skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi all, this is Naveen from Immunity Project YC team. The fact that we are using ML to identify epitopes that are the preferred targets on the virus for HIV controllers is key to what makes our project unique. This is a newer approach for developing a vaccine and therefore makes it "rogue."
Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system, lets off steam
Confession From a Go Programmer
It's not a "very lawyerly thing" nor is there any problem translating to what "everybody knows and feels." People have a pretty intuitive grasp on the idea that the recourse for Constitutional violations is almost always for the government to stop doing whatever was unconstitutional. When Brown v. Board ruled segregated schools unconstitutional, nobody was thrown in jail. When California unconstitutionally suppressed free speech through its violent video games legislation, nobody was thrown in jail. When limitations on the use of birth control were declared unconstitutional, nobody was thrown in jail. The line between constitutional action and unconstitutional action can be quite subtle in ways only lawyers can appreciate, and because of that we don't punish constitutional violations (on their own). And normal people grasp that reality, and the percentage of people who think a crime has been committed that warrants jail time for anyone is a polling margin of error.
True, but I think most people would interpret the word today as "destroy a large number of" (as per Merriam-Webster).
What Jobs Will the Robots Take?
Yeah, knowing which states Ludacris claims to have whores in really helps me make sense of the world.

Other quality articles on asheepnomore.net: "Noah’s Ark Has Been Found. Why Are They Keeping Us In The Dark?" and "Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out the Human Race".
JPEG Standard Gets a Boost, Supports 12-Bit Color Depth and Lossless Compression
Pet peeve: Intro videos with cutesy music, animations, and screenshots on a macbook.
(Balanced co-founder here)

Good suggestion. We'll work on adding that [1]. Right now, we have those interested +1 on a GitHub issue tread [2], so we can contact them later, but you're right something a bit cleaner would be easier for you and us.

[1] https://github.com/balanced/www.balancedpayments.com/issues/...
[2] https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/23
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This sounds great. I'm genuinely interested, how is the potential vaccine going to be presented to volunteers in Phase I? And do you also deliver a placebo vaccine for blinding?

It seems like believing you are vaccinated would increase risky behaviour. This is bad in itself. It is also bad if the vaccine is only partially effective, since the risk effect might balance the vaccine effect.

With a placebo, knowing you only have a 50/50 chance of getting the actual trial vaccine might also help mitigate the risk effect.

Anyway, just wondering how all this works. Finding an effective vaccine would be fantastic; keep up the good work!
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Google does work extremely hard trying to protect the privacy of its users. Yes, we might miss the boat sometimes but let's not make blanket statements like yours.

D: I work for Google.
Again...I'm skeptical.

I know that the HN crowd is all lining up to proclaim Snowden "Man of the Year" but I've learned that the "omote" is often wrong or misleading and that the "ura" is difficult or impossible to distinguish.

This isn't tinfoil-hat talking, this is just my own experience trying to discern what's REALLY happening. I've said before that just because Snowden exposed the overreach it doesn't mean that there wasn't another piece of this that we are not seeing.
Hey, thanks! That was really informative. I didn't expect to get a link that wasn't effectively a rick-roll. :D
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Actually, the Kiva field partners do write the profiles, and a team of 300+ volunteers translate them & edit for typos:

http://www.kiva.org/about/editingprogram

There's a story of one of the Kiva Coordinators who photographs the borrowers and writes their loan descriptions here:

http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/fellowsblog/2013/05/25/connectin...

Of course, when there's lots of loans to process, some of the field partners do have a tendency to just fill-in-the-blank-template.
AFAIK, an employer gets fully reimbursed by the health insurance for the paid maternity leave.
I'd like to understand why organisations like the Gates Foundation / NIH aren't excited by this approach? I'm assuming they've rejected this, which would explain the need to crowdfinance the next part. If they haven't rejected it, why aren't they being approached for grants?

Also, where's the science? Having something in the FAQ that states "We're awaiting publication in a peer-reviewed journal" is, to be blunt, pretty lame. Is the data and research open access? If not, why not?
I can definitely see how that would work when a lot of the necessities of life are priced lower, in line with your lower salary. How did you feel about making purchases that are priced at a more global level? For example if you wanted to buy an Apple computer to do your development work on. I've always been curious about this as people don't tend to talk about it when discussing the cost of living in different geographic areas.
Speaking as an "Emacs [person]", no.
Did you mean that as a backhanded compliment?
> it doesn't handle the case where you have lots of instances of the same view

Wait I'm getting confused. Didn't the title post and your linked article both say not to do this if performance is the goal? (See "Tuesday" in OP). Isn't that what we're talking about here? Sorry if I misunderstood.
thx, we will fix it
10 Reasons to Replace Your JSPs With FreeMarker Templates
Cynic hat on . . . I'm not sure I get this. Looks like an effort to promote an illustrator more than actually achieve the stated aims.

The reasoning is simple: Alan Kay and others have repeatedly demonstrated kids have a far greater aptitude for this stuff than is generally accepted. The packaging in this manner isn't the problem, the problem is the programming environments around today don't tend to do anything the kids are interested in without overcoming significant hurdles. i.e. unless you can do graphics easily forget it.

Back when I grew up in the 80s every 8 year old had to do Logo at school, partly to teach maths, partly to teach programming constructs. This was the part of the week almost everyone liked most. Make pictures, do maths, play with robots - what's not to love?

So, hope that theory is wrong, but it sets off too many alarms for now.
You wouldn't, and I don't think that's the point.
Investors are humans, like all the other humans, who happen to have the ability to commit significant funds to things, including startups, cars, and charities. There is a well- known challenge of putting large charitable donations effectively to work; that's why Warren Buffett put all his money into the Gates foundation rather than starting The Warren Buffett Foundation or donating it to the Red Cross.

Seen through that lens, it's straightforward to see how enabling people to come up with innovative and effective new charities that startup investors can help fund is a worthwhile project.
All the cnet author needed was to add a gif or a super short video showing the effect. They did not need to have some long video with voice over with stock footage of people typing for half the video.
This is aimed at 5-7 year olds. My nepheices, who are about that age, love storybooks - they must have a thousand or so.

Kids abilities and interests differ quite significantly between 3 and 5, 5 and 7, and certainly between 5-7 and 10. (I didn't realise how much until I watched these two growing up.)
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Why do you need a kickstarter before you write a 50page book? Just set up a preorder list, and bill when ready to ship the printed books.
Much like Linux is "the last OS": http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=101317&cid=8633695
Former IBM'er here. Power Systems are not as ubiquitous as you think. Their biggest customers are insurance/banking companies, but that consumer base has been gradually shrinking with organizations migrating to more affordable commodity clouds (Amazon, etc.) and services.

The Power Division within STG has been declining in revenue for at least 6 straight quarters, and employees within that division are first on the list whenever IBM wants to perform a layoff.
"Sorry, we don't cover your zip"

Well... ok. I was even going to advertise it a little, but I guess I'm not cool enough.
Most of the people who are living w/ HIV worldwide can't afford to pay for treatment. From our perspective it doesn't make sense to charge for something that the people who need it most just can't pay for. By making our project non profit we can focus on the real goal, which is ending HIV/AIDS and not creating ROI for shareholders. Yes we will need to raise significant funding over the lifetime of the project to complete this goal. The good news is that our team is very efficient. The current experiment we are hoping to execute will be done at a fraction of the price and in a fraction of the time then what it would typically cost / take at a major pharma company.
What? It's not for girls, it's for "children". I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that boys are children too.
I lamented the same fact. Almost everything on my resume is self-taught, even though I'm almost done with my Masters.
According to the article Microsoft Research contributed $1M in 2011 (not the Gates Foundation but related)
Fortunately (or unfortunately) phones have moved away from being pieces of hardware a while ago. A smartphone without satisfactory/appropriate app eco-system is just a point-and-shoot camera that you can talk into. Furthermore, this is already a ruthless industry (just ask RIM) so I don't think that MS will be able to pull a magic rabbit out of an expensive hat this time.
This sounds pretty fascinating. Do you have any links/resources that dives more in depth into this approach?
Workday Tweaks Its Approach to Software Upgrades
This made my morning. I shared it with some older, non-gamer coworkers, and they just didn't get it. Oh, well. I'm going to spaaaccccce!
You're entitled to your opinion, but it's a distinctly radical rather than conservative one.

Yeah, I have no use for conservatives personally.

And that was the point of my post: to point out the inconsistency in purporting to believe in national independence while embracing radical libertarian and globalist ideas about international markets.

Fair enough. I thought you were saying something else.
I too first really started with Logo. I tried teaching Scheme twice to 7-yr-olds, and found they readily picked up the concepts. But they seem more excited with things like Scratch, since you can get sounds and things jumping around and responding in a very easy manner. Logo is just not as impressive now as it was decades ago.
And what protections does the NSA even respect?!? Dont make me die of laughter man.
Quotation of the Day for Thursday, January 23, 2014
*per year, just in case people were confused :)
That is a good point on the LTE bands, I had not considered that it just may be that now this is more often achievable at an acceptable quality rate.
..... Forgetful George was crying in the corner.

"What's wrong?" quizzed Ivy Iterator.

"It's too complicated" moaned George, he continued:
"Mr Main has asked me to deliver all of these invites to the birthday party but I keep forgetting which people I've given invitations to. I gave Sam three invites and Polly hasn't got one yet, it's no use! I can't remember which invite is which!"

"Don't worry" said Ivy, "lets work together to make this more simple! I'll remember which invitation we're giving and which one is next, so all you have to do is deliver the invite!"

George beamed, "Really? You can do that for me?"

"Sure thing George! They don't call me Ivy Iterator for nothing!"
So would you rather pay a master $33,500 for 2 days of work or a novice $33,500 for a year of work (and possibly no results)?
Further answer: Yes the plan is to raise funds from all possible sources over time. We are open to talking to traditional pharma firms as well but we aim to keep the vaccine free to the end consumer.
>How would you explain a simple FOR loop to a child through a story?

It's a child. I'd hope you'd explain map instead.
Selfie-less World Travel on Instagram
I assume it's a tax dodge of some sort. I'm sure that investments in non-profits can be offset against capital gains (or something like that).

I'm not an investor and this isn't tax advice!
Many (most?) loans are now predispersed, and your Kiva loan backfills it... but they are still individual loans. The repayments come back to you according to that borrower's repayments, and sometimes the borrowers do fall behind or default on the loan, in which case you'll get a short explanation of what happened in their particular circumstance and why they defaulted.

So there is a direct connection between you & the borrower, and even more so on Kiva Zip where you can contact the borrower.
Why would anyone want to work for the founders that are still on the board of directors.

Who wants to be compared to Bill Gates in everything.

Worse yet would be putting up with a buffoon like Ballmer on the board. They need to kick "Developers Developers Developers" to the curb.

Microsoft has peaked.

Google is the new Microsoft especially since they will work so closely with the NSA. That virtually guarentee's they will pushed by the govt as the best solution for everything.

It's much easier to monitor then all these random desktops that Microsoft presents them with.
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Brand Names Which Become Generic Names [Wikipedia]
$33,500?
This sounds like your ticket to IOCCC 2014 fame & fortune.
PHP is beautiful, and so are you
As a long time emacs user (and lover) I wish RMS and other emacs developers would take his quote to heart more in emacs development. Emacs is shipped with too many things.

Emacs finally has a really nice package manager, so I'd love to see a version with minimal default packages. Do I really need java-mode if I never, ever will use Java? Calc when I have R? SMTP support? No, I need absolutely none of this.
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http://xkcd.com/678/
Great reminiscence, though I wish he talked a bit more about BBS door games (http://breakintochat.com/wiki/BBS_door_game). They always get short shrift in my opinion.
Presumably because you can't pay rent, editors, all the people that prepare books for print, or even buy a coffee, with a preorder list?
When does GB invaded Balkans exactly?
The text of the 10th amendment is this: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

I submit that nothing can be unconstitutional for violation of the 10th amendment that isn't unconstitutional for some other reason. There is no law that can be justified as an exercise of one of the enumerated powers that nonetheless fails for contravention of the 10th amendment, because any law that can be justified on the basis of an enumerated power + the necessary and proper clause is one that is "delegated to the United States by the Constitution" and thus, literally, not within the scope of the 10th amendment.

Take the healthcare mandate. You can't argue that the 10th amendment makes the healthcare mandate unconstitutional, because it was found to be a valid exercise of the taxing power, which is a power delegated to the United States by the Constitution.
The issue Melpa has is that it builds from HEAD, whereas many package authors treat HEAD as a working state that should not be used directly. Melpa doesn't (or didn't last time I checked) have support for building off tags or non-master branches, which would solve this. And if I remember correctly, when I raised this issue, he disagreed on some philosophical grounds. So it's an inherent problem in Melpa.
Yep, but I still get the message.
Ouch, ouch, ouch! Power Systems includes their extremely neat (architecturally, at least) AS/400 derived System i machines. Wonder how significant the loss in System z MIPS sold is, these machines are bought as much or more for I/O than raw CPU (which is I'm sure particularly expensive with these machines). For example, a lot of database queries/batch operations to get the set of all your credit and/or debit cards that did transactions at Target during the theft period.

To the extent everyone is moving to UNIX(TM) derivatives or using them exclusively in startups (OK, let's not forget Windows too), few learn at school System z and i stuff....

Well, I don't think much of the consulting business, but it's clear they had to do something, especially when pretty much everyone lost out to x86 for "big iron" in classic disruptive innovation style and as this move demonstrates they culturally can't compete in that market.
The "business machines" in the name did not originally refer to computers. It referred to tabulating machines. The market for tabulating machines died, and was replaced by computers. IBM got out of tabulating machines, and into computers.

IBM is not in the business of selling computers. IBM is in the business of solving problems for other businesses. Over the past 100 years, how you solve problems for other businesses has changed, and IBM has changed along with it. Don't confuse the thing sold for the actual business.

Disclaimer: I work for IBM, but do not speak for it.
Well, it takes me approx. 1 minute to have a MS rep chatting with me when I have problems. Even when paying Google, it's impossible to get answers quick. And often the answers are just templates until you have bothered them enough to give you an actual reply.
As a customer, I don't want an explanation of "we ship $71B a year and sometimes shit happens". I want the stuff I ordered. If it came broken, I already know that things break in shipping; I'm holding one in my hand right now; an explanation doesn't help me, but getting another shipped overnight does help me.

Amazon is absolutely taking a customer-centric approach. Intentionally.

I gather that you're a 3rd party merchant and are frustrated about the losses when bad things happen. What you're not seeing is that Amazon 3rd party sales wouldn't happen nearly as much if Amazon gave great service but buying from a 3rd party was caveat emptor.

I've not noticed any difference in customer service policies for Amazon as seller vs 3rd party as seller items. If I did, you can be damned sure that I wouldn't shop from third-party sellers if doing so meant I had to use third-party support policies. I already have that possibility-everywhere else on the internet. I choose to buy from Amazon, including 3rd party sellers, because I know Amazon will get it right or make it right.
I suppose you could use this: https://plus.google.com/authorship
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Yes, all the way to the bank.
StackSocial Brings Its Tech-Focused E-Commerce Platform To The iPhone
How inefficient can a sorting algorithm be? [pdf, 2012]
Taxes and other contributions subtracted from your salary are high in Germany, almost as high as in Nordic countries. There are many gross-net calculators available, search for "Netto Gehaltsrechner".
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Verizon rescinds service to Samsung Chromebook 3G owners
This is changing fast though. Places like Prenzlauer Berg and Friedrichshain-kKreuzberg, and more recently Neukölln are completely gentrified. The prices are rising fast and the "cool" people are moving on the the new squats and cheap run down properties. Property developers are leveraging the relative cheapness of the property market (compared to other capital cities) and trying to turn a fast buck (and doing os).

I'm not so sure that Berlin is really that cheap anymore.
Poll: Full-time software engineer salaries in Berlin
Base annual salary only, pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.

As requested by zerr at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7108449. Here's the 2013 Bay Area salary poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5802295.
Less than €20k
€20k – €29k
€30k – €39k
€40k – €49k
€50k – €59k
€60k – €69k
€70k – €79k
€80k – €89k
€90k – €99k
€100k or more
Here you go! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7109180
Would you want to be notified? I certainly would.

Linode sends out an invoice email every month, usually a day or so before I see the charge show up. I have no reason to cancel, but I appreciate that they do that.
Why do people think this?

Charitable donations do often result in reduced taxes. The catch is that the reduction in taxes is less than the donation (and at least in the U.S., there is no combination of State and Federal taxes that is greater than 100% of income...).
Is this really the case in the US? Because in Canada, there have been numerous cases of the Canadian government vetoing purchases by foreign companies in the name of protecting Canadian interests and security (e.g. MDA selling to an American aerospace firm, Pot Ash Corp, BlackBerry to Lenovo, etc.)

Or even the case of SEC approval or EU approval for major acquisitions.
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I wouldn't work with such a company on ethics grounds.

It does seem like there's an opportunity for a company that lets companies list for free, but charges the listing company when they successfully hire a candidate. That would align the priorities of everyone involved. There would be issues with validating hires when they happen but I think that could be worked around.
Thanks for these tips, I'm already using the railwaycat fork, and it is really good. I compiled it myself though, didn't know that I can get it via brew now. That is fantastic, as I'm still on 24.3.1 :)

Also, I didn't know about the wrap-while-keeping indentation, that's something I always wanted. Will try it out later. Thanks!
We are pursuing all major funders we know of for funding for our work (including Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation etc.). The challenge is that it takes significant time to prepare grants apps, and go through the process. Some large funders such as EJAF only accept grant applications once a year. HIV/AIDS is an urgent challenge. Therefore we are crowd funding these dollars now to move our project forward immediately. In terms of the PRJ question, the bottom line is its a chicken and egg problem. Its harder to get published if you release all of the data prior to publication. Post publication, our goal is to make our project as open access as humanely possible. All of that being said, we do have more information about our work on our site: http://www.immunityproject.org. If you have specific questions about our approach please feel free to ask them.
It happens in Europe wherever there's a startup city. The author is based in Berlin like myself, and this city has a fairly new and growing startup scene. I have many friends working across different startups, and "Crunch Mode" is definitely happening around the place. You notice it second-hand when your friends don't come out on the weekend with you because they're so exhausted they need to rest, or they're still at the office.
Also this is a good example of why we should have diversity in the first place.
Even more terrible when you don't even have to pay them - they're paid by the State.
The Mindful Revolution - Finding peace in a digitally dependent culture
Considering she co-founded Rails Girls, I think perhaps describing here as simply "an illustrator" is a little dismissive.
Yes, thanks for the warning :)
Play 2.3 new validation API
Honestly, who cares and why is this worthy of the HN frontpage?
Police Brutality in Ukraine:Undressing protesters and taking pictures with them