interested in.

3) Provide suggested items to break me out of my bubble. This can be things about what I'm interested in with an opposing viewpoint to my regular sources; or it can be things that I haven't previously shown interest in.

[1] I don't know if "news agenda" is a peculiarly UK term.
That title is such a lie.
Thanks again for reporting this, we added a mention to our license:

All fonts are the property of Schwartzco, Inc., t/a Commercial Type
(https://commercialtype.com/), and may not be reproduced without
permission.
Making music automatically with markov chains and genetic algorithms
I guess it was chosen to "streamline" the process of assigning a patent to someone (first come, first served). Unfortunately that doesn't necessarily mean it's a better process, because now, as expected, the trolls (or corporations with a lot of money for filing dumb patents) will be the ones to take advantage the most from it.
See that's what I'm saying. Someone texts you a photo, it doesn't go into your photo list. It stays in your text convo. I'm all for data management and removing clutter, but I can think of 500 items to clear out before I consider private photo messages from my closest friends.
Also seeing this.

Google Chrome Version 31.0.1650.57
OS X
I like how the guy who editorializes with terms like "Collateral Murder" and carefully edited video considers himself doing "empirical journalism."
Same here, reminded me of this parody: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Does anyone use the shared photostreams in iOS 7?
Jeebus. This.

http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB0XLB528

ArE yOuR eYeS oVeRsTimUlAteD YET YET YETYET YET ETYET EYTYETYYETYYET???
From Wired:

> Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
>
> By Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine 12.11.13 12:46 PM

From Simons Foundation:

> A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
>
> By: Natalie Wolchover
>
> September 17, 2013