skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genius is really cool service (founders/owners aside) and I love it for song lyrics. An API into their backend sounds appealing but without some contract that keeps them from shutting down the API with little to no notice or pulling a twitter/soundcloud/netflix/etc I can't even begin to think about building on top of this (for anything but little fun side projects/POC's).
But CPM/86 WAS shipped for the PC, by IBM. When I bought my IBM PC, I had a choice of PC-DOS or CPM/86. I chose the former because it was $40 and the latter was $180 or something like that.

It was the price that killed CPM/86, as nobody could give a reason why someone should pay so much more than for PC-DOS.
Personal info of 4M US government workers compromised in OPM breach
This isn't a "oh no, I upgraded and it broke". This is a case of "oh no, it simply stopped working properly without any perceptible cause".

Yes, I'm fully aware how broken Windows' wifi implementation is. NetworkManager, however, tends to make the Windows equivalent look wonderful in comparison.

And yes, every operating system has problems. That's not my point. My point is that we (the free-software-loving community) can do better than the current state of NetworkManager. It's the one pain point that seems to be pervasive across GNU/Linux distributions, and pretending that "oh, every operating system's wireless stack is broken, so we shouldn't be worried" is delusional. Even if NetworkManager is "just as bad" as the others, why shouldn't we be striving to make something better?
It seems to me like this gives the company free ideas and feedback they can then turn around and implement in their core business. Is this too simplistic, or is this simply not practiced enough?
I hope you're right, but they've experienced all these problems and setbacks and got only 10% of the tunnel dug. The remaining 90% of the dig had better be nearly problem free or maybe even hollow...
I knew that "fell" as an adjective meant "terrible" (exposure to a computer RPG that had a "fell beast" as an enemy type helped); so I kind of guessed that if you do everything "in one fell swoop" it means with one terrible, indiscriminate strike.
This thread is all about TFS version control, while the post is all about git source control in Visual Studio Online.

I never got along with TFS source control, but git source control on VSO works great for me. I've worked with several private repos on VSO, then pushed to external on GitHub when they were ready to go public, and it was a non-event - commit history and everything came over as you'd expect. It's standard git hosting.

VSO also has a lot of other handy features like cloud-hosted load testing (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/explore/vso-cloud-load-te...) - 20,000 virtual user minutes free every month. If you have an MSDN account, you can apply your monthly Azure credits to test hours. It's a pretty good way to hammer a site, I've used it to test autoscale.

Disclamer: Microsoft employee (until they notice I'm posting on HN instead of replying to e-mails)
somehow good domain names cost way too much which I think will be a bad investment as a startup.
I second the Watsi recommendation. The combination of their transparency, their 100% donation distribution, and clearly showing me who gets my money/what they get it for has made me comfortable giving to a non-local charity for the first time in years.
Why are inmates not allowed to use the internet? I can understand drug kingpins or gang leaders being prevented from using it to stop them from forming plans or whatever, but for your run of the mill inmate who does not have a bunch of goons to do his bidding, what's the problem?
> What if he'd had a heart attack during the flight?

Yeah, that was part of the point. That was shown multiple times to be a high probability event. There's a reason the movie ends at lift off.
Or you could have read the article.
"Mozilla's recent integration with Pocket, a proprietary third-party service, is a mistake."

This seems perfectly clear. The obvious improvement is to remove it.

What is wrong with Mozilla at the moment?
Yes, but if the program becomes well known and expands in scale, some poor people may think there is a chance they will become grant recipients, and this could affect their work effort.
Ruby/Rails/PostgreSQL, rendering on the server as much as possible, jQuery for client-side stuff as much as possible. I occasionally niche down even further to Stripe integrations within that sphere, but there's not as much work there as I would have hoped.
It's possible that Microsoft would have "offered" to build the BIOS to get its basic in ROM and used control over the BIOS to put itself into the same gatekeeper position. Also Microsoft was a very resourceful, ambitious company, they would still have developed Office. I wouldn't even write off Windows, it could have easily been developed on top of CP/M.

Things could have been very different or they could have been very much the same.
I am a Firefox user and also a Pocket user.
I am on the same lines as the author. Pocket should not be bundled into Firefox. It should be an extension (hint: featured extension).
You don't. You just drink it instead of meals when you don't expect to have a a culinary and social experience. Surely not every meal you eat is such a delight. An awful lot of food is just calorie stuffing to maintain energy. Replace those with Soylent and you're also probably getting better nutrition.

Then when you want to have a regular old meal experience just don't drink the Soylent.

It's not a lifestyle choice, it's just a convenient meal replacement.
BeerDecoded: the 1,000 beer [meta] genomes project
>This is a fluff piece full of pictures and words

That's because it's for benefactors, and not the publicly-available IRS-990 form that details what you're looking for.

If you want major financials, you can see them here:
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/530/5301966...

It also gives salaries of the execs too (president makes $550k/yr)
Blogspam. The original source is probably http://www.naij.com/453599-enugu-gov-trekker-shocked-by-secu...
InboxVudu and the Uber That Got Away
>Think of it from the point of view of the (often for-profit) prison:

Less than 5% of prisoners in the US are in privately run prisons.
thanks for the fascinating article. I agree, it is not always the answer. Travel may be an opportunity to get a whole new perspective - like realizing your own value in helping less privileged people, or seeing opportunities that you may not have come across in your own town or country.
A competing viewpoint:

Insurance companies will hate insuring these cars because the first human fatality is absolutely going to court, and it'll be a complete circus. The media will go apeshit.
It is so unlike Mozilla to introduce something like that, I ran a virus scan and checked what programs had been installed recently -- I assumed it had been put there in the same way that IE users used to get the Ask Toolbar installed.

Exactly how I felt. What the hell were they thinking? I'm generally very supportive of Mozilla, I even supported their initiative to put advertisements on Firefox's start page. But bundling stuff like Pocket and Hello with Firefox is just ridiculous. Why not make it an official extension? That way users can easily disable or remove it.
It tastes like liquid pancake batter. You get used to it pretty quickly. But I wouldn't call it "good".
This sounds great, and I'm certainly interested in following their progress.

I am curious what the effects are on those who don't receive the transfers. (Those who don't meet the requirements, or live in neighboring towns, for instance.) While I'm certainly not saying it outweighs the positive effects, there must be some negative unintended consequences. Someone uses the funds to start a business, which is enough to make an existing business in the field unprofitable for instance. I wonder how much research has gone into those types of side effects.

My understanding is also that direct cash infusions can have undesirable macro effects - basically Dutch Disease caused by aid money instead of natural resources. Again I'm curious to what extent those effects are understood.

If anyone has knowledge or links to resources along those lines, please share! I did find this somewhat more critical review[1] but it still just focuses on the recipients, rather than knock-on effects.

[1] http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/givedirectly_not_so_fast
Startup Development from idea to launch
Facebook Is Making It Harder for Prisons to Censor Inmates
eek. Time tests should be using something like https://github.com/travisjeffery/timecop for repeatability. If you do mean to allow random starting values like that, you should look into property-based testing http://www.troikatech.com/blog/2014/04/02/property-based-tes... - test hundreds of possible values at a time, instead of just the one time you ran the tests at.
DNA databases in the cloud seems like a scary prospect, but it could also help a lot of people.

A family member of mine was recently diagnosed with a MTHFR gene mutation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylenetetrahydrofolate_reduc...), and it's been a life-changer. After years of misdiagnosis as depression, hypothyroid, or adrenal fatigue it's nice to have some answers and see results from getting the right treatment.
Even NASA Got Infected with 'CryptoLocker' Ransomware
Universities should be about enriching humanity through the pursuit of knowledge. As with most things, politicians have begun to ruin our university system with their empty promotion/derision of them as a.) jobs programs or b.) wasteful spending because they aren't effective enough jobs programs.

They are not job training programs. Go to a trade school if you want to be promised a job when you get out. University is 1st and foremost about learning. Whether or not you can take what you learned and turn it into a profession is up to you and the macroeconomic conditions that exist when you are trying to do so.
I took a daily picture of each of my daughters
Do you use instant coffee or just mix in a cup of regular 'ol coffee?
It can, as long as you store all the fields that will be needed for aggregation. Stored, non-indexed field retrieval can be slow as it might involve a lot of random seeks, so it might be slower than relation dbs.

What use case do you have in mind?
JPMorgan algorithm knows you're a rogue employee before you do
I guess I'm just missing the point. The recommended action is to move Pocket to an extension that might even be shipped with the browser. I just don't see how it's different from "integrating" with the browser in that case. If the privacy implications were better explained and it was easier to disable, what would the problem be?
I lost my hope on ipv6, don't think it will ever catch on. We might end up with something else but not ipv6. Anyone else feels the same about it?
Nah, that's a sign of an organization going in the wrong direction to me. When you reach the C*O level, you should pretty much be there for life unless you have serious doubts about the sustainability of the place/get kicked out/have a major life event that takes precedence (eg sick spouse).
So yes, I'm calling your hypothetical scenario a little contrived.

Yes, that is the often the point of hypothetical scenarios.

I was not expecting any particular answer, I simply find the problem interesting. It begs the question: Does this mean there is a line of code somewhere that ultimately has to make that decision?
"What’s at stake, of course, is very much a question of authority."

Which explains the moral panic that accompanies any mention of the Digital Humanities in certain quarters.
Sort of off topic, but it's Friday afternoon so maybe someone has an opinion. Do people who got burned by Microsoft think its different this time? I see a warm embrace of a variety of non Microsofty things, so naturally I'm worried about what comes after (Embrace Extend Extinguish).
Is there a practical difference between disabling the features and just ignoring them?
Well I've never had any of the problems you're experiencing on Linux in the past 3 years. Only issue I've had was a driver not being included by default. I've had issues on OS X and Windows though, and they put billions of dollars into their operating systems. So if they can't get it right, then maybe the problems go beyond the code and into the actual hardware?
A nicely written complaint about the inclusion of Pocket in the Firefox browser. The tone was respectful, but clear about the philosophical and technological flaws in the inclusion of Pocket.
Interesting, how does that relate to this? https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
Try Reading This Font and You'll Better Understand What Dyslexia Is Like
Memory and CPU utilization for starters
Can't you reuse these nitrogen- and phosphorus- rich fish as fertilizer?
My opinion, and that's all it is, is that the moment the money comes in, some percentage of it is no longer my money. It's the government's, whether I like it or not. I don't play games with other people's money. Making a little safe interest on the quarterly float is fine, but I'm not going to risk losing it, because I don't want to incur their wrath, and I very much don't like being in debt to an entity who can force my 1099 payers to withhold on my behalf.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I'd rather be safe and in the IRS' good graces than try to earn a margin on their money net of their penalties and interest.
Is paying hush money illegal? This is essentially how no-competes and NDAs work sometimes. An employer offers you some amount of your salary on exit, and asks you to sign a document agreeing not to disclose things you learned there.

Further, while I am aware that transactions above 10K are flagged, so what? If you have paid taxes on the money, you can do what you want with it. IANAL but I think you can withdraw any amount, it is just flagged and reported by the teller.
A lot of the low-hanging fruit, in terms of statistical significance for heritable disease, has already been picked, in the sense of a naive search for SNP X in gene Y that causes disease Z. The more people continue to look for single SNPs or even single gene causal factors, the more we learn that they are of limited use, due to the complexity and redundancy of biological interaction networks (genes/proteins/epigenetic modifications/environment/etc)

One thing that people are definitely still interested in regarding single genes or SNPS is looking for biomarkers. For instance, it's pretty easy to look at RNA abundance with RNA-seq and make a model with good discriminatory power to predict who does or doesn't have (say) breast cancer. But Those tests can be expensive, and profiling the appropriate tissue can be difficult. On the other hand, if we could find SNPs that correlate well with the RNA expression model that predicts disease, then we could just do a cheaper test/faster/easier test for the SNPs. Even better if we can validate causation independently using the emerging, though incomplete corpus of biological pathways.

Beyond that, some folks are excited about the field of functional genomics, which aims to correlate genome-level data to the structure and function of gene products (eg proteins) to get a more low-level, causal look at things.

Biological network extraction is something I'm excited about. Here, you usually want to extract pairs of features, or better yet, higher order structures from data to learn about what factors are important in disease pathways. This puts you immediately in the regime of way more potential features than data points, even if you sequence everyone in the world. I think this consideration worth thinking about when people try to hype you that big data and machine learning will just "solve" biology or medicine. L1 regularization only gets you so far. But it gets you somewhere, and can be hugely useful in suggesting new experiments.

I also think it's important to think about how it may soon be cheaper to store actual RNA/DNA and sequence it on demand, than it will be to store the data itself. DNA sequences would be a fine thing to sequence once and store, but for stuff, maybe not so much.
The obvious difference is that LFE is maintained by Robert Virding (one of the original creators of Erlang itself). I'd imagine this would translate to LFE being more "Erlangy", but this assumption comes from a lack of experience with either.
What I don't understand is that Firefox also include its own read later service that sync to Firefox users account. Are they planning to drop its own implementation and partner with Pocket?
An extension can be removed completely. An integrated feature, even if disabled, still adds complexity to the running software.
Why Lean Startup Is Flawed
Was money on the table to integrate Pocket into Firefox? Like with the default search engine payments Mozilla receives.
Working for someone who wants IPv6 disabled in every server and system, across the board, I'm beginning to feel the same way.
I use standard coffee because I get it free at work. But I've heard instant coffee is also good.
Any alternatives for Canadians?
My neighbor gave me an Apple II+ he had bought from a yardsale and never used. I was pretty stoked. This was in 1999, and the computer was already probably 18 years old.
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> don't think baby barf when you drink it and you'll be fine

While you're at it, be sure not to think of a purple elephant ....
The "lying to FBI" charge is arguably the more important problem with this story.

See https://popehat.com/2015/05/29/dennis-hastert-and-federal-pr...
It is different this time, but it is only different so long as microsoft doesnt have leverage.
Some General Concerns About Givewell (2012)
Not really. It explores some of the negatives that crop up from scientifically illiterate parents crippling their child due to their own misinformed decisions. Vincent was sturggling against his hippie antivaxxer parents who wanted a "natural" child. Unfortunately, naturalist audiences interpret the enemy in the film as society and see his parents' decision as pure and noble.
I think the point is that Soylent also accounts for all the various nutrients you would want in a balanced diet, and does so conveniently and affordably.

I would have to consult my doctor, but my guess is that a Coke and pickled egg would meet those requirements.
Why Google and Apple made their own programming languages
It could be the culture difference as the founder pointed out in his article. United States vs London.

And various other unknown factors.
Business or Pleasure? Programming for Both
If he had been honest, could that not be used against him in court for past crimes?
Oh for sure it left me with some lessons about myself after the fact. But in hindsight I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they have a very seasoned therapist present (not just a sitter) and plan to go fully medical with it or not at all.
They don't have to. Structuring transactions to avoid reporting laws is also a crime. Periodic withdrawals of $9,999 won't save you.
Startup success is mostly random. I'm reminded of a quote from SMBC [1] that I've always liked:

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure...but Random Chance is like, Grim Reaper for dreams."

Success in startups (and life in general) is not the linear function that most of us want it to be. It isn't related in direct proportion to the amount of effort, intelligence, work, time, love, energy, etc that's invested. It's more of a logarithmic function. There is a minimum amount of effort and those other things that must be put in to have any chance of success. But after that the returns diminish rapidly. It's comforting to think that if we just try harder or smarter we can triumph in the end. But the fickle winds of fate have the ultimate say, and any sense of control is probably an illusion.

Saying that a company failed due to lack of product-market fit is like saying that a sports team lost due to not scoring enough points. It's always a true statement, but it doesn't illuminate the cause of the failure in a way that would be instructive to others. Most startups that were successful enough to be included on this list probably did 80% of things "right". Some times "it just didn't work out" is all that you'll be able to say.

Despite all that, I think there is a lot of value in these autopsies. Being able to learn something, anything, from the experience of others is very valuable. Knowing more about what causes failure won't guarantee success, but it sure as hell beats knowing nothing.

[1] http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3506
> It should be obvious that the way it appears in Developer Edition (two releases ahead of "release") is not the way it will appear in the final version

It appears that it looks that way in release as well. (Showed up in 38.0.5 on my Mac this morning, not in 38.0.1 on my Fedora desktop)

I do agree with the bug report, it's inclusion in the core product is a bug that should be removed. An extension is the right place to put this.
Node.js and Docker [video]
What's about Developer Edition? I have "regular" edition, and after the recent update it greeted me with a page about Pocket integration being built-in.

While I do use Pocket, I honestly don't like the direction Mozilla took.
Why is molybdenum at 4x RDI, though? According to Wikipedia, too much molybdenum is rather bad.
They pay taxes over there alright (e.g. VAT), which is fine, nobody complains. The issue is they don't pay corporate tax on it in the US, despite the fact Apple is US based and does virtually all of its work in the US, and then commissions factories it doesn't own in China to produce its parts. The end result is that it pays much fewer taxes than citizens do, or companies that don't have a dedicated fiscal team (mostly SMEs which comprise the bulk of American firms, e.g. 90% of firms have less than 20 employees, and 99.9% have less than 500).

Now it's one thing to say it's justified because Apple would have to go out of business and lay off thousands of of their 100k employees. But we can all take a look at that financial situation and make our own moral judgement on whether they should have effective tax rates much lower than a regular business.
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I have an extremely difficult time believing that a past member of the legislative branch of the government is unaware of a law. That's your job. To know the law.
He should have spoken with a lawyer before talking to the FBI.
You could use the API to export all your annotation data
I really like both Firefox and Pocket, but I can't imagine a good reason for them to be integrated at this level. I searched for what justification has been offered and found [1]. I'd love to read something more informative and convincing.

[1] http://www.planet-libre.org/?post_id=18514
Replacing booleans and enums with dates
Findory's link links to Findery. They are two different companies that do the same thing. I find it interesting that the names are so much alike. I wonder if there is a connection.
Name: Send To My Cloud https://SendToMyCloud.com

Send To My Cloud solves the "How can I have people send me large files?" problem, for users of Dropbox of Google Drive. This problem usually exists for designers, scrapbookers, contest organizers, etc. The "How do I send large files?" problem is already solved for GDrive and Dropbox users, so we don't attempt to solve it.

Stage: Solo founder, making a few bucks on the side. Not looking for help, investment or partners.

Looking for: Customers!

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I'm also working on a word game for Android and iOS. Hopefully I'll launch soon.
Concurrent Memory Deallocation in the Objective-C Runtime
GiveWell’s Recommendation of GiveDirectly
It was mentioned in the middle of the bug report. I didn't realize the feature had shipped already.
I am working a micro business. I am also an event which is helping the poor child.two of my friend are the founder of this project ...we need more worker...