skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yes, really, it is.

Your premise is not supported by evidence. One "researcher" made this claim, and provided no evidence to support it. There is nothing to support the notion that playing with prey reduces injuries to the predator.

>It keeps the cat's jaw (which is the part that delivers the killing bite, and which is the part that does the eating) away from the beak and teeth and claws, while the paws do batting and patting.

Paws are able to be bitten, scratched and infected just as easily as faces. The consequences of paw and leg injuries are in fact more dangerous than injuries to the face. It is hard to hunt when you can't run. There is no benefit to prolonging the exposure to danger by keeping the prey alive.

>It increases the chance of getting a kill, which is what gives the cat food after the hunt

A quick bite to the neck is the best chance of killing. Letting the prey struggle and escape to be re-caught is lowering the chances of getting food, not raising it. You are claiming the opposite of reality.

>That does not explain why feral cats, cats that need to hunt to survive, play with prey.

Yes it does. They only do so when they are teaching young to hunt. They do not play with their prey when they are engaged in the process of "acquire food to prevent death".

>Hunting a laser pointer is chasing prey, it is not playing with prey.

It is engaging in instinctive hunting behaviour for no benefit. Just like catching a mouse, playing with it, then wandering off.
Mmm, everyone wants to skip the step where they have to be crappy for a bit. It's hard to progress beyond what you know with that attitude.
16 vs. 32GB is more important for the iPad because you're permanently stuck without recourse with that storage forever. Not so with the Surface. Somewhat ironic that someone who was complaining about argument quality missed that key point.
Play it Again, Sam (But only if you pay for it again)
I am curious how you solve corrosion in a high pressure thermal cycling environment for what are presumably very tiny water fog nozzles. But maybe that is trade secret or whatever.

Naively I'd just switch out the air for N2, since it's mechanically the same and cheap. But then, once you're using special gas, I'd look at using low and high molecular weight (say, He and maybe some long chain which isn't going to detonate under the working pressure?), and maybe other stuff, to see if it would improve the product.

But maybe corrosion isn't a big problem -- there are some awesome alloys out there. I want to get into firearm sound suppressor design and manufacture (custom, tuned for a given weapon and load) just to justify an HPC/CFD capability and a bunch of awesome Inconel and other alloy samples.
> I'm not sure letting this calibre of "journalism" and the people who lap it up slide is the solution.

So flag it and move on: if you must comment, you can do so sans ad hominem and still communicate your point.

I don't understand why a complaint about quality should itself be a paragon of lowered quality?
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The fact is that there is overwhelming evidence that IQ tests highly correlate with other measures of intelligence (SATs, GREs, job advancement, etc). I'm sorry but one outlier does not invalidate the whole body of research regarding IQ tests. The reasonable conclusion regarding Feynman is to suspect other factors at play. I'm simply changing my opinion in the face of new evidence.

>A second possibility is that Feynman's gifts were overwhelmingly mathematical, not verbal.

And of course this would be the "other factors at play". There are plenty of people who are savant-like in specific areas but aren't a "genius" in the generic sense. In a mathematical/scientific setting, Feynman would appear as a genius. In other settings, he would not. There's nothing surprising about any of this that would warrant a redefinition of genius.
You say that because you think Square is a little gadget for taking credit cards from a phone.

That is the little goal, though -- the big goal at Square is clearly to take over all real-world payments. The cheap reader was a simple place to start. (Go check out a store that running off an iPad with Square to see what they want to become).
Did you mean verify that an account is associated with the credit card?

Or just verify that the credit card number is potentially a legitimate one?

Because if it's the latter, that's just the Luhn algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm) and no transactions are required to perform the verification.

If it's the former, until you make a transaction there's no way to verify in advance whether or not a card has a still valid account attached to the backside of it.

I know you're saying "without any purchase", but maybe it was just for a vanishingly small amount.
Understood Derek and why you arrived at your number. Look at your revenue goal for the next 12 months. Look at $18K (base = $50K) If $18K is 15% or less of your revenue goal then find a way to make it to $50K. What also happens when you're paying $50K vs $32K is you'll attract a significantly upgraded candidate which in turn will increase your chances of hitting or exceeding your overall revenue goals. Don't save $18K to get a candidate who's 80% of what you can get for $50K. I suspect that 20% equates to $100K to $200K in revenue for you over the next 12 months.
pretty much what I do, my local sqlite storage per user slows things down a bit (but that's good since Twitter is even slower). so between requests, I often give Twitter enough time to finish the request for the previous 100 and store them in cache, so that when I re-request the same 100 (i always try twice), there are often there. but not always. it's a mix of overall twitter load, plus where/how deep down these 100 followers are stored, plus if a follower record is damaged (happens frequently), plus other time-out factors. that's what I am complaining about, it's so hard to work around this.
Your taxes are not well-spent
A language with dependent types
Steve Mann's "Eye Am a Camera: Surveillance and Sousveillance in the Glassage"
Well, FWIW, Obama's cut federal domestic discretionary spending relative to the economy, inflation and other measures and has promised to continue to do so in his next term.

Of course, military and entitlements need to be addressed as well but reducing healthcare costs is obviously a priority of his as is reducing military spending.

Maybe you should just vote democrat.
I agree, the lack of comments stuck out like a sore thumb in an otherwise interesting proposal. There's no reason to take out the existing comment system from WP. It works! The option to disable comments or easily use something like Disqus seems like a fine idea but if you're hosting your own blog, there's a chance you'll want to host your own comments, too.
If you call something a treaty, isn't it expected to be discussed and agreed upon by both sides?

Humans have to make the first step and propose a first draft because of their current position of power. Unfortunately, cetaceans so far haven't taken time to try to learn how to communicate with humans. A treaty with cetaceans would be a display of pure goodwill, as opposed to e.g. peace treaties between mutually menacing powers.

Another interesting question is how many treaties are needed, since cetaceans are obviously no more unified than humans.
Their products are rapidly replacing household item PC. People used to buy PCs at regular intervals anyway.
Ask HN: Using Technical Recruiters to Hire Engineers
We're a profitable early-stage startup in SOMA, scrambling (like everyone else) to find talented Python devs who can help us build V2 of our web-based social marketing platform.

We've been rolling around the meetup circuit, posting online, and pushing the roles out through our networks, but still haven't met the caliber of innovators we're looking for. Since we have some cash for this, we're now thinking about working with a recruiter(s).

Are technical recruiters worth it? Should we try to bring someone on in-house, or outsource? Is contingency okay? Any thoughts on this would be hugely appreciated.
We've been doing this for a few weeks, and it's super fun. Want to get some more people together and do them on a regular basis.
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Check out the Peepcode screencast on Git: https://peepcode.com/products/git

Peepcode screencasts are worth every penny.
Google And/Or Microsoft Rumored To Offer UK-wide Free Wi-Fi?
No offense to your passion, but I thought that CPR can be quite dangerous and ineffective. Don't many doctors wear DNR tags because of this?

The wikipedia article [1] has some information on this. The survival rate is something like 4% even though immediate recovery is around 40% (they survive long enough to get to the hospital, where they die due to the underlying condition). Meanwhile, the person has to suffer with the pain of broken ribs or other damage from the CPR attempt.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiopulmonary_resuscitation#E...
Lately I find myself launching an emacs session just so I can use magit for projects I build in XCode.

It makes crafting commits a joy.
Thanks, good info. My plan at this point is to whitelist accounts, because I want to try to keep from charging suspicious accounts in the first place.
What "basic human rights" does the PATRIOT Act impinge?

It's been a decade, and I don't see the "there" there. The PATRIOT Act was supposed to be the end of the republic, but so far it seems to have had no impact in practice.
Hi, Gabriel Weinberg here. Sorry to offend you, as was of course not my intention.

I also of course don't think this is FUD at all. As far as I know, this is the first quantitative study of any kind about the filter bubble. I think it is hard to dismiss a concept out of hand when it hasn't even been effectively studied yet.

Also, the filter bubble it is not an effective marketing message because it requires too much education given it is a complicated subject no one knows about.

I also think tailoring can be just fine when it is opt-in and you are in complete control of your data.

As for DuckDuckGo, we've been telling people plenty about new stuff. Most recently we've been focused on our open-source plugin platform -- DuckDuckHack, http://duckduckhack.com/ -- where you can hack the search engine. And people have been doing it and making cool stuff, e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=khan+math and lots of others: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies/.
Apparently it's aimed at introverts with Twitter accounts. I can't imagine something less attractive to an introvert than broadcasting your life publicly.
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Actually, that would be Chandigarh[1], a city that was designed by Corbu himself. There is a lot to be said about the city, but it is probably not what people would expect from him (I've heard from people who have been that it is actually quite humanistic). This is quite common with Corbu, since he is the favourite scapegoat in architecture.

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandigarh
I think this guy makes an interesting point about performance, related issues stemming from using Delete. However, maybe the proper advice would be to Google and other folks who optimize javascripts execution to improve the handling of Delete, because is a necessary feature of frameworks.
I find this technique great to keep unrelated fixes in separate commits. A single revision may not pass a set of unit tests, but the entire feature branch will before being merged into the release line. Keeping the barrier low for committed code is one of git's best features.
Linux already runs on ARM, and there are multiple distros that support it. Most of the web runs on Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Python/Ruby/Perl, all of which run fine on ARM. I'd say that's a sizable server market that would already be happy on an ARM server. I would be. We run nothing on our servers that doesn't already compile on ARM.

Then again, we've just switched to an entirely virtualized infrastructure running under KVM a few months ago, and ARM doesn't really have much in the way of hypervisor support. So, I guess there is some part of the software stack that ARM won't work for.
What I find really intriguing about this is Thiel's participation - it's one thing to get funding from Khosla, who is a cleantech cheerleader, it's really amazing to get funding from Thiel, who is a cleanteach skeptic.
The problems you describe are purely a result of editorial policies that can be changed. There is no natural law that dictates that access or narrative (editorialization) be a fundamental aspect of news publishing. Season 5 of "The Wire" goes into this with some detail.
So what? Just test the commit after you've made it. You can always reset and try again before pushing.
Markdown isn't for bloggers, it's for developers. The average blogger has never learned an "alternative syntax" in their lives -- a word-processor-like formatting toolbar, like WordPress has, makes much more sense.
Yes! I do say that!

The three main sites I visit are NYTimes, Hacker News and Quartz.

This is a breakdown of my postings in the last 244 days.

Quartz - 16
NYTimes - 20
Misc - 24

As I tried to say in terms of Quartz I have it open all the time at work. To me its stands to reason that if I'm seeing it all the time and I see something I like then I will post it more often.

It was the same at the NYTimes - however I haven't worked there in almost 2 years yet I still post significant amounts from them. Again, its about what I think people will like within the community that I've read.

I've been on HN for over 3 years and I'll bet the majority of my posts come from NYTimes where I worked for a large part of that time. Again - it was always open in my browser so hard not to be hyper-aware of what was being posted and catch interesting stuff.

I'm just doing my best to be as upfront as possible. Plenty of others don't necessarily do that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=nickbilton

Sometimes I post two links in a day, sometimes it will be one link in a week or two. Again, its as I see things I like and want to share.

Updated my profile to say: "I do post stuff from qz.com on occasions that I post cos I naturally come across it as part of my work" and linked to your Comment since it provides more detail.

Not sure this is the answer you wanted but I certainly hope that helps clarify things a bit.
Fair enough. "Some" money coming into Gittip from stolen cards is in fact going out into bank accounts, some of them belonging to "innocent people" (myself included)--but some of them not. Theft, strictly defined, is in fact taking place.

edit2: :^)
This just highlights the main problem with representative democracy as I see it.

I don't care who represents me. I'm not interested in their personality or values, I couldn't give a fig if they're black/white, male/female, gay/straight, republican/democrat/whatever. I care about issues and how they get addressed in legislation.

So what do I do when I'm presented with someone who is pro-SOPA on one side (but also pro a bunch of stuff I like) and someone who is anti-SOPA but pro a bunch of other things I consider abhorrent?

Politics of party and politics or the personality-cult need to end.
I rarely deign to type the names of any Nick Denton properties.
Just to be sure that it is clear, Neimaier was the architect of most of the buildings in Brasilia, but not the man who made the urban plan. That was Lucio Costa.

I'm not trying to defend him, he approaches architecture with the intent to create his own brand of ‘beauty’ which results in buildings like you experienced, but he should not be blamed for Brasilia's possible failure as a city.
The problem is with the process, people will forget. You probably need to automate this.
So my wife is 9 months pregnant. Watching her extreme discomfort, it makes my head explode when people call abortion an "edge case" on one hand while making a huge deal out of the PATRIOT Act, etc.

I'm pretty sure my wife would rather be water boarded than be forced to go through pregnancy and birth involuntarily. I'm not even joking.
Thanks for that link.

The style of the "Cultural Education Center" there reminds me of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in LA (early 1960s) -- monumental architecture on an elevated stone plaza, with a fountain and sculpture in front and parking beneath. It was also designed at the behest of a rich old cultural icon (Rockefeller in Albany, Dorothy "Buffy" Chandler in LA).

As you point out, one of the problems of this architectural style is that the resulting building is totally disconnected from the surrounding streetscape. It took decades for the area around the Chandler Pavilion in LA to gain back some significant buildings that had a relation to the street.

It turns out it's actually a net minus for the area if the people going to the building just park underneath, go up, do their business, and exit. The resulting bubble creates an obstacle for organic development nearby.
Though the author used words other than "blah," all I heard while reading this article was "blah blah blah"
I agree, regulation is important. Too important to entrust to a monopolistic force on violence.
Really?

http://www.phonearena.com/news/199-Google-Nexus-7-tablet-has...
Really - what version? Screenshot? (email in profile)
It's a terrible mistake. I can't read the site on my iPhone. I can't double tap to fit the text to the screen, it fits the image. If I zoom in, the text looks hazy since its not being re-rendered.

Why would anyone do that?
clickable: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onmylist/id561225528?ls=1...
The lack of judicial oversight for the executive branch's data gathering powers granted by the Act evaporates any circumstances in which the First Amendment could reasonably and effectively be used for unpopular speech or unpopular assembly.

The banking regulation amendments effectively prohibit large scale anonymous or unpopular publishing and communication/organization of effective resistance.

A shining example presently is the harassment of the social networks of Wikileaks associates and supporters. Another is the collection and use of Twitter and GSM metadata of protesters in New York.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/fbi/fbi-informant-infilt...

The next time something like COINTELPRO happens, it won't have a wikipedia page for it, and those attempting to draw attention to it will be jailed indefinitely without trial.

Note that this is the same FBI that targeted Martin Luther King - but now with no sunlight. If you don't see the real, live implications of this sort of tyranny, you aren't paying attention.

The government issues over 40,000 NSLs a year, now.
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There's, like, 3 people running who want abortion to be illegal in cases of rape.

Do you seriously not think any of the pro-life positions are even worth debating? And that preventing even marginal restrictions on abortion is worth killing the internet? (the partial-birth abortion ban was the biggest pro-life victory in years).

All I sense from you is anger and contempt, no intellectual engagement. That's not going to win over people who don't already agree with you.

I sympathized with Hillary Clinton's formulation that abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare". The new abortion-absolutism says it should be "ubiquitous, easy, and subsidized". I don't agree with that. I still find late-term abortion nauseating, and early-term abortion regretful.

Am I an evil monster for thinking this way? Am I completely beyond the pale of polite opinion? Am I not worth debating?
I went through the other options, like paleo cookies or beef jerky and the reality is that healthier stuff you can order online is really expensive. I don't think it is a startups job to provide full meals or to cater to everyone's dietary preferences - snacks are exactly that, snacks. Something convenient to eat when you are busy and between meals. If you can manage to easily accomodate special requests while getting shopping for stuff done efficiently that's great, but it is really not the startup's job to make sure your high fiber gluten free paleo diet is working for you.

Until companies have an actual full time office manager who can worry about this stuff, it is extremely time consuming to cater to all these preferences and if people are really invested in being healthy they will take the time to purchase and bring the foods they want to eat throughout the day. Even once you have an office manager you have to ask yourself whether spending thousands a month on a huge variety of foods is a good idea. Usually until a company is pretty big it just doesn't make sense.
There were two primary factors, not three. And the point is that I'm planning to individually review and whitelist all new accounts. I'm able to adapt my heuristic in real time. ;^)
First, don't get me wrong--I support the right to choose, for a number of reasons and some unfortunate things I saw growing up. I'm not against women's rights here.

I'll observe that being pregnant does not preclude you from participating in an information economy or from working at a desk--I haven't tried that, personally, so I may be wrong. I would love to hear about how pregnancy negatively impacts information workers.

I do have issue with the "fully half" population--you can't simply suggest that all of the women are trying to conceive all the time. This seems to be intellectually dishonest.

Anyways, note that we've successfully fought for abortion rights for decades now, and trends seem to suggest that, despite the alarming ignorance of some of the population and congressmen, we will continue to do so.

SOPA (and the Patriot Act, and PIPA, and so on) represent a new threat to civil liberties and the economy (I would be unsurprised to find out that there is more money in user-generated content than birth control). We owe it to ourselves and our children to try and mitigate this threat now before it becomes an issue later.
HN is an exception to the law of software envelopment. It does not have private messages.
Congrats! The ideas behind this are amazing, and I'm happy to see some folks really trying to make a difference in this market even in the wake of some nasty history (albeit not your own).
Apple moves at a steady and surprisingly predictable pace (at least once they have introduced a new product). They have a small lineup and they often replace products instead of continuing to sell both products. They take good care of making sure that they never have too many or too similar products.

For me those are great virtues. Those are things that make Apple a great company that understands me.

Those are also things that make some people claim that Apple is running some sort of scheme to always get you to buy the newest stuff. I think that’s a bullshitty strawman.
Human rigths were created not because we believe we deserve those, but as a tool to keep the peace among us. So the sad true is that most of us don't have a strong intrinsic motivation to grant rights to animals, one of the reasons being that they are not a thread to our existence; but even if they were the impossibility of communication would make any agreement (aka mutual rights) impossible.
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I'm assuming that since you have the ability to fork the software that you know the API for the device. Great, then it can be rewritten in a language other than obfuscated Perl.

Beyond that, if it's as dumb as you say, how about a Kickstarter for a new hardware output endpoint that can respond to this new, rewritten software? Perhaps an Arduino and DAC can be hooked up satisfactorily in the meantime.
Being able to import lists from other external sources would be nice, i.e. foursquare, amazon, netflix.
Just a nit that you're looking for their Q1 figures. Apple's fiscal year runs from October to September.
Microsoft Surface – How Much Space?
The process of picking out background/foreground is fantastic. Easier than with Photoshop, even.