skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... But it would be impossible for me to get anything done if I brought my two kids in

The University of Houston has a day care that is operated by the Psychology Dept. It is very well regarded, and quite a nice perk for employees (except for its limited capacity). The center is housed in a separate building, so there are no uninvited disruptions, except the ones that are universal to every day care (injury / accident, etc.). It wouldn't be the sort of thing that a small shop could do, but a company the size of Yahoo! could put such a day care in (maybe they already have?), and potentially save the company and employees considerable time and money.
You (and the other commenters with similar strategies) are wasting productive years of your life at jobs like these. You should go on a serious job hunt for a new position, and leave these toxic wastelands before they permanently affect your ability to work in a good environment.
This seems like a reasonable proposal to me. I've starting using the LTS releases exclusively for my desktop and server systems. I'm planning to use the Ubuntu phone heavily, and would love that device to be on a rolling-release schedule.
A relevant starting point for prior art might be Real Audio, which was released in 1995. The RealPlayer wiki says that it was started as a radio network and broadcasted sporting events in 1995. I bet someone over there knows even better examples of prior art pertaining to "syndication".
They had better change the messaging. I'm in favor of common-sense regulation of mass-production food ingredients, and "sugar is toxic" even rubs me the wrong way.
Nice app mark. How long did this take you?
Everything We Know About Dennis Tito's 2018 Human Mission to Mars
So you exploit the kernel (or some driver), do whatever evil shit you want, then lie to the signed malware checker. You now have an APT that ignores this whole notion of secure boot.

Come to think of it, this is every modern rootkit. You try to remove it and it reinstalls itself.

There's not intrinsic reason why you have to modify the kernel that sits on disc. Now there are lots of other checks and features you can add (that already exist) to make it harder to get access to the kernel, to make sure that unknown objects are purged or flagged on reboot, etc.

The thing is, this secure boot doesn't seem to significantly make your machine more secure than current TPM-based methods involving sealing a hard disk decryption key that is only unlocked based on checksums of firmware, nvram, bootloader, kernel, etc.
The amount of hand-holding a VC has to do is often inversely proportional to a startup's profitability.

Startups that do make it big, usually stay big when the folks at the helm know what to do or can at least quickly figure out what to do by the seat of their pants. That's quite a bit harder when there's an additional layer of bureaucracy involved, so investors can choose to stay back and let the founders do their thing or founders decide to get fewer investors involved in the fist place to ensure their freedom to operate with some modicum of independence.

To be fair, percentage equity (or "Power") can be expressed in ways other than direct control of a company's heading.
Yes Please! I'm sick of PPA-ing for updated packages.
UX (and Messaging) are the New Black for Startups
I don't claim you were the first to come up with that resolution, but it's an insight without which the two camps were effectively talking past each other, unable to identify where the real disagreement was.
Well, if you've got 20 numbers to multiply you'll get the job done fastest if you do them in parallel with 20 dedicated multipliers.

There's an obvious vision of building a "neural circuit" where there is some specialized processor for each neuron but my guess is that it gets difficult when you consider the communication fabric required between the layers.
Well, thank you!

1. We just pushed the import feature a couple days ago so we're still tweaking how it works. This is a good suggestion, I'll definitely take it into consideration.

2. You should be seeing 1.3.7 as the 'old version' (last update we detected). We're still working on better branch/track breakdown--this isn't an issue for most packages.

3. The Twitter account is linked at the bottom of the page :)

Let me know at friends [at] bundlescout [.] com if you're not seeing the right Django version and I'll look into it today.
>> Ask yourself if all these key people are really founders, or just the first employees with stock options?

This. Pick 1-2 "key people" out of the pool, and invite others as employees. Don't make things ambiguous, you should prepare and have everyone sign simple contracts outlining the conditions.
When I click the submitted link, pretty much the first thing I read says this:

No PCI requirements

Balanced is Level 1 PCI certified, so you can pass card data directly to us without worrying about compliance.

I worry about services that say this sort of thing, because while they might well get away with it, it's still almost always wrong.

I happen to think it would be immensely foolish of organisations like MasterCard or VISA to crack down on the new generation of low-friction, easy-setup card payment services who are helping businesses to accept card payments with minimal effort, because I think alienating them would do severe damage to the long term viability of the entire business model of such card payment schemes. However, we are talking about dinosaurs, and if you do incur their wrath it can be very damaging to your future business prospects, so jumping through the (much lesser) hoops they expect for businesses that outsource their payment collection might still be a wise move.
Nevermind, there's a "Toggle vim mode" command
Travel the World 1 Year for $15K
I too think this is a very exciting sub-field. EMTs and the like already have something like this, only better: It's called a pulse oximeter, and it determines both heart rate and blood oxygen saturation by measuring the absorption ratio of two wavelengths of light. Commercial devices clip on your finger and cost about $50 (the whole device is about the size of two fingers).
and ParEdit
we have more bandwidth than we use and we donate this bandwidth to the tor project. we are fans of the tor project and care about protecting personal privacy and individual expression.

we have 3 nodes running up to 4 processes on each node. each node is capable of pushing out up to ~600 Mbps with 4 processes on it. the nodes run bitrig, a fork of openbsd that several of our developers hack on.

EDIT: i just read the linked article and i see why we are listed - we have our own ASN and run openbgpd from our colo space.
Somewhat ironic to find this post two links above the one about lab rats getting tortured for "science". I guess rats are uglier.
The Google Glass Feature No One is Talking About
Some teams (Williams F1) are using 3D printing, specifically Selective Laser Sintering of titanium alloys.
MIT Report: U.S. Manufacturing Hits a Wall When It's Time to Scale
Interpreting our findings from today’s study on sugars and diabetes
One thousand billable hours per year seems reasonable, but if you want to earn equivalently to someone who's on a £40k salary you should aim for substantially higher than £40k of revenue.
Have you messed around with ImpactJS? I'd love to see some LT and ImpactJS lov'n.
The curious case of the hidden black hole
In case its not already obvious, most Geo-IP data is not particularly correct. In my experience its often off by 50-100 miles, and lucky if it even says the correct city. I've actually had Google say my IPs were in Singapore, when they were obviously not, and its a big pain to get Google to change that. Some of the other Geo-IP providers are better, but not by a whole lot in my experience.

If its also not obvious, most large TOR exit nodes are in datacenters and not in people's houses, for a variety of reasons.
The unspoken story here is that Science Exchange is more than just a resource for scientists. It also lowers the entry barrier for scientific start-ups.

I suspect that Kishan doesn't have access to a sequencer himself, he just proxies the sample to one of the SNP Genotyping services on Science Exchange (https://www.scienceexchange.com/services/snp-genotyping).
My first thought when watching the segment where a clip from Batman is shown is, if this can be applied to movies, it may ruin some of the magic when the video picks up the microscopic motions of supposedly 'dead' characters (as the actors are still breathing and pulsing).

I think this is groundbreaking technology though -- I've read that there are subconscious responses to seeing things we like, such as a delicious food or an attractive individual of the preferred gender; a widening of the pupil or an increase in heart rate and body temperature. Devices that capture these changes can have applications in everything from marketing to security to courting.
The Mystery Behind Chipotle's Secret, 1,500-Calorie Super Burrito
Ask HN: how do Microsoft do Continuous integration for windows OS?
Was curious about how Microsoft organize their continuous integration for windows OS. I'm sure I remember reading a blog post about it somewhere, but I can't find it now.

Specifically, Can developers check out all of windows and reasonably expect to build it on their desktop machines? or is it simply too large. Part of my thinks "you can do it with a linux kernel, why not?", and part of me thinks "windows has got to be a beast - it probably takes years to compile on a desktop machine"

Given it's a pretty massive product, I'm interested in hearing from Ex or current microsofters about how they organize it, particularly around change, so if you are on the file system team, and you submit a change, how agile/quickly can you get feedback as to whether it's worked on not?
An Overview of Virtuoso Universal Server
How to Use Mashape's Auto-Generated Java client library for your Android apps
Ain't that the truth. What percentage of the national budget is for NSF? Probably >.01%? And how much of that is actually used for grants? And just how much of that is spread out over many different fields of disciplines??? Just sad. I hope these guys get somewhere.
It is worth noting that the campaign to make spaying and neutering required has also done considerable harm. Puppies are often spayed and neutered as young as 6 weeks, despite the numerous health problems associated with the practice. Even the standard 6 months causes significant increases in a number of health problems. We need to stop punishing our pets based on the notion that if we don't get them fixed early, they will breed via magic or spores or something of the sort. You can in fact prevent your dog from having sex with other dogs.
Would be nice if font size changed by control+scrolling mouse wheel, most code editors do that. I can't imagine really needing (or wanting) to evaluate things in realtime (like the videos demonstrate) unless I was writing cryptic, mind-numbing algorithms all day every day. I like the idea in one of your videos, every function can have its own little window, but I wouldn't want that to create new files for me automatically in the background and it would have to be more useful than a straightforward "split window" editor function, which is already something I rarely use. The colors are cool but not as cool as my hacked Crunchbang+Geany colors. Maybe one day Light Table will be like a more graphical, user-friendly Emacs? I don't know. The videos are really eye-catching but realistically I can't imagine why I'd use Light Table. I realize there's already a lot of interest in this, but I would like to see more videos showing how this is actually more useful than Gedit or whatever.
The USPTO does no prior art checking, especially in software. You could patent simple logic gates... today.
And that's why you use --i-am-a-dummy on the command line :)

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/mysql-command-options...
First I'm hearing of Balanced. This news aside, how is Balanced different from Stripe?

If I had a p2p trading application (like craigslist) where the Buyer and the Seller wanted to transfer funds for services rendered or goods delivered, could Balanced facilitate such a transaction with the money going to me as an intermediary? Possibly even maintaining anonymity between the two parties?
The Worthy Quest to Kill Off Checks in the Next 10 Years
I wonder how much this proposal is driven by Ubuntu's push into the mobile space versus improving the Ubuntu project at large. Clearly it's possible rolling releases would aid both.

I guess what I'm really asking is what are the possible negative implications of the plan for the more "traditional" Ubuntu users? Many of whom are likely sysadmins trying to maintain consistent package versions across their infrastructure. Sticking to the LTS versions is the first step. But then you would be delaying access to newer package versions without the interim releases.
Reuters: Microsoft likely to be fined in Europe over antitrust concerns
We're talking about white space as a source code token, not as used in written verbal languages.
We need to tax sugar like we tax tobacco for the same reasons. It will decrease consumption. Those taxes will pay for the medical expenses of people with diabetes.
The first artificial neural networks were actually done in hardware, here is Frank Rosenblatt with his Perceptron:

http://www.enzyklopaedie-der-wirtschaftsinformatik.de/wi-enz...

As said, it is an interesting thing to consider as an alternative computer architecture and what not, but I just have some doubts if people practically using neural networks right now really run into performance problems because of having too little cores. I don't think this is more true for neural networks than for anything else.
So you are right, mostly. If you're going to sell yourself on "value" to such a company, you're going to have to spend some time understanding what problem they need to solve, and help them determine what value that provides.

If they can't or won't look past an hourly rate, then you probably don't want to work for them, because their other expectations may be equally as baseless.
Sorry to be "that guy" but "dog days" has nothing to do with a summertime culling of stray dogs. It has to do with the "Dog Star", Sirius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_days

This is a good article, and puppy mills (and the general unnaturalness of many dog breeds) are something more people should know about.
You're welcome jy-p. I just realized that I left out something important
that nearly everyone on HN could relate with and appreciate. Conformal
is comprised of some of the same people who helped to give the world
OpenSSH which absolutely everybody uses. Of course they don't get all
the credit, but they helped, and it probably wouldn't take too long to
search the commit logs and find some of your names committing/OK'ing
patches.

Knowingly or not, anyone running OpenSSH is already trusting the work
of the people at Conformal.
Agreed. Using the same logic, they could wage the same campaign against water.
The website is a little bit of an eyesore for me. First you've got the low-res white noise background. Then the looming semi-translucent navigation bar that goes behind embedded youtube videos. Then the egregious usage of drop shadows. And to top it all off, there is very little distinguishing headings from subheadings and the subheadings are smaller than the text.

Oh, you can take my ideas with a grain of salt by the way - I'm a cs guy, not a designer.
Android-x86 4.2 on Chromebook Pixel
Are you insane? Yeah, you'll learn by doing. You'll probably learn by failing. That's all well and good, you'll likely learn a lot.

But you can learn this also by interning at an existing business, learning how they do things, learning what they do wrong and what they do right. You'll bask in the experience of people who have already done this, and from their partners and connections. If you want to learn from a startup, then intern or work at a startup.

Outright cutting off this possibly important and valuable experience is borderline insane. This is not an absolute. This one-sided recommendation should be taken with a spoon of salt.

Both internship and entrepreneurship are valuable experiences. It's entirely dependent on who you are, what you're interested in doing, and the opportunities you find are open to you.
New iOS image cropping tool
He couldn't wait a year to make it seem less suspicious?
If you can get any detail on that, you really should forward it to the EFF. Even just that might spark someones memory.
I'll take your word for it on babies less than 10 months old. But the CEO paid for a nursery to be built in her office, so there's a good chance she'll have him around the office for longer than just the first 10 months.

Now that I think about it more, the only situation where I would be okay with people bringing their kids to work whenever they wanted would be if everybody had private offices. If people's kids were locked in their offices with them 95% of the time, and I could close my door and keep them away the other 5% of the time, I wouldn't have any reason to be against it.
It is truly outstanding that 100% of the donations reach the medical partners. Watsi is doing it right. Their level of transparency is also admirable.

Nyaya Health, the partner this blog post is about, uses the same funding model, where all donations made are 100% used for patient care in Nepal (unless you explicitly want your donation to be used for US staff/operations)

Bravo to both.
An apple a day is the doctor's pay?
So we should be taxing fruits then, right?
>In other words, according to this study, obesity doesn’t cause diabetes: sugar does.

Sigh. No, according to this study, there is a stronger correlation between sugar and diabetes than between obesity and diabetes.

>Each 150 kilocalories/person/day increase in total calorie availability related to a 0.1 percent rise in diabetes prevalence (not significant), whereas a 150 kilocalories/person/day rise in sugar availability (one 12-ounce can of soft drink) was associated with a 1.1 percent rise in diabetes prevalence.

Much better! Lead with that next time, medical research reporter.

All in all, this seems like a pretty good study that controls for a lot of confounding variables that a lot of diet related studies completely neglect. I just wish the reporting here, and in general in all medical research reporting, wasn't so sloppy. The goal should be to spread awareness of new findings, not to spread misconceptions.
1 day of hacking and 90 days of muni frustration :)
Cool idea, but I can't help but wonder about the whole movement around pushing people toward management or leadership. Sure, it's great to find those of us who are naturally talented in that area. However, in a lot of the big companies I'm familiar with (like my previous employer), there was a glut of "leadership" made mostly of people who shouldn't be leading. Tons of middle management. It separated the regular working employees so far from the origin of their assignments that no one really felt motivated to do more than the minimum. Zero innovation from actual developers, since the system was highly resistant to ideas that originated from below rather than from above.

Great leaders are a vital asset, but transforming every person into a leader is akin to alchemy. And remember, gold is only of higher value because of its relative scarcity, not because it is intrinsically better than other metals. :)
This is really cool. I can't believe nobody's made this before.
.Net, Windows Apps Better With Open Source
I'm sitting here, dumbfounded, in a mix of response between "no shit" and "this isn't something that needs to be regulated".
What is your argument? That those who are adversely affected should go and get CEO jobs themselves? Yeah! Let's all be CEO. In this country we have a long established right established in the principle that everyone can speak their mind. If Marissa Mayer's feelings are hurt, she can wipe away her tears with freshly printed one-hundred Dollar bills. But, one thing she absolutely does not have is the right to live a life free of criticism.
No, there's no intrinsic reason why you have to modify the on-disk kernel. It just makes detection more difficult, because there's never a point where the OS is running without having been compromised. That makes detection much harder.

You're right that this is no more secure than using a TPM. But most consumer-grade hardware has no TPM, and hardware vendors aren't going to add one just for Microsoft.
Instead of djbdns, take a look at NSD, so that you get IPv6 support, and DNSSEC support!
Name.com is surprisingly open about this spammy practice, and even highlights methods for circumventing it:

http://www.name.com/blog/general/domains/2012/01/pro-tip-how...

Of course, it would be better for them to simply charge a bit more and get rid of it altogether, especially since it breaks standards.
I believe I've read money transmission licenses vary from state-to-state. Do you know of any resources giving more detail on when you need one and how to get one in the various states?
But it's been done to some extent. Here's an ongoing human project - twins with conjoined brain(s):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/could-conjoined-t...

Tickle one and both know it. There's some discussion of shared personality also. In the end, They're just kids, with a little more sharing than others:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Krista+and+Tatiana+Hogan&...
Where are you getting the data? The UI is pretty bad (or maybe just doesn't support Chrome?) but still better than other sites/apps.
Guy Fires 600 Rounds With A Partially 3-D Printed Gun
If we're going to talk about using to detect emotional reaction in individuals on the street you could walk by a pretty lady (or gent depending on who's reading this) and determine if they show any signs of arousal/disgust when they see you.

The science of human emotion when paired with this technology would be particularly interesting on its own.
Gangster's Paradise
It's nowhere near passive aggressive, just a statement of what Google does. Google does give a steady stream of traffic, but it's my goal to diversify traffic streams as much as possible at the same time - Google's becoming less important as a direct source of traffic from organic SERPs.

I'm not saying they don't add value, I'm saying that their entire business model is built on the back of the world's content.

I'm not sure why HN hates SEO so much, since Google doesn't...they hate SPAM, not SEO.
Google contributed $25K to FTC chairman while under investigation for antitrust
Thanks for the fast response! I'm really hopeful for the future of Light Table, and I appreciate the work you've put it.
Video processing filter that makes tiny movements visible
People, not users
I couldn't get myself to click on the article. It just sounds like a bad idea. Industry experience is so valuable even as an entrepreneur. You learn about the efficiencies and inefficiencies of industry and it can only help you run your operation better.
This is ridiculous. Sugars are fundamental bio-molecules and are essential for life.

Yes, we know that over-eating causes diabetes and obesity. And this study says that foods high in sugar pose the greatest threat. But seriously, are we going to start to say that sugar is toxic in the same way that cigarettes are toxic? We can manage the dangers of sugar toxicity pretty easily by exercising. The damage done by smoking... not so much.

This reminds me of a pet peeve that my grad advisor had. In our area it was common to see signs that said something to the effect of "No dumping of chemicals". He loved to point out that water was a chemical.