skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it means we will have an actual word processor on iOS, all the better.

I for one am deeply disappointed with the direction Apple has taken with iWork.

Not least of which is the (a) removal of features and (b) incompatibility with recent versions of their own software [this has rendered large portions of my documents unreadable]
Obamacare tops 6 million signups
While very interesting, the scope of this study is limited by the fact that their data collection only goes back to January 2013, so anything that happened before that was not considered. I don't want to defend Gox, but it is conceivable that they lost significant amounts of BTC prior to this via TM and were just doing business with a deficit of BTC.
Are you sure? I thought that ZFS for Linux can be distributed, but, only in source code form. So you would have to distributed the source code, then, build the ZFS module for it after / during installation.
this is classic OO programmer programming SQL
Maybe so, I did mention other risks though.
Helpful utilities and documentation for Free Software live audio/video streaming

https://github.com/ioerror/freenote/
Is tarsnap's dedupe any better than bup or obnam? The competition has not stood still since tarsnap came out.
Who's the narrator here? Mike, Adam, someone else? http://imgur.com/gdR785r,iaaBddd#1 http://imgur.com/gdR785r,iaaBddd#0
It totally is. Learning!
Why not store them as a [user_id, <cols for whatever is in the array>] table? There's no join for pulling a user's data, just like pulling an array column.

I haven't used postgres, but this seems like trying to use a write-once-optimized structure for append-heavy use. Is it actually faster? And if so, since this is used for funnel-queries, is the query-speedup worth the write-slowdown, given what I would expect are much higher write loads than read loads, and that writes probably have to happen quickly while reads do not?
Maybe I read too much into it. Sure there are mentions of Paul Ryan and Utah on the email side and things like
"Budding Liberal Protest Movements Begin to Take Root in South" on Twitter but that is not enough to draw a conclusion. Especially because the Ryan and Utah articles are not pro-conservative.

I guess what struck me is the fear on the email side - the headlines are of the sensational news style of "What you don't know could kill you" plus the common topics of safety and security. The Twitter headlines have a more optimistic feel (and some are clearly fluff.) Compare the headlines abut recent news in Russia: "Is Crimea the Next Yugoslavia?" vs. "If Not a Cold War, a Return to a Chilly Rivalry"
I haven't yet found any mention of how this affects the API. Anyone know when public coverage of becomes exposed, if not already?
China’s military calls US out for “hypocrisy” in Huawei hack
The customers aren't the ones being exploited. What you're missing is what we in economics call an "externality"[1]. Let's say you rent out your apartment through Airbnb to somebody. Well, now what you've done is taken money for that transaction, but who assumed the risk? Sure, you risked some of your things, but your landlord has assumed the risk of liability and property damage without his or her knowledge or consent. In fact, it was probably strictly prohibited in your lease. The cost of the landlord's risk (which is not $0) is an externality. Let alone your neighbors, who are now living in a less secure building due to your actions.

Understand that these businesses have a larger impact on the economy and your community than just the money flowing between them and their customers. Also understand that laws exist for reasons--not infallible reasons, just reasons. Whenever a law seems to be completely nonsensical to you, start looking into it a bit more. Typically, the answer is just behind the curtain, or people were exploiting the system in ways you didn't even think of.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
Keyboard layout for Mac programming
Do people still prefer Dvorak or is there a newer preferred layout
I don't think he could be fired for his belief. The goal is to pressure him to step down of his own accord.

You may have a point on workplace harassment, although I would doubt that he would push for that because of the negative PR that would rain down upon the company.
Biotechnology is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make useful products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use" (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2).[1] Depending on the tools and applications, it often overlaps with the (related) fields of bioengineering and biomedical engineering.

For thousands of years, humankind has used biotechnology in agriculture, food production, and medicine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology

It seems to me any farmer or homemaker can do "biotech." The question I have is not how can it be done but how do you market it? It seems to me the issue is one of getting taken seriously. The barrier to "entry" is not that high. You can do "biotech" in your kitchen or backyard. But finding a way to reach consumers, finding a way to monetize it, finding a way to convince people you aren't one of those folks wearing a tinfoil hat with a diagnosis of "batshit insane" -- those are challenges.
Peep 1.0: a "pip install" that is cryptographically repeatable
Can you please make it extremely more simple. HN kills because it's so simple. I dont need this full screen nonsense.

I really want this to work well.

I need an HN for biotech.
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I'm totally ignorant in this field.

If you're worried about messing up a file, why not just make a copy of it before you edit it?
Thanks a lot for responding to me again Zac, helpful as always!

(Edit: I realised you usually go by Zac rather than Zach :)
This is the one consistent exception to Betteridge's law of headlines
Allright, so I stumbled upon this as well last week, and i'm kinda disappointed with the whole thing. It's unstable at best (Mostly due to the RPC methods failing violently in JQuery), the 'we need torque' popup is annoying and built-in to the source and it requires Backbone, jQuery, underscore and multiple other dependencies before you can use it in your own project.

BtApp.js itself runs on Torque, Bittorent's attempt at a headless version of uTorrent, that provides some browser interactions over the btapp.js api.

The thing is: Torque is kind of a black box. I've installed it and then quickly got rid of it as soon as I noticed it ran an 80mb process in the background of which i couldn't tell if it was downloading torrents or not. A headless torrent client is nice, but not if you can't see what it's doing.

The cool thing about this though it is that the api can connect to uTorrent (v3.3+)/BitTorrent client and that that's completely working in production already (at least on windows systems)

Just last week I've reverse engineered the protocol and made an angular.js implementation of this that removes all the dependencies to backbone and cleans up the code, separating UI-elements from the actual communication service. I've dropped support for Torque though.

Thus, born was DuckieTorrent:

Github:

https://github.com/SchizoDuckie/DuckieTorrent

Live demo:

http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTorrent/

You can authenticate it to your local uTorrent/Bittorrent account, it'll slurp in and process all information it receives and you can control your torrents, start streaming them via HTML5, even launch your uTorrent's configured player, wether thats the internal one or VLC, no problem.
This is complete and utter bullshit and you look like an idiot for parroting it.
The relocation and the time it costs. xD
It is simple. I honestly like it a lot compared to what passes for forums nowadays. I'm still working on what I hope will be a decent open source clone in Laravel for the masses (though i don't doubt someone else also is and probably better.)

A lot about hacker news could be improved, I think, like adding a JSON api by default and being able to control the depth level of comments. More importantly though, I think the simple format facilitates discussion a lot better than the noisy, avatar-riddled nightmares like phpbb, etc.
That's pretty much it, except that nobody big has actually tried doing that (distributing an install CD which specifically builds ZFS as part of the standard install process), therefore it's not been in courts, therefore it's not proven that it's legally safe to do so, therefore anyone larger than a small business is unlikely to build on top of it.
Note, you can still edit just fine online like you do with Google Docs and eventually like iWork online will allow.
It was a turn of phrase -- sorry if I offended.
Which basic human right does his belief go against, exactly?

In all sincerity, if you had to write down a list of human rights, ordered by most-to-least basic, where would it fall on the list? Which rights would be more basic? Which less?
I can't think of any companies who sell software for other platforms that are making anywhere in the same neighborhood as companies that own the platform. Microsoft doesn't want to become another Adobe.
Some changed their name to make a clean start. I had a buddy in college whose great-grandfather changed his name from Yeager to something very "Americanish".

Also, the hate for various groups (Irish for one) was pretty heavy with signs (e.g. "No Irish Allowed").
This article keeps getting wiped amazingly quickly, it seems.

I wonder how long it will last this time.
MariaDB, webscale, Percona... it's really annoying all those forks, why can't they choose one solution to work on together.
This guy sounds like a shill for the Cable industry...
I didn't know about it. I retract most of my point!
> the insane requirements for sending in copies of passports etc that exchanges still have for purchasing bitcoins.

If you've ever bought foreign currency in a bureau de change, you'll have had to provide ID. It's the same set of laws which require Bitcoin exchanges to require ID. Take it up with your Government.
I had no clue about Eich's opinions, or the opinions of Mozillans, but it's nice to know these employees feel safe enough to share their opinion and not get fired.
This is one of those things I'm afraid of whenever I start a project.
Sulphuric acid is powerful enough to react with polymers, but not to dissolve silicon.

"does no harm" might be an exaggeration here. It's doubtful you'd have a functional chip. But the fine structure remains, clearly.

Toss some nitric acid in there, forming aqua regia, and you'll dissolve the whole chip including any gold.
Quest of Dungeons
Because for some people political correctness is about lying to make others feel good.
First synthetic yeast chromosome revealed
>It was interesting when we saw governments attempt it last time, too. And then they stopped, because they were overthrown.

Any examples? Because sure as hell many governments do just fine by making whole lots of stuff illegal, from marijuana to certain internet access, and are not overthrown at all.
I think free speech is a basic human right, too, but I wouldn't demand my CEO be fired if he gave a million dollars to try to get a Constitutional amendment passed to overturn Citizens United.
Double pricing is the problem. If consumer pays for 100Mb connection, ISP should provide that connection. Just like Netfilx pays for their connection and bandwidth.

ISPs want to charge double. First from the customer, then from the Netflix again for the same traffic.
You've heard of the chilling effect, right? I would say insisting on being politically correct in all things or you're not fit to run a company would qualify as censorship.
Nice... But lets look at the facts. 180 million ipads (of any generation, not all will be able to run this new version of office) currently in circulation. 110 million windows 8 PC's active as of sept 2013.... so yes I agree that microsoft should put their money where their market share is... THEIR market share not apple's, with the decline of xp that number of winodws 8 users is expected to sky rocket... so ya it would be nice to have an updated consistent version of office.

http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/there-are-now-over-110-mil...

http://ipod.about.com/od/ipadmodelsandterms/f/ipad-sales-to-...
Build the API that ships millions of packages
Successful entrepreneurs typically can raise a lot of money at very high valuations with little time and effort. At a certain point, why not? (For a capital-intensive business.)
This seems to suggest that if someone did a thorough audit of MtGox's mess they might be able to figure out where these bitcoins went.
I suppose a fringe benefit of open-sourcing .NET would be an eventual reduction in this phenomenon.

I mean, it doesn't really even make sense to have a closed-source application programming language in this day and age, where the community building and maintaining it is entirely employed by a single company. It just isn't efficient enough, the maintenance is intractable, and you end up with false starts because the whole thing is subject to the whims and shifting priorities of management.

Besides, Sun open-sourced Java back in 2006, already...
Microsot makes Office for Android free.
React to the Reality, Not the Image of It
>> He is free to express his opinions of gay people.

Context matters though. If you make these opinions at the workplace and someone feels threatened, discriminated against or harassed, there are legal repercussions.

And I assume this goes both ways. If you have an unpopular view that is expressed outside the workplace but are harassed by your coworkers, there is a risk of legal repercussions on those coworkers too.
Thanks, these replies are very helpful!
My first thought of this would be its use in constructing a image of a wanted criminal, as a way to replace police sketch artists. When I viewed their image, they're incredibly close, but I don't think they're quite there. I'm really looking forward to seeing this improve as they've stated it will.

I thought the woman looked close enough to be able to identify, but the man was not. Still, very impressive work.
Consumers have a choice not to use their services. If they are so bad, no one is making you use them. The rules supposedly exist to benefit consumers. But if that was the case, consumers wouldn't knowingly use services that don't comply to them.
I see what you mean; there are two things that most interest me.

The first is "wow, did I just see them in action?".

The second is that journalists are consulting the wrong "experts" in situations like this. They think "cryptographers" are the experts in these Snowden leaks, but the real experts for most stories are incident responders, pentesters, reverse engineers, and even simple IT engineers.

As for being wrong, I'm sure if I could reveal more details, people might be able to debunk me. Sadly, I can't.
Mozilla and I
Agreed! I use a lot of Saas services and tarsnap is insanely cheap for the value it provides.

While I'm at it, a feature I would love to see in tarsnap is server side pruning of old archives so I can remove the delete permissions from my production keys and not have to setup a secondary pruning server.
A Look at Characters with Disabilities in Video Games
Microsoft unveils iPad Office suite
Neat. Looking forward to it.
Well, everyone except Brendan Eich.
Alan Turing Insitute (UK 2014)
A new research institute has received £46m funding in the 2014 budget. It will be named in honour of Alan Turing. What would you like its objectives, culture, ethos and mission to be?
Atari's solution to its money problems? Social casino games
Soon we will be able to finally do away with that hoary old libertarian canard that the state cannot judge you and punish you for what you think inside your own head. Just imagine how harmony and true equality will blossom then!
We now have read access to a person's mind and its visual information when dealing with faces. Naturally, write access cannot be far away ...
And if you don't like that, no one is forcing you to use it.
Quit Whining, Facebook Buying Oculus Rift Is The Best Thing To Happen To VR
Why do they care what the audience is interested in? The Verge writers get to write about what they think is interesting. It's their site, after all.

Anyway, they didn't say no one looks at the numbers. A leader could still direct the journalists to cover certain topics without turning them into traffic whores.
Topics such as sex, religion, politics, and global warming should be banned from technical news and discussion sites.
Not if I support the cause but if the cause is right.

This is also not a witch-hunt. I honestly cannot believe that people are so apathetic about equality
I believe that is more because of Apple than because of Microsoft. Apple has a history of being pretty convincing towards these crucial applications. I believe Microsoft got out of a anti-trust suit from Apple if they agreed to release Office for Mac. And Apple has a love/hate relationship with Adobe too, in a similar way.

It's kind of funny, though. Jobs was pragmatic enough to realize that it was better to get Microsoft to "open up" than to win the lawsuit. It's hard to say, but I definitely think it paid off.
Google, EBay, and the Roots of Collusion
Individuals can freely choose a taxi cab
over Uber if insurance is a concern for them.

People hit by Uber drivers with invalid insurance don't get a free choice in the matter. And if higher numbers of uninsured drivers drive up premiums for regular motorists, they don't a free choice either.

This is what economists call an externality [1]. A voluntary transaction that looks good to the two parties who have a choice in the matter, but which imposes a cost on a third party who doesn't have a choice.

If I own an apartment and the apartment next door gets sold to an investor who rents it out on AirBnB for nightly loud parties, eroding my property's value, that's the same thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
>And allopathy is a major money earner for a lot of corporations and they go to every effort to tell the people that any other medicine system be it unani, ayurveda, acupuncture, acupressure, homeopathy, etc are false and bad.

Incorrect to a large degree. If alternative medicine was proven to work, then it would just become medicine. (or "allopathy" as you call it) We are always studying alternative medicine and some make the cut and get promoted to medicine. Some don't have enough research yet, and we are working on it. Is asprin "allopathy"? Well it was derived from an ancient practice of chewing/eating bark from a willow tree. We found the active ingredient, and isolated it. Now it is just known as medicine.

That being said, there are political and economic reasons to treat/not treat study/not study, but that isn't the 100% norm.
Ask HN: Self-hosted customizable dashboards
I'm asking this here because a few hours of searching Github, Google, and asking around in other places has turned up absolutely nothing usable.

What i'm looking for, in a nutshell, is a self hosted version of something like Leftronic. It's a flexible dashboard framework that supports ingesting data from various sites and services.

I've got a few JSON-based web services internally that I'd like to be able to throw up and display on a board for my team.

The difficulty is that every single implementation that I've found so far is a cloud hosed, pay-by-the month type deal. For various security and internal political reasons, this is not acceptable; the solution I'm looking for requires that data not leave the building and ideally not require an ongoing subscription.

There would be no problem with paying (potentially substantial amounts) for the right piece of software as long as it's a one-off. Also acceptable would be FOSS software with rough edges - we have engineers who know their way around code :) - Though ideally there would be a somewhat user-friendly UI for technician-level users to look around if need be.

Is anyone aware of such a project?
I don't think it's that difficult for package managers to deal with. All of them have a way to hook post-install actions to run an arbitrary script. You might wind up with another step added to the scripts used to produce the package which automatically generates this hook, and the checksums might be slightly difficult (but then storing specialised binaries separately isn't hard).

I guess the biggest infrastructure change might be running the specialisation on a dedicated machine and hosting your own packages. This way you could also checksum and sign the specialised binaries as well.
Currently on mobile, will update tomorrow.

Start here:

http://www.visual6502.org/

Somewhere in that site they detail the step by step process of decapping, delayering photographing and identifying the logic.

There's also a JavaScript simulator, check it out.

The CCC also had a few lectures about decapping. The most interesting one is about backside scanning the die to bypass the safety features.
Ask HN: Application review by YC Alumni
Hi YC Alum,
We've randomly cold emailed a few YC Alumni asking for help reviewing our application to YC. I know most founders are really busy so I don't want to keep bothering them. Instead, we decided to post a question here.

If there are any YC alumni who have a few minutes to spare to review our application and guide us we would be extremely grateful.
Thanks email sent, our service is actually not to dissimilar to tarsnap now that I think of it, anyways that was in the past. Thought I tell people my experiences.
Try to see this from another angle. It's 1970 and you've donated to an organization that advocates equal rights to blacks. As a consequence, when you rise through the ranks at your company and have the opportunity to be considered for CEO, your board of directors rejects you on the basis of that contribution.

What you're saying is it's ok to deprive a man of his livelihood based on the current state of public opinion, which shifts by the decade. Tell me you see how wrong that is.
How about a to-do list? (sort of joking, though it’s a nice and quick way to evaluate different languages and frameworks[1])

Do you have a simple problem you think building a simple web app could fix? Example: if you take public transit, consider making an app that fetches the schedule for a stop entered by the user. My first forays into learning programming were just scratching my own itch using technology.

Good luck!

[1] http://todomvc.com/
Well when the thing they are lying about is a view which is harmful then I see no problem.
NB: this is a branch, rather than a fork.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it. I found other people on go forums saying that Remi Coulom might have said it, but not a citation.

Also, just to be clear, the claim that I'm considering is that around 4-6 dan KGS, you start getting markedly lower payoff in Go strength for increasing the number of playouts. The big concern seems to be capturing races.
Sounds like pseudoscience to me.
Yes, and he also specified why they are different from record separators in this regard.
WebScale is supposed to be a branch, not a fork but since you asked:

Percona built a business on 'their' version and operate on the RedHat business model. As such they need a blessed copy for their business model to function.

MariaDB is basically a bid to take control of MySQL back by one of the original MySQL developers.

Etc.

Tbh, the main problem is Oracle has been a terrible steward of MySQL which has led to this mess.
Have these employees been harmed in any way? Has Brendan Eich ever even been accused of mistreating another Mozillian because of his views on this issue?

In short, are they speaking out against real offenses, or merely hypothetical ones?