skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From wikipedia:

>DNA computing is fundamentally similar to parallel computing in that it takes advantage of the many different molecules of DNA to try many different possibilities at once.[11] For certain specialized problems, DNA computers are faster and smaller than any other computer built so far. Furthermore, particular mathematical computations have been demonstrated to work on a DNA computer. As an example, DNA molecules have been utilized to tackle the assignment problem.[12] Aran Nayebi[13] has provided a general implementation of Strassen's matrix multiplication algorithm on a DNA computer, although there are problems with scaling. In addition, Caltech researchers have created a circuit made from 130 unique DNA strands, which is able to calculate the square root of numbers up to 15.

Perhaps it can be used in nanobots. Also being slow isn't necessarily a disadvantage if it could be made much cheaper. Biology can rapidly self-replicate out of everyday materials. It can also run efficiently on chemical energy and even sunlight. Though these likely don't apply to this research, just biocomputers in general.
I'm extremely lucky that my employer has the "do whatever you want out of work" attitude to things. I wanted to start selling Smart Watches, so I asked my boss and his reply was "it's your time, so long as it doesn't take up paid work time, you're free to do whatever".
Unfortunately, I can not recommend inkscape on the Mac. Their last official release (0.48.2) was Sep 6, 2011. For a long time the team didn't seem to have the resources / know-how to get a release built for Mac.

There has been someone working on it to some degree, on and off, but it requires a lot of work. Meanwhile the 0.48.2 release is very buggy, which is what Mac users have been using for years.

I would have to see proof of renewed dedication and follow through, over a period of time, before I recommended inkscape for mac again. This is why I have been considering Sketch, but in dismay found Sketch to be buggy also.
http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2825379
I think I would probably draw the line at 50% ... if more than half of what you bring in is taken away, I just feel that's too much... That said, I would probably tax everyone at 50%, nuke corporate taxes, and ensure laws that ensure disbursements from companies to shareholders (that is then taxed, without exception)... from that, I would reduce military spending, cut most social services, and cut everyone a check for the same amount each month based on the revenues/spending.

Corporate person-hood, and corporate taxes don't really make so much sense.. I'd be in favor of limiting corporations, and pushing for disbursements to the owners... Limiting corporations from holding onto unutilized and under-utilized assets and capitol. Make it work, or give it back to the shareholders/owners.

I think that these things could really simplify legal/tax structures, and reduce a lot of government bureaucracy... Some people just wouldn't work.. more power to them. Some people will want more, and there will be competition in the workforce... I'd also be in favor of either open trade, or trade sanctions with countries that don't have similar environmental protection requirements to our own. Yes, that means that smart phones may double in price, but I think actions like that would help a lot more than simply putting up military bases all over the world.
5 bodies, anyone have more?
http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2825038
> They have a habit of demonizing the other group, just to make themselves feel better.

Thank you for being the better person and not joining in.
The claim being made is that Cheiky's ideas are nothing but pseudoscience, but the article seems to be saying that the companies he left behind are all still in business making real products. That's actually a pretty impressive track record. I would have thought it has to mean some of his ideas worked out after all, even if most didn't (or his ideas had a solid core even if the more exaggerated claims had to be cut back, or some such). Is that not the case?
I am usually quite resistant to games - even 2048 bounced off of me with little affect - but something about the idea of creating solar systems and playing around with nature's laws is deeply appealing and I just spent 15 minutes figuring out how to construct a system which can get as many points as possible without imploding. (hint: large multipliers. Here's an initial attempt that I intend to refine once I'm done with work; http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2823906 )
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Search for the individual apps: Word, Excel, etc.

For example, Word is at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/word-online/fiombg...
Game of Thrones Sets New Torrent Swarm Record
/non-related rant ahead

From a perspective of person who is (pro)actively looking for more work, freelancer.com is full of projects along the veins of "write me some software". It does not make sense to even bother applying to projects like that, as the time spent writing an application letter exceeds potential income.

~6 years ago I did a fair number of small projects on rentacoder.com - the quality of average project description was much higher (did they do any vetting on incoming projects?).

odesk.com on the other hand has a lot more projects whose authors understand a thing or two about how software development works (i.e. reasonable project description among other things).
> (although arguably the government should have tried to be more counter-cyclical than it was)

That's a very polite way of acknowledging that the UK government ran a massive deficit-funded spending campaign throughout one of the fattest and longest boom cycle in history.
Mozilla appoints new CEO after gay marriage controversy
Minor DogeAPI Security Flaw [Disclosed and Fixed]
Not to diminish the work that goes into building a successful forum (most fail), but that's a nice out. With the right strategy it can even FU money.
I listed what I like. "Excites" is your word.

I guess what I meant by "from scratch" is that they aren't burdened by legacy code, and aren't limited to using the Paxos algorithm.

If you look at Deis, for example, it basically outsources a lot of node management to Chef Server, which in my view creates a great deal of technical debt on day one.
HN, tell me why this wouldn't work: tax anyone renting an old property (i.e. built more than 15 years ago) for 50% of the difference between the rent now & before the tech boom. Put this to subsidise development of affordable housing in under-developed areas like SOMA.

Really, the lowest hanging fruit is just building reasonable transport through the whole city. At the moment it seems like only 30-40% of SF is actually being used. Demolishing freeways & replacing them with housing would not be a bad area either. Smaller houses, like the ones in European cities, would help a lot as well.
Haven't the two merged?
Calling Python from Haskell
" Freelancer.com, which was founded back in 2009, has acquired several companies over the years — including tech freelance jobs site vWorker/RentACoder and IT marketplace Scriptlance, both in 2012. More recently (this March) it picked up Polish freelance marketplace, Zlecenia.przez.net. "

They're buying everything http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/15/freelancer-buys-warrior-for...
Well that's just it, what is "better"? Currently, the software to replace a typical excel spreadsheet is prohibitively expensive. (As someone who currently makes a "spreadsheet replacer", I've heard our BA regularly comment that it takes us tens of thousands of dollars to add in features he was able to add to his spreadsheet in a few minutes.)

I recognize that we are building a cathedral meant to last, and he was building a tent that was error-prone and easy to break. The thing that gets me is how fast he was able to turn data into the answers he needed. Why don't my tools let me put something that fast together?

I've become lately interested in the idea of a "better excel" that could solve the issues excel has: easy to "forget" a new row or cell, hard to version, hard to share, stuck behind a complex gui, hard to add bigger data, etc. I think such a tool could greatly increase the "general programming" of the world far better than just teaching high schoolers to program. Most people who would program either do so for someone else (trying to automate something) or for work because they need to get an answer out of some data. I think excel IS a programming language, it just has a gui instead of text. I think if that was improved upon, it would meet a big need.
Got 7 bodies and 500 points... =)

http://screenpresso.com/=XTGMc
I've managed to do that with a system that I was trying to create to break it: http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2830379
I reported a documentation bug to MailChimp, they're sending me a free t-shirt
I was looking at http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/webhooks/ and found a character encoding bug. It looks like there is some double UTF-8 encoding. I found the MailChimp contact page and reported the bug. They're going to fix it, and they're sending me a free t-shirt.
Yeah, they have. That's the other reason I am referring to rentacoder.com in past tense- or at least I think I am ;>
"but semiconductors or light bulbs or the plumbing of e-commerce probably have to be developed by entrepreneurs."

Steve Blank's "Secret History of Silicon Valley" [1] reveals just how heavily the Silicon and other semiconductors in Silicon Valley depended on DoD funding, and SV likely wouldn't be where it is without that funding. Parenthetically, 'Secret History' is also just plain fun and fascinating to watch.

The plumbing of the internet exists because of DoD's ARPA (now DARPA) project to connect and share expensive computing resources.

Entrepreneurs may be part of the equation, but ignoring the significant government role in the technology we have seems likely to lead to wrong conclusions.

[1] http://steveblank.com/secret-history/
[2] "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet ", Katie Hafner
Let’s experiment more
I don't know much about OpenSSL but what I know for sure is that refactoring the code itself might not be enough. There must be some process involved to keep track of what was refactored, what was not, enforce rigorous testing, systematically review the code, and make sure all of that is publicly available (when I look at the website, that information is nowhere to be found)
If you don't want to kill your site, you should make it possible to start a new game without reloading the whole page.
Twelve. seems pretty easy if you only use earth-sized objects...

http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2831699
You mean http://hackage.haskell.org/package/tls ?
Given the thousands of products in the App Store that do quite well (and given that Sketch 3 was the highest grossing app in the App Store yesterday) I think your examples are anecdotal at best.
I have a few ubuntu servers. When I do a "check for heartbleed" check with various tools, it says they are not vulnerable. However, these servers were installed 6 months ago and not updated for at least 2 months. How can they not be vulnerable?
How to get a job in UX: Des Traynor (Intercom)
Care to point out where exactly in my reply it was that I was demonizing him? I was drawing parallels with a news outlet that has a habit of engaging into similar misrepresentations of situations.
Consistency Matters Too
Hi fest

I'n the Chief Executive of Freelancer.com.

The employers from RAC are all on Freelancer - and they are a lot more active than they were on the old site (which had a use interface from 1995 and was very difficult to use).

Regards
Matt
Show HN: Just launched The hardest fishing game app.  Would love feedback
Agree to an extent however its not a bad sample of the main players. Every network has its own hierarchies and patronage... tech is no different.

The main negative for me is it doesn't give any feedback on the health of the London tech scene... just the deification of founders (which if you want to talk about elitism has quite a fair few rich kids spending daddy's money!) so the inevitable focus on board level, VCs and the schmoozers.

It would have been better to see more from those who've made it and those who are just starting out for commentary on their difficulties, challenges and feedback to the wider community and/or govt.

ps - got to love the picture in front of a 'smug' fridge

http://www.appliancecity.co.uk/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/...
I make a living off oDesk and the merge had me worried for a bit but so far it's been business as usual.
Someone better educated than me, please comment, but this sounds something like Paris. The old section of Paris has a great deal of law protecting its preservation. Would it be progress to tear down the Eiffel tower, or the Arc de Triomphe?
just placing them all in the same orbit works ;)

Congrats! You reached 500 years without going unstable!
120,047
points over
500.1
years!
Maybe they use the GNU TLS library.
The last time I checked Warrior Forum was basically a marketplace for scammsters scamming newbies and selling scam paraphernalia. Long term value? Make 50.000 bucks in 10 days and get the Ultimate Master Traffic Money Maker for free!
http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2833251
You might want to rely on some other tool to determine if you are vulnerable or not. Or, just fix it yourself:

http://www.ansoncheunghk.info/article/3-simple-steps-update-...
This is a really clear explanation of the algorithm. It's very powerful but at the same time reasonably simple to implement. However, a lot of the explanations of the algorithm either are extremely convoluted (Wikipedia) or they are handwavey or broken (game development 'community' sites). This is a good middle ground.

OT: As an exercise I did a 6510 Assembly implementation on the c64 a while ago on a pretty tiny grid (20x10 IIRC) and that worked wonderfully. Not sure if there would be any practical use for it, but there you go.
I love Nexus 5 too
I am not an expert on the topic by any means, but one possibility is that older versions of impacted software are simply not vulnerable.
That's not the case, but it could use a reputation system.
From the contractor PoV odesk (and maybe others as well) really sucks - rates are rather low. I've seen quite experienced engineers applying with rates in $15-30/hr range. And clients hiring history also shows that they are cheap.

From my experience, it is much profitable to stay out from these sites and search/apply to remote jobs independently - you get by order of magnitude higher pay.
This is the number one thing I would like to see any kind of IT labour organization campaign against. I don't really care about much else, so long as I am free to work on whatever I want in my own time and with my own resources so long as it doesn't interfere directly with my employer's line of business.
Marketplaces with reputation-ranked user bases have strong network effects and are difficult to disrupt.
It seems that running on the fastest possible setting helps to avoid (skip) most collisions by making them near-collisions.

P.S. Got to 430 years.
You need to turn the paradigm around frankly, and hire through these sites rather than bid for work in a big pond.
It would only be a tax on capital gains, not on the principal. And philosophically, why should investment income be treated any differently than income gotten due to effort?

Property tax is a sort of wealth tax. It goes to fund local services that the occupants of that house presumably consume, though.
looking at the high scores they all seem to be just exploiting the rules or a bug. Can those types of attempts be filtered?
I work as a Rails consultant exclusively on oDesk. How do you guarantee payment when jobs are found independently? Who's to say you aren't scammed out of money you're owed especially if you're not even in the US (or client country)?
This concept reminds me of the non-hierarchical decision making by consensus process that groups such as 'Reclaim the Streets' tried to implement a couple of decades ago.

However, 'Reclaim the Streets' never asked anyone for any donations. That made them very different to your typical 'save the world' group where the main point of the org/charity is just that, soliciting donations.

Like many people here I don't quite get what the money is needed for, even though it is spelled out. I also had a look at the github and it looks like things are aeons away from the 'Wordpress 5 minute install'. The Wordpress 5 minute install really is too much technical wizardry for a lot of folk, they need an 'I.T. Expert' (TM) to do it for them. Wordpress offer hosted versions to get around this trifle and I am sure that is the way to go, however, if you are open sourcing the code and expecting people to host their own, being open source is not enough, it has to be reasonably easy to install.

Every man, dog and cat rolls a few Rails apps before their breakfast in The Valley, so it is no big deal. Yet for the people that are just about okay uploading something like Wordpress to their 'FTP server' and setting up a database through some hideous 'cPanel' contraption do matter. These are the people likely to be administrators of a group somewhere that could benefit from your software.
Maybe if we start changing the label to "Passwords" or "Pass phrase" to indicate that you can do something more expressive.

It bugs me that even today, more systems (hello banks) don't support more open passwords. Even what's on a US Ascii keyboard would be nice. Two of my banks only support letters and numbers, no special characters and case insensitive.
Not surprised from MailChimp: whatever you have to do with them, they're always super nice people.
Yeah, I'll just pack myself up, pack up all my family, including people who are sick or disabled, then pack up my career and my employer and shuttle 'em off to some low-cost area so I don't have to pay SF's absurdly inflated real estate prices. Sounds great and ENTIRELY realistic.
That's why we built Lavaboom overseas and out of US jurisdiction. The same applies to many secure email providers.
Notie – Push notification service made for developers
Oh I don't know. How about using something like a
Google Hangout? I wonder if Google could use that?
Yep, older versions of OpenSSL are not vulnerable.
The Raspberry Pi as a Poor Man's Transputer
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A great walkthrough...I've read this before and still remember how the article was laid out...it's unfortunately rare for "theory" websites to have decent typography and whitespace that doesn't hinder reading.

In my comsci classes, I'm pretty sure we talked about Dijkstra's algorithm...and I'm pretty sure we talked about priority queues. But not until I recently tried implementing the algorithm on my own (just for a fun six-degrees-of-separation network graph) did I realize how important having a priority queue was...I wish the two concepts had been taught in tandem and shown how they relate to algorithm performance (though yes, I do realize, according to Wikipedia, that Dijkstra's original algorithm did not have a min-priority queue).

It'd be fun to go to a college com sci class now and see if these concepts are much better explained now that we have the ability to show them easily via interactive means (I'm sure many here have seen this wonderful site: http://qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual/)...It's not only that they can be seen and interacted with, but it's conceivably much easier for the average com sci student to attempt to build an interactive visualization to demonstrate these concepts....A bit harder when you're working with only C/C++
does this imply that most solar system arrangements are unstable and we are lucky in ours?
"OpenSSL must die, for it will never get any better." - PHK
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2602816
A pretty good, recent look at OpenSSL code and how it can be improved.
I probably should have said that it "can" run on any node. Yes, currently it does run on every node, but their roadmap doesn't have the requirement that every node be actively participating in elections.

I'm sure that you have seen fleets of dedicated Zookeeper nodes. I rather like that etcd is simply a service that can run on any node, and does not require a separate role-specific fleet of servers just to do coordination. That was the point I was attempting to make.
> Surely there's a role for government in all this, but it doesn't follow that socialism (never mind all the random crazy ideas people call socialism) is a good idea.

Who said this? I was merely pointing out that "new" technology, as appeared in the quote I responded to, it actually usually kickstarted by taxpayer money. I am not interested in where it went from there.
As the saying goes, if a product is free then you are the product. In other words, if you can't sell your users, you have to charge them.
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Personally, my preference for zookeeper comes from the API. To me, the ZK API and docs were far more understandable than the etcd ones. The etcd api docs appear to be a collection of examples, not reference docs. It does a poor job of explaining the possible operations and what various options will do, particularly in what combinations of options are allowed.

In fact, I had to resort to running test queries against a running etcd server just to work out the proper semantics of some of the arguments.
Mt. Gox chief refuses to travel to US
Google analytics was originally Urchin, and If I remember correctly it was 49.95 a month. I heard about it from a friend and started paying for it. A few months later Google bought them and it was suddenly free. It felt like picking a good stock and the feeling of going from paid to free was elating. I say this not as a well actually (ironically it is), but to support that if you have a good product people will pay and will recommend it to friends. Free is only good if the number of users on your platform is of benefit to you. In your case, I think it's not and you are probably making the right choice by focusing on both product development, with a little revenue on the side from the start (or at least early). Good luck.
As a amateur musician in several bands, I see those websites popping from time to time, promising to help matching promoters with musicians. It just does not work.

I don't know the reason why (too many bands ? too much variability in professionalism ? not enough "rational" as an economic sector ?) but none of those website achieved their objectives. If I had to name one, I think the closest would have been Myspace (past tense of course).

I rather rely on SEO/google web reputation using personal servers and old-fashioned "business cards" rather than using platforms like gigmit.
MailChimp is easily one of the best companies I've worked with. easy documentation, extremely helpful support and great pricing. What's not to love? They sent me a t-shirt all the way down here to Bolivia!
Thanks for that, I wasn't aware Switzerland had similar provisions, I thought it was just the state of California.
Interesting. I packaged up OCaml native aarch64 (arm64) and ppc64le backends for Fedora a few weeks ago. (Most of the hard work was done by Benedikt Meurer and Michel Normand). Neither required cross-compilation, since the native compiler compiles itself using the OCaml bytecode interpreter.

It did reveal an actual bug in [edit: a branch of] qemu. It wasn't emulating the aarch64 RET xN instruction correctly. Apparently no other software in the whole of Linux uses this strange variant of RET.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1263747
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