skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great. It sends the message that no matter who you are, prioritizing family over business is an option, especially when a newborn has arrived.

I'm also willing to bet that it's good for business. An employee with better relationships at home is more likely to be productive at work in the long term.
I think the distinction is unclear on level of modification. Generally, you can have 3 kinds of modifications. From least likely to be dangerous to most-
1) gene sequence removal; 2) gene splicing from two different species; 3) whole new organism.
If I were to purposefully consume GMO, I would like to know what exactly the severity is of what has been done.

Since we can't even get basic labels, let alone information on how extreme the modification is- I just choose to outright avoid.
The concept of LEO being "ridiculously easy to get too" is mad.

No amateur rocket has made orbit or even come close. The difficulty of building a vehicle to make LEO is not comparable to building one to raise altitude once in orbit. LEO to GEO is less than half the delta-v of surface to LEO. It is routinely done by satellites alone. The only reason getting to GEO is particularly hard is because you have to get to LEO first.

You are right about transfer to Mars, though.
Ugh. I'm not trying to be super negative, but he's setting a bad precedent by taking half the amount of allowed leave. "We offer 4 months, but Zuck only took 2. Wanna be like Zuck?" He should take the full 4 months and show everyone that it's OK.

This is like the unspoken mantra of "unlimited vacation" really being only 2 - 2.5 weeks.
Maybe it's an expression of a statism-vs-civil-liberties conflict on the left?
Means: WFH
Of course he was. It was his. No surprise here.
If the NSA publicized all its internal decision making processes, it would interfere with its own job.

Should any American citizen expect detailed documentation on the intelligence apparatus operating within the NSA? Wouldn't such disclosure jeopardize ongoing operations? The NSA has no obligation to reveal anything more about its operations than federal law requires it to. The legislative branch has the responsibility of enforcing any requirements placed upon the NSA.

The legislative branch is responsible for checking the power of the executive branch, which includes the NSA. That is why congress regulates its operations, and enforces the regulations with specialized committees.

Unfortunately, even if congress can tightly regulate the NSA, it cannot publicly enforce its regulations. Public enforcement would jeopardize ongoing operations within the NSA. If Congress limited its regulations to only those that it could publicly enforce, then it would restrict the scope of the regulations, making it impossible to properly check the power of the NSA.

Given the catch-22 of asking congress to regulate the NSA, but in a publicly provable manner, we are left with two choices: sacrifice the intelligence apparatus altogether, or continue funding it while trusting the regulatory power of congress.

Ultimately the power of the NSA depends on the power of its overseers on the intelligence committee. A powerful group of senators and congressmen could enforce regulations on the NSA.

The challenge is finding trustworthy congressmen, who are capable of regulating the NSA. Americans should really stop worrying about the behavior of the NSA, and start worrying about electing the right congressmen to ensure the NSA is operating for the best interest of the American people.
Let's proceed in reverse order:

1. You don't get to define evidence-backed criticism to be only the criticism that you appreciate.

2. I didn't "attack" Richard. I pointed out an inconsistency with other recent statements that he has made, that bear on the credibility of his current advice.

3. I'm not sure how my identity is relevant to my ideas. But the reason I don't post under my own name has to do with requirements of my job. (I'm not a programmer by trade.) I can't have social media accounts. In any event, this isn't a throwaway account. These are, in fact, my first posts to HN.
He is probably busier than the average FB employee.
I asked Ted, if I was able to upload my version to Github and he allowed me to do whatever I wanted to do with it.

Here it is:
https://github.com/faf0/sct

Compiles on Ubuntu 14.04.
Check out Drupalize.me: https://drupalize.me/

It's a paid monthly service, but well worth the educational value you get out of it (for a few months at least).

Good luck!
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But he's not, after all he could have taken four months but chose not to.
Isn't 2 a good balance between all and none?
Yeah, and I remember in the early 90's a lot of people asking me "But why would you want to carry a phone with you all the time?"
It should really read "For Assad".
No doubt the work is challenging and the environment is fun. I'm just surprised the company's financial situation doesn't cause them to leave.
I am jealous. My mega-large, hyphenated corporation only gives 40 hours. Which I have just had approved (today!) so that I could help care for my newborn son while my wife recovers from caesarian section. Doing this required multiple calls to a third party company that hypenated-corporation has subcontracted their leave and disability claims to, as well as about 30 pages worth of paperwork. I spent about half as much time coordinating all this as the amount of leave that I'll get.

My point is: even if Zuckerberg only takes half the time he gives to everyone else he's still being very generous to himself as compared to what happens in much of corporate America. I am willing to bet that going on leave like this is probably easier at Facebook, as well.
Jet out of here!
Ask HN: Family photo cloud
I am so frustrated with all the cloud options out there. Currently I am using iPhoto with iCloud and my wife and I have to have seperate accounts in order to have files automatically save to the cloud. Which isn't that big of a deal. I just uploaded the 5G of photos she had on her phone to my computer so that I could free up enough space to upgrade her phone to iOS9. I then logged into iCloud.com using her credetials and started uploading everything into iPhoto. But wait: only the JPG files will upload. Why can't I upload .MOV or .PNG?

Dropbox won't work because I can't do any type of a family sharing type thing and I don't want to have to pay for two pro accounts and have each one use 5 Gig. The other problem is that I want my cloud to save the originals in the cloud and have the client store low res photos and dynamically load the high res when I am browsing or request for the original (similar to iPhoto).

Does anyone know of a good photo cloud solution? Or am I going to have to spend a week building my own?
Designing Open Source Projects and Gumption Traps
What about the many Americans who have HDHP policies and pay everything through their health savings account? Until they hit their $6k deductible, they pay full price.
A Letter to My Younger Self About Dealing with Rejection in Academia
Clasp 0.4 – Joining Common Lisp and C++
The people who want to ban speech justify it by saying things like "tolerance doesn't include tolerance of intolerance." I wonder how they'd react to passage of a law criminalizing their discussion of limiting free speech.
Buy a bunker/house-withstand 20 kiloton nuclear blast $17.5M
A humblebrag competition? Really now?
> It will also be symbolic for Americans: an American flag was presented to the ISS crew during the STS-135 mission (the final Space Shuttle mission). It is awaiting return by the next mission that is launched from the U.S.

I find it very interesting how the human sense of belonging to a group carries on as we keep, as a society, moving forward.

Arguing in favor of, or against it is not really what concerns me, but instead just observing how we change as we move closer and closer to the possibility of having to leave those old notions aside. I guess that's why it's common in sci-fi to have people born in other world have no sense of belonging to the Earth.

Probably a lot of the reasons for making it a big deal to return the flag in a US-launched vehicle has to do with PR, but still I can imagine that both engineers and astronauts will be very proud of making that happen nonetheless.
I Just Ordered the First US-Issued Bitcoin Debit Card
Before this thing gets any attention you need to get like 100 more cool widgets to feature. When I arrive at noodlio, I need to scratch an itch that I have, and not introduce an itch. Currently, I am thinking, "Dang, I wish this had like a million code snippets for me to play with." Otherwise it looks great. The landing page could go for some design improvements as well.
>State and identity seem intrinsically linked.

They aren't. Two dollar bills are equal, but not identical; they are only coincidentally related. Things that are identical are always equal but things that are equal are not always identical. To compare identity, a thing must be compared to itself in the real world, thus is the ship still the same ship it was before, even if all the parts have been replaced. The answer is open to debate, both sides have valid arguments.
I like the Japanese style toilet but the timing of this article seems particularly like sponsored content.

Does NY times have a policy of disclosure?
This type of comment was and is "a dime a billion"

"Thousands of people die in car accidents every year and..."

It's bizarre that anyone would find this type of comment insightful after all the times its been posted ad nauseam.
Did he already return to work?
As I understand it, the maternity/paternity leave at Facebook can be taken at any time. He could return to work after the initial 2 months, and later take more time off, up to a total of 4 months.
Well the D was the first operational and it did not have that failure rate that the A,B, and C, models had. I doubt NASA would have ever launched a version that didn't have a high nineties success rate.
At Google it was pretty common for new fathers to take half of the allotted leave at the baby's birth and then save up the remaining half to use for emergencies, vacations, or milestones over the next year. (You could bank paternity leave for up to 1 year at the time; it may be more now, since IIUC Google increased paternity leave from 6 weeks to 6 months around when I left.) So for example, if your wife needed to go to a conference or had a heavy workload at her job, you could take leave to cover the baby. Or if you wanted to take the kid to visit grandparents/great-grandparents, you could use up paternity leave instead of vacation time.

Zuck may be doing something similar.
It's great that he's taking two months, but count me with those who think he should take more. I took three months of maternity leave with my youngest, and honestly that last month was a really good deal for my employer. I used to say they were paying me to stay out of the codebase. I felt fine, and if I'd had to go back to work I could have, but between the sleep deprivation and the distractions of having a newborn around, I was pretty cognitively impaired. They'd probably still be finding bugs in the code I wrote that month.
> This is like the unspoken mantra of "unlimited vacation" really being only 2 - 2.5 weeks.

I think it depends on your company and management chain. When I worked at Netflix I took more vacation than every before. I'm not even sure how much, since it was untracked, but definitely more than 4 weeks a year.

Our management made sure to set a good example by taking plenty of vacation.
Maybe potential applicants to the NSA should be required to have a "trust score" above a certain threshold, according to a certain algorithm, democratically programmed by the People.
Free software that is impractical to redistribute, isn't (Canonical IP policy)
That's not how it works. Apartments are owned by individuals who are jointly members of an owners association. So there is no 'property manager' and there are usually no 'landlords'.

In rental places this is not a problem but it is a problem for people that own apartments in the old city.
Good to know that Facebook will continue to pay his salary over those two months, all $0.17 of it. :-p
Cormen.
This guy is a freakin genius. I think last time I was on his site he had published a full working LTE stack.
> is Monsanto seeds blowing onto some random field, and then Monsanto suing you when you sell the resulting crop.

> Everyone who has been sued by Monsanto has taken active steps to capitalize on their "unauthorized" seeds.

Those are the same thing. That's what farmers do with crops, they capitalize on them by selling them.
And yet Heroku still charges $20 per month on top of their usual fees just to host your certificate. This is why I've moved so many simple static sites to Digital Ocean droplets.
On a day that Drupal 8 Was released, nmap 7 was released, and bitcoin got it's first visa-backed debit card, this is the biggest thing I've seen today.
the soviets tried that approach and it didn't work out well for them.
I like short articles, though some more pictures of each type of ship are warranted. The real information to me is the mortality rates. Where was this fifty percent rate for Pacific crossings sourced from?
'Rigour' in the article means 'intensity'. 'Rigour' in science means 'validity'. A study with high rigour means that they've nailed down more loose ends than a study with low rigour. The two concepts are largely orthogonal - and it's disturbing that someone telling scientists what to do has used the wrong version of 'rigour' for that industry.

Ironically, using the 'rigour' of science, startups require much less rigour - startups just need something that works enough, not something that is as correct as can be done.
its nice to see that they are taking owner ship for the issue, rather then just trying to pass it under the rug. >> GM im looking at you.
but then again who really classic american cars anyway? Everyone i know is buying JDM / Euro. Unless they buy a Tesla, but the factory is literally down the street from my house, so that would explain why i see them all the time.....
He's taking two months "when she arrives", which doesn't exclude taking more time throughout the year...
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If it blew into my $100 bill farm, and I could not possibly be expected to know some random $100 bill out the thousands I put there is yours, then yes I should be allowed to keep it. When seeds blow onto a farm, that isn't lost property, that's nature and it's indistinguishable from it not happening. You can't expect a farmer to notice stray seeds and turn them in to lost and found.
If it's an ad, it's a good one. Bidets are just better, and I wish people would take them seriously.
Bummer. Move to a state with family leave laws. CA gives 6 weeks of paid leave to everyone:

http://www.edd.ca.gov/disability/FAQ_PFL_Benefits.htm
Thanks for the feedback. That definitely makes sense. Do you have some tips for the landing page?
This is a Big Deal.

Remember though that in the old A.I. there were two approaches. One was Prolog, based on backwards chaining, the other one was the expert system shells based on production rules.

The production rules are still around in systems like Drools, IBM ILOG, FairIssac, etc. 50% of the time you find "enterprise" customers are happy with "business rules" and the other 50% of the time the people think it is the spawn of Cthulhu.

It's time for something new that gets consistently good results.
Bill Nye the Science Guy Knows How to Fix Climate Change
They weren't from a normal harvest. He specifically used round up on it to only get the patented seed. He purposely made round up ready seed.
Previous, memorable bidet discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9560985
I wonder if this is by choice. I can't imagine giving up control of something like Facebook for even two seconds.

Does he have to sell all his Facebook shares and buy them back at the end of his paternity leave? If not, the "paternity leave" is in-name-only, because he will still be the largest shareholder of Facebook.

You can bet Zuckerberg will still be running the show.
I'm actually splitting mine up right now, but I told everyone up front the dates and the plan. I doubt this is what Zuck will do, unless it's under pressure from backlash.
But you can only really say they are failing, if you are looking at them through a short-term lens. Interviews with Stephen Wolfram give the impression that he is thinking long-term (as in, his entire lifetime and beyond).

Mathematica does actually seem to have dominated its niche for decades. People did and do all manner of things with it.

Wolfram Alpha, their "computational knowledge engine", has only been live for 6.5 years. It's sort of baffling who it is for (but I do, very occasionally, find it extremely useful), but it seems what they are trying to do is bigger than a normal startup that helps you find a taxi or rent out your extra bedroom or search the news.

They may well fail, but I don't think you can say that they have failed yet.
Netflix is the exception, not the rule. Take a poll of what "unlimited vacation" means to most companies with the policy, and you'll see 2-3 weeks being the overwhelming response.
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There's also Bitpay, they do the same thing coinbase does for merchants in fact most of the exchanges have some kind of merchant API so you can immediately sell coins.

You could also make an agreement with somebody on your localbitcoins.com city listing, but then you run into fees and possibly fluctuations since they won't be a 24/7 service like bitpay or coinbase. Localbitcoins may have an API to automatically make a sell listing I'm not sure, I use IRC still to trade.
LG Cancels LTE Watch Indefinitely Because of Complex “Hardware Issue”
That kind of thinking can lead to a culture where people don't want to take vacation because it means they are less "busy" than others and by implication, less important.

It becomes a badge of honor to let unused vacation expire at the end of the year because you just didn't have time to take it.

I've seen it more than once.
So what? He didn't steal those seeds, and the crops grown from them don't belong to Monsanto, but to him, he should be able to capitalize on their mistake. Monsanto is evil and this nonsense of patenting nature needs to be abolished for good. What the patent system has become is absurd, it needs abolished as well.
Not really? Maybe I'm a bit pushy, but I think that people should take all of the time allotted for them to take care of their kids, bond with their kids, and support their partner. If he is banking it for later, great, if not, the work you're doing on social media is not more important than your child.
> The irony is there's a lot that could be done.

We should have been doing all that and more. Unfortunately, the only thing that was politically feasible was QE.

> But current economic models are fiscally constipated

Absolutely.

After hearing Mark Blyth's recent "ha ha only serious" summary[1] of both of these points... it's going to be a rough ride.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCcoF5K0SM#t=1160
It’s official–NSA did keep its e-mail metadata program after it “ended” in 2011
Oh sure. Middle of nowhere. No public transport. Sounds like a dream.
Thanks Russian friends. Please don't waste it on dropping them on other targets than ISIS.
Mercury had it. Gemini (and Vostok) had ejection seats. Soyuz has it, but it first flew well after the Apollo's first used them.
For those who don't want to spend $2,000 on a toilet, there are relatively cheap attachments that are a good 80% solution, especially if you are renting.

However, when I own a house, I'm getting one.
This almost outlines a new business idea. Have you tried using Google Drive, making a virtual drive on your device? Then you either save the photos directly on the drive (e.g. G:/) or move it.
Edit: meant to reply to your parent.

Sorry dude but I can't down vote this hard enough. Please read about the history of Bitcoin exchanges, and for that matter the history of banks. They arent trustworthy, and become insolvent all the time. The FDIC exists for a reason.
From [1]:

"Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries."

So now I don't understand why anyone bothers building Ubuntu-derived docker images... perhaps that's the intent?

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-...
Training the machinations capable of discerning intent from tweets, seeking out their source, then pulling the plug might be all well and good for this purpose, but it will soon be used on others with less radical views.

This whole thing is unfortunate.
If they can genetically engineer a fish then they can make them easily identifiable so that they can't be passed off as other fish which is already a huge problem. Black light markers on the skin or flesh perhaps. Having some really bad genetic trait that makes them easy prey or die quickly if they escape into the wild is another idea instead of 'top men' just saying 'trust us.'
Former Facebook employee here. I was never as impressed with Mark as many I've spoken with, but this is really impressive. I also hope it shows how Sheryl should be a CEO somewhere ASAP.
Your comment has to be a joke.
american bombs should read 'For Israel' in that case.
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Thats quit cheap, $1/m. How much GB can you store?
Point mutation diseases impact a relatively small portion of the population. They are trivially addressable if you have a gene therapy that is able to work on arbitrary adult tissue, but it's not that huge a market. I think the largest win is sickle cell anemia, after that cystic fibrosis.

Some way of treating obesity with gene therapy would be a blockbuster financially, but biologically we don't really have that worked out so much.

(research is ongoing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease#Gene_thera... )
The BDI has been in the toilet for along time. I'm merely pointing out that this is supposed to be hackernews, not zerohedge.
Engineering a culture of fluidity and learning at Nextdoor
The original comment was clearly using a stricter standard than that.
Well, usually insurance companies get some sort of discount on full prices... but the heft of your argument remains valid.
Facebook has hundreds of mid and upper level managers. I doubt that Zuckerberg is that involved in the intricacies of everything. After all, that's why you hire and delegate to managers in the first place.

What this really means is, no acquisitions for Facebook once leave starts (except maybe the ones he's already greenlit). At the CEO level, you focus on direction, strategy, and top-level execution of said direction and strategy. You're not designing and doing grunt work. If anyone can step back from a large corporation and watch things keep on humming along, it's the CEO.
you would need 12 to be precise.
What do you mean you were never impressed?
To be honest, compared to Germany that is not a good news.

In Germany, you can have this up to 36 months (3 years) for both parants and your employer can't send you a notice to quit.

So, to be honest, I have to laugh at Zuck. Or say it another way: I think, he does not value his kids. I am a shamed of him.
Yes, that is a pragmatic answer to my issue...if I had different life circumstances. And I could -- my little niche of hypenated-corporation would love to send me to California on a permanent basis. Unfortunately, I have no desire to commute 2 hrs to/from Edwards AFB every day.

Good to know though.