skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting! The article was weak on the science so I found some papers about the "nanodiamonds":

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ja0567081
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja4016815 https://www.opticsinfobase.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-5-4-...

Question (I know almost nothing about medicine/biology): I can see how nanodiamonds are useful for general imaging, but how will it help differentiate cancer cells from regular cells? Do the nanodiamonds bind to anything or is it just a emission light source? Thanks.
Does anybody really use live wallpaper? They waste battery. On the other hand, you are rarely at the home screen, most often in an app where the wallpaper is in the background.
The unfortunate thing about this is a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money before either 1. Mainstream web security catches up to the cleverness of the bitcoin hackers or 2. People lose faith in bitcoin because the internet is generally not secure enough to support it.
And we don't really seem to be doing all that much more with them computationally.
There's a treatment of this story on the great podcast Skeptoid. http://skeptoid.com/mobile/4129
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Drawing grammar rules for English from Latin might be a bad idea, but it tells us nothing about the value of rules as such.

Every dictionary gives multiple definitions of biweekly, etc. To professional linguists, this is an example of the wonderful flowering of the diversity of language or whatever and is probably much more exciting to study. Everyone else just cares about when to pick up their paycheck.
I had the same initial thought about (a), but the comments mentioned that CloudFlare issues a certificate you can install on your origin servers which will allow secure connections with CloudFlare.
Ask HN: Where is statuspage.io's MMR now?
Last July, statuspage.io wrote a blog post entitled '5 Steps to $5,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue' [1] and then followed it up a couple of months later with 'Growing From $5,000 to $25,000 in MRR' [2].

Haven't seen another MRR post since. Wondering if they made it to 100K MRR?

[1] http://blog.statuspage.io/5-steps-to-5000-in-monthly-recurring-revenue
[2] http://blog.statuspage.io/growing-from-5000-to-25000-in-mrr
I suspect that this might be more accurate, in that several times folks put things there and took them back. There are interesting questions about sand deposits and the history of the island, and of course if it was a "good spot" to bury treasure during a time of privateering then perhaps there are several interesting places. Some of the more elaborate underground construction though seems to be in support of prohibition[1] (well in support of smuggling in liquor during prohibition).

A couple of things are hard to dispute, square cut timbers don't just "appear" underground, so someone put them there. But it could be for much more mundane reasons (like gold mines in the Sierra Nevada Mountains)and it makes for a spicy tale to through in pirates.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=prohibition+tunnels
I'm very interested in more details on this call. Could you shoot me an email with all the details you have on exactly what they told you? I've been monitoring HowardForums (a nerdy wireless forum) and a few other forums where this kind of stuff is discussed and haven't heard of anyone receiving a call.

Could you possibly shoot me an email with all the info you have?

Check my HN bio for the email.

Thanks.
Command and Control: Understanding, Denying and Detecting [pdf]
Beats? Might work out for them, but is it as likely to be a good deal as YouTube or Danger was for Google?
We sold of the dialup part to the Norwegian subsidiary of International Data Group for a pittance after we in our naivety (we were mainly CS students with no business experience at the time) started a price war with the largest ISPs.

Biggest lesson apart from being careful about large capital investments: If you think you can do things _far_ cheaper than an incumbent in an underdeveloped market, chances are they too can do things far cheaper, but have so far opted not to; forcing them into a price war without large backing is not a good idea.

Then we continued for a few more years doing consulting and business hosting as well as handling the backend support for IDG's Norwegian ISP, before the lawyer of our original investor hooked us up with much better paying jobs for the Norwegian office of a California based startup.

It was an interesting experience. Learned a lot. Didn't make a lot of money. But it defined my career - 6 out of my 8 subsequent jobs have a "lineage" going back to that company.
My point was that if Putin were willing to send Snowden elsewhere, why not just use a regular military surface ship. Or, for that matter, why not fly him in a Russian air force transport?

It's silly to think the US would get into a military engagement with Russia just to capture Snowden. At this point, he's not that valuable to either side, except as a propaganda tool. Hell, Putin would probably do a happy dance if the US were stupid enough to do something like that. The sabre rattling in the Ukraine has made him very popular - one can only imagine what a revived cold war rivalry would do for him; in the short term, at least.
we do live in a deterministic universe now don't we?
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN notify you of unread comments/messages?
Why doesn't it notify you of unread comments? Like this little red mail thing of Reddit - http://awesomescreenshot.com/0d13a2n911.

Surely it would make conversation much easier. But just as surely, PG and the admins must be aware of this idea, and have decided not to use it. So what's the reason why?
I think this is good stylistic advice, but unfortunately muddled by the use of the word "adverb" to label it. The author is polemicizing against heavy-handed declarations to the reader of a character's emotional state, reactions, etc. That is not the same issue as using adverbs: many adverbs aren't involved in that kind of construction, and many of those kinds of constructions don't even use adverbs.

The kinds of adverbs the author doesn't like are "he spoke worriedly" style, where you simply declare to the reader that the manner in which this action took place was worried. But you can do the same without an adverb, and many bad fiction writers do: "he spoke, his voice full of worry". No adverb, same problem.

And the piece itself gives some examples of why adverbs in other contexts are perfectly fine:

> try to explain better

> Let's say a writer fully describes the action

These are fine because they are not trying to declare a character's state/reactions. That's the issue; adverbs are a red herring.
It's mind boggling to me that this wasn't done a year or two ago.

If bitcoin were genuinely anonymous (it isn't, because it's highly linkable, even if essentially pseudonymous), it would probably be vastly more dangerous in this way -- there would be billions of dollars spent on exploiting security outside bitcoin++ to steal bitcoin++.
Thanks for the feedback!

While I'm not sure of the practicality of the first point (as in the people who care enough about a SaaS site to make improvements also being able to send a pull request), I certainly agree with it in principle and will think about the best way to implement something like that in the future.

The second one is something that I think we'll be working on as we grow.
I know a number of people who got hit by this type of reconnect attack. I suspect I may have been hit by it for short periods of time. Most of the big altcoin pools were targeted. Soon after most miner software was modified to disable this Stratum feature but there are still plenty of other issues with the Stratum protocol as highlighted by other comments.
> How someone could bury the treasure without anyone noticing them? Well, the same way they dug the hole without putting the treasure into it, I would think. Why nobody would notice you is that it's 1600- or 1700-something and you're somewhere in the woods of what will be Canada one day.

Supposedly, the diggings were noticed as they went on. From the very start of the article:

> By most accounts, the story of Oak Island's Money Pit begins in the summer of 1795 when a teenager named Daniel McGinnis saw strange lights on an island offshore from his parent's house. According to author Lee Lamb, upon investigating the island for the source of the lights, McGinnis noticed a peculiar circular depression approximately 13 feet in diameter on the island's forest floor (2006).

Personally, I find the encrypted sign pretty suspicious. There were a lot of people very desperate to find any scrap of evidence to indicate that there was buried treasure once they had committed themselves (and of course, the landowner at any time had incentive to stoke flames of speculation); how convenient that a stone with easily-deciphered crude ciphers which could have been manufactured and thrown in by anyone just happened to show up, despite the complete lack of any more concrete evidence (if you'll forgive the term) like some gold...
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When my wife was learning piano, her teacher used to tell her "if you're going to make a mistake, make it LOUD so we can hear it and correct it."

Words to live by.
At some point, the story just becomes sad. I like treasure hunts, but not at the expense of peoples' life savings - and multiple lives. And there should be treasure at the end of the hunt, not a story about peoples' delusions and wishful thinking and scams.
Little Boy was dropped over Hiroshima, not Nagasaki.
I understand what you are after but, I don't think it exists. We looked for something very similar for use as an Email Campaign builder for our clients - ability for them use drag-and-drop to build content that would then produce the html which, we would send out.

Couldn't find anything out there and we ended up building our own. I think you will have to go down this route as well.

Take a look at the execution of Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor etc...and base it from that.
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> "When I wrote that first line, I knew that somebody will completely ignore the rest of the comment"

Maybe you shouldn't have included that line, then. The comment would not have suffered in any way from being shorter.
You can imagine the pretty natural go-go-stop behavior. "Good for prestige: go for it." versus "Going to have Mossad and cruise missiles all over the place; shut it down!" versus "Bring it on you !@#~!!!~!ers!" versus "We are entitled to do this under the various treaties; opposition will highlight the hypocrisy in the geopolitic" versus "Um, duh?"
I think anyone could answer this question -- fundraising is extremely time consuming, which means less time for actual product development. YC is the fundraising strategy since the demo day blasts lots of investors with the same chunk of information which is more efficient than individually pitching to each investor through typical fundraising processes. Investors are typically picky on who can pitch them, so unless you have an intro, it's hard to do a cold-call pitch. YC is a fast way to get an intro to everyone in the valley.
Yeah it includes basically a whole version of Chrome Beta so that I can use the Chrome APIs on any phone. Default WebView can't handle all of it. That's something the Chrome team says they are working on reducing.
You're assuming the original descriptions are trustworthy and not heavily biased. Yeah, maybe they were 'square-cut timbers'... or maybe it was driftwood and they were desperate to find something (see the 'treasure chests' in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8149351 ), or maybe natural processes produce squarish timbers (are the Giant's Steps produced by giants?), or maybe the original reports of squarish timbers were made up (wouldn't be the first time, to say the least).
ADO.NET uses DBNull: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.dbnull(v=vs.1...

There's one valid (if obscure) use case for it, other than that it is pretty much redundant: http://stackoverflow.com/q/4488727/1180426

All modern (micro)ORMs, even if they're just a thin wrapper over ADO.NET like Dapper, work just fine with regular nulls.
And the files and photos are because the web app has external image resources.
This is the key issue. Detection by antibodies or some other label will be the true discovery. Binding that to nanodiamonds or whatever isn't the bottleneck.
Agree with what you wrote, but the GC system also imposes various forms of overhead that aren't reflected in the paper. Some are explicit: read/write barriers, finalizers, weak references, etc. Others are implicit in the language limitations necessary to support GC: no unions, no interior pointers, no pointer packing, no easy C interop, etc.

It's difficult to measure this overhead, because you design the program around the limitations of your language. The point is that, by rejecting GC, you gain certain flexibilities that can enable higher-performance designs. Merely removing GC from a Java app doesn't capture that.
This looks to me like someone is trying to get a meme going that states "have to" pay these bonds. The radio version of this story on NPR was leading much stronger in that direction.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
What's with the package versioning?
http://azul3d.org/doc/versioning.html#development-versions

v1 (latest version)

import "azul3d.org/audio.v1"

v0 (in development)

import "azul3d.org/audio.v0"

Is this normal for go packages?
Garbage collector FAQ isn't necessarily reassuring, since it seems to say "go through the same hoops other GC gaming platforms push you through". Obligatory Rust gaming comment goes here.
Danger? Do you mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_(company)

Because that's an odd example of a 'good deal'... acquired by Microsoft for $500m, eventually released Kin. Spent over $1B on Kin, and was a huge failure for MS.
Eh it's a bit more complicated than that. Marijuana cultivars vary tremendously, but not in a way that's particularly amenable to "here try a bite and see" like when you see strange fruits at a farmer's market. As a consequence you're going to see a lot of value placed on consumer information -- many of the startups highlighted in the article are about things like customer reviews of various strains, for instance.

And more broadly even under a much more lax legal environment marijuana will still require things like proper packaging (eg the scentless bags produced by one of the highlighted startups).

It's also unclear how much of the cost is actually production. If 90% of the cost is stuff like flat taxes on end product, then big agribusiness with low production costs can't actually get much cheaper.
Obama is a stasist. You have to be to be President. He believes in central authority and respect for the chain of command. What he is saying is you should blow the whistle inside the designated structure. When the structure says everything is fine then everything is fine. If the structure says you're right good job, only then do you get a pat on the back.

You don't get to be POTUS by being an anarchist or thinking everyone has equally valid opinions as you. Anyone can be President, but only a few people actually think they should be President.
Well given how long Target and others sit on massive CC data breaches you'd have to say the same incentives exist for CC attacks and bitcoin.
If the git functionality is masked by a web interface, then it's practical. A process like this, perhaps:

1) Include a 'suggest changes' link that forks the content

2) Forked content opens in web editor where 'save' commits to the forked repo

3) 'Submit changes' button that opens a pull request

A moderator or editor can accept or reject any pull request.

This is kind of what I'm doing with Penflip (http://www.penflip.com), but right now it's geared towards long form content like ebooks. Eventually I plan to expand to web based content. More thoughts here: http://madebyloren.com/github-for-writers
I owned an ISP in upstate NY for a few years. Basically hosting websites for clients. I bought a used APC NetShelter cabinet and put 2 large UPS's in the bottom along with and Air conditioner cooling fan in the top. I have a Sun Fire V 1 u server that was running apache. I have a few Sun Blade 100 Workstations handling mail and a few more handing DNS, NTP, etc. All I remember spending at least 25K on all of this.

One interesting thing that I remember was trying to build a drive array back then. Trying to figure out how many IDE drives I could stuff into a 4U case to use as what we call NAS now a days.....

I did this from my house and had to upgrade to 200amp electrical service and have dedicated circuits run to my house. In order to do this the phone company had to dig up part of the road and it took them a week.. Not convenient for all that traffic down my street.
I had the same thought. Anyone know how it compares to competing invoice solutions?
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Board game designers will very often give permission for things like this so long as there's not an official money-generating version in existence, or at least ignore their existence.

I think the most visible case of this happening is the deck-building game Dominion, where the policy was that it was fine to have free versions so long as they didn't use the artwork and so long as they're taken down when there's an official app. (Which has now happened on some platforms and I think is expected to happen on others soon.)

I also suspect that Vassal is so niche that most designers/publishers don't really see it as taking away very much from paid apps, even if those do exist. The people playing on Vassal are generally the kind of people who buy a lot of board games.
"There’s the famous observation that the value of a network grows as a function of the square of the number of nodes"

The value of a network is measured as O(V^2), where V is the number of nodes (users) in the network.

"and also many of these services/products double their userbase every N months."

V = 2^N (the number of users doubles every N months), so the overall function for the value of a network is O(V^2) = O((2^N)^2) = O(2^(2N)) = O(4^n). O(4^n) > O(2^n), but it is not the same as O(2^(N^2)), which was what Sam was trying to convey.
Well we have plenty of biomarker candidates (aka human genome project) and, following them will come plenty of monoclonals, which should be relatively easy to humanize. The bottleneck may be 'bioinformatics', and I don't think bioinformatics is going to be a 'embarassingly parallelizable' problem, certainly not in the sense of "throw more people, computers, and bioinformaticians at the problem" sense.
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Just found this API. Call via HTTP, give it a hash string, and you get back an identicon image. Simple and cool.
Good job~ And the next version's Go will support developing games on android
Are the grandparents in the picture? I know my parents would have no problem watching my baby a few times a week. Throw in the other set of grandparents and you're gold.
Barely 0.01% of the world population uses Bitcoin and we already see a technology on the market that is expected to significantly improve security, and this was the result of 1+ year of engineering effort from teams of engineers: hardware wallets like http://www.bitcointrezor.com So security isn't great overall right now, but clearly it is improving way ahead of time with respect to a potential mainstream adoption of Bitcoin.
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I do too, but I'd still like to know why HN doesn't support this functionality directly.
Ask HN: Check linkedin profile without letting people know?
I end up not looking for people just to avoid letting them know I searched for them.

is it possible to disable such feature?
IIRC It's not like they're also being paid $100k (equivalent) like Americans are in SV and having it taxed to nothing. Developer salaries are just lower - more in line with other office drone salaries ($40-$60k).
It's not normal, but package versioning in go is broken, so people invent their own workarounds
That's one way of doing it. Another is to just use their github path and use vendoring tools like godep.

I prefer vendoring since it doesn't rely on a 3rd party being online or existing in a year. Also it's simpler when you want to have repeatable builds, since the vendored code is usually in your repo. It's also convenient for CI/CD things, since your repo ships as a unique component.

Also using versioned path like that means that a version bump means editing all your files. Across a large project, it becomes harder to manage.

However, versioned path aren't incompatible with vendoring tools. So one doesn't prevent the other.

FWIW, I think versioned path is also not very popular in the pseudo-contest of vendoring code/versioning path.
I like it, thanks for your input!

Btw, big fan of what you're doing at Penflip. Definitely appreciate making Git more accessible to non-developers (which is basically what we're doing with our CMS)
Well, you're being a bit revisionist.

You can get memory safety without GC, and a number of GC'd systems do not provide memory safety.

If you think that, for concurrent systems, it is a good idea to let deallocations pile up until some future time at which a lot of work has to be done to rediscover them, and during this discovery process ALL THREADS ARE FROZEN, then you have a different definition of concurrency than I do. Or something.

If you want to know about code clarity, then understanding what your program does with memory, and expressing that clearly in code rather than trying to sweep it under the rug, is really good for clarity. Try it sometime.
Yes, there is a privacy setting on your account that lets you check out someone anonymously. In return for using this feature you can't see who is looking at your profile either. I'm not sure if those who have paid LinkedIn accounts can't tell if you are viewing their profile or not. (you can also just log out if the profile you are interested in is public.)
Not being very smart accounts for some of those reasons. Do you feel there is a significant category of people who are intelligent enough to be nuclear physicists, but decided to drive trucks instead?
HealPay has been doing this for a long time.

Its called BillerApp, theyve just never marketed it

http://labs.healpay.com
Your very brief description appears highly consistent with a possible ADHD diagnosis. Go talk to a psychiatrist ASAP if you haven't yet. Medication can do wonders and improve your quality of life and future prospects dramatically. So can understanding better why your mind works the way it does.

A psychiatrist told me once that curiously, many complaints that people have about memory are better explained by attention patterns. E.g in order to notice, remember or understand something, you need to direct your attention to it, and if your attention is shifting all the time, you are not going to retain very many things.