skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the genomics world, data from large projects is released as soon as a distribution system can be built, and the distribution system is also needed internally for the consortium so this is usually a very early stage.

Non-consortium members who download data are asked to agree that they will not publish a paper on the data before the data producers have had a shot to find things. And if somebody were to go against this understanding, usually journal editors would wait to publish the paper until after the consortium publishes its paper.

However in The Cancer Genome Atlas, an even more open approach was taken; there's just an end date to the embargo on the data, and if data producers and researchers don't get their act together in time, the data is free for everyone to publish on.
Very cool. Would be great if you teamed up with Readme.io to make sure all of their customers are loaded into the search engine (our docs are with Readme)
One thing to add, perhaps: include API wrappers, client libraries etc.

Stuff that makes it easier to use the actual underlying API.

Eg the YouTube Data API is nice, but you can save a ton of time if you use one of the client libraries:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/libraries
Say hello to x86_64 assembly, part 4
Game Based Learning in the Classroom
The idea of down voting comments you disagree with is ridiculous anyway.

If you have a counter argument, reply.

Down voting a comment (which leads to it effectively disappearing) is the electronic equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "la la la I'm not listening" because you don't like what someone else said.

If someone posts a comment saying "I like chocolate ice cream" in a discussion about a new version of a piece of software, down vote to your hearts content.

When someone posts a comment that simply disagrees with your opinion, either ignore it or reply with a counter point.
This is what I've called The Third Machine for a while now.

The First Machine - Washer
The Second Machine - Dryer
The Third Machine - Folder

I want to be able to buy The Third Machine.
Bastion hosts
I guess when someone has a small business and also happens to be an idiot, chances are slimer that a smarter business partner will point out an idiotic idea, so his idiocity has the chance to shine in all it's glory at every instance.
Visualizing Collaboration at Asana
There's probably some license boiler plate on the product somewhere that lets them do whatever they want. No argument needed.
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The feature detection checks that canvas.getContext("webgl") returns non-null. IE11 does indeed return null for that; it wants "experimental-webgl" instead

The docs mention this also: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/dn385811 (second example)
Bastion host(s) are a useful and important component of a system management infrastructure. A bastion-host, in this context, is actually more properly, but more obscurely, called a jump server. In this post I will simply use the term bastion host. It is the most commonly used term for the system's function: a server, which has undergone security hardening steps, that is the operational and administrative control point for systems and hosts in a datacenter (or AWS Region).
Can't believe anyone here didn't mention this but I'll be the immature one. Imagine porn on this device. I mean just, you know, all the Scarletts and Jessicas.
You're missing a step. The goal of programming is not to just solve a problem, it is to create a solution to a problem. That creating part is the most important part.
Great idea for friends! For my co-workers on the other hand... i'd hesitate to offer an O(n²) solution. I do believe the Feels per Participant™ ratio would be optimal for the group. However this ratio means little to aforementioned participant sample.

Thanks for sharing!
If a feature isn't tested, or proved useful to a user is it really progress?
Agreed... the whole conversation reads like parody: self-centred and inane recruiter pitch followed by smug, obtuse developer reply followed by recruiter amusingly taking umbrage at the reply and still trying to pitch the job.
Seems like someone could take advantage of this by making fake product labels.
Martin here founder of testmunk. Yes, we support hybrid apps. You are able to execute common gestures such as scrolling, touching, swiping, filling forms and you can verify the results too.
That's great! I thought that effort died with Willow Robotics, but it continues.
I have to ask what is troubling about the men's rights movement? Sure there are a lot of people hanging around there that don't get it, but the primary issues are important. It is particularly troubling to me that male rape victims are still routinely laughed out of police stations. Issues like these deserve attention, and there are very few people working on them.
Being an advocate of learning something without breaking it down into smaller pieces shows an ignorance of learning in general. Everyone has a limit to their mental capacity and the logical leaps they can figure out with incomplete information. IDEs reduce the mental energy needed at any one time. Every time someone makes something easier, there are always people who are advocates against it and they always are on the losing side of history. Yes, there are lots of kids using Unity and Javascript who don't understand memory, or compilers yet. But they can learn and learn that one chunk at a time instead of having to take on so much at once just to make any progress at all.
What do you define 'machine intelligence' as?
Isn't shuffling in the ranks a sign of balance? Lets say the game is unbalanced such that Mario wins 100% of the time, and Luigi wins against everyone except Mario. Then I would expect the ranking to list Mario as #1 and Luigi as #2. They would never change positions because there is no question about if Luigi should rank higher than Mario or lower than some other character.
Yeah I know. The A0 with windows server is painful. If I got an A1 for £30 I'd break even on renting a dedicated box. That's the big pain.
Great. Why is it taking so much time to load ?
Flight control and science operations for Rosetta and Philae: AMA
New Filter->From: recruiter@gmail.com->Send to Trash, Mark as Read

Problem solved.
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"Evolution has also had much faster pageload times than competitors, most of whom
run painfully slowly thanks to Tor’s process of routing web traffic among random-
ly chosen computers around the world. (Just how Evolution managed those speeds de-
spite running on Tor itself isn’t clear.)"

I can't really investigate myself currently and I've never visited but is anyone here know if/why Evolution is faster?
You wouldn't "accidentally" land on the Ionic Creator... If you are there, you know why, and what it is. And if you don't, it probably isn't that interesting for you anyway.
You really need to put some boundaries on this. How far does it go? Are we talking about, like, an API for customers to check their balances? Or are we talking about an API for creating new accounts and pre-qualifying for loans? An API for transfers? What?
and/or short-term salary reductions (especially for founders)
> It's a bizarre method of text entry, but interesting nonetheless.

And by bizarre you mean fantastic... It's even better in a language like French, where swiping means not having to type in the accents, whereas normally you'd have to do a long press of the letter and then select the accent you want...
Oh man, I just ranted about this at work.

* Transferring money to our clients would ideally be one uniform API request. Globally speaking, moving money around can still be complicated depending on what your business does, how much money you are transferring and the origin/destination. API's could enable a new level of communication about moving money around that could satisfy many countries needs to track/audit about money transfers while making it easier for businesses to actually do it.
* Reconciliation of statements with whatever software you use. Right now, there are a lot of different formats for getting account statements. Our bank's commercial services doesn't actually provide a standard format at all. They have a CSV like TXT file that has not documentation and that only Sage Accounting can read. Brilliant! An Open API could allow us to query an account and format out in any standard format we need; or, even better, just directly hook up to our accounting software (Xero) and be done with it.
* Integrations. Most integrations are giant hacks right now that simulate a browser logging in with your full access password and download statements/etc. API's could provision access to specific end-points and be revoked. It would greatly enhance security all around.
* Automation. Our business pays our our customers on a weekly basis, but it would be awesome if we just checked a box "Approved" and it did all the magic of moving money around.
* There are literally some things we need to call our bank to do, but are really just operations their web interface doesn't allow us to do. Ideally, an API would allow us to write our own flow to complete these same operations without bothering our bank.

Honestly, the less I have to deal with any bank with our startup the happier I am.

Startup idea: Create a tech specific credit union that exposes a straightforward API to do banking. Expand to integrations with popular online accounting software and eventually personal banking. Starting from scratch would hopefully let you build a front facing service that is modern.
Waterfall is all up front. Agile is up front at the task level. Normally when commited to a sprint it doesn't change.
Statistical Inference for Everyone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540960
How WWII Made Rock Climbing Safer
Yes - exactly. It's also a sign that the game has enough depth that not all strategies are known immediately. An unbalanced game where everyone knew A was better than B and that never changed would be a dull PvP game.

This is an interesting article, and I agree that balance isn't always as important as people think, but I don't think is well thought through in terms of game design.
Yawn. We are not all the same, use the tools that work for you, and let others do the same.
I think there is an element in there about realizing ones mortality and vulnerability. In younger years there is a mentality of "I have an infinite amount of time left" and I can do whatever I want.

Later in years, a realization of one's mortality (an emotional/personal one, not just a theoretical understanding). Coupled with signs of an ageing body -- fractures take longer to heal, chronic diseases start to poke their head, etc.
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Hear what Jack Dorsey and Peter Thiel had to say when they were in Philly
100 Open Source Replacements for Expensive Applications
GoogleScraper
Worked in chrome.
worked in chrome.
The icons could be rendered at install time and stored forever as raster data on the device.
To me the root cause is generally a lack of resources in terms of time and money. Contributing to that is the general inability for people to grasp the complexity of software development.

After implementing the requirements, it is found that they did not reflect the actual desired system. Then there are technical issues that were unforeseen. Rather than accepting these technical issues as additional costs, they are blamed on the developer, "if they knew what they were doing, there would have just done it already". Incorrectly or poorly communicated requirements are also blamed on the developer.
To me the root cause is generally a lack of resources in terms of time and money. Contributing to that is the general inability for people to grasp the complexity of software development.

Personally, I have never had a client or budget that I could say was really reasonable throughout. I believe this unicorn may exist somewhere. Certainly I haven't been finding my clients in the most auspicious places.
I'm asking for a photo, even with a microscope. I'm really curious, because I still believe the difference can't be seen for the text sizes that are actually readable by humans that don't use magnifying glasses.
Would be nice to have some general collection of libraries in various languages.
Hope we will there one day, but for now we have API Pages, that include middleware (like mini apps) to extend/modify one/various api.

https://www.apitools.com/apis/burning-man
Passwords prior to the doubling were a fixed length, so they could always assume the first eight characters of a 16 character password (which hasn't been changed manually) is the original password.

Of course, anyone who has a leak of the original passwords can equally just send a a double of it, so I'm not sure what benefit this is supposed to be offering.
On a somewhat related note, it makes me extremely happy that the longest piece of literature in the English language is a piece of Super Smash Bros. fan fiction—by a non-native speaker of English, no less!

http://kotaku.com/this-smash-bros-fan-fiction-has-3-5-millio...
Does Research Really Make Design Better?
> Because it's a graph database so it doesn't really fit naturally with SQL.

Interesting, but lacking in details. The trivial examples I see in posts like this always seem to map perfectly to SQL.
That's wrong -- this is standard journalistic ethics.

That's a gutter dwelling argument that is bullshit on both-sides. Because it supports the idea that private citizens should also be free to trash journalists. After all, if they have no ethics, they have no moral high ground to use as a defense against their own tactics.

So you are arguing the point of the Uber-douche.

Nice one.
I'm implying that it is ironic that Anonymous is stripping individuals of their anonymity.
The icons doesn't work in Firefox on W8, works in Chrome, though. Just shows squares with numbers inside.
My mother died of dementia (and other things naturally) a few months ago (her condition was diagnosed as Alzheimer's at one point but who can tell really).

I find it annoying when such and such an effect is describing as "treating Alzheimers" when there no cures for dementia and not real understand of most forms. All there are is combinations of drugs, therapies, and procedures that may make the person's life easier and more pleasant.

It's ironic that drug companies must use the more modest "helps relieve the symptoms of" language when talking of cold medicine but yet the hardly accurate term "treating Alzheimer's" is tossed around an awful lot.
Sure is. What type of knife?

Can it be a kitchen knife? I need a new chef's knife...mine is a little bent.
"And in addition to drugs, counterfeits and guns, Evolution also sells stolen credit cards, a kind of crime never allowed on the Silk Road."

A sort of natural selection that favors more evil apparently.
haha, yeah true...

Funny thing is, after writing this post, I remembered an mp3 I had long time, which I didn't know the artist to and shazam found it after 3 seconds listening.
Anything/everything that a bank does. Account management, transfers, payments, etc.
It exists: http://www.foldimate.com/

On a commercial scale, big laundries have automatic folding machines. Clothing plants have folding, bagging, and sealing machines.
Nice. It is definitely a good variation. One that I don't like is the everyone randomly picks a gift from a table of 'equivalent' gifts, and has the option of either opening it or handing it to someone who has already opened their gift and taking the gift they had. Basically swapping them an unopened gift for a known gift. Known gifts could only be 'stolen' 3 times before the the were immune from being taken.
Direct quote from the page at the other end of this link :

"You appear to be using a browser that may not be able to display our site correctly. Generally, this is beause it's an older browser that doesn't support a lot of the newer, awesome features in open Web standards.

Rather than provide an untested and possibly subpar experience of our site, may we suggest downloading one of these fine browsers? (We think you'll find your overall experience of the Web will improve if you do.)"

This is followed with links for Firefox and Chrome. I am running Firefox 24.4 from CentOS repos. This is unskippable, and there's no simple way to bypass it on the page. On a browser from March of this year.

Urgh.
I was confused by that as well. I think it's trying to describe this effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion#mediaviewer/File:...
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Windows 8.1 has keyboard shortcuts to make a window take half the screen, the full screen, etc. Hold down the Windows key and try the various arrow keys. You may be pleasantly surprised.

There are all sorts of other useful shortcuts that use the Windows key as a modifier, for example Windows+E to open a File Explorer window. Basically, try Windows+(every key) to see what it does.
> And the new calendar app only allows you to see 6 hours at a time, so you can't get an overview of your day.

I find the new calendar baffling. Luckily, the old AOSP calendar is still available on F-Droid.[0]

[0] https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=aosp+calenda...
For ML, Spark MLlib is a solid choice.

For large scale, distributed stats I'd go with SparkR.

https://spark.apache.org/
Thanks for your feedback

is this related to icon font used in the app ? Font-awesome?
You can check in your console and see if there a 404 on the corresponding file.
Visual appeal is important as well as usability.

If you show a user two pages, one with very well thought out UX but looks like it was designed in 1998, and a convoluted UX that happens to be extremely pretty, the second page is going to be favored to the vast majority of people.
Dude, there is absolutely no mention of price, cost , whether it's FREE or NOT anywhere on that site, before I give you my information, and that includes the terms of service copy. I looked and the only headline in the ToS that kind of address it is "You have to pay us in order to use some of our Products". If that is a base-case you start with for new customers, then thanks but no thanks.
This is especially true with HiDPI screens. If your primary content is textual in nature, then using low contrast colors is disrespectful to your readers.

This is amplified when designers don't use relative scaling units for font sizes. Medium.com is a good example of presenting readable content, independent of DPI.

But many sites require substantial zooming to read comfortably, even with perfect vision.

Another major usability issue is disabling pinch-to-zoom on mobile devices. This is a behavior that users have come to expect.

I've had to explain to several older people that their iPad isn't broken when they couldn't zoom in on a product while shopping.
Why Mozilla is scared of Google
I don't think persistence in memory was the selling point. The other selling point is that doing comparisons are faster because `:a == :a` can compare on a memory address while `'a' == 'a'` requires comparing the data at the different memory addresses.

Someone tell me I'm wrong.
I have built 3 going back to the late 1990's, 2 of them were for direct marketing companies, one was for an inbound call center. I don't have any links to share that would help you in the terms of building a survey engine, sorry, but I will share a couple of things.

A good survey engine is way more complex than most people realize. On the surface, survey engines seem pretty easy, ask a few questions and store the responses. But when you get into it, there are a lot of details, like branching strategies, rules, formatting, question types and a ton of other things to consider. For my company now, we actually just utilize survey monkey (white labeled), because it saved us a ton of time and headaches of managing survey's and building reports. In the end when we built them in the past, I'd say the reporting and analytics is equally as difficult as building the engine.
I was referring to the social networks.

The fact that marketers also struggle to pin down a value means that there is literally no price discovery mechanism for these social media products. What a nightmare...
> combined with the scabrous smack.

The word 'scabrous' means "dealing with salacious or indecent material". Feel free to inspect the image, I guarantee it's safe for work.
It pays the bills because it solves problems.

I run windows on a 4 year old thinkpad. It's 8.1 on an i5. It goes like lightning and the battery lasts twice as long as Ubuntu does on the same kit even after powertop has been frigged with.

Also my wife's android handset has 25% more battery capacity than my Lumia 630 and lasts half as long.

YMMV but what you state is not factual and merely a slashdot-esque troll.
Oh yeah having six or more horizontal navigation bars was pure pain. Considering how difficult is to effect changes with an established user base, plus the complexity of the domain itself, their new design is anything but cosmetic.
Protip: It's not a protip if it's advice about making protips.
I just wanted to say, I work for a bank, on the team that is building APIs for public consumption. I will be very interested in seeing the responses that are posted here.

In other words, it may not be as hypothetical as you think.
Jump boxes are a good idea. A better idea, if you're in AWS, is to use a VPC and just VPN into your environment; the VPN terminator in the VPC serves the same purpose as a jump box.

If OpenVPN scares you, you can still do layer-4 filtering to minimize the impact of losing the OpenVPN server (ie, to get it to "no worse than if we hadn't used VPCs in the first place).

"Single-packet authentication" is, I think, silly, and I've never recommended it to anyone. It's hard to think of a case where hand-rolled authentication in front of SSH has saved anyone with a proper SSH configuration (keys-only-no-passwords). You can skip that step.
How is it different than Programmable Web?

(http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory)
That's assumes perfect information and perfect play. As new strats and counters are discovered the relative power of characters shifts over time.

Balance doesn't have to do with changes in perceptions of character strength. A game is usually said to be balanced if there is a large selection of characters that are considered viable for tournament play.
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I'm married with family. It is something else: You need to turn yourself into a corporate-or-other slave to pay off the mortgage, cars, save for kids' schools, etc.

Absolutely no wonder that in "poor" countries they are happier. Living in constant stress about the job, with huge financial obligation, not even seeing your kids and spouse except for weekends and a week vacation a year -- compare this to my parents generation in communistic (then) Poland -- no debt, guaranteed jobs, free housing. Economically speaking yes this doesn't make sense. Psychologically - why they are looking (in the article above) in all the wrong places for explanations when it is so obvious.
> Gmail app is now rubbish. HORRIBLE account switching. Do they even use their own app?

The gmail redesign is really jarring if you're still on KitKat. It "fits" visually with the design language of Lolipop, but it still feels like a major step backward in terms of usability.

The conspiracy theorist in me is inclined to conclude that they do not, in fact, use their own app; it's almost like they made the Gmail app worse to encourage people to migrate to Inbox.
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Did it take awhile to load?

I'm on chrome on mac and it doesn't seem to load even after about 5 minutes of just letting it do its thing.
Or "X-ray" type applications. Given advances in computer vision and stuff like Kinect that really doesn't seem far off.
> The bi-monthy(ish) patch cycle prevents this, and just leads to players chasing patch notes.

Balance patches in dota happen infrequently, about once every 6 months. And players aren't just chasing patch notes for most of the time.