skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry. I think the idea of private funding for research is interesting, but this really seems like a scam.

1. Zero people on the team or among the advisors have any experience doing research in molecular biology or virology.
Check for yourself: http://www.immunityproject.org/ ("Meet the Team")
They have an anesthesiologist, a bioinformatics guy, oncology researcher, epidemiologist (who studied HIV, but mostly from a community medicine perspective - e.g. things like gels and microbicides), 4 marketing/biz people, a media strategist, a general pediatrician, and another marketing person.

2. They have zero publications and no references to even preliminary data. Anyone can say they have "very successful mouse data." If these guys are actually scientists, why don't they talk about their science - their site is 100% marketing jargon.

3. By not going through the NIH, this group is not required to release any information about their technology to the public.

4. It's not trivial to do HIV research. If you are working with the virus, you are required to work in a bio-safety level 3 unit. Do they have approval for this? Is there any reason to think that the FDA will approve their trials?

5. What is this mysterious "final experiment" they need to do before starting the FDA approval process? (https://pledge.immunityproject.org/the-free-hiv-aids-vaccine).

It really seems like these guys are just trying to make money from the suffering of others. I find the use of stock images of poor children to be exploitative. Perhaps the NIH is not funding them for a reason. Who would fund someone before they've shown any evidence whatsoever that their technique works.

Okay, I'm off to go fundraising for my Malaria Vaccine Initiative with my fantastic preliminary animal model data from my lead marketing anesthesiologist. If the NIH won't fund me before I have data (I just need to do that one first^H^H^H last experiment), maybe random people on the internet who don't know anything about science will.
> The apps themselves are managed by various developers but we have standard things that we do across those servers, like install our monitoring agent, applying patches, configuring performance tweaks, etc. The problem with running Docker in this environment is maintaining these things in a centralized manner. Sure, we could create a bunch of Docker images that contain all of our organization standardizations but how do we maintain these?

Docker builds can be nested. That is, you can build a docker image on top of a docker image on top of a docker image, and so on.

So, if you need to maintain a standardized base across several teams in your organization (which is a common requirement):

* 1. Create a source repository for that standardized base with a Dockerfile and any other necessary content.

* 2. Build that base and push it to a registry (public or private)

* 3. Tell your developers to use that standardized base in their own Dockerfiles.

You can repeat that step any number of times.

Does this help?
They could do that. And Obama could pardon every offender currently in jail and every offender that goes to jail until he leaves office. I wonder why he doesn't.
I'm a student in the Deep South, and getting out to the Bay Area is a dream of mine. Here's to hoping the price comes down in the next couple of years.
For (future) reference, that's $0.17 at current rates [1].

[1] http://coinmill.com/USD_XDG.html#XDG=100
I couldn't agree more. The curated internet is a terrible trend -- it encourages mindless, constant, and immediate consumption and discourages exploration (except safely between the lines of your preferred content aggregator).
Ask HN: tar/make or yum/apt-get install software on production servers?
Hi Folks,

I have just talked to a senior developer, he shared with me he will never yum/apt-get to install software dependencies on production server. What do you guys think?
The problem is the opposite is just as bad, if not worse: programmers can't go around saying "I make tons of money because I have a rare skill/high IQ", because that sounds elitist (which is a very bad word these days). If programmers advertise themselves as a caste that you can only get into by luck/genetics, that only makes things worse.
If either of you wants to come hang on #docker and #docker-dev (freenode), we'll be happy to help you out with the integration!
Same with Safari. Only Chrome seems to display his way, but even then it's just a 404 page. I still get the toolbar and notifications up top, so it's clear that Facebook is not down.
But http://defensetech.org/2013/05/24/congress-orders-f-35-softw... claims over 10 billion lines. At 2.5 errors every million lines, that ends up at 25.000 errors, if they can keep up that rate.

If that 10 billion is accurate (I can believe 10GB of binaries, but 10 billion lines seems too much to me, even including support software), maybe the project is too ambitious.
It's rapidly in the process of un-nailing it.

Having used DDG as my primary search engine since June 2013, I prefer its presentation.

I find Google's dynamic "oh, we're going to clear the page while you're refining your search terms to focus on higher relevance based on the results you're looking at now while you're typing that up" particularly egregious.

Google's win right now is in specific categories and sub-classes of search:

⚫ Google Books. Particularly the Ngram viewer. My frustrations with the company have reached a point that I hate to admit I love any of its products, but I love Google Books search and the Ngram viewer specifically. GBS makes serious amends by having one of the most spectacularly useless and annoying interfaces for actually reading online content. Contrast with the Internet Archive's book reader, which is a thing of joy, beauty, grace, and perfection: http://archive.org/stream/industrialrevol00toyngoog#page/n6/...

⚫ Google Scholar. I'm not aware of any other resource which has comparably deep coverage of research papers. Again, what the search interface giveth, the content interface taketh away, with the same online reading interface as Google Books, in the rare cases where journal publishers of recent content actually make full text available.

⚫ Date refinement. If DDG offered this my use of Google Search would fall by another 50-75%. Being able to search within specific bounded ranges of time is hugely useful.

⚫ Maps, though I'm finding/researching alternatives. Mostly OpenStreetmap though "maps.google.com" is still tied to my muscle memory. Streetview remains tough to beat.

⚫ News, though I'm finding/researching alternatives. Twitter's actually pretty good for breaking stuff, with search. Reddit isn't bad as a filter either. I've also got a few conventional news sources (NY Times, Guardian) on my rsstail feeds.

⚫ Financial data, though there are lots of alternatives. This is an area rife with perverse incentives, however, and for the data I'm typically interested in, research tools such as FRED (Federal Reserve of St. Louis), Wolfram+Alpha (despite its complete and utter lack of a definitive syntax), and upstarts such as Knoema and Gapminder are promising. I believe this period is actually showing signs of being a renaissance in advanced online data analysis and access tools.

Increasingly though, Google's my 2nd or 3rd tier search destination.
Your screenshot exhibits exactly the same issue. You just reproduced it.
The "Cole Memo",[1] from DAG James Cole, is the most recent directive on prosecution of marijuana distribution in states that have legalized it either for recreational or medical use. It permits weighing the likelihood of illegal trafficking on a number of factors, including size and for profit nature (although it states that this cannot be the only basis for prosecution).

Even so, US Attorneys have a great amount of autonomy, and Holder directly "reigning in" Haag could be seen as political interference (it is still a violation of federal law, after all). The US Attorney firing scandal in the Bush Administration was an example of backlash for interfering with this autonomy. [2]

[1] http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/August/13-opa-974.html

[2] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_U.S._attorneys_c...
+1 for Babylon 5
I would if I could, but I'm in no position to force my suppliers and customers to use BTC.
It's one thing to implement common sense progressive marijuana legislation, and probably quite another to make headlines as "the marijuana president" for possibly months in a row.
RON PAUL 2012!!! :P
God bless every engineer who has made this a reality.
I use full-disk encryption and encrypt backups, but I only reboot my computer once a month or so to upgrade the kernel. So in almost all vectors by which my computer could be stolen, it will just be sleeping. How worried should I be that DRAM is not encrypted? Unlike the encryption password, the screen lock password gets typed often and in public places so I doubt it would foil a sophisticated thief.
vim is a full screen editor, not a command line editor (CLI), are you thinking of sed, instead?
I lived in the valley for three years. If it has changed dramatically in the four years since, I'll be surprised.
I agree. What things or kinds of things go against this trend?
That does and it gets us part of the way there. What tool can we use to automate and script the creation of the images and Dockerfiles, though? Layering/unioning will work for many things but for some things, we want programmatic control of how that happens. I would love to see a tool that delivers this for Dockerfiles and images.
This post is a great eye opener I am enabling file encryption on my disk right away
Drugs are still a huge taboo in our society and widely misunderstood, and maligned. The government can't just back down that quickly from a propaganda campaign they've been waging for decades.
There are enormous vested interest in marijuana being illegal.

The biggest may be that most local police departments are funded largely by the seizure of assets from minor drug offenders and innocents who they can get away with accusing of drugs.

Other vested interests are the large number of government employees and private companies who benefit from the drug war, from drug detection to prisons.

There are also political issues. Marijuana legalization is opposed by many swing voters, and neither party can afford to lose those. Leaving matters up to states allows states where the majority favors continued criminal prosecution of marijuana offenses to do as they wish. This is actually the way it should be constitutionally.

I'm actually not sure how the federal government has the constitutional authority to enforce drug laws against the wishes of a state. If anyone can point me to a precedent, that would be helpful. The federal government has no authority to enforce laws against most crimes that occur entirely within a state's borders unless they violate international treaties.

EDIT: It appears the authority was challenged and affirmed in Gonzales v Raich case, though I think the opinion is in error as it grants the federal government complete authority to regulate local activity, an opinion which the Constitution was written to prevent. Congress is limited to the power "to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
I'm not keen to defend the ridiculous immigration system, but it's possible to avoid this risk in the following way:

You can interview at, accept an offer from, apply for and receive a new LCA for another company all while continuing to work at your existing job. This means you have a new job and (preparatory documents for a new) visa set up before even giving notice and triggering the 10 day period. I know this from personal experience (on the E3).
Her office said they'll continue the crackdown even after the Cole memo[1]. Makes you wonder whats really going on with these guidelines that can be ignored at will.

The Bush firing scandal was purely political, it was done to protect Republicans from investigations. That is nowhere in the same league as requesting that prosecution guidelines be followed. And anyway, even in the firing scandal no one got into trouble over it. I don't buy the idea that Holder or Obama are powerless to stop her if they wanted to.

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/20...
Originally, the United States consisted of thirteen British colonies that saw themselves as culturally similar neighboring individual countries in a military alliance against their faraway British overlords.

After the war, the former colonies decided that sticking together militarily and speaking with one voice on foreign policy had worked out pretty well for them -- they'd fought a war against the world's number one superpower and won -- so they ought to continue to do so, and the new government ought to set up uniform rules for the way states trade with each other, and establish a single place to register scientific inventions, etc. Sort of like the European Union today, or maybe the European Community that preceded it.

The states had just thrown off the shackles of one overlord and weren't about to put themselves under another. After these concerns resulted in an initial agreement so weak as to border on totally ineffective [1], their diplomats tried again [2] [3], and the states agreed but quickly demanded more limitations on federal power [4].

The ideological divide between states that allowed slavery and states that did not was a crisis on slow boil for the better part of the next century, resulting in various political compromises [5] [6] but eventually leading to a major civil war [7].

After the war was won by the side that favored a stronger national government, one of the side effects of the event was setting a precedent of the federal government imposing its policies on unwilling states at gunpoint [8]. (It's not a typo in that reference when it notes the Republicans pushed for radical expansions of African-American rights; both parties basically completely switched sides with respect to racial issues after World War 2 [9]).

The sense of national unity was strengthened through the outcome of the war, increased interstate commerce due to the inventions of the Industrial Revolution, and the crises of the Great Depression and the world wars. All of these events gave the federal government reasons to expand its powers [10] [11] [12], in ways which seemed like good ideas at the time but ended up resulting in a much more powerful federal government, and much weaker state governments, than anyone had envisioned.

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Convention

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_fifths_compromise

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_compromise

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_war

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_war#Reconstructi...

[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Ri...

[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_Unit...

[12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_deal
WTF 8TB? Are you a movie editor or something? Anyway, I'm sure you don't change 8TB of data regularly. Back up the 7,9TB which is stale on a physical media you store at your parents', then set up online sync for anything new you produce or change.
Git-annex does encrypt if you set the other site(s) as a special remote - a good way to use it with less technical friends is to get a Windows rsync server (there are some with simple GUIs for start/stop) and set that machine as an encrypted rsync remote.

http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/rsync/
A commenter in my blog suggested to ensure ClearType is enablied in Windows settings - and indeed, I found ClearType disabled. After enabling ClearType the fonts look good in FF and Chrome.

The commenter explained that "IE uses it's own version of Cleartype regardless of system settings, while Firefox and Chrome correctly adhere to your system settings."
Am I the only one who have no digital assets? I recently did a clean wipe and realized that I had exactly nothing on my computer that I wanted to save. No backup was needed.
While reading the article, I was aware of these goings on. It made me think this is a ploy to more easily seize this money and prosecute.
> Either this generation of kids will be the best citizens the world has ever seen, or the worst.

Both. Exactly as every past generation.
It's a lot easier to get a law passed then to get it revoked, because revoking a law would suggest admitting some sort of mistake, and that's pretty much a political impossibility. So once a law gets into place it's damn near impossible to get rid of it.

I think a large part of the reason pot is still mostly illegal is because no politician wants to be the guy to say "wow what a massive fuckup we've made".
Absolutely gobsmacked that they don't have access to banks. Incredible scenes.
This kid is funny
I randomly found him on youtube seems pretty chill
Computer security: Spam in the fridge
According to polls, the battle lines aren't drawn by party affiliation. It's mainly by age. They're mainly a taboo for voters older than 40.
That's crazy. After 25 years, all I have is a 32Gb USB stick.
Does anyone know of any good anti-theft/theft-damage-control software for Windows based laptops? Like cerberus for Windows 8.
4 Awesome things you can do when you start using qiscus right now.
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I've done this same calculation and I found the opposite. And after I moved I realized that you have to also factor in how much more awesome the Bay Area is. I've been able to be outside most days this winter hiking and doing other outdoor activities. I can't imagine going back to winters where I'm trapped indoors.
The CNN main site was not hacked. This was a blog hosted by WordPress VIP (http://vip.wordpress.com/)
Sure, and it is changing rapidly, thankfully. Marijuana is much less of a taboo, but other drugs are, there's still a lot of misinformation out there.
Looks similar to Circa?
> unless they violate international treaties

Which they in fact do - there are multiple international treaties on drug crimes and enforcement.
An open letter to the [SF] tech community
Yes, you are right, others suggested to check that too, and enabling ClearType fixed that
Unrelated to the robbery part, but if anyone is trying to escape the unrest in Thailand, the Philippines is a pretty cheap place to stay for a short period. Most people know English. I would opt for Cebu City over Manila but that's just me.

I have backups on Crashplan. I have a copy of my password database in bank safety deposit box. Almost all my local stored data (and everything sensitive) is encrypted.
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King.com apparently copied a Game back in 2009
I guess it's really unclear to me why I'd want to fund it. It seems kind of interesting, but it's not 'that's-fun-i-want-that-to-play-with' like Pi or Kano or Arduino, and it's not 'shit-that-solves-problem-x-i-have' like some other stuff. I used to work for a crowdfunding platform, and it's a key problem a lot of campaigns had (see: http://spacehive.com/Blog/Details/1042 ). Given you're on a tipping point campaign and haven't reached the 66% target (90% of projects that hit 66% WILL be funded) by now, I'd probably kill it and retarget it.
East Palo Alto isn't in Silicon Valley? It's close enough to the Google campus to bike from.
You have your life and health.
I have a moderately well written emacs.d, and I'd be happy to see a few use it/learn from it/correct me/give feedback.

Just startup emacs (24+) with the init.el and it will download dependencies from elpa. Will have to restart once afterwards to make the theme right.

Screeshot : http://i.imgur.com/2wmxir5.png
Source: https://github.com/jaseemabid/emacs.d
Your pcs Microphone is in action to spy on you
So here's the UI in question - http://blog.testfairy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/quick_s... - and apparently the large stars represent not a suggestion rating, but an app rating. So dismissing suggestion as a bad one you'd basically give a 1 star rating to an app. Or so the devs claim.

Coming from the iOS side, I just don't get it. How can you rate an app that you haven't downloaded? And then if you did download it, why is it being quick-suggested to you again?

Furthermore, if you did in fact download it, removed it and then reacted negatively to a suggestion to download it again - how's your low-star reaction is NOT really a rating for an app itself?

Also, if you look closely at the graphs, the "crashing" involves rating slide from 4.67 to 4.38 and from 4.79 to 4.74. It's still an unpleasant development for sure, but that's not a "crash" or a "drop", that's a dip. The matter appears to be completely blown out of its proportions.
I don't live in the US (although I'm a citizen), I don't smoke pot, and never have. But I find this to be a completely fascinating set of circumstances, and one which is leading to confusion and a lack of standardized rule of law.

You basically have federal US laws outlawing anything having to do with marijuana, and many people serving jail time for having possessed, grown, or distributed it.

You also have states that have said it is completely legal to possess, grow, and distribute it. Right there, that strikes me as a weird combination: Don't federal laws trump state ones? (And wasn't this sort of a central part of the Civil War, that states can't just make up their own laws that contradict federal ones?)

The federal government is now saying, "Don't worry about those laws on our books. We won't prosecute you." They're even saying, in this article, that they won't prosecute banks. (Well, after the regulations are clarified.)

But that strikes me as an extremely inconsistent message, and one which can change at any point in time. If everyone believes Holder, but then Holder changes his mind a year from now... well, then there's nothing you can do, because he is doing nothing more than enforcing the laws -- laws that have been around for many years, and didn't come as a surprise to anyone.

Moreover, what happens when another president or attorney general comes into office, and decides to enforce these laws to the max? You'll have banks, growers, and others suddenly prosecuted for federal crimes just because someone else came into office.

I think that these problems are likely to continue, until and unless marijuana use is decriminalized at the federal level. Which, given the state of US politics right now, doesn't strike me as very likely.
Without context it is just "go", and that would be an appropriate translation too. He meant "go (away)" and by no means "come with me".
Feel free to enumerate any that would require the federal government to enforce marijuana laws. If there were any, I would have expected them to be mentioned in Gonzales v Raich, but none were.
You can at least store a part of your money in BTC, so you don't have the cash lying around somewhere unsafe.
Congress doesn't determine the Schedule, the DEA and FDA do:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act
Big fan of the speed and simplicity of salt vs puppet. Plus it is multiple useful tools in one for me (configuration management, system provisioning and remote execution)
Since the lock mount is often just a cut-out in the laptop case, the result of theft is typically a cosmetic but non-functional blemish to the device.

Mind: anyone receiving the laptop would have a strong indication it had been stolen. This might or might not be a concern.

Additional deterrence? Sure. Proof against theft? No. Slow down an opportunistic smash-and-grab situation (I've seen ~ $20,000 of hardware stolen inside of 60 seconds)? Sure.

"A lock keeps an honest man honest."
My thoughts exactly. Seems a lot like Flipboard.