skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds really neat, I think I will start doing that with my daughter. I am away from home a lot so it might be something that we can do over the phone as our thing.
This guide uses Debian as base image to run docker on. Let me just quickly point out that we are working on getting Docker available as a proper Debian package (all dependencies are in place, a bit of work has to be done on the Docker package still).

Once that work is done, you’ll be able to apt-get install docker and have it just work. No more scary downloading of binaries from some server that may or may not be run by docker.io ;).

I am fairly amazed by the low quality of packaging in Linux distributions these days. I’ve looked at what Arch Linux and Gentoo do, and they just use docker.io’s blob and redistribute that. In Debian we are going to build the package from source.
Somebody somewhere always has to pay for the infrastructure. I fail to see how the parent is confused between Amazon having infrastructure which they provide cloud services on, and TestingBot having infrastructure which they provide cloud services on. What's your point of distinction on the 'financial side' between the two exactly?
There needs to be some kind of corrective list. "Commonly misspelled words online". I've noticed increasing prevalence of certain misspellings on the internet, and I fear they will reach critical mass and start building momentum.

- wreak/wreck

- weary/wary

- piqued/peaked
They really need to redo the source footage of their intro video. The audio is awful and the green-screen they used had some not-great lighting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSkOVkgd8hY
"To create encryption keys, RSA uses two huge prime numbers and
multiplies them together to produce an even bigger prime."

-- Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com August 9, 2002
I've been thinking some about Soylent and the criticisms leveled against them, mainly that we still don't know as much as we'd like about exactly what types of food the human body needs to survive.

One the one hand, it was my understanding that most nutritional deficiencies are relatively slow to develop, and whatever happens as a consequence of them usually goes away after the sufferer resumes normal eating. So if there is a problem with it, whoever notices it will probably be able to just go back to whatever they were eating before and be no worse off.

On the other hand, what better way to learn more about what the human body really needs than to create a food like Soylent and have a bunch of people try to live off of it long-term? If it turns out that there's some vitamin or something that we need a little bit of every so often and didn't know about, then we'll find out about it from people eating Soylent, and they'll add that to it and keep going. So good for them on actually getting out there and trying it, instead of talking about how impossible they think it is.
It's inane because any reform that helps invalidate patents can be seen as weakening the patent system.

Notice he didn't specify whether or not it weakens strong patents, but the patent system. A good thought experiment would be to ask yourself if you think the patent system needs to be made stronger. If you don't think it needs to be made stronger then would it still work if made weaker? If neither is true, you are close to saying the system is perfect the way it is.
You probably shouldn't consume only Soylent either, unless you're prepared for a transitional period [1] if you ever need to eat solid foods again.

[1] http://discourse.soylent.me/t/effects-of-re-introducing-soli...
This reaction -- that "most creative ideas are bad" is exactly what the article is talking about.

How are you defining "bad"? Do you mean to imply that all creative ideas must be financially rewarding to be good? Or must have literary or artistic value?

I do agree that within the context of a working environment, many creative ideas are not going to result in a net benefit to the company. But does that make them bad? Or are the cliches and the bad ideas necessary stepping stones to finding the right idea?

I would posit that the bad ideas are a necessary part of the creative process. You are absolutely correct that spending time on every idea would be a disaster. But being dismissive of "bad" ideas does not respect the creative process, and expressing that negativity to a creative team will just encourage them to be less creative next time.

I think your post proved the point of the article.
They need to buckle down, work with the FDA and fully recognize the gravity of the information they are presenting to people. I can't imagine that they won't be able to do this.
Are the BRCA genetics well enough understood that a deep sequence of that gene is able to be adequately interpreted?

Ultimately, what you seem to be suggesting is that it is better that we not get partial data because most people won't understand that it's partial data and further won't know what to do with it. Most people are not geneticists. I sort of agree, but there is no doubt in my mind that the future will see the loosening of the physician-as-gatekeeper, and to what extent is that acceptable. Would this service be allowed if they taught cursory genetics and SNPs in the general biology curricula at the high school level?
14 year old programming prodigy
Couldn't find one for serial, but here's one for Ethernet: http://m.imgur.com/7Mbx8yk
somehow I doubt terrorists would give a damn about a law restricting their use or ownership.
Ask HN: What is happening on Mt. Gox right now?
http://www.bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/
I'm not sure if anyone has been watching but someone is buying 729.2489 BTC at 850. Which wouldn't be unusual if it wasn't following by an exact buy of 135 of 775 right after. This cycle has happened, with the exact same amounts for the past 30 minutes and I don't know what to make of it. It's just in a loop. The market won't move either way.

I know there is some kind of gaming going on, I just don't know what it is, yet. Any ideas?
Privacy ― A Postmortem
Didn't Crosby, Stills and Nash get it with, "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"?
> One is that the carbohydrate mixture has been nailed: one 500g bag of Soylent will contain 210g of oat flour and 132g of maltodextrin. The protein mix has also shifted—our beta Soylent contained a mix of rice and pea protein, but production Soylent will contain 102g of brown rice protein isolate.

Anyone else tried Brown Rice protein, and found it's undrinkable, harsh, and indigestible, probably because they use also the bran and germ to derive the protein from?

Maltodextrin pretty much made me feel terrible and weak when I took it in the past.

And eating oats in the morning these days for some reason messes with my ability to fall asleep later on.

> This has been simplified, with the main oil switching from grapeseed to canola.

I consider grapeseed oil to be the perfect oil. It's light and easily digestible. All other oils have been known to give people headaches and migraine that have sensitive digestive systems. Especially when mixed with whatever you're eating - causing digestive issues with that food.

They've turned their product into 1 big allergen for me. Though that's just me, you might not have any problems with it.
Nice! I was thinking of adding a feature like this to my animated-guitar-tabs site Soundslice (http://www.soundslice.com/). I've got time-synced data for each note in a song, with string and fret values, so I'm planning to do stuff like "cliche lick" detection. Searching by riff would be a great addition.

I talk about this a little bit toward the end of this tech presentation I gave: http://37signals.com/talks/soundslice

I definitely echo what some other comments have said -- if you made it based on intervals instead of "hard-coded" notes, it'd be a lot more flexible! That seems to be how our own brains store music -- if somebody sings "Happy Birthday," for example, you can instantly join in, regardless of what key it's in. Unless you're tone deaf... :-)
There's an infinite amount of devices and technology out there that could be misused already, but there's a legal framework in place to help mitigate that potential.

I don't see drones being fundamentally different in any way that would make them impossible to regulate. The FCC is a great example: it's stupidly simple to interfere with radio signals but it's not a big problem because enforcement is taken seriously.
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

-- Bertrand Russell
Sure, but if your regular meals are pizza, hamburguers, instant noodles, junk food and the like then you are on your way to malnutrition already. Soylent could be a very positive change for those people.

It's not like meals are an arcane science working some unknown magic on your body, it's about biological needs and chemistry. And it's not like there are chefs cooking healthy food in every home. I don't claim anything about Soylent, I have never consumed it, but it sounds like a possible solution to a big problem. Time will tell.
Practical Abstraction in Ember.js
To be fair, he did found the armed wing of the ANC, was offered a release from prison conditional on renouncing violence which he refused to do, and afterward his group went on to carry out a number of IRA-style bombings.

The apartheid regime might have justified extreme measures that killed civilians, but his hands are not as clean as you would imagine from the hagiography.

We don't glorify Gerry Adams in this way and give him Nobel prizes, although he did contribute a lot to the peace process in Ireland.
I don't do much web development, just a product once every year or so to play around with an idea. Always in PHP. A few months ago I was asked by a close friend to help them with a not-so-serious site. I decided that I'd use Rails, because, hey, I've heard nothing but good about it from HN and the like.

I was absolutely blown away by how much work it required to get started. That, and how painful it was to explain to a non technical person how to make visual changes.

I was told by a few friends I vented to that what I was doing was "too small" of a project, or "Rails is meant for web apps" which confused me because I assumed a site where you could upload images via a form and then browse and view them was right up its alley.

Edit: A lot of comments are talking about wrapping my head around the framework, MVC, ect. I had no problem building the initial application. My sore points are more about deployments and updating smaller things, like the image of a link. non-technical people don't often remember "oh, and if you want your change to show up, go to this folder, open 'restart.txt' and change it in some way. doesn't matter what, just add a space to the end".
You raise a good point: it is in Google's interest to maintain a monopoly on as much data as they can.
That's certainly valid from a marketing standpoint. Although, convertible equity was published WSGR, which may not be a household name, is still an entity that anyone in the funding game should be familiar with.

I'm really more interested in whether there are significant structural differences between the two schemes.
All well and good that intervals of confidence exist in medical research. But good understandings of these associations have been reached with very few genes. The categories alone do not prove that they apply broadly enough to justify the product.
That depends. Are you talking to mainlanders, or ROC?
And now, amusingly, they are on the front page with a post about the post. That's around 10k views, although the conversion rate to the namecast link at the start might be low it will still be lot more traffic than the original show HN post.
I'm talking about a hypothetical change to the patent system, so your question about what would happen under the current system is pointless.

As for what should happen, then under my proposal, proof of independent invention should be a defense to infringement. This falls out of the first principles (the economic concept of free-riding). The purpose of patent protection, economically, is to protect some $(big number) capital R&D investment from a competitor that trivially copies it for $(small number). If, instead of trivially copying it for $(small number), the competitor instead goes to the trouble of engaging in its own R&D for $(big number), then there is no free-riding and no reason to find infringement.
Scaling Yahoo with NodeJS and Cocktails
I wonder if Japan right now would prefer smog.
Never Stop Exploring
My favorite: crecord ( http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CrecordExtension)

A curses record extension that lets you commit on a lie by line basis.
Python-based static site/blog generators?
Looking for something like Octopress in Python. Of course, I came across a number of options with a simple google search:

http://gistpages.com/2013/08/12/complete_list_of_static_site_generators_for_python

Not included in this is Nikola, which looks interesting:

http://getnikola.com/

I am looking for feedback from first hand experience with any of these (or others).

Why Python? Because I am working with Python for a number of other projects and I'd like to stay in that domain if at all possible. Avoiding PHP for the same and other reasons.
I find this perspective interesting. What information about yourself do you think you would act badly on if it were made available to you? And who would you trust to make the decision about withholding information, and to not abuse their authority?
You realize that SNPedia is basically the equivalent of Wikipedia for SNPs, and I can edit it to say whatever I want?

Would you want a physician picking your drug regimen based off of what Wikipedia says on some particular day? Would you like your implanted defibrillator to change its algorithm based on something Wikipedia says?

If not, then you've discovered the crux of the issue. There's a bright line between "data that someone put online yesterday" and "rigorously tested and proven effective". That's the whole point of FDA regulation on what gets to be marketed as a medical device, or what drugs can be prescribed for an indication.
A pretty relevant article about what myself and temas are working on now: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/4/5173726/you-have-too-many-...

IMO, interop/federation is going to be a tremendous long-term effort and include many standards, but is definitely feasible, inevitable even. There's a lot of innovation happening in messaging again thanks to mobile, we just need to start taking the best of what we've all learned already and work together to improve everyone's stack collectively.
"How would you feel if your neighbour went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their back yard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?"

Roughly the same as I'd feel about them buying a telescope and pointing it in my bedroom window; really creeped out, film it and call the cops on them.

Really. We're meant to take this seriously now? Almost any technology can be abused. I can think of several ways to kill or seriously harm my neighbour with the contents of my cleaning cupboard if I'd the mind to - far worse than just being a creepy pest to them. Are we supposed to go down the EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! BAN EVERYTHING. route? The saving grace of society isn't that these things are difficult, it's that most people don't think as predators very often.

Who knows maybe your neighbour actually has a soul.
Ask HN: Used Dell Poweredge C6100 servers + colo or AWS?
I am a solo bootstrapper and I am trying to figure out whether I should get 4 x c6100 servers ( 2 x Intel Xeon L5639 + 96GB per + 250gb SSD - per node , 4 nodes per server) for about US$7k +approximately $4k for annual colo charges or scale up using AWS. The Dell servers are from ebay and their longevity/reliability is questionable. I will also be using a managed hub ( still deciding brand -- but will buy used from ebay)
I plan to buy four of those for redundancy. The colo would be within driving distance of my home.

My environment has Mongo , Redis, NGINX , beanstalkd and glassfish app servers and I expect to do a lot of video transcoding using FFMpeg ( If I manage to get traction).
With dell c6100, I am getting a lot of CPU cores and memory and SSD that I could never afford on AWS. I probably don't need this kind of capacity in the first few months of my launch but I am hopeful that my business would grow.

Could HNers with more wisdom and experience in these decisions please share their experience with this decision. Also feel free to critique this idea.
Thanks!
I can confirm this. I have watched the cycle happen from ~877 to ~829 ten times now, with a bid size of 729 at 850 every single time. As soon as a price around 829 is filled, it shoots back up to 877. Each time the cycle lasts roughly 5 minutes.
Blocking blog/forum spam in real-time
I've seen a lot of blog-submissions here on hacker-news which have been full of spammy-comments.

My blogspam project has been running for a couple of years now, and having recently been reimplemented in node.js its both trendier and more reliable than ever before.

At the moment it looks like this is the "best" week ever, with just under one million comments rejected in the past week.

http://blogspam.net/

The wordpress plugin was recently updated too, which will be useful to some folks here I'm sure :)
Most businesses fail. Yet, we still do our best to encourage the formation of new ventures. We hail the small businessman as a hero. We don't lament him as a frivolous dreamer, even though purely based on the odds, that's what anyone who starts a business really is.

Risk aversion and stagnation go hand in hand. Or, as Theodore Roosevelt said, "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
No longer? Were they ever?
Source Maps with UglifyJS2 and CoffeeScript
PHP has also become a much more vibrant language to develop in. It doesn't have the coolness factor of Haskell, Go, or Scala, but it has become a lot better in the recent years.

Combined with a better overall language (that still has it's warts, lets be clear here) and an ever expanding amazing ecosystem of great libraries and you have something that is easy to deploy _and_ fun to work with.
Its one thing to make it illegal to use drones to harm other people; and another thing to say that only Google, Amazon, and the U.S. Government can own drones.
Weren't those laws only really enforced when non-white people broke them, though?

After all, the apartheid state was more than happy to bulldoze thousands of people's homes and not pay restitution; it was more than happy to shoot hundreds or thousands of peaceful protestors and not prosecute anyone for it; it was more than happy to take political prisoners, break their limbs, and throw them out of airplanes a hundred miles from the coast; it was more than happy to plant biological bombs of yellow fever and cholera in refugee camps to lower the number of undesirables.

If a law is observed more in the breach than in the general, is it really a law?
They should restrict corporate ownership of these things. Give individuals a break for once.
Here[0] is a reference from 2 years ago. I found a few more from the past.

[0] https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/Cicada-3301-wiki
I created an account just to say how much I agree with this statement. There's also an interesting cultural difference here.. in many cultures, there's no such thing as "wasted" time. Nautil.us had an interesting article on this.
http://nautil.us/blog/for-billions-of-people-wasting-time-ma...
Non-zero.
Headroom.js - Hide your header until you need it
Will it blend? :D No? No will it blend? :(
There are several forums discussing Dell poweredge C6100. This is a review I can point to : http://www.servethehome.com/Server-detail/dell-poweredge-c61.... There may be others. I have not come across any glaring issues with this so far .
That is a simplistic assessment.

"We chose to defy the law. We first broke the law in a way which avoided any recourse to violence; when this form was legislated against, and then the Government resorted to a show of force to crush opposition to its policies, only then did we decide to answer violence with violence."

Civil disobedience was outlawed and then the government used violence against peaceful demonstrators. Only after that did they fight fire with fire, and history tells us it's possible that that may be the only language that governments understand.
Scheduled meetings, held on a regular basis.
It's a bug. Mt. Gox had the same repeating bug before.

Basically, don't trade on Mt. Gox. It's not a good idea.
Ex-CIA VC legally builds AR-15 with Makerbot & amazon
Nock, Hoon, etc. for Non-Vulcans (Why Urbit Matters)
Open time is important. Most of my ideas come during such times. But I have not been very successful in implementing them because my close time has not been very disciplined.
Bitcoin price is down 24% after Baidu announced it would stop accepting Bitcoin.
double-spends are not that disastrous?
You've go to be out of your mind. If your bank or credit card allowed you to double spend your account they would be out of business very very quickly. Same thing applies to cryptocurrencies.
> I was referring to myself.

Yes, exactly.

You have an interest in people getting a lot of screen time. You wonder, therefore, whether we should be limiting our kids' access to computers. I reply that the fact that you might have an interest in my kids spending a lot of time using computers, does not mean it is a good thing for my kids to do. Nor does it give me a reason to relax any restrictions I might place on them.
> Eric Schmidt...warned of the potential of new technology to "democratise the ability to fight war"

Umm, isn't that supposedly a good thing? There's a reason that most modern governments are composed of elected representatives to make military decisions.
The hagiography is wrong. It's only in the last 20 years that people have tried to make him into a Ghandi.
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall perhaps?
Thank you for asking.

I decided not to view information about Alzheimer's and Parkinson's because the abnormality they reveal is a genetic variant that you cannot, like, read crossword puzzles to avert. It's just bad news. If I find out that I don't have the variants then all I've done is crossed two variants of two diseases of thousands. It's not worth the spin of the roulette wheel.

Normally this would be revealed by a genetic counselor and context given. Personally, I wouldn't view this information no matter what.

BRCA is another issue. I think BRCA is _very_ important information, since a mastectomy and possible hysterectomy can greatly reduce chances of the resulting cancer. But this information needs to be given with immediate context and guidance, and now how 23andme presents it.

I was also kind of astounded that 23andme doesn't even prompt you whether or not you want to find out if you're a Tay-Sach's carrier or not. That can be enormously significant news. I turn out to have the variant that tends to test false positive, but I was still unhappy to be given that information without my prompt.
There are claims of few reddit messages from 2012 on that wikia site. Can anyone confirm that?
He kind of lost me on his opening CGI argument. Most PaaS I am familiar with don't run PHP through CGI at all. Either Apache mod_php or nginx php-fpm. I guess the author means a CGI-like model or something?
I’ve installed Alfred, bought the Powerpack, and a couple of Workflows and this… I agree. I’m nowhere an /Alfred/ power user, but I just need to devote some time.

I did things like “replace” Spotlight with Alfred. Need to connect to my work VPN? Cmd Space, “vpn con”.