skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for digital to analog, and analog to digital conversors.

As far as I know, our neurons are belived to have analogic interfaces, thus they could not be interfaced by a digital circuit. If somebody found out that they are digital, that'd be very newsworth, at least for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrovirus#Gene_therapy

"modern medicine" isn't perfect, it's good and getting better every day, but we have a long way to go.

Plus, we don't know for sure what modifying our DNA does. It might affect certain things, but it might also have unknown consequences. There is a ton of trial and error in science, and you don't want to have too many errors in your body, else it leads to cancer and other horrible things.

Lots of mice have given their lives to ensure that we and our children live awesome healthy lives. Thank you lab-rats (and other animals), you have suffered for our benefit (though you didn't have much of a choice).

Also, it's really really difficult and really tiny, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYf_rPWUdY but there are several teams working on it and many other approaches.
OK, tell me, for a company as large as google, how can I create a revenue source, in 1 year; in such a way that, you never view it as non-revenue generating, but immediately create revenue...

Please, let me know, I will be the greatest CEO of all time... If I manage to convince any company that this will work...
It's interesting how the right to be forgotten seems so desirable, yet when something like this happens it's great that no one can cover up their tracks. Now the pro-Russian separists are trying to delete all sorts of info.

We have this tweet about them getting a bunch of anti-aircraft missiles (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NF6E5FC...), showing off their new toys (https://twitter.com/grasswire/status/489823087190224897/phot...) and the most important one of the day of the rebel leader (or whoever manages his Vkontakte account) bragging about downing planes before he knew that one was civilian (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%3...).

The http://grasswire.com users keep finding more and more of these - It seems desirable that we can delete stuff online and have it go away, but sometimes the Streisand effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect) is a great thing.
I didn't know that. Can you link to a reference? I thought they used AWS for everything.
Tesla Model S hack reportedly controls locks, horn, headlights while in motion
Dream Manager. dead serious.
Thanks for the kind words and your original comments!

I'll certainly post another update when we reach the next critical milestone in this disorder.

We're making rapid progress in understanding these kids at a cellular level.

I'm very hopeful.

I'm also hopeful that the (apparently advantageous) immunological aspects of NGLY1 deficiency will have broader benefit to mankind.
You don't need fail2ban, you need fwknop.
I think you're seeing a Simpson's Paradox effect with those. CPC for both mobile and desktop is going up (my supposition, I don't have numbers on this). However, mobile CPCs are less than desktop CPCs, and the query mix is continuing to shift to mobile. As a result, aggregate CPC goes down.

This also explains the Bing results. Google owns mobile search, so the shift toward mobile (with its lower CPCs) disproportionately affects them. Microsoft continues to flounder in mobile, so their average CPC will be higher right until it becomes nonexistent.

Strategically, this is a good trend for Google. They're being disrupted, but they own the primary disruptor.
There were probably a half dozen of those today. The first one was here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8048083
Look at how many versions the WM has for that page - this seems to be a case where the recently unveiled 'on demand' archiving may have massively paid off.
Well, nobody would use PH if they begged for people to use it. Their success is directly correlated with the fact that they are a cool kids club, and everyone wants in. Psychology 101.

Your comment, ironically, if anything, just made PH more desirable to the majority of the people that read it.
Quora redesign
Probably due to a lot of factors, but the biggest one is likely ad blindness - People just don't notice Ads anymore. It's especially prevalent in kids but it's probably also taking ground with adults now too.
> It's interesting how the right to be forgotten seems so desirable, yet when something like this happens it's great that no one can cover up their tracks. Now the pro-Russian separists are trying to delete all sorts of info.

Are war crimes what 'right to be forgotten' is all about?
Excellent product
I'm excited to see what it can do for my astrology business
to sum it you, it's very hard to target the specific location in the genome you want to correct/overwrite. A virus will just insert it's payload where ever it wants, which almost certainly will cause unintended consequences in your genome
Restaurant Sues Reviewer, Gets Even Worse Reviews
Thanks so much for posting the update.

I remember the story well (my daughter was about 6 months old at the time so it really resonated) and I've occasionally stopped and wondered how things had progressed since then.

It's inspiring to hear how you've all dealt with it as a family. And amazing to see that against all odds you've made some real progress that has (and will forever) affect people's lives in a meaningful way.
Fwknop: Single Packet Authorization and Port Knocking
Bill Gates' annual foundation letter talked a good deal about birth rates. I found it very interesting.

http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org
It's always worth a reminder that the Archive is run on donations, and is a rare, precious resource. Someday I hope it's use as an Internet log file of public record continues to help.

Privacy is a big deal, but we also need to combat the memory hole effect. Hopefully a good balance can be struck!
How Russian Hackers Stole the NASDAQ
I'm glad someone else is being helped by DNA sequencing. It's such a promising new field, and why I do it
We can and it's a very active area of research, called gene therapy. An early attempt gave a kid cancer, so people are still pretty cautious about it, but things are much improved now, and patients with a variety of diseases have been successfully treated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy
I was following the news from the conflict in Ukraine and when the plane got downed, pro-Russia rebels were celebrating all over the internet (thinking that they'd downed a Ukrainian supply plane). When it became obvious the plane was civilian, the celebratory posts and videos started to disappear with blazing speeds.
What did you mean by "start a firm"? Are you going to be working with other team members or just yourself?

If its the latter, then why not just jump in and do it? Even high school students are capable of being competent contractors. You don't need anyone's permission to start!
While there are a lot of nuances to this I won't get into, the simple answer is that it's hard to control where the virus inserts into the genome (imagine inserting a random page in the middle of a recipe book).

It's also hard to get the virus to target the cells you need to reach, as they often only target one specific cell type.
Great idea, and a really cool product!

I've volunteered for search & rescue work before, and this sounds like a great way to help volunteers communicate. One of the big problems with volunteering is getting halfway decent communications. Just about no one who shows up has a decent map of the area, let alone something like a ham radio, but everyone has a phone.

One big question, though - how well does the GoTenna work better with data? Voice, through the regular cell phone system is almost non-existent, but texts can get through much more often. Is it the same with your GoTenna?

One other thing, being out of range of a cell tower will quickly drain the battery of a cell phone, as it tries and tries to establish communication using a high-power signal to find a tower. Will the GoTenna look like a cell tower to local cell phones?

Oh, one other thing... Is it possible to set up custom groups and send texts to that group? For example, one group of people might be North or you, and another group to the South. Could I send a text to everyone in the North? That would solve a lot of problems... And so would being able to automatically forward text to, say Facebook, to keep the outside world informed.
So, Hacker News is not a "pure" news source. It's primarily tech news. Don't look for a conspiracy, as it's completely up to the moderators as to what stays on the front page. Effectively, it's curated. I like the mix here. Not everything has to be covered by a popular "news" site.
maybe not yet, but I just wrote a blog post why in the future here: http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/07/next-generation-web-apps-wi...
More clicks, less value. Seems like mobile is driving down the CPC.
Interesting topics but relatively poor pieces, the above is a featured article no less!
Interesting, must be your connection! I've seen a few of these background movie sites, and they generally seem okay-ish on my decent connection.
Very easily flagged off the main page. Here's some folks discussing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8048550
We can, but we're not very good at it (yet):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy

I've been speaking with gene therapy researchers, and they do believe that NGLY1 is a good candidate for gene therapy because (1) NGLY1 is a relatively small gene and (2) we're pretty good at transfecting into the critical organs for NGLY1 (like the liver).

Of the treatment options we're researching right now, gene therapy is #3 on my priority list.

One of the reasons I'm bullish on gene therapy and related techniques is that it's one of the few approaches that could cure the many of the rare diseases out there today.
Netflix very publicly went all AWS a couple of years ago: http://techblog.netflix.com/search/label/AWS.
That must be an incredible feeling, knowing you and your family may play a part in a potentially world-changing discovery.

I hope things continue to improve for you and everyone involved in this endeavour, and I look forward to more updates.
Cardboard helmets
What does "right-to-forget" have anything to do with the separatist pulling info from (supposedly) his own website?

I don't see Google or any other search engine involved in this situation at all.

Stop conflating things - that someone can post content and remove it of their own volition while Wayback Machine captures it is not germane to the discussion of whether it's ok to be forgotten. Now if the separatist had issued a removal request to WM, that'd be a different story.
Snapshot a web page so it stays online forever
I'm unsure if misclicks/clicks without intent would drive down the cost of CPC. In the short term, they'd definitely drive up the price.

It's possible that lower conversion rates after the click would lead people to put in smaller bids, but I'd say thats unlikely. There's no shortage of people willing to buy ad space with high click throughs.
Nanzikambe ahh thanks! this is fixed now. had a bug :)
Gridzzly – make your own graph paper
The vehicle shown in the deleted post, and the same one driving on the road, appear to be a pure TEL vehicle from the BUK system, without an integrated radar (not a TELAR vehicle)...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NF6E5FC...

From wikipedia -

"A standard Buk battalion consists of a command vehicle, target acquisition radar (TAR) vehicle, six transporter erector launcher and radar (TELAR) vehicles and three transporter erector launcher (TEL) vehicles. A Buk missile battery consists of two TELAR and one TEL vehicle."

So a TEL vehicle would also require a feed from a TELAR or a TAR vehicle.

Though I'm just learning about all this, so I could be completely wrong.
In the first example, yes, it is the combination both of gravitation and acceleration based time dilation.

In the spaceship and the earth example, I can't see what your reference of the galactic center of mass has to do with anything. If you take the space and earth out of the galaxy into empty space, the result would be very much the same. You could say there would be some slight differences because of the extremely minor differences caused by the gravitation effects of the galaxy and the acceleration due to galactic orbit, but being that relativistic speeds are require to see the big differences(we were talking about a spaceship capable of high fractions of C here), I can't see what you were getting at. It is the accelerated frame in which time is "slower" relative to the rest frame, it has nothing to do with gravity.
Yes, and I'm glad that I was allowed to change the title of the article to indicate the reason why this is relevant to HN.

Edit2: and now the title got reverted to the article title, which obscures what's interesting to HN readers. Oh well, inflexible policy in action.

EDIT: Given the poor quality of the discussion, I now regret posting this link. Very little discussion of the Wayback machine and how this is a new and interesting way to collect information, and lots of off-topic stuff on the right to be forgotten or non-wayback-machine-related items about this incident.
So, because something doesn't work in some theoretical corner cases, it isn't worth bothering with at all?
Huge events can have exceptions, hence the word "guidelines" and not "rules".
A URL for every function in the world
There are claims that the BUK was geolocated via video footage before the plane went down:

https://twitter.com/djp3tros/status/489848712450277376
And how much money did it make as a Mac exclusive? Oh it only ever released on the Xbox, as a Microsoft property. So bringing up Apple isn't even relevant. At all.
Programming is becoming a key skill almost like writing and math for any interesting job. First, there is the web platform (see why JavaScript is important there here: http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/07/next-generation-web-apps-wi... ), then there is the maker movement, according to Neil Gershenfield, the 3rd digital revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0RDrSKenGo
Android has a lot of defensive value, but if you're saying having Android makes up for a new normal with lower CPCs then Google shareholders are in for a rough ride.
Stenography might also be an option:

http://plover.stenoknight.com/

Here's a video by the stenographer half of the duo that started the project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpv-Qb-dB6g
> Strategically, this is a good trend for Google. They're being disrupted, but they own the primary disruptor.

Only if they can maintain similar margins in the long term. If it fundamentally eats a chunk of their profit margin, I'm not seeing that as a net positive for its share price.
Summary: The bottleneck is the the interconnection point. Netflix is saturating the interconnection point, and Verizon wants them or their transit provider to pay more to "ensure a level of capacity that accommodates their volume of traffic".

But Level 3 claims it would be very inexpensive for Verizon to increase capacity there. Just a few port cards and a few thousand bucks for a major city like L.A. They even offered to pay Verizon's costs.
Geeze I've been visiting HN all day and didn't see this one. Was it pushed off the main page artificially?
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A security case for protecting a source of random bits is that they are important and that cryptographic applications and middleware can malfunction if these bits are not available. A world-readable /dev/random means that anyone can drain out random bits, making them unavailable to these applications.

Someone somewhere could be setting up permissions in their Linux-based system based on this type of reasoning.

It's a security regression if a character device can be suddenly accessed through a back-channel that ignores permissions.
Does VK not block spiders like Facebook does? This makes a compelling case against Facebook's policies. If it had been posted only to a Facebook page, WM couldn't have archived it. Somebody else could have, but chances are they would be less impartial about the material they were scraping.
Agreed! But they're closer to interchangeable than say 50/5 Mbps cable service and 56.6kbps dial up. Which is some places is your only alternative to Verizon.

Further Netflix isn't the only place to get movies. I can get movies from Amazon (streaming or DVD) Walmart, and other physical stores. I don't have that same kind of choice in ISPs though.

IPSs have more of a monopoly on their subscribers than video intermediaries do. The studios can release movies through a half-dozen channels. I would (figuratively) KILL for the chance to pick from a half-dozen ISPs that have offerings which are reasonable for the modern age.
I heard that Bing recently rolled out a way to just import your Adwords campaign into Bing. That should help a ton, as many of us just don't have the energy to spend on Bing.

I thought Google's buying traffic are payments to Mozilla / Apple / Samsung / etc. for being the default search engine. Mozilla's payment is like $300M/year, so I can't figure out how to get to the $3.6B number. Apple may have a much better deal on iOS.
Reminds me of 'add "over the Internet" and patent' tactics.
That's true, and an exceptionally strong argument for forcing ISPs to be utility providers that are not allowed to have content businesses. It's back to Econ 101.
It looks like wordpress has some nice free one page templates... but
1) it might be overkill for your need
2) I just discovered wordpress so... I may have false hopes
3) in any case: either you buy a template & customize, hire a designer, or get your hands dirty
Sue Wagner Joins Apple's Board of Directors
Show HN: Outdo Strength Tracking App - Full Design Breakdown
I think the concern is that a process could then exhaust all available entropy, and DOS any other processes depending on /dev/random. Currently, a chroot could protect against that.
App is buyable from iPad and checked as compatible with it, however your description paragraph says otherwise.
Kickstarter backers are not customers. They are speculators. There may be shame in failing one's customers, but not speculators. Kickstarter backers know (or should) that any backed venture can fail.
> Clever technique to draw attention away from what is most likely a contractual dispute.

Oh, please. If that's really what's stopping this from being fixed, then I would be hard pressed to find a better illustration of the need for regulating "last mile" providers as public utilities. We're talking about an investment that is not even rounding error in Verizon's accounting, to connect Level 3's network to a Verizon network that, by Verizon's own admission, has plenty of excess capacity that is not being used. So the whole idea that, if the traffic isn't balanced, Verizon is somehow incurring huge extra costs that they need to be compensated for, is obviously bogus, which means their contractual terms are nothing less than an attempt to use their privileged position to extract huge monopoly rents in exchange for no added value whatsoever.
traveling "costs" a lot. what must be given up in order to travel?
This is an idea/concept that has been around for awhile but nobody has been able to execute (well) on it. I like the initial work brought forth through this team and will definitely continue to watch with a close eye.

I think this is a natural progression to the future that the industry doesn't want to happen. Best of luck to the team though and everyone else working on similar projects!
Who said there is a right to be forgotten?
Technology appears to be wrecking markets
Also IPoP(igeon)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Most off-topic major news ends up being flagged. There are two main pieces of world news today: 1) Malaysian airlines plane downed in Ukraine; and 2) Israel launches ground invasion of the Gaza strip. I would guess stories about either one are likely to be flagged here.
The EU: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/files/factsheets...
It would be worth actually reading that PDF to see what it defines the right as including and not including.
Sleep in colder rooms
Yep. Of course when Verizon blocks you from doing that...
I'm a noob concerning all of this, but how would it be different to MADV_DONTFORK? Or why can't MADV_DONTFORK be used for the same task?
Wooohoo! Nice release. I especially like the JSX Namespacing! I sometimes found myself sacrificing better organization/naming just so my component rendering code wasn't so hideous.
How and Why Prezi Turned to JavaScript, and why it took 4 years
Relying only on keys is not practical in many situations where you want to login from a different computers.
Agreed, it's technically possible. In practice it almost never happens. And even when it does it might TECHNICALLY be a push but from a very high level perspective it might still be a pull.

As an example I use a website (like Facebook or something) which does live auto-updating. Under the hood it's something like WebSockets or SocketIO and the server does send datagrams to me without me specifically requesting those individual data packets. I couldn't request them, I didn't even know about them until they arrived!

But while that technically is "push" from a high level it's still "pull" in that Facebook (or whoever) doesn't just start sending them to me for giggles. It doesn't start happening until I visit their site, and it stops happening fairly shortly after I navigate away from it. Their computers don't unilaterally send packets to me. I request them by continuing to execute the javascript that their servers sent to me when I loaded the page. Once I stop executing it, the connection is closed and the messages stop.
That was satirical.
Verifably timestamped information is becoming more and more important.
Quora is an interesting case where the design isn't the problem; it's the content. And the need for the "?share=1" suffix on URLs.

Making the site red/white instead of red/white/gray won't make people suddenly visit the site.
Thanks collyw. I laughed.
> Are war crimes what 'right to be forgotten' is all about?

Of course not. I think OP is just pointing out that there are pros and cons.

OTOH, if I were leading a technologically sophisticated country to war and had the ability, I might look for ways to make my opponent look bad- say, by posting to internet forums using their hacked accounts- and trust that the internet would not forget.
It's worth noting that Sequoia invested in YC early on, which gave them a preferential portfolio access I assume.

The beauty of the model is not that YC has a portfolio worth $1B of gain - but that they spent less than $15M to get there: A staggering 67x. Why?

Because they are good at picking Companies for sure - but most importantly because the % they own for the money they put is very high ("founder level" almost)... and is all a consequence of their brand and processes and its power on entrepreneurs, investors + the network effect of their community.
Amazing jobs guys!
This, or something like this, is my best guess at dealing with the "loss" of privacy.

THere are some exciting ideas coming out of (of all places) UK local government, looking at ways to tame the crazy number of proprietary apps that think they should own the database at the centre of their world - simply by forcing the data into the app then back again.
My cube-mate has a natural and I use a kinesis. We both thing the keys on the kinesis have noticily better action, but he just can't (doesn't want to) wrap his head around the grid layout. Unless you have very small hands, or you just absolutely hammer on your keyboard, it would be unlikely for the kinesis to make your thumbs sore. The space button on the ms naturl is junk compared to cherry mx brown switches.
Big jump in number of millennials living with parents reported
Awesome interactive tool - actually helpful to see how complexity is reflected by size of circle.
Practically evert open 22 port receives a huge amount of scripted attacks these days.