skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you searine for your thoughtful and helpful reply to my post.

I will take your suggestion to "practice science" and follow up on the NCBI SRA website and look up some raw data upload; and see what piques my interest.

A readily available data source I see on NCBI is genetic surveillance project of Mycobacterium tuberculosis around the world.

There are three separate metagenomics/sequencing project of M. tuberculosis samples taken place in Japan, Nepal and Malawi. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/sra.cgi?view=studies&...

A very (vague) question I'd like to answer is: Are the SNPs identified in these separate geographical studies distinct or similar? Do different regions give way to distinct strains of TB? Do the metabolic pathways identified from these different strains of TB explain different viral adaptations to the host and its environment? I'm sure my posed questions are either already answered in literature, not posed properly and not feasible. But that'll be my starting point.

Much appreciated again!
Scientists have built a robot that can jump on water
Perhaps not everyone knows, but Trolltech had a developer phone in the era (long predating iPhone) where it was obvious that smartphones were the future and it was a software company's game.

Qt could have been a good strategy for Nokia, it provided the most important part of their puzzle, a clear migration path for their valuable customers from Symbian to a new Qt-based platform. Too bad they moved much too slowly to capitalize on that, and probably for many good reasons.
> Secondly, Chrome send every website you visit to their servers to be logged. Again, this is not explained in some easy opt-out screen and in fact the only way to get around this is to use SRWare Iron, where they removed that code.

Citation?
We really do hope that there will be mass adoption, and that we can continue to build out Metropolis (a web-browser that extends the security of the block chain right the way through rich user apps) and Serenity (parallel supercomputer performance from blockchains.)

But only the people can decide.
Good point - I did notice this with Hulu, but haven't seen it elsewhere.
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Just Get Back in the Game
In the 80s, the local FD used to attach some weird pipe/sprinkler system to the fire hydrants around my hood to prevent people from doing it themselves. It was pretty awesome, we'd be playing in that all day.
This is one of the bugs found in CryptoCat.

http://tobtu.com/decryptocat.php
I appreciate what you're trying to say, but ultimately... Sucks to be you. If you don't want others to share that data, you'll have to stop interacting with them.
some copy from Microsofts "The Future Starts Now" campaign:
"<p><i>Learning and growing with you - The more personal experience of Windows 10 includes Cortana, your truly personal assistant. Cortana works across all of your Windows 10 devices to learn your preferences, offer suggestions, set reminders, play your music, answer questions and more. Welcome to a future with Windows 10. It can recognize you, respond to you and even learn with you. So you can create and share in ways you never thought possible. Now is the time to do great things. #Windows10</i></p>"<sup>[1]</sup>

It's not like it's hidden in their terms and conditions. And, bluntly, I'm assuming many people reading this are working on similar technology for smaller companies. But, to paraphrase Nick Naylor in 'Thank You For Smoking', you just need to pay the mortgage, right?

Additionally, the conversation on this page seems to betray that most of us didn't read the memo that the concept of privacy has changed and now no longer includes concepts like, "You only get to know things about me that I disclose to you." That has now transformed into what might be captured in the sentiment, "You may not use what you know about me in any way explicitly disallowed by the terms & conditions". I can't find it now, but back in the day, wayyyy back, Brin and Page made the argument that one day people would trust their personal information to companies the same way that they trust their money with banks. This is that vision realized.

[1] http://blog.pcm.com/2015/07/29/windows-10-the-future-starts-...
YouTube sends VP8 or VP9 videos to Chrome, whereas on Safari it uses h264, which can be decoded in hardware. That alone will have a huge difference in power associated with it.
This analysis has its own flaw. This assumes that their other opportunities are also equal. But tall people may make better apple pickers. And apple picking pays more than egg cracking. If you want 50% tall people, you are going to need to compete directly against the apple picking market as well. You need to account not just for your own selection criteria, but that of everybody else as well. (Not to say this actually explains tech demographics; it's a point about the stats in your example.)
Sorry, I didn't realize you were a blind developer, so my "I can't believe you didn't see it, just click the number" comment was unfitting. I'm glad that the Members tab is helpful.
I know some people in the life sciences who were strongly encouraged to get Titan time. When they applied and presented ORNL with their embarrassingly parallel code, they were told to go away.
"Both our salts and pepper are 40 characters in length and are randomly generated."

From their CTO (on Disqus in response to my question):

"The salt, pepper, and password were concatenated together to form the string that was in turn passed to the hashing function."

http://3v4l.org/cE359

40 + 40 + strlen($password) > 72

Uh-oh.
What Surviving a Car Wreck Taught Me
I like the UI, especially after they adopted Chrome's "don't resize the tabs when the mouse is in the tab bar and the user is closing tabs" feature.

The only thing I really miss in Safari is searching websites using a prefix.
Agreed. I wrote my thoughts on it going distributed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976957
> Otherwise you're proposing to put servers in your garage

Which is also likely to be against the contract you signed with your ISP unless you bought a business line.
V=[0.75+0.4330127018922193i 0.24999999999999994-0.4330127018922193i , 0.24999999999999994-0.4330127018922193i 0.75+0.4330127018922193i ]

qubit_0="x0"

qubit_1="x1"

qubit_2="x2"

qubit_3="c0"

qubit_4="c1"

qubit_5="d0"

qubit_6="ax"

gateproperty("group_gate10gate11gate12gate13gate14_6068",reps=10.0)

gate0={H:-:-:-:-:-:-}

gate1={-:H:-:-:-:-:-}

gate2={-:-:H:-:-:-:-}

gate3={1:1:1:NOT:-:-:-}

gate4={NOT:-:-:-:-:-:-}

gate5={-:NOT:-:-:-:-:-}

gate6={-:-:NOT:-:-:-:-}

gate7={1:1:1:-:NOT:-:-}

gate8={-:-:NOT:-:-:-:-}

gate9={-:NOT:-:-:-:-:-}

group_gate10gate11gate12gate13gate14_6068.gate10={-:-:-:1:-:-:V}

group_gate10gate11gate12gate13gate14_6068.gate11={-:-:-:-:1:-:V}

group_gate10gate11gate12gate13gate14_6068.gate12={-:-:-:-:-:1:V}

group_gate10gate11gate12gate13gate14_6068.gate13={-:-:-:-:-:-:!}

group_gate10gate11gate12gate13gate14_6068.gate14_6068={-:-:-:-:-:-:NOT}

gate17={-:-:-:!:-:-:-}

gate14={-:-:-:-:!:-:-}
It's extremely difficult to do (even for the NSA as the leaks mostly showed). Tor is by far the best option that exists today.
Thanks for this response. I'm not liking things a little less.
But there are no reports of New York residents illicitly cracking those buckets open for fun, as claimed in the headline.
The cost of electricity for running a desktop computer is on the order of 2 cents per hour (assuming it draws around 200 W while browsing). If you reduce that by 20%, you save a whopping $8 a year if you spend 5 hours browsing every day.

No, this is mainly motivated by laptops, and I'd say it's even more related to thermal management than battery life. Macbooks are notorious for being very hot under high load, so naturally Apple wants a common task like browsing to be low load/heat.
I'd sort of hope they weren't using PHP's built-in crypto or any crypto library that deals in null-terminated strings. Judging from their careers pages, they use no PHP, so this shouldn't apply.
>orchestration has been simplified with hosted services like Tutum and Cloud66.

Ah, so you need to use proprietary SaaS in order to have decent orchestration? Not good news.
Here is my guess.. Hacker notified them with proof of the hack on the 9th. Gave them a few weeks for a payout and Pagerduty wouldn't payout so the hacker will then release. So to jump out ahead Pagerduty sent out the email.

Most cases like this the company claims they found the hacker but that isn't the case.
On a related note: My father is a geophysicist and he is using ground penetrating radard for archeo prospection. It's really amazing. The software can reconstruct entire ancient cities from the GPR signal.
Well my point exactly. That "ton of design and equipment" doesn't scale particularly well, as its cost grows highly super-linearly with the computing power. You need to reduce communication volume to be cost effective at exascale.
algorias: I finally managed to simulate the algorithm on a handy quantum simulator jaQuzzi 0.1(http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~phygons/jaQuzzi/).

As I can see, the algorithm really works. Below is the code for the example shown in Fig 5, (x0 v x1 v x2)&(~x0 v ~x1 v ~x2). You can try it by yourself and here are the steps:

1- copy the below code to a text editor and save it with extension .jaq.

2- open the file with jaQuzzi.

3- set |c0>=|1>,|c1>=|1>,|d0>=|1>

4- run the circuit.

5- select |c0> and |c1> and press on "plot probability chart" to open the "chart center" and see the correct answer for c's.

6- select |x0>, |x1> and |x2> and press on "plot probability chart" to open the "chart center" and see the probability for the superposition of the correct answer of x's.

Hints:

-You can trace the circuit by selecting |c0> and |c1> and press on "plot probability chart" to open the "chart center", reset the circuit and start pressing on "step forward" to watch the probability of the solution increases during the loop.

-Don't forget to select auto in the "chart center".

If you want to play around,

1-set the number of x’s and c’s as required.

2-add the dummy qubits.

3-initialize c’s and d’s to |1> (required number of d’s calculated using equations in the paper)

4- set V = [0.5(1+exp((ipi)/k)),0.5(1-exp((ipi)/k));0.5(1-exp((ipi)/k)),0.5(1+exp((ipi)/k))], where k is the number of c’s and d’s.

(you have to ungroup the set of gates before you modify V, and group again)

5- set the number of iterations in the properties of the group.

The code in another comment...have fun!!!
The OP was clearly saying that you should never trust any proprietary OS. Period.
I extend the same challenge to CamperBob2 above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9977378

Give concrete examples instead of vague generalizations. I just have an example of how the GIF patent actually provoked progress as it was used to sure people who were using it without remuneration to the creators.

Image compression experts say JPEG2000 is simply not used because it's just not enough of an improvement to make it worth the hassle. Patent issues are secondary. And note that patents did not prevent it from bruin developed in the first place.

H.264 patents did not slow down development of new technology, it just slowed adoption of existing technology (h.264) in a different existing environment (browsers) Would you really qualify using the same technology in a browser as a significant technical innovation?

So coming back to my challenge: Now that the RSA patent has expired in 2000, 15 years ago, what novel developments can you point to that you can say was blocked by the patent?
> left locked by the fire department so as to keep out thieves and vandals
Nearly all of BC goes into automatic water restrictions every summer now because of shortages and drought. Stricter regulations are imposed depending on the local conditions. Much of southern BC has gone to stage 3-4 restrictions this summer. It's not one urban area, it's big cities and small towns all over.

Our reservoirs are also chronically below target levels and several farmers have had their crops ruined because of it.

The watershed where Nestle gets its water (Hope) is currently in stage 4. It's completely banned to water any lawn, field, park area, etc. Any non-hand watering of a garden is also completely banned.
Do you have a recommendation for editing your notes on mobile devices?
> Not sure if you're being facetious or not but if you were right then we would just do it on our existing phones now.

The point is, some of us don't believe that this was an engineering choice.

> In the 90s we had slow voice recognition that took a long time to train, that would only ever work for a single user, in a silent room... If it worked at all... Which wasn't very common.

And in the 2000s we had fast voice recognition that took a little bit of time to train and that would work over a crappy microphone with loud music playing in the room, all of that running along other software on a $500 PC. I know because in 2007 I made my own Star Trek-like (with proper computer sound and voice feedback) voice recognition system I used to control music that was played on Hi-Fi speakers. It took me like 20 minutes to train it and it worked pretty much flawlessly from anywhere in the room. The voice was captured by a crappy mic I soldered myself from parts and placed on a wardrobe.

And the single-user-only mode? That's actually a feature, not a bug.
It's a solved problem in the sense that the 5% of work that yields 95% of benefits have already been done. But because of the massive user base small improvements at great cost can be worthwhile.
Cloud Foundry Portal: A Single Pane of Glass for Cloud Foundry Applications
You could ban a scrip loaded from an "ad" domain that modified the host pages HTML to add that metadata.

However I was referring to the pop up, tap intercepting redirects to the App Store.
I imagine the troublesome bit was when the dad lied about where the kid lived. Residency can usually be proven or disproven, and where you live can affect your rates significantly.
The many ways of parallel computing with Julia [video]
Why must the restriction be technical? This is the whole concept of an honor system. Why can't you use someone else's server under their (reasonable and clearly communicated) terms?

I could leave a bowl of candy on my desk with a sign that says "take one"-- there's nothing physically stopping you from taking the whole bowl, but that doesn't make it OK.
>We had speech recognition back in the 1990s on computers less powerful than a Raspberry Pi V1. We're talking 200-400mhz 32-bit Intel boxes. So yes, the cloud dependency is very dubious.

And did you ever use it? Forget sentences, it used to even struggle on a handful of keywords. Even now offline recognition are way far behind the online ones. I have pocket sphinx installed on my raspberry pi and even in a quiet room it has false positives with just a list of 10 keywords. Ohh what I would do to have an offline recognition system that is on par with Cortana/Siri/Google Now.
It's too bad that microsoft continues to be villainized when companies like Facebook and Google have social networks and browsers respectively that have similar practices that users are even more unaware of when they use them.

Computers these days have become thin clients for browsers (especially for the typical consumer). Except for the occasional open of Word or Excel, you're in your web browser browsing the web and have a tab open for Facebook. With new features like "sign into your browser" or ad retargeting across the sites you visit today, consumers are already being subjected to practices that Microsoft at least gives you the ability to turn off piecemeal if you so wish. They're just doing so at the operating system layer instead of the browser.

Think doing so at the operating system is more criminal than at the web browser or website level? Consider that Google Chrome is moving to become "Chromebooks" and that Android integrates Google Search. It's already happening and we take Google's "don't be evil" mantra for face value while continuing to poke Microsoft out of sheer habit.
This also works i guess

max = 100

length = 85

num = rand(max)

puts (num * length)/max
Do you have a focus area within CS?
... on a Pentium I, using 1990s machine learning algorithms, sure.

Nobody's answered my question as to why The Cloud is the magic pixie dust that solves this problem, and why it could not be solved locally with modern compute power and modern ML techniques.
I`ve tried several tools and as for me the most comfortable is “Adobe Color (Kuler)”. Yep, Adobe makes really great product. Than take for example “Color Hailpixel”. It is uncomfortable and user can be lost with mouse hover to find need color. “Coolors” is a little bit similar to “Kuler” but has less opportunities. Anyway if you are making some graphic design each program has the same tools already build into the program. And if you just need quick to find the right color – this is tools are really nice.
I'd eat my hat if it didn't use a Bloom filter in some way.
> If you read a lot of text on a Macbook, being able to zoom quickly and efficiently becomes a high priority

I read lots of text on my Macbook and I have never purposely used this feature. On occasion I have accidentally engaged it, which is annoying.
I had better results in late 2000s with less than an hour of training MS Speech API than I have with Google Now today. Either off-line speech recognition isn't that bad or my English really sucks.
Internet of Earth Things
This scary machine will play ping pong with you forever
Keeping the artist and track title visible at all times would be the only usability thing I would change. I'm often going to the youtube link to find this. I keep this as a tab open in Chrome while I'm doing other work so being able to go back when I find something good and just having that information available would really help.
I have started doing this now. However, isn't this something which eats into the personal-time of a person? Why should software eat my world?

Assuming I do get a good job now, I would be writing code for them, which most likely would be closed source. If I ever want to switch companies after a few years, should I start writing such code samples again?

The thing which irks me most is when companies do not even bother to look at my profile without open-source contributions.
That's not your consent to give. If you tell me your name, I'm free to repeat that to whoever I want. If you aren't ok with public information being re-broadcasted, don't go outside.
Well that fact that you and your buddies are busy down voting me speaks for itself...

As for "Programmers generally have to be hired and paid." argument there are plenty of good free and open source projects (Linux, Redis etc) where alot of the gruntwork was done for free one their time by the various developer(s) and only later did they make money (in most cases they do not) from their software.

You are putting the cart before the horse.

It is YOUR choice of course, but once again the whole approach stinks, imho.
What a wonderful example of two opposing hypotheses from same premises, both providing value. I choose both.
I'm sticking with Windows 7 until Windows 15
What's odd about that? It would be weird if driving were a solitary activity, but when you drive you place significant risk on other people. You can easily use a car to cause damage that greatly exceeds what an average person can pay, so to ensure that you don't leave others in the lurch, they require you to carry liability insurance. They don't care one bit if you damage your own car beyond your ability to cover it, because that's your own problem.

There's nothing weird about a $100 car costing $1000 to insure, because the insurance isn't about the $100 car, it's about the $20,000 (or $100,000) car you might crash into.
Before you buy the policy, you snap a quick photo of the vehicle. This helps prevent fraudulent claims.
Just wait a few months/years for Windows 10 bugs to be fixed. Installing a new OS on day one isn't for the faint of heart.
Android's supported on-device speech recognition in the keyboard since like 4.2 (maybe even 4.1)
I want a Jolla. Sailfish is probably better in this respect (or at least the company is smaller).

That said, all that data harvested and used to customize the interface for you is indeed convenient.
SpaceShipTwo 'Pilot Was Thrown from the Vehicle' High in Atmosphere
Your internal IP is...
Chemical engineering is more than P/S electron shells, balancing RedOx reactions and listing at least one property of each column of the period table but that's all the more you're going to get out Chem 1+2.

Yes computer science IS more than that. Which is why a B(S|A) in CS is a 4 year degree. SICP isn't a complete CS education either. That gluing code together is the typical software job is if anything an argument against Scheme/SICP.
I've done that. They revert to traditional methods like phone calls when they want or need something. Every time.

Sucks to be you if your relationships, be they business or personal, are as fragile as a volatile technology.
There are plenty of other Legal Marketplaces that try to connect you with an attorney. They would be a great compliment to clerky or ironclad.
Hey everybody, Scott from Scope here. We're excited to be launching and happy to answer any questions! The tech behind it is pretty cool (if I do say so myself), combining augmented reality, 3D environments and video streaming. We hope this solution can solve a lot of problems for people, I know it has for us already!
South Park is mostly controversial in the correct (perhaps we could call it left-wing) way, which Clarkson isn't.
If the latter is receiving genuine upvotes, then it doesn't sound like it's much of a problem.
FYI, if anybody has questions, there are several YC alums who have joined the government in some capacity (healthcare.gov, USDS, Nava, PIFs) and are on HN.
Have you read the Wikipedia article? It's not written for lay people but it's not bad. Using it you should be able to prove to yourself that if the key has less entropy than the message it's not possible to achieve this level of security. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_security

> i'm not using any traditional math

That doesn't get you an out - the theorems don't care how you transform M to C.
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>I've yet to hear an actual propf of him being openely racist

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9247835/J...
Yep. We use fake birthdays for my kids' accounts. First it is an opportunity to explain to them that you simply don't need to answer questions truthfully just because a form asks. There's zero benefit to being truthful here; only potential downsides. Same with real name.

Second I explained that under 13 means stuff won't work, so let's add 10 years or so to make sure they don't have trouble.
SV has, literally, hundreds (maybe thousands) of companies searching for thousands of engineers on any given day. How many companies have you applied to? Frankly, you don't need to be a rockstar or a ninja or whatever today's funny super title is. You have experience and an education, you'll get a job.

The reason I ask how many companies you have applied to is because finding a good job is a numbers game. Often I see engineers who do something along the lines of applying to a single company for the "perfect position for them", waiting to hear from the company, and then feeling dejected when a rejection comes and they have to find the next perfect position. I always say, apply to 25 jobs as quickly as possible. Then come back and tell me that they all rejected you.

Good luck! It will work out soon enough!
In theory, haha. In practice it gives me some numbers twice more. [2001954,
1000322,
998546,
1001551,
999105,
2000886,
998760,
998705,
1000001,
998424,
1000978,
2000907,
1002097,
998786,
1000101,
998818,
1000381,
1999818,
999662,
1001260,
999531,
1000076,
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