skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd suggest that the problem is that trying to serve a market 10,000 miles away simply doesn't work. Had the same people who started Alibaba stayed where they were but tried to build a US-centric company instead, I'm sure that we would not be talking about them now. You need to bootstrap from what you know.

In fact, there's no guarantee this US expansion is going to work either.

I'd also observe that people would often interpret a Silicon Valley company trying to build a solution for some other culture as arrogant, parochial, or both, so there's really no winning here.
It sounds like you need to move.
Is it https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760997 ?
@Author: First of all simple code and fancy algorithms are not opposites. Actually a very simple code (elegantly and concisely written) can be have a really fast performance on the order of O(1). What you're suggesting is a very naive way of looking at the problem.

Secondly, you need to understand Algorithm analysis in little more detail. If you look at run time analysis of your brute force algorithm, you can determine, of it grows in linear time, logarithmic, exponential etc and how to improve upon the core algorithm. Anyone can add more machines, more memory, faster processor which will obviously help in improving performance but in comparison to order of growth of 'n' all of that pales in the background.
Sorry! I was trying to clarify not editorialize, as writing " cost of signing up an enrollee" would have bloated the title. will not touch the titles if that's discouraged.
A Quick Guide to Driving a Project to Success with Sourceforge
This looks great, I've been using Summernote but that's tightly coupled with Bootstrap.

http://hackerwins.github.io/summernote/
Here's some more information describing it:

"A haplotype, "KL-VS", composed of six single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), spans exon 2 and its flanking sequence. Two of these SNPs result in amino acid substitutions: F352V (rs9536314) and C370S (rs9527025). "KL-VS" refers to the V and S alleles of these SNPs respectively, and since all six SNPs occur in perfect linkage disequilibrium, a single variant, F352V, can be used to tag the haplotype [4]."

from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1534014/
Is it just me, or does even the 'bargain' price of $647/enrollment from the federal website... seem surprisingly bizarrely high? (by an order of magnitude or more)?

But I'm not really sure exactly what to compare it to as 'typical' for website costs. Any ideas?

And of course, presumably (hopefully) the cost will continue to be amortized over the next few years -- more money will surely have to spent on it (continually), but the overall cost per enrollment should theoretically go down, as the initial work continues to be used for more and more enrollments. At least theoretically; in reality, who knows.
I find it fast enough for reading, but not fast enough for skimming or navigation. If I want to page through a book quickly to find something, it just lags way too much rendering the pages; I have to stop every 5 or 10 pages and wait for it to fill them in, or I'll be paging through nothing but whitespace. But it's fine except for that.
DNS name resolving work by having a resolver traversing the domain name from right to left, starting in theory (but not in practice) by contact the dot servers, then to a TLD (com, org, net) server, and last to the domains name servers.

However, this is not how things is commonly done. Most client machines simply sends this work over to their ISP (or google), and wait for the third-party to do it for them. The third-party then datamine this traffic in order to get revenue.

In general, what you willingly give to a third-party can never be seen as inherently private. Additionally, An intruder that want this information would have to hack, tap or steal the information rather than just leaning on the ISP/Google.
A Mathemetician's Lament [pdf]
Pity its not Alibaba that is for sale in the "IPO" then, just a Cayman Islands company which holds a "profit participation" right which may or may not be legal in China. The article also points out that much of Alibaba is not actually owned by the company but by Jack Ma personally, so no participation in that.
And, not just a marketing campaign, but a legal mandate for all citizens to become customers or face fines!
I wasn't born in the United States but my experience has been that Americans - in particular our colleagues involved in the sciences/technology are not only aware of what's going on, but interested in what's going on globally. I find it ironic that you're criticizing Western technologists on an US-based, tech centric website, where this post and your comment were up-voted to the top. If anything, this hints that your comment may be incorrect. In my experience, American technologists are one of the most diverse fields (both in and out of academia) I've ever been a part of.

I disagree with your characterization of the way US-based 'technologists' view the world. In my experience, almost every single technologist I've come into contact with is much much more well versed in what's going on globally.

Also, I have to take issue with your exaggeration here. You're making a generalization. I know about Alibaba, of course. Most people I know also know about Alibaba. So don't say we "know nothing about it." This article was posted and voted to the top of the list on an English based website where the majority of the visitors are working in Western countries.

Your comment seems to make some assumptions that I don't understand. When you say "Who will serve them? These are people just like us, they have needs and desires much like ours." Who is saying anything different? You seem angry with a group of people but it's generally not technologists that have the viewpoint you're addressing.

As someone who wasn't born in this country and has found nothing but respect and openness from my technical colleagues, I have to say I'm pretty confused as to what you're referring to. It's certainly not the majority of North American/European technologists I've talked to.
Maybe they just happened to be surprisingly scientific about finding the last remaining populations of germans not in driving range from an existing IKEA ;)

Joking aside: all those individually owned holiday apartments, all of them way too far from home to be furnished with hand-me-downs and often owned by people who, unlike the natives, already had a lot of exposure to the brand. Looks like the perfect market for IKEA.
The amount of people I know who use functional frameworks (say Underscore) to build things but don't really know much about functional programming is astonishing. To be fair, a lot of frameworks that espouse "functional programming" do so just because it's popular and really push imperative concepts instead so it's easy to be confused on the "right way".
Show HN: Demolition Man Swear Detector
The insurance companies are whining because the exchanges force them to actually compete. This will put strong negative pressure on their margins. The extra volume won't come close to making up for their losses.

Before the exchanges and the standardized tiers of care, plans were very difficult for consumers to quantitatively compare. Most consumers didn't bother, so insurance companies were able to differentiate themselves with advertising and "fluff features" (easy) rather than by cutting costs and increasing efficiency (hard). Not only did consumers pay for the higher margins that came from fluff-differentiation, but they also never benefitted from competition over efficiency. The setup was good for insurance companies and bad for consumers. Now the party is over and the insurance companies are upset that their cash cow has been slaughtered.

Good riddance.
{Show HN} A Gif Player Built For Mobile In HTML5
This is a project I recently created for Hackaday's Sci Fi contest and thought folks on HN might be interested in checking it out too. The device is made to replicate the verbal morality statute monitor (AKA swear detector) from the future world envisioned by
the movie Demolition Man. You can see a video of it in action here (there is some swearing though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjJ738ke4bU

The hardware is a Rasbperry Pi connected to a USB microphone (PS3 eye camera), thermal printer, a small speaker & amp, and some switches & LEDs. For speech recognition I'm using the excellent PocketSphinx project, however I'm using their subversion trunk which
has a new keyword spotting algorithm that's coming in the next major release. I'm really happy with how the swear detection works, and that it can run in real time without any issues on the Raspberry Pi. The detection isn't perfect, there are false positives, but still makes for a fun project.
I personally find it easier to think of it as Conway's Law:

"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations" - M. Conway

More on http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ConwaysLaw and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law

However, I also hate this mental model of software engineering because I have often found it easier to refactor the organization. Maybe because I'm a prima donna and only like working at startups.

I think it's better to require each portion of code has a narrow interface so you can reason in your mind easily about what that code segment does and should do into the future. A function or a class must promise what it should deliver given some inputs and not violate that expectation. If you ever had to reason about code using invariants, you'll grok this.

More on http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NarrowTheInterface
> But I'm not really sure exactly what to compare it to as 'typical' for website costs.

Some kind of "enterprise" sales-management or HR/benefits-management system might be a reasonable comparison. I wonder if there are published per-user or per-sale numbers on how much a system like that in use at a big organization (IBM or Boeing or Siemens or whoever) would typically cost.
Interesting.
That must be why C/C++ is always the go-to solution.

Instead of thinking "too many abstractions are making this code slow, therefore let's get rid of the abstractions" I usually had rather pick a better language where abstractions have little or no penalty (Haskell, Scheme, etc).
There certainly have been similar approaches in Western Christianity. An explicit attempt at synthesizing Buddhist philosophy with Christianity was made by the Catholic monk Thomas Merton back in the 1960s. Moreover there has been a long mystical tradition in Western Christianity as well. Look to saints like John of the Cross and Thomas a Kempis among others. It’s more that there’s a difference in emphasis between the two churches. The Catholic Church has historically placed more of an emphasis on developing a scholarly, logical theology whereas the Eastern Churches have put more emphasis on theosis, or obtaining a vision of God (participating in a vision of God might be a better way of phrasing that). But neither sees either approach as being in conflict with the other.

I would also claim that the idea that salvation is a process of deification has also long been present in the Catholic Church, the idea of purgatory being one important example. Both Purgatorio and Paradiso from Dante’s Comedy also point toward this idea. But the notion of deification as being a process that continues through life and into death seems to be missing in many Protestant communities.
Firefox DevTools Feature Request: Show dimensions of elements
The point of spiking trees isn't to hurt people, in fact the tree-huggers tell the loggers that the trees have been spiked so that they won't attempt to cut the trees. The point of the tactic is to prevent damage to the forest, not to actually hurt anyone.
if you don't know who the sucker is at the poker table, then its you.
Absolutely: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/10/03/man-pedals-across-hud...
It's also about the scale. Most of their services are top competitors in the market. For example, Alipay, or 支付宝, is the de facto online payment service in China. As far as I know, I cannot imagine another company which provides similar service in China. Part of the reason is the government regulation.
They're an aggregator. I can pay Netflix one monthly fee and watch content from multiple different content providers. Customers going direct to the content providers would require dealing with them each individually, paying multiple bills, etc. The convenience of that gets them customers, the existence of paying customers gives them leverage when negotiating for exclusive licenses with content providers. Locking up exclusive licenses gets them more customers and creates entry barriers for competitors, repeat ad infinitum.

It's kind of like saying: "I don't get eBay's business model. It's so thin. Distribute other peoples' products from other peoples' facilities using other peoples' trucks."
London's cabs plan 'severe chaos' for capital in protest against taxi app Uber
It's not exactly purely an aspect of Western companies ignoring China or localizing property for China that is the culprit here. The Chinese government also makes it difficult, especially in the realm of internet services, for Western companies to play.

I know plenty of American technologists who are well aware of Chinese internet properties, how could they not, when disproportionately many American technologists are of Asian descent, but many of them have made the decision that it is preferable to run your startup in the relative unfettered chaos of Silicon Valley than to navigate the maze and minefield of considerations of running an internet service in China.

I'm pretty sure Google would love to have another billion Gmail users or Google search users, or to have Google Play store available (for paid apps) in China. Do you think the fact that these services are blocked are because of ignorance?
Probably not, but if they don't want to be scraped, the first place they should notify about this is robots.txt. I was just stating an example that you can allow some bots and not others if you like.

Of course, forging your user agent, disobeying robots.txt or scraping after you were told not to, is wrong ethically.
It slightly baffles me there isn't an option to leave at a time in the future. I often need to find out what time I will arrive somewhere when I leave work to send people a time to meetup.
What's your point? Instead of trying to make a logical argument, your comment seems designed to inspire some vague outrage.
what's new here comparing to snmp and all those oss monitoring solutions(nagios,etc)?
Ok so for me, 23andme reports this:

rs9536314	TT

(https://www.23andme.com/you/explorer/snp/?snp_name=rs9536314)

But I'm not sure if T or G would correspond to the F352V variant? Anyone know who to find out?
Ghost Introduction
FCC (NET-165-135-0-0-1)	165.135.0.0 - 165.135.255.255

FCCNET2 (NET-192-133-125-0-1)	192.133.125.0 - 192.133.125.255

FCCNET (NET-192-104-54-0-1)	192.104.54.0 - 192.104.54.255

FCC2-126-30 (NET-4-21-126-0-1)	4.21.126.0 - 4.21.126.255

FCC (NET6-2620-610-1)	2620:0:610:: - 2620:0:610:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF

SPRINTLINK (NET-208-23-64-0-1)	208.23.64.0 - 208.23.64.127

TBD (NET6-2600-803-230-1)	2600:803:230:: - 2600:803:230:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF

Q0503-65-125-25-64 (NET-65-125-25-64-1)	65.125.25.64 - 65.125.25.127
"Software eats the world" usually refers to a situation where something previously done by humans is automated. How does that apply here?
How to install Ghost?
another usecase I've encountered is a single system hosting multiple users running persistent desktops remotely via x2go or tigervnc.
A Developer's Perspective On Porting Games To Linux
> Nothing prevents the owner, when dealing with a middleman, from taking advantage of the buyer even with Sedo in between.
> At a certain point in the transfer process with SEDO the new owner of the domain is revealed.

Thanks for clarifying that. I thought that the SEDO didn't reveal the buyer to the current owner.
Depending on your deffinition of e-learning Google Classroom may provide what you need.
http://www.google.com/edu/classroom/
Awesome read, thanks for sharing! Almost worth a HN post in itself if you ask me.
I just bought this yesterday actually. Hands down the best app for this use case, and $20 is a steal when you weigh that cost against the value of maintaining your own sanity.

Using this with ElasticSearch is almost fun.
5 Great Pomodoro Apps for Mac
A gentle pop over telling them the phone number to customer support?

Next day the email address to helpdesk, next email address to executives etc
alipay is not part of Alibaba now.
I believe your Chrome bookmarks can be exposed via your Google Drive account.
New Velocity Foundry Gets An Address
Located at 24 Water Street South in downtown Kitchener!
The new 11,000 sq ft street-level facility will be an open-concept collaborative workspace for over 20 early-stage hardware, materials and life sciences startups.
It's not clear to me how it's good for me as a consumer to have one company providing me everything. That seems to go wrong more often than it goes well.

As an investor, I can see how a monopolistic behemoth might be good, assuming we ignore possible legal problems. But I'd also worry that a huge company like that would not be able to focus effectively on the probably hundreds or thousands of products and markets in which they must be involved. Huge companies like Exxon, say, are at least focused primarily on energy needs; Amazon on online retailing; Apple or Sony on consumer electronics and software. What is Alibaba focused on? (And yes, the same question could be asked about Google, although search and ads are probably the biggest things.)

What is Alibaba currently really world-class at, OTHER than owning the Chinese market from top to bottom? Owning the Chinese market is probably caused as much by cronyism as by being really good at anything.
Which server exactly? If you use a feedreader, it is not you or your browser that fetches the page, it is the feedreader itself. So a site only knows that their feed was fetched once from a feedreader, not who or how manye people read that feed.
How Court Battles with Samsung Might Change Apple's Thinking
"We started by reimagining ridesharing."

I've always viewed Lyft as Uber X with a pink furry mustache. What exactly have they "reinvented" before this announcement that wasn't already "reinvented" by Uber before them?
Docker is an option if you're deploying on Linux, which is what the majority of server deployments use these days. Chef works on the rest of the Unixes, including OS X. If you're deploying Java on a Windows server, you're doing it wrong.

And the days of needing to use different development and production OSs are over...if you develop in Windows and deploy on some Unix variant, you should be using a VM.

I'm still not buying ClassLoader contortions as being in any way justified to support the single deployable artifact requirement. It's just not necessary and can lead to many subtle and hard-to-track-down issues as well as introducing unnecessary performance overhead.
While such a resource would make your job easier, it would make the interviewee's job easier still. They'd just have to memorize all the points in the reference.
> law

The law is about as non-binary as it gets. There are two states of the law: proven guilty, and not proven guilty. We say things like "innocent until proven guilty" but we all know and accept that reality does not work that way. There is no law of the excluded middle here.

EDIT: Actually, adding some excluded middle might make our law better and more fair. For example, cases could be dismissed if it is shown that a law is being applied selectively, forcing any "discrimination" to be written into law explicitly. For example, if tax code is more often enforced against the wealthy, or drug law against members of poor neighborhoods, that would have to be explicit, instead of systematically hidden, or else enforcement could be nullified.

As for computing, the reason we use binary logic is simple: weakening makes many problems more tractable. We spend all our time building abstractions and rules to limit what a programmer can express within certain bounds, to enable a compiler to better optimize it. If all we need for an application is boolean logic, then using other logics adds unnecessary power, and power leads to bugs.
Ok bummer, I think you want to have G to have this IQ boosting variant.

F352V refers to a phenylalanine (F) to valine (V) substitution at aminoacid position 352. [1] And according to this codon table [2], GTT produces Valine while TTT produces phenylalanine.

Well at least I learned something...

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16955217
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_codon_table
Historical Maps In Minecraft
“If you read a book that was written with four letters, you’re not
going to be able to tell many interesting stories,” Romesberg
says. “If you’re given more letters, you can invent new words, you
can find new ways to use those words and you can probably tell more
interesting stories.”

He needs a better way to motivate his work to a lay audience without losing those whose immediate response will be dismissive because binary can tell interesting stories in two letters.
Yes, but just because all classes in python 3 are new-style.
Interesting. Guess it was only a matter of time with the proliferation of ride share platforms. I wonder if drivers are employees or contractors? Seems as though the cars will be more uniform than Uber Black/SUV.
Making Sense of Political Texts with NLP and t-SNE
Has he written anything (or talked) about this experience or was it just a brief comment?
I'd love to read it if he did.
Nice, so many companies trying to chop up Craigslist into pieces.
EBay's trick is that they connect (big number) buyers with (big number) sellers, and take advantage of network effects to stay ahead of the competition. In Netflix's line of business, the number of sellers is very small and well-known (a handful of large studios own almost all the valuable content).

Exclusive licenses do indeed keep them ahead of competitors, but why would content owners give them an exclusive license? Netflix's leverage over content creators is their customer base, but that seems so thin to me when it's so easy to just sign up for another streaming site. My wife and I have a few subscriptions (Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime), and if say Paramount started their own service, it wouldn't be a big deal to add another one to the list. It seems like the studios have all of the leverage in that relationship, and a lot of incentive to cut out the middle-man.
If you have an all-numeric passcode which isn't a "simple passcode", it doesn't display length, but does show only the numeric keypad, indicating to an attacker it's only numeric.

I personally would rather enter a 12 digit numeric to an 8 character alphanumeric. (Also included 80 character full upper/lower with numbers and symbols, but this is unrealistic given how many keypresses are required for modifiers.)

<PRE>
10^12 = 1000000000000
36^8 = 2821109907456
80^6 = 262144000000
80^7 = 20971520000000

At 10 Hz, the first two options get you 3000 to 10000 years.

A reasonable lower bound, given 10Hz on the tries, is
10^9 = 100000000
36^6 = 60466176
80^5 = 40960000

47-90 days.

</PRE>
Me too. That's why I posted lucb1e.com/!119 but nobody seemed to care. A few days later all the calls started to throttle the Internet and show them what it's like.