skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be more impressed if they hadn't trained the second rat beforehand. The second rat may be perceiving the stimulus as anything - a pressure in it's tail, who knows? The second rat is trained to press a button when it feels a pressure in it's tail.

I just don't see a clear path from this to true 'communication' - unless it takes a form like morse code that one (human) mind taps out and the other (human) mind consciously decodes. But I know nothing about this either ;)
Why do these angered employees think it's reasonable to compare themselves to the CEO of the company, who is trying to pull said company from a deep shit that it is in.
Here's the press release from the company:

http://personalaudio.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Personal...

The patent being used against podcasters:

http://www.google.com/patents/US8112504

Another patent referenced in their press release that won an $8mil judgement against Apple in 2011 and is now licensed by "Samsung, Amazon, Motorola, RIM, Sirius, and others":

http://www.google.com/patents/US6199076
Earbits launches social currency for music
This is very nearly the "Stripe, but also with ACH" that I've been wanting for a while now. Being able to let businesses set up recurring ACH debit for subscription plans is very good for the B2B SaaS market.
i get this when i visit the mac download link:

<Error>
<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Access Denied</Message>
...

Update: OK, it works now.
Sort of. You can rearrange the task circles, but they float into a somewhat arranged layout. In practice this means that the order is not immediately obvious.
Hi, thanks for your very insightful post.

It's too bad the director didn't pursue the novel idea further, but I think he was also thinking about how hard it would be to actually implement and get companies on board. I do like the idea though, especially in this era of (somewhat fake) corporate social responsibility.

Are you currently involved in any anti-poverty activism ?
> I think freelance software testers should be easy to find. But they are not. I think there should be loads of good freelance testers out there. But there are not. I think it should be easier to find freelance testers. But it is not.

There's a reason -- software developers have figured out that they're better off just releasing the product and hearing from their customers. It's called "beta testing" -- no special panel of testers, just users eager to try a new product, willing to put up with imperfect operation for the privilege.

And not all beta tests are identified as beta tests -- many of them appear to be a product release, but the real purpose is to wring out the bugs. The classic example is Fedora Linux, which is one very long beta test (and one that most of its users understand).

As to Web sites and online games, developers use A/B testing to accomplish the same ends, without the need to locate people whose special role is to test.
Can't you just do a CNAME entry with a wildcard pointing to your primary domain?
You make that sound remarkably selfless of her, as she heroically arrives and tries to save the day, the ungrateful slobs unwilling to see what is good for them.
Advertising Analytics 2.0
Is this the beginning of the Borg?
Nice triple negative. I think there's an element of layoff about it, but comments from ex-Yahoos about lax work culture in remote employees might well mean it's the best thing to do. Especially when your management clearly can't work well with remoters and no longer has a clear direction.

Remote work is great if there's good communication both ways. If not, it's throwing money into a bottomless pit.
I think it's interesting that the vast majority are in Europe. I would have expected more in Asia and South America.
Is this article trying to make Mayer look like a hypocrite? She had a nursery built near her office because she planned to work at the office, not from home.
ARM falls clearly into the first category. They hire engineers who develop chips and are the original assignee of the patents.

>Somehow I doubt that patent trolls will develop curriculums and bring in students for the sheer purpose of bilking inventors.

Maybe. I could see how they might partner pretty quickly with the likes of the University of Phoenix however.
More Features Won't Save Your Product
Well where are the details about the nursery? Is it just for her? If it's available for all employees you could rewrite the headline:

Mayer builds Nursery for employees' children to compensate (in advance!) for loss of remote working.
15 Questions w/ Christopher Richins of Space Angels Network
Imagine how addictive it will be when they can experience the intense emotions of a person being tortured or killed, without any danger to one's self.

There is always another side. I remember seeing this sort of voyeurism explored in Tad Williams' Otherland series.
Are ladies’ underpants the next billion-dollar startup?
Why is it assumed that Opera will be exactly the same as Chrome?

Is it not possible for Opera to keep their own implementation of LocalStorage (and other things)?

Am I wrong in assuming RenderEnginge != Browser?
10.8? and all you're doing is scrolling quickly? If you close the app and bring it back up, it still does it?

EDIT: tracking in this issue: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues/271
Write, for the sake of Writing
Is Amazon's Cloud Player coming to Windows 8 and Windows Phone?
Talking to your children in an honest way as independent people, working with them to come up with innovative solutions to problems, being inspired by their peers who have managed to overcome the same problem (the deviants) sounds like an EXCELLENT idea. I don't object at all.
> Women should have the right to take lengthy maternity leaves

And the cost should be borne by single men.
I'd absolutely love to see ruby in Light Table, how are plans looking for this? If there was a kickstarter for adding ruby I'd pony up in a flash. I realise manpower is probably going to be the main issue though...
Total percentage of manpower is only one way of measuring effort.
Nice write up. I gave a presentation on DBNs for my Neural Networks class in Fall 2011. If you'd like references to the relevant papers and some more details on the algorithms and applications, here are the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18vJ2mOmb-Cbqsk0aNoUM...
Paypal is also an entity with a head office, where the people involved in creating it are widely known. Although you might disagree with their policies or ethics, at least they're a legitimate concern.

Bitcoin was created by "some guy" that, if anybody knows them, nobody's talking. Illegal, underground money lenders are more above-board than this.
Mayer is not there to clock hours or save Yahoo with her brilliant ideas. You don't hire a pregnant CEO to get things done. Yahoo has to take a number of unpopular actions in order to get back into the game. Remote workers tend to be mediocre workers and they need to go. So do others.

Mayer is there to absorb and deflect criticism during Yahoo's readjustment period. For various reasons, people don't like to criticize her, and when they do, they aren't criticizing Yahoo. She'll continue to slash and burn for a couple of years, and then she'll be gone, leaving Yahoo with a sort-of-clean reputation.
Yet, often sub-domains are parts of a larger webapp or ecosystem, for which things like authentication are truly shared, or owned by one entity.

Perhaps for storage purposes, this is not a meaningful assumption.
Noooo! So many wasted pixels at the top! Why!? It was so much better before!

Aside from that: neat! :)
You should add mousewheel scrolling of tabs, I'd like that. Also a white theme, because black themes look sort of sketchy at work.
Koozoo turns any old iPhone into a 24/7 spycam
The Changes Nook Media Must Make
I wish people would give this a rest already. This is getting old fast.
Well, no, but neither is her compensation. If the board thinks her compensation inappropriate, it can deal with it.
Why is the disgusting media leaking into HackerNews?
Is it a foregone conclusion that others can't bring a baby to work?

My biz partner brought his newborn in for about 10 months - it was awesome. Given, we are a tiny company and they are Yahoo, but its not obvious to me that its impossible to work it out.

So I'm glad M. Meyer is doing so, I think that's kind of awesome. The kid will probably have a great time. Maybe there's a way to let others do it too.
It's no doubt difficult to scale, but there is no hobby-scale project that I'm aware of doing something like this. A quad-core Beast-PU from Intel or AMD is great if you're looking to get work done, but terrible if you're looking to open the hood and poke at the bits and innards. The most I've seen lately has been someone loading an existing cluster OS on 64 Raspberry Pis calling it a day. There might even be some interesting considerations for power efficiency and algorithms for disabling and reenabling nodes in the graph. There might even be some insights learned on improvements and/or exploits for other processor network systems that currently exist, like vehicle CANbuses.
What you're describing also sounds like an effective psychological weapon. It depends on the application but I can imagine (not condone, but imagine) this being mandatory for, say, felony offenders in a prison setting. You've got nothing to do but sit in a cell awash in a cold tide of human suffering.

Especially if this technology becomes advanced to the point that you don't need the network directly, and you can just in essence record someone's emotional state then broadcast it. Instant purgatory.

Then again, if you can feel someone else's pain, presumably you can feel their pleasure too...
>Humour, anger and whatnot have no place here.

For certain, information-sparse, emotionally invested and biased definitions of 'humour, anger, and whatnot'.
I found the user of Twitter and Google as dead drops interesting. They're both easy channels to disrupt to prevent the malware from receiving instructions, though.

I used to speculate in conversation that USENET was just about the best dead drop on the net (actually, I think I heard Bruce Schneier make such a reference in a talk on tradecraft he gave at DefCon one year) being so decentralized. With the decline of USENET I've been hard-pressed to think of a decentralized, distributed dead drop mechanism that malware could make use of.
If the impact happens - debris from this collision will come home to earth - and they may be bigger than dust.
A more accurate description is probably:

Why do these angered plebs think it's reasonable to compare themselves to the CEO of the company, who paid with her own money to have privileges they can't afford anyways.
in the command bar, type "skin" and press enter. You can change it to a light skin. :) You can also change the editor theme, by using the "change editor theme" command.
Apart from the other obvious praises, I just want to thank you for making something so beautiful with Clojure as a first class citizen.
I looked at his comment multiple times and it looks like you're trying your very hardest to put words in his mouth.

All he said was that it's odd that rank and file employees expect the same perks as the CEO. I think that's a very reasonable statement.

if the CEO get's a personal assistant would every other employee expect one?
I can't tell whether this is satire or not.
How do you detect when something's a security update - and not just an incremental patch or feature addition?
That's pretty neat. Thanks for the link, I know a few other people who would be interested in this, too.
I have no problem with crypto-currencies in general, but one where you have literally no idea who wrote it? That's more than a little worrying.

Would you place much trust in a platform when you have absolutely no idea where it came from or what the motivations behind it might be?
Yes, those bullet points were quite poorly introduced.
The same reason we have comments like this : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5299756
Unlike all those other perks that executives receive that other employees don't?
Would Yahoo be willing to give other employees the opportunity to build a nursery inside their office space? Likely not. The article is contrasting the resources that Mayer has and that her employees do not in light of their ban on telecommuting.
the only thing I agree with in your entire post is criticism of the django template language. its a pretty bad system that encourages sloppy work arounds. jinja would be nice. fortunately the template system is one of the easier things in django to swap out.

i think you're wrong about the ORM. django's ORM is actually really good, its just that the api is optimized for different use cases than SQLAlchemy. django ORM does a better job of simplifying the most common queries. its worse at complex queries. thats a reasonable trade off and i think you go way too far when you say its "awful".
Well the downside is that that loses all value. That can occur for a number of reasons but the two most widely speculated on are a global response (something like the G8 deciding that they won't allow trading it) or a technical defect (which invalidates some part of either the transaction train or the currency itself).

But that said, its also very volatile as a currency and that makes for a lot of speculation and rapid market changes. Not for the faint of heart and certainly not a place for any money you might actually need a year from now.
So this patent was approved last year. Just why in the name of all that is holy does the patent office keep granting these garbage patents? Isn't it clear that they're blindlingly obvious to anyone "skilled in the art" and not patentable to begin with?
I got most of mine through Project Gutenberg.
Great, that's fixed it for me.
Disruption guru Christensen: incumbent media players are making classic mistake
Unlike Ms. Mayer, the average Yahoo! line employee cannot afford to have a nursery built near the office so they can come into the office while still having their baby right at hand. So the "everyone comes into the office" edict falls on them a little harder than it does on her.

It doesn't make her look like a hypocrite, in other words, as much as it makes her look like an out-of-touch, clueless plutocrat.
The decoder rat isn't just pressing a button, it's choosing the correct button of two choices, and they got that up to 70% accuracy. It doesn't really matter if it feels the pressure in its tail if it can distinguish between two different messages and choose the correct switch.
AwesomeWM can be configured to make the statusbar vertical. I have seen a few people on the mailinglist who prefer it that way.

The titlebar that you see for firefox, in the link you provided, AwesomeWM does not waste space on that: you'll find the title in the statusbar/taskbar. These bars can be hidden in AwesomeWM too. How big are your window borders in Gnome/KDE? With one line of configuration, I set my borders to 1 pixel.
Maybe we should not blame search engines, but SEO really has bad effects on the Internet...

PS, due to spams I've closed this forum (http://writingoutliner.com/forum), a online forum for my 'Addon documents organizer for MS Word'.

And I regret I use BBPress as the forum software, because new 2.x versions are not compatible with the old 1.x versions...
I like this concept, and I think it can be improved through some more experimenting with the UI.

Here's my feedback: from an interface perspective a visual process for organizing tasks is very appealing. But things weren't as intuitive as Trello. For example: clicking a task didn't let me edit its name; it brought up a window. Clicking "new task" was my first step, when really, I have a list of groups I want to create (like in Trello)

Speed is really crucial for me in using a system like this.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5298902
Yeah, dudes who intend to never reproduce should get some sort of tax credit as long as they submit to a sterilization procedure.
> So in other words Amazon and B&N should get rid of their delivery networks and build a better reading application...

On the contrary, he says that's what B&N should not do. My guess is you misread the bullet points in the middle of the article as being his recommendation, when in fact they're another set of bullet points he says are mistaken. His final set of bullet points are the real ones, wherein he says B&N and Amazon should discontinue tablets and reader applications, and make better storefronts, letting Apple or third parties make the better reader.
Google’s white spaces database goes live in test next week
Python is first. It was already paid for in the kickstarter...
Accepting the real differences in benefits for a CEO versus everyone else, or the options available to someone with a lot of money, is completely rational and hard to dispute.

It was specifically the "who is trying to pull said company from a deep shit that it is in" bit that turned it from reality to emotional. Meyer is at Yahoo because she saw that as being in her own personal best interests. She isn't there out of altruism.
Very interesting article. I never really understood the nuances of the different WebKit ports (and once naively assumed that WebKit === WebKit). I also didn't have an appreciation for the amount of work going in behind the scenes. The link referenced in the article (http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/LayoutTests) is a fascinating line of sight into the testing that goes on for the core.
To save the world, don’t get a job at a charity; go work on Wall Street
Wait – what is 'fracking'?
Why not just use standard freons?
Startup engineering team for sale
Since the nursery is literally "next to her office" (see http://allthingsd.com/20130225/survey-says-despite-yahoo-ban...), and she paid for it out of her own pocket, it seems highly unlikely that it's intended for community use.
The "decoder" rat was not trained beforehand, unless I am badly misreading the article. The training process that occurred used the real-time signal from the "encoder" rat's brain. It simply took some time for the "decoder" to learn how to process the signal sent by the other rat.
Single men who never had a mother then.
Like most trends among VCs it has started at the top. The top west coast firms are the most willing to concede power to founders. Lower-tier firms, and firms in other places, are less willing to, largely because in this as in other respects they're always a few years behind.

I say largely because lower-tier firms have a different and less trusting relationship with companies they fund. They assume that if a company had to resort to raising money from them, it won't be one of the big successes. They are the hotel where the TV is bolted down so the guests don't steal it.
Do you know how sharp the fall off in income is as you move down in popularity from "Guaranteed Billboard Chart Topper"? I suspect by "career" the GP was referring to financial success, which, if you're an ugly woman, is almost totally impossible (Something that's not nearly as true for ugly men).

Yes, thousands upon thousands of people still make amazing music with very little concern for profit (and I'm as grateful as I suspect you are for their passion) but they do it for a pittance based on love of the craft.
India will soon have National Cyber Security Policy
Does anyone know what Light Table is programmed in? It seems to be cross platform, how does it achieve that? I assume some kind of mix between Clojure and using browser technology as a UI, but does anyone know specifics?
Ah, yes, the Myth of the Heroic CEO. Remember when investment bankers thought they were Masters of the Universe?
If it's like France; it's technically illegal too, apple just never has been in front of a judge about it (and when they do, I guess they will argue that they sell the disk and not the license to use the OS).
Given one single impulse from the surface, you will either land back on the planet; or, with enough force, totally escape the planet (called a hyperbolic orbit, I think, which doesn't actually orbit).

Even amazing plans to build railguns on mountains to launch things to space requires some kind of secondary thrust to change into a new orbit that won't land back on the planet.
Right, she's so selfless and noble! All she's getting out of it is a mere half a million dollars a week.
Possible comet impact could change plans to visit Mars
I am french and my great grandfather served in WWI as an aide-de-camp to a general and I used to talk to him on our long walks when I was 8-9 and he was 87-88. I have a rather unique perspective on the war. He also showed me the road where Stukas gunned down fleeing Parisians in 1940. He showed me the trenches and the woods where people would run to and hide. We used to walk around in those woods. It's near Nemours, in Seine-et-Marne. His son (my grandfather) was the commander of a tank unit in 1940. He was captured and sent to a work camp in Germany, near Baden-Baden. He returned in 1942, to work the more fertile french farm. My mother was born in '43. There were two SS officers quartered at the house, in the upstairs bedroom. I slept in the same beds when I stayed with them. The more senior of the SS officers, according to my great grandmother, made sure that my mother had eggs and milk in the first year of her life. They left in June of 44 and she did not hear of them again. She told me the younger one came home crying one evening. She asked him what had happened. They were sitting on the stone doorsteps, side by side, just as she and I were when she told me the story 35 years later. He said, through sobs, that US bombers had bombed his town and killed his entire family. His parents, grandparents, sister, and much younger brother. Last but not least, my great grandfather told me that in July of 44, an american bomb exploded near our house, in the rear field, and a shapnel fragment broke a hole in the back courtyard door, raced across the yard, barely missing my mother's head by 20cm, then crashed into the water cistern. He then walked over and ran his finger over the discolored patch. He said: "This is where the hole was."

All this to say that while I have read the history books, some in French and never translated into English (apparently some french material isn't suitable for a British audience's taste and sensibilities), I also have some more intimate knowledge that transcends the written page and the maps with arrows and dashed lines.

Note that I don't disagree with you, and as you point out, it was partly new technology that won the war for the allies.
Thanks for your comments. Some kind of 'quick-add' for tasks and groups is definitely something we are considering.
You are correct about what Chrome would do, yes.
Oh. That does seem likely to cause resentment.
Pipeline stalls and the human brain
The Chrome DevTools timeline gives a solid overview of the construction of each page. You can see the progression of grabbing network assets, Parsing HTML, Recalculating styles, Layout (aka reflow), Paint, Compositing

Here's a trace of this page, for example: http://paulirish.com/i/dd8f40.png

A far more low-level view is available in about:tracing - More on that here http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/games/abouttracing/
node-webkit - http://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
ID Architecture: Map Rendering and Other UI
That sounds like something out of A Clockwork Orange! Scary indeed.
Considering that she just took away a big perk from everyone (and one that is very common in the industry), it's not crazy to wonder whether she'll try to make it up in some other way.
"boffin" is British slang for a scientist/researcher. It's got generally positive connotations indicating that the said person is smart.

Since The Register is a British site, and is also known for often being somewhat tongue in cheek, there really isn't anything to read in to their use of the word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boffin