skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You hit on something that researchers discovered in the 60s.

Turns out some things you need to be ok, but they don't make you happy. If you don't have them, they make you unhappy. They're called "Hygiene Factors".

Then there's a whole set of things that if you have them, they make you happy, but the absence doesn't make you unhappy. These are called "Motivators".

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory
“Zombie” Cells Outperform the Living
Doesn't help that the House of Representatives hasn't scaled with the population for a long time now.
Oracle is today's IBM, just as IBM is today's Infosys.
Building Better Worlds: The Arrival of VR with Leap Motion's CTO [video]
Jesus those fees are high. 50 basis points to just warehouse the money. Wealthfront charges half of that for some moderately sophisticated management.

Plus even more on the employer side! Wow.

And people say they are cheaper than other 401k providers? That's nuts.

EDIT: OK, it appears (https://captain401.com/investments) that they will optionally do some automatic rebalancing for you so they're a bit more than just a warehouse but still.
Is this still somewhat a work in progress? I search music in Austin and nothing came back. That can't be right.
All three of them!
Microfluidics as a field is relatively new (last 10 years or so).

This study is at the "microtiter" scale, which is the scale that companies such as theranos are trying to take advantage of.

Microfluidics is largely an industrial field rather than academic.

>Not only does it seem like a very fundamental question to have already asked...it doesn't even seem like a very difficult study to do.

Yeah, well, that's the difference between Silicon Valley and academia.

SV doesn't want to hear about results that invalidate their business model.
What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know
The economic impact if Apple is forced to put in a backdoor
Huffington Post also has a video interview with one of the researchers, which explains in a little more detail what they mean by "outperform": http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/14/biologists-create...
And the data backs up that statement... https://getlighthouse.com/blog/gallup-employee-engagement-su...
Clay Johnson had some relevant comments during the flawed healthcare.gov launch. Many critiquing the procurement process itself. As you stated, the process generally favors the "government-contract-software machine":

http://blog.dobt.co/2013/10/07/the-healthcare-gov-fiasco/
Note that the "replication" seems to have been done by an organization that had set out specifically to produce this result and not by any sort of reputable scientists or lab. The announcement here is on the web site of a pro-E-cat book.

Needless to say, don't start celebrating the birth of the overunity era quite yet.
National Whistleblowers Center
My fear is that these politics will lead to the sorts of issues we see in other places where there are large demographics but no one is a majority. Think about the politics of India and how disastrous that would be for us as a country.

One way forward would be to disengage in divide and conquer politics and engage instead in actually addressing pressing issues. Poverty, violence, injustice, without tingeing it with race or class but rather as societal problems that we as a whole society must address rather than it's a [some group's] problem.

For example the unequal gender pay issue is not best addressed as a problem caused by males but rather as a social problem which must be addressed by all to get to a place on average where all get equivalent pay. That is addition rather than subtraction.
I know how it works. I wrote much of the layout and graphics code for Servo and did the initial bringup of the compositor on Firefox Mobile. You shouldn't have to rasterize new content on every frame when you animate font-size (except for individual glyphs, but that's still quick, just a few ms, if you parallelize it—and even with techniques like SDFs and/or GPU vector graphics tricks like [1] you may not even need to do anything on the CPU). If you animate, say, margin-left, you should in most cases be doing essentially no work on the CPU, and you should be able to submit one draw call to repaint the page since all of the resources (images, glyphs, alpha masks, SVGs) should be cached in an atlas. It should be 1-2ms. Even animating something like border-top-width should be no resource changes and one draw call, exactly as fast as your compositor should do it.

Optimally implemented, I believe there should be no difference between "rasterization" and "compositing". You're painting the same number of pixels, paying the same fragment shading and rop cost, either way. Caching fully rendered Web content in textures assuming that the cost of rasterizing that content is high isn't working very well, and I think it's not worth it.

[1]: http://wdobbie.com/post/gpu-text-rendering-with-vector-textu...
Third party: "You're welcome! Since you seem to be very interested in that specific subject (the destination IP address happens to map to a site specified for that subject), we sold this information to Google and they will now show more ads regarding that subject."

No, seriously. I believe it is good practice to encrypt all data over all kind of wires (public or not). However, most of the time, we do not encrypt metadata, which can be just about as useful as the actual data (and way easier to analyze). Do you really think that any government cares much about what you say to a specific person? They only care that you talk to that person, when you talked to that person, and how frequently you talked to that person. The same goes for almost anything. If your ISP were interested in your data, they would actually value metadata a lot more then the actual payload because metadata can be analyzed quite easily and reliably.

Tor was (and still is) your only protection against these kinds of attacks because your ISP only knows you're talking to some Tor nodes, the Tor nodes can see very few of the websites you visit (or email recipients you send to) because you will use another nodes for the next website/email, and the website will not know who you are if you don't authenticate because many requests can come from that Tor node.
One thing to note: no adverts on `dumb` phones.
That's the legal status of this?
Global Accelerator Network (GAN) is listed as part of the Stripe Atlas Network. Does this mean that if we are connected to one of the accelerators in the GAN, that we have access?
So, there are several ways to handle mouse+keyboard that I've seen.

1) Virtualized Mouse+Keyboard. If you've ever used a VM before, this is what you most likely are familiar with. You click within the VM's window, it captures your mouse and keyboard, and then everything is like normal within the VM. To release, you hit some special key combo and your mouse+keyboard is released back to the host. The VGA Passthrough setup that we're talking about doesn't normally support this method in QEMU/KVM, but you can hack it in. For me, it works as expected, except the mouse+keyboard randomly stop working for brief periods of time every so often. So... not great.

2) Synergy. I've seen this method mentioned a lot, so I guess it works. I haven't tried it. I've heard there are occasional issues, and sometimes Synergy will stop working so you need some kind of fallback method to get back into the Windows VM to get it working again. Probably this method plus method 1 above as a backup will work well.

3) USB passthrough. You could get a second mouse+keyboard, and then use USB filtering to pass them through to the VM. I haven't tried it; it probably works fine if you're okay with having two mouse+keyboard sets on your desk.

4) IOMMU USB passthrough. Similar to #3, but you use IOMMU to give an entire USB hub to the VM. This is likely to have the least number of issues, as it gives direct and exclusive control of a USB hub to the VM. Whether you can do it or not depends on the USB hub configuration on your mobo or whether you feel like adding a USB PCI/PCI-E card.

5) KVM + USB passthrough. Use a KVM and then USB passthrough of some kind (#3 or #4 above).

6) Steam In-Home Streaming. Steam In-Home Streaming can be hacked to share the entire desktop of the target machine. So you could use this to not only handle keyboard+mouse, but also video if you don't want a second monitor and/or don't want to use your existing monitor to switch HDMI/DisplayPort. Since the streaming will be done locally, latency will be very low, but this will burn some CPU/GPU resources. VNC is also an option, but will likely fallover for video games/watching videos/etc.
> But then how is that different from a new boss coming in, having a strong, but different, vision than you?

I don't understand the perspective you are asking this question from. But, my responsibility would be to follow my boss' vision. If it has clear and achievable goals, then it's easy for me to figure out what to do. Visions which are too broadly scoped won't have clear and achievable goals. Visions which are too narrowly scoped is micromanagement.

I might not always agree, but in those cases I will voice my ideas / concerns. After I know I've been heard out, I will defer because it's my boss' decision to make, not mine. As long as my concerns are heard and integrated into the decision, then I should be content.

> I don't disagree, but now you seem to claim something else. Originally you just wanted a strong vision with goals, regardless whether the employees agree. Now you want buy-in too.

There's a clear delineation between leadership -- aka, vision-creation -- and implementation. My original opening of "as an employee" was meant to frame the remainder of my comment as from the perspective of someone responsible for implementing a vision. The remainder of the discussion has been about the leadership side, or how to create a vision in the first place. If you are creating a vision with a group, you need buy-in from the entire group. If you don't, then individual leadership will walk away with differing interpretations and goals, which is what leads to dysfunction. These separate visions will then be pushed down the line, and you will have implementers working at cross-purposes, political infighting, etc.

This ~~synchronicity~~ synchronization on the leadership side is the important part. If a unified vision is being clearly pushed to all the implementers, then the collective action will result in a singular vector towards the vision. If unclear or even competing visions are being pushed, then you won't get collective movement because all the individual actions will be moving towards different results.

> And there is also principle of subsidiarity. If people strongly disagree on the vision, they can come to some compromise where they realize each vision in their own domains.

It's one thing to acknowledge that there are two potential solutions, and as a group decide that both will be explored. It's a completely different situation to have two groups that can't come to terms and are therefore competing against each other.

EDIT: Big words are hard. Let's go shopping.
Nokia was not successful (by any definition of the word) by the time Microsoft bought it.
I've gotten to talk with some really great candidates and have even hired 2 from this post! I'd like to add that we are also looking for QA and Test engineers to join us in each of these locations. Incredible, fun managers working on a very cool invention!
> Making a small screen consisting of only a single LED and moving it close to the camera doesn't change that...so long as the two are hardwired and one or both are programmable, there's no certainty.

This doesn't make any sense. Do you not know what "hardwired" means?

Rig the light so that it is turned on any time the camera is transmitting to the CPU. This is a physical interface, not a software one. You can hack the camera software any way you like, but anything that receives an image from the camera will activate the light.

> Short of removing the camera from the device, physical disconnection is the next best thing. To put it another way, a camera can shoot at 1/2000 of a second. That's quick enough that a person will miss the blink of an LED even if it's activated 10 times as long as the shutter is open.

So activate it longer than that. Why is this a problem? You can easily wire the light to activate for a minimum of one second (or more, if you like) any time the camera transmits even a single frame.
Probably legal due to various legalese in agreements we sign with our ISPs and the ISPs sign with other providers.

Still a dick move.
Why would a 35k+ car that's not going into production until 2017 be a suitable alternative for someone who's looking at 10-15k 3 year old Leafs today?
That was a really long way to go just to attack local politicians for not giving in to Uber's (empty) threats of leaving. Their entire business model is based on breaking the law and yet people are shocked when local governments don't just roll over for them.
In my country (Spain) they have been working like a year or so. I think more countries were used to test.
In my limited experience (I don't use much fb) I don't see a lot of people really using it. It's about 80%-likes/20%-the new "emotions" that people use in posts.
Adding in for Sonic's fantastic support. I was only able to get DSL at my art gallery / commercial unit in Downtown LA (Cable internet was going to cost an arm and leg).

Primary purpose was live video streaming and they helped me switch my DSL to a different Annex type to give me more upload bandwidth.
This study doesn't address genetics. Rather it is measure amounts of soluble blood proteins.

For all intents and purposes, your DNA is the same in every cell. We know this because we can pool DNA from multiple cells and sequence them. We see orders of magnitude more variation from sequencing error than true intra-isolate nucleotide variation.

Yes epigenetics exists, and it influences our development and habits, but it's not going to change the content of your DNA.
I wish this fee were made more clear upfront.

> What fees will be charged for my bank account?

> Silicon Valley Bank will waive account maintenance fees for the first 24 months. SVB will share more details about your account’s complete fee schedule and functionality once your bank account is open.

https://stripe.com/atlas/faq#What-fees-will-be-charged-for-m...
Computer program dreams up new quantum experiments
It's appropriate because the people who object have been successfully intimidated.
How did we get here?

Consumer choice is not all it's cracked up to be. The process for getting surveillance out of phones is like getting lead out of the water: functioning accountable regulation.

(Cameras are less relevant when the phone is in my pocket; it's the microphone that is more of concern.)
The problem is asking other users to install DD-WRT/Tomato/OpenWRT in order to get a secure device. That's not something I would reasonably expect my parents to know about or do.

Consumer networking hardware needs to be secure out of the box, and automatically keep itself updated without any end-user intervention.

Installing alternate firmware should be an option, but it shouldn't be necessary.
It's so nice for KVM and Xen to support this.

I'd wish virtualbox would support pci pass-through.
Virtualbox being the default and most used vm with vagrant it would be awesome to spin up a linux vm with pci pass-through, so you can have a machine learning vm with cuda.
Squarespace seems to have really carved out a nice little niche for themselves. They've also really gone all in on podcast advertising. I'd be curious if/why there is some particular audience for podcasts that particularly aligns with Squarespace's product.
Thanks. I was wondering what this was about; my best guess was the CueCat from one of Joel Spolsky's old columns...
I've never used a Snap-On tool; that always seemed like a scam. I have an HF torque wrench that's got to be 10yo by now. It still works, but I don't really ask much of it. Bicycle stuff, usually, with an occasional top-mounted oil filter on a diesel engine (the latter only because everything is plastic now, and one wants neither to break something nor to have oil dripping all over; in the days of steel I would have just gripped a short wrench halfway off the axis and pulled hard). If I were rebuilding transmissions I'd have a good torque wrench. I've broken enough wrenches that I can pretty much tell when it's going to happen, and now I stop before that point. For that reason, it's probably true that an HF wrench is at least 90% as useful as any other. I have yet to really pull on an HF wrench that I would call "excellent", however. Various hammers and chisels I've purchased have all lost their shape after just a bit of hard use.

I have HF power tools, but there's something slightly off about each of them, whether that's a flimsy plastic body, a saw blade arbor that moves around, or whatever. I don't use any of them on even a monthly basis. If I did, I would upgrade. Everything my brother has borrowed for a job has quickly failed. He doesn't buy much at Harbor Freight.

I have a Craftsman cordless drill that has lasted forever; it predates the tiny b&w Makita drills all the contractors have been using for years now. Since the battery is old-fashioned dry cell rather than lithium, I just took it to Ellis Battery for a rebuild when it failed.
It put me in Boston on my phone which was on a local hotspot in town. Then when I got home I tried my browser and it put my about 50 miles away. With ipinfo.com my IP address comes up within a few hundred feet of my house so it should be working. So that's 2/2 on whiffs.
Angular SPA applications ALWAYS seem really buggy for me. Freezes, and spinners that never go away and you have to refresh etc

Maybe I just have bad luck.
ConEmu "is optimized" for Windows. The problem is that cygwin is not optimized for Windows.

But there is cygwin connector: https://conemu.github.io/en/CygwinMsysConnector.html
Aren't these features fairly commonplace these days? (I use two mail servers, one of them is Gmail) and they both support TLS, actually, they even refuse me to connect in plain text.
Well a web app is a user interface. Obviously there are backend components to most web apps, but any of the client-side work can still reasonably be referred to as UI work. You just need to specify between UI designer and UI engineer.
I interviewed with these guys! I've spoken with one of the founders, Roger Lee, at length about their product and I have to say that they are amazing people with great vision. Even though I didn't get the gig, it's great to see them doing well! Good things happen to good people.
>Making a photo sensor must be thousands of times more complicated than ultrasounds sensors.

Cheaper thermal imaging sensors like that usually use a very, very low resolution sensor for picking up thermal data, then use interpolation to map the low-resolution data onto a high-resolution image provided by a higher-res conventional camera sensor. Obviously, this approach won't work with ultrasound tech, as there wouldn't be a secondary high-resolution data source.
Weaponized Wikileaks: Nick Reads Wikileaks So You Don't Have To
Everything in your own head is still pretty much private, for now. Give it some time, though, and FMRI will be reading thoughts (and the government will be compelling people to get scanned).
Wow, I don't even know how to respond to so many blatantly false statements. What did I do to tick you off? There certainly is no elitism or ageism with our hiring process, we've had few bites. Your notes on relo and remote I think are objectively valid and I have little influence to change that. It's entirely possible that our offer is not up to current market trends and that's worth objectively considering, your statements about ageism however, are not. I'm sorry if you've been burned by other companies due to age but that's simply not what we do, we hire plenty of talent across the age board.
> I just want to know why I can't buy one cheaper than my massively more complex iphone :)

Size of market for iPhones compared to size of market for iPhone ultrasound devices. Also, you'll need FDA approval in the US for their use.
I wish the law was rewritten so that this sort of savings benefit wasn't tied into your employer having to set it up. Get rid of 401ks and just raise the damn IRA limit.
I wish I could say, "Paging Bunny." Or some such.

I hope the pieces and supply chain are not locked up to the point that there is no way around.
It does have built-in debugging, although it might not support the targets you're working with. However, it is still less than a year old + only at version 0.10.x...
The main drivers of human action remain the same.

Scientific (and to a lesser degree, philosophical) understanding of these drivers has changed significantly, though. Further, the breadth of actions available has increased dramatically with technology, and as such it is reasonable to revisit some of the decisions made 200+ years ago from time to time.
Happens in Canada as well. People use YYZ to refer to Toronto pretty frequently.
Seriously. I remember a time when people protested their local governments when they gave in to corporate blackmail of the "let us do this illegal thing or we'll take our business elsewhere" variety. And now some of them are instead protesting when local governments don't give in. God help us.
It's not the same.
Telomeric regions shrink over time.
Viruses inject their own dna code into the host genomes.
Minor damage piles up over the years.
The difference? YouTube didn't loose anything. Facebook looses it's iconic brand: the white on blue 'like', that is just positive and teints the whole FB brand positively.

Oh, and people would use those things 'correctly', it's just too embarrassing sometimes. A simple 'like' is much more diplomatic.
This is what mjg is arguing here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11163741

We need both integrity protection for firmware and user control of the signing keys.
I really need Linux to be the first class citizen (yes I see MS has bought Xamarin but still). Also last I looked, F# wasn't looking any better than Ocaml on multinode distributed computing (please do correct me if I'm wrong).
Maybe their strategy is to bundle the Bing toolbar with the Xamarin installer.
It's kind of amazing how often this is getting talked about, but little seems to be changing.

A few examples:

1) Mary Meeker's Internet Trends 2015 -> http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-v1

2) Gallup, here and in some of their research -> http://www.gallup.com/services/182138/state-american-manager...

3) Deloitte's latest study on Millennials -> https://getlighthouse.com/blog/deloitte-survey-millennials-2...

4) Reid Hoffman's book, The Alliance -> http://www.slideshare.net/reidhoffman/the-alliance-a-visual-...

Companies don't reward managers for caring about people's development, so it won't change until companies start to.
What do you suppose you should do when people start demanding interactive features and capabilities that can only be done client side? For a lot of us the alternative of doing things on the server is a significantly worse UX.